This has obviously nothing to do with employee rights but is a hatchet job by GMB to get rid of Uber. This will harm the drivers, it will harm the customers, only one who will gain are the unions. Shame on you UK for protecting the particular interests of certain pressure groups against your citizens.
Yeah, it's that evil taxi-company-trade-union-muslim-marxist-lizard-people conspiracy again.
It goes to Mens Rea which is definitely a factor in finding guilt. The whole premise of restricting alcohol until 21 is that younger people won't adequately predict harmful outcomes and avoid them.
Getting drunk and doing something stupid can happen whether you're 18 or 50. There is no magical change between 18 and 21.
When the EULA screen pops up, I just put a post-it note over the text they provide, which says "By clicking ACCEPT, I can do any damn thing I want with the computer I just bought. Microsoft can go to hell." Then I click ACCEPT. Onerous contracts of adhesion work the same both ways.
That's why I come to slashdot - to get solid, but free, legal advice from obvious experts in their field.
You're forgetting that on slashdot, everyone downloads everything they want, then if it meets their exacting standards they will send the original author a personal cheque in the post thereby avoiding all the evil publishers, agents et al who exist only to cream off money for cocaine and underage hookers.
As an author, I think your message "we should take away copyright, because authors would keep on writing even if they got no money and no credit for it" to be, basically, utterly and completely despicable.
Standard slashdot response: you could always make money by doing live shows or selling action figures, but in the meantime I am entitled to free access to your work. Unless it's code.
And yet, they were still written. Which is the entire purpose of copyright - to promote the creation of art. Not to enrich the artists or have their name preserved in history - that's just the carrot that's dangled to further promote their production.
Take away copyright entirely, and art will still be created. There would no doubt be a decrease in expensive, commercial-oriented art like blockbuster movies, but also an increase in "derivative" art, that would be free to incorporate previous works without fear of infrigement lawsuits.
When you get right down to it, most artists create for the joy of the craft, getting paid for it is a bonus that lets them create more rather than working a "real" job. And that only if they can fetch a decent price for their art within their lifetime.
In the past, artists were either independently wealthy aristocrats, or else they had to find a patron to support them.
Contrary to the general slashdot view, art is not something you can just do as a part time hobby activity.
Also of note, Scott Adams got shadowbanned [dilbert.com] from twitter, for no apparent reason, and has seen invitations for speaking go from several per month (for decades) to none. He estimates that blogging about the election has cost him $1 million in speaking fees alone.
Sorry, could you just remind me again why the world owes Scott Adams a living giving lucrative speeches? Or are you claiming that there is literally nowhere in the US/world that isn't run by some imaginary liberal mafia? I suppose everyone who's ever worn a Trump badge has been fired from work, banned from their local pub and forced to sell their home and live in a cardboard box?
I don't care of someone votes for Trump, or for Hillary either. However given them $1.25 is a terrible waste of money. The smart investor would say "screw it, I'm spending my money on a ballot initiative instead of either of those bozos".
If I were a Trump supporter I'd be concerned that a donation of $1.25 was considered noteworthy.
All this is is more virtue signaling; heaven forbid the other silicon valley lefties do not publicly show their disapproval. It's this public displays that lefties live for, after all.
Funny enough it's the same people who watch movies like Trumbo and are outraged by the actions of the HUAC and McCarthy. Bunch of hypocrites.
There is a pretty big difference between a group of like-minded individual citizens expressing disapproval, and a government-led witchhunt.
I realize that Trump cannot be pinned on any of the issues and does not really deliver on promises much,
Wait... What? What promises are you talking about? Unlike Clinton, Trump has not ever been a part of politics (directly). There's yet to be any broken promises from him.
That's an interesting way of spinning the fact that Trump has no political experience.
It's like saying that as someone with no medical qualifications whatsoever I'd make a good doctor because I haven't killed any patients yet.
Anybody afraid of Trump is moron. Yes, he's sexist, he's racist, and he's just a complete jerk - but he hasn't "attacked" anyone, or threatened to implement any policies that should make anybody feel "threatened." He's not fueled by hate, he's fueled by greed and a sense of self grandeur, and when has he ever encouraged violence?
What people are afraid of is him becoming President and having his finger on foreign policy (and the nuclear button).
He's either been offered a shitload of money and book deals, or his life was threatened.
You forgot that he might have been abducted by alien ant people and his cloned body sent back with an anti-matter brain capable of destroying the universe.
I have a six week cyclic stack and I use the soylent bars on weeks 3 and 4, and then I switch to a week of only fruit before returning to a mitochondrial repair diet.
I have absolutely no idea whether or not this is a joke.
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Burn the witch!
This has obviously nothing to do with employee rights but is a hatchet job by GMB to get rid of Uber. This will harm the drivers, it will harm the customers, only one who will gain are the unions. Shame on you UK for protecting the particular interests of certain pressure groups against your citizens.
Yeah, it's that evil taxi-company-trade-union-muslim-marxist-lizard-people conspiracy again.
it's like McDonald's food.
I'm not sure I understand. Could you re-frame that simile as a car metaphor?
Car analogy: McDonalds food is like what you find at the bottom of the sump.
More like what you have to hose off your tires if you cross a field full of cows with diarrhoea in your 4 x 4.
It goes to Mens Rea which is definitely a factor in finding guilt. The whole premise of restricting alcohol until 21 is that younger people won't adequately predict harmful outcomes and avoid them.
