(just like, oh, I don't know... all the other US companies that do manufacturing there... but we won't talk about that, otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy cheap goods here in the US)
Hrm. I'll take that option, as there are plenty of other non-slave labor countries (hint: the ones that rejected the EU constitution might be a good place to start, not the countries nearby to China). This would be an option for what cannot be done in the US - and I'd bet we'd even get better quality manufacturing for every EU/SA product that was previously made in China/TW.
Maybe it's time the rest of the world bites the bullet and not deal with this minority in Asia. It sure beats taking the same bullet, as well as making it.
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One way to stop it is to outright allow every US Citizen (by birth, to help prevent Internationals from endrunning it) unencumbered access to any US University, ending the distinction between public/private.
You just apply, prove citizenship and attend - with the admissions capped at 10% of whatever the Internationals pay. If they want to take jobs, it's only right to protect our own as they protect their own in their home countries.
If this continues, you raise the rates for Internationals and decrease the rates of the Domestics.
You dont have to touch the educational standards, just have to keep the doors open for domestic students who seem to be shut out from meaningful education.
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Ironically, it's also the book Ford cited when it took the knife to its belly a few weeks ago...
You misspelled heart.
There's something good about a company that cant be had with doing things haphazardly cheap with slave labored components. It's only recently that "free market" measures have been implemented to green light something that looks nothing that is free trade, let alone being anything you could call "trade" wrt jobs. (Pro-globalization folks, please get out of the East/West coast and see flyover country for a while- and the Waltons dont count. They're exceptions to the "Dont Do Evil" Midwest.)
Knowing Harvard and how they damn well like to exclude(until somebody figures out how to do forcible no-nonsense admission and convince that it's better to keep the choice in the domestic student's hand), I presume the red ocean is the shark tank where every other idea goes against each other with nothing coming out alive.
Verizon could easily route through a friendly provider that isnt blacklisted.
If they all try it, then not even all the dark fiber in the hands of Those Who Do Evil (aka Google) will be given back such favor. However it'd be better to not blacklist them- just make Google suck through a 300 baud straw to any destination, or drop, depending on provider in a manner that isnt a form of collusion.
Obviously you havent seen it done well, and in the right way in various European and (ahem) Asian countries. Just make the backbone Socialist to maintain existence, and just allow people to do almost whatever off that backbone. Even Verizon could win on this one.
Maybe when the incentive is to not bite thy neighbor's head off, but to actually cooperate - you can get things done that are best done with a good deal of cooperation.
...BMW drivers all over Palo Alto are somehow locked out of their cars, coincidentally affecting some Google employees. No word yet on if this affects all cars globally, or if this is a localized problem.
If you look at their products, you'll see a culture of exclusivists at every point. Sure, it's nothing to have Google quaking in its boots, but I'm glad Google is being humbled. The job will be done if the following examples can be nothing more than history.
The Search Engine: Built by a university that couldnt get a Midwesterner from a state college if they were outsmarted by one.
Orkut: Trusted friends is an euphemism best left at "elitism". When they can make this public, it will be a nice day for many.
Unfortunately, as long as regulation can be made, the practicality of any situation with respect to economics is that it's Adapt, Regulate the disruption favorably, or Regulate a peaceful transition - favorable only to the displaced (you already got your disruption, time to trade that for allowing the displaced to become productive and creative).
Another thing - until there are no selective places of education to take care of the knowledge problem, there will always be the problem of this type. I'd wonder how Google would have done today, had there been no exclusion to entering any university, especially Stanford - and I'm guessing there'd be a good deal more success.
When you're a preferred trading partner 1bn+ strong, you can do damn near anything you want. Have your own WMD's in back yard. Violate human rights laws while making low quality components. Even cause havoc in any form you want in the name of "free [to exploit] trade"
Well, but you do have the extra added cost of launching/housing said extraterrestrials in/from secure areas. Area 51 doesnt come cheap. Nor do its workers.
I will say one thing though, an american degree is still highly valuable Presuming you can: 1)Afford $128000 minimum over 4 years without loans 2)Have enough connections to nullify #1 3)Have enough to live on minimally to get through said 4 years if you have no Skull and Bones equivalent membership. 4)Get admitted to a University that places people in H1B-free, highly paid territory if asked. 5)Graduate and have a job before the next H1B crazy administration gets in.
Unfortunately, to even do that, you would have to nationalize the admissions process, guaranteeing any US Citizen (preferably by birth, or by naturalized citizenship) non-waitlisted admission to any college, fully funded for all 4 years due to H1B quotas.
You could also sell your soul, but we already know what happens to you in the end.
