The irony here is that those non-Iraqi human shields are more loyal to Saddam that an average Iraqi soldier.
Maybe the US military should adapt the French military's motto, "drop your weapons and run at the first sign of trouble".
Perhaps they are sending jobs overseas because they won't have to deal with unions. Remember not too long ago, the dock workers went on strike (at the cost of US economy) despite the fact that they were already highest paid blue collar works and management promised job security. How about the mechanics of United Airlines? UA was facing bankruptcy and they still refused a paycut. RTD (Mass transit system for Denver metro area) bus drivers are threatening to go on a strike lately. RTD already were being subsidized by the cities even when the economy was good because they weren't making any money. Now dispite the fact that the cities are hurting for money and jobs are scarce, they want a raise?
Remember the movie Dogma by Kevin Smith? Here's the rundown of it.
"A female decendant of Christ and two unlikely prophets are called upon by Rufus, an unknown 13th apostle, to stop two angels, that were cast out of heaven, from unknowingly erasing all of God's work by restoring their souls by entering a new church. Restoring ones soul by entering a new church is a part of the Catholic Dogma, and by restoring their souls the angels could reenter heaven thus revealing there is a loophole to return to heaven. This would prove God was not perfect and upon proving this all of God's work would immediately be erased."
If IBM buys SCO outright or from the smothering runins, IBM will gian the rights to UNIX and may also chose to release it under GPL. If someone decides to use the UNIX kernel using GNU O/S, it will become GNU/UNIX.
GNU's Not UNIX/UNIX???
This contridiction will bring calmady to the IT world and bring end the free software movement (including GPL).
I used to be a CS major until there was a death in my family and had to take a break in my schooling. Nevertheless, I was fortunate enough to find a job as a network admin last year.
To tell you the truth, CS classes that I took didn't help me out too much as most of them were on programming with C++ and Java. Most of the valuable skills I learned are the ones that I learned on my own. In fact, some of the best IT folks I've met in the past are the types who teach themselves the skills as a hobby, not the ones who major in CS for the money. Since my finincal situation better now, I went back to school and changed my major to CIS just for the sake of having a degree (with a double major of Accounting to expend my job skills). In many ways, I find CIS major to be of more rounded education than more technical CS major. If you are going into fields such as programming or research, CS major would make sense, but if you are seeking IT positions that require constant contact with other people (such as jr. admin, network support, etc), having a business background will only serve to help you. Last week, I had a conversation with the CFO. She was not happy with the current account software (which really is a PITA) and we ended up discussing about alternative softwares. And because of the accounting course that I HAD TO TAKE (required for all business majors, including CIS), I was able to ask her accounting related questions and understood her reply! After the talk, she asked me if I could help her present a proposal to change the accounting software to the CEO when the audits are done. I agreed and that business knowledge just made me a more valuable employee.
There's nothing that prevents CS majors from taking lower level business courses in most colleges. Do yourself a favor and take some communications classes as it will only help you in your career. So instead of whining, get out there and show that Johnny frat boy that you can talk AND know your stuff!
"The move comes as the nation of 1.3 billion people grapples with a swathe of economic and social changes following two decades of capitalist-style reforms.
While pulling back from economic control, China wants to make sure that endemic corruption and graft do not sink its ship. It is also keen to cut back on bureaucratic overlap."
From CNN.com at http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/09/c hina.cabinet/index.html
So much for your 'iron fist' policy. And again, note that China is doing the right thing by taking it slowly, unlike Russia.
"partly because they don't get that much 'financial attention', maybe?"
And you think that the Internet would've been as popular without the 'financial attention'? Heck, didn't the Internet itself derive from a military network?
"Communist economy is pretty centralized, so you can actually concentrate your resources better using the 'iron fist' than using the free market (see USSR). now, if there's no brains behind the fist, the whole thing will just collapse eventually (again, see USSR)"
So you are saying that the East Germany was better off than West Germany? How about North Korea vs. South Korea? You can't change something as complex as economic system over night as Russia tried as it took Japan decades to become one of major economic forces. Besides, consumers can decide the allocation of the resorces better than the government. It's this thing called "the demand". If consumers demand product A and not product b, it makes sense to allocate resources to product a instead of b.
"linux and pirated windows have about the same cost:) but then there's a lot of pirated windows software that comes in handy. what would you choose? 'both' seems an efficient answer."
No the efficient answer is you chose whatever that suits your needs.
"for one lecturing about economics, that's narrow-minded. money is just one means for an end, and the fact that it's the only means you know doesn't mean it's the only one that can be."
I'm not being narrow minded. Haven't you ever heard of the saying "Money makes the world go around"? People used to trade goods and money is just an efficent way of doing it.
" oh well, so you've got a +3 insightful for a 1/3-troll 1/3-offtopic post; 1/3 insightful out of +3 is +1, but hey this is/."
