I'm not sure it is a joke- but don't worry, with Specter the Great and Most Liberal as committee chair for judicial, confirmation may well be a long time in coming.
My thought exactly- only with DOT instead of the schools, because out here in Oregon the Schools get NOTHING but the Department of Transportation has Earthquake-damaged bridges to repair. All NCLB meant for most of my local schools was no more after school programs and 3 weeks more summer vacation so that they don't have to pay for the building to be open.
Congratulations for teaching me something new. I now know about Asperger's Syndrome, and I can see how it influences your writing style and attitudes. I applaud you for at least trying to improve your communication skills. I'm sure that it is not the easiest thing to do.
Especially given the fact that NT society to me just means more migraines. I'd far prefer an economy that actually works- and uses my talents for the good of everybody else and in return lets me have a life. But I guess if the economy actually was UNIX- we'd have a whole lot of people complaining that their process id was too low.
Maslow's heirarchy has nothing to do with personal attitudes, and self-actualization is a long way from physiological needs.
True enough- but without fullfilling the basic levels of physical need and self-actualization, and instead being told repeatedly "well, that project is over, there's the door, and oh yeah, the sales staff drank this year's bonus money while wining and dining clients"; one gets to be a bit angry.
Congratulations for being a father. I do hope to be one someday, and even though I'm 24, I'm hoping for a few more years before I come to that point in my life.
Take my word for it- plan ahead- don't buy a home (rent instead, you're more mobile that way), don't count on your kids being able to have extended family visits or outside-of-the-family friends (the children of modern Technomads move around too much; there's no stability in their lives at all), and don't let yourself get tied into any financial obligations (don't use credit cards, don't take out a loan for anything that you can't pay off in cash within 10 days, don't waste money on the stock market). This is how I got tied into where I am- don't be like me.
Actually, no, I don't hate Republicans- I hate politicians and corporations. I realize there isn't much of a difference- but the majority or Republicans are just like me- want to be left alone to raise our families in peace.
With enough preparation, I suppose nothing stops the scenario you describe. The "undocumented" person still is required to submit former address/precint, valid ID (picture ID such as state-issued driver's license). With cross-checks, hopefully this would be discovered but you make a valid point.
Ok, so it wouldn't really work for the homeless then, would it? Former address- what if you've been on the streets since you were 12 and don't remember it? Valid ID? How do you get valid ID without a home?
However, with forged papers, "undocumented workers" (also known as illegal aliens) could easily take advantage of the system.
Have you ever given any thought into improving your communication skills?
Hard to do with Asperger's but I've been trying.
From this response, and others in this thread, you seem very full of anger and resentment against the world; like the world owes you something for being born.
It owes me one of two things, and I really wish it would choose one: Leaving me the hell alone, or giving me (and everybody else) an economic system that actually works. Take your pick.
It definitely shows in your writing styles.
Yep- It's meant to.
You are obviously very arrogant, opinionated, and need constant recognition for past work.
Yep- just like every other human being on the planet. Haven't you ever read Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
And I'm sure that Access DB job is well below your ego, but you needed money to support your DVD habits.
Don't have a DVD player at home- but I do have a son (17 months) that needs feeding. It's called procreating- but I don't imagine you would be interested.
Did you look outside your area?
Yep- all areas were equally depressed unless I wanted to learn Hindi or Mandarin.
Did you consider the possibility of relocating?
Yes, to Bangalore.
Did you consider another field completely?
Unlike you NeuroTypical brownnosers, I don't have that option.
Did you look into a manufacturing job?
Yep- none available now that they've all moved overseas.
How about sales?
Oh yeah, like a commission will feed my family.
Education?
Education budgets were slashed to pay for Bush's tax cut.
The world changes,
Why should we allow it to change?
adapt or perish.
There's a third option: kill.
For someone with dozens of languages known, I'm amazed that your personal website is so...1996. With all your free time in the past 26 months, I know someone of your experience and stature should have created a better site.
Actually- that site was abandoned a year and a half ago, when I got my current contract with State Government. And unlike you- I don't go for the latest trends. At least, when it was still active, that website would load just as well in Lynx as it would in IE- or whatever single browser you're targeting this week.
