China is only communist in the sense that there is only one political party to vote for. They're not communist in the sense that the government controls production, at least much more than many socialist companies with certain government-run industries (healthcare, power, etc).
Nothing is valuable to employers except the money grab.
You can either be worth more to an employer than what they pay you, or you can start your own company and pay people less than what they are worth to you. Your call, but that's what makes the employment universe go around.
BTW, I'd advocate the second option, but most people are too lazy for that.
Who cares why Indians and Chinese are willing to work for less? It doesn't matter. If their governments are willing to force their people to sell their labor for cheap (an assumption I disagree with, but let's run with it anyway) that's just good for us.
Americans want their own jobs protected, but then turn around and buy the imported item that's cheaper. And that *IS* a free market - Americans are deciding that saving a few bucks is better than employing other americans, and THAT is why jobs are outsourced.
You can have as many static firearms with trap mechanisms as you want.
But if one of them actually SHOOTS somebody, you can expect to spend time in prison for negligent homicide (if the setup worked well), plus have the victim('s estate) sue you for everything you're worth.
If you're a math geek, you'll do things that let you sit down and work on problems.
If you're a sex fiend, you'll spend your time in the gym, and maybe convincing people to pay you hefty consulting fees to tell them things they already know.
If you're a musician, you'll be in a band, even if you'll never make more thana hundred bucks a gig.
If you want to be the richst man in the world, well, if I knew the answer to that I'd be the richest man in the world.
But if you're a guy who actually does like solving math problems, and someone comes along and offers you $1 million, it's probably pretty useless to you, sine it doesn't help you solve math problems.
(Ok, in reality, that's kinda short-sighted, as you could buy $1 million of computer time, but maybe he doesn't like computers.)
1) Fighting peer to peer instead of embracing the change will lead to the RIAA/MPAA's destruction. 2) Hatch is writing laws on behalf of RIAA/MPAA fighting peer to peer. 3) Vote for Hatch ????? 5) Profit!
Love it when people invent problems.
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Nobody is going to fly a plane into a 100 megawatt nuclear reactor in Etheopia. If you're going to go through the trouble of getting yourself a plane, there are much more attractive targets.
Same goes for the country becoming unstable - we could blow the reactor up with a cruise missle a lot quicker than anyone could move the damned 500 ton thing. Not to mention, new tech reactors dn't have fuel which is very good for reprocessing anyway.
Just not if you were a critic. It lost major critic points for being "formulaic", but for young people, it really was a romantic comedy that was superior to most romantic comedies. Better dialogue, more depth of character, and J Lo dies. What more could you ask for?
The problem Kevin has is that he can't possibly be as "successful" dealing with fare other people have dealt with before (Mallrats (teen mall movie)/J&SBSB(road trip movie)/Jersey Girl(romantic comedy)) as he can be with dealing with stuff no one has done before. There was no other movie like Clerks when Clerks was made, as there was no movie like Dogma or Chasing Amy either. It's not that some of the movies are "better" than the others, they're just more "successful" because they're not compared to other similar successful movies that happened to have come first.
People like me, in their 20's to early 30's, appreciate what Kevin makes, "unique" or not, as being more appropriate for our age group. That's not good for box office success, and it's often not good for great critical acclaim, but it's nice to have generation-specific fare for those of us in that age range.
It's not like the video clerk would give a customer a pity screw in a romantic comedy your parents would go see, is it?
Great movies can be quite "unsuccessful", especially if you're not trying to make a movie that is only going to be great for a certain group of people. It's sad that so many people only measure a movie's success against the opinion of the general population.
In some cases, people die as a result of this overload who likely would have lived in a more sane system of medical care such as Canada's.
Emergency rooms practice triage, it's not first-come, first serve. If you have a guy with a gunshot wound, and a guy with a sinus infection, who gets treated first? Yeah, the guy with the gunshot wound.
That's why when you show up with a fracture, you wait 8 hours to be seen - because your fracture isn't going to kill you.
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China is only communist in the sense that there is only one political party to vote for. They're not communist in the sense that the government controls production, at least much more than many socialist companies with certain government-run industries (healthcare, power, etc).
Nothing is valuable to employers except the money grab.
You can either be worth more to an employer than what they pay you, or you can start your own company and pay people less than what they are worth to you. Your call, but that's what makes the employment universe go around.
BTW, I'd advocate the second option, but most people are too lazy for that.
And people buy the least expensive item possible.
Who cares why Indians and Chinese are willing to work for less? It doesn't matter. If their governments are willing to force their people to sell their labor for cheap (an assumption I disagree with, but let's run with it anyway) that's just good for us.
Americans want their own jobs protected, but then turn around and buy the imported item that's cheaper. And that *IS* a free market - Americans are deciding that saving a few bucks is better than employing other americans, and THAT is why jobs are outsourced.
