White vs everyone else, rich vs poor, urban vs suburban is all about the class struggle tenets of marxist ideology, which has been pushed by the state and thus the state run education system since at least the 1960s.
Usually the damage estimates are way overstated, so I don't buy it on that assumption, and usually people don't engage in that behavior unless they were treated reprehensibly by their employer beforehand. Perhaps the real solution here is for management to act like human beings instead of jackals.
If they do outsource, they'll just learn their lesson the hard way. Tata employees don't give a shit about you or your goals, and their code is buggy and broken, requiring a local side programmer to clean up their mess anyway.
H-1Bs are often treated as slave labor by aforementioned jackal management. I can guarantee they will throw their sabo into the works at some point the moment they have any power, which will happen when there are no more localside programmers left thanks to attitudes like yours.
Like most things, star wars is a product of the culture at a particular time, so the further we get from that time period, the harder it is to recapture. It's sometimes possible to reinvent, but most times, the reinventions that actually do ok share little in common with the old. That's just the way it is. Lucas waited too long to flesh out the story and it shows.
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It's easy to say "just accept a small amount of binary code" when you're not the one who has to debug the whole system looking for errant code. Also, when the kernel is ported, the binaries cannot be transported over to the new arch. The real truth is that binary only distribution doesn't really protect your code from someone who really wants to know how it works ( the plethora of cracks out there show this), nevermind any potential competitors who have the money to throw at people to figure it out for them. I can guarantee you that nvidia has amd's drivers at least partially reverse engineered and vice versa.
It's not the linux devs who need to accept this, it's the hardware devs who should not be hiding their secret bits in the driver. If the drivers are open, the user won't even notice the interface has changed because the driver will get ported along with the (usually trivial) changes and recompiled by the distro. You're right, though, the lack of a stable driver ABI was chosen purposely to encourage open drivers, which are in the developers and users interests.
So at some point along the way, you were indoctrinated/guilt-tripped into the PC way of thinking and now you're defending it and calling him names for preferring to read text than listen to someone babbling. There's nothing wrong with resisting change when the previous configuration was superior. Fear of change has become a new favorite fallacy among the politically correct.
On the contrary, everyone has opinions based on race, sex, culture, and ideology. In fact, those are the most common traits used. It's really quite normal and healthy for people to organize themselves by tribe. There's nothing wrong with this so long as the attributes are relevant and in context. Unfortunately, the left wing has codified a broken list of assumptions into law. If you're an overweight, disabled, non white, non straight, non male, you're privileged in law and doted on by society. If you're only a few of those, you're less privileged. If you're none, you're assumed to be a dogshit oppressor.
You're offering a false dilemma. Either we can conform to your politically correct list of assumptions or we're dogshit. I don't see how this is evidence of wisdom or growth.
Yup. Video of talking heads is for people who read at 3-5 words per second. For those of us that read at 20 (or more), it's a chore to sit through video.
No. In the US, people are raised to to be worker bees or office drones, and most of the colleges and universities are paper mills, with the few of the good ones too loaded with left wing ideological tautologies to be of any use in teaching students how to think critically. Not caring what other people think isn't necessarily a bad thing.. Today, society is way too wrapped up in what the many are feeling (never mind thinking) such that we're paralyzed as individuals. Why should we operate society like the mind of a 15yo valleygirl?
As far as computer literacy goes, you're right, it is sad when a triple degree engineer can't figure out the start menu...or zip files... or "how to use the excel".
There's a lot of this sentiment out there, esp from europeans. It makes me wonder if europeans aren't just falling for the anti american propaganda over there in the same insipid way they claim americans fall for shit here. The fact you're advocating violence (by gun no less, which is quite ironic) as a method of social engineering suggests the european cultural attributes that drove the creation of the US in the first place are still present. How nice.
