Re:Smackdown XIII "New and Improved SMACKDOWN"
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I'm glad you decided to come back. Must have been too much for your ego.
You don't seem to understand what "debate" is about. You don't get to just declare yourself the winner or the other person the loser.
You have been defeated by the !!! SMACKDOWN !!!/blockquote>
Basic flawed logic. If you withdraw from the argument, you lose...that's basic debate criteria. I think yur hilarious. I'm proud to have this thread in my history, showing how you are subject to self ridicule by engaging in topics just to amuse yourself. I don't need to post anything other than "I won", as it's self evident. You presented 0 facts, 0 logical arguments. Done and done. Owned is the appropriate term.
Re:Smackdown XII "Now with 50% more SMACKDOWN"
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Still trying to play? How sad. You got in a couple clever quips and had some fun with your post titles, but you never really had anything to begin with. Fun fun.
Re:Smackdown XI "Smackdown 2001"
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You lost and are still struggling to keep up, gg kid.
Re:Smackdown X "Smackdown 2000"
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Yet another example of your frustration is that you have resorted to another language to try to regain control. Instead of confronting or arbitrating you choose to run away where you can argue in another syntax. The whole "fleeing from your problems" is probably a trend in your life. You are a sad sad individual.
Re:Smackdown IX "The Return of Smackdown"
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Really? So you think that employers hire workers who cannot understand what their supervisors tell them?
These employers pay these employees to keep trying different tasks until the employee happens upon the task that the employer hired the employee to perform.
Now THAT is hilarious.
This is another tangent that is irrelevant. You were owned, get over it.
Re:Smackdown VIII "Son of Smackdown"
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Globalization is not the same as the Industrial Revolution because the workers cannot hitchhike to the jobs anymore and they would have to learn a new language.
Globalization is the same as the Industrial Revolution because the biggest employers dont care where you are or what you speak, only if you can be exploited. Your definition is rather limited and your position, haphazardly chosen.
Also, QA has nothing to do with the topic, unless you're claiming that manufacturing did not happen 100 years ago because, as you claim, they did not have QA 100 years ago.
Your perception of what role QA has efficiently describes your perception of what manufacturing is. You're fine with your own views, so am I.
Re:Smackdown VII "Smackdown Reloaded"
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I've countered each of the initial points. All this nonsense you've added is irrelevant. Take this nice thread to a philosphy instructor so he can let you know I won.
Re:Smackdown VI "The Final Smackdown"
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It's called "logic", not "fetish
An inability to tell opinion from fact is a continuing trend. I won, get over it.
Re:Smackdown V "The Smackening"
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You lost. get over it kid. With about 20 beers in me I can argue better than you. What do you think your nonsense is gonna get you? (although my grammar and spelling seems to suffer)
Re:Smackdown V "The Smackening"
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I don't know what you mean by smackdown. Nothing you say has shown anything, other than you have a fetish for. In abscence of any argument, you fall to repeating it. There is no smackdown. I knbow what I'm saying, do you?
Re:Smackdown IV "Son of Smackdown"!
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Then why did you reply to my initial post?
Because I made a statement to contradict your position, and you seem to just have given up and agreed with me rather than spouting more irrelevant nonsense.
It is only similar in that the workers are exploited.
I win. Well done. It's also woth noting that this will become the new standard for the technological state of a nation. Pre-industrial, industrial, globalized.
Now since you rather waste time here than going to your http://www.bulletins.wayne.edu/gbk-output/egr14.ht ml classes...I'll teach you something. QA is integral to modern manufacturing. To say manufacturing 100 years ago is done the same way as it is now is an ignorant statement showing you have no relevant knowledge and maybe a liberal arts degree.
http://www.mamtc.com/lean/intro_intro.asp Lean was invented around 1930, by Toyota. Lean Manufacturing is the set of principles demonstrating that manufacturing is a science and can utilize standards and practices to optimize profits and quality. This is one realtively new idea that has completely changed manufacturing. Lean happens to be just one of many sets of public standards (a "standard" implies compliance by other external organizations). To contrast, the ISO 9000 series is a set of standards and practices required by european manufacturers to solely ensure quality. In practice, ISO consists of broadly defining and documenting responsibilities without no regard as to how to enforce them.
