I have a friend in the philippines now who told me of a guy he met there. This guy as a bar trick would speak in a different american accent every couple of minutes. Southern, boston, brooklyn, etc. My buddy grew up in Queens and testified that his Brooklyn accent was spot on.
Yes, but could he do the Pilippine's punny accent???
I guess the question I have is, if all these tech companies move all their operations over seas, who in the US will be left working, and want their technology? Really rich people don't need it and poor people can't afford it, and the middle class wont exist if we outsource all of our stuff overseas. This 'stuff' consists of programming jobs, call centers, medical transcription, hardware manufacturing, car manufacturing, etc. In the end we wont have a middle class in the US so who will need this crap anyway?
You really can't expect the MBAs to be that forward-looking...
Among the points that I raised was that from a national security standpoint, American companies are creating a great incentive for cultures across the globe to become technically savvy. A good many of these cultures may likely be unfriendly to the USA and the companies creating these incentives. By the same token, I believe that knowledge of computing is so far reaching that there is an element of historical inevitability to all cultures acquiring this knowledge.
Security by obscurity to maintain USA's dominance???
Easy way to verify: you vote, your vote gets recorded next to your SSN. They have a list of SSN's with the vote recorded.
That's really the only way to verify the process, but too many people will complain about giving up their anonymity, so things get messy...
NO FUCKING SHIT!
NO GODDAMMED FUCKING SHIT ON A STICK!!!
Do you FUCKING REALIZE the EXTREME TERMINAL STUPIDITY of what you're saying???
Why the fuck do you think that VOTING IS SECRET and HAS TO BE SECRET?
It's to frigging MAKE SURE VOTERS AREN'T BOUGHT OR INTIMIDATED into voting for a given candidate!!!
Sheesh! One wonders what goes through the heads of those youths nowadays!!!!
Since 2000, municipal elections here are counted with a mark-sense reader.
Voters get a letter-sized ballot, and they mark their vote with a sharpie. Then, they insert the ballot in a carrier-envelope.
Each ballot has a detachable stub with a sequential serial number, which is initialed by the scrutineer. When the voter returns, he tears-off the stub, and hands it to the scrutineer; this way, everyone can be sure it's the same ballot that was given (instead of a telegram, where you put in a pre-marked ballot, and prove you did it by bringing back the blank ballot).
The ballot is then passed though a mark-sense reader which tallies the counts, and drops into a sealed box, along with the other ballots.
This way, the results are known within seconds when the polls close, AND you STILL HAVE the paper ballots to be recounted, if the need arises.
The machines are not open-source, but starting tomorrow, I am pursuing the matter with the authorities.
As long as air resistance scales super-linearly with velocity, getting there faster will always prove less economical than travelling at a more sedate speed.
Er, no.
Concorde flew above 60,000 feet, where air resistance is much less than the customary 35,000 feet. Concorde was just as a fuel-efficient cruiser as subsonic planes; trouble is, it sucked 25% of it's fuel on take-off...
so eventually it all could go over there, leaving a twisted dried up hulk of an economy behind in the USA. When you take 500,000 high paying jobs and ship them overseas, you may have saved the companies big bucks. but you have also reduced the market for your high price goods by that much.
You don't expect the croporate overlords to be that forward-thinking, don't you???
Nerver underestimate the stupidity implied by those MBA diplomas!!!
Furthermore, paraplegics and the like have physical, real disabilities. I have no sympathy for mental "disorders," because quite frankly, I don't believe in them. It's all in your head, literally. If you believe that your mind is subject to forces beyond your control well, that's just -sad-.
Working from home definitely has disadvantages. Your people skills actually get rusty after a while, and you have to make a conscious effort to keep them fresh.
Not at all. You just have to make sure you hone them 1-2 times a month, and this is easily done by inviting your favourite cow orkers for beer and/or watching raunchy videos over at your place (rotating, so effectively everyone meets likewise 2-3 times.a week).
There's something about actually phsically going somewhere in order to work that makes you feel ready for work. The only problem is if you have to travel too far to get there of course.
Dunno. I work from home, and I found that getting up from my bed and walking 3 seconds to my home office does the trick for me.
Well, I guess it is time for all good men to take hold of their trusty shotgun, and go on a rampage where any kind of marketeer should be shot on sight.
Kill all those goddammed cocksucking sonovabitches!!!
Plus, the real person they call will likely bitch them out (because it is a cold call). Hey, they might even be on the Do Not Call list. The fact that they got a lead for that number offers no protection as the lead is bogus (i.e. incorrect name, incorrect address.), so now you are putting the mortgage company in a position where they may be liable for fines.
Heck, **DOWNLOAD** the actual DO NOT CALL list, and solely fill the bogus replies with those phone numbers. This is a surefire way to get the fuckers in hot water.
A company will spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars for a building with locks on the doors to keep whats inside secret. $50 for a paper shreader is not an unreasonable expense to provide for.
You obviously never had to deal with a accountants before.
Entire segments of the software market have NO Open Source options. Engineering Workstations and high-end CAD and design are examples of this. You can't design a large FPGA and simulate it with any Open Source solution.
So what? For what you can't do with Open Source, you use closed-source. But that's a tiny percentage of applications anyways.
