Have you been reading about all the companies (that is, there facilities and offices) in China that have been nationalized by the fascist government there! It's incredible - yet "The Economist" refers to it as difficulties in doing business in China. HUH???? I mean when Shell, Exxon, Gasproz and a number of other companies have their facilities and companies there nationalized - and the multinationals act like it's business as usual - there is a truly serious lack of any management acumen in existence.
A most pertinent comment, oh thinking one! Indeed, I've never read a valid study yet conducted by Aon Consulting. So many of these so-called studies refuse to deal with actual real numbers [i.e., 9 out of 10 people were laid off - when finally 1 person is hired, gee whiz, they claim a 100% increase in the IT field!] but keep doing the percentages dance!
Best example of this is Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics et al.
Your response is so perfect to an obviously trite comment. Not having read his book I shouldn't be too critical, but with such fallacies as #10, I wonder about the remainder of his book. Real programmers don't need such trivial instruction.
You make a number of good points - but history and culture don't agree with you - murder an individual and you are a murderer - murder a bunch of individuals and you are a serial killer - murder thousands and more and you are a great conqueror!
Conscription ONLY makes sense when applied evenly and fairly to the population - not the way it was practised during the Vietnam War - nor the economic conscription that exists presently. And please recall the futility of voting: Lyndon Johnson ran on the plank that he wouldn't send American boys to do the job of Asian boys - and he went back on his word. George Bush ran on the plank of avoiding foreign entanglements - and he too went back on his word!
Yesterday (and I'm not making this up) I was approached by a Vietnamese panhandler, a Filipino panhandler, and a Chinese panhandler! Fortunately, I was (joyfully and truthfully) able to yell at them that I didn't have any money as my last three jobs were offshored to their countries! Maybe they should return their to work if they're interested in money.....
If outsourcing is so great - then why in perdition do corporations get tax breaks to outsource their jobs - DUUUHHHHH!!!!?????
It's all a scam, man! If you can't see that, please refer back to that intelligent analogy about all the rungs but the top one being cut from the ladder....
No, your argument is wrong. First, one must take into account that dictatorships and fascist governments (like China, Vietnam and certain Eastern European countries, and who knows how many others) artificially keep wages low - and many other factors low - thus refuting your argument. It is not a global economy in the true economic sense. Previous posters who claim to understand economics would be well-served to read (or reread) Adam Smith's works.
What's truly amazing is the number of economists who've never worked in the public sector and think "free markets" are the best thing going! Milton Friedman, with his remarks on the benefits of being continuously laid off (while Friedman enjoyed academic tenure) comes immediately to mind. The major problem with most economists I've read lately (especially Thurow and Shiller) is either their complete lack of understanding of linear algebra and multivariate calculus - or - their disingenuous and constantly contracting themselves to come into line with those corporations which endow their academic chairs!!!!!!
Spot on, oh thinking one! Mann's assertions are so much drivel when understanding that for every $1.00 spent in India, there returns to the U.S.A. about 5 cents - fact one! Also, the U.S.A. became a net importer of high tech products and services back in 1999 - fact two! Mann chooses to always make her opinions sound factual - but they are simply opinions with NO factual basis!
Most beautifully articulated, fellow thinking person! Unfortunately, people who start out at the top have no conception of how they (or their precursors) arrived there. Their lack of intelligence and knowledge presupposes a mighty fall for everyone!
Exactly! These clowns who claim people were left behind in the dot com boom show their ignorance of computer science. Web design and coding (not true coding as markup languages weren't programming languages) don't realize how primitive coding for the web was (and some might say still is). As one of the members of the original development teams who created the FIRST script and markup languages (this was waaaayyy back in the '60s and '70s, children!) coding in HTML ain't advanced work - originally coding the markup languages in assembler and porting it to C was......
That is pure bunk and a 100% specious argument!!! The largest government-sponsored research project in history, N.A.S.A. (the space program and the moon landing) generated the vast majority of developments that occurred and came to fruition in the '80s from all the R & D done in the '60s and '70s. Even with the cutting back in the '70s of N.A.S.A., they had still generated extraordinary progress in digital electronics, chip development, biomechanical engineering, polymer chemistry, materials science (and God only knows how much in computer science and data communications) and many other areas. Your statement is so nebulous!
There's a number of fallacies with Ms. Mann's suppositions - and that's all they are - suppositions! If what Mann stated was correct, the US WOULD NOT have become a NET IMPORTER of high tech products and services beginning back in 1999!!! Also, that same argument was presented back in the '70s with regard to manufacturing. See any Made in the USA stickers lately?????
