This guy has never seen state-controlled media in operation from his porch. Certainly hasn't followed any in a language he can understand well.
You're sidestepping the issue. When it comes to war and matters of "national security", how would a state-run press function any differently from the American press. Unverified, unsourced claims from "senior officials" are treated as fact, and obviously bullshit pronouncements, whether they come from Obama or Cheney, are never questioned.
It's like with the NSA spying, where retired officials are saying is just like the KGB. But they were only Stasi, so what do they know?
It's called democracy, Slick, and not everyone gets what they want all the time. Shocking concept, I know. You could suggest an alternative, like fascism - and may I say that's a mighty fine brown shirt you're already wearing - but then people would get even less of what they want.
So you're back at square one. Don't like your union's political activities, you're free to vote for some other course of action. Don't like you're non-union shop's political activities....you're free to shut up and like it.
Your butthurt in response to having your storyline debunked is noted. Either Article I, Section 8 is a strict list of enumerated powers, or it's not. If it's the former, Congress only has the authority to fund an Army and a Navy.
Pick. One. Trying to have both ways, by whining that such and such clause legitimizes beyond-enumerated-powers spending on items you like but not on those you don't, just marks you as a hypocritical partisan hack. If 'Necessary and Proper' or 'Forgoing Powers' doctrines legitimize NORAD and the Air Force, then they also do for Social Security.
I'm sorry you're butthurt when someone points the asininity of repeating the most debunked apples-to-oranges comparison in the history of the human race.
Yeah, when people don't act the way I want them to act I feel justified in stealing from them too.
Not theft, fuckwit. Copyright infringement. You do understand that drunk driving is still against the law even though people don't call it rape, right? Right?
But the comment you are replying to is right about the rest of what he said.
And I'm talking about the H1-B program, who's only purpose is to broaden the labor pool for employers, and thus depress wages and benefits of employees. That's what the H1-B program is for, and the "reasonable" stuff is just a sham.
Oh noes, they whine, no American will apply for our job! Well, have you tried offering more than $40k a year and overtime?
You assume a lot. First, the criteria isn't that some American could've done the job, that would've taken just about every possible job off the list. It that's you've made a *reasonable* effort to find one and you didn't. Even if there are plenty of Americans in other cities who don't want to move, or the same city but with jobs they don't want to leave, it's still ok to hire somebody on H1-B.
No, it means no American is able to fill the job for the ludicrous job requirements the company sets out. Either demanding 8 years experience in a language that's been out for six, or wanting applicants with doctorates and 15 years experience while offering pay suitable for a bachelors straight out of a community college. It's not like this is new.
but a quick search found a comparable ASUS laptop [laptopmag.com] (Non Haswell i7)
Other than:
Different processor 1900x1080 screen vs 2880x1800 for the Macbook (this is where it gets pitiful) 5400 rpm hard drive vs PCI-e flash storage Over 1 lbs heavier
So, you're using this word, "comparable", but it does not mean what you think it means.
The problem with your idea is that Apple hasn't actually had superior build quality since the Macintosh II series.
Right. That's why they are always at the top or near it in hardware reliability. Because they don't have build quality, or something.
They're just the same Foxconn-built PC motherboards as everyone else's, with some slightly different components.
You want to build cheap ass computers, Foxconn will happily oblige. You want better computers and are willing to pay for it, they will happily oblige.
Huh, it's almost like you get what you pay for. Shocking news at 11.
And POWER is gone, and it was a dumb idea to begin with. It was only because Apple couldn't figure out how to emulate 68k on x86, which others were already doing, and doing well.
Because IBM not delivering a 3ghz G5 chip three years after promising they'd have out in one year had nothing to do with it. Or IBM failing to come up with a mobile version of the G5, leaving Apple stuck with the increasingly embarrassing G4 for laptops.
I see that like with politics, you pull your tech pronouncements out of your ass. Do you do the same for other subjects?
"What days you are referring to? Microsoft still produces second quality software to the competition, but is a monopoly."
Do they really though? The security arguments over Windows have been pretty much dead since Windows 7, and stability arguments dead going back to Windows 2000.
Well, lets see. Windows 8 sucks hairy donkey balls while we have yet to see most of the improvements that were promised for Longhorn. Security? Who hasn't visited their aunt only to end up spending an hour cleaning crapware off a Vista/7 machine?
Office settled into "feature" mode since before Office 2007. A 10 year old version of Word or Excel will work just fine for 99.999% of users, but Microsoft keeps coming up with "features" to give people a "reason" to "upgrade". I'm using giant airquotes on "features" because Microsoft is like a company that makes washing machines: they don't really have anything new, but need to come out with new "features" to differentiate it from last years model.
When every story on slashdot was "Microsoft sucks" and every comment was "If only Apple could get enough momentum to crush Microsoft."
For more than a decade, every time Apple does something unpopular or questionable, there's at least one guy who comes in saying "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms."
