All that means is that you don't recognize how politically useful such divisions have been throughout history.
Politically useful suggests that it's actually useful to have politics to begin with- something that I'm not sure of at all. I see no need to have more than 5 acres per family and local trade barriers to prevent destruction of the local labor force.
What I understand is that the caste system wasn't really that prevalent until the British encouraged it as sort of a divide-and-conquer.
Also a worthless exercise. Why bother controling land that you can't directly use yourself?
well it's not up to you and the solution to the problem isn't to just blow it off and say if i was in charge it wouldn't be like this. you have to make due with what you've got and actually step up instead of looking down on their lives and hoping that these drug companies will give them some way to change their lives without kiling them. What is being done is wrong, and you're just blinding yourself from it and when someone tries to show that you're wrong you decide to ignore the reasons.
Uh- I think you've got me confused with someone else- yes what is happening is wrong, but what is happening is a direct consequence of depending on international trade, money, and ridiculous hierarchial structures to begin with.
I wonder who is stupid enough to think that the H-1b visa program and the WTO who is currently pushing to have it expanded is entirely off topic for why older programmers are out of work? It isn't- it's in fact the primary method for replacing older programmers with cheaper people you don't have to pay benefits to.
If it were up to me to begin with, there would be no rich, no poor, no trade, no money, and no caste system. I find artificial divisions among human beings to be slightly absurd.
I have a short memory as well it seems- but still, it seems to me that experimental medicines on pregnant or soon to be pregnant women is a really bad idea....
They are getting paid for it, a nice enough sum that it's worth their health and life. They aren't being forced or coerced into it.
Some would say the difference between life as a dahlit and life as a dahlit after being paid for it is most certainly a form of force and coercion.
Besides, these people don't have much use in society or a future, especially in India's caste society. This is an excellent opportunity for them to contribute something to better mankind and benefit the rest of us. We should be applauding and congratulating them for their sacrifice. We shouldn't try to take this away from them.
So you agree- givent he caste system they don't have any real choice at all.
Only because you forget about what happens right after you change the diaper- or at least does with my 2 1/2 year old. He jumps up, puts his arms around my neck, says "Daddy, Horsey" and away we go. *best* feeling in the world. Sex just isn't complete until it eats up the next 18 years of your life.
I no longer have a choice to be risk adverse. I have a kid with cerebal palsy. I already have lost all right to have health insurance on myself because we couldn't afford it and they're calling my Asperger's a pre-existing condition; if we let his insurance lapse for any reason we'll never be able to get health insurance on him ever again.
Some of us need a system- any system- to support us. The whole deal of the social contract, of paying taxes to have a government to protect us, is dependant upon that fact. We're now trapped in a system that at best, doesn't work. And when you look at it- it's damned stupid to give up your family's health and security to attempt to create something new unless you have no other choice.
Maybe if we were in Europe, and had nationalized health care, it would be an option. But starting a small business without being prepared to fail; and by prepared to fail I mean at least 10 years worth of your own salary and benefits in savings- is an incredibly stupid and selfish thing to do.
I agree- but it should be a bit more subtle than that. You REALLY need to read the BOFH stories, archived at http://www.theregister.co.uk/ in the bootnotes section. The key to this is: he who thinks IS service is too expensive gets less IS service, until he changes his attitude. Insist upon centralization, it's the key to keeping control over the users.
Microdsoft in the 90s paid for talent and grew 50-100% each year. Google is doing the same now.
I'm amazed anybody would use those two as examples of *quality*- especially on/. Microsoft should be obvious as the ultimate example of releasing products prematurely- never trust a.0 from Microsoft. Google is slightly better, in that they let their engineers spend 20% of their time on their own projects; but they have a tendency to let users be beta testers on EVERY new product.
They may be paying for talent, they may be growing- but they're NOT releasing quality products.
