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What exactly is your problem with Slashdot and the editors here? This is a free website. They don't owe you or anyone else anything. If you cannot stand the way this site is run then why don't you simply stop coming here?
In your desire to defeat any and everything that is politically correct you are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Not everything that is PC is bad, the term was invented with good reason.
So in order to describe a situation where people are suckered out of their money via the use of deceptive advertising practices the best term you could think of is "nigger rich". Well if thats the best you can do thats fine I guess. You could have also used "taken advantage of" or "taken to the cleaners" "run thru a fools game" "fools gold" or any number of non-racist terms. As for why I don't like the particular one you used its because I'm black. Now why on earth would a black man not want to hear the word "nigger" used in casual conversation? Basically instead of using a perfectly good alternative you went for the most offensive phrase purely for shock value. You must be so proud of yourself.
Am I a yuppie? Lets see. I'm Young. I'm Urban. I'm a Professional and I'm a Person. YUPPie I am and proud of it. What kind of a lifestyle opposes a miserably poor one? A new car every 3 years? I'd call that excessive but I know those who get one every 2.5 years. Broadband internet access? Thats standard kit for a geek let alone a yuppie. A huge home big enough for a maid? Hell yeah especially when that maid is young, hot and loose with her morals.
Clinton is a criminal asshole? Is this supposed to be in contrast to the current international criminal asshole in the Executive Office? Instead of dragging THIS argument on I'll simply say that When Clinton lied, no one died.
The economy and life is cyclical. Yes people can run for the hills but they'll be back within a generation or two. The hills are boring you see and most folks would rather NOT go back to a toothless overall appalaichan lifestyle. Not to mention subsquent generations won't be as willing as you are to be as millitant about depriving themselves of the good things in life.
This brings us to your bucket of money. First invest in good sprinklers lest your house burn down with all of your life savings. Next even though you may horde your cash and pass it on to your descendants in YOUR lifetime, they'll surely spend more of it then you would have liked. They'll love their dear old unabomber-like dad for leaving them so much but they'll waste no time in heading back to the cities and suburbs to rejoin the rest of civilization.
Tanks will not be rolling in the streets. A recession seems to bring out ALL the apocalypse lovers and doomsday sayers. Of course their predictions never come true but why should a little thing such as the facts get in their way? Baby boomers are going to be retiring en masse in a few decades leaving open many many positions in the employment market. Couple that with constantly advancing technology to keep both the idle rich AND poor entertained and well fed and you remove the reasons for unrest in the streets.
P.S. Keep in mind that not all Yuppies are living beyond their means. Many of us are in fact building wealth and assests which give us plenty of income in returns and dividends. Only idiots want to be an opponent. Resistance is futile and dangerous. Exploiting the knowledge gaps in the economy and in the world is a much more sensible route than foolishly trying to remove yourself from it. You'll learn soon enough.
Good luck with a business model of trying to sell software that some 3rd party has to support instead of the company thats selling it in the first place. Corporations would be REAL comfortable with THAT setup.
In a few months the traffic to the Wal-Mart will be back. You see not too many people have the strength of both wallet and character to resist Wal-Mart's obscenely low prices for long. And there's nothing wrong with the way Hollywood studios treat people. If the workers don't like it then they can go work somewhere else. No one puts a gun to a person's head for work in the fucking entertainment industry.
Brooks Brothers is a luxury brand. Its above and beyond what someone "needs" therefore the price of the item and where it is manufactured is irrelevant. Its something we don't need simply put. The whole point of a luxury item is to take a regular item, give it a "marquee brand name" and charge way more than it costs to produce. Its a status thing. Not a staple job you want for the core of your economy.
And every animal that was ever born deserves to live. But some get eaten and others starve. Thats called real life where no one really has any rights they can't sustain for themselves.
So what are you going to do when robots and AI's take most of our jobs? How are you going to stop that?
Do you even know a fucks worth about economics? If EVERY person who works 8 hours a day earned a "decent" wage the economy would fucking break due to massive inflation.
Take your populist nonesense and go spout it somewhere else.