There is no discussion as you have no position. I don't have to defend anything, as the facts stand that modern globalization can be equated to the industrial revolution and you've failed to disprove or even dispute that in any meaningful way. I dont need to argue your arbitrary bullet points, as that is a neat little inflammatory trick you must have picked up from usenet and is outside the scope of rational discourse.
Why would I ever say anything hinting that there wasn't mass production 100 years ago when I originally explicitly told you the IR happened near 1790? You're acting like a 15 year old smartass and focusing a single imaginary "red herring" as if it somehow provides you with an argument. This is one type of trolling.
Too bad you didn't have something more meaningful to add to the discussion, you had 4 posts to do it.
Re:And I apply the smackdown.
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manufacturing did not happen in the US 100 years ago != Do you really think there was any meaningful Quality Control or even coherent manufacturing theory 100 years ago?
You arent fooling anyone but yourself. Knowing the algebra of 100 widgets makes 10 complex widgets is not considered manufacturing theory, thx for playing.
manufacturing did not happen in the US 100 years ago
Lemme, check. Yup, I said no such thing. You have no point, other than to argue. My point was to demonstrate that globalization is parallel to the industrial revolution (which you want to be america-centric, but never was, regardless of where EA is located) as stated by osgeek. Well done troll.
Re:IR - abuses - organization - Unions
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Nope. Rather the Industrial Revolution begat the abuse of workers who found that they could organize to force management to improve their conditions.
You meant "right" then went on to restate what I already said, excepting the "Abuse of workers" which is an unqualified cliche that I would never use. While in the EU, a 40 hour work week with mandatory overtime is unheard of, in Garden Grove, CA 20 mi from where I live, individuals working for Fairchild Semiconductors get recurring nosebleeds every day because of their working conditions (they tolerate it and I don't know why).
With a flawed premise such as
The "Industrial Revolution" was when our society went from being farm-based to being industry-based.
I can understand why you think the way you do. Unfortunately the industrial revolution had very little to do with "our" society when it was europe that underwent the IR not America (until later, around 1870-1900, which is a separate IR, historically). It's almost like you think that America was the center of the IR.
And next year, even more will become computer literate, setting a new record. This has nothing to do with the globalization discussion. Look up shoe manufacturing in the 3rd world.
Again, you miss the point. I'm not sure why you bring up brute forced labor. I'm talking about the symmetrical trend in every market, including the HIGH TECH market toward reducing labor costs with newfound availability. Just because it takes a year to learn how to run a programmable die stamp, doesn't mean that you have to pay 15$USD an hour for someone to do it properly. Outsourcing is simple and logical and profitable.
And the difference between that and a factory 100 years ago is..... nothing
If you're going to babble nonsense, I'm going to have to call troll. The differences in the availability of technologies and materials alone are large enough to invalidate such a claim. Globalization is the term for the ability to shop the world, and then doing so. This strategy didn't function 100 years ago. Companies could import labor, so they did. Now, you can setup factories anywhere it's cheap to do so. Do you really think there was any meaningful Quality Control or even coherent manufacturing theory 100 years ago? I have doubts that you're qualified to be speaking about manufacturing.
Learning to abuse workers efficiently is part of manufacturing. It's very difficult to make something for nothing. It's relatively easy to make a dollar off another human, and now it's done on a scale that makes this little EA tift seem laughable.
Why is it impossible for us to avoid exploiting the workers this time?
You stay competitive, by limiting costs, keeping prices low, and maximizing profits. There's no trick answer for this unless you're trying to soothe your conscience. Sounds like a personal problem.
I'm one of those "anything is possible" idealists, but I don't pretend people are inherently good to one another.
Re:I've worked with Indian contractors.
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"The industrial revolution" begat unionism, over 100 years later. I suspect you have a warped sense of what the Industrial Revolution was about (there have been many IRs). The innovations in technology coupled with the previously unseen explosive population growth, spurred the "industrial revolution" of 1750 that you're probably referring to. The poster's point that globalization is akin to the IR of the 19th century is spot on.
