It's really just a forum for trolling and information exchange, much like/., while business-as-usual continues to drive the world's political processes.
Now, imagine if the UN ambassadors could mod each other...
The Saudi Arabian ambassador is a troll! US Ambassador is flamebait! The British Ambassador is redundant!
And then, someone puts the goatse.cx guy on the main screen.
all plants that pollinate with these plants run the risk of dying off because they cannot reproduce. Who thought of this? There is a serious flaw here.
Monsanto. The company that loves death and destruction so long and they can get a stiff profit.
Harrassing a handicapped mother, her child and disrupting the child's education (by wanting to depose during school hours). Congo rats RIAA! You've pulled the trifecta!...
Seriously, the devil is going to be in serious need of something to do the way these fookers are going. I think even he sits back, looks at these cases and says, "dayum...."
Not all terrorists are OBL. OBL is simply one of the guys running things. Comparing the wealth of an average terrorist with OBL is like comparing the wealth of an average American soldier with W. Those in charge are generally very wealthy. Those doing the actual fighting and dying - not so much.
Maybe someone needs to be..oh I don't know..tried before a judge and their peers before being branded guilty of a crime? I just thinking off the wall here...
That thar sounds like terrorist talk to me! Why do you hate America so much?
I thought people homeschooled their kids to socially stunt them and make them overly dependent on mommy and daddy for the rest of their lives
I know I probably shouldn't be responding to flamebait, but home schooled kids by and large and more socially adjusted than kids who go to public school. There is something unnatural about having a bunch interact only with other kids who are within a year's difference in age. Plus, public school now is more of a combination baby sitting service/prison facility than anything else where knowledge is doled out McDonald's fashion.
he's not a US citizen, so he doesn't get the same protections and access to a legal trial that a citizen of the US does. It sucks, but nothing about war is ever great.
So, by your "logic" (if such a malapropism may be used), all I need inorder to commit rape or murder is to find someone who is not a US citizen? After all, according to you, since they are not US citizens, they don't get the same protections and access to a legal trial that a citizen of the US does. Or, perhaps you are a stupid fuckwit who knows dick about the law.
There are other online data problems besides the main computer companies. You also have to worry about companies like USSearch, PrivateEye, and so on which basically allows anyone to find out tons of stuff about you for a nominal fee. USSearch's FAQ even says
"Can you search for minors or public figures?
No. In order to protect the identities and safety of minors and public figures, US Search does not provide searches for these types of individuals."
So, they understand the danger. They just don't care about the danger posed to the "proles".
What did I learn? If I invent something as a student, a prof will get the credit for it, and I am better off sitting on my ideas until after I graduate -- it's sad that I can't wait to graduate so that I can do my research -- it's sadder that I won't be able to.
It's even worse in most American universities. While Canadian graduate students are being taught to protect their IP, graduate students at most American universities have to sign a waiver of their rights to anything they discover just to be able to go to graduate school. So, if you are a graduate student in an American university, then yes you certainly should sit on something truly inventive that you discover until after you graduate. Also, make sure you get rid of anything traceable to University equipment and recreate it after you leave.
So it's no wonder that corporations will be providing funding to universities. It's just a continuation of the trend that has been followed for around the past 1000 years, or longer if you want to go back to ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt and Sumer.
Not just ancient Sumeria, but also ancient Babylon. In fact, universities are one of the institutions founded by the Lizards who control our world. I have all the rock-solid irrefutable proof right here ! In fact, that is why we really went to Iraq. To free the Lizards who were trapped in an ancient metal box with cuneiform writing. All this stuff about oil and Saddam and insurgents is just a front. We want our Lizards back!
Well, it may be crass to say this, but if the music industry's current business model is "outmoded," who is to say then that the idea of an American engineering workforce as a business model is not outmoded?
Well, again, it is a matter of two separate concepts. In one, you have an industry that is trying to use the government to prop up its outdated model. On the other, you have corporations who are exploiting a difference in currency rates, living costs, and worker/environmental protection laws. To take your point a little further (although not much further if you see work conditions in some places in Indonesia), why not bring back a certain level of slavery? Surely this whole business model of actually paying people in such a way that they have a choice of where to live, what to eat, and how to have a family is an outmoded model, yes? I'm not trying to engage in hyperbole, but you have to see that some behavior by corporations is clearly unacceptable. Trying to drive down wages so that everyone in world will accept starvation wages (which used to be the case in some places in America, such as Central Pennsylvania, when Andrew Carnegie pretty much owned everything there), unsafe working conditions, air that can barely be breathed, and water and food supplies that makes you habitually sick is clearly despicable and unacceptable. The reason corporations can get away with this is that they largely set up the conditions under which we have to live. The difference in power is enormous, especially in conditions which do not allow for negotiating wages/salaries, benefits, and so on.
You know, any time someone uses the "adapt or die argument" in the context of the RIAA or MPAA, it gets modded insightful. Yet, when the same argument is used in conjunction with outsourcing, it gets modded as flamebait. Could someone explain the slashdot community's priciple or consistency on this issue. Or are we just all selfish assholes with selective morality?
