You have to understand that this wealth did not go to "the people." It went straight into the pocket of Ceausescu and his cronies. If you lived in a Communist country, you would know what I mean. Stop talking about what you do not know. All of that aside, why should we, people who earned the money, have to give it all away? Why should a four-person family be living in a one-room apartment? Stop going against everything everybody says and for a moment think about it logically. I don't think Ceausescu was living in a one-room apartment, do you?
Uh...woops...the second to last sentence should end: "...than we could ever imagine than if we were living in Romania." Dammit, we really need an editing system.
My family were wealthy Romanians--until the Communist revolution swept Romania. Nicolae Ceausescu reduced my family to living in a one-room apartment. The Communists took away our farms, our vineyards, our factories, everything. Then my family came to the United States as refugees. They lived on 8 Mile Road in Detroit for a while (yes, yes, the same road that the movie was on, except they got it all wrong: 8 Mile Road is an immigrant road, not what it was in the movie), but now we live in a rich suburb of Philadelphia and are earning more money than we could ever imagine than if were living in America. So, remind me again, where is the oppression?
Uh...sorry if this is redundant, but what exactly are you doing with this, exactly? What sort of company? What software? Why do you need to upgrade? It sounds like you just are upgrading for the sake of upgrading (or because somebody wants to for the sake of upgrading). My suggestion: overhaul everything. New software, new servers, everything. And then have some cake.
I think we can all agree that this is both illegal and immoral, but what can we do about it? You have two options.
Cancel your Verizon cell phone service (and landline if you can) and switch to a more expensive carrier (chances are that you are using Verizon because it is cheapest, if you have a choice, that is).
Write to your local politician.
Which would you say is a more effective method? Those of you who guessed the second are correct. When you cancel, one of three things will happen. The first is that you will get an automated box. The second is that a person will handle your cancellation. The third is that a person will handle your cancellation and ask you why you cancelled. If it was because the invasion of privacy, do you think they care? No. They will only record it if it were something out of their control (moving, etc.).
So, why is going to your local politician a better option? The answer is that they can do something about it. You cannot (or, if you can, it's only a small fraction of what they can do) change these things. They can. They can enact laws, they can petition for laws revoked, they can influence people that are higher up. Hell, maybe one day they will become FCC Chairman and your little phone call with influence them!
The moral of the story is that you need to do something about it. Don't cancel your service, do something more proactive. Write your local politician. Contribute to the EFF, actually vote for someone who cares and will change things, there might even be a referendum relating to this that you can directly vote for/against. Do something.
About the 2,000,000 figure: read it in a text book. Sorry, don't still have the book in my posession. Regarding the black marine being hated: he represents America. Maybe they just dislike America. What's wrong with them disliking America? You would be angry too if somebody dropped the largest bomb ever used on two of your main cities and the casualites were almost 100% civilian.
I think the correct term would be automation. Sure, nobody would cheat, but people would do nasty things. A computer can usually play better than a human (the only reason it doesn't always win is that it purposely dumbs itself down), and therefore you could automate it to fire, aim, etc.
Or could it be the fact that a nation who they are both competing with economically, one that bombed the hell out of them (2,000,000+ deaths, many from the horrible effects of radiation), one that made the emperor publically humiliate himself by renouncing his divinity, etc. is stationing troops on their islands?
I must admit, I have never lived nor visisted it, but I know for a fact that they are far more heterogenous than we are. They don't speak different dialects (at least on the main islands, I think we can all agree that Okinawa doesn't exactly count in these arguments), they mostly of the same religion (a mix between Buddhism and Shinto, but they are not very religious in a Western sense), for the most part they have the same political ideals, and most of them have the same background. That's far more than we can say for the United States or even the United Kingdom.
It's not racist to say that you shouldn't marry one from another culture. The Japanese culture is a complex one, and the truth is that very few Westerners can master it. Now if they said "all non-Japanese are dumb," it would be racist. But they didn't. All they said was that it's not usually okay to marry one.
Well duh! If you standardized clothing, hairstyles, and tan they would look the same, but that is what makes them different (specifically the tan)! If a person dressed in a gigantic purple bubble, was pale as good be, and had hair three feet tall, they would be different. If you took all of that stuff away they would be the same, but you cannot tell me they are the same as you.
As for the elderly people saying that it is not okay for a Japanese to make a non-Japanese, of course they are going to say that! Many of them had lived through World War II, lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and lived through Vietnam (although not that relative, some pretty attrocious things did happen). They are a very nationalistic people. They currently hesitate to say the current emporer's name aloud (as they do any emporer that is alive). That their culture, but it certainly is not racism.
