Actualy bush is the worst kind of liar. He does it because the truth has no effect on his beliefs. He is more than willing to distort the facts to meet his fiction.
There is actually a lot of doubt. Intel has been trying for years to find ways around Microsoft. They have just failed badly like most non processor related projects.
Intel has other problems with china trying to build its own OS for its own CPU chip. Its the CPU chip if they really have one.
This is all part of an even bigger picture. Corperate america is hitting a wall and hitting it hard. I saw the same thing at Motorola. The Asain market has been the next big thing for close to 10 years now and it has never appeared.
The Chinese government has required companies to place facilities in china in order to get a foot hold. This has resulted in the transfer of all sorts of knowledge to china. Including silicon technology. It looks more an more like american companies are going to bleed america dry of jobs it get a new foot hold that the china has just said will not appear at all.
If if was craig barret I would be oh shitting very heavily right now.
You can also thank our government for this. They have let it happen. But it is after all the government bought by the corperations, of the corperations and for the corperations.
The bill to ammend the constitution will soon be sponsored by corperate america to make it crime to say this.
Yes I am serious. He has a very good firewall to prevent access to his internal network and the software alerted him to security problems. A quick scan found the issues. And then he looked further.
The father had every reason to trust his son and did not do this until a reason to not trust him occured.
About 2 years ago a boy decided the sidewalk was his and tried to run me over with his bike. Since I had no reason to pay attension I did not and got a small bike in the leg and a 7 year old boy in my arms. It was good for him since he did not get hurt. He would not tell me where he lived so I called the police and had them to it. Not the first incident it turned out and the parents called me all sorts of names.
What about Columbine. These kids were also 17 (or so). There parents did not pry into their private lives. No more needs to be said.
As a parent I want my daughter to turn out to be what I consider to be a "good person". That means that I need to take an active interest in every thing she does, incorrage the good and stop the bad. If I have a reason to believe there is a problem I will find out what it is.
As I look around at kids these days there are many good ones. I do believe there are many more spoiled little shit heads than there ever were before. Never forget that as a parent you are responsible for your kids actions. If you choose not to be then you should not have become a parent. In any case to know you kid is doing something wrong and to not do anything agout it makes you a MORON.
Ok I agree with most of what you say. You have provided a great deal more information than before.
I will modify my statement and not call it theft but a copyright violation. And I agree that most of the music business is and will continue to be vague about all aspects of the copyright issue. That is the nature of the beast until some court clears the issue up. It does make it very difficult to decide in many situations. It is also the role of the teacher, parents and other adults (you seem to be very active in this) to help the kids with these decisions.
In many cases the music would not have been purchased because the downloader could not have afforded it anyway. There are very many doing it that can afford it. The net is a loss of income to the rightfull owners/copyright holders and it is WRONG. This is the key point. Throw away all the various legal jargon and this is what we are left with.
However, as I stated (I think in another post) I know several parents that are battling with their kids over all sorts of issues about the internet. One of them is just this issue. In at least one case a teacher, who fancies himself a bit of a rebel, has been a contributor. The parents are caught becuase the guy is pretty good otherwise and the kids like him.
I take excpetion to one other of your statements. It is always the responsibility of ther user to understand his rights. Ignorance is not bliss. In this case the rights to the "happy bithday" song have been an issue in the news for a number of years now and I have seen articles on it several times. Those that are not at least aware must get their news from television and no where else.
My daughter is as yet to young (only 18 months) to worry about on a computer. However, a good friend of mine has a 17 year old that is a computer wiz. Thank god dad is even better. He recently found a few downloaded songs during an audit (yes he does this) of his son's Linux system. Looking even futher he realized there were others that had the names changed to look like downloads of red hat files (all ended in.rpm). Quite clever actually and had food dad for a long time. Well it turned out there were a lot of them.
They no longer exist on the system. They system is now in the family room and I believe there it will stay. As punishment the system now also the mame software removed.
Dad now feels guilty that he had loaded mame on the system in the first place. I thinks he has taught his son that this was maybe OK. This girls mother should have known better. One of the problem with everybody having a PC at home is they do not understand all the legal issues that have come up with its use. As they say innocence is no excuse for breaking the law.
