[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Richard Maher]

On 3/3/2015 7:27 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>> What do these imaginary workers of yours do? Ride their battle-chickens
>> around WoW for a living?
>
> Imaginary? I know big companies that expect their workers to work at
> home as much as possible, thus saving on office costs. If these workers
> go to the office, there is no fixed working place for them. Quite often
> they even can't find a proper place to work. Costs saving you know.

Bollocks! Name them.

Evry company I've worked for want to see bums on seats or they won't pay 
the invoice.

>
>>
>> For those who need/desire it let them pay or move! I'm not paying for
>> evryone to have there own personal EMR machine or helicopter so fucked
>> if I'm paying for them to download GoT to their fucking NAS.
>
> It should be obvious to you that you can't pay for a single high speed
> connection. These connections are only viable when they are made
> collectively.

Yeah applied socialism 101 "When I waited tables in France I saw Applied 
Socialism first hand. Everybody had to put tips in a collective jar but 
I was the only one doing it." - Tony Blair

They don't *need* a highspeed connection just like most people don't 
need a Ferrari! Where the hell do you get this sense of entitlement you 
fucked up bolshevik!

I know, I know, you wanted Margaret Thatcher to keep the coal mines open 
for nostalgia and then pay to bury the coal again because of the green 
house problems.
>
>>
>> Small villages died when the bank, the post office and the store closed
>> because there are nonviable especially when you want the cheap prices 10
>> miles away. But they really died when smoking was banned in pubs and
>> everyone stayed home.
>
> Maybe if the village is hardly 150 years old like in the US, that may be
> true. However when villages are a thousand years old, or even thousands
> of years old, then those changes matter. Let me give you an example.
> These days if you have a building project in Europe, and  there is a
> chance that there could be traces of previous human activities there,
> then by European law you are obliged to perform a archeological survey
> on that spot. Some years back they wanted to build some new house near a
> English village, and the archeological survey came up with a bronze age
> grave field. They extracted the bones, and they were also successful in
> extracting DNA from those bones. The DNA from those bones was compared
> with DNA from people in that area, and they found matches. The same
> families had lived there for thousands of years. We want those villages
> to stay alive, in fact a very recent pole showed that 86% of the people
> in The Netherlands are very worried about what you might call the
> quality of living in those villages.
>

Then ask them if they'd prefer tax-breaks for living in a heritage 
village or the fastest porn they can handle.