Unfortunately, given how Google operates, I'll side with Bellsouth on this one - and wonder what would happen if Bellsouth convinced anyone they could that was peering Google to drop them.
Y'know, Google is evil, regardless of what small things that are done, they still are the Stanford Nexus with all the same issues that keep them from being anything but evil.
Apply Occam's Razor. Select the most likely of the two following scenarios:
1. The programmers of the bidding site were actually incompetent enough to oversee this very obvious flaw. 2. The GSA ordered a backdoor in the system to manipulate the biddings and to allow bribes to flow easier.
Unfortunately, this is a case where both A *and* B have both equal possibilities.
Play Lineage II for a while, and see how the bots operate - it's not the easy path to do, but since they code their own utilities to read the field, establish ways of avoiding bans, and possibly have contracted territories, it's not an easy decision to make. They even have their own servers officially for their country, and it is more likely to be kicked off theirs than to have the US servers ban them - and even the non-botting populations take advantage knowing that the only time they really enforce their rules is if you're costing them (or the farmers) money in some large amount.
Search for "everred lineage" or "Farm The Farmers Day" to get an idea why one would have to deal with farmers this harshly.
Institutionalized racism would only drive the farmers to countries that would be more US friendly, which would only make the problem worse - this would even apply if you were to launch a copy of a botting program in the States, as even US'ians bot and farm.
- All RMT activity banned due to angry players commiting mass PK on farmer bosses outside the game. - Agreement to ban whole countries and regions along with anyone involved with botting/farming operations. - Credit/Check card address verification to enforce bans. - Suspected bots encouraged to be marked as no-penalty kills during investigation. - Users are marked by world region.
Sell off the Powerbook for a premium, and get yourself a z60m or wait for the T60p. Unlike Apple, they're quite well documented in repairs, and can be upgradable as they're built to be worked on(but are fine without it).
If you really have to be this concerned with power in the laptop, Apple really isnt going to go that direction with portables, and the closest you really can come is a T42p/T43p/z60m or wait for the dual core T60p.
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(just like, oh, I don't know ... all the other US companies that do manufacturing there ... but we won't talk about that, otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy cheap goods here in the US)
Hrm. I'll take that option, as there are plenty of other non-slave labor countries (hint: the ones that rejected the EU constitution might be a good place to start, not the countries nearby to China). This would be an option for what cannot be done in the US - and I'd bet we'd even get better quality manufacturing for every EU/SA product that was previously made in China/TW.
Maybe it's time the rest of the world bites the bullet and not deal with this minority in Asia. It sure beats taking the same bullet, as well as making it.
One way to stop it is to outright allow every US Citizen (by birth, to help prevent Internationals from endrunning it) unencumbered access to any US University, ending the distinction between public/private.
You just apply, prove citizenship and attend - with the admissions capped at 10% of whatever the Internationals pay. If they want to take jobs, it's only right to protect our own as they protect their own in their home countries.
If this continues, you raise the rates for Internationals and decrease the rates of the Domestics.
You dont have to touch the educational standards, just have to keep the doors open for domestic students who seem to be shut out from meaningful education.
It's either crash the economy or don't block prot 443
Well, for the other 3-4/5 of the world that's having their economies ruined by them, it's a bit of karmic justice.
Just select the text from the PDF and copy it over. There's where your missing words went.
Farce, never!
Ironically, it's also the book Ford cited when it took the knife to its belly a few weeks ago...
You misspelled heart.
There's something good about a company that cant be had with doing things haphazardly cheap with slave labored components. It's only recently that "free market" measures have been implemented to green light something that looks nothing that is free trade, let alone being anything you could call "trade" wrt jobs. (Pro-globalization folks, please get out of the East/West coast and see flyover country for a while- and the Waltons dont count. They're exceptions to the "Dont Do Evil" Midwest.)
Knowing Harvard and how they damn well like to exclude(until somebody figures out how to do forcible no-nonsense admission and convince that it's better to keep the choice in the domestic student's hand), I presume the red ocean is the shark tank where every other idea goes against each other with nothing coming out alive.
Verizon could easily route through a friendly provider that isnt blacklisted.
If they all try it, then not even all the dark fiber in the hands of Those Who Do Evil (aka Google) will be given back such favor. However it'd be better to not blacklist them- just make Google suck through a 300 baud straw to any destination, or drop, depending on provider in a manner that isnt a form of collusion.
Obviously you havent seen it done well, and in the right way in various European and (ahem) Asian countries. Just make the backbone Socialist to maintain existence, and just allow people to do almost whatever off that backbone. Even Verizon could win on this one.
