First of all: 1) You are a fool if you think you can or ever will prevail by yourself against a whole management team. Union representation evens the odds.
2) Corporations are allowed to violate contracts (see: pensions), pollute the environment, and a whole host of other things that you as a common man cannot do.
3) Businesses owe a responsibility to the society that made them great, just like you do.
I have over 150,000 songs on my 800gb (2x400 gb drives in one enclosure) setup.
I start out with creating directories based on genres. anime (about 80,000 songs here) artists (regular music) games (game soundtracks) soundtracks mod2mp3 misc
And then from those directories, I create new directories for each given artist name, then for the album, and then the songs go there.
What he is saying is that he is okay with people being accused of being spies and then treated as non-humans without any evidence to back up those accusa
1) You're lying about those medical bills. A single trip to the ER starts at thousands of dollars. Just walking in.
2) You're also BSing about the pay phone story. Where would an employer or a relative call you? A pay phone? Those are literally being phased out as unprofitable, and even where it is not, someone can't call a pay phone to reach you.
3) This isn't gloom and doom assertions, you are the one sticking your head in the sand. The market is doing well, but that has nothing to do with main street. Incomes are not keeping up with inflation, and that is a proven fact. When incomes are falling behind inflation, the economy absolutely cannot sustain that. None of your cheap labor conservative "economists" can defend such shallow thinking.
4) You go boy with your Tercel. You'll pay the difference at the pump. By the time my Prius battery dies - if it dies - it'll be cheaper to replace it than your Tercel. Oh and the smog checks you have to deal with are a stone cold bitch, too.
"Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt. This means going without luxuries. I have friends who still work "dead end jobs" and they harp all the time about the fact they don't get paid enough. Yet they still want their cell phone, cable, high speed internet, and more. Of course its not sustainable on their income. Worse, all these "monthlies" they pay out keep them from having the money they need to get an education to move them up."
Adapt to WHAT? With WHAT?
Rent, phone service, medical insurance, and electricity are enough to clean out the bank account of someone working on one of these L1 jobs. As for cell phones, hey, I have one, but not a land line. Cable bores me so I dumped that. I've got a house, solar power (well, mostly), two hybrid vehicles and a lot of savings, so I've been down this road you talk about, and let me explain: It ain't like the way you put it, bub.
I got lucky and got a better paying job, and that's when my stingy ways paid off. Not when I was working a low paying L1 job.
The four horsemen of bills are things you cannot live without. Not having a phone is right out. How will anyone contact you? What, are they expected to drive 60 miles to tell you something? Give me a break. Rent? Oh I know, living on the street is cheaper. Medical insurance? Oh, go ahead and cut that. Then when you get injured or fall sick (I know you Republicans think you're immortal, but viruses and bacteria will strike you whether you are Gawd/Bog/Wall Street fearing or not), you'll learn the hard way why you can't live without that. Electricity, well that explains itself on a crisp cold winter night.
Going by your logic, we should all live like primitive natives of Borneo or something.
"The real trap is that too many people are convinced they deserve the "extras" but don't want to do what it takes to have them. These jobs that people complain about are for the unskilled. We are no longer a low skill work force but we do have many jobs that are low to no skill. Every economy will have these jobs. They are mostly to introduce people to the workforce. As many know there are people out there who just are not fit to work in professional environments. They don't have the personality, the required restraint, or the discipline. As such they will work these low end jobs. Some will take on more than one."
The professional jobs are going overseas. Why even bother with getting a college degree in any field when employers are rushing to push it all overseas and replace it with super low paying Wal Mart jobs? By the time you go to college for what is in demand today, it won't be in demand by then. Good luck in predicting what will be in demand in the next 5 years. By 2010, nothing will be in demand in America. If you're in India or China, however, jobs will be booming.
Despite what the head-in-the-sand ostrich crowd says, America is headed toward a consumer spending collapse and a major, crushing recession. There is only so much adapting we can do.
