"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
ALa’s Restaurant is open at Blonde Sagacity and serving up the Carnival of the Recipes #52
ALa’s laid it all out in a lovely menu display. If I could ever find a “real world” restaurant like that, I’d stop cooking…
🙂
(And—what’s the female form of mensch? Womansch? Whatever it is, ALa qualifies. I was sure my entry for this week was too late to make it, but she got it in. Thanks, ALa!)
Great food. Head on over and make out this weekend’s grocery list!
Yeh, it’s all over the place, and I’m probably the last person on the face of the planet to blog this…
…but on the off chance that one of my (2? 🙂 regular readers haven’t yet seen this yet, here ’tis.
WARNING: Swallow that coffee first!
(It’s here, too. The other link is a tad funky. What can I say? NYT… )
I warned you, didn’t I?
(Still, how did I miss this in July? *sigh*)
“Despite Illegal Status, Buyers Get Home Loans“
“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide.” —James BurnhamGo to the first link (a broken link), then you can view the regular old whatever link.
h.t. Jerry Pournelle
Some would say we’ve learned nothing from Prohibition. IMHO that is incorrect, we’ve learned a great deal. Specifically, we’ve learned that criminalizing any behavior creates opportunities for wealth and power for politicians, government employees, and those who would organize and market that behavior. We’ve also learned that such criminalization gives government an additional set of restraints and controls to apply to all the citizens.
It seems that some warehouse workers in Britain are concerned about their “privacy” in the workplace because some companies have proposed using RFID to track employees in large wrehouses—RFID tags, armbands, whatever.
“One of the largest trade unions there, GMB, is up in arms about radio frequency identification technology—and is trying to put its foot down.”_*_
Cluebat—*whack!* Hey! Crybabies! The warehouses are not your property. You just work there. Privacy? Yeh, that means no cameras in the rest rooms. Everything else, well you want privacy, quit work (or get fired) and go home. Thats where you can have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The real issue is this: workers don’t want their bosses to have easy ways to tell they are malingering. Lazy bums. Stupid, too. As the Baseline article linked above notes, these same huge warehouses have tons of videocams in place to monitor product (and employee) movements. So, big deal. The RFID technology just makes real time tracking (and ease of management) more efficient.
And adds another layer of management tools to let bosses know when an employee is goofing off instead of working.
Good. Fire the lazy bums. Crybabies.