Now, credit is tight, because those who have it don't want to risk letting the middle class earn it to invest it in their own wealth-growth schemes.
Everyone is out for themselves. If they have money they will lend it if it makes them more money without regard to the fact that the "middle class" might earn more money.
Besides the little fact everyone wants to ignore is that the top quintile starts around $80k a year (last census report). It's so low because the top 5% are so wealthy. But if you are saying the middle quintile is middle class then you are way off for most of slashdot geeks.
Tell that to the thousands of children who are victimized making said 'pix'.
Do you have their email addresses? You should tell them that they will start to feel better now because a customs agent found their pix and destroyed it.
Amos? What have I told you about staying off the English's intarweb? Jacob needs help spreading manure from the back of the wagon. Get away from the devil box and help him.
Reposting this because it is spot on and some retard abused their moderation task and modded it troll:
He missed an even more important step: Electrical power is a simple, homogeneous commodity. IT isn't. You can't run a tube into someone's house and provide them with "IT". IT is more like the hundred of electrical devices we have in our homes than the power that's coming from the wall socket.
In this sense, the "IT" he speaks about are providers of basic services - hosting companies, ISPs, hardware leasing, etc. - well, we have all of them already.
Now instead of knowing that you're slowing down by seeing your brake lights I'm supposed to... Well what? Maybe I can tell you're slow just by looking at you, I don't know.
How did you get through life this long without having brake lights on everything? Do you walk into walls, run into people walking in front of you, drive you car into the back wall of your garage?
One. Do you think it is possible to change one lane that fast?
You aren't going to believe me, but in high school I knew a kid who swore he could change a lane that fast. He was known to make shit up, but he drove a '67 mustang, so he could have done it!
I'm not selectively bashing the Chinese because it's only slightly different in the U.S. Look at how the Telco's gave the NSA what they wanted with no questions asked.
What universe to you live in? Since when has the NSA arrested anyone because they are critical on a blog, towards the US?
How is it a slight difference? Next you'll be saying the US is only slightly different than Iraq was under Saddam, because we have death by lethal injection and they dropped chemical weapons on Kurds.
Now you cut to the heart of the confusion. It's not better than nothing. They hasn't been any proven benefit, but we can add up the enormous costs. Currently we have enormous costs, and a well funded cell could still strike at us. The leading cause of death in the US is heart attack followed by Cancer. Together they make up 50% of all deaths in the US. Assault is 15th on that list at 0.7%. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/finaldeaths04/finaldeaths04.htm - Check chart 4 in pdf format)
So we spend billions of dollars to fight a problem that would probably be under 0.1% of the problem. Think of this as optimizing code, and you'll wonder why the effort is spent on the.1%.
I do not think of TSA as a invasion of my privacy, but a a group that is trying to project me.
Wow. You are deluded. The TSA is a group that is supposed to appear to protect you. A lot of their policies aren't ever going to catch a determined terrorist, but at least they can make people feel safe and they also get to tout a laundry list of (ineffectual) policies they followed in the event another attack does occur.
Is it possible to object to unions without raising that boogeyman? I mean, come on. The cold war is over. "Communism" didn't destroy democracy or freedom - in fact, it didn't come remotely close.
I meant Communism as an economic system, not a government. I see everyone getting paid the same amount for the same amount of "years of service" being very similar to communism. I see school teachers getting tenure and never having to worry every again about getting fired unless they fail to show up for school for an entire year or molest kids or something equally crazy. The good teachers burn out and the bad ones punch time clocks. I fail to be optimistic when unions have led to the same outcome in every single industry. You have to have a lot of hubris to believe your industry is going to be magically different.
The best is entering a work place and finding out that you are REQUIRED to join the union--welcome to America. Oh, and you have to pay dues for 6 months before you get benefits. Need five more minutes to finish some project so it can ship before the end of the quarter? Sorry, you aren't allowed to go over 8 hours of work or the union will fine the company. Your project is late now.
Unions drag everything down for everyone equally. Instead of some people making out, no one makes out except the lazy people.
Enslaved to union goons or enslaved to corporations? Unions are like communism. Want to work harder? You can't because there is some union rule against it. Want to help a customer? Well, you can't because union rules say only, customer helpers are allowed to help customers, even if they are all out sick. And if you help them, you'll get fined. And on, and on....
