It doesn't work, as easily, the other way around. An American going to India is going to have a very easy time getting approval to work in India, whereas an Indian coming to America for work is going to have... well... I'm sure you know how difficult it actually is to get an H1B...
America doesn't owe the rest of the world a damned thing.
Wrong!! America owes the rest of the world something on the order of $7,159,918,958,491.16... a fact that most Americans seem all too happy to forget.
Your wonderful country is ][ this close to bankcrupcy, my friend... all those wonderful American values hasn't stopped your nation from being one of the biggest deadbeats the planet has ever known...
In Australia, I bet, people can't [i]wait[/i] for the eventuality that their job is done by someone else, cheaper, offshore.
In Australia, people are a little more used to the idea of living in a world as part of the big picture that makes up the world, not as a "member of the dominant policing force that 'glues it all together in a way we Americans like'".
Outsourcing is popular for Americans to complain about when they can't be bothered to fix the reasons why outsourcing is such a scourge on their economy.
Moaning about it won't do anything about it; moving to India to see how things can better be managed in a global competitive workplace will. Changing ones perspective from a non-productive, border-line criminal Nationalist interest, to a global perspective, may just well save Americans from a bit of peril; alas, their culture doesn't currently allow the degree of navel-gazing that the rest of the universe has gotten fairly used to...
But... no... the 'average' American would rather their God-given right to drive around in bloated SUV's, wasting the worlds oil reserves on drives to the nearest strip-mall to pick up a few cases of non-renewable plastic to add to the trash that surrounds their cities, were not interrupted by economic realities. The American Economy deserves not to have to compete with the rest of the world... after all, its American, and "America is Gods Country..."
Nationalist jingo'ism does you no good in this debate. Have a world view, for cryin' out loud, and quit drawing lines in the sand for people to spill blood into...
yup. you can't get sicker than legalized drug dealers. history has proven, again and again, that anyone who makes profit from another mans misery (i.e. drug dealers) will only ever do things that benefit themselves, not their fellow man. global pharmaceuticals are a criminal bunch, like no other...
The U.S. Medical System is designed to sell drugs. End of story. It doesn't matter if they're 'generic' or 'label', it is the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists who provide the cancerous policies that have cripped American Health for the last 50 years.
The people 'in power' are not working in anyones best interest. The American masses still have yet to prove they are capable of doing something about that, however, which is why you get Eli Lilly setting American healthcare policy...
Anything that is non-American is a target for complaint by Americans, for Americans.
People aren't recognizing outsourcing as the positive capitalistic affect that it is, because they are, fundamentally, captives of their own government... and can't see outside the box that is their own self-made border...
All those Americans complaining about losing jobs to India can get Indian work visa's, easily enough... think it works the other way around, though?
The only thing that is going to save America from itself, is Americans leaving America and living abroard for a while, so as to get their heads out of the sand and see what the world is really like, not what MTV/CNN/Disney tells you it is like... Americans have a view of their relation to the rest of the world that is not only wrong, but downright rude.
I warrant that, courtesy of companies like Apple, the "wannabe" vs. "professional" gap is narrowing, until in some cases, there just isn't any difference any more...
There's not a single wannabe film junkie on the streets of Hollywood who hasn't cut some film using FCP. FCP has been 'the poor mans Avid' for years in that crowd...
i looked at the C=ONE, but couldn't find any decent software that really rocked my socks about the hardware. maybe you know of some bleeding edge stuff?
My own search engine, running on my POSIX-capable machine, indexing and organizing 'bookmarks', though I suppose at that point they won't be called bookmarks, and thank god for that.
RIP, bookmarks!
Anyway, my own search engine need not be for anyone but me, and it can search and index and process whatever web content I feed it, for later 'search' and organization.
