What sort of burner and disks are you using? My DVD burner is advertised to work at 8x, but only burns at 0.5x. This means it can take all day to burn a DVD, and if something goes wrong it's a coaster. I really want to know how to fix this because I want to copy DVDs but my burner is just atrocious, and it cost me 50 quid!
Nah, it won't. Films are still too large to download. The big thing about mp3s was that for the first time they were small enough to download on a dial-up connection. And they could be played on any media player.
How big are films these days? DVDs can be over 4 gigabytes. That's above a lot of people's monthly caps. Yes you can get lower-quality files, but the eyes are more sensitive than the ears when it comes to imperfections. And all the different formats out makes playing them a game of russian roulette. There's mpeg, avi, wma, quicktime, and probably a lot of others. Mp3 was a standard which you could play anywhere, and there was no DRM, any films released legitimately over the Internet will probably be on some obscure format which requires a proprietary player and DRM.
On my connection it would be faster to orde the DVD and wait for it to be delivered than to download it.
That's only $1,825 a year. Do you have any proposals for a scheme which would give a decent return on investment? Perhaps if you bought a thousand laptops under sucha scheme, that would give you 1.8 million laptops. Although the problems then would be when they decided to stop giving you insurance after you 'lost' a hundred laptops. You'd need more people in this scheme, although they'd want their own cut and that would eat into the profits.
You're assuming that the thief knows all this. How many people who steal laptops know much about computers? How many of them don't even know what af firewall is, but steal a laptop and then sell it for 50 quid down the pub a few hours later?
Most thieves aren't computer experts. And as most laptops won't have this 'anti-thief' technology, they won't be expecting it, they'll probably never have heard of it. They'll think it's going to be sellable, so they'll still steal it.
Although even if this device 'phones the law', by the time the police bother to get involved (12 weeks later), the laptop will have passed through half a dozen hands.
From this, I can conclude two points:
1. The technology won't stop any thieving at all. 2. If your laptop is stolen, by the time it manages to report it to the police, it will be too late.
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That's not exactly impossible. If like me you're completely unattractive to the opposite sex, then you're destined to be a virgin for life. Nothing we can do about it, but it could be worse. When there are people in the world with cancer, poverty, starvation etc., not ever having sex isn't all that bad in comparision.
That Malda gobshite put the website up for the sole reason of having people visit it. Hence the graphics. That's how the web works, everyone knows that.
The situations are not even comparable. When the criminal in question accessed the access point, he KNEW he wasn't supposed to be there. He knew he was doing wrong, but he kept doing it anyway, because he has no respect for others. I for one would not abuse open wireless points, it would be bad form. I would ask permission first, as would any gentleman.
So what if their market share increases if they're not making any money? As it stands, they make a good living. There's more to the Internet than PCs on your desk at home.
The thought of a fat pasty geek in a bikini is NOT something which makes me want to eat my dinner. Please refrain from making such posts in the future.
In this industry, if you're not going forwards, you're going backwards. The Debian team have just rested on their laurels, the system has stagnated and it slowly becoming obsolete.
As a computer programmer, you want to be doing things. You want to be making new things, innovating, making progress. It must be soul destroying to sit there on the same slow project, not much getting done, testing the same old packages over and over again, because the management don't have the gumption to get it released and think it's still 1995. It's not a surprise that they're struggling to find people to work on it. And when they do find people, they're not exactly welcoming.
Another problem is that a lot of the benefits for using Debian have evaporated. Other distros have good package installers; apt was good, but gentoo have pretty much stolen its thunder, and you can get equivalents for the other distros. Other distros are just as stable and reliable nowadays. And they manage it with newer packages, so the argument that 'old is reliable' doesn't hold as much sway.
If I were making a distro, I'd want it to have some sort of 'killer' feature, something that sets it apart from the rest. Debian doesn't have that anymore. Progress in open source software moves FAST. Faster than the Debian team can keep up with.
Good point. Linux doesn't support any of my 3 internal modems, and I'm having trouble finding one which states it is supported by Linux. That is what's keeping me on Windows, even though all the best programmes are on Linux.
