For god sakes, I'm a liberal, why would _I_ play the terrorism trump card?
After 4 years of watching liberals do just that -- especially the self-labelled ones in the US Congress -- and you have the audacity to pretend innocence on the WIDESPREAD usage of the trump card?
You can't be that ignorant. So you're just lying.
Of course, you're probably indulging in the mindless support of liberal leadership, as many Americans are doing. If "everyone does it", is it really a lie? This is simply how a Republic dies.
The point you're missing is that you're thinking of it purely in terms of security risk. When the board, shareholders, and Wall Street are breathing down your neck for more profit each year than the last year, you learn to stop thinking about things in pure security risk and start thinking in terms of "leveraged advantage", "strategic sourcing", and all the other buzzwords that are used for indulging in the extreme greed of Hypercapitalism.
Just look at the words "strategic sourcing". Unless you have those words in your annual report this year, chances are you're going to be fired by the board. But those words can hide a complete lack of security concerns. The words can imply anything, really, since they imply you are thinking strategically about your sources of materials and labor. So, what possible strategies can be used? In an enterprise fashion, there are probably dozens; in a department fashion, 100s to 1000s; and down to the level of managers and line employees, we end up with at least (literally) 10s of thousands of details. In this blizzard of details, executives hide their singular Hypercapitalist intent. Hence, it is not only possible, but LIKELY, to completely lose a concern for the security risks.
This is how we've ended up with a business environment in America that is effectively a Disneyland of facade, fraud, deception and posturing. "Nothing is real, and everything is permitted." Given this environment, A.Crowley would have loved the 21st Century.
Yes, regulation will slow down development. That's a great idea, since We The People have more in mind (like, oh, environmental pollution controls) than developing a product as fast as possible. I hope the developer can make a good product at a profit regardless... but he has to learn to live in a society where a government of free men exists to regulate the things that can kill, maim or injure any of us.
A fine example of an "irrational or unfounded NIMBY response" is the problem of building electric generation plants in California. The barriers for the plants were set far too high, so they simply weren't built... however, everybody liked to consume electricity, so they indulged quite a bit. (Of course, although I don't know directly, I'm sure the Californian anti-electric-plant NIMBYs probably dismissed concerns with assertions about the effectiveness of the market for power. At the time, people didn't want to foresee a future of overpricing based upon such an artificial market.)
I read the complaint differently. If it's bad to bury in the backyard for his grandchildren to take care of, it's bad to bury ANYWHERE for ANYBODY to take care of. So I don't write off NIMBY-based complaints.
The problem with "experts" is that they're often "on the payroll" from some partisan interest in the debate at hand. Too many of the experts involved in things like nanotech are at least taking "partnership" grant money from corporations. How am I expected to trust their results? After all, we've seen some rather high-profile data falsification cases in the last decade.
What we need are some honest, unbiased reports of the pros and cons of nanotechnology: where it's headed, how it could help us, how it could harm us, and what the cost will be.
I agree. Of course, having been informed, the rest of us "society at large" will ultimately decide how to regulate nanotech by our use of the vote and through elected representatives. The ultimate right (voting) should follow from the ultimate responsibility (being informed).
Yeah, love those deficits. The international bankers thought Reagan was a great guy too. Too bad we're still making payments on his so-called greatness.
Republican shill.
In the case of W, the jury is still out (I wouldn't think he is the best for the job looking at resumes or abilities, but OTOH, he might turn out to be the perfect leader for the time we are in; ask me again in 20 years).
Shit crock. George W. Bush is the first Hitler of the 21st Century. The only jury deliberation going on is by people like you who have entirely bought into American Imperialism. In that light, you aren't deliberating anything. You've long decided to support the biggest murderer.
This 20-year thing is yet another piece of festering shit to spill from that asshole you call a mouth. Sure, we knew Viet Nam was a problem in the 1980s... long after we should have acted to stop it. Iraq is mounting up the same way as Viet Nam 2.0.
20-years-later is not a way to run a just society. Crime and war must be stopped NOW, not judged adversely a generation after the fact, when there's no one you can really even punish for the crimes committed.
If you're so keen on waiting, post your address and your schedule. I'll burgle your house, and then let me know how you feel about THAT in 2025.
You might well be right about one thing, in all your horseshit: GWB is the PERFECT leader for the American Empire. If you're an Imperialist, then that's a great, great thing. For the rest of us decent folk that don't advocate (or act) to murder people for oil, American access and Israeli security, GWB is simply a Hitler clone.
