There is a natural, even understandable, aversion to newcomers who price the indigenous populace out of being able to afford to live in their ancestral homes. The jobs created in the service industry by the presence of higher wage earners will help a few shopkeepers, but not so much for the working poor.
Look at all these jobs we've created! means, more and more, subsistence level service industry jobs that will afford the children of these citizens a measurable disadvantage over the offspring of parents with professions.
When measuring ability versus resources, remember that no one scores without the ball.
If that's your cup of tea, and you've the good fortune to select a profession that pays the bills your entire life in your chosen metropolis, I say more power to you. Others may find solace in living more simple, rural lives.
Remember, much of the benefit of higher wages is just more money passing through your hands to accommodate the cities' higher cost of living.
People who speak like this generally do so in an attempt to disguise a lack of communication skills and new ideas.
It may be the management culture he was raised in, and I had higher hopes for the Indian-born CEO (diversity, new perspective), but he was also reportedly emailing employees the company would reinvent productivity.
So, likely we'll get SSDD... and less entertainment value than Ballmer provided.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
It's too easy for governments now.
Thus far, all that's come of the wave of revalations from Snowden et al is government's growing willingness to gather our private data in plain sight. With apparent impunity.
Actually, with widespread incorporation of encryption, NSA will not ever have the resources to try and decrypt what they now fetch in the clear. And lets hope that it is incorporated soon, to keep Google and other search engines out of your life.
You are posting cognitively on Slashdot.
Most people are not like you. Read it again... it does not say don't like you.
Widespread incorporation of encryption will statistically miss at the average consumer, the weakest link.
Does anyone really believe the next great air-to-ground attack is going to resemble the last one?
The assumption that folks of Arabian descent who harbor ill will for the West would use a commercial jet is at best security theatre, and at worst, unimaginable incompetence.
Small aircraft leave and land at airports thousands of times a day with little or no TSA interaction, or imagine three drones leaving residential garages simultaneously on Superbowl Sunday...why would they concentrate their rather scattered efforts at a stronghold in their enemy's defenses?
Security assets have uncovered an insidious plot to disguise explosive-carrying Mujahideen as elderly folks who statistically receive less scrutiny at pre-boarding ceremonies.
Yep, traveling with Granny might hinder your ability to make connecting flights.
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America's like the new Godwin here lately.
Barter is occasionally impractical, yet relatively untraceable and virtually untaxable.
But cotton/linen fiber is legal tender for all debts, public and private. But especially for private.
The creatures who inhabit the World you're naming already call it something else and will not likely be offended if you pay to name it Nemo.
Intelligent people occasionally want to be around other intelligent people,
but if we don't keep sending missionaries out to the ignorant borderlands, how will we convert the bigoted savages?
Look at all these jobs we've created! means, more and more, subsistence level service industry jobs that will afford the children of these citizens a measurable disadvantage over the offspring of parents with professions.
When measuring ability versus resources, remember that no one scores without the ball.
If that's your cup of tea, and you've the good fortune to select a profession that pays the bills your entire life in your chosen metropolis, I say more power to you. Others may find solace in living more simple, rural lives.
Remember, much of the benefit of higher wages is just more money passing through your hands to accommodate the cities' higher cost of living.
If you think mistakes and carelessness are rare with level four viruses, I recommend The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.
If you remember you have something to live for, it will keep you up nights.
As long as the coliform bacteria levels are beneath measurement, you're good to go.
People sometimes forget how much chlorination has done to positively affect our longevity.
Unlike white people.
I was afraid I'd been a touch ambiguous.
If it becomes useful battery technology, perhaps we can mine it it Texas and North Dakota when the oil and gas play out.
It may be the management culture he was raised in, and I had higher hopes for the Indian-born CEO (diversity, new perspective), but he was also reportedly emailing employees the company would reinvent productivity.
So, likely we'll get SSDD... and less entertainment value than Ballmer provided.
No, but try the CPS 24 hour reporting number.
They can buy Mexico.
Angering the gueros is bad for business.
Midland (Tx) is awaiting FAA Spaceport approval after shoveling some ED money and incentives at SpaceX...
There will be no intentional delay. They're on it, doggone it.
They knew what they were doing, and they also know only a given percentage of those affected will ever seek damages.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
As intrusive as the Google Glass has proven to be, it will only be worse when observation recording tech is more difficult to detect.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.
It's too easy for governments now.
Thus far, all that's come of the wave of revalations from Snowden et al is government's growing willingness to gather our private data in plain sight. With apparent impunity.
TLDR - Researchers steal passwords by watching them being entered.
Solution: EVERYBODY PANIC!
Or.
Put the goddamn phone down in public, pay attention, and hell, start an old fashioned conversation once in a while.
You are welcome on my lawn, but watch your step. We don't allow the dogs the use of our indoor plumbing.
Indeed. Perhaps picking up a couple of spares is the only sane defense now.
but if it was me?
I'd rest during breaks for work.
Actually, with widespread incorporation of encryption, NSA will not ever have the resources to try and decrypt what they now fetch in the clear. And lets hope that it is incorporated soon, to keep Google and other search engines out of your life.
You are posting cognitively on Slashdot.
Most people are not like you. Read it again... it does not say don't like you.
Widespread incorporation of encryption will statistically miss at the average consumer, the weakest link.
but somehow completely distasteful,
when a large corporation falsifies data on the order of Enronian proportions.
The assumption that folks of Arabian descent who harbor ill will for the West would use a commercial jet is at best security theatre, and at worst, unimaginable incompetence.
Small aircraft leave and land at airports thousands of times a day with little or no TSA interaction, or imagine three drones leaving residential garages simultaneously on Superbowl Sunday...why would they concentrate their rather scattered efforts at a stronghold in their enemy's defenses?
Yep, traveling with Granny might hinder your ability to make connecting flights.