Ah so. You think you nephew being taught to steal is a good thing. As much as I do not like the RIAA you sons teacher needs to be arrested. He is the leader of a ring of thieves. I hope someone gets caught and the "ring leader" has to pay.
We have enough problems without teachers telling students it is OK to steal. Theft is theft. If you do not have the rights then don't do it. In no way shape or form can the "morning announcements" be more important than than teaching students not respect the property of others.
And I hope they get sued too. Like it or not if a child is stealing the parent is considered responsible for the action also. It is part of a parents responsibility to find out what is going on with their kids computer. Kids need guidence and they need protected for themselves as well as the preditors that exist in society.
My guess is the girl will get off with a very small fine or none at all. It should be lesson to those that think they can steal.
I dislike the RIAA almost as much as I dislike the BSA. They are both using the same tactics because they have products that are basically easy to steal. It comes down to the fact that if you do not like it do not use it. If everybody did this then they would change tactics as some point in time to be more customer friendly.
In '95 I spent a lot of time interviewing for driver developers for a Solaris project in New Jersey. I also wanted a couple of entry level engineers. I found that most Rutgers and NJIT grads at the time had already never worked on anything but the MS C++ compiler. I could not hire a single one of them.
Poor you. I worked with a bunch of people like that too. One girl, Gemimi was her name, aced most tests but could not code worth a damn. Had a dynamite body though and I did give her some help.
By the way, I got the CS department honors at graduation with a 3.79. Did a 4-1/2 to 5 year degree in just over 3 years while working 30 hours a week. The last year I was already doing Unix kernel support for Unisys so I could code also.
I did not enjoy all my classes but I saw to it that I did pretty well in all of them. You could have been a little less lazy and you would not have this problem.
In the last few years I've interviewed a lot of people with high and low GPAs. If they do not have the skills I will not hire them. If they do have the skills, and are recent graduates, I will look at the GPA. I do not give a shit about extracurricular activities. I leave that for the Law schools.
As a person who's job was sent to 5 different people in Russia and China a while ago I wonder where the reduction in cost is supposed to come. Sure they got 10 for price of 2 of us but my old fellow employees have yet to see anything out of them but more work due to incompetense.
A few years ago a caucasion I work with was complaining about the Indians and how bad they are. I asked him if the percent of caucasion programmers who could pull their head out was higher than indian. He had to admit it was not. So I guess the numbers are on the side of other countries except for one thing. For american companies to out source off shore they must also pay for managerial staff here to control it. There are delays due to diffent time zones (I have had conference calls at midnight) and a real problem with cultural mis understandings.
I do not have a problem with a company in another country offering a product that has higher quality and more features taking its rightful place in business. I do have a problem with slave labor camps and bad working conditions in order to take jobs away from americans.
It is the current "thing to do" for businesses to off shore support and development. In the long run these companies will go directly to the customers and leave the people who enabled them behind. They will follow the american model of management which is screw everybody.
More people to dump on a project is by far the best way to totally screw it up.
Boy lots of comments about the MAC stuff in this article. I did, however, expect a few comments about the other stuff.
What about all this jobs moving to India, China, Russia and probably soon Zimbabwe. Any comments on that.
I think you young guys should think more about this. Yea you Europeans too. Companies in Europe are working hard to get things moved off shore also. After all how much manufacturing is still done in Europe. Not near as much as there used to be.
Cringly's analogies here are sometimes wierd but you get the picture I am concerned with. I have worked for small dedicated projects a few times and lots of good things were created. For the most part they tended to be better products for the companies I worked for and it tended to piss off other larger projects. Think about that.
But even more importantly for you young guys read between the lines a little. More overhead is mentioned in the article. Where does this comes from. Well basically it is somewhat older engineers like me that have been around a while. We become project coordinators and architects with the work being done mostly off shore. Probably also tested somewhere else off shore. What that means is there will be a much reduced or eleminated demand for the generation of CS majors just about to enter the real job market. How does that look to you. The problem is in a few years there will be a backlash and the "in" managers will find a big new idea to bring the work back here where it can be done more efficiently. What are your software skills going to be like after working as a cashier for a few years.
