Yes, those fascist universities are much more authoritarian than prisons or the military.
There's a joke that "Christ, what an asshole." can be fittingly substituted for the caption of any New Yorker cartoon. It works on Wall Street Journal articles just as well.
During Katrina FEMA was slow and let people die. The director of FEMA didn't know, three days after the storm hit, that there were refugees in the convention center. Anybody who had been watching television during those three days knew.
The head of FEMA during Katrina was appointed because he was Bush's campaign manager's college buddy. His previous job was as an inspector of Arabian horse judges.
The current head of FEMA's previous job was 8 years as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Seriously. You are going to try to compare the two situations? You're doing a heck of a job.
You argue, in effect, that a US software developer and an Indian software developer are close substitutes. Close substitutes should have similar prices, or people would choose the cheaper option over the expensive one.
US software developer: $80-130K. Indian software developer: $10-25K
These are not close substitutes. IT jobs that can be sent offshore have been sent offshore. The jobs remaining in the US are the jobs where a local resource is, for whatever reason, an order of magnitude more productive than an offshore one.
What would happen if H1-B visas were eliminated and salaries rose would not, for the most part, be a move by executives to offshore more jobs. There may be a few situations in which executives would say, "Well when we could get 10 Indian developers for the price of one US developer, it made sense to keep the job here, but now that we can get 10 and a half, let's send the work offshore", but only a few. What would happen would be that some marginal projects wouldn't get done - the rising wages would simply make it too costly. Some people in the US who would have gone into other areas would go into tech instead. And some of the profits being made by companies would go to tech workers instead.
China was not in a recession in the 1990's. Do you not even know what a recession is?
You gave China as an example of a country that had used austerity to get out of a recession, but China wasn't in a recession. Not recently and not in the 1990's. Do you even comprehend that a country that is not in a recession can not use austerity to get out of a recession? This is like arguing with a retarded dude who is on angel dust.
Germany IS currently "slipping to malaise of the rest of the west" as you so eloquently put it. It grew at 0.1% last quarter which is a rounding error away from a recession. It was growing at 2% a year in the summer of 2010. Then it implemented austerity measures. Now it is near a recession. Do you comprehend that a country that isn't in a recession that implements austerity measures and then is near a recession isn't an example of using austerity to get out of a recession?
Fucking idiot.
Krugman could have predicted what would happen to Germany. I think he did, actually.
Shrinking government spending (while deregulating private activity) caused a boom in China.
China did not shrink government spending. It massively increased spending in 2009 when its economy began to slow down. It also was not in a recession, it was growing by at least 6% a year throughout the world economic crisis. So you are citing non-existent Chinese austerity to claim that a boom in China, which wasn't in a recession, is evidence that austerity has gotten someone out of a recession. That is idiotic. You are an idiot. Anyone who thinks anything you are saying makes any sense at all is an idiot.
As for Germany, it implemented austerity measures a year ago, after it had seen its GDP growth go from negative to around 2%. After it adopted the austerity measures, when it was not in a recession, its GDP growth trended down and last quarter it grew at a rate of only 0.1%, which is almost a recessionary level. So you point to austerity measures that have gotten a country close to being in a recession as evidence that austerity has gotten someone out of a recession. That is an idiotic argument. You are an idiot.
Yes, people still use vacuum tubes, typewriters, vinyl records, CRT's, and incandescent lightbulbs. But I'd argue that with the exception of lightbulbs, they're all seeing dramatically reduced usage these days.
VINYL SALES up 55% in first half of 2011
...
The UK numbers follow hot on the heels of figures from Nielsen which showed vinyl sales up 41% in the US in the same period.
2010 marked the fourth successive year of growth in vinyl album sales in the UK.
Entitlement happy? Paying money out of every paycheck you get your whole life so that you have income and health care when you are old or sick isn't an entitlement.
It's called insurance, you stupid asshole.
The leaders of every government on earth are the literal embodiment of Orwell's Animal Farm.
What is it when the US government praises Press Freedom Day while at the same time leaders of that government are calling for the assassination of a particularly inconvenient member of the press?
Every government on earth. Real change starts at home.
