American armed commandos raping Iraqi women and dragging people out and shooting them or stacking prisoners into butt pyramids is good? American troops kidnapping suspects' wives in the dead of night is good? (Mind you, all of these are documented incidents.) The United States is not one to complain when we've engaged in acts of terror against them.
Now, let's discuss the real way to win against Muslim terrorists.
a) Offer Muslim women a college education
b) Treat prisoners ethically under the Geneva Conventions
c) Deliver aid to disaster stricken areas (this worked well for Tehran during their last big quake; too bad Bush squandered all that good will)
d) Sell them freedom like we did with the USSR - with a radio free Middle East approach
And failing all that, we can simply wipe them out economically with: e) A Manhattan project-sized push for alternative energy in the West
While they're guilty of holocaust denial, we're constantly guilty of "them swarthy people"ism.
Recognizing the Palestinians' side of things is not the same as hating Israel.
I cheered for Israel when they went to get their kidnapped soldiers back, but I also feel Palestine should have their own territory, and be treated under the same rules of conduct as every other country.
Which leaves you with... a billion angry workers. I don't know about you, but I don't see much of a future for that political system.
And in China, that means a billion dead angry workers. China has purged 50 million people. What makes you think they won't nuke the dissidents to shut up a large uprising? What on EARTH makes you think they won't do that?
If you'd wipe the froth off your chin for a moment and not accuse me of blithely dismissing the death of thousands, like a good lad...
But you are dismissing it. In fact, you're dodging it. You don't even address that issue in your response below. Why? Because your spoon fed talking points Cliff's Notes don't have a reference to it in the ol' appendix.
Globalism puts money where there was none before, generally into the hands of the poor, creating a middle class.
And you forgot the second half of that:... by taking money from an existing middle class and reducing them to the poor class.
My, how you leave so much information out of your spoon fed talking points.
Its up to them to resolve their problems, not anyone else. Or are you now advocating the "white man's burden" approach?
Good point. Let them resolve their own problem by creating their own industry! Thank you for making my point for me!
BTW: I'm not White. Thank you very much.
The poor ignorant little brown people need the guiding hand of the ubermensch to even begin to join the civilised world, is that it? The 19th century called, it wants its rhetoric back...
Well said. According to your wildly off course reasoning, they should be left to develop their own solutions and their own problems.
I'm all for putting an end to US interference in other cultures. Oh wait, now that your argument has short circuited itself, you're going to go back to spoon fed talking point #1964: throw up the racism card while showing such blatant disregard for America's workers.
Ever notice how your theory completely disregards the employment prospects of American workers?
Oh wait, this is where you take your thoroughly refuted opinions and abandon the discussion. LOL.
And some day soon, indoor plumbing for all! Hurray!
They have the technology for that. What they lack is the desire to provide it.
Do keep up with the program, please. And that was one of the founders of the chip manufacturing industry in the country.
So they stole some technology. How does that mean they've failed to reproduce something? We've been trying since methuselah to steal Russia's swivel-nozzle technology (I forgot the scientific name they use) for their fighters.
What does that have to do with the fact that, thanks to the stupidity of globalism, China practically makes for us every high tech gadget that we use? How can they fail to reproduce it if they're already making it for us?
Immigrant workers depress local wages, not outsourcing. And as for what you get out of this, lets start with the computer you are typing on. Or did you whittle it yourself out of mom's apple tree?
Why can't computers be made in the USA or Europe?
As profound economic theories go, Adam Smith's zombified corpse has risen from the tomb and is hunting your ass. If you seal up America economically (not possible in any case with a vast, porous border like that), the US stagnates. If you want the fastest route to becoming a third world country, congratulations, you've found it!
Why should we stagnate? We'd still trade with Japan and Europe. We didn't stagnate when we embargoed off Nazi Germany, did we?
How is it that stopping trade with China means the end of America? Is China that important?
