... as soon as she mentions that the Swedish band cost peanuts in comparison with the alternatives, you will immediately agree without any more complaints.
Not that your analogy holds any water, economic imperatives do not have morals and impose its reality on dumb goverments that try their hand at protectionism.
One can smell the cluelesness of youthfull thinking in your post.
To work more to be exploited? A company is not doing you a favour when they employ you sonny, it is a contract of mutual covenience and it will only take a couple of "downsizings" to drill in your skull that you should look for your best interests and not to unsettle established giants with kick-ass products.
Companies that manage to upset giants do it mostly for being in the right place at the right time (i.e. they got lucky), not necessarily for any forward thinking or sweat-shop mentalitly.
Lets say you mandate that US or EU (or whatever your locality is) based companies do not outsource or outsourcing becomes tightly regulated.
If the costs are cheaper elsewhere the companies may find compelling to move operations abroad, thus the original country would lose both the employments places, tax revenue, etc.
The original country may raise tariffs against the products of the prodigal company, but in some situations it may still be cost effective for a company to pack shop and move elsewhere.
Many countries tried these protectionist policies and the only think that happened is that a local industry stagnated unable to compete with foreign producers and hypersensitive to the smallest of competitions of any kind.
Isolation and regulation will not solve any problem, an strong social security network may mitigate the personal consequences of international trade.
... once Indian work becomes too expensive a magic wall will stop cheap UK and US workers providing those same services.
Smell the coffee folks, what may be working against you now may be your blessing in the future.
Global markets and competition are here to stay. You either get used to it and act in consequence or will be left behind with your unemplyment benefits.
I have a career, surely making most dosh than more.
I have a home, yesterday I did gardening, painted a new door and cared for my bonsai tree (which need more watering today).
I have a wife, thanks, we spent all morning together today and we have a couple of concerts (the PROMS, including the last night if you care to google) this week. The couple of movies we watched last week (Desperado, I robot) where time nicely spent, followed by dinner in nice restaurants. Turkish and Spanish cuisines this time.
My skills outside the world of PC: Hablo espa&ol, und ein bissien Deutsch et un peu francais. Oh yes, and I play piano, I am currently practicing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. And I play chess. Er, I am a qualified first aider.
Oh jolly! I am damned! I build my own PCs and spend many hours of my free time doing Linux stuff as a hobby.
Just because you lack organizational skills to enjoy your life, or beacuse you guess others lack them, does not mean you are quite right as you obviously think you are in regards of your stereotypical view of the geek.
Nuclear reactor in places like the UK are closing because they are not aconomically viable.
That is the little dirty secret that the nuclear fan boys will not admit but thankfuly economic reality will eventualy level heads.
You should ask why nuclear energy is only popular in countries who borrow heavily and with deficits on the increase. Fiscally responsible countries avoid nuclear ike the pset it is.
It is always sad to see an articulate person make the case for something that has no hope.
Lets carefully debunk such nice diatribe:
the antinuclear crowd doesn't seem to understand how advanced nuclear technology is today
Yeah, all the people with issues against nuclear energy are uneducated idiots. Nice start with a blanket generalization.
do antinuclear types like the alternative? middle east conflicts fueled by oil prices? air pollution and smog?
Of course not, but you are advocating to go for second worst solution at best.
and of course, the "just use less energy" crowd: when you figure out how to tell people to stop using gas and nuclear and start riding bikes, get back to me
That is nonsense.
Honestly, you could do better.
The countries that use fossil fuel do so mostly for their cars and their industry. In those fronts there are many things that could be done: get off your fsckin SUVs! Honestly, you don't need them. Use all that US ingenuity to buy European or Japanese cars that are more efficent, or cpy them, they will not mind. Oh no, sorry, I am infringing in the God's given right of the US people to use 1km/litre of petrol. Sorry, my bad. And what about insulation in USian homes? No sorry, my bad again, you need to use either heating or air cooling equipment 24x7 to keep Polar temperatures in your humble abodes. My bad again. But surely you heat your water with solar energy! I mean in other countries goverments subsidize solar powered water heating? No? Sorry my bad again.
Silly me thinking that pharaonic prestige projects could be replaced by common sense measures. Oh yes, and riding bycicles in many instances would be a reasonable solution (most car trips are completely unnecessary). Lets not talk about public transport. In the US Public=Communism and we know where that leads.
meanwhile, i applaud the chinese, they see the writing on the wall: an overactive economy, demanding more and more gas and coal, and skyhigh oil prices and a volatile middle east... for the chinese, a pebble bed reactor commitment is a no-brainer
Lets see if you keep clapping when a nuclear accident is detected in the West and we see in our TVs the Chinese goverment acknowledging the problem hours or even days after the disaster. Like SARS. If there was a goverment I would not like using nuclear energy is a secretive, unnacountable, one. And surely, China, a country with no environmental controls will dispose of all that waste in a responsible manner.
but of course, simple fear of the unknown and ignorance of simple tech means the us will be left dependent on volatile undependable oil and gas and coal, while the chinese enjoy a safe, stable, cheap energy source,
What about mistrust of the coporations and institutions handling nuclear power? DO you trust them? Great, I would like to see how you react if one reactor wold be in close proximity to where you live.