Be sure to train your children with weapons- it's the only way they'll stay alive.
Companies do not make hiring decisions based on the amount of debt the government is currently carrying.
You misunderstand- I said that companies make hiring decisions based on the ammount of money they can get, through investments and bonds. When the government borrows huge amounts of money- there is less available for those investments and bonds, and thus less available for companies, and thus they make decisions not to hire.
For that matter, the government does not make spending decisions based on the amount of debt they are carrying. It could be argued that government debt creates jobs in the financial services industry since all of the T-bill holders would be making interest on government bonds.
Financial sector jobs aren't actually jobs- they're just con artists pretending to work by creating fake money known as interest. No actual production takes place, thus no actual work takes place.
In any case, the government was deep in debt during the prosperous mid to late 90s. It didn't seem to affect prosperity. The "budget surplus" was a big hoax; smoke and mirrors Enron style accounting which was so popular at the time. When everything was actually accounted for, there was no real surplus.
True enough- but perception was enough. It isn't the current debt load that counts, it's the current DEFICIT. Carrying a debt load but borrowing no more money from the banks is as good as not having a debt to begin with in this case- the government not borrowing money means more investment money available for other uses.
Besides, if you were $100,000 in the hole and all of a sudden you are handed $10,000 do you now have a surplus? Hell no, now you're $90,000 in debt.
And yet- it means $10,000 less that I will borrow, and thus $10,000 more available to lend to somebody else who is doing REAL work.
It would be very irresponsible indeed for the government to borrow more than it could afford to pay back.
The United States has been this form of irresponsible for several years now.
Countries have had riots in the streets when this happened.
But not here.
But taking money away from government and giving them less to spend has not been known to cost people their jobs, unless they work for the government.
Where have you been the past 40 years? Hiding your head in the sand?
Here's what I suck at- I suck at being a brown nosing little weasel who spends more time "networking" with reverse social engineering than programming. Bet you've never actually completed a project in your life either.
Problem with him and all the other "free market" economists is that they fail to recognize that it's impossible to allow corporations to be licensed by, and provide campaign financing for, government and have a free market at the same time. Thus we have not had a free market for 140-160 years, or thereabouts.
What makes you think the money is EVER in the hands of individuals at all? Look on your money- is it your signature or the Treasurer's? Who guarantees the value of that money- you or the government?
It's messy thinking to think that the individual EVER has any control over their lives at all under corporate/governmental systems. The only "choice" you have is the choice they allow you to have. And they have not been us since corporations were allowed to bribe politicians with campaign contributions.
So what's to stop, say, a single poltical party from busing 30 "undocumented workers" to match up with 30 other people in the precinct to vote, then busing the same 30 "undocumented workers" to the next precinct to match up with 30 others to vote and so on? And they tell me Oregon is bad for having mail in ballots!
Still, I'll concede that this is one way to allow for voting by the homeless.
If I had a million dollars, there is NO WAY I'd invest in any Vulture Capitalist company- they're little more than con artists. At least I know that the Government will be around tomorrow- far too many VCs aren't.
Anyone who actually *studies* the real world as opposed to economics textbooks knows that the United States is not a free market, and hasn't been for AT LEAST 140 years, maybe 160.
What the government does, at least as far as borrowing, spending, and raising revenue goes, matters just as much as any other conumer with a $3 trillion budget.
All this requires is a talent for memory- anybody can learn to memorize. The key with Kim is that his brain is hardwired for memorization in a way yours and mine isn't.
And "seeing something new" requires investment dollars. Since there is no argument that the innovation possibilities in information technology have not anywhere nearly been exhausted, it's a sure bet that the investments will come.
And there will be no investment even by 2006 if the Government continues to borrow money like it's going out of style at the rate of $1.5 trillion a year.
Whaaa? The good economy of the 90's had jack shit to do with the Clinton years. It had to do with computer producing improvements in worker productivity every year for years on end. The good economy in turn created the budget surplus. While I don't think that Bush has done much for the economy, the current bad one isn't totally his fault either - it was turning sour already.
