Thanks to outsourcing you no longer can get the experience (as in, resume experience with job references) that pointy haired bosses and HR people want, to begin with.
Even if you're good at coding open source apps you still wind up lacking the workplace experience-related skills the boss is looking for.
But then employers want that kind of experience.
This is part of why fewer people are enrolling in computer science and related studies in college. They see the offshoring, they see the catch-22, and the market (of students paying tuition and seeking degrees) is speaking, loudly.
Wrong. Now that the tech industry is gone, there are no new major jobs industries in America except the old school mcjobs at Wal Mart.
We're at the end of the job evolution chain at this point. Biotech is a dead end. Alternative energy is a dead end. Both are being outsourced and automated.
Offshoring means 6 billion people are competing for a few hundred million jobs. There'll never be an employee's market again, anywhere on Earth.
I'd like to see what new jobs are coming. So far libertarians have been unable to answer that question.
Include a "simplified" button on any given app, and an "advanced users" button as well, like they do in Xine.
All programs should be designed first as.so dynamic shared libraries with gui and cli implementations that call upon the library functions.
GUI programs should be designed to work as complex front ends to dynamic library functions. Heck, why not even have a menu option (in advanced user mode) to include the "CLI command flags" option to output what the CLI command would be to do it in a terminal?
I love Fedora 3 because of the way it sees my hardware perfectly, but I've wrecked my system once trying to compile and install a new kernel.
Is there a howto for this?
I sure do miss the nuts and bolts style of slackware, but the instant hardware recognition makes up for a lot of it. Also, RedHat FC3 is a snap to configure my LAN. I could never figure out the arcane commands needed to set up a LAN/internet connection over cable modem/router in Slackware (although hooking a single machine to DSL was insanely easy).
If I could overcome the instant hardware recognition barrier and figure out the pea soup of setting up a router/lan thing in Slackware, I'd go back to Slackware 10... Slack 9 did work fine when I upgraded the kernel...
Chickenhawk = person who wants to see brutal dictators ousted but who won't do anything to help, not even protesting against the stripping of social program benefits (education, health care, etc.) from those brave enough to actually go out and make it happen.
Reading a few hundred pages of help documents and web sites to only find out that you really cannot get two sounds at once from your multi channel sound card after all, is how you build character.
Only idiots expect to turn on a computer, slap in a card, run an automated driver install program and expect the thing to work.
Ok, satire aside, I'm a pretty hard core linux fan, but I still know Linux has some serious limitations. We need to get over them instead of brushing off people who are frustrated.
Linux needs to grow as an OS because, very soon, it could become a national security issue. The whole world is coming close to getting fscked by a whole universe of automated Windows-hijacking worms and spyware that simply cannot survive and self-propagate in Linux.
99% of intrusions into Linux OSes are done by hackers who target the machine and actually work on breaking in; for Windows? It's a matter of one zombie machine infecting another while the original perpetrator is off in his/her maniacal slumberland.
But since it is a NIGHTMARE to get some stuff/features working in Linux, and most games won't play in Linux without the help of WineX (and still some won't work then), well there ya go, people still flock to Windows and still get their machines zombified...
they'd give everyone video blog access, especially anonymously.
By the time the abusers - the anonymous stalkers, defamers and trolls - got done with the system - no one would believe anything that comes from the masses anyway.
Recently, there was an article about how the American press is less apt to use anonymous sources for their stories now, especially after the whole Quran-gate incident. There's a lesson to be learned in this if you're a totalitarian government trying to hold onto power while transitioning to democracy.
In short, the truth could hide in plain sight among the static. The dissidents would be silenced, nonviolently, by the very system they rely on.
than these nanotech protestors is the severe apathy people show regarding the potential dangers of nanotech.
Any form of calls for caution or restraint is dismissed as Luddism and lunacy.
What we're experiencing in technology now is what we experience initially from the passenger seat of a car on a road where there's no speed limits and no traffic cops.
We have a large number of highly educated Americans who have no work.