Get caught with cocaine (itself, a lost right to not be prosecuted for simply having a personal chemical) in your car, and then come back and tell us what you've lost. (Hint: your entire fucking car, Ace.) Ever heard of the 4th Amendment? Well, law enforcement nowadays hasn't heard of it either.
I love it when people like you pull the innocent act and pretend like you don't understand what we real progressives are talking about. You've lost a veritable TON of rights... freedom of speech (SLAPP suits), freedom to own weapons (gun bans), freedom from search and seizure (property forfeitures for narcotics)... the list is annoyingly, FAR too long. And I equally love to rub your fucking noses in it, Roscoe.
Why do we bother with voter registration if you're not going to bother with filling out the forms right?
The FACT here is that those who allowed voter registrations to occur with such faults, should be held responsible, and the errors should be corrected. Entire elections can be determined by just 1 margin vote, so every single vote must be verified good and accurate if possible. And as far as possibility is concerned, this is why we should have more local voting systems, with strict compliance up the chain, so that errors can be checked with some local travel, and also that errors cannot persist upward to destroy the validity of a national vote.
Of course, all this assumes the citizenry even cares. Given your attitude, that's a bad assumption.
Next time you hear something Buzzing around when you're at a family picnic you might think twice before swatting it could be an expensive action
Kind of in the same vein, I don't think the expense is the key. The key is, use a rifle or shotgun and get in some target practice. The age of the flyswatter is OVER.
I think that that's a bit more than a rumor. It's just a sensitive issue, hence is not widely reported. But the truth culled from several sources is that its highly likely they survived the orbiter's breakup in the airstream, and that the control cabin was essentially intact. Some oxygen masks were activated. But even if the astronauts were conscious for the 10-mile fall to the ocean surface, they assuredly died upon impact as the control cabin smashed into the water -- and I do mean "smashed", as in smashed into pieces of wreckage, or smashed into a flat piece of wreckage. Either way, the astronauts' bodies were recovered in a condition that hasn't been reported on.
Google a bit and you'll probably reach the same conclusions.
Well, technically, both Shuttle accidents involved them tumbling in the airstream at a high mach number, which tears such a craft to pieces. The 1986 event was caused by an explosion, sure, but the tumbling orbiter was torn apart by the airstream. The 2003 event was caused by a structural failure, sure, but the tumbling orbiter was torn apart by the airstream (after the left wing snapped off).
For years, I thought the 1986 involved the Shuttle "blowing up", too, but that's just not correct. Once the Shuttle departed the nose-on profile of flight from the explosion of the tank, things like the wings and tail were simply ripped away from the (Mach 3+?) craft. If it had kept its orientation, it may have sailed relatively intact from the area of the blast effect, and then hopefully regained control long enough to effect an abort return.
I don't shoot hippies preferentially; I just shoot whomever is coming in my window.;^)
Your part about capitalist competition is apt, but as we know, it's hard to compete with FREE. This is kind-of what Sun is competing against. Sun apparently also thinks that having a locked-hood car is the primary choice for its customers. These are poor decisions, yes. What confuses me is why people insist on NOT blaming the executive class whose job is was to anticipate lean times and changed circumstances. Leanness and changes are THE LAW in the business world. Any product you produce is going to capture market share, then steadily lose it. Why didn't Sun prepare for these times?
You're exactly in the position I stated. Your school system is out of control and you obviously lack the courage to address it. Your problem is you. (And our problem therefore is that you've bred.)
There is some need for people which help the teachers concentrate on teaching instead of dealing with overhead.
No, when the choice is dismissing a teacher, there is NO NEED WHATSOEVER for administration. Duh fuckin' duh.
Your density on this matter is neutronic. You've already lost the war with the administrators since you think they have a purpose in your school system. From that utter falsehood, the rest of the decay follows. You've lost teachers yet have retained administrators. Get a clue, fucker. By the time you're cutting off your arm for a decent meal of meat, you have to face the truth that you've lost control.
It isn't like the overhead will go away if the admin's are all released, it will just be put on the teachers plates. Doing this would merely reduce the time they have to teach.
Wow, we don't want to cut into their 6.5hr teaching day. What a crock of shit. Furthermore, if the teachers administrate their own schools by committees, then they'll have the sensible urges to reduce administration costs... since THEIR decisions will have to be borne by THEMSELVES (unlike the current environment of administrators thinking up rules daily for the teachers to labor under).
