I'm all for trying and hanging Bush and his administration for treason.
And spare me the knee jerk slippery slope'isms. The guy killed his wife in cold blood - that's a far cry from burning someone for being a witch. If you can't see the fundamental difference there then you and rationality aren't even in the same zip code.
You know what, how about you be married to Hans in the next life?
As in, "Understand this, dickhead... murder your wife in cold blood and we will start chopping shit off until you're dead."
This isn't about emotions or rationality - it is about deterrence. In fact, what you're trying to sell here, smells a lot like feel-goodism, and not anything close to tried and true reality.
If you want rationality as you define it, then I suggest you start pushing for Maori justice.
Have you ever been through a bitter divorce? You have no idea.
It's easy to slam Hans for offing his wife, and I am by no means trying to excuse that. But at the same time, does that mean we should ignore the incredible levels of stress, the way the court system is stacked against men, and the fact that Nina betrayed his trust? -------------------
Sorry, but I refuse to have compassion for murderers.
This is the same argument people used when Susan Smith killed her two kids and Andrea Yates drowned all 5 of her kids.
Let future potential murderers take pause and consider what could happen to them if they cross that line.
It is a proven fact that people are getting WAY out of control these days because we don't hammer down on their butts.
Three hots and a cot for Hans Reiser? WTF? Forget that, put him in a chain gang in the hot sun. And that punishment hasn't even begun to fit the crime - considering it's much more humane than the punishment meted out by him to his wife!
Those of you who disagree with me - which of you has lost a loved one to murder? Please, I dare you, tell me you don't want that animal's head on a stick.
He murdered his wife in cold blood and a bunch of Slashdotters who have never suffered anything more than 500 gigs of lost porn, want to talk about cruel and unusual punishment?
To hell with political correctness. I say bring back public executions. Make a game show out of it. Let's show criminals that if you kill someone in cold blood, you will go down. Painfully. Let's see, who do you know wants to die in screaming agony? I didn't think so.
The operation of transmitters designed to jam or block wireless communications is a violation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). See 47 U.S.C. Sections 301, 302a, 333. The Act prohibits any person from willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized under the Act or operated by the U.S. government. 47 U.S.C. Section 333. The manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited. 47 U.S.C. Section 302a(b). Parties in violation of these provisions may be subject to the penalties set out in 47 U.S.C. Sections 501-510. Fines for a first offense can range as high as $11,000 for each violation or imprisonment for up to one year, and the device used may also be seized and forfeited to the U.S. government.
My bet is you go out of your way not to get caught using that device because if you were caught, your lanky little Slashdot posting ass would get pounded by one, two or more cell phone users that you jammed, before the cops hauled you away.
By extension, cell phone jammers are either one of two things: cowards or road pizza.
Yes you will. Try playing Crysis in Linux, or ripping DVDs, playing with mkv's, etc.
Sure, you can rip DVDs in Linux but be prepared to spend a lot of long hard nights fighting with your system to get it up and running. To say nothing of how hard it is to do transcoding in general. Let's not get into how many things you have to download and set up by hand to get that running. It's an utter nightmre. In comparison, it is much easier to do away with the check engine light on a Toyota SUV without taking it to a Toyota dealership, than getting DVD ripping in Linux set up.
Transcoding in Windows XP? Download the "Super" program and the Combined Community Codec Pack for free, and you're off to the races. One, two, three, rip. DVD ripping in XP is as easy as downloading VLC.
And that crap you went through is what leads to shootings, stabbings, and other dire escalations.
I bet what you also heard was something like "'but he did it first!' does not fly with me, boy".
These schools have a way of equating the retaliator with the instigator (assuming the counter-action was equal to the original action), or even saying that when you retaliate to an instigator, you're worse than them.
This thread screams for a reference to King Thamus of ancient Egypt who once made the same arguments against the development of writing. He argued that writing would dumb humans down.
But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Oh, this is rich. You have the nerve to accuse us of being xenophobic and then you spout passive aggressive hate like this...
"Workers in these countries do tend to have a better work ethic than Western programmers. Questions remain as to why -- my opinion is that there's a higher focus on education and a greater motivation to make money."
That is a bullshit generalization for which you utterly lack any documentation or evidence to support.
Then you say "Part of me really wants to see the US IT workforce shrink. Getting people who are just not suited for the work into other jobs would probably be the best thing yet for code and system quality."
So people who make 10% of our wages and who get into IT are automatically suited for the work? Oh yeah, "because they have a better work ethic than Americans."
