It's so nice that Putin is putting his potential rivals in jail, isn't it?????
His political rivals are freely jumping from meeting to meeting, dissing him constantly. The major _financial supporter_ of them is arrested, however it's a major failure of democracy that what he does is not in itself illegal. Same, BTW, applies to US campaign finance, it's just no one does anything in US to fight it. I am not a big fan of attacking crooks based on tax evasion instead of their real crimes, but AFAIK, this tradition originated long ago, and not in Russia.
True, American democracy is starting to slump again due to mega-corporate influence and media conglomeratization.
It is already owned by them, if you didn't notice.
However, When George Bush throws Howard Dean in jail, then I'll believe we have gotten as bad as Russia.
Again -- Khodorkovsky is not in, and can not hold any politically meaningful office. He, and other oligarchs in Russia, are trying to buy all major political forces, and control the government, just like their colleagues in US do. He has to be kept from accomplishing so by at any cost, and if the only way to do so is illegal, so be it!
If Americans live in a prison, it is of our own making. Collectively, we voted for Bush (kinda). That was our choice.
This is a quite bizzare definition of choice, considering that US election system is obsolete, unfair and is designed to keep the power in the hands of two dominant political parties that control the process for their benefit.
Do Russians truly have a choice in whether Putin is in power or not?????
If Zhirinovsky or Zyuganov managed to convince large number of people that they are better than Putin, they would be elected instead of him. Actually the fact that crooks and psychos like them are anywhere close to power proves that Russian democracy isnt' too far from the shining example of US.
Eventually this will happen anyway -- there is no natural reason for one region to benefit more than the others in the long run, no matter how loudmouthed political leaders are, and no matter how its population is proud of being born in a certain range of latitude and longitude.
The question is, what will happen before that equilibrium will be reached. Will US lose its advantages through people getting impoverished, and executives leaving the country or will American companies and government fight a war for the dominance over the rest of the world and eventually lose? And if the latter will happen, what percentage of the world population will survive?
The workers in China, India, and even in USSR (when it existed) were as "free" as ones in US are now -- what doesn't amount to much. No one forced them to work, except for prosecuting _absolute_ refusal to work, however a person who does not work at all, and does not get income from others' work would be unable to live in US, too, so this is a moot point. On the other hand, after working in american companies and before that in Russia I can't see how one form of servitude fundamentally differs from the other, and I am certain, things aren't significantly different in India or China.
Americans have an irrational belief that they have something called "freedom", and it differentiates them from people living elsewhere. In fact I don't think, average american can make a distinction between the concept of freedom and an apple pie.
Having said that, imperialism does not apply to India or China. What will happen in these cases is that these countries will become slaves to the capitalists. What will happen is that the day will come when the wages will rise, standard of living will go up, and so on. When that happens, the capitalists will threaten to move to another country, wrecking the country. The country will be "forced" to do whatever the capitalists demand.
If the wages will rise, China and India would already have their own consumers that will be a perfect replacement for American ones. Then it would be easier to just decrease the export to US, promote domestic consumption, and just let US issue toothless demands, backed by nothing but quickly devaluing green paper.
In an American doublespeak the "human rights", when applied to other countries, do not go any farther than freedom of speech (and even that only as long as the speech in question criticizes the local government and not US or Christian church).
Everything else is perfectly ok to violate, people can be kept as slaves, denied medicine, forced into a horrible living conditions, kept from relocating, denied education and a choice of job, but $deity forbids, some government bitchslapped a journalist or a religious cult leader.
And his existence demonstrates that Unix programmers don't have a monopoly on ego and assholeness. Even though ESR is well known for preaching and bringing irrelevant issues into discussions, he at least usually has more or less good idea about what he is talking about. Joel, on the other hand, is a true believer into whatever he "learned" from Microsoft, and produces little more than repetitive propaganda of it, plus his, usually wrong and immature, claims about things that he has absolutely no idea about.
Why anyone is listening to him, leave alone, publishes him, I have no idea.
Why would you want to know those things? What is the point? What can possibly that information be good for, other than the obvious -- being subpoenaed by some dipshit who thinks, some of your students pinged him, and you being responsible for accuracy of it, instead of being able to just say "we never log anything, get lost", and get him off your back?
Yes, Xfig. It will let you place all the arrows and boxes with names, but it will never pretend that it understand what you are doing, and you will still have to understand your data structures, as you should.
