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Windows 8 has changed the PC landscape with innovative form factors, new chip architectures, exciting commerce models and huge opportunities. PC games have long been a staple of the way computers are enjoyed. Now, more than ever, games exemplify the value of this new landscape of devices. Thanks to the Windows Store, games are easier to acquire, play, share with friends and update safely. It's no wonder then that games account for such a large number of downloads, generate a lot of revenue, and drive the most user engagement on the new platform. With GDC around the corner, more game developers are eager to learn about the Windows 8 opportunity.
So, how do you create a great Windows Store game? What does Windows offer to make your game more creative, innovative, profitable and easier to develop? What tools, technologies and services can you use? What's available out there in the ecosystem? What are other discoveries developers shared when developing for Windows 8? This post will answer questions about these topics and clarify how you too, can develop an awesome Windows Store game.
Windows 8 was designed and engineered specifically for the enjoyment of entertainment experiences. The Windows 8 User Experience (UX) guidelines promote full screen imagery, as well as fast and fluid interactions with no borders or extra window decorations. The design guidance recommends that apps focus on experiences that invite users to engage and provide interactions that guide them through an immersive experience. Main game controls should be easily accessible and secondary controls should be tucked away in an app bar or in a settings panel until they are needed. So, that's great for general apps, but how do these principles affect games? After all, game developers have been providing fast and fluid, full screen, immersive experiences for a long time. Nevertheless, several basic questions arise almost right away:
Game developers have been using a wide range of technologies to deliver entertaining games to the PC community for a long time. The APIs used on Windows have evolved significantly over time. With Windows 8, a new development platform has been added. The Windows Runtime API aggregates the best technologies from APIs of the past and brings significant improvements in performance, security, development consistency and servicing. The Windows Store adds a new way for games to be discovered, distributed and serviced. These new APIs significantly add value for game developers targeting the new development model. You might have some questions when you start to develop a Windows Store game, for example:
Every game starts with an idea. Where that idea comes from can be very different. Sometimes it randomly pops into your head while you're taking a walk, or while you're in the shower. Other times, a more collaborative and iterative approach with your team may result in the idea. Once you've got your idea, you need to decide what type of game it is. Maybe you want a new unique game. Or perhaps you want to port your existing game. It could be a shooter, or puzzle, or racing game – no matter what type of game it is, there's a home for it in the Windows Store. The Gaming Case Studies presented at //build/ 2012 might inspire you. If you have a Windows Store developer account you can browse the games' subcategories to be inspired and see how different game categories are performing in different regions.
Once you've decided what game you want to build, making design decisions on the front end can save you a lot of development time later on. The Windows 8 game category design guidance gives you some ideas about how best to attract players and keep them engaged with tiles and notifications. There are also suggestions about what type of overall layout to use and where to place primary and secondary controls.
You can find recommendations about interactions and how to incorporate touch, sensors and contracts into your game. Decisions about game mechanics and controls should be made as early as possible to scope development. That said, the Windows Runtime platform makes it more convenient than ever to support touch, pen (ink) and mouse with the same code so you don't have to design special mechanics for different form factors. Because every Windows PC has a place to plug in a game controller, don't miss out on the opportunity and make sure you include that control mechanism in your game as well.
Plan how – and at what pace – you'll introduce game interactions and mechanics to the player. Too slow and they may lose interest; too fast and they may get frustrated. Perhaps most important of all, decide what monetization model and commerce platform you'd like to use. The Windows Store allows you to choose your business model. It supports Free to Play, Ad-based, In-app Purchases and Downloadable Content. Windows Store games can take advantage of the built-in time-based or feature-based trials. Alternately, you can use a third-party commerce provider or roll your own. Either way, as these issues can significantly impact your game's success, monetarily or in popularity, they are important to consider.
Like all Windows Store apps, games have to support the different activation, view and suspension states. The design guidance offers some help with considerations for how and when to pause your game, how and when to suspend your game's state, and how to handle full screen, snapped and filled view states. Decide how your game will support landscape and portrait orientations. Consider the size of hit targets and other on-screen controls when adjusting the resolution of your game's assets to match different screen sizes (or parts of them). Also don't forget to take screen aspect ratios, resolutions, and DPI settings into consideration. This will make sure your game's content renders correctly on any screen size and scale factor.
Finally, remember to consider a few additional things that can help increase your game's accessibility and socialization capabilities. A high contrast mode and extra audio queues could help increase visibility or playability and therefore encourage adoption among players in less than ideal lighting conditions or with visual impairments. Additionally, leveraging the platform's built-in capabilities for online identity (authentication), data roaming and sharing to other apps can lead to increased engagement through social activity such as comparing game results and playing games across different PCs.
DirectX is considered to be at the heart of the Windows game development platform. However, many other components were developed and transitioned in to the Windows 8 SDK to provide all the required capabilities the platform needs to support the diverse Windows gaming ecosystem. We provide a consistent and comprehensive development approach. We also incorporated best practices learned from other game development platforms. More than anything, however, we emphasized and observed two key architectural goals. Performance and power consumption were at the core of every architectural decision – as described in the Hardware Accelerating Everything: Windows 8 Graphics blog post. Developing games on Windows 8 rocks because the entire platform was designed to deliver fast and fluid entertainment experiences.
The Windows Runtime provides a rich set of APIs that expose all the new devices and sensors in a convenient, consistent way, and simplifies Windows event handling. There's a single Windows SDK so every API you need to develop a Windows Store game is available in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. For the most high-fidelity and immersive experiences, you'll want to use the Windows 8 DirectX APIs to build 3D games. This is the easiest version of DirectX to develop with, and it supports a wide range of graphics feature levels, from DirectX 9.1 to all the latest hardware features exposed in DirectX 11.1, allowing you to tailor your game to every PC from power-efficient ARM-based portable Windows 8 tablet PCs to overclocked multi-GPU gamer rigs.