I've installed open BSD which is probably going to be even worse. That's if I can get it working.
On an off-topic note: Does anyone know why my hard disk sometimes keeps randomly switching off? Like, when I'm accessing some data, every few seconds there'll be a click and a whirr. I have a second hard disk, and sometimes that doesn't work at all. When I unplug the power on the second disk, the first one works a lot better. Also the first one gets very hot, and doesn't seem to be as noisy as before. It works fine though.
On another off-topic note, why doesn't BSD read my Linux or Windows partitions? It managed to read the windows one to install the packages, but every time I try to mount it myself it give some error.
Many people in the past didn't lock their doors and windows. They left them unlocked and yet weren't robbed. But then, people had respect for each other's property. However these days, unless every entrance into your house is bolted shut, it gets burgled. Kids today think they're entitled to anything they have access to.
In fact in some parts of the world today, you can leave your front door unlocked and you won't be burgled. In those places they don't have that sense of entitlement to everything, and they have respect for other people. Of course kids aren't brought up properly today.
No discipline, no punishment, teachers aren't so much as allowed to shout at them, parents aren't allowed to smack them, generations of ill-disciplined thieves with no respect for authority, no respect for the law, and no respect for each other. That same attitude infests Slashdot, but for the Internet rather than the real world. A lot of people round here think that if it's on the Internet, and they can get away with it, they can do it.
If there's an MP3, you can download it, and it's the record companies fault for charging too much money or being too evil.
If there's an open wireless point, you can access it illegally, and it's the owner's fault for not padlocking it shut.
If there's a computer on the Internet, you can hack into it, and it's not your fault, it's the admin's fault for not securing it. In fact breaking into computers should be rewarded without high paying jobs, because you're showing how insecure it is, and reading about a hole on a security website or writing a ten-line virus makes you some sort of genius.
If you run a porn site that lets children on, it's not your fault, it's the parents fault for not monitoring their children's Internet access. But of course if they DO monitor it, the same Slashdotters can complain that the parents are infringing on their children's rights to do whatever the hell they want.
In fact, why not go one stage further? Simply declare that anyone who reads Slashdot is allowed to do whatever they want if it's on a computer. That includes hacking, copyright-infringement, illegal porn and anything else, because Slashdotters deserve everything they can take just for being clever enough to install Linux.
And for good measure:
If you send spam, it's the recepient's fault for receiving it. Look at it this way, if you put a sign above your letter box saying 'please enter messages here', is it illegal for people to put messages in? If someone is sent spam, it's their own fault for not securing their e-mail system (i.e. having a whitelist).
It's funny how the concensus around here seems to be: a. If it is beneficial to Slashdotters, it's OK. b. If it's not beneficial to Slashdotters, it's illegal and evil and immoral.
Actual law and ethics never seem to come into it, unless it's convenient.
Raped? Whatever. She was asking for it. The BBC doesn't give many details, but from what I've read in the Daily Sport, she happily sucked his cock and swallowed his load. She's just after a payout.
Let me tell you something about our jobs. It's NOT all about intelligence. It's about intelligence, experience, diligence, the ability to tolerate being called at 3:30 AM plus a lot of other shit. In other words, it's something we have to 'earn'
Do you think people in India don't get called in at 3:30am? The point I'm trying to make is, you only got that job in the first place cos of where you were born. If you were born in Madagascar to a family of rice-farmers, you'd be farming rice today. In fact you'd never have seen a computer. You'd be stuck doing meaningless, mindless work for no benefit, living in a mud-hut, regardless of how intelligent you are. And that's a situation which is wrong.
What's your skillset right now? Don't say nothing, because that's bullshit. Even swinging a hammer is a skill, and being a hard worker counts for a lot too
I can't even swing a hammer. The most I can do is horrible production line work, which is what I'm trying to get out of. I don't want to work hard either, I want a nice desk job where I can sit at a computer or something doing fuck all, just tossing it off.
