Re:Sensationalist Journalism?
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A Flu Pandemic?
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No too many scientifically literate, mature people take articles which appear in Scientific American as gospel. They printed some true doozies of articles over the years and have lost much credibility as a result. Check back over the preceding 15 years of articles then suggest this article is not one of them. These pandemics have been forecasted now for the past 30 years.
Guess what???
On the other hand, with the Artic melting along with various glaciers at other locales, the possibility of ancient bacterium and viruses does loom on the horizon.
As a confirmed tin foil hat wearer (worn in a covert manner underneath my ski cap, of course!), I am offended by the gist of this article.
Most educated people are aware that Alcoa (the main reason people started wearing such tin apparel) is a silent partner in the Illuminati (while the other three vocal partners, AT&T, the USPS and the Roscruicians, have been long outed).
Everybody (that's means everyone but you kiddo) knows that the real reason individuals wear tin foil hats is for the increased reception of others' brain waves. Most people give off brain waves in a completely scattered waveform.....
That's something we'll never see associated with the Microsoft name. Although it could just be a Northwest thing as it seems most class-like behavior has all but disappeared from Seattle, if not the rest of the area. Over the past 100 years there have been similar situations whereby the company acted in a benevolent and "classy" fashion and offer a sizable financial incentive for the owner of the trademark in question.
This will never happen in the Micro$oft Universe!!!#*#&$*
Not yet they don't. Of course, if that Miers person actually made it through the confirmation hearings (instead of resigning that process) and landed on the Supreme Court, M$ would probably have the trademark to the word itself....
Unfortunately, Billy Gates dropped out of Harvard before he could take their ethics course, obviously explaining why Gates (and no one else in his family I've ever come into contact with) has any ethics whatsoever.
Oh pooh...forgive me for adding a reality-based comment....
If memory serves, what actually took place was that an Indian immigrant (or Indian-American gentleman, but I think he was born there), held the Internet Explorer trademark and was relentlessly sued by Micro$oft, up until the day he died from all the stress they gave him.
The trademark was purchased from his estate, and the company which purchased it eventually settled out of court with Micro$oft for an undisclosed amount.
The College of Cardinals, after analizing the number one proponent of "intelligent design," George W. Bu$h, wisely decided that there had to be some incredibly malevolent and idiotic force behind his creation - certainly nothing intelligent about his design.....
I'm suitably impressed - just as I'm impressed when Greenspan states he's stymied as to what is causing said loss of jobs or said lack of real job creation or other events which are directly related to China dictating our money policy (with a bit of leverage from Saudi Arabia, which has an estimaed $6 trillion invested in the US economy).
Save the superficial sophmoric "I'm so impressed by the creditials" for after the year 2007 which the stuff really hits the fan.
For the record - I suggest you pay attention to the economists who really know what's going on: Samuelson at MIT, the head of the economics department at University of Maryland and Stephan Roach at Morgan Stanley.
Unfortunately, that's quite accurate. If anyone chooses to peruse the last section in medical journals laying around hospitals they will find a "censure section" where researchers at various academic institutions routinely appear for what appears to be invalid data and/or non-replicatable experiments. MIT shows up frequently in this section.
Go back and closely study tax revenues from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 - I believe you are mistaken there. You don't understand the underlying economics and economic cycles - you are simply parroting back the pseudo-stuff you've read in the media. The Great Depression resulted from a concentration of wealth in the US - quite similar to what has occurred today.
Your response to my statement that it wasn't anything other than lowering labor costs was nonsensical and doesn't address the point. You appear to be uneducated judging from your response.
I believe the actual reason M$ bought hotmail was for the Unix servers that came with it as they didn't have the capacity at that time to host - and everything they hosted (I forget what they were hosting - I'm not a fan) crashed up until they purchased hotmail.
