Your post is too long for me to dissect piece by piece, so I'm just going to sum it up.
On some points you agree with me. When you don't agree with me, what you're saying is essentially that you expect the government of a country to change the way the country works to cater to immigrants. Sorry, that's not how immigration works. Immigrants integrate into the system of the country, the system doesn't change to cater to the immigrants.
The US is very different from Europe. Naturally. Comparing the US to the EU is comparing apples to oranges. We may be more compassionate and have more comprehensive social security in place, but that is how our countries work. Expecting us to change to conform to immigration is the product of an unfounded sense of entitlement. If the immigrants are incompatible with our system, then that's just too bad. We can't take in any more if it doesn't work.
As you yourself agree, immigrants themselves choose not to work. Not through any "active encouragement" as you put it. That's just bullshit. Immigrants today with alarming regularity end up on welfare, but when our doors were wide open, and immigration, integration and getting a job was *considerably* easier and government help with employment much more readily available, the same thing happened.
It's sad that a good number of immigrants decided to show their appreciation for their new country by leeching on the system, but don't for a second think that you are justified in your criticism. If the immigrants can't conform to and work with the country, then it's the fault of the immigrants, not the country. We are in no way obligated, neither by law or by morals to open our arms, embrace whoever wants to move here, and then modify how we run out country to conform to their needs.
Perhaps the immigrants should think about finding a country they appreciate and where they can actually earn their keep instead of barging in, settling down and then doing nothing but complain while sitting at home on welfare instead of being out looking for a job like the rest of us.
We gave them a chance, and they showed that they weren't compatible with our system. Surely they're better off moving somewhere else if they don't like it.
Doesn't matter how long you've lived in Europe - What you're spreading is FUD.
The high unemployment rates amongst immigrants in Europe has nothing to do with the government, except perhaps that they're too generous. Most any immigrant in any Scandinavian country can live off of welfare alone, and a great many of them do. A lot of them don't even bother learning the language through -free- courses offered by the government. Not because it clashes with their work schedules, 'cause they have no jobs. Simply because they don't want to.
Now, the US isn't exactly what you'd call a "welfare state". It's much, much harder to get by in the US if you have no intention of working, and -that- is what's forcing immigrants into work.
I despise the fact that people bitch and moan about the government of my country being harsh on immigration, but Denmark *is* a welfare state. It doesn't come cheap, and it certainly isn't sustainable if people just choose not to work out of convenience. We have a lot of trouble with immigrants here. Not just employment related, either. Violence, tax evasion, apathy towards integration and countless other problems. Of course, whenever you point this out, you get drowned out by accusations of xenophobia, but the numbers are there to support it.
Denmark had a long history of being a friendly and tolerant nation for many decades in the past, but since the mid 90s, things have really gone downhill. Not because of the Danish government, which offers many more opportunities and incentives for immigrants to integrate and work than most any other country in the world, but because of the apathy towards integration, and immigrants who settle for welfare and leech from the system.
We're sorry that we can't have our doors wide open like we used to, but the immigrants who abused our system have ruined it for everyone else.
Thank you for confirming that the average slashdotter is incapable of comprehending that change is gradual, and a 180 turn will always result in periods of hypocrisy.
Releasing source code and fully disclosing protocol specifications on the products Microsoft build their entire business on selling will destroy their business model.
You get modded +5 insightful for complaining that Microsoft isn't doing every possible thing, including completely destroying their own business model, as their first step towards an open policy. Only on slashdot.
Yes. Let us criticise Microsoft for not destroying their own business model in the name of Open Source. Anything short of self-destructive publication just isn't good enough. Curse Microsoft for not killing themselves off to appease the FOSS crowd.
This is complete and utter bullshit. I saw the demonstration. The people taking part were average people, not especially fit people like you make it out to be. The FAA has -strict- control over the tests and the people participating in the A380 tests were the same kind of people who'd participate in any other test of any other aircraft. You'd have to be seriously ignorant to think that the FAA would allow anything else.
78 seconds is a good time. It's better than the 90 seconds that the FAA in all their strictness mandates.
If a complete seal of approval from the FAA isn't good enough for you, then why are you using FAA testing parameters to justify your argument that the aircraft is a "death trap"?
Haha, dipshit? I think you need to take a long hard look at the economics, practicalities and realities of networking, instead of trying to expand your epenis by praising "retro" solutions.
If you're a bad parent, and you have an idiot kid, they're invariably going to grow up to be idiots.
If you're a bad parent, and you have a good kid, they'll know better than to kill someone because they saw it on TV.
If you're a good parent, and you have an idiot kid, you'll be able to regulate their exposure to violence. If you're concerned about TV violence, just don't let them have one in their room.
