The topic may be hot but the acronym isn't (I, as the other poster, have never seen it before, and this is from somebody that has VMware stuff in all my home machines and has been working on IT for far too long).
I don't know on which planet you are living (and I will not check your blog or whatever to find out, talk about easy self promotion).
Doctors are some of the most hardened people you will find (they have to be), and some go too far to the point of not caring anymore for their patients.
I have plenty of histories about doctors but I only want to make the point that the poster has chosen the wrong profession to contrast IT people in a bad light.
Given the amount of what I call "low impact xenophobia" in the UK, the government will force this first into foreigners, who nobody cares in this country about, the sociopaths in the Labour party know foreigners are an easy target to try this and any other of their great social inventions.
Once we 2nd class humans in this country are "registered" they can iron out all the details about how they will make this "work" for the indigenous population (people with half a clue knows this is just a waste of money, but whatever).
These and many other "initiatives" remind us all people living in the UK the roots of the Labour party: a socialist party. And we know how socialist and communist countires treat their people: with suspicion. The instincts are the same, not even Tony Blair and his cronnies could become Tory (Conservative) enough to care about civil liberties and freedoms.
You will have to make some adjustment to your lifestyle: you'll have to live closer to where you work and shop, careless expenditure in energy will have to be curbed, you are too fat so you will eat less, you will stop buying 3 or 4 computers per household, you will buy generic names instead of brand names for any product (until brand names get a clue and realize that selling a Gucci bag for $300 is idiotic in such an economic climate) and so on.
The good news is that people in other countries will meet you half way due to their better standards of living, and all of the sudden, without realizing it, you'll be competitive in areas you are not now.
There are examples of economies collapsing you can learn from.
The best example is Argentina a few years back. What people did was organize themselves, skip using the wortheless currency at all, and started bartering their goods and services.
They did not run for their guns, their ran for their phones, called their friends and organized friendly bartering markets.
By demanding protectionist measures you are hurting the people you intend to protect.
History is littered with examples of people acting in good faith but commiting major blunders.
I could list numerous countries that descended into poverty by supporting misguided protectionist measures. If you want to add the US to that list feel free, the rest of the world can sit down and watch the show.
There are plenty of well paid jobs out there, but the US/. readership sometimes seems to feel they are entilted to work in IT no matter what and irrespective of the economic realities of the day.
If we were living 100 years or so ago most people here would be decrying the downfall of the jobs of people related to the horse carriage industry and how all those skills were being migrated to Mongolia or the Argentinian Pampas.
The countries you are whining about have some of the most pro-worker, pro-union legislation in the world (at least in the areas where more/.ers are worried about, unless most of you sew soccer balls for Adidas or put together sneakers or trainers for Nike).
Your massively uninformed idea that workers have no rights in places like India of China is laughable.
When people are found in those countries in poor conditions it is against the law and the respective union will make a big stink that has political consequences (check for riots in China, you'll be surprised).
In the US you get a pink slip if I understand correctly and very often you don't have time to say goodby to your colleagues. Such practice is considered anathema in many places that are benefitting from outsourcing.
Now go ahead and apply tariffs.
And see how prices of the goods you use everyday begin to climb.
You like inflatonary spirals? As somebody that has lived in a country with 150% inflation rate I can tell you they are a lot of fun, but ultimately devastate your economy (my country spoused the same protectionist ideas for many years, that brought only poverty and destitution, but you are very welcome to find out by your own stubborn, uninformed, self).
It seems that you "think" with only one half of your brain and avoid at all costs to engage the other.
When jobs are moved to a place where they can be done for a lower wage, the economy of the US benefits.
The resources that US companies no longer have to allocate for wages go towards other purposes beneficial to the US economy (more taxes, rising share prices which benefit pension funds in the US, reinvestment for modernization of the company, etc), also those people employed now elsewhere will demand goods and services. US companies will have now new markets to compete in. The US also benefits by now receiving cheaper services, those people saving money can spend it in other stuff.
All the above generates jobs in the US. It is plain to see for anybody engaging both halfs of his brain, not only the protectionist, isolationist one.
But if US/.ers refuse to accept opinions of most experts in the field as well as most credible statistics (per capita income is noe of the higest in the world, unemployment in the US is extremely low), well, nobody can do much about somebody that just has decided not to listen to the ovewhelming evidence.
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There is a "race to the bottom" as people like you disingenously call it, amongst the US states.
It is called competition for fucks sakes. You don't need to use idiotic loaded terms when there is one that is accurate and descriptive.
The topic may be hot but the acronym isn't (I, as the other poster, have never seen it before, and this is from somebody that has VMware stuff in all my home machines and has been working on IT for far too long).
I have many years of experience in the IT field and did not know what VT is.
Of course I could made informed guesses given the context, but it is just bad writing practice no to define acronyms of highly specialized terms.
You should not be defending such an obvious writing style fault.
Get only a few machines for conversion purposes (accesible by means of remote terminal software) and then use the application of your choice.
Most people do not need to interchange documents outside their own companies anyway, so the problem seems quite manageable.
You may be interested in polyglotism but not speak more languages than one for the life of yours...
Any moderately proficient musician (heck, I can do it) can listen to some music and write it down or reproduce it close enough.
If one day we have very successful DRM (ha!) musicians will do a Mozart as required in order to enjoy the music.
.... you may go nowhere, not even downhill.
In 100 years everybody will speak Spanish in the US :P
I learnt English in 6 months, taking clases for 6 hours once a week every Saturday.