And of course there is no terrorism concerns regarding attacks to the reactors or nuclear waste finding its way in the worng hands. If nuclear becomes widespread the system will break somewhere, and you will not be there to fix the problem, too busy clapping for the Chinese.
this is not silkwood or the china syndrome folks, the stakes are accutely high in today's world: adjust your antinuclear opinion appropriately please
Yeah, great, trust the same idiots that got us in the fossil fuel mess to now deliver nuclear,
Thanks for the great idea.
The solution is in our hands, we have to reduce consumption and we have to make choices that will force the people in positions of power to consider other alternatives. Your are suggesting to jump from bad to worst without trying to change habits from both people (consume less) and goverments (pharaonic pet projects don't scale, people sometimes have to be coherced in a certain direction) solves nothing. We are facing a real problem that demands real solutions: we need to adjust power consumptions to renewable means that do not damage the environment or people.
It is well documented how in several companies in both the US and UK corners have been cut in order to save money and as a consequence safety has been compromised.
Mindless nuclear advocates want us to believe that all the companies and institutions handling the nuclear industry are trustworthy when in reality they are not. Unfortunately the nuclear lobby (and for the population at large) we will need one"I told you so" scenario before nuclear energy is condemned to where it bleongs, almost great but no usable.
Now, if you are going to put your hands in the fire for the corporations managing these reactors you are more foolish than what it seemed.
Now tell me how do we ensure that your method is constrained to the territorial waters of the pollutant country.
Oh no shit Batman, do you mean countries that don't pollute will have to share any risks of nuclear waste as you propose, in spite of them not polluting?
Great solution that of yours...
Are you calling the Irish goverment....
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... environmentalist wackos?
That is a new one....
Great, the first of the mindless nuclear fanboys..
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Surely China, the country that kept quiet about the SARS epidemic, that does not care to destroy full ecosystems to build more damns (whose usefulness is being seriously questioned, specially in the pharanoic proportions the Chinese are building) and that does missile testings by sending a few rockets close to Taiwan shores is the best country to shows us the way to go nuclear.
It is mindbogling unbelievable that somebody would post such drivel with a straight face.
Waiting to discover alien life to change your ways is the greatest lame excuse to do nothing at all about it.
In regard to all humans dropping their differences in brotherly love once they realize the threat posed by an alien civilization, er, yeah sure MR Hippy.
I can almost see it: the different religious leaders lobbing the new masters to favour their own fairy-tales, each political group doing the same.
You obviously know very little about human history. What are you? An alien?
If you had the bad luck to have been thought by lazy sociopaths you have our deepest simpathy but not necessarliy our support in your derogatory blanket generalizations.
Many of the advances in computer sciences that have made life easier for many people in the IT industries come from people in the academic field.
Obviously you don't understand the demands of a teaching position. You have to prepare tha class, grade the students, keep up to date in the cutting edge and then deal with complete idiots that believe they know it all because have a bit of working experience when in reality lack the most fundamental foundations in computing.
But of course since you seem to be such a brilliant star in the IT firmament, surely have a better solution to the time tested teaching system followed in most places around the world which will free the brightest minds in our classrooms from the tyranny of the teachers.
Why should the young listen respectfully, why age, experience and insight should be held on any respect whatsoever if the youngs minds will lead ud to an era of prosperity, abundancy and progress. Like they did during the dot com era for example.
And how do you document complex interactions in complex projects needing tens or even hundreds of programmers?
Post-it notes and badly written pseudo-code?
Software is complex (testament to it is how we accept with buggy sofware that is normally just good enough to fullfil its purpose) and any pretense on the contrary is wholly clueless and uninformed.
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... as soon as she mentions that the Swedish band cost peanuts in comparison with the alternatives, you will immediately agree without any more complaints.
Not that your analogy holds any water, economic imperatives do not have morals and impose its reality on dumb goverments that try their hand at protectionism.
I went for half an hour walk, and watched my 9 year old TV.
Needless to say I can save quite a bit each month.
Check this please Productivity measures in the OECD countries.
You may produce the most, consume the most, but you are certainly not the most productive country.
Europeans will fund defense, not imperial adventures.
Real defense is immensily cheaper than arbitrary "nation building".
One can smell the cluelesness of youthfull thinking in your post.
