It's irrelevant how much taxes they pay. It's not a transaction of mutual consent. I can't walk up to your car, wash your windshield without your request, and expect payment, even if it's the best windshield washing job ever.
Oh no! Someone please save the poor, exploited immigrants who voluntarily came to the U.S. knowing exactly what to expect. Despite their active consent (crossing the border), we should still call them slaves. They have so much in common with people who were forcibly removed from their homes and have no free will.
For instance, programs having decent usability is a "negative right", because it means the programmer should refrain from restricting the user by writing programs that are hard to use.
Your statements have nothing to do with this definition.
You don't know the first thing about "positive rights" if you think any exist in the linked GNU philosophy document. There's nothing in there that obliges (or even asks) the programmer to do anything other than not-restrict source code and sharing.
I honestly don't care. It remains a flaw that MacOS X doesn't provide a clean way to install system level software. The Windows Installer, properly used, is far better than anything on Mac. Package managers on Linux are far better than what Mac offers.
No, I had to remove it from some computers at work that we inhereited from another department. I had to download a special uninstaller from Symantec just because the built-in MacOS X "installer" can't do what some applications need to do (Symantec had to resort to a proprietary installer).
FOSS is about negative rights: freedom from prosecution for copyright violation, freedom from lawsuits over patents, and freedom from limitations for modification and redistribution.
Ease of use is a positive "right". For such a "right" to exist, FOSS programmers no longer have the right to voluntarily work as much as they want. This is a general principle of positive "rights": by granting the positive "right", you force someone else to work.
Positive "rights" are -- in general -- bad things.
When the Church of Scientology bought out the bankrupt remains of the Cult Awareness Network, they very certainly squatted on the original phone number with a new purpose.
I'm sure you're very comfortable in your LaRouchist illusions of a "physical economy", but industrial capacity largely depends on access to natural resources, and outsourcing doesn't change who has what natural resources. Being able to wage war when everyone's against you isn't a measure of economic strength; it's a measure of military strength. The only question we should ask of our economic changes is, "Are people living better lives now?"
How could consumers possibly benefit from fewer choices? If seeing the movie in the theater is better, then I'll do that regardless of whether the DVD is out.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy 30 new workstations at $30,000 and plan for a 10% failure rate over two years? A 10% rate is pretty high, and you'd save $20,000. Best yet, the replacement systems would be new (instead of repaired) and faster.
Microsoft ISA Server isn't a web server. It's a firewall and routing server. Microsoft IIS, the web server, comes free with every copy of Windows Server. You can also run Apache on Windows for free. This alone is a $24,000 mistake.
MySQL and Eclipse also run on Windows. It seems like they chose the most expensive Microsoft-only configuration and even took some liberties there.
How am I supposed to trust this study?
This was how the US leapfrogged over everyone after WW2. We had pretty much a huge section of the European intellects come here (Einstein, Godel big names and numerous others). As a rough guide if you look at the Nobel laureates from the US in the past 50 years, many of them were born in Europe. Lately you'll see ones born in China, Egypt (Asia).
The scientists came because they were fleeing Europe, not because we had open arms.
Fourth off, IMHO the economic shithole that the US is in is temporary. Currently the US has more debt than it can ever pay off, and is about ready to fall off a hyperinflationary debt cliff.
Back up both of these arguments (the necessity of paying off the national debt and why we're on the brink of hyperinflation) with facts.
Hopefully, the US will also open the immigration flood gates, bringing intellignet people over here who will even create more jobs and oppertunity - getting more bang for the buck.
This is silly when we can purchase their services from overseas without the burdens of naturalization. That's the whole point of outsourcing: you can purchase services from overseas in fields where you use to have to hire locally or literally import the talent through immigration.
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Very well said. How we handle illegal immigration has nothing to do with how liberal our legal immigration policies are.
It's irrelevant how much taxes they pay. It's not a transaction of mutual consent. I can't walk up to your car, wash your windshield without your request, and expect payment, even if it's the best windshield washing job ever.
Oh no! Someone please save the poor, exploited immigrants who voluntarily came to the U.S. knowing exactly what to expect. Despite their active consent (crossing the border), we should still call them slaves. They have so much in common with people who were forcibly removed from their homes and have no free will.
That's fucking ridiculous. Discussion over.
You don't know the first thing about "positive rights" if you think any exist in the linked GNU philosophy document. There's nothing in there that obliges (or even asks) the programmer to do anything other than not-restrict source code and sharing.
I honestly don't care. It remains a flaw that MacOS X doesn't provide a clean way to install system level software. The Windows Installer, properly used, is far better than anything on Mac. Package managers on Linux are far better than what Mac offers.
No, I had to remove it from some computers at work that we inhereited from another department. I had to download a special uninstaller from Symantec just because the built-in MacOS X "installer" can't do what some applications need to do (Symantec had to resort to a proprietary installer).
Any third-party system utility.
...except when it's not. See any system utility like a firewall or antivirus. You get a bonus uninstall round!
Ease of use is a positive "right". For such a "right" to exist, FOSS programmers no longer have the right to voluntarily work as much as they want. This is a general principle of positive "rights": by granting the positive "right", you force someone else to work.
Positive "rights" are -- in general -- bad things.
When the Church of Scientology bought out the bankrupt remains of the Cult Awareness Network, they very certainly squatted on the original phone number with a new purpose.
Stop for a minute and ask yourself: "Are the people who called tech support to fix computer problems an accurate sample of all users?"
Sex?
I have got to stop getting so surprised.
Yes, and I'd argue that's how it should be. Also note that movie theater employees aren't any better off.
Hey, it worked for VHS, right? What are those fetching on eBay?
I'm sure you're very comfortable in your LaRouchist illusions of a "physical economy", but industrial capacity largely depends on access to natural resources, and outsourcing doesn't change who has what natural resources. Being able to wage war when everyone's against you isn't a measure of economic strength; it's a measure of military strength. The only question we should ask of our economic changes is, "Are people living better lives now?"
How could consumers possibly benefit from fewer choices? If seeing the movie in the theater is better, then I'll do that regardless of whether the DVD is out.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy 30 new workstations at $30,000 and plan for a 10% failure rate over two years? A 10% rate is pretty high, and you'd save $20,000. Best yet, the replacement systems would be new (instead of repaired) and faster.
You're an idiot. The point is that Apache != Microsoft ISA.
Microsoft ISA Server isn't a web server. It's a firewall and routing server. Microsoft IIS, the web server, comes free with every copy of Windows Server. You can also run Apache on Windows for free. This alone is a $24,000 mistake. MySQL and Eclipse also run on Windows. It seems like they chose the most expensive Microsoft-only configuration and even took some liberties there. How am I supposed to trust this study?
Nobody's forcing businesses to outsource, it's just more economical. Our educational systems aren't in shambles; education abroad is improving.
The scientists came because they were fleeing Europe, not because we had open arms.
Back up both of these arguments (the necessity of paying off the national debt and why we're on the brink of hyperinflation) with facts.
Hopefully, the US will also open the immigration flood gates, bringing intellignet people over here who will even create more jobs and oppertunity - getting more bang for the buck.
This is silly when we can purchase their services from overseas without the burdens of naturalization. That's the whole point of outsourcing: you can purchase services from overseas in fields where you use to have to hire locally or literally import the talent through immigration.
Back this up with facts, especially your statement about "most."