Gosh, it's a wonder most/.ers can even read - so little do they keep up on current events. It was televised on CNN - the specific congressional hearings - if it didn't make the national news I guess you'll just have to blame the mainstream corporate McNews - no I don't have the time to chase down a link - I don't subscribe to the nebulous/. philosophy: "I link, therefore I am."
Idiot! This country and the corporations that control it are simply importing poverty. Can't you even read, moron?
Re:OK, that's obvious on the surface...
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The H-1B Swindle
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The US currency has fallen some 30% to 40% with respect to the other world currencies. The government continues to print money as the deficit grows. The government/corporations continue to offshore jobs in ever-growing numbers as the actual employment outlook worsens and wages continue to drop. The rest is economics history. The most important history specialty - review the events leading up to WWII and the Weimar Republic.
From what I've seen of the hiring of H-1Bs, there is no actual "competitive vetting" process occurring. The US Corp. simply approaches - or is approached by - an outsourcing firm, which brings in the supposedly qualified software engineer types for said project. Usually, it's a miracle if they don't royally screw things up....
I agree with the gist of your post, but since the corporate elites effectively own the senate and the congress and the presidency, it really doesn't matter any more....
You watch way too much TV - your legislators are all owned by the corporations and won't listen to anyone who does not approach them with less than a $100,000 campaign contribution. Armed insurrection is the only way left to approach one's legislators.....
[..it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it....]
Interestingly, and in juxtaposition to this, was that televised congressional hearing some months ago where it was mentioned that Condoleezza Rice (then National Security Advisor) had ordered the NSA to spy on 10 CIA employees. It was never made clear who these employees were - but it was somewhat obvious that they were analysts being pressured by the Bush Administration (i.e., Cheney and that other clown that was appointed UN Ambassador) to falsify data to claim that WMD were to be found in Iraq. One assumes they were being spied upon to gather something that could be used to blackmail them into cooperating with the Bushies.
Hopefully, this will all come out when Cheney is indicted on Thursday - but it is unprecedented in US history that the executive branch has asked one intelligence agency to spy on another intelligence agency.
This is why I (BS's in computer science and math, served honorably in the military [unlike draft-dodging Dick-soon-to-be-indicted-Cheney and deserter Bushie Wushie], solid work record) am now only able to get under-the-table work in this pathetic piss-ante country and third-world country.
The only terrorists I know of are in Congress and working for the corporations.
You obviously don't understand reality economics. This is not competition, this is lowering labor costs in the short-term so that the senior management can fatten their own paychecks and perks while making their first-quarter P&L statements look better. What the actual effect is to destroy the tax base of this country - hasten another - but much worse - Great Depression - which won't affect the top one-tenth of one percent who control most of the actual wealth of this nation. Real competition would entail getting superior CEOs from overseas - of offshoring all those corrupt corporate-lackey politicians' jobs.
Re:OK, that's obvious on the surface...
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The H-1B Swindle
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Even if the minimum wage were to remain the same - the present economic situation will soon have us in hyperinflation mode by around 2007 or thereabouts.
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Guess what???
On the other hand, with the Artic melting along with various glaciers at other locales, the possibility of ancient bacterium and viruses does loom on the horizon.
Most educated people are aware that Alcoa (the main reason people started wearing such tin apparel) is a silent partner in the Illuminati (while the other three vocal partners, AT&T, the USPS and the Roscruicians, have been long outed).
Everybody (that's means everyone but you kiddo) knows that the real reason individuals wear tin foil hats is for the increased reception of others' brain waves. Most people give off brain waves in a completely scattered waveform.....
Try and tell me Lester Thurow doesn't look like a space alien!!!
That's something we'll never see associated with the Microsoft name. Although it could just be a Northwest thing as it seems most class-like behavior has all but disappeared from Seattle, if not the rest of the area. Over the past 100 years there have been similar situations whereby the company acted in a benevolent and "classy" fashion and offer a sizable financial incentive for the owner of the trademark in question.
