Social what?!?! How is running a corporation a privilege? I see you are from the UK: that might explain why. You do not have to get permission to do commerce, whether to the extent IBM does or the mom-and-pop video store down the street. In a capitalist economy (which the UK supposedly has to some extent, and admittedly the American economy is not even close to completely capitalist), you can run your business the way you want to run your business (for the most part, saving the various social legislation we have, i.e. racial and sexual discrimination).
While you may not approve of the policies of many of the "big corporations", I think the "evil conspiracy" theory is a bit worn out and serves no purpose other than to displace the blame of not having a job (or as successful of one) from yourself to those scapegoat corporations.
Social responsibility is most definitely at this discretion of the employer, and I would say that by giving paid vacation, sick leave, health benefits, and other social services to employees, most companies are doing a fairly adequate job of fulfilling their so-called "social responsibility." To equate social responsibility with keeping 10-13k now-needless employees is just ludicrous.
Good for IBM. Screw the unions. They don't care about what IBM is doing, and the "statistics" they provide on their site are meaningless and irrelevant. Stop bitching and deal with it; at least here in America, corporations intend to make money, not keep employees just to be benevolent.
3 capitalism.;)
I think the real question is *why* Wal-Mart chooses to censor things, as by not offering unedited versions, they are both losing customers who are now resorting to Best Buy and others and pissing people off who came into the store to buy a couple of decent CDs. I'm sure the thought never even occurs to most people shopping for CDs or DVDs at Wal-Mart that, hey, do I have to look specifically for unedited stuff?
I have never really bought anything at Wal-Mart, and I haven't looked in their CD/DVD section too much, so I never knew that they censored *any* of their stuff, let alone all of it. This is pretty shocking to me, and, again, I just can't fathom why they won't just sell *real* CDs.
While I liked what I saw of Drupal, I do not care at all for PHP as a language, and thus for changing, modding, and otherwise editing Drupal's (or any other mainstream CMS, as they are almost all PHP-based) code. Has anyone here tried Pyblosxom, one of the few Python blogs out there? I guess it really isn't a full-fledged CMS, but if you're doing a blog, I think it's decent. Its default look is rather plain, but that's the whole point; you mod it and add "plugins" (there are quite a few available, I think) to add the functionality and flash you desire -- both fairly essential to a popular and quality blog.
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Social what?!?! How is running a corporation a privilege? I see you are from the UK: that might explain why. You do not have to get permission to do commerce, whether to the extent IBM does or the mom-and-pop video store down the street. In a capitalist economy (which the UK supposedly has to some extent, and admittedly the American economy is not even close to completely capitalist), you can run your business the way you want to run your business (for the most part, saving the various social legislation we have, i.e. racial and sexual discrimination). While you may not approve of the policies of many of the "big corporations", I think the "evil conspiracy" theory is a bit worn out and serves no purpose other than to displace the blame of not having a job (or as successful of one) from yourself to those scapegoat corporations. Social responsibility is most definitely at this discretion of the employer, and I would say that by giving paid vacation, sick leave, health benefits, and other social services to employees, most companies are doing a fairly adequate job of fulfilling their so-called "social responsibility." To equate social responsibility with keeping 10-13k now-needless employees is just ludicrous.
Good for IBM. Screw the unions. They don't care about what IBM is doing, and the "statistics" they provide on their site are meaningless and irrelevant. Stop bitching and deal with it; at least here in America, corporations intend to make money, not keep employees just to be benevolent. 3 capitalism. ;)
I think the real question is *why* Wal-Mart chooses to censor things, as by not offering unedited versions, they are both losing customers who are now resorting to Best Buy and others and pissing people off who came into the store to buy a couple of decent CDs. I'm sure the thought never even occurs to most people shopping for CDs or DVDs at Wal-Mart that, hey, do I have to look specifically for unedited stuff?
I have never really bought anything at Wal-Mart, and I haven't looked in their CD/DVD section too much, so I never knew that they censored *any* of their stuff, let alone all of it. This is pretty shocking to me, and, again, I just can't fathom why they won't just sell *real* CDs.
While I liked what I saw of Drupal, I do not care at all for PHP as a language, and thus for changing, modding, and otherwise editing Drupal's (or any other mainstream CMS, as they are almost all PHP-based) code. Has anyone here tried Pyblosxom, one of the few Python blogs out there? I guess it really isn't a full-fledged CMS, but if you're doing a blog, I think it's decent. Its default look is rather plain, but that's the whole point; you mod it and add "plugins" (there are quite a few available, I think) to add the functionality and flash you desire -- both fairly essential to a popular and quality blog.