American tech workers would rather die of starvation then pay a measly $100 a month (or less) in union dues for a union that gets them an additional $1k-2k more income.
100 measly dollars a month * 12 months = $1200 a year.
And Americans are the idiots for not spending $1200 to make $1k more income?
And they don't have to answer to a stupid union that encourages everyone to work less and lazier.
Correct. In the US that is the case. A license just grants additional right to people. Once you affix your creation to media, it automatically receives copyright protections.
Sony doesn't have to agreed to the GPL. However, Sony is in violation of copyright law if they don't agree to the terms of the GPL and they distribute the GPLed code.
This isn't a situation that $100,000 a violation won't solve.
If your definition of "illegal" says that Sony committed an illegal act by violating the GPL, then by the same standards the user who reverse engineered the code also committed an equally illegal act.
The fact that they couldn't produce the laptop for less than DOUBLE what they had planned should make this fairly obvious.
How does that make anything "fairly obvious?" You do realize that they need massive volume to bring the price down. I don't think you have a clue about hardware costs. The screen alone is going to massively eat into that $100 budget.
If I had 1000 lines of GPL'd code and one million lines of my own, I might be more willing to pay damages.
I think it would depend on how many people downloaded your program. At $100k per copyright violation, it doesn't matter how many lines of code you used, other than the fact that you have to compare the value of your one million lines of code to the cost of your copyright violations. If your program was really popular, you would owe quite a lot in fines.
[quote]How? The public had about zero effect on the SCO/Novell case.[/quote]
Because it wasn't about the case anyway. It was all about the secondary effects and reducing Linux mindshare in corporations.
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Besides the little fact everyone wants to ignore is that the top quintile starts around $80k a year (last census report). It's so low because the top 5% are so wealthy. But if you are saying the middle quintile is middle class then you are way off for most of slashdot geeks.
Amos? What have I told you about staying off the English's intarweb? Jacob needs help spreading manure from the back of the wagon. Get away from the devil box and help him.
They only know to ask for your decryption key if they can find data they think is encrypted.
Then you can have things like hardware keys and password keys. And you could have a rsa key on the internet, so you need all three to decrypt.
One. Do you think it is possible to change one lane that fast?
You aren't going to believe me, but in high school I knew a kid who swore he could change a lane that fast. He was known to make shit up, but he drove a '67 mustang, so he could have done it!
How is it a slight difference? Next you'll be saying the US is only slightly different than Iraq was under Saddam, because we have death by lethal injection and they dropped chemical weapons on Kurds.
I can just see a Happy Birthday song industry starting up there now. People will go on vacation there to sing Happy Birthday to their loved ones.
Those lasers are powerful enough to show up (ie: a green line) when pointing out stars and constellations to your significant other or children.
I'm not really sure how a laser would bring down a plane though. Do you really think the pilots are up there doing dives and loops and such?
So we spend billions of dollars to fight a problem that would probably be under 0.1% of the problem. Think of this as optimizing code, and you'll wonder why the effort is spent on the
So, yeah, doing Nothing would be better.
The best is entering a work place and finding out that you are REQUIRED to join the union--welcome to America. Oh, and you have to pay dues for 6 months before you get benefits. Need five more minutes to finish some project so it can ship before the end of the quarter? Sorry, you aren't allowed to go over 8 hours of work or the union will fine the company. Your project is late now.
Unions drag everything down for everyone equally. Instead of some people making out, no one makes out except the lazy people.
Enslaved to union goons or enslaved to corporations? Unions are like communism. Want to work harder? You can't because there is some union rule against it. Want to help a customer? Well, you can't because union rules say only, customer helpers are allowed to help customers, even if they are all out sick. And if you help them, you'll get fined. And on, and on....
And Americans are the idiots for not spending $1200 to make $1k more income?
And they don't have to answer to a stupid union that encourages everyone to work less and lazier.
Correct. In the US that is the case. A license just grants additional right to people. Once you affix your creation to media, it automatically receives copyright protections.
This isn't a situation that $100,000 a violation won't solve.
Which is why google is getting crushed by antitrust law right now!! It is so unfair!!
Nice job parroting something you read though. The only people that get really mad about antitrust law are the people that don't want free markets.
[quote]How? The public had about zero effect on the SCO/Novell case.[/quote] Because it wasn't about the case anyway. It was all about the secondary effects and reducing Linux mindshare in corporations.