They DO hate our freedom! And they clearly do not realize that, for freedom to remain, sacrifices must be made. Sacrifices of our freedom. So, freedom must be sacrificed for freedom to endure. It makes so much sense, doesn't it?
Not at all.
France doesn't hate YOUR freedom, but it hates the KIND OF FREEDOM americans have.
They hate the freedom of being able to accumulate as much wealth/power/influence at the expense of others, and use it to squash others.
Now, it has exposed a broad flank to be shot down in flames in the inevitable appeal that will ensue.
After-all, despite all the new "patriot" acts, the basic doctrine that they have to prove you're guilty and not you that you're innocent stills stands...
Which forefront are you talking about? The Revolution of 1789, which took place 14 years after the English colonies in North America had their revolution?
The american revolution was a bourgeois revolution; that is, bourgeois revolting against laws that prevented them from doing commerce and against taxes. Therefore it does not qualify as a true "revolution", but is rather a jacquerie led by the rich.
Or when Napolean took over the Republic and abandoned it for another monarchy with his family in charge? Or when his son dissolved the second Republic and declared the French Empire? Or maybe you're thinking of the Vichy government's collaboration with the Nazis?
Those were right-wingers at work, much like Georges Bush after Clinton, Reagan after Carter or Margared Thatcher after... who was the labour prime minister before Maggie???
Ever since France has been at the forefront of social development with it's Revolution, it's always been sait that "it's out on a limb" by other less-advanced countries.
But eventually, all other countries adopt the principles put forth by France.
India has more than 3 times the population of the US, so, statistically, it is not surprising that they would have programmers too, especially that their culture and language makes the brain number/logic savvy.
When an industry is completely wiped out in America because of overseas tactical price gouging, one should take a hard look at Tariffs. Sure, maybe 100% of your industry shouldn't be conserved because some may not be efficient, but shouldn't you conserve at least 10% of your industry like you conserve an endangered species?
It is not overseas price gouging, but rather the high cost of US labour. Third-world workers don't have 2-3 cars in the driveway, a house in the 'burbs with a swimming pool in the back. All those things have to be paid for, and as long as foreign-made goods won't have to support the costs of those LUXURIES, Wall-Marde will be more than happy to ship all the work to the third-world.
Arguments of wages and such aside (which is one of the major ways other countries undercut our price), there will always be jobs that are just cheaper to do locally (unless you want to fly in prebuilt skyscrapers from Asia). And so what if we don't make the same number of textiles we used to? Conusumers get better goods, cheaper; allowing them to better spend their money. And those people who might have grown up to work in textile mills? Well now they have OTHER service jobs, or... (horror of horrors...) they became Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers, Engineers, and other educated people.
What a fallacy. The poor people who (used to) work in factories and mills certainly don't have the money, discipline or inclination to go to college and become doctors, lawyers and whatnot... When you are born poor, no matter how hard you work (when you can find work), you are guaranteed to stay poor, thanks to all the barriers put-up by the rich (like education costs that insure that education is virtually hereditary) to prevent the poor from getting rich.
To take an extreme example of your argument -- the popular, if utterly bogus, "slippery slope" approach -- your argument would suggest that murder, if committed for thrills but not money, is simply dandy. Less severely, it would justify breaking into peoples' homes if nothing were stolen or physically damage, despite the fact that this too can have substantial consequences (in this case, psychological). It's actually worse in the case of computers because it's more difficult to do a thorough yet precise assessment of what exactly has been compromised, which is why locking down the system followed by auditing, reinstallation and patching should be done if anything important was there at all.
What a goddammed clueless analogy. If you kill someone, someone is deprived of life. If you steal something from someone, that someone is deprived of the enjoyment of his property.
This is not the case when a widget is reverse-engineered, or hacked to do something else than it's purpose.
Another excuse for the US government to lean heavily on third-world and other countries (like Ukrane that suffers penalties for not curbing CD piracy enough)?
6) by simply breaking mechanisms that infringe on YOUR fair-use rights.
Here in Canada, the supreme court has ruled that making available songs to download on a P2P network is legal, and that the identity of file sharers is not the business of music companies.
Because here it is much harder for croporations to purchase custom-made legislation.
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France doesn't hate YOUR freedom, but it hates the KIND OF FREEDOM americans have.
They hate the freedom of being able to accumulate as much wealth/power/influence at the expense of others, and use it to squash others.
In the typewriting classes of a long time ago, all typewriters had blank-key keyboards to force people to memorize the keys without looking at them...
Now, it has exposed a broad flank to be shot down in flames in the inevitable appeal that will ensue.
After-all, despite all the new "patriot" acts, the basic doctrine that they have to prove you're guilty and not you that you're innocent stills stands...
Buy stock.
IBM isn't there to pamper it's employees. It's there to pamper it's board of directors, and, eventually, the shareholders.
The workers? Fuck'em. They've been paid for all the work they've done for IBM so they're in the least position to squeal about it.
Don't like it? Well, make a revolution. Until then, that's how it works.
Law enforcement officers too...
But eventually, all other countries adopt the principles put forth by France.
India has more than 3 times the population of the US, so, statistically, it is not surprising that they would have programmers too, especially that their culture and language makes the brain number/logic savvy.
This is not the case when a widget is reverse-engineered, or hacked to do something else than it's purpose.
In the rest of the world, "american" is a word that means "fucking retarded".
It's the goddammed fucking yankees who are in the bubble.
How many more Oussamas will this create???
This was to be expected from a bearded no-good like Fidel Castro!!!
6) by simply breaking mechanisms that infringe on YOUR fair-use rights.
Here in Canada, the supreme court has ruled that making available songs to download on a P2P network is legal, and that the identity of file sharers is not the business of music companies.
Because here it is much harder for croporations to purchase custom-made legislation.
There is a difference between "something for nothing" and "standing up for our rights".
Only law should protect (copy)RIGHTS. Anything else is wild-wild-west vigilantism.
"Unauthorized" (unauthorized != illegal) sharing is safe.