An excess of workers is never good for the individual; what corporations are doing to us is creating a market of 6 billion workers for a few million good paying jobs worldwide.
This can never be good; it will ultimately end in sweatshop jobs for all as workers are forced to bargain down in order to compete with low paid workers abroad.
You forgot one thing; this trait comes out in geeks at random. The same kids you saw getting their butts kicked one day might absolutely clean house the next.
One year I was getting everything but actually stuffed in a locker by someone; the next I was in it with the cops for putting that same kid in the hospital. Then I became the bully. Then I got cut down to size. Then I cut someone else big down. Then I ran screaming from the whole alpha/beta male conflict b.s. and the year after I graduated was when the first drive-by's started happening.
In the 1980s kids put up their address in comic books to contact each other and share their mutual fandom. Take Comico's "Robotech" for example. Imagine if that were going on at the very dawn of the recent explosion in the harassment craze.
Forget that, let's look at now. Even exchanging email addresses to talk to other fans leaves you open to harassment. People are getting paranoid about sharing their email because of harassers, and more prominently, spammers. Your argument would equally condemn email users.
People used to be able to leave their doors unlocked, but today, if you don't triple deadbolt your doors, you're at the same level of personal irresponsibility as someone who left their door unlocked 10 years ago.
The point is, the moment we start finding fault with people for being trusting of one another instead of piling all the blame on those who violate that trust, we wind up on an endless slope of escalation. We find ourselves forever looking for precautions against those who would betray us and lo and behold, our trust of one another falls completely to crap.
I miss the days when I could put my address somewhere and get a friendly letter from a pen pal in the mail. Hell, I'm already missing the days when I could put up my own email address and get responses from pen pals instead of fragging spammers.
There is absolutely, positively no room for compromise over the fact that this woman participated willingly in a photo shoot and that her photos were used in ways she did not permit. Our society has lost WAY too much in the last 20 years alone, at the hands of smacktards violating the trust of others.
At this point, since all the land in America is either owned by residents, the Government, or rampaging speculators and the banks who own them, the only thing we can do to free up some land is wait for the system to collapse under its own weight.
Without a collapse our economy is going to stagnate and it will die regardless. Or do you wish to argue that gasoline prices, college tuition prices and real estate prices can continue to skyrocket without end?
Some time, that stuff's gotta come back down and I think you know what'll happen if, say, real estate prices were to fall in California alone.
Well then we could just stick with the current situation - which is, people being homeless because they can't find someone else to value their skills (which were valuable 2 years ago thanks to the college education they got).
Oh yeah, I know, you'll say these homeless people should go back to college. Before you go there... exactly how will they afford that if they don't have a place to live?
It could force US companies or even more agile startups to look at what is not being produced in America, and start producing it here again.
America CAN DO. I don't know who the heck it is that keeps spewing this propaganda about how US businesses are any more incompetent than anyone else, but in case no one has noticed it's American intellectual property that keeps getting stolen by other nations. Cisco, anyone? Who would steal from us so much if our technology wasn't worth anything?
America needs to re-learn how to become self sufficient and to support itself again. Relying on foreign nations to produce our consumer goods, much less our Homeland Security goods, is a recipe for disaster, if our relations with that country go sour. Where will we get our goods then? We'll have to make it here, won't we?
And then there's the threat of foreign sabotage. How do we know who will get pissed off at us in the future? How do we know some of that foreign code for MicroSoft Windows NT/XP/2003 doesn't have intentional holes designed to execute an "order 66" on us? Responses to this post will invariably say such things won't ever happen and frankly that is as logical as sending a young woman, half naked, out into every dark alley in a big city and proudly declaring that she won't get sexually assaulted.
Nobody is saying producing products domestically will put an end to the threat of sabotage. MicroSoft knows that all too well after their own patch server got hijax0red by a virus writer. But foreign production of Homeland Security hardware/software adds a mountain of extra elements of vulnerability on top of the gaping security holes that we have domestically.