Plus, you're on slashdot, so I have a feeling that you've got at least some interest in computers which means that you've probably accumulated a bit of technical knowledge.
Not really, I just come here out of routine. Sort of gives me a bit of pseudo-social contact, which is better than nothing, but still shit. I just skim over the comments and post things, more often than not being modded down because I disagree with the hive-mind. I don't know much about computers. I spend all day on them, but don't know anything. I can't programme, I can't run all the fancy software, I don't know anything about system administration, I don't know anything.
For all the time I've spent at this computer just passing time, if I'd been learning to programme, I'd probably be a fantastic programmer by now. I mean I've been using computers for like 10 years, I'm on it for at least 40-50 hours a week, I just don't do anything, I just refresh Slashdot and a few other sites.
I used to be into programming, I used to download all these compilers, all these guides to learning languages, but I never got anywhere with it. I wrote like 50 lines of C and got bored. I installed Linux, and Open BSD, but never did anything with them othe than play with the themes and settings. Now I have no knowledge at all and work in a dead-end factory job.
Actually it is prosecutable. Downloading copyrighted material for which you have no permission to do so is illegal. In fact it's a criminal offence.
I don't often support the moderation system, but in this case the parent poster must be modded down so is post is invisible, as he is giving misinformation which could lead to people committing criminal acts when they think they are legal. Why he was modded up I do not know, the moderator must be a pirate.
Well, so now you can't live off the graft of your ancestors, you have to actually compete on a more even playing field like everyone else. The term that applies here is: 'tough shit'.
If IT jobs are as trivial as you think, go get one - I'm sure you're so smart it won't cost you a left leg.
I never said I was smart. I'm no good with computers. But don't think you're special just because you were born with high intelligence. It's nothing you had to earn.
As for being insulting and disrespectful, it's about time computer programmers were brought down a notch or two.
Yes, that's right: they were born in the country that invested its tax dollars in R&D.
What does that have to do with anything? The FACT is, that if you're American and better off than someone in the 3rd world, it's because of where you were born, not what you did. If you'd have been born in Ethiopia you wouldn't have had any dollars to invest in R&D because you'd be trying to find enough food to survive. It's not investment, just luck. You were born in America, therefore you had it better. Well, that's coming to an end, thankfully.
How many of those American tax dollars have gone to propping up third world dictatorships keeping people living in poverty? Of course you're not happy to see jobs going abroad, that would be like the turkeys being happy to see Christmas. No-one owes you a job just because you're white and you drive an SUV.
And I have no sympathy for people that won't get off their ass and change their lives if they feel they need to.
You mean like all the IT workers being laid off or doing mandatory overtime? It's all well and good to criticise us working-class types when all you do is complain.
and when I was at my desk, I definately did not have air conditioning.
You didn't need it, because you weren't doing hard labour.
So why the hell aren't you asking questions and learning so you can gain some usable skills and move up the ladder?
It doesn't work like that. There are people who've been here for decades and are still sweeping up the floor. It's a very small stagnant company, there's no ladder to climb. There are no usable skills.
Hah, $24k a year is massive wages eh? In case you haven't noticed, many of the IT jobs out there don't pay shit. $35k was the most common number I saw the last time I looked for a new job.
35k is an amazing wage. That's twice what I make.
You're not chained to your job, you have options if you take the time to think about it.
Of course I'm chained to it. If I quit, what do I do then? I'd have to live on the streets. That's hardly an improvement in my conditions.
write all of the ideas you can down whether they're completely insane or not, and just consider them;
There are no ideas.
You CAN make your life better, it just takes some consideration, effort and a bit of belief in yourself.
There's no point. Life's shit. I'd sooner just end it all. No matter what you do it's always going to be shit. All you can do is switch one form of wage-slavery for another.
So the 'bread' that americans get for their efforts, and through the efforts of their ancestors, should be given away just because other people don't have bread?
