Injection molding can be done at home on the cheap. All you need is plaster of paris, molding wax, tools for shaping your models, a microwave oven, styrofoam cups, and some acetone, and you can make just about any plastic part. Of course you also need a smidgen of creativity, and enough common sense to know that the acetone NEVER goes into the microwave.
You are correct. Retooling may not be an option if the universities are pushing computer science and information technology knowing full well that those fields will be closed to graduates. Imagine spending 100K getting a degree at a prestigious school only to find out you will NEVER have a way to pay back those student loans.
I reside in one the heavest taxed regions of the country. We pay more in property taxes than most people pay for mortage or rent. I am currently paying 5.25 percent in school taxes alone. What did they do with the money? Must have burned it, because we also have the worst schools in the country. They rank in the lowest five of all states and third from the bottom in this state, according to federal data.
How did this happen? First they raised property taxes. The wealthiest people moved away and built apartments in place of the mansion. Whenever the school district needs money, they go on a fishing expidition to find valuable properties and raise taxes on those of highest value.
These people move away as well. District repeats the process until the value of property is reduced sufficiently to invite the criminal and destitute. Anybody who can actually add and subtract move away when they see the numerical and social trends.
Landlords don't improve property because to do so would place them in the unenviable position of being reassessed. Other landlords cannot evict, because of section-8 restrictions. Owner-occupants end up sleeping in the bathtub during the frequent shootouts that occur.
Democrats are the biggest boosters of outsourcing. Jay Rockefeller, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, are all strong supporters of outsourcing in America. The more people that get forced into low paying jobs crying "gimme gimme" to uncle sam, the more votes the democrats get. When a bill limitting outsourcing for government positions came up, Teddy killed it with a smile in commitee.
It's all about power and not about the health of our nation. Regardless of the consequences, these self-serving morons will do whatever it takes to keep and aquire more control over your lives.
What happens when everybody is working at a fast food joint? Nobody eats.
If those engineers who either changed careers, retired, or are unemployed due to outsourcing refused to vote for any candidate who encouraged the practice, they may actually stem the tide.
And don't think a management job will be safe. As soon as the foreign company realises that they have all of the workers, what effort will it take to "fire" the parent company and hire their own managers? Not much. American companies are merely feeding their replacements and will find themselves outsourced with their employees. There is no way for American companies to avoid this outcome. It is one thing to sell an invention, and another to sell the inventor.
He who feeds a dragon, does not love his children, for the beast will quickly tire of his master's fare, and soon turn on his master.
The real security risk is the outsourcing company. The number one cause of security breaches in the US during the 90's was from outside (foreign) contractors who had access to information of confidential, secret, or restricted in nature. Now instead of having access to the data, the have access to the methods as well. Having a cheaper Software Engineer or Security Analyst does not mean you will get better engineering or more security. As evidence look at the airport system. The wages paid to security personnel are some of the lowest in the country, and hence cannot keep more skill individuals. Ex-convicts and high security risk individuals can be found in those occupations due to the poor fiscal incentives. We all know what that poor security led to.
The lowest bidder does not nescesarily produce a quality product. When is the last time you found real wood in a piece of furniture in our country?
I have heard the statement that the market is moving overseas to customers in China and India, and thus it is imperitive to hire from those localities. But why? If there are no skilled labor or engineering jobs left in the country, what will people do to make ends meet? Occupations at the top of the food chain will suffer as well. Already CEOs in some companies are being replaced by their foreign counterparts, and while the ousted CEO may have money in the bank, his children will end up in a shrinking service industry. Why will it shrink? Because the people they serve will no longer have any money.
When labor went away, blue collar workers were forced to retrain in other fields, many just retired. They pushed thier children to get degrees in engineering, law, and medicine. Now the engineering jobs will be gone.
Who will pay the taxes to support those millions who will retire in the next few years? Not the engineers and laborers, they live in China and India.
What industry would you tell a young adult to get into, if all of them are destined to either be outsourced, or priced out of existence?
If you linked spamhole to a real mail server's authentication scheme, you could toss any mail that also appeared on any chosen spamhole. As long as a spamhole is not identified as such by the slugs that spam, a fairly quick culling of the spam from legitimate servers can occur.
Just wait until companies figure out the cold truth: Software written overseas is available to any company with the cash and not just the one who actually paid to develop it. If you have a product going out the door next quarter and somebody pays you out-sourcing company more to get it next month, there is absolutely nothing your company can do about it, short of getting the US government to send a cruise missile their way. Zero pressure can be applied to any offshore company which is as heavily entangled with thier governements as those in China and India. Your company's hopes of gettin ANY redress are purely based upon what stage their respective governemtns are at in regards to aquiring technological leverage in the world market. Currently there are at least fifty development centers in those regions which share sources from current outsourcing production without regard to corporate security or interest.
