Losing pay is one of the main principles behind the idea of strike. Otherwise, nobody would work, not only in France, but also in the USA and the rest of the World.
Look who's talking. How about the high-profile Hollywood screenwriter strike? And it's not "la French", it's "LES French".
I can't avoid feeling antipathy for the French, but I must concede to them, it takes balls to stand up for their rights the way they do. It's hard to be on strike and lose many days of pay.
At least here in Europe, people can install electricity generators powered by renewable sources and sell the surplus to the company. Isn't the same happening in the US?
First of all, they can tell whatever they want, they have already given the worst example, and that will prevail. Any child psychologist will tell you that.
Second, I find it very funny that you used this analogy. The USA, a country which is 200 years old, treating millennium-old nations as children. Great!
I'm astonished as someone that's not an American can be so much of a sycophant as to quote a barbaric speech, worthy of the most hardcore braindead conservative radio-shouters.
If you were to cut relations with all countries guilty of crimes you would end up alone in the World. And the USA have a very, very long resume on that, too.
Most countries desperately need more graduated people. Since you live in the richest country in the World you could share some of the wealth with the young people that are willing to get a degree, and this for the common good.
No, you prefer to keep your dollars and then hire engineers and scientists who got their degrees in countries with socialised aducation, depriving those countries from the brains that they educated.
That means that a society where everybody just considers his own needs and disregards the others, can't possibly work. This should make us reconsider the hyper-individualistic modern society.
No matter what you do, there will always be people hating you for that. The safest way would be to sit idle, but then the World wouldn't advance.
There is a tale in my country about a boy, his grandfather and a donkey going to the market. They tried all combinations, the old man on foot, both riding the donkey, both on foot, the boy on foot, there would always be some by passer criticizing violently. So they said "fuck them" and returned to their original idea.
About the UI change, something makes me wonder: I gave up convincing people to use OpenOffice, mostly because they get really annoyed if some little button is slightly different from MSOffice. But when M$ changes everything and they can't use it properly, they just mumble and continue to use it (badly), anyway.
They put up with the most annoying bugs in MSOffice, but if OO occasionally crashes (a lot more rarely than MS IMHO), they say "I can't use this piece of shit", "It's all your fault", "Why do I listen to your open source crap?", and so on.
Charity is a way for the wealthy hypocrites to relieve their conscience for doing what they do to be wealthy. We would need no charity if a society was properly built to provide everyone with the basic needs.
I used to work in a big Telecom supplier and they never dreamed about using virtualization. We already had enough performance problems using raw hardware and software.
I moved to enterprise solutions and they are all happily using virtualization. Bad thing is that almost everybody here is a Microsoft drone, I miss my shell scripts.
No, a Microsoft 1.0 is Alpha, MS SP1 is Beta and MS SP2 is the 1.0 version. When the product is good enough it's discontinued and the whole cycle starts again.
I have flown quite a bit. About half of the times, there was some problem with my baggage. Either I had to wait a lot for baggage, or it was searched and left in a sloppy state, or it was simply lost.
Can they do an even worse job if I don't pay them? Only if they incinerate our baggage, or something like that. This sounds like Mafia extortion to me.
The word liberal is used for left-wingers in Anglo-Saxon culture. Here, in Continental Europe, liberals are right-wing. Our political spectrum could be (very roughly) defined like this: On the right wing, the Christian-Democrats (Conservatives) and the Social-Democrats (Liberals). On the left, the Socialists and Communists, and usually Ecologists. Warning, this is not accurate, and varies from country to country.
I'm not counting the far-right and far-left here. Sometimes it's difficult to tell them apart.
Even in a normal guitar, if the building gets hit by a lightning, the guitarist will fry. Don't forget the cord connected to the amplifier, specially if it's a tube amp.
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Losing pay is one of the main principles behind the idea of strike. Otherwise, nobody would work, not only in France, but also in the USA and the rest of the World.
Look who's talking. How about the high-profile Hollywood screenwriter strike? And it's not "la French", it's "LES French".
I can't avoid feeling antipathy for the French, but I must concede to them, it takes balls to stand up for their rights the way they do. It's hard to be on strike and lose many days of pay.