They didn't get the bread through efforts. They work no harder than anyone else. They only get it because of where they were born:
1. American works, gets large loaf of bread. 2. Malaysian works harder, gets tiny slice of bread. 3. Company decides instead to give more bread to the Malaysian. 4. American sits on the dole wondering why the gravy train's dried up.
The world is equalising. No longer will you get guaranteed a higher standard of living and massive wages just because you're born in the right country. And that's a good thing. Unless you're biased because you're an American, but tough shit. America has never given a shit about the rest of the world, and now you're crying because the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about you.
You're not giving away the bread, the bread is being taken from you, you have no choice in the matter. And if you were the person without bread, I'm sure you want the other person to share it with you. Of course, if you have an American passport you deserve all the bread, even if everyone else starves.
In the world as it stands, rich western countries get 90% of the bread, which they work for 40 hours a week. In the poor countries, they get 10% of the bread, from working 80 hours a week. Do you think this is a fair situation? Surely the bread should be spread out more evenly. Yes, the richer countries lose out, but why do they deserve more bread than anyone else through birthright?
It's not linked to on the main site, and there's on search facility. Therefore the only way to find it is to go through all the links looking for it. Perhaps I might have gotten lucky and found it in the first few links, maybe I'd have been there for half an hour. Either way I don't care, if a site won't make itself navigable I'm not going to visit it. Sites which aren't designed competently should be closed down.
And the article itself is completely lacking in any substance.
I don't have a car, I get by fine. This 'car is necessary' crap is an entirely American thing. Some of us are able to walk or ride a bike, or live in countries with decent public transport. Americans can barely get to the end of their drive without a twelve-tonne SUV to get them there. And of course they complain about how much work they have to do to afford it.
In the current climate, buying a house when you can't afford it is a wrong move. Having your own house is a luxury. It's only a recent development to get out from the family home as soon as possible to set up your own household. Those Indians doing the computer programming jobs probably all live in large family households. If you want your own house (because of course it's the fashionable thing to do, and fashion counts for all), then you're going to have to pay for it, but don't complain when you have to pay for it.
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What sort of burner and disks are you using? My DVD burner is advertised to work at 8x, but only burns at 0.5x. This means it can take all day to burn a DVD, and if something goes wrong it's a coaster. I really want to know how to fix this because I want to copy DVDs but my burner is just atrocious, and it cost me 50 quid!
Nah, it won't. Films are still too large to download. The big thing about mp3s was that for the first time they were small enough to download on a dial-up connection. And they could be played on any media player.
How big are films these days? DVDs can be over 4 gigabytes. That's above a lot of people's monthly caps. Yes you can get lower-quality files, but the eyes are more sensitive than the ears when it comes to imperfections. And all the different formats out makes playing them a game of russian roulette. There's mpeg, avi, wma, quicktime, and probably a lot of others. Mp3 was a standard which you could play anywhere, and there was no DRM, any films released legitimately over the Internet will probably be on some obscure format which requires a proprietary player and DRM.
On my connection it would be faster to orde the DVD and wait for it to be delivered than to download it.
I'm sorry, can anyone explain what this post means?
That's only $1,825 a year. Do you have any proposals for a scheme which would give a decent return on investment? Perhaps if you bought a thousand laptops under sucha scheme, that would give you 1.8 million laptops. Although the problems then would be when they decided to stop giving you insurance after you 'lost' a hundred laptops. You'd need more people in this scheme, although they'd want their own cut and that would eat into the profits.
You're assuming that the thief knows all this. How many people who steal laptops know much about computers? How many of them don't even know what af firewall is, but steal a laptop and then sell it for 50 quid down the pub a few hours later?
Most thieves aren't computer experts. And as most laptops won't have this 'anti-thief' technology, they won't be expecting it, they'll probably never have heard of it. They'll think it's going to be sellable, so they'll still steal it.
Although even if this device 'phones the law', by the time the police bother to get involved (12 weeks later), the laptop will have passed through half a dozen hands.
