Following this logic, I suppose slashdotters should also use this against gun control laws if they use your argument against national IDs. But I doubt it.
Gun control/registration is frequently followed by confiscation, so people are right to be nervous. An unarmed citizenry is at the mercy of criminals, elected and self-appointed.
At least with the outsourcing farm, you're saving some money.
Yeah, but so what? You still have to do it over. With in-house people or local conslutants, you have much more visibility. You've also got no culture gaps or time zone lag to deal with.
Well, mountains and rivers work for a while. Eventually, the difference in property values becomes so great that people move to the other side of the mountains and rivers. Then the city decides to build bridges and highways because there's a bunch of people over there. Pretty soon, you're sprawling again. This happened to LA: Palmdale and Landcaster are on the other side of one of the mountain ranges near LA. They used to be very rural in the 1970s, but the property value difference became great enough that people started moving there instead of living in the LA basin in order to find "affordable" housing.
Nah, we've got winters where the passes close for days at a time, so mountains are a pretty good barrier. We are sprawling up near the passes, but we don't have much in the way of blight - any unused space is pretty rapidly redeveloped. We're also getting some mass transit in the next several years, so this should avoid some of the worst aspects of sprawl.
I'm kind of looking forward to high gas prices if it'll limit some of the sprawl. These tards that pawn jewelry to feed their SUVs get what they deserve.
15,000 square miles to cover in LA. Arlington's orange line might as well be the toy train they roll out in the mall near Christmas.
The idea is to carve out areas of LA that are ripe for rework and build transit around the new structure. You can start with tourist destinations and airport routes. These islands of potential density should be built with an eye towards linking them in the future, but the kernel of the idea is to build high density islands in the suburban sea. A good part of this is advertising - get a core of people who're into the lifestyle and you can make the first islands sooner.
Anti-sprawl legislation may have an effect in cities that have not exploded yet, like Portland, OR, but it's too late for LA.
Thank god I'm in Seattle (though I lust after SF) where mountains and rivers limit the potential for sprawl.
With computer stuff you have to constantly reinvent yourself or risk becoming obsolete every couple of years.
No you don't. OOD and development haven't changed much in the past 10 years. The Agile methods and similar things are a slight variation on what's gone before and that's really all there is.
But the work ethic in certain countries is far better than what they've experienced here.
So whay are they so hot to send it to India? Work ethic or no, if your subordinate won't tell you that your requirements are fucked or doesn't know how to use more than one function in a server, then you're fucked too.
major corporations will argue there is a shortage of US workers...and we NEED more H1-B visas, and maybe train some illegal-immigrants to improve their lot
Good luck with that. Most of the illegal aliens (no such thing as an illegal immigrant) are low-skill workers. Good luck retraining them for Java and OOD.
Reminds me of the time I bought some semi expensive stuff from CompUSA (A $2300 laptop and a $150 racing wheel). I bought the laptop, walked to the door, and the security guy wanted to inspect my stuff. He totally freaked when I walked past him. I'm near a Fry's now, so I wonder what'll happen when I do the same thing there. They haven't bothered me much yet.
and then promptly be voted out of office, and be replaced by someone who will allow sprawl to expand. More to the point, the problem already exists. Yes, increasing sprawl makes it worse but the problem is already unsolvable.
The problem is only intractable if nobody cares to solve it. In order to have this work, you first need people to support the idea of limiting the suburban sprawl shockwave.
Arlington is 26 square miles. LA county alone is 4,084 square miles. Any effective mass transit in LA would also have to serve Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Now look at the Orange line and its effects on stuff along its route. Sure, some of that is DC commuters, but there are a lot of people setting up shop along the orange line, and real estate prices are ranked by proximity to the metro. Apply this to LA and you'll be able to get businesses to cluster to the public transit corridor. It'll just take time.
The problem here is your statement could be summarized as "Do something economically impossible".
Wait until gas is $8/gal. It won't be impossible anymore.
'New' cities like LA bloomed after cars (obviously).
Specifically, streetcars.
Plus, the metropolis keeps expanding as suburban offices make formerly rural areas short commutes...leading to new suburban officies further from the city and more assimilation of rural areas as people flee to the 'cheap' real estate.
