Funny thing with that. Take sweatshop shoes for instance. I don't know the exact validity of this, but a quick google turned up this regarding Nike: You pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than five dollars to make.
See, Nike charges honest labor prices.
Given that, more stuff could be made with honest labor and the American public could probably live with the cost. It is just the Nike couldn't live without the massive markup.
Some people are above sucking it up and making a little less.
That made me laugh out loud. But seriously, that is not how the early states saw it. Many states left a way out when they signed on. Here are two:
-=-=-=-=
The delegates for the state of Virginia, in their ratification statement, expressed clearly the right of secession when they wrote: "We the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected...do, in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." That's pretty straighforward.
New York's ratification statement said much the same: "That the powers of government may be resumed by the people, whensover it shall become necessary to their happiness; that every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, by the said Constitution, delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments thereof, remains to the people of the several states, or to their respective State government
-=-=-=-=
I believe Texas, Alaska, and many other states had something similar in writing or in their state Constitution. But the key word there is "believe," because I'm not sure exactly how many it was. But clearly, not many assumed it was a one way street.
I haven't heard about German concentration camps in America until about two days ago. A friend just sent me the following, which appears to be notes from a lecture here in my town (probably at the public library). Note the part about the US going into South America and bringing back prominent German business people...with part of the reasoning being to help American businesses.
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Notes from presentation by Michael Luick-Thrams regarding German Internment camps during WWII, February 10, 2009, Palestine, Texas:
I hope you can piece together some sense of these notes. For much more comprehensive information, see websites: www.traces.org and www.gaic.info.
Sandra
===================
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, legal immigrants were being forced to swear allegiance and carry ID booklets in the U.S.
On the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. govt started rounding up German and Italian immigrants. This shows that "they already had lists," said the Mr. Thrams. Approximately 11,000 people of German ancestry or origin were interned in the U.S. by the end of the war. Camps were set up all over the U.S. including several in Texas. HGS, Home of Good Shepherd Roman Catholic convents, had specialized in taking in women before the war. During the war, the convents became camps for German women and children.
Some internees were in families that had immigrated as early as the1880s. They lost everything, homes, money, belongings, and often families were split up. Some were first generation immigrants from the 1920s coming over after WWI in hopes for a better life. Some were farmers in the midwest, especially Wisconsin. Some camps were strictly for men and some for women and children while others like Crystal City, Texas, were for families. Some were German Jews who had been in concentration camps in Germany for being Jewish who immigrated to the U.S. only to find themselves in the U.S. camps for being German. At the time, journalists referred to the internment camps as "concentration camps."
In some families, a few members were interned while others weren't. For example, the father might be taken and rest of the family left at home w/o a way to earn a living, so eventually it was decided to take the families intact in order to avoid leaving destitute families behind who would cause problems later. Some parents were separated from their young children. There were cases resulting from incomprehensible decisions. For example, there was the case of a family with 4 grown sons, sons born in U.S. The parents and two middle sons were put in a camp while oldest and youngest sons joined the U.S. military during the war. Also, there is the case of German-born husband and American-born German wife -- wife and child put in camp and husband not. Eventually, the focus of selecting internees was on non-naturalized German-born males and their families.
The FBI went to Latin America and kidnapped German workers who had been there originally to help the Panama Canal. They were brought to camps in the U.S. Other successful German businessmen were taken from Costa Rica and Guatemala and brought to the U.S. camps. The State Department knew that they had no legal right to do this, and they wrote in a letter (shown on a slide at the presentation) that it was good to take out the successful German businessmen in Latin America so that after the war this would lessen the competition for American businessmen.
German POWs in American camps were treated better than the German-American civilians in camps. Ellis Island was a camp for a while for Germans and Italians. Mr. Thrams asked the director of the museum at Ellis Island face-to-face why this topic isn't covered in the museum displays. The man was very uncomfortable and said that they couldn't find photos of it, which is a lie because Mr. Thrams has photos. Obviously, the museum has been told not to cover this topic.
