"The vast majority who are already living in poverty are going to be even worse off, and many in the middle class are going to lose everything they have."
I am wondering if you understand the whole point behind communism. There are no classes. Everyone is the same. Seriously. Go to wikipedia and check it out. (Wikipedia, incidentally, is somewhat communist, since anyone and everyone "owns the means of production" of the information there).
Let's not forget that the only reason M$ ever gave anyone the source code was because they were threatening to use Linux due to its open source nature. So, in a roundabout way, Linux and the Open Source Community are responsible for China having this advantage against us.
Of course, it boggles my mind that any machine holding military or government secrets is even connected to the Internet. It seems to me that this is the first bungle.
"those that have will loose, and those that don't have will gain."
or
"I see the rich getting massivley richer, the poor getting a little bit richer"
Which is it? Either the rich will lose, or they will get massively richer? Can you not even make up your own mind or make a post that does not completely contradict itself in two sentences?
That's what I love about leftists. They are a neverending source of entertainment.
The managers of Nasdaq want to see 5k again, and so adding GOOG and to a lesser extent RHAT will add to the volatility and maybe even whip people up into a buying frenzy. Engineering the index membership based on a financial agenda is extremely dangerous.
There is really no good reason why the media should care about a "scandal" at Wikipedia. However, there is a reason (i.e. it's not a good one). The media wants more than anything to be the source of all definitions of society. The media does not like people being able to self-determine what things mean to themselves. In the US, for example, abortion is ALWAYS referred to in the (liberal) media as a "medical procedure." In a recent CNN article about an abortion court case, the author of the article used the term "medical procedure" no fewer than three times, which is an obvious attempt to skew public opinion through repetition. I'm not injecting my own opinions about abortion here, but just trying to point out that the author could just as easily have used the term "infant murder" in place of "medical procedure" in order to advance a different agenda.
Media does not want the general population to have a non-media-controlled source of information and reference. One who controls information has power, and wikipedia takes away power from the Media. Now, the reason the media has its panties in a bunch about this "scandal" is because they will jump on any opportunity to slander and discredit those whose ideas and institutions they oppose. I am certain this is not the only case of alleged libel or slander on wikipedia, but it is a convenient, high-profile case that the media opponents can exploit to advance their own agenda, which is really nothing more than control of information, and therefore control of society.
Another responder to my original post mentioned that s/he didn't expect an implosion in Engineering, and I don't either, really, but it is certainly getting harder. One contrarian point of view is that with so many students on a mass exodus from engineering, the supply has already corrected itself so someone who sticks around won't have so much trouble. However, the real key to surviving is in a place where most engineering majors do not like to go - Management.
If your son is going for engineering, I would look into the MBA track as soon as possible with concentrations in intellectual property and law. Someone with a background in engineering, law, and IP will do very well. My best friend from college with whom I still correspond makes well more than twice what I do, and all he did differently was get an MBA/JM instead of an MSEE. Someone in a position of managing offshoring will not likely be offshored. Just an observation based on what I've seen in my office.
Just to note, I work for a fortune 500 with a huge offshoring program. We've moved 50% of engineering to India, China, and eastern Europe and there's no end in sight.
I've read a lot of posts about how the US is becoming a services-based economy. I have news for you, the services are being offshored as well. I went to my doctor for my annual physical last month, and while there was a nurse in the office performing the physical, the doctor was on an LCD screen from his office in, you guessed it, India.
Did you also know that there are law schools in India now that teach AMERICAN law and not Indian law? I'm guessing that paralegals and other support functions in Law will shortly be available for cheap offshoring.
I used to think that Medicine and Law would be the last things to go, but it seems I was wrong about that. As I scramble to find a safer profession than Engineering, I'm not even sure where to go. I thought of teaching, and then realized that there are movements afoot to move this overseas, too, with a cheap security guard in the classroom to maintain order and a cheap teacher overseas in front of a camera.
So, while it's not so untrue that America is becoming a services based economy, I think it would be more accurate to say that it is becoming an UNSKILLED or lesser-skilled services economy.
They made a compact-in-an-SLR-chassis a number of years ago and couldn't sell it at all.. None of the benefits of the SLR (optics, interchangeable lenses, etc) with none of the benefits of a compact (portability, weight, etc). It was a pretty useless machine.
No, they clearly don't. Remember, their marketing people were probably educated in the US, where simple things like grammar and punctuation are not taught because doing so would take time away from having the kids watch commercials on in-class TV.
