Re:No Mention of Legal Holidays
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Working Hard?
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I have an international calender (don't ask). Seems to me that the British get the most holidays (either that or I don't know what a bank holiday is, which is true)
That would NOT be profitable (having people sit on their ass). What would more likely happen, is that through automation of everything, the unemployed would try to scrounge for cash wherever they can, and the people who own these auto-stores would collect cash and hold on to it (not pay a bunch of "freeloaders" to go to school).
Then (if you really want to get in to it) since there's noone to buy shit from walmart, they would start to go out of business (no profit), fire even more people, make the problem greater, and we'd go into another great depression.
That's how lassiez-faire economics works. That's why Keynesian economics has been around since shortly after the great depression untill the mid 80's.
"Note to slashdot editors - a 'soapbox' icon would be very nice... something which allows users to post controversial stories like this whilst having a disclaimer so slashdot can keep its nose clean"
Heh... buying 3 Windows liscences. That's silly, there're cracks all over the internet. Hell, other than tech support, I don't even see the point of buying *1* windows liscence.
Re:Bored and rich in Sillycon Valley
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"This type of thing is typically said by people who are bored and poor "
Or buddhists/neo-buddhists (I use the neo for the people who follow buddhism but don't know it.) I knew this one buddhist (she was white, but that's besides the point) who's possessions were only what she needed to survive. So she didn't have a toaster, or a microwave, or a bread machine, or whatever. And she was happy with her life. So she wasn't just poor and bored. She actually made quite a bit of money (she was an elementary school teacher of mine) and gave it mostly away.
I worked with a newspaper for a couple years, the writers wouldn't know grammer or spelling if it hit them in the face. The editors fixed everything for them, with narry a complaint concidering it was their job (good place to bring school essays too...)
Why not just go out and buy a litre of icecream (or quart or whatever your country uses)? It's faster. If you really want a homemade taste, buy premium all natural organic (insert more marketing terms for expensive) icecream? Breyers all-natural is good.
Plus even with the premium price, it's cheaper than liquid N2 + cream, sugar, vanilla, and whatever else goes in to it
Not sure about mercury, but it's got tons of lead in it, which is really the problem. The chemical they use to wash it off is most likely nitric acid, though I could be wrong. And yeah, the EPA and OSHA would be on your ass for doing it in America, but China or Taiwan are still fair game for dumping poison all over the place
it's called a joke my humorless friend. Hemp zealots sound like linux zealots in as far as the argument of my parent applies to both.
Re:Sounds Fantastic -- Now Why Not Hemp
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Paraphrased for slashdot.
This isn't a troll... well, I guess it is, but it's a valid question.
What's the benefits of linux for running products? It sure seems to me that pro-linux people work hard to make linux work in a variety of situations not because linux would do the job well, but just to say "look! you can do it with linux! linux == good!!".
If it really is good in a particular situation and I'm way off, I'd like to hear..
The fibreglass isn't the toxic part of system boards, it's the lead and flux. Not to mention that I can see organic fibre boards catching fire when you try to solder them.
Re:I sometimes get CDs in DVD-type cases
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Go to the smoke shop, get a bottle of zippo fluid. That shit'll get anything off anything else
I feel like such a younggin'... I started with a 1200baud modem. I used it to connect to BBS' (no ISPs for miles around when I was a kid) on an IBM-clone 8088.
I talk to taco at least on irc all the time... I dunno why you couldn't just fire off an email or something (or chill out on irc) when you wanted to ask him a question...
Blockbuster doesn't rent porn, but in.ca, Rogers video does... And it's about as common as Blockbuster (in fact I haven't been to a town that doesn't have one of each). But yet, for some reason, there are still MnP stores here...
