-causes huge criminal issues because so many of the vermin crawling across the border are CRIMINALS!!
--And the source of your statistics is?..
Oh please, care to visit southern Texas partner. I think I can show you some stats you'll never forget (if you live through it)
-We've got Mexicans getting busted by the thousands in middle America (not San Diego). And before that we had Italian Mafia, for example (think "Godfather"). And Irish Mob (Think "Departed"). And Jewish criminals (Think "Once upon a time in America"). And we still have those crimes. But what are those Mexicans "getting busted by the thousands" for? If their only/main offense is getting here "illegally", then you are exhibiting exactly the circular (thus wrong) argument I described...
So it's OK if they're just here illegally. Gee, I wonder if we could get the same treatment if we just guility of, say, dealing drugs. Or, maybe we just got an abortion 1 month past the legal limit, or two... Yeah, must be nice to be able to slide that scale of what's acceptable in your own little world. Out here in the real world laws don't bend because somebody doesn't agree with it. You can change the law but, until then, enforce the ones you've got. You want the argument to be circular because you want to ignore the law you don't like. My parents are immigrants but they came here legally and they went to classes to earn citizenship, learned to speak english and became Americans, not hyphenated somethings. The situation we're in now is not like it was after WWII or at the turn of the century. These are not immigrants they are itenarates that aspire to be Mexican (or whatever) in America. Others come to take advantage of an educational system that favors aliens then take from that system by working for a lower wage than most Americans. They can do this because it's short term before they return home where that money is more valuable. This is a detriment to this country and we need it to stop.
--Even those that come here to do honest (and educated) work cause problems by driving the price of skilled work down.
-And why is an American-born worker entitled to better pay, than a Honduran? By birth right, uhm? That's exactly the "right", on which the King tried to base his sovereignty over us...
Because we pay taxes to support the infrastructure of this country, unlike most illegals. We suffer because they take from our system without paying for it. And yes, we do have a birth right as Americans. I know you one-worlders hate to have any pride or nationality associated with were you live, which begs the question, why do so many of you live here? Only because few other places in the world have the strength (or indulgence) to allow you to exist.
-They're going to take what they can make and go home --It is their Human Right to do so... Of the self-evident kind...
Human Rights are a fantasy. The only rights you (we) have were bought on the backs and lifes of those that came before us. To arrogantly demand that we hand these rights to anyone that can manage to show up on our side of the border is shear stupidity. Attempts to do so will distroy what we have achieved and it will be lost to everyone. By that logic you should just give me everything you have because I want it. Would that be OK with you? Thought not.
"Why put a small (or even not so small) subset of humanity before the rest? I am human, you are human, what difference does it make what piece of land either of us was born on? I've never understood why people make such a big deal of things like moving from, say, one city to another just because they happen to be on different sides of random and arbitrary borders when it's perfectly fine to move between functionally similar cities on the same side of said border. Maybe you can explain it..."
Easy, would it be ok with you if I just took your car and home? Maybe I don't like working and I'd rather take what you've worked for and let you keep paying for it. Would that be ok with you? How about letting you kid die waiting in an emergency room because someone that entered the country illegally and got shot dealing drugs is busy being treated instead. Does that make things more clear?
See, that's the problem with silly PC thinking. Everybody is nice, we're all human, we share our mother earth. Yeah.... right. That might work if humans weren't emotional, greedy, flawed creatures. But we are. Learn to live in the real world. Or, live in your fantasy and let others take what you have and laugh at you for for wondering why. Just don't ask everybody else to do the same.....
Nope, no issue at all. Those that would permit everyone and anyone to do whatever they like aren't for freedom, just the ability to do whatever THEY want. That's what you're advocating and that's the most self centered philosophy there is.
We have laws that work if enforced. Our problem is the blatent lack of enforcement.
"I simply don't understand, how an American (except, perhaps, the Native Americans) can sleep at night rejecting the right to move to this country to someone else"
Actually I have a hard time sleeping because of the criminal bastards sneaking across the border and through my yard. Fools like you think that past justifies present because you think the world is static. Things change. Just because your uncle Hans came here from Germany after WWII doesn't justify what we've got going on today. It disrupts the work force in our country and, at current levels, causes huge criminal issues because so many of the vermin crawling across the border are CRIMINALS!!
Pull your head out of your ass and look around you. We've got Mexicans getting busted by the thousands in middle America (not San Diego).