If you're comfortable with a particular development language, you can use a lot of your existing skills and experience in Windows 8. Windows Store games can be developed in a number of technology combinations, depending on the type of game you're developing and your preference. You're not going to be forced or constrained to one syntax or model. Managed code developers can build great, smooth 2D games with XAML that leverage the strength and features of the Windows Store platform. If you're a web developer, you can leverage your existing web and web game development skills to make a game that can be monetized through the Windows Store. For 3D interactive games, we recommend you use C++ with DirectX (and optionally XAML), which will be the main focus of the rest of this article.
Windows 8 offers built-in game technology that ships with every version of the OS and resides on every PC so you don't have to worry about distributing it or manage multiple versions. There's no need to find, download and install additional components.
Figure 1: The Windows 8 game development components and libraries
From graphics, audio and input, to file I/O, scheduling, math and networking – each component is accessible in the development language of your choice. Lower level components offer more flexibility, resource management and performance but may require additional code to comprehensively control processing and the flow of data it requires. With C++, you have a direct line to the GPU, CPU and low-level services of the Windows 8 platform, allowing you to write high performance code. With the new C++/CX language extensions, the syntax approaches the simplicity of C#. You get transparent object management via reference counting, and yet there's no runtime layer, garbage collection or just-in-time compilation behaviors that could compromise the smooth performance of your game.
For 3D and 2D graphics, media, imaging and many of the other gaming components – the Windows 8 DirectX technologies provide a comprehensive set of APIs, components and libraries to build upon. Check out Getting started with DirectX game development for a comprehensive overview. The new Windows 8 graphics stack is better integrated, making Direct2D, Direct3D, DirectVideo and DirectCompute components easier to use together and requiring fewer duplicated resources than before. We've also added built-in support for the Xbox controllers with the XInput library. To learn more about it see Working with Input and controls in your DirectX game. The improved APIs for audio and sound mixing with XAudio2 are covered in the Working with audio in your DirectX game section, and simplified math functions and types are covered in the DirectXMath programming guide.
One of the greatest advantages of the DirectX/C++ development approach is that you can reuse significant amounts of your code to create a Windows Store game (and Windows Desktop game), a Windows Phone game, and an Xbox 360 game. The DirectX APIs are relevant to all Microsoft gaming platforms. Everything you'll need to develop a great Windows game is included in the Runtime, the Windows SDK and Visual Studio 2012. For info about the legacy DirectX SDK, see Where is the DirectX SDK? There are several additional development models available in Windows 8. A hybrid model that supports DirectX and XAML interop provides the best control and performance and the convenience of the WinRT UI toolkit.
We provide a great set of tools to meet the demands of Windows Store game developers. Visual Studio 2012 includes a template for DirectX Windows Store apps that gives you a head start in developing for Direct3D. The template code provides the basic view provider infrastructure and window support, and references to all the necessary headers and components. There are other templates to explore that will make sure you are using best practices no matter which game development model you choose.
Additionally, new features in Visual Studio 2012 have been added to improve game development, debugging and profiling. Investments in Visual Studio 2012 Graphics Tools were made to ensure that graphics application development is seamlessly integrated. Work with 3D models, view textures and images, or create, edit and compile HLSL shaders without ever leaving the familiar IDE interface. Debugging graphics intensive DirectX applications in Visual Studio 2012 is now more intuitive with the integration of graphics API capture and playback features (previously known as Windows PIX).
These samples provide a great range of source code examples to get you started on your game development quickly. Each sample focuses on a particular technology or technique. The tutorials and samples were developed with a progression in mind. They are in logical order beginning with the sparsest amount of code and simplest approach to help you get started. Each additional sample adds to the previous sample with one or two additional concepts until an entire game is created. Writing Code for DirectX and C++ Windows Store apps explains some of the things you need to know about writing DirectX and C++ code for Windows Store apps.
The following are end-to-end samples that combine the individual techniques into full games:
Several development patterns, best practices and techniques that are particularly relevant to game development are worth pointing out:
Developing high quality professional games can be costly. Developing games for multiple platforms can be complex, error prone, and even more costly. Many established game studios build tools and develop production technologies that make up their game development process or "pipeline." These investments help studios leverage their game assets between different games and platforms. Rendering engines, user interface tool kits, visibility occlusion, physics simulators, audio video authoring, animation interpolation and artificial intelligence are just a few of the technology categories typically involved in game development. Some gaming technologies can take many years to develop and fine-tune.
Proprietary gaming pipelines are incredibly valuable and many studios consider their investments as strategic as the games they make. Not everyone can afford the time or cost of developing a pipeline however. Luckily, third-party vendors offer end-to-end game development pipelines or individual technology libraries that provide these capabilities. Since Windows 8 launched, many gaming middleware vendors have transitioned their offerings to the new Windows Store app model. Using these products will get your game in the Windows Store much faster and with much less risk. As time progresses, we expect more vendors to announce and ship products for Windows Store game development. The following (in alphabetical order) is a compilation of third-party gaming middleware vendors that (at the time of writing) have announced or delivered versions of their product that support Windows 8 game development.
Microsoft's XNA Game Studio is a game development pipeline that targets the Xbox 360, Windows Phone and Windows. However, it's not compatible with Windows Store game development, (although XNA games are supported as Windows 8's desktop apps). DirectX development with Visual C++/CX borrows many patterns and practices from XNA, and shares many conceptual similarities. So many XNA game developers will find it relatively easy to transition to DirectX and C++ development than ever before. Alternatively, we have seen developers successfully use the open source MonoGame library that replicates many of the XNA Game Studio capabilities. Several articles have been written about leveraging assets created with XNA for games targeting the Windows Store. Here's a link to more info on the subject.
Windows 8 reimagines PCs and with new form factors, innovative technologies and lucrative commerce models that are perfect for gaming. The platform represents a green-field of opportunity for those who take advantage of it. The Windows Store has several thousand games at the time of writing and that number grows daily. The goal of this post was to help you understand what it would take to create a great Windows Store game of your own to leverage the possibilities. The information was meant to clarify how Windows 8 can make game development easier, more creative, innovative and profitable. We've reviewed what tools, technologies and services are available on the platform and what third-party technologies are available. As we head out to the annual Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, look to this post for guidance as you develop Windows Store games.