So I don't think the porn connection is very strong, if it's there at all (personally I rent from a mom and pop store down the street because of my own morals. It's about as expensive as Blockbuster, but the service is way better. )
That's for sure. If netflix or walmart would ship to Canada, I'd be sold. As much as I hate walmart (I refuse to shop there, ever. I'm quite happy paying an extra $5 for a pair of pants or whatever from another store, preferably small and Canadian, or just one of the two) If walmart offered service to Canada, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
I mean, jesus. I can ship a DVD sized package to the states for about $1.50 CDN. So there'd be longer turnaround, I can deal w/ that (or they could let Canadians take out 4 in a shot to make up for it)
*sigh* you learn nothing do you? Ad hominem attacks are stupid. They prove nothing, and just end up making you look ignorant. Words like "less cerebrally developed primates" just shows how much you have no idea what you're talking about.
The workers are the ones working their asses off, not the boss. The boss makes some inital decisions, with borrowed money, and then gets a bunch of people to do his dirty work for him, in exchange for a miniscule portion of the value of the product that's being produced. Pay the boss more, sure... But pay the workers an amount that reflects more how much their labor is worth. If the workers go on strike, then no product gets produced, at all. If the boss (by some fluke chance) abandoned the company, the workers could pick up the slack... product would be produced, and there'd only be a minimal amount of extra work that each worker'd have to do (like filling out a form or two a week)
Not really, it boils down to "you have a lot, and you got it just by sitting on your ass and skimming a majority of money off the top from one of your factories, so just don't bother showing up to work anymore, and us workers'll take care of everything (including collecting profit)"
Since (as my last post stated) socialism == democracy in where you work, then if you're getting at that kind of freedom is parasitic, then democracy as a whole is a parasitic worm?
And by "Read Marx" I don't mean "read the communist manifesto" since the manifesto was a piece of advertisment, not an explanation of political theory. Try reading Das Kapital, understand it, then you can say you understand Marx.
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I have an international calender (don't ask). Seems to me that the British get the most holidays (either that or I don't know what a bank holiday is, which is true)
Evidenty your post does. It's incomprehensible. Now only if I understood the algorithm & had the key.
You don't need a fuel-cell engine.
Rockets right now burn hydrogen and oxygen together to create thrust...
They could use solar power to electrolyze the water, and collect the gasses for fuel. No need to perfect the fuel cell.
That would NOT be profitable (having people sit on their ass). What would more likely happen, is that through automation of everything, the unemployed would try to scrounge for cash wherever they can, and the people who own these auto-stores would collect cash and hold on to it (not pay a bunch of "freeloaders" to go to school).
Then (if you really want to get in to it) since there's noone to buy shit from walmart, they would start to go out of business (no profit), fire even more people, make the problem greater, and we'd go into another great depression.
That's how lassiez-faire economics works. That's why Keynesian economics has been around since shortly after the great depression untill the mid 80's.
Yeah, it was meant as a joke. Evidently a joke only me and a couple guys on IRC (we all read both, and make fun of both) thought was funny.
"(hint: it's a western country with a madman chief of government obsessed with delusions of communist conspiracies trying to get him)"
OOH!!! OOH!!! I KNOW! TEACHER! PICK ME!
The USA!
"My english sucks"
Yep. definately the USA.
"I also wouldn't speak to the likes of Darl McBride except through a lawyer."
Are you kidding?! I'd *LOVE* to have a Q & A session with tons of CEO's out there, and most of them are not ones who I agree with
"Note to slashdot editors - a 'soapbox' icon would be very nice... something which allows users to post controversial stories like this whilst having a disclaimer so slashdot can keep its nose clean"
Then we'd be K5.
Heh... buying 3 Windows liscences. That's silly, there're cracks all over the internet. Hell, other than tech support, I don't even see the point of buying *1* windows liscence.
Nope. Writer represent! :)
"This type of thing is typically said by people who are bored and poor "
Or buddhists/neo-buddhists (I use the neo for the people who follow buddhism but don't know it.) I knew this one buddhist (she was white, but that's besides the point) who's possessions were only what she needed to survive. So she didn't have a toaster, or a microwave, or a bread machine, or whatever. And she was happy with her life. So she wasn't just poor and bored. She actually made quite a bit of money (she was an elementary school teacher of mine) and gave it mostly away.
It's called an editor.
