Archive for April, 2006
Thinkfree…
ThinkFree is supposedly a service that will replace office in the workplace and for home users. However, a recent surge in usage showed one of the problems with the ASP model (Application Service Provider).
How should we participate in government?
Because of the nature of a blog, I will no longer attempt to focus on delivering organized thoughts, but rather I’ll just throw stuff out and leave the audience to piece it together. At our recent university elections, we had slightly more than 50% turnout. That’s not a new pattern and it’s not surprising. In [...]
Living wage
Anyone who has taken economics knows what happens when you try to enforce a price above or below the equilibrium price. Setting a price above the equilibrium price causes surplusses. Suppliers want to produce more than consumers want to consume at that given price. The same logic applies to employment. Setting an enforced wage above [...]
The evil Walmart empire – a thought expierment
I had a fun conversation with my friend Barb over spring break concerning the labor abuses that Walmart is guilty of. It’s hard to dispute that Walmart has been caught in some abusive labor practices. Refusing to give employees more than 38 hours of work per week (to avoid paying full-time benefits), paying female employees [...]