/. history shows that my English is not stellar, but I can sit through a Shakespeare play and get almost all of it.
My
I also learnt French, in 2 one hour classes for 3 years in secondary school. By no means full time studying.
O yes, I can speak some German: one year of hourly classes twice a week.
And so on with many other people I know.
Perhaps you have some learning difficulties you have not spotted?
In the one I visit regularly everybody and his Hund speak a passable English.
May it be that after so many years living there you are becoming like them and are full of Schadenfreude?
I don't know on which planet you are living (and I will not check your blog or whatever to find out, talk about easy self promotion).
Doctors are some of the most hardened people you will find (they have to be), and some go too far to the point of not caring anymore for their patients.
I have plenty of histories about doctors but I only want to make the point that the poster has chosen the wrong profession to contrast IT people in a bad light.
If people borrow for pay for a car. house or credit cards, they are paying for goods and services that keep other people employed.
Unless a rich person puts his money on a mattress, the money does not sit idle.
Given the amount of what I call "low impact xenophobia" in the UK, the government will force this first into foreigners, who nobody cares in this country about, the sociopaths in the Labour party know foreigners are an easy target to try this and any other of their great social inventions.
Once we 2nd class humans in this country are "registered" they can iron out all the details about how they will make this "work" for the indigenous population (people with half a clue knows this is just a waste of money, but whatever).
These and many other "initiatives" remind us all people living in the UK the roots of the Labour party: a socialist party. And we know how socialist and communist countires treat their people: with suspicion. The instincts are the same, not even Tony Blair and his cronnies could become Tory (Conservative) enough to care about civil liberties and freedoms.
Banks and oil industry. Sun/Solaris strongholds.
Enough said.
That is the only sane answer.
Ha,ha,ha!
... that initial sequence is well above anything produced in the "prequels".
Picasso also lived to produce mostly crap after Guernica.
Lucas left all what he had in the first 2 SW movies.
Blade Runner.
You will have to make some adjustment to your lifestyle: you'll have to live closer to where you work and shop, careless expenditure in energy will have to be curbed, you are too fat so you will eat less, you will stop buying 3 or 4 computers per household, you will buy generic names instead of brand names for any product (until brand names get a clue and realize that selling a Gucci bag for $300 is idiotic in such an economic climate) and so on.
The good news is that people in other countries will meet you half way due to their better standards of living, and all of the sudden, without realizing it, you'll be competitive in areas you are not now.
And the cyclce will continue.
Forever.
There are examples of economies collapsing you can learn from.
The best example is Argentina a few years back. What people did was organize themselves, skip using the wortheless currency at all, and started bartering their goods and services.
They did not run for their guns, their ran for their phones, called their friends and organized friendly bartering markets.
You guys in the US, sometimes are really scary.
The world's food production is at its highest ever.
You are not only intellectually incompetent but also a poorly informed.
By demanding protectionist measures you are hurting the people you intend to protect.
History is littered with examples of people acting in good faith but commiting major blunders.
I could list numerous countries that descended into poverty by supporting misguided protectionist measures. If you want to add the US to that list feel free, the rest of the world can sit down and watch the show.
.... but you don't need to be a programmer to be an effective leader of a software project.
And you know it.
/. readership sometimes seems to feel they are entilted to work in IT no matter what and irrespective of the economic realities of the day.
There are plenty of well paid jobs out there, but the US
If we were living 100 years or so ago most people here would be decrying the downfall of the jobs of people related to the horse carriage industry and how all those skills were being migrated to Mongolia or the Argentinian Pampas.
.... every time such idiotic comments show up.
/.ers are worried about, unless most of you sew soccer balls for Adidas or put together sneakers or trainers for Nike).
The countries you are whining about have some of the most pro-worker, pro-union legislation in the world (at least in the areas where more
Your massively uninformed idea that workers have no rights in places like India of China is laughable.
When people are found in those countries in poor conditions it is against the law and the respective union will make a big stink that has political consequences (check for riots in China, you'll be surprised).
In the US you get a pink slip if I understand correctly and very often you don't have time to say goodby to your colleagues. Such practice is considered anathema in many places that are benefitting from outsourcing.
Now go ahead and apply tariffs.
And see how prices of the goods you use everyday begin to climb.
You like inflatonary spirals? As somebody that has lived in a country with 150% inflation rate I can tell you they are a lot of fun, but ultimately devastate your economy (my country spoused the same protectionist ideas for many years, that brought only poverty and destitution, but you are very welcome to find out by your own stubborn, uninformed, self).
Guys, you are rely tiring.
/.ers refuse to accept opinions of most experts in the field as well as most credible statistics (per capita income is noe of the higest in the world, unemployment in the US is extremely low), well, nobody can do much about somebody that just has decided not to listen to the ovewhelming evidence.
It seems that you "think" with only one half of your brain and avoid at all costs to engage the other.
When jobs are moved to a place where they can be done for a lower wage, the economy of the US benefits.
The resources that US companies no longer have to allocate for wages go towards other purposes beneficial to the US economy (more taxes, rising share prices which benefit pension funds in the US, reinvestment for modernization of the company, etc), also those people employed now elsewhere will demand goods and services. US companies will have now new markets to compete in. The US also benefits by now receiving cheaper services, those people saving money can spend it in other stuff.
All the above generates jobs in the US. It is plain to see for anybody engaging both halfs of his brain, not only the protectionist, isolationist one.
But if US