But Republicans keep touting limited Government. Limited Government this, limited Government that. Yet the Republicans have grown the concept of Government intrusion into our private lives faster than Michael Moore has grown his waistline.
Instead of Clinton using the FBI to investigate his political enemies, we now have the FBI investigating 3000 people without court approval or even accountability (until they're pressured).
Exactly how does this qualify as 'limited Government' again?
"It's not a right/left wing thing, it's a past history. The best thing that happened to the internet was that the government DIDN'T get involved. "
Two errors stand out right there.
1) Government interference in the form of the CDA, DMCA, etc., does not mean corporate interference (see: Tiered internet, per-megabyte bandwidth charges, privacy violations, etc.) is any better. Government interference is why ISP's (especially Telcos-turned ISPs) don't have public records of your name and address for the world to look at even if you decline. The free market would have told you to bend over and grab your ankles for the marketers that they serve. And the stalkers, too.
2) Government interference in the internet? Who do you think created the internet? None of this would be if it were not for a taxpayer funded (aka EVIL COMMUNIST) project called DARPA. Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, Josef Stalin did.
Now for some less glaring logic errors. 3) If it weren't for the FCC, all your base would belong to the telemarketers right now.
4) The power is never out of the consumers' hands when the Government is involved. It is in your hands because you are a voter. Now, if you put the power into the private industry into the hands of those who will make money whether you like them or not (see: the regional cable/telco monopolies), you add not only corruption to the mix, but also a lack of accountability. What are you going to do to strike back at Time-Warner Cable? Not have cable modems anymore and go back to a dialup service through a telco or dialup ISP that's just as corrupt?
5) The DMCA was not a Government thing as much as it was a private corporation thing. They bought and paid for your politicians to get that law. Religious extremist voters got (and lost) the CDA and the goggle porn fiasco. If the Government didn't get involved they'd have turned to buying up the ISPs and shutting down your porn anyway. Religious nuts have lots of money. And lots. And lots. Corporations like those behind the RIAA and MPAA have even more. You would be completely owned by TCPA, Palladium and there would be total Linux incompatibility right now, if they had no Government interference, or fear of it, looming over their heads. Allow me to simplify that: today you have Government-mandated laws against DRM circumvention; if it were not for the Government, however, you would have Sony launching rootkits galore against you, and RIAA hackers sending you deadly hard drive-crashing vigilante viruses over file sharing networks. I'd call that a step backwards.
You cannot have a civilization without Government interference in things. Somalia's a great place to go if you think you can live without it.
What we need is a balance between We the People, the Government and private industry. We do not have that today.
This is a step towards an extortion economy. I've heard of right wingers playing Twister before but the logic behind that post makes a Pretzel look straight as a pencil.
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Give it up, it isn't like the parent poster is going to get the point. Neo con cheap labor right wingers like him are lazy trust fund babies living off their parents' hard earned wealth and they'll never know what it's like to work.
There has not been any substantiation of these "outsourcing IT leads to financial services jobs" claims.
Outsourcing tech jobs leads to lots of low paying customer service jobs, and outsourcing manufacturing has led to an explosion of Wal Mart jobs.
That article, particularly the claim that offshoring leads to more jobs, is a myth based on day dreaming fantasies. The only jobs that they create are lots of low paying service jobs.
Everyone knows this - that's why so few people are touching Computer Science anymore. The American people are not stupid, they also know these claims are BS and they're taking the proper corrective action.
CS will never recover as a popular field of study in America, no matter how many of these dishonest, unsubstantiated, real world-detached head-in-the-sand "reports" come out.
