pulling boots off the ground has nothing to do with public opinion. Americans were pretty much opposed to the 2nd Iraq & Afghan wars. Our leaders ignored us, like they did with the bank bailouts. We accomplished everything we wanted though. In Afghanistan we wanted an oil pipeline and we got it. We also wanted a gov't sympathetic to our cause, and we got it. In Iraq we wanted control of their oil fields and we wanted to funnel money to military contractors under the guise of nation building. We got that too.
You're not following the money. That's where your mistaken. Everything is always about money. Always. Nothing else really matters. You're feeling instead of thinking. Your gut tells you that the ones you can see, the ones yelling 'Great Satan' are the ones that matter. It's the ones you can't see. The ones pulling the strings from behind that matter. I know I'm starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but come on, it's hardly a theory when the war profiteers were holding conventions out in the open leading up to the Iraq war. It's hardly theory when any fool could tell you Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11.
We are a _lot_ more militarized than you think, for better for for worse. Also, we've got a long history of not really giving a shit about civil rights when stuff happens. Also, they can't get too uppity or we start killing them in mass. Seriously, we really don't give a shit as long as we're not seeing our soldier's bodies on tv at night (they can die, we just don't want to see it). We're also a pretty well segregated society. Wealth people live in suburbs. Those "foriegn fighters' would stick out light a sore thumb even if they were whitebread Americans. The police would stop them, see the guns and hall them in if they were spotted in a rich part of any town. If they want to shoot up poor people who cares? That's no different than gang violence. Poor people killing poor people barely makes the news here.
These are just a few desperate and mentally ill people with nothing to lose out to do a little damage. They'll keep doing it as long as they have nothing to lose and no access to mental health care. These people don't hate your way of life, they hate theirs...
it's hopelessness. ISIS is just a bunch of men with no jobs, no wives, no future and no hope for a future. This is what happens when you've got millions of people with nothing to lose. Stop calling it Fanaticism. It misdirects you from the real issue, which is the 1% war profiteering in the Middle East and stealing their oil. We can't solve _anything_ until we start recognizing the real problem and start actually _rebuilding_ Iraq and Afghanistan. If you're American though this probably means giving up your SUV. I'm not trying to troll, you can't have one and have a happy/stable world. There's a lot more to it than that, but our ridiculous thirst for oil is part of it...
Without [America destabilizing Iraq with a pointless war and a transparent wealth transfer in the guise of nation building] there would probably be no Islamic State...
Fixed that for you. And yes, I am an American, thanks for asking. Dear God, I wish Gore had fought for the presidency. Bush/Cheney did more damage to human civilization in 8 years than I think the rest have done in 2000....
Neat. An artist buddy of mine was considering hunting down a SP3 now that the 4 was out (hoping to get a deal) but after reading about the lag and given that it wasn't that great a deal (they're still in demand) he held off. I'll let him know, thx.
but the Penny Arcade folks made a good point about the new surface: it's not powerful enough to drive that ultra high res display w/o input lag. If you're just mousing with a stylus you won't notice, but their artist noticed the lag right away. Yeah, he could drop res, but that means not running in the panels native res. He was using a Surface Pro 1 on the road, might still be.
artists and whatnot. Or hobbyists. Yeah, yeah, lots of exceptions, but they weren't a good market once PC multimedia caught up. The Sound Blaster Live with it's dirt cheap Midi and good enough recording was a big hit. Then Intel caught up with PowerPC on Photoshop benchmarks and they lost the Printshops. They could have chased after them, but why bother when veblen goods were bringing in so much more and when they'd already almost bought the farm chasing after PCs.
the only way to get ahead is to kill yourself. That's cause nobody trains, and if you want a new, better paying job you have to either get another degree (good luck while your working a full time job, in real life (tm) nobody does that unless their ftj is a cake walk) or get hands on experience. Nobody will hire to train or even to polish. They can just go crying to congress for more fully trained H1-Bs... So you work two jobs hoping to get the next one and hoping the raise you get makes up for the 20 years without raises that weren't eaten up by inflation.
and a bit of a social safety net left. In America our medical care, access to financial help when unemployed, credit and pretty much all other aspects related to our quality of life it tied to our jobs. It's something we did in the 50s, I forget why (IIRC it wasn't for the sake of evil, it just turned out that way). I've seen several jobs outsourced to Canada because health care is so pricey for businesses here it's a better deal even with your taxes being higher (which are usually negotiable for a business anyway).
