The EU Constitution has nothing to do with this. The Treaty is designed to make the EU to function better (relying on a single treaty instead of (partially overlapping) four or five as it does now)
If EU Constitution is not approved, guess what? The EU will continue to function based on current framework. Does your negative vote helps with anything? Absolutely no.
The smart move is not to hide the head into the sand, hiding yourself out from the world. The answer is to act, to contact your MEP, to take attitude. That's a democracy. Only in communism people were prevented to involve, EU is a democracy and a democracy cannot function without the involvement of the citizens!
I am against this stupid patent law, but I am for the EU Constitution because I believe in democracy and in the force of the people, no matter if politicians screw it big from time to time.
I work with PHP in a production environment: RHEL 3.3. The problem? PHP version delivered by Red Hat has a know problem with get_browser() function (returns incorrect results). Therefore, we have to use the old compile-it-yourself method. Therefore, the upgrade process is not that painless as it would be with a simle `up2date -u'. I can cope with this, of course, only that sometimes is not that simple and manual update is the only option. With all the hurdle it involves. Regards
Exactly, cost of living! Until now people around the world, in order to have a decent living, have to emigrate in US. They have to learn English, to adapt to a new culture, to new life style, to new values. And they did it. They did all of this because "they followed the opportunities/jobs".
Now is starting to be viceversa: Americans have to start to learn foreign languages, to consider moving to foreign countries, to adapt themselves to new cultuers and life styles! Why is that so scary? Why is "normal" to have other people coming into your country and not considering he same for you? What is so scary to live in India, or in Romania, or in Poland, or whatever?
US was build by imigrants, by people who let anything behind to start a new life from zero, on foreign virgin (more or less) land. I cannot believe that this heritage just dissapeared and that you, the descendents of such courageous people, are afraid to do this once more.
For many years, US research and advanced technologies relied heavily on imports of foreign brain. Einstein, Von Brown (space missions), Sikorsky (helicopters) to name just a few. Sure, most Nobel prizes are won by Americans, but they are mostly managers of teams of developers, teams in which most of researchers are foriegners.
The only field in which Americans are the best and do not need foreign brain to survive is business.
So what is wrong in that American business discovered that is cheaper to pay the foreign researchers in their own countries like India, Eastern Europe or Russia instead to bring them in US and pay them on US level?
What is your problem as biotech or programmers or whatever if there are other peoples in the world, who are as skilled as you (or better) and available to work for less?
Take programming for example. Buggy programs were written all the time, before and during offshoring. Buggy programms is not a matter of offshoring, is a matter of management, HR, etc.
Wasn't US who promoted so heavily "free markets" and "democracy" into the world? Wasn't US who pushed for opening markets, dismiss trade barriers, free flows of capitals and supported the globalization? Don't tell me that US did that from altruism, US did that for a single reason: take the larger part of the pie. But like in any open market, small players might gain parts of it as well.
So I really don't see why this offshoring issue must be seen as something dramatic. Slashdot is read not only by Americans, but by many other peoples worldwide and many of them benefit from offshoring! They can build a decent life in their countries, they do not have to emigrate and be foreigners for all their life, they can be always near their parents and friends. Their countries can improve the general level of life and become larger, more attractive markets. Take the example of the former socialist countries that will become part of EU in two weeks. Or China. Or India. Why this cliche, that only in US the standard of life should be high and some developing countries should always developing and developing and developing?
So stop complaining about offshoring! There are only two things granted in life: death and paying taxes. For all the others each of us have to compete!
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The EU Constitution has nothing to do with this. The Treaty is designed to make the EU to function better (relying on a single treaty instead of (partially overlapping) four or five as it does now)
If EU Constitution is not approved, guess what? The EU will continue to function based on current framework. Does your negative vote helps with anything? Absolutely no.
The smart move is not to hide the head into the sand, hiding yourself out from the world. The answer is to act, to contact your MEP, to take attitude. That's a democracy. Only in communism people were prevented to involve, EU is a democracy and a democracy cannot function without the involvement of the citizens!
I am against this stupid patent law, but I am for the EU Constitution because I believe in democracy and in the force of the people, no matter if politicians screw it big from time to time.
Socrate
I work with PHP in a production environment: RHEL 3.3. The problem? PHP version delivered by Red Hat has a know problem with get_browser() function (returns incorrect results). Therefore, we have to use the old compile-it-yourself method. Therefore, the upgrade process is not that painless as it would be with a simle `up2date -u'. I can cope with this, of course, only that sometimes is not that simple and manual update is the only option. With all the hurdle it involves. Regards
Exactly, cost of living! Until now people around the world, in order to have a decent living, have to emigrate in US. They have to learn English, to adapt to a new culture, to new life style, to new values. And they did it. They did all of this because "they followed the opportunities/jobs".
Now is starting to be viceversa: Americans have to start to learn foreign languages, to consider moving to foreign countries, to adapt themselves to new cultuers and life styles! Why is that so scary? Why is "normal" to have other people coming into your country and not considering he same for you? What is so scary to live in India, or in Romania, or in Poland, or whatever?
US was build by imigrants, by people who let anything behind to start a new life from zero, on foreign virgin (more or less) land. I cannot believe that this heritage just dissapeared and that you, the descendents of such courageous people, are afraid to do this once more.
For many years, US research and advanced technologies relied heavily on imports of foreign brain. Einstein, Von Brown (space missions), Sikorsky (helicopters) to name just a few. Sure, most Nobel prizes are won by Americans, but they are mostly managers of teams of developers, teams in which most of researchers are foriegners.
The only field in which Americans are the best and do not need foreign brain to survive is business.
So what is wrong in that American business discovered that is cheaper to pay the foreign researchers in their own countries like India, Eastern Europe or Russia instead to bring them in US and pay them on US level?
What is your problem as biotech or programmers or whatever if there are other peoples in the world, who are as skilled as you (or better) and available to work for less?
Take programming for example. Buggy programs were written all the time, before and during offshoring. Buggy programms is not a matter of offshoring, is a matter of management, HR, etc.
Wasn't US who promoted so heavily "free markets" and "democracy" into the world? Wasn't US who pushed for opening markets, dismiss trade barriers, free flows of capitals and supported the globalization? Don't tell me that US did that from altruism, US did that for a single reason: take the larger part of the pie. But like in any open market, small players might gain parts of it as well.
So I really don't see why this offshoring issue must be seen as something dramatic. Slashdot is read not only by Americans, but by many other peoples worldwide and many of them benefit from offshoring! They can build a decent life in their countries, they do not have to emigrate and be foreigners for all their life, they can be always near their parents and friends. Their countries can improve the general level of life and become larger, more attractive markets. Take the example of the former socialist countries that will become part of EU in two weeks. Or China. Or India. Why this cliche, that only in US the standard of life should be high and some developing countries should always developing and developing and developing?
So stop complaining about offshoring! There are only two things granted in life: death and paying taxes. For all the others each of us have to compete!
This is exactly why M$ policy prevails: too much insignifiat people like you who think they cannot change the world.
It is ALL OF US TOGETHER who can influence this, if EVERY OF US is aware of the power of every single opinion.
I'm sorry, but this code does not fit with what
Dijkstra learn us, because it uses "Harmful Go To"!
If you want to respect his memory, you should write the code as:
repeat
birth;
death;
until (self = enlightened);
while (true)
nirvana;
No, it's not using vertical take off. Because the shutttle is so 'small', it is carried by a high-altitude plane.
Unlike other great nations that have to import the brain, Russians have been always great engineers. too bad that they were living in a wrong system.