So, we don't have cell phones made in the USA, eh? Well, then we need to start making them here. It disgusts me to think there are American citizens who persist in saying our corporations are more incompetent than others, and that we can't do it. We can do it. Now instead of hating 'others' we hate ourselves. What the heck? Our companies are just as good as anyone else's, and by God our workers are, too. Let's put them back to work.
I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, I'm just aghast at the logic that says 'Buy American' is evil. It's not.
We've only had industry for the last 200 years. What did people work for before that, in the post serfdom years before industrialization?
Government no-strings-attached handouts would lead to people making shitholes of their environment, I won't argue that, but the Native American environment is a special situation brought about by colonialism, mass slaughter, and a genetic predisposition toward alcoholism. Native Americans do just fine when alcohol is not around. Hell, they have no worse shit holes out there than you'll find in the ubercapitalist areas of the rest of the US, or even Hong Kong.
Before industrialization we had farms and people worked for themselves and/or their families. They didn't labor for someone else's profits and grand visions of the world, either. I guess those were all shitholes, too.
Here's another idea... break up these gigantic megacorporations, where an individual means absolutely nothing, into smaller entities where the individual means something and each person has a profit sharing stake in the system.
How about trying real, honest to God profit sharing, like my boss does with us employees. Now that will make people work, and work hard.
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I oppose the illegal war in Iraq and the wiping out of my fair use rights and privacy rights by the demons spawned from DRM.
I also see where DRM can be a backdoor for corporate and government thieves to sneak in and steal a huge portion of even more important civil rights.
Check out Richard Stallman's "The Right to Read":
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Thanks to outsourcing you no longer can get the experience (as in, resume experience with job references) that pointy haired bosses and HR people want, to begin with.
Even if you're good at coding open source apps you still wind up lacking the workplace experience-related skills the boss is looking for.
But then employers want that kind of experience.
This is part of why fewer people are enrolling in computer science and related studies in college. They see the offshoring, they see the catch-22, and the market (of students paying tuition and seeking degrees) is speaking, loudly.
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Wrong. Now that the tech industry is gone, there are no new major jobs industries in America except the old school mcjobs at Wal Mart.
We're at the end of the job evolution chain at this point. Biotech is a dead end. Alternative energy is a dead end. Both are being outsourced and automated.
Offshoring means 6 billion people are competing for a few hundred million jobs. There'll never be an employee's market again, anywhere on Earth.
I'd like to see what new jobs are coming. So far libertarians have been unable to answer that question.
Simple solution:
.so dynamic shared libraries with gui and cli implementations that call upon the library functions.
Include a "simplified" button on any given app, and an "advanced users" button as well, like they do in Xine.
All programs should be designed first as
GUI programs should be designed to work as complex front ends to dynamic library functions. Heck, why not even have a menu option (in advanced user mode) to include the "CLI command flags" option to output what the CLI command would be to do it in a terminal?
I love Fedora 3 because of the way it sees my hardware perfectly, but I've wrecked my system once trying to compile and install a new kernel.
Is there a howto for this?
I sure do miss the nuts and bolts style of slackware, but the instant hardware recognition makes up for a lot of it. Also, RedHat FC3 is a snap to configure my LAN. I could never figure out the arcane commands needed to set up a LAN/internet connection over cable modem/router in Slackware (although hooking a single machine to DSL was insanely easy).
If I could overcome the instant hardware recognition barrier and figure out the pea soup of setting up a router/lan thing in Slackware, I'd go back to Slackware 10... Slack 9 did work fine when I upgraded the kernel...
Chickenhawk = person who wants to see brutal dictators ousted but who won't do anything to help, not even protesting against the stripping of social program benefits (education, health care, etc.) from those brave enough to actually go out and make it happen.
Not to mention the name, address and SSN itself (which, AFAIK, are on every tax return, by nature) being practically the keys to the whole kingdom...
As usual, private industry is regulating itself and solving its own problems.
