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Comment: Re:Unionize this (Score 1) 1008

by GWRedDragon (#36429220) Attached to: Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union
The issue with "undocumented" labor taking jobs is that minimum wage laws are selectively enforced, not that they are willing to accept a lower wage. In most cases, if a citizen attempts to get a job at an illegal rate they will be rejected, but enforcement for the most part looks the other way in the case of "undocumented" workers. If minimum wage laws were repealed, there would be plenty of citizens lining up to take these jobs at the lower rate.

Comment: Re:Long term yes for windows 8 no (Score 1) 440

by GWRedDragon (#36428522) Attached to: Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET
Bytecode interpreters, as opposed to scripting languages, have a very real advantage that is unrelated to speed: you can use any language. If the target is the .net CLR, you can use C#, VB.NET, C++, F#...plus about a hundred others. Going with the .NET platform allows the language to be flexible, whereas with javascript you're stuck with a hacked language with no internal consistency, ridiculously stupid semantics in some cases, and a loosely typed straitjacket that causes problems in any larger application. Of course if we're using .NET and you LIKE the javascript language, a compiler could easily be developed that compiles it to .NET IL. The opposite is not true.

Comment: Re:This annoys me somehow (Score 2) 161

by GWRedDragon (#36275422) Attached to: NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock
Worse, if you RTFA you will see discussion of the fact that moon rock samples were twice given to each of the 50 states and to each existing country at the time.

There is absolutely no reason to assume that with all those countries, all of them legally prohibited the transfer of state gifts to private individuals. I'm sure several of those could be privately held, completely legally.

Of course, it would still be super rare and the owner would likely retain the gift set itself, which would pretty easily differentiate the sample from those stolen from NASA.

Comment: Re:In other news (Score 1) 267

by GWRedDragon (#36162658) Attached to: NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government

Comcast is likely your only choice because the government has already interfered in the matter to make it the case. But even if it is truly so that only Comcast wishes to provide service to the area, it is still better than the government taxing you $100 a month and providing you crappy internet access whether you want it or not.

And, if the current single provider situation is not due to government interference, it is likely that sometime in the future you could get a better option. Government services tend to be slow to change and wasteful.

We're here to give you a computer, not a religion. - attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga

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