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I'm pretty happy with the result, not a 'pro' job but still a lot better than it was.
This is what I did recently:
I'm pretty happy with the result, not a 'pro' job but still a lot better than it was.
1988 Waterford built Schwinn Paramount, 1985 Schwinn Peloton,
1981 Schwinn Traveler, 1977 Schwinn Le Tour II,
And for my wife: Green '70's Motobecane Mixte and a Gitane Mixte!
"That's easy - the universal rule - the number of bikes you need is N + 1 where N is the number you own now."
I have to thank you for this post. That bike looks great! Looking at your bike I think I might finally know what mine is. I don't have the tank or gaurd and she's yard art coming back to life so no decals. But the frame and fenders look identical. All I was sure of before is that it looked like a huffy and had a very faded Fiestone rear rack that may or may not have belonged with it. Right vintage. but nothing else to go by. I think judging by a gaurd I checked to see if it would work the gaurd you have is what I would need. I haven't got it road worthy yet, but am looking forward to it. Although there were certainly higher end bikes I have found that the Old Dayton Ohio Huffy's hold their own quite nicely.
Normally, just the sight of "HUFFY" makes me cringe but I must say you've definitely made that bike live again. Nice work!
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Thanks for the kind words, I'm pretty happy with it. Now to turn my attention to my grandfathers old VISTA Cavilier, It's a bike that I kept because I used to ride it as a kid in the 70's.
Also, to Tornado60, I've got another similar huffy with the same frame and chainguard, but the fenders are painted not chrome. I'm pretty sure it's the original paint because there is pinstriping on it and it's mighty old but there is no name on it. I've also got a huffy SantaFe and a Savanna, the Savanna has a similar paint job but looks to be a few years younger. Anyone know of a huffy database w/pictures?


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Varsity- 6:30 p.m.
JV- 5 p.m.
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JV- 4 p.m.
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Saturday Night Live aired its fifth season during the 1979–1980 television season on NBC, and also the final season with the original cast. This fifth season started on October 13, 1979 and ended on May 24, 1980. SNL's fifth season was released on DVD on December 1, 2009.
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd left the show at the end of the fourth season, leaving a void in the cast that most fans thought would be the beginning of the end of the late-night sketch show.
To keep the show going, Lorne Michaels upgraded many of the show's writers to cast member status: Peter Aykroyd, Jim Downey, Brian Doyle-Murray, Don Novello, Tom Schiller and Alan Zweibel. Band leader Paul Shaffer also joined the cast, becoming the first person from the SNL band to become a cast member. Harry Shearer joined the show as a featured cast member and was promoted to repertory status during the season.
This would be the final season for everyone in the cast. Tom Davis and Downey would return to the show in future seasons as writers. Al Franken, Doyle-Murray, Novello, and Shearer would rejoin the cast in future seasons.
Steve Martin hosts and Blondie ("Dreaming" and "The Hardest Part") is the musical guest for the fifth season premiere. Includes The New Mr. Bill Show and Father Guido Sarducci.
Eric Idle hosts with musical guest Bob Dylan ("Gotta Serve Somebody," "I Believe in You" and "When You Gonna Wake Up"). Features Roseanne Roseannadanna and special appearance by Andy Kaufman.
Bill Russell hosts with musical guest Chicago ("I'm a Man" and "Street Player"). Features Mr. Bill Stays Home.
Buck Henry hosts with musical guest Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ("Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That"). Sketches include Matchmaker Nerds.
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Elliott Gould hosts with musical guest Gary Numan ("Cars" and "Praying to the Aliens"). Sketches include Jewess Jeans and Kennedy-Carter Debate.
Kirk Douglas hosts with musical guest Sam & Dave ("You Don't Know Like I Know"). Includes Nick at Greg's Bar Mitzvah and Schiller's Reel: Mask of Fear.
Rodney Dangerfield hosts with musical guest The J. Geils Band ("Love Stinks" and "Sanctuary"). Update features Father Guido Sarducci.
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Meanwhile In Lansing, Michigan...
Hours ago, the US labor union movement was dealt another crushing blow (the most recent being the recent liquidation of Hostess which left thousands of workers cold and unemployed just in time for Thanksgiving) when the Michigan legislature gave final approval to "right-to-work" restrictions on public sector unions in a state considered a stronghold of organized labor. In the meantime, over 10,000 protesters had gathered outside the legislature, chanted in the gallery, and generally expressed their displeasure quite vocally with this development that further set back labor in its endless fight against capital. As Reuters reports, "the House passed the measure making membership and payment of union dues voluntary for public sector employees such as teachers by a 58-51 vote. The only government workers excluded would be police and fire unions. The Senate approved the same bill last week so it will now go to Republican Governor Rick Snyder, who has promised to sign it into law."
Incidentally, these same workers would be better advised to direct their anger at Chairman Bernanke who has done everything in his power in the past several years to shift the balance of power far more in benefit of capital courtesy of ZIRP and zero cost of capital, which allows companies to cut as many workers as needed in order to pursue the almight bottom line dollar, while extracting unprecedented productivity gains out of those still employed, as workers no longer can fall back on savings and are forced to accept any labor conditions in a New Normal world in which living paycheck to paycheck is becoming the norm for most, and thus giving employers all the leverage.
But that is a philosophical debate for a different place. But for now, here are two short clips to serve as a harbinger of what may and most likely will happen in the US as labor unions are stripped of even more power in the coming months and years, showcasing their reluctance to go gentle into that good night. This is how close the US is from violence at any one moment.
Luckily, nobody was seriously hurt this time.
Has the Syntagma riotcam finally crossed the Atlantic?
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MDB please forward this to Hairy Ramiro.
I honestly dont know whose side I would support on this. One side are the greedy execs who lives off bribery and wants to rape every dollar from the general public OR the lazy bums which the Unions are protecting who are all getting paid more for doing less and also raping the taxpayer's money. Tough call.