During the war there was forced deportation of some German immigrants to Germany, and this co
That's not quite correct, either. Many states joined the union with the explicit understanding that they could leave it...and before the war, they could, after all it was a VOLUNTARY union.
After the war, power was consolidated at the federal level. The states were now in a voluntary union in the same way that United Nations "peace keeping" armed forces create "peace."
The states in "rebellion" were not states because they were no longer part of the Union that Lincoln controlled.
Keep in mind that slavery died out in other parts of the world without a war. It would have died out in the South without a war, as well.
The war wasn't about slavery, it was about the consolidation of power at the federal level.
Again, many of the things that take place today, happen specifically because of Lincoln.
Just think of it like this. Before the war, the 10th Amendment was real and in place. After the war, the 10th Amendment was null and void.
Yeah, after reading the Slashdot article a couple of days ago on not running as an Admin on Windows, I decided to play around a little.
I found that even though XP Pro lists only the options of running as an Admin or a User, there is in fact a fairly simple way to run as a "power user," which is not as restrictive as a normal user (fairly simple but not fairly obvious way).
I've set up some domains for Windows server 2003, but I had really never looked at how much you could do with XP, and actually, you can do quite a few of the same things in the group policy settings.
However, all this goes right out the window on XP Home.
Microsoft deserves exactly what they are getting. They could have very easily allowed a power user setting in XP home.
Also, for a project I'm working on, I was looking to secure just the ability to change some network settings. On Linux, what I wanted to do was trivial. On Windows, it was almost impossible without busting the user down from running as an admin...and then program after program fails to work correctly.
Again, Microsoft deserves everything they are getting.
If vaccines worked as advertised, only the unvaccinated would be affected by an outbreak. In reality, vaccines injure a lot of people (the US pays out almost a billion dollars to those injured by vaccines), and still vaccinated people are at risk during an outbreak...
I'm not saying that no vaccines work. What I am saying is that some are more dangerous than others, and a person should be able to decide for themselves and their family which ones they want to take.
more than $916 MILLION dollars have been paid to people injured by vaccines, not just those claiming autism, because every single case there has been dismissed.
I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft bundled Firefox with Windows. 90% of the browser war wasn't based on who had the better browser, it was about controlling the home page. When it all comes down to it, I don't really think MS would care if everyone used Firefox. What they probably care most about is when people first start up their browser...it opens to a page controlled by Microsoft. It amazes me that so many people never change their home page.
So let's say Microsoft throws in the towel and bundle firefox with windows...and have its home page set to msn.com. It would really be a win/win for Microsoft.
My observation is that people who use IE use Microsoft's search quite a bit and people who use Firefox use Google more.
Microsoft might actually be better off to bundle Firefox and control the home page.
Yeah, the one good demographic that we found was people who just wanted to use their cell phone.
But we told people to wait a month and try us out before canceling a land line.
WISP equipment that "just works" costs a fortune, which is why wireless is often higher than DSL.
I'm no longer in the WISP business because we had to run night and day to reboot locked up access points and SMs....that and the classic, my Internet is running slow today. Got to love it, man.
Everything about a WISP sounds cool...but man, I just got where I hated it.
I'm doing SCADA right now. Almost the exact same line of work, minus the aggravating customers. And oil/gas companies have the money to buy equipment that "just works."
I'm all about saving money. But if there is one thing I have learned in life, trying to be cheap doesn't mean you are saving money.
Can't speak for Windows 7, but I'm writing this from Firefox, running under Ubunut (sitting here building a new Ubuntu system for my kids). I have about 4 dual boot systems, and I'm to the point I'm not booting XP much anymore.
I'm obviously a fan, but here is my honest to goodness feeling on XP vs. Ubuntu: Straight out of the box, XP is just as fast as Ubuntu.
However, after you install a virus scanner, have 10 different little malware scanners you have to run to catch everything, and then every mother f'n program you installs on Windows thinks it needs to run as a service...hell yeah, Ubuntu is faster.
