> nothing is free, handling cash is not free, writing checks is not free, setting up DD for employees not likely to stick around more than a year is not free.
Correct, these are called "costs of doing business" and should be treated as such by the employer, not clawed back from the employee. Auctioning off the employees to the card companies adds insult to injury.
Fuck those employers/slave-traders.
That was a hit song by Dionne Warwick in the 1960s. It extolled the small-town life of what was then a pretty small place, when the Santa Clara Valley was still agricultural (anyone remember Paul Masson vineyards, the bulk-wine producer just west of town?).
"LA is a great big city, put a hundred down and buy a car."
San Jose was the opposite of LA, the place you went back to when LA got you down.
Now, of course, San Jose is more like LA than any other place in northern California. Bigger than SF or Oakland, and sprawling all over. Suburbs in search of a city.
No wonder I like it here in Boston.
I'm wearing the wrong trousers of reality.
Mmh, the number of Diaspora users grew by almost 40% within the last 12 months, so it seems quite alive and well to me.
40% growth on zero is still zero...
So it's growing faster than G+, then?
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