Even those that come here to do honest (and educated) work cause problems by driving the price of skilled work down. This devalues that work and causes fewer Americans to choose those professions in school. This causes a lack of that skill in this country. That's bad for America and Americans. So many of the skilled immigrants that come here are simply in it for the buck. They don't care about our country. They're going to take what they can make and go home (particularly Indian's, I've seen it half a dozen times). Again, that's bad for our country. I don't begrudge those that would take advantage of a stupid system but that doesn't mean I'm going to say it's OK. We need to put out country first, maybe you should try it sometime.
........the love of money. Unfortunately that's all American business seems to be about. If that doesn't change we're all doomed, techies and non-techies alike. There are still some forces for good but when a lump of dung like Bill Gates get's press with this type of statement it makes me wonder if we can survive. Gates saying we need more H1B's is like Bill Clinton calling for more young female interns (and cigars). Give me break!
Why do we care how many of what type of human do this that and the other thing while others doen't? What difference does it make? Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe smart white guys like hanging with other smart white guys and so they take the same courses and go into the same fields of study and end up being the dominate type of person in that field. Why are there groups of people that INSIST that there be some rediculous parity in the type and sex of people in every field of endevour. It's just stupid!! Maybe men are smarter! Ooooo can't say that. Maybe for girls "Math is hard" as Barbie used to say. Maybe women just like to avoid jobs that require you to sit in a cube for 8 to 14 hours day, work for (mostly) jerks and idiots, while making yourself think reeeeally hard and make only moderately good pay (some of us) for your effort.
If computer scientists were (and they're not) 99% white males why would that be a bad thing? Is it a bad thing that about 85% of pro basketball players are black? Is it bad that 80% (maybe 90%) of hollywood script writers are gay and liberal? Maybe we should be pushing for more staunch conservative heterosexuals in the hollywood screen writers guild. How about more fat white guys on the fashion run way?
Let's face it. These discussions are inately sexist or racist and should be considered bad. If women want to be in the technical fields they have AT LEAST as much opportunity as anyone else. I would go further to say, considering the number or pimply undersexed geeks in this field, a good looking babe with half a brain will do just fine without even trying (unlike a pimply undersexed geeky girl who will at least have to try). In 7 years as a manager I've hired the only three women I've ever interviewed and both were mediocre at their jobs at best. The biggest advantage I've seen with women (in software anyway) is that they tend to be easier to work with and have less ego associated with their work than many of the guys. I would attribute that, though, to not taking the job quite as seriously. With only three data points that's just personal experience and certainly not a general judgement.
Anyone that thinks there's some dark force keeping women out of engineering or technical fields doesn't know women or men very well.
"But there's plenty of illegal Mexicans who start just looking for a few bucks to send home"
No doubt. I don't blame them, Given the level of corruption and crime in Mexico I would do the same myself. I do blame our corrupt government that fails at it's most basic duty, to guard our borders.
I do resent that the VAST MAJORITY of illegal Mexicans become the lowest level workers in our society being exploited as, essentially, a slave labor force. This impedes the development of equipment that would do this "moron" labor because slaves are sooo much cheaper. That means not just cheap labor jobs are lost but engineering jobs, manufacturing jobs, jobs that pay a living wage to people that would CONTRIBUTE to society rather than leach off of it. Illegals, in general, increase crime, increase automobile accidents, vastly increase the number of illegal drugs floating around, feed off welfare they have NO entitlement to (as illegals) and generally take advantage of a situation that weakens the US and makes many peoples lives worse. Remember that silly garbage when all the wet backs went on strike in LA and we had the best traffic day in 20 years!! That's what illegals do for us.
We need to seal the border and ship the illegals home. If they want to return, fine, let them do it the legal way. Maybe if they were forced to stay in Mexico they'd find a way to make that country worth living in rather than damaging ours.
Though this is our governments fault I can't help resenting those that do the damage.
"According to the piece, nearly a quarter of all California startups which went into business between 1995 and 2005 had an immigrant as a founding member"
And what percentage of these immigrants were poor Mexicans looking for American welfare and minimum wage?
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Let's see, each time I turn on my brand new lap top with Windows XP Pro (latest patches and all) the anti-virus, anti-malware and ant-adware programs download updates and install them for between 10 to 30 minutes. Even so, when I shut it down something hangs and I have to pull the plug (brand new).
I boot to my Linux box and I'm up and running in under a minute. No viruses (not in the two years since it was installed) no malware, no adware, no pop-ups. I can develop in C, Perl, Java, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, use any number of databases, right out of the box. Total cost for software: $0. Yeah, I think I'll stick with what works.
That doesn't even touch the issue of avoiding licensing fees by using an open OS. Which is why most embedded systems development (as most robotics are) is going Linux (just ask Motorola (Freescale)).