A common social ploy is to make a situation appear exclusive. By tossing out the implied market condition threat (India, China, et al, looting of American jobs), he is laying the ground work for the statement, "you would be lucky to get this job, you lazy pig!" Though, I admit, under some rare circumstances this may be accurate, it is really a demonstration of the alienation between those who do and those who command. So while the doers whould not have the resources or direction without those who command, the commanders would have absolutely nothing without the doers. Outsourcing the engineers to another nation may be profitable in the short term, it is completely disasterous for any company in the long term. These are the reasons: 1) Foreign companies are not required to respect US law. 2) There is little to no recourse for violations of contract. 3) By causing the US workforce to abandon hitech skills, income earning potential decreases. 4) Decreasing income causes proportional decrease in spending. 5) Price advantages gained by outsourcing are wiped out by major consumer market destruction due to drastic reduction in purchasing power. 6) Proprietary patents are traded freely to foreign competitors causing destruction of US company. 7) Officers of US company are drawn and quartered by stockholders. 8) Nobody takes technical courses and the school systems continues its relentless slide into its role as a prison system for children.
Yeh, this company president thinks he can build a strong company by trying to make the workers look small, but it is this attitude which is part of the problem. People like him are just fishing for an excuse to outsource. I say, go ahead and outsource, we'll be picking up you equipment at auction when that Chinese or Indian company screws you over in the race for product market share.
If somebody really wanted to lay claim to an asteroid, they would, in my opinion, be required to: 1) visit it, 2) maintain a presence, 3) declare ownership, 4) and defend the claim. With priority from top to bottom. A claim (3) lacking any other conditions, leaves ownership open.
NASA has done (1,2) and by treaty, abandonned (3). The location makes condition (4) implied until such a time when more than one party can visit and restate a claim.
NASA is the the only entity having a quasi-legal claim so far, and by proxy the US tax payer. In order to purchase a property you still need to do all of the steps, since purchsae of a title to a property merely means the origonal claimant has abandoned (1,2,3,4) exclusively in favor of the purchaser who is still obligated to fullfill (1,2,3,4).
You sound like a bigot. Replace "Old white men" with any of your favourite derogitory words and you would sound essentially the same. There are alot of non-"OWM" who would jump at the chance to screw over their fellow man.
The basic problem? Instead of taking responsability for their circumstances, the American underclass attempts to santify otherwise bad behaviour. When "OWM" is shouted from the desktop, nobody seems to be offended, but if they choose a different phrase, watch out! Unless you know a particular "OWM" before you judge him, you are prejudging him, and last time I checked perjudice and bigotry are synonyms.
There is a cardinal rule of society which has withstood the test of time: If you think small you will always be small.
Therein lies the true danger of outsourcing information technology jobs. There is no way to ensure data, methods, and proprietary information will remain secure. If a foreign nation decides your banking records are of interrest to it (like when you are travelling and they need a juicy target for kidn.. eh, reeducation, it gets so much easier to identify you by those records so conveniently placed at their disposal by a mutlinational banking firm.
What if you are a CEO at a company in the silicon valley and you need to get a product out before your competition does? You hire a firm in another country to build a GUI for your product and give them detailed hardware specifications to aid in development. A month before you hit the market with your gee-wiz device, every kid on the block has a product with all of the same features at a much lower price. When you protest to the foreign company , you are told that, since you are a US company, you have no rights in that country and should kindly go away. You get precisely what you deserve when the board of directors hands you your head because they have a warehouse full of chips and plastic and no money.
Most of the nations which supply outsourcing manpower, do not have reciprocal agreements with the US and thus need not enforce ANY of our laws.
If you are an IT professional, you may have noticed how many jobs have moved, but you have been left behind holding the bag.
Say you are a subcontractor for the defense industry and you accidently, on purpoose, underbid your competition because you knew you were going to violate the law and outsource confidential or even secret work. Ten months later the government of that nation uses the technology you supplied them, albeit indirectly, to blackmail the US into reciprocating in a deal providing them with money and resources.
All of these things are possible, and unless I am mistaken have occured many times. I was working at a prominent console manufacturer when a VP licensed a proprietary and inovative design to a foreign corporations with an agreement that they would not distribute in the US or Canada. The US company was ramping up for christmas and thus had warehouses full of packaged units. Two weeks before christmas the VP is dismissed in a heated debate which could be heard throughout the building, and word is out that the foreign company just delivered to just about every store in the nation the same device with thier logo on it, and all because the VP felt he couldn't find somebody to do the internationalization of the firmware. (Something which the foreign company never bothered with since it was only shipped to the US during the first year of sales).
