If any reader graduated in 1970 - 2001 you know nothing what it is like to today and the kind of crappy jobs and low wages await someone with no experience here in 2015
Did you hear about the tech crash in 2000? That's not long after I got into IT after being an engineer during a manufacturing crash. It took me until 2005 to make the same salary I was getting in 1994.
Gaining the skills necessary to be able to successfully fulfill the job role is the actual goal.
Fail! Gaining the education they can base the skills on is the goal. No point turning out shit-hot COBOL, BASIC or Modula-2 coders instead of someone who can learn the language of the day when things move on. Training is the task of the employer where they tell you where to hit the buttons on a model XYZ machine. Education is where you know what the machine does and you can work out which buttons to hit without much trouble.
Got to admit I did that - there was clearly going to be a big future in manufacturing so I studied to be an engineer. Pity the manufacturing ended up happening in China.
It's all pointless since they have got a massive flow of greenbacks coming in for the oil, antiquities etc flowing out and nobody able to shut those financial networks down so far they don't need to muck about with bitcoin. Since bitcoin records transactions and is far more tracable than greenbacks this kid probably gave then the sort of advice we want them to have. If they take up on it it's possible to work out in some cases where the bitcoins came from and where they are going to which may make it easier to shut down some of their financial networks.
Hang on - is Assad our leader now? No? Completely different country? Then it isn't treason is it? They may be an evil bunch of pig fucking psychopaths but it's a completely different crime to talk to them. This is no more treason than that Senator (Peter T. King - Rep N.Y.) who is proud of the money he used to send to the IRA back when they were setting off bombs in the UK.
I was just commenting that he did, in fact, turn out to be right
He was right? So General Marshall was a Russian spy too? Charlie Chaplain? Arthur Miller? Oppenheimer? Albert Einstein? Saying "all these people are spies" and getting one or two out of a thousand is not "right" by any measure.
Sorry, Nixon was not in Jakarta in 1975 and please don't try to tell me what I was thinking, especially if I was thinking it a long before you were born. Also independence was a long time coming and the constitution was based on the US constitution despite what your gut feeling is some decades down the track. There's been a lot of press and a lot of books on the topic since 1975 so you've got a lot of gall to suggest your gut feeling trumps them just because you've never read any of them. I had the good fortune to meet one of the exiled people from Fretilin in 1992 and he was no more communist than Ford.
Yes then until the late 1930s or mid 1940s. Having a lot of former G.I's big on rules, fairness and not being pushed around probably made the difference. Today we don't have a big enough backbone of former military for communities to stand up for themselves in extreme situations without government help.
Turns out the cache is the same filtered stuff the newspapers got and the story is a complete beatup: http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015/06/sunday-times-snowden-china-russia-questions.html
Apparently the sort that would have a Hollywood set designer come in to design a operations room. It's horse judges all the way down.
The stuff from the British may be stored with extreme care over there, but at some point they shared it with the toy soldiers across the ocean and an IT techie in the middle of the Pacific managed to get hold of something that probably should never have escaped from an air-gapped network in a basement in Virginia.
He's an embarrassment to the NSA which is a good enough reason for the Russians to keep him fed and watered forever. "That cache was what was keeping him alive" is the sort of stuff Tom Clancy would have discarded as too ridiculous to put in his fiction.
In this situation I'd have to say that declaring that they have pulled the sources and actually doing it are probably very different things - so yes, they would make the announcement just to make Snowden look bad. It's been well over a year so you'd expect any actual reaction would have been well over a year ago.
Isn't that going to be a consequence of "less government"? It certainly was some years back.
In my view a government has to be large enough that the will of the people can not be completely ignored by an individual with enough influence or resources. There has be be something to stop a plutocrat from forcing everyone out of a town without compensation just because they want to dig a mine pit there. There has to be something to bring the powerful to account if they want to rape our daughters. There's plenty of examples of that around the world and the more extreme "small government" types just do not understand that it could happen at home if their radical "no government" views were implemented.
It was in the papers after it was released in early 2001 and some reporters hassled Kissenger at times about it then and since. I'll see if I can track down something on the net. It's carefully described as "donation to the Republican party" or similar terms, but with all that happened afterwards it was clearly a bribe and a bargain for Indonesia. As for your description of the Timorese government - such a redefinition of a Democracy with a US derived constitution shows the bribe is still paying for itself.
With the greatest possible respect, if someone is completely wrong in the detail it doesn't matter at all if and obvious starting statement such as "the USSR has spies" is correct. He was utterly wrong in everything other than the basic statement that everyone else was saying as well.
So what was that about party affiliation being enough to make somebody like him?
There are plenty of apologists for McCarthy today who would not be so if he had been a Democrat (which would of course bring in a different set of cheerleaders). They do not want to admit that there was such a viper in their midst. If he was part of a party that no longer existed today then nobody would be an apologist for him.
