I'm talking about the general sentiment the US displays towards East Asia in general. Basically you have a bunch of Chinks, they all look the same and some get used as temporary allies while someone else gets bombed. At the onset of WW2 it was China being the buddy to get a kick at the Japs, after that it was the good ol' North vs. South game. Twice, for good measure.
It's not that easy. With the internet and social media playing an increasingly important role in the life of our kids, and the fact that the internet never forgets, you can easily destroy someone's life permanently that way.
Think back of your youth. I guess everyone here has done something they're not really proud upon, maybe even something that was the talk of the school yard for a while. But it blows over. Eventually. And people forget about it.
Remember the Star Wars Kid? That's been like a decade ago. Want to bet that you can still find videos today? What do you think, how easy he probably has it, finding a job with that reputation, hell, finding someone who'd want to date and maybe even marry an internet meme?
Back in the day you could also shoot commies, only had to go to South East Asia. You could also just shoot every Chink there if you felt like it, nobody really asked. If someone did, just say you think it was a commie. Or in other words, if he runs, he's a VC, if he doesn't, he's a well disciplined VC.
Turn back the time about 80-90 years and you can replace computer with car and programmer with mechanic in your statement.
Yes, every time had its "new" technology (with "new" being a really stretchable term, computers are hardly new but only rather recently they managed to permeate our everyday life, something the automobile did much, much faster).
In the end, though, and considering just how fast technology moves today, I doubt that we'll see a lot of "programmers" needed in the future. "Programming" a computer will soon be no more difficult than programming your VCR was. Granted, a lot of people had trouble with that, but in the end we'll soon see the need for dedicated "Programmers" decline to the point where it is something only required by professionals and enthusiasts, much like it did for the mechanic part of owning and operating a car.
Sorry for the car analogy, it just did actually fit for a change.
What the education system should do, in my opinion at least, is to prepare kids to be able to learn more about these curious machines if, and only if, they have the interest and relevant ability to become someone who programs them. Trying to make everyone a programmer whether they show any interest or think that big-O is something discussed in dirty magazines is going to fail.
A decade being maybe a bit much, but the bullshit level got really high in the past 3-4 years. I can easily speak, sitting in old Europe where people oddly are still way more sane (and currently way more occupied with immigrants to deal with other bullshit), but I do see the problem the US is hitting right now.
In a really bizarre cooperation between religious nutjobs and SJWs they seem to have joined ranks in an attempt to destroy what's left of science in the US.
a) We can agree that Nazis are bad. Only a Nazi would consider Nazis good. b) Label everyone disagreeing with you "Nazi". c) It's easy to silence your opposition because nobody would want to defend Nazis.
Works with everything. In the past it was Witches and Commies, the label du jour being Nazi.
In a sound proof studio built for sound recording spoken by someone with speech training?
Or in an environment with 30 people talking in the background, an air condition running, doors and drawers slamming, people laughing, feet and chairs shuffling across the floor, some photocopiers that got their last service before Bush left office whining for hours and a person speaking into the phone while at the same time talking to coworkers and you're expected to know which words belong to you and which ones are directed at someone else?
I was in the US. Yes, a few are rich. A few more live in conditions that befit a third world country. Such extreme differences between the ultimately rich and the ultimately poor I have aside of there only seen in the Middle East and South East Asia.
What do I gain out of "my" country being rich when I'm struggling to get by? And if I'm not struggling I have to fear that someone who does kills me for the 20 bucks I may have in my wallet.
Again, I have never seen this kind of problem in any other industrialized nation. Only in the US.
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I'm talking about the general sentiment the US displays towards East Asia in general. Basically you have a bunch of Chinks, they all look the same and some get used as temporary allies while someone else gets bombed. At the onset of WW2 it was China being the buddy to get a kick at the Japs, after that it was the good ol' North vs. South game. Twice, for good measure.
But take a look at how the US treated its allies.
It's not that easy. With the internet and social media playing an increasingly important role in the life of our kids, and the fact that the internet never forgets, you can easily destroy someone's life permanently that way.
Think back of your youth. I guess everyone here has done something they're not really proud upon, maybe even something that was the talk of the school yard for a while. But it blows over. Eventually. And people forget about it.
Remember the Star Wars Kid? That's been like a decade ago. Want to bet that you can still find videos today? What do you think, how easy he probably has it, finding a job with that reputation, hell, finding someone who'd want to date and maybe even marry an internet meme?
