I spent five years trying (with all my co-workers) to keep our small manufacturing company, that at the time it was purchased by a multi-national corporation was at the top of it's game and the leader in it's market, from being moved to South Korea where they were killing the quality of our products but manufacturing them much cheaper (never mind the 60% failure rate they introduced).
We actually had machines being built in Korea, QA testing in Korea, failing, being but on a boat and shipped to us in the U.S. where we had to rebuild them (keep in mind these are brand new machines off of an assembly line) so they would work, put back on a boat and shipped back to korea to be shipped to customers... wait for it... in the U.S.
Well, the poor overseas manufacturing put our competitors on top with our customer base and thus made it reasonable to move the entire company. Don;t ask me... it still doesn't make any sense to me either.
I'd happily work sitting on top of a jet engine rather than spend five years wondering if today is the day they fire all of us.
That's funny... When I worked for SCO (proper) back in the '80's (the guys that actually wrote the code) were communists and socialists... a few of them were anarchists for that matter.
We are talking about Santa Cruz, California after all.
No, I mean The Great Depression 1929-1941, which would be the '20s and '30s. The minimum wage was established in 1912 and the labor riots during the TGD proved the minimum wage wasn't doing enough.
If you think that American companies that receive ENORMOUS financial benifits from the American government which is financed by the American taxpayer (primarily the WORKING middle class) don't have a responsibility to keep Americans employed you are very naive.
Here's a plan for the near future: When Boeing, who is about to go belly up if the 7E7 fails, India can have all the manufacturring jobs from Boeing if India bails them out of bankruptcy....but we all know it will be the American government/American people that will end up paying their bills again.
"The reason there is a minimum wage is because some politicians feel they can get votes by saying "let's give everyone a wage, no matter what the real cost"."
Uh... I think it had a bit more to do with the labor riots in the '20s & '30s. "The Great Depression" ever hear of it?
"Workers in India tend to be paid the value of their work: no more and no less. This is how it should be."
Workers in India get paid whatever the market will bare. Their jobs will be sent to another contry just as soon as those jobs can be done cheaper somewhere else. That's the problem.
A company's reposibility can't be the bottom line alone.
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I spent five years trying (with all my co-workers) to keep our small manufacturing company, that at the time it was purchased by a multi-national corporation was at the top of it's game and the leader in it's market, from being moved to South Korea where they were killing the quality of our products but manufacturing them much cheaper (never mind the 60% failure rate they introduced).
We actually had machines being built in Korea, QA testing in Korea, failing, being but on a boat and shipped to us in the U.S. where we had to rebuild them (keep in mind these are brand new machines off of an assembly line) so they would work, put back on a boat and shipped back to korea to be shipped to customers... wait for it... in the U.S.
Well, the poor overseas manufacturing put our competitors on top with our customer base and thus made it reasonable to move the entire company. Don;t ask me... it still doesn't make any sense to me either.
I'd happily work sitting on top of a jet engine rather than spend five years wondering if today is the day they fire all of us.
That's why they removed fortune cookie and mp3 support from their distro.
The first thing I did when I put my companies new firewall up was to block all traffic to and from doubleclick.net.
Let's see them develop software to get around that.
"as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that Linux people can absorb."
One Word: POSIX
Okay, really that's four words.
What do you think? Linux users don't know BSD?
Don't forget:
We won't let you see our code... but we need to see yours to prove our case.
Underground prisons?
I guess you could do that with a normal LCD though.
1. I totally agree... someone needs to look up opaque in the dictionary.
2. I was just thinking how dissatisfied I'd be if the neighborhood kid put a baseball through my $15,0000.00 window.
3. Wisconsin (nuff said).
...to tell my buddy who ports linux to telecomm boards for a living that his tools don't exist. That should amuse the hell out of him.
It looks for files that are named: "20 dollar bill.psd"
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
-- Bill Gates on Microsoft marketing
"Linux is no threat to Windows"
-- Bill Gates
Now THAT'S funny!
If you're gonna' comment, read the whole thread.
Unless you're into redundancy.
Okay Milton.
Damn!
Where are the TSP reports I asked for two days ago?
That's funny... When I worked for SCO (proper) back in the '80's (the guys that actually wrote the code) were communists and socialists... a few of them were anarchists for that matter.
We are talking about Santa Cruz, California after all.
There are VERY strict controls over what gets into the kernel.
This is nothing but FUD.
Yea, I know... it's funny none the less.
I just tried to fill out the business questionare honestly so they MIGHT actually use the data to improve Windows.
Upon submission, after a very long wait, I got back document contains no data.
I guess they should have run it on a Linux server.
Wrong on both counts:
http://www.corporations.org/welfare/
Now you're either just making shit up or you are grossly misinformed.
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102886,0 0.html
"You mean the Great Depression of 1912?"
...but we all know it will be the American government/American people that will end up paying their bills again.
No, I mean The Great Depression 1929-1941, which would be the '20s and '30s. The minimum wage was established in 1912 and the labor riots during the TGD proved the minimum wage wasn't doing enough.
If you think that American companies that receive ENORMOUS financial benifits from the American government which is financed by the American taxpayer (primarily the WORKING middle class) don't have a responsibility to keep Americans employed you are very naive.
Here's a plan for the near future: When Boeing, who is about to go belly up if the 7E7 fails, India can have all the manufacturring jobs from Boeing if India bails them out of bankruptcy.
"I was pushed out by a 3rd party vendor, who labeled me the major security risk, after performing a 'vulnerability assessment.'"
No conflict of interest there.
"The reason there is a minimum wage is because some politicians feel they can get votes by saying "let's give everyone a wage, no matter what the real cost"."
Uh... I think it had a bit more to do with the labor riots in the '20s & '30s. "The Great Depression" ever hear of it?
"Workers in India tend to be paid the value of their work: no more and no less. This is how it should be."
Workers in India get paid whatever the market will bare. Their jobs will be sent to another contry just as soon as those jobs can be done cheaper somewhere else. That's the problem.
A company's reposibility can't be the bottom line alone.
"No, the real value is the real value, without imposting someone else's arbitrary "standards" (such as cost-of-living)"
Well, I can see this conversation is going no where.
Cost of living is not an arbitrary standard... it's why there is a minimum wage in America.