And about that whole xenophobia - offshoring is a net loss of jobs for America, in the realm of producing products for Americans. Americans have no place in the global economy, and will have no place until we are reduced to the polluted, abused paupers that Asian offshore workers are.
Oh no wait, I'm sorry, it must be xenophobia to believe that Chinese and Indian workers lack the same workplace safety rules as we do, or that they're paid nowhere near as well as us, or that their skies and water aren't jacked up by laissez-faire corporate pollution that would lead to prison time in the US.
Here's why so many people hate offshoring. It's not just about the wages, which are bad enough. For Americans to compete in the global economy, we have to be paid crap East Indian wages. We have to attract irresponsible corporations by allowing them to pollute the heck out of our environment (go swim out at the Indian Ocean or a river in China and see how much more polluted they are than anywhere in the US), we have to accept the reality of collapsing factories and mines, we have to accept caste systems, undemocratic Governments, and all other manner of horrors in order to compete in the global marketplace.
I'd be happy to see the entire offshore market put out of business by a blood tide of GNU software. You wanna low-price us? Try competing against free.
Hello, did you not read this article - they're offshoring work. Any tech job that you can try to get is bombarded with super stiff competition. Show me a job listing that isn't bombed with 10,000 resumes. Do note before you try to B.S. me on this, that I run a data center and I personally see these resume floods.
Employers can screw their employees over with unpaid overtime because their jobs are so in demand. IT workers are easily replaceable.
So, basically, if you leave a job that has tons of unpaid overtime, you're going to have crap luck trying to get another job, especially one that doesn't force unpaid overtime on you - or that doesn't do something else horrible. And as hard as my peers treat salesmen (which you are when you go c2c 1099), that whole 1099 thing will run an IT person into an early grave.
My advice is to get the hell out of IT and get into something like insurance. IT is a doomed career path.
Show me one time in American history where conservatism (economic laissez-faire, in particular) has served us well.
We de-regulated banks and got the Great Depression - that is, that whole economic collapse thing from unstable banks long before your Smoot-Hawley boogeyman ever came along. Oh and how was that Soviet grain production going around the 1970s? Compared to socialist America, I mean.
Tell us, what ruin came of America from the New Deal? Oh noes, that preceded a nice long run of American prosperity. Which ironically ended with unregulated corporatism.
Seriously, though, morgan greywolf's response is it's not about race. Conyers just happens to be black ergo Conyers is always thinking about race. QED.
White people never think about race when they make their political decisions, and all that.
Just wait'll you read the bill, you'll see what morgan greywolf is talking about: it has "think of the black children" literally encoded in ROT-32 in the text.
My wife is a damned good marksman. She shoots moving targets. She also believes in tasers/non lethal options, as well as gun safety training and having a yapping dog to alert us.
Women are hardly the primary opponent of gun rights.
Not just major companies, small businesses REALLY need experienced people and they're highly inflexible about dealing with those mistakes made during the first 3 years of work.
You're right about the entry level thing being defined as 3-5 years of experience.
American companies sure are shooting themselves in the foot.
Inexperienced people (aka those new to the industry) stand to suffer the most from the $5/bangalore competition.
Inexperience looks a lot like incompetence to employers - trust me, I am one, I talk to my peers all the time. I hire a considerable number of newbs and train them up, these other guys only want people with double digit years of experience to go along with the laundry list of skills (which my newb-hires also have).
The problem is, inexperienced people are the ones who become experienced people.
Offshoring is killing our ability to grow any highly competent workforce by eliminating all the entry level jobs - the jobs for newb hires that have all the appearance of incompetence due to their lack of experience.
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I'm all for trying and hanging Bush and his administration for treason.
And spare me the knee jerk slippery slope'isms. The guy killed his wife in cold blood - that's a far cry from burning someone for being a witch. If you can't see the fundamental difference there then you and rationality aren't even in the same zip code.
You know what, how about you be married to Hans in the next life?
How about the murderer get some understanding?
As in, "Understand this, dickhead... murder your wife in cold blood and we will start chopping shit off until you're dead."
This isn't about emotions or rationality - it is about deterrence. In fact, what you're trying to sell here, smells a lot like feel-goodism, and not anything close to tried and true reality.
If you want rationality as you define it, then I suggest you start pushing for Maori justice.
Have you ever been through a bitter divorce? You have no idea.
It's easy to slam Hans for offing his wife, and I am by no means trying to excuse that. But at the same time, does that mean we should ignore the incredible levels of stress, the way the court system is stacked against men, and the fact that Nina betrayed his trust?
