Maybe it's failing because it DID place the value of everything else above the Dollar. The dollar may be fiat money all the way, but at least it lets you buy almost everything almost everywhere. First and foremost: food, shelter, clothing and schoolbooks.
Pretending that somehow some goals don't need to be concerned with these basic premises is utopian blindness.
There is no such thing as a free meal. Children must learn that, playfully of course: with many options to recover and little to none lasting effects for temporary failures, but the chance of keeping the positive effects for success.
If you take that out of school, you leave out the most important lesson of adulthood since the invention of money. No wonder people and all Western states are becoming more and more indebted with every passing generation: it's being declared more and more unethical to think about money in certain situations. With the predictable result of people not thinking about financing their ideals anymore, it just falls from the sky of taxpayer-and-national-debt-heaven.
Maybe it is helping *some* political parties to have their voters in constant dependency from state and welfare, so they know they will be reelected in any case, but that's not my idea of a government-electorate relationship.
Only promising to reap rewards *after* more than a decade in school, high school AND college is not going to motivate a kid that can barely imagine how the next winter will look like. Let children experience some connection between effort and reward directly, now. They will be thankful when they have a stable employment or a profitable small business when they are in their 30s.
Nevertheless, the point still stands: when people buy a DVD of "Avatar", do they buy a physical product, a plastic shiny disc, that happens to have the movie "Avatar" on it, or do they acquire the license to watch "Avatar" in DVD resolution that happens to be accompanied with a plastic shiny disc?
Movie studies are the owner of the licenses. They need to decide which kind of merchandise their product is.
It's either a physical thing and then they have no say about how the customer uses it, but when it's damaged, it's gone - or they sell a license and the customer has the right to make a backup, not lend it, not publicly show it but get another copy if one gets damaged.
Currently, they're trying to eat their cake and have it.
Obligatory quote: I think you're severely underestimating the bandwidth of a 747 full of BluRay discs.
Other than that, I like to receive some mail in pre-printed, signed and ready-to-archive-forever version. Preferably when larger sums of money is involved.
And I like the peace of mind knowing that no ECHELON or whatever read my mail. GPG-encrypted email would work, but I can't even get my coworkers to use that, let alone mom and grandma.
Until Big Government is cut back far enough to actually respect email privacy as good as snail mail, I'm counting on the dead tree envelope. Both are protected by the constitution, but somehow They only care about paper security.
Methods to obtain "95% significance" out of a measly 14 observations of what could for all intents and purposes be a random walk are usually taught in politics 101.
For 140 years worth of observation, not 14 from 1995 to 2009.
Interestingly enough, neither Wikipedia nor the GP care to present any raw number. Claiming "95% significance" without presenting the underlying observed values is hardly science.
If a photon is reflected in all random directions by a molecule several kilometers up the stratosphere, its chance of NOT leaving the planet is pretty low. Combined with the already low chance of even hitting one of the magic 0.001% of all air molecules, the share of photons actually being deflected right back to Earth should be phenomenally slim.
The only molecule that can overcome gravitation are He and H2 which can escape the gravity well in significant proportions. O3 is heavier than air, but it is constantly created and destroyed in the upper atmosphere, so it cannot really sink down.
All other molecules obey the laws of gravity as expected, with heavier molecules like O2 and CO2 converging at the bottom, lighter molecules on top and an obviously gravity-influence density distribution from Ground to Space.
For those who believe in a "homogenous and non-layered mixture of gasses" (like the parent claimed the atmosphere is): try to open the door on a commercial airliner at cruise altitude.
Or for those with less suicidal tendencies: climb a mountain of 2000m or more and note the sudden decrease in oxygen content. Or climb a bit higher, to 5000m or more, and take off the breathing mask for a minute and bask in the clean mountaineous air clearly devoid of heavy molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide. Don't do it for too long, though.
Could you explain how you calculate these significance levels and what data you used to arrive at "95% significance". Please elaborate how you were able to distinguish a trend in temperature levels from a random walk in either direction.
I'm glad we get back to real, actual science on this issue. With potentially falsifiable claims, experiments, theoretical, provable predictions and the possibility for all peers to independently verify each experiment, statistical analysis and data collection effort.
Not like in bogey-science, where opposing views are heretics, underlying data is top-secret, claims are even theoretically falsifiable only after waiting at least 30 years, all anecdotal evidence in favor is significant and all anecdotal evidence to the contrary is just coincidence.
