In most states in the US, if a shop goes union, you *must* join the union to work there and you *must* accept the entire collective bargaining agreement, including the tenure-based pay system that severely penalizes anyone who wants to change jobs.
As I said already elsewhere, Maggie Thatcher abolished the Closed shop system here back in the '80s. Forcing anyone to join a union is now illegal in the UK. Indeed she comprehensively destroyed union power in many ways. Here's the first decent article Google found on it.
It seems to me that the best answer to your grievances would be to abolish Closed shops (as Maggie Thatcher did here in the UK), not abolish the Unions.
Can you elaborate? I've heard the story vaguely before, but I'm not aware of him damaging other people's property. As far as I've ever heard, all he does is post the responses he receives to his Craigslist ads. What else is he doing?
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This post put's it well. In short, NASA has given us
I wonder if we subtracted a great percentage of things like weather forecasting, satellite communications, planetary geology, solar technology, aerospace and commercial aviation advancements, awesome pictures of our Universe and other worlds, a growth in understanding of the Universe....
Secondly, I'm not American but if you asked me to list the things I thought were best about your country, NASA high up, if not top of the list; I'll bet it's the same for many other non-Americans, so NASA also buys you good PR. That's something that your country badly needs at the moment. There is far too much unjustified anti-americanism in the world, programs like NASA do more to counter it than your diplomats and politicians could ever do.
Yes, I chose the extreme example. But it still shows that inappropriate speed kills, and downloading never does. That's not true, if they legalised illegal downloading tomorrow, the **AA lawyers would starve on the streets. Please think of the poor lawyers.
OTOH It could be argued that it's better to side with the entity that has the capability throw you in jail and execute you rather than get on the wrong side of it...
No legal system which punishes libel with indefinite imprisonment deserves anyone's respect. The indefinite detention is punishment is for contempt of court, not libel.
At present the official site (opsi.gov.uk) only goes back to 1988. Try this I don't know how far back it goes, but it goes far enough to contain one of my favourite pieces of constitutional legislation. Our very own Bill of Rights 1688
Only if anyone is claiming to have found the physical passports then you are correct. They were:
less than a week came another find, two blocks away from the twin towers, in the shape of Atta's passport. We had all seen the blizzard of paper rain down from the towers, but the idea that Atta's passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged would have tested the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism.
Moving off-topic again, yes, the mods are on crack. Check out the crapfest first post modded +5 insightful - apparently asking people not to illegally share files is now a violation of rights that don't even exist in the United Kingdom. The summary didn't help there, and how many/.ers RTFA? If we were to believe the summary, then there's every reason to be up in arms. Unfortunately "Big Media"(TM) don't have a very good track record in differentiating between illegal downloaders, and legal ones, so people are naturally going to over react to a story like this. Espicially given Virgin's customer service track record (They billed us twice for the same service, once as NTL, and once as Virgin, each call centre directed us to the other...). As soon as our contract with them runs out, we're switching.
Given their recent association with Phorm, they don't exactly get my vote of trust either. Indeed, if they ever roll out Phorm, I'll report them for a breach of the DPA and the HRA (checking the small print first, of course).
I'm actually despairing of this site now. Think it might be time for me to find somewhere that can actually take an unbiased position on things. If you read at -1 like me, it's not so bad. Indeed, most of the time good posts (regardless of "side") get modded up, or left alone. Besides, I don't come here for the stories, I come for the comments, and every issue generates a whole spectrum of ideas. I honestly can't think of anywhere on the internet more informed. If only the editors actually did some editing, this place would be almost perfect. I already find it good enough to pay for.
And Truecrypt is legal in the U.K., but you must turn over your keys when asked to. It's not illegal, but pretty much useless. It's still perfectly good to proctect my private information from malicious non-governmental organisations & crackers.
Note: I do not condone the fact that I have to give my encryption keys to government, just saying that truecrypt gets plenty of use protecting my online (and off-line for that matter) banking and financial info from fraudsters. The government gets all that data for tax purposes anyway, no need for RIPA powers to be involved
Are the Mods on crack today?
As I type the above post is marked as troll, for no apparent reason.
Back on topic, I agree on all your points apart from "b)" A company can infringe my freedoms, if Virgin Media were to start selling my usage data to the BPI (as the summary insinuates) that would be a breech of my right to privacy. In fact this is even recognised by law, and I believe (IANAL) Virgin could be prosecuted under the data protection act, and probably article 8 of the Human rights act which states: Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
Religion matters because it is something you choose that affects your entire life. Even if you were raised learning about a particular religion, you still choose whether to continue believing and following and how strictly to follow it. I'm the GP I was born and raised a Hindu; I went to a CofE primary school; I remain a Hindu, but I'm quite lax about my religion; e.g. I eat meat (though I still avoid beef). What does that tell you about my political beliefs?
My political beliefs: I'm small "c" conservative, I believe in a small state, i.e. but not as small as nutjob Libertarians. Indeed, being from the UK has made me include provision of universal free education and health care in the duties of the state, though I disagree with many on *how* they should be provided. I go against popular opinion here in the UK when I say I believe UK gun laws should be liberalised.