The school system indeed has one function, teaching.
Yeah, that's what I said, fucknugget. TEACHING... reading, writing, math and citizenship. I note particularly that this has little to do with administration. Teaching's the easiest thing to arrange, too: room, teacher, books, piddling supplies. Wow, that was fucking difficult, eh? Kind of like rocket science to a cretin like yourself, isn't it?
What you constrain the educational process too is unusably narrow in terms of subject matter and just plain wierd with citizenship. What are you a Stalinist?
Considering teaching citizenship in America means instruction on the political system, laws, voting, finance, economics and health, then yes, according to a yuppie piece of shit like yourself, I'm a flaming Red Pinko Commie Bastard. Wow, better for the children to reach the voting booths having been taught by MTV! Gosh, we can't have the schools broach the topics of voting! You are a complete blowhard.
Only a complete blowhard would think that reading, writing, math and citizenship constitute "unusably narrow in terms of subject matter". But then, you're probably one of the soccer moms whose school has more funding sunk into the team than in all the math classes combined.
Just the teacher, the building and the books add up quite a bit you know.
All the more reason to get rid of the admin parasite, the admin building, the admin coffee maker... and so on.
Ah. I'm being trolled. My bad.
No, you're not being trolled, you finally encountered a man more concerned with being right than with being polite-unto-avoidance.
I stand by my statements 100%. But it's not me who's going to be doing the firebombing. It's people like you. Your kids will be dumb ("dumb" = "too long in the condition of ignorance"), or their homes will be taxed into oblivion, due to your failure to control the costs of your school system. Call it a troll all you want, but with things like foreclosures and pregnancies, I'm having a very black laugh at your yuppie reluctance to deal with FUCKING REALITY. America's cities already look like they've been nuked... nuked economically, with places like Detroit showing the worst damage from this World War Greed. The destruction is coming your way. If I were you, I'd learn to duck, Chump... especially since your discussion skills suck donkey balls, so it's not like you're going to talk you way out of trouble.
P.S. Please don't breed again until you learn to think.kthxbye
How so? All the projects in question are free to choose other avenues than the GPL... provided they re-write all the tons of stuff that's GPL'd in them already. But then, how much of that stuff would have been made available if the GPL wasn't there to protect the code authors to begin with?
There isn't anything negative about market share and restrictions that can be said about the GPL that cannot also be said about Sun's products. THAT is what all this bullshit PR is about. Just think how much market share Sun could have if it slashed prices... but at the cost of a lesser profit margin. Just think how much market share completely-free software could have... but at the cost of no protection for the code authors. On and on this goes.
Why, the next thing hippies like you are going to point out is how Sun's execs didn't have the foresight to plan for lean times! So then you'll say "why were those guys paid so much, if they couldn't foresee the inevitable shrinking of profit margins?"! And the next thing we'll see from this is the imposition of a Hippie Commune State where we'll all have to eat granola and smoke peculiar herbs, while the prior execs slave away in the fields for their daily bread.
Since we obviously don't want THAT to happen (since it negatively affects our investment portfolios), we will have to blot-Blot-BLOT out anything you say that casts Sun's management in a bad light.
Sun knows what businesses, universities and governments want, and it isn't all rosy happy days at the park like so many Slashdotters want to make it out to be.
Er, you fucking lackey, if Sun really knew that, then it's particularly odd to see the company spending time talking about (i.e. creating) the weaknesses in a competing product. Sun's just fighting the GPL since they do know its customers are informedly choosing GPL-covered products.
In Sun is full of all this knowledge (instead of being simply full of bullshit) then they'd be spending their time fitting their OS products to customer needs, not talking crap about the GPL in a pathetic and transparent attempt to FUD people away from it.
Sun's proving once again that PR is almost purely used by a company to shore up the weakness in its own product lines. Grok that for a while, shill-bitch.
It looks like you found the GPL offensive to your needs and philosophy. You went with an alternative. Great! So who is telling you to spend money to support the GPL? Who's actaully applying anything like force against you as regards the GPL?
The orginal poster is so correct, that it hurts to watch people complain about it. If you don't like the terms of the GPL, then don't use the fucking code. End of story.
{sniff} It appears, Sir, that you understand nothing about predatory Capitalism. Lord Schwartz and his peers only want their due; what's theirs is theirs, and what's yours is theirs. How else will their enterprises make more money this year than last year? They need your code, and having the sham protection of the GPL makes a mockery of that style of acquisition.
