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geekinexile writes "Bloomberg is running this Microsoft vs. Linux article as a top story on the Bloomberg system. Not so notable for what it says about Linux, but rather for the fact that the financial community is starting to actually get open source."
Is anyone surprised at all?
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
but anyone who wants to try to stop me from talking about anything I please can find me at:
417 S. Manning
Muncie, IN
Riight..
First of all, many of the immigrants coming here to Canada are rich, filthy stinking rich and they're starting businesses left and right, hiring idiot teenagers at minimum wage to run corner stores, 42-for-1 pizza, and cheap ass apartment buildings. They piss us off because they screw us broke and pretend to not understand english/french when we try to reason with them. At least around my neighborhood, they're practically all racist penny-snatchers who despise the locals as if we were wild animals. And the few who are honest and civilised, they're integrating with us, working regular jobs with regular wages with regular kids. They are no longer immigrants, they are good faring canadians like the rest of us.
Canada doesn't assimilate immigrants, they either fit in with us, or THEY try to enslave us. For some, racism is taught from parent to child; for the rest it is a learned reflex from being burned so damn often. Being nice sucks in the long run.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I feel threatened by his personal hygiene, or at least his arm pits.
We all know that giving citizenship to anyone, even if they fail the racial profiling skin color test.
Anyone darker than chalk must be a terrorist.
Anyone as white as chalk is must be an evil hacker.
I am not dissing my country's anti-terrorist efforts, but some things are taken way to far. Some non-caffeine addicts also look albino. You fail the test one way or another. ThinkGeek tee-shirts shift it to 'another'.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Damn straight! Only natural-born Canadians should be able to be lazy and live parasitically off the rest of us. Is it wrong to force an existing citizen to finance the education and training of another citizen through taxes? Socialists! We're all socialists! Next thing you know, we'll start getting crazy ideas about universal health care.
Come off it. First of all, there are lazy people among fresh immigrants and among longtime Canadian citizens. Similarly, both groups contain con artists, scammers, and criminals who will make every effort to work the system. (Not all welfare fraud is committed by immigrants, you know.) In all cases, the government makes an effort to weed out the bad apples, but there are limited resources available for screening. At a certain point (and different people will draw the line in different places) you have to accept a failure rate.
Second, the top of this thread discusses skilled workers. In Canada, we make an effort to import these people only when we have a domestic shortage. I have recently done medical research in a couple of Ontario hospitals, and I can tell you that if you need radiation therapy in Ontario, there's pretty good odds that your treatment will be overseen by an imported radiation therapist. The Ontario government has been underfunding radiation oncology programs at medical schools for a number of years, and we just don't have the people here--so we steal them from other countries (the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, etc.), where they probably received an education subsidized by their own governments. As for other skilled workers for which we have no shortage--why shouldn't they be allowed to compete with Canadians? It's good for the country to bring in the best people. With luck, they'll stay. If you can't compete, maybe you're in the wrong field.
Lastly, almost all Canadians are immigrants. Some of us arrived before others--I can trace some branches of my family back to before Confederation--but almost all of us are recent arrivals compared to occupants of some long-established European nations. How many generations should someone's family be in this country before we extend them all the rights and privileges of "real" Canadians?
Yes, you're right--immigrants should not be encouraged to take advantage of our welfare system, any more than fully-fledged citizens should. And, of course, it is fortunate that there are no landlords or employers who would ever consider taking advantage of immigrants because they might be less familiar with our labour and tenancy laws.
would have to say that "integration" is not the hallmark of Canadian immigration policy. It never has been. We're not the melting pot, we're the mosaic.
Canada is a mosaic, and I'm proud of it. Remember that integration is not assimilation. I sound like a badly-written social studies textbook, but I have to say: immigrants can form a healthy part of a cohesive and functional nation without abandoning their unique cultural identity. And I've ranted long enough. I'm pretty sure this will be the longest post I've ever made to /..
~Idarubicin
People misunderstand me..none of this is the fault of immigrants per se...I'm an immigrant...it's the fault of the US by allowing MASS immigration when it's not needed. The 2 waves of immigration were 1840 and 1920's. From 1940 on, the US has had a cap of around 200,000 per year, which is fine..keeps the population at a sane limit, and keeps the economy at a normal rate. However, since 1965 (Immigration reform act), there have been an avg og 500,000 per year. The law says that 90% have to come form the third world (Europe blames the US for being a "brain drain", taking the good europeans away). The 60's movement about saving the starving children opened up the flood gates. Since Sept 11, 2001, there have been 1.3 MILLION immigrants! Mostly to California and New York. That's THIS year. Now, did we NEED that many? During the 2 big immigration waves we did. But now we don't.With 80% coming from 3rd world nations, and NOT assimlating, by the time my daughter retires, she will live in a third world country..Immigration in itself is not evil..MASS immigration is.
If you're not a Liberal in your 20's, then you have no heart.If you're still a Liberal in your 30's you have no brain.