I will here try to educate you, although I don't have much hope of succeding.
Most mexicans would not even think of crossing miles upon miles of scorching desert or swim a fast river with an infant in their backs.
Only the most desperate, poor and ignorant do. Its very sad, yes, and it is a large ammount of people, but they are not the majority.
Most mexicans still work the fields or the factories, earning a wage that is miserable, but just about enough to survive. It is when these people lose their jobs that they set out north to get _anything_. They no longer dream of the american way of life, they have heard too many horror stories about the Migra, the discrimination and the low standards of life there, but anything is better than what they have now.
They are not the majority, I repeat, but they are a very visible, and very miserable minority.
I am very sorry that your union leader and your local TV network have fed you so much crap, but if the US wants to stop illegal border crossing they should perhaps start rethinking their strategy regarding the foreign debts of these countries.
Mexico has to spend over 50% of its gross domestic product paying the interest of its foreign debt. Not the debt itself, just the interest.
The prospect of countries such as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Mozambique, amongst many others, actually _paying_ their foreign debt is widely considered impossible due to the constraints put by the US via the International Monetary Fund.
In practice this is a new colonialism that enslaves entire populations and dooms them to working the sweatshops just so that YOU can wear cheap and fashionable running shoes.The illegal aliens working your fields, cleaning your toilets and vacumming your home are just a side effect of this neo-colonialism.
Funny how most western countries have managed to mandate minimum wage scales over the past half century without plunging us all into economic chaos.
Behold the magic of outsourcing.
Do you believe the worker who assembled your cellphone or the one that put shoelaces on your nikes makes 8 dollars an hour? Impossible.
Here in Mexico the minimum wage is roughly 4 US dollars a day, and even then factories such as Volkswagen and Flextronics are threatening that if Congress raises this to more than 4.2 dollars a day they will close shop and open up in Russia, China or maybe Malasia.
...your assumption, sir, appears to be that people are replaceable machines to be purchased at the minimum cost. But you are leaving out a number of factors. Morale in any team of workers is not a factor to be despised. A happy worker is normally a better and more efficient worker.
However it seems that its just as effective to have 5 unhappy workers in China, Thailand or Mexico making as much as one happy, unionized, insured, US worker.
At least here in Mexico (and I have heard of it happening in California) there have been at least 10 cases of factories bringing chinese workers, placing them in crowded gated communities built just outside the factory and holding their passports so they can't leave the place, working 12-14 hours with minimal wage (and Mexican minimal wage is about 4 US dollars a day!), getting only some rice and water at night.
And the worst part of it? They come here _knowing_ the wage and the conditions, figuring that 2 or 3 years of that would fetch them enough dollars to return to China and build a mom-and-pop-hardware-store or a noodles stand by the train station.
BTW, note the sword was never reforged, expect Arwen to bring it out to Aragorn in #2
After seeing the movie, that was actually one of the bits that seemed to be summarily chopped off in editing, but now that you put it that way, it now makes a lot of sense! Thanks for that piece of thought!
They set everything up for Gimli to fall in knightly love with Galadriel, then they didn't show it!
Actually that's also why some things that are subtle in the book (i.e. Galadriel's dilemma when Frodo offers her the ring) is made obvious in the movie (changes in light and vast ammounts of cavernous reverb)
Movie adaptations from a book are always going to have some painful additions/substractions because film and literature are very different languages.
In a film context, you have to let the audience know that the ring is incredibly powerful and capable of corrupting the wise and powerful in much less time that is allowed in a book format, where the author can let us know what everybody is thinking and has 1000+ pages to explain it.
The screenwriter has to let us know the same in a few seconds, so he/she has to include not-so-subtle-clues so that even if you blinked for a second while putting popcorn in your mouth you would be able to understand what is happening.
Actually, I found that my friends who didnt read Harry Potter before watching the movie enjoyed it far more than those who had already read the books (and became raving Rowlingites!)
Its very difficult to translate 6~9 hours of straight reading into 2 1/2 hours of motion picture, specially since the writing style of J.K. Rowling is so fast and action packed, with so many things said in very little time. The result is a good-intentioned movie that tries very hard at packing as many scenes from the book as possible, and to be as true as possible to the book, but nontheless a slightly failed movie.
This movie adaptation of Fellowship of the Ring, on the other hand, benefits from Tolkiens much slower, detailed descriptions (which are more than adequately honored by the amazing New Zealander landscapes and the carefully designed sets and costumes) and by the extra ammount of time it enjoys.
Your rationale is dangerous. If you dont keep learning new things; or new, better ways to do old things, you will soon be left behind by the natural selection bus.