From this, I can conclude two points:
1. The technology won't stop any thieving at all.
2. If your laptop is stolen, by the time it manages to report it to the police, it will be too late.
That's not exactly impossible. If like me you're completely unattractive to the opposite sex, then you're destined to be a virgin for life. Nothing we can do about it, but it could be worse. When there are people in the world with cancer, poverty, starvation etc., not ever having sex isn't all that bad in comparision.
That Malda gobshite put the website up for the sole reason of having people visit it. Hence the graphics. That's how the web works, everyone knows that.
The situations are not even comparable. When the criminal in question accessed the access point, he KNEW he wasn't supposed to be there. He knew he was doing wrong, but he kept doing it anyway, because he has no respect for others. I for one would not abuse open wireless points, it would be bad form. I would ask permission first, as would any gentleman.
So what if their market share increases if they're not making any money? As it stands, they make a good living. There's more to the Internet than PCs on your desk at home.
The thought of a fat pasty geek in a bikini is NOT something which makes me want to eat my dinner. Please refrain from making such posts in the future.
In this industry, if you're not going forwards, you're going backwards. The Debian team have just rested on their laurels, the system has stagnated and it slowly becoming obsolete.
As a computer programmer, you want to be doing things. You want to be making new things, innovating, making progress. It must be soul destroying to sit there on the same slow project, not much getting done, testing the same old packages over and over again, because the management don't have the gumption to get it released and think it's still 1995. It's not a surprise that they're struggling to find people to work on it. And when they do find people, they're not exactly welcoming.
Another problem is that a lot of the benefits for using Debian have evaporated. Other distros have good package installers; apt was good, but gentoo have pretty much stolen its thunder, and you can get equivalents for the other distros. Other distros are just as stable and reliable nowadays. And they manage it with newer packages, so the argument that 'old is reliable' doesn't hold as much sway.
If I were making a distro, I'd want it to have some sort of 'killer' feature, something that sets it apart from the rest. Debian doesn't have that anymore. Progress in open source software moves FAST. Faster than the Debian team can keep up with.
Good point. Linux doesn't support any of my 3 internal modems, and I'm having trouble finding one which states it is supported by Linux. That is what's keeping me on Windows, even though all the best programmes are on Linux.
I've installed open BSD which is probably going to be even worse. That's if I can get it working.
On an off-topic note: Does anyone know why my hard disk sometimes keeps randomly switching off? Like, when I'm accessing some data, every few seconds there'll be a click and a whirr. I have a second hard disk, and sometimes that doesn't work at all. When I unplug the power on the second disk, the first one works a lot better. Also the first one gets very hot, and doesn't seem to be as noisy as before. It works fine though.
On another off-topic note, why doesn't BSD read my Linux or Windows partitions? It managed to read the windows one to install the packages, but every time I try to mount it myself it give some error.
Computers are confusing.
Many people in the past didn't lock their doors and windows. They left them unlocked and yet weren't robbed. But then, people had respect for each other's property. However these days, unless every entrance into your house is bolted shut, it gets burgled. Kids today think they're entitled to anything they have access to.
In fact in some parts of the world today, you can leave your front door unlocked and you won't be burgled. In those places they don't have that sense of entitlement to everything, and they have respect for other people. Of course kids aren't brought up properly today.
No discipline, no punishment, teachers aren't so much as allowed to shout at them, parents aren't allowed to smack them, generations of ill-disciplined thieves with no respect for authority, no respect for the law, and no respect for each other. That same attitude infests Slashdot, but for the Internet rather than the real world. A lot of people round here think that if it's on the Internet, and they can get away with it, they can do it.
Hurrah for the Slashdot sense of entitlement.
If there's an MP3, you can download it, and it's the record companies fault for charging too much money or being too evil.
If there's an open wireless point, you can access it illegally, and it's the owner's fault for not padlocking it shut.
If there's a computer on the Internet, you can hack into it, and it's not your fault, it's the admin's fault for not securing it. In fact breaking into computers should be rewarded without high paying jobs, because you're showing how insecure it is, and reading about a hole on a security website or writing a ten-line virus makes you some sort of genius.