No China doesn't have a middle class. It has the nascent beginnings of one. When it has a fully fledged middle class, you won't be long seeing democracy rearing. And India is at least one example of a country that has benefitted immensely from globalism, leaving it a better place.
I don't care how big the middle class is, when your wealth can be confiscated and you can be executed on the spot, how much money you have is meaningless.
India was a democracy before they were prosperous. And their worker rights are hell. Look at the Union Carbide situation; and their sweat shops are horrendous. Then there's also Singapore, and their sweat shops.
And you know what, you can take your pathetic charges of racism and cram them. America does not benefit from this because we're losing jobs. If you want India or China to benefit from globalism, let them do things the way we did it: make their own industries, just like we did.
Maybe in your universe. They haven't got the knowledge or experience to match the technology of the west, and aren't going to have it until they become a meritocracy.
They already have matched us. They export all the high tech stuff we have to us. How much more matching do they need to do?
Okay this is just thinly veiled nationalistic racism here. Kindly refrain from conversing with me ever again.
I'm responding, and you're going to either respond, or let your racism against Americans stand refuted and in disrepute. You are bigoted against the United States and you're hell bent upon benefitting the rest of the world at our expense.
I'm going to continue to expose your falsehoods and if you're so cowardly that you have to play the racism card while showing your racism against America, then so be it.
Don't come playing again because I'm going to follow you and refute you.
That just about does it. I'm contemplating getting the Wii before I get the PS3.
The Wii has the WORST FRACKIN' NAME EVER, and the weakest processor and graphics system among the new consoles, but it has the best design philosophies behind it.
The Ps3 and the 360 don't allow free user-made mods; but the Wii, using Linux, just might allow the modding community into the console world. Does anyone know if that's true? If so I'm absolutely getting the Wii.
This is flat out wrong. Not only do I think that, I know that for a fact. Thats why they are having to keep their currency artificially low to keep their goods low. If the yuan were to be valued at its actual value, the price of Chinese goods would rise 30-40%. What you described as happening in India is exactly whats happening in China. China is not a communist country, its a capitalist fascist dictatorship with trimmings of communist propaganda.
Actually, you're missing the point by a mile and a half.
It doesn't matter how rich the workers are, in a dictatorship, they can still be executed at a moment's notice and all their money confiscated.
It's done all the time in China.
Eh I offer no reasons or excuses for that. I do hope however that the laws were adjusted to ensure it never happened again.
That's the problem with your line of reasoning - you hope the laws will be changed; but if they aren't, who cares? Our bottle of Mr. Clean is cheaper because the chemicals came from India, who cares if a few thousand of them die in a chemical explosion/leak? That's the reality of globalism for you.
Yes, I bet they are laughing through the fog of toxic smoke that the west's industrial requirements produce. Other than that, your comment makes no sense. They try, and fail, to reproduce advanced technology, even when they stole the entire blueprints from the original. Yes, they make shoes and cars cheaply, but its a far, far cry from that to being technologically equal to the west. They have the grunt work, the cheap labour. They don't have a great deal more.
They did a good job of reverse engineering pebble bed reactors and putting men in space, did they not?
Exactly which advanced technology has China failed to reproduce?
As for the toxic smoke, well there you have it - America's clean air requirements are part of why offshoring is happening. For America to be competitive in a globalist market, we have to settle for the lowest common denominator - toxic skies, dangerous factories, and prison labor.
No, the mark that globalism leaves behind it is higher wages for the previously third world countries. Its already extant in India. So instead of lowering wages in first world countries, its increasing wages in poorer countries. Might take a while, but it gets there.
And lower wages for us. So we're still transferring our wealth to other nations. We get nothing out of this. Do you always settle for deals that perpetually take from you to give to others, with no benefit? Oh wait, don't answer that... Philip J Morris proved people can be convinced to do that.
About 25% of the economy of my own country, Ireland, is composed of American multinationals, like Dell, Microsoft, Medtronic, Boston Scientific and so on, exporting to the half billion citizens of the EU. I'd say you have quite a lot to lose. I know we do.