1. you generalize and stereotype, claiming your 'superior' social(ist) morals where you don't stereotype and generalize people based on their race or culture...err wait. 2. europeans are becoming fat too, haven't you heard? 3. japan is about as close as it gets to herd mentality, with sweden a distant second. In fact social dogma and expectation has gotten so rigid and inflexible in japan that they've managed to beat the desire to breed out of their people. That's hard to do. 4. there are individualistic americans who stand for individual liberty, limited government (and thus no chance of corporatocracy), but in your smug groupthink 'superiority' you whitewash them all with sarah palin, george bush, and fox news. Europeans are just about as ignorant of american culture as americans are of the countries of europe. The difference is that americans don't trust their government and are easily manipulated by corporate advertising, and europeans implicitly trust their government and therefore its propaganda. Neither state is showing long term success for liberty in the west.
True. That doesn't mean we say "oh well, might as well get comfortable with ever more pervasive surveillance and censorship."
You can make that case for physical violence involving your fists, but not for much else. Once the law starts covering things like feelings too, you effectively have crazy censorship and monitoring driven by the limits imposed by the most powerful social activists (the mozilla firing, invasive employee background checking, etc). I'll pass on this too. It's really not that hard to pass a law that forces businesses and government agencies to 'forget' you if you demand it. Just associate personal information as personal property that cannot be retained either by force or by condition of service, and be done with it. It's very obvious that we are unable (or unwilling) to secure systems technologically or legally, so such information should be the property of the person in question, governments and corporates be damned...and governments which refuse to abide by such a law are criminal and need to be treated as such. Is this likely to ever happen? No, but I am saying it's possible if our leaders were truly legitimate.
The big deal is that it encourages extradition abuse. Americans would be subject to EU law if they access a host outside of their borders and european citizens would be subject to american extradition. So now both groups of people are subject to laws written by systems they have no say in. Wonderful. It's bad enough that western governments are willing to bilaterally work around laws which limit their actions on their home soil. This would make it worse. 'Cross-site-scripted' tyranny like this is one of the gravest threats to liberty because it's nearly impossible to get justice when states routinely use targeted citizens as pawns on the international chessboard.
Both americans and europeans don't even know their own laws as there are too many on the books creating huge minefields. Now you want them to memorize the combined legal code for the USA and EU countries (and possibly more) in order to use the internet? Expecting the average user to understand this and how to corral his computer into complying with that is insane. Cross site scripting is ubiquitous these days making it nearly impossible to check beforehand where the next dump of javascript will send the browser, and http is how most people use the net.
Maybe it's just time for the boomer generation to catch up to the youth of 'eternal september' (and now their children) who grew up with the internet (or at least had it as teens), by realizing that data packets != reality land, making most of law irrelevant. Legislation cannot fix this, nor can the generous 'donations' from single interest groups backed by technology companies who don't/can't fix their broken systems. Knowledge and wisdom can mitigate it though.
That would be a good thing, since your freedoms should not be contingent on whether you agree with the (politically) 'correct' party line. The fact there's a disagreement here is the perfect reason why the grandparent post is a good idea. Societies that promote witchhunts and the like should never be encouraged.
As long as I'm accountable, I want the hardware and software under my control. That way when something goes wrong and my boss calls and says 'wtf', I can give him something more than "Well I called amazon and left a message with our account representative".
Alright, but that means no more privilege for women either:
1. No more chattel, alimony, maternity leave, her body/right/choice is his responsibility etc. Women have to live without the privilege men are currently compelled to give them in order for men to truly see them as equals.
2. No more subjecting men to coquettish behavior in order to get them to clean up after her mess (I've seen this one go down a lot at work, especially when she knows she's attractive). Don't tell me that women are toothless victims in the work place. It's sexual manipulation all the same. Conversely, we could let up on the draconian 'anti harrassment' policies and let both sexes feel more comfortable acting like human beings at work. The latter is my preference, but it requires that women quit playing the crocodile tear victim act when propositioned by a man they don't like/find 'creepy', and expecting society (mainly other men) to white knight for her (get him fired, kick the crap out of him etc).
3. No more male space vs female space. No more 'invade-male-space-and-make-it-female-for-great-social-justice' either. If most of the employees are male, deal with it instead of calling it out as 'oppression', just as you expect men to accept female space. They are different and, in many ways, incompatible. If a women is going into a male dominated field, she should expect not to find female space all that often.. Same thing if a man goes into nursing. Both sexes need to make their choices and live with the positive and negative outcomes. Neither one should be obligated to shield the other from this.