Fix that by adopting anti-sprawl legislation - refuse to zone land outside a certain area as commercial.
As more and more of these new 'LA-style' cites grow around the country, access to effective mass transit is going to keep going down.
If you choose decent routes, even in LA, the land around those routes becomes desirable for residential and commercial development, since living and working on a transit line reduces time spent in traffic. Look at Arlington, Va.
As for water, the aqueducts could handle LA growing to many times larger than it's current size. People use relatively little water. The majority of CA's aqueducts are being used by farmers.
The problem is that they already use too much - all that water has drained the sources dry, so there isn't room to expand. It doesn't matter if the aqueducts have spare capacity if the Colorado is dry.
If you add another 30M people from LA to this, the system would not be able to handle the load.
Before I accept your example, exactly where would you put 40M people in the 5 borroughs? Manhattan is probably near max capacity and there's no reason why everybody's going to move there. Look at things another way: Set LA up with an equivalent mass transit system and reorg the businesses and residences to take advantage. What you'll probably get are higher density (less sprawl), less cars, and less haze. You can't add many more people - there isn't enough water - so LA will shrink.
I think a production cartel like the RIAA probably does more long-term damage to an economy/market, if allowed to take control and operate a political system, than a criminal organization ever could.
At least you don't end up dead when you go against the RIAA.
Bin Laden and his ilk are a small minority which, although they enjoy a certain amount of hero worship among a limited community of Islamic fundamentalists and other religio-political extremists, are viewed as a bunch of murdering crackpots by most other muslims.
Murdering crackpots they may be, but they speak the truth and remind the larger community of the blood on our hands. If we hadn't screwed up the region so badly in the past century, they wouldn't have so much to bitch about.
Most likly it was actually someone in the RIAA or MPAA. The Bush administration probably approved it as well. But I doupt the president or his men sit around and think up new copyright law..
Why not? Actually, it's entirely possible that it was the RIAA, but this is the sort of power grab that Bush's administration likes too.
No, Suffering is the end state. It's what keeps you on the wheel. Eliminate desire for that which you do not possess and you will be closer to leaving the wheel.
you learn French for France, German for Germany, Italian for Italy
No, you learn some German, some Italian, and some French, then you fake it when you get there. If you make an effort, you can probably get by with mostly English, but you'll quickly learn what's important, vocab wise.
a weak Spanish government installed after a terrorist attack on a train
Which is actually a coincidence - they had been building towards that for a while before the train bombing. Also, hasn't the Basque movement lost some steam of late?
overall people (still) hate Americans (no thanks to Bush).
No, they just hate Bush. Tell them you didn't vote for the bastard and they'll be way friendlier.
If everyone moved to where mass transit was an option, that mass transit system would be utterly crushed under the weight of all the commuters.
Bullshit. If everybody lived along mass transit routes, they'd add more trains and everything would work great. The problem is that most cities are designed around cars, not trains.
I had a cow-orker that claimed to work a similar schedule. Problem was that if I or anyone else got in an hour early, we'd usually see him stroll in a few minutes after us.
"WHAT!!!!. I refuse to have something called ultra monkey in my company. How dare you install something called ultra monkey. Here is a check for 80 thousand dollars, now go and install an oracle cluster. Oh and you are fired for even saying ultra monkey in my presence"
If that happened in my company, I'd forward the issue to the CEO, get the manager canned for supidity and get my job back. Yeah, and Oracle clusters - not so hot. Clusters lead to failures and nd instability. Instability leads to outages. Outages lead to suffering.
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I never said it would be good for you or me, but it is good overall.
Call me a selfish bastard, but I want to improve my situation. I expect my government to look after my (our) interests, not just that of corporations.
Since the ban came into force, there have been ZERO mass shootings in the last 10 years, compared to 7 in the 10 years before the ban.
However, sword attacks are way up :p
Following this logic, I suppose slashdotters should also use this against gun control laws if they use your argument against national IDs. But I doubt it.
Gun control/registration is frequently followed by confiscation, so people are right to be nervous. An unarmed citizenry is at the mercy of criminals, elected and self-appointed.