Getting drunk and doing something stupid can happen whether you're 18 or 50. There is no magical change between 18 and 21.
High School seniors can buy booze and attend school drunk, with little recourse for the school to address the disruptive behaviour.
They have the same recourse as for sober disruptive behaviour. Or are you saying that US High Schools literally have no disciplinary options at all?
Three hundred hours a year at minimum wage would be nice.
I'm not from Arizona, but I seriously doubt that a "community service" punishment means you get paid for your time.
So I can stick a mattress in back and fuck on my morning commute. Bang bus!
Translation: whack off to Bang bus videos.
When the EULA screen pops up, I just put a post-it note over the text they provide, which says "By clicking ACCEPT, I can do any damn thing I want with the computer I just bought. Microsoft can go to hell." Then I click ACCEPT. Onerous contracts of adhesion work the same both ways.
That's why I come to slashdot - to get solid, but free, legal advice from obvious experts in their field.
When dealing with a human landing on Mars and you are talking something like 40 tons
This obesity thing is really getting out of hand.
You're forgetting that on slashdot, everyone downloads everything they want, then if it meets their exacting standards they will send the original author a personal cheque in the post thereby avoiding all the evil publishers, agents et al who exist only to cream off money for cocaine and underage hookers.
As an author, I think your message "we should take away copyright, because authors would keep on writing even if they got no money and no credit for it" to be, basically, utterly and completely despicable.
Standard slashdot response: you could always make money by doing live shows or selling action figures, but in the meantime I am entitled to free access to your work. Unless it's code.
And yet, they were still written. Which is the entire purpose of copyright - to promote the creation of art. Not to enrich the artists or have their name preserved in history - that's just the carrot that's dangled to further promote their production.
Take away copyright entirely, and art will still be created. There would no doubt be a decrease in expensive, commercial-oriented art like blockbuster movies, but also an increase in "derivative" art, that would be free to incorporate previous works without fear of infrigement lawsuits.
When you get right down to it, most artists create for the joy of the craft, getting paid for it is a bonus that lets them create more rather than working a "real" job. And that only if they can fetch a decent price for their art within their lifetime.
In the past, artists were either independently wealthy aristocrats, or else they had to find a patron to support them.
Contrary to the general slashdot view, art is not something you can just do as a part time hobby activity.
BBC (state owned war mongering propaganda network of British lefty elite)
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the UK voted Brexit.
I don't think Microsoft are being especially nefarious.
The first rule of Slash Club is that Microsoft are always wrong.
It would be wrong to attack someone for supporting Hitler too
Utter bollocks. If that is the conclusion you reach, something is wrong with your premises or logic.
Peter Thiel is proving that even idiots can become billionaires.
So you can see why he would be attracted to Trump.
Even the Daily Mail has more credibility than Brietbart.
I'd have said that was physically impossible, unless you allow negative figures (the Daily Mail being zero).
Also of note, Scott Adams got shadowbanned [dilbert.com] from twitter, for no apparent reason, and has seen invitations for speaking go from several per month (for decades) to none. He estimates that blogging about the election has cost him $1 million in speaking fees alone.
Sorry, could you just remind me again why the world owes Scott Adams a living giving lucrative speeches? Or are you claiming that there is literally nowhere in the US/world that isn't run by some imaginary liberal mafia? I suppose everyone who's ever worn a Trump badge has been fired from work, banned from their local pub and forced to sell their home and live in a cardboard box?
I don't care of someone votes for Trump, or for Hillary either. However given them $1.25 is a terrible waste of money. The smart investor would say "screw it, I'm spending my money on a ballot initiative instead of either of those bozos".
If I were a Trump supporter I'd be concerned that a donation of $1.25 was considered noteworthy.
All this is is more virtue signaling; heaven forbid the other silicon valley lefties do not publicly show their disapproval. It's this public displays that lefties live for, after all.
Funny enough it's the same people who watch movies like Trumbo and are outraged by the actions of the HUAC and McCarthy. Bunch of hypocrites.
There is a pretty big difference between a group of like-minded individual citizens expressing disapproval, and a government-led witchhunt.
I realize that Trump cannot be pinned on any of the issues and does not really deliver on promises much,
Wait... What? What promises are you talking about? Unlike Clinton, Trump has not ever been a part of politics (directly). There's yet to be any broken promises from him.
That's an interesting way of spinning the fact that Trump has no political experience.
It's like saying that as someone with no medical qualifications whatsoever I'd make a good doctor because I haven't killed any patients yet.
Anybody afraid of Trump is moron. Yes, he's sexist, he's racist, and he's just a complete jerk - but he hasn't "attacked" anyone, or threatened to implement any policies that should make anybody feel "threatened." He's not fueled by hate, he's fueled by greed and a sense of self grandeur, and when has he ever encouraged violence?
What people are afraid of is him becoming President and having his finger on foreign policy (and the nuclear button).
He's either been offered a shitload of money and book deals, or his life was threatened.
You forgot that he might have been abducted by alien ant people and his cloned body sent back with an anti-matter brain capable of destroying the universe.
I have a six week cyclic stack and I use the soylent bars on weeks 3 and 4, and then I switch to a week of only fruit before returning to a mitochondrial repair diet.
I have absolutely no idea whether or not this is a joke.
It's a waste of energy and time to boil a full kettle when you only need a cup.