And whats the point of living a miserably poor lifestyle jost to make a point to corporate America? You're little protest won't have any affect on corporations so the overwhelming majority of consumers would rather not torture themselves with a miserly lifestyle like you've just chosen to "try" to punish companies.
So what have you really achieved? The wealthy don't deprive themselves. They live the high life by making their money earn MORE money for them first THEN they buy the things they want. You're just deluding yourself if you think you are emulating them in any way shape or form.
Finally your money WILL go to the corporations when you either leave it to your children, or it is taken by the government after you die. Even if you donate it to some charity that chartiy will have to buy goods and services to fullfill its mission.
1. One does not need to go to an expensive college or a college at all to learn IT skills. 2. One does not need to work for a company to make money in IT. You can start your own business. 3. There IS a shortage of GOOD IT workers. GOOD ones. Not ones who have never really used a computer before in their life yet just last week got their MCSE certification.
Its not an economic fantasy, but reality. A reality you MUST accept or be left behind.
So tax dollars should be wasted on expensive overpaid Americans instead of on cheap Indians thus saving more money to be used on OTHER social programs?
I DID RTFA. Sometimes you have to be able to extrapolate what isn't EXACTLY in the articles to get to the deeper meaning.
Its very clear that to get your foot in the corporate door you have to have a product that is supported from day ONE. Not someday far away down the road.
Free also implies the support for your product is either non-existent or soon will be. Whats going on in the average manager's mind when you mention open source as an option is what are the open source programmers going to do and where are they going to be for you when their savings run dry and they have to leave their mom's basement to go forth into the real world and find themselves a full time job. A job that won't leave much time for OSS programming.
A company thats charging you money on the other hand is much easier to accept and understand. They use the money you (and others) pay them to stay in business and continue to support you.
Your comment shows you just don't get it. Did you even read where the response by Bruce Perense states that its too "expensive" to maintain development of both platforms?
I am not trying to be condescending for once but in the *real world* just getting open source in the corporate door is hard enough. Trying to convince your bosses that you have to maintain compliance with two functionally identicall GUI environments will not go over very well. One or the other, pick one and choose. Open Source and Free Software has crept out of the programmers basement apartments and into a very accountable environment.
BTW, chosing Vi or EMACS WOULD be just fine. They're both text editors. They both edit text. If it works you use it and don't use anything else until it stops working. No money or time for further dicking around.
How many new jobs did the invention of the iPod bring about? Or the invention of flash USB cards? Or Microsoft's Clippy? Every tech product does *NOT* create new oppotunities or problems to solve.
LOL. Yeah a presidential candidate for a nation of over 280 million people is going to give a crap about the 200k potential lost jobs in the nerdy, annoying, pedantic IT industry.
Then again maybe that Dennis Kuchnich guy would care cause he's pretty geeky himself. The idiot is single and running for President.
Why is "producing something value" seen as the only way to be worth something? And what is wrong with controlling resources? If they just sitting there and no one else has taken control of them why not you?
Something is only obsolete when something better replaces it. Since that has not yet happened, "work" and "markets" are still very much state of the art.
You enter the topic of "knowing". How do you KNOW for certain that anyone or anything other than you (ie outside your own skull) is sentient? You could be the only sentient being on Earth and the rest of us just organisms mimicing sentience. Then again you may not be sentient. How do you know you are? Do you remember the phrase "I think therefore I am!" If it can think on a certain level and fool you into thinking its sentient, then for all intents and purposes its sentient. Thats all the Turing test requires really.
As for faking heck we live with things that "fake" feelings all day long. People fake honesty, they fake concern and compassion, they fake orgasms, they fake love some even fake hate. A malfunctioning or immature AI might be the most honest being you'll ever know. What does THAT say about humanity?
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What exactly is your problem with Slashdot and the editors here? This is a free website. They don't owe you or anyone else anything. If you cannot stand the way this site is run then why don't you simply stop coming here?
In your desire to defeat any and everything that is politically correct you are throwing out the baby with the bath water. Not everything that is PC is bad, the term was invented with good reason.