Imagine wondering each day if your new robot butler (running Windows for Robots) is going to burn down the house because MS Assured Computing has once again been breached by yet another 12 year old hacker.
Well, I agree with what you're saying to a point. However corporations are a group of people and, in the case of many, are a very large group of people led and directed by a few (sounds like an army doesn't it). If the corporate leadership is evil or simply unethical that corporation can be acting as an enemy (to their customer or society in general) just as, and probably more than, an individual could.
It's true that many (more likely most) individuals working for a corporation may be good people but they may be doing a job that can be a detriment to society (your enemy).
It's amazing how these two guys philosophy's mesh. Both think that making a product pretty (as opposed to functional/reliable) will keep customers coming back. Both believe in making their products as un-serviceable as possible to enhance service reviews for dealers. Both believe in built in obsolescence to generate a revenue stream. Both believe in making the customer pay for the bugs they build into their products (and continue to build into their products despite years and years of knowing the problem exists). Both use their flawed product to sell other services to customers to correct those flaws.
I've been a Ford man since my first car ('70 Mustang) but my '99 Villager and '99 Taurus will be my last. Toyota, Mazda maybe even a Benz but no more Fords for me. Ford products cost more and have no where near the quality of the Jap cars. When they can do it right again, I'll be back, but this cycle, it's Jap cars (and iPods) for me.
Hate is a strong word but I do resent and dislike them emmensly. Here's why:
1) Windows is made for users not developers (I'm a developer) 2) MS wants a piece of everything you do. Example, you want to build a C (the most widely distributed language around) application on Windows, poney up the bucks. Yes, I'm cheap but I really love FREE and I get that a lot with Linux and Open Source. Often for things you can't even get in the Windows world. 3) DLL hell 4) Forced upgrades 5) Windows is a moving target for developers and users 6) Enter a 25 character key (yes, I counted), hook up to the web to Activate, hook up to the web to Register, run S Update for hours (for XP Pro SP II, it takes nearly 3 hours on a high speed network to get all the updates and get them installed. This one's a HATE!! 7) Virus magnet! Maybe not MS's fault but you still have to live with it if you're a Windows user. 8) Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world the stinking little dweeb!! And he still wants you to pay another couple hundred bucks to exchange the bugs in XP for the bugs in Vista. 9) Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world the stinking little dweeb!! (did I already say that....) 10) MS has destroyed some pretty good companys clawing their way to a monopoly. I just want to see them go down. Not gone, but dropping to 30% of the OS market would put a spring in my step!!
Agree completely. It seems every book out there wants to review programming basics to such a degree that you end up with a 500 page book with 50 pages of relevant text (the trick being to find the 50 you need)...
Having suffered through the public school system myself and now being subjected to watching my sons do the same, I have one question: Hey George, where the hell are my vouchers!!
Public school is just like any other monopoly, when there is no consequence for bad performance you settle down to the lowest common denominator. I know many PS teachers that will argue with me. However I have yet to find a job where I can work 6 hours a day for 6 months a year and have job security that's second only to congressmen while making pretty decent money. On top of that, teachers that teach and teachers that don't teach get exactly the same reward. Eventually the BAD teachers figure this out and act accordingly. Sure, some (maybe most) PS teachers work hard and do their best. Unfortunately it's completely at their own discretion. Most of us don't have any option if we wish to continue getting a pay check.
Ditch the NEA and put teachers on a pay for performance plan. If the kids pass standarized tests, they get a bonus. If they fail, well, maybe we need some new teachers..... Oh, and let's have a few referendoms on the tests. The BS they pass out these days might make you a great social worker but very little else.
I'm not telling you how to be offended. If you like being called a Geek, lovely! I however, do not! Stop telling ME when to be offended or not.
However, I now will start refering to everyone that uses Windows exclusively as retardedMondkeys (note the syntax). Hopefully it will catch on and in the near future retardedMonkeys will begin to embrace their status and refer to themselves as retardedMonkeys and be loved by their wifes, daughters and sons because they are a retardedMonkey. I'd like that a lot!!
"Sure, there is a small percentage of "geeks" who will never run Windows"
Would you appreciate it if I posted something like "sure, most idiots run Windows" or "most stupid people will still run Windows". Stop refering to Unix/Linux users as geeks. They don't bite the head of chickens at the fair they just choose to use a less popular OS than the average person. Sticking labels on people is what brings about wasted communications to protest like this one.....
"It looks like a frightening idea, don't you think? "
Frightening? No, a world that substitutes irrational fear for clean, plentiful, CHEAP, electric power Frightens me. We could have a world that has very little dependance on oil, with a cleaner environment and lower power costs if not for ignorant peoples fear of a miraculous technology.