In short, Sir, the law is not there to protect you. It is a tool for the wealthy to protect themselves and their vast holdings. It is a necessary component of the globalist feudalism of the 21st Century. The Lords will own us, while we work for their good... and in return, they may defend us when we're attacked (if they feel like it at the time), and we can get all the barrel-bottom scrapings we can eat.
Really! Tell me, Sport, when these threats were issued, did you wander in with a list of administrators and their salaries? No? Well, did you at least demand this list?
No?
The only real peril to your kids, Roscoe, is YOU. Your school system is out of control and you won't take an actual, direct step to correct the waste. Of course, that would cut into your TV watching time.
All school systems across America -- yes, even the small ones -- have some administrator piece of shit sitting in some office collecting a paycheck, while budgets are cut BY THEM to target teachers, books, programs... in short, EVERYTHING ELSE but them.
Your school teachers should administrate the school system. Period. It is their privilege and duty to do so. Until that happy day arrives, we get scared little weenies like you blathering nonsense on public boards about your own failure to control the desk pilots.
A school system has only 1 function: to provide a place for teachers to instruct young citizens in the only 4 things that matter in public education (reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship). That doesn't cost much money to perform. People who do think it's costly, are mentally deranged. If these basic school functions are being compromised for things like art, band practice, and the expense accounts of administrators, then somebody needs to firebomb the townsmen that allow such a travesty to occur.
READING
WRITING
MATH
CITIZENSHIP
Provide THOSE to your children -- covering the necessities -- and then we'll talk about providing frills like buses, band, chess club, baseball, and all the rest.
I registered a "sucks" site for my employer, and then went researching the case law that governed the use of a such a site.
You should perform your own research. If you want, email me, and I'll give you the summary case law I found. But overall, I can tell from the tone of the cases that courts take a dim view of any implied intent to extort people on the basis of a domain name combined with posted site criticism or squatting.
This means that a company might be able to take you to court over your selling your domain name to them, even if they ask to buy it. The tone of the site helps to determine this. Companies can present themselves as being blackmailed one way or another if they "must" buy your "sucks" site.
Even if I'm wrong about this exact shade of the law, I personally would still refuse to sell such a site to the subject company that it criticizes. In fact, the homepage I made for my "sucks" site explicity states that it will never be for sale to the company it criticizes -- such is my paranoia.
So? Buying lottery tickets works well for the winners. Start looking at the process and population, and you can see what a fucking joke the lottery really is... and the same thing applies to separating design from manufacturing. There are a few, random winners, but the process itself is unstable for the reasons I outlined, hence there are many losers. In the case of American outsourcing and offshoring, the sea change is so slow that it's taking a lot of time to see that companies are being flooded out of business instead of floating upward.
It seems that many companies are getting these MBA-dominated bright ideas about getting out of the manufacturing business... they'll just license their creations and MAKE MONEY FAST!
This is much in line with the modern delusion that a company is at its highest efficiency and value when it only has a HQ with executives, lawyers and accountants.
Let's look at this a bit closer to the real work, shall we?
You're a chip manufacturer. You design and make chips. Then your company "matures" (actually, it goes insane with greed) and brings in execs from outside and directly from business school.
These idiot savants tend to belong to the Cult of Money and Style. They don't rise through the ranks of industrial processes, hence understand little about how real products are made for sustainable market share and profits.
So, these gee-wizards start to ditch the manufacturing side of your business. They do this since some spreadsheet showed them:
1. The Sales Department is wildly profitable, since it makes all the revenue and only costs some salaries and promotion.
2. The Manufacturing Department is wildly lossy, since it has no income and costs a lot of money for salaries, materials, equipment purchase and maintenance.
Unfortunately, these boy geniuses don't realize that chips are made in a broad partnership between the creators (designers) and the makers (engineers). You cannot long design something without running into a snafu in the manufacturing process, hence your design must change to reflect it. But (for some bizarre reason which suggests pervasive brain damage in most MBAs) the execs start thinking that they can only design chips and let some other sucker incur the "costs" of manufacturing. They start thinking that designers toss stuff over a wall to the engineers.
So we end up with a company like Transmeta. It is probably committing suicide, in the modern example of cutting off your own arm since you need to eat some more meat. That's OK, since competitors will then just move in and buy up the assets of Transmeta for pennies on the dollar (which is what they were really worth in a true sense).
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For god sakes, I'm a liberal, why would _I_ play the terrorism trump card?