Back in the day you could also shoot commies, only had to go to South East Asia. You could also just shoot every Chink there if you felt like it, nobody really asked. If someone did, just say you think it was a commie. Or in other words, if he runs, he's a VC, if he doesn't, he's a well disciplined VC.
Ah, yes, good ol' times...
Are you really publicly hating on people based on their political opinion?
Turn back the time about 80-90 years and you can replace computer with car and programmer with mechanic in your statement.
Yes, every time had its "new" technology (with "new" being a really stretchable term, computers are hardly new but only rather recently they managed to permeate our everyday life, something the automobile did much, much faster).
In the end, though, and considering just how fast technology moves today, I doubt that we'll see a lot of "programmers" needed in the future. "Programming" a computer will soon be no more difficult than programming your VCR was. Granted, a lot of people had trouble with that, but in the end we'll soon see the need for dedicated "Programmers" decline to the point where it is something only required by professionals and enthusiasts, much like it did for the mechanic part of owning and operating a car.
Sorry for the car analogy, it just did actually fit for a change.
What the education system should do, in my opinion at least, is to prepare kids to be able to learn more about these curious machines if, and only if, they have the interest and relevant ability to become someone who programs them. Trying to make everyone a programmer whether they show any interest or think that big-O is something discussed in dirty magazines is going to fail.
A decade being maybe a bit much, but the bullshit level got really high in the past 3-4 years. I can easily speak, sitting in old Europe where people oddly are still way more sane (and currently way more occupied with immigrants to deal with other bullshit), but I do see the problem the US is hitting right now.
In a really bizarre cooperation between religious nutjobs and SJWs they seem to have joined ranks in an attempt to destroy what's left of science in the US.
a) We can agree that Nazis are bad. Only a Nazi would consider Nazis good.
b) Label everyone disagreeing with you "Nazi".
c) It's easy to silence your opposition because nobody would want to defend Nazis.
Works with everything. In the past it was Witches and Commies, the label du jour being Nazi.
In a sound proof studio built for sound recording spoken by someone with speech training?
Or in an environment with 30 people talking in the background, an air condition running, doors and drawers slamming, people laughing, feet
and chairs shuffling across the floor, some photocopiers that got their last service before Bush left office whining for hours and a person speaking into the phone while at the same time talking to coworkers and you're expected to know which words belong to you and which ones are directed at someone else?
Aka "open plan office".
We have arrived at the point where assuming that a company wants to invade your privacy is pretty much the default position.
Who is moving goalpost. The goalpost is "write what I said", and that didn't move an inch.
Then stop outsourcing to countries where this is the native language.
Then arrest those that commit crimes and let the rest speak. What exactly is your problem?
So asking that everyone can be heard is now a "nazi" point?
That I get old enough to hear that "nazis" are now defending our right to speak... Have we arrived at nineteen-fourty-eight at last?
War is Peace;
Freedom is Slavery;
Ignorance is Strength;
Either that or I woke up in Bizarro world while I wasn't watching.
If the answer to either is "no", then the answer is "not at all".
Sorry to say so, but your question sounds like "I want my kids to become what I want them to be, so how do I make them?".
If it's as efficient as the rest of NKor industry, we should actually encourage them to do it.
Last time I checked those drug sellers didn't mind me speaking my mind, so I guess it's easy to decide who to side with.
No need to. Just stay the hell out of the continent and it will work out.
If we go back far enough we can surely blame it all on the Mongols, but let's stay in the here and now if you don't mind.
Well, looking at the kind of humans that pump out units like there's no tomorrow, the "doesn't think" analogy stays valid.
If Hollywood is any indicator, they may have their time but in the end it doesn't look too good for them.
You didn't read the link you provided, did you?
Like in, say, Syria, where the US did everything in their power to destabilize the region and leaving Europe now to deal with the fallout?
I was in the US. Yes, a few are rich. A few more live in conditions that befit a third world country. Such extreme differences between the ultimately rich and the ultimately poor I have aside of there only seen in the Middle East and South East Asia.
What do I gain out of "my" country being rich when I'm struggling to get by? And if I'm not struggling I have to fear that someone who does kills me for the 20 bucks I may have in my wallet.
Again, I have never seen this kind of problem in any other industrialized nation. Only in the US.
Just to be clear, electronic money as in cash-less payment via credit card or as in bitcoins?
In today's schools? Be glad that there is no corporal punishment when you're a teacher, I wouldn't be so certain to be not on the receiving end.