It depends on where you draw the boundaries. Plenty of employee owned corporations already exist, but the employees are simply shareholders without any more say so in day to day affairs than if they were anyone who happened to purchase stock in the company he works for. The only difference is that the SEC requires less documentation to the shareholders than a public corporation. I'm not sure that's an improvement for the employee who isn't a high level manager.
if all the employees are given a vote on more of the decisions, that's more in line with this article. Even then, you have to draw a boundary on who gets a vote. At the extreme, anyone who ever does business with a company could get a vote. But, customers already do vote with their dollars, so maybe what you want is everyone who ever provides a good or a service to get a vote. (pictures someone collecting the ballots of migrant workers for the farm cooperative)
It's not the extra tax that bugs me, it is the implication that the buyer is only going to copy, not create his own software/music/movies. This seems very unfair in that the amateur or small time creator is required to subsidize the more established players.
We might work more hours than Europeans, but a chart of hours worked per year in the back of this week's Economist (print edition) indicates that Australia and New Zealand are right up there putting the US in a close third place for developed nations. It must have included a lot of partimers, because all countries were below the traditional 2000 hour work year.
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Another benefit that many here have overlooked is that these things will create a cottage industry for teenage and younger to support the product. Not all the kids will know the ins and outs of the hardware, software, and Linux, but quite a few will pick it up quickly on their own or with just a little help from expensive adults. And they will be in a much better position to help out their neighbors than those expensive adults who will probably leave the village after spending only a week or two launching the project. These kids' computer support and repair skills will be transferable to other projects as they mature. I do hope these machines are reasonably hackable for the hardware geeks of the village.
GP was talking about janitorial work. There is no normal career path from janitor to star technology worker. If a new hire did his share of the unpopular tasks while simultaneously bidding (or whatever) on the fun jobs, this should be recognized at his periodic review. Same idea as anywhere except the decisions would be made by demoractic vote of all members and not just "bosses" looking down. Everyone would need to think you were worthy of the better assignments, not just the bosses who might not actually know how well everyone on the team works. By advancement, I don't mean it in the sense that if you do well, you get a raise and get promoted into management, I simply mean your coworkers are more likely to agree with your decisons for which work tasks to do.
This is open source where creators are in it for the glory, not a paycheck. There is no money in maintenance and bug fixes. There is no money in the good stuff either,but it's a better way to jack your reputation up a notch.
In a corporation, even one owned by the workers and run by a democratic voting system of some sort, not only will the person doing the less glorious work get paid, but everyone in the group will be able to see who does the work. I don't know what voting strategies everyone would use, but if I was in this coop or whatever, I would expect entrylevel, interns, etc, to pay their dues just as in any other company. The difference would be that if they don't, their cow orkers would vote against them at the periodic review. The results might seem similar to violating the orders of an autocratic boss, but it would be the entire work group deciding that this guy wasn't doing enough of the scut. Stars, naturally, would be exempt from that sort of work, but it would be the decision of the whole group. The people who would get ahead would be the ones that the whole group admires. The kind of person who impresses the bosses isn't necessarily the kind of person you'd want to work for.
It may be naive, but I'm gambling on the fact that Google's database is large and I'm probably a very small, uninteresting part of it. If I do want to conduct research in **********, I'll invent a new pseudonym or access using my neighbor's open wifi.
You have more to fear from slashdot's awesome comment saving system. All the baddie's must do is pay the nominal subscription fee and they have access to every inane comment you have ever posted here.
Sorry, sitting style isn't the only difference between a C1 and a K1 (or C2 and K2, for that matter). On the canoe boats, the bow and stern turn up a little bit, on the kayaks, they stick straight out. Many decked canoes don't have room for legs under the deck anyway, and if they did, you need to cut hole in the deck big enough for your butt if you wanted to sit down kayak style.
Management is more than telling people what to do, and when to do it - you need to act as a leader as well as a stablizing force in the workplace. A PC running this slave-driver software does neither.
Our assistant pastor explained this to me, his weekday job was managing a Wendy's. I remarked that was a strange choice for a man with his seminary education. He replied not at all, that to his way of thinking, it was mainly a ministry to his employees. Although his Wendy's was at least as good as any other Wendy's, he had hired quite a collection of people who needed a second, third, or fourth chance. It was all people skills, and practically nothing an MBA would want to get involved with on a daily basis.
This system isn't about talent. In theory, managing a fast food restarant is the simplest management job possiblee, so much is already systemized. The "managerial talent" if ya want to call it that is getting a herd of teenagers and the sort of adults who make a career of fast food (we had a couple retarded adults on the staff) to work together efficiently with a reasonable amount of politeness to the customers. This was the first job for many of us and instilling a work ethic back in the 70's was quite a challenge.