After 4 years of watching liberals do just that -- especially the self-labelled ones in the US Congress -- and you have the audacity to pretend innocence on the WIDESPREAD usage of the trump card?
You can't be that ignorant. So you're just lying.
Of course, you're probably indulging in the mindless support of liberal leadership, as many Americans are doing. If "everyone does it", is it really a lie? This is simply how a Republic dies.
The point you're missing is that you're thinking of it purely in terms of security risk. When the board, shareholders, and Wall Street are breathing down your neck for more profit each year than the last year, you learn to stop thinking about things in pure security risk and start thinking in terms of "leveraged advantage", "strategic sourcing", and all the other buzzwords that are used for indulging in the extreme greed of Hypercapitalism.
Just look at the words "strategic sourcing". Unless you have those words in your annual report this year, chances are you're going to be fired by the board. But those words can hide a complete lack of security concerns. The words can imply anything, really, since they imply you are thinking strategically about your sources of materials and labor. So, what possible strategies can be used? In an enterprise fashion, there are probably dozens; in a department fashion, 100s to 1000s; and down to the level of managers and line employees, we end up with at least (literally) 10s of thousands of details. In this blizzard of details, executives hide their singular Hypercapitalist intent. Hence, it is not only possible, but LIKELY, to completely lose a concern for the security risks.
This is how we've ended up with a business environment in America that is effectively a Disneyland of facade, fraud, deception and posturing. "Nothing is real, and everything is permitted." Given this environment, A.Crowley would have loved the 21st Century.
Yes, regulation will slow down development. That's a great idea, since We The People have more in mind (like, oh, environmental pollution controls) than developing a product as fast as possible. I hope the developer can make a good product at a profit regardless ... but he has to learn to live in a society where a government of free men exists to regulate the things that can kill, maim or injure any of us.
A fine example of an "irrational or unfounded NIMBY response" is the problem of building electric generation plants in California. The barriers for the plants were set far too high, so they simply weren't built ... however, everybody liked to consume electricity, so they indulged quite a bit. (Of course, although I don't know directly, I'm sure the Californian anti-electric-plant NIMBYs probably dismissed concerns with assertions about the effectiveness of the market for power. At the time, people didn't want to foresee a future of overpricing based upon such an artificial market.)
I read the complaint differently. If it's bad to bury in the backyard for his grandchildren to take care of, it's bad to bury ANYWHERE for ANYBODY to take care of. So I don't write off NIMBY-based complaints.
The problem with "experts" is that they're often "on the payroll" from some partisan interest in the debate at hand. Too many of the experts involved in things like nanotech are at least taking "partnership" grant money from corporations. How am I expected to trust their results? After all, we've seen some rather high-profile data falsification cases in the last decade.
What we need are some honest, unbiased reports of the pros and cons of nanotechnology: where it's headed, how it could help us, how it could harm us, and what the cost will be.
I agree. Of course, having been informed, the rest of us "society at large" will ultimately decide how to regulate nanotech by our use of the vote and through elected representatives. The ultimate right (voting) should follow from the ultimate responsibility (being informed).
In the case of Reagan, I think so.
... long after we should have acted to stop it. Iraq is mounting up the same way as Viet Nam 2.0.
Yeah, love those deficits. The international bankers thought Reagan was a great guy too. Too bad we're still making payments on his so-called greatness.
Republican shill.
In the case of W, the jury is still out (I wouldn't think he is the best for the job looking at resumes or abilities, but OTOH, he might turn out to be the perfect leader for the time we are in; ask me again in 20 years).
Shit crock. George W. Bush is the first Hitler of the 21st Century. The only jury deliberation going on is by people like you who have entirely bought into American Imperialism. In that light, you aren't deliberating anything. You've long decided to support the biggest murderer.
This 20-year thing is yet another piece of festering shit to spill from that asshole you call a mouth. Sure, we knew Viet Nam was a problem in the 1980s
20-years-later is not a way to run a just society. Crime and war must be stopped NOW, not judged adversely a generation after the fact, when there's no one you can really even punish for the crimes committed.
If you're so keen on waiting, post your address and your schedule. I'll burgle your house, and then let me know how you feel about THAT in 2025.
You might well be right about one thing, in all your horseshit: GWB is the PERFECT leader for the American Empire. If you're an Imperialist, then that's a great, great thing. For the rest of us decent folk that don't advocate (or act) to murder people for oil, American access and Israeli security, GWB is simply a Hitler clone.
