Even more likey to happen. You see the university system is mostly a government run entity. They draw many funds from schools. Plus the more educated you are the more you ear/pay in taxes. If you can't go to school then tho goverment loses money!
All well and good excpet that economics doesn't work on iosolated principles. Surely in your scenario the cost of scool would drop significantly as would the wahe the McDonalds employs make.
If america has done one thing right it has been to perfect the art of making money. What people don't see is that america is indeed making more money by outsourcing jobs. By cutting costs the company is then able to comptete for more business on a global scale as opposed to regional competition. It really is simple economics. Sucks to be on the wrong side of economics, but non-the-less that is all it is. See our (workers) problem is that we have been conditioned into believing that we go to school, graduate, and then get a high paying job with benifits and security. It is the last word there that is starting to really needle people. What is security anyway. I mean a company pays you to do a job every day. I have personally never been offered a job were I was gauranteed work for an extended period of time. I think that perhaps we (workers) should start to think more like business people when it comes to the management of our careers. Maybe it is time we start learning about risk vs. reward, how to start a business, how to grow money. Maybe we should all try to sit on the employer side of the fence for awhile so that we may better understand what it is we are working for. Now I am not saying that we all give into certain corporate ideals, but I am saying that since we live in this world we might as well learn the rules to the game.
Guilty I am of being patriotic to my country. I will stand toe to toe with someone over this issue. If you read your histroy books (oh wait we wrote them...they must be lies) you will see that this is how we gained our independance. I suppose that no canadians, germans, french, spanish, etc.. have ever been quilty of arrogance and egotistical behavious. Put it in context. Somehow just makes a generalization about you. About your entire people...that doesn't irk you just a little bit? Well forgive me. I do get a little upset about such things.
Also you have obviously not looked at any current trend numbers or you would see quite clearly that America is still on the upswing. Will it always remain on top? I guess I hope not. I would hope that people such as your self and the person I commented to could let go of some hatred and learn to work together as a world. No Americans vs. the world bullshit just one united (or insert canadian word if need be) world.
Oh and just out of curiosity what is it that I did to you for you to show such hate towards me. Did I some how harm your precious ego?
I have done my share of posting today and allowed my self to stoop to some pretty damn low levels. I was just having a conversation with my girlfriend about how I was worried about the state of the world. Here we are on slashdot...arguable some of the more educated members of the world and I see posts about hating this nationality or hating the amercans and blah blah blah....people we gotta all wake up...shit man myself included. It is our generation that is going to be running the world in a few years I would hate to thing that we would take the world farther from peace than it is now. we don't have to agree on everythig, but can't we at least agree to not hate each other. Please!
The day it falls? HA! I guess you will be alive to see it? being the believer in people that I am I do believe that the US will eventually be replaced perhaps be a more world oriented goverment...not the fucked up UN. However you can bet your ass that it won't be this century or the next or the next after that. You see this country has only been around a few hundred years and there is a reason why it is the super power that it is.
It has nothing to do with us being perfect, it has nothing to do with our money ( remeber there was no money when this country started ), however it has everything to do with an ideal (one that we struggle to maintain everyday)...it is called freedom. Yeah sure you can say that we are loosing more and more of it everyday and that we are constantly fighting to save it...no one every said that freedom was free.
Interesting. Only governments that look at the US government as dictators are those that are themselves un-willing to trust their own people with simple freedom. I would say most governments at least tolerate us with the amount of aid and money that we supply to quite a large potrion of the world. Besides if we were so bad don't you think that we would just take Iraq? I mean Geez we could have a strangle hold on a large portion of the oil in the world, and at the same time set up fronts in another part of the world from which we could begin staging further invasions....Oh wait we don't do that now do we....no see we actually take a country like Japan and over the course of many years help them to rebuild and become an economic super power....ok so I am making it black and white, but so are you.
And I am sorry buyt to compare the US goverment, with ALL of it's short comings (there are many) to a government like Irag....come on now show some since. Have opinions, but don't be blind. don't make up false arguments to simply probe a point.