Taking shots at Apple has been as much a part of Slashdot's history as hot grits and goatse. From back in their belagured days, through the first iMac, through the first iPod, straight on through the post-Jobs era.
Interesting comment from an Anonymous Coward, and provably wrong. I think you would have to point to genuine transparency on the part of Russia. As to the danger of Russia compared to NSA, to start with, NSA doesn't have nuclear weapons aimed at NATO countries, Russia does, and that's not all.
Because the U.S. isn't as ready to fire nukes at everybody from North Korea to China to Iran as Russia is to fire nukes at France? Just for once, could you come up with some far out winger stuff that can't be thrown back in your face in.002 seconds?
You want to talk actual substance, why don't you go find a list of democratically elected governments overthrown by the USSR/Russia, and see how that compares to the CIA and get back to us.
There is no such thing as "objective media", but there is a definite and unsubtle difference between media that are influenced by the government in a democratic state, and media that run errands on behalf of a dictator. I'll let you figure out which is which in this case. It ain't very hard.
Option 4: They're all acting like J. Edgar Hoovers, and blackmailing the shit out everybody.
Every once in a while, it looks like somebody "got a call". Like when Roberts wrote the opinion to strike down the mandate before he wrote the opinion to uphold it. Or when John Lewis went from supporting Snowden to castigating him in 24 hours. Or when Al Franken went from questioning how warrantless wiretaps could possibly be legal under the 4th Amendment, since the person and place must be named, to being a big fan of NSA's infinitely broader goal to "collect it all".
Given that one former official says Senator Obama was spied on when he was in Congress, it's only one more step to arrange a little meeting to discuss this upsetting information that would ruin your career if exposed to the public....
You sound like you're regurgitating something you were spoon fed in college.
Says the guy rattling off his personal book definition that has nothing to do with realtiy or current politics. I find your lack of self-awareness disturbing.
Probably because Obama generally looks favorably upon redistribution, which most people in America aren't in favor of. To us, that is socialist.
To us, you're so far off-base you're off-planet. Obama, the one who continued the Bush tax cuts? Obama, who let the banks get away with stealing millions of homes with fraudulent documents? Obama, who adopted the Republican idea to force people to buy for-profit health insurance?
Unless, of course, you're talking about redistributing wealth to the wealthy. Obama is guilty of that, but the word you're looking for is Fascism, not Socialism.
This may be one of the best examples of Poe's law I've ever seen. I honestly cannot tell if you're trolling or actually think the government has taken over all of the hospitals and forced those working inside to become government employees.
Or if he's truly ignorant of the fact that Obamacare == Romneycare. The Republicans have been losing their minds over the fact that a Democrat......signed their own Heritage Foundation-crafted plan into law.
if not tragic that Unions decry others' political contributions and want to make them illegal while committing vast treasure to the same arena, often against the wishes of many members forced to contribute via dues and assessments.
Tragic that this canard keeps getting recycled. You can vote on where dues go. You cannot vote on the executive hooker budget for the board, much less what slush money they decide to throw around.
I am just glad that people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs (when alive), Warren Buffet, and George Soros all who use their money for the DNC have never influenced politics or elections in any way.
So overcome with partisan butthurt that you couldn't come up with a counter-example?
Each side has it's crazies, in about equal proportion, and neither is dominated by them.
On some planet where OWS has successfully primaried a dozen left-leaning Democrats the way the teabaggers have successfully primaried a dozen conservative Republicans?
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You're sidestepping the issue. When it comes to war and matters of "national security", how would a state-run press function any differently from the American press. Unverified, unsourced claims from "senior officials" are treated as fact, and obviously bullshit pronouncements, whether they come from Obama or Cheney, are never questioned.
It's like with the NSA spying, where retired officials are saying is just like the KGB. But they were only Stasi, so what do they know?
It's called democracy, Slick, and not everyone gets what they want all the time. Shocking concept, I know. You could suggest an alternative, like fascism - and may I say that's a mighty fine brown shirt you're already wearing - but then people would get even less of what they want.
So you're back at square one. Don't like your union's political activities, you're free to vote for some other course of action. Don't like you're non-union shop's political activities....you're free to shut up and like it.
Your butthurt in response to having your storyline debunked is noted. Either Article I, Section 8 is a strict list of enumerated powers, or it's not. If it's the former, Congress only has the authority to fund an Army and a Navy.
Pick one.
Pick. One. Trying to have both ways, by whining that such and such clause legitimizes beyond-enumerated-powers spending on items you like but not on those you don't, just marks you as a hypocritical partisan hack. If 'Necessary and Proper' or 'Forgoing Powers' doctrines legitimize NORAD and the Air Force, then they also do for Social Security.
Pick. One.
I'm sorry you're butthurt when someone points the asininity of repeating the most debunked apples-to-oranges comparison in the history of the human race.
Not theft, fuckwit. Copyright infringement. You do understand that drunk driving is still against the law even though people don't call it rape, right? Right?
