WTF, another yahoo that wants to treat perfectly normal growth behaviour with a cocktail of pharmecuticals, coming equipped with a referrer link to profit from his comment. Certain drugs can treat shyness indeed. So does liquor, you want to dose up a child with 40-proof? Die in a fucking fire, please.
f the majority of the Chinese are content with their government or its actions (which is the case otherwise their country would be in a civil war until it changed)
I'm in charge. If you disagree, we will be sending the bill for the bullet to your family. Getting the picture yet? This live and let live bullshit has to go, seriously. Evil thrives when good men stand by and do nothing.
Microsoft and Google are showing China the rest of the world, and giving Chinese dissidents great, albeit limited, tools for proactively attacking totalitarianism.
For every one dissident it aids, 10 citizens swallow the bullshit. Warped information, the father of wars, is far worse than no information, and peddling warped information for the god of profit is evil, plain and simple.
Seeing as how hes not in it for profit, I doubt he would give a toss. His stance here is absoloutely right, warped information by the tin soldiers in Beijing is worse than no information at all.
Fair enough, but they should knock off the bullshit moral justifications so. Warped knowledge is worse than no knowledge, its a poison pill that starts wars. If they want any kind of an ethical ground to stand on, they should refuse to do business there, these internet companies whose trade is the exchange and organisation of knowledge, which is the basis of the internet. Not the dissemination of whatever cracked propaganda the tinpot dictators in Beijing see fit to call reality today. By failing to do so, they are not remaining true to their core purpose. They are simply pandering to evil men in the name of profit.
However, that leaves a market space for someone else to step up and offer a better service, so I'm sure the market will sort out the problem in due time.
Hey a fellow 'wegian. You'll be pleased to hear the town is doing alright, still the nicest place to live anywhere, although the property would drive a man to drink. Hallo from Galway!:D
And just what does that have to do with anything? They did blow up civilians in London by the way. It isn't called terrorism for no reason.
Sorry prick, but you're all out of time. If you have a single link to back up your "statistics" I'll give you three to back mine up. Put up or shut up. Allah kho fuckin akhbar.
I know nathing about nathing, but couldn't this idea be a reason why everything is accelerating away from everything else? Just like stuff gets pulled into a black hole from the outside, if there was stuff inside it, might it not also be pulled outwards? However even if all of this was true, how would we ever get into another universe inside a black hole? It is not so much a gateway as a wall, with no egress in or out... anything that tries just becomes, well, more black hole...
Dibs on the prime centre of the universe property!
Again as I said, I know nathing, but when we are talking about this kind of thing, who really does?
You are wrong - more terrorists are catholic - irish and basque to start with.
You want to back that up with a link there smart guy? I find it difficult to believe that there are more Irish terrorists than Muslim, since there are about 5 million Irish and about 1 billion Muslim. And the Irish people in the south (4 million) don't really give a crap for the most part. Oh, and are they still terrorists if they have laid down their arms, having achieved their goals for the most part? And demented as their methods were, at least their goals made some sort of sense.
Muslim terrorists on the other hand want to create a south east asian super state, behead cartoonists, convert the universe to Islam, and blow up airplanes filled with innocent people (attacking civilians is something the IRA rarely did, and they usually gave a coded warning to authorities before blowing up things near civilians), and run on to buses filled with schoolchildren wearing a semtex suit.
I wouldn't be surprised if his "home phone number" is a voicemail service where he's just going to post verbal threats to his LJ, and if his "home address" is a maildrop
Nope, I would wager this dipshit put up his real life details. The phrase "durr" springs to mind.
September 10: Jason Fortuny modified his homepage to remove all references to his professional life: portfolio, resume, and references to past clients are all gone. (Compare to the older versions on the Internet Archive.) It also looks like he's been scrubbing his personal contact information from his Livejournal comments and homepage. For example, this link from my post originally went to a comment with his contact information, but it's been removed entirely. (Strangely, he didn't remove his home address and phone number from this entry.)
Rawhide! Seriously though, this guy was just trolling, a well honed art here on/. In any case he appears to be an attention whore with personal issues, this hit fark a while back, and apparently on his myspace profile he describes himself as a "Ferris Beuller", and tells all the little people not to feel bad that they can't be him. Theres nothing deep here, no hidden agenda, no implications for the wider society, just a sad little man. I wonder will they sue him? Now that would be ironic - hey man, didn't you know? The internet isn't anonymous!
It's still much cheaper. You can pay an American in India $50K per year, and he can live the way he would in the US for $150K per year.
