Sperm all backed up? Don't worry, I'm sure a socialist uber-geek like you will eventually have no problem finding a concentration camp victim who suits our needs.
Pathetic dumb asshole with too much time on hand (time enough to read agreement, call support, hassle people, and finally give up, and finally use laptop, I think - I gave up before getting there) writes/. and gets the hornet's nest of shut-ins going.
Ooooooooh! I'm afraid. So are Dell, MS, etc., I'm sure.
Here's the deal: If you don't want to use MS, Linux is ready when you are. All else is puerile posturing.
1. My (Indian) VP says all the smart Indians are in the US. That is, all the intelligence-based jobs are here and will remain here. The standard 3-tier, give me a UI, business, and persistence layer stuff will increasingly be with the people who can do it cheap, just like they used to load or unload bales of cotton for 10c/death.
2. I have my job because I'm worth about 20 raw Indians. So be it. I worked hard to get my skills and I've spent the last two or three years pissed off at clueless asshole newbies who spent their time describing how they were getting in on the dot-com thing at just the right time, while I was at the end of my usefulness. I got laid off as too expensive and they stayed on as the low cost providers. Now they're being killed off by cheap Indians, and I'm rewriting the way credit information gets fed to the world. IMHO, the end result: the US programmer market will be a bunch of brilliant performers. Everyone else will be living in their parents' basements and rescheduling their Fine Arts degrees, or complaining about the lack of adoption of open source software on slashdot. I'll be commanding hordes of Indian newbies from the God-like heights of my experience while the stupid hangers-on, who got into programming when the geting in was good, will be starving.
Final deal: If you love what you do, you'll probably be good at it. Hence you'll be well-paid and happy. The other products of the US school system will increasingly devolve to things that shit in their hands and fling it at each other.
I think many Indians have religious problems with this sort of thing. Their problem. For now.
Landing men on Mars? Like the Moon, just more of the same. Been there, sort of, done that, sort of. That won't inspire anyone.
Stop all use of NASA for military work? Well, it is the National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration. Besides, how much of NASA's work is military? Damn little, I'd guess.
Fund NASA adequately? NASA has spent the last few decades fucking over anyone who might challenge its stranglehold on space. They can't hack it? Well fuck 'em, and let someone better do the job.
Scrap the Space Shuttle? Finally, you're speaking some sense. Even NASA's own figures indicate its uselessness, yet they went ahead with it. Typical. Just like they never saw the O-rings coming, nor the insulating foam.
NASA lost the right stuff long ago. The Saturn V was a machine designed by a hero, and a total winner. The Space Shuttle was a machine designed by a committee that destroyed all the Saturn V plans, and has been a constant disappointment.
If you had any sense, any balls, you'd be fleeing for the wide-open, high-speed spaces of America.
But no, you'll stay, following the laws blindly as your governments build the concentraton camp walls and recruit a few of you to keep the others in their places at gunpoint.
Sheep. All of you.
Did you ever stop to think that is was the Nazis who first proposed a "European Union".
The North American Energy Reliability Council which tracks such things has determined that, including last week, there have been seven grid failures since the big one on November 9, 1965. None lasted for more than a day.
Let's go to the blackboard...
The number of days between November 8, 1965 and August 14, 2003 is 13,793.
The number of days in which some portion of the national power grid failed during that period is 7.
Dividing 13,793 by 7 we get 0.000507504
Moving the decimal two places to the right (and rounding up) we get a failure rate of 51 THOUSANTHS of one percent.
Stating it the other way, the power grid (which was described by former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson as being like one in a "third world country") has been up 99.949 percent of the time over the past 37 years.
Here's the difference between European and American government:
In Europe, all power is vested in the Monarch (or Central Government), who doles out just enough to keep the peasants from revolting.
In American, all power is vested in the individual, who doles out just enough to allow government to function.
This fundamental difference guarantees that Europe will always be dealing with its Francos, Mussolinis, Hitlers, and Milosevics, while Americans will remain fat, dumb, happy, and pretty contemptuous of Europeans.
If you think French bureaucracy is going away, I pity you: you should a complete failure to grasp how French government works, or what French government wants out of the EU (a term, incidentally, first coined by the Nazis).
I am glad to see that you grasp the problems of socialism in France and Germany. What you fail to see is that the French and the Germans are trying to extend the life of their socialist systems by trying to extend their reach: if you can't get socialism to work in one country, maybe it'ss work in one continent. This was what drove the old Soviet Union to its expansionism, and when it could expand no further (thank God for Ronald Reagan!), it collapsed in on itself, leaving a country of 300 million people with an aconomy about the size of Denmark's. That's what Europe is looking at: a union of 300 million people, with an economy the size of Idaho's.
The French long ago discovered they couldn't make Corporatism (Fascism dressed in Prada) work in a single country. Hence the EU, a French attempt to make Corporatism work on a single continent.
In the French view of the world, the Government - made up of the French elite, graduates of the ENA - will control the Corporations, and the Corporations will control the consumer.
Europe's one hope is its new Eastern European members, who well-remember German and Russian jackbooted thugs.
