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  1. Re:They want it both ways on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    I did not mention unemployment, you changed the subject. As I stated, Manufacturing has moved off-shore strictly to get competitive low labor rates.
    Even then, You are only half right. Now the unskilled work in the service sector. Like having a McJob.

  2. Re:They want it both ways on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    those on welfare. Let's take the able bodied amongst them...put them to work for lower wages
    Hmmm, I like that idea. Make them work for their welfare, 40 hours of work per week = normal welfare check.
    That is probably still above the average 600RMB (~$80) per month the Chinese get but it is a start.

    Then the Libs would insist that they are not getting minimum wage. (Which is what sent manufacturing off-shore in the first place).

    Eliminate minimum wage or make it equal to the lowest paid off-shore worker, force those on welfare to perform work for their support.
    But then that would take a revolution in the good ol' US of A.
    - Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Beat him with a fish he goes away and doesn't bother you again.
  3. Re:...national secrete... on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1
    And you know all about China from?
    Are you basing all of your beliefs on what you read in western media?
    Your chances of having the MPAA attack you legally is probably greater than those of one of the several billion Chinese workers having the government hunt them down for any spoken slight.

    laws & courts are imperfect
    Using due process any corporation can afford to drag a case out in court until a slave, oops I mean a single party dies.

    I'll bet that some Chinese person is ranting about the suppressive regime in the US and how the government is taking all freedoms, right now. Yet the government in the US spins it to make the majority of the populace believe that it is for their own protection.
  4. Re:They want it both ways on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    weather or not
    whether or not

    Dang clicker.
  5. Re:They want it both ways on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    I'd gladly start paying 10%-20% more for most of my goods if they were made/raised in the US.
    The problem with that is that it would cost much more to make the same products in the US. Unless you are volunteering yourself and some others to work on a production line for only 10-20% more than a Chinese worker While you still pay that 10-20% more for finished goods.

    The general population still is not accepting that it is a global economy weather or not anyone likes it.
  6. Re:What I don't get... on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 1

    Even the motions of my head can be determined as I poke the buttons with my nose.

    And they have at least 3 angles to look from.

  7. Re:What I don't get... on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 1

    Read RF device from your surreptitious reader. Pay security guy off for the pins along with a time that they were entered.

  8. Re:What I don't get... on FTC to Scrutinize Contactless Payment Technology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chip+PIN... have you noticed all of the cameras? Like one over each register at my local Wal-Mart.
    I don't like entering the PIN where it can be seen.

  9. Re:Flying cars are nonsense. on It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane · · Score: 1

    The skills needed to fly are a lot higher than those to drive.
    Just plain wrong. Driving kills more people than guns knives and blunt objects (other than vehicles) combined.

    Want to save lives make a drivers license MUCH harder to get.

  10. Re:Flying cars are nonsense. on It's Not a Flying Car - It's a Drivable Airplane · · Score: 1

    Not true. No one needs a pilots license to fly. You only need a pilots license to carry a passenger.

    If you want to rent they will check you out and verify a students license and that you have soloed (7-10 hrs).

    But if you own it you can attempt to fly with none.

    The advantage is Takeoff is easy. The landing usually eliminates a second attempt.

  11. Re:Impressed on A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 · · Score: 1

    makes me wonder about how McDonalds got all those hamburgers.
    Soylent green.
  12. Re:Limits are badly needed on Orson Scott Card Blasts J.K. Rowling's Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    (unless you made it up yourself).
    You mean sumptin' like "Twas brillig and the slithy..."
    Oh wait a minute...
    been done.
  13. Re:Good for India. on India Launches 10 Satellites At Once · · Score: 1

    Indians will eventually solve their problems.
    Hell, they may well rule the world. They already rule the world of customer service, and Quick-E-Marts.
  14. From a /.ers sig on Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion? · · Score: 1

    Talking to your neighbor over the fence is depriving a phone company of income.

  15. Re:Uh.. on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 1

    This is a country that spies on its citizens, taps their phone calls, monitors pretty much all of the e-mail and internet activity of its people. They are responsible for the torture and imprisonment of people who have never been given the chance to prove their innocence. They have kidnapped people in foreign lands and delivered them to torture centers. They have consistently meddled in the affairs of foreign governments, to the point of overthrowing democratically elected governments and putting dictators in their place, merely to protect their own interests. Any time something bad is said of them, the person is labeled a foreign sympathizer and attacked publicly.
    You leave President George W. Bush out of this!
  16. Re:The USPTO is broken. full. stop. on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I'll bet Seagate laid off the engineer who did patent it.

  17. Re:Another One Bites The Dust on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    spend their R&D of legal

    Make that: "spend their R&D budget on legal"
  18. Another One Bites The Dust on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    STEC, next in a long list of innovative startups to spend their R&D of legal maneuvering with Seagate.

  19. Re:Seagate scared on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    That is because Slavegate, oops, Seagate, knew the legal department would kill any competitors.

    "Nothing personal, just a business decision." That line was used as several hundred employees were being scrapped, it is the credo of Seagate.

  20. Re:Aw crap! on Seagate Sues STEC For Patent Infringement · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seagate is the Monster Cable of the Disk Drive Industry. Try to do a startup of any form of mass storage and you will need to spend a large portion of your seed money on legal to hold Seagate at bay. Until they see that you are standing dead.

  21. Re:Pleeeese! on Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    Quite often the wind blows people from other states here.

  22. Re:yeah right. on Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser? · · Score: 1

    Probably because they do not support your development system software, therefore you get to spend a day reinstalling that and then restoring your setup.

  23. Re:Superusers? on Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser? · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile that contractor you hired is still waiting to install the application he wrote for your business unit.

  24. Re:Is the USA still a democracy? on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1

    You are still able to post this.
    Meaningless.
    I posted to /. from China in 2006. I commented on the horrible pollution I was looking at out the window. I made it home unhindered. Does that mean China is free?
  25. Re:Is the USA still a democracy? on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1

    Yet.

    Perhaps the Iran emergency will suspend elections. Indefinitely.