Because Americans WANT jobs to be outsourced.
Just not theirs. But they lose that vote.
Especially if it gives warning messages, like:
"It is time to empty the litter box."
or
"Please do your laundry."
or
"Are you really sure you want to eat that leftover pizza?"
or
"For the love of god, please try deodorant. Any deodorant."
Of course, there are also downsides, like your stash of coke always vanishing.
Clusters are the slowest computers available...
If your metric is moving around data, as opposed to how many no-ops you can do a second while waiting for your data to get there.
So is a knife. And it is used more frequently to kill people in disputes.
Have you ever tried cutting a steak with a gun?
You can have as many static firearms with trap mechanisms as you want.
But if one of them actually SHOOTS somebody, you can expect to spend time in prison for negligent homicide (if the setup worked well), plus have the victim('s estate) sue you for everything you're worth.
we need something that interests us, not just something that looks pretty.
And you probably like women for their personality too. Wierdo.
If you raise the speed limit, I'll let you install cameras to bust tail gaters.
"Hello Officer!"
"Free Underage Girls!"
"Sir, could you please step out of the car?"
"That was the car talking, I swear!"
Humans aren't attracted to robots that smell like shit.
Fat humans eat tacos to generate natural gas.
To generate power, of course.
So the Whocarés Conjecture is obviously hypothetical.
You just made all that up, didn't you?
If you're a math geek, you'll do things that let you sit down and work on problems.
If you're a sex fiend, you'll spend your time in the gym, and maybe convincing people to pay you hefty consulting fees to tell them things they already know.
If you're a musician, you'll be in a band, even if you'll never make more thana hundred bucks a gig.
If you want to be the richst man in the world, well, if I knew the answer to that I'd be the richest man in the world.
But if you're a guy who actually does like solving math problems, and someone comes along and offers you $1 million, it's probably pretty useless to you, sine it doesn't help you solve math problems.
(Ok, in reality, that's kinda short-sighted, as you could buy $1 million of computer time, but maybe he doesn't like computers.)
1) Fighting peer to peer instead of embracing the change will lead to the RIAA/MPAA's destruction.
2) Hatch is writing laws on behalf of RIAA/MPAA fighting peer to peer.
3) Vote for Hatch
?????
5) Profit!
Nobody is going to fly a plane into a 100 megawatt nuclear reactor in Etheopia. If you're going to go through the trouble of getting yourself a plane, there are much more attractive targets.
Same goes for the country becoming unstable - we could blow the reactor up with a cruise missle a lot quicker than anyone could move the damned 500 ton thing. Not to mention, new tech reactors dn't have fuel which is very good for reprocessing anyway.
Just not if you were a critic. It lost major critic points for being "formulaic", but for young people, it really was a romantic comedy that was superior to most romantic comedies. Better dialogue, more depth of character, and J Lo dies. What more could you ask for?
The problem Kevin has is that he can't possibly be as "successful" dealing with fare other people have dealt with before (Mallrats (teen mall movie)/J&SBSB(road trip movie)/Jersey Girl(romantic comedy)) as he can be with dealing with stuff no one has done before. There was no other movie like Clerks when Clerks was made, as there was no movie like Dogma or Chasing Amy either. It's not that some of the movies are "better" than the others, they're just more "successful" because they're not compared to other similar successful movies that happened to have come first.
People like me, in their 20's to early 30's, appreciate what Kevin makes, "unique" or not, as being more appropriate for our age group. That's not good for box office success, and it's often not good for great critical acclaim, but it's nice to have generation-specific fare for those of us in that age range.
It's not like the video clerk would give a customer a pity screw in a romantic comedy your parents would go see, is it?
Great movies can be quite "unsuccessful", especially if you're not trying to make a movie that is only going to be great for a certain group of people. It's sad that so many people only measure a movie's success against the opinion of the general population.
Perhaps if I carried a package of condoms in my khaki pants to work...
But after carrying this package for a year, security will know that your other package isn't getting any use.
All google needs to do if find a way to translate AIMlish into English.
George: These democrats are really getting to be annoying. We must do something about them.
Dick: Let's put their names on the terrorist watch list so they can't fly!
Given: No massive particle can travel at or faster than c
So when I get my light-speed space ship working, I'm going to have to lose the beer gut to use it?
Invade Canada.
In some cases, people die as a result of this overload who likely would have lived in a more sane system of medical care such as Canada's.
Emergency rooms practice triage, it's not first-come, first serve. If you have a guy with a gunshot wound, and a guy with a sinus infection, who gets treated first? Yeah, the guy with the gunshot wound.
That's why when you show up with a fracture, you wait 8 hours to be seen - because your fracture isn't going to kill you.
I can assure you that in the vast majority of cases, it's exceedingly dull.