Basically there aren't a lot of middle class jobs left, and the only way to go here is down. 62% of us live paycheck to paycheck. We're one layoff away from homelessness.
Also, we've gutted our school system and training. Actually, it's sounding like you're doing that too. 20 years ago we'd just train people to do what you're asking for. It's really not hard. But it would cost money. Why spend it when there's a guy in India who already has that training and was living off $2/day while he was getting it. Sure, a lot of his buddies dropped out because they got a girl preggers, or were drunk, or died from lack of health care or just couldn't make it. But with 3 billion people you can burn through a lot of human misery on your way to that cheap, fully trained H1-B.
Those of us in America who are smart see what life is like in India for those guys that didn't make it, see how many of them there are and realize it could be us. We're just one undetected congenital heart disease away. All of us are. Some of us Americans kid ourselves, say we're the 'alphas' in our lot. That's just to make us feel better. The real alphas haven't noticed. Their tall, good looking, have their hair and are VPs. You've got some of those too in Canada. You're 1%ers have noticed how much more money ours make, and they're coming after you. I think you noticed though and it looks like you voted some of 'em out last election. Good for you.
She's breaking ranks by even discussing the issue much less coming out against it. She's either throwing her career away to make a stand/point, no longer has a career or this is an elaborate ruse. Damned if I know which.
and quit bitching. You literally just said outright that you have qualified applicants ("The good ones"). They're working for startups because it's better for them. If you want to get them from the start ups pay more. A lot more.
The other option is to train people and retain them (that's "retain", not "retrain"). That means you don't get to pay someone for 9 months and ship 'em back to India when you're done. You keep them for that 3 months between projects. What India gets you are on demand workers trained to do EXACTLY what you want them to do and trained CHEAPLY. You used to pay through the nose for those guys because they worked for you for 9 months and then spent 3 months off. They spent a good chunk of that 3 months updating their skills, and lived off the excess you paid them ( including paying their own health benefits). You don't like doing that because it's expensive. Stop hiding behind "There are no qualified applicants". That's bullshit and you know it (like I said, you said so in your post).
Jeez, the crap that gets modded up on/. these days...
Syria proved that it only takes a smaller force to put down a large revolt. A few guns doesn't matter when they're semi-auto, you're untrained and you don't have supply lines.
The only hope I see is birth control (especially for men)./. jokes aside studies show the drop in happiness from a kid is bigger than losing your job or killing your spouse (there's a joke in there too I bet). Nobody really _wants_ kids when they have to work and raise a toddler at the same time. Other than declining birth rates making labor scarce I don't see a real option to fix things.
they're the ruling class. You don't spill the blood of kings. And these aren't CEOs like you think of them, they're middle managers. Just higher up the food chain.
And good business is always good. The jobs would have been offshored anyway, right? So what's the harm. This way they're here spending money. Renting cheap apartments, maybe buy a car. Of course, that means rent goes up, and used car prices. You know, it's almost as there's a downside to supply and demand.
They won't have any strike power or collective bargaining rights to speak of. This is just a permatemp agency these companies want to form to get out of paying for health care and unemployment. It's another way for them to externalize their costs onto the employee or the taxpayer. Don't be fooled.
No one lives forever had a map hole the designers couldn't or wouldn't fix so they put a sign on it. It's a real map hole. If you ignore the sign you're reloading your game:P
they still can't patent discoveries. Now, synthetic DNA yes, you can patent that. But then you didn't discover that, you made it. Although the problem with that is at what point did you 'discover' it or just make something naturally occurring...
Like scrum master, project manager, lead developer. When they can't outsource it they try for an h1-b and if that fails they try to make do without. Only when all other options have been exhausted do they consider an American. Usually for 80% of what the same job paid in 2000 but with more responsibility.
A small group of Ultra Wealthy who own the means of production, a miniscule middle class that serves them and the rest in abject poverty. As long as the 1% are taken care of the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves...
Feel good, don't it? You can keep telling yourself you'll work at all the companies that survive when this one crashes. Thing is they've been outsourcing and bringing in h1-bs for 20 years, and I don't recall that happening once. What I do recall is several companies put out of business by the outsourcers. I also see wage stagnant for everyone but a few at the top...
