Yes, it would be much better and environmentally friendly if we all lived like medieval peasants. Al Gore can rule over us from his 12 bedroom mansion, and drive down in his massive SUV and feed us scraps from the troves of food he bought with his carbon credit scam.
Best way to get hired is to show initiative. Its not difficult to get into the corporate world. Have a "can do" attitude, show a little independence and ability to learn.
Because your someone who has absolutely no understanding of civil society. You believe in the myth that government is meant to take care of the people. You think, for some reason, that the "military" is a cause of all the problems, when it is simply an appendage of the civilian government (at least in western democracies). Of all the things the government does, the military is actually something that it is constitutionally designed to do. But I'm sure you dont care about the constitution.
From the article "In 26 statements of "contemplated relief" contained in its complaint, the FTC described what Intel's must do and not do to preserve competition."
Right, because when I think of people who know how to run a business (ya know, an entity with 10 trillion dollars in debt), I think of the Federal government. Who are these people who think they know how to maintain competition? Obviously not people who can make it in the private sector so they go work for the FTC and act like little emporers, "sticking it" to the businesses that they could never succeed against, or within.
Give IBM 700 billion dollars and I guarantee that the unemployment would be well below 10% (or 17% real unemployement). Give 700B to the fed and what happens???
This is perfect. Indians arent stupid, and their economy is growing super fast, their talent is becoming in strong demand. This isnt surprising, and actually pretty encouraging.
WTF does DOL have to try and replicated "monster.com" or "dice.com" or any of the other job websites out there? why cant government just let people find their own jobs? DOL is a hoax, and a waste of Chinese tax payer and our future great, great, great, great grand childrens tax dollars, since this is all being done on borrowed money.
You forgot to throw blame at George W Bush somewhere in your post.
Seriously... equating over bloated, wasteful government spending on Democracy... is stupid. Now blaming it on a trend towards Socialism, makes perfect sense, since Socialism is only ever democracy until the bureaucrats have run out of other peoples money to spend. This is just another lefty attempt to equate "freedom" with being "bad".
How about the Department of Labor just letting people find jobs on there own. OMG! It must be "evil democracy". I think people have done well for over 200 years finding work on their own without DOL spending tax payers (read: China's money) on helping people what they should do on their own.
I know, I know. Its the governments job to take care of us. Right? Right???
I'm sorry I dont have any mod points at the moment, but if I did I would mod you up. Not that it would make much of a difference, lets face it, slashkos isnt a tag for nothin.
There are plenty of people who want nothing more than to believe that the Western way of life is "evil" simply because they do not identify with it. Not to get into a history recap about fellow travelers and the early 20th century progressive movement, the people who control the media (ironically) are the people who spread the anti-western (anti-capitalist) propaganda (class conflict). Its never more evident than watching the people at the Copenhagen climate change conference cheer on Hugo Chavez as he rails against "capitalism" and quote Karl Marx.
I dont care about the science behind "Climate Change". I know the political ends summed up with "Climate Justice" and "Redistributive Change". Climate Change is the vehicle of the Neo-Marxists. I'd rather live on the surface of Venus than live under the yolk of a Soviet style bureaucracy.
Because like everything else, there is a cult that is dead set to create as many conflicts and divisions wherever they can create them. Also to get attention by creating that conflict (to make more dollars). There will NEVER be an "equal" amount of anything in any situation. This is simply a natural phenomenon, nothing ever stays in balance.
There WAS institutional discrimination in our society. Institutional discrimination has not only been eliminated, but has also been made "illegal". While there may still be situations where women/men/black/white people are discriminated by individual employers, but it is no longer "institutional". So instead of railing against the government, we now have the "humanists" railing against society, for everything they do not consider to be the way they want it.
How about this: Women dont play dungeons and dragons. Dungeon Masters must somehow be discriminating.
How about this: Women dont want to work in a cubicle farm, in front of a monitor, doing math all day for little thanx or social interaction. No no... that would go against the paradigm of perpetual class conflict.
