The issue is pre-installing. The majority of the people go to the stre and buy a computer. If it has Windows on it, that is what they will use. If it is a Mac, that is what they use. If it has Android, that is what they us. If it has BeOS, then that is what they will use.
Ask most people and they will have no idea what they run, because they do not care. Just like the majority of people do not care what the font is that is used in books, as long as they can read that book it is ok.
And Linux IS simple to use. I think there are several people who use Android. The majority of people uses a browser and that is about it.
Writing the way we do is because we are right handed. Earlier are left handed, because we chiseled it out of stone. That is easier from right to left. At least that is what I learned in school. However that does not explain writing from right to left in other languages. e.g. Arabic.
It is also the reason schools have the desks placed so the light comes in from the left si during writing you have more light.
That is because Samuel William Jefferson, who invented the computer and build one, also invented the time machine in 1827. In 2079 his great-great-great-great-grandson, Hydro Jefferson, had an argument with his girlfriend about a cupcake (or a dancer called C-Cups. The books are unsure about that.) She then went back in time and killed S.W. Jefferson as a little baby.
This is the kind of thing that I think needs to make the news, the differences between workers' rights in different countries
I will go first. Belgium (Minimal rights for an office employee): 20+ days payed holidays (I have 35) Medical benefits Social security in case of unemployment 38 working hours per week Choice of at least 3 unions (Although this is not a must and nobody will ask) Reasonable privacy laws (e.g. No camera pointed to working people) No firering when you told you are pregnant No cubicles, but rather human interaction Several laws that will favor the employee Reduction on transportation (often 100% on public transportation) Food checks (Often, not always. Between 5 and 7 EUR per working day) Best beer in the world (OK, not work related, but still: this is Belgium.)
While there is no doubt that at least one of AF447's pilots made a fatal and sustained mistake, we still will blame the competitions system, so that they will buy ours and not theirs.
Don't get me wrong, Airbus would do the same. Or at least all of the governments involved.
I've quit a job in part because of the owner's political expressions, why should the other way around be any different.
Because of the unbalance in power between an employer and an employee.
An employer/employee relationship is not a relationship between equals. That means they should not be treated as equals by the law and one needs more protection.
I have one issue with what you outline. No capital-S State is ever going to tell me how much notice I must give my employer, and no employer CAN tell me.
The law says it is so. e.g. if the company has to give me 3 months, I should give them 6 weeks. With 6 months, it becomes 3 months for you.
Your new employer will know this as well and will see to it that you start at that moment. Obviously you can still come to an agreement with your employer and decide to stop immediately.
And most of the people will already HAVE a new job at the moment they hand in their notice. It is a sword that cuts on two sides. On the one side the employer give you 3 months to find a new job (including payed days off to go to interviews). On the other side, the employer has the time to look for a new one if you decide to leave.
And this working as a slave. I never had that feeling. I do my 38 hours a month. I take my 30+ days holiday. I get payed when I am sick and I am never stuffed in a cubicle.
If you have serious issues and want to leave no matter what, and if that happens often, then perhaps YOU are the problem, not the employer.
I once had a company that told me they wanted me two weeks earlier. I told them that would be a deal-breaker. If they can not wait 2 weeks for me, they are not looking for long term solutions and I am not interested anymore.
This was over a 3 month period that I told them up front about (and an extra week for a holiday).
And no, they will not hold a gun to your head. You will however have problems getting unemployment benefits and things like that. Yep, that is something we also have here.
It amazes me that this is even legal. In Europe, at least in Belgium, this would be illegal as hell. At some jobs they might do background checks, but these are clearly identified and will be e.g. jobs at NATO.
At some jobs (e.g. banks) you might be required to show a proof of your criminal history. Then the company can decide if they hire you or not. There are even people who want to make these stricter and limit the information. That way a pedophile will show up if he wants to work at a school, but not when he is going to work at e.g. a banks call center. With a bank robber, it might be the other way around.
