TFA is saying that one of the reasons the valley won't manufacture cars is because they'll have to import engineers from elsewhere since the ones already in the place are only qualified in microelectronics and aren't qualified in the heavy duty engineering needed for manufacturing.
Silicon Valley's already full of imported engineers who were brought in to work as coders. I'm one of them. I don't see why they couldn't import the necessary skills. The valley is a very attractive proposition to someone living in India, or in England as was the case for me.
At first glance I read your comment as "wondering how far down I'd have to troll". And I was right.
You weren't right. You were wrong. My post said "I was just wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find some racist troll rolling out the traditional curry joke." This is a different statement from "I was wondering how far down I'd have to troll."
Calling racists out on their racism is not trolling, it is anti trolling. I am a troll buster.
Aren't you anxious to know if a really hot curry actually does emit neutrinos, or if it is hot because it somehow interacts with neutrinos?
I was just wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find some racist troll rolling out the traditional curry joke. Some people just can't comment on anything India-related without having a pop at their funny food, funny accent or funny customs, can they?
I'm so happy to see this "spend money on social programs first" junk finally being modded troll and not insightful.
You're responding to a post about a:
(*) Technical innovation in a developing country ( ) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the developing world
The location is:
( ) Africa (*) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America ( ) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research ( ) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Omigod, aside from the repetitive falling runway gag, that movie was full of so much bad movie physics it was barely watchable. Like the Antonov transport plane climbing like a Harrier Jump Jet, or the giant ship bigger than the biggest oil supertanker having a stopping distance of 200 metres instead of 50 odd miles. Then there's the infuriating driving for five minutes looking at everything except the road. That's just inexcusable bad acting.
Although one could argue that the money would have been better spent on social infrastructure projects,
No, one couldn't. One has seen this canard a squillion times on/. over the years and one gets ready to punch the monitor every time one sees it.
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Wow, this is like the 4th Drupal book review on Slashdot in less than a year. I've never tinkered with it, but I've yet to talk to anyone who has had any problem getting it up and running, let alone needed a book. How about a few book reviews on something we aren't familiar with?
The learning curve for Drupal was more than I could be bothered with. I ended up going with Wordpress and had my site up and running within half an hour.
You could use the same business model that they used to colonize Australia. Prison guards would have to be well paid though. But it seemed to work out well for the Aussies. (Sucked for the Aboriginals, but that's less of an issue on Mars as far as we know.)
Don't forget to take out the trash out from the basement.
Sincerely,
Your mom.
I don't live with my mom, I live with your mom. Remember? I must tell her to give you a good spanking after I bone her tonight. You need to learn some respect for your elders, you little scamp!
I think it's called Somalia. They have no government there at all. Sounds like a tropical paradise, going by what the libertarians say about the evils of government.
I was raised liberal in a redneck part of the country..... I like the idea that if any brown people overthrow their government while I'm on vacation that I can go to the embassy and the Marines will fly me the fuck out of there.
I believe the redneck part. Sure about the liberal bit?
And what if there was a human trapped in the house that could only be rescued by a fire crew? Could the Fire Department be charged with murder in the event of a death?
When you're trying to track down old female friends from school, but they've changed their surname since they got married, and now they have a picture of a baby up as their profile pic. How the fuck are you supposed to know it's them?! How are you supposed to know whether to add them or not? Grrrr! Attention, bitches! Not everyone thinks your baby is cute! We just want to get a look at you and see how well you held off the flab over the years so we can gloat about how we're living a more fulfilling life than you are!
Change the signs as they need to be changed, a special project for this is a waste of money, PERIOD.
That's exactly what they're doing, there is no special project for this. Did you not notice the 'troll' tags and surmise that there just might be something wrong with the summary?
Now I can rest easy, knowing that the folks in charge are focusing on the really important matters. It was just last night, I was jolted out of a nap in front of some program on global warming or something by an ad for American Idol...
Does it ever cross peoples' minds that politicians sometimes get to take a break from the top-of-the-headline matters and legislate on the less prominent issues too? Somebody's got to regulate the finer details of broadcasting, road safety, food safety and other issues that don't go away just because there's a global financial meltdown brewing.
Normally I'm pretty apathetic about political nonsense, but something about this story enrages me. This is just so unbelievably frivolous, but it sure will play well to the average voter who probably watches 40 hours of television a week and strongly agrees with the statement that "TV viewers should be able to watch their favorite programs without fear of losing their hearing when the show goes to a commercial."
It's not that I'm especially fond of advertisers, it's just that I have trouble acknowledging a world where ANYBODY GIVES A FUCK about this "issue".
Translation: "This doesn't bother me, so I don't see why it should bother anyone else."
Typical slashdot "I am the only human being in the world" nonsense.
We evolved here. Here is where we function optimally.
We evolved in Africa. As the climate changed we decided it might be a good idea to spread out a little and try to adapt to living in a different environment. Result? We're still here after all this time. I'd like to think that we won't spend the rest of our existence with all our eggs in the single basket of Earth. Until we become a space faring race, we're one asteroid away from extinction. The sooner we diversify, the better off we're going to be.