One thing to note here is that we need to differentiate a coder from an engineer. A coder simply takes what has been already designed and probably pseudo-coded and the coder just transforms the psuedo-code into the language of choice, compiles it and gives you an executable. That pretty much is a "low-level" position that is best done by interns and such.
70's called, they want their ideas back.
The idea of writing things in pseudocode then reimplementing in a programming language disappeared when programming became more complex, and high-level, more expressive languages (C, C++) replaced the low-level and convoluted ones (assembler, Fortran) as the main tool of the developer. Now some are trying to restore this with things like UML, but it ends up as yet another attempt to stop the history.
Obsolescence of industries != outsourcing or replacement with imports. When American car industry lost miserably to imports, jobs were simply lost, and not replaced by anything, Detroit auto workers didn't become car dealers, actors, restaurant owners, TV show hosts and CEOs of software companies, they simply became poor people with bad jobs, and Detroit was turned into a shadow of an industrial city. Same fate may wait Northern California and eventually NYC, as dominant industries of those places are disappearing. Good luck finding a good job when the whole country is a wasteland with occasional castle/gated community populated by "owners of something abroad".
Most of managers are bad at all those things, and can get away with it. However people who have to do actual work can't allow themselves to be bad at what they do, even if their managers are dolts.
...is also an engineer, and an architect of the product that he makes. If he is not, his work shouldn't be outsourced -- it should be eliminated because in a well-designed project it would be merely an function of yet another piece of software. In fact, every decent project already went through that, and is handled by people who are both coders and engineers.
On the other hand, "project management" is not even a technical position in most of the places, it's a middle management position, that exists mostly to distribute the blame from the upper management and the engineers/programmers/... because otherwise people would not be able to take it. The decisions like "we should write a driver in Java" and "we should login using a password wrapped in XML" that are made by those managers are usually meaningless and often counterproductive while real decisions ("we represent the map as a graph, mapped to another graph that would be a tree") are made by those "low-level" engineers, and are never even known by "high-level" project managers.
More likely random people will try to frame someone else as a "h4x0r" and claim a bounty. It's not like there can be a solid proof for most of the activity that happens over the network -- say, I have a log indicating that someone president@whitehouse.gov (PTR record and ident say so!) tried to login as scott/tiger to my Oracle server. Now what?
Just keep the ad prices as they are. Sure, it will mean that the ads are more expensive per viewers' time, but that's not the networks' problem, and not advertisers' problem either -- all that cost is passed to the customer.
Don't tell me that less effective ads will mean that companies will choose to buy less ads and use those money to improve their products -- it's beyond ridiculous.
Beyond questions of constitutionality, there's a good reason to restrict the question to citizens.
This is not your (or Ashcroft's) call to make -- US is subject to international treaties and convention, and this is the only thing that protects Americans abroad from other governments.
US certainly can do all that -- it's just then it should abandon some blatantly parasitic policies, which "mere existence" would be threatened by the lack of massive military presence all over the world. Many other countries went through this over the course of history, there is nothing special about US, other than being the current largest-empire-in-decline.
Except imprisoning or deporting that individual before he can act. But I think your logic could be applied to all law enforcement efforts, ending in the conclusion that no laws should be enforced.
And what are the chance for that to happen? You really expect that a foreigner's visa will just happen to run out few days before he will get pissed off by something US government does? That a box cutter sale will be interpreted as a part of preparation to a plane hijacking? That for some magical reason the same US government that can't stop domestic murderers, robbers, thieves, etc. will do anything against people that are at least a notch more skilled and far more determined than those?
It's pointless. Don't constantly piss off the rest of the world, and deal with real problems at home -- it works great for most of the world.
Breaking the law doesn't allow them to arrest you. And entering the country illegally doesn't allow them to send you back? Actually it does. Also, you can't prove that they didn't stop any terrorist attacks, so nanny-nanny boo-boo back to you.
Send back -- yes. Imprisoning -- certainly no. What is the most interesting, detaining people before the trial (or hearing) without a bail is supposed to PREVENT THEM FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY. If the worst that those people face is BEING DEPORTED FROM THE COUNTRY, it should be the stupidest thing ever.
...how many of those arrested people are real scammers, and how many are victims of pedophile baiting, file-swappers, skr1pt kiddies and other small fish/minor offense or plain innocent.
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It's so nice that Putin is putting his potential rivals in jail, isn't it?????