How about you fuck off you fog headed prick. The man made a point and backed up his point with arguments...all you can do is cite his past responses. What an ignorant person you have portrayed yourself to be.
Well perhaps next time there is a wolrd dictator we can just stand back and let them take their due course....perhaps through a fine country like Autria. Funny thing is then the Austrian people will bitch and moan because we were not helping them. Seems this country can do no right be the rest of the world. Sure we have our fair share of short comings, but to argue that Saddam should have been allowed to rule is insane. How would you feel if he was in power in your country? Sure Iraq will be miserable place for a long time to come, but don't be short sited. Thing about future generations of Iraqs that will enjoy the same freedom as you and I, or do you believe that only certain people in certain select countries should have such freedoms?
Perhaps instead of all this collective wolrd bitching we could start working together to iron out the wrinkles of all societies...our's included.
"Sadly, many scientists feel (correctly or otherwise) their careers can be threatened if word gets out their ideas are inviable. Something that is far less likely a risk for a Christian."
I would have to disagree with you totally. No scientists job is in jeopardy if his ideas are invariable. Scientist are ofte wrong..it is just a part of the scientific process. we formulate ideas, and then test them. Lots of ideas are wrong. Even if tommorrow it was proven that GOD was real and evolution was totally wrong, do you really think that scientists would just throw their hands up and quit? No, of course not they would set about taking in the new data and generating new models.
now however if it could be proven that GOD did not exsists, which BTW I am a believer, then religous people the world over would have to also now re-think their ideas.
I couldn't agree more. Thanks to all of you guy's. What a great great job you have done. Not just the kernel guy's but to everyone that is contiributing to an open source project (NOT JUST THE CODERS!). all the poeple that use Linux and talk about it here or other places are all helping to make this thing what it is. Congrats to everyone.
Maybe you should leave. In fact I would be willing to donate a small sum to your cause. Perhaps you can take you facist ideals and move to cambodia you worthless taker of society. What have you done for your country? What? Oh I know this country just takes and takes from you. You probably bitch and moan about taxes and such things....grow up you pain in the ass. If you don't like it here you have options. 1) run for office and try and recruit people to your way of thinking, 2) Leave.
don't worry my friend...I can't see a future were linux developers all start using a.NET clone like Mono. maybe I am short sited, but linux is a C programmers haven. yeah I write mostly C++ code and a lot of the people I work with still use Fortran *gasp*.... So let me ask again dot what?
C64 those were the days. I wa like 10 years old and I had this guy that alway's watched me when my parents weren't around...he had a VIV20 that he would bring over until I talked my parents into getting the latest and greatest (C64) that christmas. Oh the games that we pirated....well the games that others pirated and we found for free. Basic was my first programming language...oh shit what was the PC magazine that you could copy the straight machine langauce code from and run games???? anyone. Man the geeky memories.
Funy thing is I got out of computers for quite a while and then when I went off to J. Col we were expected to write a report and that was my first experience with windows (3.1) I was like teacher get me out this wierd shell so I can do my paper..LOL she had no clue what I was talking about...but then neither did I. Oh how the times have changed.
You see some of us don't care about extending what's out there. Some of us do. The great thing is that we are all free to move and create as we please. Sometimes it is done for the greater good of the community sometimes it is for our own selfish reasons. Perhaps you should quit assuming that we sit up late hours pounding out code to fit in with some master plan you or others have.
BTW I am glad there are people thinking about how to continually make the old better, maybe they will fail, but plenty will be learned.
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Even more likey to happen. You see the university system is mostly a government run entity. They draw many funds from schools. Plus the more educated you are the more you ear/pay in taxes. If you can't go to school then tho goverment loses money!
All well and good excpet that economics doesn't work on iosolated principles. Surely in your scenario the cost of scool would drop significantly as would the wahe the McDonalds employs make.
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Why do we want it?
It benifits americans.