The quote was "Be an entrepreneur and you'll NEVER be out of work" not "Be an entrepreneur and go bankrupt at least once". Some of us hope to go through life without going bankrupt ever- and consider those who do to be failures regardless of what else they accomplish.
Did i say just because busssh is an asshole, all americans are assholes? NO.
Bush didn't create the H-1b program. The Congress under Clinton did. Clinton's the one who got us into the World Trade^H^H^H^H^HTerrorism Organization.
Only place I know of that made a deal 30 years ago to pay public servants less in exchange for making sure they had a good retirement...and then went back on it to give tax breaks to corporations.
I think your problem here is that you assume that every company will hire the cheapest labor regardless of the talent (or potential).
Most private companies don't have that luxury- they have to answer to their stockholders every three months, and would have to explain that all over again to the stockholders- most of whom will NOT understand the long view.
Sending out lots of resumes and then complaining about why nobody hires you isn't going to change a thing.
That's why I'm going the route I'm going. Picking up the government contract was the best choice I had ever made. I just won my fourth contract, virtually assuring me 16 more months to find a permanent position. Instead of sending out hundreds and thousands of resumes, I'm now only sending out one or two a month- and every one I've sent to this agency has resulted in at least an interview. What's more is that if I get on permanent- I get benefits that outweigh anything private industry can afford to offer anymore, and a steady job that will see my 2 1/2 year old through college.
The funny thing is that my fourth contract means I'll have worked with ODOT longer than any position in private industry has lasted in the last decade...
Have you ever actually heard of the government producing anything at all?
Actually, I've seen 6 successfull projects go out the door since I've been contracting here- including an ERP project that reduced the number of servers and DBAs used by this agency. We win awards for our public service- even our websites like http://www.tripcheck.com/. My wife's father and grandfather worked for this agency, and we do see projects completed.
From their point of view yes- and I don't understand the concept of rushing bugs to the market merely to satisfy some subjective market timing. I can't quantify market timing, so how the heck can I argue it? All in all, I think I'm better off making the career move I'm making- to the public sector, where market timing is measured (for my state) in the bienium rather than the quarter (8 times as much time).
I didn't really think it was a function of where one graduated. But thanks for correcting me that it's more a problem of the indentured servitude (employer purchased) visas as opposed to culture.
Then make one. Find someone who has a problem and propose a solution. Update your skills. Go make something happen. When I moved to Seattle in 1992, I had no job and things weren't good for VAX programmers. While I was looking for work, I learned new skills on my own and turned those skills into something very successful. I think that one problem with today's programmers is that they believe that opportunities will just jump in their lap. I hate to tell you this, but those days are long gone. But if you row into lake in your boat and fish don't jump in, do you stop fishing? If you fish and don't catch anything, don't you buy better tackle?
Oh I did that too- but a side job doesn't pay the bills, though it is a great way to keep the skills sharp. The fact of the matter is, the skills of a coder are very much oversupplied these days- most of the paying jobs are in Microsoft land or Java land, so those are the skills you need- but those are ALSO the skills that 50,000 new IIT graduates get EVERY SINGLE YEAR- and they don't have a family to feed or a mortgage to pay, and they will give their right arm to work in America, instead of giving managment a fight over deadlines and things that can't be accomplished.
It's more like coders are the fish- and for every line of employment, every opportunity in the private sector, there are several hundred fish going for the line, and twenty or thirty eating the bait (getting an interview). Contrast that with public service, where they must hire a citizen, and there are usually only 30-40 applicants for a job, and the permanent position I just interviewed for yesterday had only 4 people interviewed.
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How about by finding diets of common foodstuffs that do work instead of relying on experimental drugs to harm the next generation?
All that means is that you don't recognize how politically useful such divisions have been throughout history.
Politically useful suggests that it's actually useful to have politics to begin with- something that I'm not sure of at all. I see no need to have more than 5 acres per family and local trade barriers to prevent destruction of the local labor force.
What I understand is that the caste system wasn't really that prevalent until the British encouraged it as sort of a divide-and-conquer.