It is because the principles behind both are different. In the case of RIAA/MPAA, they are trying to force people to stick with an outmoded economic model. In the case of outsource, it is not possible to "adapt or die". I, for example, cannot live anywhere in the United States for only $5k/year because the cost of living is so much different than in, say, China. In China, you can live on $5k/year because $5k/year is about 40k Yuan. 40k Yuan has roughly the same purchasing power in China that $40k has in America. So, American companies are able to get by paying only $5k/year to someone in China rather than $40k/year to someone in America simply owing to differences in currency systems, which the average engineer/comp-sci/etc person has no control over. Plus, as an added bonus to the outsourcing American corporation, they don't have to worry about all those pesky environmental and work safety laws. So, by outsourcing, American companies have greater control over this whole "race to the bottom" that working people who have no real power have to play in order to do things like eat and have a place to live.
In past centuries, a minor social slight could cause one European country to declare bloody war on another. Sometimes, leaders declared war as a sort of casual sport.
Um, I'm not sure what planet you have been living on. Perhaps you haven't noticed this guy (among many, many others). Perhaps you haven't noticed all the horrific wars that are currently going on, some for reasons no better than "Those people look different than us people! We kill now!" Only now, we can wage war half way around the world with less trouble than the Kaiser had getting troops to France through Belgium.
Oh true, and I'm apologize if my previous comment was too harsh. And what you mentioned is one reason (among others) why I did not ultimately get into academia. I wanted to actually work with the technology and science, rather than working on grants and papers. My comment about "coolies", though, was more about how I have seen other people who are in academia treat foreigners, particularly Chinese and Indians. I've personally seen quite a lot of racial bigotry in academia, whether it's the attitude of white or Jewish professors toward Asians and/or Indians (some Indians don't want to be called "Asians"), or the attitude of certain professors towards ethnic groups that they do not belong to. Quite a number of professors I have seen won't hire people outside of their own little ethnic group, though ultimately the university winds up keeping the level of racial/ethnic diversity required by law.
To give two examples, the professor I worked for at one university hired only white graduate students. He could get away with it since the overall mix in the department was acceptable according to law. But, a Korean friend of mine was never able to work in the particular area that professor was studying at that university simply because he was Korean, and not white. A second example is a Chinese professor at the same university. At first, he hired graduate students from wherever. But later, he did what he could to hire only Chinese. It got to the point that, when a white student tried to work under him on the particular sort of research he was working on, he refused saying that he did not have enough money to hire him. But, later, he hired someone directly from mainland China, which is far more expensive and requires more effort and paperwork. Even graduate students from other countries, which would cost just as much to hire, were not hired by him since he only wanted to hire Chinese. Although, since the Fates were watching, he was found guilty of improperly handling his research funds, and was only able to find work in a state that is, shall we say, somewhat bigotted against Chinese.
But, ultimately, your point is taken. There is too much wrong with today's American world of academic research.
Classic cases of abysmal products were Windows v1-3, Win-98 and ME
Actually, even Win 95 sucked royally when it first came out. I switched right back to DOS after giving it a try. It was only much later that Win 95 even became acceptable as an "operating system". And Windows 3.1 or earlier was always a piece of shit. Plus, Win ME should have at least resulted in the demise of a few programmers. There was simply no excuse for Win ME. At least with the latest round they have realized that they should wait until the operating system they are launching is not something future generations will want to slaughter them over.
This is the same with the UK. They wish to introduce biometric ID cards, with a primary key for each 'citizen'. This is starting to go too far. The few of us left who actually give a shit about our civil liberties need to rise up, violently. Diplomacy failed a long time ago. We need to scare the shit out of these bastards.
Given what is going on in both Australia and New Zealand, I would say the primary problem is clearly the English language. Something about Englist makes you not only insane, but a goddamn fascist to boot!
So how exactly would these new ID cards be forge-proof? If people are already forging IDs, what's to stop them from forging these new ones? And what problem does this national ID card solve?
You see, you haven't got the right perspective on things. You need to learn how to fake id's yourself. "What? You're searching for Max Klinger? That isn't me! I'm Sven Lundgren! Honest! Just look at my ID!
just look at tupac! he's been releasing albums and he's been dead for 10 years. I wonder what his take is on this.
Oh, that's nothing. Heinlein has been dead for almost 20 years, and he's still cranking out novels, though not as quickly as before. I guess rigor mortis is cramping his typing hand.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! [runs quickly out, slamming door behind]
[unlocks door, comes back in jabbing pointy stick] [sits shakingly back down at computer]
ahem, sorry. I believe God smote them.
Never seen 'Xian' used before, I thought it was some kind of oriental thing
??? The "X" stands for Christ. It comes from the Greek letter Xi. If you see some churches, there is a Xi and a Rho in stained glass along with a picture of Jesus, since the Xi and Rho are the first two letters in Christ (in Greek, of course). As to the person who responded to you saying that only rugs are oriental: "Oriental" is opposed to "Occidential", or basically anything that is not Western. "Asian" is simply more specific since "Oriental" can denote not only Asians, but Indians (the real ones, not Native Americans), and the various Middle Eastern peoples. I'm not really sure why "Oriental" became so un-PC. Perhaps it has to do with ignorant people's usage of it to denote Asians? I don't know.
