> Darn few people turn violent when they've got families who are reasonably safe and an acceptable standard of living that they aren't in too much fear of losing.
Pure bullshit. Boston bombers? John Walker? Fort Hood Slayer? I could go right down the line. Osama bin Laden was worth several million.
You just don't understand Islam.
Besides, if we have truckloads of money to burn, why not spend it on health care for Americans? Or improved education? Or paying of our staggering debt.
> Little green pieces of paper they can feed to their camels?
They can do the same things with money that you, or I, can do. Buy goods and services - but not military grade weapons - at least, not for the US government.
Much of the mid-east in drenched in oil. But what good does it do the common people? There is enormous poverty in Saudi, while a few billionaires enjoy all the money that comes gushing out of ground, and most of the population is dirt poor.
If the US sent money there, it would be grabbed by the leaders. That is what happened in Iraq.
Besides, how about using those trucks of money to help fix poverty in the US? You know, the country that has 50 million people who cannot afford health care? The country that is drowning in debt?
If Americans are soooo stupid and lazy then why does the US have *way* more than it's share of substantial inventions? We are practically all major tech companies started in the US - by people educated in the US. Why are foreign students breaking their necks to get into US universities?
No troops, no money, no sanctions, no weapons sales, nothing. Not to any mid-east country, including Israel.
Just buy their oil, and that's it. What other business do we have there? Let the chips fall where they may.
Why is the US putting itself in the middle of their ancient, perpetual, non-sensicle, squabbles?
I hate to say it, but: let the crazies kill each other, if that's what they want to do. They have been doing it forever, and US presence only gives them somebody else to blame.
All those lives, all of those trillions of dollars, for what? We are no safer from terrorism. In fact, we may be more at risk.
Help one tribe, and you piss off another. Never fails. The "good guys" one day, are despotic leaders, and US haters the next. I think the US supported both Sadam, and Osama, at one point.
As the computer said in "War Games" : "The only way to win is to not play."
Seems to me that Microsoft goes to great lengths to hide everything from end users. Everything goes in that registry bit bucket.
When I google for something, I get a crap load of answers, most of them wrong.
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Except that Linux is far faster, more stable, and more secure.
And Linux works with other technologies *far* better than anything from MS.
And I don't have to constantly fight with product keys, and DRM, and other nasty tricks designed to prevent competition, or force upgrades, or further vendor-lock me.
When I do have problems with Linux, they are much easier to fix than Windows problems. Microsoft keeps everything hidden, secret, and deliberately obfuscated. Everything is a registry key eight levels deep, or something like that.
Also, I don't supporting a scummy company, that makes crap products, and tries to force people to use them.
I have been using Linux over 15 years. I have had problems from time to time, but windows is *much* worse especially anything after XP.
I am constantly have to fix my win7 laptop. Usually because some windows apps put crap in my registry, or crap in my startup, or misbehaved in some other way.
I recently had the fix the sound on my win7 laptop. Some windows service got shut off for god-only-knows what reason.
Windows problems are especially hard to fix because everything is hidden, and secret. I go on the internet, find 39 million "fixes" for my problem, and none of them seem to work. Some obscure registry key, eight levels deep, needs to be given permissions - how are you supposed to know that?
I had to re-install windows. It took about half a day, because of all the constant rebooting. Then re-installing my HUP version of Office-2010 was *much* worse. I had to make, at least, six call to Microsoft support. Constantly put on hold. Constantly talking with people with accents so think I could not understand them. Constantly having to slowly repeat my serial number, spelling out "W" as in "Whiskey". Finally I had to let MS remote into my system - it took them hours to get it installed. Unbelievable.
> because it can't be used by someone who isn't a computer geek.
Bullshit. That worn-out meme is - at least - ten years out of date.
I spend *way* more time mucking with my win7 laptop than my linux box. It's always something with win7: the boot becomes very slow, the sound stops working. Won't shutdown because of another win update, slow start because of another win update, have to reboot because of another win update. Windows apps are forever putting crap in my registry, or putting crap in my startup. I just don't have those problems with Linux.
> You have to use the terminal for almost everything
I constantly see memes like "It's often because the older candidates haven't successfully modernized their developer skills." but I have never found that to be even remotely true. I have worked in IT over 30 years. I have worked for several companies, big companies, and small companies.
Nobody claims that sort of crap about doctors, lawyers, accountants, even most engineers, or scientists.
If all of those professionals can keep up with changes in their field of work, and study, then why not software developers? It makes not sense at all. These memes defy all real logic, and evidence.
There is just no way to compete with 3rd world wages. If a job can't be offshored, it will be filled by a visa worker - unless the job requires a top secret clearance.
I am doing contract work for IBM. There are barely any Americans left. And IBM is doing everything they can to eliminate what few US jobs still exist.
