So their plan is to make cheap laborers by educating children in CS and flooding the labor market with them and H1-B's? Really, you guys are incredible. You think Gates is doing this so labor is cheap for...Microsoft in the future? So he can make more money for...Microsoft?
I know it's hard to believe, but every once in a while you get someone who's capable of thinking past the end of the quarter.
taken without permission. The last 3 words in the previous sentence define theft.
No, they don't. Theft is taking scarce good without permission. You can keep using their newspeak if you want though.
Depends on where you live. Some states define "Theft of Services" as a crime.
1. Many musicians have families and work to create an inheritance for them. If there is no copyright past death there is no inheritance.
So, when I die, can I still have the company I work for continue to pay my family for the work I did when I was alive?
Copyright laws that extend beyond the death of the artist are an abomination.
No, but the money that you were already paid does go to your family. Your company will also pay your family for your unused vacation time (at least this is true when you leave or are fired, so I assume it's true if you die unexpectedly). The term is "deferred compensation", and that's what royalties are.
Copyright terms that automatically expire at the death of the artist are what would be completely unfair. In addition to the danger of a young artist dying unexpectedly, as another poster described above, it would provide reduced incentive for older artists to continue producing works. A fair copyright term would be a fixed length, completely regardless of what happens to the creator. Otherwise, the monetary value of the work is directly dependent on the age, health, and, to some extent, luck of the creator.
These guys are jerks. Obviously the Edison IT workers were qualified - they trained their replacements. Equally obvious they were available to do the job, so there was no reason to bring in H1Bs. Outright fraud by Edison, abetted by the government.
I think training someone else to do a job is harder than doing the job, so I'd say they were better than qualified.
Now the "new trrend" (about as new as email and WWW was in the 90s) is IM...
How is IM a new trend? AIM, ICQ, and XMPP have been around since the mid to late 1990s. IRC is even older, if you want to count that as IM. AIM and ICQ are only slightly older now than SMTP was when they first appeared (approximately 20 years vs. 15 years), but they were only about 5 years after HTTP and HTML, and IRC was developed before HTTP and HTML.
The problem is that practically all the climate models used so far are wrong. From a scientific viewpoint it is just an unproven theory, because its predictions are either not proven (because we're waiting the results) or proven wrong.
In other words, it's a scientific hypothesis. That doesn't mean it's wrong. That doesn't mean it's likely to be wrong. It only means that we don't have a bunch of extra Earths lying around with which to conduct repeatable experiments that would confirm the predictions of the hypothesis. The hypothesis might be wrong, even if the likelihood of its being wrong is very low.
By the way, science is never proven. Proofs are for mathematicians.
Human-made global warming: every sensible man should consider this a wild speculation at the moment
Uh, no, a sensible, scientifically literate person should consider it a valid scientific hypothesis. Sure, it might be completely wrong, but it probably isn't.
Remember how people shat all over XP when it came out, but by 2010 it had gained a reputation as the best version of Windows ever?
It's almost as if they improved Windows XP over the span of a decade.
Nah, that couldn't be it.
Companies want recent college grads because they know they're willing to work for less, not because they believe them to be more talented.
I think it's more than just accepting lower salary, but also accepting more abuse. A 23-year-old is less likely to have other major commitments (in particular, a family). It's a lot more difficult to force someone to work 60+ hours per week when they have to be home to help take care of the kids.
Unless you happen to be 49 years old...
At which point you wait for a second, then answer "older". Besides, don't you have anything better to do on your birthday?
I just pointed out that neoliberalism is to the left of classical liberalism, and thus is a left wing philosophy. (See the example I gave to the other guy about how it's wrong, generally speaking, to call Democrats communists.) Socialism is a different left wing philosophy. It falls to the left of neoliberalism and the far left of classical liberalism. But the existence of socialists doesn't make liberalism "not a left wing philosophy."
Saying that the Democrats are to the left of the Republicans doesn't make the Democrats "left", it only makes them "less right". There are some politicians who actually are left-wing (Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are two that have been in the news lately; Kucinich was the only one in the 2008 Democratic primaries), but most of the leadership of the Democratic party are not.
Libertarianism is about the correct amount of regulation and no more.
Uh, no, "the correct amount of regulation and no more" is what everyone wants, there's just disagreement about how much is "correct". I've never met anyone that wants to create new regulations just for funsies.
I think there are good reasons Libertarianism has never been fully implemented anywhere.
I dunno, I hear Somalia is a Libertarian paradise these days.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