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pulling boots off the ground has nothing to do with public opinion. Americans were pretty much opposed to the 2nd Iraq & Afghan wars. Our leaders ignored us, like they did with the bank bailouts. We accomplished everything we wanted though. In Afghanistan we wanted an oil pipeline and we got it. We also wanted a gov't sympathetic to our cause, and we got it. In Iraq we wanted control of their oil fields and we wanted to funnel money to military contractors under the guise of nation building. We got that too.
You're not following the money. That's where your mistaken. Everything is always about money. Always. Nothing else really matters. You're feeling instead of thinking. Your gut tells you that the ones you can see, the ones yelling 'Great Satan' are the ones that matter. It's the ones you can't see. The ones pulling the strings from behind that matter. I know I'm starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but come on, it's hardly a theory when the war profiteers were holding conventions out in the open leading up to the Iraq war. It's hardly theory when any fool could tell you Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11.
We are a _lot_ more militarized than you think, for better for for worse. Also, we've got a long history of not really giving a shit about civil rights when stuff happens. Also, they can't get too uppity or we start killing them in mass. Seriously, we really don't give a shit as long as we're not seeing our soldier's bodies on tv at night (they can die, we just don't want to see it). We're also a pretty well segregated society. Wealth people live in suburbs. Those "foriegn fighters' would stick out light a sore thumb even if they were whitebread Americans. The police would stop them, see the guns and hall them in if they were spotted in a rich part of any town. If they want to shoot up poor people who cares? That's no different than gang violence. Poor people killing poor people barely makes the news here.
These are just a few desperate and mentally ill people with nothing to lose out to do a little damage. They'll keep doing it as long as they have nothing to lose and no access to mental health care. These people don't hate your way of life, they hate theirs...
it's hopelessness. ISIS is just a bunch of men with no jobs, no wives, no future and no hope for a future. This is what happens when you've got millions of people with nothing to lose. Stop calling it Fanaticism. It misdirects you from the real issue, which is the 1% war profiteering in the Middle East and stealing their oil. We can't solve _anything_ until we start recognizing the real problem and start actually _rebuilding_ Iraq and Afghanistan. If you're American though this probably means giving up your SUV. I'm not trying to troll, you can't have one and have a happy/stable world. There's a lot more to it than that, but our ridiculous thirst for oil is part of it...
Without [America destabilizing Iraq with a pointless war and a transparent wealth transfer in the guise of nation building] there would probably be no Islamic State...
Fixed that for you. And yes, I am an American, thanks for asking. Dear God, I wish Gore had fought for the presidency. Bush/Cheney did more damage to human civilization in 8 years than I think the rest have done in 2000....
why a sync option? I've never used it, but IIRC it's there.
that somebody gets to track and probably use to serve ads? I can't see a use case for pocket.
Isn't that just Seamonkey? You even get plugin support (more or less). My little FF plugin works in Seamonkey with only a few minor differences.
Anyone think the SP4 is a serious Wacom competitor (e.g. for their flagship, not their portable)?
Neat. An artist buddy of mine was considering hunting down a SP3 now that the 4 was out (hoping to get a deal) but after reading about the lag and given that it wasn't that great a deal (they're still in demand) he held off. I'll let him know, thx.
but the Penny Arcade folks made a good point about the new surface: it's not powerful enough to drive that ultra high res display w/o input lag. If you're just mousing with a stylus you won't notice, but their artist noticed the lag right away. Yeah, he could drop res, but that means not running in the panels native res. He was using a Surface Pro 1 on the road, might still be.
artists and whatnot. Or hobbyists. Yeah, yeah, lots of exceptions, but they weren't a good market once PC multimedia caught up. The Sound Blaster Live with it's dirt cheap Midi and good enough recording was a big hit. Then Intel caught up with PowerPC on Photoshop benchmarks and they lost the Printshops. They could have chased after them, but why bother when veblen goods were bringing in so much more and when they'd already almost bought the farm chasing after PCs.
the only way to get ahead is to kill yourself. That's cause nobody trains, and if you want a new, better paying job you have to either get another degree (good luck while your working a full time job, in real life (tm) nobody does that unless their ftj is a cake walk) or get hands on experience. Nobody will hire to train or even to polish. They can just go crying to congress for more fully trained H1-Bs... So you work two jobs hoping to get the next one and hoping the raise you get makes up for the 20 years without raises that weren't eaten up by inflation.
and a bit of a social safety net left. In America our medical care, access to financial help when unemployed, credit and pretty much all other aspects related to our quality of life it tied to our jobs. It's something we did in the 50s, I forget why (IIRC it wasn't for the sake of evil, it just turned out that way). I've seen several jobs outsourced to Canada because health care is so pricey for businesses here it's a better deal even with your taxes being higher (which are usually negotiable for a business anyway).