And not just 5+ years of specialized experience in one thing, usually it's at least six different things. And requirements are different for each, and every job.
For example: one job requires ms-sql, javascript, c/c++, windows admin, and oracle, in a shoe manufacturing environment. Another job requires: linux, solaris, java, python, HVAC certification, and thorough knowledge of skateboard manufacturing.
Every programming job is an arbitrary grab-bag of god-only-knows what.
Unless you are an H1B. For whatever reason, the job requirements are virtually non-existent. I suspect that's because an H1B is something of on indentured servant, so employers don't have to worry about "training people for their next job."
Again: don't take my word for it, look at the job ads.
This study should come as no surprise to those who have followed the issue. In fact, I think neonics have already been banned in parts of Europe, if not all of Europe.
For those that don't know about this, what happens is: bees, sometimes by the millions, fly off from their hives, and never come back. Such behavior has been unheard of until fairly recently. This starting happening soon after the widespread use of neonics.
This would be consistent with the way neonics work. Neonics do not directly kill the insects. Rather, neonics affect the nervous system of the insects, and the insect dies because it cannot take care of itself. It has been long theorized that bees with damaged nervous systems cannot navigate back to their hives.
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Get out and take our drones, and our troops, and our financial aid with us.
Let's focus on using US money to fix US problems.
Islam demands hatred, and death, to all infidels. They will never be our friends. The mid-east is a no-win situation.
> That strategy would likely work to stop the illegal immigration from Mexico as well.
Hey here's a novel idea: why not use US money to fix US problems first? How about paying off our national debt first *then* worry about our neighbors?
The US is beyond bankrupt. The US is trillions in debt. The US credit rating is being degraded. And we are supposed to help other nations first?
> Darn few people turn violent when they've got families who are reasonably safe and an acceptable standard of living that they aren't in too much fear of losing.
Pure bullshit. Boston bombers? John Walker? Fort Hood Slayer? I could go right down the line. Osama bin Laden was worth several million.
You just don't understand Islam.
Besides, if we have truckloads of money to burn, why not spend it on health care for Americans? Or improved education? Or paying of our staggering debt.
> Little green pieces of paper they can feed to their camels?
They can do the same things with money that you, or I, can do. Buy goods and services - but not military grade weapons - at least, not for the US government.
> Happy, contented people don't become terrorists.
Boston bombers? Osama bin Laden? Fort Hood Slayer? John Walker?
These people had absolutely no reason not to be content. They were comfortable, plenty of money for what they needed. Nobody was threatening them.
You either do not understand Islam, or you act like you don't.
Glad to learn that. I thought everybody, except me, was cheering "Arab Spring."
Much of the mid-east in drenched in oil. But what good does it do the common people? There is enormous poverty in Saudi, while a few billionaires enjoy all the money that comes gushing out of ground, and most of the population is dirt poor.
If the US sent money there, it would be grabbed by the leaders. That is what happened in Iraq.
Besides, how about using those trucks of money to help fix poverty in the US? You know, the country that has 50 million people who cannot afford health care? The country that is drowning in debt?
As I said, we supported Sadam also. They were the "good guys" at the time.
Remember how we cheered "Arab Spring?"
As I understand it, even Kuwait hates us now. So why do we do it?
Involvement in the mid-east is a guaranteed no-win situation.
Besides, how is it our business? Other than buying their oil, what business is it of ours?
I think we should remove our embassies as well - the embassies only serve as targets for those crazies.
You are making the classic mistake of fighting the last war.
These are not the 1930s or 1940s. We are not fighting countries but loosely connected groups.
There is no way to win in the middle-east. Any involvement just makes us the bad guy.
Small wonder Americans are not interested.
If Americans are soooo stupid and lazy then why does the US have *way* more than it's share of substantial inventions? We are practically all major tech companies started in the US - by people educated in the US. Why are foreign students breaking their necks to get into US universities?
No troops, no money, no sanctions, no weapons sales, nothing. Not to any mid-east country, including Israel.
Just buy their oil, and that's it. What other business do we have there? Let the chips fall where they may.
Why is the US putting itself in the middle of their ancient, perpetual, non-sensicle, squabbles?
I hate to say it, but: let the crazies kill each other, if that's what they want to do. They have been doing it forever, and US presence only gives them somebody else to blame.
All those lives, all of those trillions of dollars, for what? We are no safer from terrorism. In fact, we may be more at risk.
Help one tribe, and you piss off another. Never fails. The "good guys" one day, are despotic leaders, and US haters the next. I think the US supported both Sadam, and Osama, at one point.
As the computer said in "War Games" : "The only way to win is to not play."
What makes you think that?
What makes you think that Microsoft spies on you any less than Google?
