So feel free to move. There are states that have no urban centers, even countries if that is what you wish.
You will probably have to give up any life other than dirt farmer though, since pretty much anything above that level was invented, manufactured or designed in one of those urban centers.
We have TANF(Temporary Assistance for Need Families) and unemployment insurance. Both are temporary and the first is only for families. The latter is also not available in most states if you quit, are fired for cause, or were not working for more than some amount of time, normally a year.
The workers can opt not to work there, these policies are not hidden like these no poach agreements.
Personally I think closed shops should be legal, but workers should only be forced to join or create a union not the one that signed the deal. Meaning in theory they could start a competing union or create a union of one.
I have no reason to give them a better product than any other buyer in the market. If they would give me a reason I would.
It is not a catch 22 at all. If they want people to stay they must pay market rates. It really is that simple. What they want is to train someone into an expensive employee and not pay that person what he is now worth. While that would be ideal from their point of view, it would also be ideal if a unicorn came into the office and did all the work for free, both options are equally likely.
The mac mini will run Windows 7 fine. Then you can run the software you want.
I am a geek yes, welcome to slashdot. If you want the tiny market device you are talking about you will too have to man up and do it yourself.
It is cheaper to make one case and one motherboard and use it to make the entry level PC and the high end unit.
It is under the desk because that is where the power is. It could be on the desk behind the monitor if that is where the power was. This is not a problem for 90% of users.
You have lots of choice, I change them at every job I have ever taken.
I even signed the "Take a drug test or quit at our request" form and crossed out the take a drug test part and every reference to it. I fully intend to quit if that came up. I know not everyone is in my situation but I have medical problems my blood and urine would disclose my employer has no right to know about. I also have enough financial stability that being unemployed for 6 months would not be that big a deal.
Palm employees have every right to speak to Apple employees when those Apple employees are not on the clock. Why should calling an Apple employee be any different than calling any any person?
Apple does not own these folks, and has no right to say who they can speak when not on the clock. Steve Jobs was such an asshole he stole from Woz. You know the guy that without Apple would never have even existed.
A company does not invest in employees, it pays them for their time. They are not things to own. If the company wants to avoid any "investment", they can only hire employees trained in exactly what they want. If none can be found the company can feel free to close up shop.
I sell my time, if you want to make my time more valuable to you by training me during this time I am selling you that is your choice. Once the time you have bought has come to an end I owe you nothing. If this was not the case then I would have a pension, and raises that kept me at market salary. Instead we now have to switch jobs to get the market rate as raises never increase at that rate.
A union can not force you to hire its members. You can find non-union workers or train some yourself.
The best thing for the market is to realize that some participants are at information and power disadvantages and to attempt to provide a level playing field.
I doubt the employees got much of a say in if they wanted to participate in this. This is a group on one end of a market colluding the damage the other end of the market. This is not free association and organizing this is the sort of thing that should be a felony. It should involve a long stint in the pokey and the dissolution the charter of any corporation that does this.
The closest you will get is something like a mac mini. You could also start with a shuttle PC and go from there.
Most people do not care about the volume a PC takes up in an office, it sits under the desk. Hell, I bought a workstation ATX case more than 10 years ago and I intend to use it till the day I can't find a motherboard that mounts on some form of ATX, it is drilled for everything from Workstation ATX to mini ATX.
Net neutrality is about you intentionally blocking stuff, not you offering better service on some providers via peering. Surely you can see the huge difference.
He is talking about the app, so that is not the issue here.
E-ink has a lot of short comings and that is one of them. I still don't understand people's love for it, but to each his own I guess. If 10 hours of looking at a monitor does not hurt me, I am not worried about the backlight on a tablet.
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What strawman was that?
You wanted to avoid civilization, I was helping you do that.
I must have misinterpreted. Please feel free to clarify.
It looks like you are saying any taxes or tax increase will be avoided so we might as well have no taxes.
So feel free to move.
There are states that have no urban centers, even countries if that is what you wish.
You will probably have to give up any life other than dirt farmer though, since pretty much anything above that level was invented, manufactured or designed in one of those urban centers.
I strike out any part I find objectionable. Mine pretty much says nothing so that is fine.
I agree it could remove one avenue of defense, but so far so good here. Next time I likely will take it to a lawyer first.
So then we should have no taxes at all?
If you want to benefit from our civilization you should expect to have to pay for it as well.
No.
We have TANF(Temporary Assistance for Need Families) and unemployment insurance.