See your weak link here is believing that corporations care about the quality of life of their staff. Also, keep in mind that they can employ an Indian to do the same job for $10k a year. Why would they waste money on sending an American? Couple this with your savings on overhead, and you can see why reverse outsourcing is ludicrous.
Anybody who works in foreign development knows somebody who has taken a posting in a developing nation, because it allows them to save a huge amount of their salary.
Ah but that's project control and coordination positions. Thats not reverse outsourcing, thats management. Outsourcing is where you find people who do the same job in other countries on the cheap; what you are talking about is putting in a few people to control all of these new employees.
From first-hand experience, I can tell you that on a middle class US salary, you can live like a rich man in India.
Absoloutely. However, my point was, why would they give someone a middle class salary in India, when they can give someone the same in the US without any of the associated problems? Reverse outsourcing is nonsense.
Crappier infrastrcuture??? At 300 million mobile phones, i wish to think different.
You can wish all you like, but you'd still not understand what he was talking about. He means things like roads, indoor plumbing, you know... infrastructure. Not mobile phones. This whole story is laughable in any case, I mean what, in 2004 25% of India's population was below the poverty line, which is, wait for it, about 8 dollars a month. Indians won't be getting western wages anytime soon, and if they do, you know what will happen? The companies will move straight on to China. Or south east asia. Or Russia. Companies don't go to India because they like the curry, they go there because its cheap. Thats what we call the bottom line.
Not that smart. In-depth personality profiles (like the MMPI I mentioned in my original post) can be extremely difficult to fudge, unless you have an eidetic memory. Sociopathy can be detected...
Well not to put too fine a point on it, but attaining the rank of the CEO of a major company isn't exactly easy either. I have complete faith in the ability of sociopaths to appear non-sociopathic when it suits them. That is, after all, exactly how they achieve these positions.
Besides that, my point still stands. If they are the best at a particular job, then thats the job they should be in. If they are denied that role, they will go elsewhere to achieve their aims. You want these people in politics? Err, never mind. Failing all else they will simply go to a country where this testing isn't in place, turn around, and kick your asses, once they are through dogfighting the local sociopaths for power and wealth.
Make the law harsh, and enforce the law. So yes, its not prevention, but believe me its a cure, on a case by case basis anyway. As the "war on terror" has proven, we will never be safe, but then again we never were. Life is a contact sport, and some places will never have a safety net for the general public.
American businessman King Gillette famously invented the razor and blades business model, in which safety razors were sold or even given away as loss leaders so that his company could profit by selling disposable razor blades.
If Patricia Dunn spies on her employees like this, how can I trust her enough to be a customer of HP?
To be honest if HP produced equipment that was halfway decent and sold at a reasonable price, it wouldn't bother me one way or the other. They don't, on both counts, so the point is moot. Regardless, I'd tap that sociopathic ass.
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be a requirement for corporate upper management to have to take an APD test.
The reason that would be a waste of time is that most of these people are really, really smart. Maybe not maths geniuses or that kind of smart, but they know exactly how to pull the levers in people to get what they want. Unless the APD test checks for some sort of chemical imbalance (preferably while they are comatose), they will know exactly what to say to the relevant questions in order to make themselves look as un-sociopathic as possible. Hell, most of them will look it up before the test, or pay a psychologist to do it for them.
We are trying to determine if you have any positive emotions towards your fellow man. Do you like children? Why yes, I love children, I donated $500 to a childrens foundation just this month! :D
There really isn't an easy answer to this one. Can they do the jobs they are employed to do better than anyone else? If the answer is yes, then they belong in that job. The only thing that can be done is to ensure that if they commit crimes, they are punished to an extent that it will give other sociopaths pause before attempting the same thing. If the RIAA (sociopath city) can sue someone per song in their collection, high level corporate crime should be dealt with on a per-victim basis.
Steal the pension funds of 500 people? Thats 500 counts of theft or fraud, to be run one after another. Even if they only get 6 months per case, thats still 250 years of hard time. That might seem a bit harsh, but as they say, with great power comes great responsibility.
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Why the christ are they supplying AV software? They make the friggin OS for gods sake! Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to patch it?
I weep.
WTF, another yahoo that wants to treat perfectly normal growth behaviour with a cocktail of pharmecuticals, coming equipped with a referrer link to profit from his comment. Certain drugs can treat shyness indeed. So does liquor, you want to dose up a child with 40-proof? Die in a fucking fire, please.