Not really a tough call. Unions never had a place in the puclic sector, ever.
The tent put-em-up-&-take-em-down union folks must have been rightly pissed off when that mob pulled the tent down in rapid fashion.
I guess they could file a grievance.?
If the prerequisite for union membership was you had to climb 8 stairs in under 2 minutes, membership would drop drastically. Taking their money away is asking for a problem - just institute the 8 stair rule.... lol.
As I've mentioned before, and as evidenced in that clip, 2 average human legs are not designed to support 200 lbs each leg, or 400 lbs total. The engineering just ain't there.
So y'all fightin' over worker dues, money, days off, etc.... while slumbering around at 300 lbs plus, is simply indicative of a larger, more putrid human problem this society faces: Laziness!
If people haven't seen it already, I recommend watching the entire video below, it's worth every minute of the hour running-time. But in the context of this discussion, you can skip to the 20:18 mark and listen to perhaps the most succinct 5 minute dismantling of trade unions ever articulated. And then some more on the topic around 33:00 minutes.
The main group this new regulation should apply to is government employees - local, state and federal.
If a business unionizes, the business has choices. 1- They can negoiate with the workers or 2 - pack up and move to non-union confines.
But what option do governments have thussly - tax payers. If my local school teachers suck OUT LOUD, what is the county suposed to do? It is immobile and must deliver the service to its customers - tax payers - but may find itself captive of rediculous demands and hiring and firing restrictions. That is not fair to the end user the students.
Unions have simply failed to compete. They offer nothing to the employer. [the only exception is public unions which offer votes to the politicians who support them] They do not train the workers, nor discipline them nor provide any benefits to the employer at all. They have become parasites. When a Union decides it needs to provide a pool of skilled workers and keep those people sober and functioning then management will probably desire to hire them and gladly pay the wages demanded. Untill then, they are adversaries. It's the same gerbal wheel.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Scott Walker
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
Andrew Cuomo
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
Detroit, and how it got that way.
There IS an upside however. Urban blight in Detroit makes for some really great photographic opportunities. Maybe they can host chaperoned (bodyguards) tours of the urban blight for amateur photographers?
Detroit is the perfect place to hold the FIghtclub convention.....you can't do all that much harm to a place that is already demolished.
Competition? How do you "compete" in a mechantilist system? That's a fallacy. You've been had.
Unions were originally formed to prevent the exploitation of workers. They have evolved into corrupt organizations that exploit any non union member for the benefit of the members. Remind you of anything else?
Tony, the guy throwing the punches, is from the steel workers union
Teamsters = Mafia Just as bad as the other thugs running the economy at this point.
The game is and has been divide and conquer....giving the sheep collective bargaining cannot be tolerated just as a third party is a no no.......infiltrate and corrupt is a very simple technique then let the confused participants destroy themselves. Its a grand game and it has worked consistently. gl
Boeing tried to do that with its move to South Carolina. Obammy put the screws to that... I have had to pay for private school for 10 years because of the crappy schools in my area. Sooo, I pay for public school employees and get zero and then pay again for an actual education. I watch a paid firefighter drive his tanker truck and/or ambulance by his house on duty. When zoning enforcement comes around to harrass homeowners about boats in driveways, his is always moved the day before... I call it the municipal mafia.
I wouldn't be bothered a bit to hear that Mr. Chubby-mustache-punch-thrower got abducted and dragged a few miles over some nice, union-maintained Detroit potholes.
Wouldn't be bothered a bit.
In my younger years I used to work at a moving company that delivered musical gear to stages in NYC. All the stage hands were union. The same work done by myself and my associate required 6 union guys and they got paid a full days work for 2 hours. We got paid $10/hour, they got at least $20, so the 2 hour job that cost my employer $60 including the truck, cost their employer $960 not including transport.
so, yeah, croccodile tears over here.
Redpill, Thanks for posting the youtube link of the speech by Yuri Bezmenov. I just watched the whole thing, and am blown away by this. In my four years at Annapolis, and 9 years as a Navy pilot, including numerous briefs from NCIS folks, I cannot remember once being exposed to a discussion of enemy demoralization and destabilization, when all it would have taken would have been one hour of playing this video. This should be REQUIRED viewing for all military officers.
This is why i read ZH.
Ask yourself why this information was withheld from you at Annapolis. Don't think of it as a rhetorical question. There is a concrete reason why. The collapse of the Soviet Union was staged. That is the truth, but you have been made never to consider that as a concept. You have been lied to, deceived by the military educational establishement, and it is as simple as that. Or, if you have at one time or another ruminated on the possiblity that the Soviet collapse was artificial, you either were persuaded by others or yourself that this was not the case. But it is a very important thing, this concept. It is reality.
Take five minutes and read this:
Yuri!!! Almost 30 years have passed since his warnings. Detroit is a shit hole in the wake of union aftermath, and we still don't seem to get it.
If I'm not mistaken, Right to Work doesn't outlaw unions, it just makes it VOLUNTARY to join a union. Isn't this a FREE country? "Although it is not explicitly protected in the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled, in NAACP v. Alabama,[169] freedom of association to be a fundamental right protected by it." Freedom of association anyone?
These union thugs don't believe in freedom. They want to control you even more than the company does. Union mantra "Slow down!!! You are making me look bad!!"
And these union pricks are the ones behind Obama and the socialization of this country. Freedom and Liberty mean NOTHING to them.
Bingo. If unions are so fucking wonderful, why would unions be so pissed about voluntary association? Scratch that, I know the answer.
They can't trust each other to pay their dues because they know they're all thieves. LOL
Yet you ignore the whole idea of contract law. This prevents you from having an enforceable agreement.
Public Employee Unions Should Be Illegal. When they strike, they are striking against taxpayers. I care more about this photo than I do the fools in Michigan.
Mrs. Zymurguy is a CPA and audits some unions around our brewery here... if the union workers only knew what their bosses and execs earned they would fucking shit their pants and leave the union faster than the stink could catch them.