Coming from a marine, this is disgusting. Especially the bit about looking exactly the same. Could you tell a Spanish person from a French person from a German person? Hell yeah. If you were born and raised in a Japanese society, you would feel this way, too. And plus, the island of Okinawa is extremely isolated. What do you expect? Japan is a homogenious culture. Don't confused homogeniety with racism.
And what does the fact that you're African-American have to do with anything? I get the feeling that you're 'playing the race card,' although I can't figure out why.
I must also ask, what were the pretenses of you being stationed on Okinawa? If it was because of World War II, then I'd say you're completely oblivious. Obviously they will be angry at people who are occupying their land and who are killing their people. If not, I'm interested, why were you there?
And please come forward, don't be an anonymous coward when you don't need to be.
I could understand if the computer just fell apart or blew up, but it didn't. It was a bug. A dumbass programmer forgot to put a semi-colon at the end of the damn line.
Don't be so optimistic. I'm a freshmen in high school, and I'm here to share my horror story.
I go to school at Harriton High School, in one of the richest districts in Pennsylvania. It's a great school, it's the only one that offers the IB program in the area. However, our computers and computer courses are downright pitiful. First I'll start with the computers. iMacs. Old iMacs. Hockey-puck mouse, iMacs (well, we don't use hockey puck mice, the smart kids are not under the impression that it is hard to switch mice, so all of the un-tech-savvy kids get left with the , but definitely not v.X, or whatever they call it). And OS 9.0, even thought they can handle OS X (even the eMacs that we got [two in my 20-computer Tech. classroom] are loaded with OS 9.2). There is one PC lab--with Pentium II Compaqs. With Windows 95.
Now, onto the courses. There is no computer science/programming course. As a junior there is an elective that deals with computers, but from what I've heard it's an easy course that offers nothing special. It's called something like "Technology Applications in Business." Basically how to use headers and footers in Word. Our required course, "Tech. 9," is downright sad. The teacher figured there was something wrong with the network card in the iMac when it wouldn't connect to the file server--even though IE could connect to the Internet just fine.
It's downright sad. And I'm here to tell you, the students are even more pitiful. Most of them are rich and have their own P4s with Windows XP, but wouldn't know mspaint.exe from Photoshop (which, by the way, there are two copies of in the 'advanced' lab consisting of two early-generation G4s with OS 9.1). If they are that challenged at home with their native OS, imagine what it's like in school with an old OS that NOBODY uses anymore (not many people use OS X, not to mention 9.x).
That is my sad story. Here, have a tissue. I know you're probably in tears by now.
You fucking moron. Did you read the fucking abstract!? It clearly states that he "...probably won't live long enough to see DSL or cable Internet reach [his] rural neighborhood." You. Dumbass. Bitch.
The Simputer is not targetted to those with tons of money. People with a decent amout of money own a power outlet and enough money to buy a real computer. Think before you type.
Oh, and there was a lot of crap designed for Americans by Americans. That doesn't mean it's good. So now just because it was made by an Indian means that it is useful to Indians? I think not.
$250!? For a poverty-stricken Indian farmer? You have got to be kidding me! Some make this much in six months! I don't think I'd starve for six months to get a "Simputer." It seems to me that it would be smarter for the village to buy a cheap-o computer of two. You can get an okay computer with a monitor for $500 ("okay" is a relative term, but what are a whole bunch of internet-challenged Indians going to do with a 3.06GHz computer? All they need is a simple Pentium II and a 15" monitor)...arguable five times as good as the "Simputer." And regarding power: why not sell a solar adapter?
With all of the time and money they're putting into this, wouldn't it make sense to code their own operating system? I don't know much about coding OSes, but it seems that it would be the best way.
Regarding Linux: I don't know a whole lot about the kenel structure and what-not, but it seems that the good things about Linux are things that a supercomputer wouldn't care about (portability, a good GUI platform, etc.). Why not use IRIX?
You know, if they wanted a stable OS, they'd use Windows 98 and just pay the money for the second edition and then patch IE. That's pretty stable, right?
Well that's just bullshit. The Saudi Arabian constitution also legitimizes traditional Islamic punishments for adultry and rape (namely, stonings). However, I don't know that anybody is under the impression that when you have sex with somebody out of wedlock you should be stoned is a basic human right (if you could call it that). Although I feel that the US pushes many things on people they shouldn't be, I don't think they're that dumb to think that everybody will have this basic human right.
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But not at the expense of readability. Do the CDs posess it, or are they plural? It's hard to tell.
When will people realize that apostrophes do not denote plurality?