While the boner above was done without outsourcing to a large degree, what caused it to happen was the boneheaded transfer of inovative proprietary knowldge to a foreign company. When the invation resources are spent in another nation, that nation, and not the US will reap all of the benefits of having a skilled work force, while the US consumes itself in shortsighted neglect of local R&D. Licensing and outsourcing would only work if the laws were the same everywhere. Many of the outsourcing targets also allow child labor, slave labor, and torture.
Imagine if you will, you are an unpaid engineer in a semiconductor design house (reeducation facility:prison) in one of these nations. Your project is going very slow because the fab can't quite duplicate the US design. Oh, well, when your section boss wants revenge for losing face, he has you forcably removed to the hospital where your organs are removed and sent to places all over the world. It's ok though, since you serve the party in the end by providing the much needed cash to finance the war againts the impirialist pigs.
The last happens today, outsourcing only makes it worse.
Maybe one religion was praying for healing and another was praying for sickness.
I once heard somebody pray for the immediate immolation of a small mediteranean country, so I have to guess that studies like this are a phenominal waste of money given the degree of conflicting opinions about God out there.
That is precisely what they want. By driving away economic sources, one of the two major parties in this country, succeeds in creating a larger base of poor, unhappy, citizens who then turn around and vote for the party that "cares". An uneducated, poor, and unhappy population typically vote for those who pull the emotional levers, as opposed to actual common sense. Same thing is happenning in California. The state senate and assembly are furiously trying to get as many laws passed as possible before the governer is tossed out on his backside.
Its the nature of prosperity and success to attract parasites which feed off the needs and compulsions of an underclass. It is the desire of those parasites to make that underclass as large as possible.
The various governments around the coutry got fat and happy when the times were good, but like any flatworm, are now on the prowl for another meal, even if it means killing the host.
The local government in my region made some poor investments in the teacher's 401K plan, and lost money on the downturn. Did they draw in there belts and accept the risk? No, instead they doubled my property taxes, and forced me to sell devalued stock instead. It seems I'm responsible for paying the difference whenever teachers select a bad mixture of investments, who by the way have one of the highest failure rates in the country while receiving the highest total compensation.
Taxation is to an economy what friction is to an engine. Less is definately better. The effects of tax increases upon an economy may take several years to kick in, but when they do, they really do!
If spammers attack, then we should attack back. My point: That nz spammer who appears to have given up, due to having his personal info exposed to his unhappy recipients. If this same method is applied equally to ALL spammers, we might turn the tide. As far as I can tell, these worms give up any privacy when they choose to spew to the world, and when they go on the offensive and organise a ddos on sites that blacklist them, the only civil response is to expose as many details of thier lives as possible.
Public figures have this happen all of the time. Every detail of thier lives are visible for everyone to see. Spammers, people who broadcast messages, unwanted or otherwise, are just as public as a politician or an actor, and thier acts could be construed as a means to get attention. Let's give them that attention, and see if they can stand up to the all seeing eye of e pluribus unum.
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You know the one. Big house, room full of computers, says if he can't do it one way, he's working on another way to carry out his nefarious plans.
Spammer have no shame, as evidenced by all of the pinile enlargement adds. Nor any dignity, since they have no problem with filling up little kids email with tons of porno.
By building a network of P2P machines infected with a spamming worm, this peice of trash will create an even more hazardous environment.
Time to build better mail servers, with full authentication. Time to catch a spammer and go happy with a glue gun too...
Spammers and Politicians. Say it real fast three or for times and they sound they same. My point: Both survive by leeching off resources they don't possess. Both produce tons of useless text. Both threaten you with the law if you try to block them in any way. Both invade your privacy and take away your freedom of action. Oh... I can think of more simularities, but that would require several pages and a liberal sprinkling of profanity, (something which I usually try to avoid unless in the presence of hammers or income tax forms).
When you get right down to it, the internet user needs to fight back, and here's how: 1) Never buy a product from a spammer, and don't associate with anyone who does. 2) Push for the creation of laws which make spamming a capital offense. (I know... Not a smowballs chance, but it's worth a try, 'cause you never know...) 3) Create lists of spammers, and the companies they promote and make them available for all to see, for that wishfull time when public flogging is back in vouge. 4) Revoke citizenship of spammers and force them to live somewhere else.
It's probably futile, but then again, what's futility for anyways?
If you think they are actually interrested in solar power or any other environmentally sensitive issues, take a look at any other socialist nation where the people DON'T have the option of complaining (or of joining the opposition) and you will find rampant pollution, and criminal administration.
This is why they tax whatever moves, without regard for common sense, or empirical logic. When they take away your ability to spend they also take away your right to move freely, to vote with your feet, or your pocketbook.