I'm not even in a union and when I found out I pooped my pants, just a little... more like a shy turtle sticking its head out, but still, it was shocking.
AFP is a 100% astroturf movement.
Who do you root for in that confrontation?
The only hope is that both sides run at each other, hit their heads together, and everyone gets some sense knocked into them.
I really am starting to fully understand the divide and conquer tactic. let all of these tards duke it out while I watch it take place is much more fun than dealing with a wile haymaker from Fatty pants McGee.
Just a note on that video. It is not proof enough that they were actually drinking alcohol or actually smoking illegal substances. So said an arbi"traitor" today. Chrysler was dealt a blow when they were forced to re-hire such employees.
Now I guess comes the lawsuits for defamation of character and back pay.
United Auto Workers taking care of business, everyday!
From yesterday's Detroit News...
Chrysler Group LLC says it was forced to reinstate 13 workers who were fired from its Jefferson North Assembly Plant two years ago after being filmed by a local television station drinking and smoking what the network suggested was a controlled substance before and during work.
"After more than two years, an arbitrator decided in the workers' favor, citing insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold the dismissals.
Oh the HORROR!! Who in their right mind would think ANYONE should be fired for NOT doing their job?
Once again, there's no moral hazard. Why work if there is no risk of getting fired?
Funny how it took the arbitrator 2 years to make a decision too. Can you say "milk the clock"?
If you buy from GM, you deserve what you get.
I know of instances where theft, alcohol and drugs not only don't get you fired in a union, you get paid not to work while attending counseling. Steal from the company, keep it, and take a vaction at counseling. Sweet gig.
Obligatory video of those same pukes getting their jobs back. Goddamn this shit angers me.
You beat me to it, ACP. Thanks!
If you haven't heard of this one, here's an extreme example of how PUBLIC UNIONS LITERALLY KILL PEOPLE:
Alameda, CA police & firefighters watch a man for an hour in the water until he drowns, because of a contract dispute. Union scum. That's right, I said it, and I'll say it again. UNION SCUM.
You fucking idiot!! ENJOY THE BANKERS WHO RAPE YOU LITERALLY DAILY!!!
The spidey senses told me someone would say that.
Just because I dislike public unions doesn't mean I love bankers. That logic eludes me.
I don't know how many times I've stated quite clearly, that the BANKER SCUM who caused our current problems deserve to be HANGED.
In both cases (union thugs and bankster criminals) you are talking about unchecked moral hazard and absolute power corrupting absolutely.
It's called the Hegelian dialectic. Are you for the spotted owl or do you like trees? Etc.
Easy now Union boy, I know it hurts but you know you are overpaid and lazy to boot, I have had to deal with your whiney asses several times you shall recieve what you got coming. just face it like a man..
What? They won't get their gold plated retirements complete with health care ad infinatum?
The horror.
HG, I think you might be the idiot. How do you go from unions to bankers. Sorry loser, no connection
Alameda firefighters could not even go into the water to get the body, so they waited until a woman in her 20s volunteered to bring the body back to the beach.
"The frustration is certainly understandable and I think the sensibility would be probably that we're going to evaluate our response protocols," Zombeck said.
and when you're done with that, evaluate your fucking humanity.
"Zombeck" can't make this shit up. . .
they're traitors.
Right. But WTF does AFP have to do with that? Why is AFP there with a tent? I see Koch hoof prints.
hoof prints of the cloven variety?
FORWARD, Soviets!
The problem is that they are the same side only different capitalization levels.
It's the easiest call in the world. Don't choose.
Union bosses are just as greedy as execs. Would this law allow non-union members to opt out of paying into an unfunded pension system that the union bosses take huge pensions without paying a nickel into?
Remember this?No label on this hall / Non-union construction workers used to cut costs on new Teamsters building L.M. SIXEL Staff SAT 08/10/2002 Houston Chronicle, Section A, Page 01, 3 STAR Edition
Teamsters Union 988 is holding the grand opening this weekend for its new union hall, which is expected to feature Teamsters President James P. Hoffa.
But it has become a sour moment for other labor leaders because the Teamsters didn't use union construction workers. They were told by the Teamsters that union contractors cost too much.
"No one is happy about it," said Paul Dunnam, organizer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 716.
Divided States: I don't consider this a close call, The union movement has hamstrung the states, it's now time to insure your job security and wage level by the work you are willing to individually perform.
That's the whole problem with America, we (read most Americans both left and right) don't know who or what to be mad about and effect change in, but we have every right to be mad about the system and want to effect change. Where we will get stuck and fall along the way to truly fixing things are instances like this where both sides are wrong and there's no mechanism to move in the right direction because each side is steadfast onto things they feel entitled to. Generally speaking most things are pretty fucked from the beginning when you look at it from a one side vs another.
"I honestly dont know whose side I would support on this..."
I understand where you're coming from on this one. The corruption runs so deep through so many sectors of our society anymore that it's easy to give up on about all it.
However, I have to admit that the schmarmy fucker in the leather jacket got exactly what he deserved. Well, not quite as the puncher didn't know how to land a good one. I know, I know, free speech and all that crap, but I also know you union-hating conservativrs would say the same thing if a peace advocate got punched out at a pro-war rally for acting in the same manner as this arrogant ass. There's free speech and there's common sense it's usually best to use both.
I see tha sacred cops and firefighters are left out of this muck like they were in WI. can't have the Praetorian guard pissed off- they might go on strike against writing speeding tickets and getting cats down out of trees.
Oh, but we have to do EVERYTHING possible for the "heroes"!
PS: It used to be that one was not automatically a "hero" just for doing the job that they were paid (extremely well) to do.
thank the media(4th branch of govt) and 9/11
God, I love ZH. It seems to be the last bastion of sanity in an insane world.
I suppose that means it will have to be destroyed.