You have to understand that this wealth did not go to "the people." It went straight into the pocket of Ceausescu and his cronies. If you lived in a Communist country, you would know what I mean. Stop talking about what you do not know. All of that aside, why should we, people who earned the money, have to give it all away? Why should a four-person family be living in a one-room apartment? Stop going against everything everybody says and for a moment think about it logically. I don't think Ceausescu was living in a one-room apartment, do you?
Uh...woops...the second to last sentence should end: "...than we could ever imagine than if we were living in Romania." Dammit, we really need an editing system.
My family were wealthy Romanians--until the Communist revolution swept Romania. Nicolae Ceausescu reduced my family to living in a one-room apartment. The Communists took away our farms, our vineyards, our factories, everything. Then my family came to the United States as refugees. They lived on 8 Mile Road in Detroit for a while (yes, yes, the same road that the movie was on, except they got it all wrong: 8 Mile Road is an immigrant road, not what it was in the movie), but now we live in a rich suburb of Philadelphia and are earning more money than we could ever imagine than if were living in America. So, remind me again, where is the oppression?
Uh...sorry if this is redundant, but what exactly are you doing with this, exactly? What sort of company? What software? Why do you need to upgrade? It sounds like you just are upgrading for the sake of upgrading (or because somebody wants to for the sake of upgrading). My suggestion: overhaul everything. New software, new servers, everything. And then have some cake.
I think we can all agree that this is both illegal and immoral, but what can we do about it? You have two options.
Which would you say is a more effective method? Those of you who guessed the second are correct. When you cancel, one of three things will happen. The first is that you will get an automated box. The second is that a person will handle your cancellation. The third is that a person will handle your cancellation and ask you why you cancelled. If it was because the invasion of privacy, do you think they care? No. They will only record it if it were something out of their control (moving, etc.).
So, why is going to your local politician a better option? The answer is that they can do something about it. You cannot (or, if you can, it's only a small fraction of what they can do) change these things. They can. They can enact laws, they can petition for laws revoked, they can influence people that are higher up. Hell, maybe one day they will become FCC Chairman and your little phone call with influence them!
The moral of the story is that you need to do something about it. Don't cancel your service, do something more proactive. Write your local politician. Contribute to the EFF, actually vote for someone who cares and will change things, there might even be a referendum relating to this that you can directly vote for/against. Do something.
About the 2,000,000 figure: read it in a text book. Sorry, don't still have the book in my posession. Regarding the black marine being hated: he represents America. Maybe they just dislike America. What's wrong with them disliking America? You would be angry too if somebody dropped the largest bomb ever used on two of your main cities and the casualites were almost 100% civilian.
I think the correct term would be automation. Sure, nobody would cheat, but people would do nasty things. A computer can usually play better than a human (the only reason it doesn't always win is that it purposely dumbs itself down), and therefore you could automate it to fire, aim, etc.
Or could it be the fact that a nation who they are both competing with economically, one that bombed the hell out of them (2,000,000+ deaths, many from the horrible effects of radiation), one that made the emperor publically humiliate himself by renouncing his divinity, etc. is stationing troops on their islands?
I must admit, I have never lived nor visisted it, but I know for a fact that they are far more heterogenous than we are. They don't speak different dialects (at least on the main islands, I think we can all agree that Okinawa doesn't exactly count in these arguments), they mostly of the same religion (a mix between Buddhism and Shinto, but they are not very religious in a Western sense), for the most part they have the same political ideals, and most of them have the same background. That's far more than we can say for the United States or even the United Kingdom.
It's not racist to say that you shouldn't marry one from another culture. The Japanese culture is a complex one, and the truth is that very few Westerners can master it. Now if they said "all non-Japanese are dumb," it would be racist. But they didn't. All they said was that it's not usually okay to marry one.
Well duh! If you standardized clothing, hairstyles, and tan they would look the same, but that is what makes them different (specifically the tan)! If a person dressed in a gigantic purple bubble, was pale as good be, and had hair three feet tall, they would be different. If you took all of that stuff away they would be the same, but you cannot tell me they are the same as you.
As for the elderly people saying that it is not okay for a Japanese to make a non-Japanese, of course they are going to say that! Many of them had lived through World War II, lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and lived through Vietnam (although not that relative, some pretty attrocious things did happen). They are a very nationalistic people. They currently hesitate to say the current emporer's name aloud (as they do any emporer that is alive). That their culture, but it certainly is not racism.
