There's no such thing as total job security, with or without a union.
Maybe not total, but I'd say my father, who is a tenured teacher, has quite a bit.
However, the only people who want a union for "job security," are the people who need a union for "job security" (i.e. the lazy, the unskilled, etc). If you're good at what you do, and follow the rules, a union isn't going to help you any.
Quite simply that's nonsense. Unions can negotiate contracts such that you can't be laid off without the company breaching the contract.
If you're in a union, you get paid less, your benefits will often suck large, and when the union tells you to strike, you have no choice.
First of all, unlike being fired, you always have a choice of whether or not to go on strike. As for getting paid less and benefits being worse, I don't see that to be the case.
If they decide to strike for 6 months, that's 6 months that you (and your family, if applicable) go without food.
As opposed to if you get fired? Unions aren't going to vote to strike for 6 months without a damn good reason.
"Believe?" No. "Know?" Yes.
You know something yet you don't believe it? Maybe you should reevaluate that.
I prefer both [job security and pay]
Perhaps you don't understand the word "prefer"
and can get them just fine without a union.
I thought there was no such thing as total job security?
I can't get them with one.
Well, there's a good proof.
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if your boss uses it to find out you are not sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3, then you'll hate it.
If I have to lie to my boss about going to see Star Wars 3, then I'll already hate it. That's what "I'm not telling you" personal days are for.
That's 1,000 gigabytes, or well over 1,000 compressed movies, or more than 700,000 novels the size of "War and Peace." Such drives are expected to hit the market by 2004." i hope 8 years more can give a couple more megs to hds;)
2004, 1 T drives. 2008, 1000 T drives. 2012, corporate America wins the election, institutes $1/gig media tax, average drive space drops back to 1 T (don't forget inflation).
Probably because you want job security. Why wouldn't you want a union? Well, probably because you believe it will lower your pay. Some people prefer security to pay. I wonder if it's possible to buy private unemployment insurance. That way those who want security can get it without the union. Alternatively, hire a lawyer to negotiate all your contracts.
Hmmm..well, the thing is out of the $4000 that was billed, on average, about $2000 is overhead -- rent or mortgage, utilities, marketing and so forth and materials.
Most of which you will save by doing it yourself. Less marketing needs, fewer lawyers, no managers, cheaper property taxes, etc.
That leaves about $1550. Unless your friend reinvests part of that into the company, Uncle Sam gets about 1/3rd of that, or about $520.
Let's be fair though. Uncle Sam also gets 1/3 of his $300.
Most likely, the margins are a lot less than that and the overhead is more like $2500-3000. Meaning that the shop probably makes a whole $200-400 (not much more than your mechanic friend) or so on the whole $4000.
Hmm, if the overhead is $3000, then net profits is $1000. Subtract $150, you get $850. Multiply by 2/3, you get $566 simply for providing the capital, more than 250% of what the worker doing the actual work gets.
In this world of total non-compliance, lets offer a moment of silence in memory of how the Internet was *intended* to run.:)
Certainly not by fiat of the Internet Mail Consortium. The SMTP protocol (redundant, I know) sucks. That's why we get so much spam. The protocol wasn't written with spammers in mind. I'm certainly going to do everything in my power as an administrator to make it better, which unfortunately isn't very much.
SPEWS specifically seems to generate a lot of false positives. This seems to be because they will block entire netblocks, the administrators can not be contacted, the list is closed, and efforts to try an contact the administrators of the list are often futile as exemplified here
Yeah, but that's what I want for spamassassin. Statistically, as long as more than 50% of the email coming from IPs in SPEWS is spam, it should have a + weight in spamassassin. If I wanted to get fancy I could put each of the separate blacklists into spamassassin individually, and weight them accordingly. Then maybe SPEWS would only get +1 instead of being mixed in with a bunch of others and getting +2. But the way I have things set now already gives me no false positives and a high kill %. Maybe it's time for some DNS based whitelists. Then I can give them negative weights in spamassassin.
Usually that point is oriented more towards whether the defendant's "fair use" undermines demand for the original in the marketplace.
It has, yes, but that's only because the law has thus far been applied to artistic works.
Perhaps that is the downfall of the argument, though. Only artistic works can be copyrighted in the first place. The fair use clause is a necessary result of the copyright clause of the constitution, and thus should be interpreted in that light. Now it gets really tricky:).
Very well thought out. I'd probably have to agree with you. But I'd still say there is an implied license which is granted. Now the problem is whether or not that implied license can be taken away. And that's where it becomes extremely difficult, because the implied permission to allow the spammer to connect to your computer is tied to the implied permission to publish the spam. Take away the permission to publish, and I'll take away the permission to use my email server.