Also a worthless exercise. Why bother controling land that you can't directly use yourself?
well it's not up to you and the solution to the problem isn't to just blow it off and say if i was in charge it wouldn't be like this. you have to make due with what you've got and actually step up instead of looking down on their lives and hoping that these drug companies will give them some way to change their lives without kiling them. What is being done is wrong, and you're just blinding yourself from it and when someone tries to show that you're wrong you decide to ignore the reasons.
Uh- I think you've got me confused with someone else- yes what is happening is wrong, but what is happening is a direct consequence of depending on international trade, money, and ridiculous hierarchial structures to begin with.
I wonder who is stupid enough to think that the H-1b visa program and the WTO who is currently pushing to have it expanded is entirely off topic for why older programmers are out of work? It isn't- it's in fact the primary method for replacing older programmers with cheaper people you don't have to pay benefits to.
Apparently it's my memory that is not so good. However, I guess I just find it an absurdly bad idea to test on women who might be pregnant....
If it were up to me to begin with, there would be no rich, no poor, no trade, no money, and no caste system. I find artificial divisions among human beings to be slightly absurd.
I have a short memory as well it seems- but still, it seems to me that experimental medicines on pregnant or soon to be pregnant women is a really bad idea....
Seems to me I remember a fertility treatment called thalidomide....and a bunch of babies born without arms and legs being the reason for that.
Isn't it amazing how profit creates short memories?
They are getting paid for it, a nice enough sum that it's worth their health and life. They aren't being forced or coerced into it.
Some would say the difference between life as a dahlit and life as a dahlit after being paid for it is most certainly a form of force and coercion.
Besides, these people don't have much use in society or a future, especially in India's caste society. This is an excellent opportunity for them to contribute something to better mankind and benefit the rest of us. We should be applauding and congratulating them for their sacrifice. We shouldn't try to take this away from them.
So you agree- givent he caste system they don't have any real choice at all.
Only because you forget about what happens right after you change the diaper- or at least does with my 2 1/2 year old. He jumps up, puts his arms around my neck, says "Daddy, Horsey" and away we go. *best* feeling in the world. Sex just isn't complete until it eats up the next 18 years of your life.
I no longer have a choice to be risk adverse. I have a kid with cerebal palsy. I already have lost all right to have health insurance on myself because we couldn't afford it and they're calling my Asperger's a pre-existing condition; if we let his insurance lapse for any reason we'll never be able to get health insurance on him ever again.
Some of us need a system- any system- to support us. The whole deal of the social contract, of paying taxes to have a government to protect us, is dependant upon that fact. We're now trapped in a system that at best, doesn't work. And when you look at it- it's damned stupid to give up your family's health and security to attempt to create something new unless you have no other choice.
Maybe if we were in Europe, and had nationalized health care, it would be an option. But starting a small business without being prepared to fail; and by prepared to fail I mean at least 10 years worth of your own salary and benefits in savings- is an incredibly stupid and selfish thing to do.
I agree- but it should be a bit more subtle than that. You REALLY need to read the BOFH stories, archived at http://www.theregister.co.uk/ in the bootnotes section. The key to this is: he who thinks IS service is too expensive gets less IS service, until he changes his attitude. Insist upon centralization, it's the key to keeping control over the users.
Microdsoft in the 90s paid for talent and grew 50-100% each year. Google is doing the same now.
/. Microsoft should be obvious as the ultimate example of releasing products prematurely- never trust a .0 from Microsoft. Google is slightly better, in that they let their engineers spend 20% of their time on their own projects; but they have a tendency to let users be beta testers on EVERY new product.
I'm amazed anybody would use those two as examples of *quality*- especially on
They may be paying for talent, they may be growing- but they're NOT releasing quality products.
The quote was "Be an entrepreneur and you'll NEVER be out of work" not "Be an entrepreneur and go bankrupt at least once". Some of us hope to go through life without going bankrupt ever- and consider those who do to be failures regardless of what else they accomplish.