This article is not really about Mac vs. Linux vs. Windows. It is about most inept management that does not understand the problems making stupid decissions for a company. We go into the mess of an economy becuase of them. They are making it worse and buying off polititions to let them do even more harm.
The article is also about how the general user of computers in most countries can look forward to even worse experiences with there systems than now. Bad as it is, quality will go down and frustration will rise.
I am a linux user, I am a mac user and occasionally I need to be a windows user. I prefer Linux because I like to be deep in the OS. It pays the bills right now. I can also use the others and sometimes I am required to. Lets drop the bashine of particular systems and get on discussing the real issues.
Oh and go out and vote the california governor of your choise.
You are absolutly right. This is redicualous. However, in this case civil disobedience will not solve the problem. Get involved. I make a point of contacting candidates offices and asking pointed question about their policies. In some cases like that asshole Hatch in Utah it is a matter of common record that he does not care.
As long as we let the RIAA and such organizations fund elections it will not change. Encourage independents to run and then evaluate candidates on their statements. If they lie and don't do what they way do not reelect them. They will then do away with such crap or not get elected.
In the end corporations are supposed to be liscenced by the government so they can be monitored and controlled. A company also has an abligation to be a good citizen. Until we take the ability to abuse this away from them why should the act any different than they do.
You need to read history from non american history books. Not even the Dutch believe what you just said.
The biggest reason the 3rd Reich occured was ignorance. The winners in WW1 locked Germany into an ecomomy that could not survive. Top that off with almost no ability to get information around effective to people who could not feed their families. Brutal situations cause brutal things to happen.
Look into the records. Most of the German population were not members of the Nazi party. Most of the army were either drafted or pressured into serving. The politcal system had one of the best PR campaigns ever concieved and hid most of the facts from the citizens.
The German government condemned a whole generation of their own men to death. Think about it. The German government cared about their people just about as much as they cared about the Jews.
Laws, when enacted by a educated, intellegent society provide parameters for limiting the actions of such people. The key is education.
Unfortunatly our education system falls flat on its face. It is now a propaganda branch of the American government. The last thing kids are taught is how to intellegently question the actions of their own government.
We just atteched another country. Except for we all knew Sadam was a bad guy, so far non of the stated reasons has been substantiated. The kids in school are mostly busy waving american flags. Just how different are we?
Yes it is. Contracts are made with music companies for the simple fact that most groups would not know how record their music or conduct business if it bit them in the ass. What choice do they have? Put it out on the web for everybody to download free of charge.
There are solutions to this problem. As time goes on they will be more able to take their own music to the masses and pay the bills. Starving musicians are idiots. If you want to make a difference do not buy the music. But also do no rip it off. At some point in time things will change.
Wrong. You do have the obligation to follow the law. You may work at the same time to have it repealed. Laws are supposed to enacted on the basis of a societies common morals and requirements. If that has been abused by some idiot trying to get reelected then get him out and get it changed.
A world where laws define the basic lower limits of morality required for the good of the citizens is just. A government that feels it has the god given rights to oppress citizens and non citizens is unjust.
Actually that was a pretty moronic thing to say. Copyright when not abused is about the best thing that can happen to anything that can be stored electronically. It gives the creator / owner some power to control its distribution. Without it no body would make any money on software, music or writing for that matter.
I do believe that software patents are a bad thing. At any time as the state of the art advances a software solution to a problem is bound to be created by more than one person within a limited amount of time. Software is created with a bit of inspiration and a lot of work. Software patents often stick in middle of a project and cripple it if rights to use the patent are not quired.
As for my elected representatives, I write to them occastionally. So far no reaction. I'm not financing their campaign.
Good question. As a logical person (usually translated as techie) I find most of the politions appaling. Professional ELECTED polition should just plain not happen. I guess I think Ambassadors, Judges and such should not be politions. They should just be doing their jobs.
