Most people do not R.T.F.A., but now we have a new breed that have an imaginary monoloogue on their heads and come to post it in/. without reading the posts.
People will get tired of cheap uniformity. If she can provide clothes with an advantage over the cheap imports (nicer, make to measure, etc) for reasonbale prices she may get on with that.
I believe that in rich countries the only way forward is taking capitalism to its final consequences: you become the company, you are in the world all for yourself.
Once upon a time Japanese (and the Korean) stuff was deemed to be the cheapest and crapiest stuff around.
Now for high tech gadgetery these places are second to none and quality of some of these companies (Sony comes to mind) is the standard against which others are measured.
Fomr all those cheap $50 VCRs one or two brands will be good enough in order to justify the risk.
Look at DVD players, not they are given away as promotional tokens when you buy something else. Just 3 years ago the cheapest one was in the region of 300 or 400.
Cheapest is eventually good enough, not necessarily better, but good enough.
... and then fuck up so completely that is not funny. But hey, it was as an AC, so I guess you did it for the laugh value.
What the hell does this have to do with Open Source?
Outsourcing is a commrcial decision made by commericial, mostly closed source, software companies or by companies doing software development in-house.
Your FUDish attempt to imply that somehow Open Source is reponsible for economic pressures (of which OS is just one of many factors) that make companies outsource jobs to cheaper places is frankly laughable but wirthy of pointing out, either for the trolling value or for the sheer stupidity of such utterance.
Thre you will meet people that are doing away with their cars because it is a bloddy nuisance to have one.
Of course they have safe cycle lines, efficient public transpot that works reliably following time tables and efficient inter-city rail links.
In the UK, before the current goverment went cold on transport policy due to overhyped train accidents, people using the rail was growing steadily for several years.
It is a falacy that poeple stop using their car only if they are forced to, when there are credible alternatives people leave gladly their car behind because public transport frings a human face face to transportation.
You should now work out how the Aztec Empire benefitted or otherwise the US (500+ years ago) or perhaps pass judgement in the Roman Empire or pharaonic Egypt in the building of the glorious US of A.
Lack of research in one area does not mean widespread research in anothere is invalid.
C02 must be contained, but certainly excessive H2O emissions should be studied, specially in view that the hydrogen fuell cells are being hailed by many as the environment saviors.
And even "smaller" countries like Mexico (9th economy in the world btw)?
Stop looking for excuses, there is a worldwide consensus tha the war was unnecessary, stop nitpicking.
Practically every country but the US and the UK were against the war, and just before the conflict only in the US the population was in favour of it. After the conflict only US and UK can come forward with pools showing any kind of popular approval...
... to dictate who should be depossed or who should be governing in any given country?
Apart from "the brutest and mightiest country in world" I find no other justification.
France has been an ally of the US, including the first Gulf War, but international opposition , including US NAFTA partners, Canada an Mexico, was widespread given the flimsy excuse used for the war (the WMDs fiasco).
The US goverment has managed to convince the US populace that this was in reality about the US removing a dictator out of the goodness of their allAmerican hearts, and when that began to go all nasty, it became all of the sudden part of the hazzy, unwinnable, "war on terror".
How some people still see France so negatively when your closest economic allies (China, Mexico, Canada) are telling you you are full of shit is beyond me.
I find many atheist have this cloying supuriority complex As oppossed to Christians that believe they are so superior they send misionaries to other places to rubish other people's beliefs, in some circumstances to the total anhihilation of the local culture. Or Muslims that when a non muslim marries them you are forced to convert.
If you choose not beleive in soemthign it doesn't make you any better
As opossed to religious people I supposse, which surely think they are worst people for being religious. Of course many atheistic people believe they are better, but that is a human condition and not the exclusive preserve of the atheists.
Statistically devote religious people tend to be happier, live slightly longer, and have a better sense of community than others.
I hope you can share your objective measure of happiness with us, it would be also highly entertaining to see how a sense of community is measured and quantified.
Also prayer and meditation can be useful tools in treatment of certain diseases. For instance cancer patients do better if they have a positive outlook and organized religion helps provide support and a generally more positive outlook
Organized religion may be helpful for religious people, for a non believer it means squat, i.e. organized religion means nothing for itself.
Even if you completly ignore all the promises of this or that there is real tangible benifits to faith.