Hate to burst yer big head, but I worked at BK in the early 70's. Not only did our store have a computer (in a rack near the coffee makers) that phoned Miami every night, it had terminals for the order takers and screens in the kitchen. They were white text on a black background with a column corresponding to each of the order taking stations so people in the back could tell who placed the order. There were also had microphones so we could hear the order. And we had microwaves....back before they were a common household applicance. It was a mess when the computer had problems, but at least the broiler, the fryer, and the microphones still worked.
it's simple, the spam is from the publisher or the estate of Mr. Baum. they are just hoping to rouse your curiosity enough to go buy the book. by leaving out a link to the publisher or the book store, they hope to ensnare those who prefer to think they decided to read the book on their own instead of it being sold to them outright.
So if I want to market viagra to AOL users, I'd just open up a bunch of free trial accounts, sign them all up to mailing lists for people with reproductive problems, and the isp spam filter would be trained to allow viagra mail to stay out of the spam box. But that doesn't have anything to do with Huck Finn, Robinson Crusoe, or Harry Potter.
If they aren't just using "classic" books, maybe they are using frequently discussed books. Potter fans typically post long passages on usenet and websites simply to illustrate a point without requiring other fans to open the book. Many of the old classics are also actively discussed by scholars and students. I would assume Huck Finn, a staple in the High Schools, gets emailed by kids discussing/copying homework.
Are they only using text form old books that are out of copyright or otherwise have authors who have left the planet? Spam filters that can differentiate between modern and older writing styles should be able to handle this, especially if they can tap into databases of classic liturature. Spam filter would search on the text and if it matched classic literature, then it is spam. This could be a real problem for people who use legitimate email to discuss classic literature.
you need tto learn the difference between amoral and illegal, they aren't even related. If you don't know what the moral thing to do in this situation is, you are pretty stupid.
me too, i wish all news outlets followed up there front page stories with other front page stories. Just because it isn't inflamatory.....which seems to be the only criteria for too many news outlets these days.
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It depends on where you draw the boundaries. Plenty of employee owned corporations already exist, but the employees are simply shareholders without any more say so in day to day affairs than if they were anyone who happened to purchase stock in the company he works for. The only difference is that the SEC requires less documentation to the shareholders than a public corporation. I'm not sure that's an improvement for the employee who isn't a high level manager.
if all the employees are given a vote on more of the decisions, that's more in line with this article. Even then, you have to draw a boundary on who gets a vote. At the extreme, anyone who ever does business with a company could get a vote. But, customers already do vote with their dollars, so maybe what you want is everyone who ever provides a good or a service to get a vote. (pictures someone collecting the ballots of migrant workers for the farm cooperative)
Do you like this law?
It's not the extra tax that bugs me, it is the implication that the buyer is only going to copy, not create his own software/music/movies. This seems very unfair in that the amateur or small time creator is required to subsidize the more established players.
We might work more hours than Europeans, but a chart of hours worked per year in the back of this week's Economist (print edition) indicates that Australia and New Zealand are right up there putting the US in a close third place for developed nations. It must have included a lot of partimers, because all countries were below the traditional 2000 hour work year.
The link got eaten, probably by a dragon.
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Website mentioned in yesterday's article experienced a DOS. They suspect a Chinese based attack, not a slashdot effect.
"There was no immediately evident single source for the attack, but it started right after an extensive series of China-based scans," said Ben-David.
Another benefit that many here have overlooked is that these things will create a cottage industry for teenage and younger to support the product. Not all the kids will know the ins and outs of the hardware, software, and Linux, but quite a few will pick it up quickly on their own or with just a little help from expensive adults. And they will be in a much better position to help out their neighbors than those expensive adults who will probably leave the village after spending only a week or two launching the project. These kids' computer support and repair skills will be transferable to other projects as they mature. I do hope these machines are reasonably hackable for the hardware geeks of the village.
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GP was talking about janitorial work. There is no normal career path from janitor to star technology worker. If a new hire did his share of the unpopular tasks while simultaneously bidding (or whatever) on the fun jobs, this should be recognized at his periodic review. Same idea as anywhere except the decisions would be made by demoractic vote of all members and not just "bosses" looking down. Everyone would need to think you were worthy of the better assignments, not just the bosses who might not actually know how well everyone on the team works. By advancement, I don't mean it in the sense that if you do well, you get a raise and get promoted into management, I simply mean your coworkers are more likely to agree with your decisons for which work tasks to do.
This is open source where creators are in it for the glory, not a paycheck. There is no money in maintenance and bug fixes. There is no money in the good stuff either,but it's a better way to jack your reputation up a notch.
