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Comment Re:Not "blocking", requiring the rules to be follo (Score 4, Insightful) 87

If the rule was created in order to stop the petitioner from doing business, then it's blocking. I don't think that's the case here. It's just that the petitioner has a business model that was not anticipated when the rule was created.

I predict the rule can and will be changed. But for now ... well, it's a rule.

Comment Re:I think Thomas Jefferson said it best (Score 3, Insightful) 88

There are plenty of examples of governments (or their agencies) "compelling" speech from companies, even satisfying specific formats. For example, the SEC requires publically-traded companies to report earnings quarterly and annually using various prescribed accounting practices.

I see this new climate-related reporting law as being the same kind of thing. And for that reason, I predict Exxon's free-speech challenge will fail.

Comment Re: Unions (Score 1, Insightful) 136

The political-action policies of unions are determined by their membership. Anyone can run for a union position and participate in the creation of such policies.

The political-action policies of corporations are determined by unelected C-suite bureaucrats and major influential shareholders. You have to have already eaten from the royal jelly to be in that crowd.

Which is more democratic?

Comment Re:oh look (Score 4, Informative) 136

I think you're confused. Your ex-colleagues at the post office likely wouldn't even have OT multipliers if it hadn't been for their union. And they can choose to work or not work OT, don't blame the union for that.

And if they're sleeping on the job (OT or not) well that's up to management to handle. They (not the union) have the common-law right to discipline workers for their job performance.

Comment Re:Linux on the desktop will happen when (Score 1) 101

[Linux on the desktop will happen when]...WINE actually works.

Well ... WINE does work. Just not perfectly for every app you could name. (Does Windows work perfectly?)

I'm very impressed that WINE works as well as it does. Give the development team some credit for getting as far as they have on such an exceedingly difficult engineering problem.

WINE works well enough for several companies that make derivative products to adopt it as a base, including commercial ones.

Comment Re:a single statistic is meaningless (Score 1) 53

Everyone = enough in a democracy to change policy, eg a majority.

The rest are just whining bitches in the shadows.

That does it. You are impossible as an interlocutor. And officially scary.

Everyone means everyone -- with no people excluded. The very idea that you can change that word to your liking illustrates the problem that your side presents to ... well, democracy.

Comment Re:TBH... (Score 1) 53

As far as I can tell, we have the technical resources to create a thriving environment for the vast majority of people (and life in general), but have failed to due so because our social systems are predicated on greed. I had the impression that we might agree on that in principle - did I get that wrong?

No, you didn't get that wrong. I think we do agree on these things. Thanks for the reply.

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