Wait a minute, maybe google was misunderstood by the media. As I understand it, about the only people will talk with reporters, are other reporters, a lot of news is second, or third, hand. I am willing to give google the benefit of doubt, you know: innocent until proved guilty.
You forgot atheists. There was that episode where the town decided to be atheists, and whenever somebody spoke of atheism, shit was - literally - coming out of their mouths.
I don't know much about it. But it seems to me that there may have been a different concept of a "wife" back in Muhammad's time and place.
I vaguely remember, from some history channel thing, that during the Ottoman empire, they did not have marriages as we know them. Men would accumulate women sort of like they accumulate livestock. A wife was more like property.
According to that wikipedia article, it seem Muhammad would take on "wives" as a sort of charity, or for political ends. I am not entirely sure those "wives" would have been sexual partners.
Good luck convincing people with that message. I think over 95% of the world's population believes in some religion. Personally, I think Frank Zappa had it right with his song "Dumb all Over."
BTW: South Park made fun of atheists as well. Every time the characters would start talking about atheism making sense, shit would literally come out of their months.
The creators of South Park should obviously have more concern and sensitivity towards Muslim sentiments.
Why? You do really see no societal benefit to satire? Do you see no benefit to the free exchange of ideas? The creators of south park were making the point that they find it ridiculous for Muslims to get so upset over a portrayal of Mohammad. Disagree with that point if you like, but you must admit, the point is strongly emphasised though the time honored technique of satire.
The US would respond the way the US always responds to murderers. US law enforcement would attempt to bring to justice those responsible. There are Muslim terrorists being tried right now in the US court system - like that guy in Colorado. I doubt there would be any massive riots in the streets, that did not even happen after 9/11.
Seems like a flood of MS shills keep posting about "nothing wrong with giving the workers a little nap, it's almost luxurious." Yeah, okay, try working 15 hour shifts, back to back, without decent sleep, in hot sweatshop, without adequate opportunity to even bath or take bathroom breaks, not the mention sexual harassment. Then come back and tell us about how it's all a luxurious vacation.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
First is the cost of an xbox, or whatever, a major part of our overall expenses? I think I am fairly typical, and my biggest expenses - by far - have been: income tax, mortgage, health care, education, and retirement. Lowering the cost of computer mice, or toaster overs, does very little, if anything, to lower my overall cost of living.
Does lowering the cost of labor even lower our cost of goods? In the 1980s, when auto manufacturing was shifted from US workers making $15 to hour, to offshore workers making $0.35 an hour, did the cost of cars go down significantly?
Offshoring labor certainly causes inhumane worker conditions, and causes high unemployment in the west. But I don't see where offshoring labor is helping the average US citizen at all.
So why don't we stop buying goods that manufactured offshored? For one thing, we often have no choice, and we don't even know. For example, is an all-Americans Dell computer really made in the USA?
For another thing, I think it has to do with a lack of solidarity. If I personally stopped buying goods made offshore, it would not amount to anything. If several million people made an organized effort, that might get somebody's attention.
As I understand it, during the 19th century industrial revolution in the US, or England, workers took the job voluntarily, and the workers could quite whenever they wanted. The factory jobs were often considered better than farm life. But, in China, the government tells you where you will work, and what you will be paid.
No, it's not just a matter of napping after work. It is seriously inhumane treatment.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
We certainly do not the H1B program. We already have the O-1 for the truly "best and brightest."
Of course, there are sooo many work visas, I don't know if eliminating the H1B would help, there is also the L-1, O-1, J-1, OPT, and many others. I think there are over two dozen such visas.
Consider how msft works. One msft product makes it necessary, or at least expedient, to get another msft product. To run the latest ms-office, you need ms-windows. To get all the features out of Outlook, you have to have Exchange. You can load certain websites without msie, which means you need windows. Why do you think msft is desperate to lock everybody into OOXML? Msft has always followed the strategy: "control the standard, and the money will follow."
Stop important F/OSS projects, and you hurt F/OSS. Maybe more people will use windows-server, and maybe ms-sql will run better on windows-server than oracle.
Why do you think Google and IBM support F/OSS so strongly? It's a standard than can, to some extent, keep Microsoft from having an even stronger monopoly.