Please tell me you have concrete examples of this, and aren't just talking out your ass.
The Nazis used this sort of data to round up Jews, Homersexuals and Race Traitors and send them to the ovens.
On a less shrill note, they won't stop fraud or do anything else they claim to better than what we already have, so all that's left is abuse.
AMD beat them to the 1 GHz punch because intel was holding back their own 1GHz chip to squeeze more profit.
Yeah, I remember those oh-so-stable 1Ghz Intel chips.
What I don't understand is why they do that anyways?
Because they're incompetent.
At least with the outsourcing farm, you're saving some money.
Yeah, but so what? You still have to do it over. With in-house people or local conslutants, you have much more visibility. You've also got no culture gaps or time zone lag to deal with.
Well, mountains and rivers work for a while. Eventually, the difference in property values becomes so great that people move to the other side of the mountains and rivers. Then the city decides to build bridges and highways because there's a bunch of people over there. Pretty soon, you're sprawling again. This happened to LA: Palmdale and Landcaster are on the other side of one of the mountain ranges near LA. They used to be very rural in the 1970s, but the property value difference became great enough that people started moving there instead of living in the LA basin in order to find "affordable" housing.
Nah, we've got winters where the passes close for days at a time, so mountains are a pretty good barrier. We are sprawling up near the passes, but we don't have much in the way of blight - any unused space is pretty rapidly redeveloped. We're also getting some mass transit in the next several years, so this should avoid some of the worst aspects of sprawl.
I'm kind of looking forward to high gas prices if it'll limit some of the sprawl. These tards that pawn jewelry to feed their SUVs get what they deserve.You're failing to grasp the scope of the problem.
No, my vision for the solution is different.
15,000 square miles to cover in LA. Arlington's orange line might as well be the toy train they roll out in the mall near Christmas.
The idea is to carve out areas of LA that are ripe for rework and build transit around the new structure. You can start with tourist destinations and airport routes. These islands of potential density should be built with an eye towards linking them in the future, but the kernel of the idea is to build high density islands in the suburban sea. A good part of this is advertising - get a core of people who're into the lifestyle and you can make the first islands sooner.
Anti-sprawl legislation may have an effect in cities that have not exploded yet, like Portland, OR, but it's too late for LA.
Thank god I'm in Seattle (though I lust after SF) where mountains and rivers limit the potential for sprawl.
With computer stuff you have to constantly reinvent yourself or risk becoming obsolete every couple of years.
No you don't. OOD and development haven't changed much in the past 10 years. The Agile methods and similar things are a slight variation on what's gone before and that's really all there is.
But the work ethic in certain countries is far better than what they've experienced here.
So whay are they so hot to send it to India? Work ethic or no, if your subordinate won't tell you that your requirements are fucked or doesn't know how to use more than one function in a server, then you're fucked too.
major corporations will argue there is a shortage of US workers...and we NEED more H1-B visas, and maybe train some illegal-immigrants to improve their lot
Good luck with that. Most of the illegal aliens (no such thing as an illegal immigrant) are low-skill workers. Good luck retraining them for Java and OOD.
Reminds me of the time I bought some semi expensive stuff from CompUSA (A $2300 laptop and a $150 racing wheel). I bought the laptop, walked to the door, and the security guy wanted to inspect my stuff. He totally freaked when I walked past him. I'm near a Fry's now, so I wonder what'll happen when I do the same thing there. They haven't bothered me much yet.
and then promptly be voted out of office, and be replaced by someone who will allow sprawl to expand. More to the point, the problem already exists. Yes, increasing sprawl makes it worse but the problem is already unsolvable.
The problem is only intractable if nobody cares to solve it. In order to have this work, you first need people to support the idea of limiting the suburban sprawl shockwave.
Arlington is 26 square miles. LA county alone is 4,084 square miles. Any effective mass transit in LA would also have to serve Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
Now look at the Orange line and its effects on stuff along its route. Sure, some of that is DC commuters, but there are a lot of people setting up shop along the orange line, and real estate prices are ranked by proximity to the metro. Apply this to LA and you'll be able to get businesses to cluster to the public transit corridor. It'll just take time.