Ah, the old "stop exploring space and spend the money on social programs instead" argument. Odd how it only gets applied to space exploration but never the much bigger military budget.
Trojan refers to the citizens of the city of Troy, which is now known as Truva, Turkey. There is not a Greek god "Trojan" nor "Troy".
They were contemporary to the great Greek empires, but as I recall they were not themselves Greek. Well, we know how wars and domination during the period went, any particular place in the area could be under a variety of empires, and likely change empires frequently.
He was talking about Zeus. "No cigar" indeed!
What is it with/. this morning? Is it just me or is it full of pompous know-it-all assholes who are quick to shoot first and ask questions later at the slightest hint of an error in a post?
This is/.. You should be prepared to have nit-picking pedants picking apart the slightest potential alternative interpretation of your post even though the context makes it perfectly clear to anyone with half a brain.
How is this funny? The word 'company' has almost 12 different definitions, and is a very broad word (see below). If you think it is funny because you are against private companies (in a corporation sense), your ignorance shines bright.
company [ kúmpnee ] (plural companies) noun Definition: 1. business business: a business enterprise
2. state of being together: the state of being with other people He didn't feel at ease in company.
3. group: a gathering of people
4. companions: the people that somebody associates with
5. particular type of companion: somebody seen as providing a particular type of companionship He can be very good company.
6. guest: a guest or visitor, especially for a meal or overnight stay We're having company this weekend.
7. business business partners: the partners of a business enterprise whose names are not included in the firm's title
8. performing arts troupe: a group of performing artists such as actors
9. military group of troops: a unit of soldiers, usually consisting of two or more platoons
10. navy nautical ship's crew: the crew and officers of a ship
11. firefighters: a unit of firefighters
12. business history trade guild: a medieval trade guild Stupid commies.
I agree with another poster about this: If a man had written and posted this blog on AMD's site, he's have been fired in 2 seconds flat for sexism.
Way to go double standard.
It is odd that they allow personal blogs hosted on the corporate site complete with the logo and everything, although there is a disclaimer at the bottom:
"Leslie Sobon is corporate vice president, product marketing at AMD. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links and no endorsement is implied"
To me, that kind of mixing business with pleasure is a little disconcerting.
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TFA is saying that one of the reasons the valley won't manufacture cars is because they'll have to import engineers from elsewhere since the ones already in the place are only qualified in microelectronics and aren't qualified in the heavy duty engineering needed for manufacturing.
Silicon Valley's already full of imported engineers who were brought in to work as coders. I'm one of them. I don't see why they couldn't import the necessary skills. The valley is a very attractive proposition to someone living in India, or in England as was the case for me.
At first glance I read your comment as "wondering how far down I'd have to troll". And I was right.
You weren't right. You were wrong. My post said "I was just wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find some racist troll rolling out the traditional curry joke." This is a different statement from "I was wondering how far down I'd have to troll."
Calling racists out on their racism is not trolling, it is anti trolling. I am a troll buster.
Why do you find racist jokes so defensible?
Why are you such a racist?
Why do you hate America so much?
Aren't you anxious to know if a really hot curry actually does emit neutrinos, or if it is hot because it somehow interacts with neutrinos?
I was just wondering how far down I'd have to scroll to find some racist troll rolling out the traditional curry joke. Some people just can't comment on anything India-related without having a pop at their funny food, funny accent or funny customs, can they?
I'm so happy to see this "spend money on social programs first" junk finally being modded troll and not insightful.
You're responding to a post about a:
(*) Technical innovation in a developing country
( ) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the developing world
The location is:
( ) Africa
(*) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
( ) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
( ) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Omigod, aside from the repetitive falling runway gag, that movie was full of so much bad movie physics it was barely watchable. Like the Antonov transport plane climbing like a Harrier Jump Jet, or the giant ship bigger than the biggest oil supertanker having a stopping distance of 200 metres instead of 50 odd miles. Then there's the infuriating driving for five minutes looking at everything except the road. That's just inexcusable bad acting.
Although one could argue that the money would have been better spent on social infrastructure projects,
No, one couldn't. One has seen this canard a squillion times on /. over the years and one gets ready to punch the monitor every time one sees it.
Wow, this is like the 4th Drupal book review on Slashdot in less than a year. I've never tinkered with it, but I've yet to talk to anyone who has had any problem getting it up and running, let alone needed a book. How about a few book reviews on something we aren't familiar with?
The learning curve for Drupal was more than I could be bothered with. I ended up going with Wordpress and had my site up and running within half an hour.
You could use the same business model that they used to colonize Australia. Prison guards would have to be well paid though. But it seemed to work out well for the Aussies. (Sucked for the Aboriginals, but that's less of an issue on Mars as far as we know.)
...what the point of getting humans to Mars is? It's not science.
It's survival.
Don't forget to take out the trash out from the basement.
Sincerely,
Your mom.
I don't live with my mom, I live with your mom. Remember? I must tell her to give you a good spanking after I bone her tonight. You need to learn some respect for your elders, you little scamp!