Basically there aren't a lot of middle class jobs left, and the only way to go here is down. 62% of us live paycheck to paycheck. We're one layoff away from homelessness.
Also, we've gutted our school system and training. Actually, it's sounding like you're doing that too. 20 years ago we'd just train people to do what you're asking for. It's really not hard. But it would cost money. Why spend it when there's a guy in India who already has that training and was living off $2/day while he was getting it. Sure, a lot of his buddies dropped out because they got a girl preggers, or were drunk, or died from lack of health care or just couldn't make it. But with 3 billion people you can burn through a lot of human misery on your way to that cheap, fully trained H1-B.
Those of us in America who are smart see what life is like in India for those guys that didn't make it, see how many of them there are and realize it could be us. We're just one undetected congenital heart disease away. All of us are. Some of us Americans kid ourselves, say we're the 'alphas' in our lot. That's just to make us feel better. The real alphas haven't noticed. Their tall, good looking, have their hair and are VPs. You've got some of those too in Canada. You're 1%ers have noticed how much more money ours make, and they're coming after you. I think you noticed though and it looks like you voted some of 'em out last election. Good for you.
She's breaking ranks by even discussing the issue much less coming out against it. She's either throwing her career away to make a stand/point, no longer has a career or this is an elaborate ruse. Damned if I know which.
and quit bitching. You literally just said outright that you have qualified applicants ("The good ones"). They're working for startups because it's better for them. If you want to get them from the start ups pay more. A lot more.
/. these days...
The other option is to train people and retain them (that's "retain", not "retrain"). That means you don't get to pay someone for 9 months and ship 'em back to India when you're done. You keep them for that 3 months between projects. What India gets you are on demand workers trained to do EXACTLY what you want them to do and trained CHEAPLY. You used to pay through the nose for those guys because they worked for you for 9 months and then spent 3 months off. They spent a good chunk of that 3 months updating their skills, and lived off the excess you paid them ( including paying their own health benefits). You don't like doing that because it's expensive. Stop hiding behind "There are no qualified applicants". That's bullshit and you know it (like I said, you said so in your post).
Jeez, the crap that gets modded up on
Syria proved that it only takes a smaller force to put down a large revolt. A few guns doesn't matter when they're semi-auto, you're untrained and you don't have supply lines.
/. jokes aside studies show the drop in happiness from a kid is bigger than losing your job or killing your spouse (there's a joke in there too I bet). Nobody really _wants_ kids when they have to work and raise a toddler at the same time. Other than declining birth rates making labor scarce I don't see a real option to fix things.
The only hope I see is birth control (especially for men).
they're the ruling class. You don't spill the blood of kings. And these aren't CEOs like you think of them, they're middle managers. Just higher up the food chain.
And good business is always good. The jobs would have been offshored anyway, right? So what's the harm. This way they're here spending money. Renting cheap apartments, maybe buy a car. Of course, that means rent goes up, and used car prices. You know, it's almost as there's a downside to supply and demand.
They won't have any strike power or collective bargaining rights to speak of. This is just a permatemp agency these companies want to form to get out of paying for health care and unemployment. It's another way for them to externalize their costs onto the employee or the taxpayer. Don't be fooled.
No one lives forever had a map hole the designers couldn't or wouldn't fix so they put a sign on it. It's a real map hole. If you ignore the sign you're reloading your game :P
they still can't patent discoveries. Now, synthetic DNA yes, you can patent that. But then you didn't discover that, you made it. Although the problem with that is at what point did you 'discover' it or just make something naturally occurring...
Like scrum master, project manager, lead developer. When they can't outsource it they try for an h1-b and if that fails they try to make do without. Only when all other options have been exhausted do they consider an American. Usually for 80% of what the same job paid in 2000 but with more responsibility.
A small group of Ultra Wealthy who own the means of production, a miniscule middle class that serves them and the rest in abject poverty. As long as the 1% are taken care of the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves...
Feel good, don't it? You can keep telling yourself you'll work at all the companies that survive when this one crashes. Thing is they've been outsourcing and bringing in h1-bs for 20 years, and I don't recall that happening once. What I do recall is several companies put out of business by the outsourcers. I also see wage stagnant for everyone but a few at the top...
have you seen the price of eel? I'm all in favor of a hovercraft full of 'em.