Union workplaces are, statistically speaking, much safer than non-union workplaces in the same and related industries. When you have a collective bargaining agreement, job security, and an explicit grievance procedure, you aren't afraid to report and fix safety problems. When you're non-union, you have no representation, are underpaid, and can loose your job at any time, so you won't stick your neck out for safety. I would most certainly prefer that nuclear workers (or any power-plant workers for that matter), be union.

If you want good reporting on labor from anything but a business perspective (ie how will this effect share value), you have to look at the media of the labor movement itself, not the corporate owned and controlled mainstream media. On the Metropolis Honeywell workers in particular, I suggest these two episodes of Labor Express radio. Another good source for labor news is the Industrial Worker, the paper of the IWW.

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Killing Hitler would not have prevented the rise of fascism in Europe. I would go back to Barcelona sometime between 36-39 and done everything I could to win the Spanish civil war for freedom and democracy and in tern stop Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini dead in their tracks. The revolutionary example of the CNT-FAI's anarcho-syndicalism could also have gone pretty far to provide an alternative to the brutality of both Stalinism and State-Capitalism.

The president may be a billionaire, while the company he manages has spent more than it has brought in. BTW I wonder how they plan to get out of a 4.3 billion dollar hole. US Cellular, which operates in a much wealthier, more mature market, has a revenue (total business) of only $3.93 billion and a net income (profit after expenses) of only $216 million.

What Pinball Looks like When...High:

BEEB BEEB BEEB...LIKE WH0A...NOM NOM NOM NOM...O NOES...

o....when stakes are high...

"I mean if Pacman affected our generation as kids, we would all run around in darkened rooms eating pills and listening to repetitive music."

Can we please call the iPhone OS something different? Cisco sold the original IOS years before Apple. Capitalization doesn't create a strong enough distinction. It just looks wrong.

Don't be evil?

Portal is not only proprietary, but requires a proprietary OS. I know schools also often require proprietary academic software, but it strikes me as even more wrong to mandate non-free software for a mere game.

What might that message board /b/?

I spent my time and money buying real MIPS and SPARC hardware for running IRIX and Solaris, instead of spending it at University. That and reading documentation and watching MIT OCW and UCB Webcast.

Printing more than 1000 copies? Your best value will probably be to go to a real printer and get it offset printed. Laser and inkjet are both too expensive.

I've worked on weapons systems in the past, and I believe that anyone doing this kind of work (and not sabotaging it) for the US military industrial complex, is complicit in the most brutal and powerful empire in the history of humanity.

I am not a pacifist; I am not opposed to building weapons. I would gladly build them to defend freedom and democracy in the form of a workers-self managed society free of the state, religion, capitalism, and other unjust forms of hierarchy.

However, unless you are some kind of underground freedom-fighter, the only way to get paid building weapons in the US is to build them for the dominant state-corporate powers.

Timorese, Palestinians, Iraqis, Americans, Afghans, Pakistanis, Colombians, Kurds, Yemenese, Syrians, Somalians, Haitians, Liberians, Yugoslavians, Sudanese, Bosnians, Kuwaitis, Panamanians, Libyans, Iranians, Bolivians, and etc many more that I can't remember off the top of my head, have all been killed within my lifetime by US troops or US client states, all in for the cause of corporate-capitalist power.

This empire is unmatched in history, and it is the duty of all ethical working class people to resist!

*expert....I never claimed to be one regarding proofreading.