I'm not in manufacturing right now but I know that the ability to accurately calculate all buisness expenses (you can shop for labor and material prices globally), dissect competitor's methodologies, choosing from a world-gradient for deciding standards and practices (ISO, DSQ, are high end standards for the EU) are all relatively new events. Record numbers of industrialized citizens have become computer literate and even more have been made available to be exploited, who are not. This is the direct correlation, as it may have escaped you.
I mean, I might have heard it among the thousands of ppl who visit fark, slashdot, homstarrunner, penny-arcade, user friendly, ad nauseam, but my break time has always kinda had a priority list that didn't want to fit in heavy flash stories, which is what this site looks like. The intro text sounds a lot like the intro from http://www.eccentris.com/
I guess you did not know that Christians were persecuted since the days of Nero because Nero blamed them for burning down part of Rome.
You can assume everyone knows this, as it's college level history. Some learned this in AP history in High School.
On October 28, 312 AD, Constantine, emperor of Rome, was encamped a few miles north of Rome, about to meet his enemy--Maxentius. Suddenly, writes ancient historian Eusebius, a Christ-inspired vision of a "cross of light" bearing an inscription "conquer by this" appeared to Constantine and his army. Later that evening, Constantine received a second vision of a Christ-inspired symbol with which he adorned his battle standards. The ensuing battle resulted in a tremendous route of Maxentius and within a few months (313 AD) Constantine announced the end of Christian persecution.
This "overly dramatic revelation" hints that this was a way to accept a persecuted sub-culture which did nothing but flourish using what might be considered "grassroots" tactics and funded completely by charity. He was simply politically savvy to the situation.
D3D and OpenGL video modes reduced your framerate to sub-30. I had p233's at work in 1998 (and I remember the day Halflife came out) with VooDoo 1 cards. The machines with 128M RAM performed at 45 fps in software mode.
My mom and sister use AOL. They have broadband already and pay the 30$/month AOL premium on top of their connection cost. I can recognize the value of community that appeals to the general public. AOL in general is a pretty friendly place, as is typically the case with mental wards and low security prisons, from my experiences. What can AOL do to improve?
From what I can tell, AOL is too intrusive in it's "features", too bloated, too expensive for the value it adds. Remove the OS/Browser skins and the agents. Stop the atrocious branding that seems to be mandatory on every visual. If ANYONE bothered to do a study on how many ppl actually bother to look at the AOL Today page, I'm pretty sure it's close to 10% or less. AOL seems to be hell-bent on pushing you information that you don't want and hiding the mechanisms to staunch the flow. From a professional standpoint, there just isn't anything on AOL that I can't access more reliably (meaning: unfiltered and minimal delay) directly from a ftp/website/group. That's just my opinion.
Re:Don't hold your breath...
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Indeed they also fashioned wooden valves. What would suck would be to have a wooden heart valve that, even if an implant was successful, would simply corrode and fail in a few weeks. But as far as medicine goes, it was a noble effort. Better to operate on 10 patients who wouldnt last 2 days, have a 20% success rate resulting in patients that die later that month. Is a treatment that's fatal worth the extra few days when faced with certain death sooner? Whatever it takes.
Re:Don't hold your breath...
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As a person who has had multiple open heart surgeries, let me contradict the previous post. Open heart surgery has been practiced and studied by multiple organizations in america, since the wooden prosthetics of the 1700's. It was never bad form to operate on the heart as there had never been any "elective" surgeries that ppl could choose to have AFAIK. When you get told you have to have open heart surgery, let me tell you, YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF IT. All surgeries relating to the heart are considered necessary as certain tissues have the consistency of wet toilet paper (aortic valve for example).
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Still trying to play? How sad. You got in a couple clever quips and had some fun with your post titles, but you never really had anything to begin with. Fun fun.
You lost and are still struggling to keep up, gg kid.