Try posting under your real account instead of AC, and maybe you'll get to moderate someday.
From my personal experience, I never had any prolems with inexpensive generic RAM from MWave. I was even able to set CAS to 2 (They were DDR-SDRAMS rated at CAS of 2.5) and played hours of War Craft 3 without any problems.
"So anyway the media tells people to pull their money out of the stock market, and you know how much Americans love their TV."
People pulled their money out of the stock market because they realized that their stocks weren't even worth the paper it was printed in.
"If our companies were focused on developing technology we might be able to recover. But that would probably require kicking the entire administration out of office so we weren't being constantly distracted by Bushy Baby throwing his temper tantrum about Iraq."
Give me a break. The economy always has been like a rollercoaster. It goes up and down like a wave. There are reasons why you cannot have unlimited growth in the economy. Consider taking courses in economics before lecturing on us about it.
"Japan already built a faster supercomputer that models global climate instead of nuclear blasts like the US."
Isn't Japan a capitalist like the US? And I suppose US should resort to real nuclear blasts instead of using computers? Oh I get it, US should destory all of its nukes because countries like China will destory their own nukes? Dream on.
"The US may have resources, but its entire economy is based on personal greed and the desire to horde those resources rather than distribute them to those that need them. In time this becomes extremely inefficient and will only seriously hurt the economy."
Greed is universal. Why do you think that many people full for Nigerian 419 scam? And tell me why the communist party members live in a better house, get more food, and driver nicer cars then the rest of the population? You failed to mention competion as a strong motivator. No one would attend sporting events if the outcomes were always a tie. Competion isn't just for sports either. How about people working on open source software? Do they not compete with other teams?
"China has how many billion people? That's billions of bright minds capable of creating software, hardware, and many other things us Americans can't even learn in school because our school system would rather pay Microsoft than teach us real technology, like Linux. Because its too hard."
That's funny cause two colleges I've attended both offers Linux classes. Besides, if you are a competent Windows user, there's no reason why you can't learn Linux on your own. And why are people in China priating Windows when they can use Linux?
"It feels good to me knowing that the war between communism and capitalism has not yet been won. Capitalists celebrated a premature victory when the USSR collapsed. Industrial automation, computerized automation, robotic automation, these things changed everything."
Compare Hong Kong to the mainland China. If capitalism is such a failure, why is China maintaining Hong Kong under a diffent system? And why is mainland China itself becoming more capitalistic? Automation was adapted by the capitalists because it is more efficent. And I don't see any communists having problems "borrowing" technology from the capitalists.
"Personally I'd rather work in a world that didn't have money than in America where all my friends lost their homes and jobs because of money."
How are you supposed to buy a house without money? Oh wait, you mean everyone will be given one? Who will build these free houses? How about people who are druggies and/or too lazy to work (I know plenty of them)?Won't it be shitty to break sweat and your back to build free houses for those people? And you really believe that people will be motivated to go though 8 years of schooling to be a doctor just to live next door to a high-school dropout that spends all day smoking pot? There is a reason why a true communism can't exist.
"Microsoft should simply build and distribute, for free, special versions of its software infected with destructive viruses. Then, people who use pirated software will be in for a rude but humorous surprise when a deadly version of Windows XP deletes all the data from the engineering workstation, medical database in an intensive care unit of a hospital, etc. Imagine a Chinese nuclear missile blowing up suddenly because of data that has been altered by a virus-infected version of Windows XP. "
Because if we don't invest in space travel, we'll never find out if aliens really do speak English and look human except for a bump and a mark here and there.
What they didn't tell you was that the move was mostly due to affirmative action, to ensure diversity on the Internet. Why do you think that IIS is still hanging around?
I don't mind Outlook at all except for the "Install Virus" and "EULA" features. If someone makes a clone of Outlook (Evolution comes to my mind) without the M$ enhanced features, I'm all for it.
How would you know if the latest E-mail you've got some someone you know came from Klez.h or bugbear? Unless your SMTP gateway has some sort of virus scanner, not opening attachments from people that you don't know is not enough anymore.
I'd rather hear about what people can do than hear people complain about what they can't do. Why? Because you buy hardware to suit your needs, not suit your needs to your hardware.
On my P3 550MHz with GeForce2 MX 32MB card, I suit my needs to 1024X768/16bits for Q3 Arena because anything higher will be choppy.
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The irony here is that those non-Iraqi human shields are more loyal to Saddam that an average Iraqi soldier. Maybe the US military should adapt the French military's motto, "drop your weapons and run at the first sign of trouble".
Politicions wage wars, not the soldiers.