When McDonalds opened its first restaurant (I use the term loosely) here in Mexico City about 15 years ago, everybody was on the rage to go eat there. It was even cool to be seen there, and the papparazzi from the "society" pages from the newspapers routinely catched famous people eating Big Macs.
But in a matter of 9-12 months the fad passed and as more and more McDonalds opened, people in Mexico started to realize they were fooled.
The food is just as bad as any other McDonalds, but the "newness" and the "Americanness" of the place fooled everybody into trying it.
Nowadays, McDonalds and Burger King are locked into a price war and each offering "Mexican" versions of their burgers (dont even ask!), to try and attract more people into them...
You didn't you do your homework, did you Mr. Wizard?
If you had, you would have seen all the different proyects that shrink linux into a compact package.
There are distros that fit into a single floppy or even less (see the IBM Linux wristwatch).
Also Linus himself and the boys at Transmeta have done a lot of work on Linux power management.
Japan is still completely dependent on the goodwill of the US and NATO; it cannot have an army, therefore they were forced to adopt new ways to survive.
In the process, they lost their identity --they have a new one now, but thats besides the point.
What I mean is that Japan was destroyed so that it would not become a world power, and the agreements that they had to sign at the end of WW2 ensure that they never will.
How often are those systems down? With a stable version of a free OS installed, you can start it up in the morning and shut down at night and never have a problem with the OS. Stable Windows platforms are not unheard of, but the people who operate those systems have spent as much time diving into the guts of the system as any free OS guru.
How much work is lost to GPFs and BSoDs? See above.
Any sysadmin will agree with your point, but sadly no manager will think of it as a valid reason not to use windows.
I installed yet another Debian 2.2r3 box yesterday, the fifth in this room alone. Procedure: put the first CD in the CD drive, boot, answer a few on-screen questions, change CDs when prompted, job done. All distros are getting slicker, all installs are getting easier. Likewise, all package management systems are getting better.
Answer a few on-screen questions??
Thats a bit of an understatement... dont you think?
Whats wrong about having a graphical install that eliminates the guessing? How about automatic hardware detection?
Last time I checked, Debian didnt have any of these
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Most mexicans would not even think of crossing miles upon miles of scorching desert or swim a fast river with an infant in their backs.
Only the most desperate, poor and ignorant do. Its very sad, yes, and it is a large ammount of people, but they are not the majority.
Most mexicans still work the fields or the factories, earning a wage that is miserable, but just about enough to survive. It is when these people lose their jobs that they set out north to get _anything_. They no longer dream of the american way of life, they have heard too many horror stories about the Migra, the discrimination and the low standards of life there, but anything is better than what they have now.
They are not the majority, I repeat, but they are a very visible, and very miserable minority.
I am very sorry that your union leader and your local TV network have fed you so much crap, but if the US wants to stop illegal border crossing they should perhaps start rethinking their strategy regarding the foreign debts of these countries. Mexico has to spend over 50% of its gross domestic product paying the interest of its foreign debt. Not the debt itself, just the interest.
The prospect of countries such as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Mozambique, amongst many others, actually _paying_ their foreign debt is widely considered impossible due to the constraints put by the US via the International Monetary Fund.
In practice this is a new colonialism that enslaves entire populations and dooms them to working the sweatshops just so that YOU can wear cheap and fashionable running shoes.The illegal aliens working your fields, cleaning your toilets and vacumming your home are just a side effect of this neo-colonialism.
The fact that it is illegal doesnt mean it does not happen.
And who told you I am in the US? Did I say I want to go there? I AM home, thank you very much.
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There are people reading slashdot outside the US, gringo pendejo.
Funny how most western countries have managed to mandate minimum wage scales over the past half century without plunging us all into economic chaos.
...your assumption, sir, appears to be that people are replaceable machines to be purchased at the minimum cost. But you are leaving out a number of factors. Morale in any team of workers is not a factor to be despised. A happy worker is normally a better and more efficient worker.
Behold the magic of outsourcing.
Do you believe the worker who assembled your cellphone or the one that put shoelaces on your nikes makes 8 dollars an hour? Impossible.
Here in Mexico the minimum wage is roughly 4 US dollars a day, and even then factories such as Volkswagen and Flextronics are threatening that if Congress raises this to more than 4.2 dollars a day they will close shop and open up in Russia, China or maybe Malasia.
However it seems that its just as effective to have 5 unhappy workers in China, Thailand or Mexico making as much as one happy, unionized, insured, US worker.
