The Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode Fifteen

Someone on the Internet is Wrong

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0:42 Walton’s On Holiday

• Walton goes off the grid
• He gets the time to read books we talk about one later

2:01 Stephen tries to Hold the Fort

• Stephen couldn’t harass Walton as he was off the grid
• While Walton was away Stephen changed up the place…Dropped Fedora
• Walton Asks How many Distros Stephen’s had since the show started (over three months)
• Gnu/Linux shuffle Step C to the L to the C to the F to the V
• Settled on the V for Vanillux-Debian

4:20 Walton never heard of it neither did Stephen found it on Debian Derivatives:

• It has Gnome-shell/Gnome3
• Alternative desktops KDE and Unity
• Gnome-Shell is similar to OSX in looks but superior OS
• Linuxmint for Windows Transition

6:32 Stephen Goes to Trivia Night at a Scottish Pub TheHavenJP

• The Question that killed Stephen.. Who was the only US President to be a leader of a labor union
• We almost make the show into a Beercast

10:08 Stephen gives a Verizon Strike Update

• Veriozn is a baby bell and who is Mama bell

14:17 We talk about Keynesian economics it is not Socialism

• Good books – Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson, and
• Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism
• Three options for economics
• Capitalism is broken and Unions need to be prepared for a transition
• Marx is back and he’s pissed off no he is referenced in a positive light
• Neoliberalism works for the Capitalists
• Keep the masses happy by giving them Reform or it is Revolution

26:13 Tech Updates a peak at Status Net 1.0 Beta and GIMP

• Give GIMP some love

29:12 Feedback

• John TUC mentions Vodaphone has a union and the IBM Second Life Strike
• Bob Chandler comments About the use of Open Source and Free Software

33:15 Thinking about beer .. Enjoy a Union Pint