Worker productivity=lost jobs in most cases. When it comes to the job market, the result is usually the OPPOSITE of the actual market. Stocks, for instance, right now are performing as good or better than they did in 1996- and yet we're still losing jobs. The difference between a growing economy and a growing job market and a growing economy with a deteriorating job market under globalism is how much investment money is the government soaking up for themselves vs how much investment money does private industry have. With the current deficits, the government is by and large the favored investment, NOT private industry- and that leads to job losses, not job gains.
Good luck lady- I'm a full fledged software engineer, have more programming languages than you have fingers and toes on my resume, as well as 6 completed successfull products, 2 of which are still in use- and it took me 2600 resumes and 26 months to find a job. And even then, the best I could do was upgrading Access Databases for state government at half my former income. No tax cut is going to help that.
Without a home address, you aren't a resident of anywhere- and thus cannot register to vote, at least, not in any state I'm aware of. If you're not registered, you don't get to vote. Period. If you are homeless and were allowed to vote without being registered, then that is EXACTLY the type of voter fraud that Republicans were tearing up ballots to prevent.
The kind of person who recognizes that when there is a government budget surplus, there is more money available for investment in private industry, just as when the government runs huge multi-trillion deficits between trade and government spending, there is less money for investment in private industry. The first scenario leads to companies making the decision to hire more people, the second leads to companies making the decision to lay off as many people as possible.
Understand now why tax cuts done irresponsibily lose jobs?
The trouble with that rake is that it didn't just hit the intraweb people- as if HTML was a skill- it also hit the people with 42 different programming languages on their resume who could do anything eventually given enough time.
The only job you can trust left is with State Government, Department of Transportation- because if we stop taking care of the roads we're all in trouble.
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I'm not sure it is a joke- but don't worry, with Specter the Great and Most Liberal as committee chair for judicial, confirmation may well be a long time in coming.
My thought exactly- only with DOT instead of the schools, because out here in Oregon the Schools get NOTHING but the Department of Transportation has Earthquake-damaged bridges to repair. All NCLB meant for most of my local schools was no more after school programs and 3 weeks more summer vacation so that they don't have to pay for the building to be open.
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Congratulations for teaching me something new. I now know about Asperger's Syndrome, and I can see how it influences your writing style and attitudes. I applaud you for at least trying to improve your communication skills. I'm sure that it is not the easiest thing to do.
Especially given the fact that NT society to me just means more migraines. I'd far prefer an economy that actually works- and uses my talents for the good of everybody else and in return lets me have a life. But I guess if the economy actually was UNIX- we'd have a whole lot of people complaining that their process id was too low.
Maslow's heirarchy has nothing to do with personal attitudes, and self-actualization is a long way from physiological needs.
True enough- but without fullfilling the basic levels of physical need and self-actualization, and instead being told repeatedly "well, that project is over, there's the door, and oh yeah, the sales staff drank this year's bonus money while wining and dining clients"; one gets to be a bit angry.
Congratulations for being a father. I do hope to be one someday, and even though I'm 24, I'm hoping for a few more years before I come to that point in my life.
Take my word for it- plan ahead- don't buy a home (rent instead, you're more mobile that way), don't count on your kids being able to have extended family visits or outside-of-the-family friends (the children of modern Technomads move around too much; there's no stability in their lives at all), and don't let yourself get tied into any financial obligations (don't use credit cards, don't take out a loan for anything that you can't pay off in cash within 10 days, don't waste money on the stock market). This is how I got tied into where I am- don't be like me.
Actually, no, I don't hate Republicans- I hate politicians and corporations. I realize there isn't much of a difference- but the majority or Republicans are just like me- want to be left alone to raise our families in peace.
Exactly right. At least, from the HR monkey's point of view. The harder I tried, the worse it got.
With enough preparation, I suppose nothing stops the scenario you describe. The "undocumented" person still is required to submit former address/precint, valid ID (picture ID such as state-issued driver's license). With cross-checks, hopefully this would be discovered but you make a valid point.
