Sure, that's why it takes two people working instead of one, like it did in 1970, to keep an average household above water.
Not really. Back in 1970, most families that had a car at all only had one, we generally lived in much smaller houses, etc, etc. People want more stuff.
Oh, for crying out loud. "Protection"ism is nothing more than treating customers as property. If someone in a foreign country can sell me a product or service for a better price than someone in my own country, too bad for the incompetent competitor. Protectionism robs consumers, protects bad management, and makes us all poorer.
I've been saying for years when people around me bitched about immigrants, that the time to worry about the USA is when people don't want to stay here anymore.
We aren't going to build a completely renewable energy infrastucture out of rainbows and ponies.
Shut up! I've got a three billion dollar energy department grant proposal for my "rainbows and ponies" study, and loose talk like that could blow the deal!
You're speaking with someone who lit a tire on Earth Day just because it pissed off the hippies in the neighborhood.
What do you use to get the tire started? I tried ethanol, but it burned out without lighting the tire. I eventually had to build a fire out of copies of Silent Spring, the IPCC report, and Earth in the Balance to get it hot enough.
Minimum wage is one example of such a restriction designed to fight slavery
Actually, minimum wages in the United States were instituted as a racist tactic to keep blacks from competing with whites for employment. Most unions at the time excluded blacks from their membership.
-jcr
Got to say, it creeps me out.
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Although, it doesn't creep me out quite as much as, say, teenagers getting cosmetic surgery.
OS X uses Mach's CPU scheduling and memory management. The rest of the code in the kernel (the process model, the network stack, etc) is a combination of *BSD code, code developed in-house (like the IOKIt), and vendor-supplied code (like the video drivers from NVIDIA and ATI). Below the GUI, there's code from many, many projects, such as the shells, Python, Ruby, sendmail, and so on. The 3D graphics library is OpenGL, with in-house additions. The 2D graphics library is all Apple-developed code, except for some licensed implementations of pieces like the JPEG2000 decoder.
If you have the developer tools installed, have a look at/Developer/Documentation/Acknowledgements.rtf for a full list of the organizations from whom Apple has licensed code that they include in OS X.
If they'e going to try to pull that shit on you, you have no obligation at all to remain polite. Call your new employer and see if they'd like you to start sooner, or just take some time off.
But society ultimately benefits economically from the presence of an educated pool of labor.
This is true, and it's why we should abolish our government schools. The kids in this country have been held hostage by a political/union cartel for far too long.
Treating employment as a business transaction carries the risk of allowing market forces to transform the working population into a horde of soulless, placid automatons.
Wow.. You're really steeped in Marxist bullshit, aren't you?
Go and study how the industrial revolution liberated us from subsistence farming. You might also notice that it was England, where the industrial revolution started, that took the lead in fighting slavery all over the world.
If you don't like the idea of people being free to trade, then try North Korea. It might be more to your liking.
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Apple has yet to open EVEN ONE LINE of the OS X source
This turns out not to be the case.
See here.
Got any more uninformed bitching to do?
-jcr
there are a number of activists on Craigslist that censor anything having to do with "selling animals".
What a pack of morons.
-jcr
If he's doing this in his official capacity, then he's way out of line. This is for the states' attorney to handle, not the sheriff's office.
-jcr
Sure, that's why it takes two people working instead of one, like it did in 1970, to keep an average household above water.
Not really. Back in 1970, most families that had a car at all only had one, we generally lived in much smaller houses, etc, etc. People want more stuff.
-jcr
Bubba, get back under the porch, you're embarrassing all Americans.
-jcr
We do need protectionism.
Oh, for crying out loud. "Protection"ism is nothing more than treating customers as property. If someone in a foreign country can sell me a product or service for a better price than someone in my own country, too bad for the incompetent competitor. Protectionism robs consumers, protects bad management, and makes us all poorer.
-jcr
I've been saying for years when people around me bitched about immigrants, that the time to worry about the USA is when people don't want to stay here anymore.
-jcr
The first web browser of all was WorldWideWeb.app, and it was a NeXTSTEP program. It was graphical from the beginning.
-jcr
We aren't going to build a completely renewable energy infrastucture out of rainbows and ponies.
Shut up! I've got a three billion dollar energy department grant proposal for my "rainbows and ponies" study, and loose talk like that could blow the deal!
-jcr
how do you plan to solve the problem that some people are simply not good at heart and will commit violence simply to serve their own ends?
Oh, I dunno... Kill them?
-jcr
Come on man, give us the scoop! Don't protect the guilty.
-jcr
most companies have an employee handbook which prevent firing for any reason
Say what?
-jcr
Get over yourself, newb. I've been signing my posts since my FIDONET days, probably before you were born.
-jcr
Shutting down factories, great idea!
Next thing you know, they'll be saying we should give up our whale-oil lamps!
Shutting down any industrial operation with no prospect of returning to profitability is a great idea.
-jcr
You're speaking with someone who lit a tire on Earth Day just because it pissed off the hippies in the neighborhood.
What do you use to get the tire started? I tried ethanol, but it burned out without lighting the tire. I eventually had to build a fire out of copies of Silent Spring, the IPCC report, and Earth in the Balance to get it hot enough.
-jcr
Minimum wage is one example of such a restriction designed to fight slavery
Actually, minimum wages in the United States were instituted as a racist tactic to keep blacks from competing with whites for employment. Most unions at the time excluded blacks from their membership.
-jcr
Although, it doesn't creep me out quite as much as, say, teenagers getting cosmetic surgery.
-jcr
Ok, in a nutshell:
OS X uses Mach's CPU scheduling and memory management. The rest of the code in the kernel (the process model, the network stack, etc) is a combination of *BSD code, code developed in-house (like the IOKIt), and vendor-supplied code (like the video drivers from NVIDIA and ATI). Below the GUI, there's code from many, many projects, such as the shells, Python, Ruby, sendmail, and so on. The 3D graphics library is OpenGL, with in-house additions. The 2D graphics library is all Apple-developed code, except for some licensed implementations of pieces like the JPEG2000 decoder.
If you have the developer tools installed, have a look at /Developer/Documentation/Acknowledgements.rtf for a full list of the organizations from whom Apple has licensed code that they include in OS X.
-jcr
You do have recourse.
Call the SEC and your local DA's office.
-jcr
If they'e going to try to pull that shit on you, you have no obligation at all to remain polite. Call your new employer and see if they'd like you to start sooner, or just take some time off.
-jcr
Without slavery, we don't really have "free trade" of workers to begin with, now do we?
This has got to be the most absurd straw man I've ever seen on /., and you're up against some very stiff competition.
-jcr
But society ultimately benefits economically from the presence of an educated pool of labor.
This is true, and it's why we should abolish our government schools. The kids in this country have been held hostage by a political/union cartel for far too long.
-jcr
You were a considerably better moderator than your successor is.
Thanks, but I disagree. The list has a lot more subscribers now, and it still has a surprisingly good signal to noise ratio.
-jcr
Treating employment as a business transaction carries the risk of allowing market forces to transform the working population into a horde of soulless, placid automatons.
Wow.. You're really steeped in Marxist bullshit, aren't you?
Go and study how the industrial revolution liberated us from subsistence farming. You might also notice that it was England, where the industrial revolution started, that took the lead in fighting slavery all over the world.
If you don't like the idea of people being free to trade, then try North Korea. It might be more to your liking.
-jcr
When I left my last employer, I posted my farewell to the developer mailing list that I moderated. No bridges were harmed.
-jcr