To work more to be exploited? A company is not doing you a favour when they employ you sonny, it is a contract of mutual covenience and it will only take a couple of "downsizings" to drill in your skull that you should look for your best interests and not to unsettle established giants with kick-ass products.
Companies that manage to upset giants do it mostly for being in the right place at the right time (i.e. they got lucky), not necessarily for any forward thinking or sweat-shop mentalitly.
"The main characters were believable"
Maybe you are gullible?
"the time travel was done well,"
You must be Dr Who I suppose.
"the bad guys were really evil"
No suprises there, as with most SF writing the characters are unidimensional.
Lets say you mandate that US or EU (or whatever your locality is) based companies do not outsource or outsourcing becomes tightly regulated.
If the costs are cheaper elsewhere the companies may find compelling to move operations abroad, thus the original country would lose both the employments places, tax revenue, etc.
The original country may raise tariffs against the products of the prodigal company, but in some situations it may still be cost effective for a company to pack shop and move elsewhere.
Many countries tried these protectionist policies and the only think that happened is that a local industry stagnated unable to compete with foreign producers and hypersensitive to the smallest of competitions of any kind.
Isolation and regulation will not solve any problem, an strong social security network may mitigate the personal consequences of international trade.
... once Indian work becomes too expensive a magic wall will stop cheap UK and US workers providing those same services.
Smell the coffee folks, what may be working against you now may be your blessing in the future.
Global markets and competition are here to stay. You either get used to it and act in consequence or will be left behind with your unemplyment benefits.
That money can be put to better use in other areas in a company.
/. seem to be Stalinists.
I thought that was self evident, but many people here in
I have a career, surely making most dosh than more.
I have a home, yesterday I did gardening, painted a new door and cared for my bonsai tree (which need more watering today).
I have a wife, thanks, we spent all morning together today and we have a couple of concerts (the PROMS, including the last night if you care to google) this week. The couple of movies we watched last week (Desperado, I robot) where time nicely spent, followed by dinner in nice restaurants. Turkish and Spanish cuisines this time.
My skills outside the world of PC: Hablo espa&ol, und ein bissien Deutsch et un peu francais. Oh yes, and I play piano, I am currently practicing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. And I play chess. Er, I am a qualified first aider.
Oh jolly! I am damned! I build my own PCs and spend many hours of my free time doing Linux stuff as a hobby.
Just because you lack organizational skills to enjoy your life, or beacuse you guess others lack them, does not mean you are quite right as you obviously think you are in regards of your stereotypical view of the geek.
Nuclear reactor in places like the UK are closing because they are not aconomically viable.
That is the little dirty secret that the nuclear fan boys will not admit but thankfuly economic reality will eventualy level heads.
You should ask why nuclear energy is only popular in countries who borrow heavily and with deficits on the increase. Fiscally responsible countries avoid nuclear ike the pset it is.
It is always sad to see an articulate person make the case for something that has no hope.
Lets carefully debunk such nice diatribe:
the antinuclear crowd doesn't seem to understand how advanced nuclear technology is today
Yeah, all the people with issues against nuclear energy are uneducated idiots. Nice start with a blanket generalization.
do antinuclear types like the alternative? middle east conflicts fueled by oil prices? air pollution and smog?
Of course not, but you are advocating to go for second worst solution at best.
and of course, the "just use less energy" crowd: when you figure out how to tell people to stop using gas and nuclear and start riding bikes, get back to me
That is nonsense.
Honestly, you could do better.
The countries that use fossil fuel do so mostly for their cars and their industry. In those fronts there are many things that could be done: get off your fsckin SUVs! Honestly, you don't need them. Use all that US ingenuity to buy European or Japanese cars that are more efficent, or cpy them, they will not mind. Oh no, sorry, I am infringing in the God's given right of the US people to use 1km/litre of petrol. Sorry, my bad. And what about insulation in USian homes? No sorry, my bad again, you need to use either heating or air cooling equipment 24x7 to keep Polar temperatures in your humble abodes. My bad again. But surely you heat your water with solar energy! I mean in other countries goverments subsidize solar powered water heating? No? Sorry my bad again.
Silly me thinking that pharaonic prestige projects could be replaced by common sense measures. Oh yes, and riding bycicles in many instances would be a reasonable solution (most car trips are completely unnecessary). Lets not talk about public transport. In the US Public=Communism and we know where that leads.
meanwhile, i applaud the chinese, they see the writing on the wall: an overactive economy, demanding more and more gas and coal, and skyhigh oil prices and a volatile middle east... for the chinese, a pebble bed reactor commitment is a no-brainer
Lets see if you keep clapping when a nuclear accident is detected in the West and we see in our TVs the Chinese goverment acknowledging the problem hours or even days after the disaster. Like SARS. If there was a goverment I would not like using nuclear energy is a secretive, unnacountable, one. And surely, China, a country with no environmental controls will dispose of all that waste in a responsible manner.
but of course, simple fear of the unknown and ignorance of simple tech means the us will be left dependent on volatile undependable oil and gas and coal, while the chinese enjoy a safe, stable, cheap energy source,
What about mistrust of the coporations and institutions handling nuclear power? DO you trust them? Great, I would like to see how you react if one reactor wold be in close proximity to where you live.