I like Stephenson, he's a nice guy and his non-fiction articles are enjoyable. But as far as s.f. goes, he's no Iain Banks. Really - there's just no comparison. In fact, as far as good s.f. writers go, he's really mediocre. His book premised on offshore data havens was good on WWII fictional story-telling, but weak on other points, and really petered out at the end.
That is a very well made point. Many are unaware that Woodward, prior to becoming a Washington Post reporter, was an officer in Naval Investigation Service (the equivalent of the Army's CID) whose primary duty was conducting background checks on members of the White House Communication personnel. (Hint: may be deep throat wasn't really one person after all - as these personnel are responsible for all aspects of communication in the White House - including wiretaps.)
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell did knowingly go before Congress and give false information leading to war and the destruction of American and Iraqi lives. Impeachable and treasonous - you bet!!!
Although Congress isn't guilt-free - they definitely were derelict in their duty. One senator by name of John Kerry did sit on the Intelligence Committee and hear the lack of evidence presented by the CIA, and did hear Air Force Intelligence go on record officially before the invasion of Iraq - dissenting with the CIA reports and contradicting them completely. Kerry, along with Bush, needs to be gone.
OK, so what exactly were the conditions that created George Bush - and before any flippant replies, please keep in mind that to those of us whose ancestors established the US Constitution and then fought for it, Bush is indeed an American terrorist bent on subverting the Constitution (and no, I don't support Kerry).
There is a simple reason why government workers appear to be incompetent - the government simply doesn't hire competent people! I applied for an airport screener job and was immediately turned down (although I receive 5 extra points for being a veteran), but I my IQ is above a pet rock which obviously disqualifies me.
Exactly! As long as we understand recycling and Eurotrash in this country - we're all OK! And that's so goofy about the CIA killing a president - although everyone knows they were in actuality the guys behind Watergate!
Quit with the failures of the US educational system already. After all, isn't the president of Columbia University (NYC) a former big-time dope dealer with the Medillin Cartel?????
Hey, as long as I know where Lebanon (Pennsylvania) is, or Troy (New York) is, or Paris (Texas) is, or (as we Dutch-Americans still refer to it) New Amsterdam (NYC) is - really, that's all that counts!!!!!!!!
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Have you been reading about all the companies (that is, there facilities and offices) in China that have been nationalized by the fascist government there! It's incredible - yet "The Economist" refers to it as difficulties in doing business in China. HUH???? I mean when Shell, Exxon, Gasproz and a number of other companies have their facilities and companies there nationalized - and the multinationals act like it's business as usual - there is a truly serious lack of any management acumen in existence.
Best example of this is Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics et al.
Your response is so perfect to an obviously trite comment. Not having read his book I shouldn't be too critical, but with such fallacies as #10, I wonder about the remainder of his book. Real programmers don't need such trivial instruction.
Exactly - everyone always takes the curtain rods - it's a GIVEN!
Conscription ONLY makes sense when applied evenly and fairly to the population - not the way it was practised during the Vietnam War - nor the economic conscription that exists presently. And please recall the futility of voting: Lyndon Johnson ran on the plank that he wouldn't send American boys to do the job of Asian boys - and he went back on his word. George Bush ran on the plank of avoiding foreign entanglements - and he too went back on his word!
Yesterday (and I'm not making this up) I was approached by a Vietnamese panhandler, a Filipino panhandler, and a Chinese panhandler! Fortunately, I was (joyfully and truthfully) able to yell at them that I didn't have any money as my last three jobs were offshored to their countries! Maybe they should return their to work if they're interested in money.....
If outsourcing is so great - then why in perdition do corporations get tax breaks to outsource their jobs - DUUUHHHHH!!!!????? It's all a scam, man! If you can't see that, please refer back to that intelligent analogy about all the rungs but the top one being cut from the ladder....
No, your argument is wrong. First, one must take into account that dictatorships and fascist governments (like China, Vietnam and certain Eastern European countries, and who knows how many others) artificially keep wages low - and many other factors low - thus refuting your argument. It is not a global economy in the true economic sense. Previous posters who claim to understand economics would be well-served to read (or reread) Adam Smith's works.
What's truly amazing is the number of economists who've never worked in the public sector and think "free markets" are the best thing going! Milton Friedman, with his remarks on the benefits of being continuously laid off (while Friedman enjoyed academic tenure) comes immediately to mind. The major problem with most economists I've read lately (especially Thurow and Shiller) is either their complete lack of understanding of linear algebra and multivariate calculus - or - their disingenuous and constantly contracting themselves to come into line with those corporations which endow their academic chairs!!!!!!