And I'm talking about the H1-B program, who's only purpose is to broaden the labor pool for employers, and thus depress wages and benefits of employees. That's what the H1-B program is for, and the "reasonable" stuff is just a sham.
Oh noes, they whine, no American will apply for our job! Well, have you tried offering more than $40k a year and overtime?
No, it means no American is able to fill the job for the ludicrous job requirements the company sets out. Either demanding 8 years experience in a language that's been out for six, or wanting applicants with doctorates and 15 years experience while offering pay suitable for a bachelors straight out of a community college. It's not like this is new.
Other than:
Different processor
1900x1080 screen vs 2880x1800 for the Macbook
(this is where it gets pitiful)
5400 rpm hard drive vs PCI-e flash storage
Over 1 lbs heavier
So, you're using this word, "comparable", but it does not mean what you think it means.
Do you make the same observations of those who buy an Ultrabook or Alienware, or are you a smug little snob?
Right. That's why they are always at the top or near it in hardware reliability. Because they don't have build quality, or something.
You want to build cheap ass computers, Foxconn will happily oblige. You want better computers and are willing to pay for it, they will happily oblige.
Huh, it's almost like you get what you pay for. Shocking news at 11.
Because IBM not delivering a 3ghz G5 chip three years after promising they'd have out in one year had nothing to do with it. Or IBM failing to come up with a mobile version of the G5, leaving Apple stuck with the increasingly embarrassing G4 for laptops.
I see that like with politics, you pull your tech pronouncements out of your ass. Do you do the same for other subjects?
You sound like a dooshy Apple Hateboi projecting his preconceived ideas into random polite conversation.
He also used the word "the" and said iMac, which is trademarked! What are you, five?
Well, lets see. Windows 8 sucks hairy donkey balls while we have yet to see most of the improvements that were promised for Longhorn. Security? Who hasn't visited their aunt only to end up spending an hour cleaning crapware off a Vista/7 machine?
Office settled into "feature" mode since before Office 2007. A 10 year old version of Word or Excel will work just fine for 99.999% of users, but Microsoft keeps coming up with "features" to give people a "reason" to "upgrade". I'm using giant airquotes on "features" because Microsoft is like a company that makes washing machines: they don't really have anything new, but need to come out with new "features" to differentiate it from last years model.
For more than a decade, every time Apple does something unpopular or questionable, there's at least one guy who comes in saying "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms."
Taking shots at Apple has been as much a part of Slashdot's history as hot grits and goatse. From back in their belagured days, through the first iMac, through the first iPod, straight on through the post-Jobs era.
Because the U.S. isn't as ready to fire nukes at everybody from North Korea to China to Iran as Russia is to fire nukes at France? Just for once, could you come up with some far out winger stuff that can't be thrown back in your face in .002 seconds?
You want to talk actual substance, why don't you go find a list of democratically elected governments overthrown by the USSR/Russia, and see how that compares to the CIA and get back to us.
Your naivete is cute.
You left out the "constantly having their democratically elected governments overthrown by the CIA" part.
Option 4: They're all acting like J. Edgar Hoovers, and blackmailing the shit out everybody.
Every once in a while, it looks like somebody "got a call". Like when Roberts wrote the opinion to strike down the mandate before he wrote the opinion to uphold it. Or when John Lewis went from supporting Snowden to castigating him in 24 hours. Or when Al Franken went from questioning how warrantless wiretaps could possibly be legal under the 4th Amendment, since the person and place must be named, to being a big fan of NSA's infinitely broader goal to "collect it all".
Given that one former official says Senator Obama was spied on when he was in Congress, it's only one more step to arrange a little meeting to discuss this upsetting information that would ruin your career if exposed to the public....
You mean, strangle the ability of the CEO to make 500 times the average worker by cutting the worker's pay and benefits.
Says the guy rattling off his personal book definition that has nothing to do with realtiy or current politics. I find your lack of self-awareness disturbing.
To us, you're so far off-base you're off-planet. Obama, the one who continued the Bush tax cuts? Obama, who let the banks get away with stealing millions of homes with fraudulent documents? Obama, who adopted the Republican idea to force people to buy for-profit health insurance?
Unless, of course, you're talking about redistributing wealth to the wealthy. Obama is guilty of that, but the word you're looking for is Fascism, not Socialism.
Or if he's truly ignorant of the fact that Obamacare == Romneycare. The Republicans have been losing their minds over the fact that a Democrat......signed their own Heritage Foundation-crafted plan into law.
Tragic that this canard keeps getting recycled. You can vote on where dues go. You cannot vote on the executive hooker budget for the board, much less what slush money they decide to throw around.
So overcome with partisan butthurt that you couldn't come up with a counter-example?
On some planet where OWS has successfully primaried a dozen left-leaning Democrats the way the teabaggers have successfully primaried a dozen conservative Republicans?
Right. Which is why Germany produces twice as many cars as the U.S. while paying their workers twice as much.