.... speak more than una language and have travelled to other countries. They did not murdered Sikhs thinking that they were associates to OSama bin Laden because they knew the difference.
Many have worked abroad.
I think they are a multinational human beings.
While Europe and East Asia look for better ways to organize themselves the US can't sign a free trade agreement with the mighty powers of Central America and has many common traits with parngons of decendy and democracy like Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights.
Guys, if you don't have it in you to take advantage at a personal level of globalization then move aside and let the ones of us who know how to do it become prosperous.
Keep electing religious nuts that happen to be oil barons and you may miss this trend, which if you are unlucky may signal the end of your era.
Compaines in Europe can cover 24x7 *every day* if necessary simply by using shifts, incentives and compensations. Oh yea, being light years ahead of the US in broadband and cheap public transportation also helps.
I have never worked more than 40 hours in a week for 6 years but I am part of a team that provides 24x7 coverage.
And my 5 weeks of holiday per year have never been denied to me.
Maybe, just maybe, EU companies have one or two tricks that US companies could learn in regards to organization?
Not everyone is going to be unemployed or "barely making a living" in the US.
Many people in the US will benefit from lower prices and thus money will be freed to spend in other things creating new industries (all the programming jobs, SAs, DBAs, software Engineeres, etc. were created from the ashes of the ld manufacturing industry, and thos in turn were bron from the demise of agriculture).
Europeans are as productive as USians, there are many looking forward companies (Nokia, Siemens, Vodafone, Ferrari) and guess what, they are not killing themselves to achieve it.
When people in Europe hear about people in the US putting weeks of 70,80 or more hours a week understandably they roll their eyes and pity the poor sods.
ANd don't bring the startup excuse, very often used by "capitalists". If a startup does not have enough resoruces to do its work without enslaving people then not enough capital was raised, the business model and working practices were not planned properly, or the product or service was not great after all.
There is no excuse to demand from people to throw their life away for the very dubious honour of being in the edge.
Albert Einstein was on the edge and he was a very laid back person. WOrk intelligenlty, not hard.
If IBM is saving money, that money gets reallocated somewhere.
That may be more investment, better dividends, savings, or a combination of all.
All these generate jobs. All of them.
The money that was being wasted paying overpriced technicians will be reallocated increasing the eficiency of the economy where IBM is based (last time I checked that is the US).
I am tired of people whinning when companies do what they do best: allocating efficently resources.
US people have one of the higest standard of living in the world (even the poor people, that live immensily better than poor people in poor countries) but keep whining about "their" jobs.
Jobs are like air or sunlight: they are avialable in nature but are not the birtright of anybody in particular.
Honestly, if you are going to argument about something at least have the good maners to check for consistency.
Unemployment in India and China is vastly greater than in the US and Western Europe. Heck, there are people dying of prventable deceases in India and China, so jump off that bandwagon, The situation is so bad that Western companies can pay peanuts highly trained professionals over there because there are many willing to earn peanuts (by western standards) to do a highly qualified job.
SO let that one rest, people in Inida and China are not better of tha USians or Western Europeans. To even pretend that is a vulgar lie.
Your view of shareholders is cavalier to say the least, specially for somebody that seemed so worried about employment just a few paragraphs before.
Shareholders bet, with their money, in the success of a company. That money is what allows people to take a wage back home. Without shareholders there would not be jobs. It is that simple.
If you prefer to abolish or curtail shareholders then you would be better off advocating for other economic systems. After seeing the results of other economic experiments last century you better come with something very original, otherwise you and your marxist (ingorant marxist mind you) ilk will be sent back to where they belong: the scrapheap of failed ideas.
Assuming you can go by with 10000 a year you either are dreaming schemes in which you get outlandish interest rates or you are planing to jump from a bridge aged 43.
No wait, you are jumping from that bridge tomorrow and paying your only son's college education in advance.
You would have to be living in a cardboard house eating boiled rice only for the rest of your life for that money to provide as much as you claim. Even in a poor country.
If the goverment takes away your property to give it to a big generator of revenue now they have the legal backing to do so. You using your guns (do you solve everything with guns guys?) would be illegal and your ass will be put on jail.
But lets say that you defend your land with violence, you would have the police, and if you are really a wacko, the military, in no time, camping in your front porsche, you would be disposed off quickly, and your property taken.