The problem here is your statement could be summarized as "Do something economically impossible".
Wait until gas is $8/gal. It won't be impossible anymore.
'New' cities like LA bloomed after cars (obviously).
Specifically, streetcars.
Plus, the metropolis keeps expanding as suburban offices make formerly rural areas short commutes...leading to new suburban officies further from the city and more assimilation of rural areas as people flee to the 'cheap' real estate.
Fix that by adopting anti-sprawl legislation - refuse to zone land outside a certain area as commercial.
As more and more of these new 'LA-style' cites grow around the country, access to effective mass transit is going to keep going down.
If you choose decent routes, even in LA, the land around those routes becomes desirable for residential and commercial development, since living and working on a transit line reduces time spent in traffic. Look at Arlington, Va.
As for water, the aqueducts could handle LA growing to many times larger than it's current size. People use relatively little water. The majority of CA's aqueducts are being used by farmers.
The problem is that they already use too much - all that water has drained the sources dry, so there isn't room to expand. It doesn't matter if the aqueducts have spare capacity if the Colorado is dry.
If you add another 30M people from LA to this, the system would not be able to handle the load.
Before I accept your example, exactly where would you put 40M people in the 5 borroughs? Manhattan is probably near max capacity and there's no reason why everybody's going to move there. Look at things another way: Set LA up with an equivalent mass transit system and reorg the businesses and residences to take advantage. What you'll probably get are higher density (less sprawl), less cars, and less haze. You can't add many more people - there isn't enough water - so LA will shrink.
So did you call him out? Perhaps ask him how many people have tried to fly a 747 into the condo building?
I think a production cartel like the RIAA probably does more long-term damage to an economy/market, if allowed to take control and operate a political system, than a criminal organization ever could.
At least you don't end up dead when you go against the RIAA.
Bin Laden and his ilk are a small minority which, although they enjoy a certain amount of hero worship among a limited community of Islamic fundamentalists and other religio-political extremists, are viewed as a bunch of murdering crackpots by most other muslims.
Murdering crackpots they may be, but they speak the truth and remind the larger community of the blood on our hands. If we hadn't screwed up the region so badly in the past century, they wouldn't have so much to bitch about.
Most likly it was actually someone in the RIAA or MPAA. The Bush administration probably approved it as well. But I doupt the president or his men sit around and think up new copyright law..
Why not? Actually, it's entirely possible that it was the RIAA, but this is the sort of power grab that Bush's administration likes too.
Suffering leads to the Dark Side.
No, Suffering is the end state. It's what keeps you on the wheel. Eliminate desire for that which you do not possess and you will be closer to leaving the wheel.
you learn French for France, German for Germany, Italian for Italy
No, you learn some German, some Italian, and some French, then you fake it when you get there. If you make an effort, you can probably get by with mostly English, but you'll quickly learn what's important, vocab wise.
a weak Spanish government installed after a terrorist attack on a train
Which is actually a coincidence - they had been building towards that for a while before the train bombing. Also, hasn't the Basque movement lost some steam of late?
overall people (still) hate Americans (no thanks to Bush).
No, they just hate Bush. Tell them you didn't vote for the bastard and they'll be way friendlier.
If everyone moved to where mass transit was an option, that mass transit system would be utterly crushed under the weight of all the commuters.
Bullshit. If everybody lived along mass transit routes, they'd add more trains and everything would work great. The problem is that most cities are designed around cars, not trains.
I had a cow-orker that claimed to work a similar schedule. Problem was that if I or anyone else got in an hour early, we'd usually see him stroll in a few minutes after us.
Did he get all his work done? If so, who cares?
"WHAT!!!!. I refuse to have something called ultra monkey in my company. How dare you install something called ultra monkey. Here is a check for 80 thousand dollars, now go and install an oracle cluster. Oh and you are fired for even saying ultra monkey in my presence"
If that happened in my company, I'd forward the issue to the CEO, get the manager canned for supidity and get my job back. Yeah, and Oracle clusters - not so hot. Clusters lead to failures and nd instability. Instability leads to outages. Outages lead to suffering.