256kbps mp3 is very close to CD quality. On truly top of the line equipment you (and by you, I mean an audiophile, not a ranting idiot) might be able to tell the difference.
From the wired article:
Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound.
The music you download is going to be mastered the same crappy way that CDs are. As for the belief that:
No, this is opinion. Please look up fact and opinion in a dictionary. An unqualified "better" is factually meaninless (sic) without criteria to back it up.
The belief that quality is everywhere and always subjective is cheap nihilism of the grade school variety.
A couple weeks ago sunlight from the skylight in my apartment got to the records left out in front of the record player and irreparably warped a few hundred dollars worth of them...
Note that the poll that had him at 23% support was taken at almost the exact same time as the one that had him at 61.7% support.
The pollsters in Iran are politically motivated liars. If you trust their numbers you will come off looking as stupid as you would if you trusted the Iranian government's statements. Do realize, however, that if the Iranian government didn't want a certain person to win the election, they could have just refused to allow that person to run in the election - as they did with several other would-be candidates.
If they didn't want Mousavi to win why didn't they just refuse to let him run, citing "un-Islamic behavior" or some other such nonsense?
This has been studied extensively. Peer review of code is much better at finding bugs than QA testing.
If you release code without QA testing and the process works for you, fine, you can consider releasing code without peer review.
If you wouldn't consider releasing code without testing, but currently release it without peer review, you are batshit insane. Sucks to be you. Sucks even more to be your support department.
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Yes, those fascist universities are much more authoritarian than prisons or the military.
There's a joke that "Christ, what an asshole." can be fittingly substituted for the caption of any New Yorker cartoon. It works on Wall Street Journal articles just as well.
You drive your car on roads that our taxes paid for.
During Katrina FEMA was slow and let people die. The director of FEMA didn't know, three days after the storm hit, that there were refugees in the convention center. Anybody who had been watching television during those three days knew.
The head of FEMA during Katrina was appointed because he was Bush's campaign manager's college buddy. His previous job was as an inspector of Arabian horse judges.
The current head of FEMA's previous job was 8 years as director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
Seriously. You are going to try to compare the two situations? You're doing a heck of a job.
Let us know how that inland harbor thing works out for you.
Here are the average salaries from the 2010-2011 Dice survey, by programming language:
ABAP $105,887
Korn Shell $96,886
Perl $94,210
Java/J2EE $91,060
C $90,346
Python $90,208
Ruby On Rails $89,973
PL/SQL $89,742
Shell $88,918
C++ $86,648
COBOL $85,847
C# $85,501
Javascript $81,576
VB.net $79,646
Doesn't look to me like Java engineers are particularly cheap.
You argue, in effect, that a US software developer and an Indian software developer are close substitutes. Close substitutes should have similar prices, or people would choose the cheaper option over the expensive one.
US software developer: $80-130K.
Indian software developer: $10-25K
These are not close substitutes. IT jobs that can be sent offshore have been sent offshore. The jobs remaining in the US are the jobs where a local resource is, for whatever reason, an order of magnitude more productive than an offshore one.
What would happen if H1-B visas were eliminated and salaries rose would not, for the most part, be a move by executives to offshore more jobs. There may be a few situations in which executives would say, "Well when we could get 10 Indian developers for the price of one US developer, it made sense to keep the job here, but now that we can get 10 and a half, let's send the work offshore", but only a few. What would happen would be that some marginal projects wouldn't get done - the rising wages would simply make it too costly. Some people in the US who would have gone into other areas would go into tech instead. And some of the profits being made by companies would go to tech workers instead.
Well, they are either objects or primitive types.
China was not in a recession in the 1990's. Do you not even know what a recession is?
You gave China as an example of a country that had used austerity to get out of a recession, but China wasn't in a recession. Not recently and not in the 1990's. Do you even comprehend that a country that is not in a recession can not use austerity to get out of a recession? This is like arguing with a retarded dude who is on angel dust.
Germany IS currently "slipping to malaise of the rest of the west" as you so eloquently put it. It grew at 0.1% last quarter which is a rounding error away from a recession. It was growing at 2% a year in the summer of 2010. Then it implemented austerity measures. Now it is near a recession. Do you comprehend that a country that isn't in a recession that implements austerity measures and then is near a recession isn't an example of using austerity to get out of a recession?
