[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Dirk Munk]

Richard Maher wrote:
> 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

No, simple economics. having to dig in a cable for one connection is 
just as expensive as for 10,000 connections.

> "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

Ah, Tony Blair. One of the most disliked persons today in Britain. He 
gets 2,5 million pound per year to advise the J.P. Morgan bank.

>
> 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!
>

Well, companies in those areas do want those fast internet connections, 
they are complaining that slow internet connections are very bad for 
their business.

> 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.

There is a brand new giant coal burning power plant just 20 miles from 
here. Now the oil and gas supplies in Europe are almost finished, modern 
coal burning power plants are viable again. In fact some coals mines in 
Europe are reopening.

>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>

Why don't you ask them if they like to live in a city where they pay 
twice as much for a house without a big garden? I've got news for you. 
If you want a good road, or good public transport for your kids to go to 
school, you can't set it up for your self. But paying for it 
collectively by taxes does work.