Ok, so it wouldn't really work for the homeless then, would it? Former address- what if you've been on the streets since you were 12 and don't remember it? Valid ID? How do you get valid ID without a home?
However, with forged papers, "undocumented workers" (also known as illegal aliens) could easily take advantage of the system.
Have you ever given any thought into improving your communication skills?
Hard to do with Asperger's but I've been trying.
From this response, and others in this thread, you seem very full of anger and resentment against the world; like the world owes you something for being born.
It owes me one of two things, and I really wish it would choose one: Leaving me the hell alone, or giving me (and everybody else) an economic system that actually works. Take your pick.
It definitely shows in your writing styles.
Yep- It's meant to.
You are obviously very arrogant, opinionated, and need constant recognition for past work.
Yep- just like every other human being on the planet. Haven't you ever read Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
And I'm sure that Access DB job is well below your ego, but you needed money to support your DVD habits.
Don't have a DVD player at home- but I do have a son (17 months) that needs feeding. It's called procreating- but I don't imagine you would be interested.
Did you look outside your area?
Yep- all areas were equally depressed unless I wanted to learn Hindi or Mandarin.
Did you consider the possibility of relocating?
Yes, to Bangalore.
Did you consider another field completely?
Unlike you NeuroTypical brownnosers, I don't have that option.
Did you look into a manufacturing job?
Yep- none available now that they've all moved overseas.
How about sales?
Oh yeah, like a commission will feed my family.
Education?
Education budgets were slashed to pay for Bush's tax cut.
The world changes,
Why should we allow it to change?
adapt or perish.
There's a third option: kill.
For someone with dozens of languages known, I'm amazed that your personal website is so...1996. With all your free time in the past 26 months, I know someone of your experience and stature should have created a better site.
Actually- that site was abandoned a year and a half ago, when I got my current contract with State Government. And unlike you- I don't go for the latest trends. At least, when it was still active, that website would load just as well in Lynx as it would in IE- or whatever single browser you're targeting this week.
Be sure to train your children with weapons- it's the only way they'll stay alive.
Companies do not make hiring decisions based on the amount of debt the government is currently carrying.
You misunderstand- I said that companies make hiring decisions based on the ammount of money they can get, through investments and bonds. When the government borrows huge amounts of money- there is less available for those investments and bonds, and thus less available for companies, and thus they make decisions not to hire.
For that matter, the government does not make spending decisions based on the amount of debt they are carrying. It could be argued that government debt creates jobs in the financial services industry since all of the T-bill holders would be making interest on government bonds.
Financial sector jobs aren't actually jobs- they're just con artists pretending to work by creating fake money known as interest. No actual production takes place, thus no actual work takes place.
In any case, the government was deep in debt during the prosperous mid to late 90s. It didn't seem to affect prosperity. The "budget surplus" was a big hoax; smoke and mirrors Enron style accounting which was so popular at the time. When everything was actually accounted for, there was no real surplus.
True enough- but perception was enough. It isn't the current debt load that counts, it's the current DEFICIT. Carrying a debt load but borrowing no more money from the banks is as good as not having a debt to begin with in this case- the government not borrowing money means more investment money available for other uses.
Besides, if you were $100,000 in the hole and all of a sudden you are handed $10,000 do you now have a surplus? Hell no, now you're $90,000 in debt.
And yet- it means $10,000 less that I will borrow, and thus $10,000 more available to lend to somebody else who is doing REAL work.
It would be very irresponsible indeed for the government to borrow more than it could afford to pay back.
The United States has been this form of irresponsible for several years now.
Countries have had riots in the streets when this happened.
But not here.
But taking money away from government and giving them less to spend has not been known to cost people their jobs, unless they work for the government.
Where have you been the past 40 years? Hiding your head in the sand?
Here's what I suck at- I suck at being a brown nosing little weasel who spends more time "networking" with reverse social engineering than programming. Bet you've never actually completed a project in your life either.
Problem with him and all the other "free market" economists is that they fail to recognize that it's impossible to allow corporations to be licensed by, and provide campaign financing for, government and have a free market at the same time. Thus we have not had a free market for 140-160 years, or thereabouts.