As we learned in Greece. If you work for the government and carry a gun/riot control arms, your pensions and rights will be stepped on last. Remember that policemen. What they use you to enforce, will be enforced on you in due time. I am not a fan of unions but I am a fan of low wages, crappy benefits, and poor work enviornments even less. The subject of unions is a tough one. If management would pay and care for their workforce instead of pocketing the collective profits and if labor would not hold management hostage for the same we would have balance. I guess the major issue when it comes to unions is their right to hold the tax payer hostage. That is B.S. But who cares.......we are circling the drain no matter what.
it is so fitting....Fight Club is coming on on IFC....think I'll watch....and prepare.
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The fear of unions by the monied men were the reason that corporations were formed.
one step closer to the mattresses, Consigliare....and make sure they're clean.
correct. moreover, remind me, what percentage of America's workers are unionized today? Less than 7% or something. How many are working part-time or "under the table"? Sorry, I just don't see those few remaining teachers unions getting too violent. Fuck the monied men, they are destroying their own wealth by destroying reasonable unions leaving violence the only option as well as destroying the currency of their neighbors (who may actually know how to make shit), then the very "money" these "monied" men has becomes worthless. Good plan morons.
I remain long black markets and any asset that can not be devalued by paper-pushers and their banking/corporate masters.
I might agree with you, if we get rid of government unions. They aren't working for "monied men" or corporations.
Again, get some facts about how many state and federal government workers are in fact unionized with a right to strike at any time realtive to the total population of state and federal workers or those working as a contractor.
Regarding your last comment, are you suggesting that federal employees (government workers) are not working for the "monied men"?!?!?
LMFAO!!! The monied men own your representation dipshit. They bought it via K-street quite some time ago. Fucking halarious.
"destroying reasonable unions"
Reasonable Unions? I have not had the pleasure to come across one..
Ammo bitchez
Pinkerton must be rolling over in his grave to see union violence not responded to appropriately.
i miss the good ol' days where big corporations were balanced by big Unions and big gov't
Does that make me a filthy communist?
Or am I a dirty socialist?
Unions protect workers.
The last thing I want is to slave away for nothing like a China man.
Wrong, unions protect unions. They protect their own infrastructure. If you don't think they squash workers without a second thought along the way to meet their own long-term goals you have your head in the sand.
Conceptually there is nothing wrong with collective bargaining, for many industries it would be to the workers' advantage as long as that relationship is held in check by a very real possibility that their group could get busted if their demands become too unreasonable. The problem is that when it becomes mandated, promoted and protected by federal law, it immediately yields corruption, not worker protection. It destroys industries, it doesn't save them.
It's time everyone stop the in-fighting and focus the attention squarely where it belongs: on the banking elite (the proverbial hand) and the political class (the proverbial glove). Replace "unions" with "bankers" and then re-read what you wrote. The root problem is not the unions, they are only a symptom of easy money policies. The root problem is the Federal Reserve, allowing a private institutional to control our money supply, fractional reserve lending and the political class that promotes this.
Cursive the Bankers and the Unions are both infected. It does not matter how at this point. They both need to be amputated.
amputated? completely annihilated? revolution or evolution? They both piss me off like no other, but where would we be without Unions in the 1930's 40's and 50's? Bernankers, though? Different story. I suggest we go Big Brother on THEM and completely eliminate them from history
The hard unions are and will be amputated. There is a big difference between teamsters/UAW on one hand and SEIU on the other. The government unions, the service unions, will be the last to go. But, the social reset does not happen if the rent seeking bankers are allowed to continue to suck the life blood from the citizenry.
Cursive, Big Up Vote
Yes, Let's (bankers talking) find a new divide and conquer to keep them fighting amongst themselves.
Gay/Straight is not being effective enough anymore,,,, Let's go with Union/Non-Union. We can keep'm fighting each other for another few years while we Continue to rob both of them.
Joe, Get some colorful news feed, get some presstitutes to rev this one up. Show them distroying property, Then show them smoking pot before burning a building down.... Something like that there.
The merger of large unions and government is no less corrupt than the merger of large banks with government. They extract their pound(s) of flesh in different ways, but they are variations of the same disease.
Right on, Redpill. Unions USED to protect the workers....until they got a taste of how it enriched those at the top of the union structure. Then it became all about what in it for THEM. Funny....I can say the exact same thing about the vast majority of our (criminal) political class.
unions are no different than "street gangs"... Where is the mob anyway? they have just gone legit and now put their own in high paying union jobs... and the underlings support them and protect them with fists... sheesh!
What do we want?
When do we want it?
Unions are just another form of representative democracy. The primary objective of the incumbent, is to remain the incumbent.
Those at the top will do anything to prevent their own staff from organizing
Unions protect blue state democrats as well. Especially the public unions. I personally have no problem with private company unions and in fact think they provide a great service in lots of situations.
However why do government workers need unions? I see that as a major problem of conflict with tax payers and the governing elite parties.
Unions=Collectivism. Collectivism not good for man like me. Man like me smarter and work harder'longer than fat dumb man like you. Man like me don't want to be equal with ladyboy like you. Man like me want more cause man like me produce more. Man like me no workie 12 hrs a day. Man like me rather rob crack dealers who drive around with shiny rims an have white man's dollars.
don't you find it a little odd that the nation has had its manufacturing gutted and NOW this is being done when unions make up less the 10% of the workforce?
Saying Unions protect workers at this point is the same thing as saying to me that Wall street ensures orderly markets. Both are wildy out of control. They each grab for more and more for themselves because they think the other one is the bad guy. The non union, non wall street worker is getting shred at the expense of both Unions and Wall street. Fuck that. Enough is enough. They both need to go.
Harry Ramiro's union boss and Jon Corzine should be fighing and clawing each other at some federal pound me in the ass prison to see who can avoid getting violated first, and it should be on pay per view.
correct, reasonable unions have been intentionally destroyed. At this point nothing changes without total reset. the moral hazard is simply too large now. These type of things do nothing but show how easily the sheep are divided and conquered.
Reasonable gangs? Surely you jest?
I'm all for the right of free association, but granting special privileges to collectives (that are not possessed by individuals) is the very recipie for the disaster that's resulted.
