I only know about immigration to India vis-a-vis the US. Apart from bureaucratic delays, the process itself is no more stringent in India. You do know that the US also insists on proof of special ability, don't you? Many countries do have the equivalent of green cards, e.g. Canada. In fact, in India you can become a citizen after 5 years of staying there, arguably easier than in the US, where you need to stay until you get a green card and then 5 more years to become a citizen.
programming jobs get outsourced to other countries that are extremely difficult and expensive to get into.
It might be convenient rhetoric for the "They got our jobs!" folks, but it's not true. Atleast, not to India, where most programming jobs seem to be headed. Yeah, I'm from India, and I'm familiar with the immigration laws there (into India). And yeah, I'm myself an immigrant in the US, which gives me some perspective on relocating to a different society.
If as a mechanic you're ready to set up shop wherever, to the extent of considering it a benefit, why can't you, as a programmer, relocate to where the job gets "outsourced" to?
What rubbish. They ought to deal with it in planes the same way they deal with it in cinemas, opera halls and the like - prominent notices, announcements, and social taboos.
The government has absolutely no business regulating manners.
While I agree that such usage is natural, I don't agree it's correct.
The terms "left" and "right" as used in politics have no meaning except within a context.
I know relativism seems to be the order of the day, but no. There are specific meanings in politics for "left" and "right" and it makes for more intelligent conversation when one doesn't abuse terminology.
If you consider yourself a part of the American left-left, though, I can definitely see how the terminology might be frustrating for you.
I'm not even American, so maybe that's why I didn't care for it:-)
Fair enough. I guess my comment was off-topic on this article, but I have been trying to get a decent DVR setup, and I'm loathe to install mythtv since I already run postgres. What's frustrating is the decision not to support postgres is more political than technical - there's even a dude who maintains postgres patches against the official tree, but the main developer is for whatever reason against the very idea.
Perhaps pornography is simply a Western invention and a predilection that strikes people in Asia as bizzare.
There's no "Asia". China and India are so huge and diverse that they have very little in common. The US and France probably have more in common than China and India.
Asking him what *he* thinks of free software is not a fair question, neither to him (how can he possibly be honest)
Not blaming you personally - you're just calling like it is - but this is something that deeply saddens me. Why have we, as a society, come to accept dishonesty as natural, to the extent that expecting someone to be honest is deemed being unfair to them?
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I only know about immigration to India vis-a-vis the US. Apart from bureaucratic delays, the process itself is no more stringent in India. You do know that the US also insists on proof of special ability, don't you? Many countries do have the equivalent of green cards, e.g. Canada. In fact, in India you can become a citizen after 5 years of staying there, arguably easier than in the US, where you need to stay until you get a green card and then 5 more years to become a citizen.
It might be convenient rhetoric for the "They got our jobs!" folks, but it's not true. Atleast, not to India, where most programming jobs seem to be headed. Yeah, I'm from India, and I'm familiar with the immigration laws there (into India). And yeah, I'm myself an immigrant in the US, which gives me some perspective on relocating to a different society.
If as a mechanic you're ready to set up shop wherever, to the extent of considering it a benefit, why can't you, as a programmer, relocate to where the job gets "outsourced" to?
What rubbish. They ought to deal with it in planes the same way they deal with it in cinemas, opera halls and the like - prominent notices, announcements, and social taboos.
The government has absolutely no business regulating manners.
Erm, except that's what the Western Hemisphere means. Go read it up.
I agree; language definitely evolves, and "correct" speech and writing merely reflect that. I'm no hide-bound prescriptivist myself.
Then again, the problem with redefining "centre" depending on the prevailing political climate is manifold:
I'd go far as to say it engenders narrow-mindedness.
Of course, linguistic evolution itself can be harmless - slang is a good example. But shifting the meanings of words is dangerous.
While I agree that such usage is natural, I don't agree it's correct.
The terms "left" and "right" as used in politics have no meaning except within a context.I know relativism seems to be the order of the day, but no. There are specific meanings in politics for "left" and "right" and it makes for more intelligent conversation when one doesn't abuse terminology.
If you consider yourself a part of the American left-left, though, I can definitely see how the terminology might be frustrating for you.I'm not even American, so maybe that's why I didn't care for it :-)
Wait, the Dems are now left-wing? Does the author even know what left-wing is?
The Dems are more like centre-right, and the GOP extreme-right.
I just wanted to call out what I perceived as Western bias (I'm not from the "West", which I admit is itself a dubious term).
Well, the definition is fairly standard, based on size basically, giving you Christianity, Islam and Judaism.Sikhism has 1.5 times as many adherents as Judaism (no, I'm not Sikh either).
I was just using the standard shortened version for "Christianity, Islam and Judaism"The fact that you think this is "standard" says it all.
P.S. A better term might be Abrahamic religions.
First you say FUD is natural and to be expected. OK. Then you actually say it's healthy? Whatever happened to passing informed judgement?
So what's your definition of "major" by which only 3 of the monotheistic religions get classified major?
Isn't it funny that the whole premise of GNOME was that KDE wasn't Free enough?
Is there a way I can mod a whole story "-1: Troll"?
No, the glyphs are Latin. The numbers themselves (in the sense of including a decimal place-value system) are Indian.
And why not? Today's North America is largely made up of Europeans fleeing religious persecution. Or do you have something against immigration?
Um, why isn't the number of people who *want* broadband a valid benchmark of the technological ability of a nation?
Oh, and Texas girls are some of the hottest anywhere. They qualify as Texas as well! Maybe the author doesn't like girls!
And what's wrong with not liking girls? Thanks for reinforcing the MCP, homophobic Texan stereotype.
I've always used KDE and have never even tried Gnome. Why's GNOME ideologically better? And why do you yearn to switch to Gnome?
Fair enough. I guess my comment was off-topic on this article, but I have been trying to get a decent DVR setup, and I'm loathe to install mythtv since I already run postgres. What's frustrating is the decision not to support postgres is more political than technical - there's even a dude who maintains postgres patches against the official tree, but the main developer is for whatever reason against the very idea.
Wake me when MythTV starts supporting Postgres.
Let me point it out for you: you're assuming you're right and that non-christians are wrong. That's not tolerance, that's religious blindness
How about "wrong"? It may be blindness, but it's also tolerance.
Another route (that I took) is to switch to a host that provides Postgres support. I can recommend csoft.net
OK, I'll bite. Why wouldn't I want to live in such a state?
Perhaps pornography is simply a Western invention and a predilection that strikes people in Asia as bizzare.
There's no "Asia". China and India are so huge and diverse that they have very little in common. The US and France probably have more in common than China and India.
Asking him what *he* thinks of free software is not a fair question, neither to him (how can he possibly be honest)
Not blaming you personally - you're just calling like it is - but this is something that deeply saddens me. Why have we, as a society, come to accept dishonesty as natural, to the extent that expecting someone to be honest is deemed being unfair to them?