In a corporation, even one owned by the workers and run by a democratic voting system of some sort, not only will the person doing the less glorious work get paid, but everyone in the group will be able to see who does the work. I don't know what voting strategies everyone would use, but if I was in this coop or whatever, I would expect entrylevel, interns, etc, to pay their dues just as in any other company. The difference would be that if they don't, their cow orkers would vote against them at the periodic review. The results might seem similar to violating the orders of an autocratic boss, but it would be the entire work group deciding that this guy wasn't doing enough of the scut. Stars, naturally, would be exempt from that sort of work, but it would be the decision of the whole group. The people who would get ahead would be the ones that the whole group admires. The kind of person who impresses the bosses isn't necessarily the kind of person you'd want to work for.
It may be naive, but I'm gambling on the fact that Google's database is large and I'm probably a very small, uninteresting part of it. If I do want to conduct research in **********, I'll invent a new pseudonym or access using my neighbor's open wifi.
You have more to fear from slashdot's awesome comment saving system. All the baddie's must do is pay the nominal subscription fee and they have access to every inane comment you have ever posted here.
They can contract out the janitorial work, just like most other companies.
Sorry, sitting style isn't the only difference between a C1 and a K1 (or C2 and K2, for that matter). On the canoe boats, the bow and stern turn up a little bit, on the kayaks, they stick straight out. Many decked canoes don't have room for legs under the deck anyway, and if they did, you need to cut hole in the deck big enough for your butt if you wanted to sit down kayak style.
If I was you, I'd immediately cancel that vacation in Lebanon, PA. If you do go, avoid breathing the photoshopped smoke
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You are absolutely right. I had my doubts, but then I read the article.
Management is more than telling people what to do, and when to do it - you need to act as a leader as well as a stablizing force in the workplace. A PC running this slave-driver software does neither.
Our assistant pastor explained this to me, his weekday job was managing a Wendy's. I remarked that was a strange choice for a man with his seminary education. He replied not at all, that to his way of thinking, it was mainly a ministry to his employees. Although his Wendy's was at least as good as any other Wendy's, he had hired quite a collection of people who needed a second, third, or fourth chance. It was all people skills, and practically nothing an MBA would want to get involved with on a daily basis.
This system isn't about talent. In theory, managing a fast food restarant is the simplest management job possiblee, so much is already systemized. The "managerial talent" if ya want to call it that is getting a herd of teenagers and the sort of adults who make a career of fast food (we had a couple retarded adults on the staff) to work together efficiently with a reasonable amount of politeness to the customers. This was the first job for many of us and instilling a work ethic back in the 70's was quite a challenge.
Hate to burst yer big head, but I worked at BK in the early 70's. Not only did our store have a computer (in a rack near the coffee makers) that phoned Miami every night, it had terminals for the order takers and screens in the kitchen. They were white text on a black background with a column corresponding to each of the order taking stations so people in the back could tell who placed the order. There were also had microphones so we could hear the order. And we had microwaves....back before they were a common household applicance. It was a mess when the computer had problems, but at least the broiler, the fryer, and the microphones still worked.
what does "sks" mean? I appear to be out of this particular loop. Hopefully, that's a good thing.
it's simple, the spam is from the publisher or the estate of Mr. Baum. they are just hoping to rouse your curiosity enough to go buy the book. by leaving out a link to the publisher or the book store, they hope to ensnare those who prefer to think they decided to read the book on their own instead of it being sold to them outright.
So if I want to market viagra to AOL users, I'd just open up a bunch of free trial accounts, sign them all up to mailing lists for people with reproductive problems, and the isp spam filter would be trained to allow viagra mail to stay out of the spam box. But that doesn't have anything to do with Huck Finn, Robinson Crusoe, or Harry Potter.
Ah Hah! a fairly simple way af distributing encryption keys...now, where is the enrypted message? the captions of bin Ladin's video?
If they aren't just using "classic" books, maybe they are using frequently discussed books. Potter fans typically post long passages on usenet and websites simply to illustrate a point without requiring other fans to open the book. Many of the old classics are also actively discussed by scholars and students. I would assume Huck Finn, a staple in the High Schools, gets emailed by kids discussing/copying homework.
Are they only using text form old books that are out of copyright or otherwise have authors who have left the planet? Spam filters that can differentiate between modern and older writing styles should be able to handle this, especially if they can tap into databases of classic liturature. Spam filter would search on the text and if it matched classic literature, then it is spam. This could be a real problem for people who use legitimate email to discuss classic literature.
you need tto learn the difference between amoral and illegal, they aren't even related. If you don't know what the moral thing to do in this situation is, you are pretty stupid.
me too, i wish all news outlets followed up there front page stories with other front page stories. Just because it isn't inflamatory.....which seems to be the only criteria for too many news outlets these days.