Other Navys can exist, but like the sea or air, controlling it or more importantly the ability to control it, is vital. When shit hits the fan, I want to be the top dog controlling what we and what others are able to do either for or against us.
I say we dominate space so we can secure that our lack of dominance wont be used against us.
You talk about space like it's some island somewhere and not the entire area surrounding the planet. Have you even considered what is being implied here? That we're going to prevent other countries that don't agree with us from putting satellites up above their own super-airspace?
Ensuring that everyone has an equal start sounds like a noble statement, but it contradicts a stratified society. Someone has to be a graveyard gas station attendant, a garbage man etc. I think the misconception of equality is rooted by the phrase, "all men are created equal." The notion of equality referring that phrase refers to is fundamental rights as a citizen (or human).
Perhaps the problem is more that these jobs do not carry much respect with some people. But that's a problem with the psychological make-up of our society in general.
1. Outsourcing is not new. And the reaction by the IT industry is not new. The garment industry was outsourced, the steel industry, to a degree the automotive industry. It happens. The people directly impacted don't like it but as long as it make economic sense, outsourcing will happen. Adapt to survive and thrive.
And look what that's wrought in those industries: there are now less than a handful of US-owned steel companies. My wife's father worked for a US Steel company before it was bought by a foreign company. Now he works for a Russian-owned steel company. And consider: US car companies buy foreign steel, while companies like Toyota buy American steel. What does that tell you? I don't think I need to more than mention what's going on in the auto industry.
Your "adapt to survive and thrive" sounds an aweful lot like "That's the way it is, live with it." That attitude never survived anything. With an attitude like that, the US will become a nation of fast-food and Walmart employees.
2. Isolated protective measures to limit outsourcing will ultimately fail. If you put restrictions on US companies that increase their costs while overseas competitors have no such restrictions, US companies will be at a competitive disadvantage ultimately hurting their growth and their employees.
If a.xxx domain is ever created the legal climate in the US will force any content that isn't 'child safe' into it. All it would take is one threat of a lawsuit from a rapacious trial lawyer (and we have a couple million of those monsters lurking here) and any site that wasn't perfectly safe for kiddies would move.
I can see where you're coming from, but if that's the case, why didn't the Bible-thumpers support it?
The supercomputer, consisting of two systems -- Hitachi's multipurpose supercomputer with a peak performance of 2.15 terra flops and IBM Japan's Blue Gene Solution with a peak performance of 57.3 terra flops -- is capable of making about 59 trillion calculations per second...
You don't say. I wonder if they put those numbers into the machine(s) to get that sum...
So how exactly does one get any computer in this universe to compute what happens when all known laws of physics (newtonian or quantum) break down, as in a black hole?
There was a story on NPR yesterday about this; Robert Siegel spoke with a man in Beijing and they compared searches, Robert on google.com and the other guy on google.cn. When asked if the Chinese people were finding ways around the censorship, the guy in Beijing replied that some had found ways around it, but that most were content with what they were being fed. You can listen to the segment at this link.
Sort of like in this country with the whole illegal wiretapping fiasco.
"The Web is no longer a place where simple applications are tolerated; 'users have become more advanced, customers expect robustness and advanced error reporting, and managers are fired because an application goes down 1 percent of the time. It's your job then, to go beyond a simple Ajax application that requires a more thorough understanding of XMLHttpRequest.'
For a moment there I thought I was reading propaganda from the back of the latest video game...
Most kidnapping are not performed by anonymous random kidnappers. Most kidnappings occur by family members or people known and trusted by the family.
My kid wouldn't be in the public school system, first of all.
It's always amusing (in a sad sort of way) how some people who have money somehow envision the world as if everyone else is just as well off as they are.
Slashdot Mirror
Now that's what I call a Big Bang.
US 5,319,542 - Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue.
Too bad Sears Roebuck didn't have the same idea a century ago, eh? Then non-inperson sales would never have existed...