So in order to describe a situation where people are suckered out of their money via the use of deceptive advertising practices the best term you could think of is "nigger rich". Well if thats the best you can do thats fine I guess. You could have also used "taken advantage of" or "taken to the cleaners" "run thru a fools game" "fools gold" or any number of non-racist terms. As for why I don't like the particular one you used its because I'm black. Now why on earth would a black man not want to hear the word "nigger" used in casual conversation? Basically instead of using a perfectly good alternative you went for the most offensive phrase purely for shock value. You must be so proud of yourself.
Am I a yuppie? Lets see. I'm Young. I'm Urban. I'm a Professional and I'm a Person. YUPPie I am and proud of it. What kind of a lifestyle opposes a miserably poor one? A new car every 3 years? I'd call that excessive but I know those who get one every 2.5 years. Broadband internet access? Thats standard kit for a geek let alone a yuppie. A huge home big enough for a maid? Hell yeah especially when that maid is young, hot and loose with her morals.
Clinton is a criminal asshole? Is this supposed to be in contrast to the current international criminal asshole in the Executive Office? Instead of dragging THIS argument on I'll simply say that When Clinton lied, no one died.
The economy and life is cyclical. Yes people can run for the hills but they'll be back within a generation or two. The hills are boring you see and most folks would rather NOT go back to a toothless overall appalaichan lifestyle. Not to mention subsquent generations won't be as willing as you are to be as millitant about depriving themselves of the good things in life.
This brings us to your bucket of money. First invest in good sprinklers lest your house burn down with all of your life savings. Next even though you may horde your cash and pass it on to your descendants in YOUR lifetime, they'll surely spend more of it then you would have liked. They'll love their dear old unabomber-like dad for leaving them so much but they'll waste no time in heading back to the cities and suburbs to rejoin the rest of civilization.
Tanks will not be rolling in the streets. A recession seems to bring out ALL the apocalypse lovers and doomsday sayers. Of course their predictions never come true but why should a little thing such as the facts get in their way? Baby boomers are going to be retiring en masse in a few decades leaving open many many positions in the employment market. Couple that with constantly advancing technology to keep both the idle rich AND poor entertained and well fed and you remove the reasons for unrest in the streets.
P.S. Keep in mind that not all Yuppies are living beyond their means. Many of us are in fact building wealth and assests which give us plenty of income in returns and dividends. Only idiots want to be an opponent. Resistance is futile and dangerous. Exploiting the knowledge gaps in the economy and in the world is a much more sensible route than foolishly trying to remove yourself from it. You'll learn soon enough.
Good luck with a business model of trying to sell software that some 3rd party has to support instead of the company thats selling it in the first place. Corporations would be REAL comfortable with THAT setup.
In a few months the traffic to the Wal-Mart will be back. You see not too many people have the strength of both wallet and character to resist Wal-Mart's obscenely low prices for long. And there's nothing wrong with the way Hollywood studios treat people. If the workers don't like it then they can go work somewhere else. No one puts a gun to a person's head for work in the fucking entertainment industry.
Brooks Brothers is a luxury brand. Its above and beyond what someone "needs" therefore the price of the item and where it is manufactured is irrelevant. Its something we don't need simply put. The whole point of a luxury item is to take a regular item, give it a "marquee brand name" and charge way more than it costs to produce. Its a status thing. Not a staple job you want for the core of your economy.
When you only have enough money for the Wal-Mart prices how the fuck are you supposed to buy something thats more expensive?
And every animal that was ever born deserves to live. But some get eaten and others starve. Thats called real life where no one really has any rights they can't sustain for themselves.
So what are you going to do when robots and AI's take most of our jobs? How are you going to stop that?
Do you even know a fucks worth about economics? If EVERY person who works 8 hours a day earned a "decent" wage the economy would fucking break due to massive inflation.
Take your populist nonesense and go spout it somewhere else.
What does "nigger rich" mean? Are you a racist?
And whats the point of living a miserably poor lifestyle jost to make a point to corporate America? You're little protest won't have any affect on corporations so the overwhelming majority of consumers would rather not torture themselves with a miserly lifestyle like you've just chosen to "try" to punish companies.
So what have you really achieved? The wealthy don't deprive themselves. They live the high life by making their money earn MORE money for them first THEN they buy the things they want. You're just deluding yourself if you think you are emulating them in any way shape or form.