Where I work I know of one person not getting the reason, because something on it was a too high risk. Another person had something on it and we still hired that person, as we decided it wasn't a high risk at all.
Things we will NEVER ask: Are you with a union? Are you pregnant? (They are allowed to lie to that question. Once they are hired and tell they are pregnant, you can't fire them.) What is your religion?
What we do have is a 6 month trial in which both the employer and employee can decide if this is an OK situation workwise. If it isn't, we can end it or they can end it with a weeks notice. After that it will be a much longer notice period for both the employer and employee.
It will be fun for those who have internal domain names that are the same as the tld ones.
e.g. if I would name my local domain.pepsi and have the webserver internally on www.pepsi. Now suddenly the official website for pepsi BECOMES www.pepsi
It will perhaps not happen immediatly, but it will happen when there are many, many more TLDs.
People come to cinema's for the experience, not for the technical marvel (unless it adds to the experience). If they do not like it, they will not have a nice experience. regardless if they are technically wrong and are not used to it, that is what people want.
Forcing something else, just it is technically better is what they are already doing with 3D.
So please let me enjoy my fake looking 2fps and not be forced to watch the realistic looking 60 or higher fps.
It is the reason I did not buy a big screen. It is the reason I did not buy a HD channel thing. Because I did not like the real look of it.
That said, I am sure there will be cinematic techniques who can 'undo' the harm that is done. Some filter or rendering. That would mean you have your 120fps and I have my film look of films.
The people in the fourth plane did so. People can do crazy things when the only option is that they will die.
What the terrorist faces now is a lot of people who are SURE they are going to die anyway. He now needs to convince them that if they don't kill him, they will live. He has 3 seconds to do that.
People always talk about passwords without looking at the other part: usernames. Often I am not able to select my username. I have more usernames then passwords. At work I have one password, which is less secure then it could be, because I need to change it every month. I have at least 7 different usernames. first letter first name up to 8 characters total with the last name first letter and full last name 3 letters first name upt to 8 for the last name last name only first name only department name company name
This is at work. That does not imply that it is all from the company I work at. Several are from external companies. And I also did not count the usernames I need to share and thus are not really mine.
And this company is not that bad. With another I had also 3 different digipass machines and for 1 application I needed 3 differnt logins and passwords.
The reason that passwords are still used is because security is seen as a problem that involves only one user on one server with one access. It does not take into consideration the fact that people have many places they need to access.
My solution is quite simple: unless you own a registered trademark, or use your real name or surname, you have to use it or lose it!
That would mean I would loose my two domains I own. And please tell me who is going to tell what I must put on my site so it isn't domain squatting? That would mean telling be what content I can not put on my site. That is a slippery slope to censorship.
I am against domain squatting just as you are, but I am even more against people telling me what I can put on my site and what not.
And no, I do not want to use my own name online. I am very happy that I decided to not do that many years ago. See what happens with the privacy now.
It's not like TLDs outside of.net,.org,.com,.edu, and cc codes matter.
That is because the system is US centric. Also it has two things mixed up. 1) countries 2) Company/website functions
If they would have just used the country code, then the problems would have been solved at that level. So that would have meant to have.net.us, com.us,.org.us and so on, without the.net,.org,.com situation. At least if.us would have wanted to go that way.
But what about debian.org as that is all over the world? Well, I see the whois points to the US, so debian.org.us would be a perfect choice. That does not exclude things like debian.be or debian.fi or any of the others.
If you want to have presence all over the world, you would have to pay for it. It would have meant local distribution, just as is happening now already.
This all is nice to think about, but way too late to do anything about it now.
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Sell it as a tv show. Extreme Survivor.
Colibris are big. You can go smaller and use butterflies. Instead of climate change, we could it it the butterfly effect.
The issue is pre-installing. The majority of the people go to the stre and buy a computer. If it has Windows on it, that is what they will use. If it is a Mac, that is what they use. If it has Android, that is what they us. If it has BeOS, then that is what they will use.
