Hey, up here in Canada we have entire provinces built on this practice (well, certainly not everyone in those provinces, but more than enough).
Gut fish for enough weeks a year to qualify, get laid off, collective EI for the rest of the year. Repeat next year. Forestry industry, same thing. Different areas of the country actually have different elegibility rules so these people will keep voting for the "right" politicians.
I've paid into EI for 16 years, and the only time I needed it, I didn't qualify. But at least I contribute to the quality of life in Atlantic Canada. Bleh.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the US has built it's own pyramid socialist schemes. Medicaid (sp) and social security come to mind. I also could swear I keep hearing politicos down there promising prescription drug plans for seniors.
The US is just as big-government friendly as most other first-world nations. You just spend more on your military than most.
Hell, your Republican congress just approved a resolution praising FDR and his New Deal (only 4 Republicans voted against it). Yep, Republicans congratulating the king of big-government Presidents, who'd have thunk it. They've also presided over the biggest spending increases in decades.
Uh huh. Cause I want to deal with picket lines, grievances, and paying union dues that are promptly donated to political parties and causes I would never suport. I want to be passed over for a job because some guy with 5 years more experience is next in line for work. I want to be taken to task for adding a user to a system, because that's classified as a sysadmin task. I want to be forced to work with people who are more concerned about the duration of their coffee break than producing good work, because they know they can't be fired.
Not.
Union shops are absolutely rife with bullshit like that, and I will NEVER voluntarily associate with the like. I'll leave the field and find something else to do before even considering it.
No, you don't understand. It is specifically legal in Canada to allow someone to make copies of your CD's, as long as they, however temporarily, have your original in hand.
Well, for starters, your mail.foo.com server should listen for your mail on port 587, the mail submission port. Then the port 25 blocking wouldn't affect you, and would still catch all the crap coming from your neighbors.
Since virtually every child born survives to reproductive age (at least in the developed world), evolution for humans is really no longer a factor. Future changes to our body plan and brain size will have to be self-directed.
Well, unless a global disaster occurs, re-introducing selective pressure to our species.
Comcast-connected proxies are responsible for about 10% of the spam I bounce, across multiple mail servers. This number has been consistent for months, and involves literally tens of thousands of trojanned machines. This will have an impact.
They aren't monitoring what you do. They're (finally) responding to probably millions of complaints regarding tens of thousands of trojanned machines spewing spam.
The real trick to Aikido is that, hopefully, you eventually learn that to be very "soft", ie. relaxed, gives you the most power. This has the advantage that you can continue to train as you get older, and you never stop growing more powerful.
OK, so picture you're a small business owner. Do you really want to be a tax collector for 50 different states, sending each regular cheques (although not too regular, I'm sure each will have their own payment schedule) and opening yourself to audits for every one? Oh, and lets not forget, you don't get paid to do this and if you screw up you can get fined for everything you own.
Wow, that sounds like it will really encourage people to sell you stuff online. Not.
Well, mechanics know how to fix brakes. They know how to test to ensure the brakes were in fact fixed. They know how to do this 100% of the time. They even have nice repair manuals created by the vehicle manufacturer outlining how to do it.
The fact is, lots of things go wrong with humans that doctors don't yet know how to fix. Plus, people aren't machines that came off an assembly line. Every human is different, gets sick differently, reacts to drugs differently.
Yet, when you get sick, you still want someone there willing to take a shot at fixing you, don't you? Without risking their life savings by doing so, that is.
Umm, they didn't tell them what they could put on a web page. What they told them was they couldn't insert a wildcard record in the.com and.net zones and redirect queries for EVERY NONEXISTENT DOMAIN in those zones to their servers, for every Internet service, not just web.
Permanent license revocation and similar measures, although probably not feared more than death, could place enough burden on an individual that they act as a pretty good deterrant.
Or, more likely, the same people who don't think twice about driving while loaded also won't really mind driving without their little plastic card in their pockets. It's not like taking away their license actually stops them from driving.
Anyone who is likely to be deterred from drinking and driving has long stopped doing it due to current penalties.
Not that I think this stupid mandatory breathalizer in the car thing will go anywhere - people will just buy their cars elsewhere or remove it.
Cops would love to be in the bar parking lot, but many people consider that harrassment. And it's private property, so unless they have a warrant the owner can (rightly) tell them to gtfo.
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Hey, up here in Canada we have entire provinces built on this practice (well, certainly not everyone in those provinces, but more than enough).
Gut fish for enough weeks a year to qualify, get laid off, collective EI for the rest of the year. Repeat next year. Forestry industry, same thing. Different areas of the country actually have different elegibility rules so these people will keep voting for the "right" politicians.
I've paid into EI for 16 years, and the only time I needed it, I didn't qualify. But at least I contribute to the quality of life in Atlantic Canada. Bleh.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the US has built it's own pyramid socialist schemes. Medicaid (sp) and social security come to mind. I also could swear I keep hearing politicos down there promising prescription drug plans for seniors.