But I'm not against offshoring to the EU.
Thats because you are seeing the US as the sole export destination. There are many other places to earn just as much money. What I am saying is that if these tariffs were in place, people would just not bother to even do business with the US. No profit in it.
Good. We'll make our own products and sell to ourselves.
What do we lose? *gasp* a multi hundred billion dollar deficit! Oh my, that means less national debt! We're so d00maz0r3d!!!
Politically its not a great idea to outsource everything, naturally. However you need to realise that a strong economy leads to the growth of a middle class, which is the downfall of dictators everywhere. You'll note that not many countries are dealing with places in Africa, where the cash won't go to the workers, but to the fuhrer du jour.
You failed to address my point. Offshoring to the current batch of despotic, worker-unfriendly sweatshop hell holes that we offshore to now, is gaining those people nothing.
China has a middle class but so what? They now have prisoners being harvested for organ donations against their will, the great firewall, and even greater crackdowns on democracy than ever. Plus they have the most polluted cities in the world and their pollution is coming here. Life is getting harder for them politically, not easier.
No country that we've ever outsourced to has gotten better - a few people over there got rich, but Singapore still has factories falling apart and killing people, and China still has no democracy.
Let's put aside your speculations and theory and stick with reality:
Demonstrated Fact: globalism bolsters despotic regimes (not African dust bowls but rather nuclear-armed dictatorships that harvest prisoners for organs), globalism does not weaken them.
Demonstrated Fact: a growing middle class means nothing without democracy.
Have you ever heard the saying, if you owe the bank a thousand dollars, its your problem, but if you owe the bank a hundred million, that's the banks problem? After a certain point, ownership of debt becomes an interdependant realtionship; they need to see the US economy succeed, or they will never get their money back. And the more money they lend, the more dependant they are.
Reality: China does not need us to succeed. If we fall apart and die today, they can just steal all our IP and go their own merry way. They've got the factories to support themselves, no thanks to globalism.
No, you won't be annihilated. Maybe equalised. Although I do believe that these nations should be slapped hard on the wrists for their activities; I'm no fan of the Chinese government, thats for sure.
Not annihilated. Subjugated. They start jerking our strings and making us dance for them.
Oh grow up. The world may be what we make it, but we have to live in it too. You want my advice, open a software house in Bangalore.
1) If we continue to accept globalism, the US economy is ruined anyway. The global race for the bottom must eventually hit the rocks, because there is only so far wages can drop before the unrelenting cost of living becomes unbearable.
2) US companies already can't sell their goods abroad - or, more specifically, we're running a global trade deficit large enough to have its own gravitational field. Exactly what do we have to lose here?
3) US laws that tariff all goods made in sweatshop / undemocratic nations don't have that effect. If that law is put in place consistently, you can't undercut US companies in the US - not if you're Chinese, not if you're German, or British. Your rebuttal makes no sense - if Nike and its sweatshop operations moves to Singapore, they still have to deal with the tariff. If a Chinese Nike tries to undercut them, they too have to deal with the tariff. And if China decides not to buy any US goods... so what? We're in a deficit with them already! I propose that you don't even come into the US market unless you are an ethical player. Who's then going to undercut ethical companies in the US?
Oh, wait, offshoring to Europe won't hurt us as much because a) they also offshore heavily to us; and b) they have excellent worker protections and they're democratic.
4) Free trade with sweatshop nations / undemocratic regimes is going to ruin us any way. They're owning all our debt and they can also embargo us. (Oh yes, I know you think that despotic foreign nations can't embargo us. The 1970s and the oil embargo was all a lie. Sillyme.) Furthermore, we're transferring gobs of wealth to these monsters, impoverishing America and giving the world's most powerful enemies of freedom our cutting edge industrial capacity to boot. Germany should have sold us cheap shoes made of Jew labor, they would have won World War II with the help of the "surrender to globalism" agenda: there is nothing in your rhetoric that would provide for stopping them.