Well, that's one hope. The other hope is that the US remains relatively free, so Europeans can make Linus' choice.
Bush quoted information given him by the British Government. The Brits still stand by their story. For myself, I'm pretty sure we'll get confirmation of WMD in the next month or two. Think of how he buried his air force. Now think of what else is buried (and no, I'm not thinking about hundreds of thousands of Iraqis).
I doubt you've ever voted Republican. And, given the collection of Dukakis lookalikes he's up against, this guy is staying.
He did all his great work around 1905. From then on he was spent. No more great ideas, just religiious critiques of better ideas than his.
Take his comment on WWIII. It's being fought right now. When it's over, the entire world will be better off.
- The world will be safe for American liberal democracy. - European Corporatism (Fascism dressed in Prada) will be contained. - Islamic lunatic fundamentalism will be tamed. - Baathism (Arab Fascism) will be dead. - Saddam will be dead. - The Iranian mullocracy will have been torn to pieces by the people it's oppressed. - Kim Jong Il will not be lobbing nukes at Attu and Kiska; with any luck he'll be pickled in the sauce he loves so much and put on display for dung-flinging competitions - Ditto the house of Saud. etc., etc.
WWIII was forced on the U.S., but the U.S. will be standing long after the perpretrators have discovered the joys of pacifism, just like the Japanese did after we paid back Pearl Harbor with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Anonymous cowards, etc. An Arab is usually better.
As the Prime Minister might say: "I refer you to the comment I made some moments ago."
You're really not up for it, lad. Go back to your sod hut and mature a little.
Actually, move on to somewhere where the government doesn't involve watery bints flinging swords at people who would rule.
Where were you when Billy was spraying cum on interns and ignoring al Qaeda?
Oh, sucking his dick? Sorry. I'll get back to my regularly-scheduled programs.
Kinda sensitive, aren't ya?
Sperm all backed up? Don't worry, I'm sure a socialist uber-geek like you will eventually have no problem finding a concentration camp victim who suits our needs.
Pathetic dumb asshole with too much time on hand (time enough to read agreement, call support, hassle people, and finally give up, and finally use laptop, I think - I gave up before getting there) writes /. and gets the hornet's nest of shut-ins going.
Ooooooooh! I'm afraid. So are Dell, MS, etc., I'm sure.
Here's the deal: If you don't want to use MS, Linux is ready when you are. All else is puerile posturing.
Disaster is the loss of 3000 people and the WTC.
The space shuttle hardly rates, except as a vehicle for your anti-American rants, you pathetic bastard.
"When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it."
I heard all this SHIT on the radio today, so it must be good.
I mean, four billion flies like shit, so who am I to argue?
Subject line says it all.
Yeah, you should.
Then you wouldn't have to spend the rest of your life railing against capitalism. Ya eejit.
A couple of thoughts:
1. My (Indian) VP says all the smart Indians are in the US. That is, all the intelligence-based jobs are here and will remain here. The standard 3-tier, give me a UI, business, and persistence layer stuff will increasingly be with the people who can do it cheap, just like they used to load or unload bales of cotton for 10c/death.
2. I have my job because I'm worth about 20 raw Indians. So be it. I worked hard to get my skills and I've spent the last two or three years pissed off at clueless asshole newbies who spent their time describing how they were getting in on the dot-com thing at just the right time, while I was at the end of my usefulness. I got laid off as too expensive and they stayed on as the low cost providers. Now they're being killed off by cheap Indians, and I'm rewriting the way credit information gets fed to the world. IMHO, the end result: the US programmer market will be a bunch of brilliant performers. Everyone else will be living in their parents' basements and rescheduling their Fine Arts degrees, or complaining about the lack of adoption of open source software on slashdot. I'll be commanding hordes of Indian newbies from the God-like heights of my experience while the stupid hangers-on, who got into programming when the geting in was good, will be starving.
Final deal: If you love what you do, you'll probably be good at it. Hence you'll be well-paid and happy. The other products of the US school system will increasingly devolve to things that shit in their hands and fling it at each other.
I think many Indians have religious problems with this sort of thing. Their problem. For now.
Landing men on Mars? Like the Moon, just more of the same. Been there, sort of, done that, sort of. That won't inspire anyone.
Stop all use of NASA for military work? Well, it is the National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration. Besides, how much of NASA's work is military? Damn little, I'd guess.
Fund NASA adequately? NASA has spent the last few decades fucking over anyone who might challenge its stranglehold on space. They can't hack it? Well fuck 'em, and let someone better do the job.
Scrap the Space Shuttle? Finally, you're speaking some sense. Even NASA's own figures indicate its uselessness, yet they went ahead with it. Typical. Just like they never saw the O-rings coming, nor the insulating foam.
NASA lost the right stuff long ago. The Saturn V was a machine designed by a hero, and a total winner. The Space Shuttle was a machine designed by a committee that destroyed all the Saturn V plans, and has been a constant disappointment.
Shut NASA down. Let someone better do the work.
Boy, what a collection of pathetic peasants.