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Sorry, but I refuse to have compassion for murderers.
This is the same argument people used when Susan Smith killed her two kids and Andrea Yates drowned all 5 of her kids.
It's bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
Absolutely go to town on a murderer.
Let future potential murderers take pause and consider what could happen to them if they cross that line.
It is a proven fact that people are getting WAY out of control these days because we don't hammer down on their butts.
Three hots and a cot for Hans Reiser? WTF? Forget that, put him in a chain gang in the hot sun. And that punishment hasn't even begun to fit the crime - considering it's much more humane than the punishment meted out by him to his wife!
Those of you who disagree with me - which of you has lost a loved one to murder? Please, I dare you, tell me you don't want that animal's head on a stick.
He murdered his wife in cold blood and a bunch of Slashdotters who have never suffered anything more than 500 gigs of lost porn, want to talk about cruel and unusual punishment?
To hell with political correctness. I say bring back public executions. Make a game show out of it. Let's show criminals that if you kill someone in cold blood, you will go down. Painfully. Let's see, who do you know wants to die in screaming agony? I didn't think so.
Someone actually modded UP a post saying don't be hard on a man who murdered his wife... because of a bitter divorce?
THIS got modded up?
Did anyone, like, notice this madness?
I was hoping he wasn't guilty but damn, he is guilty. He knows where the body is! I hope he gets his in prison.
Excuse me, but can you define for me, logically, what constitutes enough bandwidth for a commercial internet connection?
Do you realize how much bandwidth usage has risen since the internet exploded into popularity around 1992 or so?
Read the law and learn for crying out loud. What PNutts is doing is a federal offense.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=operations_2&id=cellular
Operations
Blocking & Jamming
The operation of transmitters designed to jam or block wireless communications is a violation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). See 47 U.S.C. Sections 301, 302a, 333. The Act prohibits any person from willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized under the Act or operated by the U.S. government. 47 U.S.C. Section 333. The manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited. 47 U.S.C. Section 302a(b). Parties in violation of these provisions may be subject to the penalties set out in 47 U.S.C. Sections 501-510. Fines for a first offense can range as high as $11,000 for each violation or imprisonment for up to one year, and the device used may also be seized and forfeited to the U.S. government.
Cell phone jammers are illegal.
My bet is you go out of your way not to get caught using that device because if you were caught, your lanky little Slashdot posting ass would get pounded by one, two or more cell phone users that you jammed, before the cops hauled you away.
By extension, cell phone jammers are either one of two things: cowards or road pizza.
Yes you will. Try playing Crysis in Linux, or ripping DVDs, playing with mkv's, etc.
Sure, you can rip DVDs in Linux but be prepared to spend a lot of long hard nights fighting with your system to get it up and running. To say nothing of how hard it is to do transcoding in general. Let's not get into how many things you have to download and set up by hand to get that running. It's an utter nightmre. In comparison, it is much easier to do away with the check engine light on a Toyota SUV without taking it to a Toyota dealership, than getting DVD ripping in Linux set up.
Transcoding in Windows XP? Download the "Super" program and the Combined Community Codec Pack for free, and you're off to the races. One, two, three, rip. DVD ripping in XP is as easy as downloading VLC.
This is actually seriously believable. Frighteningly believable.
for that well placed clue brick
And that crap you went through is what leads to shootings, stabbings, and other dire escalations.
I bet what you also heard was something like "'but he did it first!' does not fly with me, boy".
These schools have a way of equating the retaliator with the instigator (assuming the counter-action was equal to the original action), or even saying that when you retaliate to an instigator, you're worse than them.
This thread screams for a reference to King Thamus of ancient Egypt who once made the same arguments against the development of writing. He argued that writing would dumb humans down.
Read Plato's "The Phaedrus" for more on this.
http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/plato.htm
Oh, this is rich. You have the nerve to accuse us of being xenophobic and then you spout passive aggressive hate like this...
"Workers in these countries do tend to have a better work ethic than Western programmers. Questions remain as to why -- my opinion is that there's a higher focus on education and a greater motivation to make money."
That is a bullshit generalization for which you utterly lack any documentation or evidence to support.
Then you say "Part of me really wants to see the US IT workforce shrink. Getting people who are just not suited for the work into other jobs would probably be the best thing yet for code and system quality."
So people who make 10% of our wages and who get into IT are automatically suited for the work? Oh yeah, "because they have a better work ethic than Americans."
