In a purely capitalist system, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. That's a Reagan 'taking from the poor to give to the rich'. You can even argue (quite successfully) that it's on the whole better than the alternative of stealing hard-earned money from businesspeople preventing them from making jobs. HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that the rich steal en masse from the poor at every opportunity.
People with money tend to misrepresent socialism as theft, and people without tend to misrepresent capitalism as slavery. The lesson: simpleminded people have simpleminded ideas and will never comprehend the incredible complexity of the world we live in.
Good for you! Tell that to all of the retail, restaurant, transportation, mining, manufacturing, etc., workers that you depend on for your every day-to-day need. Those people's labor is commoditized, and companies will pay the bare minimum that they can conceivably get away with -- any individual who attempts to bargain is passed over for the next applicant, and there's always somebody with harder luck who's more desperate for the job. Companies in these businesses will pay the minimum and provide the minimum level of benefits that the law will allow, unless their workers organize.
Oh bull shit. Unions do try to change laws. The difference is, we don't have the deep pockets that our employers do, so we can't afford the politicians. Most workers represented by unions aren't at a union shop: membership is optional. However, in these workplaces, the union still represents nonmembers, who still get all the negotiated benefits and wage increases that the union fights for. If unions were as self-serving as you suggest, this would not be the case. We fight for everybody we can, stand in solidarity with other unions, and work to change the law in the favor of all workers wherever possible.
If this law comes to pass, I fully intend to create a private website that has personal information about me. The TOS will state that various parts of the site are off-limits, and that it is forbidden to access those parts of the site.
When the site is indexed by Google, I'll take them to court. They've got the clout to get this shit taken care of... and a good time will be had by all.
Naw, the paper is a good read. Fun pictures, funnier security recommendations. I'd love to see the IT guy who goes around weighing people's docking stations. Poor sap would end up taking night shifts just to avoid the teasing.
Sweet, man, thanks for keeping OSS obscure for us. We hipsters need a lot of negative attention to stay so cool. (hint: no hipster would admit to being a hipster. ignore them and they go away.)
He campaigned for "hope" and "change". FP was making a pun. To me, it's ironic that Obama originally campaigned for increased transparency... libs interpreted that as "the government will be transparent to us" but now Obama's like "Sic! Citizens are transparent to the government!"
It's not about what day he died. What's the difference, give or take a year?
It was about the amount of warning we had. We faced reality and had time for some super important conversations. Sorry to hear about the gun incident... doctors can write prescriptions for patient-administered suicide in my state, and I hear it's peaceful, quick, and painless.
Yeah, I see the difference -- but $800k to develop a hot glue gun just seems silly. On reflection (let's be honest, I post ontopic snarky FPs whenever I can) I see that most of their pledges are at the $75 mark, so this is mostly just people using kickstarter as a shopping site... and I'm totally getting one for my mom for her birthday.
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Plastic is for throwing away! You can throw away your poor resolution printed cheap plastic parts! Just like 1970, but DIY and crappier!
Courage? Online? Seriously, some people.
Perhaps the ocean?
In a purely capitalist system, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. That's a Reagan 'taking from the poor to give to the rich'. You can even argue (quite successfully) that it's on the whole better than the alternative of stealing hard-earned money from businesspeople preventing them from making jobs. HOWEVER that doesn't change the fact that the rich steal en masse from the poor at every opportunity.
People with money tend to misrepresent socialism as theft, and people without tend to misrepresent capitalism as slavery. The lesson: simpleminded people have simpleminded ideas and will never comprehend the incredible complexity of the world we live in.
Good for you! Tell that to all of the retail, restaurant, transportation, mining, manufacturing, etc., workers that you depend on for your every day-to-day need. Those people's labor is commoditized, and companies will pay the bare minimum that they can conceivably get away with -- any individual who attempts to bargain is passed over for the next applicant, and there's always somebody with harder luck who's more desperate for the job. Companies in these businesses will pay the minimum and provide the minimum level of benefits that the law will allow, unless their workers organize.
Not as many or as well-protected as those of white folk, though. Somebody's sarcasm detector is broken today...
Oh, that's cool then. Brown people don't have rights anyway.
Oh bull shit. Unions do try to change laws. The difference is, we don't have the deep pockets that our employers do, so we can't afford the politicians. Most workers represented by unions aren't at a union shop: membership is optional. However, in these workplaces, the union still represents nonmembers, who still get all the negotiated benefits and wage increases that the union fights for. If unions were as self-serving as you suggest, this would not be the case. We fight for everybody we can, stand in solidarity with other unions, and work to change the law in the favor of all workers wherever possible.
If this law comes to pass, I fully intend to create a private website that has personal information about me. The TOS will state that various parts of the site are off-limits, and that it is forbidden to access those parts of the site.
When the site is indexed by Google, I'll take them to court. They've got the clout to get this shit taken care of... and a good time will be had by all.
If you know Samoans like I know Samoans... you'd find a people who love to laugh. Did they roll this out yesterday? Did nobody notice until today?
Uhm, he didn't need the booger, so he launched it at us. Duh? Omnipotence gets pretty boring. Gotta mix it up for funsies.
No, he reinvented Slashdot editors. There seems to be room for improvement...
More like, why does a "news for nerds" site spend a third of a paragraph telling us what thumb drives are?
Sorry, but did you miss this? It was only 3 months ago.
Naw, the paper is a good read. Fun pictures, funnier security recommendations. I'd love to see the IT guy who goes around weighing people's docking stations. Poor sap would end up taking night shifts just to avoid the teasing.
Problem is, he's sacking our liberties. It's not whether or not he's trustworthy... what about the next two hundred presidents?
Sweet, man, thanks for keeping OSS obscure for us. We hipsters need a lot of negative attention to stay so cool. (hint: no hipster would admit to being a hipster. ignore them and they go away.)
Knowing this was a mistake, you should have quoted "Sic[sic]!..."
He campaigned for "hope" and "change". FP was making a pun. To me, it's ironic that Obama originally campaigned for increased transparency... libs interpreted that as "the government will be transparent to us" but now Obama's like "Sic! Citizens are transparent to the government!"
Sorry, pal. HDR neatly defeats pretty much any such optical tampering.
It's not about what day he died. What's the difference, give or take a year? It was about the amount of warning we had. We faced reality and had time for some super important conversations. Sorry to hear about the gun incident... doctors can write prescriptions for patient-administered suicide in my state, and I hear it's peaceful, quick, and painless.
Cool thing about metastatic cancer: I got to spend an extra 11 months with my dad. No such thing if he'd had a heart attack.
This legislation is too stupid to get anywhere. Move along folks...
Yeah, I see the difference -- but $800k to develop a hot glue gun just seems silly. On reflection (let's be honest, I post ontopic snarky FPs whenever I can) I see that most of their pledges are at the $75 mark, so this is mostly just people using kickstarter as a shopping site... and I'm totally getting one for my mom for her birthday.