I have heard someone say that each Sci/Tech PhD diploma should get a green card stapled to the back.
I think it would certainly help to keep them here. But then, where would the professors get their cut-rate postdocs to prop up their research labs and their own reputations? Of course, the professors are the ones who get their reputation boosted while getting to pick and choose who they feel like bestowing the blessed gift of a green card upon (or, at least, a recommendation for a green card, which goes a long way to getting one). The post-docs do the actual research work and live in obscurity while the professors get to act like PHBs. Being a citizen, I don't have to worry about this sort of thing myself, but I've seen it happen too many times. The present situation now causes the best and brightest who might wish to stay in the US to either go back home or work like a slave for some prof who treats them the way 19th Century Europeans would treat their "coolies".
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The Saudi Arabian ambassador is a troll! US Ambassador is flamebait! The British Ambassador is redundant!
And then, someone puts the goatse.cx guy on the main screen.
Rat-fucker
So yeah, it's pretty frigging different!
That's okay. Nobody else commenting here read it either.
To give two examples, the professor I worked for at one university hired only white graduate students. He could get away with it since the overall mix in the department was acceptable according to law. But, a Korean friend of mine was never able to work in the particular area that professor was studying at that university simply because he was Korean, and not white. A second example is a Chinese professor at the same university. At first, he hired graduate students from wherever. But later, he did what he could to hire only Chinese. It got to the point that, when a white student tried to work under him on the particular sort of research he was working on, he refused saying that he did not have enough money to hire him. But, later, he hired someone directly from mainland China, which is far more expensive and requires more effort and paperwork. Even graduate students from other countries, which would cost just as much to hire, were not hired by him since he only wanted to hire Chinese. Although, since the Fates were watching, he was found guilty of improperly handling his research funds, and was only able to find work in a state that is, shall we say, somewhat bigotted against Chinese.
But, ultimately, your point is taken. There is too much wrong with today's American world of academic research.
Yes, a bunch of "professional" wrestlers are destroying any and all of our freedoms. Damn you, Hulk Hogan! [clasps monocle]
Actually, even Win 95 sucked royally when it first came out. I switched right back to DOS after giving it a try. It was only much later that Win 95 even became acceptable as an "operating system". And Windows 3.1 or earlier was always a piece of shit. Plus, Win ME should have at least resulted in the demise of a few programmers. There was simply no excuse for Win ME. At least with the latest round they have realized that they should wait until the operating system they are launching is not something future generations will want to slaughter them over.
Given what is going on in both Australia and New Zealand, I would say the primary problem is clearly the English language. Something about Englist makes you not only insane, but a goddamn fascist to boot!
You see, you haven't got the right perspective on things. You need to learn how to fake id's yourself. "What? You're searching for Max Klinger? That isn't me! I'm Sven Lundgren! Honest! Just look at my ID!
Well, that and a useless fucking editor. Seriously, why doesn't he die and let someone like Trip Master Monkey edit.
Yes, it's specifically from "At the Mountains of Madness" where they find the ancient city of the Old Ones in Antartica, and much hilarity ensues.
Oh, that's nothing. Heinlein has been dead for almost 20 years, and he's still cranking out novels, though not as quickly as before. I guess rigor mortis is cramping his typing hand.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! [runs quickly out, slamming door behind]
[unlocks door, comes back in jabbing pointy stick] [sits shakingly back down at computer]
ahem, sorry. I believe God smote them.
??? The "X" stands for Christ. It comes from the Greek letter Xi. If you see some churches, there is a Xi and a Rho in stained glass along with a picture of Jesus, since the Xi and Rho are the first two letters in Christ (in Greek, of course). As to the person who responded to you saying that only rugs are oriental: "Oriental" is opposed to "Occidential", or basically anything that is not Western. "Asian" is simply more specific since "Oriental" can denote not only Asians, but Indians (the real ones, not Native Americans), and the various Middle Eastern peoples. I'm not really sure why "Oriental" became so un-PC. Perhaps it has to do with ignorant people's usage of it to denote Asians? I don't know.
I think it would certainly help to keep them here. But then, where would the professors get their cut-rate postdocs to prop up their research labs and their own reputations? Of course, the professors are the ones who get their reputation boosted while getting to pick and choose who they feel like bestowing the blessed gift of a green card upon (or, at least, a recommendation for a green card, which goes a long way to getting one). The post-docs do the actual research work and live in obscurity while the professors get to act like PHBs. Being a citizen, I don't have to worry about this sort of thing myself, but I've seen it happen too many times. The present situation now causes the best and brightest who might wish to stay in the US to either go back home or work like a slave for some prof who treats them the way 19th Century Europeans would treat their "coolies".