If you had any sense, any balls, you'd be fleeing for the wide-open, high-speed spaces of America.
But no, you'll stay, following the laws blindly as your governments build the concentraton camp walls and recruit a few of you to keep the others in their places at gunpoint.
Sheep. All of you.
Did you ever stop to think that is was the Nazis who first proposed a "European Union".
There. I feel better now.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?sto ry=436017
Your power goes down once a week.
Ours goes down once every 37 years.
Do you see the difference?
From Rich Galen's Mullings today:
The North American Energy Reliability Council which tracks such things has determined that, including last week, there have been seven grid failures since the big one on November 9, 1965. None lasted for more than a day.
Let's go to the blackboard...
The number of days between November 8, 1965 and August 14, 2003 is 13,793.
The number of days in which some portion of the national power grid failed during that period is 7.
Dividing 13,793 by 7 we get 0.000507504
Moving the decimal two places to the right (and rounding up) we get a failure rate of 51 THOUSANTHS of one percent.
Stating it the other way, the power grid (which was described by former Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson as being like one in a "third world country") has been up 99.949 percent of the time over the past 37 years.
Here's the difference between European and American government:
In Europe, all power is vested in the Monarch (or Central Government), who doles out just enough to keep the peasants from revolting.
In American, all power is vested in the individual, who doles out just enough to allow government to function.
This fundamental difference guarantees that Europe will always be dealing with its Francos, Mussolinis, Hitlers, and Milosevics, while Americans will remain fat, dumb, happy, and pretty contemptuous of Europeans.
If you think French bureaucracy is going away, I pity you: you should a complete failure to grasp how French government works, or what French government wants out of the EU (a term, incidentally, first coined by the Nazis).
I am glad to see that you grasp the problems of socialism in France and Germany. What you fail to see is that the French and the Germans are trying to extend the life of their socialist systems by trying to extend their reach: if you can't get socialism to work in one country, maybe it'ss work in one continent. This was what drove the old Soviet Union to its expansionism, and when it could expand no further (thank God for Ronald Reagan!), it collapsed in on itself, leaving a country of 300 million people with an aconomy about the size of Denmark's. That's what Europe is looking at: a union of 300 million people, with an economy the size of Idaho's.
Well, as long as you're not a towel-head with an AK-47 or a Boeing 757 flight manual, you ought to be safe.
As for the DMCA, it'll go eventually. Once the European equivalent of DMCA happens in Europe, you'll be stuck with it.
As for not suitable for Slashdot, hey, it's in the land of the free and the home of the brave, so fire away
Put on your Jesus boots and go back to gallumphing around Tuscany with the rest of your SS brethren.
The French long ago discovered they couldn't make Corporatism (Fascism dressed in Prada) work in a single country. Hence the EU, a French attempt to make Corporatism work on a single continent.
In the French view of the world, the Government - made up of the French elite, graduates of the ENA - will control the Corporations, and the Corporations will control the consumer.
Europe's one hope is its new Eastern European members, who well-remember German and Russian jackbooted thugs.
Well, that's one hope. The other hope is that the US remains relatively free, so Europeans can make Linus' choice.
Bush quoted information given him by the British Government. The Brits still stand by their story. For myself, I'm pretty sure we'll get confirmation of WMD in the next month or two. Think of how he buried his air force. Now think of what else is buried (and no, I'm not thinking about hundreds of thousands of Iraqis).
I doubt you've ever voted Republican. And, given the collection of Dukakis lookalikes he's up against, this guy is staying.
Has the sight of Saddam's various killing fields meant nothing to you?
If not, then you're so blinded by ideology as to be unworthy of further regard.
He did all his great work around 1905. From then on he was spent. No more great ideas, just religiious critiques of better ideas than his.
Take his comment on WWIII. It's being fought right now. When it's over, the entire world will be better off.
- The world will be safe for American liberal democracy.
- European Corporatism (Fascism dressed in Prada) will be contained.
- Islamic lunatic fundamentalism will be tamed.
- Baathism (Arab Fascism) will be dead.
- Saddam will be dead.
- The Iranian mullocracy will have been torn to pieces by the people it's oppressed.
- Kim Jong Il will not be lobbing nukes at Attu and Kiska; with any luck he'll be pickled in the sauce he loves so much and put on display for dung-flinging competitions
- Ditto the house of Saud.
etc., etc.
WWIII was forced on the U.S., but the U.S. will be standing long after the perpretrators have discovered the joys of pacifism, just like the Japanese did after we paid back Pearl Harbor with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh, fuck you, that's about what your trivial response is worth.
Well, obviously, DEMOCRACY's for everyone. But then, pure democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
I'm more up for a Republic, a constrained democracy. Yes, majority rules, but on a very limited set of issues.
Right now America is tending towards a democracy of dunces. I'm afraid of the eventual consequences.
I await your (intelligent, I'm sure) response.
It actually looks like they're trying to see whether the people mailing them have an IQ higher than a lab rat.
A good idea, IMHO. Filters out the drunk, drugged, and pure loony.