Yeah, which dictatorship do you want to live under?
A, the one that watches and listens to your every move B, The one that wants to cater to all the petty special interests of the Chi-Coms, Saudis, Pakistanis, Etc
Amen! That's why the news story is always about the homeless man being beaten to death by the police, or the dozens of poor unarmed black men shot hundreds of times (usually in the back)! When was the last time you read a story that said heiress shot dead by police or billionaire beaten to death during DWI traffic stop?
The jobs ARE NOT hard to fill, these are self serving reports by corporate shill groups trying to get the number of H1B's increased! There are upwards of three American IT workers for every job in every field!
When you live in a place where one man's car costs much more than another man's house you can expect to be treated like a medieval surf (unless you're the guy with the car)!
You are also a lying sack of shit "Anonymous Coward", In Tech it works like this!
At 40 you only get contracts (and a rare perm hire) At 50 you will only get short term emergency contracts (rarely/if ever) At 60 while they can't laugh in your face, you shouldn't bother
Except when some dumbass kid writes that older coders can get "obscenely high-paid" work of any kind! In the tech industry seeing ANYBODY over 50 working (even on a short term contract) is a rarity and probably a fluke! And seeing a 60+ COBOL programmer implies that you are hallucinating!
Is to use the mail system included with most web hosting deals, the always give multiple options (IMAP, POP3, Etc) plus lots of extras. Then use T-bird, Firefox, Libra Office, Ubuntu for your desktop/laptop and pick up at least one of the many 2+ terabyte NAS devices tat can be had for less than $300 (backup & user files).
The first thing Obama has done that I agree with, but the import tariff should have been 800%! Coal/Oil should stand on their own feet, but agriculture is VERY different! We need to protect the American farmer! (I'm not going to write 50 pages as to why).
As to "alternative energy" I've got my own ideas! Let's run the world on the most abundant substance ever, human shit! "biomass" methane generated by human sewage! And have city/urban area localized power plants that would also be sewage treatment plants, this way it would only be necessary to use the main power grid during peak times.
Illiterate, donkey riding, half starved, hyper religious nutbags with AK47's and common explosives have the most fearsome, multi trillion dollar super/mega military/intelligence/surveillance machine ever to exist, ANYWHERE at a strategic standstill! and even more this handful of inbreds (less than a thousand, Al Whastsa or so I've heard) so much so as to have made the Land of the FREE into the Land of the Spied upon/Groped, bugged and X-Rayed! Even if these guy's could commandeer some rusty Soviet era military boat, what are they gonna do? I'll take my chances and have my freedom back!
Now what I propose is that I (70) and all other over 65 show up at the airport in a bathrobe and slippers (nothing else) send your belongings ahead via FedEx or UPS, and before entering the screening area, kick off the slippers and take off the bathrobe, REMEMBER, OVER 65 ONLY! Insist on a hand search (I've got some hiding places I want explored)!
The massive criminal enterprise that has seized power in the USofA has done so, so seamlessly that mom & pop sitting in front of the six o-clock evening news with their TV dinners and daily newspapers think that everything is just hunky-dory, cause Scott Pelly just had a story about some six year old who dialed 911 and saved his "gamd-ma" and at the pre programmed moment they both said softly "awwww", with appropriately damp eyes! The same eyes that glaze over at the story about "that new law" that's gonna let the president lock up "bad people" forever, without some pesky trial!
Anybody that thinks that there can be no bond between Humans and cats has not had a close friendship with one!
In 1970 a few years after my dog Lady had died at age sixteen, a badly mauled little white tomcat was sitting in the hallway of the bldg in which I lived (it was open to the ally in the rear), I opened my door and said "you OK cat?" and with no warning he darted under my still opened sofa bed. Not wanting to lose any fingers by pulling him out I tried to coax him out with pieces of fried beef liver, he ate all the liver and a frankfurter (most of it from my hand) and finally got him to come out with a bowl of milk.
I named him Casey Cat, he was the toughest, most pugnacious, scarred up, feisty little runt I had ever seen! He was an American short haired all white alley cat, with one eye damaged, chewed up ears and a missing canine tooth. He weighed in at about six pounds.
Casey came and went as he pleased through an open window, He'd wake me by purring on my chest and when my eyes opened he'd grunt in my face with cat food breath (he could not meow). He was a very memorable friend!
And now we have Linux, free Gnu C compiler, (http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html) an assortment of window managers (including Afterstep/Windowmaker) for those who are pining away for NeXTStep, Wine and thousands of free applications.
Your time scale is off by many centuries, The iron age started circa 1,200 BCE and was ancient history by 600 BCE, also the iron age came to China 500 years later than the near east!
Unless of course you really think that any of this happened, in which you are hopelessly retarded! The only thing that might be true is that he's dead, probably in the Tora Bora attack years ago.
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Yeah, which dictatorship do you want to live under?
A, the one that watches and listens to your every move
B, The one that wants to cater to all the petty special interests of the Chi-Coms, Saudis, Pakistanis, Etc
And, I'm sure that every one of those dumbass cops lost their jobs, pensions, and were sued in a civil action!
Amen! That's why the news story is always about the homeless man being beaten to death by the police, or the dozens of poor unarmed black men shot hundreds of times (usually in the back)! When was the last time you read a story that said heiress shot dead by police or billionaire beaten to death during DWI traffic stop?
Finally, a rational answer instead of juvenile wordplay!