If you're a good parent, and you have a good kid, you'll be just fine.
The one thing those four have in common is that if the parent cares, the parent can act on their own. These parents need to stop regulating the world to make up for their lack of parenting. If anything, they need to regulate themselves. People shouldn't be allowed to have children if they're too stupid to handle them.
Recognising the fact that you are unaware of whether or not the studies he's referring to actually exist, aren't you just as guilty of attacking him because you have nothing better yourself?
EU regulations apply to any business a company does within the EU. No matter where the company is registered. That means Google, too. There'd be little point to these regulatiouns otherwise.
Listen, if you're going to talk to me about "reality", let's cover a few points here.
Firstly, the premise for your ridiculous rambling is that you somehow think that you're aware of what I think and what I want to say. You're claming that I'm "demanding" things of the US. I'd like for you to point out exactly where I have made any demands. I realise that your xenophobia and arrogance is probably too thick for your deluded mind to seperate what's actually being said, and what you want me to say, because the only way your ridiculous complaining is going to be justified is if I cater to your argument. You can try to force it by claiming to know what I'm thinking, what my intentions are, and that I'm saying things that I am not, but it's clear to see that what you're posting is nothing but paranoid animosity towards anyone not American.
Your arguments have no place in reality because they're based on opposition that doesn't exist. So far, your argument has been fed on assumptions, delusions and even things that you appear to simply make up. None of these things are based in reality, hence your argument isn't based in reality.
I'm sorry, but as eager as you are to "destroy" my arguments, a wording which sets a pretty clear picture of exactly what kind of person you are, you haven't really done it at all. Your incoherent, irrelevant and unsubstantiated rambling is doing nothing but making you look like a right wing extremist with a bad case of rabies.
When you're so deluded that you're making up things just to argue with other people and apply your "justified" xenophobia to situations where there is absolutely no justification, it's time to step back for a second and seriously evaluate yourself.
I don't know where to start here, because frankly, your comment has absolutely no relevance to anything I said. It doesn't cover any part of what I said, it doesn't address anything, it's just more screaming and kicking using wildly unsubstantiated and incorrect claims that have nothing to do with anything I said.
Instead, you seem to be telling me what my opinions are, and, in what I can only assume is a mistake brought on by your hissy fit, you're validating my reasons for why your critique has no place in reality.
If you're going to rant, rant somewhere else. I'm not one to get into discussions with extremists who make up "facts" to benefit their ridiculous arguments.
I don't believe you were able to understand my comment.
The political "problems" allowing NASA to take foreign contracts have obviously not been concerncs of the lawmakers. The US government have decided that it is okay for NASA to take foreign contracts. If you want to bitch, bitch at the people responsible for these decisions. Not at the businesses conducting their business like businesses do.
I live in Denmark, and this is where I pay my taxes. We're allowing the US to have a base at Thule, integrating with the infrastructure that is built and maintained with the taxes I pay. To their benefit. We have a strategically important island, and the US has a desire for a missile defence system. As long as they pay for the privilege, I certainly don't mind allowing them to use our infrastructure to further their plans. Even if I did, I would blame the Danish government, not blame the US government of having "delusions of entitlement".
All that your kicking and screaming seems to amount to is arrogantly criticising businesses for conducting themselves in the manner deemed appropriate by the government that your country has elected.
Apparently you didn't have the foresight to predict that this would happen. Surely you would have some sort of law against this if you did. Ultimately, what you're complaining about is your own doing.
If you flaunt your successes, you should live up to your failures.
There are no delusions of entitlement to anything here. It's business working as business does. Don't like it? Tough luck. Should have had more foresight.
I'm hereby announcing the creation of DISTASTEFUL. The organisation against the proDIgal, unnecesSarily conTrived and unnaturAlly nonsenSical abbreviaTion of projEcts and Federally fUnded estabLishments.
Half of them grew out of puberty, and most of the rest of them got tired of uttering their opinions on the internet to no avail. The internet isn't the secret fortress of idealistic basement-dwellers it used to be. It has opened up to the public, and like any other fortress, it proved that it was easily overrun given the appropriate amount of people.
Welcome to the general public; where only the most radical are heard, and the minority are ridiculed and drowned out.
You could try getting off your low-UID high horse and -6 funny mods instead of complaining. That feature is there to assist humourless asses like yourself in perpetuating your anally retentive existances.
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Your post is too long for me to dissect piece by piece, so I'm just going to sum it up.
On some points you agree with me. When you don't agree with me, what you're saying is essentially that you expect the government of a country to change the way the country works to cater to immigrants. Sorry, that's not how immigration works. Immigrants integrate into the system of the country, the system doesn't change to cater to the immigrants.