Other Navys can exist, but like the sea or air, controlling it or more importantly the ability to control it, is vital. When shit hits the fan, I want to be the top dog controlling what we and what others are able to do either for or against us.
I say we dominate space so we can secure that our lack of dominance wont be used against us.
You talk about space like it's some island somewhere and not the entire area surrounding the planet. Have you even considered what is being implied here? That we're going to prevent other countries that don't agree with us from putting satellites up above their own super-airspace?
I'd like to introduce you to this little thing we have called the Tobacco Industry...
The best part is the Boba Fett card in the open wallet display.
Ensuring that everyone has an equal start sounds like a noble statement, but it contradicts a stratified society. Someone has to be a graveyard gas station attendant, a garbage man etc. I think the misconception of equality is rooted by the phrase, "all men are created equal." The notion of equality referring that phrase refers to is fundamental rights as a citizen (or human).
Perhaps the problem is more that these jobs do not carry much respect with some people. But that's a problem with the psychological make-up of our society in general.
1. Outsourcing is not new. And the reaction by the IT industry is not new. The garment industry was outsourced, the steel industry, to a degree the automotive industry. It happens. The people directly impacted don't like it but as long as it make economic sense, outsourcing will happen. Adapt to survive and thrive.
And look what that's wrought in those industries: there are now less than a handful of US-owned steel companies. My wife's father worked for a US Steel company before it was bought by a foreign company. Now he works for a Russian-owned steel company. And consider: US car companies buy foreign steel, while companies like Toyota buy American steel. What does that tell you? I don't think I need to more than mention what's going on in the auto industry.
Your "adapt to survive and thrive" sounds an aweful lot like "That's the way it is, live with it." That attitude never survived anything. With an attitude like that, the US will become a nation of fast-food and Walmart employees.
2. Isolated protective measures to limit outsourcing will ultimately fail. If you put restrictions on US companies that increase their costs while overseas competitors have no such restrictions, US companies will be at a competitive disadvantage ultimately hurting their growth and their employees.
Sort of like in China?
I wouldn't call the Geeksquad "working in the IT industry"...
The future of high-rez pr0n!
Eloi are tasty.
Unfortunately, paper trails aren't foolproof either.
Did you follow your own link? By all means, please do point out the book "Call of the Wild" by James Baldwin...
... except that Call of the Wild is by Jack London, not James Baldwin...
PC Load Letter? WTF does that mean?
The only thing I feel the need to hide is my roll of tinfoil from the article's author.
If a .xxx domain is ever created the legal climate in the US will force any content that isn't 'child safe' into it. All it would take is one threat of a lawsuit from a rapacious trial lawyer (and we have a couple million of those monsters lurking here) and any site that wasn't perfectly safe for kiddies would move.
I can see where you're coming from, but if that's the case, why didn't the Bible-thumpers support it?
Ah yes, Those Darn Liberals(TM). Cause of all evil in the US. I don't know why somebody don't just outlaw them suckers for God's country!
You don't say. I wonder if they put those numbers into the machine(s) to get that sum...
So how exactly does one get any computer in this universe to compute what happens when all known laws of physics (newtonian or quantum) break down, as in a black hole?
Maybe now we won't have to worry about ceaseless cellphone blather during the entire flight...
Misto is also a hand-pump cooking-oil spraying device...
There was a story on NPR yesterday about this; Robert Siegel spoke with a man in Beijing and they compared searches, Robert on google.com and the other guy on google.cn. When asked if the Chinese people were finding ways around the censorship, the guy in Beijing replied that some had found ways around it, but that most were content with what they were being fed. You can listen to the segment at this link .
Sort of like in this country with the whole illegal wiretapping fiasco.
Just as long as he lets all those evil spirits out in the process. Can't keep those puppies stuck up in that cranium forever...
For a moment there I thought I was reading propaganda from the back of the latest video game...
It's always amusing (in a sad sort of way) how some people who have money somehow envision the world as if everyone else is just as well off as they are.
Some of them are even in Congress.