It's accepted to show brutal violence on TV while natural things like sex is forbidden!
What is unnatural about brutal violence? (damn nature, you scary)
I guess it's natural, but it's not right. Why can't people just stop hating each other and live in peace?
Charles Darwin had something to say about this. Ethnic cleansing is evil, but if you're trying to displace the indigenous population as yours moves in, it is also effective. In order to make civilization (read "peace") work you have to make the alternative too expensive to contemplate.
the idiot union spokesperson's response: it's managements fault for not standing up to the union and saying "no".
It's the job of the union to look after the workers. What you are saying is that the union was too effective and the management was ineffective and short sighted, and you believe the ineffective and short sighted's blame finger, and not that of the "effective" party?
Thank you for partially making my point for me. Teachers unions don't give a damn about the children and only care about the due paying teachers -- to hell with the children, it's all about the teachers. Unions don't give a damn if the company survives as long as the workers have the illusion that the unions are "for" them. The auto workers union are directly responsible for the decline of Detroit with their short sighted demands. Was it there job? Who gives a damn. They should be treated as the destructive bastards that they are.
I was singing along with the choir you are preaching to... until I took a little trip through time. I set the starting year on the Labor Force Participation Rate chart to 1974, and suddenly, your point made a lot less sense.
I was certainly shocked at the change in the chart...
There are several factors at play pre-1974: Viet Nam (serviceman aren't counted in the civilian labor force) and women generally stayed at home with the kids. Once women's liberation and two income families took hold, the labor participation rate took off.
Women are still in the work force (we have not reversed that trend) and the 2.5 wars are winding down with the downsizing of the military. The downsizing of the military means that the civilian labor participation rate should be going up -- not down.
Does it matter that you're underemployed as long as unemployment is down? That's what "they" are counting on us forgetting to stay in office.
They don't care if you don't have a job... as long as you've given up looking. Then you're not counted in the unemployment figure. The "unemployment" rate is meaningless without also looking at the Labor Force Participation Rate.
No, these are actually imaginary Canadian dollars, which are worth much, much less than real American dollars.
As of this writing, an American dollar will purchase 1.02 Canadian dollars. I admit that I was surprised. I stopped following it for a while, but I had thought the Canadian was worth more. What did Canada do to screw up their economy?
Hell yes, and while we're at it stop women voting. They may get dumb ideas like running for president if we don't nip all this political correctness in the bud.
Why is the parent marked as "troll" when it should be marked as "sarcasm" or "funny"?
Wow, I must hae missed the news where there was a socialist revolution in the US that handed control and ownership of the means of production to the workers.
Who said anything about management not also being at fault? But the unions deserve a large share of the blame. When things were going well for the Detroit, the unions threatened strikes and made demands for future payout. The short sighted management gave in, avoiding the immediate strikes and immediate damage to the company.
For decades the unions made it damn near impossible to fire incompetent works -- and incompetence spread. As long as there was no competition, no one cared.
It's pretty much the same with schools now. If your kid is a junior or above in high school and you don't know at least 3 teachers that should be fired and never allowed in the classroom again, you haven't been paying enough attention to your kids education. But of course the teacher's union, which only cares about due paying teachers, protects the incompetence. When I did manage to get one of the teachers fired (through threatening sexual discrimination lawsuit), the local teacher's union president wrote a nice letter to the editor bemoaning the loss of a fine teacher. I guess she either didn't know or didn't care that he was actively practicing sex discrimination.
As opposed to the mass destruction of jobs that the unions have caused in places like Detroit?
And how precisely did that happen?
It happens because the unions priced the product out of the market. At one point $1,200 of every car GM sold went to cover retirees benefits -- and the idiot union spokesperson's response: it's managements fault for not standing up to the union and saying "no".
It happened because the unions protected incompetent workers and together the unions built crap. In the 90's my wife and I drove a number of different American cars built in Detroit. The one common element was that the final assembly was completely shoddy. The interior side molding would fall off when a child closed the door. Frankly, I don't have $20,000 to piss down the drain, so I for one will never purchase another Detroit built, union pile of junk.