No there are none, I have seen none, I have experienced none, the perceived benefits by religious people has to do more with their preconceptions during positive outcomes and artificially linking that to faith or prayer.
For millenia people believed and prayed and in spite of this the plague and many other diseases decimated (literally) full populations.
It was not until humans began to attack problems of public health by using reason and the scientific methodology that todays high standards of health have been achieved.
It is quite telling how religious people ignore this history of failure of faith but nevertheless push this agenda about "faith heals" with a few freak cases in a background of science guaranteed good health for most.
Our good general wellbeing is thanks to our efforts and the use of our brain, not thanks to prayer and faith in entities that may or may not exist but that did very little to deliver us from pain and suffering accross the millenia.
We lack perspective when it comes to popular culture.
Will Shrek remembered in 100 years? My take: no. Reasons? Pretty much the ones given by the initial poster.
Just look back at music, movies and TV from before the 50s. We are just begining to discern what was momentous and what was a fad. The more time passes the Beattles look hugher and Elvis seems like Elvis.
The Matrix momentous? Meybe, but the kinks are beginning to show in the aromour, in the other hand a far less pretentious filem like Alien is gaining more recognition.
So sit down 50 or 60 years, relax and enjoy the show, most stuff is worthless fast-food culture, yummy but dammaging for your cultural helath.
Those Enron executives where dashing fashion examples. And Darl's (yes, that Darl, you know you have achieved stardom when you are talked about by your first name) casual look shows how important is to pay attention to looks, not capacity.
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... but in the hope to keep them on the US and deriving riches for the University or Private companies sponsoring research in the process.
So do not try to make a good deal for both partslook as a onesided one in which only one part benefitted, this could not be further from the truth.
Most people do not R.T.F.A., but now we have a new breed that have an imaginary monoloogue on their heads and come to post it in /. without reading the posts.
Weird.
.... I hope you are retraining and get used to the nuisance of real capitalism, not the rosy version you have lived for far too long.
People will get tired of cheap uniformity. If she can provide clothes with an advantage over the cheap imports (nicer, make to measure, etc) for reasonbale prices she may get on with that.
I believe that in rich countries the only way forward is taking capitalism to its final consequences: you become the company, you are in the world all for yourself.
Once upon a time Japanese (and the Korean) stuff was deemed to be the cheapest and crapiest stuff around.
Now for high tech gadgetery these places are second to none and quality of some of these companies (Sony comes to mind) is the standard against which others are measured.
Fomr all those cheap $50 VCRs one or two brands will be good enough in order to justify the risk.
Look at DVD players, not they are given away as promotional tokens when you buy something else. Just 3 years ago the cheapest one was in the region of 300 or 400.
Cheapest is eventually good enough, not necessarily better, but good enough.
I need shoes.
The best ones cost 200 bucks.
The chinese ones cost 20.
I need them now.
You do the math.
... and then fuck up so completely that is not funny. But hey, it was as an AC, so I guess you did it for the laugh value.
What the hell does this have to do with Open Source?
Outsourcing is a commrcial decision made by commericial, mostly closed source, software companies or by companies doing software development in-house.
Your FUDish attempt to imply that somehow Open Source is reponsible for economic pressures (of which OS is just one of many factors) that make companies outsource jobs to cheaper places is frankly laughable but wirthy of pointing out, either for the trolling value or for the sheer stupidity of such utterance.
Yes and you can't.
Stop the paranoia, enjoy your life.
Thre you will meet people that are doing away with their cars because it is a bloddy nuisance to have one.
Of course they have safe cycle lines, efficient public transpot that works reliably following time tables and efficient inter-city rail links.
In the UK, before the current goverment went cold on transport policy due to overhyped train accidents, people using the rail was growing steadily for several years.
It is a falacy that poeple stop using their car only if they are forced to, when there are credible alternatives people leave gladly their car behind because public transport frings a human face face to transportation.
... that tribalism is well and alive in the US of A.
That is what.
That is historic perspective!
You should now work out how the Aztec Empire benefitted or otherwise the US (500+ years ago) or perhaps pass judgement in the Roman Empire or pharaonic Egypt in the building of the glorious US of A.
Lack of research in one area does not mean widespread research in anothere is invalid.
C02 must be contained, but certainly excessive H2O emissions should be studied, specially in view that the hydrogen fuell cells are being hailed by many as the environment saviors.