The US is just as big-government friendly as most other first-world nations. You just spend more on your military than most.
Hell, your Republican congress just approved a resolution praising FDR and his New Deal (only 4 Republicans voted against it). Yep, Republicans congratulating the king of big-government Presidents, who'd have thunk it. They've also presided over the biggest spending increases in decades.
Uh huh. Cause I want to deal with picket lines, grievances, and paying union dues that are promptly donated to political parties and causes I would never suport. I want to be passed over for a job because some guy with 5 years more experience is next in line for work. I want to be taken to task for adding a user to a system, because that's classified as a sysadmin task. I want to be forced to work with people who are more concerned about the duration of their coffee break than producing good work, because they know they can't be fired.
Not.
Union shops are absolutely rife with bullshit like that, and I will NEVER voluntarily associate with the like. I'll leave the field and find something else to do before even considering it.
Well I'm not seeing a public outcry about the current copyright laws. It's only CRIA that wants the law changed. That's hardly democracy in action.
Yeah they do. The levies on data CD's are just lower than on "audio" cd's.
No, you don't understand. It is specifically legal in Canada to allow someone to make copies of your CD's, as long as they, however temporarily, have your original in hand.
Ya, the bastards. Tuition's almost up to what, like 40% of the cost of providing the programs now.
Hey, those are nothing. Wait till you emerge kde.
Plus we'll have to run out of oil first, since it'll always be cheaper to pump energy out of the ground than actually generate it.
The important question is whether we can get large-scale, affordable fusion before we run out of oil.
I just hope they remembered to tell the Russians. And Chinese. And North Koreans.
There's another issue, of course, which is that .mail cannot work without widespread adoption of SPF (or another forgery-prevention mechanism).
Well, for starters, your mail.foo.com server should listen for your mail on port 587, the mail submission port. Then the port 25 blocking wouldn't affect you, and would still catch all the crap coming from your neighbors.
They coped so well, in fact, that as soon as PC's became affordable every department in every company rushed out and bought truckloads.
Users want to do stuff with their computers, not just stuff that IT thinks they should be able to do. That's why we have PC's in the first place.
Not that I think they're actually competent to do it, of course.
Since virtually every child born survives to reproductive age (at least in the developed world), evolution for humans is really no longer a factor. Future changes to our body plan and brain size will have to be self-directed.
Well, unless a global disaster occurs, re-introducing selective pressure to our species.
Comcast-connected proxies are responsible for about 10% of the spam I bounce, across multiple mail servers. This number has been consistent for months, and involves literally tens of thousands of trojanned machines. This will have an impact.
They aren't monitoring what you do. They're (finally) responding to probably millions of complaints regarding tens of thousands of trojanned machines spewing spam.
The real trick to Aikido is that, hopefully, you eventually learn that to be very "soft", ie. relaxed, gives you the most power. This has the advantage that you can continue to train as you get older, and you never stop growing more powerful.
OK, so picture you're a small business owner. Do you really want to be a tax collector for 50 different states, sending each regular cheques (although not too regular, I'm sure each will have their own payment schedule) and opening yourself to audits for every one? Oh, and lets not forget, you don't get paid to do this and if you screw up you can get fined for everything you own.
Wow, that sounds like it will really encourage people to sell you stuff online. Not.
Well, mechanics know how to fix brakes. They know how to test to ensure the brakes were in fact fixed. They know how to do this 100% of the time. They even have nice repair manuals created by the vehicle manufacturer outlining how to do it.
The fact is, lots of things go wrong with humans that doctors don't yet know how to fix. Plus, people aren't machines that came off an assembly line. Every human is different, gets sick differently, reacts to drugs differently.
Yet, when you get sick, you still want someone there willing to take a shot at fixing you, don't you? Without risking their life savings by doing so, that is.
Yeah, it's sad that 99% of lawyers can make the rest look so bad.
Verisign doesn't run the root nameservers. They run the .com and .net TLD servers and the database for those TLD's.
Umm, they didn't tell them what they could put on a web page. What they told them was they couldn't insert a wildcard record in the .com and .net zones and redirect queries for EVERY NONEXISTENT DOMAIN in those zones to their servers, for every Internet service, not just web.
Permanent license revocation and similar measures, although probably not feared more than death, could place enough burden on an individual that they act as a pretty good deterrant.
Or, more likely, the same people who don't think twice about driving while loaded also won't really mind driving without their little plastic card in their pockets. It's not like taking away their license actually stops them from driving.
Anyone who is likely to be deterred from drinking and driving has long stopped doing it due to current penalties.
Not that I think this stupid mandatory breathalizer in the car thing will go anywhere - people will just buy their cars elsewhere or remove it.
Cops would love to be in the bar parking lot, but many people consider that harrassment. And it's private property, so unless they have a warrant the owner can (rightly) tell them to gtfo.
You can call it whatever the hell you want, but Stalinist Russia and Maoist China are what Communism means to most people in the west.