For Christmas, we can give our kids the source code to the climate models that the UN and various other global entities use to predict "global warming".
Also, if there is any good will left after releasing the source code, perhaps you can all release "ALL" the "RAW" data from all sensors and perhaps the hard drives where data was "dumped" so we can recover data forensically.
The article suggests that the IT industry discriminates between "four year college" versus programmers who come from vocational schools (or self educated, or what not). Being someone who regularly reviews resumes, what college someone went to has very little impact on whom I recruit as opposed to that persons achievements. That is unless we are looking at bringing in "green" recruits off the street, then academic background makes a difference. Someone without a 4 year degree is going to have to have some pretty substantial knowledge (which will be hard to find without any experience).
But when it comes to the 8+ year positions, the degrees are nice to see, but someone being able to answer the questions and whip out some code examples is absolutely more important, and worth paying for. I try and encourage a person to get what their market value is, as opposed to what they feel they deserve ( I dont believe in letting someone be recruited for ridiculously low salaries ). Normally, for really good programmers, you can get them for far, far below what companies are really willing to pay them because they are generally "B" type personalities that wont haggle. I've always told the upper management that it is better to pay them top dollar now and keep them for the long run, then have to massage a wounded ego later, but that usually only works about 50% of the time.
There is only so much you can do on the defensive. The US has been fairly defensive in protecting the IT infrastructure of our society and our government networks. As everyone knows, you can only keep someone out for so long before they finally figure out how to get through. The best way to keep your networks protected is by eliminating the threat. The old adage "a good defense is a great offense" holds true till this day.
That line of thinking may piss off the peacenicks and the neo-marxists, but anyone who has ever had to deal with a chronic problem of coming under attack from foreign entities with no recourse, knows that the available solutions are just as bad as the problem (having back bone providers hobble foreign ISP's access results in reduced commerce). The internet is the modern "ocean" of the colonial period. Pirates like to hide in lawless (or hostile to the target) regions for protection. I dont think these internet pirates should be provided any different protection than the pirates of the Caribbean.
Really? And what exactly do you think is the end game of the progressive movement? Your inability to see the obvious shows you have shutdown all rational thought.
Yeah! Welcome to the 20th century... Eastern Europe!!! I know how wonderful an all powerful "central" God government was. It was so awesome that it collapsed! Woohooo!
Have you Europeans ever wondered how your perpetual motion machine of a society keeps on moving with all of its entitlements and systems that eat more than it produces? Its called the US consumer. Once we go down, you are all going to go with us.
Just because economic illiterates have taken over the US government, doesnt mean that things are going to be magically better. Once the dollar is trashed (which it will be once we pump ANOTHER trillion dollars into the system), the world is going to be a VERY interesting place. The US military is going to have to get dramatically cut. I know how wet that makes your collective EU panties, but that means you are all going to have to fend for yourselves, which means you will either have to concede sovereignty to your neighbor to the East (read: Russia) or arm yourselves... which will break the fantasy of your socialist utopia.
This bill is going to turn the global economy on its heels, and the collective will act so shocked when it does...
The states did get together and write a fairly restrictive agreement called the constitution. Read Federalist 41. Madison clearly defines that the General Welfare clause does not give the Federal government unlimited authority to tax us for our own good. Passing even more ammendments is a BAD idea, as it gives the "living and breahting constitution" crowd even more room to fudge our society ever deeper into the progressive (read: marxist) utopia that they falsely believe is possible.
Wow, you must not read slashdot very much. Every time I hear mention of police force, its usually the dailyKOS slashdotters ranting and railing against the "oppressive" police officers.
No. Police, fire, and military are not "socialized", and have nothing to do with "socialism". Keep spreading the lies. these are "civic services" not "socialized" services. They do not provide a measure of "wealth" to any other man. These services ensure the maintenance of civil society. Universal, socialist, health care is not required for a civil society, as proven by the existence of our Republic for the past 200+ years.
But keep it up, your distortion of the truth is right out of the communist manifesto.