Perhaps that's a solution. Agree to stop publishing the spam in return for an injunction against sending email to the recipient. Is there such a thing as a class action injunction?
I have osirusoft set as a +2 in spamassassin, and I haven't gotten a single false positive due to it. I wouldn't suggest blocking based on osirusoft alone, but it makes a nice addition to the other spamassassin rules.
What exactly do you do to manage spam for the 10K user base? Seems like whoever is paying you is wasting their money, since you can't even stop spam from coming to your own personal account.
If manage a domain, you will get one to your contact address (usually hostmaster@your.domain) and also sales@, webmaster@, and a few other garbage addresses.
Will the Open Source and Free Software communities develop software that will find widespread adoption amongst the mainstream, or is such software, by its nature, suitable only for sophisticated users?
There's lots of public domain and BSD licensed software in Windows XP. Can't get more mainstream than that.
Yeah, but they're not really ready for that yet. They are primarily an ISP, not a content provider. If I'm going to pay them, I want them to be my ISP. I just don't want to run their stupid client.
Whatever though, the future is broadband, and it's getting pretty close to "too late" to come up with innovations for dialup customers.
Sure, if you want to run the client, but I'm talking about PPP access without ever running the client at all... Now maybe they have that, I don't know, since I haven't used them in several years.
They should start out by just making it ad free through AOL. Then move to allowing extra features through AOL (premium stories, free music streaming). Then finally move to exclusive access.
Secondly, they gotta offer direct PPP access as an alternative. No way I'm using their bloated client, no matter how many features they stuff into it.
What logical restrictions should be put on a public WiFi center so that the majority of good people can enjoy the system while the small number of people who would do the Internet harm are foiled?
A big sticker which says "use at your own risk."
C'mon, if you don't want anonymous users connecting to your system, put access controls on it.
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There's no such thing as total job security, with or without a union.
Maybe not total, but I'd say my father, who is a tenured teacher, has quite a bit.
However, the only people who want a union for "job security," are the people who need a union for "job security" (i.e. the lazy, the unskilled, etc). If you're good at what you do, and follow the rules, a union isn't going to help you any.
Quite simply that's nonsense. Unions can negotiate contracts such that you can't be laid off without the company breaching the contract.
If you're in a union, you get paid less, your benefits will often suck large, and when the union tells you to strike, you have no choice.
First of all, unlike being fired, you always have a choice of whether or not to go on strike. As for getting paid less and benefits being worse, I don't see that to be the case.
If they decide to strike for 6 months, that's 6 months that you (and your family, if applicable) go without food.
As opposed to if you get fired? Unions aren't going to vote to strike for 6 months without a damn good reason.
"Believe?" No. "Know?" Yes.
You know something yet you don't believe it? Maybe you should reevaluate that.
I prefer both [job security and pay]
Perhaps you don't understand the word "prefer"
and can get them just fine without a union.
I thought there was no such thing as total job security?
I can't get them with one.
Well, there's a good proof.
if your boss uses it to find out you are not sick and actually going to see Star Wars 3, then you'll hate it.
If I have to lie to my boss about going to see Star Wars 3, then I'll already hate it. That's what "I'm not telling you" personal days are for.
If there's no ads on TV, won't my monthly rate go from like $50 a month to around $100-150?
No, that's not how monopolies work. The price of cable is determined mainly by demand, and not supply, since supply is effectively unlimited.
That's 1,000 gigabytes, or well over 1,000 compressed movies, or more than 700,000 novels the size of "War and Peace." Such drives are expected to hit the market by 2004." i hope 8 years more can give a couple more megs to hds ;)
2004, 1 T drives. 2008, 1000 T drives. 2012, corporate America wins the election, institutes $1/gig media tax, average drive space drops back to 1 T (don't forget inflation).
Probably because you want job security. Why wouldn't you want a union? Well, probably because you believe it will lower your pay. Some people prefer security to pay. I wonder if it's possible to buy private unemployment insurance. That way those who want security can get it without the union. Alternatively, hire a lawyer to negotiate all your contracts.
Hmmm..well, the thing is out of the $4000 that was billed, on average, about $2000 is overhead -- rent or mortgage, utilities, marketing and so forth and materials.
Most of which you will save by doing it yourself. Less marketing needs, fewer lawyers, no managers, cheaper property taxes, etc.
That leaves about $1550. Unless your friend reinvests part of that into the company, Uncle Sam gets about 1/3rd of that, or about $520.
Let's be fair though. Uncle Sam also gets 1/3 of his $300.
Most likely, the margins are a lot less than that and the overhead is more like $2500-3000. Meaning that the shop probably makes a whole $200-400 (not much more than your mechanic friend) or so on the whole $4000.
