Not knowing stuff about computers doesn't make you 'fucking retarded'. If Microsoft hadn't made it so damn easy for virus writers through their fucking retarded activex and windows scripting people like me wouldn't have to help their computer-illiterate (but probably far more intelligent than a smelly nerd like you) friends and family.
It's also an ease game. Microsoft have made it so simple for users to infect their boxes with their ActiveSecurityHoleX technology. It's amazing how much less AdAware picks up since I switched to Firefox.
Who said I use anything but Windows? Doesn't mean I can't criticise the poor design of it. You shouldn't have to reboot for anything but a major update. Psychological issues because I don't like wasting time rebooting, damn I think you're the one with the problem.
Rebooting for a mere driver upgrade is ridiculous. Reinstalling XP after a catastrophic mistake I had to reboot about a dozen times. That was almost excusable with the disaster area that was Win9x but surely something that is supposed to be a professional OS should be able to swap drivers in and out just like some OS written by a bunch of hippies in their spare time can.
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And how many of those businesses last 2 years? Not many, given that hardly anyone is hard-nosed enough to create a successful business. It takes guts and giving up any other things in your life for a long time to build a successful business. I'd much rather be an employee working 40 hours a week and have a life and I bet I'm in the majority. Outsourcing may be highly beneficial in the short term for big business, but when no-one can afford their products anymore because they're all working for minimum wage (or not working at all) all that rush to save money will look a bit stupid. Not that the middle-classes will ever allow it to go that far.
Being computer illiterate shouldn't expose you to the aggravation of spyware and hackers. If the great satan had spent as much time and money eliminating stupid flaws in its software as it did pursuing and destroying any threat to its monopoly the internet would be a much more illiterate-friendly place and the likes of us wouldn't keep having to help out friends and family, who, bright though they are, don't really understand the mess that Windows is.
Not when you can't sleep at night because you're so stressed out about the next day at work, or have no time to relax because you have to work at home. I've taken a 50% pay cut to escape from an environment like that and I've never been happier. Being rich is nice but not when you're freaking out trying to keep up with the crappy culture that exists at far too many companies.
I wish people would stop telling me to start my own business. The chance of it succeeding is tiny and even if it does I'd have to work 90 hours a week to keep it going. I don't want protectionism, but I'm going to be working in a low wage job for a long time until I can somehow get back in at the bottom of another industry. My problem is with being discarded and unable to find a similar-paying job even though there is supposedly a skills shortage. Society doesn't want their jobs exported, they want to be able to meet their expenses. Economists can talk about long term benefits all they want, but long-term benefits won't pay my bills today.
Thing is that all the people that had to do those jobs manually were on relatively low wages and could more easily get a comparable job elsewhere. I can't. I have to retrain at my own expense and have a considerably worse lifestyle while I do that and the retraining may not get me a job anyway since it's very hard to get a job without experience and impossible to get experience without a job. I'm not interested in the long-term benefits for the economy even if there ever will be any, I'm interested in being able to live somewhere where people won't break into my car and being able to pay off my debts. The buggy whip analogy is a flawed one since there still is a need for my skills, it's just that I can't possibly compete with third-world programmers even if their govt would allow me to work there which they don't.
It's only been the last 100 years or so where the poor have been living in anything better than subsistence and not dying from preventable diseases like cholera and tuberculosis. That's because in the 20th century some of the wealth was taken from the very rich and used to create the society we now take for granted. Look at history; how much further have we advanced in the last 100 years than we did in the previous 10000. That wasn't due to greed, it was increasing the opportunities of those who normally would've died by the time they were 40. The massive economic, technological and social success was built on secure jobs and social justice, not laissez-faire capitalism. Throwing it all away just to increase the Dow Jones will be catastrophic.
Because you can move state with the job and maintain your standard of living. I can't even get a job in Bangalore because they only want Indian citizens.
How do you get the experience in those new skills? None of the corps I've worked for would retrain me. I can do an evening class sure but without the industry experience it's just a useless piece of paper.
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Not knowing stuff about computers doesn't make you 'fucking retarded'. If Microsoft hadn't made it so damn easy for virus writers through their fucking retarded activex and windows scripting people like me wouldn't have to help their computer-illiterate (but probably far more intelligent than a smelly nerd like you) friends and family.
It's also an ease game. Microsoft have made it so simple for users to infect their boxes with their ActiveSecurityHoleX technology. It's amazing how much less AdAware picks up since I switched to Firefox.
