Southwest airline is one of the few profitable airlines right now and they are that way because they DON'T have a strong union. They treat their employees right and the union stays out of it.
Organized labor isn't necessary when workers are properly treated. Unfortuately, sometimes the corporations hold more power than the individual and can use this power to extract unpaid labor (in the Marxist sense) from the worker. Unions--in theory--exist to combat exploitation and restore fair exchange.
Personally, I have worked for small companies that have treated me well. I never needed to fight for better working conditions. But I would never deny others the right to organize.
Wouldn't it be more useful for the entire open source community to rally around Linux?
Extrapolating, wouldn't it be better if the entire computer community rallied behind Windows?
The answer is no. Different OS's have different philosophies / capabilities and will attract different developers. HURD's microkernel architecture will attract developers who believe that mk is advantageous. OpenBSD will attract developers who value security and like the BSD license. BeOS will draw those interested in creating the "Be Experience". And Linux will happily end up with everyone else:)
Fork() is for creating a new process. The Perl 5.8.0 threads uses the threads pragma to spawn threads. But Perl doesn't share all data by default, so variables must be declared shareable via variable attributes( $variable : attribute). Artur Bergman wrote a good synopsis.
If there is cross-pollination, aren't you contradicting yourself? How can introducing new genes into the pool "destroy biodiversity"? The very definition of "biodiversity" makes it an inherent contradiction.
The threat to biodiversity the article referred to the "squeezing out" of other organisms--the threat is that the GMed plants will multiply quickly and rob nutrients from other organisms. Where there used to be a balance of power, GMed crops might create a monopoly; instead of having a field with lots of plants, you've got a poop-load of mutant corn.
That's not automatically a bad thing. But saying "sure, release whatever you want into the environment and let consumers decide!" seems more than shortsighted.
PS> It doesn't matter to me, I don't like coffee. I drink tea: the anti-h4xor beverage.
GM doesn't just make crops more plentiful or disease resistant, it introduces a new species. This can cause all sorts of problems. GM plants can destroy biodiversity, become unkillable mutant superweeds, and give corporations more IP power. As an example, I believe there was an old Slashdot story (I searched but couldn't find it) about a Canadian farmer who was being sued because genetically modified seed blew off of passing trucks and cross-fertilized his field.
This doesn't mean that GM is bad, or that Kona coffee growers aren't more concerned with the purity of their brand than their crop, just that we should proceed with care.
Maybe it's blindingly obvious that advertisers are out to trick us, but that doesn't mean the point is invalid.
Capitalism is based on the premise that the informed consumer will pay fair value for a commodity. Advertising seeks to create new value: "coolness."
Most people hate monopolies because they are bad for the economic system (at lesat it seems that way when ever Microsoft is mentioned). Maybe we should hate advertisers, too.
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Personally, I have worked for small companies that have treated me well. I never needed to fight for better working conditions. But I would never deny others the right to organize. Or the disenfranchised.
Extrapolating, wouldn't it be better if the entire computer community rallied behind Windows?
The answer is no. Different OS's have different philosophies / capabilities and will attract different developers. HURD's microkernel architecture will attract developers who believe that mk is advantageous. OpenBSD will attract developers who value security and like the BSD license. BeOS will draw those interested in creating the "Be Experience". And Linux will happily end up with everyone else
Fork() is for creating a new process. The Perl 5.8.0 threads uses the threads pragma to spawn threads. But Perl doesn't share all data by default, so variables must be declared shareable via variable attributes( $variable : attribute). Artur Bergman wrote a good synopsis.
If there is cross-pollination, aren't you contradicting yourself? How can introducing new genes into the pool "destroy biodiversity"? The very definition of "biodiversity" makes it an inherent contradiction.
The threat to biodiversity the article referred to the "squeezing out" of other organisms--the threat is that the GMed plants will multiply quickly and rob nutrients from other organisms. Where there used to be a balance of power, GMed crops might create a monopoly; instead of having a field with lots of plants, you've got a poop-load of mutant corn.
That's not automatically a bad thing. But saying "sure, release whatever you want into the environment and let consumers decide!" seems more than shortsighted.
PS> It doesn't matter to me, I don't like coffee. I drink tea: the anti-h4xor beverage.
GM doesn't just make crops more plentiful or disease resistant, it introduces a new species. This can cause all sorts of problems. GM plants can destroy biodiversity, become unkillable mutant superweeds, and give corporations more IP power. As an example, I believe there was an old Slashdot story (I searched but couldn't find it) about a Canadian farmer who was being sued because genetically modified seed blew off of passing trucks and cross-fertilized his field.
This doesn't mean that GM is bad, or that Kona coffee growers aren't more concerned with the purity of their brand than their crop, just that we should proceed with care.
Maybe it's blindingly obvious that advertisers are out to trick us, but that doesn't mean the point is invalid.
Capitalism is based on the premise that the informed consumer will pay fair value for a commodity. Advertising seeks to create new value: "coolness."
Most people hate monopolies because they are bad for the economic system (at lesat it seems that way when ever Microsoft is mentioned). Maybe we should hate advertisers, too.