5) Free trade with nations that are attacking the United States will also lead to our annihilation. They can strike with impugnity, and others will follow.
Your theory is that fighting globalism leads to ruin. The facts say that giving into globalism leads to ruin anyway. I say die fighting; you say die in supplication.
In the US, globalist free trade advocates would rather trade with people that are attacking us, than take the necessary steps to sanction them and defend our country from them.
They start throwing out off topic words like "protectionism" and "nativism", which when you ask them what it all means, alarmingly resembles "concern for national security" and "patriotism".
Ah, patriotism, that evil word. The notion that, just as caring for your family is more important than caring for someone else's, so is taking care of your country first.
Globalism. Another word for "screw national sovereignty, screw your own citizens, let's transfer all our wealth elsewhere". See: the national deficit and the national debt.
You are assuming that economic survival is zero sum... that when India gets wealthy, we get poor, and when India gets poor we get wealthy. This is a xenophic concept. There is no reason the interests of the U.S. and the interests of India can be mutual. No one is "stealing jobs", as jobs aren't property or a scarce resource, they are a consentual relationship between employer and employee. Claiming India is going to steal jobs and is bad for America is like claiming that lesbians are going to steal women away from heterosexual men and therefore lesbians are bad for men - you can't steal a relationship with a person!
1) Economic survival is a negative sum game. 2) The reality is, India is getting wealthy and it is at our expense. That is not xenophobia, it is fact. 3) Jobs are a highly scarce resource as well as a consentual relationship between employer and employee. IT jobs are not growing in the United States, they are growing in India. If IT jobs were not offshored to India, they would need to be done anyway, they would be done in the US as they always were before.
"Do NOT process my personal information in any other country" do you not understand?
Is it the "that country's laws aren't the same as mine" that pro-offshoring people don't get?
Or is it the "The FBI has no jurisdiction over the criminals in that country" that's slipping by here?
Or are you failing to grasp "it takes pennies to our dollar to bribe a manager over there to hand over thousands of people's personal information" that's going over the heads of the globalists?
Well said. I can't find one error in what you posted. Clinton did set America up for this.
Sadly, the Republicans have not learned this lesson, either.
The USAPATRIOT Act and the REAL ID Act will be especially onerous in the hands of the Democrats, as they will have had more time to actually plan to use it maliciously (as will the Republicans, but they may lose Congress and not have the power to wield it as wickedly as they want).
Of course, if these workers have all that time left to surf the web, maybe they're redundant. Then again, if you take that route and start laying off, then you wind up with not enough trained workers during crunch time.
Yup. The practical solution is the middle ground: establish a website whitelist including only essential sites to look at, and give 'em books to read. In fact, what I did as a manager was reach a compromise by adding gutenberg.org and slashdot to the whitelist; but slashdot is a probationary option (if it's abused, it'll go away).
The Republicans have spent so much time destroying our privacy and installing their surveillance state and now they have fallen victim to their own monster.
I suspect they will be huge champions of privacy after this.
You hit the nail on the head... diversity is the key. Betting heavily on Gears of War or even some game like Okami or whatever, is not indicative of a diversity oriented strategy. That's so much more accurate than what I said.
what in the world can you do with gamerscore points?
Buy things?
I thought that was what the for-pay Gold membership was for... which is why I never got onto Xbox Live AT ALL. (I'll get my updates via download&burn, thank you.)
Anyways, this gamer score crap is why things like Game Shark hasn't come out (and why 360 games are so brutally hard to play); alas, the ban on cheat code generators has been rendered moot by this run-around with the gamer score. So now we have neither cheat codes for single player games nor any integrity for the gamerscore system. Joy.
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American armed commandos raping Iraqi women and dragging people out and shooting them or stacking prisoners into butt pyramids is good? American troops kidnapping suspects' wives in the dead of night is good? (Mind you, all of these are documented incidents.) The United States is not one to complain when we've engaged in acts of terror against them.
