Right on. Unfortunately, most people seem to have limited knowledge of our history and seem to think that opression is alright as long as it's targeted at somebody else.
Amendment XIV of the constitution has the equal protection clause whici is supposed to prevent that.
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I have used Linux with the RTHAL patches for data acquisition at high data rates synchronized by an external clock. A specialized application, yes, but useful nevertheless. Having this functionality completely rolled into the kernel will be nice.
What happens when we all have road range when we hear "Warning. Warning. You are traveling at 63mph in a 60mph zone" over and over again? I know I don't drive as safely in a fit of rage.
Re:Not outsourcing - from a business point of view
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And the New Deal was the sort of nonsense that makes me pay half of what I earn in income tax which I could otherwise use to save for a rainy day.
It's only a matter of time now, that the coffee companies are targeted by lawsuits and the DAs around the country, just like tobacco has been witchhunted for the last 20 years. Maybe the woman who sued McDonalds because the coffee was hot can now sue the coffee company because it drove her to buying it in the first place. When will people start taking responsibility for their actions?
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This is important news to CIOs. Walmart has traditionally been pro-business and strongly against organized labor and a "feel good" business approach. Therefore, when they don't outsource, they don't do so for the right business reasons, and CIOs elsewhere will take note. Over the long run, the market will do the right thing if you let it be.
I think it's been well established that parodies are fair use. The issue for the theater, however, is whether they want to spend untold sums of money in the courts. The civil court system is causing people to be guilty until proven innocent, which is quite expensive.
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Beacuse Europe tends towards socialist policies, and the US was built upon laissez-faire capitalism. To expect the government to "do something" about unemployment is to desire a more left wing economic policy. The natural question, therefore, is "how is unemployment in countries with more left wing economic policy"?
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For all the people that question the methodology of the calculation of the unemployment rate, and assume without any evidence that Europe somehow includes people who aren't searching for work, I thought it would be useful to find the actual number of people that aren't included because they're not looking for a job anymore (I don't see why such people should be considered unemployed)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in August of 2004 there were 1.6 million persons "marginally attached" to the labor force and not counted. This is what everyone's hollering about. The total labor force is 147 million. So add on that additional 1.1%, we're still roughly 2% better off than France or Germany. And again, I've yet to see any proof that those countries include people who aren't looking for jobs as unemployed.
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Well, then let's look at a time history of France's unemployment rate (source: economagic.com):
1990 9.1
1991 9.5
1992 9.9
1993 11.3
1994 11.8
1995 11.3
1996 11.9
1997 11.8
1998 11.3
1999 10.6
2000 9.1
2001 8.4
2002 8.7
2003 9.3
They'be been doing something about it for 14 years, with little to show for it, if you ask me. The original article references Japan as a model, and it's economy has been in the dumps for just as long (just look at a chart of the Nikkei). It's what happens when the government decides that they can "play God" with the economy.
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Since it's so fashionable to compare our policy to the European powers, let's look at some of the numbers. In France, unemployment was 9.3% as of last year. Germany's unemployment rate was 9.7% as of 2 years ago. We had a bubble during the 90s, and it's only expected to pay the price now. The economy moves in cycles and is an extremely complex nonlinear system. To conclusively blame immigration and trade policy as the cause for an increase in unemployment is easy, but unfortunately also meaningless.
I think you missed my overall point - based on your post, we are in total agreement. I was saying that the low TCO of linux was a plus, not that fewer IT jobs are a minus (I think IT jobs will have to reduce/be reallocated as it becomes commodity labor), as well as that closed source is worse for the economy as a whole. But politicians seem to be unable to think of big picture economic efficiency, but instead try to preserve the status quo where it is least desirable.
This is what happens when the government gets into the business of meddling with the economy. Closed source software does generate more profit and jobs for certain sectors of the economy. Let's face it - the Microsoft business model makes Microsoft more money than the Redhat business model makes Redhat. And the low TCO of linux obviously allows for fewer IT jobs. That closed source may reduce economic efficiency and hurt the economy in the long run doesn't matter to politicians. Microsoft's position makes sense to congressmen used to meddling with economic affairs. This is why the OSS community should place less emphasis on the "free as in speech" dogma and more on how it saves non-technology companies money and help create other non-IT jobs there.
Price is unrelated to production cost. It's determined by what people are willing to pay. If people pay more than what it cost you, you make a profit. If they pay less, you go bankrupt. Apple sees English customers as more willing to pay than French ones. If they're wrong, their music doesn't sell. The market price is the price. Any more or less, and profit isn't maximized, and the company is being poorly managed.
The oversupply is due to too many people searching for a small number of jobs.