Get caught with cocaine (itself, a lost right to not be prosecuted for simply having a personal chemical) in your car, and then come back and tell us what you've lost. (Hint: your entire fucking car, Ace.) Ever heard of the 4th Amendment? Well, law enforcement nowadays hasn't heard of it either.
... freedom of speech (SLAPP suits), freedom to own weapons (gun bans), freedom from search and seizure (property forfeitures for narcotics) ... the list is annoyingly, FAR too long. And I equally love to rub your fucking noses in it, Roscoe.
I love it when people like you pull the innocent act and pretend like you don't understand what we real progressives are talking about. You've lost a veritable TON of rights
IF (IF ((you.facts=learn) AND (you.history(books)=read) AND (you.politicians=watch(closely))) THEN you.location=europe) THEN me.too
Why do we bother with voter registration if you're not going to bother with filling out the forms right?
The FACT here is that those who allowed voter registrations to occur with such faults, should be held responsible, and the errors should be corrected. Entire elections can be determined by just 1 margin vote, so every single vote must be verified good and accurate if possible. And as far as possibility is concerned, this is why we should have more local voting systems, with strict compliance up the chain, so that errors can be checked with some local travel, and also that errors cannot persist upward to destroy the validity of a national vote.
Of course, all this assumes the citizenry even cares. Given your attitude, that's a bad assumption.
Next time you hear something Buzzing around when you're at a family picnic you might think twice before swatting it could be an expensive action
Kind of in the same vein, I don't think the expense is the key. The key is, use a rifle or shotgun and get in some target practice. The age of the flyswatter is OVER.
I think that that's a bit more than a rumor. It's just a sensitive issue, hence is not widely reported. But the truth culled from several sources is that its highly likely they survived the orbiter's breakup in the airstream, and that the control cabin was essentially intact. Some oxygen masks were activated. But even if the astronauts were conscious for the 10-mile fall to the ocean surface, they assuredly died upon impact as the control cabin smashed into the water -- and I do mean "smashed", as in smashed into pieces of wreckage, or smashed into a flat piece of wreckage. Either way, the astronauts' bodies were recovered in a condition that hasn't been reported on.
Google a bit and you'll probably reach the same conclusions.
Well, technically, both Shuttle accidents involved them tumbling in the airstream at a high mach number, which tears such a craft to pieces. The 1986 event was caused by an explosion, sure, but the tumbling orbiter was torn apart by the airstream. The 2003 event was caused by a structural failure, sure, but the tumbling orbiter was torn apart by the airstream (after the left wing snapped off).
For years, I thought the 1986 involved the Shuttle "blowing up", too, but that's just not correct. Once the Shuttle departed the nose-on profile of flight from the explosion of the tank, things like the wings and tail were simply ripped away from the (Mach 3+?) craft. If it had kept its orientation, it may have sailed relatively intact from the area of the blast effect, and then hopefully regained control long enough to effect an abort return.
I don't shoot hippies preferentially; I just shoot whomever is coming in my window. ;^)
Your part about capitalist competition is apt, but as we know, it's hard to compete with FREE. This is kind-of what Sun is competing against. Sun apparently also thinks that having a locked-hood car is the primary choice for its customers. These are poor decisions, yes. What confuses me is why people insist on NOT blaming the executive class whose job is was to anticipate lean times and changed circumstances. Leanness and changes are THE LAW in the business world. Any product you produce is going to capture market share, then steadily lose it. Why didn't Sun prepare for these times?
You're exactly in the position I stated. Your school system is out of control and you obviously lack the courage to address it. Your problem is you. (And our problem therefore is that you've bred.)
... since THEIR decisions will have to be borne by THEMSELVES (unlike the current environment of administrators thinking up rules daily for the teachers to labor under).
... reading, writing, math and citizenship. I note particularly that this has little to do with administration. Teaching's the easiest thing to arrange, too: room, teacher, books, piddling supplies. Wow, that was fucking difficult, eh? Kind of like rocket science to a cretin like yourself, isn't it?
... and so on.
... nuked economically, with places like Detroit showing the worst damage from this World War Greed. The destruction is coming your way. If I were you, I'd learn to duck, Chump ... especially since your discussion skills suck donkey balls, so it's not like you're going to talk you way out of trouble.
There is some need for people which help the teachers concentrate on teaching instead of dealing with overhead.
No, when the choice is dismissing a teacher, there is NO NEED WHATSOEVER for administration. Duh fuckin' duh.