Man, Windows users just don't know how wonderful it is to have a hard drive that doesn't have CHURN 90% of the time. It's freaking awesome!
And games? As stated, all my systems are dual boot. I find my kids playing games in Linux about 3 out of 4 times I see them on a computer.
Ok, at what part of the process did someone come up with the plan to pass people for just showing up? I'm a little biased against public schools, but come on, this makes me think that there is no way Gates could have done worse.
washingtonpost.com â" New Jersey high school teacher Peter Hibbard flunked 55 percent of the students in his regular biology class the year before he retired. There were no failures in his honors classes, he said, but many of his regular students refused to do the work. They did not show up for tests and did not take...
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> Linux isn't ready for the mainstream yet.
Says who? Windows sales are dropping due to netbooks...with about 25% of those being Linux.
It is mainstream now.
World of Goo confirms it.
Transporter_ii
Funny thing with that. Take sweatshop shoes for instance. I don't know the exact validity of this, but a quick google turned up this regarding Nike: You pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than five dollars to make.
See, Nike charges honest labor prices.
Given that, more stuff could be made with honest labor and the American public could probably live with the cost. It is just the Nike couldn't live without the massive markup.
Some people are above sucking it up and making a little less.
transporter_ii
That made me laugh out loud. But seriously, that is not how the early states saw it. Many states left a way out when they signed on. Here are two:
-=-=-=-=
The delegates for the state of Virginia, in their ratification statement, expressed clearly the right of secession when they wrote: "We the delegates of the people of Virginia, duly elected...do, in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." That's pretty straighforward.
New York's ratification statement said much the same: "That the powers of government may be resumed by the people, whensover it shall become necessary to their happiness; that every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, by the said Constitution, delegated to the Congress of the United States, or the departments thereof, remains to the people of the several states, or to their respective State government
-=-=-=-=
I believe Texas, Alaska, and many other states had something similar in writing or in their state Constitution. But the key word there is "believe," because I'm not sure exactly how many it was. But clearly, not many assumed it was a one way street.
transporter_ii
I haven't heard about German concentration camps in America until about two days ago. A friend just sent me the following, which appears to be notes from a lecture here in my town (probably at the public library). Note the part about the US going into South America and bringing back prominent German business people...with part of the reasoning being to help American businesses.
-=-=-=-=-=
Notes from presentation by Michael Luick-Thrams regarding German Internment camps during WWII, February 10, 2009, Palestine, Texas:
I hope you can piece together some sense of these notes. For much more comprehensive information, see websites: www.traces.org and www.gaic.info.
Sandra
===================
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, legal immigrants were being forced to swear allegiance and carry ID booklets in the U.S.
On the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. govt started rounding up German and Italian immigrants. This shows that "they already had lists," said the Mr. Thrams. Approximately 11,000 people of German ancestry or origin were interned in the U.S. by the end of the war. Camps were set up all over the U.S. including several in Texas. HGS, Home of Good Shepherd Roman Catholic convents, had specialized in taking in women before the war. During the war, the convents became camps for German women and children.
Some internees were in families that had immigrated as early as the1880s. They lost everything, homes, money, belongings, and often families were split up. Some were first generation immigrants from the 1920s coming over after WWI in hopes for a better life. Some were farmers in the midwest, especially Wisconsin. Some camps were strictly for men and some for women and children while others like Crystal City, Texas, were for families. Some were German Jews who had been in concentration camps in Germany for being Jewish who immigrated to the U.S. only to find themselves in the U.S. camps for being German. At the time, journalists referred to the internment camps as "concentration camps."
In some families, a few members were interned while others weren't. For example, the father might be taken and rest of the family left at home w/o a way to earn a living, so eventually it was decided to take the families intact in order to avoid leaving destitute families behind who would cause problems later. Some parents were separated from their young children. There were cases resulting from incomprehensible decisions. For example, there was the case of a family with 4 grown sons, sons born in U.S. The parents and two middle sons were put in a camp while oldest and youngest sons joined the U.S. military during the war. Also, there is the case of German-born husband and American-born German wife -- wife and child put in camp and husband not. Eventually, the focus of selecting internees was on non-naturalized German-born males and their families.