Patriarchy this, patriarchy that. Yes, we all know that women aren't violent, and don't compete against each other. That whole Condilezza Rice, Margaret Thatcher and Catherine the Great thing was nothing but a buncha cases of excess female testosterone or something. And of course women never talk about who is fit to breed. I have proof that Margaret Sanger was a dude posing as a woman. Yessiree, right here next to my report about nuclear missile silos in Iraq in 2003. Darn that whole competition thing - thank God they never thought of the Women's NBA. Nope, that's right up there with female stockbrokers and women cadets getting into the Citadel. Oh wait, those things have happened. Sillyme.
In trying to sound all chivalrous and stuff, dude, you have managed to pigeonhole women in so many ways it's not even funny. And the funny thing is I've given you solid names that refute your patriarchally-inspired ASSumptions about what is patriarchal and what is "womanly".
BTW shooting the shooters and oppressing the oppressors has nothing to do with creating peace. Einstein had it dead wrong. You do not create peace by preparing for war, but you do ensure your own freedom. Freedom is better than peace. Oh dopey me. Freedom is a patriarchal concept.
A nanotech style light saber would be the best way to go. Nanites could burn through their target and work on a whitelist principle: a friend's DNA would be ignored.
Quite literally you could ram your nanotech light saber through a hostage taker and the nanites would decline to harm the whitelisted hostage.
I can't believe no one else thought of this. PATENT!!!!!! OMFG I am teh pwnz0r take that George Lucas!!!!!!
All those years of "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" are starting to come back home to roost now as guys decide not to give a shit about making fun of women in return.
The problem is that this Slashdot stunt is like Bush indiscriminately nuking the Middle East to get rid of Islam: you irradiate friendly Israel as well. Also see tuna nets and dolphins.
I'm all for getting back at male bashers and hitting them where they're sensitive. Making fun of stupid arrogant women who think they're perfect and who put down men, is 100% good sport. But not when it also offends the smart geek grrls. Smart geek grrls are hard to cultivate, harder to get to come out of hiding, and nearly impossible to date&mate. (Yes, I said date&mate. All things equal, I'd rather have geek grrls breeding like rabbits than the idiots we see having kids now and polluting our society with "evolution is satanism! global warming is caused by sunspots and swamp gas reflecting off of Venus! Clinton caused the Great Depression!") This Slashdot stunt set us years back.
While you would have been urging the crew to cast off half-empty lifeboats to save your own ass? I have a lot of respect for those guys in the band, they died doing something they enjoyed and bringing comfort to those about to die. I'm sure you're the type to call soldiers who throw themselves on gernades to save their comrades idiots; I feel sorry for you. Whewwwww, the only thing more laughably stupid than you praising and respecting people for schnookering passengers into not believing their lives were in danger, is you comparing them to troops who give their lives having each other's back.
So, can I ask at what point outsourcing becomes "evil". Is it OK to import bannannas, since they don't grow in the US? Do you only by made in the USA clothes? Drive American cars? a) b) and c): I would if they were made in the USA. I pay more for made-in-the-USA stuff wherever I can.
Unlike you, I like my country, and I like my fellow workers. They made this nation great, not China.
You're perfectly willing to living in you alcohol addition induced nightmare of immenient collapse, or your "world is flat" groupthink that you seem to take comfort in. 40 years ago the majority of Americans though Communism was going to take over the world, and if Vientnam fell all of Asia would go. 6 years ago everyone knew we were in a new economic reality and the internet boom would last forever. 80 years ago Americans just like you were totally sure that their laissez-faire paradise would go on forever. At least until 1929 when all the "world is flat" chicken littles came and cooked your head-in-the-sand ostrich predecessors for dinner to forestall their own starvation.
Your way has been tried. It brought this country to ruin. We will not tolerate giving the likes of you a second try.
The only way space travel and space commerce, etc. is going to be reliable, efficient and affordable is if we keep sending people up there NOW. We need to pursue these giant space engineering projects NOW, as often as we can, so the cycle of trial, error, refinement and optimization can move at a rapid pace.
Just as surely as cell phones become smaller, more powerful and cheaper through constant industrial churn, the space program can only develop in the same fashion.