It's getting hard to draw the line. I got an Android ASUS Transformer with keyboard for someone to use as a lightweight low end laptop even though it's sold as a tablet. It does everything their job requires a laptop to do, especially with RDP onto more capable devices. It's not what was marketed as a laptop but the line is blurring, especially since "real" laptops like the i7 lenovo Yoga look like tablets.
I've never, ever, EVER used the stupid assed Windows key
It's actually useful with the "e" key to bring up the "file manager"/"windows explorer" when somebody wants help and they won't let go of the mouse or they don't have an instantly available icon to click on for it. However my keyboard doesn't even have that key and I don't miss it.
To be correct the spies would have had to be who he said they were instead of just the targets he picked to progress his political ambitions - thus he was WRONG. If you challenge that then I ask you to name a single spy he identified. You can't? Then he was not "right" was he? There was a lot to hate about him (eg. applying pressure to get promotions and good jobs for his "boys" which was eventually the end of him when the military pushed back) which had nothing at all to do with his party affiliations, and I suspect he would have changed parties if he had seen an easier path elsewhere. People support him today out of loyalty to the party that he was in without understanding how he stood for so little that the party does.. It was a sickening situation where even pre-war and wartime anti-fascism was labelled as communism, so in post-war USA he could find plenty of those, but Russian spies - NONE! So who were the spies? Was General Marshall of the Marshall plan a spy? That was one of the accusations.
It may not have "taken a bribe", yet it is on the record as being paid to Ford in person in Jakarta on December 7 1975, and the Timorise were no more communists than the Republican party is. It's for stuff like this that we have document releases years after the fact which is how it was confirmed a few years ago. Ford is dead so doesn't care but we should care because it's an example of policy being set by a foreign power by bribing a President. It was a perversion of the cold war for gain. Only a few years prior Indonesia was considered communist and many in the military government of that time were still in positions of power in 1975 - so they didn't change much, just the way they were looked at changed.
So yes, I consider it was a pretty major event for a sitting US President to fly half way around the world and back to pick up some money for a party donation on the day another nation wanted something out of the USA.
As granddad what it means if it doesn't make sense. As history tells us, when private security becomes bigger than law enforcement a lot of people get fucked over.
If that were true China would have one of the least corrupt governments
To be fair it's actually changing enough to have a clear financial impact on the casinos around the world that had been getting a lot of money from well connected Chinese turning up to do a bit of money laundering. That's a secondary effect but it's pointing to something changing.
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You really haven't been paying much attention have you. Please try harder before replying to one of my posts.
Did you hear about the tech crash in 2000? That's not long after I got into IT after being an engineer during a manufacturing crash. It took me until 2005 to make the same salary I was getting in 1994.
Fail! Gaining the education they can base the skills on is the goal. No point turning out shit-hot COBOL, BASIC or Modula-2 coders instead of someone who can learn the language of the day when things move on.
Training is the task of the employer where they tell you where to hit the buttons on a model XYZ machine. Education is where you know what the machine does and you can work out which buttons to hit without much trouble.
Got to admit I did that - there was clearly going to be a big future in manufacturing so I studied to be an engineer.
Pity the manufacturing ended up happening in China.
It's all pointless since they have got a massive flow of greenbacks coming in for the oil, antiquities etc flowing out and nobody able to shut those financial networks down so far they don't need to muck about with bitcoin. Since bitcoin records transactions and is far more tracable than greenbacks this kid probably gave then the sort of advice we want them to have. If they take up on it it's possible to work out in some cases where the bitcoins came from and where they are going to which may make it easier to shut down some of their financial networks.
Hang on - is Assad our leader now? No? Completely different country? Then it isn't treason is it?
They may be an evil bunch of pig fucking psychopaths but it's a completely different crime to talk to them. This is no more treason than that Senator (Peter T. King - Rep N.Y.) who is proud of the money he used to send to the IRA back when they were setting off bombs in the UK.
He was right? So General Marshall was a Russian spy too? Charlie Chaplain? Arthur Miller? Oppenheimer? Albert Einstein?
Saying "all these people are spies" and getting one or two out of a thousand is not "right" by any measure.
Sorry, Nixon was not in Jakarta in 1975 and please don't try to tell me what I was thinking, especially if I was thinking it a long before you were born.
Also independence was a long time coming and the constitution was based on the US constitution despite what your gut feeling is some decades down the track. There's been a lot of press and a lot of books on the topic since 1975 so you've got a lot of gall to suggest your gut feeling trumps them just because you've never read any of them.
I had the good fortune to meet one of the exiled people from Fretilin in 1992 and he was no more communist than Ford.