And of course there is no terrorism concerns regarding attacks to the reactors or nuclear waste finding its way in the worng hands. If nuclear becomes widespread the system will break somewhere, and you will not be there to fix the problem, too busy clapping for the Chinese.
this is not silkwood or the china syndrome folks, the stakes are accutely high in today's world: adjust your antinuclear opinion appropriately please
Yeah, great, trust the same idiots that got us in the fossil fuel mess to now deliver nuclear,
Thanks for the great idea.
The solution is in our hands, we have to reduce consumption and we have to make choices that will force the people in positions of power to consider other alternatives. Your are suggesting to jump from bad to worst without trying to change habits from both people (consume less) and goverments (pharaonic pet projects don't scale, people sometimes have to be coherced in a certain direction) solves nothing. We are facing a real problem that demands real solutions: we need to adjust power consumptions to renewable means that do not damage the environment or people.
It is well documented how in several companies in both the US and UK corners have been cut in order to save money and as a consequence safety has been compromised.
Mindless nuclear advocates want us to believe that all the companies and institutions handling the nuclear industry are trustworthy when in reality they are not. Unfortunately the nuclear lobby (and for the population at large) we will need one"I told you so" scenario before nuclear energy is condemned to where it bleongs, almost great but no usable.
Now, if you are going to put your hands in the fire for the corporations managing these reactors you are more foolish than what it seemed.
Now tell me how do we ensure that your method is constrained to the territorial waters of the pollutant country.
Oh no shit Batman, do you mean countries that don't pollute will have to share any risks of nuclear waste as you propose, in spite of them not polluting?
Great solution that of yours...
... environmentalist wackos?
That is a new one....
Surely China, the country that kept quiet about the SARS epidemic, that does not care to destroy full ecosystems to build more damns (whose usefulness is being seriously questioned, specially in the pharanoic proportions the Chinese are building) and that does missile testings by sending a few rockets close to Taiwan shores is the best country to shows us the way to go nuclear.
It is mindbogling unbelievable that somebody would post such drivel with a straight face.
He is carrying already too much dosh for the good of his soul and we don't want to lumber him with more than he can handle.
Use a Win emulator in Linux, there are several very good out there that allow you to use your cranky copy of W98 if you need to do so.
No reason to shell out more money for the guys in Redmond.
You wanna play games? Get a PS2, a Gamecube or a GBA. They are cheaper than a full version of Windows XP.
Waiting to discover alien life to change your ways is the greatest lame excuse to do nothing at all about it.
In regard to all humans dropping their differences in brotherly love once they realize the threat posed by an alien civilization, er, yeah sure MR Hippy.
I can almost see it: the different religious leaders lobbing the new masters to favour their own fairy-tales, each political group doing the same.
You obviously know very little about human history. What are you? An alien?
But SETI is not attempting to make us dicoverable.
It is trying to dicover others.
And in any case our radio and TV signals are already travelling at the speed of light in outer space. No way to stop that at all.
All our radio and TV broadcasts are travelling at the speed of light already. No way to put a lid onto that, so better keep watching.
... for the first few scenes of boradcast TV, most likely to contain endless stuff about Der Fhurer.
"I was following orders"... or something like that I can't remember at the moment.
If you had the bad luck to have been thought by lazy sociopaths you have our deepest simpathy but not necessarliy our support in your derogatory blanket generalizations.
Many of the advances in computer sciences that have made life easier for many people in the IT industries come from people in the academic field.
Obviously you don't understand the demands of a teaching position. You have to prepare tha class, grade the students, keep up to date in the cutting edge and then deal with complete idiots that believe they know it all because have a bit of working experience when in reality lack the most fundamental foundations in computing.
But of course since you seem to be such a brilliant star in the IT firmament, surely have a better solution to the time tested teaching system followed in most places around the world which will free the brightest minds in our classrooms from the tyranny of the teachers.
Why should the young listen respectfully, why age, experience and insight should be held on any respect whatsoever if the youngs minds will lead ud to an era of prosperity, abundancy and progress. Like they did during the dot com era for example.
And how do you document complex interactions in complex projects needing tens or even hundreds of programmers?
Post-it notes and badly written pseudo-code?
Software is complex (testament to it is how we accept with buggy sofware that is normally just good enough to fullfil its purpose) and any pretense on the contrary is wholly clueless and uninformed.
Common moderators, this is completely off topic...