There is not any universal agreement about the effect of the tariff. . . . For monetarist authors who consider the Great Depression an effect of the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, the Smoot-Hawley's effect on the entire U.S. economy may have been small compared to monetary policy. By 1937 the effective tariff rate was reduced to 15.6% when the reaction of 1937-1938 occurred, demonstrating no statistical correlation between this economic downturn and tariff levels.
I think that, one of the reasons, there is a shrinking female IT workforce, is that few guest workers are women. So as guest workers take over IT, the percentage of female workers decreases.
IMO: one of the key reasons that US employers have such a strong preference for offshore guest workers is that offshore quest workers can not easily change loves.
Horsepoop. It's about price. Offshore workers are notorious for jobhopping.
Maybe it depends on the job. I can introduce you to plenty of employers that will not consider a job-hopper for a regular full-time position, especially in IT. Nobody wants to train somebody for their next job.
No matter how good you may be at coding, or whatever, it takes time time to learn a particular employers code, practises, and systems. It usually takes, at least, a few months before somebody is fully productive. No employer that I have ever heard of, wants somebody is likely to leave as soon as that person is productive.
I'm sorry, but I have worked in IT for 30 years, and your post makes no sense to me. Maybe if there was a sever shortage of IT workers, in your particular specialization, you could get away with that. But with today's glut, and massive IT staff layoffs, depression level unemployment, massive offshoring, massive replacement of US workers with guest workers . . . I just can't see it.
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CHARLI is "human size" by that they mean five feet tall, whereas Asimo is only four feet three inches.
As I remember, just a few years ago you needed a floppy to upgrade some system's bios.
Wait a minute, maybe google was misunderstood by the media. As I understand it, about the only people will talk with reporters, are other reporters, a lot of news is second, or third, hand. I am willing to give google the benefit of doubt, you know: innocent until proved guilty.
You forgot atheists. There was that episode where the town decided to be atheists, and whenever somebody spoke of atheism, shit was - literally - coming out of their mouths.
I don't know much about it. But it seems to me that there may have been a different concept of a "wife" back in Muhammad's time and place.
I vaguely remember, from some history channel thing, that during the Ottoman empire, they did not have marriages as we know them. Men would accumulate women sort of like they accumulate livestock. A wife was more like property.
According to that wikipedia article, it seem Muhammad would take on "wives" as a sort of charity, or for political ends. I am not entirely sure those "wives" would have been sexual partners.
Again, I really don't know much about it.
Good luck convincing people with that message. I think over 95% of the world's population believes in some religion. Personally, I think Frank Zappa had it right with his song "Dumb all Over."
BTW: South Park made fun of atheists as well. Every time the characters would start talking about atheism making sense, shit would literally come out of their months.
The creators of South Park should obviously have more concern and sensitivity towards Muslim sentiments.
Why? You do really see no societal benefit to satire? Do you see no benefit to the free exchange of ideas? The creators of south park were making the point that they find it ridiculous for Muslims to get so upset over a portrayal of Mohammad. Disagree with that point if you like, but you must admit, the point is strongly emphasised though the time honored technique of satire.
Does this go back to the ten commandments thing of not worshiping a graven image?
Shouldn't Muslims only concern themselves with other Muslims who create, or view, such images? After all, other religions are infidels anyway.
The US would respond the way the US always responds to murderers. US law enforcement would attempt to bring to justice those responsible. There are Muslim terrorists being tried right now in the US court system - like that guy in Colorado. I doubt there would be any massive riots in the streets, that did not even happen after 9/11.
Seems like a flood of MS shills keep posting about "nothing wrong with giving the workers a little nap, it's almost luxurious." Yeah, okay, try working 15 hour shifts, back to back, without decent sleep, in hot sweatshop, without adequate opportunity to even bath or take bathroom breaks, not the mention sexual harassment. Then come back and tell us about how it's all a luxurious vacation.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
There is more to it than naps, a lot more.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
A few weeks slashdot posted the story about "Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/0147222/Chinese-Reactions-To-Google-Leaving-China
A lot of posters insisted that the Chinese liked their government, and wouldn't have it any other way.
This is a little hard for me to understand. Do Chinese really believe that these brutally inhumane conditions are superior to western culture?
First is the cost of an xbox, or whatever, a major part of our overall expenses? I think I am fairly typical, and my biggest expenses - by far - have been: income tax, mortgage, health care, education, and retirement. Lowering the cost of computer mice, or toaster overs, does very little, if anything, to lower my overall cost of living.