Yet another example of your frustration is that you have resorted to another language to try to regain control. Instead of confronting or arbitrating you choose to run away where you can argue in another syntax. The whole "fleeing from your problems" is probably a trend in your life. You are a sad sad individual.
My experience and actual knowledge puts me in a very confident position and you have nothing but rhetoric and fallacy. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/introtof.html
I didn't expect you to give up so soon.
This is another tangent that is irrelevant. You were owned, get over it.
Globalization is the same as the Industrial Revolution because the biggest employers dont care where you are or what you speak, only if you can be exploited. Your definition is rather limited and your position, haphazardly chosen.
Your perception of what role QA has efficiently describes your perception of what manufacturing is. You're fine with your own views, so am I.
I've countered each of the initial points. All this nonsense you've added is irrelevant. Take this nice thread to a philosphy instructor so he can let you know I won.
You lost. get over it kid. With about 20 beers in me I can argue better than you. What do you think your nonsense is gonna get you? (although my grammar and spelling seems to suffer)
I don't know what you mean by smackdown. Nothing you say has shown anything, other than you have a fetish for. In abscence of any argument, you fall to repeating it. There is no smackdown. I knbow what I'm saying, do you?
I win. Well done. It's also woth noting that this will become the new standard for the technological state of a nation. Pre-industrial, industrial, globalized.
Now since you rather waste time here than going to your http://www.bulletins.wayne.edu/gbk-output/egr14.h
http://www.mamtc.com/lean/intro_intro.asp Lean was invented around 1930, by Toyota. Lean Manufacturing is the set of principles demonstrating that manufacturing is a science and can utilize standards and practices to optimize profits and quality. This is one realtively new idea that has completely changed manufacturing. Lean happens to be just one of many sets of public standards (a "standard" implies compliance by other external organizations). To contrast, the ISO 9000 series is a set of standards and practices required by european manufacturers to solely ensure quality. In practice, ISO consists of broadly defining and documenting responsibilities without no regard as to how to enforce them.
Go back to school.
There is no discussion as you have no position. I don't have to defend anything, as the facts stand that modern globalization can be equated to the industrial revolution and you've failed to disprove or even dispute that in any meaningful way. I dont need to argue your arbitrary bullet points, as that is a neat little inflammatory trick you must have picked up from usenet and is outside the scope of rational discourse.
Why would I ever say anything hinting that there wasn't mass production 100 years ago when I originally explicitly told you the IR happened near 1790? You're acting like a 15 year old smartass and focusing a single imaginary "red herring" as if it somehow provides you with an argument. This is one type of trolling.
Too bad you didn't have something more meaningful to add to the discussion, you had 4 posts to do it.
manufacturing did not happen in the US 100 years ago != Do you really think there was any meaningful Quality Control or even coherent manufacturing theory 100 years ago?
You arent fooling anyone but yourself. Knowing the algebra of 100 widgets makes 10 complex widgets is not considered manufacturing theory, thx for playing.
Lemme, check. Yup, I said no such thing. You have no point, other than to argue. My point was to demonstrate that globalization is parallel to the industrial revolution (which you want to be america-centric, but never was, regardless of where EA is located) as stated by osgeek. Well done troll.
With a flawed premise such as
I can understand why you think the way you do. Unfortunately the industrial revolution had very little to do with "our" society when it was europe that underwent the IR not America (until later, around 1870-1900, which is a separate IR, historically). It's almost like you think that America was the center of the IR.
Again, you miss the point. I'm not sure why you bring up brute forced labor. I'm talking about the symmetrical trend in every market, including the HIGH TECH market toward reducing labor costs with newfound availability. Just because it takes a year to learn how to run a programmable die stamp, doesn't mean that you have to pay 15$USD an hour for someone to do it properly. Outsourcing is simple and logical and profitable.
If you're going to babble nonsense, I'm going to have to call troll. The differences in the availability of technologies and materials alone are large enough to invalidate such a claim. Globalization is the term for the ability to shop the world, and then doing so. This strategy didn't function 100 years ago. Companies could import labor, so they did. Now, you can setup factories anywhere it's cheap to do so. Do you really think there was any meaningful Quality Control or even coherent manufacturing theory 100 years ago? I have doubts that you're qualified to be speaking about manufacturing.