Perhaps they are sending jobs overseas because they won't have to deal with unions. Remember not too long ago, the dock workers went on strike (at the cost of US economy) despite the fact that they were already highest paid blue collar works and management promised job security. How about the mechanics of United Airlines? UA was facing bankruptcy and they still refused a paycut. RTD (Mass transit system for Denver metro area) bus drivers are threatening to go on a strike lately. RTD already were being subsidized by the cities even when the economy was good because they weren't making any money. Now dispite the fact that the cities are hurting for money and jobs are scarce, they want a raise?
Remember the movie Dogma by Kevin Smith? Here's the rundown of it.
"A female decendant of Christ and two unlikely prophets are called upon by Rufus, an unknown 13th apostle, to stop two angels, that were cast out of heaven, from unknowingly erasing all of God's work by restoring their souls by entering a new church. Restoring ones soul by entering a new church is a part of the Catholic Dogma, and by restoring their souls the angels could reenter heaven thus revealing there is a loophole to return to heaven. This would prove God was not perfect and upon proving this all of God's work would immediately be erased."
If IBM buys SCO outright or from the smothering runins, IBM will gian the rights to UNIX and may also chose to release it under GPL. If someone decides to use the UNIX kernel using GNU O/S, it will become GNU/UNIX.
GNU's Not UNIX/UNIX???
This contridiction will bring calmady to the IT world and bring end the free software movement (including GPL).
I used to be a CS major until there was a death in my family and had to take a break in my schooling. Nevertheless, I was fortunate enough to find a job as a network admin last year.
To tell you the truth, CS classes that I took didn't help me out too much as most of them were on programming with C++ and Java. Most of the valuable skills I learned are the ones that I learned on my own. In fact, some of the best IT folks I've met in the past are the types who teach themselves the skills as a hobby, not the ones who major in CS for the money. Since my finincal situation better now, I went back to school and changed my major to CIS just for the sake of having a degree (with a double major of Accounting to expend my job skills). In many ways, I find CIS major to be of more rounded education than more technical CS major. If you are going into fields such as programming or research, CS major would make sense, but if you are seeking IT positions that require constant contact with other people (such as jr. admin, network support, etc), having a business background will only serve to help you. Last week, I had a conversation with the CFO. She was not happy with the current account software (which really is a PITA) and we ended up discussing about alternative softwares. And because of the accounting course that I HAD TO TAKE (required for all business majors, including CIS), I was able to ask her accounting related questions and understood her reply! After the talk, she asked me if I could help her present a proposal to change the accounting software to the CEO when the audits are done. I agreed and that business knowledge just made me a more valuable employee.
There's nothing that prevents CS majors from taking lower level business courses in most colleges. Do yourself a favor and take some communications classes as it will only help you in your career. So instead of whining, get out there and show that Johnny frat boy that you can talk AND know your stuff!
"The move comes as the nation of 1.3 billion people grapples with a swathe of economic and social changes following two decades of capitalist-style reforms. While pulling back from economic control, China wants to make sure that endemic corruption and graft do not sink its ship. It is also keen to cut back on bureaucratic overlap."
c hina.cabinet/index.html
From CNN.com at http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/09/
So much for your 'iron fist' policy. And again, note that China is doing the right thing by taking it slowly, unlike Russia.
"partly because they don't get that much 'financial attention', maybe?"
:) but then there's a lot of pirated windows software that comes in handy. what would you choose? 'both' seems an efficient answer."
/."
And you think that the Internet would've been as popular without the 'financial attention'? Heck, didn't the Internet itself derive from a military network?
"Communist economy is pretty centralized, so you can actually concentrate your resources better using the 'iron fist' than using the free market (see USSR). now, if there's no brains behind the fist, the whole thing will just collapse eventually (again, see USSR)"
So you are saying that the East Germany was better off than West Germany? How about North Korea vs. South Korea? You can't change something as complex as economic system over night as Russia tried as it took Japan decades to become one of major economic forces. Besides, consumers can decide the allocation of the resorces better than the government. It's this thing called "the demand". If consumers demand product A and not product b, it makes sense to allocate resources to product a instead of b.
"linux and pirated windows have about the same cost
No the efficient answer is you chose whatever that suits your needs.
"for one lecturing about economics, that's narrow-minded. money is just one means for an end, and the fact that it's the only means you know doesn't mean it's the only one that can be."
I'm not being narrow minded. Haven't you ever heard of the saying "Money makes the world go around"? People used to trade goods and money is just an efficent way of doing it.
" oh well, so you've got a +3 insightful for a 1/3-troll 1/3-offtopic post; 1/3 insightful out of +3 is +1, but hey this is
Try posting under your real account instead of AC, and maybe you'll get to moderate someday.
From my personal experience, I never had any prolems with inexpensive generic RAM from MWave. I was even able to set CAS to 2 (They were DDR-SDRAMS rated at CAS of 2.5) and played hours of War Craft 3 without any problems.
"So anyway the media tells people to pull their money out of the stock market, and you know how much Americans love their TV."