Spot on, oh thinking one! Mann's assertions are so much drivel when understanding that for every $1.00 spent in India, there returns to the U.S.A. about 5 cents - fact one! Also, the U.S.A. became a net importer of high tech products and services back in 1999 - fact two! Mann chooses to always make her opinions sound factual - but they are simply opinions with NO factual basis!
Most beautifully articulated, fellow thinking person! Unfortunately, people who start out at the top have no conception of how they (or their precursors) arrived there. Their lack of intelligence and knowledge presupposes a mighty fall for everyone!
Exactly! These clowns who claim people were left behind in the dot com boom show their ignorance of computer science. Web design and coding (not true coding as markup languages weren't programming languages) don't realize how primitive coding for the web was (and some might say still is). As one of the members of the original development teams who created the FIRST script and markup languages (this was waaaayyy back in the '60s and '70s, children!) coding in HTML ain't advanced work - originally coding the markup languages in assembler and porting it to C was......
That is pure bunk and a 100% specious argument!!! The largest government-sponsored research project in history, N.A.S.A. (the space program and the moon landing) generated the vast majority of developments that occurred and came to fruition in the '80s from all the R & D done in the '60s and '70s. Even with the cutting back in the '70s of N.A.S.A., they had still generated extraordinary progress in digital electronics, chip development, biomechanical engineering, polymer chemistry, materials science (and God only knows how much in computer science and data communications) and many other areas. Your statement is so nebulous!
Brilliance is elegantly stating the obvious. (While the rest of us wonder why it isn't so obvious to the others.) Thanks, oh brilliant one!
There's a number of fallacies with Ms. Mann's suppositions - and that's all they are - suppositions! If what Mann stated was correct, the US WOULD NOT have become a NET IMPORTER of high tech products and services beginning back in 1999!!! Also, that same argument was presented back in the '70s with regard to manufacturing. See any Made in the USA stickers lately?????
I like Stephenson, he's a nice guy and his non-fiction articles are enjoyable. But as far as s.f. goes, he's no Iain Banks. Really - there's just no comparison. In fact, as far as good s.f. writers go, he's really mediocre. His book premised on offshore data havens was good on WWII fictional story-telling, but weak on other points, and really petered out at the end.
That is a very well made point. Many are unaware that Woodward, prior to becoming a Washington Post reporter, was an officer in Naval Investigation Service (the equivalent of the Army's CID) whose primary duty was conducting background checks on members of the White House Communication personnel. (Hint: may be deep throat wasn't really one person after all - as these personnel are responsible for all aspects of communication in the White House - including wiretaps.)
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell did knowingly go before Congress and give false information leading to war and the destruction of American and Iraqi lives. Impeachable and treasonous - you bet!!! Although Congress isn't guilt-free - they definitely were derelict in their duty. One senator by name of John Kerry did sit on the Intelligence Committee and hear the lack of evidence presented by the CIA, and did hear Air Force Intelligence go on record officially before the invasion of Iraq - dissenting with the CIA reports and contradicting them completely. Kerry, along with Bush, needs to be gone.
OK, so what exactly were the conditions that created George Bush - and before any flippant replies, please keep in mind that to those of us whose ancestors established the US Constitution and then fought for it, Bush is indeed an American terrorist bent on subverting the Constitution (and no, I don't support Kerry).
There is a simple reason why government workers appear to be incompetent - the government simply doesn't hire competent people! I applied for an airport screener job and was immediately turned down (although I receive 5 extra points for being a veteran), but I my IQ is above a pet rock which obviously disqualifies me.
Will people posting please quit claiming they're from Canada!! I've looked on the map and I can't find such a country anywhere!
Exactly! As long as we understand recycling and Eurotrash in this country - we're all OK! And that's so goofy about the CIA killing a president - although everyone knows they were in actuality the guys behind Watergate!
Quit with the failures of the US educational system already. After all, isn't the president of Columbia University (NYC) a former big-time dope dealer with the Medillin Cartel?????
Hey, as long as I know where Lebanon (Pennsylvania) is, or Troy (New York) is, or Paris (Texas) is, or (as we Dutch-Americans still refer to it) New Amsterdam (NYC) is - really, that's all that counts!!!!!!!!
Just say it's the place where that Godawful beer comes from....they'll know the place you're referring to!