I love it when Greens want to cover multiple square miles of land with hugely expensive, incredibly inefficient solar arrays or windmills in the name of clean, cheap, plentiful power while protesting nuclear in the next breath. idiotic is the word...
"Maybe this will cause the community to complain about ICANN and the American control of the internet?"
No, what America should do is pull all support and funding to rest of the world, stop all inbound imegration and revoke all current visa's and round up the illegals and either send them home or toss their ass into Mexico (hey, they dump their garbage here!) and just let the rest of the planet go to hell. When you come whining back we can then do what we should do today. Tell you to kiss our collective asses!!
You missed the point. This isn't about Vista eliminating all or most security flaws making AV software obsolete. It's about MS breaking yet another agreement for access to their code and using it's monopoly to kill ancillary businesses.
It's funny how other monopoly's have been slapped for this while MS sales right along. I worked for Xerox in the 80's and they were forced to sell toner, developer and fuser oil because of a monopoly suite they lost (these items used to be included in your contract or rental fee). The argument being you can't sell it if Xerox gives it away so they forced Xerox to sell these items and they fixed the minimum price at which they could be sold. Same thing here but uncontrolled. MS gives it away (ie. just like IE, they build the price into the product) so no one else can sell it. It's a good business strategy but when you're a monopoly it kills free enterprise and stops inovation dead in it's tracks. A free market can't work this way.
My question is, why this wasn't ended when MS faced the courts years ago?
I apololgize for the tone of my first posting but I'm tired of the amount of revisionist crap that half assed historians try to sell Americans. It undermines how young people feel about this country and that undermines our society. This is the most charitable, helpful, caring country on earth and Americans need to know that and be damned proud of it. I've studied plenty of history and lived through quite a bit too.
The fact is if the US had not entered WWII, Europe, GB and the USSR (and others) would very likely have have fallen to the Nazi's. That Germany lost more men fighting the Russian winter and the Russian army (in that order) than they lost anywhere else is imaterial Without the losses the Germans faced in Europe, primarily because of the US, the Nazi's would certainly have reformed their forces and taken Moscow. I agree with you that by dividing the Germans, the US, GB, the USSR, and some of Europe, we all contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, I laugh at the idea that the Russians were the primary cause of the defeat of Nazi Germany. With US particiation, the Nazi's lost, without it, there's a very good chance the Nazi's would of won most of the old world. That cannot be said of any other participant in WWII.
The USSR was nearly destroyed by the Nazi's and by it's own leadership (Stalin). They had evil leadership for most of their existance and they're currently becoming the biggest criminal state in the world. Their people are in dire straights and criminal enterprise is an accepted way of life at every level. I like the Russian people and have many friends that fled when they could. However there's nothing about the USSR to be admired. If anything it's a lesson in what not to do and continues to be so today.
You're a freaking moron and, probably, a traitor. If you like to think that the threat CREATED BY THE SOVIET UNION because of the inadaquacy they felt after WWII (you know, where we kicked the German's ass all over the world while they barely stopped that at the gates to Moscow) was our fault why not go live the country formerly known as the Soviet Union. I'm sure they'd love to have you comrade.
It's this type of knee jerk America hate by liberal idiots that has put us in the situation we're in right now. Some commie show's he has 1/2 a brain and managed to show up to work only moderately hung over and you want to worship him. You're free to do as you like (because of America not in spite of it) but I'll stick with apple pie and America.
When simple disagreement is called flamebait you have to question the bias of the venue..... ( and it's readers..;-) ).
The problem with theories that get called facts without REAL proof is that they aren't science they are faith. Not a good way to conduct things when you're seeking truth. A theory should always be considered wrong until proven correct. Otherwise your presumption leads you down research paths that are misleading and wasteful. Not to mention it is very easy to prove things to yourself when you already believe them to be true. Hey it's 90 degrees and yesterday it was 85! Global warming!!! Again, BAD SCIENCE!
Tell you what, you cite your stuff and I'll cite mine. No joking, if you'll go to the effort to post what you've got, I'll go to the effort to post what I've got (and I've got plenty). Climate models are just that, mathmatical models that attempt to simulate the complexity of the earths atmosphere. To say that they are accurate to the degree that most of the GW crowd attempts is pseudo science based on wishful (yes, they want it to be true because it pays the bills and gets lots of attention) thinking. Many of these guys don't even understand the complexity of the models they're using. They run the sim and go, "Oh no chicken little, the sky is falling. Give me funding for another 5 years so I can tell you when....". When I was growing up the same crowd was screaming about the coming ice age. You live long enough and you get to see all kinds of stupid.