Fucking idiot.
Krugman could have predicted what would happen to Germany. I think he did, actually.
You are an idiot.
Shrinking government spending (while deregulating private activity) caused a boom in China.
China did not shrink government spending. It massively increased spending in 2009 when its economy began to slow down. It also was not in a recession, it was growing by at least 6% a year throughout the world economic crisis. So you are citing non-existent Chinese austerity to claim that a boom in China, which wasn't in a recession, is evidence that austerity has gotten someone out of a recession. That is idiotic. You are an idiot. Anyone who thinks anything you are saying makes any sense at all is an idiot.
As for Germany, it implemented austerity measures a year ago, after it had seen its GDP growth go from negative to around 2%. After it adopted the austerity measures, when it was not in a recession, its GDP growth trended down and last quarter it grew at a rate of only 0.1%, which is almost a recessionary level. So you point to austerity measures that have gotten a country close to being in a recession as evidence that austerity has gotten someone out of a recession. That is an idiotic argument. You are an idiot.
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30 to 50% sales growth for half a decade isn't what I would call a dramatic reduction.
And that's just new sales. Vinyl lasts for generations, it's not going away any time soon.
Entitlement happy? Paying money out of every paycheck you get your whole life so that you have income and health care when you are old or sick isn't an entitlement. It's called insurance, you stupid asshole.
If Judith Miller isn't an example of "state-controlled media" I don't know what is.
this is a cruel position to take
It's a cruel position to take.
It it also the least cruel position to take.
The government of North Korea has been threatening nuclear attacks against other countries.
The citizens of North Korea are responsible for the actions of their government, just as you are responsible for the actions of yours.
The leaders of every government on earth are the literal embodiment of Orwell's Animal Farm. What is it when the US government praises Press Freedom Day while at the same time leaders of that government are calling for the assassination of a particularly inconvenient member of the press? Every government on earth. Real change starts at home.
I'll do you a favour and take yours off your hands then. Let me know where to pick them up.
Many people also like the idea of raising kids in a more rural setting, and a slower pace of life once you get home.
Stadtluft macht frei.
If you take up smoking, they would improve.
Solopsism?
256kbps mp3 is very close to CD quality. On truly top of the line equipment you (and by you, I mean an audiophile, not a ranting idiot) might be able to tell the difference.
From the wired article:
Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It's the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound.
The music you download is going to be mastered the same crappy way that CDs are. As for the belief that:
No, this is opinion. Please look up fact and opinion in a dictionary. An unqualified "better" is factually meaninless (sic) without criteria to back it up.
The belief that quality is everywhere and always subjective is cheap nihilism of the grade school variety.
A couple weeks ago sunlight from the skylight in my apartment got to the records left out in front of the record player and irreparably warped a few hundred dollars worth of them...
A fad that's been around since 1894 so far.
What are the odds that music compact discs will be a growth industry in 2098?
The polls showed a dead heat
"The polls"?
Here is the percentage support for Ahmedinajad in a number of polls taken in the runup to the election:
22.5
23
24.61
25.5
29.5
32
33
33
34
34
35
36
36
38
40
42
42
43
44
47.5
53
54
59
61.7
62
62.7
Note that the poll that had him at 23% support was taken at almost the exact same time as the one that had him at 61.7% support.
The pollsters in Iran are politically motivated liars. If you trust their numbers you will come off looking as stupid as you would if you trusted the Iranian government's statements. Do realize, however, that if the Iranian government didn't want a certain person to win the election, they could have just refused to allow that person to run in the election - as they did with several other would-be candidates.
If they didn't want Mousavi to win why didn't they just refuse to let him run, citing "un-Islamic behavior" or some other such nonsense?
This has been studied extensively. Peer review of code is much better at finding bugs than QA testing.
If you release code without QA testing and the process works for you, fine, you can consider releasing code without peer review.
If you wouldn't consider releasing code without testing, but currently release it without peer review, you are batshit insane. Sucks to be you. Sucks even more to be your support department.
I think there are some kids on your lawn that need to be yelled at.