"But still" what? You roundly and profoundly disassembled the straw man you put forth based on a story that I can't find any details on. Good job.
No details were provided in the guardian article someone above listed and the linked article is hosed, so don't be shocked if this doesn't uproot the status-quo view of outsourcing. Many of us have seen quite the opposite of this story in action.
I think it's pretty clear if you do _any_ research into the topic, it wasn't because we didn't have a standing army. Everything I've ever read in context shows that the founders meant specifically that the citizenry would have the capacity to overthrow it's own government, should the need arise.
Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
It doesn't have a damned thing to do with hunting. Whether or not it's _needed_ is a worthy debate, as is what constitutes a well regulated militia. However, your perspective is a-historical and quite off the mark.
I've a short counter-example. I remember a couple years ago my cousin lost a child in a tragic incident of SID. My cousin was a strong believer, as was my father, and they were both praying reverently at the funeral for the child to come back from the dead. It was the most painful and agonizing thing I think I've ever watched. There's not a person alive that could claim that it was a lack of faith, hope, or obedience on the part of those two. The only thing that was missing was an Intervener that listens to prayers. Of course, one can always say "He works in mysterious ways" and the like, but claiming divine intervention selectively is just wish thinking.
The problem is, you present 2 examples as evidence, but they're not. They are two data points.Evidence suggests it isn't effective, though many of us wish it were, myself included.
Calling Swartz "weak" is a callous and ignorant thing to say, but I don't think it's psychopathic. I'd liken it more to demonizing someone to insulate from thoughts of having that same capacity.
I'm always amazed at the ideas that folks come up with on this topic. It seems obvious a punitive tax like that would simply drive the manufacturing and selling of ammunition to the black market and further empower police and lawbreakers at the expense of liberty and self-reliance for law abiding citizens.
That's an interesting study, but I wish it were a double blind study over multiple years and influenza strains. Too many potential confounding variables for me to make too much of a judgement, particularly on the sick leave.
That seems wrong, particularly because of all the debt the poor and middle class carry around that would be lessened by inflation. The price of labor should rise with inflation the same way commodities do (ostensibly). Those with reserves of currency and little earning potential seem the most adversely affected, which I would imagine is the elderly, not the poor or middle class.
All 29 contain elements of truth, but they prove nothing, even if all were 100% true. One could create a different list of insecurities, challenges, and responsibilities borne by whites and males, and it wouldn't mean a damned thing. It certainly wouldn't mean that whites and males can't be the victims of sexism and racism, which is a complete non-sequitur.
You're right, I've never been so aware of my own privilege until I found out that women are _required_ to spend more time and money grooming themselves. I'm convinced that neutral definitions of what it means to be sexist or racist are completely trumped by this finely referenced and balanced set of documents.
My grandparents (of age 80+, card carrying NRA members and republicans) own a ranch in rural Texas. They drive a light truck on the ranch (used to be a Chevy luv, I forget what now), and a big truck for hauling around stock. The bumper sticker on the big truck says "Ranchers, the original environmentalists".
The ranch features wind powered water pumps that were put up by my grandfather's father. There's likely more diversity of thought out there than you realize.
The average teacher salary in 1990 for NY was $42k source, much less an in-demand technology job in 2012. You're goddamned right a programmer is "entitled" to "look down" on that salary (read: expect a fair wage).
Though I imagine you're likely right about CanHasDIY's taking liberty with one comment or the other, those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I know of a couple repair shops that have limped along for years, and while they aren't rolling in the dough they are making some headway this year.
That's a useful criticism, glad you took time to write. I'm sure your superiour vintages cannot be matched by our Texas swill, please continue to lambast from afar.
For those who could be convinced otherwise, meet me here and we can discuss some finer points.
I always took care of my own retirement and never thought that it was anyone's elses responsibility
I agree with the sentiment, but the sad fact is that a significant number of people aren't going to take that responsibility seriously. I don't think our society (rightly) has the gall and callous to let folks starve in the streets when they don't put away money for retirement. Something like pensions and social security is necessary if we aren't willing to call the bluff for those who don't plan for the future.
I enjoy my work so I do extraordinary well at it.
We're not likely to make it far with a macro-economic policy that is predicated on extra-ordinary output. We would do better to maximize what we can get from folks with more ordinary output (or at least cut our collective losses), as the extra-ordinary need less oversight to be productive members of society.