That would be -far- useful to me than another 'gotta be on the net' web-service...
the thing that amuses me, is that there seems to be some sort of 'need' to 'keep up with the joneses' in the hardware world.
why does the amiga -need- PCI slots? certainly, its still a computer, and still capable of being programmed to do some wild and wonderful things.
the amiga story highlights just how hyper-neurotic the computer industry is, about 'always putting new tech forward', when really... -any- computer is still a computer.
imagine if the amiga community just did its own hardware, from scratch, without much due regard for the "PC Market", and then spent a few years refining the software for that hardware?
one thing you can say about the windows world, is that it has been dancing on a spinning wheel of intense jumps in hardware capabilities, yet the software is, generally, still all crap.
Having lived in Eastern Europe, I've seen firsthand how content filtering (ostensibly for reasons of social utility) has produced a society of ill-informed, unquestioning citizens.
You don't have to go to Eastern Europe to find a society full of ill-informed, unquestioning citizens. The U.S. does just fine in this production.
It is the parents, or guardians, job to watch over their children. It is their job to keep them from playing emotionally damaging video games at young ages.
well, since society is actually composed of indidivuals who cannot exist without parents, its soooo easy to 'blame the parents for the child'.
society, and members of society, do have a responsibility for the raising and education of future generations. yes, this starts with the family and the parents, but above and beyond that, there is -still- a degree of responsibility in our society for kids. perhaps this is a moral value rarely displayed in this decadant age, but i believe it is ignorant to keep parroting 'parents are resonsible for societies problems' every time society has horrible problems on its hands as a result of some young terror.
'blame the parent' is a trendy zombie dance, mostly parroted by people whose responsibility for social consequence is highly dubious in any regard...
the issue of regulation of video games stems from one thing: profit. should we allow commerce and industry to profit from the broad simulation of violence, death, mayhem and turmoil? aren't societies supposed to protect its citizens from the effects of such madness in the human sphere?
to give a generation of children the ideals and sensibilities behind the differences between a 'head shot', a 'knife sneak', and reward them for exhibiting skills in differentiating the effectiveness of various kill methods... are you -SO- sure you want 7 or 8 year old boys over-dosing on sugar and methamphetamines after a 32-hour session to brave those moral waters so young?
its not 'freedom' we're giving that sort of kid. it is conditioning. 8 hours spent blowing away zombies is 8 hours not spent learning moral applicability or pro-social behaviour.
i'd be very happy for there to be limits on how much profit a company can make from luring my kids into that world, if i had kids, and was a parent...
You are suppose to know when your "kin" is going crazy, there are signs. It's just that you choose to ignore them.
WTF? are we talking about moral human responsibility, or the New World Order? sig Heil, my sons & daughters, and don't show signs of disorder!
it is this 'coffeeshop psychology' that is the problem. morals don't allow people to scientificially and rigorously categorize each other and asses someones entire worth/value/behaviour on the basis of so-called 'empirical standards of behaviour'. are you the one who's gonna define those so-called 'warning signs', buddy? because if you are i wanna see your -full- qualifications. show me your papers, comrade, and tell me what school of in vogue pop psychology you are currently subscribed to!
morals, which are -vital- to human society, simply give each human a basis of association, a way for two people to relate to each other. if i know you are a pr0n-hoarding-sex-fiend, and i happen to not be one, then we have a basis of understanding and prediction in the ways we can consequently relate. if, instead, you've got some relativistic 'chart' in your head that lists 'warning signs' that i'm gonna become a homocidal maniac, and are always placing me on it, then there's -always- going to be Columbines.. because there is no way i'm going to stand for such discriminatory behaviour.
anything less than a moral association between two or more humans is a fascist-tainted system. those Columbine kids were American Fascists, whose value systems were entirely based on corrupted coffeeshop pscyhology.