Which would be a shame to bet billions of Dollars on, to reduce 30% of the countrie's share of about 10% of emissions of a molecule that has a 0.001% share in the entire atmosphere and of which only 10% is human-made at all.
And while we're in science-land, we probably can explain how heavier-than-air molecules are supposedly floating in the upper levels of the atmosphere for extended amounts of time while preventing the oh-so-precious heat loss of our planet. I'm not even talking about how 0.001% of all air molecules could stop a significant fraction of all infrared radiation or how these molecules supposedly always reflect their absorbed energies back towards the Earth instead of reflecting them in all random directions including sideways or deflected into space, despite rolling around in what is a perfect Brownian motion. Just tell us how molecules that are quite a bit heavier than air manage to stay up in the stratosphere for long enough to have any substantial and lasting effect. I'm very interested in hearing this since that would revolutionize air travel when we can lift airships with cheap and abundant CO2 instead of pesky H2 or expensive He.
Depends on what the bit error rate is. And the bit rate per second.
One error in 10^-15 bits could mean "a few months after the sun died" or "next friday somewhere on a rural road in western virginia" depending on that.
Going to jail for doing a Grand Theft Auto is kind of a letdown, is it?
In fact, you go to jail for simply driving too fast.
There's only one thing you can do outside that's really lightyears above the its simulated or filmed equivalent. And you still need to wear a rubber, though.
The people who live there change their notebooks every few months, see TFA. While that seems to be a workable solution for some, TFA specifically asked for alternatives that withstand the elements.
MacBooks are made with high workmanship, quality and durability, comparable to the higher business end of notebooks from Lenovo and HP. They are, however, far from being ruggedized or protected against condensation and ultra fine Saharan dust. In temperate climate, they will probably last for half a decade even in demanding use - but I cannot imagine they will live that long in a sand desert. The same goes for all other higher end Lenovo and HP products not specifically designed against dust and thus don't carry any IPxx rating.
"Do as the natives do" could be a starting point but without some evidence and reason to support it it's not the best recommendation per se.
And looking at a MacBook or a high-end Lenovo Thinkpad, I can hardly imagine ultra fine dust NOT creeping into every opening, port and gap in their plastic outer shell. USB ports, fan grille, key caps, speaker and microphone holes, latching parts etc.. In short: the cases are clearly and visibly dust-permeable.
Admin has comply with the Boss'es orders or follow on the way out. They may shake their head but it's you vs. them in effect.
If a dated paper among dozens of other dated papers in a folder is not conclusive enough, then nothing is. But it's a whole lot better than an empty email folder.
And while not following orders appearing to be shady is the best policy, it is not always (read "never") the best option to keep your job, since you usually don't know up-front if the order is shady or simply secret, urgent but legit.
Especially, if YOU are the admin. Imagine having say, two bosses of equal rank, legally able to represent the company and fire you if need be. One of the bosses orders you to disable all accounts of the other boss immediately and secretly, via phone of course. If the order is legit and you ignore it, you're fired. If the order is a hostile takeover and you comply, you're fired. You must make your move within 5 minutes. Any ideas?:)
Another reason is incriminating stuff and the fact that IT dept. can make any important email disappear if The Man wants them to.
Want to remove a subordinate NOW?
Order them by email to do something shady, announce severe repercussions if not done so and demand utmost secrecy for that. Make email disappear by order to the Admin. Make them responsible for their now uncalled-for misdeeds.
Then you'd know that all good intentions start with printing out everything. "I am a good student, I'm going to print it out and start reading it as soon as err tomorrow"
If it is really possible to fill all physically available memory cells with the detection hash and not have the rootkit just short-change to kernel and hide in the unreported installed memory, you will surely get one of two results: - a clear proof that some contents of RAM are pointered in and out, not read and computed directly. ("there is something, don't trust the machine at all") - a clear proof that no contents or RAM are pointered anywhere, meaning nothing can prohibit scanning the entire RAM image on file and the secondary storage ("nothing active, the machine can be trusted to compute correct results, traditional virus definition scans could produce evidence of a dormant infection")
Of course, the method of choice for 0-day malware will then be - hooking onto a legitimate program - allow to be swapped out nicely and play dead when the RAM scanner comes, - hope to be missed by signature scanner, heuristic scanner and comparison against known-good md5's - be swapped back in with the legitimate program and carry on its evil deeds.