Learning to abuse workers efficiently is part of manufacturing. It's very difficult to make something for nothing. It's relatively easy to make a dollar off another human, and now it's done on a scale that makes this little EA tift seem laughable.
You stay competitive, by limiting costs, keeping prices low, and maximizing profits. There's no trick answer for this unless you're trying to soothe your conscience. Sounds like a personal problem.
I'm one of those "anything is possible" idealists, but I don't pretend people are inherently good to one another.
"The industrial revolution" begat unionism, over 100 years later. I suspect you have a warped sense of what the Industrial Revolution was about (there have been many IRs). The innovations in technology coupled with the previously unseen explosive population growth, spurred the "industrial revolution" of 1750 that you're probably referring to. The poster's point that globalization is akin to the IR of the 19th century is spot on.
I'm not in manufacturing right now but I know that the ability to accurately calculate all buisness expenses (you can shop for labor and material prices globally), dissect competitor's methodologies, choosing from a world-gradient for deciding standards and practices (ISO, DSQ, are high end standards for the EU) are all relatively new events. Record numbers of industrialized citizens have become computer literate and even more have been made available to be exploited, who are not. This is the direct correlation, as it may have escaped you.
I mean, I might have heard it among the thousands of ppl who visit fark, slashdot, homstarrunner, penny-arcade, user friendly, ad nauseam, but my break time has always kinda had a priority list that didn't want to fit in heavy flash stories, which is what this site looks like. The intro text sounds a lot like the intro from http://www.eccentris.com/
This "overly dramatic revelation" hints that this was a way to accept a persecuted sub-culture which did nothing but flourish using what might be considered "grassroots" tactics and funded completely by charity. He was simply politically savvy to the situation.
Try http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:M1ivimDBoY4J
D3D and OpenGL video modes reduced your framerate to sub-30. I had p233's at work in 1998 (and I remember the day Halflife came out) with VooDoo 1 cards. The machines with 128M RAM performed at 45 fps in software mode.
What it really sounds like is them deciding how to better divide the blame for lost subscriptions.
My mom and sister use AOL. They have broadband already and pay the 30$/month AOL premium on top of their connection cost. I can recognize the value of community that appeals to the general public. AOL in general is a pretty friendly place, as is typically the case with mental wards and low security prisons, from my experiences. What can AOL do to improve?
From what I can tell, AOL is too intrusive in it's "features", too bloated, too expensive for the value it adds. Remove the OS/Browser skins and the agents. Stop the atrocious branding that seems to be mandatory on every visual. If ANYONE bothered to do a study on how many ppl actually bother to look at the AOL Today page, I'm pretty sure it's close to 10% or less. AOL seems to be hell-bent on pushing you information that you don't want and hiding the mechanisms to staunch the flow. From a professional standpoint, there just isn't anything on AOL that I can't access more reliably (meaning: unfiltered and minimal delay) directly from a ftp/website/group. That's just my opinion.
Indeed they also fashioned wooden valves. What would suck would be to have a wooden heart valve that, even if an implant was successful, would simply corrode and fail in a few weeks. But as far as medicine goes, it was a noble effort. Better to operate on 10 patients who wouldnt last 2 days, have a 20% success rate resulting in patients that die later that month. Is a treatment that's fatal worth the extra few days when faced with certain death sooner? Whatever it takes.
As a person who has had multiple open heart surgeries, let me contradict the previous post. Open heart surgery has been practiced and studied by multiple organizations in america, since the wooden prosthetics of the 1700's. It was never bad form to operate on the heart as there had never been any "elective" surgeries that ppl could choose to have AFAIK. When you get told you have to have open heart surgery, let me tell you, YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF IT. All surgeries relating to the heart are considered necessary as certain tissues have the consistency of wet toilet paper (aortic valve for example).
I already know all the copies of non-xp I install, and some of the xp I install, are pirated. Come get me.