People pulled their money out of the stock market because they realized that their stocks weren't even worth the paper it was printed in.
"If our companies were focused on developing technology we might be able to recover. But that would probably require kicking the entire administration out of office so we weren't being constantly distracted by Bushy Baby throwing his temper tantrum about Iraq."
Give me a break. The economy always has been like a rollercoaster. It goes up and down like a wave. There are reasons why you cannot have unlimited growth in the economy. Consider taking courses in economics before lecturing on us about it.
"Japan already built a faster supercomputer that models global climate instead of nuclear blasts like the US."
Isn't Japan a capitalist like the US? And I suppose US should resort to real nuclear blasts instead of using computers? Oh I get it, US should destory all of its nukes because countries like China will destory their own nukes? Dream on.
"The US may have resources, but its entire economy is based on personal greed and the desire to horde those resources rather than distribute them to those that need them. In time this becomes extremely inefficient and will only seriously hurt the economy."
Greed is universal. Why do you think that many people full for Nigerian 419 scam? And tell me why the communist party members live in a better house, get more food, and driver nicer cars then the rest of the population? You failed to mention competion as a strong motivator. No one would attend sporting events if the outcomes were always a tie. Competion isn't just for sports either. How about people working on open source software? Do they not compete with other teams?
"China has how many billion people? That's billions of bright minds capable of creating software, hardware, and many other things us Americans can't even learn in school because our school system would rather pay Microsoft than teach us real technology, like Linux. Because its too hard."
That's funny cause two colleges I've attended both offers Linux classes. Besides, if you are a competent Windows user, there's no reason why you can't learn Linux on your own. And why are people in China priating Windows when they can use Linux?
"It feels good to me knowing that the war between communism and capitalism has not yet been won. Capitalists celebrated a premature victory when the USSR collapsed. Industrial automation, computerized automation, robotic automation, these things changed everything."
Compare Hong Kong to the mainland China. If capitalism is such a failure, why is China maintaining Hong Kong under a diffent system? And why is mainland China itself becoming more capitalistic? Automation was adapted by the capitalists because it is more efficent. And I don't see any communists having problems "borrowing" technology from the capitalists.
"Personally I'd rather work in a world that didn't have money than in America where all my friends lost their homes and jobs because of money."
How are you supposed to buy a house without money? Oh wait, you mean everyone will be given one? Who will build these free houses? How about people who are druggies and/or too lazy to work (I know plenty of them)?Won't it be shitty to break sweat and your back to build free houses for those people? And you really believe that people will be motivated to go though 8 years of schooling to be a doctor just to live next door to a high-school dropout that spends all day smoking pot? There is a reason why a true communism can't exist.
That's great, now US won't have to kiss other nations' asses just to use their air strips.
Now only if they can figure out how to launch 747s from aircraft carriers...
Wear them if you ever find a need to shovel manure.
"vi over emacs"
Everyone knows Pico is all you need.
"Microsoft should simply build and distribute, for free, special versions of its software infected with destructive viruses. Then, people who use pirated software will be in for a rude but humorous surprise when a deadly version of Windows XP deletes all the data from the engineering workstation, medical database in an intensive care unit of a hospital, etc. Imagine a Chinese nuclear missile blowing up suddenly because of data that has been altered by a virus-infected version of Windows XP. "
You just described the US version of Windows XP.
Go to a computer book store and get some old books on clearance for a couple of bucks for a cheap way to fill that bookshelf.
Because if we don't invest in space travel, we'll never find out if aliens really do speak English and look human except for a bump and a mark here and there.
It should save a great amount of time surfing the net. One hand one the mouse, one hand on the keyboard, the last hand on...
What they didn't tell you was that the move was mostly due to affirmative action, to ensure diversity on the Internet. Why do you think that IIS is still hanging around?
Affirmative action: More than just for humans.
I don't mind Outlook at all except for the "Install Virus" and "EULA" features. If someone makes a clone of Outlook (Evolution comes to my mind) without the M$ enhanced features, I'm all for it.
How would you know if the latest E-mail you've got some someone you know came from Klez.h or bugbear? Unless your SMTP gateway has some sort of virus scanner, not opening attachments from people that you don't know is not enough anymore.
You forgot to mention Solitare and mindsweeper.
I'd rather hear about what people can do than hear people complain about what they can't do. Why? Because you buy hardware to suit your needs, not suit your needs to your hardware.
On my P3 550MHz with GeForce2 MX 32MB card, I suit my needs to 1024X768/16bits for Q3 Arena because anything higher will be choppy.
What can I say, I'm a moderation whore.
Not only that person stupid enough to fall for the scam, he even shot the wrong person!
I guess spam will never stop as long as there's enough supply of morons that respond to them.
I don't know why those darned crackers shame me by hishonorably stealing by data using hurtful, yet clever tricks.