At least here in Europe, people can install electricity generators powered by renewable sources and sell the surplus to the company. Isn't the same happening in the US?
Possibilities of getting layed? zero!
Very much the opposite of humans who are very intelligent but, as a crowd, behave in a very stupid way.
First of all, they can tell whatever they want, they have already given the worst example, and that will prevail. Any child psychologist will tell you that.
Second, I find it very funny that you used this analogy. The USA, a country which is 200 years old, treating millennium-old nations as children. Great!
I already know that. But being so brazenly amoral voids any right to preach moral on others.
I'm astonished as someone that's not an American can be so much of a sycophant as to quote a barbaric speech, worthy of the most hardcore braindead conservative radio-shouters.
If you were to cut relations with all countries guilty of crimes you would end up alone in the World. And the USA have a very, very long resume on that, too.
Oh, you mean America's BEST FRIENDS, the Saudis?
Most countries desperately need more graduated people. Since you live in the richest country in the World you could share some of the wealth with the young people that are willing to get a degree, and this for the common good.
No, you prefer to keep your dollars and then hire engineers and scientists who got their degrees in countries with socialised aducation, depriving those countries from the brains that they educated.
That means that a society where everybody just considers his own needs and disregards the others, can't possibly work. This should make us reconsider the hyper-individualistic modern society.
PHBs are naive users, and they define the acquisition policies...
No matter what you do, there will always be people hating you for that. The safest way would be to sit idle, but then the World wouldn't advance.
There is a tale in my country about a boy, his grandfather and a donkey going to the market. They tried all combinations, the old man on foot, both riding the donkey, both on foot, the boy on foot, there would always be some by passer criticizing violently. So they said "fuck them" and returned to their original idea.
About the UI change, something makes me wonder: I gave up convincing people to use OpenOffice, mostly because they get really annoyed if some little button is slightly different from MSOffice. But when M$ changes everything and they can't use it properly, they just mumble and continue to use it (badly), anyway.
They put up with the most annoying bugs in MSOffice, but if OO occasionally crashes (a lot more rarely than MS IMHO), they say "I can't use this piece of shit", "It's all your fault", "Why do I listen to your open source crap?", and so on.
Charity is a way for the wealthy hypocrites to relieve their conscience for doing what they do to be wealthy. We would need no charity if a society was properly built to provide everyone with the basic needs.
Charity is taking a pig and giving a sausage!
I used to work in a big Telecom supplier and they never dreamed about using virtualization. We already had enough performance problems using raw hardware and software.
I moved to enterprise solutions and they are all happily using virtualization. Bad thing is that almost everybody here is a Microsoft drone, I miss my shell scripts.
WTP has been a really buggy POS for some time. But I've been using the Europa release and it seems they got it right, at last.
No, a Microsoft 1.0 is Alpha, MS SP1 is Beta and MS SP2 is the 1.0 version. When the product is good enough it's discontinued and the whole cycle starts again.
I don't have IE, and my OS is perfectly functional. It's called Linux, you see...
My Canon scanner drivers suck big time. Also, I'd like to see better wireless network support.
I'd do it myself but have no spare time for now.
I have flown quite a bit. About half of the times, there was some problem with my baggage. Either I had to wait a lot for baggage, or it was searched and left in a sloppy state, or it was simply lost.
Can they do an even worse job if I don't pay them? Only if they incinerate our baggage, or something like that. This sounds like Mafia extortion to me.
Sounds like a bunch of companies I know. Maybe it's a winning strategy, after all. :-D
Now, that may be the key! Why do you think they fear OSS so much? It renders the buy-out strategy useless.
The word liberal is used for left-wingers in Anglo-Saxon culture. Here, in Continental Europe, liberals are right-wing. Our political spectrum could be (very roughly) defined like this: On the right wing, the Christian-Democrats (Conservatives) and the Social-Democrats (Liberals). On the left, the Socialists and Communists, and usually Ecologists. Warning, this is not accurate, and varies from country to country.
I'm not counting the far-right and far-left here. Sometimes it's difficult to tell them apart.
Even in a normal guitar, if the building gets hit by a lightning, the guitarist will fry. Don't forget the cord connected to the amplifier, specially if it's a tube amp.
No vibrato bridge
Thank God!!!