Unions bare a large part of the responsibility for off shoring based on over pricing labor and inferior workmanship. The joke in the '90s was that the Intel Inside was a warning label. The same can be said for the much vaunted "union label."
Wow, that's pretty crappy. I'm not sure that's even legal when you're an hourly employee--the company doesn't "own" you on your off hours, so how can they give you grief for having another job (or three)?
Of course they don't "own" you -- but they also don't "owe" you a job. Odds are that the new manager was either (a) trying to show he was in charge, in which case GP was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or (b) the new manager wanted to hire his girlfriend's son for the position and this was the excuse for making the opening.
Indeed. The trifecta of "at-will employment", "right to work", and destruction of worker protection laws have been the means by which Republicans have pretty much destroyed the middle class in states where they've held control.
As opposed to the mass destruction of jobs that the unions have caused in places like Detroit? How much has that city shrunk by?
The problem is there has to be balance -- where that balance should be is obviously open to debate but neither extreme is good long term.
but I'd be surprised if Disney hadn't trademarked the term "Mickey Mouse" and his likeness. That's what prevents you from creating your own Mickey Mouse cartoons
In which country? In the United States, Dastar v. Fox rules out the use of a trademark as an ersatz copyright. It's analogous to the functionality doctrine for trademarks and patents.
Start with IANAL... but Bus Bunny is both trademark and copyright protected. Given how many lawyers Disney employees, I be amazed if Mickey isn't similarly "protected".
This is what pisses me off the most when older folks give my generation the "well if you don't like the way things are, why don't you start your OWN company, Apple started in a garage for chrissakes"... why? Because we're not even remotely playing the same game that Apple was playing in their garage days.. or Wal-mart... or hell... Amazon for that matter.
So, which are we supposed to hate? Companies or government regulation that prevents us from starting our own?
Right, because not being able to make your own Mickey Mouse cartoons is a giant threat to democracy. Keep things in perspective people.
If the copyright expired on the early Mickey 'toons you would be able to do whatever with the ones out of copyright, but I'd be surprised if Disney hadn't trademarked the term "Mickey Mouse" and his likeness. That's what prevents you from creating your own Mickey Mouse cartoons -- not copyright of the existing body of work.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There's usually a perfectly rationale explanation for fascism which always boils down to "I know better than you do." Ultimately the same reason that most politicians want to tell you how to lead your life.
If I, as the IT guy, am responsible for the network, anti-virus, updates, etc., I don't want you installing an app that may be a new virus attack vector and seek to restrict your ability to add apps. If I'm a socially conservative politician, I don't want you killing your unborn kids and seek to restrict abortion. If I'm a progressive politician, I don't want you killing yourself or your kids with second hand smoke and seek to restrict smoking.
I know 6 families that have home schooled with over half the kids now in college (other half still in high school). From my observations, electronics has very little impact or success or failure. Nearly all the success or failure is based on the parents: how serious they are about educating their kids, how connected they are with home school cooperatives, how much time their willing to invest. The complete failures that I've seen were easily predicable before the home schooling began (poorly educated parents, doing it for the wrong reasons, etc.)).
The Nobel Peace Prize pays out pretty well; generally $1-3 million USD depending on market variations.
So, somewhere between 5 and 15% of the golden parachute that Carly Fiorina got for running HP into the ground (on top of her salary)?
And sadly, given the long term damage she did to the company (and even more damage she could have done if she'd stayed) it was probably money well spent to get rid of her. Too bad they haven't figured out someone to replace her with.
That's because the minimum wage is so low that workers often times can't afford to work for it. It might be fine in the deep south or rural areas, but you're not going to be subsisting in a major metropolitan area on the federal minimum wage. I know that I couldn't afford to do that, at least not without relying heavily upon government assistance.
You make an excellent argument why federal minimum wage is less important that state minimum wage (or even city minimum wage laws). One size cannot fit all. What I need to live in San Francisco is massively different that what I need to live in the Ozarks.
Can someone explain why locking you into a platform you have no control over is NOT DRM?
(I have a Kindle, and I can't take a book off it and do what I wish with it.... or can I?)
