Nobody was allowed to see the legislation itself before it was voted on. It was drafted by Bush and his cronies. It's quite reasonable to say that had the Democrats actually seen the law, they would have turned it down. It's an even bet or better that the Dems will be taking down the USAPATRIOT Act. Soon.
The War in Iraq was based on a huge lie pushed by Bush. Had we found those alleged WMD's in Iraq this discussion about Iraq wouldn't even be happening, as the Iraq war would be both just and highly popular. Bush nailed all of America with what my marketing dept would call a hard core pressure sale: act right now or all is lost. The Democrats would never have gone along with this if they had known then what they know now.
In both cases, the Conservatives initiated these transgressions upon our freedoms and then used pressure sales to push it through. I would invite you to explain how that does not fully meet the definition of the word "brought".
Why don't you post up your name and address for the world to see? Oh wait, you're too paranoid to do that? What's the matter, afraid something bad might happen? Well then, what's your name and address?
You flaming, pathetic hypocrite. No, really, all your upcoming excuses suck. Name. Address. Now. What are you scared of, you little two-faced boypussy?
Home invasion robberies happen in the US a lot. And why should I ever have to apologize or answer to some apathetic loser like you about my desire for privacy?
It's my personal information. My personal information must be dealt with on my terms, and my terms alone. Period, end of story.
Conservatives like the concept of absolute monitoring of citizens. It's the whole war on terror thing that is their brainchild to begin with. Conservatives brought us the USAPATRIOT Act, etc.
What would people do with this information that is so sinister? How about simple invasion of privacy, or even home invaders using the info to case your house and cut off avenues of escape, etc., all with the convenience of sitting at their computers?
I have another idea.
Instead of allowing any personal information to become public property, why not treat personal information as personal property? Only the Government can have it for free. Everyone else already profits from using your personal information, why not make it your private property to determine how it is used and how much they must pay you?
Why shouldn't a marketer have to pay you to use your house photo or your name and home address, etc.? They profit from it, don't they? Private investigator houses like choicepoint.com profit from you by digitally talking about you to employers, etc.
These people profit by sharing "public information" about your personal details. There is a major incongruity there. Why should they be able to profit and you can't?
I say expand copyright law to include your right to control how your personal information is distributed. Call it a personal information DMCA.
Now, now. I can understand why you don't realize my point was that these laws you defend only stop law abiding citizens and do nothing to prevent really malicious people from wreaking havoc. It's all about control, eh Komrad?
My point is that they are burning through the labor pool, going for the cheap stuff first, at a rapid pace. It is unsustainable. Wages are rising in India as the demand has increased and will do so as well in smaller countries. This should be interesting to watch.
That point is tangential to my point that there's no shortage of skilled IT workers in America, which makes false the statement that we need to look overseas.
As an aside, where I am in the US there is a shortage. We have a hard time finding qualified applicants even for entry level people right now. We pay comparbable wages for our region, so pay differential is probably not the issue.
I manage hiring managers. As the top dog around here, I know what you and other hiring managers are actually saying.
"[Jan. 2007 job ad] Our entry level jobs call for five years' paid experience in Cell Processor programming and two years of Windows Vista administration. Biotech experience a plus (translation: those without biotech experience might as well stay home)."
The US, Western Europe and India are all being depleted, or have been depleted, of skilled IT labor forcing them to look toward Vietnam, Indonesia and West Africa. And that is a huge chunk of the global population.
The US has quite an abundance of skilled IT labor domestically. They're just being denied jobs in favor of a racist "foreign, cheap workers only" policy.
Nobody's being forced to look toward Vietnam, Indonesia or West Africa; it's just cheaper and it allows corporations to go back to the sweat shop mentality that isn't legal here.
4) He cites 100K IT graduates a year ready to do offshore support work but fails to mention that Indian companies are looking outside of India for labor. There just isn't enough labor out there to keep up with the crappy software. Hint: maybe CS departments should focus research and training on software quality. As a foot note, I wish I had the numbers or an economist would do a study, but in my gut I feel that demand for skilled IT labor is vastly outstripping supply. The US, Western Europe and India are all being depleted, or have been depleted, of skilled IT labor forcing them to look toward Vietnam, Indonesia and West Africa. And that is a huge chunk of the global population.