Programs that prohibt being swapped out are malware by definition. Or a Sony DRM component, but that's also malware. Programs that allow that swapping out can also be malware, but they're giving control back to the kernel and could theoretically be detected during the scan.
Even the most clever malware now has to relinquish absolute control to the scanner, lower the shields and play dead for a while - be vulnerable for a moment. This could be a nice addition to intrusion detection systems.
Ok, do you begrudge - the clerk at McDonalds - the clerk at the gas station - your bank teller - your car mechanic
when he overcharges you by a few percent every time you purchase or order something?
A published and official price list is legally binding. If the legally and contractually agreed pay is too low, then I can't help it. No one has enough money and most people would like to earn substantially more. Some even have personal issues that make living more costly, having more children than most or having an expensive hobby or a medical condition. But that's not how the market works. I cannot give charity bonus for all transactions I do, since I cannot do the same. A society where personal need somehow translates into enforceable markup on prices will suddenly experience a huge increase in needs. If children mean more pay, we will have human rabbits. If medical conditions mean more pay, people will suddenly have attests for all kinds of medical conditions. - and as whole, society will not produce wealth with people strengthening their skills but need with people increasing their needyness.
Just like people on welfare have more kids when welfare pays out a fixed amount per kid.
Call me old-fashioned, but I begrudge everyone that cheats when it comes to money. No matter if that person is dirt-poor or blindlingly rich, a deal is a deal unless either side was forced to it at gunpoint or similar. And I know that this way, we have a rather transparent and successful society as a whole, since we have the Invisible Hand helping with our resource allocation.
Truck drivers are subject to a whole lot of pressure from their employers, since the employers themselves are under pressure in that race.
Unless some of the drivers stand up for their values and just takes a stop to take a pee, the "average number of stops" is decreasing further, meaning the pay cut for stopping is getting worse.
It's always easy to put the blame on "large institutions", "greedy capitalists", "the society" but much harder to offer constructive solutions. Everything I've heard to date includes government pressure, government laws, government this and government that.
Truckers that discard plastic pee bottles are greedy themselves, or they would accept the small pay cut for doing it properly. But in this case, it's easy enough: at the next gas station, stop the truck, get out of the cab, get to the loo, do your thing, get back in the cab and ride on. 2 minutes maximum. 5 minutes when having a quick cup of coffee afterwards. How much is the pay cut for that? And why don't people stand up for that and just do what is right?
Most truck drivers must know a ton of violations of laws from their employers, from riding double-shifts sometimes to having been issued and forced to a vehicle damaged enough to be technically unfit to even stand at a public parking lot. Wrongfully terminated employees tend to rat out their employers.
I take it that you've never had a real job in the real economy then. You're not only being spied upon by email, phone and some by video camera, but your boss can always come around the corner monitoring you, your performance, your outfit and even the number of flairs on your clothing.
A taxi driver has none of that: the boss is several hours of traffic jam away, there are no coworkers present to exert social pressure to work like anyone else and what the driver wears, or listens to is (almost) completely free to choose, even when the customer is present.
That work environment must sound like Dreamland Utopia to some cubicle farmers or burger flippers. It does to me, so I don't cut them their slack since they have enough already.
So, the problem is WORKERS working themselves to death and putting their fellow WORKERS at risk, and the solution is perfect enforcement of a "no loafing" policy to work the WORKERS like dogs...
Fixed that for you.
How do workers in other industries get their pay? By time worked? By units produced? By TPS reports filed?
Either way, no one gets paid for sitting around, except government officials, NGOs and politically correct undertakings of all kinds.
As a European, I remember that it was the Republicans that fought a war to free the slaves, while the Democrats were largely in favor of keeping "those brownskins" as personal property.
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Maybe it's failing because it DID place the value of everything else above the Dollar. The dollar may be fiat money all the way, but at least it lets you buy almost everything almost everywhere. First and foremost: food, shelter, clothing and schoolbooks.
Pretending that somehow some goals don't need to be concerned with these basic premises is utopian blindness.
There is no such thing as a free meal. Children must learn that, playfully of course: with many options to recover and little to none lasting effects for temporary failures, but the chance of keeping the positive effects for success.