If the Government got involved they'd regulate these companies and we'd have security breaches all over the place, like the IRS...
Oh wait, exactly how many IRS breaches have we had so far?
Someone get me a direct line to Fox News, STAT!!!
That's what I'm getting when I try to encode anything in this codec...
Oh, please.
Reading a few hundred pages of help documents and web sites to only find out that you really cannot get two sounds at once from your multi channel sound card after all, is how you build character.
Only idiots expect to turn on a computer, slap in a card, run an automated driver install program and expect the thing to work.
Ok, satire aside, I'm a pretty hard core linux fan, but I still know Linux has some serious limitations. We need to get over them instead of brushing off people who are frustrated.
Linux needs to grow as an OS because, very soon, it could become a national security issue. The whole world is coming close to getting fscked by a whole universe of automated Windows-hijacking worms and spyware that simply cannot survive and self-propagate in Linux.
99% of intrusions into Linux OSes are done by hackers who target the machine and actually work on breaking in; for Windows? It's a matter of one zombie machine infecting another while the original perpetrator is off in his/her maniacal slumberland.
But since it is a NIGHTMARE to get some stuff/features working in Linux, and most games won't play in Linux without the help of WineX (and still some won't work then), well there ya go, people still flock to Windows and still get their machines zombified...
they'd give everyone video blog access, especially anonymously.
By the time the abusers - the anonymous stalkers, defamers and trolls - got done with the system - no one would believe anything that comes from the masses anyway.
Recently, there was an article about how the American press is less apt to use anonymous sources for their stories now, especially after the whole Quran-gate incident. There's a lesson to be learned in this if you're a totalitarian government trying to hold onto power while transitioning to democracy.
In short, the truth could hide in plain sight among the static. The dissidents would be silenced, nonviolently, by the very system they rely on.
than these nanotech protestors is the severe apathy people show regarding the potential dangers of nanotech.
Any form of calls for caution or restraint is dismissed as Luddism and lunacy.
What we're experiencing in technology now is what we experience initially from the passenger seat of a car on a road where there's no speed limits and no traffic cops.
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No, we don't benefit.
We have a large number of highly educated Americans who have no work.
An excess of workers is never good for the individual; what corporations are doing to us is creating a market of 6 billion workers for a few million good paying jobs worldwide.
This can never be good; it will ultimately end in sweatshop jobs for all as workers are forced to bargain down in order to compete with low paid workers abroad.
And you've done exactly what in your life?
You forgot one thing; this trait comes out in geeks at random. The same kids you saw getting their butts kicked one day might absolutely clean house the next.
One year I was getting everything but actually stuffed in a locker by someone; the next I was in it with the cops for putting that same kid in the hospital. Then I became the bully. Then I got cut down to size. Then I cut someone else big down. Then I ran screaming from the whole alpha/beta male conflict b.s. and the year after I graduated was when the first drive-by's started happening.
So because Democrats trample on our civil liberties, that exempts Bush from severe criticism for doing the same thing.
Can I have some of whatever you're drinking?
You just might run out of mod points before the cops catch you.
Are you the guy that posted these pics? I hope you rot in prison.
No, your robbery analogy does not hold.
In the 1980s kids put up their address in comic books to contact each other and share their mutual fandom. Take Comico's "Robotech" for example. Imagine if that were going on at the very dawn of the recent explosion in the harassment craze.
Forget that, let's look at now. Even exchanging email addresses to talk to other fans leaves you open to harassment. People are getting paranoid about sharing their email because of harassers, and more prominently, spammers. Your argument would equally condemn email users.
People used to be able to leave their doors unlocked, but today, if you don't triple deadbolt your doors, you're at the same level of personal irresponsibility as someone who left their door unlocked 10 years ago.
The point is, the moment we start finding fault with people for being trusting of one another instead of piling all the blame on those who violate that trust, we wind up on an endless slope of escalation. We find ourselves forever looking for precautions against those who would betray us and lo and behold, our trust of one another falls completely to crap.