I think you may have a point on the advent of less car ownership, but if electric were feasible for taxis as you described then public bus transit would already be electric, as they are even better suited for such a routine. That does not appear to be the case.
well polls suggest that the vast majority of Muslims support strict enforcement of sharia law. I think there's enough evidence of to confirm the GP's statement that we'd need counter evidence to infer anything else.
It bears mentioning that the "shouting fire in crowded theater" test was used from it's very utterance to convict a man for distributing leaflets opposing the WW1 draft, in my mind precisely what freedom of speech is meant to protect. As such, laws to lessen the potential to inflict harm via speech must be directly weighed against the potential of the law to suppress unfavorable speech, as both of these are of core importance.
You're pretending there isn't a powerful hatred for Microsoft among techies, particularly in the Unix camp. I deal with the this sort of smugness frequently at work, from otherwise quite professional and sharp people.
just as an aside, you can switch directly to apps by hitting windows key + # to switch directly to an app (organized by the location on the taskbar), and can alternate between apps grouped that way by repeatedly hitting that combination.
I think the more likely irony is that the idea wasn't novel to begin with, and that Wvmarle, true to slashdot form, stated the obvious after having not RTFA.
Apple's resources give them the ability to make things people actually want.
People also want cheap. If it's isn't brand recognition that's driving the "luxury" price, then when a competitor achieves reasonably similar results for cheaper, things will change. I would say that Apple's phone "reign" was relatively short lived, I would expect the same for the tablet.
Your response is pretty much a straw man. epyT-R was lamenting the fate of the socially awkward (irrespective of the harassment context) and waxing nostalgic about some ideological hacker code, and suddenly you drug him into your office on some trumped up charges that exist nowhere in his sad commentary. You might look a little deeper into the situation before you start summarily browbeating and dismissing your employees.
I agreed that it's somewhat obnoxious in public, but a good voice command is vastly superior way to interface with my phone for some tasks in private environments and especially while driving. I can say "navigate to Foo Bar " or even something like "text John Smith I'm running 10 minutes behind" and google has been quite impressive at resolving these commands.
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"But still" what? You roundly and profoundly disassembled the straw man you put forth based on a story that I can't find any details on. Good job.
No details were provided in the guardian article someone above listed and the linked article is hosed, so don't be shocked if this doesn't uproot the status-quo view of outsourcing. Many of us have seen quite the opposite of this story in action.
I think it's pretty clear if you do _any_ research into the topic, it wasn't because we didn't have a standing army. Everything I've ever read in context shows that the founders meant specifically that the citizenry would have the capacity to overthrow it's own government, should the need arise.
Jefferson:
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
It doesn't have a damned thing to do with hunting. Whether or not it's _needed_ is a worthy debate, as is what constitutes a well regulated militia. However, your perspective is a-historical and quite off the mark.
I've a short counter-example. I remember a couple years ago my cousin lost a child in a tragic incident of SID. My cousin was a strong believer, as was my father, and they were both praying reverently at the funeral for the child to come back from the dead. It was the most painful and agonizing thing I think I've ever watched. There's not a person alive that could claim that it was a lack of faith, hope, or obedience on the part of those two. The only thing that was missing was an Intervener that listens to prayers. Of course, one can always say "He works in mysterious ways" and the like, but claiming divine intervention selectively is just wish thinking.
The problem is, you present 2 examples as evidence, but they're not. They are two data points. Evidence suggests it isn't effective, though many of us wish it were, myself included.
Calling Swartz "weak" is a callous and ignorant thing to say, but I don't think it's psychopathic. I'd liken it more to demonizing someone to insulate from thoughts of having that same capacity.
I'm always amazed at the ideas that folks come up with on this topic. It seems obvious a punitive tax like that would simply drive the manufacturing and selling of ammunition to the black market and further empower police and lawbreakers at the expense of liberty and self-reliance for law abiding citizens.
That's an interesting study, but I wish it were a double blind study over multiple years and influenza strains. Too many potential confounding variables for me to make too much of a judgement, particularly on the sick leave.
That seems wrong, particularly because of all the debt the poor and middle class carry around that would be lessened by inflation. The price of labor should rise with inflation the same way commodities do (ostensibly). Those with reserves of currency and little earning potential seem the most adversely affected, which I would imagine is the elderly, not the poor or middle class.
All 29 contain elements of truth, but they prove nothing, even if all were 100% true. One could create a different list of insecurities, challenges, and responsibilities borne by whites and males, and it wouldn't mean a damned thing. It certainly wouldn't mean that whites and males can't be the victims of sexism and racism, which is a complete non-sequitur.