If you take that out of school, you leave out the most important lesson of adulthood since the invention of money. No wonder people and all Western states are becoming more and more indebted with every passing generation: it's being declared more and more unethical to think about money in certain situations. With the predictable result of people not thinking about financing their ideals anymore, it just falls from the sky of taxpayer-and-national-debt-heaven.
Maybe it is helping *some* political parties to have their voters in constant dependency from state and welfare, so they know they will be reelected in any case, but that's not my idea of a government-electorate relationship.
Only promising to reap rewards *after* more than a decade in school, high school AND college is not going to motivate a kid that can barely imagine how the next winter will look like. Let children experience some connection between effort and reward directly, now. They will be thankful when they have a stable employment or a profitable small business when they are in their 30s.
Nevertheless, the point still stands: when people buy a DVD of "Avatar", do they buy a physical product, a plastic shiny disc, that happens to have the movie "Avatar" on it, or do they acquire the license to watch "Avatar" in DVD resolution that happens to be accompanied with a plastic shiny disc?
Movie studies are the owner of the licenses. They need to decide which kind of merchandise their product is.
It's either a physical thing and then they have no say about how the customer uses it, but when it's damaged, it's gone - or they sell a license and the customer has the right to make a backup, not lend it, not publicly show it but get another copy if one gets damaged.
Currently, they're trying to eat their cake and have it.
Obligatory quote: I think you're severely underestimating the bandwidth of a 747 full of BluRay discs.
Other than that, I like to receive some mail in pre-printed, signed and ready-to-archive-forever version. Preferably when larger sums of money is involved.
And I like the peace of mind knowing that no ECHELON or whatever read my mail. GPG-encrypted email would work, but I can't even get my coworkers to use that, let alone mom and grandma.
Until Big Government is cut back far enough to actually respect email privacy as good as snail mail, I'm counting on the dead tree envelope. Both are protected by the constitution, but somehow They only care about paper security.
Let's review it:
"Climate change deniers do not make logical arguments, they shout talking points and appeal to emotion."
It is a talking point:
A broad generalization, hardly provable and rendered invalid by the first semi-coherent sentence of a "denier".
It is an appeal to emotion:
It is not deconstructing opposing viewpoints by logical arguments and logic, but instead attacking the PEOPLE behind the viewpoint with an insult.
Methods to obtain "95% significance" out of a measly 14 observations of what could for all intents and purposes be a random walk are usually taught in politics 101.
The Wikipedia article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_estimation uses a global warming trend as its example.
For 140 years worth of observation, not 14 from 1995 to 2009.
Interestingly enough, neither Wikipedia nor the GP care to present any raw number. Claiming "95% significance" without presenting the underlying observed values is hardly science.
If a photon is reflected in all random directions by a molecule several kilometers up the stratosphere, its chance of NOT leaving the planet is pretty low. Combined with the already low chance of even hitting one of the magic 0.001% of all air molecules, the share of photons actually being deflected right back to Earth should be phenomenally slim.
The only molecule that can overcome gravitation are He and H2 which can escape the gravity well in significant proportions. O3 is heavier than air, but it is constantly created and destroyed in the upper atmosphere, so it cannot really sink down.
All other molecules obey the laws of gravity as expected, with heavier molecules like O2 and CO2 converging at the bottom, lighter molecules on top and an obviously gravity-influence density distribution from Ground to Space.
For those who believe in a "homogenous and non-layered mixture of gasses" (like the parent claimed the atmosphere is): try to open the door on a commercial airliner at cruise altitude.
Or for those with less suicidal tendencies: climb a mountain of 2000m or more and note the sudden decrease in oxygen content. Or climb a bit higher, to 5000m or more, and take off the breathing mask for a minute and bask in the clean mountaineous air clearly devoid of heavy molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide. Don't do it for too long, though.
Scepticism doesn't require anything. They just point at the null hypothesis and call it a day.
Those making a claim bear the burden of proof.
Thanks for making the sceptics and critics and denialists responsible for hiding data, compromising scientific integrity and stifling peer-review.
Let's welcome the "Denialists made me do it" defense.
Could you explain how you calculate these significance levels and what data you used to arrive at "95% significance". Please elaborate how you were able to distinguish a trend in temperature levels from a random walk in either direction.
Self-referential irony leading to self-pwnage. I love this stuff.
I'm glad we get back to real, actual science on this issue. With potentially falsifiable claims, experiments, theoretical, provable predictions and the possibility for all peers to independently verify each experiment, statistical analysis and data collection effort.
