Yes it was with good reason, but do you think environmentalism had absolutely anything to do with it?
When I read about it, I remember seeing a lot of US-bashing stuffed between the lines. Stuff like disallowing our rather large forests from consideration as CO2 sinks.
By your logic, embezzling from a bank is not stealing because I did not actually go to the bank and take the paper money. Your arguement is so soft and juvenile that one might think you are justifying your guilt.
No, it's more like the Reserve bank declaring that there's another $10M, which is just what they do.
I am just not going to buy that 1 Bloodhound Gang CD to hear "The Roof is On Fire"
Sounds like a good reason not to buy their stuff at all.
But there's also this tradition of natural or divine rights. That's what the ninth amendment refers to. Basically the idea is that people have certain rights, granted by the Creator, whether the government endorses them or not. The ninth amendment doesn't say anything about what those unenumerated divine rights might be. In fact it doesn't even guarantee that there are any. It merely acknowledges the possibility and leaves everything else as an exercise for the reader.
All of the rights mentioned in the constitiution are natural rights - basically, you have the right to own firearms and spout off about whatever, even if it is explicitly illegal. Furthermore, the right to privacy is implicit in the 1st, 4th, and 9th ammendments, according to SCOTUS precedent.
The connection is the humble motorcar. You affect the environment every time you use it. Even its construction uses up a large amount of water etc (just to construct the steel). Cars aren't really recycled properly either... anyway - enough... I've probably bored you already.
Again, What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car? do you just lack a sense of humor, or what?
you can't have it both ways. If the contention is that MCSE's are idiots and unix admins are smart, then i get to say things like "unix admins are required to be smart"
which is it ? the competancy required to manage and use unix and windows is the same ? or are unix users/admins "more capable" than windows users/admins ?
The skill required to admin unix and windows are the same, but it is more towards what the average Unix guy has than the MCSE. Unix admins are, on balance, more capable than windows admins, and this is partly due to the higher skill. The other part is the architecture and stability of unix lends itself to more scalability.
Basically, windows admins are required to be smart too, but people who hire them usually won't pay for that, because they've bought into the MS propaganda about ease of use.
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I challenge you to find anyone, hell find an MSCE, who doesn't have experience with Linux to install Apache, mod_perl, PHP, and mod_ssl in three hours.
And I challenge you to find a fry cook who can install IIS and Exchange set up for 1000+ users, and patch it properly.
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Some of us ride pedal bikes because we care about the environment. Have you looked at the rising asthma statistics recently? Have you noticed the problem America has with acid rain? Have you noticed how you're dependent on foreign oil imports? *sighs*
What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car?
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Now the cheapest [scsi] 20-gig drive is $1200.
Don't you mean $120? That's the low end for 36GB scsi.
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I'm reminded of an acquaintance of mine from high school, who bought a Geo Metro and added so many car mods (ground effect, huge stereo, etc.) that his alternator couldn't keep up. He bought a new alternator, which destroyed the car's fuel economy, which is basically the only reason to buy a Metro.
You know, I joke about that whenever a Civic pulls up next to me with a subwoofer I heard a mile away, but I never thought that someone would actually do it.
During compilation its only using 50% cpu anyway; does microsoft scatter sleep(10) calls throughout its code or something? Or is the disk caching totally useless:-(
Hey hey! Way to go, you fucking racist . Since when do the Japanese or Chinese never innovate? Have you ever played a video game before? And where the fuck did compasses and fireworks come from, anyway?
Who's the racist here? The Japanese and Chinese have different cultures, which influence the way they view the world. By and large, the chinese and Japanese don't innovate. The Japanese refine and the Chinese build stuff. The creative stuff is done by artists and programmers in small shops.
I haven't honestly seen anything come out of China that could be called creative. That's probably due to the problem of being disappeared for having the wrong sorts of ideas - tends to dampen creativity.
The corporation had the notion that time spent unproductively in the office was more valuable than time spent productively elsewhere.
Worse yet, at one point I had to account for every fifteen minutes of work on a time card and it was seriously expected that you would do that within a few minutes of the time noted.
So lie. Really, how are they going to verify that an hour spent solving some problem wasn't done in the woods?
the truth is most comments aren't that useful. Comments describing the architecture are, but the kind of function by
function, or even line by line comments that managers asking for comments want aren't.
So write a couple paragraphs describing your 7000 lines, and do function-level commenst when it matters (complex arguments, for instance).
