What you meant to say was: The unions that have sold out to capitalist gangsters are held up as examples of how unions should work. They don't bring "added value". They just play good cop to the fascist corporations' bad cop. Sorry, jackass... nobody's buyin' it.
Yep. During the Industrial Revolution, factory owners regularly made threats like, "If candidate X wins the election, none of you will have jobs tomorrow." They didn't just monitor their workers; they controlled them.
Still doesn't make it right, though. What I think, do, and say outside of and unrelated to work shouldn't affect my career, and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
This is what all new cars should cost. For the sake of luxury and safety they could cost just a little bit more, but not much! A 1916 Model T cost less than $7,000 in 2006 dollars -- and the people who made them actually received a living wage, unlike most workers today.
I switch companies without much hesitation when one pisses me off and another dangles a prettier carrot. Mythic to Blizzard, Blizzard to this new "going outside" MMO. MandrakeSoft to Red Hat to Debian to Canonical. What would it take to make me ditch Ubuntu for Fedora?
1. Canonical would have to crap out another release as fundamentally screwed up as 7.04 was. I can see this happening if they keep focusing on eye candy instead of fixing things like the volume controls GNOME (still completely broken in 7.10).
2. Red Hat would have to reimburse me for the support subscription I'd just bought when they forked Fedora and reneged on our contract. Somehow I don't see this happening...
Those calculations dodge the real issue, which is not total environmental impact, but the airborne dose an individual would be exposed to if a CFL were to break in their home. Calculations have shown that this exposure could easily exceed EPA safety standards.
The place to look for real-world evidence would be California, since incandescents have been off the market there for a couple years. But my cynical expectation is that if there is any data supporting the theoretical mercury exposure hazard of CFLs in the home, it'll be suppressed by the capitalist political machine.
I thought you were about to say something intelligent when you mentioned social contracts. But then you immediately lost track of the idea.
There is no such thing as a "natural right". The only "rights" you have are those you secure for yourself by force. But as humans we're able to apply the threat of force rather subtly. One of the complex ways we do this is through social contracts (a.k.a. laws) by which we bargain with some proxy (a.k.a. the government) to employ force on our behalf. In exchange, we obey those same laws... but only as long as we perceive that the deal is in our favor.
The interstate commerce clause was never intended to allow the Federal government to restrict what can and cannot be sold in the sovereign states. It only grants the Federal government the power to restrict tariffs so that, for example, inland states aren't economically disadvantaged. This light-bulb legislation far oversteps the bounds of the Federal government's power, and it (or any other Federal law) could be completely nullified at the whim of any state legislature.
Attack scenarios work something like this: A bank website hosts marketing graphics in the form of a vulnerable Flash applet. Attackers who trick a customer into clicking on a malicious link are able to execute the SWF file but inject malicious code variables that cause the customer's authentication cookies or login credentials to be sent to the attacker.
Huh? So this is some kind of phishing attack? Exactly how is Flash involved, and what should we be watching out for? (Other than never entering important data into a form we reached by clicking... always good practice.)
Ask anyone other than your core geek friends about this and they'll say "Wuh?"
No-one cares outside of geekdom, really they don't.
I can only surmise that you have no social contacts outside geekdom. I've converted several of my non-geek friends to Linux. Turns out regular schmucks really do care about things like their computer getting wtfpwned because they looked at the wrong Web site, or the $300 price tag on Vista...
Wrong, wrong, wrong! A distro meant to be widely usable (like Ubuntu) should focus on working out the bugs in the integration of stable, tested versions of the included packages. It should not try to include cutting-edge versions of packages that have problems of their own, to say nothing of their integration with a usable desktop environment. If anything is incorporated from the newest package versions, it should be backported bug fixes. That's how RH used to be managed, a fact to which they owe much of their early dominance, IMO.
Hardware? Really? My biggest problem with Ubuntu (currently running the 7.10 beta) is with developers trying to squeeze in the latest and greatest upstream versions at the last minute, causing regressions and general strife and turning what could have been the Windows killer into an embarrassment for anyone who's trying to promote Linux.
Only 148 articles out of over 12,000? That doesn't sound very newsworthy. Plus, no mention was made of checking those 148 for contributions from the original authors of works found elsewhere on the Web.
Sounds great, in theory. But in the real world, most code (other people's code... always other people's) isn't that well modularized and can't be reused without introducing lots of bugs to an application. Every hour saved writing code will cost you three in debugging and re-writing.
This idea is being pushed by suits who think it will cut costs and increase profits. And it probably will, in the short term... as long as your customers lower their expectations instead of jumping ship. Welcome to the future of unmaintainable garbage software. (Then again, if you've been running Windows you probably won't notice the difference.)
That the machines are just poorly-thought-out, poorly-engineered, poorly-constructed, poorly-maintained piles of shit, seems far more likely than such an obvious conspiracy.
