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Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen?
An anonymous reader writes "I am a American citizen with a masters in Computer Science from a 3rd tier college and 4 years of work experience under my belt. I would like to work somewhere abroad in Europe for a couple years before I get too settled in life but have no clue where to start. I only speak English but would love to learn a second language. What sort of opportunities are there for American citizens to work abroad? What countries offer the best opportunity to balance a challenging work environment with enough vacation to explore the rest of Europe in my free time? Any hassles I should know about?"
Right, because wrecking the economy to the point that my house, investments, and *US dollars* are worth less than they used to be, and the price of gasoline and food are way more than they used to be is _so_ much better than raising taxes. You might also be interested to know that McCain's health plan involves taxing the insurance premiums your employer pays for your health insurance, an amount that is currently untaxed. So, McCain is effectively for raising taxes. While you are living in this fictional world where Republicans are "fiscal conservatives", and Democrats "tax and spend", I think I'll take a look at real evidence to the contrary.
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Ahh.. not having heard of someone before an election is, in fact, reason to make some assumptions about the individual's qualifications. In addition, once someone comes onto the political stage, a reasonable background information packet is assembled quite rapidly- so the fact that someone hasn't been heard of prior to the current political environment is hardly enough, by itself, to preclude people from forming rapid (and often accurate) opinions about the individual.
But that doesn't help your quest to label people as "group-think"-ers and idiots. Sorry. Is my rationality interfering with your political agenda?
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Ahh.. not having heard of someone before an election is, in fact, reason to make some assumptions about the individual's qualifications.
Are you telling me, that if someone had never heard of Linus Torvalds, then you wouldn't doubt that "individual's qualifications" to make authoritative comments regarding Linux?
Here is what they would sound like:
Just wait until the recession fully kicks in; there will be plenty.
Nope. There will be plenty of unemployed poor programmers. But we will always be needing good software engineers.
In fact, since comp sci student numbers are going down where I live, while open jobs are going up, demand for good software engineers will increase during the next decade.
Yeah but I got modded funny so whatever.
Do not downmod posts "overrated" simply because you disagree with them.
You will never take me alive! By actually eating this non-Italian pizza, I will ensure that I will die quickly (and, unfortunately, under considerable pain).
Oh! Oh, I know the answer to this one.
Because it's fucking ludicrous, you twat.
And why is it fucking ludicrous?
Wait, I'm forgetting something here... Oh, I got it: I forgot to insult you, you twat.