It we wait until the 24th and a half century, space travel will still be as clunky, expensive and unsafe as it is now. The sooner we go all out with it, the sooner it will be affordable and efficient.
Look, I haven't got any more time for your unfounded, unprovable pollyanna head in the sand fantasies.
You're perfectly welcome to live in your opiate dream world, as for me, I continue to remain one of the majority of Americans who see and can tangibly identify something quite horribly wrong with this economy.
You would have been a great band member on the Titanic.
"These lawsuits can and do fly in at will states (the vast majority of states, BTW, are at-will). My own company was the victim of one, and it lost. Its simple, so long as there are laws that saw you can't fire an employee for reason X, and almost all do, be it minority status, sexual harrasment, handicaps, etc, you might be put into a position where you have to prove that was NOT the reason they were let go. If you give a negative recommendation, you/your company could be sued for libel/slander, so you better have hard facts to back up what you are saying, arrest convictions, drug tests, whatever. You can hope the person you are giving the negative reference to doesn't tell, or that he's not an agent of the former employee confirming the reference, but I imagine your manager won't appriciate being dragged into court over even a frivolous suit."
I call utter bullshit on this. Post some proof that this happens with any amount of regularity.
"b & c) You've clearly missed the point of "Who moved my cheese?" If you can't make a living in your technology area anymore, find something else to do. Maybe jump specializations, pay for some retraining, or even leave tech altogether. Open a restaurant, build custom furniture, sell tornado insurance. And the size of the cheese is immaterial, smaller cheese just means there should be fewer mice tring to eat it, if there are too many mice, just keep looking."
Are you out of your mind? Less cheese does not mean there are fewer mice trying to eat it. There's always the same number of mice, until some drop off and die.
Finding something else to do means adapting to the service economy - you know, waiters, cashiers, and the like. Is it any wonder wages are being outpaced by inflation?
"And I never mentioned moving to India. So lay off the foolish strawman arguements and lame character assasinations."
Moving to india is your only logical option when it comes to chasing the good jobs. It's not what you said, but it is the ultimate consequence of what you said. Jobs are exploding in India, not the US.
And exactly what will people retraining fort? None of that crap you posted was profitable. Restaurants? A dime a dozen.
That's the whole thing, there is no new big thing any more. Biotech and nanotech are both going overseas as we speak. We have 200,000 people studying for a degree in biotech and by the time they're out of college the market will be oversaturated.
All fields of work are oversaturated now.
Why?
Because six billion people are competing for America's job market, that's why.
I'm a manager. I see countless numbers of resumes from qualified people for jobs that we announce. You're just some peanut gallery cheap labor conservative trying to convince the rest of us to stick our heads in the sand and deny that something is very wrong with this economy.
Your restaurant, tornado insurance company, and custom furniture business are a) competing in an already overcrowded market for b) a rapidly shrinking middle class which is increasingly unable to afford your goods (hence the precipitous rise in consumer credit debt) and will c) inevitably be unable to service their debt and will stop buying your product.
The last time we had economic conditions like this America went through a depression, but hey, who cares about history when we have the ostrich syndrome?
Is it any wonder most Americans see America's economy as going sour? Oh yeah, I figured I'd throw that in to prevent you from accusing me of "chicken little" thinking.
BTW at least I can back up my claims with documentation. Can you?
Is this your way of glorifying apathy and telling us to surrender the fight for our privacy?
I say hell no to that. I say roll the whole system back. My personal information is my property NOT to be infringed upon by others and not to be handled without my consent and outside my boundaries of consent. Period. I will accept no arrangement short of that.
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First of all:
1) You are a fool if you think you can or ever will prevail by yourself against a whole management team. Union representation evens the odds.
2) Corporations are allowed to violate contracts (see: pensions), pollute the environment, and a whole host of other things that you as a common man cannot do.