At least here in Mexico (and I have heard of it happening in California) there have been at least 10 cases of factories bringing chinese workers, placing them in crowded gated communities built just outside the factory and holding their passports so they can't leave the place, working 12-14 hours with minimal wage (and Mexican minimal wage is about 4 US dollars a day!), getting only some rice and water at night.
And the worst part of it? They come here _knowing_ the wage and the conditions, figuring that 2 or 3 years of that would fetch them enough dollars to return to China and build a mom-and-pop-hardware-store or a noodles stand by the train station.
BTW, note the sword was never reforged, expect Arwen to bring it out to Aragorn in #2
After seeing the movie, that was actually one of the bits that seemed to be summarily chopped off in editing, but now that you put it that way, it now makes a lot of sense! Thanks for that piece of thought!
They set everything up for Gimli to fall in knightly love with Galadriel, then they didn't show it!
It was filmed, and it will be in the DVD.
<sarcasm>...so not only elves are immortal, but when they are killed they can choose to return to life!</sarcasm>
So make it Glorfindel. Why the hell change it to Arwen anyway?
Because you need the Arwen character to give Aragorn a motivation... Duh!
For God's Sake, did you want a 10 hour movie?
Personally speaking, yes, if that's what it takes to do the books justice.
Do you have any f*ing idea how much that would cost?? No studio exec in the whole world (much less hollywood) would have approven of such a monster.
Are you saying that, because you need 10 hours just to accurately portray FOTR, the movie shouldnt have been done?
C'mon, they did a marvelous job considering the budget and time constraints!
Actually that's also why some things that are subtle in the book (i.e. Galadriel's dilemma when Frodo offers her the ring) is made obvious in the movie (changes in light and vast ammounts of cavernous reverb)
Movie adaptations from a book are always going to have some painful additions/substractions because film and literature are very different languages.
In a film context, you have to let the audience know that the ring is incredibly powerful and capable of corrupting the wise and powerful in much less time that is allowed in a book format, where the author can let us know what everybody is thinking and has 1000+ pages to explain it.
The screenwriter has to let us know the same in a few seconds, so he/she has to include not-so-subtle-clues so that even if you blinked for a second while putting popcorn in your mouth you would be able to understand what is happening.
Hey, you are absolutely right!
Didnt think of that myself but all your references are correct! GIVE THE MAN A CIGAR!
Are you implying that Bombadil is Eru on disguise?
Its very difficult to translate 6~9 hours of straight reading into 2 1/2 hours of motion picture, specially since the writing style of J.K. Rowling is so fast and action packed, with so many things said in very little time.
The result is a good-intentioned movie that tries very hard at packing as many scenes from the book as possible, and to be as true as possible to the book, but nontheless a slightly failed movie.
This movie adaptation of Fellowship of the Ring, on the other hand, benefits from Tolkiens much slower, detailed descriptions (which are more than adequately honored by the amazing New Zealander landscapes and the carefully designed sets and costumes) and by the extra ammount of time it enjoys.
LOTR has been translated to many, many languages... I read it in Spanish when I was 15
Our office still gets 1-3 spam faxes per week, mainly from "educational" institutions wanting to sell seminaries to our Sales staff
Your naiveté amuses me.
Your rationale is dangerous. If you dont keep learning new things; or new, better ways to do old things, you will soon be left behind by the natural selection bus.
Yours with concern
Abreu
But in a matter of 9-12 months the fad passed and as more and more McDonalds opened, people in Mexico started to realize they were fooled.
The food is just as bad as any other McDonalds, but the "newness" and the "Americanness" of the place fooled everybody into trying it.
Nowadays, McDonalds and Burger King are locked into a price war and each offering "Mexican" versions of their burgers (dont even ask!), to try and attract more people into them...
If you had, you would have seen all the different proyects that shrink linux into a compact package.
There are distros that fit into a single floppy or even less (see the IBM Linux wristwatch).
Also Linus himself and the boys at Transmeta have done a lot of work on Linux power management.
Japan is still completely dependent on the goodwill of the US and NATO; it cannot have an army, therefore they were forced to adopt new ways to survive.
In the process, they lost their identity --they have a new one now, but thats besides the point.
What I mean is that Japan was destroyed so that it would not become a world power, and the agreements that they had to sign at the end of WW2 ensure that they never will.
Gringo pendejo
How cute! An idealist in this day and age!
</cynicism>
Any sysadmin will agree with your point, but sadly no manager will think of it as a valid reason not to use windows.
Answer a few on-screen questions??
Thats a bit of an understatement... dont you think?
Whats wrong about having a graphical install that eliminates the guessing? How about automatic hardware detection?
Last time I checked, Debian didnt have any of these
I think the reason perl has its own /. logo is because Taco and company code in perl