I use Linux exclusively at home. At work, they give me a laptop installed with the company default stuff. I could switch to Linux if I wanted to, but then, every time ANY thing went wrong, I'd be blamed for it, because I had gone off the "standard" and used "weird" software.
Don't underestimate the power of the Microsoft drones.
BUT he needs to check his employment contract first. Very common for the employer to say they own everything you create, even if it's not on company time. And if he works for jerks, I wouldn't assume they won't take the project from him when he leaves if it has any value at all.
Isn't that illegal in the US? I'm pretty sure it's illegal in my country. It's not the company's business what you do on your own time, outside the company.
Unlike germanic languages like English, in Latin languages everything has a gender. For instance, in Portuguese, Portugal, United States and Mexico are male, while France, Spain and Germany are female.
Not that it makes any real sense. At the moment, France and Germany are taking turns fucking Portugal:-(
Taking into account that the US fully-private healthcare system is rated as third-world grade and is by far the most expensive in the entire world, I would take the "gubment" plan any day of the week. But then, won't anybody think of the poor insurance companies?
This biggest issue caused by the unions is an unwillingness to reduce benefits to match the current economic state.
Which economic state are you talking about? If the few rich are richer than ever before, why should the be workers who accept to reduce their benefits? Clearly there's enough money to satisfy their benefits, it's just poorly distributed.
Everybody copies everything. Could you create a decent modern microprocessor on your own starting from middle-age technology? Guess not. So, are you a copycat?
Henry Ford was so exceptional that you feel you have to show him as an example. The vast majority of his kind, unfortunately, would like to keep us working in sweatshops for shitty pay just like in the 19th century. And that's what they would be doing right now, wasn't it for unions, regulations and very harsh battles from the workers to get their fair share, many times to their death.
The 'conservatives' are trying to build a society that works when most people aren't 'working for the man' in a factory twelve hours a day.
Yeah, this time you're working for the man in an office 14 hours a day. And taking calls at home on weekends, when you should be with your family. And this if you're lucky enough to have a job.
The Conservatives' future is bright I have to wear shades.
Well, if unions in the USA are as powerful as The Incredible Hulk, they must be doing a really sloppy job. After all, you're among the countries with the highest income inequality among developed nations. And it keeps rising.
I suspect this anti-union rhetoric that floods Slashdot all the time is more a product of decades of brainwashing from the part of the corporate media propaganda machine.
In my country (Portugal), unions are pretty weak. That's one of the reasons (but not the only, mind you) we have incredibly shitty pay compared to countries where unions are powerful like Germany and France. And it hasn't helped us at all to have weak unions. Our productivity is still very low, although we work more hours than the other Europeans. Our country is bankrupt. And our managing class is one of the most illiterate, lazy, loutish and well-paid in Europe.
Well, I live in Europe, that you Americans consider a Communist Inferno. Where people spend 3 month on holidays and other 3 months on sick leave and their whole 4-hour work day is spent reading the newspaper while the poor boss begs them crying to get some work done.
If I punched my supervisor, I'd be immediately fired with no compensation and no unemployment subsidy. The same in the public sector.
I could try to get to some agreement with my employers, like apologise, and still keep my job. But that has nothing to do with our labour regulations.
Noooo, Apple is just being batshit crazy! You should never do anything new, only what everybody else has done before! Wasn't that how Apple got rich, anyway?
They should burn tires for electricity, this solar thing is just a pipe dream, it's too inefficient, expensive and, even worse, it kills kittens!
It's like that airplane thing. Stop dreaming. If men were supposed to fly, God has would have given them wings.
The 2 million Portuguese poor and the 800.000 unemployed would like to thank you for your kind words. It's nice to be called corrupt and profligate when we've been sharply losing our income and social benefits while the 1% richer added 17% to their already bloated fortunes in 2010.
As to that Merkel cunt and bastard Sarkozy, they never complained when our corrupt rulers were destroying our industry and agriculture to buy from France and Germany, allowing them to expand their economies because we can't devalue our currency to keep competitive.
As to the European banking sector, I couldn't care less about them. All the banks should be nationalised and the bankers fired. They're treated like sacred cows for doing a job my grandmother could do better. Why should we working people be paying for their extravagances?
I will all depend on ownership of means of production, in this case, the robots.
If the ownership is social, the robots will work for all society, giving everybody a comfortable life and plenty of time to spend in some rewarding activity.
If the ownership is private, the robots will work for the economical elite. The rest of the people will be useless to this elite, they will even be an annoyance. Hence, they'll wallow outside the fortress gates in rampant poverty and violence, because the elite will hoard all the resources for itself.
Well, they have. The scientific community uses the universal standard, which is the metric system. Even in those exotic locations like Liberia, Burma and the USA.
The creatures are 10 centimetres long, but live 6 miles underwater? So, what's it gonna be? Metric or American units? At the very least, be consistent!
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What I meant is that people would be blaming me for completely unrelated problems. Been there, done that.
I use Linux exclusively at home. At work, they give me a laptop installed with the company default stuff. I could switch to Linux if I wanted to, but then, every time ANY thing went wrong, I'd be blamed for it, because I had gone off the "standard" and used "weird" software.
Don't underestimate the power of the Microsoft drones.
