It seems to me that the real precedent will be set by Google in how they handle this. Just say no and send them on, as the lawyer suggested.
If you've got negative info appearing on Google, are you going to risk further attention through a court case? No way. You'll drop it or, oh, I don't know, maybe go after the website who posted it?
Z-Wave, the wireless mesh protocol behind most of these systems, is an open protocol. That means you can build yourself an a la carte system. Not just for security, either, but total home automation.
You can even buy Z-Wave USB dongles that work with Linux. Of course you'll need software as well. Or you can pick up an embedded device such as Vera Lite. If you're okay with a small monthly fee, Nexia (formerly Schlage LiNK) is Z-Wave based.
One time John Travolta asked me to fix his computer. So I went over his mansion and he put a gun to my head while this hot blonde chick gave me a BJ. He told me I had 30 seconds to fix it and I did.
Then I got a job as Wolverine in the X-Men movie.
Unions had their place in our past. In a time when business ethics was nothing more than two words next to eachother, and the existing labor laws left much to be desired, laborers relied on unions in order to protect their jobs and themselves. But guess what:
We're not laborers anymore.
The country is on the cusp of a major economic shift. It is not the first time America has been through such a shift. Decades ago, when large corporations began outsourcing factory work to cheaper labor overseas and in Mexico, there was a lot of protest. (You may recall the "Made in USA" campaign.) But Americans continued to buy these foreign exports in favor of better prices. Many felt that this was selfish and would destroy the economy.
On the contrary, we went on shortly thereafter to experience one of the most prosperous periods of economic growth in our history. And what happened to the "displaced" factory workers?
They got better jobs!
It is dangerous to ignore the big picture. Everybody reading this is probably familiar with the current trend of outsourcing tech-support to India. Once again, there is much concern about unemployment as a result of this. But if history is a reliable indicator (and it usually is), these workers will move on to bigger and better things, and the economy will once again flourish.
Unions have served their purpose, but are antiquated. They serve now simply to encourage complacency, and have even in some cases become minor bureaucracies themselves. Rather than view this outsourcing trend as a distress signal, view it as a flagstone of progress. We started out as farmers, now Americans are too good for cubicle work! And be sure of one more thing: America will not be worse off for this. The American economy is the world economy.
Be happy with what you have and where you live. And always take time to review the big picture. You can't see the forest for the trees.
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It seems to me that the real precedent will be set by Google in how they handle this. Just say no and send them on, as the lawyer suggested. If you've got negative info appearing on Google, are you going to risk further attention through a court case? No way. You'll drop it or, oh, I don't know, maybe go after the website who posted it?
Z-Wave, the wireless mesh protocol behind most of these systems, is an open protocol. That means you can build yourself an a la carte system. Not just for security, either, but total home automation. You can even buy Z-Wave USB dongles that work with Linux. Of course you'll need software as well. Or you can pick up an embedded device such as Vera Lite. If you're okay with a small monthly fee, Nexia (formerly Schlage LiNK) is Z-Wave based.
One time John Travolta asked me to fix his computer. So I went over his mansion and he put a gun to my head while this hot blonde chick gave me a BJ. He told me I had 30 seconds to fix it and I did. Then I got a job as Wolverine in the X-Men movie.
Let me tell you what's wrong with unions:
They hinder economic progress.
Unions had their place in our past. In a time when business ethics was nothing more than two words next to eachother, and the existing labor laws left much to be desired, laborers relied on unions in order to protect their jobs and themselves. But guess what:
We're not laborers anymore.
The country is on the cusp of a major economic shift. It is not the first time America has been through such a shift. Decades ago, when large corporations began outsourcing factory work to cheaper labor overseas and in Mexico, there was a lot of protest. (You may recall the "Made in USA" campaign.) But Americans continued to buy these foreign exports in favor of better prices. Many felt that this was selfish and would destroy the economy.
On the contrary, we went on shortly thereafter to experience one of the most prosperous periods of economic growth in our history. And what happened to the "displaced" factory workers?
They got better jobs!
It is dangerous to ignore the big picture. Everybody reading this is probably familiar with the current trend of outsourcing tech-support to India. Once again, there is much concern about unemployment as a result of this. But if history is a reliable indicator (and it usually is), these workers will move on to bigger and better things, and the economy will once again flourish.
Unions have served their purpose, but are antiquated. They serve now simply to encourage complacency, and have even in some cases become minor bureaucracies themselves. Rather than view this outsourcing trend as a distress signal, view it as a flagstone of progress. We started out as farmers, now Americans are too good for cubicle work! And be sure of one more thing: America will not be worse off for this. The American economy is the world economy.
Be happy with what you have and where you live. And always take time to review the big picture. You can't see the forest for the trees.