Where's the limit of blame here? Instead of looking at the person who makes the game for a specific audience, how about look at the person who should be responscible?
well, why not cover -all- angles, and even regulate those who would covertly use culture and art to moderate and control behaviour of citizenry on a massive level? videogame developers are far, far, far from being innocent purveyors of need and moral substance... why shouldn't hardware-accelerated 3D virtual universes be prevented from becoming hyper-tense bloodbath and gore/war simulation vehicles for all the mad doctors^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdirectors to use to perpetuate their mind games on society? oh, wait, maybe you don't think that happens... too 'fantastic' an ideal for you...
anyway... surely, in the virtual world, murder is still murder? why must we glorify it and allow people to profit from the propagation of the ideal of mass murder, rewarded?
yeah... but its brainless to make a web-gallery generating script which takes a well organized hierarchy of directories containing images, spits out html, and doesn't require much else than that...
sure, its nice to have that all wrapped up in a GUI for you, but there are plenty of album/gallery apps in freshmeat, which run in PHP, and integrate well with a local Apache install, and which provide -all- of the same functionality as iPhoto...
the difference is just in the 'way' that the user can accomplish these things under linux. for some reason, 'scripts' don't count, regardless of how clever, smart, and productive they are when you use them...
its not 'insinuation', its fact. there are a lot of un-parented kids in the world - do you really want generations to grow up, unsupervised, unguarded, with the notion that human slaughter, death and mayhem are a commercial substance made viable by our society and propagated?
society is already value-less enough as it is. why should our commercial art forms -only- be used to further debase these values even further?
i'm not for censorship and enforcement on the issue of culture and art-forms, but if there is a continual refusal to take responsibility for the relationship of trash media to moral decay, then we either a) continue to live with Columbines, or b) structure our society in a way that encourages positivity, rather than entropy and death worship.
just because the religious get involved in this debate does not mean that it is without merit, nor that it is important for society to consider the validity of the "health of the mob" when dealing with the spread or entropy of morality... religions have been having these arguments longer than most -isms around, anyway...
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It doesn't work, as easily, the other way around. An American going to India is going to have a very easy time getting approval to work in India, whereas an Indian coming to America for work is going to have ... well ... I'm sure you know how difficult it actually is to get an H1B ...
America doesn't owe the rest of the world a damned thing.
... a fact that most Americans seem all too happy to forget.
...
Wrong!! America owes the rest of the world something on the order of $7,159,918,958,491.16
Your wonderful country is ][ this close to bankcrupcy, my friend... all those wonderful American values hasn't stopped your nation from being one of the biggest deadbeats the planet has ever known
In Australia, I bet, people can't [i]wait[/i] for the eventuality that their job is done by someone else, cheaper, offshore.
In Australia, people are a little more used to the idea of living in a world as part of the big picture that makes up the world, not as a "member of the dominant policing force that 'glues it all together in a way we Americans like'".
Outsourcing is popular for Americans to complain about when they can't be bothered to fix the reasons why outsourcing is such a scourge on their economy.
Moaning about it won't do anything about it; moving to India to see how things can better be managed in a global competitive workplace will. Changing ones perspective from a non-productive, border-line criminal Nationalist interest, to a global perspective, may just well save Americans from a bit of peril; alas, their culture doesn't currently allow the degree of navel-gazing that the rest of the universe has gotten fairly used to
But
Nationalist jingo'ism does you no good in this debate. Have a world view, for cryin' out loud, and quit drawing lines in the sand for people to spill blood into...
so ... what part of 'you live in a self-painted box' don't you understand?
dude, whatever color you paint your box ... its still a box.
have fun living in it.
So, what ... that makes it okay for America "the greatest nation on earth" to be a country full of stupid, arrogant, ignorant asses?
Everyone else is. Therefore I am too. Yay for progress!
We're going to have to start competing on price and that basically means devaluation of the currency.
...
Don't worry. The devaluation of American Currency has been outsourced too
Is this sick or what?
...
yup. you can't get sicker than legalized drug dealers. history has proven, again and again, that anyone who makes profit from another mans misery (i.e. drug dealers) will only ever do things that benefit themselves, not their fellow man. global pharmaceuticals are a criminal bunch, like no other
The U.S. Medical System is designed to sell drugs. End of story. It doesn't matter if they're 'generic' or 'label', it is the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists who provide the cancerous policies that have cripped American Health for the last 50 years.