4. No more hair trigger, life ruining, over the top responses to mere accusations of misconduct. No more 'dear colleague' letters from politicians pushing this. In fact, it's time for the state to stop passing legislation that picks the winners and losers solely on the attributes that aren't supposed to matter.
Once that's in place, I'd be more open to viewing the sexes as equal, and feel more comfortable treating women's work output and interaction as that of a human being instead of a goddess just to avoid getting fired. I don't know if you're reasonable or not, but a lot of the women I have run across at work do think of themselves as above reproach, and play the victim card when they're challenged. Society's hypocritical status quo encourages it en masse.
Actually, nowadays, the corporate culture is full of feminist trained men who purposely choose women over men for things like promotions to prove how much of a feminist they are. Hardly an improvement if the goal is reward for relevant success/attributes. However, if the goal is to build a gynocracy, well, then this is exactly what needs to happen.
When will the bean counters realize that the money saved up front on administrative overhead is lost during the first downtime? There are benefits to having the technical staff on your side of the router and binaries that don't have needless "did your mom say it's ok" dependencies.
Stop blaming men for the lack of equal outcome. Stop telling men what is 'proper' to look for in a mate. Stop blaming them as the default problem when women aren't seen in the same numbers in a given context. In fact, stop lying about men, period. If women are intrinsically equal, they don't NEED help as they can fend for themselves.. Most women aren't interested in technology for itself, only what it can do for them, so even with incentives, you're not going to find a 50/50 split. This is ok as men and women are as different psychologically as they are biologically.
You know, maybe you should start respecting their diversity and their right to choose other paths. I tire of this leftist equal-opportunity-must-beget-equal-outcome-else-discrimination fallacy.
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White vs everyone else, rich vs poor, urban vs suburban is all about the class struggle tenets of marxist ideology, which has been pushed by the state and thus the state run education system since at least the 1960s.
Usually the damage estimates are way overstated, so I don't buy it on that assumption, and usually people don't engage in that behavior unless they were treated reprehensibly by their employer beforehand. Perhaps the real solution here is for management to act like human beings instead of jackals.
If they do outsource, they'll just learn their lesson the hard way. Tata employees don't give a shit about you or your goals, and their code is buggy and broken, requiring a local side programmer to clean up their mess anyway.
H-1Bs are often treated as slave labor by aforementioned jackal management. I can guarantee they will throw their sabo into the works at some point the moment they have any power, which will happen when there are no more localside programmers left thanks to attitudes like yours.
Uh no. Obama is a statist not a conservative.
Why do I want my household appliances sending usage data to who knows where?
Like most things, star wars is a product of the culture at a particular time, so the further we get from that time period, the harder it is to recapture. It's sometimes possible to reinvent, but most times, the reinventions that actually do ok share little in common with the old. That's just the way it is. Lucas waited too long to flesh out the story and it shows.
It's easy to say "just accept a small amount of binary code" when you're not the one who has to debug the whole system looking for errant code. Also, when the kernel is ported, the binaries cannot be transported over to the new arch. The real truth is that binary only distribution doesn't really protect your code from someone who really wants to know how it works ( the plethora of cracks out there show this), nevermind any potential competitors who have the money to throw at people to figure it out for them. I can guarantee you that nvidia has amd's drivers at least partially reverse engineered and vice versa.
It's not the linux devs who need to accept this, it's the hardware devs who should not be hiding their secret bits in the driver. If the drivers are open, the user won't even notice the interface has changed because the driver will get ported along with the (usually trivial) changes and recompiled by the distro. You're right, though, the lack of a stable driver ABI was chosen purposely to encourage open drivers, which are in the developers and users interests.
what areas need improvement?
no, but if you had a solar panel kit, you could recharge the batteries.. in the desert, you'd have all the sunlight you'd need.
So at some point along the way, you were indoctrinated/guilt-tripped into the PC way of thinking and now you're defending it and calling him names for preferring to read text than listen to someone babbling. There's nothing wrong with resisting change when the previous configuration was superior. Fear of change has become a new favorite fallacy among the politically correct.