The US is very different from Europe. Naturally. Comparing the US to the EU is comparing apples to oranges. We may be more compassionate and have more comprehensive social security in place, but that is how our countries work. Expecting us to change to conform to immigration is the product of an unfounded sense of entitlement. If the immigrants are incompatible with our system, then that's just too bad. We can't take in any more if it doesn't work.
As you yourself agree, immigrants themselves choose not to work. Not through any "active encouragement" as you put it. That's just bullshit. Immigrants today with alarming regularity end up on welfare, but when our doors were wide open, and immigration, integration and getting a job was *considerably* easier and government help with employment much more readily available, the same thing happened.
It's sad that a good number of immigrants decided to show their appreciation for their new country by leeching on the system, but don't for a second think that you are justified in your criticism. If the immigrants can't conform to and work with the country, then it's the fault of the immigrants, not the country. We are in no way obligated, neither by law or by morals to open our arms, embrace whoever wants to move here, and then modify how we run out country to conform to their needs.
Perhaps the immigrants should think about finding a country they appreciate and where they can actually earn their keep instead of barging in, settling down and then doing nothing but complain while sitting at home on welfare instead of being out looking for a job like the rest of us.
We gave them a chance, and they showed that they weren't compatible with our system. Surely they're better off moving somewhere else if they don't like it.
Doesn't matter how long you've lived in Europe - What you're spreading is FUD.
The high unemployment rates amongst immigrants in Europe has nothing to do with the government, except perhaps that they're too generous. Most any immigrant in any Scandinavian country can live off of welfare alone, and a great many of them do. A lot of them don't even bother learning the language through -free- courses offered by the government. Not because it clashes with their work schedules, 'cause they have no jobs. Simply because they don't want to.
Now, the US isn't exactly what you'd call a "welfare state". It's much, much harder to get by in the US if you have no intention of working, and -that- is what's forcing immigrants into work.
I despise the fact that people bitch and moan about the government of my country being harsh on immigration, but Denmark *is* a welfare state. It doesn't come cheap, and it certainly isn't sustainable if people just choose not to work out of convenience. We have a lot of trouble with immigrants here. Not just employment related, either. Violence, tax evasion, apathy towards integration and countless other problems. Of course, whenever you point this out, you get drowned out by accusations of xenophobia, but the numbers are there to support it.
Denmark had a long history of being a friendly and tolerant nation for many decades in the past, but since the mid 90s, things have really gone downhill. Not because of the Danish government, which offers many more opportunities and incentives for immigrants to integrate and work than most any other country in the world, but because of the apathy towards integration, and immigrants who settle for welfare and leech from the system.
We're sorry that we can't have our doors wide open like we used to, but the immigrants who abused our system have ruined it for everyone else.
Globalisation means that anyone with a big enough budget can do pretty much everything mankind is capable of.
Finally I can get a pair of tinfoil shades to go with my hat.
Thank you for confirming that the average slashdotter is incapable of comprehending that change is gradual, and a 180 turn will always result in periods of hypocrisy.
Releasing source code and fully disclosing protocol specifications on the products Microsoft build their entire business on selling will destroy their business model.
You get modded +5 insightful for complaining that Microsoft isn't doing every possible thing, including completely destroying their own business model, as their first step towards an open policy. Only on slashdot.
Kindly point out where I made any sort of claim about any kind of compliance to anything.
Token fanboy? Listen, I couldn't care who or what made which operating system and how good or bad it is and what kind of practices they employ.
I think you might want to read the grandparent. You're rant is completely irrelevant. Thank you, token angry nerd.
Yes. Let us criticise Microsoft for not destroying their own business model in the name of Open Source. Anything short of self-destructive publication just isn't good enough. Curse Microsoft for not killing themselves off to appease the FOSS crowd.
This is complete and utter bullshit. I saw the demonstration. The people taking part were average people, not especially fit people like you make it out to be. The FAA has -strict- control over the tests and the people participating in the A380 tests were the same kind of people who'd participate in any other test of any other aircraft. You'd have to be seriously ignorant to think that the FAA would allow anything else.
78 seconds is a good time. It's better than the 90 seconds that the FAA in all their strictness mandates.
If a complete seal of approval from the FAA isn't good enough for you, then why are you using FAA testing parameters to justify your argument that the aircraft is a "death trap"?
Haha, dipshit? I think you need to take a long hard look at the economics, practicalities and realities of networking, instead of trying to expand your epenis by praising "retro" solutions.
If you're a bad parent, and you have an idiot kid, they're invariably going to grow up to be idiots.
If you're a bad parent, and you have a good kid, they'll know better than to kill someone because they saw it on TV.
If you're a good parent, and you have an idiot kid, you'll be able to regulate their exposure to violence. If you're concerned about TV violence, just don't let them have one in their room.