Your density on this matter is neutronic. You've already lost the war with the administrators since you think they have a purpose in your school system. From that utter falsehood, the rest of the decay follows. You've lost teachers yet have retained administrators. Get a clue, fucker. By the time you're cutting off your arm for a decent meal of meat, you have to face the truth that you've lost control.
It isn't like the overhead will go away if the admin's are all released, it will just be put on the teachers plates. Doing this would merely reduce the time they have to teach.
Wow, we don't want to cut into their 6.5hr teaching day. What a crock of shit. Furthermore, if the teachers administrate their own schools by committees, then they'll have the sensible urges to reduce administration costs
The school system indeed has one function, teaching.
Yeah, that's what I said, fucknugget. TEACHING
What you constrain the educational process too is unusably narrow in terms of subject matter and just plain wierd with citizenship. What are you a Stalinist?
Considering teaching citizenship in America means instruction on the political system, laws, voting, finance, economics and health, then yes, according to a yuppie piece of shit like yourself, I'm a flaming Red Pinko Commie Bastard. Wow, better for the children to reach the voting booths having been taught by MTV! Gosh, we can't have the schools broach the topics of voting! You are a complete blowhard.
Only a complete blowhard would think that reading, writing, math and citizenship constitute "unusably narrow in terms of subject matter". But then, you're probably one of the soccer moms whose school has more funding sunk into the team than in all the math classes combined.
Just the teacher, the building and the books add up quite a bit you know.
All the more reason to get rid of the admin parasite, the admin building, the admin coffee maker
Ah. I'm being trolled. My bad.
No, you're not being trolled, you finally encountered a man more concerned with being right than with being polite-unto-avoidance.
I stand by my statements 100%. But it's not me who's going to be doing the firebombing. It's people like you. Your kids will be dumb ("dumb" = "too long in the condition of ignorance"), or their homes will be taxed into oblivion, due to your failure to control the costs of your school system. Call it a troll all you want, but with things like foreclosures and pregnancies, I'm having a very black laugh at your yuppie reluctance to deal with FUCKING REALITY. America's cities already look like they've been nuked
P.S. Please don't breed again until you learn to think. kthxbye
How so? All the projects in question are free to choose other avenues than the GPL ... provided they re-write all the tons of stuff that's GPL'd in them already. But then, how much of that stuff would have been made available if the GPL wasn't there to protect the code authors to begin with?
... but at the cost of a lesser profit margin. Just think how much market share completely-free software could have ... but at the cost of no protection for the code authors. On and on this goes.
There isn't anything negative about market share and restrictions that can be said about the GPL that cannot also be said about Sun's products. THAT is what all this bullshit PR is about. Just think how much market share Sun could have if it slashed prices
Why, the next thing hippies like you are going to point out is how Sun's execs didn't have the foresight to plan for lean times! So then you'll say "why were those guys paid so much, if they couldn't foresee the inevitable shrinking of profit margins?"! And the next thing we'll see from this is the imposition of a Hippie Commune State where we'll all have to eat granola and smoke peculiar herbs, while the prior execs slave away in the fields for their daily bread.
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Since we obviously don't want THAT to happen (since it negatively affects our investment portfolios), we will have to blot-Blot-BLOT out anything you say that casts Sun's management in a bad light.
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Sun knows what businesses, universities and governments want, and it isn't all rosy happy days at the park like so many Slashdotters want to make it out to be.
Er, you fucking lackey, if Sun really knew that, then it's particularly odd to see the company spending time talking about (i.e. creating) the weaknesses in a competing product. Sun's just fighting the GPL since they do know its customers are informedly choosing GPL-covered products.
In Sun is full of all this knowledge (instead of being simply full of bullshit) then they'd be spending their time fitting their OS products to customer needs, not talking crap about the GPL in a pathetic and transparent attempt to FUD people away from it.
Sun's proving once again that PR is almost purely used by a company to shore up the weakness in its own product lines. Grok that for a while, shill-bitch.
It looks like you found the GPL offensive to your needs and philosophy. You went with an alternative. Great! So who is telling you to spend money to support the GPL? Who's actaully applying anything like force against you as regards the GPL?
The orginal poster is so correct, that it hurts to watch people complain about it. If you don't like the terms of the GPL, then don't use the fucking code. End of story.
{sniff} It appears, Sir, that you understand nothing about predatory Capitalism. Lord Schwartz and his peers only want their due; what's theirs is theirs, and what's yours is theirs. How else will their enterprises make more money this year than last year? They need your code, and having the sham protection of the GPL makes a mockery of that style of acquisition.
