You obviously not making the connection between the reality of the present day job market and the WORKING HOMELESS. The reason for the growing WORKING HOMELESS is due to drastically falling real wages, raising housing costs, and far too many people at all levels competing for existing - and really shrinking - service jobs (Americans - young and old, immigrants, foreign "guest" workers on J-1, L-1, H-1, etc., visas, and illegal immigrants.
You still haven't comprehended the big picture yet.
There is a major fallacy to your arguments: it presupposes someone is able to get those jobs - many are often turned down because they prefer someone YOUNGER - or LESS EDUCATED - or a host of other reasons. There are more WORKING HOMELESS THAN EVER BEFORE IN THIS COUNTRY - these people are working, but the "FLUID" job market isn't fluid enough when it comes to wages to afford the ever-rising costs of housing.
And you exacerbate the problem by being one of those who wouldn't hire someone nobody else wants to hire. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
Right.... But in order to have consumers to consume - they have to have disposable income to spend - and when offshoring of jobs reaches critical mass (which it is pretty close to at this point) - all those lowly paid workers in China, India, Vietnam and elsewhere better have the money to purchase IBM products or your fantasy economic model will collapse (and it surely will collapse). I strongly suggest you read up on the classical French economist, Jean-Baptiste Say.
Dude, are you in NEVER NEVER LAND. Not accept the jobs available - please tell me where all these jobs are????
And a later post by demaria correctly states how the unemployment figure is reached - a household survey of 1,000 people - and if some of those people are now homeless - they simply count some more until they've reached that 1,000 number - thus not figuring in reality to the picture. (All one need do is check out the actual poverty statistics - this give a closer - but still not accurate [make that still smaller] number of real unemployment.)
Actually (this word officially makes me sound like a college graduate circa 21st century), the US government's most secure computers used to use DONGLES, but Dick (the dongle) Cheney was so offended by that word (along with former Atty General Clown, whats-his-name) that they stopped using them and are therefore open to hacking from every basement dweller.....
Riiiiggghhhhtt.....this from the same US government that is unable to provide accurate unemployment statistics, presidential voting systems, weapons-of-mass destruction location data, number of jobs being offshored forever, and - lest we forget - believes the major crises facing all Americans is about 40 years off, i.e., the Social Security system.
Yeah...I remember sitting at a table next to Kevin Mitnick (Cafe Roma, Seattle, circa 1995 or '96???) and overheard his comment that MS would go out of business by 2000 or 2001....
Somehow, while not of fan of McSoftware, and as a past contractor - I suspect the evil empire will be around for quite awhile longer - there's still more damage awaiting us.
Excuse me, dude, but it is stealing when a company builds itself up by licensing technology from other companies - then copies it completely into it's own operating system (perhaps known as "Borging") then sueing the originating company to bankruptcy (or individuals to death, literally) when legal action is brought to bear.
How did you possibly come by the idea that we live in a democracy???? Try corporate totalitarian state. We were presented with almost the exact two same candidates (according to voting records, and platforms), both whom had complete corporate support, otherwise they would not have been considered serious applicants for the job. As a founding son (we come in all races, creeds and genders) late me repeat this was not what the founders had in mind....
I believe Sir Roger suggested AI might be impossible based upon his original notion that the smallest component of thought - which AI was being modelled on, the neuron - wasn't actually the smallest component - but the next level smaller - tubular dimers - which a neuron is comprised of. A most original thinker....
Technically speaking (not sensibly nor logically speaking...) the only way for the majority of Americans to retrieve even a small amount of the rights usurped from us over the past few years is for each and everyone of us to incorporate - that is, we all become corporations onto ourselves.
Then, and only then, will we have full citizenship again....
You are sooo right - to anyone who "seriously" doubts it was ignored on purpose - just check out the international currency arbitrage markets and their activity since 9/11/01!
The funds were set to leave the USA, the dollar drops in value - now the funds are coming back to buy up "for sale" choice assets. It's really no mystery at all.
When one considers all the number of times intel was passed on to the CIA and FBI from foreign agencies (Philippines, Germany, France, UK, etc. 53 at last count - not including all the evidence which those feebs at the FBI picked up detailing the plans to attack by hijacked aircraft - the only conclusion is massive dereliction of duty (a term unknown to those draft-dodgers at both these governmental agencies!).