...
The people 'in power' are not working in anyones best interest. The American masses still have yet to prove they are capable of doing something about that, however, which is why you get Eli Lilly setting American healthcare policy
Anything that is non-American is a target for complaint by Americans, for Americans.
... and can't see outside the box that is their own self-made border ...
... think it works the other way around, though?
... Americans have a view of their relation to the rest of the world that is not only wrong, but downright rude.
People aren't recognizing outsourcing as the positive capitalistic affect that it is, because they are, fundamentally, captives of their own government
All those Americans complaining about losing jobs to India can get Indian work visa's, easily enough
The only thing that is going to save America from itself, is Americans leaving America and living abroard for a while, so as to get their heads out of the sand and see what the world is really like, not what MTV/CNN/Disney tells you it is like
This story just highlights that fact. Americans, do something about your government; it is no longer working for you.
I warrant that, courtesy of companies like Apple, the "wannabe" vs. "professional" gap is narrowing, until in some cases, there just isn't any difference any more ...
There's not a single wannabe film junkie on the streets of Hollywood who hasn't cut some film using FCP. FCP has been 'the poor mans Avid' for years in that crowd...
... was actually called "Towards 2000" ... and they had a show on it.
i looked at the C=ONE, but couldn't find any decent software that really rocked my socks about the hardware. maybe you know of some bleeding edge stuff?
You know what I want?
...
My own search engine, running on my POSIX-capable machine, indexing and organizing 'bookmarks', though I suppose at that point they won't be called bookmarks, and thank god for that.
RIP, bookmarks!
Anyway, my own search engine need not be for anyone but me, and it can search and index and process whatever web content I feed it, for later 'search' and organization.
That would be -far- useful to me than another 'gotta be on the net' web-service
the thing that amuses me, is that there seems to be some sort of 'need' to 'keep up with the joneses' in the hardware world.
... -any- computer is still a computer.
why does the amiga -need- PCI slots? certainly, its still a computer, and still capable of being programmed to do some wild and wonderful things.
the amiga story highlights just how hyper-neurotic the computer industry is, about 'always putting new tech forward', when really
imagine if the amiga community just did its own hardware, from scratch, without much due regard for the "PC Market", and then spent a few years refining the software for that hardware?
one thing you can say about the windows world, is that it has been dancing on a spinning wheel of intense jumps in hardware capabilities, yet the software is, generally, still all crap.
Having lived in Eastern Europe, I've seen firsthand how content filtering (ostensibly for reasons of social utility) has produced a society of ill-informed, unquestioning citizens.
You don't have to go to Eastern Europe to find a society full of ill-informed, unquestioning citizens. The U.S. does just fine in this production.
Stupid people should not breed.
... seems America is up next.
Fascist. I suppose you are the one who defines stupid, eh?
Entertaining games == Rewarded murder? you're a fucking idiot. And a demagogue.
One mans entertainment is another mans murder. The Romans learned that lesson
a cynical view indeed. i hope your children never need a burn unit.
It is the parents, or guardians, job to watch over their children. It is their job to keep them from playing emotionally damaging video games at young ages.
...
... are you -SO- sure you want 7 or 8 year old boys over-dosing on sugar and methamphetamines after a 32-hour session to brave those moral waters so young?
well, since society is actually composed of indidivuals who cannot exist without parents, its soooo easy to 'blame the parents for the child'.
society, and members of society, do have a responsibility for the raising and education of future generations. yes, this starts with the family and the parents, but above and beyond that, there is -still- a degree of responsibility in our society for kids. perhaps this is a moral value rarely displayed in this decadant age, but i believe it is ignorant to keep parroting 'parents are resonsible for societies problems' every time society has horrible problems on its hands as a result of some young terror.