Anyways, back on track. Terms should be limited to a total of 10 or 12 years however that adds up with maybe Governor and Presidential time being on top of that.
I also think that many of our "elected officials" should be inverstigated for bribery.
Yes it does. If money were not the issue then there would be many more people in the race. The average citizen who is fed up and wants to make a difference may then have a chance.
We often try to hide this reality. We make much of the founding fathers getting to gether to make a difference. I think they did but do not loose sight of the fact that it was the better off people who could afford to take the time to do this and had the education. The other people were , they are today, cannon fodder.
Big business pays politions to make the average citizen look away from the real problems. They want employees to be basically cows and follow their lead. The fact that some things require real intellegence is not of any importance to them.
High tech companies in their stupidity have built very expensive areas to live in. They have insisted that Silicon Valley and such areas are the place to be and drive prices sky high. Investors in the late 90s blindly supported this problem by investing in stupid ideas. Paying new graduates over $80k a years to move to an area where that barely covered rent and food was simply stupid.
So the inverstory cover up their stupidity by telling the companies to reduce costs. The companies come up with the brilliant idea to by 10 engineers time in china or russia for what one engineer costs here. Did this actually help. It remains to be seen but it definitely reduces the economic power of citizens in this country.
One of the statements I hear repeatedly about the economy is that it is not seeing an increase in manufacturing jobs. Well, every high tech company I know is sending the work out to china or indonesia or where ever. GWB should be saying "D'oh".
We have a large and increasing trade deficite. It is getting worse. Logic dictates that free trade is not in the best interest of the working citizens of the united states. Hell the mexicans are complaining they are seeing mexican tourist trinkits with make in china stampled on them. Does Mexico not have enought problems with unemployment with out this.
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Got to love giving other nations most favored trading status.
When are you going to get it in your head it is all a smoke screen. The man lies to us constantly. It is part of his job as president but he takes to an extreame.
Also when did Clinton not stick up for Jews. Are you some kind of nut.
In the name of big business GWB is giving out future away. Deficits are rising, education expences are rising. His education reforms are bull shit because he DID NOT FUND A SINGLE ONE OF THEM. How many terroists have been caught. Several Europeans countries have caught several and turned them over to use. Despite detaining many people unreasonably we have caught, oh let me see, one. Wow all that money going to Iraq must be paying off.
Having lived in Germany let me tell you a much higher percentage of people go out to vote. Americans are apathetic winers who rely on big business to pick their candidates.
I fact I think I will vote for Arnie. He was not born here. At he seems to be able to think for himself.
Give it rest. Your government is only interested in saving their jobs. Everything else is marketing.
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Unfortunalty most of the candidates on the balots seem to be a choice of bad and bad. Democrate or Republican they just do not seem to care. They are only capable of ranting and raving about one or two issues to try and touch some particular segment of the public. There is very little intelegence or though about anything. The patriot act stupidity was purely reactionary and cover you ass legislation.
Money votes because money gets the name out. American citizens need to learn to listen to all the candidates. Not that that often helps but I have often voted for the little guy who seemed to want to do good in public office. They rarely get elected.
I think a general cleaning of house in in order. There is absolutly no reason a person should be in office more than 10 years. They need to get on with thier lives a citizens and come back to some understanding of what it means to work for a living.
I care about both. After all it all effects my life. As a techie I see jobs going oversees every day. Our government gives free trade rights to every other country so the companies on other coutries have the same names as ours. Does this improve productivity? Doubtful. Does this improve quality? Doubtful. Does it hurt americans? Yes.
What about students graduation univeristy soon. Will they git engineering jobs? Doubtful. Will they have a future? Doubtful. Will student loans get bigger soon? Yes.
Worse yet at some point will we even compete in the world market in high tech. It will take a while but CEOs, etc do not give a rats ass. In fact our President does not give a rats ass. After all we can always nuke them back to the stone age and start again.
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Actualy bush is the worst kind of liar. He does it because the truth has no effect on his beliefs. He is more than willing to distort the facts to meet his fiction.