And you can't have the rule of law without a government, dipshit!
And no, I didn't see it written anywhere else. What do you think I am, some sort of Fox News-watching sheep?
Libertarian Paradise
I think it's called Somalia. They have no government there at all. Sounds like a tropical paradise, going by what the libertarians say about the evils of government.
I was raised liberal in a redneck part of the country. .... I like the idea that if any brown people overthrow their government while I'm on vacation that I can go to the embassy and the Marines will fly me the fuck out of there.
I believe the redneck part. Sure about the liberal bit?
And what if there was a human trapped in the house that could only be rescued by a fire crew? Could the Fire Department be charged with murder in the event of a death?
When you're trying to track down old female friends from school, but they've changed their surname since they got married, and now they have a picture of a baby up as their profile pic. How the fuck are you supposed to know it's them?! How are you supposed to know whether to add them or not? Grrrr! Attention, bitches! Not everyone thinks your baby is cute! We just want to get a look at you and see how well you held off the flab over the years so we can gloat about how we're living a more fulfilling life than you are!
Change the signs as they need to be changed, a special project for this is a waste of money, PERIOD.
That's exactly what they're doing, there is no special project for this. Did you not notice the 'troll' tags and surmise that there just might be something wrong with the summary?
Now I can rest easy, knowing that the folks in charge are focusing on the really important matters. It was just last night, I was jolted out of a nap in front of some program on global warming or something by an ad for American Idol...
Does it ever cross peoples' minds that politicians sometimes get to take a break from the top-of-the-headline matters and legislate on the less prominent issues too? Somebody's got to regulate the finer details of broadcasting, road safety, food safety and other issues that don't go away just because there's a global financial meltdown brewing.
Normally I'm pretty apathetic about political nonsense, but something about this story enrages me. This is just so unbelievably frivolous, but it sure will play well to the average voter who probably watches 40 hours of television a week and strongly agrees with the statement that "TV viewers should be able to watch their favorite programs without fear of losing their hearing when the show goes to a commercial."
It's not that I'm especially fond of advertisers, it's just that I have trouble acknowledging a world where ANYBODY GIVES A FUCK about this "issue".
Translation: "This doesn't bother me, so I don't see why it should bother anyone else."
Typical slashdot "I am the only human being in the world" nonsense.
We evolved here. Here is where we function optimally.
We evolved in Africa. As the climate changed we decided it might be a good idea to spread out a little and try to adapt to living in a different environment. Result? We're still here after all this time. I'd like to think that we won't spend the rest of our existence with all our eggs in the single basket of Earth. Until we become a space faring race, we're one asteroid away from extinction. The sooner we diversify, the better off we're going to be.
Ah, the old "stop exploring space and spend the money on social programs instead" argument. Odd how it only gets applied to space exploration but never the much bigger military budget.
Goddamn you people are idiots !! There is no "eastern europe" !!
Who let Miss Teen South Carolina in here?
Close but no cigar.
Trojan refers to the citizens of the city of Troy, which is now known as Truva, Turkey. There is not a Greek god "Trojan" nor "Troy".
They were contemporary to the great Greek empires, but as I recall they were not themselves Greek. Well, we know how wars and domination during the period went, any particular place in the area could be under a variety of empires, and likely change empires frequently.
He was talking about Zeus. "No cigar" indeed!
What is it with /. this morning? Is it just me or is it full of pompous know-it-all assholes who are quick to shoot first and ask questions later at the slightest hint of an error in a post?
This is /.. You should be prepared to have nit-picking pedants picking apart the slightest potential alternative interpretation of your post even though the context makes it perfectly clear to anyone with half a brain.
How is this funny? The word 'company' has almost 12 different definitions, and is a very broad word (see below). If you think it is funny because you are against private companies (in a corporation sense), your ignorance shines bright.
company [ kúmpnee ] (plural companies)
noun
Definition:
1. business business: a business enterprise
2. state of being together: the state of being with other people
He didn't feel at ease in company.
3. group: a gathering of people
4. companions: the people that somebody associates with
5. particular type of companion: somebody seen as providing a particular type of companionship
He can be very good company.
6. guest: a guest or visitor, especially for a meal or overnight stay
We're having company this weekend.
7. business business partners: the partners of a business enterprise whose names are not included in the firm's title
8. performing arts troupe: a group of performing artists such as actors
9. military group of troops: a unit of soldiers, usually consisting of two or more platoons
10. navy nautical ship's crew: the crew and officers of a ship
11. firefighters: a unit of firefighters
12. business history trade guild: a medieval trade guild
Stupid commies.
I think this is what you're looking for.
I agree with another poster about this: If a man had written and posted this blog on AMD's site, he's have been fired in 2 seconds flat for sexism.
Way to go double standard.
It is odd that they allow personal blogs hosted on the corporate site complete with the logo and everything, although there is a disclaimer at the bottom:
"Leslie Sobon is corporate vice president, product marketing at AMD. Her postings are her own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links and no endorsement is implied"
To me, that kind of mixing business with pleasure is a little disconcerting.