This idiotic idea that bearing arms gurantess your freedoms is the biggest nonsense (it is the USian equivalent of Mao's littel red book I suposse) because it ignores a little detail: an individual against the goverment is powerless.
Sorry guys, but some people simple don;t enojoy those activities and I don;t see why they should be kind of compulsory.
Also in some countries outdoors activites are severily limited for many different factors, not every country has suitible places for all the adventurous outdoors activites you are suggesting.
They are suppossed to represent goverments which in turn represent citizens.
The should be evaluating what is the best for the prosperity and good governance of the citizens of the EU, no who benefits amongst sofware companies, FLOSS proponents or any other *interested* party.
In Communist societies there is not such a thing as Copyright.
We can debate if this is is good or bad, but it certainly is not a feature of communist countries.
FLOSS has both feet frimly planted in copyright priciples. In capitalistic societies people organize themselves in many different ways to increase the wealth of society. Cooperatives come to mind for example.
I wish people would stop taggin FLOSS with the communist moniker, it is not only innacurate and shows a total lack of understanding of copyright issues, but also it is bad PR, that is if you are singing FLOSS prizes that his.
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And as history has shown owns when everyone is responsible for everything then nobody cares anymore.
Thousends of years of history, trial and error and there are still people ejaculating such idiocies.
There is no hope....
.... speak more than una language and have travelled to other countries. They did not murdered Sikhs thinking that they were associates to OSama bin Laden because they knew the difference.
Many have worked abroad.
I think they are a multinational human beings.
While Europe and East Asia look for better ways to organize themselves the US can't sign a free trade agreement with the mighty powers of Central America and has many common traits with parngons of decendy and democracy like Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights.
Guys, if you don't have it in you to take advantage at a personal level of globalization then move aside and let the ones of us who know how to do it become prosperous.
Keep electing religious nuts that happen to be oil barons and you may miss this trend, which if you are unlucky may signal the end of your era.
If you really believe that, you have no redemption of any kind.
For goodness sakes, lets ask IBM to give people IBM's money and get done with it then.
What a dumbo.
And is a complete disgrace that it gets rated up.
Compaines in Europe can cover 24x7 *every day* if necessary simply by using shifts, incentives and compensations. Oh yea, being light years ahead of the US in broadband and cheap public transportation also helps.
I have never worked more than 40 hours in a week for 6 years but I am part of a team that provides 24x7 coverage.
And my 5 weeks of holiday per year have never been denied to me.
Maybe, just maybe, EU companies have one or two tricks that US companies could learn in regards to organization?
... don't expect an answer.
Not everyone is going to be unemployed or "barely making a living" in the US.
Many people in the US will benefit from lower prices and thus money will be freed to spend in other things creating new industries (all the programming jobs, SAs, DBAs, software Engineeres, etc. were created from the ashes of the ld manufacturing industry, and thos in turn were bron from the demise of agriculture).
Europeans are as productive as USians, there are many looking forward companies (Nokia, Siemens, Vodafone, Ferrari) and guess what, they are not killing themselves to achieve it.
When people in Europe hear about people in the US putting weeks of 70,80 or more hours a week understandably they roll their eyes and pity the poor sods.
ANd don't bring the startup excuse, very often used by "capitalists". If a startup does not have enough resoruces to do its work without enslaving people then not enough capital was raised, the business model and working practices were not planned properly, or the product or service was not great after all.
There is no excuse to demand from people to throw their life away for the very dubious honour of being in the edge.
Albert Einstein was on the edge and he was a very laid back person. WOrk intelligenlty, not hard.
What made China and India poor, their enormous populations, is now an asset.
What made ths US desirable for so many people, its better level of life, is not a competitive disavantage.
The circumstances change, the ones that use them better thrive, but those same people may miss the next big thing.
... of laptops and other computer goods.
Beccaus markets become more efficient. And Indians that may have never dreamt about buying such things may now aspire to buy them.
But lets not reality intrude in your protectionist dream....
If IBM is saving money, that money gets reallocated somewhere.
That may be more investment, better dividends, savings, or a combination of all.
All these generate jobs. All of them.
The money that was being wasted paying overpriced technicians will be reallocated increasing the eficiency of the economy where IBM is based (last time I checked that is the US).
I am tired of people whinning when companies do what they do best: allocating efficently resources.
