should involve these guys.

I don't see a lot of this, or any of it really, having the slightest impact on actual politics. Then again I'm in America, and the only thing that impacts our politics since "Citizen United" is corporate money, so this might be a bigger issue in Europe.

and appropriate social behavior. You don't have a right to be a douche nozzle anywhere you want. Whoops, just did it myself there, didn't I? See how easy it is? Then again, it's about your forum and understanding your audience. On /. the phase douche nozzle is highly appropriate. On the forum of a popular open source project, or even my favorite retro gaming podcast's site? Not so much.

The trouble is, there are a _lot_ of folks who never learned tact, and blurt out whatever the hell enters their mind when ever it does; often just to get attention of any kind (good or bad).

So yeah, the world doesn't need to rush to meet their expectations, but a certain amount of civility at certain times/places is definitely called for.

with the far right in power at the moment and no credible left wing in America it's pretty much a waste of time/effort to go after a big corp. The right is openly against anti-trust regulation (among other forms of regulation), and if all else fails they'll just cut the agency's funding until enforcement stops. It's a side effect of our screwed up political system. Gerrymandering plus our Senate makes it cheap and easy to put a little pressure in the right place and completely control our politics. That wasn't by accident either. It was designed that way because wealthy land owners were afraid of the plebes voting themselves land & food.

Challenging game play and good level design?

I enjoy a good libtard troll as much as the next /.er, but you need to try harder. Don't just come out say "Republican's bad!". You've got to go about it indirectly. Try this next time:

This looks great, but the insurance companies have been blocking advanced treatments like this for years because they don't want to pay for it. Maybe we'll see it in Europe or the UK with the NHS, but here in the States nobody will want to pay for it.

You could train you know? Oh, and give raises that not only keep pace with inflation but also actually result in a higher standard of living. Every company I know with hiring problems (there are many) is either paying less or they're a dead end. You might get good pay when you start but then the only promotions come with tiny raises and huge increases of responsibility...

I know lots of "contractors" who have been doing the same job for 5+ years and work for major companies.

If you're lucky, talented and well educated there's money in just about _anything_.

At any rate I'm sure there's money in programming, because we wouldn't have so many businessman pushing people into it otherwise. If you see an education push into a field you can pretty much bet the reason is that somebody is tired of having to pay decent wages. The rich get supply and demand. I wish the working class did...

because the corps won't allow it. It's bad for business, and the guys at the top are global anyway. They're all buddy buddy except for a few small fry too tiny to start anything real.

can someone translate this into a /. car analogy for me?

I don't worry about my kid going on a killing spree and being taken down by the national guard. I _do_ worry about her getting knocked up. That's the difference.

Maybe once, twice a year? Now, if you were doing it for a living how often would you do it? How careful would you be doing something dangerous when you only do it once or twice a year? How careful would you be if you did it for a living? How about when you're running behind on your third job of they day and you're worried about making rent this month?

See, everything changes when you do something for a living. You do it a lot more, you do it a lot quicker, and you start thinking about cutting corners, taking risks, and hoping for the best. Even if you don't, you're employees do. Especially when you start pressuring them to do more when profits dip...

at least the Democrats give the issues that matters to me (Worker's rights and declining middle class) lip service. The Republicans are pretty open about their contempt for anyone who's on the losing end of the modern economy (e.g. 90%+ of the populace).

on the one hand Uber screws their drivers marginally less than real taxi cab companies; OTOH there's evidence they're gonna start acting just as bad, and I really don't like how they're getting away with calling what are very, very obviously employees "Independent Contractors". I hired a contractor to fix my fence. The fence has a 10 year warrantee and will likely stand for 20 before it has to be replaced again. Uber needs drivers every day or they go out of business. If Uber can call their drivers "contractors" what's to prevent everyone using that loophole to ignore minimum wage law?