If you do think that, can you provide hard evidence?
That does not match my experience at all.
Seems to me that Microsoft goes to great lengths to hide everything from end users. Everything goes in that registry bit bucket.
When I google for something, I get a crap load of answers, most of them wrong.
Except that Linux is far faster, more stable, and more secure.
And Linux works with other technologies *far* better than anything from MS.
And I don't have to constantly fight with product keys, and DRM, and other nasty tricks designed to prevent competition, or force upgrades, or further vendor-lock me.
When I do have problems with Linux, they are much easier to fix than Windows problems. Microsoft keeps everything hidden, secret, and deliberately obfuscated. Everything is a registry key eight levels deep, or something like that.
Also, I don't supporting a scummy company, that makes crap products, and tries to force people to use them.
If Linux sucks, it sucks a lot less than Windows.
I have been using Linux over 15 years. I have had problems from time to time, but windows is *much* worse especially anything after XP.
I am constantly have to fix my win7 laptop. Usually because some windows apps put crap in my registry, or crap in my startup, or misbehaved in some other way.
I recently had the fix the sound on my win7 laptop. Some windows service got shut off for god-only-knows what reason.
Windows problems are especially hard to fix because everything is hidden, and secret. I go on the internet, find 39 million "fixes" for my problem, and none of them seem to work. Some obscure registry key, eight levels deep, needs to be given permissions - how are you supposed to know that?
I had to re-install windows. It took about half a day, because of all the constant rebooting. Then re-installing my HUP version of Office-2010 was *much* worse. I had to make, at least, six call to Microsoft support. Constantly put on hold. Constantly talking with people with accents so think I could not understand them. Constantly having to slowly repeat my serial number, spelling out "W" as in "Whiskey". Finally I had to let MS remote into my system - it took them hours to get it installed. Unbelievable.
Yeah, this is *so* much easier than Linux.
> because it can't be used by someone who isn't a computer geek.
Bullshit. That worn-out meme is - at least - ten years out of date.
I spend *way* more time mucking with my win7 laptop than my linux box. It's always something with win7: the boot becomes very slow, the sound stops working. Won't shutdown because of another win update, slow start because of another win update, have to reboot because of another win update. Windows apps are forever putting crap in my registry, or putting crap in my startup. I just don't have those problems with Linux.
> You have to use the terminal for almost everything
Bullshit. I don't you even use Linux.
You are tagging a group of people based on no logic, and grossly insufficient evidence. This is not different that racial discrimination.
I constantly see memes like "It's often because the older candidates haven't successfully modernized their developer skills." but I have never found that to be even remotely true. I have worked in IT over 30 years. I have worked for several companies, big companies, and small companies.
Nobody claims that sort of crap about doctors, lawyers, accountants, even most engineers, or scientists.
If all of those professionals can keep up with changes in their field of work, and study, then why not software developers? It makes not sense at all. These memes defy all real logic, and evidence.
> Let me check... nope, I seem to still have a job, so you're not quite correct.
I guess, as long as there is one job left in the US then everything is just fine.
There is just no way to compete with 3rd world wages. If a job can't be offshored, it will be filled by a visa worker - unless the job requires a top secret clearance.
I am doing contract work for IBM. There are barely any Americans left. And IBM is doing everything they can to eliminate what few US jobs still exist.
I am amazed any Americans want to study CS.
I was developing before object oriented development took over.
I still don't any great advantage to OO development, and lots of disadvantages.
Don't take my word for it, look at the job ads.
And not just 5+ years of specialized experience in one thing, usually it's at least six different things. And requirements are different for each, and every job.
For example: one job requires ms-sql, javascript, c/c++, windows admin, and oracle, in a shoe manufacturing environment. Another job requires: linux, solaris, java, python, HVAC certification, and thorough knowledge of skateboard manufacturing.
Every programming job is an arbitrary grab-bag of god-only-knows what.
Unless you are an H1B. For whatever reason, the job requirements are virtually non-existent. I suspect that's because an H1B is something of on indentured servant, so employers don't have to worry about "training people for their next job."
Again: don't take my word for it, look at the job ads.
Even six weeks in minimum security would be okay.
$324M means nothing to these corporations.
This study should come as no surprise to those who have followed the issue. In fact, I think neonics have already been banned in parts of Europe, if not all of Europe.
For those that don't know about this, what happens is: bees, sometimes by the millions, fly off from their hives, and never come back. Such behavior has been unheard of until fairly recently. This starting happening soon after the widespread use of neonics.
This would be consistent with the way neonics work. Neonics do not directly kill the insects. Rather, neonics affect the nervous system of the insects, and the insect dies because it cannot take care of itself. It has been long theorized that bees with damaged nervous systems cannot navigate back to their hives.