3) Businesses owe a responsibility to the society that made them great, just like you do.
we'll confirm what Maureen Dowd has always known: women can read men's minds!
The RIAA doesn't bust anime song traders or jpop collectors ^_^
Can I install Fedora 5 on a USB hard drive and boot it from there?
I have over 150,000 songs on my 800gb (2x400 gb drives in one enclosure) setup.
I start out with creating directories based on genres.
anime (about 80,000 songs here)
artists (regular music)
games (game soundtracks)
soundtracks
mod2mp3
misc
And then from those directories, I create new directories for each given artist name, then for the album, and then the songs go there.
What he is saying is that he is okay with people being accused of being spies and then treated as non-humans without any evidence to back up those accusa
er,
wait, isn't that what police states do?
1) You're lying about those medical bills. A single trip to the ER starts at thousands of dollars. Just walking in.
2) You're also BSing about the pay phone story. Where would an employer or a relative call you? A pay phone? Those are literally being phased out as unprofitable, and even where it is not, someone can't call a pay phone to reach you.
3) This isn't gloom and doom assertions, you are the one sticking your head in the sand. The market is doing well, but that has nothing to do with main street. Incomes are not keeping up with inflation, and that is a proven fact. When incomes are falling behind inflation, the economy absolutely cannot sustain that. None of your cheap labor conservative "economists" can defend such shallow thinking.
4) You go boy with your Tercel. You'll pay the difference at the pump. By the time my Prius battery dies - if it dies - it'll be cheaper to replace it than your Tercel. Oh and the smog checks you have to deal with are a stone cold bitch, too.
What kind of cruel Stalinist dictatorship supporting terrorist would say such a thing?
"Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt. This means going without luxuries. I have friends who still work "dead end jobs" and they harp all the time about the fact they don't get paid enough. Yet they still want their cell phone, cable, high speed internet, and more. Of course its not sustainable on their income. Worse, all these "monthlies" they pay out keep them from having the money they need to get an education to move them up."
Adapt to WHAT? With WHAT?
Rent, phone service, medical insurance, and electricity are enough to clean out the bank account of someone working on one of these L1 jobs. As for cell phones, hey, I have one, but not a land line. Cable bores me so I dumped that. I've got a house, solar power (well, mostly), two hybrid vehicles and a lot of savings, so I've been down this road you talk about, and let me explain: It ain't like the way you put it, bub.
I got lucky and got a better paying job, and that's when my stingy ways paid off. Not when I was working a low paying L1 job.
The four horsemen of bills are things you cannot live without. Not having a phone is right out. How will anyone contact you? What, are they expected to drive 60 miles to tell you something? Give me a break. Rent? Oh I know, living on the street is cheaper. Medical insurance? Oh, go ahead and cut that. Then when you get injured or fall sick (I know you Republicans think you're immortal, but viruses and bacteria will strike you whether you are Gawd/Bog/Wall Street fearing or not), you'll learn the hard way why you can't live without that. Electricity, well that explains itself on a crisp cold winter night.
Going by your logic, we should all live like primitive natives of Borneo or something.
"The real trap is that too many people are convinced they deserve the "extras" but don't want to do what it takes to have them. These jobs that people complain about are for the unskilled. We are no longer a low skill work force but we do have many jobs that are low to no skill. Every economy will have these jobs. They are mostly to introduce people to the workforce. As many know there are people out there who just are not fit to work in professional environments. They don't have the personality, the required restraint, or the discipline. As such they will work these low end jobs. Some will take on more than one."
The professional jobs are going overseas. Why even bother with getting a college degree in any field when employers are rushing to push it all overseas and replace it with super low paying Wal Mart jobs? By the time you go to college for what is in demand today, it won't be in demand by then. Good luck in predicting what will be in demand in the next 5 years. By 2010, nothing will be in demand in America. If you're in India or China, however, jobs will be booming.