It seems that everyone wants special treatment, without understanding that it's impossible, on the whole.
interesting, "granting special privileges to collectives (that are not possessed by individuals)"
wasn't Adam Smith warning about granting special privileges (like easy bankrupcy and limited liability) to collectives possessed by individuals?
also known as corporations?
the basic natural form for humans is bands. like monkeys, we do not thrive alone. I know, you might be brainwashed by endless special-snowflake wonderful-consumer individualism, but the individual as-such is an imaginary construct. solitary confinement is still one of the worst tortures
so it's always about my gang vs your gang and let's gang up on the others
except when you talk, discuss, argue and bargain - which is what makes us human and different from animals
so yes, reasonable gangs is good and I fully agree with LawsOfPhysics' "correct, reasonable unions have been intentionally destroyed"
That no man is an island is not the issue. Consider that there are groups which one can join voluntarily and there are groups which one may be compelled to join. Legitimacy lies exclusively with the former as only the individual can rightly chose with whom he will associate.
and the groups you were born to? family, sept, clan, tribe, gens, social group, economic/status class, caste, race, religion, state and nation?
in theory it's still about the "closed shop" issue, isn't it? where does it come from?
and the groups you were born to? family, sept, clan, tribe, gens, social group, economic/status class, caste, race, religion, state and nation?
Here ya go:
family: I like some of mine, others I avoid.
sept, clan, tribe, gens: Guess someone missed those boxes on the birth certificate. Not that I give a shit.
social group: I have at least five of those.
economic/status class: This year, last year or ten years ago? And who makes such stupid definitions anyway?
race: I like a lot of folks with my general tint. I don't like others.
religion: Any religion I ever had was a matter of choice.
state: Fuck those thugs.
nation: You mean the people who live on the same continent as me? Most of 'em are pretty cool.
in theory it's still about the "closed shop" issue, isn't it? where does it come from?
It comes from the use of fear and hatred to control individuals within groups. Negative emotions cause individuals to forgo reason and individual choice and follow the leader for the benefit of the leader. The net effect is negative overall and sometimes leads to spectacular failures.
There is a big clash between Europe and the US when it comes to unions because the laws relating to unions are different. There is no such thing as a "closed shop" (a company where only union members are allowed to work in) in Europe. Apparently in the US, there are laws forcing people to belong to an union under certain conditons.
The point is that unions are not a bad thing - it's the way many unions and unionizing laws work in the US that's broken.
Originally unions were born during the Industrial Revolution, to fight practices like employing kids in factorys, 14h/day, tied to the machines so that they wouldn't fall from sleep or to correct the extremelly dangerous conditions under which miners used to work because the bosses wanted to save money.
At its most essential, unions are just people pooling resources together to be able to negotiate in a position of balance with a company (which, itself, is also a pooling of resources together). It's not a bad concept.
It's the centralisation of power in unions and the takeover of political power by unions which, just its counterparty (centralisation of capital and takeover of political power by corporations), is the problem. At the end of the day, the real problem is the broken voting system in the US (think electoral circles, gerrymandering, registered voter laws and the like).
markets are as orderly as they can be, having gone from fractions to decimal... the unintended consequences of change...
Unions educate workers as much as FINRA tests educate investment "professionals".
Major difference is that FINRA isn't majorly responsible for such a un productive/over-paid/lazy work-force...or maybe they are, just not as good at it as unions... It's such a damn shame. Once the gov steps in, a decent idea in theory, goes to shit.
just be sure to wear the red armband when it starts, okay?
Perhaps the unions will go to China and work their magic there.
The boys at the top can do the labor if they want to keep all the money. The workers should go home and relax.
Another way we could stop the outsourcing is to simply go back to slavery. So ask yourself how many rights and benefits you are willing to erase and for which people? I mean, people died during the Haymarket Affair in Chicago just so the American worker could have an 8 hour workday. Should we just go back to 12 hour days for 10 cents a day? That would bring back all the jobs from China!
I would think petty false dichotomies would be below someone who would take the time and effort to read and post on ZH.
Well, obviously, you think wrong. ;)
*/sarc tag.
you forgot?
Redpill, you've forgotten your history, or were never taught it. Less than 100 years ago, right up until the Gread Depression, children were working in the mines and mills and factories and sweatshops for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, for next to nothing right along side their parents. It was common practice to hire an entire family. Children who were too small to work were mostly left at home and fended for themselves as best they could. All the generations of a family of the working class worked and still they could barely keep a roof over their heads or food on their tables. If someone hurt themselves at work it was their own lookout and their own loss. If someone was killed in an accident they might drop the body off at the door. My grandfather stood in the picket lines during the Minneapolis Teamsters' strike of '34. My grandmother, with an infant on her hip, was among the women who cooked hot meals for those men and carried them to the picket lines. Our children and grandchildren will be fighting those battles again, God help them, because what was given wasn't given willingly, but only grudgingly and at great cost. If your people came over from Europe in steerage around the turn of the 20th Century, chances are you have only achieved whatever your standing is because they banded together to wrest some sort of decent living from the man back then.
So we can't have child labor laws without federally sponsored labor unions? Lovely non sequitur.
I notice you didn't address any of my other points, such as hours or pay or compensation for injury.
Most people have no idea what people went through before unions tamed the industrial age. Your one example is beyond their knowledge, let alone the centuries of abuse and deaths.
They just mindlessly accept longer hours and less benefits because 'at least I'm still working'
If you continue to work when you think you are being overworked or under compensated, that's your own fault. Demand more or quit.
People who have never quit a job and hung around waiting for things to come to them until they get laid off or until some union "saves" them are only robbing themselves.
What an absolutely ridiculous statement. You probably don't have a family, or are a trust fund baby.
2 kids, no trust fund, sorry. If anything having kids increases your PERSONAL responsibility to make sure you are being paid fairly for your labor. Why in the world would you want to take something as valuable as the price of your own labor and hand it over to some overpaid union boss who doesn't give a shit about you or your family? NOBODY will ever care more about your own labor or your own family more than you. So abdicating that responsibility to someone that by definition cares less than you do is robbing yourself and your family.
