Slave labour (essentially what these people have to do; it's either sweatshop work in one of those 'economic free zones' or starve) is abhorent to anyone with the least bit of moral understanding.
And therefore, the liberal moral imperative is to make sure that these people take the 'starve' option instead. Better that they starve to death than they be exploited by evil Western corporations. But isn't it funny how they voluntarily choose the 'sweatshop' option?
They might have to make their gear more expensive, but fuck it; if you can afford a Nano, you can afford a Nano at twice the price if it means that the people making them can have some freedom.
At this point, we are hit by the stark reality that Westerners aren't interested in paying twice as much for a product. There is no quick solution for third-world poverty, but the 'sweatshop' route is at least a feasible long-term solution. It all makes me suspicious that the real liberal agenda is to maintain the status-quo on third-world poverty forever. How morally repugnant!
Oh, and the first reason is that PHP gets messy past about 2000-5000 lines of code, no namespaces you know, no first-class functions, no closures of course etc...
There's no job that four-million lines of BASIC can't handle!
The thing is, there are some really good schools in the US. Harvard, Yale, MIT. There are also some really bad schools.
I have some trouble believing that it makes much difference where you go to get a Bachelor's degree. You take all the same things as you would anywere else and undergraduate material is so basic. Well, okay, if they don't actually cover the usual stuff, there can be a problem, but is there really much of a difference if they do?
He wanted them to question his actions and words. He wanted them to think for themselves, and analyze the world around them, for themselves.
Jesus was also very anti-theocracy and wanted people to develop their own, individual spirituality and not to repeat hymns by rote. He said his followers should just speak to God and mumbled off the Lord's Prayer on the spot as an example of how to speak to a diety.
It's funny how his message was perverted by those who stood to gain from said perversion. Well, actually, it's not funny; it's 100% expected.
If India had any sort of self-respect they'd invest in them.
Bootstrapping an economy is a process that takes generations. India will have more stringent labour laws when it can afford them. Presently, India is doing very well and labour conditions are improving.
If Canada or the states had imposed 21st-century first-world labour conditions during the Industrial revolution, we would now be a lot like eastern Europe.
Yeah, it's pretty crummy that these people voluntarily work 14 hours a day and support their extended family doing so. Most liberal-minded types would be much happier if they were picking through garbage dumps for edible food.
If you make $120,000 a year and are one mortgage payment away from being on the street, it's because you're being stupid with your money.
I disagree. If you make $120,000 a year and are one mortgage payment away from being on the street, it's because you're being *SO* stupid with your money that you *DESERVE TO* and *MUST* lose it.
(People who regard a first-world democracy as being morally equivalent to a third-world theocracy need to ask themselves exactly when they lost their marbles. (Or if they had any to begin with.))
There's a small matter of the companies surviving long enough to accomplish the task and collect the reward money. I know that I'd have trouble finding billions of dollars in my couch to fund such a project with no guarantee of ever collecting the reward or of costs not soaring way beyond the reward amount.
That would certainly explain why almost no professional sports players are very intelligent.
They may also have a touch of "Pretty-Girl Syndrome". If the players are exceptionally good at a young age, then they never have to put any effort into learning anything, doing anything for themselves, or being non-assholes.
Machine tools have guards and interlocks, so stupid people don't go chopping off their limbs.
We also have a sprawling health-care system that keeps lots of people with chronic diseases from dying.
We have interfered with natural selection, allowing unfit people to survive. As a direct consequence of this, human stupidity will increase.
More significantly, I think we have changed the things that are being selected for. One particular trait that is being selected for is carelessness. The couple that consistently practices birth control will have no children, but the impulsive people who have unsafe sex with lots of other people will produce lots of (unwanted) children. Human stupidity will increase in part because of its correlation with carelessness.
Natural selection doesn't take a holiday.
OTOH, lots of infertile couples who shouldn't be able to have children do because of technology. I wonder if they consider the damage they are doing to the fertility of the next generation. I guess the last generation of (stupid) people will be able to have all the unprotected sex they want.
Everyone knows that people with 20/10 vision have less FPS.
Dogs actually have a higher FPS perception than we have. OTOH, they've been known to eat their own poop. There's an efficiency/complexity tradeoff in neural computation systems.
I guarantee you an eagle can see better than you can whether it's spotting a rabbit from a few hundred feet in the air, or staring that same rabbit in the face right before dinnertime.;)
An Eagle's built-in binoculars are about 3x. My add-on ones are about 21x. I think we have found a way to compensate for our natural shortcomings.
I'm not one of those whack-job conspiracy theorists but for Judicial Watch to make claims of, "this will end all conspiracy theories"
What they need to do now to placate the conspiracy theorists is Photoshop in a pristine image of a jetliner with a crisp AA logo, just like they need to Photoshop in lots of stars and planets on the pictures taken from the surface of the moon. Then they'll have nothing to complain about.
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And therefore, the liberal moral imperative is to make sure that these people take the 'starve' option instead. Better that they starve to death than they be exploited by evil Western corporations. But isn't it funny how they voluntarily choose the 'sweatshop' option?
At this point, we are hit by the stark reality that Westerners aren't interested in paying twice as much for a product. There is no quick solution for third-world poverty, but the 'sweatshop' route is at least a feasible long-term solution. It all makes me suspicious that the real liberal agenda is to maintain the status-quo on third-world poverty forever. How morally repugnant!
There's no job that four-million lines of BASIC can't handle!
Red ship crashes into blue ship - sailors marooned...