Then it's still criminal negligence on a grand scale, and the conspiracy is among the apologists.
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What you meant to say was: The unions that have sold out to capitalist gangsters are held up as examples of how unions should work. They don't bring "added value". They just play good cop to the fascist corporations' bad cop. Sorry, jackass... nobody's buyin' it.
"The people who make cars in the US today" != "most workers".
Yes.
Still doesn't make it right, though. What I think, do, and say outside of and unrelated to work shouldn't affect my career, and fuck anyone who says otherwise.
This is what all new cars should cost. For the sake of luxury and safety they could cost just a little bit more, but not much! A 1916 Model T cost less than $7,000 in 2006 dollars -- and the people who made them actually received a living wage, unlike most workers today.
1. Canonical would have to crap out another release as fundamentally screwed up as 7.04 was. I can see this happening if they keep focusing on eye candy instead of fixing things like the volume controls GNOME (still completely broken in 7.10).
2. Red Hat would have to reimburse me for the support subscription I'd just bought when they forked Fedora and reneged on our contract. Somehow I don't see this happening...
Not like NMCI was doing any better themselves. I had to explain to one of their so-called "admins" how to change file permissions on a Windows NT box.
...and it uses three infrared lamps on the helmet instead of two, tracked by two cameras instead of one. Yeah, totally dissimilar.
Are you suggesting we throw flaming tires around the necks of cops? I'd support that...
Speed cameras in the U.S. typically contain a top-of-the-line Nikon digital SLR. Screw destroying them; I want to steal them!
The place to look for real-world evidence would be California, since incandescents have been off the market there for a couple years. But my cynical expectation is that if there is any data supporting the theoretical mercury exposure hazard of CFLs in the home, it'll be suppressed by the capitalist political machine.
There is no such thing as a "natural right". The only "rights" you have are those you secure for yourself by force. But as humans we're able to apply the threat of force rather subtly. One of the complex ways we do this is through social contracts (a.k.a. laws) by which we bargain with some proxy (a.k.a. the government) to employ force on our behalf. In exchange, we obey those same laws... but only as long as we perceive that the deal is in our favor.
The interstate commerce clause was never intended to allow the Federal government to restrict what can and cannot be sold in the sovereign states. It only grants the Federal government the power to restrict tariffs so that, for example, inland states aren't economically disadvantaged. This light-bulb legislation far oversteps the bounds of the Federal government's power, and it (or any other Federal law) could be completely nullified at the whim of any state legislature.
Metal detectors work by induction, so even completely non-ferrous, non-magnetic metals can be detected by them.
The Wiimote is truly the ultimate hackable peripheral...
Huh? So this is some kind of phishing attack? Exactly how is Flash involved, and what should we be watching out for? (Other than never entering important data into a form we reached by clicking... always good practice.)
Will dodgy plugins still be able to kill or deadlock the whole app?
Ask anyone other than your core geek friends about this and they'll say "Wuh?"
No-one cares outside of geekdom, really they don't.
I can only surmise that you have no social contacts outside geekdom. I've converted several of my non-geek friends to Linux. Turns out regular schmucks really do care about things like their computer getting wtfpwned because they looked at the wrong Web site, or the $300 price tag on Vista...
You played Hibs, didn't you?
Wrong, wrong, wrong! A distro meant to be widely usable (like Ubuntu) should focus on working out the bugs in the integration of stable, tested versions of the included packages. It should not try to include cutting-edge versions of packages that have problems of their own, to say nothing of their integration with a usable desktop environment. If anything is incorporated from the newest package versions, it should be backported bug fixes. That's how RH used to be managed, a fact to which they owe much of their early dominance, IMO.
Problems, yes. Serious regressions less than two weeks before the scheduled release date, no.
Hardware? Really? My biggest problem with Ubuntu (currently running the 7.10 beta) is with developers trying to squeeze in the latest and greatest upstream versions at the last minute, causing regressions and general strife and turning what could have been the Windows killer into an embarrassment for anyone who's trying to promote Linux.
Only 148 articles out of over 12,000? That doesn't sound very newsworthy. Plus, no mention was made of checking those 148 for contributions from the original authors of works found elsewhere on the Web.
Sounds great, in theory. But in the real world, most code (other people's code... always other people's) isn't that well modularized and can't be reused without introducing lots of bugs to an application. Every hour saved writing code will cost you three in debugging and re-writing.
This idea is being pushed by suits who think it will cut costs and increase profits. And it probably will, in the short term... as long as your customers lower their expectations instead of jumping ship. Welcome to the future of unmaintainable garbage software. (Then again, if you've been running Windows you probably won't notice the difference.)
Then it's still criminal negligence on a grand scale, and the conspiracy is among the apologists.