'blame the parent' is a trendy zombie dance, mostly parroted by people whose responsibility for social consequence is highly dubious in any regard
the issue of regulation of video games stems from one thing: profit. should we allow commerce and industry to profit from the broad simulation of violence, death, mayhem and turmoil? aren't societies supposed to protect its citizens from the effects of such madness in the human sphere?
to give a generation of children the ideals and sensibilities behind the differences between a 'head shot', a 'knife sneak', and reward them for exhibiting skills in differentiating the effectiveness of various kill methods
its not 'freedom' we're giving that sort of kid. it is conditioning. 8 hours spent blowing away zombies is 8 hours not spent learning moral applicability or pro-social behaviour.
i'd be very happy for there to be limits on how much profit a company can make from luring my kids into that world, if i had kids, and was a parent...
You are suppose to know when your "kin" is going crazy, there are signs. It's just that you choose to ignore them.
... why shouldn't hardware-accelerated 3D virtual universes be prevented from becoming hyper-tense bloodbath and gore/war simulation vehicles for all the mad doctors^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdirectors to use to perpetuate their mind games on society? oh, wait, maybe you don't think that happens ... too 'fantastic' an ideal for you ...
... surely, in the virtual world, murder is still murder? why must we glorify it and allow people to profit from the propagation of the ideal of mass murder, rewarded?
WTF? are we talking about moral human responsibility, or the New World Order? sig Heil, my sons & daughters, and don't show signs of disorder!
it is this 'coffeeshop psychology' that is the problem. morals don't allow people to scientificially and rigorously categorize each other and asses someones entire worth/value/behaviour on the basis of so-called 'empirical standards of behaviour'. are you the one who's gonna define those so-called 'warning signs', buddy? because if you are i wanna see your -full- qualifications. show me your papers, comrade, and tell me what school of in vogue pop psychology you are currently subscribed to!
morals, which are -vital- to human society, simply give each human a basis of association, a way for two people to relate to each other. if i know you are a pr0n-hoarding-sex-fiend, and i happen to not be one, then we have a basis of understanding and prediction in the ways we can consequently relate. if, instead, you've got some relativistic 'chart' in your head that lists 'warning signs' that i'm gonna become a homocidal maniac, and are always placing me on it, then there's -always- going to be Columbines.. because there is no way i'm going to stand for such discriminatory behaviour.
anything less than a moral association between two or more humans is a fascist-tainted system. those Columbine kids were American Fascists, whose value systems were entirely based on corrupted coffeeshop pscyhology.
Where's the limit of blame here? Instead of looking at the person who makes the game for a specific audience, how about look at the person who should be responscible?
well, why not cover -all- angles, and even regulate those who would covertly use culture and art to moderate and control behaviour of citizenry on a massive level? videogame developers are far, far, far from being innocent purveyors of need and moral substance
anyway
(thats what the average FPS is: rewarded murder)
yeah ... but its brainless to make a web-gallery generating script which takes a well organized hierarchy of directories containing images, spits out html, and doesn't require much else than that...
...
...
sure, its nice to have that all wrapped up in a GUI for you, but there are plenty of album/gallery apps in freshmeat, which run in PHP, and integrate well with a local Apache install, and which provide -all- of the same functionality as iPhoto
the difference is just in the 'way' that the user can accomplish these things under linux. for some reason, 'scripts' don't count, regardless of how clever, smart, and productive they are when you use them
its not 'insinuation', its fact. there are a lot of un-parented kids in the world - do you really want generations to grow up, unsupervised, unguarded, with the notion that human slaughter, death and mayhem are a commercial substance made viable by our society and propagated?
society is already value-less enough as it is. why should our commercial art forms -only- be used to further debase these values even further?
i'm not for censorship and enforcement on the issue of culture and art-forms, but if there is a continual refusal to take responsibility for the relationship of trash media to moral decay, then we either a) continue to live with Columbines, or b) structure our society in a way that encourages positivity, rather than entropy and death worship.
just because the religious get involved in this debate does not mean that it is without merit, nor that it is important for society to consider the validity of the "health of the mob" when dealing with the spread or entropy of morality
, '...our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up.
Only fat, bloated Consumericans could possibly find any kind of sentiment of any worth from such a statement.