On the contrary, everyone has opinions based on race, sex, culture, and ideology. In fact, those are the most common traits used. It's really quite normal and healthy for people to organize themselves by tribe. There's nothing wrong with this so long as the attributes are relevant and in context. Unfortunately, the left wing has codified a broken list of assumptions into law. If you're an overweight, disabled, non white, non straight, non male, you're privileged in law and doted on by society. If you're only a few of those, you're less privileged. If you're none, you're assumed to be a dogshit oppressor.
You're offering a false dilemma. Either we can conform to your politically correct list of assumptions or we're dogshit. I don't see how this is evidence of wisdom or growth.
This post sums of the essence of left wing morality put into practice.
You're still having to wait for the talking...
Yup. Video of talking heads is for people who read at 3-5 words per second. For those of us that read at 20 (or more), it's a chore to sit through video.
No. In the US, people are raised to to be worker bees or office drones, and most of the colleges and universities are paper mills, with the few of the good ones too loaded with left wing ideological tautologies to be of any use in teaching students how to think critically. Not caring what other people think isn't necessarily a bad thing.. Today, society is way too wrapped up in what the many are feeling (never mind thinking) such that we're paralyzed as individuals. Why should we operate society like the mind of a 15yo valleygirl?
As far as computer literacy goes, you're right, it is sad when a triple degree engineer can't figure out the start menu...or zip files... or "how to use the excel".
There's a lot of this sentiment out there, esp from europeans. It makes me wonder if europeans aren't just falling for the anti american propaganda over there in the same insipid way they claim americans fall for shit here. The fact you're advocating violence (by gun no less, which is quite ironic) as a method of social engineering suggests the european cultural attributes that drove the creation of the US in the first place are still present. How nice.
1. you generalize and stereotype, claiming your 'superior' social(ist) morals where you don't stereotype and generalize people based on their race or culture...err wait.
2. europeans are becoming fat too, haven't you heard?
3. japan is about as close as it gets to herd mentality, with sweden a distant second. In fact social dogma and expectation has gotten so rigid and inflexible in japan that they've managed to beat the desire to breed out of their people. That's hard to do.
4. there are individualistic americans who stand for individual liberty, limited government (and thus no chance of corporatocracy), but in your smug groupthink 'superiority' you whitewash them all with sarah palin, george bush, and fox news. Europeans are just about as ignorant of american culture as americans are of the countries of europe. The difference is that americans don't trust their government and are easily manipulated by corporate advertising, and europeans implicitly trust their government and therefore its propaganda. Neither state is showing long term success for liberty in the west.
True. That doesn't mean we say "oh well, might as well get comfortable with ever more pervasive surveillance and censorship."
You can make that case for physical violence involving your fists, but not for much else. Once the law starts covering things like feelings too, you effectively have crazy censorship and monitoring driven by the limits imposed by the most powerful social activists (the mozilla firing, invasive employee background checking, etc). I'll pass on this too. It's really not that hard to pass a law that forces businesses and government agencies to 'forget' you if you demand it. Just associate personal information as personal property that cannot be retained either by force or by condition of service, and be done with it. It's very obvious that we are unable (or unwilling) to secure systems technologically or legally, so such information should be the property of the person in question, governments and corporates be damned...and governments which refuse to abide by such a law are criminal and need to be treated as such. Is this likely to ever happen? No, but I am saying it's possible if our leaders were truly legitimate.
The big deal is that it encourages extradition abuse. Americans would be subject to EU law if they access a host outside of their borders and european citizens would be subject to american extradition. So now both groups of people are subject to laws written by systems they have no say in. Wonderful. It's bad enough that western governments are willing to bilaterally work around laws which limit their actions on their home soil. This would make it worse. 'Cross-site-scripted' tyranny like this is one of the gravest threats to liberty because it's nearly impossible to get justice when states routinely use targeted citizens as pawns on the international chessboard.
Both americans and europeans don't even know their own laws as there are too many on the books creating huge minefields. Now you want them to memorize the combined legal code for the USA and EU countries (and possibly more) in order to use the internet? Expecting the average user to understand this and how to corral his computer into complying with that is insane. Cross site scripting is ubiquitous these days making it nearly impossible to check beforehand where the next dump of javascript will send the browser, and http is how most people use the net.