This will never happen in the Micro$oft Universe!!!#*#&$*
Not yet they don't. Of course, if that Miers person actually made it through the confirmation hearings (instead of resigning that process) and landed on the Supreme Court, M$ would probably have the trademark to the word itself....
Unfortunately, Billy Gates dropped out of Harvard before he could take their ethics course, obviously explaining why Gates (and no one else in his family I've ever come into contact with) has any ethics whatsoever.
Oh pooh...forgive me for adding a reality-based comment....
The trademark was purchased from his estate, and the company which purchased it eventually settled out of court with Micro$oft for an undisclosed amount.
Score another death in the game for M$!!!!
The College of Cardinals, after analizing the number one proponent of "intelligent design," George W. Bu$h, wisely decided that there had to be some incredibly malevolent and idiotic force behind his creation - certainly nothing intelligent about his design.....
There is nothing cool about M$, nor is there anything cool about XBox - and Ray Ozzie being there makes it even more uncool. Thus spake the COOL ONE!
Save the superficial sophmoric "I'm so impressed by the creditials" for after the year 2007 which the stuff really hits the fan.
For the record - I suggest you pay attention to the economists who really know what's going on: Samuelson at MIT, the head of the economics department at University of Maryland and Stephan Roach at Morgan Stanley.
Unfortunately, that's quite accurate. If anyone chooses to peruse the last section in medical journals laying around hospitals they will find a "censure section" where researchers at various academic institutions routinely appear for what appears to be invalid data and/or non-replicatable experiments. MIT shows up frequently in this section.
Your response to my statement that it wasn't anything other than lowering labor costs was nonsensical and doesn't address the point. You appear to be uneducated judging from your response.
I believe the actual reason M$ bought hotmail was for the Unix servers that came with it as they didn't have the capacity at that time to host - and everything they hosted (I forget what they were hosting - I'm not a fan) crashed up until they purchased hotmail.
Gosh, it's a wonder most /.ers can even read - so little do they keep up on current events. It was televised on CNN - the specific congressional hearings - if it didn't make the national news I guess you'll just have to blame the mainstream corporate McNews - no I don't have the time to chase down a link - I don't subscribe to the nebulous /. philosophy: "I link, therefore I am."
Idiot! This country and the corporations that control it are simply importing poverty. Can't you even read, moron?
The US currency has fallen some 30% to 40% with respect to the other world currencies. The government continues to print money as the deficit grows. The government/corporations continue to offshore jobs in ever-growing numbers as the actual employment outlook worsens and wages continue to drop. The rest is economics history. The most important history specialty - review the events leading up to WWII and the Weimar Republic.
From what I've seen of the hiring of H-1Bs, there is no actual "competitive vetting" process occurring. The US Corp. simply approaches - or is approached by - an outsourcing firm, which brings in the supposedly qualified software engineer types for said project. Usually, it's a miracle if they don't royally screw things up....
I agree with the gist of your post, but since the corporate elites effectively own the senate and the congress and the presidency, it really doesn't matter any more....
[..it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it....]
Hopefully, this will all come out when Cheney is indicted on Thursday - but it is unprecedented in US history that the executive branch has asked one intelligence agency to spy on another intelligence agency.
The only terrorists I know of are in Congress and working for the corporations.
You obviously don't understand reality economics. This is not competition, this is lowering labor costs in the short-term so that the senior management can fatten their own paychecks and perks while making their first-quarter P&L statements look better. What the actual effect is to destroy the tax base of this country - hasten another - but much worse - Great Depression - which won't affect the top one-tenth of one percent who control most of the actual wealth of this nation. Real competition would entail getting superior CEOs from overseas - of offshoring all those corrupt corporate-lackey politicians' jobs.
Even if the minimum wage were to remain the same - the present economic situation will soon have us in hyperinflation mode by around 2007 or thereabouts.
I think the original phrase was: "An infinity of links."