My point exactly... I feel like many cures are found completely by accident.. someone whose wife or husband has cancer will be working on developing some new kind of paint thinner or something and discover that their spouse's cancer goes away... or something like that...
As long as you don't go on a rant, your resignation is probably professional. It is pretty standard practice for IT workers to let them go immediately upon resignation. There's nothing to be worried about and it is not a poor reflection on you, it is just a security precaution because one never knows.
The problem with research funding is that throwing more money at a goal won't really make the goal be achieved any faster. Research takes time, and having an unlimited bank account doesn't make it go any faster or better. Similarly, having more people doing research also doesn't really speed things up. Just an empirical observation based on experience.
However, if this is actually a breakthrough, I am thrilled. It seems that after a couple more decades of research, we may understand this well enough to treat it pharmaceutically. It will also take a couple of decades for the billion patents that were likely filed yesterday to expire, allowing real solutions to be developed.
But the first time my dog holds up the line at Starbucks because he's yapping on the phone with his little bitch of a girlfriend, I'm gonna put his ass down...
And of course the "investment" capital comes from "cashing in" "investments" in the US. That is, if by "cashing in" I really mean "Laying Off".... and for all intents and purposes, not hiring a US worker to hire one in India is essentially the same as laying one off, except that they were never hired in the first place to be laid off..
We first have to understand where it is on the food chain. It might be a vital link in the production of human food. Also, we don't know yet what it tastes like, or if its fur is usable for industrial purposes. Perhaps the skin of this critter has properties that make it useful for clothing, footwear, or seating for luxurious Italian sports cars.
What the WWF really needs to do is capture the male and female of the species and determine if they will breed in captivity. If so, we could easily answer all of these questions. You never know, you might be able to burn this thing's piss in your car for fuel. If it tastes good, well then there's a whole new food source. If the fur is particulary soft or the skin is supple, I see whole new clothing lines on the horizon.
Bottom line is, we should hold off on the logging until we develop some new industry centered around the wholesale raising and slaughtering of this potentially useful species..
This new species, homo estupidus, has actually existed for thousands of years. The earliest known findings of evidence of their existence dates back to the middle ages, when these creatures were known to mimic human behavior, except that they tended toward an extreme displeasure of difference, especially with respect to social standing and wealth. Particularly, they were displeased with the social or socioeconomic advancement of others. While homo estupidus pervaded western Europe in the middle ages, the industrial period brought forth their mass expulsion from Western Europe, during which time masses of homo estupidus, voluntarily even, were loaded onto boats and shipped to a little-known new land called Massachussets. There they thrived, and were renamed in the mid 1900's from homo estupidus to the simple name of just Kennedy. Since then, they have been a thriving culture and have almost perfected their methods of preventing social and economic growth in other species, even going so far as to drown members of other species when it was deemed necessary to further their cultural goals. There have been occasional perturbations in their species, however, with some of them becoming socially tied to homo republicanus, but such can be expected when they travel to the extreme western part of the North American continent so far from their home land, and there have been only few documented cases of such cross-breeding.
I couldn't tell you. My water, sewer, and trash are all run by private companies. You probably live in an area where there are no companies that are willing to take on the task of providing these services.
Just as an example, Aqua is one of the largest private water suppliers in the country, and you can bet that your trash company is not your government, but rather a private firm that has a contract with your government.
The thing that blows your argument out of the water is that this form of corruption you are speaking of has no teeth.
Sure, I can donate millions to someone's election campaign, but that does not automatically mean they are going to govern with my worldview in mind. He certainly faces no real consequences if he does not. However, in other places, he may certainly be killed.
Another thing you are overlooking is that these "evil corporation" you no doubt are inferring are the corrupting element are owned by people called "shareholders." Laws of corporate governance require that those who govern corporations act in the best fiduciary interests of the shareholders. In most cases, the shareholders are ordinary people. There may be few who own more shares than others, but largely, shares are owned institutionally (this is especially so of larger corporations), that is by 401(k) and other retirement plans.
The problem we have in our current system, and the argument that logically follows my reasoning here is that people who own shares via 401(k) and other mutual funds do not get voting rights for their shares. This is quite possibly the greatest problem with the status quo in corporate governance. Smaller shareholders have insufficient voice.
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"The vast majority who are already living in poverty are going to be even worse off, and many in the middle class are going to lose everything they have."
I am wondering if you understand the whole point behind communism. There are no classes. Everyone is the same. Seriously. Go to wikipedia and check it out. (Wikipedia, incidentally, is somewhat communist, since anyone and everyone "owns the means of production" of the information there).