US people have one of the higest standard of living in the world (even the poor people, that live immensily better than poor people in poor countries) but keep whining about "their" jobs.
Jobs are like air or sunlight: they are avialable in nature but are not the birtright of anybody in particular.
What a load of tosh.
Honestly, if you are going to argument about something at least have the good maners to check for consistency.
Unemployment in India and China is vastly greater than in the US and Western Europe. Heck, there are people dying of prventable deceases in India and China, so jump off that bandwagon, The situation is so bad that Western companies can pay peanuts highly trained professionals over there because there are many willing to earn peanuts (by western standards) to do a highly qualified job.
SO let that one rest, people in Inida and China are not better of tha USians or Western Europeans. To even pretend that is a vulgar lie.
Your view of shareholders is cavalier to say the least, specially for somebody that seemed so worried about employment just a few paragraphs before.
Shareholders bet, with their money, in the success of a company. That money is what allows people to take a wage back home. Without shareholders there would not be jobs. It is that simple.
If you prefer to abolish or curtail shareholders then you would be better off advocating for other economic systems. After seeing the results of other economic experiments last century you better come with something very original, otherwise you and your marxist (ingorant marxist mind you) ilk will be sent back to where they belong: the scrapheap of failed ideas.
Assuming you can go by with 10000 a year you either are dreaming schemes in which you get outlandish interest rates or you are planing to jump from a bridge aged 43.
No wait, you are jumping from that bridge tomorrow and paying your only son's college education in advance.
You would have to be living in a cardboard house eating boiled rice only for the rest of your life for that money to provide as much as you claim. Even in a poor country.
If the goverment takes away your property to give it to a big generator of revenue now they have the legal backing to do so. You using your guns (do you solve everything with guns guys?) would be illegal and your ass will be put on jail.
But lets say that you defend your land with violence, you would have the police, and if you are really a wacko, the military, in no time, camping in your front porsche, you would be disposed off quickly, and your property taken.
This idiotic idea that bearing arms gurantess your freedoms is the biggest nonsense (it is the USian equivalent of Mao's littel red book I suposse) because it ignores a little detail: an individual against the goverment is powerless.
And what about if I don;t like the outdoors?
Sorry guys, but some people simple don;t enojoy those activities and I don;t see why they should be kind of compulsory.
Also in some countries outdoors activites are severily limited for many different factors, not every country has suitible places for all the adventurous outdoors activites you are suggesting.
In the Vatican City> In Dharmasals?
Are you the pope? The Dalai Lama?
Given same quality people will buy the cheapest.
The burgeoing black market of non "official" stuff attests to that.
The bubble burst for the oportunists.
For people with preparation all carried out pretty much as usual.
When we hire somebody we need that person to start working.
... gime me a fluffy break.
We are not an academy.
Neither are a group of cheerleaders.
Enthusiastic.... who cares about the skills
.... you are not a Comp Sci PhD ....
The Dark Side of the force win should not.
Well, not companies or NGOs.
They are suppossed to represent goverments which in turn represent citizens.
The should be evaluating what is the best for the prosperity and good governance of the citizens of the EU, no who benefits amongst sofware companies, FLOSS proponents or any other *interested* party.
... is so poor that begs disbelief.
Honestly think about what you wrote, it is a pile of nonsense: any invention will be based in stuff that exists already.
So they are adding value to the software.
And they want to charge for it, the bastards.
Sorry, I am stupid, why I am asking?
In Communist societies there is not such a thing as Copyright.
We can debate if this is is good or bad, but it certainly is not a feature of communist countries.
FLOSS has both feet frimly planted in copyright priciples. In capitalistic societies people organize themselves in many different ways to increase the wealth of society. Cooperatives come to mind for example.
I wish people would stop taggin FLOSS with the communist moniker, it is not only innacurate and shows a total lack of understanding of copyright issues, but also it is bad PR, that is if you are singing FLOSS prizes that his.
You can't probe it.
You could said the opossite and still could not probe it.
.... you know that Linux is a kernel and that KDE is an application layer program. Right?
Linux is the way to go as explained earlier, but Qtopia may not be the best UI.
THe problem we have here is one of UI design, which can be solved easily given the Linux/UNIX philosophy of modularization.
The moment somebody comes with a better UI than Qtopia's then Qtopia's is binned.