.... and today';s Japan are not the same country by any stretch of the imagination. History changes nations.
And what about Canada? Japan? China?
...
And even "smaller" countries like Mexico (9th economy in the world btw)?
Stop looking for excuses, there is a worldwide consensus tha the war was unnecessary, stop nitpicking.
Practically every country but the US and the UK were against the war, and just before the conflict only in the US the population was in favour of it. After the conflict only US and UK can come forward with pools showing any kind of popular approval
... politics do not matter, ever.
Back to my Ultima 2 game.
... to dictate who should be depossed or who should be governing in any given country?
Apart from "the brutest and mightiest country in world" I find no other justification.
France has been an ally of the US, including the first Gulf War, but international opposition , including US NAFTA partners, Canada an Mexico, was widespread given the flimsy excuse used for the war (the WMDs fiasco).
The US goverment has managed to convince the US populace that this was in reality about the US removing a dictator out of the goodness of their allAmerican hearts, and when that began to go all nasty, it became all of the sudden part of the hazzy, unwinnable, "war on terror".
How some people still see France so negatively when your closest economic allies (China, Mexico, Canada) are telling you you are full of shit is beyond me.
When is the US expelling France from NATO?
Canada, Russia and China may be in favour of Japan for myriads of other reasons.
That does not make the US stated reasoning any less childish.
.... has absolutely nothing to do with the stated US reasoning.
I find many atheist have this cloying supuriority complex
As oppossed to Christians that believe they are so superior they send misionaries to other places to rubish other people's beliefs, in some circumstances to the total anhihilation of the local culture. Or Muslims that when a non muslim marries them you are forced to convert.
If you choose not beleive in soemthign it doesn't make you any better
As opossed to religious people I supposse, which surely think they are worst people for being religious. Of course many atheistic people believe they are better, but that is a human condition and not the exclusive preserve of the atheists.
Statistically devote religious people tend to be happier, live slightly longer, and have a better sense of community than others.
I hope you can share your objective measure of happiness with us, it would be also highly entertaining to see how a sense of community is measured and quantified.
Also prayer and meditation can be useful tools in treatment of certain diseases. For instance cancer patients do better if they have a positive outlook and organized religion helps provide support and a generally more positive outlook
Organized religion may be helpful for religious people, for a non believer it means squat, i.e. organized religion means nothing for itself.
Even if you completly ignore all the promises of this or that there is real tangible benifits to faith.
No there are none, I have seen none, I have experienced none, the perceived benefits by religious people has to do more with their preconceptions during positive outcomes and artificially linking that to faith or prayer.
For millenia people believed and prayed and in spite of this the plague and many other diseases decimated (literally) full populations.
It was not until humans began to attack problems of public health by using reason and the scientific methodology that todays high standards of health have been achieved.
It is quite telling how religious people ignore this history of failure of faith but nevertheless push this agenda about "faith heals" with a few freak cases in a background of science guaranteed good health for most.
Our good general wellbeing is thanks to our efforts and the use of our brain, not thanks to prayer and faith in entities that may or may not exist but that did very little to deliver us from pain and suffering accross the millenia.
Hollywood lacks boldness, they are always afraid to offend this or that for whatever reason.
No wonder the better movies in the last 10 or 15 years normally come from Hollywood outsiders.
We lack perspective when it comes to popular culture.
Will Shrek remembered in 100 years? My take: no. Reasons? Pretty much the ones given by the initial poster.
Just look back at music, movies and TV from before the 50s. We are just begining to discern what was momentous and what was a fad. The more time passes the Beattles look hugher and Elvis seems like Elvis.
The Matrix momentous? Meybe, but the kinks are beginning to show in the aromour, in the other hand a far less pretentious filem like Alien is gaining more recognition.
So sit down 50 or 60 years, relax and enjoy the show, most stuff is worthless fast-food culture, yummy but dammaging for your cultural helath.
Those Enron executives where dashing fashion examples. And Darl's (yes, that Darl, you know you have achieved stardom when you are talked about by your first name) casual look shows how important is to pay attention to looks, not capacity.
It is the grand finale of many famous Operas.
Aida comes to mind.
Well handled is dramatically very powerful.
Oh, sorry, this is Hollywood we are talking about, silly me.