A) B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Optical Physics B) Previous employer has nothing but good things to say about me C) True, you'll find most people in the world, or even in the U.S., do not live in New York City
The 2002 Federal Poverty Guidelines put the poverty line at $8,860 for the lower 48 states. $20k is far from poverty (unless you've got half a dozen kids). Hell, last year (my first full year out of college) I made just a little over $11k, and I got along.
This really centers us properly on the true issue here, that the IT industry has been overpaid for so long that many of you guys have lost any inkling of how the "other half" lives. $20k isn't exactly the lap of luxery, but I know people around here who manage to raise a family on less than that. What they really need to lose is this view that somehow anyone willing to work for less than 6-figures is somehow ruining the market and playing into the hands of the rich, or the capitalists, or whatever.
So what's wrong with cheaper labor?
Hell, I've got two degrees and a couple years experience, give me $20,000 a year and stick me in the IT department and you don't even have to fill out all the H1-B paperwork.
Doesn't it seem like letting the employer and employee work out how much money the job will pay is a much better system than having some bureaucracy decide what the prevailing wage is and binding everyone to that?
Or is there something about being born outside the borders of the United States that makes wage negotiations inherently evil?
"Primative Societies" don't really NEED anything, they just are. People living within those primative societies, on the other hand, do have needs. Some of them certainly need water, some need medicine (the sick ones, anyhow), and some, at least one I'm certain, need internet access.
Here is a group of people, out of the goodness of their hearts, supplying a need that someone, or a few people, or hundreds of people, have. Its obviously not the need that you feel is most important, or directed toward those you feel are the most deserving. You are neither the giver nor the receiver in this case, so I fail to see why you should have a say in the matter.
So... 35 years ago you decided that the Laotians as a collective whole didn't need internet access and therefore none of them can have it now?
Unless Laotians age in a manner much different from us I would guess that many of them (especially the younger ones) weren't even alive 35 years ago.
Also: think of the way you were 35 years ago, did you pick up any new skills in the meantime? Are your technological needs and wants the same as they were back then? Why then do you assume that the Laotians were stuck in some sort of time warp where things haven't changed in decades?
I don't think these guys were pretending that $25k worth of computers and WiFi routers would solve all of Laos's problems.
It seems to me this would definately help some people in Laos, and while it might not neccesarily be the 100% most cost effective thing, and while you might think its helping "the wrong people", it is a gift.
If someone gives you a sweater do you point out how much more you really needed underwear, and how that would've been more cost effective anyhow?
And then maybe there might be some people interested in doing something useful for other people, not "other countries".
I for one could care less how the "country" of Laos is doing. Providing a person in a small village access to information that might be useful to them doesn't seem like such a terrible misdeed.
The "As for the oceans having enough deuterium to let us outlast the sun" part...
It says there is enough deuterium to provide humanity with power for hundreds of millions of years. Obviously the sun pumps out a LOT more power than humanity uses in a given year...
They aren't claiming anything to the effect of the ocean being more powerful than the sun... they're saying that there is enough D2 on earth to provide humanity with power until the sun dies and our energy problems cease to matter.
The monitor is "The screen", all removeable media are "tapes", and the case is "the drive" where refers to whatever external drive is most prominent on the front.
Interestingly, The case can be "the CD drive", but the CD itself is still a "tape" or a "CD tape" if the user is particularly advanced.
Easier fix would be to configure Mozilla to disallow all Mouseover events. Seriously, I've found more sites that open their compelling content in a popup by default than would cease to function without mouseover.
Red Hat has a big advantage over Mandrake in that they are actually turning a profit now. They also have no debt.
Floating warrants to kill debt is a rather dubious way to return to profitability. The warrants may or may not be a good deal, I don't have enough info on them on hand, but I know if I was a shareholder pre-warrant I'd be pretty upset to find my shares dilluted so much just to pay down debt.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like this exploit doesn't effect -STABLE to begin with.
If you're using 5.0RC2 you've got to figure there'll be some bugs.
So what was the question? :)
Let me just remind you all that this bug does NOT effect the OS/2 Warp 3.0 kernel.
I repeat, the OS/2 Warp kernel is not effected!
Well, I have:
A) B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Optical Physics
B) Previous employer has nothing but good things to say about me
C) True, you'll find most people in the world, or even in the U.S., do not live in New York City
The 2002 Federal Poverty Guidelines put the poverty line at $8,860 for the lower 48 states. $20k is far from poverty (unless you've got half a dozen kids). Hell, last year (my first full year out of college) I made just a little over $11k, and I got along.