This is an out and out lie.
There are large numbers of CS grads - A+ kids, not the C- near-flunkouts - who are working at Wal Mart waiting for an IT job.
What I said was, story lines of the future will make today's masterpieces look elementary. But for that we need to demand that Oblivion-style writing be the new bare minimum rather than an outstanding exception to the rule.
We need more game story writing contests (more than we have now) to see what creativity is out there.
Writers are looked at as the non skilled segment (they're not coders, ergo they aren't important), but all the best games have kick butt writers.
We need more of the better writers, and when we get them, Gears of War, Oblivion, etc. will be the stone age of gaming, instead of contenders for examples of the golden age.
In reality, both the DSL and Cable company will adopt the same behavior because they stand to get more money extorting content providers than they stand to get from winning one another's subscribers over.
Plus they are gambling on consumer apathy, as in if Youtube is slow because they're not paying the extortion fee, the customer doesn't know that Youtube is slow because it's de-prioritized, so the consumer just forgets Youtube and moves on. You know what's happening to Youtube but no one wants to hear your explanation because it's too techy and too political for them. They'd rather hear the latest gossip about American Idol.
Now before you respond, let us assume that there are no Government laws about who can establish a competing cable modem company. Let's say you want to compete. That means you'll be up the streets in the city and laying your own network of fiber alongside your competition's existing network of underground fiber. What happens when a third competitior comes along and tries to do the same thing? And then a fourth, or fifth? Those streets will never be driveable because everyone's always tearing up the roads to lay new fiber. That's why you only see one company servicing a city. ^^^^^ This, ladies and gentlemen, is one solid fact that laissez-faire dreamers can't wrap their brains around.:)
If the IP address is from a known list of Government sites or any known spiders, redirect them to pages free of personal information.
This would also be useful in keeping spiders armed with manually-created website logins from slurping down tons of personal information for private databases... oh crap, I'm giving them ideas!
First of all, let me start this off with a disclaimer: I'm not trying to flame anyone here.
Now, like I said before, what actual damage can one do illegally with amateur radio that a malicious, unlicensed terrorist couldn't do anyway?
And frankly speaking I consider the right to hide what you're doing to be more important than the FCC's right to control. If that's wrong then hey, let's make all our houses of glass and have cameras following us around 24/7. I'd like to at least communicate with someone across the street without joe neighbor or the FBI snoops and their Carnivore/DCS-1000 systems listening in without even probable cause or a warrant. I can't do that with the internet, can't do that on the airwaves... this is ridiculous. Communications privacy goes out the window piece by piece, while anyone with truly malicious intent can rig together a radio and drive around clandestinely interfering with critical communications, bringing down satellites, airplanes and God knows what else with their killer unlicensed radio, then turn it off and make themselves scarce when the FBI or whoever comes trying to trace the location of the transmission (by which time it's too late even if they do find and kill the culprits where they stand).
If ever there was a such thing as a "law that doesn't do a flippin' thing to stop determined criminals", this is a solid gold example.
No, I don't want radio or television stations being interfered with, or airplanes falling out of the sky because of communications being interfered with, but FCC licensing wouldn't stop a terrorist from achieving that, and if it is as easy as you say for an unlicensed person to achieve these disasters, I'm concerned that some criminal concern hasn't done this already. For some reason that traffic jammed drive up the 15 to Vegas is looking more attractive now...
A certified fan of Andrew "Necros" Sega (of Five Musicians) in the hizzouse. Nobody could throw down a joint like him, and nobody ever will. His mods were masterpieces. Some of Necros' music made it into video games, like Unreal (the original) Tournament.
The music mod community was the worse for his departure. There has never been an artist of his magnitude since.
The music industry benefitted greatly from his efforts in the group "The Alpha Conspiracy".
Why can't a terrorist with an unlicensed radio can transmit on the same frequency used by an aircraft instrument landing system, for that matter? If an unlicensed radio operator can do all that much damage you have far worse problems on your hands than any licensing agency can hope to solve - at least when [insert terrorist boogeyman here] reads what you just posted.
Your "satire" tries to compare apples versus oranges. A driver in a car needs a license because they can kill a bunch of people right out of the driveway. A pilot can crash a plane full of 100s of people. Radio operators can't do that. Oh wait, a terrorist can. I wonder why they haven't. Hmmmmm. Maybe they can't?