I worked with a newspaper for a couple years, the writers wouldn't know grammer or spelling if it hit them in the face. The editors fixed everything for them, with narry a complaint concidering it was their job (good place to bring school essays too...)
Why not just go out and buy a litre of icecream (or quart or whatever your country uses)? It's faster. If you really want a homemade taste, buy premium all natural organic (insert more marketing terms for expensive) icecream? Breyers all-natural is good.
Plus even with the premium price, it's cheaper than liquid N2 + cream, sugar, vanilla, and whatever else goes in to it
Not sure about mercury, but it's got tons of lead in it, which is really the problem. The chemical they use to wash it off is most likely nitric acid, though I could be wrong. And yeah, the EPA and OSHA would be on your ass for doing it in America, but China or Taiwan are still fair game for dumping poison all over the place
it's called a joke my humorless friend. Hemp zealots sound like linux zealots in as far as the argument of my parent applies to both.
Paraphrased for slashdot.
This isn't a troll... well, I guess it is, but it's a valid question.
What's the benefits of linux for running products? It sure seems to me that pro-linux people work hard to make linux work in a variety of situations not because linux would do the job well, but just to say "look! you can do it with linux! linux == good!!".
If it really is good in a particular situation and I'm way off, I'd like to hear..
The fibreglass isn't the toxic part of system boards, it's the lead and flux. Not to mention that I can see organic fibre boards catching fire when you try to solder them.
Go to the smoke shop, get a bottle of zippo fluid. That shit'll get anything off anything else
I feel like such a younggin'... I started with a 1200baud modem. I used it to connect to BBS' (no ISPs for miles around when I was a kid) on an IBM-clone 8088.
I talk to taco at least on irc all the time... I dunno why you couldn't just fire off an email or something (or chill out on irc) when you wanted to ask him a question...
Blockbuster doesn't rent porn, but in .ca, Rogers video does... And it's about as common as Blockbuster (in fact I haven't been to a town that doesn't have one of each). But yet, for some reason, there are still MnP stores here...
So I don't think the porn connection is very strong, if it's there at all (personally I rent from a mom and pop store down the street because of my own morals. It's about as expensive as Blockbuster, but the service is way better. )
"renting dvds online is still in its infancy"
That's for sure. If netflix or walmart would ship to Canada, I'd be sold. As much as I hate walmart (I refuse to shop there, ever. I'm quite happy paying an extra $5 for a pair of pants or whatever from another store, preferably small and Canadian, or just one of the two) If walmart offered service to Canada, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
I mean, jesus. I can ship a DVD sized package to the states for about $1.50 CDN. So there'd be longer turnaround, I can deal w/ that (or they could let Canadians take out 4 in a shot to make up for it)
*sigh* you learn nothing do you? Ad hominem attacks are stupid. They prove nothing, and just end up making you look ignorant. Words like "less cerebrally developed primates" just shows how much you have no idea what you're talking about.
The workers are the ones working their asses off, not the boss. The boss makes some inital decisions, with borrowed money, and then gets a bunch of people to do his dirty work for him, in exchange for a miniscule portion of the value of the product that's being produced. Pay the boss more, sure... But pay the workers an amount that reflects more how much their labor is worth. If the workers go on strike, then no product gets produced, at all. If the boss (by some fluke chance) abandoned the company, the workers could pick up the slack... product would be produced, and there'd only be a minimal amount of extra work that each worker'd have to do (like filling out a form or two a week)
Not really, it boils down to "you have a lot, and you got it just by sitting on your ass and skimming a majority of money off the top from one of your factories, so just don't bother showing up to work anymore, and us workers'll take care of everything (including collecting profit)"
Nice rhetoric, but care to explain?
Since (as my last post stated) socialism == democracy in where you work, then if you're getting at that kind of freedom is parasitic, then democracy as a whole is a parasitic worm?
And by "Read Marx" I don't mean "read the communist manifesto" since the manifesto was a piece of advertisment, not an explanation of political theory. Try reading Das Kapital, understand it, then you can say you understand Marx.