This is a very good summery of the problem. Thanks
There is actually a lot of doubt. Intel has been trying for years to find ways around Microsoft. They have just failed badly like most non processor related projects.
Intel has other problems with china trying to build its own OS for its own CPU chip. Its the CPU chip if they really have one.
This is all part of an even bigger picture. Corperate america is hitting a wall and hitting it hard. I saw the same thing at Motorola. The Asain market has been the next big thing for close to 10 years now and it has never appeared.
The Chinese government has required companies to place facilities in china in order to get a foot hold. This has resulted in the transfer of all sorts of knowledge to china. Including silicon technology. It looks more an more like american companies are going to bleed america dry of jobs it get a new foot hold that the china has just said will not appear at all.
If if was craig barret I would be oh shitting very heavily right now.
You can also thank our government for this. They have let it happen. But it is after all the government bought by the corperations, of the corperations and for the corperations.
The bill to ammend the constitution will soon be sponsored by corperate america to make it crime to say this.
Yes I am serious. He has a very good firewall to prevent access to his internal network and the software alerted him to security problems. A quick scan found the issues. And then he looked further.
The father had every reason to trust his son and did not do this until a reason to not trust him occured.
About 2 years ago a boy decided the sidewalk was his and tried to run me over with his bike. Since I had no reason to pay attension I did not and got a small bike in the leg and a 7 year old boy in my arms. It was good for him since he did not get hurt. He would not tell me where he lived so I called the police and had them to it. Not the first incident it turned out and the parents called me all sorts of names.
What about Columbine. These kids were also 17 (or so). There parents did not pry into their private lives. No more needs to be said.
As a parent I want my daughter to turn out to be what I consider to be a "good person". That means that I need to take an active interest in every thing she does, incorrage the good and stop the bad. If I have a reason to believe there is a problem I will find out what it is.
As I look around at kids these days there are many good ones. I do believe there are many more spoiled little shit heads than there ever were before. Never forget that as a parent you are responsible for your kids actions. If you choose not to be then you should not have become a parent. In any case to know you kid is doing something wrong and to not do anything agout it makes you a MORON.
Ok I agree with most of what you say. You have provided a great deal more information than before.
I will modify my statement and not call it theft but a copyright violation. And I agree that most of the music business is and will continue to be vague about all aspects of the copyright issue. That is the nature of the beast until some court clears the issue up. It does make it very difficult to decide in many situations. It is also the role of the teacher, parents and other adults (you seem to be very active in this) to help the kids with these decisions.
In many cases the music would not have been purchased because the downloader could not have afforded it anyway. There are very many doing it that can afford it. The net is a loss of income to the rightfull owners/copyright holders and it is WRONG. This is the key point. Throw away all the various legal jargon and this is what we are left with.
However, as I stated (I think in another post) I know several parents that are battling with their kids over all sorts of issues about the internet. One of them is just this issue. In at least one case a teacher, who fancies himself a bit of a rebel, has been a contributor. The parents are caught becuase the guy is pretty good otherwise and the kids like him.
I take excpetion to one other of your statements. It is always the responsibility of ther user to understand his rights. Ignorance is not bliss. In this case the rights to the "happy bithday" song have been an issue in the news for a number of years now and I have seen articles on it several times. Those that are not at least aware must get their news from television and no where else.
My daughter is as yet to young (only 18 months) to worry about on a computer. However, a good friend of mine has a 17 year old that is a computer wiz. Thank god dad is even better. He recently found a few downloaded songs during an audit (yes he does this) of his son's Linux system. Looking even futher he realized there were others that had the names changed to look like downloads of red hat files (all ended in .rpm). Quite clever actually and had food dad for a long time. Well it turned out there were a lot of them.
They no longer exist on the system. They system is now in the family room and I believe there it will stay. As punishment the system now also the mame software removed.
Dad now feels guilty that he had loaded mame on the system in the first place. I thinks he has taught his son that this was maybe OK. This girls mother should have known better. One of the problem with everybody having a PC at home is they do not understand all the legal issues that have come up with its use. As they say innocence is no excuse for breaking the law.