I recall when Grey Davis was merely a superintendant of a school system, he was ambitious then, instituting many of the policies which have served to destroy one of the best school systems in the country. Unless you move to Cupertino, your chance of getting a decent school is pretty much nil.
If you built a solar power system in hopes of avoiding the cost of utilites and the hidden taxes attached to it, think again. Citizen Davis has calculated the exact amount of pain to inflict upon California to push Joe sixpack into the party of the miserable. Using two-faced promises to the power industry, he used them to orchestrate the largest finantial meltdown in American history, as many with mortgages in the silicon valley may already know.
Citizen Davis does not have the welfare of California or America in mind, but rather is using a cynical minimax scheme to enact as much destructive legislation as possible before his party looses power, knowing that the opposition will not be able to undo the mess without getting their blame as a result.
I remember when this scoundrel was merely a petty low level opperatchik, but does anyone remember when he was a member of the American Socialist Party?
These guys know that as long as the opposition plays by the rules, they will always win, since they fully intend to cheat. When they levy a tax on solar panels, they are doing it because they cannot believe you actually trusted them when it came to what you thought to be a sacred cow. Thus internet taxes, solar power taxes, next taxes on clean air.
If you are kept a margin of misery, you are exactly where they want you, in a position to vote for the guys who "Feel your pain". Hmmm. aren't these the same guys who faught against freeing the slaves, who fought for segregation, and who insist on "no eye contact" when they enter the room? (One of the more persistent traits of the American Democratic "Peoples" Party.
The California government has become, for all intensive purposes, a socialist one. Socialism at its heart is based opon the principles of active appropriation. Where appropriation is a polite word for legalized theft. Leave it up to the Democratic party hacks in California who have control of the entire state government to create as many taxes as possible before being swept away in the next elections.
By the time people figure it out, it will be too late, since the strategy they are using engages ignorance and the law of averages to control the population.
What the are doing is essentially sabotage, and shooting themselves in the foot besides. Those persons who delivered us anartistic offal on CDs have merely found a way to do the same over P2P networks. The reason the recording industry is doing so poorly has nothing to do with the P2P red herring, but rather, is entirely due to a dismal lack of quality.
Jet fuel is merely kerosene. Since the compressors and other blades in a turbo jet will melt if a high temperature fuel is used, kerosene is the trade-off. Wax-like and fairly light (on the order of paraffin) is has a lower burning temperature than gasolene and deisel, but also has a lower energy per unit volume.
Because the heat of combustion is already very high due to the air-fuel compression proccess, using a fuel like gasolen is out of the question in a jet engine unless the blades are either very stout, or the cooling method is exceptionally good. Deisel is self igniting at pressure, as well as pretty dirty commercially, and can be used in low speed turbines as long as the blades can handle alot of sand-blasting at high temperatures.
A commercial jet's choice of fuels is pretty much decided on how much energy you get per unit weight of fuel divided by the cost of mainentance and the critical failure probibility.
What I wouldn't give for a time machine. Just the idea of packing a couple of crates of today's hardware off to the past nakes me yearn for a way to leverage it. But then again, I would just go all the way back to Newton and show him Einstein's equations and try to bootstrap this century even further.
Actually artists of the time who were of "respectable" status did not take in young ladies and ask them nicely to take off thier clothes if they ever wanted to get another commision from the church. The artistic schools of the age would often perform the indicated anatomical substitutions once the carefully chaperoned sittings were complete.
Artists who broke this rule were isolated by the church. There were some exceptions, but as a rule, models were as male as the actors of the day.
If he had been a little less inquisitive and a little more compliant he might have ended up as a Jesuit monk, but was considered unsuitable for the holy vocation, somthing which colored his attitude for the rest of his life.
His disdain for sex is more likely due to his devotion to his own mother who was a simple barmaid who could neither read nor write. Her simplicity, yet country horse sense, educated him in compliment to the formal education he recieved from his father's family.
Da Vinci had two qualities which when coupled with his lack of want, produced a great man. Curiosity, and ingenuity.
"Just Shoot Me" is targeted for the "SKOOL IS 4 DUMYS" crowd, thus it's popularity. It's all a numbers game. Since morons breed at a faster rate than nerds, is it any wonder why television programming reflects the population trend?
How many times can you recall having a good, intelligent program cancelled for a peice of trash? These days, if you can't find anything better to do than watch "Everybody Loves Raymond", you have to pretty thick. When the animation technology gets far enough along to become accessable to the people without a gazzilion bucks, then we might be able to roll our own, though it's probably wishfull thinking on my part.
Just think about it - these people drive AND vote...
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Injection molding can be done at home on the cheap. All you need is plaster of paris, molding wax, tools for shaping your models, a microwave oven, styrofoam cups, and some acetone, and you can make just about any plastic part. Of course you also need a smidgen of creativity, and enough common sense to know that the acetone NEVER goes into the microwave.