Now, let's discuss the real way to win against Muslim terrorists.
a) Offer Muslim women a college education
b) Treat prisoners ethically under the Geneva Conventions
c) Deliver aid to disaster stricken areas (this worked well for Tehran during their last big quake; too bad Bush squandered all that good will)
d) Sell them freedom like we did with the USSR - with a radio free Middle East approach
And failing all that, we can simply wipe them out economically with:
e) A Manhattan project-sized push for alternative energy in the West
While they're guilty of holocaust denial, we're constantly guilty of "them swarthy people"ism.
Recognizing the Palestinians' side of things is not the same as hating Israel.
I cheered for Israel when they went to get their kidnapped soldiers back, but I also feel Palestine should have their own territory, and be treated under the same rules of conduct as every other country.
And in China, that means a billion dead angry workers. China has purged 50 million people. What makes you think they won't nuke the dissidents to shut up a large uprising? What on EARTH makes you think they won't do that?
But you are dismissing it. In fact, you're dodging it. You don't even address that issue in your response below. Why? Because your spoon fed talking points Cliff's Notes don't have a reference to it in the ol' appendix.
And you forgot the second half of that:
My, how you leave so much information out of your spoon fed talking points.
Good point. Let them resolve their own problem by creating their own industry! Thank you for making my point for me!
BTW: I'm not White. Thank you very much.
Well said. According to your wildly off course reasoning, they should be left to develop their own solutions and their own problems.
I'm all for putting an end to US interference in other cultures. Oh wait, now that your argument has short circuited itself, you're going to go back to spoon fed talking point #1964: throw up the racism card while showing such blatant disregard for America's workers.
Ever notice how your theory completely disregards the employment prospects of American workers?
Oh wait, this is where you take your thoroughly refuted opinions and abandon the discussion. LOL.
They have the technology for that. What they lack is the desire to provide it.
So they stole some technology. How does that mean they've failed to reproduce something? We've been trying since methuselah to steal Russia's swivel-nozzle technology (I forgot the scientific name they use) for their fighters.
What does that have to do with the fact that, thanks to the stupidity of globalism, China practically makes for us every high tech gadget that we use? How can they fail to reproduce it if they're already making it for us?
Why can't computers be made in the USA or Europe?
Why should we stagnate? We'd still trade with Japan and Europe. We didn't stagnate when we embargoed off Nazi Germany, did we?
How is it that stopping trade with China means the end of America? Is China that important?
I don't care how big the middle class is, when your wealth can be confiscated and you can be executed on the spot, how much money you have is meaningless.
India was a democracy before they were prosperous. And their worker rights are hell. Look at the Union Carbide situation; and their sweat shops are horrendous. Then there's also Singapore, and their sweat shops.
And you know what, you can take your pathetic charges of racism and cram them. America does not benefit from this because we're losing jobs. If you want India or China to benefit from globalism, let them do things the way we did it: make their own industries, just like we did.
They already have matched us. They export all the high tech stuff we have to us. How much more matching do they need to do?
I'm responding, and you're going to either respond, or let your racism against Americans stand refuted and in disrepute. You are bigoted against the United States and you're hell bent upon benefitting the rest of the world at our expense.
I'm going to continue to expose your falsehoods and if you're so cowardly that you have to play the racism card while showing your racism against America, then so be it.
Don't come playing again because I'm going to follow you and refute you.
Need I say more?
Yes, but the Wii strategy implies more freedom for the end users.
I doubt you'll have that much freedom on the PS3, Linux system or not.
That just about does it. I'm contemplating getting the Wii before I get the PS3.
The Wii has the WORST FRACKIN' NAME EVER, and the weakest processor and graphics system among the new consoles, but it has the best design philosophies behind it.
The Ps3 and the 360 don't allow free user-made mods; but the Wii, using Linux, just might allow the modding community into the console world. Does anyone know if that's true? If so I'm absolutely getting the Wii.
Please God, let the Wii have Oblivion........