Maybe it's just time for the boomer generation to catch up to the youth of 'eternal september' (and now their children) who grew up with the internet (or at least had it as teens), by realizing that data packets != reality land, making most of law irrelevant. Legislation cannot fix this, nor can the generous 'donations' from single interest groups backed by technology companies who don't/can't fix their broken systems. Knowledge and wisdom can mitigate it though.
That would be a good thing, since your freedoms should not be contingent on whether you agree with the (politically) 'correct' party line. The fact there's a disagreement here is the perfect reason why the grandparent post is a good idea. Societies that promote witchhunts and the like should never be encouraged.
Hell, I don't even get why people watch athletics on tv. Talk about dull. I'd rather play the damn sports casually than just watch it on tv.
As long as I'm accountable, I want the hardware and software under my control. That way when something goes wrong and my boss calls and says 'wtf', I can give him something more than "Well I called amazon and left a message with our account representative".
So instead of addressing my points, you resort to ad hominem. gotcha.
Alright, but that means no more privilege for women either:
1. No more chattel, alimony, maternity leave, her body/right/choice is his responsibility etc. Women have to live without the privilege men are currently compelled to give them in order for men to truly see them as equals.
2. No more subjecting men to coquettish behavior in order to get them to clean up after her mess (I've seen this one go down a lot at work, especially when she knows she's attractive). Don't tell me that women are toothless victims in the work place. It's sexual manipulation all the same. Conversely, we could let up on the draconian 'anti harrassment' policies and let both sexes feel more comfortable acting like human beings at work. The latter is my preference, but it requires that women quit playing the crocodile tear victim act when propositioned by a man they don't like/find 'creepy', and expecting society (mainly other men) to white knight for her (get him fired, kick the crap out of him etc).
3. No more male space vs female space. No more 'invade-male-space-and-make-it-female-for-great-social-justice' either. If most of the employees are male, deal with it instead of calling it out as 'oppression', just as you expect men to accept female space. They are different and, in many ways, incompatible. If a women is going into a male dominated field, she should expect not to find female space all that often.. Same thing if a man goes into nursing. Both sexes need to make their choices and live with the positive and negative outcomes. Neither one should be obligated to shield the other from this.
4. No more hair trigger, life ruining, over the top responses to mere accusations of misconduct. No more 'dear colleague' letters from politicians pushing this. In fact, it's time for the state to stop passing legislation that picks the winners and losers solely on the attributes that aren't supposed to matter.
Once that's in place, I'd be more open to viewing the sexes as equal, and feel more comfortable treating women's work output and interaction as that of a human being instead of a goddess just to avoid getting fired. I don't know if you're reasonable or not, but a lot of the women I have run across at work do think of themselves as above reproach, and play the victim card when they're challenged. Society's hypocritical status quo encourages it en masse.
Actually, nowadays, the corporate culture is full of feminist trained men who purposely choose women over men for things like promotions to prove how much of a feminist they are. Hardly an improvement if the goal is reward for relevant success/attributes. However, if the goal is to build a gynocracy, well, then this is exactly what needs to happen.
When will the bean counters realize that the money saved up front on administrative overhead is lost during the first downtime? There are benefits to having the technical staff on your side of the router and binaries that don't have needless "did your mom say it's ok" dependencies.
and your statement is doubleplus ungood. Report to the ministry of love for processing, comrade.
Stop blaming men for the lack of equal outcome. Stop telling men what is 'proper' to look for in a mate. Stop blaming them as the default problem when women aren't seen in the same numbers in a given context. In fact, stop lying about men, period. If women are intrinsically equal, they don't NEED help as they can fend for themselves.. Most women aren't interested in technology for itself, only what it can do for them, so even with incentives, you're not going to find a 50/50 split. This is ok as men and women are as different psychologically as they are biologically.
You know, maybe you should start respecting their diversity and their right to choose other paths. I tire of this leftist equal-opportunity-must-beget-equal-outcome-else-discrimination fallacy.