You are correct. Retooling may not be an option if the universities are pushing computer science and information technology knowing full well that those fields will be closed to graduates. Imagine spending 100K getting a degree at a prestigious school only to find out you will NEVER have a way to pay back those student loans.
I reside in one the heavest taxed regions of the country. We pay more in property taxes than most people pay for mortage or rent. I am currently paying 5.25 percent in school taxes alone. What did they do with the money? Must have burned it, because we also have the worst schools in the country. They rank in the lowest five of all states and third from the bottom in this state, according to federal data.
How did this happen? First they raised property taxes. The wealthiest people moved away and built apartments in place of the mansion. Whenever the school district needs money, they go on a fishing expidition to find valuable properties and raise taxes on those of highest value.
These people move away as well.
District repeats the process until the value of property is reduced sufficiently to invite the criminal and destitute. Anybody who can actually add and subtract move away when they see the numerical and social trends.
Landlords don't improve property because to do so would place them in the unenviable position of being reassessed. Other landlords cannot evict, because of section-8 restrictions. Owner-occupants end up sleeping in the bathtub during the frequent shootouts that occur.
Welcome to the slum, created by property taxes.
Crime is directly proportional to property taxes.
Democrats are the biggest boosters of outsourcing.
Jay Rockefeller, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, are all strong supporters of outsourcing in America. The more people that get forced into low paying jobs crying "gimme gimme" to uncle sam, the more votes the democrats get. When a bill limitting outsourcing for government positions came up, Teddy killed it with a smile in commitee.
It's all about power and not about the health of our nation. Regardless of the consequences, these self-serving morons will do whatever it takes to keep and aquire more control over your lives.
What happens when everybody is working at a fast food joint? Nobody eats.
If those engineers who either changed careers, retired, or are unemployed due to outsourcing refused to vote for any candidate who encouraged the practice, they may actually stem the tide.
And don't think a management job will be safe. As soon as the foreign company realises that they have all of the workers, what effort will it take to "fire" the parent company and hire their own managers? Not much. American companies are merely feeding their replacements and will find themselves outsourced with their employees. There is no way for American companies to avoid this outcome. It is one thing to sell an invention, and another to sell the inventor.
He who feeds a dragon, does not love his children, for the beast will quickly tire of his master's fare, and soon turn on his master.
The real security risk is the outsourcing company. The number one cause of security breaches in the US during the 90's was from outside (foreign) contractors who had access to information of confidential, secret, or restricted in nature. Now instead of having access to the data, the have access to the methods as well. Having a cheaper Software Engineer or Security Analyst does not mean you will get better engineering or more security. As evidence look at the airport system. The wages paid to security personnel are some of the lowest in the country, and hence cannot keep more skill individuals. Ex-convicts and high security risk individuals can be found in those occupations due to the poor fiscal incentives. We all know what that poor security led to.
The lowest bidder does not nescesarily produce a quality product. When is the last time you found real wood in a piece of furniture in our country?
I have heard the statement that the market is moving overseas to customers in China and India, and thus it is imperitive to hire from those localities. But why? If there are no skilled labor or engineering jobs left in the country, what will people do to make ends meet? Occupations at the top of the food chain will suffer as well. Already CEOs in some companies are being replaced by their foreign counterparts, and while the ousted CEO may have money in the bank, his children will end up in a shrinking service industry. Why will it shrink? Because the people they serve will no longer have any money.
When labor went away, blue collar workers were forced to retrain in other fields, many just retired. They pushed thier children to get degrees in engineering, law, and medicine. Now the engineering jobs will be gone.
Who will pay the taxes to support those millions who will retire in the next few years? Not the engineers and laborers, they live in China and India.
What industry would you tell a young adult to get into, if all of them are destined to either be outsourced, or priced out of existence?
Without the brain the body dies.
Ohhh...What I couldn't do with a wall outlet, a spool of ni-chrome wire, salt, and Saddam Hussain.
If you linked spamhole to a real mail server's authentication scheme, you could toss any mail that also appeared on any chosen spamhole. As long as a spamhole is not identified as such by the slugs that spam, a fairly quick culling of the spam from legitimate servers can occur.
Just wait until companies figure out the cold truth: Software written overseas is available to any company with the cash and not just the one who actually paid to develop it. If you have a product going out the door next quarter and somebody pays you out-sourcing company more to get it next month, there is absolutely nothing your company can do about it, short of getting the US government to send a cruise missile their way. Zero pressure can be applied to any offshore company which is as heavily entangled with thier governements as those in China and India. Your company's hopes of gettin ANY redress are purely based upon what stage their respective governemtns are at in regards to aquiring technological leverage in the world market. Currently there are at least fifty development centers in those regions which share sources from current outsourcing production without regard to corporate security or interest.
