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North Carolina teachers have no union.


GM was at least on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure that can be attributed more to massively underestimating how much healthcare would cost in 2008 during a union negotiation several decades prior than to any sort of dirty tricks.


Right. And prior to that they produced trillions in revenues over 100+ years of being in business, selling more cars worldwide than ANY other company.

The 2008 bailout is naught but a blip on the radar, so implying that GM hasn't been a good company, and putting them in the same sentence as Enron is sort of out to lunch. GM has been a wealth generation machine for a long time. That's my point.


Thank you.


I'm skeptical of the legitimacy of any business that advertises itself mostly through spam.


That's like saying you're skeptical of the Rolex business because "it advertises itself mostly through spam". Don't be silly, there are a number of vendors of pharmaceuticals online that are legitimate businesses, they are separate from the people who send you spam.

It seems you probably don't have a condition that would lead you to need to know about their services. I wish you continued good luck on that front.


Wikipedia is exactly as centralized as StackOverflow, in that it's all in a single site but licensed under Creative Commons.


Only from a technical point. From a business point, it's also a non profit.


Churches are also non-profit. As is Scientology. Just being a non-profit isn't insurance against evil.


Being a non-profit does not make you decentralized.


An Erlang crash is of an Erlang process, which is a tiny green-thread with shared-nothing. That's very different from a C program segfaulting.


Not if your application is a bunch of small C programs that monitor each other a la DJB.


The main thing is that you'd need a new set of abstractions for security, and then you'd need to implement HTML5 on it anyways to do all the things we can do on a computer now.


to do all the things we can do on a computer now

Such as what? 99% of websites are a) screens where you enter something into predefined fields, to be stored in a database and/or b) screens that format nicely for display things that you or other people have previously entered. They were doing that in the 1970s. Only the buzzwords change.


HTML5 is a piss poor evolutionary abstraction of what was effectively SGML and scripting carnage.

If you could start again, would you really end up with HTML5?


No original research is because otherwise Wikipedia would be infested with physics cranks.


The censorship doesn't really work when it's in the URL.


Well, the actual content and information is only one side of the coin. The other side is taking bad content off.


from the small amount of time i've spent browsing wikipedia edit histories it appears that most of the useful cleanup (of vandalism and the like) is done by bots, not by users. the users who delete stuff delete it not because it's bad, but because it's 'not notable' or some other opinionated metric like that.


Link me to Something Awful actually supporting these laws.


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