Actually, you're missing the point by a mile and a half.
It doesn't matter how rich the workers are, in a dictatorship, they can still be executed at a moment's notice and all their money confiscated.
It's done all the time in China.
That's the problem with your line of reasoning - you hope the laws will be changed; but if they aren't, who cares? Our bottle of Mr. Clean is cheaper because the chemicals came from India, who cares if a few thousand of them die in a chemical explosion/leak? That's the reality of globalism for you.
They did a good job of reverse engineering pebble bed reactors and putting men in space, did they not?
Exactly which advanced technology has China failed to reproduce?
As for the toxic smoke, well there you have it - America's clean air requirements are part of why offshoring is happening. For America to be competitive in a globalist market, we have to settle for the lowest common denominator - toxic skies, dangerous factories, and prison labor.
As I said, we lose in a globalist system.
And lower wages for us. So we're still transferring our wealth to other nations. We get nothing out of this. Do you always settle for deals that perpetually take from you to give to others, with no benefit? Oh wait, don't answer that... Philip J Morris proved people can be convinced to do that.
But I'm not against offshoring to the EU.
Good. We'll make our own products and sell to ourselves.
What do we lose?
*gasp*
a multi hundred billion dollar deficit!
Oh my, that means less national debt! We're so d00maz0r3d!!!
You failed to address my point. Offshoring to the current batch of despotic, worker-unfriendly sweatshop hell holes that we offshore to now, is gaining those people nothing.
China has a middle class but so what? They now have prisoners being harvested for organ donations against their will, the great firewall, and even greater crackdowns on democracy than ever. Plus they have the most polluted cities in the world and their pollution is coming here. Life is getting harder for them politically, not easier.
No country that we've ever outsourced to has gotten better - a few people over there got rich, but Singapore still has factories falling apart and killing people, and China still has no democracy.
Let's put aside your speculations and theory and stick with reality:
Demonstrated Fact: globalism bolsters despotic regimes (not African dust bowls but rather nuclear-armed dictatorships that harvest prisoners for organs), globalism does not weaken them.
Demonstrated Fact: a growing middle class means nothing without democracy.
Reality: China does not need us to succeed. If we fall apart and die today, they can just steal all our IP and go their own merry way. They've got the factories to support themselves, no thanks to globalism.
Not annihilated. Subjugated. They start jerking our strings and making us dance for them.
Go ahead. And when they
1) If we continue to accept globalism, the US economy is ruined anyway. The global race for the bottom must eventually hit the rocks, because there is only so far wages can drop before the unrelenting cost of living becomes unbearable.
2) US companies already can't sell their goods abroad - or, more specifically, we're running a global trade deficit large enough to have its own gravitational field. Exactly what do we have to lose here?
3) US laws that tariff all goods made in sweatshop / undemocratic nations don't have that effect. If that law is put in place consistently, you can't undercut US companies in the US - not if you're Chinese, not if you're German, or British. Your rebuttal makes no sense - if Nike and its sweatshop operations moves to Singapore, they still have to deal with the tariff. If a Chinese Nike tries to undercut them, they too have to deal with the tariff. And if China decides not to buy any US goods... so what? We're in a deficit with them already! I propose that you don't even come into the US market unless you are an ethical player. Who's then going to undercut ethical companies in the US?
Oh, wait, offshoring to Europe won't hurt us as much because a) they also offshore heavily to us; and b) they have excellent worker protections and they're democratic.
4) Free trade with sweatshop nations / undemocratic regimes is going to ruin us any way. They're owning all our debt and they can also embargo us. (Oh yes, I know you think that despotic foreign nations can't embargo us. The 1970s and the oil embargo was all a lie. Sillyme.) Furthermore, we're transferring gobs of wealth to these monsters, impoverishing America and giving the world's most powerful enemies of freedom our cutting edge industrial capacity to boot. Germany should have sold us cheap shoes made of Jew labor, they would have won World War II with the help of the "surrender to globalism" agenda: there is nothing in your rhetoric that would provide for stopping them.