A common social ploy is to make a situation appear exclusive. By tossing out the implied market condition threat (India, China, et al, looting of American jobs), he is laying the ground work for the statement, "you would be lucky to get this job, you lazy pig!" Though, I admit, under some rare circumstances this may be accurate, it is really a demonstration of the alienation between those who do and those who command. So while the doers whould not have the resources or direction without those who command, the commanders would have absolutely nothing without the doers. Outsourcing the engineers to another nation may be profitable in the short term, it is completely disasterous for any company in the long term. These are the reasons:
1) Foreign companies are not required to respect US law.
2) There is little to no recourse for violations of contract.
3) By causing the US workforce to abandon hitech skills, income earning potential decreases.
4) Decreasing income causes proportional decrease in spending.
5) Price advantages gained by outsourcing are wiped out by major consumer market destruction due to drastic reduction in purchasing power.
6) Proprietary patents are traded freely to foreign competitors causing destruction of US company.
7) Officers of US company are drawn and quartered by stockholders.
8) Nobody takes technical courses and the school systems continues its relentless slide into its role as a prison system for children.
Yeh, this company president thinks he can build a strong company by trying to make the workers look small, but it is this attitude which is part of the problem. People like him are just fishing for an excuse to outsource. I say, go ahead and outsource, we'll be picking up you equipment at auction when that Chinese or Indian company screws you over in the race for product market share.
If somebody really wanted to lay claim to an asteroid, they would, in my opinion, be required to:
1) visit it,
2) maintain a presence,
3) declare ownership,
4) and defend the claim.
With priority from top to bottom.
A claim (3) lacking any other conditions, leaves ownership open.
NASA has done (1,2) and by treaty, abandonned (3). The location makes condition (4) implied until such a time when more than one party can visit and restate a claim.
NASA is the the only entity having a quasi-legal claim so far, and by proxy the US tax payer. In order to purchase a property you still need to do all of the steps, since purchsae of a title to a property merely means the origonal claimant has abandoned (1,2,3,4) exclusively in favor of the purchaser who is still obligated to fullfill (1,2,3,4).
You sound like a bigot. Replace "Old white men" with any of your favourite derogitory words and you would sound essentially the same. There are alot of non-"OWM" who would jump at the chance to screw over their fellow man.
The basic problem? Instead of taking responsability for their circumstances, the American underclass attempts to santify otherwise bad behaviour. When "OWM" is shouted from the desktop, nobody seems to be offended, but if they choose a different phrase, watch out! Unless you know a particular "OWM" before you judge him, you are prejudging him, and last time I checked perjudice and bigotry are synonyms.
There is a cardinal rule of society which has withstood the test of time:
If you think small you will always be small.
Therein lies the true danger of outsourcing information technology jobs. There is no way to ensure data, methods, and proprietary information will remain secure. If a foreign nation decides your banking records are of interrest to it (like when you are travelling and they need a juicy target for kidn.. eh, reeducation, it gets so much easier to identify you by those records so conveniently placed at their disposal by a mutlinational banking firm.
:prison) in one of these nations. Your project is going very slow because the fab can't quite duplicate the US design. Oh, well, when your section boss wants revenge for losing face, he has you forcably removed to the hospital where your organs are removed and sent to places all over the world. It's ok though, since you serve the party in the end by providing the much needed cash to finance the war againts the impirialist pigs.
What if you are a CEO at a company in the silicon valley and you need to get a product out before your competition does? You hire a firm in another country to build a GUI for your product and give them detailed hardware specifications to aid in development. A month before you hit the market with your gee-wiz device, every kid on the block has a product with all of the same features at a much lower price. When you protest to the foreign company , you are told that, since you are a US company, you have no rights in that country and should kindly go away. You get precisely what you deserve when the board of directors hands you your head because they have a warehouse full of chips and plastic and no money.
Most of the nations which supply outsourcing manpower, do not have reciprocal agreements with the US and thus need not enforce ANY of our laws.
If you are an IT professional, you may have noticed how many jobs have moved, but you have been left behind holding the bag.
Say you are a subcontractor for the defense industry and you accidently, on purpoose, underbid your competition because you knew you were going to violate the law and outsource confidential or even secret work. Ten months later the government of that nation uses the technology you supplied them, albeit indirectly, to blackmail the US into reciprocating in a deal providing them with money and resources.
