Clearly this fellow is one of my confused and poorly informed fellow citizens. Clinton had to go to Bosnia over the objections and around the funding (and other) hurdles put up by the party currently in power. The one that has made "nation-building" a bad word. You see, Americans can't even remember what opinions they held in the last 5 minutes. Because, if they did, they might actually realize how stupid they look.
This fellow is clearly in American upper management. Either that or he has a 100% probablility of finding out what how things work here within a maximum of 3 years.
I am amazed at how lazy people are. I have long ago stopped being upset at people not turning off their computers when they're not using them overnight or such. I understand it can be a lengthy process to "get back to where you were" when you turned it off....especially if you're a devleper like me.
But what about your stupid monitor? There it is, sucking away 200+ Watts of energy and generating heat in air conditioned offices in the summer. The effect of people regularly turning off their monitors overnight in this country would probably give us back about enough electricity to like a city of 500,000 people.
You figure the fuel not used and the wars not fought.
Everytime I hear one of you nature-destroyers living out your selfish impulses by trashing more and more nature and complaining about not having the "comforts" of civilization, it makes me want to slap you.
Ben Stein starts his piece with the usual malarkey about America's "competitiveness and innovation" and then proceeds through the rest of the usual (mostly) libertarian malarkey.
The one thing he doesn't note the two keys to America's competitiveness and innovation: 1) the products of mostly hopelessly ideological (China, et al.) or hopelessly elite (India) foreign school systems; 2) the English language.
There is basically nothing in the American system that encourages competitiveness or innovation. After all, the U.S. has had a competitive industry arise in a long time. Microchips is the only one left. Everything from aircraft to telecom to power generation to consumer electronics is being led by other smaller, less commodity-rich countries speaking a multitude of relatively obscure languages.
The minute America loses its ability to bully the rest of the world with its weapons and provide a "safe harbor" for wealth, the game is over.
Yes. Thank heaven we can speak and rely on something other than appetites and raw strength to settle our differences.
Now why aren't you advocating going back to grunts and the law of the (physically) stronger?
And besides: rape is a crime; murder is a crime. Rape and murder are intertwined in same evolution you see justifying its "naturalness". I would therefore like to kill you.
I don't get any of those lame-o-s claiming internet trade shouldn't be taxed. Unless you are a libertarian or anarchist and would like to have the government services provided by, say, the likes of Sudan and with the social ills of Brazil, well, of course ecommerce is not different from any other. Duh!
1) Less and less software will be developed in US, just like less and less steel is produced. Unless you vote for that to change 2) You must learn sales skills and, whether you continue to stay in code or truly move to sales, you must learn the #1 lesson of sales: truth and quality don't matter 3) See your politics through your job prospects and your job prospects through your politics
Big business has ALWAYS been more wasteful. Either people who haven't worked much in private industry or just haven't a clue what's going on around them aren't aware of this.
Well, I took you advice. I have never considered a job secure and never stayed where I thought I would go into maintenance mode. But then, I'm only human. And after 20 years in the business and at 45 years old, you quickly learn something about reality. A mortgage. Approaching college payments. Adequate retirement. An occasional vacation... at least without the stress of thinking that I just spent money I could have spent on covering the next 6 months it will take me to get another job. And, finally: This country is so riven with age discrimination, it's ridiculous. Unless you stay where you are after a certain point, one of two things happen -- you don't get a job because you're too old or you watch you income steadily go back to where it was 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and so forth.
So, enjoy job-hopping while you're young. I did and am now learning there is a price.
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Clearly this fellow is one of my confused and poorly informed fellow citizens.
Clinton had to go to Bosnia over the objections and around the funding (and other) hurdles put up by the party currently in power. The one that has made "nation-building" a bad word.
You see, Americans can't even remember what opinions they held in the last 5 minutes. Because, if they did, they might actually realize how stupid they look.
This fellow is clearly in American upper management. Either that or he has a 100% probablility of finding out what how things work here within a maximum of 3 years.
Unlike my dense-brained nation of nine-year-olds, Europe understands that they don't get clean, safe streets and a decent society for free.
I am amazed at how lazy people are. I have long ago stopped being upset at people not turning off their computers when they're not using them overnight or such. I understand it can be a lengthy process to "get back to where you were" when you turned it off....especially if you're a devleper like me.
But what about your stupid monitor? There it is, sucking away 200+ Watts of energy and generating heat in air conditioned offices in the summer. The effect of people regularly turning off their monitors overnight in this country would probably give us back about enough electricity to like a city of 500,000 people.
You figure the fuel not used and the wars not fought.
Everytime I hear one of you nature-destroyers living out your selfish impulses by trashing more and more nature and complaining about not having the "comforts" of civilization, it makes me want to slap you.
What's wrong with you?
This is just a little too coincidental. Now, I wonder who paid for that article: HP, Sun, IBM, Merrill Lynch, BoA?
I guess this is what comes of dopes who don't know their own language...
Ben Stein starts his piece with the usual malarkey about America's "competitiveness and innovation" and then proceeds through the rest of the usual (mostly) libertarian malarkey.
The one thing he doesn't note the two keys to America's competitiveness and innovation: 1) the products of mostly hopelessly ideological (China, et al.) or hopelessly elite (India) foreign school systems; 2) the English language.
There is basically nothing in the American system that encourages competitiveness or innovation. After all, the U.S. has had a competitive industry arise in a long time. Microchips is the only one left. Everything from aircraft to telecom to power generation to consumer electronics is being led by other smaller, less commodity-rich countries speaking a multitude of relatively obscure languages.
The minute America loses its ability to bully the rest of the world with its weapons and provide a "safe harbor" for wealth, the game is over.
Yes. Thank heaven we can speak and rely on something other than appetites and raw strength to settle our differences.
Now why aren't you advocating going back to grunts and the law of the (physically) stronger?
And besides: rape is a crime; murder is a crime. Rape and murder are intertwined in same evolution you see justifying its "naturalness". I would therefore like to kill you.
It sure beats that Lysol smell of the gated-community or the sterility and eco-disaster ambience of suburban sprawl.
Yeah! I'm 2 blocks from Propect Park and I want my wireless, too!
I don't get any of those lame-o-s claiming internet trade shouldn't be taxed. Unless you are a libertarian or anarchist and would like to have the government services provided by, say, the likes of Sudan and with the social ills of Brazil, well, of course ecommerce is not different from any other.
Duh!
1) Less and less software will be developed in US, just like less and less steel is produced. Unless you vote for that to change
2) You must learn sales skills and, whether you continue to stay in code or truly move to sales, you must learn the #1 lesson of sales: truth and quality don't matter
3) See your politics through your job prospects and your job prospects through your politics
All I can say is we need fewer jerks giving tech and America in general a bad name with 27,000 square foot houses.
Big business has ALWAYS been more wasteful. Either people who haven't worked much in private industry or just haven't a clue what's going on around them aren't aware of this.
Well, I took you advice. I have never considered a job secure and never stayed where I thought I would go into maintenance mode.
But then, I'm only human. And after 20 years in the business and at 45 years old, you quickly learn something about reality. A mortgage. Approaching college payments. Adequate retirement. An occasional vacation... at least without the stress of thinking that I just spent money I could have spent on covering the next 6 months it will take me to get another job. And, finally: This country is so riven with age discrimination, it's ridiculous. Unless you stay where you are after a certain point, one of two things happen -- you don't get a job because you're too old or you watch you income steadily go back to where it was 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and so forth.
So, enjoy job-hopping while you're young. I did and am now learning there is a price.