Next you will be telling me that Ann Coulter only accuses the 9/11 widows of enjoying the death of their spouses to get attention.
I doubt that the 9/11 widows enjoyed the deaths of their spouses, but I'll be they do enjoy the money, the power, and the attention that resulted.
I have some trouble believing that it makes much difference where you go to get a Bachelor's degree. You take all the same things as you would anywere else and undergraduate material is so basic. Well, okay, if they don't actually cover the usual stuff, there can be a problem, but is there really much of a difference if they do?
Where's the 'hilarious take'?
That was a misprint. It should have been "hilarious John C. Dvorak's take".
He wanted them to question his actions and words. He wanted them to think for themselves, and analyze the world around them, for themselves.
Jesus was also very anti-theocracy and wanted people to develop their own, individual spirituality and not to repeat hymns by rote. He said his followers should just speak to God and mumbled off the Lord's Prayer on the spot as an example of how to speak to a diety.
It's funny how his message was perverted by those who stood to gain from said perversion. Well, actually, it's not funny; it's 100% expected.
*cough* are you a software engineer in the US or Canada? *ahem*
He must be in Canada since Americans don't realize that Canada has software engineers (just lumberjacks and hockey players).
If India had any sort of self-respect they'd invest in them.
Bootstrapping an economy is a process that takes generations. India will have more stringent labour laws when it can afford them. Presently, India is doing very well and labour conditions are improving.
If Canada or the states had imposed 21st-century first-world labour conditions during the Industrial revolution, we would now be a lot like eastern Europe.
Pretty crummy if you ask me.
Yeah, it's pretty crummy that these people voluntarily work 14 hours a day and support their extended family doing so. Most liberal-minded types would be much happier if they were picking through garbage dumps for edible food.
If you make $120,000 a year and are one mortgage payment away from being on the street, it's because you're being stupid with your money.
I disagree. If you make $120,000 a year and are one mortgage payment away from being on the street, it's because you're being *SO* stupid with your money that you *DESERVE TO* and *MUST* lose it.
Can you call a thing paradise if, in order for it to exist, someone else has to suffer?
If I mow a neighbours' lawn and he pays me $10 which I use to buy lunch, which one of us has screwed the other?
(Hint: Economics is not a zero-sum game (unlike dating).)
They don't give a fuck- they'll make their money in the short term, and damn the long term.
This degree of 'churn' sounds like a money-loser. You should be pleased that Apple has learned a lesson.
Just to be clear: You are being sarcastic, yes?
Just to be clear: You are being sarcastic, yes?
(People who regard a first-world democracy as being morally equivalent to a third-world theocracy need to ask themselves exactly when they lost their marbles. (Or if they had any to begin with.))
often at high personal and financial cost to employees caught unawares, whether it be in the U.S. or India.
Maybe people should stop living beyond their means and be prepared for labour disruptions at any time.
Since they knew about prior art but didn't report it, they should be fined.
This is fraud. We should be treated to a 6:00pm perp walk.
There's a small matter of the companies surviving long enough to accomplish the task and collect the reward money. I know that I'd have trouble finding billions of dollars in my couch to fund such a project with no guarantee of ever collecting the reward or of costs not soaring way beyond the reward amount.
Hardly humble, that's an arrogant American centric suggestion. It's the INTERNATIONAL space station.
I know that if *I* buy and pay for something, I consider it to be *mine*.
That would certainly explain why almost no professional sports players are very intelligent.
They may also have a touch of "Pretty-Girl Syndrome". If the players are exceptionally good at a young age, then they never have to put any effort into learning anything, doing anything for themselves, or being non-assholes.
Machine tools have guards and interlocks, so stupid people don't go chopping off their limbs.
We also have a sprawling health-care system that keeps lots of people with chronic diseases from dying.
We have interfered with natural selection, allowing unfit people to survive. As a direct consequence of this, human stupidity will increase.
More significantly, I think we have changed the things that are being selected for. One particular trait that is being selected for is carelessness. The couple that consistently practices birth control will have no children, but the impulsive people who have unsafe sex with lots of other people will produce lots of (unwanted) children. Human stupidity will increase in part because of its correlation with carelessness.
Natural selection doesn't take a holiday.
OTOH, lots of infertile couples who shouldn't be able to have children do because of technology. I wonder if they consider the damage they are doing to the fertility of the next generation. I guess the last generation of (stupid) people will be able to have all the unprotected sex they want.
Since this is chromosome 1 we're talking about, it's the largest one.
The title "GATTACA" appears in the first 1000 lines three times. Conspiracy theorists may commence freaking out.
Everyone knows that people with 20/10 vision have less FPS.
Dogs actually have a higher FPS perception than we have. OTOH, they've been known to eat their own poop. There's an efficiency/complexity tradeoff in neural computation systems.
I guarantee you an eagle can see better than you can whether it's spotting a rabbit from a few hundred feet in the air, or staring that same rabbit in the face right before dinnertime. ;)
An Eagle's built-in binoculars are about 3x. My add-on ones are about 21x. I think we have found a way to compensate for our natural shortcomings.
I'm not one of those whack-job conspiracy theorists but for Judicial Watch to make claims of, "this will end all conspiracy theories"
What they need to do now to placate the conspiracy theorists is Photoshop in a pristine image of a jetliner with a crisp AA logo, just like they need to Photoshop in lots of stars and planets on the pictures taken from the surface of the moon. Then they'll have nothing to complain about.
that Final Fantasy movie they made so much fuss over a few years back.
When is there going to be a Finaler Fantasy movie with more realistic graphics? When can we fire all of those over-paid actors?