Does lowering the cost of labor even lower our cost of goods? In the 1980s, when auto manufacturing was shifted from US workers making $15 to hour, to offshore workers making $0.35 an hour, did the cost of cars go down significantly?
Offshoring labor certainly causes inhumane worker conditions, and causes high unemployment in the west. But I don't see where offshoring labor is helping the average US citizen at all.
So why don't we stop buying goods that manufactured offshored? For one thing, we often have no choice, and we don't even know. For example, is an all-Americans Dell computer really made in the USA?
For another thing, I think it has to do with a lack of solidarity. If I personally stopped buying goods made offshore, it would not amount to anything. If several million people made an organized effort, that might get somebody's attention.
As I understand it, during the 19th century industrial revolution in the US, or England, workers took the job voluntarily, and the workers could quite whenever they wanted. The factory jobs were often considered better than farm life. But, in China, the government tells you where you will work, and what you will be paid.
Also, this is not the 19th century.
Whenever slashdost posts a story that is seriously unflattering to microsoft, the shills come out in full force.
No, it's not just a matter of napping after work. It is seriously inhumane treatment.
The mostly female workers, aged 18 to 25, work from 7.45am to 10.55pm, sometimes with 1,000 workers crammed into one 105ft by 105ft room.
They are not allowed to talk or listen to music, are forced to eat substandard meals from the factory cafeterias, have no bathroom breaks during their shifts and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, with 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28in-wide plywood boards. They 'shower' with a sponge and a bucket.
And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed.
The organisation said that one worker was even fined for losing his finger while operating a hole punch press.
We certainly do not the H1B program. We already have the O-1 for the truly "best and brightest."
Of course, there are sooo many work visas, I don't know if eliminating the H1B would help, there is also the L-1, O-1, J-1, OPT, and many others. I think there are over two dozen such visas.
Another examle:
Vision Systems Group Indicted for H1B Visa Fraud
http://www.huliq.com/3257/77441/vision-systems-group-indicted-h1b-visa-fraud
Consider how msft works. One msft product makes it necessary, or at least expedient, to get another msft product. To run the latest ms-office, you need ms-windows. To get all the features out of Outlook, you have to have Exchange. You can load certain websites without msie, which means you need windows. Why do you think msft is desperate to lock everybody into OOXML? Msft has always followed the strategy: "control the standard, and the money will follow."
Stop important F/OSS projects, and you hurt F/OSS. Maybe more people will use windows-server, and maybe ms-sql will run better on windows-server than oracle.
Why do you think Google and IBM support F/OSS so strongly? It's a standard than can, to some extent, keep Microsoft from having an even stronger monopoly.
From the article you cited:
There is not any universal agreement about the effect of the tariff.
. . .
For monetarist authors who consider the Great Depression an effect of the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve, the Smoot-Hawley's effect on the entire U.S. economy may have been small compared to monetary policy. By 1937 the effective tariff rate was reduced to 15.6% when the reaction of 1937-1938 occurred, demonstrating no statistical correlation between this economic downturn and tariff levels.
Scox/Caldera also sued Microsoft. Does that mean that scox is not a Microsoft arm?
I think that, one of the reasons, there is a shrinking female IT workforce, is that few guest workers are women. So as guest workers take over IT, the percentage of female workers decreases.
IMO: one of the key reasons that US employers have such a strong preference for offshore guest workers is that offshore quest workers can not easily change loves.
Horsepoop. It's about price. Offshore workers are notorious for jobhopping.
Please note, I said guest workers.
Maybe it depends on the job. I can introduce you to plenty of employers that will not consider a job-hopper for a regular full-time position, especially in IT. Nobody wants to train somebody for their next job.
No matter how good you may be at coding, or whatever, it takes time time to learn a particular employers code, practises, and systems. It usually takes, at least, a few months before somebody is fully productive. No employer that I have ever heard of, wants somebody is likely to leave as soon as that person is productive.
I'm sorry, but I have worked in IT for 30 years, and your post makes no sense to me. Maybe if there was a sever shortage of IT workers, in your particular specialization, you could get away with that. But with today's glut, and massive IT staff layoffs, depression level unemployment, massive offshoring, massive replacement of US workers with guest workers . . . I just can't see it.