Let's not forget that the only reason M$ ever gave anyone the source code was because they were threatening to use Linux due to its open source nature. So, in a roundabout way, Linux and the Open Source Community are responsible for China having this advantage against us.
Of course, it boggles my mind that any machine holding military or government secrets is even connected to the Internet. It seems to me that this is the first bungle.
"those that have will loose, and those that don't have will gain."
or
"I see the rich getting massivley richer, the poor getting a little bit richer"
Which is it? Either the rich will lose, or they will get massively richer? Can you not even make up your own mind or make a post that does not completely contradict itself in two sentences?
That's what I love about leftists. They are a neverending source of entertainment.
The managers of Nasdaq want to see 5k again, and so adding GOOG and to a lesser extent RHAT will add to the volatility and maybe even whip people up into a buying frenzy. Engineering the index membership based on a financial agenda is extremely dangerous.
There is really no good reason why the media should care about a "scandal" at Wikipedia. However, there is a reason (i.e. it's not a good one). The media wants more than anything to be the source of all definitions of society. The media does not like people being able to self-determine what things mean to themselves. In the US, for example, abortion is ALWAYS referred to in the (liberal) media as a "medical procedure." In a recent CNN article about an abortion court case, the author of the article used the term "medical procedure" no fewer than three times, which is an obvious attempt to skew public opinion through repetition. I'm not injecting my own opinions about abortion here, but just trying to point out that the author could just as easily have used the term "infant murder" in place of "medical procedure" in order to advance a different agenda.
Media does not want the general population to have a non-media-controlled source of information and reference. One who controls information has power, and wikipedia takes away power from the Media. Now, the reason the media has its panties in a bunch about this "scandal" is because they will jump on any opportunity to slander and discredit those whose ideas and institutions they oppose. I am certain this is not the only case of alleged libel or slander on wikipedia, but it is a convenient, high-profile case that the media opponents can exploit to advance their own agenda, which is really nothing more than control of information, and therefore control of society.
Another responder to my original post mentioned that s/he didn't expect an implosion in Engineering, and I don't either, really, but it is certainly getting harder. One contrarian point of view is that with so many students on a mass exodus from engineering, the supply has already corrected itself so someone who sticks around won't have so much trouble. However, the real key to surviving is in a place where most engineering majors do not like to go - Management.
If your son is going for engineering, I would look into the MBA track as soon as possible with concentrations in intellectual property and law. Someone with a background in engineering, law, and IP will do very well. My best friend from college with whom I still correspond makes well more than twice what I do, and all he did differently was get an MBA/JM instead of an MSEE. Someone in a position of managing offshoring will not likely be offshored. Just an observation based on what I've seen in my office.
Just to note, I work for a fortune 500 with a huge offshoring program. We've moved 50% of engineering to India, China, and eastern Europe and there's no end in sight.
I've read a lot of posts about how the US is becoming a services-based economy. I have news for you, the services are being offshored as well. I went to my doctor for my annual physical last month, and while there was a nurse in the office performing the physical, the doctor was on an LCD screen from his office in, you guessed it, India.
Did you also know that there are law schools in India now that teach AMERICAN law and not Indian law? I'm guessing that paralegals and other support functions in Law will shortly be available for cheap offshoring.
I used to think that Medicine and Law would be the last things to go, but it seems I was wrong about that. As I scramble to find a safer profession than Engineering, I'm not even sure where to go. I thought of teaching, and then realized that there are movements afoot to move this overseas, too, with a cheap security guard in the classroom to maintain order and a cheap teacher overseas in front of a camera.
So, while it's not so untrue that America is becoming a services based economy, I think it would be more accurate to say that it is becoming an UNSKILLED or lesser-skilled services economy.
They made a compact-in-an-SLR-chassis a number of years ago and couldn't sell it at all.. None of the benefits of the SLR (optics, interchangeable lenses, etc) with none of the benefits of a compact (portability, weight, etc). It was a pretty useless machine.
No, they clearly don't. Remember, their marketing people were probably educated in the US, where simple things like grammar and punctuation are not taught because doing so would take time away from having the kids watch commercials on in-class TV.
I hear you can get those for just $1.99 with any value meal that includes Chili at Wendys...
Actually, "Border Guard" is the duty of the Department of Homeland Security via the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
My point exactly... I feel like many cures are found completely by accident.. someone whose wife or husband has cancer will be working on developing some new kind of paint thinner or something and discover that their spouse's cancer goes away... or something like that...