After my wife bought a Kindle, I looked into this a little bit. There is an open source eBook reader that will also convert from one format to another -- assuming that the original is not locked up with DRM. You can get a Kindle reader from Amazon for Android, so in theory (haven't done it, wouldn't swear to it) you could read your Kindle eBooks on an Nook.
For me, I looked at my favorite authors and what books were available as ebooks -- and looked at the cost. On the one hand, I would really like to have all of my books on a gadget I can carry around like a Kindle, but I don't trust the cloud not to reach in and delete a book. I also don't trust any device that I'm not able to backup and restore (to a different device).
Having the costs "triple" to $98 billion when the bond measure was for $98 billion should be a surprise to anyone. Of course with boondoggles like this, it's no wonder that California is a fiscal crises.
Why use OSX when you can choose between Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other UNIX systems?
Because you can't play games on Linux, and my development environments (Visual Studio and PHPEdit) aren't available for other than Windows.
Is this Windows of yours some version of OSX? If not, exactly how is your statement at all relevant?
By the way, there are plenty of Visual Studio replacements available under Linux (and OSX). But I wouldn't want to get between an evanglist and his religion.
If your ISP isn't neutral, just switch to one of the many, many other ISPs that services your area; surely one of them will have policies you agree with. And if you only have one ISP, all you need to do is start another one. It's easy! Trust in the dread god Freem'Arkhet to handle everything!
Most ISP's start as either telephone companies or cable companies: both of which are government created (or supported) monopolies. As such they really aren't part of the "free" market.
As a free market advocate, I have no qualms with the government stepping in and slapping telecos and cable companies.
As a business owner, I support the Occcupy movement wholehartedly. They are the only political movement to even discuss finding a solution beyond the taxpayer bailouts.
Really? The only solution I've heard the Occupy movement put forth is bailouts -- including student loan bailouts.
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It's accepted to show brutal violence on TV while natural things like sex is forbidden!
What is unnatural about brutal violence? (damn nature, you scary)
I guess it's natural, but it's not right. Why can't people just stop hating each other and live in peace?
Charles Darwin had something to say about this. Ethnic cleansing is evil, but if you're trying to displace the indigenous population as yours moves in, it is also effective. In order to make civilization (read "peace") work you have to make the alternative too expensive to contemplate.
the idiot union spokesperson's response: it's managements fault for not standing up to the union and saying "no".
It's the job of the union to look after the workers. What you are saying is that the union was too effective and the management was ineffective and short sighted, and you believe the ineffective and short sighted's blame finger, and not that of the "effective" party?
Thank you for partially making my point for me. Teachers unions don't give a damn about the children and only care about the due paying teachers -- to hell with the children, it's all about the teachers. Unions don't give a damn if the company survives as long as the workers have the illusion that the unions are "for" them. The auto workers union are directly responsible for the decline of Detroit with their short sighted demands. Was it there job? Who gives a damn. They should be treated as the destructive bastards that they are.
I was singing along with the choir you are preaching to... until I took a little trip through time. I set the starting year on the Labor Force Participation Rate chart to 1974, and suddenly, your point made a lot less sense.
I was certainly shocked at the change in the chart...
There are several factors at play pre-1974: Viet Nam (serviceman aren't counted in the civilian labor force) and women generally stayed at home with the kids. Once women's liberation and two income families took hold, the labor participation rate took off.
Women are still in the work force (we have not reversed that trend) and the 2.5 wars are winding down with the downsizing of the military. The downsizing of the military means that the civilian labor participation rate should be going up -- not down.
Does it matter that you're underemployed as long as unemployment is down? That's what "they" are counting on us forgetting to stay in office.
They don't care if you don't have a job ... as long as you've given up looking. Then you're not counted in the unemployment figure. The "unemployment" rate is meaningless without also looking at the Labor Force Participation Rate.
No, these are actually imaginary Canadian dollars, which are worth much, much less than real American dollars.
As of this writing, an American dollar will purchase 1.02 Canadian dollars. I admit that I was surprised. I stopped following it for a while, but I had thought the Canadian was worth more. What did Canada do to screw up their economy?