Both are temporary and the first is only for families. The latter is also not available in most states if you quit, are fired for cause, or were not working for more than some amount of time, normally a year.
The workers can opt not to work there, these policies are not hidden like these no poach agreements.
Personally I think closed shops should be legal, but workers should only be forced to join or create a union not the one that signed the deal. Meaning in theory they could start a competing union or create a union of one.
I have no reason to give them a better product than any other buyer in the market. If they would give me a reason I would.
It is not a catch 22 at all. If they want people to stay they must pay market rates. It really is that simple. What they want is to train someone into an expensive employee and not pay that person what he is now worth. While that would be ideal from their point of view, it would also be ideal if a unicorn came into the office and did all the work for free, both options are equally likely.
The mac mini will run Windows 7 fine. Then you can run the software you want.
I am a geek yes, welcome to slashdot. If you want the tiny market device you are talking about you will too have to man up and do it yourself.
It is cheaper to make one case and one motherboard and use it to make the entry level PC and the high end unit.
It is under the desk because that is where the power is. It could be on the desk behind the monitor if that is where the power was. This is not a problem for 90% of users.
You have lots of choice, I change them at every job I have ever taken.
I even signed the "Take a drug test or quit at our request" form and crossed out the take a drug test part and every reference to it. I fully intend to quit if that came up. I know not everyone is in my situation but I have medical problems my blood and urine would disclose my employer has no right to know about. I also have enough financial stability that being unemployed for 6 months would not be that big a deal.
Define poaching.
Palm employees have every right to speak to Apple employees when those Apple employees are not on the clock. Why should calling an Apple employee be any different than calling any any person?
Apple does not own these folks, and has no right to say who they can speak when not on the clock. Steve Jobs was such an asshole he stole from Woz. You know the guy that without Apple would never have even existed.
So now employees are slaves?
A company does not invest in employees, it pays them for their time. They are not things to own. If the company wants to avoid any "investment", they can only hire employees trained in exactly what they want. If none can be found the company can feel free to close up shop.
I sell my time, if you want to make my time more valuable to you by training me during this time I am selling you that is your choice. Once the time you have bought has come to an end I owe you nothing. If this was not the case then I would have a pension, and raises that kept me at market salary. Instead we now have to switch jobs to get the market rate as raises never increase at that rate.
Closed shops and union shops are the companies decision. They signed those contracts, no one forced them into it.
Without unions we would still have 7 day work weeks.
That is nothing like the topic at hand.
A union can not force you to hire its members. You can find non-union workers or train some yourself.
The best thing for the market is to realize that some participants are at information and power disadvantages and to attempt to provide a level playing field.
I doubt the employees got much of a say in if they wanted to participate in this. This is a group on one end of a market colluding the damage the other end of the market. This is not free association and organizing this is the sort of thing that should be a felony. It should involve a long stint in the pokey and the dissolution the charter of any corporation that does this.
Not one I did not also backup and get a crack for.
What kind of fool do you take me for?
There simply is not a big enough market for that,
The closest you will get is something like a mac mini. You could also start with a shuttle PC and go from there.
Most people do not care about the volume a PC takes up in an office, it sits under the desk. Hell, I bought a workstation ATX case more than 10 years ago and I intend to use it till the day I can't find a motherboard that mounts on some form of ATX, it is drilled for everything from Workstation ATX to mini ATX.
HP makes no motherboards they are buying them from someone else.
Newegg shows ASUS and EVGA both have boards like this. I was a little surprised Tyan was not represented.
My year old Air stomps all over this thing.
If I want a real PC I don't care how big it is, if I want something tiny I am willing to pay enough to get something better.
You could, and no one is worried about that.
Net neutrality is about you intentionally blocking stuff, not you offering better service on some providers via peering. Surely you can see the huge difference.
Because if you have any real amount of customers 5Gb is a fucking joke.
This is 100% of what this is.
If netflix was not forcing ISPs to upgrade something else would. Maybe if ISPs would upgrade by themselves this would not be a problem.
I bet Fox News does not complain about that evil socialist right of way that TWC and their ilk use.
He is talking about the app, so that is not the issue here.
E-ink has a lot of short comings and that is one of them. I still don't understand people's love for it, but to each his own I guess. If 10 hours of looking at a monitor does not hurt me, I am not worried about the backlight on a tablet.
Because he cared about having the files in the future?
Trusting a cloud provider to the point where you don't have backups is one of the stupidest things I have heard today.
The kindle reader app can handle PDFs, so why not use that?