Despite what the head-in-the-sand ostrich crowd says, America is headed toward a consumer spending collapse and a major, crushing recession. There is only so much adapting we can do.
But Republicans keep touting limited Government. Limited Government this, limited Government that. Yet the Republicans have grown the concept of Government intrusion into our private lives faster than Michael Moore has grown his waistline.
NOT.
So much for that whole limited government thing.
Instead of Clinton using the FBI to investigate his political enemies, we now have the FBI investigating 3000 people without court approval or even accountability (until they're pressured).
Exactly how does this qualify as 'limited Government' again?
"It's not a right/left wing thing, it's a past history. The best thing that happened to the internet was that the government DIDN'T get involved. "
Two errors stand out right there.
1) Government interference in the form of the CDA, DMCA, etc., does not mean corporate interference (see: Tiered internet, per-megabyte bandwidth charges, privacy violations, etc.) is any better. Government interference is why ISP's (especially Telcos-turned ISPs) don't have public records of your name and address for the world to look at even if you decline. The free market would have told you to bend over and grab your ankles for the marketers that they serve. And the stalkers, too.
2) Government interference in the internet? Who do you think created the internet? None of this would be if it were not for a taxpayer funded (aka EVIL COMMUNIST) project called DARPA. Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, Josef Stalin did.
Now for some less glaring logic errors.
3) If it weren't for the FCC, all your base would belong to the telemarketers right now.
4) The power is never out of the consumers' hands when the Government is involved. It is in your hands because you are a voter. Now, if you put the power into the private industry into the hands of those who will make money whether you like them or not (see: the regional cable/telco monopolies), you add not only corruption to the mix, but also a lack of accountability. What are you going to do to strike back at Time-Warner Cable? Not have cable modems anymore and go back to a dialup service through a telco or dialup ISP that's just as corrupt?
5) The DMCA was not a Government thing as much as it was a private corporation thing. They bought and paid for your politicians to get that law. Religious extremist voters got (and lost) the CDA and the goggle porn fiasco. If the Government didn't get involved they'd have turned to buying up the ISPs and shutting down your porn anyway. Religious nuts have lots of money. And lots. And lots. Corporations like those behind the RIAA and MPAA have even more. You would be completely owned by TCPA, Palladium and there would be total Linux incompatibility right now, if they had no Government interference, or fear of it, looming over their heads. Allow me to simplify that: today you have Government-mandated laws against DRM circumvention; if it were not for the Government, however, you would have Sony launching rootkits galore against you, and RIAA hackers sending you deadly hard drive-crashing vigilante viruses over file sharing networks. I'd call that a step backwards.
You cannot have a civilization without Government interference in things. Somalia's a great place to go if you think you can live without it.
What we need is a balance between We the People, the Government and private industry. We do not have that today.
This is a step towards an extortion economy. I've heard of right wingers playing Twister before but the logic behind that post makes a Pretzel look straight as a pencil.
Give it up, it isn't like the parent poster is going to get the point. Neo con cheap labor right wingers like him are lazy trust fund babies living off their parents' hard earned wealth and they'll never know what it's like to work.
People don't mind seeing men killed.
Depicting the killing of a woman, however, is worse than blaspheming God.
Not any good paying jobs, anyway.
There has not been any substantiation of these "outsourcing IT leads to financial services jobs" claims.
Outsourcing tech jobs leads to lots of low paying customer service jobs, and outsourcing manufacturing has led to an explosion of Wal Mart jobs.
That article, particularly the claim that offshoring leads to more jobs, is a myth based on day dreaming fantasies. The only jobs that they create are lots of low paying service jobs.
Everyone knows this - that's why so few people are touching Computer Science anymore. The American people are not stupid, they also know these claims are BS and they're taking the proper corrective action.
CS will never recover as a popular field of study in America, no matter how many of these dishonest, unsubstantiated, real world-detached head-in-the-sand "reports" come out.