KKline, you must be an academic... I can tell by your sense of humor and your sense of irony.
The post is not saying academics dont contribute.... Its the shmarmy belief that they "know better than everyone else", even when it comes to things that are subjective (which is really a large part of the free market). The Academic fantasizes about the Technocrat that will eventually lead us all into utopia by prescribing us "plebes" the perfect formula to live our lives, which of course, has lead to the greatest calamities in human history (see China, Russia, and a slew of other communist experiments in the 20th century).
You say I'd lead us into the dark ages, but I say you would lead us into the Gulags of Siberia.
LOL. See, difference between taxes and equity venture-funded capitalism, is that in the latter, you can actually get your money back, or even get profit back, and you get to choose to put your money into a venture/equity fund.
Of course, seeing your signature, its obvious that you dislike competition and pray at the alter of big, all powerful government. Perhaps you should move to Europe. They love big unaccountable government.
Academic: Hi... what they heck are you? You look so strange to me...
Capitalism: I'm Capitalism. Oh, I'm really not all that strange, but I might be a little complicated to understand.
Academic: Complicated!?! I am the master of complicated, I am an Academic for crying out loud.
Capitalism: Ok then. Let me try to explain myself. I am a system that provides stuff via supply and demand.
Academic: Nonsense! I dont hear music that deserves to be heard on the radio or on popular websites!
Capitalism: Deciding who deserves what really isnt my thing... see... its about supply and demand...
Academic: But who decides whats in demand!?! Certainly it cannot be the uneducated "masses", they... just aren't qualified!
Capitalism: No no... its about what many individuals, smart or otherwise, want based on need or dozens of different other factors.
Academic: Preposterous! How could they possibly know what they want or need if they havent been exposed to it?!? Foolish Capitalism!
Capitalism: Well, there are a lot of musicians out there and only so many different ways to get them heard, and, well, there are people out there who spend their lives learning what people like and dislike, and even they arent always right... so the best at determining who does best succeeds...
Academic: Rubbish! What we really need, is for the qualified, with a broad base of tastes to make an application for people to give them a view of all the music that is out there!
Capitalism: I guess you can try, no one can stop you, but you might not succeed.
Academic: Your so short sighted. I don't need to worry about succeeding, I receive public money to pursue my higher realm of thinking.
Capitalism: Right on... so I guess you will compete and regardless if your product sucks, you dont have to worry about it because your really just spending someone elses money.
I assume you have experience with the prison system to make such a studious observation condemning it as "barbaric". I've worked in the prison system, and I can assure you that it is no more barbaric than the education system that American liberals have hand crafted since the early 20th century. I would like to see what else you classify as barbaric.
- Prisoners are well fed - Prisoners have access to communication with the outside world (via mail), phone calls, and external visitors - Prisoners have access to free health care - Prisoners are provided with an education (in many states) if they choose - Many prisons provide work release for lesser crimes - Prisoners are allowed to keep a small amount of personal effects inside their cell. - Prisoners are not forced to do labor of any kind, often opting to do work, which they are compensated for.
Yes, truly, TRULY barbaric. US culture is just horrible.
On an aside note, I think the greatest travesty is additional punitive punishments which occur after imprisonment. The additional punitive punishments afterwards, such as removal of voting rights, the right to bear arms, and conviction status which is career destroying which is greatly more punishing for a one time offender (regardless of the intent) as compared to a career criminal.
Your right on being against government spending programs. In fact, everything outside of maintaining national defense, diplomacy, and a few other well defined functions of federal (not national) government, are done so poorly that continuing to dump money into them is the definition of insanity. In fact, our Federal government is so bad at doing things its not suppose to do... that it cannot even do them within the frame of directly collected tax revenue (see deficit spending). For example, if we cut Social spending at a federal level (see the Constitution, reference Federalist 41 by Madison or Declaration 17 by Jefferson to dismiss the liberal myth about the "general welfare" clause)... we wouldnt need to borrow money anymore, and could start repaying the debt!!!