I am sincere however, show me your research and I'll show you mine.
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-causes huge criminal issues because so many of the vermin crawling across the border are CRIMINALS!!
--And the source of your statistics is?..
Oh please, care to visit southern Texas partner. I think I can show you some stats you'll never forget (if you live through it)
-We've got Mexicans getting busted by the thousands in middle America (not San Diego).
And before that we had Italian Mafia, for example (think "Godfather"). And Irish Mob (Think "Departed"). And Jewish criminals (Think "Once upon a time in America"). And we still have those crimes. But what are those Mexicans "getting busted by the thousands" for? If their only/main offense is getting here "illegally", then you are exhibiting exactly the circular (thus wrong) argument I described...
So it's OK if they're just here illegally. Gee, I wonder if we could get the same treatment if we just guility of, say, dealing drugs. Or, maybe we just got an abortion 1 month past the legal limit, or two... Yeah, must be nice to be able to slide that scale of what's acceptable in your own little world. Out here in the real world laws don't bend because somebody doesn't agree with it. You can change the law but, until then, enforce the ones you've got. You want the argument to be circular because you want to ignore the law you don't like. My parents are immigrants but they came here legally and they went to classes to earn citizenship, learned to speak english and became Americans, not hyphenated somethings. The situation we're in now is not like it was after WWII or at the turn of the century. These are not immigrants they are itenarates that aspire to be Mexican (or whatever) in America. Others come to take advantage of an educational system that favors aliens then take from that system by working for a lower wage than most Americans. They can do this because it's short term before they return home where that money is more valuable. This is a detriment to this country and we need it to stop.
--Even those that come here to do honest (and educated) work cause problems by driving the price of skilled work down.
-And why is an American-born worker entitled to better pay, than a Honduran? By birth right, uhm? That's exactly the "right", on which the King tried to base his sovereignty over us...
Because we pay taxes to support the infrastructure of this country, unlike most illegals. We suffer because they take from our system without paying for it. And yes, we do have a birth right as Americans. I know you one-worlders hate to have any pride or nationality associated with were you live, which begs the question, why do so many of you live here? Only because few other places in the world have the strength (or indulgence) to allow you to exist.
-They're going to take what they can make and go home
--It is their Human Right to do so... Of the self-evident kind...
Human Rights are a fantasy. The only rights you (we) have were bought on the backs and lifes of those that came before us. To arrogantly demand that we hand these rights to anyone that can manage to show up on our side of the border is shear stupidity. Attempts to do so will distroy what we have achieved and it will be lost to everyone. By that logic you should just give me everything you have because I want it. Would that be OK with you? Thought not.
"Why put a small (or even not so small) subset of humanity before the rest? I am human, you are human, what difference does it make what piece of land either of us was born on? I've never understood why people make such a big deal of things like moving from, say, one city to another just because they happen to be on different sides of random and arbitrary borders when it's perfectly fine to move between functionally similar cities on the same side of said border. Maybe you can explain it..."
Easy, would it be ok with you if I just took your car and home? Maybe I don't like working and I'd rather take what you've worked for and let you keep paying for it. Would that be ok with you? How about letting you kid die waiting in an emergency room because someone that entered the country illegally and got shot dealing drugs is busy being treated instead. Does that make things more clear?
See, that's the problem with silly PC thinking. Everybody is nice, we're all human, we share our mother earth. Yeah.... right. That might work if humans weren't emotional, greedy, flawed creatures. But we are. Learn to live in the real world. Or, live in your fantasy and let others take what you have and laugh at you for for wondering why. Just don't ask everybody else to do the same.....
Nope, no issue at all. Those that would permit everyone and anyone to do whatever they like aren't for freedom, just the ability to do whatever THEY want. That's what you're advocating and that's the most self centered philosophy there is.
We have laws that work if enforced. Our problem is the blatent lack of enforcement.
"I simply don't understand, how an American (except, perhaps, the Native Americans) can sleep at night rejecting the right to move to this country to someone else"
Actually I have a hard time sleeping because of the criminal bastards sneaking across the border and through my yard. Fools like you think that past justifies present because you think the world is static. Things change. Just because your uncle Hans came here from Germany after WWII doesn't justify what we've got going on today. It disrupts the work force in our country and, at current levels, causes huge criminal issues because so many of the vermin crawling across the border are CRIMINALS!!
Pull your head out of your ass and look around you. We've got Mexicans getting busted by the thousands in middle America (not San Diego).
