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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Card Check

Monday, March 12, 2007

Because it is very difficult for workers to form a union by going through the NRLB election process, the UAW and other unions now use an alternative technique known as “card-check recognition.” Under card check, the employer voluntarily agrees to recognize the union if the union presents signed union authorization cards from a majority of [...]

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Give a Dog a Grok

Friday, March 9, 2007

Here’s another interesting search engine that represents language visually, called Grok, or Grok It Better. This is just the start of the links and connections you can generate as you click on each word. You can also type an URL and get a visual map of a website. A Wiki map is under development too. [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth & Ubuntu

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!
The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable [...]

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Corporate Personhood

Monday, March 5, 2007

The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people’s money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own…. Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, [...]

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