There are other jobs with undersupplies, and that naturally results in higher pay. Even within IT, a qualified, experienced UNIX sysadmin is hard to come by. They get paid a whole lot. To essentially subsidize people to enter the labor force where they aren't needed causes the whole economy to run inefficiently - hurting everyone. What if everyone decided they wanted to be a supermodel photographer, and the government intervened because they were unemployed? There wouldn't be people around to make all the other goods we take for granted, the costs of those goods would rise, and things just get ugly. Wages and unemployment are mechanisms which ensures people do what is needed without resorting to a Soviet style system where the government tells you what kind of job to take.
Just because you're a physicist and I'm an engineer, the laws of supply and demand don't become invalid.
In the limit as the supply of oil goes to zero, the price of oil goes to infinity. It's a simple concept, really. The original poster never said that you or I could afford that oil - only that it will exist.
Of course, some politician will decide that poor people can't pay the market price, will instate a price cap, and then wonder why the supply ran out.
That's what happens when everybody decides to go into a field to make big bucks. You have an oversupply of labor. And when that labor won't take lower pay because the market value is lower, you get unemployment. Luckily, I ignored the advice and didn't go that route.
I watched the latest Star Wars release in the much-hyped digital projection format. It looked terrible. It's a method of saving money since most consumers aren't very discriminating.
And THX is an utterly worthless certification nowadays. Look at the "THX" computer speakers out there. Garbage with a fancy logo.
Three mile island had no significant external effects. It was a successful demonstration of the final backup of a nuclear power plant - the containment building.
As for the Chernobyl reference - isn't it interesting that the only serious nuclear disaster occurred in an anti-free-market environment? It's what happens when you breed a culture lacking personal responsibility and instead blame "The Man".
I'm not saying that such a product is good, or should be used. Rather, my stance is that the very concept of e-voting is flawed, unnecessary, and a waste of money. I consider it doubly insulting to use tax money to degrade the integrity of our democratic process. All I'm saying is that Diebold isn't the root cause of this problem - it's the politicians who decided that they couldn't leave well enough alone, and then proceeded to do hare-brained research justify an electronic voting system to somehow solve a problem that doesn't really exist. They're the ones who are going scot free without scrutiny here.
If CA studied the issue, that points to incompetence. What problem are they trying to solve with electronic voting? The very concept is flawed. And therein lies my blame. Any electronic voting machine is going to have bugs - it's what happens when you come up with a complex solution to a simple problem. Many competent technical people have held this position from day one, but we're just labeled as old fashioned. It's as if I sell someone wings that I say can let them fly, and they go out and jump off a roof wearing them.
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Right on. Unfortunately, most people seem to have limited knowledge of our history and seem to think that opression is alright as long as it's targeted at somebody else. Amendment XIV of the constitution has the equal protection clause whici is supposed to prevent that.
I have used Linux with the RTHAL patches for data acquisition at high data rates synchronized by an external clock. A specialized application, yes, but useful nevertheless. Having this functionality completely rolled into the kernel will be nice.
What happens when we all have road range when we hear "Warning. Warning. You are traveling at 63mph in a 60mph zone" over and over again? I know I don't drive as safely in a fit of rage.
And the New Deal was the sort of nonsense that makes me pay half of what I earn in income tax which I could otherwise use to save for a rainy day.
It's only a matter of time now, that the coffee companies are targeted by lawsuits and the DAs around the country, just like tobacco has been witchhunted for the last 20 years. Maybe the woman who sued McDonalds because the coffee was hot can now sue the coffee company because it drove her to buying it in the first place. When will people start taking responsibility for their actions?
This is important news to CIOs. Walmart has traditionally been pro-business and strongly against organized labor and a "feel good" business approach. Therefore, when they don't outsource, they don't do so for the right business reasons, and CIOs elsewhere will take note. Over the long run, the market will do the right thing if you let it be.
You are aware you can switch off a PS2 by holding down the power switch on the front for a few seconds?
You forgot to multiply by the 24fps, even though you mentioned it. It's more like 24 MBps, or 200 Mbps before compression.
I think it's been well established that parodies are fair use. The issue for the theater, however, is whether they want to spend untold sums of money in the courts. The civil court system is causing people to be guilty until proven innocent, which is quite expensive.
Beacuse Europe tends towards socialist policies, and the US was built upon laissez-faire capitalism. To expect the government to "do something" about unemployment is to desire a more left wing economic policy. The natural question, therefore, is "how is unemployment in countries with more left wing economic policy"?
For all the people that question the methodology of the calculation of the unemployment rate, and assume without any evidence that Europe somehow includes people who aren't searching for work, I thought it would be useful to find the actual number of people that aren't included because they're not looking for a job anymore (I don't see why such people should be considered unemployed) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in August of 2004 there were 1.6 million persons "marginally attached" to the labor force and not counted. This is what everyone's hollering about. The total labor force is 147 million. So add on that additional 1.1%, we're still roughly 2% better off than France or Germany. And again, I've yet to see any proof that those countries include people who aren't looking for jobs as unemployed.