Ah so. You think you nephew being taught to steal is a good thing. As much as I do not like the RIAA you sons teacher needs to be arrested. He is the leader of a ring of thieves. I hope someone gets caught and the "ring leader" has to pay.
We have enough problems without teachers telling students it is OK to steal. Theft is theft. If you do not have the rights then don't do it. In no way shape or form can the "morning announcements" be more important than than teaching students not respect the property of others.
And I hope they get sued too. Like it or not if a child is stealing the parent is considered responsible for the action also. It is part of a parents responsibility to find out what is going on with their kids computer. Kids need guidence and they need protected for themselves as well as the preditors that exist in society.
My guess is the girl will get off with a very small fine or none at all. It should be lesson to those that think they can steal.
I dislike the RIAA almost as much as I dislike the BSA. They are both using the same tactics because they have products that are basically easy to steal. It comes down to the fact that if you do not like it do not use it. If everybody did this then they would change tactics as some point in time to be more customer friendly.
What years were you at NJIT. As I said I was hireing in '95. It could also be I had many more applicants from Rutgers. I am just not sure any more.
At any rate I found new graduates had no idea at all of how to code basic C pointer and bit field routines.
In '95 I spent a lot of time interviewing for driver developers for a Solaris project in New Jersey. I also wanted a couple of entry level engineers. I found that most Rutgers and NJIT grads at the time had already never worked on anything but the MS C++ compiler. I could not hire a single one of them.
Poor you. I worked with a bunch of people like that too. One girl, Gemimi was her name, aced most tests but could not code worth a damn. Had a dynamite body though and I did give her some help.
By the way, I got the CS department honors at graduation with a 3.79. Did a 4-1/2 to 5 year degree in just over 3 years while working 30 hours a week. The last year I was already doing Unix kernel support for Unisys so I could code also.
I did not enjoy all my classes but I saw to it that I did pretty well in all of them. You could have been a little less lazy and you would not have this problem.
In the last few years I've interviewed a lot of people with high and low GPAs. If they do not have the skills I will not hire them. If they do have the skills, and are recent graduates, I will look at the GPA. I do not give a shit about extracurricular activities. I leave that for the Law schools.
As a person who's job was sent to 5 different people in Russia and China a while ago I wonder where the reduction in cost is supposed to come. Sure they got 10 for price of 2 of us but my old fellow employees have yet to see anything out of them but more work due to incompetense.
A few years ago a caucasion I work with was complaining about the Indians and how bad they are. I asked him if the percent of caucasion programmers who could pull their head out was higher than indian. He had to admit it was not. So I guess the numbers are on the side of other countries except for one thing. For american companies to out source off shore they must also pay for managerial staff here to control it. There are delays due to diffent time zones (I have had conference calls at midnight) and a real problem with cultural mis understandings.
I do not have a problem with a company in another country offering a product that has higher quality and more features taking its rightful place in business. I do have a problem with slave labor camps and bad working conditions in order to take jobs away from americans.
It is the current "thing to do" for businesses to off shore support and development. In the long run these companies will go directly to the customers and leave the people who enabled them behind. They will follow the american model of management which is screw everybody.
More people to dump on a project is by far the best way to totally screw it up.
Boy lots of comments about the MAC stuff in this article. I did, however, expect a few comments about the other stuff.
What about all this jobs moving to India, China, Russia and probably soon Zimbabwe. Any comments on that.
I think you young guys should think more about this. Yea you Europeans too. Companies in Europe are working hard to get things moved off shore also. After all how much manufacturing is still done in Europe. Not near as much as there used to be.
Cringly's analogies here are sometimes wierd but you get the picture I am concerned with. I have worked for small dedicated projects a few times and lots of good things were created. For the most part they tended to be better products for the companies I worked for and it tended to piss off other larger projects. Think about that.
But even more importantly for you young guys read between the lines a little. More overhead is mentioned in the article. Where does this comes from. Well basically it is somewhat older engineers like me that have been around a while. We become project coordinators and architects with the work being done mostly off shore. Probably also tested somewhere else off shore. What that means is there will be a much reduced or eleminated demand for the generation of CS majors just about to enter the real job market. How does that look to you. The problem is in a few years there will be a backlash and the "in" managers will find a big new idea to bring the work back here where it can be done more efficiently. What are your software skills going to be like after working as a cashier for a few years.