The guy made a statement about his control of the home network. You responded by personally attacking him, basically calling him a tight-assed bastard... shame on you. He makes a VERY important point... his hardware, his electricity, his rules; I happen to think he's got every right to do this.
The guy is indeed a fucking tight-assed bastard, one which will senselessly impict stupid rigid toughts to his life. That's the kind of stupid jerks who fuck-up everything in life.
Here's a point you're missing; he's responsible for that network.
That's right... his house, his hardware, his electricity, HIS RESPONSIBILITY, including legally. The last thing I want is the RIAA/MPAA/FBI coming to my door because I gave my teen a little too much freedom on his computer. How many thousands did that little girl's mother have to pay because she was downloading music? I know you know the story I'm talking about, discussed ad nauseum here on Slashdot.
Personal responsibility is an outdated, obsolete concept. It's only a scarecrow brandished by the berich to blame the poor for their poorness. Personal responsibility is the stuff of primitive minds who like to gather the most power/wealth at the expense of others, because it enables them to blame their victims for their plight.
Personal responsibility is OVER in any civilized society. Only primitive cavemen are harping it.
I have no problem letting my kids learn. I let them fall, skin their knees (my wife has a little trouble with this), even occasionally burn themselves, after all, the two best teachers are pain and loss of money. What I will not do is sit back while they fill their minds with stuff they may or may not be ready to handle, or while they get chatted up by some pedophile. And don't even give me that you're just a paranoid old man crap... Until you've done the number of sexual assault exams I have (including pediatric), you can sit down and be quiet.
The reason why there is so many problems with sex is because of tight-assed overly religious assholes like you (obviously). You view sex as being bad only because of your fucking stupid shithole religion (the same one that harps personal responsibility).
My kids have met big brother, and he is me. I'm not overprotective, just watchful. If I see them access something inappropriate, I may not say anything; I may just watch to see what they do. They best measure of your personal ethos and integrity is what you do when you think nobody is watching.
Basically, what you want is your kids to become tightassed assholes like you, people who will inflict great harm upon the existence of other people.
Once your kids have proven themselves, consider turning them loose... but trust is EARNED, folks.
As a tightassed parent, you only deserve mistrust and if your kids are by any measure intelligent, they will learn to lie and deceive you. You will have fully earned what you sowed.
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Where do you want to go to court today???
Like they did with Concorde.
Like they did with Concorde.
NO FUCKING SHIT!
NO GODDAMMED FUCKING SHIT ON A STICK!!!
Do you FUCKING REALIZE the EXTREME TERMINAL STUPIDITY of what you're saying???
Why the fuck do you think that VOTING IS SECRET and HAS TO BE SECRET?
It's to frigging MAKE SURE VOTERS AREN'T BOUGHT OR INTIMIDATED into voting for a given candidate!!!
Sheesh! One wonders what goes through the heads of those youths nowadays!!!!
Since 2000, municipal elections here are counted with a mark-sense reader.
Voters get a letter-sized ballot, and they mark their vote with a sharpie. Then, they insert the ballot in a carrier-envelope.
Each ballot has a detachable stub with a sequential serial number, which is initialed by the scrutineer. When the voter returns, he tears-off the stub, and hands it to the scrutineer; this way, everyone can be sure it's the same ballot that was given (instead of a telegram, where you put in a pre-marked ballot, and prove you did it by bringing back the blank ballot).
The ballot is then passed though a mark-sense reader which tallies the counts, and drops into a sealed box, along with the other ballots.
This way, the results are known within seconds when the polls close, AND you STILL HAVE the paper ballots to be recounted, if the need arises.
The machines are not open-source, but starting tomorrow, I am pursuing the matter with the authorities.
Er, no. Concorde flew above 60,000 feet, where air resistance is much less than the customary 35,000 feet. Concorde was just as a fuel-efficient cruiser as subsonic planes; trouble is, it sucked 25% of it's fuel on take-off...
Like they did with Concorde.
Nerver underestimate the stupidity implied by those MBA diplomas!!!
Kill all those goddammed cocksucking sonovabitches!!!
Back in 1981, that is, 22 years ago, during a computer show, I did put my HP-41C calculator in my shirt pocket which I had programmed to show my name.
The guy is indeed a fucking tight-assed bastard, one which will senselessly impict stupid rigid toughts to his life. That's the kind of stupid jerks who fuck-up everything in life.
Personal responsibility is an outdated, obsolete concept. It's only a scarecrow brandished by the berich to blame the poor for their poorness. Personal responsibility is the stuff of primitive minds who like to gather the most power/wealth at the expense of others, because it enables them to blame their victims for their plight.
Personal responsibility is OVER in any civilized society. Only primitive cavemen are harping it.
The reason why there is so many problems with sex is because of tight-assed overly religious assholes like you (obviously). You view sex as being bad only because of your fucking stupid shithole religion (the same one that harps personal responsibility).
Basically, what you want is your kids to become tightassed assholes like you, people who will inflict great harm upon the existence of other people.
As a tightassed parent, you only deserve mistrust and if your kids are by any measure intelligent, they will learn to lie and deceive you. You will have fully earned what you sowed.