Surf = Serf (TYPO)
The jobs ARE NOT hard to fill, these are self serving reports by corporate shill groups trying to get the number of H1B's increased! There are upwards of three American IT workers for every job in every field!
Don't listen to bullshit!
When you live in a place where one man's car costs much more than another man's house you can expect to be treated like a medieval surf (unless you're the guy with the car)!
You are also a lying sack of shit "Anonymous Coward", In Tech it works like this!
At 40 you only get contracts (and a rare perm hire)
At 50 you will only get short term emergency contracts (rarely/if ever)
At 60 while they can't laugh in your face, you shouldn't bother
COBOL coders are almost all over 55 and many are over 60!
45? my son is 47!
Kids ;-).
Except when some dumbass kid writes that older coders can get "obscenely high-paid" work of any kind! In the tech industry seeing ANYBODY over 50 working (even on a short term contract) is a rarity and probably a fluke! And seeing a 60+ COBOL programmer implies that you are hallucinating!
Is to use the mail system included with most web hosting deals, the always give multiple options (IMAP, POP3, Etc) plus lots of extras. Then use T-bird, Firefox, Libra Office, Ubuntu for your desktop/laptop and pick up at least one of the many 2+ terabyte NAS devices tat can be had for less than $300 (backup & user files).
The first thing Obama has done that I agree with, but the import tariff should have been 800%! Coal/Oil should stand on their own feet, but agriculture is VERY different! We need to protect the American farmer! (I'm not going to write 50 pages as to why).
As to "alternative energy" I've got my own ideas! Let's run the world on the most abundant substance ever, human shit! "biomass" methane generated by human sewage! And have city/urban area localized power plants that would also be sewage treatment plants, this way it would only be necessary to use the main power grid during peak times.
One system to rule them, one hack to control them all!
Drill several holes through the body of the HDD.
Illiterate, donkey riding, half starved, hyper religious nutbags with AK47's and common explosives have the most fearsome, multi trillion dollar super/mega military/intelligence/surveillance machine ever to exist, ANYWHERE at a strategic standstill! and even more this handful of inbreds (less than a thousand, Al Whastsa or so I've heard) so much so as to have made the Land of the FREE into the Land of the Spied upon/Groped, bugged and X-Rayed! Even if these guy's could commandeer some rusty Soviet era military boat, what are they gonna do? I'll take my chances and have my freedom back!
Pointing automatic weapons at the public, black clad, imperial stormtroopers (jack booted thugs), black helicopters, gunboats, hovercraft! Fighter jets, rooftop phalanx anti-missile/anti-aircraft guns potentially firing tens of thousands of depleted uranium rounds into London, Bradly fighting vehicles (or equiv).
All this TERROR just in case some roaring nutjob wants to try some bad shit!
I don't know which is worse, well maybe I do!
Now what I propose is that I (70) and all other over 65 show up at the airport in a bathrobe and slippers (nothing else) send your belongings ahead via FedEx or UPS, and before entering the screening area, kick off the slippers and take off the bathrobe, REMEMBER, OVER 65 ONLY! Insist on a hand search (I've got some hiding places I want explored)!
The wide, heavy duty stuff, contact cement, conductive tape on joints, grounded at two points per unbroken plane. then cover with regular wall paper.
Otherwise them TSA screamer will bust your insolent pump!
The massive criminal enterprise that has seized power in the USofA has done so, so seamlessly that mom & pop sitting in front of the six o-clock evening news with their TV dinners and daily newspapers think that everything is just hunky-dory, cause Scott Pelly just had a story about some six year old who dialed 911 and saved his "gamd-ma" and at the pre programmed moment they both said softly "awwww", with appropriately damp eyes! The same eyes that glaze over at the story about "that new law" that's gonna let the president lock up "bad people" forever, without some pesky trial!
The end has already begun!
Anybody that thinks that there can be no bond between Humans and cats has not had a close friendship with one!
In 1970 a few years after my dog Lady had died at age sixteen, a badly mauled little white tomcat was sitting in the hallway of the bldg in which I lived (it was open to the ally in the rear), I opened my door and said "you OK cat?" and with no warning he darted under my still opened sofa bed. Not wanting to lose any fingers by pulling him out I tried to coax him out with pieces of fried beef liver, he ate all the liver and a frankfurter (most of it from my hand) and finally got him to come out with a bowl of milk.
I named him Casey Cat, he was the toughest, most pugnacious, scarred up, feisty little runt I had ever seen! He was an American short haired all white alley cat, with one eye damaged, chewed up ears and a missing canine tooth. He weighed in at about six pounds.
Casey came and went as he pleased through an open window, He'd wake me by purring on my chest and when my eyes opened he'd grunt in my face with cat food breath (he could not meow). He was a very memorable friend!
And now we have Linux, free Gnu C compiler, (http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html) an assortment of window managers (including Afterstep/Windowmaker) for those who are pining away for NeXTStep, Wine and thousands of free applications.
Windows? We don't need no stinking Windows!
The iron plow was first used in ancient Rome, just like the steel plow was first used in America in the nineteenth century.
Your time scale is off by many centuries, The iron age started circa 1,200 BCE and was ancient history by 600 BCE, also the iron age came to China 500 years later than the near east!
Unless of course you really think that any of this happened, in which you are hopelessly retarded!
The only thing that might be true is that he's dead, probably in the Tora Bora attack years ago.
We is smart cause we can blow all of youze up if wee want too!
We gots plans wif atum bums, an uh big armee!
An R skools is the bestest in duh wurld..
(sarcasm)