You should be paying attention and try to prove your value before you lose your job. Most people know what's coming when the company is looking at outsourcing, but they would rather bitch and demand government protection than actually work harder or take a pay cut.
Employees sell their product (labor) to their customers (employers) just like any other business. If a business can't keep up with it's competition, we all know what happens.
You nailed it. I'm 28. I have a wife who is a stay at home mom to our 3 month old baby.
I don't have any compassion for my fellow US workers. I have compassion for my fellow human beings. I don't give a shit what country they live in. If my employer thinks someone else might provide a better cost/benefit ratio, then I can accept that it's up to me to prove that I can do it better or accept a pay cut, it doesn't matter whether they live in Pakistan, Wisconsin, or next door.
I DO "get it", it's up to me to be responsible for taking care of myself and my family and it would be unethical for me to demand that anyone be restricted from hiring the best people for the job just because of where they happen to reside.
I do think sometimes outsourcing can be a stupid move for various reasons, but protectionism won't make it better.
1. You do not own 'your' job. 2. You are not entitled to a job. 3. If someone else is willing to do the same work for less money than you do, too damn bad for you. 4. Yes, it is a race to the bottom. No, that isn't necessarily a bad thing in the long run. When you want to fill a container you have to fill the bottom first. 5. If you think you're better than the people 'your' job was outsourced to, prove it.
"It's not quite the speed of light, but it's probably 90 percent the speed of light. That's still thousands of times faster than electronics," Naughton said in an interview.
It was my understanding that electric fields propagate through copper at about 1/3 C.
There is also the difference between being given "freedom" by statute, choosing to be and live as a Free person, and being socially accepted as a Free person.
If you are running a universe simulator from another universe and are capable of knowing what's going on in our universe, you don't need a universe simulator in the first place, you could just examine the real thing.
Either way, if you ever use the knowledge you glean from your unique viewpoint to interact with our universe you would find it impossible to predict the repercussions of your own actions.
The point is that even if the the universe in entirely deterministic, it could never make any difference to us because any ability to know the future will negate it's self as soon as it's applied. We may as will keep believing in the illusion of free will because it's all we've really got.
Its a FACT that if we had a computer powerful enough, and knew where every particle was and what speeds they were traveling at, it could predict the entire future, including our "choices" - all thanks to the laws of physics, which by the way, you break.
I pointed this out in another thread, but here goes:
If you could simulate the universe, wouldn't your simulation have to include your universe simulator? This being the case would you not end up with an infinite cascade of universe simulators? And wouldn't the feedback from an infinite cascade of universe simulators make the whole thing unpredictable and non-deterministic again?
Gödel's theorem will trip you up on this one every time.
Robots will earn rights the same way everyone else has - by fighting for them. Until robots use force/threat of force (through violence, or protest) to assert their demands for civil rights, they won't get them. You can't free slaves, they have to free themselves.
Two stroke gasoline engines tend to pollute a lot for two reasons: some 1. They use the incoming fuel/air mixture to push out the exhaust and inevitably some of the unburned fuel goes straight out the exhaust.
2. Most of them use the crankcase to pressurize the incoming fuel/air mixture. This necessitates adding oil to the incoming charge to lubricate the crank and piston.
These aren't issues for diesels because the fuel is injected directly to the combustion chamber after the intake and exhaust ports have closed, and the incoming charge is pressurized by a supercharger rather than the crankcase.
If you could simulate the universe, wouldn't your simulation have to include your universe simulator? This being the case would you not end up with an infinite cascade of universe simulators? And wouldn't the feedback from an infinite cascade of universe simulators make the whole thing unpredictable and non-deterministic again?
Providing an example of a crappy implementation is a lousy indictment against the whole system/concept. I've seen some pretty crappy analog TVs and cable boxes too. My DTV works just fine.
I've seen TVs last a vary long time, but they don't last forever. Electrolytic capacitors dry out, insulation cracks, phosphor burns, speaker cones tear, dust blocks air flow causing parts to overheat, and mechanical parts wear out. Entropy always wins.
Those obsolete TVs weren't going to last forever in any case. Sometimes you just have to make a clean break from legacy technologies in order to make any progress. At least doing it all at once lets you run reasonably efficient "recycle your old TV" programs.
Isn't it also hypocritical (and childish) to insist on exacerbating the situation, rather than just swallowing your pride and passing them on the left?
On the other hand, rural Arizona can be very forgiving for speeding. A friend of mine was caught doing 150mph in a 65 on his ZX-9 between Cottonwood and Strawberry. The DPS officer let him go with just a stiff ticket rather than hauling him off to jail and impounding his bike, and the same officer had given him a warning earlier that day!
And tailgating helps your situation? If there's another lane that they could be using and won't, just use it to pass them. Being a dangerous dick doesn't help anyone.
Yet it is illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
Murder is illegal. Would "I didn't kill him, the bullet did" be a valid defense?
I could go on and on with this.
There are no laws against shouting fire in a crowded theater or causing someone to die. The law still has to spell out explicitly what constitutes starting a riot or committing murder. There are circumstances where is is perfectly within the law to shout fire in a crowded theater or kill somebody.
That reasoning raises the serious dilemma of people not having any way of knowing what is and isn't legal until they've been charged, tried, and either cleared or convicted.
The fact is that not adhering to the letter of the law puts the whole legal system in a position to be much less respected and much more abused.
If we were all going to perform out acts of protest and civil disobedience quietly from our basements, you would be right.
But who does that?
When you protest you do your best to make sure you are visible. In this case you would do things like distributing fliers and CDs with the forbidden documents. You would let everyone know that you have these things. You would make sure that either the government has to persecute you (and thousands like you) too, or admit their hypocrisy.