... and in return, they may defend us when we're attacked (if they feel like it at the time), and we can get all the barrel-bottom scrapings we can eat.
In short, Sir, the law is not there to protect you. It is a tool for the wealthy to protect themselves and their vast holdings. It is a necessary component of the globalist feudalism of the 21st Century. The Lords will own us, while we work for their good
Really! Tell me, Sport, when these threats were issued, did you wander in with a list of administrators and their salaries? No? Well, did you at least demand this list?
... in short, EVERYTHING ELSE but them.
No?
The only real peril to your kids, Roscoe, is YOU. Your school system is out of control and you won't take an actual, direct step to correct the waste. Of course, that would cut into your TV watching time.
All school systems across America -- yes, even the small ones -- have some administrator piece of shit sitting in some office collecting a paycheck, while budgets are cut BY THEM to target teachers, books, programs
Your school teachers should administrate the school system. Period. It is their privilege and duty to do so. Until that happy day arrives, we get scared little weenies like you blathering nonsense on public boards about your own failure to control the desk pilots.
A school system has only 1 function: to provide a place for teachers to instruct young citizens in the only 4 things that matter in public education (reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship). That doesn't cost much money to perform. People who do think it's costly, are mentally deranged. If these basic school functions are being compromised for things like art, band practice, and the expense accounts of administrators, then somebody needs to firebomb the townsmen that allow such a travesty to occur.
READING
WRITING
MATH
CITIZENSHIP
Provide THOSE to your children -- covering the necessities -- and then we'll talk about providing frills like buses, band, chess club, baseball, and all the rest.
I registered a "sucks" site for my employer, and then went researching the case law that governed the use of a such a site.
You should perform your own research. If you want, email me, and I'll give you the summary case law I found. But overall, I can tell from the tone of the cases that courts take a dim view of any implied intent to extort people on the basis of a domain name combined with posted site criticism or squatting.
This means that a company might be able to take you to court over your selling your domain name to them, even if they ask to buy it. The tone of the site helps to determine this. Companies can present themselves as being blackmailed one way or another if they "must" buy your "sucks" site.
Even if I'm wrong about this exact shade of the law, I personally would still refuse to sell such a site to the subject company that it criticizes. In fact, the homepage I made for my "sucks" site explicity states that it will never be for sale to the company it criticizes -- such is my paranoia.
So? Buying lottery tickets works well for the winners. Start looking at the process and population, and you can see what a fucking joke the lottery really is ... and the same thing applies to separating design from manufacturing. There are a few, random winners, but the process itself is unstable for the reasons I outlined, hence there are many losers. In the case of American outsourcing and offshoring, the sea change is so slow that it's taking a lot of time to see that companies are being flooded out of business instead of floating upward.
It seems that many companies are getting these MBA-dominated bright ideas about getting out of the manufacturing business ... they'll just license their creations and MAKE MONEY FAST!
This is much in line with the modern delusion that a company is at its highest efficiency and value when it only has a HQ with executives, lawyers and accountants.
Let's look at this a bit closer to the real work, shall we?
You're a chip manufacturer. You design and make chips. Then your company "matures" (actually, it goes insane with greed) and brings in execs from outside and directly from business school.
These idiot savants tend to belong to the Cult of Money and Style. They don't rise through the ranks of industrial processes, hence understand little about how real products are made for sustainable market share and profits.
So, these gee-wizards start to ditch the manufacturing side of your business. They do this since some spreadsheet showed them:
1. The Sales Department is wildly profitable, since it makes all the revenue and only costs some salaries and promotion.
2. The Manufacturing Department is wildly lossy, since it has no income and costs a lot of money for salaries, materials, equipment purchase and maintenance.
Unfortunately, these boy geniuses don't realize that chips are made in a broad partnership between the creators (designers) and the makers (engineers). You cannot long design something without running into a snafu in the manufacturing process, hence your design must change to reflect it. But (for some bizarre reason which suggests pervasive brain damage in most MBAs) the execs start thinking that they can only design chips and let some other sucker incur the "costs" of manufacturing. They start thinking that designers toss stuff over a wall to the engineers.
So we end up with a company like Transmeta. It is probably committing suicide, in the modern example of cutting off your own arm since you need to eat some more meat. That's OK, since competitors will then just move in and buy up the assets of Transmeta for pennies on the dollar (which is what they were really worth in a true sense).