As long as you don't go on a rant, your resignation is probably professional. It is pretty standard practice for IT workers to let them go immediately upon resignation. There's nothing to be worried about and it is not a poor reflection on you, it is just a security precaution because one never knows.
The problem with research funding is that throwing more money at a goal won't really make the goal be achieved any faster. Research takes time, and having an unlimited bank account doesn't make it go any faster or better. Similarly, having more people doing research also doesn't really speed things up. Just an empirical observation based on experience.
However, if this is actually a breakthrough, I am thrilled. It seems that after a couple more decades of research, we may understand this well enough to treat it pharmaceutically. It will also take a couple of decades for the billion patents that were likely filed yesterday to expire, allowing real solutions to be developed.
But the first time my dog holds up the line at Starbucks because he's yapping on the phone with his little bitch of a girlfriend, I'm gonna put his ass down...
And of course the "investment" capital comes from "cashing in" "investments" in the US. That is, if by "cashing in" I really mean "Laying Off".... and for all intents and purposes, not hiring a US worker to hire one in India is essentially the same as laying one off, except that they were never hired in the first place to be laid off..
I wonder if there was a strong correlation between the 10 year-olds that had the gene and membership on slashdot..
*nyuk nyuk*
Come on, you know that's funny...
and engulf.... Microsoft's typical method of operation..
The short answer is: Yes...
The long answer is: Yes...
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!!
We first have to understand where it is on the food chain. It might be a vital link in the production of human food. Also, we don't know yet what it tastes like, or if its fur is usable for industrial purposes. Perhaps the skin of this critter has properties that make it useful for clothing, footwear, or seating for luxurious Italian sports cars.
What the WWF really needs to do is capture the male and female of the species and determine if they will breed in captivity. If so, we could easily answer all of these questions. You never know, you might be able to burn this thing's piss in your car for fuel. If it tastes good, well then there's a whole new food source. If the fur is particulary soft or the skin is supple, I see whole new clothing lines on the horizon.
Bottom line is, we should hold off on the logging until we develop some new industry centered around the wholesale raising and slaughtering of this potentially useful species..
This new species, homo estupidus, has actually existed for thousands of years. The earliest known findings of evidence of their existence dates back to the middle ages, when these creatures were known to mimic human behavior, except that they tended toward an extreme displeasure of difference, especially with respect to social standing and wealth. Particularly, they were displeased with the social or socioeconomic advancement of others. While homo estupidus pervaded western Europe in the middle ages, the industrial period brought forth their mass expulsion from Western Europe, during which time masses of homo estupidus, voluntarily even, were loaded onto boats and shipped to a little-known new land called Massachussets. There they thrived, and were renamed in the mid 1900's from homo estupidus to the simple name of just Kennedy. Since then, they have been a thriving culture and have almost perfected their methods of preventing social and economic growth in other species, even going so far as to drown members of other species when it was deemed necessary to further their cultural goals. There have been occasional perturbations in their species, however, with some of them becoming socially tied to homo republicanus, but such can be expected when they travel to the extreme western part of the North American continent so far from their home land, and there have been only few documented cases of such cross-breeding.
They should change their name to ICANT....
I couldn't tell you. My water, sewer, and trash are all run by private companies. You probably live in an area where there are no companies that are willing to take on the task of providing these services.
Just as an example, Aqua is one of the largest private water suppliers in the country, and you can bet that your trash company is not your government, but rather a private firm that has a contract with your government.
The thing that blows your argument out of the water is that this form of corruption you are speaking of has no teeth.
Sure, I can donate millions to someone's election campaign, but that does not automatically mean they are going to govern with my worldview in mind. He certainly faces no real consequences if he does not. However, in other places, he may certainly be killed.
Another thing you are overlooking is that these "evil corporation" you no doubt are inferring are the corrupting element are owned by people called "shareholders." Laws of corporate governance require that those who govern corporations act in the best fiduciary interests of the shareholders. In most cases, the shareholders are ordinary people. There may be few who own more shares than others, but largely, shares are owned institutionally (this is especially so of larger corporations), that is by 401(k) and other retirement plans.
The problem we have in our current system, and the argument that logically follows my reasoning here is that people who own shares via 401(k) and other mutual funds do not get voting rights for their shares. This is quite possibly the greatest problem with the status quo in corporate governance. Smaller shareholders have insufficient voice.