You're right, I've never been so aware of my own privilege until I found out that women are _required_ to spend more time and money grooming themselves. I'm convinced that neutral definitions of what it means to be sexist or racist are completely trumped by this finely referenced and balanced set of documents.
My grandparents (of age 80+, card carrying NRA members and republicans) own a ranch in rural Texas. They drive a light truck on the ranch (used to be a Chevy luv, I forget what now), and a big truck for hauling around stock. The bumper sticker on the big truck says "Ranchers, the original environmentalists".
The ranch features wind powered water pumps that were put up by my grandfather's father. There's likely more diversity of thought out there than you realize.
Short term fluctuations of "market capitalization" oughtn't influence any business decisions nor be interpreted as rational responses to them.
The average teacher salary in 1990 for NY was $42k source, much less an in-demand technology job in 2012. You're goddamned right a programmer is "entitled" to "look down" on that salary (read: expect a fair wage).
Though I imagine you're likely right about CanHasDIY's taking liberty with one comment or the other, those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I know of a couple repair shops that have limped along for years, and while they aren't rolling in the dough they are making some headway this year.
That's a useful criticism, glad you took time to write. I'm sure your superiour vintages cannot be matched by our Texas swill, please continue to lambast from afar.
For those who could be convinced otherwise, meet me here and we can discuss some finer points.
I always took care of my own retirement and never thought that it was anyone's elses responsibility
I agree with the sentiment, but the sad fact is that a significant number of people aren't going to take that responsibility seriously. I don't think our society (rightly) has the gall and callous to let folks starve in the streets when they don't put away money for retirement. Something like pensions and social security is necessary if we aren't willing to call the bluff for those who don't plan for the future.
I enjoy my work so I do extraordinary well at it.
We're not likely to make it far with a macro-economic policy that is predicated on extra-ordinary output. We would do better to maximize what we can get from folks with more ordinary output (or at least cut our collective losses), as the extra-ordinary need less oversight to be productive members of society.
I think you may have a point on the advent of less car ownership, but if electric were feasible for taxis as you described then public bus transit would already be electric, as they are even better suited for such a routine. That does not appear to be the case.
well polls suggest that the vast majority of Muslims support strict enforcement of sharia law. I think there's enough evidence of to confirm the GP's statement that we'd need counter evidence to infer anything else.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb09/STARTII_Feb09_rpt.pdf
"on the backs of middle class citizens", because that's not who pays the taxes.
if you mean the middle class doesn't pay it's share of taxes, you are wrong.
-citation
If we're talking about the 99% vs 1%, the 99% is paying a close to 2/3 of the taxes.
It bears mentioning that the "shouting fire in crowded theater" test was used from it's very utterance to convict a man for distributing leaflets opposing the WW1 draft, in my mind precisely what freedom of speech is meant to protect. As such, laws to lessen the potential to inflict harm via speech must be directly weighed against the potential of the law to suppress unfavorable speech, as both of these are of core importance.
You're pretending there isn't a powerful hatred for Microsoft among techies, particularly in the Unix camp. I deal with the this sort of smugness frequently at work, from otherwise quite professional and sharp people.
just as an aside, you can switch directly to apps by hitting windows key + # to switch directly to an app (organized by the location on the taskbar), and can alternate between apps grouped that way by repeatedly hitting that combination.
I think the more likely irony is that the idea wasn't novel to begin with, and that Wvmarle, true to slashdot form, stated the obvious after having not RTFA.
Apple's resources give them the ability to make things people actually want.
People also want cheap. If it's isn't brand recognition that's driving the "luxury" price, then when a competitor achieves reasonably similar results for cheaper, things will change. I would say that Apple's phone "reign" was relatively short lived, I would expect the same for the tablet.
Your response is pretty much a straw man. epyT-R was lamenting the fate of the socially awkward (irrespective of the harassment context) and waxing nostalgic about some ideological hacker code, and suddenly you drug him into your office on some trumped up charges that exist nowhere in his sad commentary. You might look a little deeper into the situation before you start summarily browbeating and dismissing your employees.
I agreed that it's somewhat obnoxious in public, but a good voice command is vastly superior way to interface with my phone for some tasks in private environments and especially while driving. I can say "navigate to Foo Bar " or even something like "text John Smith I'm running 10 minutes behind" and google has been quite impressive at resolving these commands.