Not like in bogey-science, where opposing views are heretics, underlying data is top-secret, claims are even theoretically falsifiable only after waiting at least 30 years, all anecdotal evidence in favor is significant and all anecdotal evidence to the contrary is just coincidence.
Which would be a shame to bet billions of Dollars on, to reduce 30% of the countrie's share of about 10% of emissions of a molecule that has a 0.001% share in the entire atmosphere and of which only 10% is human-made at all.
And while we're in science-land, we probably can explain how heavier-than-air molecules are supposedly floating in the upper levels of the atmosphere for extended amounts of time while preventing the oh-so-precious heat loss of our planet. I'm not even talking about how 0.001% of all air molecules could stop a significant fraction of all infrared radiation or how these molecules supposedly always reflect their absorbed energies back towards the Earth instead of reflecting them in all random directions including sideways or deflected into space, despite rolling around in what is a perfect Brownian motion. Just tell us how molecules that are quite a bit heavier than air manage to stay up in the stratosphere for long enough to have any substantial and lasting effect. I'm very interested in hearing this since that would revolutionize air travel when we can lift airships with cheap and abundant CO2 instead of pesky H2 or expensive He.
Depends on what the bit error rate is. And the bit rate per second.
One error in 10^-15 bits could mean "a few months after the sun died" or "next friday somewhere on a rural road in western virginia" depending on that.
Going to jail for doing a Grand Theft Auto is kind of a letdown, is it?
In fact, you go to jail for simply driving too fast.
There's only one thing you can do outside that's really lightyears above the its simulated or filmed equivalent. And you still need to wear a rubber, though.
The people who live there change their notebooks every few months, see TFA. While that seems to be a workable solution for some, TFA specifically asked for alternatives that withstand the elements.
MacBooks are made with high workmanship, quality and durability, comparable to the higher business end of notebooks from Lenovo and HP. They are, however, far from being ruggedized or protected against condensation and ultra fine Saharan dust. In temperate climate, they will probably last for half a decade even in demanding use - but I cannot imagine they will live that long in a sand desert. The same goes for all other higher end Lenovo and HP products not specifically designed against dust and thus don't carry any IPxx rating.
"Do as the natives do" could be a starting point but without some evidence and reason to support it it's not the best recommendation per se.
And looking at a MacBook or a high-end Lenovo Thinkpad, I can hardly imagine ultra fine dust NOT creeping into every opening, port and gap in their plastic outer shell. USB ports, fan grille, key caps, speaker and microphone holes, latching parts etc.. In short: the cases are clearly and visibly dust-permeable.
Admin has comply with the Boss'es orders or follow on the way out. They may shake their head but it's you vs. them in effect.
If a dated paper among dozens of other dated papers in a folder is not conclusive enough, then nothing is. But it's a whole lot better than an empty email folder.
And while not following orders appearing to be shady is the best policy, it is not always (read "never") the best option to keep your job, since you usually don't know up-front if the order is shady or simply secret, urgent but legit.
Especially, if YOU are the admin. Imagine having say, two bosses of equal rank, legally able to represent the company and fire you if need be. One of the bosses orders you to disable all accounts of the other boss immediately and secretly, via phone of course. If the order is legit and you ignore it, you're fired. If the order is a hostile takeover and you comply, you're fired. You must make your move within 5 minutes. Any ideas? :)
Another reason is incriminating stuff and the fact that IT dept. can make any important email disappear if The Man wants them to.
Want to remove a subordinate NOW?
Order them by email to do something shady, announce severe repercussions if not done so and demand utmost secrecy for that.
Make email disappear by order to the Admin.
Make them responsible for their now uncalled-for misdeeds.
Were you a student for a while?
Then you'd know that all good intentions start with printing out everything. "I am a good student, I'm going to print it out and start reading it as soon as err tomorrow"
Don't log onto ANY network unless you know who's running them AND trust them.
And use a trusted VPN setup anyway.