Now, I notice you totally ignored the other part of my remark... why does encryption have to be illegal?
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Unbelievable.
Your mommy just called. I'm to deliver the child support check directly to you this month so you can buy a clue.
Half-truths.
Nobody was allowed to see the legislation itself before it was voted on. It was drafted by Bush and his cronies. It's quite reasonable to say that had the Democrats actually seen the law, they would have turned it down. It's an even bet or better that the Dems will be taking down the USAPATRIOT Act. Soon.
The War in Iraq was based on a huge lie pushed by Bush. Had we found those alleged WMD's in Iraq this discussion about Iraq wouldn't even be happening, as the Iraq war would be both just and highly popular. Bush nailed all of America with what my marketing dept would call a hard core pressure sale: act right now or all is lost. The Democrats would never have gone along with this if they had known then what they know now.
In both cases, the Conservatives initiated these transgressions upon our freedoms and then used pressure sales to push it through. I would invite you to explain how that does not fully meet the definition of the word "brought".
Why don't you post up your name and address for the world to see? Oh wait, you're too paranoid to do that? What's the matter, afraid something bad might happen? Well then, what's your name and address?
You flaming, pathetic hypocrite. No, really, all your upcoming excuses suck. Name. Address. Now. What are you scared of, you little two-faced boypussy?
Home invasion robberies happen in the US a lot. And why should I ever have to apologize or answer to some apathetic loser like you about my desire for privacy?
It's my personal information. My personal information must be dealt with on my terms, and my terms alone. Period, end of story.
Conservatives like the concept of absolute monitoring of citizens. It's the whole war on terror thing that is their brainchild to begin with. Conservatives brought us the USAPATRIOT Act, etc.
What would people do with this information that is so sinister? How about simple invasion of privacy, or even home invaders using the info to case your house and cut off avenues of escape, etc., all with the convenience of sitting at their computers?
I have another idea.
Instead of allowing any personal information to become public property, why not treat personal information as personal property? Only the Government can have it for free. Everyone else already profits from using your personal information, why not make it your private property to determine how it is used and how much they must pay you?
Why shouldn't a marketer have to pay you to use your house photo or your name and home address, etc.? They profit from it, don't they? Private investigator houses like choicepoint.com profit from you by digitally talking about you to employers, etc.
These people profit by sharing "public information" about your personal details. There is a major incongruity there. Why should they be able to profit and you can't?
I say expand copyright law to include your right to control how your personal information is distributed. Call it a personal information DMCA.
Now, now. I can understand why you don't realize my point was that these laws you defend only stop law abiding citizens and do nothing to prevent really malicious people from wreaking havoc. It's all about control, eh Komrad?
"[Jan. 2007 job ad] Our entry level jobs call for five years' paid experience in Cell Processor programming and two years of Windows Vista administration. Biotech experience a plus (translation: those without biotech experience might as well stay home)."
Nobody's being forced to look toward Vietnam, Indonesia or West Africa; it's just cheaper and it allows corporations to go back to the sweat shop mentality that isn't legal here.
There are large numbers of CS grads - A+ kids, not the C- near-flunkouts - who are working at Wal Mart waiting for an IT job.
Indeed I am not surprised.
In an economy as crappy as this, the "you can always work for a more ethical software company" isn't as practical as it used to be.
I mean, how many jobs are there at RedHat?
MicroSoft's worst detractors are their own execs.
More liberal communist tripe by yet another confiscationalist author from Rio Linda California.
Don't you people realize that it's unions, not corporate execs, who bring companies down? Look at what the electricians' union did to Enron!
[right wing parody off]
What I said was, story lines of the future will make today's masterpieces look elementary. But for that we need to demand that Oblivion-style writing be the new bare minimum rather than an outstanding exception to the rule.
We need more game story writing contests (more than we have now) to see what creativity is out there.
getting into the industry of writing for games?
Writers are looked at as the non skilled segment (they're not coders, ergo they aren't important), but all the best games have kick butt writers.
We need more of the better writers, and when we get them, Gears of War, Oblivion, etc. will be the stone age of gaming, instead of contenders for examples of the golden age.