If you're a good parent, and you have a good kid, you'll be just fine.
The one thing those four have in common is that if the parent cares, the parent can act on their own. These parents need to stop regulating the world to make up for their lack of parenting. If anything, they need to regulate themselves. People shouldn't be allowed to have children if they're too stupid to handle them.
Hey, could you come over and microsegment my gigabit network with coax?
Deus Ex: Invisible War is a great example of "failing spectacularly". Please, Spector, don't put us through that again.
Recognising the fact that you are unaware of whether or not the studies he's referring to actually exist, aren't you just as guilty of attacking him because you have nothing better yourself?
EU regulations apply to any business a company does within the EU. No matter where the company is registered. That means Google, too. There'd be little point to these regulatiouns otherwise.
Go away.
Listen, if you're going to talk to me about "reality", let's cover a few points here.
Firstly, the premise for your ridiculous rambling is that you somehow think that you're aware of what I think and what I want to say. You're claming that I'm "demanding" things of the US. I'd like for you to point out exactly where I have made any demands. I realise that your xenophobia and arrogance is probably too thick for your deluded mind to seperate what's actually being said, and what you want me to say, because the only way your ridiculous complaining is going to be justified is if I cater to your argument. You can try to force it by claiming to know what I'm thinking, what my intentions are, and that I'm saying things that I am not, but it's clear to see that what you're posting is nothing but paranoid animosity towards anyone not American.
Your arguments have no place in reality because they're based on opposition that doesn't exist. So far, your argument has been fed on assumptions, delusions and even things that you appear to simply make up. None of these things are based in reality, hence your argument isn't based in reality.
I'm sorry, but as eager as you are to "destroy" my arguments, a wording which sets a pretty clear picture of exactly what kind of person you are, you haven't really done it at all. Your incoherent, irrelevant and unsubstantiated rambling is doing nothing but making you look like a right wing extremist with a bad case of rabies.
When you're so deluded that you're making up things just to argue with other people and apply your "justified" xenophobia to situations where there is absolutely no justification, it's time to step back for a second and seriously evaluate yourself.
I don't know where to start here, because frankly, your comment has absolutely no relevance to anything I said. It doesn't cover any part of what I said, it doesn't address anything, it's just more screaming and kicking using wildly unsubstantiated and incorrect claims that have nothing to do with anything I said.
Instead, you seem to be telling me what my opinions are, and, in what I can only assume is a mistake brought on by your hissy fit, you're validating my reasons for why your critique has no place in reality.
If you're going to rant, rant somewhere else. I'm not one to get into discussions with extremists who make up "facts" to benefit their ridiculous arguments.
I don't believe you were able to understand my comment.
The political "problems" allowing NASA to take foreign contracts have obviously not been concerncs of the lawmakers. The US government have decided that it is okay for NASA to take foreign contracts. If you want to bitch, bitch at the people responsible for these decisions. Not at the businesses conducting their business like businesses do.
I live in Denmark, and this is where I pay my taxes. We're allowing the US to have a base at Thule, integrating with the infrastructure that is built and maintained with the taxes I pay. To their benefit. We have a strategically important island, and the US has a desire for a missile defence system. As long as they pay for the privilege, I certainly don't mind allowing them to use our infrastructure to further their plans. Even if I did, I would blame the Danish government, not blame the US government of having "delusions of entitlement".
All that your kicking and screaming seems to amount to is arrogantly criticising businesses for conducting themselves in the manner deemed appropriate by the government that your country has elected.
Apparently you didn't have the foresight to predict that this would happen. Surely you would have some sort of law against this if you did. Ultimately, what you're complaining about is your own doing.
If you flaunt your successes, you should live up to your failures.
There are no delusions of entitlement to anything here. It's business working as business does. Don't like it? Tough luck. Should have had more foresight.
I'm hereby announcing the creation of DISTASTEFUL. The organisation against the proDIgal, unnecesSarily conTrived and unnaturAlly nonsenSical abbreviaTion of projEcts and Federally fUnded estabLishments.
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Half of them grew out of puberty, and most of the rest of them got tired of uttering their opinions on the internet to no avail. The internet isn't the secret fortress of idealistic basement-dwellers it used to be. It has opened up to the public, and like any other fortress, it proved that it was easily overrun given the appropriate amount of people.
Welcome to the general public; where only the most radical are heard, and the minority are ridiculed and drowned out.
You could try getting off your low-UID high horse and -6 funny mods instead of complaining. That feature is there to assist humourless asses like yourself in perpetuating your anally retentive existances.
Clearly the introduction of Africanised bees resulted in some sort of bee-AIDS epidemic.
Those promiscuous pollen pilfering pests!