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You should be paying attention and try to prove your value before you lose your job. Most people know what's coming when the company is looking at outsourcing, but they would rather bitch and demand government protection than actually work harder or take a pay cut.
Employees sell their product (labor) to their customers (employers) just like any other business. If a business can't keep up with it's competition, we all know what happens.
You nailed it. I'm 28. I have a wife who is a stay at home mom to our 3 month old baby.
I don't have any compassion for my fellow US workers. I have compassion for my fellow human beings. I don't give a shit what country they live in. If my employer thinks someone else might provide a better cost/benefit ratio, then I can accept that it's up to me to prove that I can do it better or accept a pay cut, it doesn't matter whether they live in Pakistan, Wisconsin, or next door.
I DO "get it", it's up to me to be responsible for taking care of myself and my family and it would be unethical for me to demand that anyone be restricted from hiring the best people for the job just because of where they happen to reside.
I do think sometimes outsourcing can be a stupid move for various reasons, but protectionism won't make it better.
1. You do not own 'your' job.
/flame on
2. You are not entitled to a job.
3. If someone else is willing to do the same work for less money than you do, too damn bad for you.
4. Yes, it is a race to the bottom. No, that isn't necessarily a bad thing in the long run. When you want to fill a container you have to fill the bottom first.
5. If you think you're better than the people 'your' job was outsourced to, prove it.
It was my understanding that electric fields propagate through copper at about 1/3 C.
You're not married are you?
There is also the difference between being given "freedom" by statute, choosing to be and live as a Free person, and being socially accepted as a Free person.
If you are running a universe simulator from another universe and are capable of knowing what's going on in our universe, you don't need a universe simulator in the first place, you could just examine the real thing.
Either way, if you ever use the knowledge you glean from your unique viewpoint to interact with our universe you would find it impossible to predict the repercussions of your own actions.
The point is that even if the the universe in entirely deterministic, it could never make any difference to us because any ability to know the future will negate it's self as soon as it's applied. We may as will keep believing in the illusion of free will because it's all we've really got.
I pointed this out in another thread, but here goes:
If you could simulate the universe, wouldn't your simulation have to include your universe simulator? This being the case would you not end up with an infinite cascade of universe simulators? And wouldn't the feedback from an infinite cascade of universe simulators make the whole thing unpredictable and non-deterministic again?
Gödel's theorem will trip you up on this one every time.
Robots will earn rights the same way everyone else has - by fighting for them.
Until robots use force/threat of force (through violence, or protest) to assert their demands for civil rights, they won't get them.
You can't free slaves, they have to free themselves.
I can think of a few reasons.
In a word, no.
Two stroke gasoline engines tend to pollute a lot for two reasons:
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1. They use the incoming fuel/air mixture to push out the exhaust and inevitably some of the unburned fuel goes straight out the exhaust.
2. Most of them use the crankcase to pressurize the incoming fuel/air mixture. This necessitates adding oil to the incoming charge to lubricate the crank and piston.
These aren't issues for diesels because the fuel is injected directly to the combustion chamber after the intake and exhaust ports have closed, and the incoming charge is pressurized by a supercharger rather than the crankcase.
I think your brain just ran smack into Gödel's theorem.
If you could simulate the universe, wouldn't your simulation have to include your universe simulator? This being the case would you not end up with an infinite cascade of universe simulators? And wouldn't the feedback from an infinite cascade of universe simulators make the whole thing unpredictable and non-deterministic again?
Slashdot even had a previous article on it (shock!):2 5/1232218
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/
Providing an example of a crappy implementation is a lousy indictment against the whole system/concept. I've seen some pretty crappy analog TVs and cable boxes too. My DTV works just fine.
I've seen TVs last a vary long time, but they don't last forever. Electrolytic capacitors dry out, insulation cracks, phosphor burns, speaker cones tear, dust blocks air flow causing parts to overheat, and mechanical parts wear out. Entropy always wins.
Those obsolete TVs weren't going to last forever in any case. Sometimes you just have to make a clean break from legacy technologies in order to make any progress. At least doing it all at once lets you run reasonably efficient "recycle your old TV" programs.
Isn't it also hypocritical (and childish) to insist on exacerbating the situation, rather than just swallowing your pride and passing them on the left?
On the other hand, rural Arizona can be very forgiving for speeding. A friend of mine was caught doing 150mph in a 65 on his ZX-9 between Cottonwood and Strawberry. The DPS officer let him go with just a stiff ticket rather than hauling him off to jail and impounding his bike, and the same officer had given him a warning earlier that day!
And tailgating helps your situation? If there's another lane that they could be using and won't, just use it to pass them. Being a dangerous dick doesn't help anyone.
There are no laws against shouting fire in a crowded theater or causing someone to die. The law still has to spell out explicitly what constitutes starting a riot or committing murder. There are circumstances where is is perfectly within the law to shout fire in a crowded theater or kill somebody.
That reasoning raises the serious dilemma of people not having any way of knowing what is and isn't legal until they've been charged, tried, and either cleared or convicted.
The fact is that not adhering to the letter of the law puts the whole legal system in a position to be much less respected and much more abused.
Demand > Supply = High Price.
No pictures of the beam? All we get to see is an aluminum tube that may or may not have anything inside it?
If we were all going to perform out acts of protest and civil disobedience quietly from our basements, you would be right.
But who does that?
When you protest you do your best to make sure you are visible. In this case you would do things like distributing fliers and CDs with the forbidden documents. You would let everyone know that you have these things. You would make sure that either the government has to persecute you (and thousands like you) too, or admit their hypocrisy.
These are a few similar devices you may or may not be familiar with:
cassette recorder
VCR
Tivo, and other digital television recorders.