This article is not really about Mac vs. Linux vs. Windows. It is about most inept management that does not understand the problems making stupid decissions for a company. We go into the mess of an economy becuase of them. They are making it worse and buying off polititions to let them do even more harm.
The article is also about how the general user of computers in most countries can look forward to even worse experiences with there systems than now. Bad as it is, quality will go down and frustration will rise.
I am a linux user, I am a mac user and occasionally I need to be a windows user. I prefer Linux because I like to be deep in the OS. It pays the bills right now. I can also use the others and sometimes I am required to. Lets drop the bashine of particular systems and get on discussing the real issues.
Oh and go out and vote the california governor of your choise.
I also think there should be a total time limit. In this case then maybe 14 ro 16 years.
You are absolutly right. This is redicualous. However, in this case civil disobedience will not solve the problem. Get involved. I make a point of contacting candidates offices and asking pointed question about their policies. In some cases like that asshole Hatch in Utah it is a matter of common record that he does not care.
As long as we let the RIAA and such organizations fund elections it will not change. Encourage independents to run and then evaluate candidates on their statements. If they lie and don't do what they way do not reelect them. They will then do away with such crap or not get elected.
In the end corporations are supposed to be liscenced by the government so they can be monitored and controlled. A company also has an abligation to be a good citizen. Until we take the ability to abuse this away from them why should the act any different than they do.
You need to read history from non american history books. Not even the Dutch believe what you just said.
The biggest reason the 3rd Reich occured was ignorance. The winners in WW1 locked Germany into an ecomomy that could not survive. Top that off with almost no ability to get information around effective to people who could not feed their families. Brutal situations cause brutal things to happen.
Look into the records. Most of the German population were not members of the Nazi party. Most of the army were either drafted or pressured into serving. The politcal system had one of the best PR campaigns ever concieved and hid most of the facts from the citizens.
The German government condemned a whole generation of their own men to death. Think about it. The German government cared about their people just about as much as they cared about the Jews.
Laws, when enacted by a educated, intellegent society provide parameters for limiting the actions of such people. The key is education.
Unfortunatly our education system falls flat on its face. It is now a propaganda branch of the American government. The last thing kids are taught is how to intellegently question the actions of their own government.
We just atteched another country. Except for we all knew Sadam was a bad guy, so far non of the stated reasons has been substantiated. The kids in school are mostly busy waving american flags. Just how different are we?
Yes it is. Contracts are made with music companies for the simple fact that most groups would not know how record their music or conduct business if it bit them in the ass. What choice do they have? Put it out on the web for everybody to download free of charge.
There are solutions to this problem. As time goes on they will be more able to take their own music to the masses and pay the bills. Starving musicians are idiots. If you want to make a difference do not buy the music. But also do no rip it off. At some point in time things will change.
Wrong. You do have the obligation to follow the law. You may work at the same time to have it repealed. Laws are supposed to enacted on the basis of a societies common morals and requirements. If that has been abused by some idiot trying to get reelected then get him out and get it changed.
A world where laws define the basic lower limits of morality required for the good of the citizens is just. A government that feels it has the god given rights to oppress citizens and non citizens is unjust.
So who are we invading this week?
Actually that was a pretty moronic thing to say. Copyright when not abused is about the best thing that can happen to anything that can be stored electronically. It gives the creator / owner some power to control its distribution. Without it no body would make any money on software, music or writing for that matter.
I do believe that software patents are a bad thing. At any time as the state of the art advances a software solution to a problem is bound to be created by more than one person within a limited amount of time. Software is created with a bit of inspiration and a lot of work. Software patents often stick in middle of a project and cripple it if rights to use the patent are not quired.
As for my elected representatives, I write to them occastionally. So far no reaction. I'm not financing their campaign.