If america has done one thing right it has been to perfect the art of making money. What people don't see is that america is indeed making more money by outsourcing jobs. By cutting costs the company is then able to comptete for more business on a global scale as opposed to regional competition. It really is simple economics. Sucks to be on the wrong side of economics, but non-the-less that is all it is. See our (workers) problem is that we have been conditioned into believing that we go to school, graduate, and then get a high paying job with benifits and security. It is the last word there that is starting to really needle people. What is security anyway. I mean a company pays you to do a job every day. I have personally never been offered a job were I was gauranteed work for an extended period of time. I think that perhaps we (workers) should start to think more like business people when it comes to the management of our careers. Maybe it is time we start learning about risk vs. reward, how to start a business, how to grow money. Maybe we should all try to sit on the employer side of the fence for awhile so that we may better understand what it is we are working for. Now I am not saying that we all give into certain corporate ideals, but I am saying that since we live in this world we might as well learn the rules to the game.
Dude go somewhere and see if you can find a clue!
Guilty I am of being patriotic to my country. I will stand toe to toe with someone over this issue. If you read your histroy books (oh wait we wrote them...they must be lies) you will see that this is how we gained our independance. I suppose that no canadians, germans, french, spanish, etc.. have ever been quilty of arrogance and egotistical behavious. Put it in context. Somehow just makes a generalization about you. About your entire people...that doesn't irk you just a little bit? Well forgive me. I do get a little upset about such things.
Also you have obviously not looked at any current trend numbers or you would see quite clearly that America is still on the upswing. Will it always remain on top? I guess I hope not. I would hope that people such as your self and the person I commented to could let go of some hatred and learn to work together as a world. No Americans vs. the world bullshit just one united (or insert canadian word if need be) world.
Oh and just out of curiosity what is it that I did to you for you to show such hate towards me. Did I some how harm your precious ego?
Wake up and get a clue.
Hey why don't you
1) Go lay down in traffic.
2) Slit your wrist.
3) F*&^ off and die.
You can take you american bashing and shove it up your a$$.
I have done my share of posting today and allowed my self to stoop to some pretty damn low levels. I was just having a conversation with my girlfriend about how I was worried about the state of the world. Here we are on slashdot...arguable some of the more educated members of the world and I see posts about hating this nationality or hating the amercans and blah blah blah....people we gotta all wake up...shit man myself included. It is our generation that is going to be running the world in a few years I would hate to thing that we would take the world farther from peace than it is now. we don't have to agree on everythig, but can't we at least agree to not hate each other. Please!
The day it falls? HA! I guess you will be alive to see it? being the believer in people that I am I do believe that the US will eventually be replaced perhaps be a more world oriented goverment...not the fucked up UN. However you can bet your ass that it won't be this century or the next or the next after that. You see this country has only been around a few hundred years and there is a reason why it is the super power that it is.
It has nothing to do with us being perfect, it has nothing to do with our money ( remeber there was no money when this country started ), however it has everything to do with an ideal (one that we struggle to maintain everyday)...it is called freedom. Yeah sure you can say that we are loosing more and more of it everyday and that we are constantly fighting to save it...no one every said that freedom was free.
Interesting. Only governments that look at the US government as dictators are those that are themselves un-willing to trust their own people with simple freedom. I would say most governments at least tolerate us with the amount of aid and money that we supply to quite a large potrion of the world. Besides if we were so bad don't you think that we would just take Iraq? I mean Geez we could have a strangle hold on a large portion of the oil in the world, and at the same time set up fronts in another part of the world from which we could begin staging further invasions....Oh wait we don't do that now do we....no see we actually take a country like Japan and over the course of many years help them to rebuild and become an economic super power....ok so I am making it black and white, but so are you.
And I am sorry buyt to compare the US goverment, with ALL of it's short comings (there are many) to a government like Irag....come on now show some since. Have opinions, but don't be blind. don't make up false arguments to simply probe a point.
Thank you for the insightful post. Nice to know that there as some "Americans" around here.
How about you fuck off you fog headed prick. The man made a point and backed up his point with arguments...all you can do is cite his past responses. What an ignorant person you have portrayed yourself to be.