That was one of the few PERFECT and error-free posts I've seen on here :)
Patriarchy this, patriarchy that. Yes, we all know that women aren't violent, and don't compete against each other. That whole Condilezza Rice, Margaret Thatcher and Catherine the Great thing was nothing but a buncha cases of excess female testosterone or something. And of course women never talk about who is fit to breed. I have proof that Margaret Sanger was a dude posing as a woman. Yessiree, right here next to my report about nuclear missile silos in Iraq in 2003. Darn that whole competition thing - thank God they never thought of the Women's NBA. Nope, that's right up there with female stockbrokers and women cadets getting into the Citadel. Oh wait, those things have happened. Sillyme.
In trying to sound all chivalrous and stuff, dude, you have managed to pigeonhole women in so many ways it's not even funny. And the funny thing is I've given you solid names that refute your patriarchally-inspired ASSumptions about what is patriarchal and what is "womanly".
BTW shooting the shooters and oppressing the oppressors has nothing to do with creating peace. Einstein had it dead wrong. You do not create peace by preparing for war, but you do ensure your own freedom. Freedom is better than peace. Oh dopey me. Freedom is a patriarchal concept.
A nanotech style light saber would be the best way to go. Nanites could burn through their target and work on a whitelist principle: a friend's DNA would be ignored.
Quite literally you could ram your nanotech light saber through a hostage taker and the nanites would decline to harm the whitelisted hostage.
I can't believe no one else thought of this. PATENT!!!!!! OMFG I am teh pwnz0r take that George Lucas!!!!!!
All those years of "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" are starting to come back home to roost now as guys decide not to give a shit about making fun of women in return.
The problem is that this Slashdot stunt is like Bush indiscriminately nuking the Middle East to get rid of Islam: you irradiate friendly Israel as well. Also see tuna nets and dolphins.
I'm all for getting back at male bashers and hitting them where they're sensitive. Making fun of stupid arrogant women who think they're perfect and who put down men, is 100% good sport. But not when it also offends the smart geek grrls. Smart geek grrls are hard to cultivate, harder to get to come out of hiding, and nearly impossible to date&mate. (Yes, I said date&mate. All things equal, I'd rather have geek grrls breeding like rabbits than the idiots we see having kids now and polluting our society with "evolution is satanism! global warming is caused by sunspots and swamp gas reflecting off of Venus! Clinton caused the Great Depression!") This Slashdot stunt set us years back.
While you would have been urging the crew to cast off half-empty lifeboats to save your own ass? I have a lot of respect for those guys in the band, they died doing something they enjoyed and bringing comfort to those about to die. I'm sure you're the type to call soldiers who throw themselves on gernades to save their comrades idiots; I feel sorry for you.
Whewwwww, the only thing more laughably stupid than you praising and respecting people for schnookering passengers into not believing their lives were in danger, is you comparing them to troops who give their lives having each other's back.
So, can I ask at what point outsourcing becomes "evil". Is it OK to import bannannas, since they don't grow in the US? Do you only by made in the USA clothes? Drive American cars?
a) b) and c): I would if they were made in the USA. I pay more for made-in-the-USA stuff wherever I can.
Unlike you, I like my country, and I like my fellow workers. They made this nation great, not China.
You're perfectly willing to living in you alcohol addition induced nightmare of immenient collapse, or your "world is flat" groupthink that you seem to take comfort in. 40 years ago the majority of Americans though Communism was going to take over the world, and if Vientnam fell all of Asia would go. 6 years ago everyone knew we were in a new economic reality and the internet boom would last forever.
80 years ago Americans just like you were totally sure that their laissez-faire paradise would go on forever. At least until 1929 when all the "world is flat" chicken littles came and cooked your head-in-the-sand ostrich predecessors for dinner to forestall their own starvation.
Your way has been tried. It brought this country to ruin. We will not tolerate giving the likes of you a second try.