All of these things are possible, and unless I am mistaken have occured many times. I was working at a prominent console manufacturer when a VP licensed a proprietary and inovative design to a foreign corporations with an agreement that they would not distribute in the US or Canada. The US company was ramping up for christmas and thus had warehouses full of packaged units. Two weeks before christmas the VP is dismissed in a heated debate which could be heard throughout the building, and word is out that the foreign company just delivered to just about every store in the nation the same device with thier logo on it, and all because the VP felt he couldn't find somebody to do the internationalization of the firmware. (Something which the foreign company never bothered with since it was only shipped to the US during the first year of sales).
While the boner above was done without outsourcing to a large degree, what caused it to happen was the boneheaded transfer of inovative proprietary knowldge to a foreign company. When the invation resources are spent in another nation, that nation, and not the US will reap all of the benefits of having a skilled work force, while the US consumes itself in shortsighted neglect of local R&D. Licensing and outsourcing would only work if the laws were the same everywhere. Many of the outsourcing targets also allow child labor, slave labor, and torture.
Imagine if you will, you are an unpaid engineer in a semiconductor design house (reeducation facility
The last happens today, outsourcing only makes it worse.
Maybe one religion was praying for healing and another was praying for sickness.
I once heard somebody pray for the immediate immolation of a small mediteranean country, so I have to guess that studies like this are a phenominal waste of money given the degree of conflicting opinions about God out there.
That is precisely what they want. By driving away economic sources, one of the two major parties in this country, succeeds in creating a larger base of poor, unhappy, citizens who then turn around and vote for the party that "cares". An uneducated, poor, and unhappy population typically vote for those who pull the emotional levers, as opposed to actual common sense. Same thing is happenning in California. The state senate and assembly are furiously trying to get as many laws passed as possible before the governer is tossed out on his backside.
Its the nature of prosperity and success to attract parasites which feed off the needs and compulsions of an underclass. It is the desire of those parasites to make that underclass as large as possible.
The various governments around the coutry got fat and happy when the times were good, but like any flatworm, are now on the prowl for another meal, even if it means killing the host.
The local government in my region made some poor investments in the teacher's 401K plan, and lost money on the downturn. Did they draw in there belts and accept the risk? No, instead they doubled my property taxes, and forced me to sell devalued stock instead. It seems I'm responsible for paying the difference whenever teachers select a bad mixture of investments, who by the way have one of the highest failure rates in the country while receiving the highest total compensation.
Taxation is to an economy what friction is to an engine. Less is definately better. The effects of tax increases upon an economy may take several years to kick in, but when they do, they really do!
If spammers attack, then we should attack back. My point: That nz spammer who appears to have given up, due to having his personal info exposed to his unhappy recipients. If this same method is applied equally to ALL spammers, we might turn the tide. As far as I can tell, these worms give up any privacy when they choose to spew to the world, and when they go on the offensive and organise a ddos on sites that blacklist them, the only civil response is to expose as many details of thier lives as possible.
Public figures have this happen all of the time. Every detail of thier lives are visible for everyone to see. Spammers, people who broadcast messages, unwanted or otherwise, are just as public as a politician or an actor, and thier acts could be construed as a means to get attention. Let's give them that attention, and see if they can stand up to the all seeing eye of e pluribus unum.
You know the one. Big house, room full of computers, says if he can't do it one way, he's working on another way to carry out his nefarious plans.
Spammer have no shame, as evidenced by all of the pinile enlargement adds. Nor any dignity, since they have no problem with filling up little kids email with tons of porno.
By building a network of P2P machines infected with a spamming worm, this peice of trash will create an even more hazardous environment.
Time to build better mail servers, with full authentication. Time to catch a spammer and go happy with a glue gun too...
There is a good chance that the worm also disabled systems normally used to switch power, or route around surges. Just a thought.
Spammers and Politicians. Say it real fast three or for times and they sound they same. My point:
Both survive by leeching off resources they don't possess.
Both produce tons of useless text.
Both threaten you with the law if you try to block them in any way.
Both invade your privacy and take away your freedom of action. Oh... I can think of more simularities, but that would require several pages and a liberal sprinkling of profanity, (something which I usually try to avoid unless in the presence of hammers or income tax forms).
When you get right down to it, the internet user needs to fight back, and here's how:
1) Never buy a product from a spammer, and don't associate with anyone who does.
2) Push for the creation of laws which make spamming a capital offense. (I know... Not a smowballs chance, but it's worth a try, 'cause you never know...)
3) Create lists of spammers, and the companies they promote and make them available for all to see, for that wishfull time when public flogging is back in vouge.
4) Revoke citizenship of spammers and force them to live somewhere else.
It's probably futile, but then again, what's futility for anyways?
If you think they are actually interrested in solar power or any other environmentally sensitive issues, take a look at any other socialist nation where the people DON'T have the option of complaining (or of joining the opposition) and you will find rampant pollution, and criminal administration.