Ask most people and they will have no idea what they run, because they do not care. Just like the majority of people do not care what the font is that is used in books, as long as they can read that book it is ok.
And Linux IS simple to use. I think there are several people who use Android. The majority of people uses a browser and that is about it.
Yes. Also some compensation due to overtime and also sometimes extra holidays. That is how I get to 35.
Writing the way we do is because we are right handed. Earlier are left handed, because we chiseled it out of stone. That is easier from right to left. At least that is what I learned in school.
However that does not explain writing from right to left in other languages. e.g. Arabic.
It is also the reason schools have the desks placed so the light comes in from the left si during writing you have more light.
That is because Samuel William Jefferson, who invented the computer and build one, also invented the time machine in 1827.
In 2079 his great-great-great-great-grandson, Hydro Jefferson, had an argument with his girlfriend about a cupcake (or a dancer called C-Cups. The books are unsure about that.)
She then went back in time and killed S.W. Jefferson as a little baby.
You do realize that this is scary for Americans? Others telling companies what to do? OMFG! Communism and the world will collapse.
I will go first. Belgium (Minimal rights for an office employee):
20+ days payed holidays (I have 35)
Medical benefits
Social security in case of unemployment
38 working hours per week
Choice of at least 3 unions (Although this is not a must and nobody will ask)
Reasonable privacy laws (e.g. No camera pointed to working people)
No firering when you told you are pregnant
No cubicles, but rather human interaction
Several laws that will favor the employee
Reduction on transportation (often 100% on public transportation)
Food checks (Often, not always. Between 5 and 7 EUR per working day)
Best beer in the world (OK, not work related, but still: this is Belgium.)
While there is no doubt that at least one of AF447's pilots made a fatal and sustained mistake, we still will blame the competitions system, so that they will buy ours and not theirs.
Don't get me wrong, Airbus would do the same. Or at least all of the governments involved.
Because of the unbalance in power between an employer and an employee.
An employer/employee relationship is not a relationship between equals. That means they should not be treated as equals by the law and one needs more protection.
The law says it is so. e.g. if the company has to give me 3 months, I should give them 6 weeks.
With 6 months, it becomes 3 months for you.
Your new employer will know this as well and will see to it that you start at that moment.
Obviously you can still come to an agreement with your employer and decide to stop immediately.
And most of the people will already HAVE a new job at the moment they hand in their notice. It is a sword that cuts on two sides. On the one side the employer give you 3 months to find a new job (including payed days off to go to interviews). On the other side, the employer has the time to look for a new one if you decide to leave.
And this working as a slave. I never had that feeling. I do my 38 hours a month. I take my 30+ days holiday. I get payed when I am sick and I am never stuffed in a cubicle.
If you have serious issues and want to leave no matter what, and if that happens often, then perhaps YOU are the problem, not the employer.
I once had a company that told me they wanted me two weeks earlier. I told them that would be a deal-breaker. If they can not wait 2 weeks for me, they are not looking for long term solutions and I am not interested anymore.
This was over a 3 month period that I told them up front about (and an extra week for a holiday).
And no, they will not hold a gun to your head. You will however have problems getting unemployment benefits and things like that. Yep, that is something we also have here.
It amazes me that this is even legal.
In Europe, at least in Belgium, this would be illegal as hell. At some jobs they might do background checks, but these are clearly identified and will be e.g. jobs at NATO.
At some jobs (e.g. banks) you might be required to show a proof of your criminal history. Then the company can decide if they hire you or not. There are even people who want to make these stricter and limit the information.
That way a pedophile will show up if he wants to work at a school, but not when he is going to work at e.g. a banks call center. With a bank robber, it might be the other way around.
Where I work I know of one person not getting the reason, because something on it was a too high risk. Another person had something on it and we still hired that person, as we decided it wasn't a high risk at all.
