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Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO
badzilla and numerous others wrote in with this: "Eric S. Raymond's Open Source site has a new Halloween memo. The Halloween X memo, which ESR says he received by email from an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO, appears to confirm Microsoft's alleged funding of SCO's anti-Linux initiative. And the actual dollar amounts are much larger than previously rumored!" The consultant is discussing his fee for bringing in this business, in the first few lines of the email.
I thought that was just a joke.
What do you mean? Kerry is a great guy... he's going to "roll back" the tax cut for the rich!
Too bad a single guy making $60k/yr is "rich".
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
This pisses me off. Why do most slashdotters assume that just b/c you have an MBA you must be some evil hell bent individual?
I'm working on getting my MBA and that doesn't mean that I'm going to try to walk all over the other businesses and perform illegal activities. Amazing how you and many others assume that most MBA's are idiots and just out for money and will do anything illegal to get there. Remember it's the individual who makes the dumbass decisions, not just because the have a MBA, that's just something they did to help them get to that postion. It's their idiotic views on life, ie the person, who is screwing up, not some damn piece of paper labling them as an MBA.
Great...what a wonderfull place to be huh? A bit ironic isn't it? Being here on slashdot, if you're not part of the geek culture exclusively you get ostracized, at least lately it seems that way to me.
Go ahead and mod me down as offtopic.
Amen, brother, amen...
Kerry, the Wal-Mart of Politicians... rolling back economic freedom and progress in the name of "fairness."
It's sad when I have to change my budget in anticipation of having to make YET ANOTHER car payment to the government every month..
Shhhh.... don't tell everyone that they are probably included in the so-called "rich" if they are making $60k/yr... if you do, Kerry's "roll back" doesn't sound so good
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The existence of God isn't decided by a vote among physicists, of course, but for the record Einstein did not believe in God. "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Xenu loves you!
Why in the world should a company pay you to do for $50/hour what someone can do elsewhere for $25/hour? Free markets work by supply and demand.
Protectionism only hurts the economy and costs MORE jobs in the long run. Of course liberals don't think that far ahead, assuming they think at all.
Having policies that makes it less attractive to outsource jobs, is not the same as to throw-out all the achivements of free trade agreements the last decades.
--- guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people ---
Outsourcing hurts the folks that get outsourced, but the rest of us win.
On the short term, yes, but in the long term, not at all.
You do see a lowering of prices as work is offshored, but it is at the cost of an increased trade deficit, which means money and value are leaving your economy.
If you've ever lived in a small town that lost it's locally owned businesses to chain stores, big-box outlets, and franchises, you'll know what I mean (albeit on a much smaller scale).
The cost of goods drops to the point that local businesses begin to go out of business, meaning less competition for labor / lower wages at the big-box. A large proportion of the money spent in the big-box/franchise/chain store leaves the local economy for good, putting people out of work, unable to pay their bills, unable to afford their homes and end up working at fast-food joints until the last dollar leaves town.
Trade deficits (whether local or national) are a big deal, sucking the lifeblood (money) out of the affected economy. They aggrivate the seperation of incomes, leading to growing poverty accompanied by increased crime, drug/alciohol abuse, and general social unrest, while a very small minority of people get rich.
In the case of outsourcing jobs from the US, we have money that would normally be redistributed as wages being shipped overseas, in order to increase the profits of someone who does live here, but is no longer effectively redistributing the revenues of their company. There is a net flow of cash out of the US economy, fewer jobs in the directly affected industry, and less money being spent in the United States. Those who make their living providing goods and services to the people who were laid off also feel the crunch. The only folks who profit from this are those who own large amounts of the companies that are doing the outsourcing, and the people who provide services directly to them.
Unfortunately, not everyone gets to ask Bill Gates if "he wants fries with that", and the rest of us are shit out of luck.
Read, L