His political rivals are freely jumping from meeting to meeting, dissing him constantly. The major _financial supporter_ of them is arrested, however it's a major failure of democracy that what he does is not in itself illegal. Same, BTW, applies to US campaign finance, it's just no one does anything in US to fight it. I am not a big fan of attacking crooks based on tax evasion instead of their real crimes, but AFAIK, this tradition originated long ago, and not in Russia.
True, American democracy is starting to slump again due to mega-corporate influence and media conglomeratization.
It is already owned by them, if you didn't notice.
However, When George Bush throws Howard Dean in jail, then I'll believe we have gotten as bad as Russia.
Again -- Khodorkovsky is not in, and can not hold any politically meaningful office. He, and other oligarchs in Russia, are trying to buy all major political forces, and control the government, just like their colleagues in US do. He has to be kept from accomplishing so by at any cost, and if the only way to do so is illegal, so be it!
China and India are too big to be supported by outsourced prooduction -- there aren't enough people in countries where they can do that.
If Americans live in a prison, it is of our own making. Collectively, we voted for Bush (kinda). That was our choice.
This is a quite bizzare definition of choice, considering that US election system is obsolete, unfair and is designed to keep the power in the hands of two dominant political parties that control the process for their benefit.
Do Russians truly have a choice in whether Putin is in power or not?????
If Zhirinovsky or Zyuganov managed to convince large number of people that they are better than Putin, they would be elected instead of him. Actually the fact that crooks and psychos like them are anywhere close to power proves that Russian democracy isnt' too far from the shining example of US.
Eventually this will happen anyway -- there is no natural reason for one region to benefit more than the others in the long run, no matter how loudmouthed political leaders are, and no matter how its population is proud of being born in a certain range of latitude and longitude.
The question is, what will happen before that equilibrium will be reached. Will US lose its advantages through people getting impoverished, and executives leaving the country or will American companies and government fight a war for the dominance over the rest of the world and eventually lose? And if the latter will happen, what percentage of the world population will survive?
The workers in China, India, and even in USSR (when it existed) were as "free" as ones in US are now -- what doesn't amount to much. No one forced them to work, except for prosecuting _absolute_ refusal to work, however a person who does not work at all, and does not get income from others' work would be unable to live in US, too, so this is a moot point. On the other hand, after working in american companies and before that in Russia I can't see how one form of servitude fundamentally differs from the other, and I am certain, things aren't significantly different in India or China.
Americans have an irrational belief that they have something called "freedom", and it differentiates them from people living elsewhere. In fact I don't think, average american can make a distinction between the concept of freedom and an apple pie.
Having said that, imperialism does not apply to India or China. What will happen in these cases is that these countries will become slaves to the capitalists. What will happen is that the day will come when the wages will rise, standard of living will go up, and so on. When that happens, the capitalists will threaten to move to another country, wrecking the country. The country will be "forced" to do whatever the capitalists demand.
If the wages will rise, China and India would already have their own consumers that will be a perfect replacement for American ones. Then it would be easier to just decrease the export to US, promote domestic consumption, and just let US issue toothless demands, backed by nothing but quickly devaluing green paper.
In an American doublespeak the "human rights", when applied to other countries, do not go any farther than freedom of speech (and even that only as long as the speech in question criticizes the local government and not US or Christian church).
Everything else is perfectly ok to violate, people can be kept as slaves, denied medicine, forced into a horrible living conditions, kept from relocating, denied education and a choice of job, but $deity forbids, some government bitchslapped a journalist or a religious cult leader.
And his existence demonstrates that Unix programmers don't have a monopoly on ego and assholeness. Even though ESR is well known for preaching and bringing irrelevant issues into discussions, he at least usually has more or less good idea about what he is talking about. Joel, on the other hand, is a true believer into whatever he "learned" from Microsoft, and produces little more than repetitive propaganda of it, plus his, usually wrong and immature, claims about things that he has absolutely no idea about.
Why anyone is listening to him, leave alone, publishes him, I have no idea.
Why would you want to know those things? What is the point? What can possibly that information be good for, other than the obvious -- being subpoenaed by some dipshit who thinks, some of your students pinged him, and you being responsible for accuracy of it, instead of being able to just say "we never log anything, get lost", and get him off your back?
...make a pretty diagram in Xfig.
Yes, Xfig. It will let you place all the arrows and boxes with names, but it will never pretend that it understand what you are doing, and you will still have to understand your data structures, as you should.
One thing to note here is that we need to differentiate a coder from an engineer. A coder simply takes what has been already designed and probably pseudo-coded and the coder just transforms the psuedo-code into the language of choice, compiles it and gives you an executable. That pretty much is a "low-level" position that is best done by interns and such.