If there was such a great need for available cloud computing, why arent data centers popping up all over the place to support the need? 32 million dollars (equiv. to 6GBP or 10 Euro's) wont pay for more than salaries and the compete process.
Another "compassionate" liberal scumbag posting on slashdot (surprise, surprise). To call mother Teresa's work "ghoulish" is about as low as one can go. She did what you lazy, scumbag liberals never want to do, actually help people personally. You all want "someone else to do it". Of course, if they dont work for your GOVERNMENT GOD, they are somehow "ghoulish".
You know what the greatest irony is. The parent is modded +4 interesting, and I will be modded "troll" or "flamebait". But oh please, let us call people who do GOOD THINGS "ghoulish" and mod them up.
Whoever modded parent up is a scumbag too. Just like the scumbag who wrote that post.
That is until your Nanny State starts to go bankrupt, and goes begging for federal dollars to bail its ass out. For the most part, Federal dollars are two things:
- Tax revenue from all the states combine (those with good fiscal policy and those with bad) - Borrowed money (that will need to be paid in the future, with interest)
Your "Statist" argument fails because the federal government has gotten into the "extend, embrace, and assimilate" business via bail outs with money it doesnt even have.
For more information on what real Federal Welfare is, please see projects such as "Road to Nowhere", where the state of Alaska wont pay for a bridge that goes to nowhere, so its 80 term senator gets the rest of the nation to pay for it (with borrowed money).
"But I wouldn't expect someone ranting about people living in tents without electricity and eating dirt (mixed with copious hostile profanity) to be actually living in a world based on facts."
Why not? Does somehow using profanity make you less likely to live in a world based on facts? Then again, a person probably needs to talk and act like an elitist to live in a world based on fact.
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Yes, it would be much better and environmentally friendly if we all lived like medieval peasants. Al Gore can rule over us from his 12 bedroom mansion, and drive down in his massive SUV and feed us scraps from the troves of food he bought with his carbon credit scam.
Best way to get hired is to show initiative. Its not difficult to get into the corporate world. Have a "can do" attitude, show a little independence and ability to learn.
Because your someone who has absolutely no understanding of civil society. You believe in the myth that government is meant to take care of the people. You think, for some reason, that the "military" is a cause of all the problems, when it is simply an appendage of the civilian government (at least in western democracies). Of all the things the government does, the military is actually something that it is constitutionally designed to do. But I'm sure you dont care about the constitution.
From the article "In 26 statements of "contemplated relief" contained in its complaint, the FTC described what Intel's must do and not do to preserve competition."
Right, because when I think of people who know how to run a business (ya know, an entity with 10 trillion dollars in debt), I think of the Federal government. Who are these people who think they know how to maintain competition? Obviously not people who can make it in the private sector so they go work for the FTC and act like little emporers, "sticking it" to the businesses that they could never succeed against, or within.
Give IBM 700 billion dollars and I guarantee that the unemployment would be well below 10% (or 17% real unemployement). Give 700B to the fed and what happens???
This is perfect. Indians arent stupid, and their economy is growing super fast, their talent is becoming in strong demand. This isnt surprising, and actually pretty encouraging.
WTF does DOL have to try and replicated "monster.com" or "dice.com" or any of the other job websites out there? why cant government just let people find their own jobs? DOL is a hoax, and a waste of Chinese tax payer and our future great, great, great, great grand childrens tax dollars, since this is all being done on borrowed money.
Fucking socialists.
You forgot to throw blame at George W Bush somewhere in your post.
Seriously... equating over bloated, wasteful government spending on Democracy... is stupid. Now blaming it on a trend towards Socialism, makes perfect sense, since Socialism is only ever democracy until the bureaucrats have run out of other peoples money to spend. This is just another lefty attempt to equate "freedom" with being "bad".
How about the Department of Labor just letting people find jobs on there own. OMG! It must be "evil democracy". I think people have done well for over 200 years finding work on their own without DOL spending tax payers (read: China's money) on helping people what they should do on their own.