If you run a porn site that lets children on, it's not your fault, it's the parents fault for not monitoring their children's Internet access. But of course if they DO monitor it, the same Slashdotters can complain that the parents are infringing on their children's rights to do whatever the hell they want.
In fact, why not go one stage further? Simply declare that anyone who reads Slashdot is allowed to do whatever they want if it's on a computer. That includes hacking, copyright-infringement, illegal porn and anything else, because Slashdotters deserve everything they can take just for being clever enough to install Linux.
And for good measure:
If you send spam, it's the recepient's fault for receiving it. Look at it this way, if you put a sign above your letter box saying 'please enter messages here', is it illegal for people to put messages in? If someone is sent spam, it's their own fault for not securing their e-mail system (i.e. having a whitelist).
It's funny how the concensus around here seems to be:
a. If it is beneficial to Slashdotters, it's OK.
b. If it's not beneficial to Slashdotters, it's illegal and evil and immoral.
Actual law and ethics never seem to come into it, unless it's convenient.
Raped? Whatever. She was asking for it. The BBC doesn't give many details, but from what I've read in the Daily Sport, she happily sucked his cock and swallowed his load. She's just after a payout.
Let me tell you something about our jobs. It's NOT all about intelligence. It's about intelligence, experience, diligence, the ability to tolerate being called at 3:30 AM plus a lot of other shit. In other words, it's something we have to 'earn'
Do you think people in India don't get called in at 3:30am? The point I'm trying to make is, you only got that job in the first place cos of where you were born. If you were born in Madagascar to a family of rice-farmers, you'd be farming rice today. In fact you'd never have seen a computer. You'd be stuck doing meaningless, mindless work for no benefit, living in a mud-hut, regardless of how intelligent you are. And that's a situation which is wrong.
What's your skillset right now? Don't say nothing, because that's bullshit. Even swinging a hammer is a skill, and being a hard worker counts for a lot too
I can't even swing a hammer. The most I can do is horrible production line work, which is what I'm trying to get out of. I don't want to work hard either, I want a nice desk job where I can sit at a computer or something doing fuck all, just tossing it off.
Plus, you're on slashdot, so I have a feeling that you've got at least some interest in computers which means that you've probably accumulated a bit of technical knowledge.
Not really, I just come here out of routine. Sort of gives me a bit of pseudo-social contact, which is better than nothing, but still shit. I just skim over the comments and post things, more often than not being modded down because I disagree with the hive-mind. I don't know much about computers. I spend all day on them, but don't know anything. I can't programme, I can't run all the fancy software, I don't know anything about system administration, I don't know anything.
For all the time I've spent at this computer just passing time, if I'd been learning to programme, I'd probably be a fantastic programmer by now. I mean I've been using computers for like 10 years, I'm on it for at least 40-50 hours a week, I just don't do anything, I just refresh Slashdot and a few other sites.
I used to be into programming, I used to download all these compilers, all these guides to learning languages, but I never got anywhere with it. I wrote like 50 lines of C and got bored. I installed Linux, and Open BSD, but never did anything with them othe than play with the themes and settings. Now I have no knowledge at all and work in a dead-end factory job.
what a fucking waste
Actually it is prosecutable. Downloading copyrighted material for which you have no permission to do so is illegal. In fact it's a criminal offence.
I don't often support the moderation system, but in this case the parent poster must be modded down so is post is invisible, as he is giving misinformation which could lead to people committing criminal acts when they think they are legal. Why he was modded up I do not know, the moderator must be a pirate.
Well, so now you can't live off the graft of your ancestors, you have to actually compete on a more even playing field like everyone else. The term that applies here is: 'tough shit'.
If IT jobs are as trivial as you think, go get one - I'm sure you're so smart it won't cost you a left leg.
I never said I was smart. I'm no good with computers. But don't think you're special just because you were born with high intelligence. It's nothing you had to earn.
As for being insulting and disrespectful, it's about time computer programmers were brought down a notch or two.
Yes, that's right: they were born in the country that invested its tax dollars in R&D.