5) Free trade with nations that are attacking the United States will also lead to our annihilation. They can strike with impugnity, and others will follow.
Your theory is that fighting globalism leads to ruin. The facts say that giving into globalism leads to ruin anyway. I say die fighting; you say die in supplication.
In the US, globalist free trade advocates would rather trade with people that are attacking us, than take the necessary steps to sanction them and defend our country from them.
They start throwing out off topic words like "protectionism" and "nativism", which when you ask them what it all means, alarmingly resembles "concern for national security" and "patriotism".
Ah, patriotism, that evil word. The notion that, just as caring for your family is more important than caring for someone else's, so is taking care of your country first.
Globalism. Another word for "screw national sovereignty, screw your own citizens, let's transfer all our wealth elsewhere". See: the national deficit and the national debt.
1) Economic survival is a negative sum game.
2) The reality is, India is getting wealthy and it is at our expense. That is not xenophobia, it is fact.
3) Jobs are a highly scarce resource as well as a consentual relationship between employer and employee. IT jobs are not growing in the United States, they are growing in India. If IT jobs were not offshored to India, they would need to be done anyway, they would be done in the US as they always were before.
"Do NOT process my personal information in any other country" do you not understand?
Is it the "that country's laws aren't the same as mine" that pro-offshoring people don't get?
Or is it the "The FBI has no jurisdiction over the criminals in that country" that's slipping by here?
Or are you failing to grasp "it takes pennies to our dollar to bribe a manager over there to hand over thousands of people's personal information" that's going over the heads of the globalists?
Please tell me, which part is in error?
That's the degree you need now to get a job in that field. :)
Well said. I can't find one error in what you posted. Clinton did set America up for this.
Sadly, the Republicans have not learned this lesson, either.
The USAPATRIOT Act and the REAL ID Act will be especially onerous in the hands of the Democrats, as they will have had more time to actually plan to use it maliciously (as will the Republicans, but they may lose Congress and not have the power to wield it as wickedly as they want).
Privacy falls under the definition of 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness'.
It may not be removed without due process and probable cause - defined as a) conviction of a crime; or b) you're actually suspected of a crime.
They're hoping to confuse just enough people to make a difference.
Democrats should rip them a new one over this and make them apologize.
Taxpayers will be a lot happier.
Of course, if these workers have all that time left to surf the web, maybe they're redundant. Then again, if you take that route and start laying off, then you wind up with not enough trained workers during crunch time.
Yup. The practical solution is the middle ground: establish a website whitelist including only essential sites to look at, and give 'em books to read. In fact, what I did as a manager was reach a compromise by adding gutenberg.org and slashdot to the whitelist; but slashdot is a probationary option (if it's abused, it'll go away).
Well said.
Now where are the Libertarians to oppose Government interference in the privacy/surveillance arms race?
*chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*...
The Republicans have spent so much time destroying our privacy and installing their surveillance state and now they have fallen victim to their own monster.
I suspect they will be huge champions of privacy after this.
You can get plenty of OSS products for free, and then go to similar knowledge bases online for free support.
Patches? Far faster than MicroSoft.
ESPECIALLY RedHat.
I am quite intimately aware of this particular fact.
You hit the nail on the head... diversity is the key. Betting heavily on Gears of War or even some game like Okami or whatever, is not indicative of a diversity oriented strategy. That's so much more accurate than what I said.
what in the world can you do with gamerscore points?
Buy things?
I thought that was what the for-pay Gold membership was for... which is why I never got onto Xbox Live AT ALL. (I'll get my updates via download&burn, thank you.)
Anyways, this gamer score crap is why things like Game Shark hasn't come out (and why 360 games are so brutally hard to play); alas, the ban on cheat code generators has been rendered moot by this run-around with the gamer score. So now we have neither cheat codes for single player games nor any integrity for the gamerscore system. Joy.
Tell me why again I bought a console??