Even those that come here to do honest (and educated) work cause problems by driving the price of skilled work down. This devalues that work and causes fewer Americans to choose those professions in school. This causes a lack of that skill in this country. That's bad for America and Americans. So many of the skilled immigrants that come here are simply in it for the buck. They don't care about our country. They're going to take what they can make and go home (particularly Indian's, I've seen it half a dozen times). Again, that's bad for our country. I don't begrudge those that would take advantage of a stupid system but that doesn't mean I'm going to say it's OK. We need to put out country first, maybe you should try it sometime.
Why do we care how many of what type of human do this that and the other thing while others doen't? What difference does it make? Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe smart white guys like hanging with other smart white guys and so they take the same courses and go into the same fields of study and end up being the dominate type of person in that field. Why are there groups of people that INSIST that there be some rediculous parity in the type and sex of people in every field of endevour. It's just stupid!! Maybe men are smarter! Ooooo can't say that. Maybe for girls "Math is hard" as Barbie used to say. Maybe women just like to avoid jobs that require you to sit in a cube for 8 to 14 hours day, work for (mostly) jerks and idiots, while making yourself think reeeeally hard and make only moderately good pay (some of us) for your effort.
If computer scientists were (and they're not) 99% white males why would that be a bad thing? Is it a bad thing that about 85% of pro basketball players are black? Is it bad that 80% (maybe 90%) of hollywood script writers are gay and liberal? Maybe we should be pushing for more staunch conservative heterosexuals in the hollywood screen writers guild. How about more fat white guys on the fashion run way?
Let's face it. These discussions are inately sexist or racist and should be considered bad. If women want to be in the technical fields they have AT LEAST as much opportunity as anyone else. I would go further to say, considering the number or pimply undersexed geeks in this field, a good looking babe with half a brain will do just fine without even trying (unlike a pimply undersexed geeky girl who will at least have to try). In 7 years as a manager I've hired the only three women I've ever interviewed and both were mediocre at their jobs at best. The biggest advantage I've seen with women (in software anyway) is that they tend to be easier to work with and have less ego associated with their work than many of the guys. I would attribute that, though, to not taking the job quite as seriously. With only three data points that's just personal experience and certainly not a general judgement.
Anyone that thinks there's some dark force keeping women out of engineering or technical fields doesn't know women or men very well.
"But there's plenty of illegal Mexicans who start just looking for a few bucks to send home"
No doubt. I don't blame them, Given the level of corruption and crime in Mexico I would do the same myself. I do blame our corrupt government that fails at it's most basic duty, to guard our borders.
I do resent that the VAST MAJORITY of illegal Mexicans become the lowest level workers in our society being exploited as, essentially, a slave labor force. This impedes the development of equipment that would do this "moron" labor because slaves are sooo much cheaper. That means not just cheap labor jobs are lost but engineering jobs, manufacturing jobs, jobs that pay a living wage to people that would CONTRIBUTE to society rather than leach off of it. Illegals, in general, increase crime, increase automobile accidents, vastly increase the number of illegal drugs floating around, feed off welfare they have NO entitlement to (as illegals) and generally take advantage of a situation that weakens the US and makes many peoples lives worse. Remember that silly garbage when all the wet backs went on strike in LA and we had the best traffic day in 20 years!! That's what illegals do for us.
We need to seal the border and ship the illegals home. If they want to return, fine, let them do it the legal way. Maybe if they were forced to stay in Mexico they'd find a way to make that country worth living in rather than damaging ours.
Though this is our governments fault I can't help resenting those that do the damage.
"According to the piece, nearly a quarter of all California startups which went into business between 1995 and 2005 had an immigrant as a founding member"
And what percentage of these immigrants were poor Mexicans looking for American welfare and minimum wage?
Let's see, each time I turn on my brand new lap top with Windows XP Pro (latest patches and all) the anti-virus, anti-malware and ant-adware programs download updates and install them for between 10 to 30 minutes. Even so, when I shut it down something hangs and I have to pull the plug (brand new).
I boot to my Linux box and I'm up and running in under a minute. No viruses (not in the two years since it was installed) no malware, no adware, no pop-ups. I can develop in C, Perl, Java, Ruby, Tcl/Tk, use any number of databases, right out of the box. Total cost for software: $0. Yeah, I think I'll stick with what works.
That doesn't even touch the issue of avoiding licensing fees by using an open OS. Which is why most embedded systems development (as most robotics are) is going Linux (just ask Motorola (Freescale)).
Imagine wondering each day if your new robot butler (running Windows for Robots) is going to burn down the house because MS Assured Computing has once again been breached by yet another 12 year old hacker.
Kill it before it grows......