70's called, they want their ideas back.
The idea of writing things in pseudocode then reimplementing in a programming language disappeared when programming became more complex, and high-level, more expressive languages (C, C++) replaced the low-level and convoluted ones (assembler, Fortran) as the main tool of the developer. Now some are trying to restore this with things like UML, but it ends up as yet another attempt to stop the history.
Obsolescence of industries != outsourcing or replacement with imports. When American car industry lost miserably to imports, jobs were simply lost, and not replaced by anything, Detroit auto workers didn't become car dealers, actors, restaurant owners, TV show hosts and CEOs of software companies, they simply became poor people with bad jobs, and Detroit was turned into a shadow of an industrial city. Same fate may wait Northern California and eventually NYC, as dominant industries of those places are disappearing. Good luck finding a good job when the whole country is a wasteland with occasional castle/gated community populated by "owners of something abroad".
Most of managers are bad at all those things, and can get away with it. However people who have to do actual work can't allow themselves to be bad at what they do, even if their managers are dolts.
You will feel much better once you will join inbred hicks of KKK.
...is also an engineer, and an architect of the product that he makes. If he is not, his work shouldn't be outsourced -- it should be eliminated because in a well-designed project it would be merely an function of yet another piece of software. In fact, every decent project already went through that, and is handled by people who are both coders and engineers.
On the other hand, "project management" is not even a technical position in most of the places, it's a middle management position, that exists mostly to distribute the blame from the upper management and the engineers/programmers/... because otherwise people would not be able to take it. The decisions like "we should write a driver in Java" and "we should login using a password wrapped in XML" that are made by those managers are usually meaningless and often counterproductive while real decisions ("we represent the map as a graph, mapped to another graph that would be a tree") are made by those "low-level" engineers, and are never even known by "high-level" project managers.
Eloi and Morlocks all over again.
More likely random people will try to frame someone else as a "h4x0r" and claim a bounty. It's not like there can be a solid proof for most of the activity that happens over the network -- say, I have a log indicating that someone president@whitehouse.gov (PTR record and ident say so!) tried to login as scott/tiger to my Oracle server. Now what?
Just keep the ad prices as they are. Sure, it will mean that the ads are more expensive per viewers' time, but that's not the networks' problem, and not advertisers' problem either -- all that cost is passed to the customer.
Don't tell me that less effective ads will mean that companies will choose to buy less ads and use those money to improve their products -- it's beyond ridiculous.
... probably has something to say about it...
Beyond questions of constitutionality, there's a good reason to restrict the question to citizens.
This is not your (or Ashcroft's) call to make -- US is subject to international treaties and convention, and this is the only thing that protects Americans abroad from other governments.
US certainly can do all that -- it's just then it should abandon some blatantly parasitic policies, which "mere existence" would be threatened by the lack of massive military presence all over the world. Many other countries went through this over the course of history, there is nothing special about US, other than being the current largest-empire-in-decline.
Except imprisoning or deporting that individual before he can act. But I think your logic could be applied to all law enforcement efforts, ending in the conclusion that no laws should be enforced.
And what are the chance for that to happen? You really expect that a foreigner's visa will just happen to run out few days before he will get pissed off by something US government does? That a box cutter sale will be interpreted as a part of preparation to a plane hijacking? That for some magical reason the same US government that can't stop domestic murderers, robbers, thieves, etc. will do anything against people that are at least a notch more skilled and far more determined than those?
It's pointless. Don't constantly piss off the rest of the world, and deal with real problems at home -- it works great for most of the world.
Breaking the law doesn't allow them to arrest you. And entering the country illegally doesn't allow them to send you back? Actually it does. Also, you can't prove that they didn't stop any terrorist attacks, so nanny-nanny boo-boo back to you.
Send back -- yes. Imprisoning -- certainly no. What is the most interesting, detaining people before the trial (or hearing) without a bail is supposed to PREVENT THEM FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY. If the worst that those people face is BEING DEPORTED FROM THE COUNTRY, it should be the stupidest thing ever.
Constitution applies to everybody under US jurisdiction, citizen or not. If it didn't, US would be chock-full of foreign slaves.
And Guantanamo first and foremost violates international treaties, that appliy to the actions of US government regardless of the location.
...how many of those arrested people are real scammers, and how many are victims of pedophile baiting, file-swappers, skr1pt kiddies and other small fish/minor offense or plain innocent.
Not three billions?