Did i say just because busssh is an asshole, all americans are assholes? NO.
Bush didn't create the H-1b program. The Congress under Clinton did. Clinton's the one who got us into the World Trade^H^H^H^H^HTerrorism Organization.
Any company that is paying for quality isn't going to grow over a three month period.
You mean public companies. While private companies (if incorporated in certain ways) often have stockholders, it isn't the same thing.
Different bit flip. I mean private people own the company, as opposed to a government.
I wouldn't know- I've yet to see an IT company last for more than 2 years.
Be an entreprenuer and you'll never be out of work.
Unless of course you're one of the 49/50 small businesses that goes bankrupt.
Only place I know of that made a deal 30 years ago to pay public servants less in exchange for making sure they had a good retirement...and then went back on it to give tax breaks to corporations.
I think your problem here is that you assume that every company will hire the cheapest labor regardless of the talent (or potential).
Most private companies don't have that luxury- they have to answer to their stockholders every three months, and would have to explain that all over again to the stockholders- most of whom will NOT understand the long view.
Sending out lots of resumes and then complaining about why nobody hires you isn't going to change a thing.
That's why I'm going the route I'm going. Picking up the government contract was the best choice I had ever made. I just won my fourth contract, virtually assuring me 16 more months to find a permanent position. Instead of sending out hundreds and thousands of resumes, I'm now only sending out one or two a month- and every one I've sent to this agency has resulted in at least an interview. What's more is that if I get on permanent- I get benefits that outweigh anything private industry can afford to offer anymore, and a steady job that will see my 2 1/2 year old through college.
The funny thing is that my fourth contract means I'll have worked with ODOT longer than any position in private industry has lasted in the last decade...
Have you ever actually heard of the government producing anything at all?
Actually, I've seen 6 successfull projects go out the door since I've been contracting here- including an ERP project that reduced the number of servers and DBAs used by this agency. We win awards for our public service- even our websites like http://www.tripcheck.com/. My wife's father and grandfather worked for this agency, and we do see projects completed.
So maybe that answer is wrong?
From their point of view yes- and I don't understand the concept of rushing bugs to the market merely to satisfy some subjective market timing. I can't quantify market timing, so how the heck can I argue it? All in all, I think I'm better off making the career move I'm making- to the public sector, where market timing is measured (for my state) in the bienium rather than the quarter (8 times as much time).
I didn't really think it was a function of where one graduated. But thanks for correcting me that it's more a problem of the indentured servitude (employer purchased) visas as opposed to culture.
Then make one. Find someone who has a problem and propose a solution. Update your skills. Go make something happen. When I moved to Seattle in 1992, I had no job and things weren't good for VAX programmers. While I was looking for work, I learned new skills on my own and turned those skills into something very successful. I think that one problem with today's programmers is that they believe that opportunities will just jump in their lap. I hate to tell you this, but those days are long gone. But if you row into lake in your boat and fish don't jump in, do you stop fishing? If you fish and don't catch anything, don't you buy better tackle?
Oh I did that too- but a side job doesn't pay the bills, though it is a great way to keep the skills sharp. The fact of the matter is, the skills of a coder are very much oversupplied these days- most of the paying jobs are in Microsoft land or Java land, so those are the skills you need- but those are ALSO the skills that 50,000 new IIT graduates get EVERY SINGLE YEAR- and they don't have a family to feed or a mortgage to pay, and they will give their right arm to work in America, instead of giving managment a fight over deadlines and things that can't be accomplished.
It's more like coders are the fish- and for every line of employment, every opportunity in the private sector, there are several hundred fish going for the line, and twenty or thirty eating the bait (getting an interview). Contrast that with public service, where they must hire a citizen, and there are usually only 30-40 applicants for a job, and the permanent position I just interviewed for yesterday had only 4 people interviewed.