What does that have to do with anything? The FACT is, that if you're American and better off than someone in the 3rd world, it's because of where you were born, not what you did. If you'd have been born in Ethiopia you wouldn't have had any dollars to invest in R&D because you'd be trying to find enough food to survive. It's not investment, just luck. You were born in America, therefore you had it better. Well, that's coming to an end, thankfully.
How many of those American tax dollars have gone to propping up third world dictatorships keeping people living in poverty? Of course you're not happy to see jobs going abroad, that would be like the turkeys being happy to see Christmas. No-one owes you a job just because you're white and you drive an SUV.
And I have no sympathy for people that won't get off their ass and change their lives if they feel they need to.
You mean like all the IT workers being laid off or doing mandatory overtime? It's all well and good to criticise us working-class types when all you do is complain.
and when I was at my desk, I definately did not have air conditioning.
You didn't need it, because you weren't doing hard labour.
So why the hell aren't you asking questions and learning so you can gain some usable skills and move up the ladder?
It doesn't work like that. There are people who've been here for decades and are still sweeping up the floor. It's a very small stagnant company, there's no ladder to climb. There are no usable skills.
Hah, $24k a year is massive wages eh? In case you haven't noticed, many of the IT jobs out there don't pay shit. $35k was the most common number I saw the last time I looked for a new job.
35k is an amazing wage. That's twice what I make.
You're not chained to your job, you have options if you take the time to think about it.
Of course I'm chained to it. If I quit, what do I do then? I'd have to live on the streets. That's hardly an improvement in my conditions.
write all of the ideas you can down whether they're completely insane or not, and just consider them;
There are no ideas.
You CAN make your life better, it just takes some consideration, effort and a bit of belief in yourself.
There's no point. Life's shit. I'd sooner just end it all. No matter what you do it's always going to be shit. All you can do is switch one form of wage-slavery for another.
So the 'bread' that americans get for their efforts, and through the efforts of their ancestors, should be given away just because other people don't have bread?
They didn't get the bread through efforts. They work no harder than anyone else. They only get it because of where they were born:
1. American works, gets large loaf of bread.
2. Malaysian works harder, gets tiny slice of bread.
3. Company decides instead to give more bread to the Malaysian.
4. American sits on the dole wondering why the gravy train's dried up.
The world is equalising. No longer will you get guaranteed a higher standard of living and massive wages just because you're born in the right country. And that's a good thing. Unless you're biased because you're an American, but tough shit. America has never given a shit about the rest of the world, and now you're crying because the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about you.
You're not giving away the bread, the bread is being taken from you, you have no choice in the matter. And if you were the person without bread, I'm sure you want the other person to share it with you. Of course, if you have an American passport you deserve all the bread, even if everyone else starves.
In the world as it stands, rich western countries get 90% of the bread, which they work for 40 hours a week. In the poor countries, they get 10% of the bread, from working 80 hours a week. Do you think this is a fair situation? Surely the bread should be spread out more evenly. Yes, the richer countries lose out, but why do they deserve more bread than anyone else through birthright?
It's not linked to on the main site, and there's on search facility. Therefore the only way to find it is to go through all the links looking for it. Perhaps I might have gotten lucky and found it in the first few links, maybe I'd have been there for half an hour. Either way I don't care, if a site won't make itself navigable I'm not going to visit it. Sites which aren't designed competently should be closed down.
And the article itself is completely lacking in any substance.
I don't have a car, I get by fine. This 'car is necessary' crap is an entirely American thing. Some of us are able to walk or ride a bike, or live in countries with decent public transport. Americans can barely get to the end of their drive without a twelve-tonne SUV to get them there. And of course they complain about how much work they have to do to afford it.
In the current climate, buying a house when you can't afford it is a wrong move. Having your own house is a luxury. It's only a recent development to get out from the family home as soon as possible to set up your own household. Those Indians doing the computer programming jobs probably all live in large family households. If you want your own house (because of course it's the fashionable thing to do, and fashion counts for all), then you're going to have to pay for it, but don't complain when you have to pay for it.