How long have you been brain-dead?

-jcr

rational planned economic system

BZZZZT!

A "planned economic system" is not rational, it is political. See the 20th century.

-jcr

The same claims were made at the beginning of the industrial revolution. The work we do will change, but there will always be work for people do to that machines aren't suited for.

-jcr

Personally, I like to hunt with a basket of loganberries.

-jcr

Well, that's why I didn't explain the whole thing. You're not allowed to carry over anything normally. Except IF you asked for them and they were not granted. So, the loophole is to ask for them when it's impossible and then you can carry them over. Furthermore, those days carried over need to be taken before the 31st March. Depending on the company, you can agree with them that you keep them. Most allow that, or they pay you out. (Which to most people is the desirable option, to me it isn't as I'm pretty well paid resulting in insane taxation) The alternative is having no staff in February/March ;-)

But yeah, I have enough vacation and never know when to take them. Being in Europe doesn't help much against that.

I don't hear about nightmare housing situations where 20% of a country's homes sit vacant while nearly the same number of people are homeless.

No, you don't hear those... They do exist. I live in Luxembourg, which is -granted- a quite peculiar place to live. In the capital (which is small, by any reasonable standards), there are 2900 homes empty (source: Près de 2900 logements vides dans la capitale. Link is in French). I don't know how many homes there are in the city, but given a population of 80000, with an average of 3 people per home (wild guess), we're talking 11% vacant. People want to live there, but it's simply cost-prohibitive. Owners don't want to rent cheaper: they'd rather have their buildings vacant than getting less than the perceived market rate.

I'm well paid, so is my wife (she actually makes more than I do, if she would work full-time) and we did manage to buy ourself a small home. We need to work both, though, and we did get a significant financial aid from my parents. Alone would be impossible. This brings me to another example: the house we got, is newly built. Formerly a big house was on the terrain, which was split for three smaller houses. This particular big house, was built in the mid seventies, and had been vacant since 2000. We just moved in our house, so, that's over 10 years completely vacant. The reason? Nobody can afford these kind of houses any more, especially if they're require some restoration. I don't even live in the city, a house like mine in the city is unaffordable, even for people in my income class.

Personally, I have no idea how, let's say, a cashier married to a bus driver (which is surprisingly well paid!) can even subsist in our country. I know as per fact, that many people with lower wages, just leave the country. Sure, it's not all that hard to do, given the country is so small.

I'm pretty sure, you'll find situations like these in many locations with high real-estate prices: Paris, London, etc...

It ought to be a law that they have to pay you for unused vacation, especially if they don't allow you to use it.

In my country, that exists (in some form, too long to totally explain the details). I simply don't want that. Those are taxed so high, I would effectively be paid lower than minimum wage. So gimme me free days? Can't... Fine, as long as I don't lose them... I'll take them later, or when I quit.

If you can run down a moose, you're in far better shape than I could ever hope to be.

-jcr

Bah!

If you're not barefoot and hunting with hand-lapped flint point on a spear, you're cheating.

-jcr

And YOU are ranting based on words that didn't address prescribed drugs. Which makes you drama queen with no reading comprehension, and someone having a shrill hissy fit over which I imagine your late mother would be embarassed, since observations about the hemp-obsessed subculture have absolutely nothing to do with the nature of her demise. I do like your fantastically ironic bitching about arrogance, though. Fine work.

Well that's just, like, your opinon, man.

True, though. But this is still just about stoners looking for another avenue. A familiar refrain from the crowd that thinks they'd be better off with a tires, a spouse, underwear, and air craft carriers all made out of hemp.

A dozen... It can be done manually and I ain't getting a server, even if I wanted one. The mantra of my boss is: I pay you anyway, you can do it manually. So, that's what I do. Windows on the desktop is okay in a business setting, but on the server I really rather have Linux or another Unix. WSUS should be implemented on *nix, so you can avoid Windows on the server entirely. Of course, I do realise that's wishful thinking.

But this is where I think we disagree. A print is an object. Making a photograph is a process. There are many routes to that print (or projected slide, or gird of pixels on a tablet, etc).

I've been to LP meetings, I've talked about immigrations with plenty of other libertarians, and that's how I know you're lying through your teeth.

-jcr

Can I have a WSUS server that doesn't involve shelling out for a Windows Server license?