This really centers us properly on the true issue here, that the IT industry has been overpaid for so long that many of you guys have lost any inkling of how the "other half" lives. $20k isn't exactly the lap of luxery, but I know people around here who manage to raise a family on less than that. What they really need to lose is this view that somehow anyone willing to work for less than 6-figures is somehow ruining the market and playing into the hands of the rich, or the capitalists, or whatever.
So what's wrong with cheaper labor? Hell, I've got two degrees and a couple years experience, give me $20,000 a year and stick me in the IT department and you don't even have to fill out all the H1-B paperwork.
Funny, I thought the growth of wealth in the U.S. was because of our comparative economic freedom and willingness to work.
Here it was just government decree all along.
My mistake
Doesn't it seem like letting the employer and employee work out how much money the job will pay is a much better system than having some bureaucracy decide what the prevailing wage is and binding everyone to that? Or is there something about being born outside the borders of the United States that makes wage negotiations inherently evil?
I'll spare everyone else and jump in here
"In Soviet Russia, steel makes you!"
That's my whole point too:
"Primative Societies" don't really NEED anything, they just are. People living within those primative societies, on the other hand, do have needs. Some of them certainly need water, some need medicine (the sick ones, anyhow), and some, at least one I'm certain, need internet access.
Here is a group of people, out of the goodness of their hearts, supplying a need that someone, or a few people, or hundreds of people, have. Its obviously not the need that you feel is most important, or directed toward those you feel are the most deserving. You are neither the giver nor the receiver in this case, so I fail to see why you should have a say in the matter.
So... 35 years ago you decided that the Laotians as a collective whole didn't need internet access and therefore none of them can have it now?
Unless Laotians age in a manner much different from us I would guess that many of them (especially the younger ones) weren't even alive 35 years ago.
Also: think of the way you were 35 years ago, did you pick up any new skills in the meantime? Are your technological needs and wants the same as they were back then? Why then do you assume that the Laotians were stuck in some sort of time warp where things haven't changed in decades?
I don't think these guys were pretending that $25k worth of computers and WiFi routers would solve all of Laos's problems.
It seems to me this would definately help some people in Laos, and while it might not neccesarily be the 100% most cost effective thing, and while you might think its helping "the wrong people", it is a gift.
If someone gives you a sweater do you point out how much more you really needed underwear, and how that would've been more cost effective anyhow?
If this is step one of some grand scheme to get hot Laotian girls webcams I wish they'd say so directly, I'll bet they'd get a lot more donations.
And then maybe there might be some people interested in doing something useful for other people, not "other countries".
I for one could care less how the "country" of Laos is doing. Providing a person in a small village access to information that might be useful to them doesn't seem like such a terrible misdeed.
actually the fusion method described at the site is decidedly not cold.
I'd recommend reading a little more carefully.
The "As for the oceans having enough deuterium to let us outlast the sun" part...
It says there is enough deuterium to provide humanity with power for hundreds of millions of years. Obviously the sun pumps out a LOT more power than humanity uses in a given year...
They aren't claiming anything to the effect of the ocean being more powerful than the sun... they're saying that there is enough D2 on earth to provide humanity with power until the sun dies and our energy problems cease to matter.
Wouldn't a more secure system be one where your identity is based on who you actually are rather than who the government says you are?
no, no...
The monitor is "The screen", all removeable media are "tapes", and the case is "the drive" where refers to whatever external drive is most prominent on the front.
Interestingly, The case can be "the CD drive", but the CD itself is still a "tape" or a "CD tape" if the user is particularly advanced.
I henceforth demand that TECO rename itself The Inhumane Enivornment
Join me or die, can you do any less?
"everybody would be happy if..."
Because lord knows no judge has ever abused his power, right?
If you wrote something in a public forum disparaging boxing, do you have any doubt Judge Mills Lane would allow cops to wiretap you at will?
$60,000/yr?! Jesus Christ, I wish. Two B.S.'s later and I just got downsourced out of yet another $8/hr job.
There's always the old standby option of re-enabling Javascript when you really need it.
I know we've got a Release Candidate, but I was really eager to do the upgrade thing.
Hmm...
Preferences >>> Advanced >>> Scripts and Plugins >>> and unclick "Enable Javascript for Navigator"
That's not all that hard.
Easier fix would be to configure Mozilla to disallow all Mouseover events. Seriously, I've found more sites that open their compelling content in a popup by default than would cease to function without mouseover.
Red Hat has a big advantage over Mandrake in that they are actually turning a profit now. They also have no debt. Floating warrants to kill debt is a rather dubious way to return to profitability. The warrants may or may not be a good deal, I don't have enough info on them on hand, but I know if I was a shareholder pre-warrant I'd be pretty upset to find my shares dilluted so much just to pay down debt.