Well perhaps next time there is a wolrd dictator we can just stand back and let them take their due course....perhaps through a fine country like Autria. Funny thing is then the Austrian people will bitch and moan because we were not helping them. Seems this country can do no right be the rest of the world. Sure we have our fair share of short comings, but to argue that Saddam should have been allowed to rule is insane. How would you feel if he was in power in your country? Sure Iraq will be miserable place for a long time to come, but don't be short sited. Thing about future generations of Iraqs that will enjoy the same freedom as you and I, or do you believe that only certain people in certain select countries should have such freedoms?
Perhaps instead of all this collective wolrd bitching we could start working together to iron out the wrinkles of all societies...our's included.
"Sadly, many scientists feel (correctly or otherwise) their careers can be threatened if word gets out their ideas are inviable. Something that is far less likely a risk for a Christian."
I would have to disagree with you totally. No scientists job is in jeopardy if his ideas are invariable. Scientist are ofte wrong..it is just a part of the scientific process. we formulate ideas, and then test them. Lots of ideas are wrong. Even if tommorrow it was proven that GOD was real and evolution was totally wrong, do you really think that scientists would just throw their hands up and quit? No, of course not they would set about taking in the new data and generating new models.
now however if it could be proven that GOD did not exsists, which BTW I am a believer, then religous people the world over would have to also now re-think their ideas.
I couldn't agree more. Thanks to all of you guy's. What a great great job you have done. Not just the kernel guy's but to everyone that is contiributing to an open source project (NOT JUST THE CODERS!). all the poeple that use Linux and talk about it here or other places are all helping to make this thing what it is. Congrats to everyone.
LOL! Being from Mississippi and now living in NY I can appreciate that!
My God....freaking geeks!
The more the try and charge for such a thing the more people will look at considering other open source file systems
My god was the unix comment WITH X WINDOWS really necassary. ok so I will bite. SHoulda been a linux computer then it would not have crashed. HA!
HA!. Think I will just use an open source OS so I can change that part myself. Oh wait! I already use one of those OS's.
LOL
I agree with you. However I prefer window maker. just personal preference I guess
If I had mod points you would have taken them all on FUNNY!
Maybe you should leave. In fact I would be willing to donate a small sum to your cause. Perhaps you can take you facist ideals and move to cambodia you worthless taker of society. What have you done for your country? What? Oh I know this country just takes and takes from you. You probably bitch and moan about taxes and such things....grow up you pain in the ass. If you don't like it here you have options. 1) run for office and try and recruit people to your way of thinking, 2) Leave.
I am suggesting the easy option.
Just Leave.
don't worry my friend...I can't see a future were linux developers all start using a .NET clone like Mono. maybe I am short sited, but linux is a C programmers haven. yeah I write mostly C++ code and a lot of the people I work with still use Fortran *gasp*.... So let me ask again dot what?
C64 those were the days. I wa like 10 years old and I had this guy that alway's watched me when my parents weren't around...he had a VIV20 that he would bring over until I talked my parents into getting the latest and greatest (C64) that christmas. Oh the games that we pirated....well the games that others pirated and we found for free. Basic was my first programming language...oh shit what was the PC magazine that you could copy the straight machine langauce code from and run games???? anyone. Man the geeky memories.
Funy thing is I got out of computers for quite a while and then when I went off to J. Col we were expected to write a report and that was my first experience with windows (3.1) I was like teacher get me out this wierd shell so I can do my paper..LOL she had no clue what I was talking about...but then neither did I. Oh how the times have changed.
Just some irrelavent remanicing
You see some of us don't care about extending what's out there. Some of us do. The great thing is that we are all free to move and create as we please. Sometimes it is done for the greater good of the community sometimes it is for our own selfish reasons. Perhaps you should quit assuming that we sit up late hours pounding out code to fit in with some master plan you or others have.
BTW I am glad there are people thinking about how to continually make the old better, maybe they will fail, but plenty will be learned.