Why Workers’ Unions, Equal Wages and Minimum Wages are as bad as Monopolies and Cartels

Here I’ll argue that workers’ unions have similarities to monopolies and that equal/minimum wages have similarities with cartels, and note the difference in how these are dealt with. Monopolies and Cartels Monopolies have a bad ring to them.  Nobody likes monopolies, in peoples’ minds manifested as huge, greedy monsters stealing your money.  Cartels are just […]

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Couch Modeling: CPN Tools on iPad?

As a follow-up on my post showing CPN Tools on OS X, I now give to you: CPN Tools on iPad: Again, no, this isn’t true.  I’m really just running Air Display on my iPad and connect it to my Mac, which has the new Parallels 6 (which is mighty shiny in itself) and a […]

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Intro to the New Operational Support Service

For the last couple weeks, I've been working on a new operational support service with, among others, Joyce Nakatumba and Fabrizio Maggi.  Work has basically been focusing on two points: making a new protocol with support for sessions and making a meta-model for queries, supporting more structured requests and, in particular, responses. After spending some […]

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