What makes you think the money is EVER in the hands of individuals at all? Look on your money- is it your signature or the Treasurer's? Who guarantees the value of that money- you or the government?
It's messy thinking to think that the individual EVER has any control over their lives at all under corporate/governmental systems. The only "choice" you have is the choice they allow you to have. And they have not been us since corporations were allowed to bribe politicians with campaign contributions.
So what's to stop, say, a single poltical party from busing 30 "undocumented workers" to match up with 30 other people in the precinct to vote, then busing the same 30 "undocumented workers" to the next precinct to match up with 30 others to vote and so on? And they tell me Oregon is bad for having mail in ballots!
Still, I'll concede that this is one way to allow for voting by the homeless.
If I had a million dollars, there is NO WAY I'd invest in any Vulture Capitalist company- they're little more than con artists. At least I know that the Government will be around tomorrow- far too many VCs aren't.
Security, not return, is the key to real success.
Libertarians think that the Fed has been nothing but a big con game from the begining- and we'd be better off without the whole mess.
Me- I'm a bit less sure- but one thing I do know, is that we haven't had a free market since the Fed was created.
Anyone who actually *studies* the real world as opposed to economics textbooks knows that the United States is not a free market, and hasn't been for AT LEAST 140 years, maybe 160.
What the government does, at least as far as borrowing, spending, and raising revenue goes, matters just as much as any other conumer with a $3 trillion budget.
All this requires is a talent for memory- anybody can learn to memorize. The key with Kim is that his brain is hardwired for memorization in a way yours and mine isn't.
Got a link? I didn't see this on the federal voter's registration...if they can't send you snail mail, how do they verify your residence?
And "seeing something new" requires investment dollars. Since there is no argument that the innovation possibilities in information technology have not anywhere nearly been exhausted, it's a sure bet that the investments will come.
And there will be no investment even by 2006 if the Government continues to borrow money like it's going out of style at the rate of $1.5 trillion a year.
Whaaa? The good economy of the 90's had jack shit to do with the Clinton years. It had to do with computer producing improvements in worker productivity every year for years on end. The good economy in turn created the budget surplus. While I don't think that Bush has done much for the economy, the current bad one isn't totally his fault either - it was turning sour already.
Worker productivity=lost jobs in most cases. When it comes to the job market, the result is usually the OPPOSITE of the actual market. Stocks, for instance, right now are performing as good or better than they did in 1996- and yet we're still losing jobs. The difference between a growing economy and a growing job market and a growing economy with a deteriorating job market under globalism is how much investment money is the government soaking up for themselves vs how much investment money does private industry have. With the current deficits, the government is by and large the favored investment, NOT private industry- and that leads to job losses, not job gains.
Good luck lady- I'm a full fledged software engineer, have more programming languages than you have fingers and toes on my resume, as well as 6 completed successfull products, 2 of which are still in use- and it took me 2600 resumes and 26 months to find a job. And even then, the best I could do was upgrading Access Databases for state government at half my former income. No tax cut is going to help that.
Without a home address, you aren't a resident of anywhere- and thus cannot register to vote, at least, not in any state I'm aware of. If you're not registered, you don't get to vote. Period. If you are homeless and were allowed to vote without being registered, then that is EXACTLY the type of voter fraud that Republicans were tearing up ballots to prevent.
The kind of person who recognizes that when there is a government budget surplus, there is more money available for investment in private industry, just as when the government runs huge multi-trillion deficits between trade and government spending, there is less money for investment in private industry. The first scenario leads to companies making the decision to hire more people, the second leads to companies making the decision to lay off as many people as possible.
Understand now why tax cuts done irresponsibily lose jobs?
The trouble with that rake is that it didn't just hit the intraweb people- as if HTML was a skill- it also hit the people with 42 different programming languages on their resume who could do anything eventually given enough time.
The only job you can trust left is with State Government, Department of Transportation- because if we stop taking care of the roads we're all in trouble.
Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years!
Of course, on the plus side, if you're a technomad, living like this, out of hotels, you DON'T VOTE- thus one more way for Karl Rove to build success.