Here's an interesting point, if you have a parent company in the US and the profits are going to the country, but they have no staff, that means that more profits go to the share holders.
The majority shareholders being the already rich. More money goes to the rich, less to the middle class and poor. This causes the middle class to shrink, and the country to turn to shit. It's not my idea of a pleasant place to live.
2. Racism. Why is it that people have so much trouble with the idea of competing with poor people for work? Do you think they aren't hungry enough already? Does the idea of them actually developing some sort of economy disturb you? After all they have to compete with cheap mass produced products from industrialized nations, and massively subsidised food. Why shouldn't we have to compete with them for work?
Oh yeah, pull the race card. I don't care that Indians are brown and Chinese are yellow. What I care about is that we are exporting our industry to the third world. There's more to good business than the next quarter, and once there's no reason to develop software in the US, there won't be any US software companies. That includes microsoft, oracle, and probably Sun. Never mind that I can't even go where the jobs are - India is very protectionist.
3. Self-interest. Why the hell would any country want to encourage their best and brightest to waste their talent doing work that could be done for a fraction of the price by cheap labor in other countries? For that matter why would you want to waste your life doing something that is not economically productive? Find something worthwhile to do with you life, instead of trying to strong-arm your customers into paying artificially inflated prices for skills that are not needed.
Ahem. Refer back to that bit about maintaining local talent. Then realize that most of the places that are doing the outsourcing (like Tata) tend to exaggerate the qualifications of their employees. What sane person takes a senior development position that requires years of experience and farms it out to a fresh grad?
This comment is utterly preposterous on the face of it. The US has the lowest unemployment rates and highest per capita income of any developed country.
Of course, unemployment only counts those still on unemployment. It neglects those who've been unemployed too long and those who don't qualify for unemployment.
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Yes it was with good reason, but do you think environmentalism had absolutely anything to do with it?
When I read about it, I remember seeing a lot of US-bashing stuffed between the lines. Stuff like disallowing our rather large forests from consideration as CO2 sinks.
By your logic, embezzling from a bank is not stealing because I did not actually go to the bank and take the paper money. Your arguement is so soft and juvenile that one might think you are justifying your guilt.
No, it's more like the Reserve bank declaring that there's another $10M, which is just what they do.
I am just not going to buy that 1 Bloodhound Gang CD to hear "The Roof is On Fire"
Sounds like a good reason not to buy their stuff at all.
redhat is publically held and they can give away Linux.
Um, Redhat doesn't own Linux - they can't exactly give it away.
If we all boycotted SCO
Oh, wait...
I don't see why gravity would be inducing angular acceleration.
Well, if they're suspended from arms attached to the same axis, the force will be manifested as torque.
But there's also this tradition of natural or divine rights. That's what the ninth amendment refers to. Basically the idea is that people have certain rights, granted by the Creator, whether the government endorses them or not. The ninth amendment doesn't say anything about what those unenumerated divine rights might be. In fact it doesn't even guarantee that there are any. It merely acknowledges the possibility and leaves everything else as an exercise for the reader.
All of the rights mentioned in the constitiution are natural rights - basically, you have the right to own firearms and spout off about whatever, even if it is explicitly illegal. Furthermore, the right to privacy is implicit in the 1st, 4th, and 9th ammendments, according to SCOTUS precedent.
The connection is the humble motorcar. You affect the environment every time you use it. Even its construction uses up a large amount of water etc (just to construct the steel). Cars aren't really recycled properly either... anyway - enough... I've probably bored you already.
Again, What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car? do you just lack a sense of humor, or what?
Perhaps 80% of the tax benefits are going to the top 1% because the top 1% contribute 80% of the government's tax revenue? Hmm?
Not bloody likely. The top 1% pay 50% of the taxes, but own 80% of the property.
Yeah, it's called a crappy job market putting employees at a disadvantage.
you can't have it both ways. If the contention is that MCSE's are idiots and unix admins are smart, then i get to say things like "unix admins are required to be smart" which is it ? the competancy required to manage and use unix and windows is the same ? or are unix users/admins "more capable" than windows users/admins ?
The skill required to admin unix and windows are the same, but it is more towards what the average Unix guy has than the MCSE. Unix admins are, on balance, more capable than windows admins, and this is partly due to the higher skill. The other part is the architecture and stability of unix lends itself to more scalability.
Basically, windows admins are required to be smart too, but people who hire them usually won't pay for that, because they've bought into the MS propaganda about ease of use.