If it is really possible to fill all physically available memory cells with the detection hash and not have the rootkit just short-change to kernel and hide in the unreported installed memory, you will surely get one of two results:
- a clear proof that some contents of RAM are pointered in and out, not read and computed directly. ("there is something, don't trust the machine at all")
- a clear proof that no contents or RAM are pointered anywhere, meaning nothing can prohibit scanning the entire RAM image on file and the secondary storage ("nothing active, the machine can be trusted to compute correct results, traditional virus definition scans could produce evidence of a dormant infection")
Of course, the method of choice for 0-day malware will then be
- hooking onto a legitimate program
- allow to be swapped out nicely and play dead when the RAM scanner comes,
- hope to be missed by signature scanner, heuristic scanner and comparison against known-good md5's
- be swapped back in with the legitimate program and carry on its evil deeds.
Programs that prohibt being swapped out are malware by definition. Or a Sony DRM component, but that's also malware. Programs that allow that swapping out can also be malware, but they're giving control back to the kernel and could theoretically be detected during the scan.
Even the most clever malware now has to relinquish absolute control to the scanner, lower the shields and play dead for a while - be vulnerable for a moment. This could be a nice addition to intrusion detection systems.
So essentially, you would re-instate slavery at the earliest possible convenience rather than fight a war against injustice?
Sounds like the Southern Democrats are alive and kicking.
Ok, do you begrudge
- the clerk at McDonalds
- the clerk at the gas station
- your bank teller
- your car mechanic
when he overcharges you by a few percent every time you purchase or order something?
A published and official price list is legally binding. If the legally and contractually agreed pay is too low, then I can't help it. No one has enough money and most people would like to earn substantially more. Some even have personal issues that make living more costly, having more children than most or having an expensive hobby or a medical condition. But that's not how the market works. I cannot give charity bonus for all transactions I do, since I cannot do the same. A society where personal need somehow translates into enforceable markup on prices will suddenly experience a huge increase in needs. If children mean more pay, we will have human rabbits. If medical conditions mean more pay, people will suddenly have attests for all kinds of medical conditions. - and as whole, society will not produce wealth with people strengthening their skills but need with people increasing their needyness.
Just like people on welfare have more kids when welfare pays out a fixed amount per kid.
Call me old-fashioned, but I begrudge everyone that cheats when it comes to money. No matter if that person is dirt-poor or blindlingly rich, a deal is a deal unless either side was forced to it at gunpoint or similar. And I know that this way, we have a rather transparent and successful society as a whole, since we have the Invisible Hand helping with our resource allocation.
A regular race to the bottom.
Truck drivers are subject to a whole lot of pressure from their employers, since the employers themselves are under pressure in that race.
Unless some of the drivers stand up for their values and just takes a stop to take a pee, the "average number of stops" is decreasing further, meaning the pay cut for stopping is getting worse.
It's always easy to put the blame on "large institutions", "greedy capitalists", "the society" but much harder to offer constructive solutions. Everything I've heard to date includes government pressure, government laws, government this and government that.
Truckers that discard plastic pee bottles are greedy themselves, or they would accept the small pay cut for doing it properly. But in this case, it's easy enough: at the next gas station, stop the truck, get out of the cab, get to the loo, do your thing, get back in the cab and ride on. 2 minutes maximum. 5 minutes when having a quick cup of coffee afterwards. How much is the pay cut for that? And why don't people stand up for that and just do what is right?
Most truck drivers must know a ton of violations of laws from their employers, from riding double-shifts sometimes to having been issued and forced to a vehicle damaged enough to be technically unfit to even stand at a public parking lot. Wrongfully terminated employees tend to rat out their employers.
I take it that you've never had a real job in the real economy then. You're not only being spied upon by email, phone and some by video camera, but your boss can always come around the corner monitoring you, your performance, your outfit and even the number of flairs on your clothing.
A taxi driver has none of that: the boss is several hours of traffic jam away, there are no coworkers present to exert social pressure to work like anyone else and what the driver wears, or listens to is (almost) completely free to choose, even when the customer is present.
That work environment must sound like Dreamland Utopia to some cubicle farmers or burger flippers. It does to me, so I don't cut them their slack since they have enough already.
So, the problem is WORKERS working themselves to death and putting their fellow WORKERS at risk, and the solution is perfect enforcement of a "no loafing" policy to work the WORKERS like dogs...
Fixed that for you.
How do workers in other industries get their pay? By time worked? By units produced? By TPS reports filed?
Either way, no one gets paid for sitting around, except government officials, NGOs and politically correct undertakings of all kinds.
As a European, I remember that it was the Republicans that fought a war to free the slaves, while the Democrats were largely in favor of keeping "those brownskins" as personal property.
How do you re-frame this?