Finally your money WILL go to the corporations when you either leave it to your children, or it is taken by the government after you die. Even if you donate it to some charity that chartiy will have to buy goods and services to fullfill its mission.
1. One does not need to go to an expensive college or a college at all to learn IT skills.
2. One does not need to work for a company to make money in IT. You can start your own business.
3. There IS a shortage of GOOD IT workers. GOOD ones. Not ones who have never really used a computer before in their life yet just last week got their MCSE certification.
Its not an economic fantasy, but reality. A reality you MUST accept or be left behind.
So tax dollars should be wasted on expensive overpaid Americans instead of on cheap Indians thus saving more money to be used on OTHER social programs?
I DID RTFA. Sometimes you have to be able to extrapolate what isn't EXACTLY in the articles to get to the deeper meaning.
Its very clear that to get your foot in the corporate door you have to have a product that is supported from day ONE. Not someday far away down the road.
No matter how much you Open Sourcers want to deny it, heirchies always form in organizations of any sufficient size.
At the top is our FEARLESS LEADER, Linus Torvalds.
His right hand man, his #1, his Heir Apparent is the ever humble, Alan Cox.
Forget this, and you forget EVERYTHING!
Free also implies the support for your product is either non-existent or soon will be. Whats going on in the average manager's mind when you mention open source as an option is what are the open source programmers going to do and where are they going to be for you when their savings run dry and they have to leave their mom's basement to go forth into the real world and find themselves a full time job. A job that won't leave much time for OSS programming.
A company thats charging you money on the other hand is much easier to accept and understand. They use the money you (and others) pay them to stay in business and continue to support you.
Your comment shows you just don't get it. Did you even read where the response by Bruce Perense states that its too "expensive" to maintain development of both platforms?
I am not trying to be condescending for once but in the *real world* just getting open source in the corporate door is hard enough. Trying to convince your bosses that you have to maintain compliance with two functionally identicall GUI environments will not go over very well. One or the other, pick one and choose. Open Source and Free Software has crept out of the programmers basement apartments and into a very accountable environment.
BTW, chosing Vi or EMACS WOULD be just fine. They're both text editors. They both edit text. If it works you use it and don't use anything else until it stops working. No money or time for further dicking around.
Being a billionaire = good thing.
Not being a billionaire = bad thing.
Ok class dismissed.
How many new jobs did the invention of the iPod bring about? Or the invention of flash USB cards? Or Microsoft's Clippy? Every tech product does *NOT* create new oppotunities or problems to solve.
I don't have to move. I can afford the rent where I live.
LOL. Yeah a presidential candidate for a nation of over 280 million people is going to give a crap about the 200k potential lost jobs in the nerdy, annoying, pedantic IT industry.
Then again maybe that Dennis Kuchnich guy would care cause he's pretty geeky himself. The idiot is single and running for President.
You probably think those who "love" what they do are always also the "best" at what they do right?
What if they're not? Does it matter?
No the US DOESN'T suck because this freedom works two ways. The employee is also allowed to leave the company at will and go work for someone else.
So whats wrong with the people who need a place to live or work moving to an area with lower rents?
Why is "producing something value" seen as the only way to be worth something? And what is wrong with controlling resources? If they just sitting there and no one else has taken control of them why not you?
You make it sound like someone can't quit their job and go work for someone else.
Something is only obsolete when something better replaces it. Since that has not yet happened, "work" and "markets" are still very much state of the art.
You enter the topic of "knowing". How do you KNOW for certain that anyone or anything other than you (ie outside your own skull) is sentient? You could be the only sentient being on Earth and the rest of us just organisms mimicing sentience. Then again you may not be sentient. How do you know you are? Do you remember the phrase "I think therefore I am!" If it can think on a certain level and fool you into thinking its sentient, then for all intents and purposes its sentient. Thats all the Turing test requires really.
As for faking heck we live with things that "fake" feelings all day long. People fake honesty, they fake concern and compassion, they fake orgasms, they fake love some even fake hate. A malfunctioning or immature AI might be the most honest being you'll ever know. What does THAT say about humanity?