I could go on, but I don't see how you could possibly have got my politics from my religion\religious upbringing. Infact even having given you the outline of my politics could you guess whether I'm pro-life or pro-choice?
For the record, I think current UK law on the matter is just about right.
Apparently you got the message from someone who altered it. That would be because I was born and brought up a Hindu; the "message" only reached me because my parents sent me to a C of E School and Anglicanism is quite possibly the tamest form of Christianity in the World.
That's part of the problem in Washington--a reduction in the increase in spending on something is called a CUT. That's because of this pesky thing called inflation. If you don't increase a budget by at least the rate of inflation, the buying power of that budget will be lessened, and so, guess what? Services purchased from that budget will have to be cut. That's, as you Americans call it, Economics 101.
people who are electable aren't acceptable to the core of the party? Sounds like the UK Labour party during the 80s and 90s, in order to get re-elected they had to have their "Clause 4 moment". Essentially aa complete and utter break with the past, including re-branding the party "New Labour"
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In most states in the US, if a shop goes union, you *must* join the union to work there and you *must* accept the entire collective bargaining agreement, including the tenure-based pay system that severely penalizes anyone who wants to change jobs.
As I said already elsewhere, Maggie Thatcher abolished the Closed shop system here back in the '80s. Forcing anyone to join a union is now illegal in the UK. Indeed she comprehensively destroyed union power in many ways. Here's the first decent article Google found on it.
It seems to me that the best answer to your grievances would be to abolish Closed shops (as Maggie Thatcher did here in the UK), not abolish the Unions.
This happened here in the UK, we have the NHS. Indeed this appears to have been done by a doctor working in the NHS.
Can you elaborate? I've heard the story vaguely before, but I'm not aware of him damaging other people's property. As far as I've ever heard, all he does is post the responses he receives to his Craigslist ads. What else is he doing?
Here's a good article about him, and trolling in general: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?scp=2&sq=troll&st=cse
I wonder if we subtracted a great percentage of things like weather forecasting, satellite communications, planetary geology, solar technology, aerospace and commercial aviation advancements, awesome pictures of our Universe and other worlds, a growth in understanding of the Universe....
Secondly, I'm not American but if you asked me to list the things I thought were best about your country, NASA high up, if not top of the list; I'll bet it's the same for many other non-Americans, so NASA also buys you good PR. That's something that your country badly needs at the moment. There is far too much unjustified anti-americanism in the world, programs like NASA do more to counter it than your diplomats and politicians could ever do.
I prefer GNU/X11/Apache/Linux/TeX/Perl/Python/FreeCiv thanks...
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What do State Transition diagrams have to do with this? ;P
Try the IE tab extension.
OTOH It could be argued that it's better to side with the entity that has the capability throw you in jail and execute you rather than get on the wrong side of it...
less than a week came another find, two blocks away from the twin towers, in the shape of Atta's passport. We had all seen the blizzard of paper rain down from the towers, but the idea that Atta's passport had escaped from that inferno unsinged would have tested the credulity of the staunchest supporter of the FBI's crackdown on terrorism.
Given their recent association with Phorm, they don't exactly get my vote of trust either. Indeed, if they ever roll out Phorm, I'll report them for a breach of the DPA and the HRA (checking the small print first, of course). I'm actually despairing of this site now. Think it might be time for me to find somewhere that can actually take an unbiased position on things. If you read at -1 like me, it's not so bad. Indeed, most of the time good posts (regardless of "side") get modded up, or left alone. Besides, I don't come here for the stories, I come for the comments, and every issue generates a whole spectrum of ideas. I honestly can't think of anywhere on the internet more informed. If only the editors actually did some editing, this place would be almost perfect. I already find it good enough to pay for.
Note: I do not condone the fact that I have to give my encryption keys to government, just saying that truecrypt gets plenty of use protecting my online (and off-line for that matter) banking and financial info from fraudsters. The government gets all that data for tax purposes anyway, no need for RIPA powers to be involved
Are the Mods on crack today?
As I type the above post is marked as troll, for no apparent reason.
Back on topic, I agree on all your points apart from "b)" A company can infringe my freedoms, if Virgin Media were to start selling my usage data to the BPI (as the summary insinuates) that would be a breech of my right to privacy. In fact this is even recognised by law, and I believe (IANAL) Virgin could be prosecuted under the data protection act, and probably article 8 of the Human rights act which states: Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
It's from the Matrix
My political beliefs: I'm small "c" conservative, I believe in a small state, i.e. but not as small as nutjob Libertarians. Indeed, being from the UK has made me include provision of universal free education and health care in the duties of the state, though I disagree with many on *how* they should be provided. I go against popular opinion here in the UK when I say I believe UK gun laws should be liberalised.
I could go on, but I don't see how you could possibly have got my politics from my religion\religious upbringing. Infact even having given you the outline of my politics could you guess whether I'm pro-life or pro-choice?
For the record, I think current UK law on the matter is just about right.
Hopefully you will now take a step (afterall it takes two too compromise) and the middle ground will be back where it was before.
I'm not even American, but even I know that the other side were not exactly guiltless in cooperating with the Iraqi reigeme either.