It's quite easy to write a script to do that for you on Windows. You can even use Perl if you like.
This of course is never mentioned, our media would rather kick up a storm of hate against poor people doing anything they can to get into our country.
Am I the only one looking forward to this excellent cure for insomnia.
What a crazy idea, an actor becoming US president.....oh hang on.
Who said I use anything but Windows? Doesn't mean I can't criticise the poor design of it. You shouldn't have to reboot for anything but a major update. Psychological issues because I don't like wasting time rebooting, damn I think you're the one with the problem.
So no cars are built in Mexico, Poland or India? Thought not.
You can't get a work visa for India, I know a few who have tried.
Rebooting for a mere driver upgrade is ridiculous. Reinstalling XP after a catastrophic mistake I had to reboot about a dozen times.
That was almost excusable with the disaster area that was Win9x but surely something that is supposed to be a professional OS should be able to swap drivers in and out just like some OS written by a bunch of hippies in their spare time can.
And how many of those businesses last 2 years? Not many, given that hardly anyone is hard-nosed enough to create a successful business.
It takes guts and giving up any other things in your life for a long time to build a successful business. I'd much rather be an employee working 40 hours a week and have a life and I bet I'm in the majority.
Outsourcing may be highly beneficial in the short term for big business, but when no-one can afford their products anymore because they're all working for minimum wage (or not working at all) all that rush to save money will look a bit stupid. Not that the middle-classes will ever allow it to go that far.
Being computer illiterate shouldn't expose you to the aggravation of spyware and hackers. If the great satan had spent as much time and money eliminating stupid flaws in its software as it did pursuing and destroying any threat to its monopoly the internet would be a much more illiterate-friendly place and the likes of us wouldn't keep having to help out friends and family, who, bright though they are, don't really understand the mess that Windows is.
Like the family members you're many, many times more likely to shoot than any burglar.
But the fewer people who do this, the easier it is to deter them with legal action.
Breaking the law is fine if you disagree with it, enough law-breaking can get bad laws changed, however you have to be prepared to get arrested.
US corps are regulated?
Not when you can't sleep at night because you're so stressed out about the next day at work, or have no time to relax because you have to work at home.
I've taken a 50% pay cut to escape from an environment like that and I've never been happier. Being rich is nice but not when you're freaking out trying to keep up with the crappy culture that exists at far too many companies.
Weed gives me terrible panic attacks, not exactly a stress-reliever is it.
I wish people would stop telling me to start my own business. The chance of it succeeding is tiny and even if it does I'd have to work 90 hours a week to keep it going. I don't want protectionism, but I'm going to be working in a low wage job for a long time until I can somehow get back in at the bottom of another industry. My problem is with being discarded and unable to find a similar-paying job even though there is supposedly a skills shortage.
Society doesn't want their jobs exported, they want to be able to meet their expenses. Economists can talk about long term benefits all they want, but long-term benefits won't pay my bills today.
Thing is that all the people that had to do those jobs manually were on relatively low wages and could more easily get a comparable job elsewhere. I can't. I have to retrain at my own expense and have a considerably worse lifestyle while I do that and the retraining may not get me a job anyway since it's very hard to get a job without experience and impossible to get experience without a job.
I'm not interested in the long-term benefits for the economy even if there ever will be any, I'm interested in being able to live somewhere where people won't break into my car and being able to pay off my debts.
The buggy whip analogy is a flawed one since there still is a need for my skills, it's just that I can't possibly compete with third-world programmers even if their govt would allow me to work there which they don't.
It's only been the last 100 years or so where the poor have been living in anything better than subsistence and not dying from preventable diseases like cholera and tuberculosis. That's because in the 20th century some of the wealth was taken from the very rich and used to create the society we now take for granted.
Look at history; how much further have we advanced in the last 100 years than we did in the previous 10000. That wasn't due to greed, it was increasing the opportunities of those who normally would've died by the time they were 40. The massive economic, technological and social success was built on secure jobs and social justice, not laissez-faire capitalism. Throwing it all away just to increase the Dow Jones will be catastrophic.
I and my bank are not interested in the long-term. I'm interested in paying my rent and my bills now, not in some possible future.
Because you can move state with the job and maintain your standard of living. I can't even get a job in Bangalore because they only want Indian citizens.
How do you get the experience in those new skills? None of the corps I've worked for would retrain me. I can do an evening class sure but without the industry experience it's just a useless piece of paper.