It's really not that difficult a concept. If you think you are getting the shaft, find someone that will pay you better. If there is no such opportunity, perhaps your skills are not worth what you think they are. Then you have the choice of doing something else that pays more, starting your own business if you have the resources, etc. That's big boy world. Sitting around and whining about not getting paid enough but not doing anything about it is about as juvenile as you can get.
Running to daddy government and asking them to point a gun at your employer and make them pay you more is simply thuggery. Running to a union and asking them to take over your personal responsibility of negotating the value of your labor in hopes they can come up with clever ways of blackmailing your employer to pay you more than the free market will is not only ultimately self-defeating but dishonest. And the combination of the two wherein your blackmail is protected by federal law is the worst of both worlds. That is way beyond collective bargaining, it is economic buccaneering.
Depends on what "job".
Minimum wage, McJobs are not what I think you are talking about.
You can only quit and find a better job if you have skills, which many McJobs not only don't need, but don't want their workers to have skills.
I agree that if you don't like it, quit - but if your only skill is being unskilled, then you're just trading one shit job for another.
Not that spending thousands on a college degree gurantees anything unless you pick a field that is actually hiring and not offshorable.
If people expect to be able to be well paid in an advanced economy while having no skills, then they are either extremely naive or mentally disabled. Learn to be a plumber. Learn to be a bartender. Look for what is hiring in your area and learn to do that. If you managed to get to the point where you need to support yourself and/or your family and you have no marketable job skills, then it's time to stop doing things your way (because that obviously hasn't worked) and start learning the skills to do the things that people are hiring for. People are so complacent and so unwilling to learn something new or go in a different direction. Life doesn't come to you, you have to go out and grab it by the scruff of the neck.
The best part of the economic collapse will be seeing you in the unemployment line next to all the "naive" people.
You do realize that is very unlikely with the amount ofknowledge and intelligence he displayed here.
With the civility he treated your commentary you felt justified to wish him bad tidings though. Who is really the aggressor here? Who is the anti-social actor in this conversation? Surprise, it's you.
Um, yeah I'm antisocial. Because this society is insane.
or his kids burning up in a garment factory that some f'ing company so graciously brought back from bangalore after the last bastions of worker protections in this country have been eradicated. But it will be the f'ing kids fault because they just didn't grab prosperity by the scruff of the neck and run off into the lsd colored sunset.
I was in a slightly different scenario. The company was downsizing, but I didn't play along.
As people were layed off everyone else had to work more hours. I wouldn't do it.
The froze wages and even asked some people to take pay cuts. I wouldn't do it.
They still have two guys doing 60-70 hour weeks doing my job. I do lunch with them once a month just to keep up with the gossip.
It would be very easy to accept your premise, but the world is not as simple as saying 'screw you' and walking out.
Goodbye Detroit Auto Worker..... Hello Michigan Militia!!!!
It will be quit a dilemma for Obama, when ex-union workers start killing fat cat billionaires and their stooge politicians!! Will that be a justified workers revolution or a terrorist act???? Now things have started to get complicated!!!! It's a whole new ball game Obama, when it's northern industrial union workers instead of unorganized southern labor, isn't it????


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1- During the DNC, run a lot of 5 second ads that say "Just a reminder: Invest = Spend". No sound.
2- As a general counter-attack, always ask whether it's worth borrowing from China to do whatever the D's want. Example, "Yes, I like the arts too, but is it worth borrowing from China to pay for the arts when Medicare and Social Security are going broke?"


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Tetryonic theory is founded on the equilateral geometry of Planck energy quanta,
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mass-Energy over the geometric framework that Charge interaction creates and the number of h quanta per charge fascia is what gives
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standing-wave geometry made up up [n]pi square number Planck mass-Energy geometries. --ABRAHAM
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Originally posted by Thought Provoker
reply to post by subtleperspective
I think it possible that... well, black holes "evaporate." It's like the matter falls through the singularity and "goes away." This caused Hawking's "Information Paradox" that confused everyone for years. He explained it one way; this could explain it another: if the matter is converted to energy as it passes through the singularity, that energy could be dispersed into some kind of sub-dimensional "power grid" that distributes the energy evenly over all of space-time. Add up all the matter being converted by the evaporation of every black hole in the universe. Probably pretty big.
But I'm also a Christian (non-denominational). I don't pretend to know what God is, but he too could be feeding us all that energy, like underground irrigation.
Whatever the source of the vacuum energy, it's there. It's real. Perhaps we'll find out one day... but it shouldn't get in the way of understanding and controlling it as Tesla predicted we would someday.
Originally posted by Thought Provoker
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As in, how like charges repel and opposites attract? Hmm. Lightning... the electron charges go from the ground up... pulled along a conductor towards the lack of electrons up above... by golly, that might be a different force, unless it's "in disguise," like magnetism. What imbalance is it that causes electrons to always move towards the more-positive side in a conductor? The force of the electrons in the power source, pushing them, repelling them rather. Least resistance means, if there's a hole for them in the opposite direction from whence they're being pushed, they'll go into that hole. And on and on, until it can't move any more. Lightning isn't pulled into the sky by the clouds; lightning is pushed into the air through whatever water drops and air gaps can conduct electricity. Wow; I guess everything is the opposite of what we think.
And it must be like magnetism, operating over small (single-atom) distances, via valence shells. Electrons must have some special shape, or property, that "shields the wind" in a slightly different way, to cause an effect that only pushes electrons. It's like... a wind within the wind, a wind that ignores everything but charged particles. Maybe a "positive" particle is just "less negative." Less energized. And there's not really any such thing as a "positive charge," like how shadows are the absence of a substance rather than a distinct substance of their own. Magnetism, gravity, and electricity; the same mechanism, but acting differently on different things as well as at different scales...
Thank you very much. That never would've occurred to me.


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