Yes then until the late 1930s or mid 1940s. Having a lot of former G.I's big on rules, fairness and not being pushed around probably made the difference. Today we don't have a big enough backbone of former military for communities to stand up for themselves in extreme situations without government help.
Turns out the cache is the same filtered stuff the newspapers got and the story is a complete beatup:
http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2015/06/sunday-times-snowden-china-russia-questions.html
Apparently the sort that would have a Hollywood set designer come in to design a operations room.
It's horse judges all the way down.
The stuff from the British may be stored with extreme care over there, but at some point they shared it with the toy soldiers across the ocean and an IT techie in the middle of the Pacific managed to get hold of something that probably should never have escaped from an air-gapped network in a basement in Virginia.
He's an embarrassment to the NSA which is a good enough reason for the Russians to keep him fed and watered forever. "That cache was what was keeping him alive" is the sort of stuff Tom Clancy would have discarded as too ridiculous to put in his fiction.
In this situation I'd have to say that declaring that they have pulled the sources and actually doing it are probably very different things - so yes, they would make the announcement just to make Snowden look bad.
It's been well over a year so you'd expect any actual reaction would have been well over a year ago.
Isn't that going to be a consequence of "less government"? It certainly was some years back.
In my view a government has to be large enough that the will of the people can not be completely ignored by an individual with enough influence or resources. There has be be something to stop a plutocrat from forcing everyone out of a town without compensation just because they want to dig a mine pit there. There has to be something to bring the powerful to account if they want to rape our daughters. There's plenty of examples of that around the world and the more extreme "small government" types just do not understand that it could happen at home if their radical "no government" views were implemented.
It was in the papers after it was released in early 2001 and some reporters hassled Kissenger at times about it then and since. I'll see if I can track down something on the net. It's carefully described as "donation to the Republican party" or similar terms, but with all that happened afterwards it was clearly a bribe and a bargain for Indonesia.
As for your description of the Timorese government - such a redefinition of a Democracy with a US derived constitution shows the bribe is still paying for itself.
There are plenty of apologists for McCarthy today who would not be so if he had been a Democrat (which would of course bring in a different set of cheerleaders). They do not want to admit that there was such a viper in their midst. If he was part of a party that no longer existed today then nobody would be an apologist for him.
Except he never was.
It's getting hard to draw the line. I got an Android ASUS Transformer with keyboard for someone to use as a lightweight low end laptop even though it's sold as a tablet. It does everything their job requires a laptop to do, especially with RDP onto more capable devices.
It's not what was marketed as a laptop but the line is blurring, especially since "real" laptops like the i7 lenovo Yoga look like tablets.
It's actually useful with the "e" key to bring up the "file manager"/"windows explorer" when somebody wants help and they won't let go of the mouse or they don't have an instantly available icon to click on for it.
However my keyboard doesn't even have that key and I don't miss it.
To be correct the spies would have had to be who he said they were instead of just the targets he picked to progress his political ambitions - thus he was WRONG.
If you challenge that then I ask you to name a single spy he identified. You can't? Then he was not "right" was he?
There was a lot to hate about him (eg. applying pressure to get promotions and good jobs for his "boys" which was eventually the end of him when the military pushed back) which had nothing at all to do with his party affiliations, and I suspect he would have changed parties if he had seen an easier path elsewhere. People support him today out of loyalty to the party that he was in without understanding how he stood for so little that the party does..
It was a sickening situation where even pre-war and wartime anti-fascism was labelled as communism, so in post-war USA he could find plenty of those, but Russian spies - NONE!
So who were the spies? Was General Marshall of the Marshall plan a spy? That was one of the accusations.
It may not have "taken a bribe", yet it is on the record as being paid to Ford in person in Jakarta on December 7 1975, and the Timorise were no more communists than the Republican party is.
It's for stuff like this that we have document releases years after the fact which is how it was confirmed a few years ago. Ford is dead so doesn't care but we should care because it's an example of policy being set by a foreign power by bribing a President.
It was a perversion of the cold war for gain. Only a few years prior Indonesia was considered communist and many in the military government of that time were still in positions of power in 1975 - so they didn't change much, just the way they were looked at changed.
So yes, I consider it was a pretty major event for a sitting US President to fly half way around the world and back to pick up some money for a party donation on the day another nation wanted something out of the USA.
As granddad what it means if it doesn't make sense. As history tells us, when private security becomes bigger than law enforcement a lot of people get fucked over.
No, I'm fully up to date. I suggest you try to be as well before posting as if you are.
Ironic that he lost for refusing to give in to Iran and Reagan didn't for giving vast amounts of money and weapons to Iran.
So why are you not "fixing" the wikipedia article? That's what wikipedia is for.
To be fair it's actually changing enough to have a clear financial impact on the casinos around the world that had been getting a lot of money from well connected Chinese turning up to do a bit of money laundering. That's a secondary effect but it's pointing to something changing.