The only way space travel and space commerce, etc. is going to be reliable, efficient and affordable is if we keep sending people up there NOW. We need to pursue these giant space engineering projects NOW, as often as we can, so the cycle of trial, error, refinement and optimization can move at a rapid pace.
Just as surely as cell phones become smaller, more powerful and cheaper through constant industrial churn, the space program can only develop in the same fashion.
It we wait until the 24th and a half century, space travel will still be as clunky, expensive and unsafe as it is now. The sooner we go all out with it, the sooner it will be affordable and efficient.
Look, I haven't got any more time for your unfounded, unprovable pollyanna head in the sand fantasies.
You're perfectly welcome to live in your opiate dream world, as for me, I continue to remain one of the majority of Americans who see and can tangibly identify something quite horribly wrong with this economy.
You would have been a great band member on the Titanic.
"These lawsuits can and do fly in at will states (the vast majority of states, BTW, are at-will). My own company was the victim of one, and it lost. Its simple, so long as there are laws that saw you can't fire an employee for reason X, and almost all do, be it minority status, sexual harrasment, handicaps, etc, you might be put into a position where you have to prove that was NOT the reason they were let go. If you give a negative recommendation, you/your company could be sued for libel/slander, so you better have hard facts to back up what you are saying, arrest convictions, drug tests, whatever. You can hope the person you are giving the negative reference to doesn't tell, or that he's not an agent of the former employee confirming the reference, but I imagine your manager won't appriciate being dragged into court over even a frivolous suit."
I call utter bullshit on this. Post some proof that this happens with any amount of regularity.
"b & c) You've clearly missed the point of "Who moved my cheese?" If you can't make a living in your technology area anymore, find something else to do. Maybe jump specializations, pay for some retraining, or even leave tech altogether. Open a restaurant, build custom furniture, sell tornado insurance. And the size of the cheese is immaterial, smaller cheese just means there should be fewer mice tring to eat it, if there are too many mice, just keep looking."
Are you out of your mind? Less cheese does not mean there are fewer mice trying to eat it. There's always the same number of mice, until some drop off and die.
Finding something else to do means adapting to the service economy - you know, waiters, cashiers, and the like. Is it any wonder wages are being outpaced by inflation?
"And I never mentioned moving to India. So lay off the foolish strawman arguements and lame character assasinations."
Moving to india is your only logical option when it comes to chasing the good jobs. It's not what you said, but it is the ultimate consequence of what you said. Jobs are exploding in India, not the US.
And exactly what will people retraining fort? None of that crap you posted was profitable. Restaurants? A dime a dozen.
That's the whole thing, there is no new big thing any more. Biotech and nanotech are both going overseas as we speak. We have 200,000 people studying for a degree in biotech and by the time they're out of college the market will be oversaturated.
All fields of work are oversaturated now.
Why?
Because six billion people are competing for America's job market, that's why.
I'm a manager. I see countless numbers of resumes from qualified people for jobs that we announce. You're just some peanut gallery cheap labor conservative trying to convince the rest of us to stick our heads in the sand and deny that something is very wrong with this economy.
Your restaurant, tornado insurance company, and custom furniture business are a) competing in an already overcrowded market for b) a rapidly shrinking middle class which is increasingly unable to afford your goods (hence the precipitous rise in consumer credit debt) and will c) inevitably be unable to service their debt and will stop buying your product.
The last time we had economic conditions like this America went through a depression, but hey, who cares about history when we have the ostrich syndrome?
Is it any wonder most Americans see America's economy as going sour? Oh yeah, I figured I'd throw that in to prevent you from accusing me of "chicken little" thinking.
BTW at least I can back up my claims with documentation. Can you?
Is this your way of glorifying apathy and telling us to surrender the fight for our privacy?
I say hell no to that. I say roll the whole system back. My personal information is my property NOT to be infringed upon by others and not to be handled without my consent and outside my boundaries of consent. Period. I will accept no arrangement short of that.