And about that whole xenophobia - offshoring is a net loss of jobs for America, in the realm of producing products for Americans. Americans have no place in the global economy, and will have no place until we are reduced to the polluted, abused paupers that Asian offshore workers are.
Oh no wait, I'm sorry, it must be xenophobia to believe that Chinese and Indian workers lack the same workplace safety rules as we do, or that they're paid nowhere near as well as us, or that their skies and water aren't jacked up by laissez-faire corporate pollution that would lead to prison time in the US.
Here's why so many people hate offshoring. It's not just about the wages, which are bad enough. For Americans to compete in the global economy, we have to be paid crap East Indian wages. We have to attract irresponsible corporations by allowing them to pollute the heck out of our environment (go swim out at the Indian Ocean or a river in China and see how much more polluted they are than anywhere in the US), we have to accept the reality of collapsing factories and mines, we have to accept caste systems, undemocratic Governments, and all other manner of horrors in order to compete in the global marketplace.
I'd be happy to see the entire offshore market put out of business by a blood tide of GNU software. You wanna low-price us? Try competing against free.
Uh, exactly where?
Hello, did you not read this article - they're offshoring work. Any tech job that you can try to get is bombarded with super stiff competition. Show me a job listing that isn't bombed with 10,000 resumes. Do note before you try to B.S. me on this, that I run a data center and I personally see these resume floods.
Employers can screw their employees over with unpaid overtime because their jobs are so in demand. IT workers are easily replaceable.
So, basically, if you leave a job that has tons of unpaid overtime, you're going to have crap luck trying to get another job, especially one that doesn't force unpaid overtime on you - or that doesn't do something else horrible. And as hard as my peers treat salesmen (which you are when you go c2c 1099), that whole 1099 thing will run an IT person into an early grave.
My advice is to get the hell out of IT and get into something like insurance. IT is a doomed career path.
Show me one time in American history where conservatism (economic laissez-faire, in particular) has served us well.
We de-regulated banks and got the Great Depression - that is, that whole economic collapse thing from unstable banks long before your Smoot-Hawley boogeyman ever came along. Oh and how was that Soviet grain production going around the 1970s? Compared to socialist America, I mean.
Tell us, what ruin came of America from the New Deal? Oh noes, that preceded a nice long run of American prosperity. Which ironically ended with unregulated corporatism.
How's that de-regulation doing for the airlines and energy industries? Oh, my.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/105023/Expect-a-Jolt-When-Opening-the-Electric-Bill
And what about those S&L's?
Oh yeah, we're doing great with de-regulation.
Okay now name me one successful first world country on the planet that uses laissez-faire economics. Show me one. Just one. I'm waiting.
Seriously, though, morgan greywolf's response is it's not about race. Conyers just happens to be black ergo Conyers is always thinking about race. QED.
White people never think about race when they make their political decisions, and all that.
Just wait'll you read the bill, you'll see what morgan greywolf is talking about: it has "think of the black children" literally encoded in ROT-32 in the text.
If they did that, the US would somehow find Al Qaeda there and start bombing.
Well if you agree with the parent poster that women are the chief cause of gun laws,
then you go with that and go tell it on the mountain, tell it to the world,
and not just here on Slashdot where you can hide behind your fellow sex-starved misogynist geeks (which are hardly even representative of most geeks).
You go preach that crap to the world and let Darwin decide your fate.
My wife is a damned good marksman. She shoots moving targets. She also believes in tasers/non lethal options, as well as gun safety training and having a yapping dog to alert us.
Women are hardly the primary opponent of gun rights.
When it comes to security, the best answer usually becomes the most unpopular and hard to swallow.
"And it hampers Corporate America's Gawd Given right to a profit!"
Hear that clapping sound in Congress? That clapping sound is the sound of freedom dying... with thunderous applause?
Not just major companies, small businesses REALLY need experienced people and they're highly inflexible about dealing with those mistakes made during the first 3 years of work.
You're right about the entry level thing being defined as 3-5 years of experience.
American companies sure are shooting themselves in the foot.
Inexperienced people (aka those new to the industry) stand to suffer the most from the $5/bangalore competition.
Inexperience looks a lot like incompetence to employers - trust me, I am one, I talk to my peers all the time. I hire a considerable number of newbs and train them up, these other guys only want people with double digit years of experience to go along with the laundry list of skills (which my newb-hires also have).
The problem is, inexperienced people are the ones who become experienced people.
Offshoring is killing our ability to grow any highly competent workforce by eliminating all the entry level jobs - the jobs for newb hires that have all the appearance of incompetence due to their lack of experience.