Well, I agree with what you're saying to a point. However corporations are a group of people and, in the case of many, are a very large group of people led and directed by a few (sounds like an army doesn't it). If the corporate leadership is evil or simply unethical that corporation can be acting as an enemy (to their customer or society in general) just as, and probably more than, an individual could.
It's true that many (more likely most) individuals working for a corporation may be good people but they may be doing a job that can be a detriment to society (your enemy).
It's amazing how these two guys philosophy's mesh. Both think that making a product pretty (as opposed to functional/reliable) will keep customers coming back. Both believe in making their products as un-serviceable as possible to enhance service reviews for dealers. Both believe in built in obsolescence to generate a revenue stream. Both believe in making the customer pay for the bugs they build into their products (and continue to build into their products despite years and years of knowing the problem exists). Both use their flawed product to sell other services to customers to correct those flaws.
I've been a Ford man since my first car ('70 Mustang) but my '99 Villager and '99 Taurus will be my last. Toyota, Mazda maybe even a Benz but no more Fords for me. Ford products cost more and have no where near the quality of the Jap cars. When they can do it right again, I'll be back, but this cycle, it's Jap cars (and iPods) for me.
"are they prepared to take responsibility"
Oh hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Man, you are soooo funny!!
Hate is a strong word but I do resent and dislike them emmensly. Here's why:
1) Windows is made for users not developers (I'm a developer)
2) MS wants a piece of everything you do. Example, you want to build a C (the most widely distributed language around) application on Windows, poney up the bucks. Yes, I'm cheap but I really love FREE and I get that a lot with Linux and Open Source. Often for things you can't even get in the Windows world.
3) DLL hell
4) Forced upgrades
5) Windows is a moving target for developers and users
6) Enter a 25 character key (yes, I counted), hook up to the web to Activate, hook up to the web to Register, run S Update for hours (for XP Pro SP II, it takes nearly 3 hours on a high speed network to get all the updates and get them installed. This one's a HATE!!
7) Virus magnet! Maybe not MS's fault but you still have to live with it if you're a Windows user.
8) Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world the stinking little dweeb!! And he still wants you to pay another couple hundred bucks to exchange the bugs in XP for the bugs in Vista.
9) Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world the stinking little dweeb!! (did I already say that....)
10) MS has destroyed some pretty good companys clawing their way to a monopoly. I just want to see them go down. Not gone, but dropping to 30% of the OS market would put a spring in my step!!
Agree completely. It seems every book out there wants to review programming basics to such a degree that you end up with a 500 page book with 50 pages of relevant text (the trick being to find the 50 you need)...
They better watch their ass! Barney's one mean bastard when you piss 'em off.
Ean St Eian
Having suffered through the public school system myself and now being subjected to watching my sons do the same, I have one question: Hey George, where the hell are my vouchers!!
Public school is just like any other monopoly, when there is no consequence for bad performance you settle down to the lowest common denominator. I know many PS teachers that will argue with me. However I have yet to find a job where I can work 6 hours a day for 6 months a year and have job security that's second only to congressmen while making pretty decent money. On top of that, teachers that teach and teachers that don't teach get exactly the same reward. Eventually the BAD teachers figure this out and act accordingly. Sure, some (maybe most) PS teachers work hard and do their best. Unfortunately it's completely at their own discretion. Most of us don't have any option if we wish to continue getting a pay check.
Ditch the NEA and put teachers on a pay for performance plan. If the kids pass standarized tests, they get a bonus. If they fail, well, maybe we need some new teachers..... Oh, and let's have a few referendoms on the tests. The BS they pass out these days might make you a great social worker but very little else.
I'm not telling you how to be offended. If you like being called a Geek, lovely! I however, do not! Stop telling ME when to be offended or not.
However, I now will start refering to everyone that uses Windows exclusively as retardedMondkeys (note the syntax). Hopefully it will catch on and in the near future retardedMonkeys will begin to embrace their status and refer to themselves as retardedMonkeys and be loved by their wifes, daughters and sons because they are a retardedMonkey. I'd like that a lot!!
"Sure, there is a small percentage of "geeks" who will never run Windows"
Would you appreciate it if I posted something like "sure, most idiots run Windows" or "most stupid people will still run Windows". Stop refering to Unix/Linux users as geeks. They don't bite the head of chickens at the fair they just choose to use a less popular OS than the average person. Sticking labels on people is what brings about wasted communications to protest like this one.....
"It looks like a frightening idea, don't you think? "
Frightening? No, a world that substitutes irrational fear for clean, plentiful, CHEAP, electric power Frightens me. We could have a world that has very little dependance on oil, with a cleaner environment and lower power costs if not for ignorant peoples fear of a miraculous technology.