That makes solar teh evilzzzl!!!
Because everybody knows drilling oil or digging coal is all done with manual tools and uses no chemicals but pure spring water.
I wonder which planet you live in. Not the same as mine, for sure.
BUT he needs to check his employment contract first. Very common for the employer to say they own everything you create, even if it's not on company time. And if he works for jerks, I wouldn't assume they won't take the project from him when he leaves if it has any value at all.
Isn't that illegal in the US? I'm pretty sure it's illegal in my country. It's not the company's business what you do on your own time, outside the company.
Unlike germanic languages like English, in Latin languages everything has a gender. For instance, in Portuguese, Portugal, United States and Mexico are male, while France, Spain and Germany are female.
Not that it makes any real sense. At the moment, France and Germany are taking turns fucking Portugal :-(
Taking into account that the US fully-private healthcare system is rated as third-world grade and is by far the most expensive in the entire world, I would take the "gubment" plan any day of the week. But then, won't anybody think of the poor insurance companies?
I have to ask: You have some sort of cognitive disorder, don't you?
Your post is an monolithic unreadable mess full of religious tautologies and wishful thinking.
This biggest issue caused by the unions is an unwillingness to reduce benefits to match the current economic state.
Which economic state are you talking about? If the few rich are richer than ever before, why should the be workers who accept to reduce their benefits? Clearly there's enough money to satisfy their benefits, it's just poorly distributed.
Everybody copies everything. Could you create a decent modern microprocessor on your own starting from middle-age technology? Guess not. So, are you a copycat?
Well, you could have given a shit about the link I posted.
Henry Ford was so exceptional that you feel you have to show him as an example. The vast majority of his kind, unfortunately, would like to keep us working in sweatshops for shitty pay just like in the 19th century. And that's what they would be doing right now, wasn't it for unions, regulations and very harsh battles from the workers to get their fair share, many times to their death.
The 'conservatives' are trying to build a society that works when most people aren't 'working for the man' in a factory twelve hours a day.
Yeah, this time you're working for the man in an office 14 hours a day. And taking calls at home on weekends, when you should be with your family. And this if you're lucky enough to have a job.
The Conservatives' future is bright I have to wear shades.
Well, if unions in the USA are as powerful as The Incredible Hulk, they must be doing a really sloppy job. After all, you're among the countries with the highest income inequality among developed nations. And it keeps rising.
I suspect this anti-union rhetoric that floods Slashdot all the time is more a product of decades of brainwashing from the part of the corporate media propaganda machine.
In my country (Portugal), unions are pretty weak. That's one of the reasons (but not the only, mind you) we have incredibly shitty pay compared to countries where unions are powerful like Germany and France. And it hasn't helped us at all to have weak unions. Our productivity is still very low, although we work more hours than the other Europeans. Our country is bankrupt. And our managing class is one of the most illiterate, lazy, loutish and well-paid in Europe.
Well, I live in Europe, that you Americans consider a Communist Inferno. Where people spend 3 month on holidays and other 3 months on sick leave and their whole 4-hour work day is spent reading the newspaper while the poor boss begs them crying to get some work done.
If I punched my supervisor, I'd be immediately fired with no compensation and no unemployment subsidy. The same in the public sector.
I could try to get to some agreement with my employers, like apologise, and still keep my job. But that has nothing to do with our labour regulations.
Noooo, Apple is just being batshit crazy! You should never do anything new, only what everybody else has done before! Wasn't that how Apple got rich, anyway?
They should burn tires for electricity, this solar thing is just a pipe dream, it's too inefficient, expensive and, even worse, it kills kittens!
It's like that airplane thing. Stop dreaming. If men were supposed to fly, God has would have given them wings.
At least get your data straight, you ignorant.
You can go call you mother a PIIG.
The 2 million Portuguese poor and the 800.000 unemployed would like to thank you for your kind words. It's nice to be called corrupt and profligate when we've been sharply losing our income and social benefits while the 1% richer added 17% to their already bloated fortunes in 2010.
As to that Merkel cunt and bastard Sarkozy, they never complained when our corrupt rulers were destroying our industry and agriculture to buy from France and Germany, allowing them to expand their economies because we can't devalue our currency to keep competitive.
As to the European banking sector, I couldn't care less about them. All the banks should be nationalised and the bankers fired. They're treated like sacred cows for doing a job my grandmother could do better. Why should we working people be paying for their extravagances?
...of value was lost. Let's move ahead and invest time and money in useful things.
I will all depend on ownership of means of production, in this case, the robots.
If the ownership is social, the robots will work for all society, giving everybody a comfortable life and plenty of time to spend in some rewarding activity.
If the ownership is private, the robots will work for the economical elite. The rest of the people will be useless to this elite, they will even be an annoyance. Hence, they'll wallow outside the fortress gates in rampant poverty and violence, because the elite will hoard all the resources for itself.
Now choose, Socialism or Barbarism?
Are those football leagues? Should be hard to kick the ball under the sea...
Well, they have. The scientific community uses the universal standard, which is the metric system. Even in those exotic locations like Liberia, Burma and the USA.
The creatures are 10 centimetres long, but live 6 miles underwater? So, what's it gonna be? Metric or American units? At the very least, be consistent!