Good question. As a logical person (usually translated as techie) I find most of the politions appaling. Professional ELECTED polition should just plain not happen. I guess I think Ambassadors, Judges and such should not be politions. They should just be doing their jobs.
Anyways, back on track. Terms should be limited to a total of 10 or 12 years however that adds up with maybe Governor and Presidential time being on top of that.
I also think that many of our "elected officials" should be inverstigated for bribery.
Yes it does. If money were not the issue then there would be many more people in the race. The average citizen who is fed up and wants to make a difference may then have a chance.
We often try to hide this reality. We make much of the founding fathers getting to gether to make a difference. I think they did but do not loose sight of the fact that it was the better off people who could afford to take the time to do this and had the education. The other people were , they are today, cannon fodder.
Big business pays politions to make the average citizen look away from the real problems. They want employees to be basically cows and follow their lead. The fact that some things require real intellegence is not of any importance to them.
High tech companies in their stupidity have built very expensive areas to live in. They have insisted that Silicon Valley and such areas are the place to be and drive prices sky high. Investors in the late 90s blindly supported this problem by investing in stupid ideas. Paying new graduates over $80k a years to move to an area where that barely covered rent and food was simply stupid.
So the inverstory cover up their stupidity by telling the companies to reduce costs. The companies come up with the brilliant idea to by 10 engineers time in china or russia for what one engineer costs here. Did this actually help. It remains to be seen but it definitely reduces the economic power of citizens in this country.
One of the statements I hear repeatedly about the economy is that it is not seeing an increase in manufacturing jobs. Well, every high tech company I know is sending the work out to china or indonesia or where ever. GWB should be saying "D'oh".
We have a large and increasing trade deficite. It is getting worse. Logic dictates that free trade is not in the best interest of the working citizens of the united states. Hell the mexicans are complaining they are seeing mexican tourist trinkits with make in china stampled on them. Does Mexico not have enought problems with unemployment with out this.
Got to love giving other nations most favored trading status.
When are you going to get it in your head it is all a smoke screen. The man lies to us constantly. It is part of his job as president but he takes to an extreame.
Also when did Clinton not stick up for Jews. Are you some kind of nut.
In the name of big business GWB is giving out future away. Deficits are rising, education expences are rising. His education reforms are bull shit because he DID NOT FUND A SINGLE ONE OF THEM. How many terroists have been caught. Several Europeans countries have caught several and turned them over to use. Despite detaining many people unreasonably we have caught, oh let me see, one. Wow all that money going to Iraq must be paying off.
Having lived in Germany let me tell you a much higher percentage of people go out to vote. Americans are apathetic winers who rely on big business to pick their candidates.
I fact I think I will vote for Arnie. He was not born here. At he seems to be able to think for himself.
Give it rest. Your government is only interested in saving their jobs. Everything else is marketing.
Unfortunalty most of the candidates on the balots seem to be a choice of bad and bad. Democrate or Republican they just do not seem to care. They are only capable of ranting and raving about one or two issues to try and touch some particular segment of the public. There is very little intelegence or though about anything. The patriot act stupidity was purely reactionary and cover you ass legislation.
Money votes because money gets the name out. American citizens need to learn to listen to all the candidates. Not that that often helps but I have often voted for the little guy who seemed to want to do good in public office. They rarely get elected.
I think a general cleaning of house in in order. There is absolutly no reason a person should be in office more than 10 years. They need to get on with thier lives a citizens and come back to some understanding of what it means to work for a living.
Vote out the incumbant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I care about both. After all it all effects my life. As a techie I see jobs going oversees every day. Our government gives free trade rights to every other country so the companies on other coutries have the same names as ours. Does this improve productivity? Doubtful. Does this improve quality? Doubtful. Does it hurt americans? Yes.
What about students graduation univeristy soon. Will they git engineering jobs? Doubtful. Will they have a future? Doubtful. Will student loans get bigger soon? Yes.
Worse yet at some point will we even compete in the world market in high tech. It will take a while but CEOs, etc do not give a rats ass. In fact our President does not give a rats ass. After all we can always nuke them back to the stone age and start again.