This is why they tax whatever moves, without regard for common sense, or empirical logic. When they take away your ability to spend they also take away your right to move freely, to vote with your feet, or your pocketbook.
I recall when Grey Davis was merely a superintendant of a school system, he was ambitious then, instituting many of the policies which have served to destroy one of the best school systems in the country. Unless you move to Cupertino, your chance of getting a decent school is pretty much nil.
If you built a solar power system in hopes of avoiding the cost of utilites and the hidden taxes attached to it, think again. Citizen Davis has calculated the exact amount of pain to inflict upon California to push Joe sixpack into the party of the miserable. Using two-faced promises to the power industry, he used them to orchestrate the largest finantial meltdown in American history, as many with mortgages in the silicon valley may already know.
Citizen Davis does not have the welfare of California or America in mind, but rather is using a cynical minimax scheme to enact as much destructive legislation as possible before his party looses power, knowing that the opposition will not be able to undo the mess without getting their blame as a result.
I remember when this scoundrel was merely a petty low level opperatchik, but does anyone remember when he was a member of the American Socialist Party?
These guys know that as long as the opposition plays by the rules, they will always win, since they fully intend to cheat. When they levy a tax on solar panels, they are doing it because they cannot believe you actually trusted them when it came to what you thought to be a sacred cow. Thus internet taxes, solar power taxes, next taxes on clean air.
If you are kept a margin of misery, you are exactly where they want you, in a position to vote for the guys who "Feel your pain". Hmmm. aren't these the same guys who faught against freeing the slaves, who fought for segregation, and who insist on "no eye contact" when they enter the room? (One of the more persistent traits of the American Democratic "Peoples" Party.
The California government has become, for all intensive purposes, a socialist one. Socialism at its heart is based opon the principles of active appropriation. Where appropriation is a polite word for legalized theft. Leave it up to the Democratic party hacks in California who have control of the entire state government to create as many taxes as possible before being swept away in the next elections.
By the time people figure it out, it will be too late, since the strategy they are using engages ignorance and the law of averages to control the population.
What the are doing is essentially sabotage, and shooting themselves in the foot besides. Those persons who delivered us anartistic offal on CDs have merely found a way to do the same over P2P networks. The reason the recording industry is doing so poorly has nothing to do with the P2P red herring, but rather, is entirely due to a dismal lack of quality.
Jet fuel is merely kerosene. Since the compressors and other blades in a turbo jet will melt if a high temperature fuel is used, kerosene is the trade-off. Wax-like and fairly light (on the order of paraffin) is has a lower burning temperature than gasolene and deisel, but also has a lower energy per unit volume.
Because the heat of combustion is already very high due to the air-fuel compression proccess, using a fuel like gasolen is out of the question in a jet engine unless the blades are either very stout, or the cooling method is exceptionally good. Deisel is self igniting at pressure, as well as pretty dirty commercially, and can be used in low speed turbines as long as the blades can handle alot of sand-blasting at high temperatures.
A commercial jet's choice of fuels is pretty much decided on how much energy you get per unit weight of fuel divided by the cost of mainentance and the critical failure probibility.
What I wouldn't give for a time machine. Just the idea of packing a couple of crates of today's hardware off to the past nakes me yearn for a way to leverage it. But then again, I would just go all the way back to Newton and show him Einstein's equations and try to bootstrap this century even further.
Actually artists of the time who were of "respectable" status did not take in young ladies and ask them nicely to take off thier clothes if they ever wanted to get another commision from the church. The artistic schools of the age would often perform the indicated anatomical substitutions once the carefully chaperoned sittings were complete.
Artists who broke this rule were isolated by the church. There were some exceptions, but as a rule, models were as male as the actors of the day.
If he had been a little less inquisitive and a little more compliant he might have ended up as a Jesuit monk, but was considered unsuitable for the holy vocation, somthing which colored his attitude for the rest of his life.
His disdain for sex is more likely due to his devotion to his own mother who was a simple barmaid who could neither read nor write. Her simplicity, yet country horse sense, educated him in compliment to the formal education he recieved from his father's family.
Da Vinci had two qualities which when coupled with his lack of want, produced a great man. Curiosity, and ingenuity.
"Just Shoot Me" is targeted for the "SKOOL IS 4 DUMYS" crowd, thus it's popularity. It's all a numbers game. Since morons breed at a faster rate than nerds, is it any wonder why television programming reflects the population trend?
How many times can you recall having a good, intelligent program cancelled for a peice of trash? These days, if you can't find anything better to do than watch "Everybody Loves Raymond", you have to pretty thick. When the animation technology gets far enough along to become accessable to the people without a gazzilion bucks, then we might be able to roll our own, though it's probably wishfull thinking on my part.
Just think about it - these people drive AND vote...