Things we will NEVER ask: Are you with a union? Are you pregnant? (They are allowed to lie to that question. Once they are hired and tell they are pregnant, you can't fire them.) What is your religion?
What we do have is a 6 month trial in which both the employer and employee can decide if this is an OK situation workwise. If it isn't, we can end it or they can end it with a weeks notice. After that it will be a much longer notice period for both the employer and employee.
It will be fun for those who have internal domain names that are the same as the tld ones.
e.g. if I would name my local domain .pepsi and have the webserver internally on www.pepsi. Now suddenly the official website for pepsi BECOMES www.pepsi
It will perhaps not happen immediatly, but it will happen when there are many, many more TLDs.
People come to cinema's for the experience, not for the technical marvel (unless it adds to the experience). If they do not like it, they will not have a nice experience.
regardless if they are technically wrong and are not used to it, that is what people want.
Forcing something else, just it is technically better is what they are already doing with 3D.
So please let me enjoy my fake looking 2fps and not be forced to watch the realistic looking 60 or higher fps.
It is the reason I did not buy a big screen. It is the reason I did not buy a HD channel thing. Because I did not like the real look of it.
That said, I am sure there will be cinematic techniques who can 'undo' the harm that is done. Some filter or rendering. That would mean you have your 120fps and I have my film look of films.
Please mod parent up. It is more insightful then it is funny.
The people in the fourth plane did so. People can do crazy things when the only option is that they will die.
What the terrorist faces now is a lot of people who are SURE they are going to die anyway. He now needs to convince them that if they don't kill him, they will live. He has 3 seconds to do that.
Do you know how they smuggle drugs on planes? Do you think they could do the same with explosives? I am sure they could.
They are raping your rights as a human being and you see no problems in that? That is your problem right there.
A patdown IS a molestation. Not a physical one, but much worse. Much much worse.
People always talk about passwords without looking at the other part: usernames.
Often I am not able to select my username. I have more usernames then passwords. At work I have one password, which is less secure then it could be, because I need to change it every month.
I have at least 7 different usernames.
first letter first name up to 8 characters total with the last name
first letter and full last name
3 letters first name upt to 8 for the last name
last name only
first name only
department name
company name
This is at work. That does not imply that it is all from the company I work at. Several are from external companies. And I also did not count the usernames I need to share and thus are not really mine.
And this company is not that bad. With another I had also 3 different digipass machines and for 1 application I needed 3 differnt logins and passwords.
The reason that passwords are still used is because security is seen as a problem that involves only one user on one server with one access. It does not take into consideration the fact that people have many places they need to access.
So that is why the 3 letter agencies look so much like the Stasi.
At the current rates you for international data roaming, this should be seen as a plus.
I know we are not involved in this, but we can send Celine Dion.
Kind regards,
Canada
That would mean I would loose my two domains I own.
And please tell me who is going to tell what I must put on my site so it isn't domain squatting? That would mean telling be what content I can not put on my site. That is a slippery slope to censorship.
I am against domain squatting just as you are, but I am even more against people telling me what I can put on my site and what not.
And no, I do not want to use my own name online. I am very happy that I decided to not do that many years ago. See what happens with the privacy now.
That is because the system is US centric. Also it has two things mixed up.
1) countries
2) Company/website functions
If they would have just used the country code, then the problems would have been solved at that level. So that would have meant to have .net.us, com.us, .org.us and so on, without the .net, .org, .com situation. At least if .us would have wanted to go that way.
But what about debian.org as that is all over the world? Well, I see the whois points to the US, so debian.org.us would be a perfect choice. That does not exclude things like debian.be or debian.fi or any of the others.
If you want to have presence all over the world, you would have to pay for it. It would have meant local distribution, just as is happening now already.
This all is nice to think about, but way too late to do anything about it now.
Don't forget that the voters who vote on TV shows are the same voters who vote your government.
And half of them is below average intelligence.
True story.