I miss the days when I could put my address somewhere and get a friendly letter from a pen pal in the mail. Hell, I'm already missing the days when I could put up my own email address and get responses from pen pals instead of fragging spammers.
There is absolutely, positively no room for compromise over the fact that this woman participated willingly in a photo shoot and that her photos were used in ways she did not permit. Our society has lost WAY too much in the last 20 years alone, at the hands of smacktards violating the trust of others.
He's probably earning $3 mil in a federal lockup. Too bad, of course, inmates won't actually pay him for the blowjobs he's giving :D
At this point, since all the land in America is either owned by residents, the Government, or rampaging speculators and the banks who own them, the only thing we can do to free up some land is wait for the system to collapse under its own weight.
Without a collapse our economy is going to stagnate and it will die regardless. Or do you wish to argue that gasoline prices, college tuition prices and real estate prices can continue to skyrocket without end?
Some time, that stuff's gotta come back down and I think you know what'll happen if, say, real estate prices were to fall in California alone.
Well then we could just stick with the current situation - which is, people being homeless because they can't find someone else to value their skills (which were valuable 2 years ago thanks to the college education they got).
Oh yeah, I know, you'll say these homeless people should go back to college. Before you go there... exactly how will they afford that if they don't have a place to live?
India's education is free. There's no barrier to education there - none that is based on the ability to pay, at least.
It could force US companies or even more agile startups to look at what is not being produced in America, and start producing it here again.
America CAN DO. I don't know who the heck it is that keeps spewing this propaganda about how US businesses are any more incompetent than anyone else, but in case no one has noticed it's American intellectual property that keeps getting stolen by other nations. Cisco, anyone? Who would steal from us so much if our technology wasn't worth anything?
America needs to re-learn how to become self sufficient and to support itself again. Relying on foreign nations to produce our consumer goods, much less our Homeland Security goods, is a recipe for disaster, if our relations with that country go sour. Where will we get our goods then? We'll have to make it here, won't we?
And then there's the threat of foreign sabotage. How do we know who will get pissed off at us in the future? How do we know some of that foreign code for MicroSoft Windows NT/XP/2003 doesn't have intentional holes designed to execute an "order 66" on us? Responses to this post will invariably say such things won't ever happen and frankly that is as logical as sending a young woman, half naked, out into every dark alley in a big city and proudly declaring that she won't get sexually assaulted.
Nobody is saying producing products domestically will put an end to the threat of sabotage. MicroSoft knows that all too well after their own patch server got hijax0red by a virus writer. But foreign production of Homeland Security hardware/software adds a mountain of extra elements of vulnerability on top of the gaping security holes that we have domestically.
So, we don't have cell phones made in the USA, eh? Well, then we need to start making them here. It disgusts me to think there are American citizens who persist in saying our corporations are more incompetent than others, and that we can't do it. We can do it. Now instead of hating 'others' we hate ourselves. What the heck? Our companies are just as good as anyone else's, and by God our workers are, too. Let's put them back to work.
I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, I'm just aghast at the logic that says 'Buy American' is evil. It's not.
We've only had industry for the last 200 years. What did people work for before that, in the post serfdom years before industrialization?
Government no-strings-attached handouts would lead to people making shitholes of their environment, I won't argue that, but the Native American environment is a special situation brought about by colonialism, mass slaughter, and a genetic predisposition toward alcoholism. Native Americans do just fine when alcohol is not around. Hell, they have no worse shit holes out there than you'll find in the ubercapitalist areas of the rest of the US, or even Hong Kong.
Before industrialization we had farms and people worked for themselves and/or their families. They didn't labor for someone else's profits and grand visions of the world, either. I guess those were all shitholes, too.
Here's another idea... break up these gigantic megacorporations, where an individual means absolutely nothing, into smaller entities where the individual means something and each person has a profit sharing stake in the system.
How about trying real, honest to God profit sharing, like my boss does with us employees. Now that will make people work, and work hard.