I challenge you to find anyone, hell find an MSCE, who doesn't have experience with Linux to install Apache, mod_perl, PHP, and mod_ssl in three hours.
And I challenge you to find a fry cook who can install IIS and Exchange set up for 1000+ users, and patch it properly.
Some of us ride pedal bikes because we care about the environment. Have you looked at the rising asthma statistics recently? Have you noticed the problem America has with acid rain? Have you noticed how you're dependent on foreign oil imports? *sighs*
What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car?
Now the cheapest [scsi] 20-gig drive is $1200.
Don't you mean $120? That's the low end for 36GB scsi.
I'm reminded of an acquaintance of mine from high school, who bought a Geo Metro and added so many car mods (ground effect, huge stereo, etc.) that his alternator couldn't keep up. He bought a new alternator, which destroyed the car's fuel economy, which is basically the only reason to buy a Metro.
You know, I joke about that whenever a Civic pulls up next to me with a subwoofer I heard a mile away, but I never thought that someone would actually do it.
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No. NON-scientists have been getting it wrong.
Missing the joke, are we?
During compilation its only using 50% cpu anyway; does microsoft scatter sleep(10) calls throughout its code or something? Or is the disk caching totally useless :-(
No, compiling is just IO intensive.
Grrreat idea! Now your office is going to have skinnable chairs and themable desks with a configurable number of legs :)
Nah. If I had a budget, I would get a desk made out of a solid door and 2 short bookcases, and buy a $400 leather chair.
Hey hey! Way to go, you fucking racist . Since when do the Japanese or Chinese never innovate? Have you ever played a video game before? And where the fuck did compasses and fireworks come from, anyway?
Who's the racist here? The Japanese and Chinese have different cultures, which influence the way they view the world. By and large, the chinese and Japanese don't innovate. The Japanese refine and the Chinese build stuff. The creative stuff is done by artists and programmers in small shops.
I haven't honestly seen anything come out of China that could be called creative. That's probably due to the problem of being disappeared for having the wrong sorts of ideas - tends to dampen creativity.
The corporation had the notion that time spent unproductively in the office was more valuable than time spent productively elsewhere. Worse yet, at one point I had to account for every fifteen minutes of work on a time card and it was seriously expected that you would do that within a few minutes of the time noted.
So lie. Really, how are they going to verify that an hour spent solving some problem wasn't done in the woods?
the truth is most comments aren't that useful. Comments describing the architecture are, but the kind of function by function, or even line by line comments that managers asking for comments want aren't.
So write a couple paragraphs describing your 7000 lines, and do function-level commenst when it matters (complex arguments, for instance).
Here's an interesting point, if you have a parent company in the US and the profits are going to the country, but they have no staff, that means that more profits go to the share holders.
The majority shareholders being the already rich. More money goes to the rich, less to the middle class and poor. This causes the middle class to shrink, and the country to turn to shit. It's not my idea of a pleasant place to live.
And, of course, they just changed the polling method to make it more intrusive, thus depressing the reported levels of unemployment.
2. Racism. Why is it that people have so much trouble with the idea of competing with poor people for work? Do you think they aren't hungry enough already? Does the idea of them actually developing some sort of economy disturb you? After all they have to compete with cheap mass produced products from industrialized nations, and massively subsidised food. Why shouldn't we have to compete with them for work?
Oh yeah, pull the race card. I don't care that Indians are brown and Chinese are yellow. What I care about is that we are exporting our industry to the third world. There's more to good business than the next quarter, and once there's no reason to develop software in the US, there won't be any US software companies. That includes microsoft, oracle, and probably Sun. Never mind that I can't even go where the jobs are - India is very protectionist.
3. Self-interest. Why the hell would any country want to encourage their best and brightest to waste their talent doing work that could be done for a fraction of the price by cheap labor in other countries? For that matter why would you want to waste your life doing something that is not economically productive? Find something worthwhile to do with you life, instead of trying to strong-arm your customers into paying artificially inflated prices for skills that are not needed.
Ahem. Refer back to that bit about maintaining local talent. Then realize that most of the places that are doing the outsourcing (like Tata) tend to exaggerate the qualifications of their employees. What sane person takes a senior development position that requires years of experience and farms it out to a fresh grad?
This comment is utterly preposterous on the face of it. The US has the lowest unemployment rates and highest per capita income of any developed country.
Of course, unemployment only counts those still on unemployment. It neglects those who've been unemployed too long and those who don't qualify for unemployment.