I know, I know. Its the governments job to take care of us. Right? Right???
No its not. Now mod me down SlashKos mods.
I'm sorry I dont have any mod points at the moment, but if I did I would mod you up. Not that it would make much of a difference, lets face it, slashkos isnt a tag for nothin.
There are plenty of people who want nothing more than to believe that the Western way of life is "evil" simply because they do not identify with it. Not to get into a history recap about fellow travelers and the early 20th century progressive movement, the people who control the media (ironically) are the people who spread the anti-western (anti-capitalist) propaganda (class conflict). Its never more evident than watching the people at the Copenhagen climate change conference cheer on Hugo Chavez as he rails against "capitalism" and quote Karl Marx.
I dont care about the science behind "Climate Change". I know the political ends summed up with "Climate Justice" and "Redistributive Change". Climate Change is the vehicle of the Neo-Marxists. I'd rather live on the surface of Venus than live under the yolk of a Soviet style bureaucracy.
Because like everything else, there is a cult that is dead set to create as many conflicts and divisions wherever they can create them. Also to get attention by creating that conflict (to make more dollars). There will NEVER be an "equal" amount of anything in any situation. This is simply a natural phenomenon, nothing ever stays in balance.
There WAS institutional discrimination in our society. Institutional discrimination has not only been eliminated, but has also been made "illegal". While there may still be situations where women/men/black/white people are discriminated by individual employers, but it is no longer "institutional". So instead of railing against the government, we now have the "humanists" railing against society, for everything they do not consider to be the way they want it.
How about this: Women dont play dungeons and dragons. Dungeon Masters must somehow be discriminating.
How about this: Women dont want to work in a cubicle farm, in front of a monitor, doing math all day for little thanx or social interaction. No no... that would go against the paradigm of perpetual class conflict.
I know! I know!
For Christmas, we can give our kids the source code to the climate models that the UN and various other global entities use to predict "global warming".
Also, if there is any good will left after releasing the source code, perhaps you can all release "ALL" the "RAW" data from all sensors and perhaps the hard drives where data was "dumped" so we can recover data forensically.
Merry Christmas!
I think your argument misses the point.
The article suggests that the IT industry discriminates between "four year college" versus programmers who come from vocational schools (or self educated, or what not). Being someone who regularly reviews resumes, what college someone went to has very little impact on whom I recruit as opposed to that persons achievements. That is unless we are looking at bringing in "green" recruits off the street, then academic background makes a difference. Someone without a 4 year degree is going to have to have some pretty substantial knowledge (which will be hard to find without any experience).
But when it comes to the 8+ year positions, the degrees are nice to see, but someone being able to answer the questions and whip out some code examples is absolutely more important, and worth paying for. I try and encourage a person to get what their market value is, as opposed to what they feel they deserve ( I dont believe in letting someone be recruited for ridiculously low salaries ). Normally, for really good programmers, you can get them for far, far below what companies are really willing to pay them because they are generally "B" type personalities that wont haggle. I've always told the upper management that it is better to pay them top dollar now and keep them for the long run, then have to massage a wounded ego later, but that usually only works about 50% of the time.
There is only so much you can do on the defensive. The US has been fairly defensive in protecting the IT infrastructure of our society and our government networks. As everyone knows, you can only keep someone out for so long before they finally figure out how to get through. The best way to keep your networks protected is by eliminating the threat. The old adage "a good defense is a great offense" holds true till this day.
That line of thinking may piss off the peacenicks and the neo-marxists, but anyone who has ever had to deal with a chronic problem of coming under attack from foreign entities with no recourse, knows that the available solutions are just as bad as the problem (having back bone providers hobble foreign ISP's access results in reduced commerce). The internet is the modern "ocean" of the colonial period. Pirates like to hide in lawless (or hostile to the target) regions for protection. I dont think these internet pirates should be provided any different protection than the pirates of the Caribbean.
Is that you posting Obama? Pelosi? Reid?