Hmm, if the overhead is $3000, then net profits is $1000. Subtract $150, you get $850. Multiply by 2/3, you get $566 simply for providing the capital, more than 250% of what the worker doing the actual work gets.
In this world of total non-compliance, lets offer a moment of silence in memory of how the Internet was *intended* to run. :)
Certainly not by fiat of the Internet Mail Consortium. The SMTP protocol (redundant, I know) sucks. That's why we get so much spam. The protocol wasn't written with spammers in mind. I'm certainly going to do everything in my power as an administrator to make it better, which unfortunately isn't very much.
SPEWS specifically seems to generate a lot of false positives. This seems to be because they will block entire netblocks, the administrators can not be contacted, the list is closed, and efforts to try an contact the administrators of the list are often futile as exemplified here
Yeah, but that's what I want for spamassassin. Statistically, as long as more than 50% of the email coming from IPs in SPEWS is spam, it should have a + weight in spamassassin. If I wanted to get fancy I could put each of the separate blacklists into spamassassin individually, and weight them accordingly. Then maybe SPEWS would only get +1 instead of being mixed in with a bunch of others and getting +2. But the way I have things set now already gives me no false positives and a high kill %. Maybe it's time for some DNS based whitelists. Then I can give them negative weights in spamassassin.
Nah, you won't back up your lies, so I won't back up mine... Err... Something like that.
Usually that point is oriented more towards whether the defendant's "fair use" undermines demand for the original in the marketplace.
It has, yes, but that's only because the law has thus far been applied to artistic works.
Perhaps that is the downfall of the argument, though. Only artistic works can be copyrighted in the first place. The fair use clause is a necessary result of the copyright clause of the constitution, and thus should be interpreted in that light. Now it gets really tricky :).
Very well thought out. I'd probably have to agree with you. But I'd still say there is an implied license which is granted. Now the problem is whether or not that implied license can be taken away. And that's where it becomes extremely difficult, because the implied permission to allow the spammer to connect to your computer is tied to the implied permission to publish the spam. Take away the permission to publish, and I'll take away the permission to use my email server.
Perhaps that's a solution. Agree to stop publishing the spam in return for an injunction against sending email to the recipient. Is there such a thing as a class action injunction?
Even if i dont SEE them they are still a network resource drain.
Oh pulease. $0.0000001 per email? That's a whole $0.00002 a day! Give me a break.
You didn't answer what your job is, so I can't further attack your job as useless (and not the fault of the spammer).
I have osirusoft set as a +2 in spamassassin, and I haven't gotten a single false positive due to it. I wouldn't suggest blocking based on osirusoft alone, but it makes a nice addition to the other spamassassin rules.
What exactly do you do to manage spam for the 10K user base? Seems like whoever is paying you is wasting their money, since you can't even stop spam from coming to your own personal account.
If manage a domain, you will get one to your contact address (usually hostmaster@your.domain) and also sales@, webmaster@, and a few other garbage addresses.
That's why I block those accounts.
who actually gets loads of spam every day?
I got 34 so far today. All filtered, though, into my spam folder.
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Will the Open Source and Free Software communities develop software that will find widespread adoption amongst the mainstream, or is such software, by its nature, suitable only for sophisticated users?
There's lots of public domain and BSD licensed software in Windows XP. Can't get more mainstream than that.
I've been told that you can minimize the AOL browser and bring up the browser of your choice one you're logged on
Yeah but that doesn't help if I'm on my parents' computer, or if I reinstall my OS, or if I'm using Linux, or if I just want the extra memory, etc.
They might be able to advise you on how to get a tax break for your labors, if they can't outright pay you.
Nope, you can't deduct labor, only actual expenses (like mileage driving to the site).
Yeah, but they're not really ready for that yet. They are primarily an ISP, not a content provider. If I'm going to pay them, I want them to be my ISP. I just don't want to run their stupid client.
Whatever though, the future is broadband, and it's getting pretty close to "too late" to come up with innovations for dialup customers.
Sure, if you want to run the client, but I'm talking about PPP access without ever running the client at all... Now maybe they have that, I don't know, since I haven't used them in several years.
You could. Just sign up for the BYO access plan.
They should start out by just making it ad free through AOL. Then move to allowing extra features through AOL (premium stories, free music streaming). Then finally move to exclusive access.
Secondly, they gotta offer direct PPP access as an alternative. No way I'm using their bloated client, no matter how many features they stuff into it.
What logical restrictions should be put on a public WiFi center so that the majority of good people can enjoy the system while the small number of people who would do the Internet harm are foiled?
A big sticker which says "use at your own risk."
C'mon, if you don't want anonymous users connecting to your system, put access controls on it.