I love it when Greens want to cover multiple square miles of land with hugely expensive, incredibly inefficient solar arrays or windmills in the name of clean, cheap, plentiful power while protesting nuclear in the next breath. idiotic is the word...
"Maybe this will cause the community to complain about ICANN and the American control of the internet?"
No, what America should do is pull all support and funding to rest of the world, stop all inbound imegration and revoke all current visa's and round up the illegals and either send them home or toss their ass into Mexico (hey, they dump their garbage here!) and just let the rest of the planet go to hell. When you come whining back we can then do what we should do today. Tell you to kiss our collective asses!!
You missed the point. This isn't about Vista eliminating all or most security flaws making AV software obsolete. It's about MS breaking yet another agreement for access to their code and using it's monopoly to kill ancillary businesses.
It's funny how other monopoly's have been slapped for this while MS sales right along. I worked for Xerox in the 80's and they were forced to sell toner, developer and fuser oil because of a monopoly suite they lost (these items used to be included in your contract or rental fee). The argument being you can't sell it if Xerox gives it away so they forced Xerox to sell these items and they fixed the minimum price at which they could be sold. Same thing here but uncontrolled. MS gives it away (ie. just like IE, they build the price into the product) so no one else can sell it. It's a good business strategy but when you're a monopoly it kills free enterprise and stops inovation dead in it's tracks. A free market can't work this way.
My question is, why this wasn't ended when MS faced the courts years ago?
I apololgize for the tone of my first posting but I'm tired of the amount of revisionist crap that half assed historians try to sell Americans. It undermines how young people feel about this country and that undermines our society. This is the most charitable, helpful, caring country on earth and Americans need to know that and be damned proud of it. I've studied plenty of history and lived through quite a bit too.
The fact is if the US had not entered WWII, Europe, GB and the USSR (and others) would very likely have have fallen to the Nazi's. That Germany lost more men fighting the Russian winter and the Russian army (in that order) than they lost anywhere else is imaterial Without the losses the Germans faced in Europe, primarily because of the US, the Nazi's would certainly have reformed their forces and taken Moscow. I agree with you that by dividing the Germans, the US, GB, the USSR, and some of Europe, we all contributed to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, I laugh at the idea that the Russians were the primary cause of the defeat of Nazi Germany. With US particiation, the Nazi's lost, without it, there's a very good chance the Nazi's would of won most of the old world. That cannot be said of any other participant in WWII.
The USSR was nearly destroyed by the Nazi's and by it's own leadership (Stalin). They had evil leadership for most of their existance and they're currently becoming the biggest criminal state in the world. Their people are in dire straights and criminal enterprise is an accepted way of life at every level. I like the Russian people and have many friends that fled when they could. However there's nothing about the USSR to be admired. If anything it's a lesson in what not to do and continues to be so today.
You're a freaking moron and, probably, a traitor. If you like to think that the threat CREATED BY THE SOVIET UNION because of the inadaquacy they felt after WWII (you know, where we kicked the German's ass all over the world while they barely stopped that at the gates to Moscow) was our fault why not go live the country formerly known as the Soviet Union. I'm sure they'd love to have you comrade.
It's this type of knee jerk America hate by liberal idiots that has put us in the situation we're in right now. Some commie show's he has 1/2 a brain and managed to show up to work only moderately hung over and you want to worship him. You're free to do as you like (because of America not in spite of it) but I'll stick with apple pie and America.
When simple disagreement is called flamebait you have to question the bias of the venue..... ( and it's readers.. ;-) ).
The problem with theories that get called facts without REAL proof is that they aren't science they are faith. Not a good way to conduct things when you're seeking truth. A theory should always be considered wrong until proven correct. Otherwise your presumption leads you down research paths that are misleading and wasteful. Not to mention it is very easy to prove things to yourself when you already believe them to be true. Hey it's 90 degrees and yesterday it was 85! Global warming!!! Again, BAD SCIENCE!
Tell you what, you cite your stuff and I'll cite mine. No joking, if you'll go to the effort to post what you've got, I'll go to the effort to post what I've got (and I've got plenty). Climate models are just that, mathmatical models that attempt to simulate the complexity of the earths atmosphere. To say that they are accurate to the degree that most of the GW crowd attempts is pseudo science based on wishful (yes, they want it to be true because it pays the bills and gets lots of attention) thinking. Many of these guys don't even understand the complexity of the models they're using. They run the sim and go, "Oh no chicken little, the sky is falling. Give me funding for another 5 years so I can tell you when....". When I was growing up the same crowd was screaming about the coming ice age. You live long enough and you get to see all kinds of stupid.
I am sincere however, show me your research and I'll show you mine.