Great posts....why anyone is still unaware (ignorant is a better choice, but I shall refrain from using it) about the dramatic number of jobs outsourced is beyond me....and both the short-term and long-term effects of said outsourcing will truly offset possibilities of technical progress in the USA.
Just be sure not to take any advice from anyone associated with Microsoft - of the many things they are incapable of there - documentation and design documents are definitely one of those categories.
Of course I take it serious, after all, hasn't the Ive League bestowed upon us the likes of Dick Cheney (regardless of the number of times he flunked college), George Bush and a host of other nimrods. Try naming the number of tech geniuses to have sprouted from such academic environments in the last 15 years???????
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You still haven't comprehended the big picture yet.
Right - and then you wake up and that darn CEO has still shipped your job out of the country. What a dreamer you are, dude!
I compete with them for shelter space as I compete with them for day labor jobs. Any further intelligent input???????
And you exacerbate the problem by being one of those who wouldn't hire someone nobody else wants to hire. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
Right.... But in order to have consumers to consume - they have to have disposable income to spend - and when offshoring of jobs reaches critical mass (which it is pretty close to at this point) - all those lowly paid workers in China, India, Vietnam and elsewhere better have the money to purchase IBM products or your fantasy economic model will collapse (and it surely will collapse). I strongly suggest you read up on the classical French economist, Jean-Baptiste Say.
And a later post by demaria correctly states how the unemployment figure is reached - a household survey of 1,000 people - and if some of those people are now homeless - they simply count some more until they've reached that 1,000 number - thus not figuring in reality to the picture. (All one need do is check out the actual poverty statistics - this give a closer - but still not accurate [make that still smaller] number of real unemployment.)
In several more years....say around 2007, that may very likely be the case in American society....
Mulder: We have X-files????
Actually (this word officially makes me sound like a college graduate circa 21st century), the US government's most secure computers used to use DONGLES, but Dick (the dongle) Cheney was so offended by that word (along with former Atty General Clown, whats-his-name) that they stopped using them and are therefore open to hacking from every basement dweller.....
Any questions?????
Yeah...I remember sitting at a table next to Kevin Mitnick (Cafe Roma, Seattle, circa 1995 or '96???) and overheard his comment that MS would go out of business by 2000 or 2001....
Somehow, while not of fan of McSoftware, and as a past contractor - I suspect the evil empire will be around for quite awhile longer - there's still more damage awaiting us.
Excuse me, dude, but it is stealing when a company builds itself up by licensing technology from other companies - then copies it completely into it's own operating system (perhaps known as "Borging") then sueing the originating company to bankruptcy (or individuals to death, literally) when legal action is brought to bear.
How did you possibly come by the idea that we live in a democracy???? Try corporate totalitarian state. We were presented with almost the exact two same candidates (according to voting records, and platforms), both whom had complete corporate support, otherwise they would not have been considered serious applicants for the job. As a founding son (we come in all races, creeds and genders) late me repeat this was not what the founders had in mind....
I believe Sir Roger suggested AI might be impossible based upon his original notion that the smallest component of thought - which AI was being modelled on, the neuron - wasn't actually the smallest component - but the next level smaller - tubular dimers - which a neuron is comprised of. A most original thinker....
Then, and only then, will we have full citizenship again....
Hold it, dude....this is actually one more step closer to finding Osama!
I know what I'd be doing with pictures of your wife - but I'm not telling....
The funds were set to leave the USA, the dollar drops in value - now the funds are coming back to buy up "for sale" choice assets. It's really no mystery at all.
When one considers all the number of times intel was passed on to the CIA and FBI from foreign agencies (Philippines, Germany, France, UK, etc. 53 at last count - not including all the evidence which those feebs at the FBI picked up detailing the plans to attack by hijacked aircraft - the only conclusion is massive dereliction of duty (a term unknown to those draft-dodgers at both these governmental agencies!).
Support the tribe or perish!
Google truly rocks!!
Just be sure not to take any advice from anyone associated with Microsoft - of the many things they are incapable of there - documentation and design documents are definitely one of those categories.
Everytime I access the local ATM it inquires as to whether I'm ADD or Bi-polar?????
Everytime I go to my ATM it asks me if I'm ADD or Bi-polar??????
Of course I take it serious, after all, hasn't the Ive League bestowed upon us the likes of Dick Cheney (regardless of the number of times he flunked college), George Bush and a host of other nimrods. Try naming the number of tech geniuses to have sprouted from such academic environments in the last 15 years???????