Coming from a marine, this is disgusting. Especially the bit about looking exactly the same. Could you tell a Spanish person from a French person from a German person? Hell yeah. If you were born and raised in a Japanese society, you would feel this way, too. And plus, the island of Okinawa is extremely isolated. What do you expect? Japan is a homogenious culture. Don't confused homogeniety with racism.
And what does the fact that you're African-American have to do with anything? I get the feeling that you're 'playing the race card,' although I can't figure out why.
I must also ask, what were the pretenses of you being stationed on Okinawa? If it was because of World War II, then I'd say you're completely oblivious. Obviously they will be angry at people who are occupying their land and who are killing their people. If not, I'm interested, why were you there?
And please come forward, don't be an anonymous coward when you don't need to be.
I could understand if the computer just fell apart or blew up, but it didn't. It was a bug. A dumbass programmer forgot to put a semi-colon at the end of the damn line.
Don't be so optimistic. I'm a freshmen in high school, and I'm here to share my horror story.
I go to school at Harriton High School, in one of the richest districts in Pennsylvania. It's a great school, it's the only one that offers the IB program in the area. However, our computers and computer courses are downright pitiful. First I'll start with the computers. iMacs. Old iMacs. Hockey-puck mouse, iMacs (well, we don't use hockey puck mice, the smart kids are not under the impression that it is hard to switch mice, so all of the un-tech-savvy kids get left with the , but definitely not v.X, or whatever they call it). And OS 9.0, even thought they can handle OS X (even the eMacs that we got [two in my 20-computer Tech. classroom] are loaded with OS 9.2). There is one PC lab--with Pentium II Compaqs. With Windows 95.
Now, onto the courses. There is no computer science/programming course. As a junior there is an elective that deals with computers, but from what I've heard it's an easy course that offers nothing special. It's called something like "Technology Applications in Business." Basically how to use headers and footers in Word. Our required course, "Tech. 9," is downright sad. The teacher figured there was something wrong with the network card in the iMac when it wouldn't connect to the file server--even though IE could connect to the Internet just fine.
It's downright sad. And I'm here to tell you, the students are even more pitiful. Most of them are rich and have their own P4s with Windows XP, but wouldn't know mspaint.exe from Photoshop (which, by the way, there are two copies of in the 'advanced' lab consisting of two early-generation G4s with OS 9.1). If they are that challenged at home with their native OS, imagine what it's like in school with an old OS that NOBODY uses anymore (not many people use OS X, not to mention 9.x).
That is my sad story. Here, have a tissue. I know you're probably in tears by now.
I think that they now offer a two-way solution, but it isn't much faster than 56k. Although it doesn't tie of your phone line.
You fucking moron. Did you read the fucking abstract!? It clearly states that he "...probably won't live long enough to see DSL or cable Internet reach [his] rural neighborhood." You. Dumbass. Bitch.
He proved me completely and totally wrong. :-D Mod him up, please.
The Simputer is not targetted to those with tons of money. People with a decent amout of money own a power outlet and enough money to buy a real computer. Think before you type.
Oh, and there was a lot of crap designed for Americans by Americans. That doesn't mean it's good. So now just because it was made by an Indian means that it is useful to Indians? I think not.
$250!? For a poverty-stricken Indian farmer? You have got to be kidding me! Some make this much in six months! I don't think I'd starve for six months to get a "Simputer." It seems to me that it would be smarter for the village to buy a cheap-o computer of two. You can get an okay computer with a monitor for $500 ("okay" is a relative term, but what are a whole bunch of internet-challenged Indians going to do with a 3.06GHz computer? All they need is a simple Pentium II and a 15" monitor)...arguable five times as good as the "Simputer." And regarding power: why not sell a solar adapter?
Well, let's do a test:
asdf
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Now which one made you wish you had mod points more?
LINUX!? WHY LINUX!? Why not a stable OS...
Like Windows ME!
With all of the time and money they're putting into this, wouldn't it make sense to code their own operating system? I don't know much about coding OSes, but it seems that it would be the best way.
Regarding Linux: I don't know a whole lot about the kenel structure and what-not, but it seems that the good things about Linux are things that a supercomputer wouldn't care about (portability, a good GUI platform, etc.). Why not use IRIX?
You know, if they wanted a stable OS, they'd use Windows 98 and just pay the money for the second edition and then patch IE. That's pretty stable, right?
Well that's just bullshit. The Saudi Arabian constitution also legitimizes traditional Islamic punishments for adultry and rape (namely, stonings). However, I don't know that anybody is under the impression that when you have sex with somebody out of wedlock you should be stoned is a basic human right (if you could call it that). Although I feel that the US pushes many things on people they shouldn't be, I don't think they're that dumb to think that everybody will have this basic human right.