Hell yes, and while we're at it stop women voting. They may get dumb ideas like running for president if we don't nip all this political correctness in the bud.
Why is the parent marked as "troll" when it should be marked as "sarcasm" or "funny"?
Wow, I must hae missed the news where there was a socialist revolution in the US that handed control and ownership of the means of production to the workers.
Who said anything about management not also being at fault? But the unions deserve a large share of the blame. When things were going well for the Detroit, the unions threatened strikes and made demands for future payout. The short sighted management gave in, avoiding the immediate strikes and immediate damage to the company.
For decades the unions made it damn near impossible to fire incompetent works -- and incompetence spread. As long as there was no competition, no one cared.
It's pretty much the same with schools now. If your kid is a junior or above in high school and you don't know at least 3 teachers that should be fired and never allowed in the classroom again, you haven't been paying enough attention to your kids education. But of course the teacher's union, which only cares about due paying teachers, protects the incompetence. When I did manage to get one of the teachers fired (through threatening sexual discrimination lawsuit), the local teacher's union president wrote a nice letter to the editor bemoaning the loss of a fine teacher. I guess she either didn't know or didn't care that he was actively practicing sex discrimination.
As opposed to the mass destruction of jobs that the unions have caused in places like Detroit?
And how precisely did that happen?
It happens because the unions priced the product out of the market. At one point $1,200 of every car GM sold went to cover retirees benefits -- and the idiot union spokesperson's response: it's managements fault for not standing up to the union and saying "no".
It happened because the unions protected incompetent workers and together the unions built crap. In the 90's my wife and I drove a number of different American cars built in Detroit. The one common element was that the final assembly was completely shoddy. The interior side molding would fall off when a child closed the door. Frankly, I don't have $20,000 to piss down the drain, so I for one will never purchase another Detroit built, union pile of junk.
Unions bare a large part of the responsibility for off shoring based on over pricing labor and inferior workmanship. The joke in the '90s was that the Intel Inside was a warning label. The same can be said for the much vaunted "union label."
Wow, that's pretty crappy. I'm not sure that's even legal when you're an hourly employee--the company doesn't "own" you on your off hours, so how can they give you grief for having another job (or three)?
Of course they don't "own" you -- but they also don't "owe" you a job. Odds are that the new manager was either (a) trying to show he was in charge, in which case GP was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or (b) the new manager wanted to hire his girlfriend's son for the position and this was the excuse for making the opening.
Indeed. The trifecta of "at-will employment", "right to work", and destruction of worker protection laws have been the means by which Republicans have pretty much destroyed the middle class in states where they've held control.
As opposed to the mass destruction of jobs that the unions have caused in places like Detroit? How much has that city shrunk by?
The problem is there has to be balance -- where that balance should be is obviously open to debate but neither extreme is good long term.
but I'd be surprised if Disney hadn't trademarked the term "Mickey Mouse" and his likeness. That's what prevents you from creating your own Mickey Mouse cartoons
In which country? In the United States, Dastar v. Fox rules out the use of a trademark as an ersatz copyright. It's analogous to the functionality doctrine for trademarks and patents.
Start with IANAL ... but Bus Bunny is both trademark and copyright protected. Given how many lawyers Disney employees, I be amazed if Mickey isn't similarly "protected".
This is what pisses me off the most when older folks give my generation the "well if you don't like the way things are, why don't you start your OWN company, Apple started in a garage for chrissakes" ... why? Because we're not even remotely playing the same game that Apple was playing in their garage days .. or Wal-mart ... or hell ... Amazon for that matter.
So, which are we supposed to hate? Companies or government regulation that prevents us from starting our own?
Right, because not being able to make your own Mickey Mouse cartoons is a giant threat to democracy. Keep things in perspective people.
If the copyright expired on the early Mickey 'toons you would be able to do whatever with the ones out of copyright, but I'd be surprised if Disney hadn't trademarked the term "Mickey Mouse" and his likeness. That's what prevents you from creating your own Mickey Mouse cartoons -- not copyright of the existing body of work.
How come every I.T. manager turns into a fascist?
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There's usually a perfectly rationale explanation for fascism which always boils down to "I know better than you do." Ultimately the same reason that most politicians want to tell you how to lead your life.