Maybe when the incentive is to not bite thy neighbor's head off, but to actually cooperate - you can get things done that are best done with a good deal of cooperation.
...BMW drivers all over Palo Alto are somehow locked out of their cars, coincidentally affecting some Google employees. No word yet on if this affects all cars globally, or if this is a localized problem.
If you look at their products, you'll see a culture of exclusivists at every point. Sure, it's nothing to have Google quaking in its boots, but I'm glad Google is being humbled. The job will be done if the following examples can be nothing more than history.
The Search Engine: Built by a university that couldnt get a Midwesterner from a state college if they were outsmarted by one.
Orkut: Trusted friends is an euphemism best left at "elitism". When they can make this public, it will be a nice day for many.
Gmail: See above.
Components of Adsense: See Orkut.
Unfortunately, as long as regulation can be made, the practicality of any situation with respect to economics is that it's Adapt, Regulate the disruption favorably, or Regulate a peaceful transition - favorable only to the displaced (you already got your disruption, time to trade that for allowing the displaced to become productive and creative).
Another thing - until there are no selective places of education to take care of the knowledge problem, there will always be the problem of this type. I'd wonder how Google would have done today, had there been no exclusion to entering any university, especially Stanford - and I'm guessing there'd be a good deal more success.
When you're a preferred trading partner 1bn+ strong, you can do damn near anything you want. Have your own WMD's in back yard. Violate human rights laws while making low quality components. Even cause havoc in any form you want in the name of "free [to exploit] trade"
Unfortunately, that works only in rarity, and usually fails if you have lobbyists in defense.
Well, but you do have the extra added cost of launching/housing said extraterrestrials in/from secure areas. Area 51 doesnt come cheap. Nor do its workers.
I will say one thing though, an american degree is still highly valuable
Presuming you can:
1)Afford $128000 minimum over 4 years without loans
2)Have enough connections to nullify #1
3)Have enough to live on minimally to get through said 4 years if you have no Skull and Bones equivalent membership.
4)Get admitted to a University that places people in H1B-free, highly paid territory if asked.
5)Graduate and have a job before the next H1B crazy administration gets in.
Unfortunately, to even do that, you would have to nationalize the admissions process, guaranteeing any US Citizen (preferably by birth, or by naturalized citizenship) non-waitlisted admission to any college, fully funded for all 4 years due to H1B quotas.
You could also sell your soul, but we already know what happens to you in the end.
However, it will not harm farmers, and can be summoned by any farmer if being harmed.
...And if they convince anyone peering Google to drop them?
Unfortunately, given how Google operates, I'll side with Bellsouth on this one - and wonder what would happen if Bellsouth convinced anyone they could that was peering Google to drop them.
Y'know, Google is evil, regardless of what small things that are done, they still are the Stanford Nexus with all the same issues that keep them from being anything but evil.
Apply Occam's Razor. Select the most likely of the two following scenarios:
1. The programmers of the bidding site were actually incompetent enough to oversee this very obvious flaw.
2. The GSA ordered a backdoor in the system to manipulate the biddings and to allow bribes to flow easier.
Unfortunately, this is a case where both A *and* B have both equal possibilities.
Play Lineage II for a while, and see how the bots operate - it's not the easy path to do, but since they code their own utilities to read the field, establish ways of avoiding bans, and possibly have contracted territories, it's not an easy decision to make. They even have their own servers officially for their country, and it is more likely to be kicked off theirs than to have the US servers ban them - and even the non-botting populations take advantage knowing that the only time they really enforce their rules is if you're costing them (or the farmers) money in some large amount.
Search for "everred lineage" or "Farm The Farmers Day" to get an idea why one would have to deal with farmers this harshly.
Institutionalized racism would only drive the farmers to countries that would be more US friendly, which would only make the problem worse - this would even apply if you were to launch a copy of a botting program in the States, as even US'ians bot and farm.
"That's not a planet, it's a Katamari!"
- All RMT activity banned due to angry players commiting mass PK on farmer bosses outside the game.
- Agreement to ban whole countries and regions along with anyone involved with botting/farming operations.
- Credit/Check card address verification to enforce bans.
- Suspected bots encouraged to be marked as no-penalty kills during investigation.
- Users are marked by world region.
No way, no how. The cheap solution is always going to leave something out - quality.
Sell off the Powerbook for a premium, and get yourself a z60m or wait for the T60p. Unlike Apple, they're quite well documented in repairs, and can be upgradable as they're built to be worked on(but are fine without it).
If you really have to be this concerned with power in the laptop, Apple really isnt going to go that direction with portables, and the closest you really can come is a T42p/T43p/z60m or wait for the dual core T60p.