Anyway, we know its a progressive. Look how charming and tolerant. The parent was brought to you by what is really in the mind of all progressives.
Really? And what exactly do you think is the end game of the progressive movement? Your inability to see the obvious shows you have shutdown all rational thought.
Yeah! Welcome to the 20th century... Eastern Europe!!! I know how wonderful an all powerful "central" God government was. It was so awesome that it collapsed! Woohooo!
Have you Europeans ever wondered how your perpetual motion machine of a society keeps on moving with all of its entitlements and systems that eat more than it produces? Its called the US consumer. Once we go down, you are all going to go with us.
Just because economic illiterates have taken over the US government, doesnt mean that things are going to be magically better. Once the dollar is trashed (which it will be once we pump ANOTHER trillion dollars into the system), the world is going to be a VERY interesting place. The US military is going to have to get dramatically cut. I know how wet that makes your collective EU panties, but that means you are all going to have to fend for yourselves, which means you will either have to concede sovereignty to your neighbor to the East (read: Russia) or arm yourselves... which will break the fantasy of your socialist utopia.
This bill is going to turn the global economy on its heels, and the collective will act so shocked when it does...
The states did get together and write a fairly restrictive agreement called the constitution. Read Federalist 41. Madison clearly defines that the General Welfare clause does not give the Federal government unlimited authority to tax us for our own good. Passing even more ammendments is a BAD idea, as it gives the "living and breahting constitution" crowd even more room to fudge our society ever deeper into the progressive (read: marxist) utopia that they falsely believe is possible.
Wow, you must not read slashdot very much. Every time I hear mention of police force, its usually the dailyKOS slashdotters ranting and railing against the "oppressive" police officers.
No. Police, fire, and military are not "socialized", and have nothing to do with "socialism". Keep spreading the lies. these are "civic services" not "socialized" services. They do not provide a measure of "wealth" to any other man. These services ensure the maintenance of civil society. Universal, socialist, health care is not required for a civil society, as proven by the existence of our Republic for the past 200+ years.
But keep it up, your distortion of the truth is right out of the communist manifesto.
Are you talking about 1 of the 57 states?
And they called GW stupid.
KKline, you must be an academic... I can tell by your sense of humor and your sense of irony.
The post is not saying academics dont contribute.... Its the shmarmy belief that they "know better than everyone else", even when it comes to things that are subjective (which is really a large part of the free market). The Academic fantasizes about the Technocrat that will eventually lead us all into utopia by prescribing us "plebes" the perfect formula to live our lives, which of course, has lead to the greatest calamities in human history (see China, Russia, and a slew of other communist experiments in the 20th century).
You say I'd lead us into the dark ages, but I say you would lead us into the Gulags of Siberia.
LOL. See, difference between taxes and equity venture-funded capitalism, is that in the latter, you can actually get your money back, or even get profit back, and you get to choose to put your money into a venture/equity fund.
Of course, seeing your signature, its obvious that you dislike competition and pray at the alter of big, all powerful government. Perhaps you should move to Europe. They love big unaccountable government.
Capitalism: Hello there Academic. How are you?
Academic: Hi... what they heck are you? You look so strange to me...
Capitalism: I'm Capitalism. Oh, I'm really not all that strange, but I might be a little complicated to understand.
Academic: Complicated!?! I am the master of complicated, I am an Academic for crying out loud.
Capitalism: Ok then. Let me try to explain myself. I am a system that provides stuff via supply and demand.
Academic: Nonsense! I dont hear music that deserves to be heard on the radio or on popular websites!
Capitalism: Deciding who deserves what really isnt my thing... see... its about supply and demand...
Academic: But who decides whats in demand!?! Certainly it cannot be the uneducated "masses", they... just aren't qualified!
Capitalism: No no... its about what many individuals, smart or otherwise, want based on need or dozens of different other factors.
Academic: Preposterous! How could they possibly know what they want or need if they havent been exposed to it?!? Foolish Capitalism!