If I, as the IT guy, am responsible for the network, anti-virus, updates, etc., I don't want you installing an app that may be a new virus attack vector and seek to restrict your ability to add apps. If I'm a socially conservative politician, I don't want you killing your unborn kids and seek to restrict abortion. If I'm a progressive politician, I don't want you killing yourself or your kids with second hand smoke and seek to restrict smoking.
I know 6 families that have home schooled with over half the kids now in college (other half still in high school). From my observations, electronics has very little impact or success or failure. Nearly all the success or failure is based on the parents: how serious they are about educating their kids, how connected they are with home school cooperatives, how much time their willing to invest. The complete failures that I've seen were easily predicable before the home schooling began (poorly educated parents, doing it for the wrong reasons, etc.)).
New versions have the audacity to not have an empty changelog.
No. Audacity is a different sound program used for recording and mixing.
The Nobel Peace Prize pays out pretty well; generally $1-3 million USD depending on market variations.
So, somewhere between 5 and 15% of the golden parachute that Carly Fiorina got for running HP into the ground (on top of her salary)?
And sadly, given the long term damage she did to the company (and even more damage she could have done if she'd stayed) it was probably money well spent to get rid of her. Too bad they haven't figured out someone to replace her with.
That's because the minimum wage is so low that workers often times can't afford to work for it. It might be fine in the deep south or rural areas, but you're not going to be subsisting in a major metropolitan area on the federal minimum wage. I know that I couldn't afford to do that, at least not without relying heavily upon government assistance.
You make an excellent argument why federal minimum wage is less important that state minimum wage (or even city minimum wage laws). One size cannot fit all. What I need to live in San Francisco is massively different that what I need to live in the Ozarks.
Can someone explain why locking you into a platform you have no control over is NOT DRM?
(I have a Kindle, and I can't take a book off it and do what I wish with it.... or can I?)
After my wife bought a Kindle, I looked into this a little bit. There is an open source eBook reader that will also convert from one format to another -- assuming that the original is not locked up with DRM. You can get a Kindle reader from Amazon for Android, so in theory (haven't done it, wouldn't swear to it) you could read your Kindle eBooks on an Nook.
For me, I looked at my favorite authors and what books were available as ebooks -- and looked at the cost. On the one hand, I would really like to have all of my books on a gadget I can carry around like a Kindle, but I don't trust the cloud not to reach in and delete a book. I also don't trust any device that I'm not able to backup and restore (to a different device).
Your mileage may vary.
Having the costs "triple" to $98 billion when the bond measure was for $98 billion should be a surprise to anyone. Of course with boondoggles like this, it's no wonder that California is a fiscal crises.
Duel booting is easy, I've been doing it since I was 12.
Perhaps when you were twelve you should have been learning the difference between duel and dual instead of how to create a dual boot partition.
No. He means duel. It's always a fight when it comes to Windows versus any other OS.
For me, spending time with people and sleeping is actually productive
And spending time with your spouse can be reproductive.
Why use OSX when you can choose between Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other UNIX systems?
Because you can't play games on Linux, and my development environments (Visual Studio and PHPEdit) aren't available for other than Windows.
Is this Windows of yours some version of OSX? If not, exactly how is your statement at all relevant?
By the way, there are plenty of Visual Studio replacements available under Linux (and OSX). But I wouldn't want to get between an evanglist and his religion.
If your ISP isn't neutral, just switch to one of the many, many other ISPs that services your area; surely one of them will have policies you agree with. And if you only have one ISP, all you need to do is start another one. It's easy! Trust in the dread god Freem'Arkhet to handle everything!
Most ISP's start as either telephone companies or cable companies: both of which are government created (or supported) monopolies. As such they really aren't part of the "free" market.
As a free market advocate, I have no qualms with the government stepping in and slapping telecos and cable companies.
As a business owner, I support the Occcupy movement wholehartedly. They are the only political movement to even discuss finding a solution beyond the taxpayer bailouts.
Really? The only solution I've heard the Occupy movement put forth is bailouts -- including student loan bailouts.