Well, then let's look at a time history of France's unemployment rate (source: economagic.com): 1990 9.1 1991 9.5 1992 9.9 1993 11.3 1994 11.8 1995 11.3 1996 11.9 1997 11.8 1998 11.3 1999 10.6 2000 9.1 2001 8.4 2002 8.7 2003 9.3 They'be been doing something about it for 14 years, with little to show for it, if you ask me. The original article references Japan as a model, and it's economy has been in the dumps for just as long (just look at a chart of the Nikkei). It's what happens when the government decides that they can "play God" with the economy.
Since it's so fashionable to compare our policy to the European powers, let's look at some of the numbers. In France, unemployment was 9.3% as of last year. Germany's unemployment rate was 9.7% as of 2 years ago. We had a bubble during the 90s, and it's only expected to pay the price now. The economy moves in cycles and is an extremely complex nonlinear system. To conclusively blame immigration and trade policy as the cause for an increase in unemployment is easy, but unfortunately also meaningless.
I think you missed my overall point - based on your post, we are in total agreement. I was saying that the low TCO of linux was a plus, not that fewer IT jobs are a minus (I think IT jobs will have to reduce/be reallocated as it becomes commodity labor), as well as that closed source is worse for the economy as a whole. But politicians seem to be unable to think of big picture economic efficiency, but instead try to preserve the status quo where it is least desirable.
This is what happens when the government gets into the business of meddling with the economy. Closed source software does generate more profit and jobs for certain sectors of the economy. Let's face it - the Microsoft business model makes Microsoft more money than the Redhat business model makes Redhat. And the low TCO of linux obviously allows for fewer IT jobs. That closed source may reduce economic efficiency and hurt the economy in the long run doesn't matter to politicians. Microsoft's position makes sense to congressmen used to meddling with economic affairs. This is why the OSS community should place less emphasis on the "free as in speech" dogma and more on how it saves non-technology companies money and help create other non-IT jobs there.
Price is unrelated to production cost. It's determined by what people are willing to pay. If people pay more than what it cost you, you make a profit. If they pay less, you go bankrupt. Apple sees English customers as more willing to pay than French ones. If they're wrong, their music doesn't sell. The market price is the price. Any more or less, and profit isn't maximized, and the company is being poorly managed.
The oversupply is due to too many people searching for a small number of jobs. There are other jobs with undersupplies, and that naturally results in higher pay. Even within IT, a qualified, experienced UNIX sysadmin is hard to come by. They get paid a whole lot. To essentially subsidize people to enter the labor force where they aren't needed causes the whole economy to run inefficiently - hurting everyone. What if everyone decided they wanted to be a supermodel photographer, and the government intervened because they were unemployed? There wouldn't be people around to make all the other goods we take for granted, the costs of those goods would rise, and things just get ugly. Wages and unemployment are mechanisms which ensures people do what is needed without resorting to a Soviet style system where the government tells you what kind of job to take.
Just because you're a physicist and I'm an engineer, the laws of supply and demand don't become invalid. In the limit as the supply of oil goes to zero, the price of oil goes to infinity. It's a simple concept, really. The original poster never said that you or I could afford that oil - only that it will exist. Of course, some politician will decide that poor people can't pay the market price, will instate a price cap, and then wonder why the supply ran out.
That's what happens when everybody decides to go into a field to make big bucks. You have an oversupply of labor. And when that labor won't take lower pay because the market value is lower, you get unemployment. Luckily, I ignored the advice and didn't go that route.
I watched the latest Star Wars release in the much-hyped digital projection format. It looked terrible. It's a method of saving money since most consumers aren't very discriminating. And THX is an utterly worthless certification nowadays. Look at the "THX" computer speakers out there. Garbage with a fancy logo.
And how much longer after that before you or the shipping company gets sued into oblivion?
Three mile island had no significant external effects. It was a successful demonstration of the final backup of a nuclear power plant - the containment building.
As for the Chernobyl reference - isn't it interesting that the only serious nuclear disaster occurred in an anti-free-market environment? It's what happens when you breed a culture lacking personal responsibility and instead blame "The Man".
I'm not saying that such a product is good, or should be used. Rather, my stance is that the very concept of e-voting is flawed, unnecessary, and a waste of money. I consider it doubly insulting to use tax money to degrade the integrity of our democratic process. All I'm saying is that Diebold isn't the root cause of this problem - it's the politicians who decided that they couldn't leave well enough alone, and then proceeded to do hare-brained research justify an electronic voting system to somehow solve a problem that doesn't really exist. They're the ones who are going scot free without scrutiny here.
If CA studied the issue, that points to incompetence. What problem are they trying to solve with electronic voting? The very concept is flawed. And therein lies my blame. Any electronic voting machine is going to have bugs - it's what happens when you come up with a complex solution to a simple problem. Many competent technical people have held this position from day one, but we're just labeled as old fashioned. It's as if I sell someone wings that I say can let them fly, and they go out and jump off a roof wearing them.