Capitalism: Well, there are a lot of musicians out there and only so many different ways to get them heard, and, well, there are people out there who spend their lives learning what people like and dislike, and even they arent always right... so the best at determining who does best succeeds...
Academic: Rubbish! What we really need, is for the qualified, with a broad base of tastes to make an application for people to give them a view of all the music that is out there!
Capitalism: I guess you can try, no one can stop you, but you might not succeed.
Academic: Your so short sighted. I don't need to worry about succeeding, I receive public money to pursue my higher realm of thinking.
Capitalism: Right on... so I guess you will compete and regardless if your product sucks, you dont have to worry about it because your really just spending someone elses money.
Academic: Its progress my dear boy. Progress.
I assume you have experience with the prison system to make such a studious observation condemning it as "barbaric". I've worked in the prison system, and I can assure you that it is no more barbaric than the education system that American liberals have hand crafted since the early 20th century. I would like to see what else you classify as barbaric.
- Prisoners are well fed
- Prisoners have access to communication with the outside world (via mail), phone calls, and external visitors
- Prisoners have access to free health care
- Prisoners are provided with an education (in many states) if they choose
- Many prisons provide work release for lesser crimes
- Prisoners are allowed to keep a small amount of personal effects inside their cell.
- Prisoners are not forced to do labor of any kind, often opting to do work, which they are compensated for.
Yes, truly, TRULY barbaric. US culture is just horrible.
On an aside note, I think the greatest travesty is additional punitive punishments which occur after imprisonment. The additional punitive punishments afterwards, such as removal of voting rights, the right to bear arms, and conviction status which is career destroying which is greatly more punishing for a one time offender (regardless of the intent) as compared to a career criminal.
Your right on being against government spending programs. In fact, everything outside of maintaining national defense, diplomacy, and a few other well defined functions of federal (not national) government, are done so poorly that continuing to dump money into them is the definition of insanity. In fact, our Federal government is so bad at doing things its not suppose to do... that it cannot even do them within the frame of directly collected tax revenue (see deficit spending). For example, if we cut Social spending at a federal level (see the Constitution, reference Federalist 41 by Madison or Declaration 17 by Jefferson to dismiss the liberal myth about the "general welfare" clause)... we wouldnt need to borrow money anymore, and could start repaying the debt!!!
If there was such a great need for available cloud computing, why arent data centers popping up all over the place to support the need? 32 million dollars (equiv. to 6GBP or 10 Euro's) wont pay for more than salaries and the compete process.
lol. You really think posting as AC gives you anonymity... lol....
Another "compassionate" liberal scumbag posting on slashdot (surprise, surprise). To call mother Teresa's work "ghoulish" is about as low as one can go. She did what you lazy, scumbag liberals never want to do, actually help people personally. You all want "someone else to do it". Of course, if they dont work for your GOVERNMENT GOD, they are somehow "ghoulish".
You know what the greatest irony is. The parent is modded +4 interesting, and I will be modded "troll" or "flamebait". But oh please, let us call people who do GOOD THINGS "ghoulish" and mod them up.
Whoever modded parent up is a scumbag too. Just like the scumbag who wrote that post.
That is until your Nanny State starts to go bankrupt, and goes begging for federal dollars to bail its ass out. For the most part, Federal dollars are two things:
- Tax revenue from all the states combine (those with good fiscal policy and those with bad)
- Borrowed money (that will need to be paid in the future, with interest)
Your "Statist" argument fails because the federal government has gotten into the "extend, embrace, and assimilate" business via bail outs with money it doesnt even have.
For more information on what real Federal Welfare is, please see projects such as "Road to Nowhere", where the state of Alaska wont pay for a bridge that goes to nowhere, so its 80 term senator gets the rest of the nation to pay for it (with borrowed money).
"But I wouldn't expect someone ranting about people living in tents without electricity and eating dirt (mixed with copious hostile profanity) to be actually living in a world based on facts."
Why not? Does somehow using profanity make you less likely to live in a world based on facts? Then again, a person probably needs to talk and act like an elitist to live in a world based on fact.