The FBI went to Latin America and kidnapped German workers who had been there originally to help the Panama Canal. They were brought to camps in the U.S. Other successful German businessmen were taken from Costa Rica and Guatemala and brought to the U.S. camps. The State Department knew that they had no legal right to do this, and they wrote in a letter (shown on a slide at the presentation) that it was good to take out the successful German businessmen in Latin America so that after the war this would lessen the competition for American businessmen.
German POWs in American camps were treated better than the German-American civilians in camps. Ellis Island was a camp for a while for Germans and Italians. Mr. Thrams asked the director of the museum at Ellis Island face-to-face why this topic isn't covered in the museum displays. The man was very uncomfortable and said that they couldn't find photos of it, which is a lie because Mr. Thrams has photos. Obviously, the museum has been told not to cover this topic.
During the war there was forced deportation of some German immigrants to Germany, and this co
That's not quite correct, either. Many states joined the union with the explicit understanding that they could leave it...and before the war, they could, after all it was a VOLUNTARY union.
After the war, power was consolidated at the federal level. The states were now in a voluntary union in the same way that United Nations "peace keeping" armed forces create "peace."
The states in "rebellion" were not states because they were no longer part of the Union that Lincoln controlled.
Keep in mind that slavery died out in other parts of the world without a war. It would have died out in the South without a war, as well.
The war wasn't about slavery, it was about the consolidation of power at the federal level.
Again, many of the things that take place today, happen specifically because of Lincoln.
Just think of it like this. Before the war, the 10th Amendment was real and in place. After the war, the 10th Amendment was null and void.
transporter_ii
By declaring martial law and throwing a lot of the Constitution (Habeas Corpus, for instance) out the window:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/historicdocuments/a/lincolnhabeas.htm?rd=1
He had a lot journalist in the North jailed for no reason other than he thought should be (no evidence needed).
In fact, a lot of things that took place under Bush would not have been possible if it weren't for Abraham Lincoln.
Transporter_ii
I was doing some research for a project on OSHA. As I understand it, works produced by the federal government cannot be copyrighted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government
However, on the OSHA web site, not a word is said as to the copyright status that I can find. So is it public domain or not?
I guess, in relation to TFA, copyright doesn't matter anyway, they just won't make it available to the public either way.
Transporter_ii
Someone record the sociologist's reaction to watching 2 girls 1 cup and post it on youtube....
.
On one end of the graph, there is stick figures on a wall. At the other end, 2 girls 1 cup.
.
Whenever I see updates available on Linux, I know there is probably a fix or an improvement waiting on me.
For whatever stupid reason, on Windows, I always wonder what the next update is going to take away.
Yeah, after reading the Slashdot article a couple of days ago on not running as an Admin on Windows, I decided to play around a little.
I found that even though XP Pro lists only the options of running as an Admin or a User, there is in fact a fairly simple way to run as a "power user," which is not as restrictive as a normal user (fairly simple but not fairly obvious way).
I've set up some domains for Windows server 2003, but I had really never looked at how much you could do with XP, and actually, you can do quite a few of the same things in the group policy settings.
However, all this goes right out the window on XP Home.
Microsoft deserves exactly what they are getting. They could have very easily allowed a power user setting in XP home.
Also, for a project I'm working on, I was looking to secure just the ability to change some network settings. On Linux, what I wanted to do was trivial. On Windows, it was almost impossible without busting the user down from running as an admin...and then program after program fails to work correctly.
Again, Microsoft deserves everything they are getting.
Well good. Let people decide for themselves then!
But once again, if vaccines worked as advertised...my decision should not affect yours.
And that goes both ways. Again, almost a billion dollars paid out to those injured by vaccines.
Your right to force something down my throat ends at the tip of my nose? No?
If vaccines worked as advertised, only the unvaccinated would be affected by an outbreak. In reality, vaccines injure a lot of people (the US pays out almost a billion dollars to those injured by vaccines), and still vaccinated people are at risk during an outbreak...