In reality, both the DSL and Cable company will adopt the same behavior because they stand to get more money extorting content providers than they stand to get from winning one another's subscribers over.
:)
Plus they are gambling on consumer apathy, as in if Youtube is slow because they're not paying the extortion fee, the customer doesn't know that Youtube is slow because it's de-prioritized, so the consumer just forgets Youtube and moves on. You know what's happening to Youtube but no one wants to hear your explanation because it's too techy and too political for them. They'd rather hear the latest gossip about American Idol.
Now before you respond, let us assume that there are no Government laws about who can establish a competing cable modem company. Let's say you want to compete. That means you'll be up the streets in the city and laying your own network of fiber alongside your competition's existing network of underground fiber. What happens when a third competitior comes along and tries to do the same thing? And then a fourth, or fifth? Those streets will never be driveable because everyone's always tearing up the roads to lay new fiber. That's why you only see one company servicing a city.
^^^^^ This, ladies and gentlemen, is one solid fact that laissez-faire dreamers can't wrap their brains around.
Her husband Bill used the FBI to spy on his enemies.
Hillary needs to take account for that transgression.
If the IP address is from a known list of Government sites or any known spiders, redirect them to pages free of personal information.
This would also be useful in keeping spiders armed with manually-created website logins from slurping down tons of personal information for private databases... oh crap, I'm giving them ideas!
I love conventions, and I also love local group meetings. All of this has been damaged by the internet.
Thank God for miracles like meetup.com.
Require logins in order to see addresses or any other identifying info. You have to do that to purchase anything anyway, on a typical site like that.
If the web spider doesn't have a login name, it can't see any identifying info.
First of all, let me start this off with a disclaimer: I'm not trying to flame anyone here.
Now, like I said before, what actual damage can one do illegally with amateur radio that a malicious, unlicensed terrorist couldn't do anyway?
And frankly speaking I consider the right to hide what you're doing to be more important than the FCC's right to control. If that's wrong then hey, let's make all our houses of glass and have cameras following us around 24/7. I'd like to at least communicate with someone across the street without joe neighbor or the FBI snoops and their Carnivore/DCS-1000 systems listening in without even probable cause or a warrant. I can't do that with the internet, can't do that on the airwaves... this is ridiculous. Communications privacy goes out the window piece by piece, while anyone with truly malicious intent can rig together a radio and drive around clandestinely interfering with critical communications, bringing down satellites, airplanes and God knows what else with their killer unlicensed radio, then turn it off and make themselves scarce when the FBI or whoever comes trying to trace the location of the transmission (by which time it's too late even if they do find and kill the culprits where they stand).
If ever there was a such thing as a "law that doesn't do a flippin' thing to stop determined criminals", this is a solid gold example.
No, I don't want radio or television stations being interfered with, or airplanes falling out of the sky because of communications being interfered with, but FCC licensing wouldn't stop a terrorist from achieving that, and if it is as easy as you say for an unlicensed person to achieve these disasters, I'm concerned that some criminal concern hasn't done this already. For some reason that traffic jammed drive up the 15 to Vegas is looking more attractive now...
I'm surprised that Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul didn't make Mod of the Year.
What it did to improve the already stellar TES IV: Oblivion was utterly phenomenal.
A certified fan of Andrew "Necros" Sega (of Five Musicians) in the hizzouse. Nobody could throw down a joint like him, and nobody ever will. His mods were masterpieces. Some of Necros' music made it into video games, like Unreal (the original) Tournament.
The music mod community was the worse for his departure. There has never been an artist of his magnitude since.
The music industry benefitted greatly from his efforts in the group "The Alpha Conspiracy".
Why can't a terrorist with an unlicensed radio can transmit on the same frequency used by an aircraft instrument landing system, for that matter? If an unlicensed radio operator can do all that much damage you have far worse problems on your hands than any licensing agency can hope to solve - at least when [insert terrorist boogeyman here] reads what you just posted.
Your "satire" tries to compare apples versus oranges. A driver in a car needs a license because they can kill a bunch of people right out of the driveway. A pilot can crash a plane full of 100s of people. Radio operators can't do that. Oh wait, a terrorist can. I wonder why they haven't. Hmmmmm. Maybe they can't?
Now, I notice you totally ignored the other part of my remark... why does encryption have to be illegal?