I'm not saying that no vaccines work. What I am saying is that some are more dangerous than others, and a person should be able to decide for themselves and their family which ones they want to take.
Europe: 3.5m pounds paid out in vaccine damages
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4356027.stm
more than $916 MILLION dollars have been paid to people injured by vaccines, not just those claiming autism, because every single case there has been dismissed.
Source: http://newsok.com/high-court-should-reject-vaccine-suits/article/3321176
When Windows is hosed up from the latest virus/trojan/malware and Linux is the only thing that works...it will be good for Linux.
I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if Microsoft bundled Firefox with Windows. 90% of the browser war wasn't based on who had the better browser, it was about controlling the home page. When it all comes down to it, I don't really think MS would care if everyone used Firefox. What they probably care most about is when people first start up their browser...it opens to a page controlled by Microsoft. It amazes me that so many people never change their home page.
So let's say Microsoft throws in the towel and bundle firefox with windows...and have its home page set to msn.com. It would really be a win/win for Microsoft.
My observation is that people who use IE use Microsoft's search quite a bit and people who use Firefox use Google more.
Microsoft might actually be better off to bundle Firefox and control the home page.
Or you could use Linux as your OS and experience freedom.
When you install Windows, you have to dig around for a key. When you install Linux, you just install it.
Terrifying, isn't it...
That Ubuntu is not only well supported, but secure...something they themselves have not been able to manage.
A friend is bringing his system over today for me to install Ubuntu on. Why? Because he is just sick to death of the malware.
You know what? Sick to death is one thing, but sick to death with a good alternative...Microsoft can't have that now, can they?
Yeah, the one good demographic that we found was people who just wanted to use their cell phone.
But we told people to wait a month and try us out before canceling a land line.
WISP equipment that "just works" costs a fortune, which is why wireless is often higher than DSL.
I'm no longer in the WISP business because we had to run night and day to reboot locked up access points and SMs....that and the classic, my Internet is running slow today. Got to love it, man.
Everything about a WISP sounds cool...but man, I just got where I hated it.
I'm doing SCADA right now. Almost the exact same line of work, minus the aggravating customers. And oil/gas companies have the money to buy equipment that "just works."
I'm all about saving money. But if there is one thing I have learned in life, trying to be cheap doesn't mean you are saving money.
We only did good in areas without DSL. If you couldn't get anything else, wireless is far better than a satellite.
However, if an area we serviced suddenly got DSL, we lost most of our customers in that area.
And let me tell you, DSL is only going to grow.
Also, a WISP usually gets its bandwidth from the same phone company that has DSL in an area. So the phone company wins either way.
It is VERY hard to compete against a phone company.
Can't speak for Windows 7, but I'm writing this from Firefox, running under Ubunut (sitting here building a new Ubuntu system for my kids). I have about 4 dual boot systems, and I'm to the point I'm not booting XP much anymore.
I'm obviously a fan, but here is my honest to goodness feeling on XP vs. Ubuntu: Straight out of the box, XP is just as fast as Ubuntu.
However, after you install a virus scanner, have 10 different little malware scanners you have to run to catch everything, and then every mother f'n program you installs on Windows thinks it needs to run as a service...hell yeah, Ubuntu is faster.
Man, Windows users just don't know how wonderful it is to have a hard drive that doesn't have CHURN 90% of the time. It's freaking awesome!
And games? As stated, all my systems are dual boot. I find my kids playing games in Linux about 3 out of 4 times I see them on a computer.
Ok, at what part of the process did someone come up with the plan to pass people for just showing up? I'm a little biased against public schools, but come on, this makes me think that there is no way Gates could have done worse.
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washingtonpost.com â" New Jersey high school teacher
Peter Hibbard flunked 55 percent of the students in his regular biology class
the year before he retired. There were no failures in his honors classes, he
said, but many of his regular students refused to do the work. They did not show
up for tests and did not take...
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