And lets not forget the people who wrote this letter are having their financial well being threatened by the very thing they are complaining about...
f the majority of the Chinese are content with their government or its actions (which is the case otherwise their country would be in a civil war until it changed)
I'm in charge. If you disagree, we will be sending the bill for the bullet to your family. Getting the picture yet? This live and let live bullshit has to go, seriously. Evil thrives when good men stand by and do nothing.
Microsoft and Google are showing China the rest of the world, and giving Chinese dissidents great, albeit limited, tools for proactively attacking totalitarianism.
For every one dissident it aids, 10 citizens swallow the bullshit. Warped information, the father of wars, is far worse than no information, and peddling warped information for the god of profit is evil, plain and simple.
Warped information is much worse than no information. Thats the kind of thing that starts wars.
Lets see how much he'd like a Chinapedia...
Seeing as how hes not in it for profit, I doubt he would give a toss. His stance here is absoloutely right, warped information by the tin soldiers in Beijing is worse than no information at all.
Fair enough, but they should knock off the bullshit moral justifications so. Warped knowledge is worse than no knowledge, its a poison pill that starts wars. If they want any kind of an ethical ground to stand on, they should refuse to do business there, these internet companies whose trade is the exchange and organisation of knowledge, which is the basis of the internet. Not the dissemination of whatever cracked propaganda the tinpot dictators in Beijing see fit to call reality today. By failing to do so, they are not remaining true to their core purpose. They are simply pandering to evil men in the name of profit.
However, that leaves a market space for someone else to step up and offer a better service, so I'm sure the market will sort out the problem in due time.
I grew up in Galway, from 1968 through 1984
:D
Hey a fellow 'wegian. You'll be pleased to hear the town is doing alright, still the nicest place to live anywhere, although the property would drive a man to drink. Hallo from Galway!
And just what does that have to do with anything? They did blow up civilians in London by the way. It isn't called terrorism for no reason.
Sorry prick, but you're all out of time. If you have a single link to back up your "statistics" I'll give you three to back mine up. Put up or shut up. Allah kho fuckin akhbar.
If black holes are taking in matter then something must be throwing it out(White holes).
Why?
There has to be a cycle somewhere.
Why?
Everything in this universe has a beginning and a end.
But eh matter can't be created or destroyed apparently.
I know nathing about nathing, but couldn't this idea be a reason why everything is accelerating away from everything else? Just like stuff gets pulled into a black hole from the outside, if there was stuff inside it, might it not also be pulled outwards? However even if all of this was true, how would we ever get into another universe inside a black hole? It is not so much a gateway as a wall, with no egress in or out... anything that tries just becomes, well, more black hole...
Dibs on the prime centre of the universe property!
Again as I said, I know nathing, but when we are talking about this kind of thing, who really does?
You are wrong - more terrorists are catholic - irish and basque to start with.
You want to back that up with a link there smart guy? I find it difficult to believe that there are more Irish terrorists than Muslim, since there are about 5 million Irish and about 1 billion Muslim. And the Irish people in the south (4 million) don't really give a crap for the most part. Oh, and are they still terrorists if they have laid down their arms, having achieved their goals for the most part? And demented as their methods were, at least their goals made some sort of sense.
Muslim terrorists on the other hand want to create a south east asian super state, behead cartoonists, convert the universe to Islam, and blow up airplanes filled with innocent people (attacking civilians is something the IRA rarely did, and they usually gave a coded warning to authorities before blowing up things near civilians), and run on to buses filled with schoolchildren wearing a semtex suit.
Seeing the difference yet? Wake up.
I wouldn't be surprised if his "home phone number" is a voicemail service where he's just going to post verbal threats to his LJ, and if his "home address" is a maildrop
Nope, I would wager this dipshit put up his real life details. The phrase "durr" springs to mind.
FTFA:
September 10: Jason Fortuny modified his homepage to remove all references to his professional life: portfolio, resume, and references to past clients are all gone. (Compare to the older versions on the Internet Archive.) It also looks like he's been scrubbing his personal contact information from his Livejournal comments and homepage. For example, this link from my post originally went to a comment with his contact information, but it's been removed entirely. (Strangely, he didn't remove his home address and phone number from this entry.)
Bwaahahah, nice one Ferris. Pwn3d.
Rawhide! Seriously though, this guy was just trolling, a well honed art here on /. In any case he appears to be an attention whore with personal issues, this hit fark a while back, and apparently on his myspace profile he describes himself as a "Ferris Beuller", and tells all the little people not to feel bad that they can't be him. Theres nothing deep here, no hidden agenda, no implications for the wider society, just a sad little man. I wonder will they sue him? Now that would be ironic - hey man, didn't you know? The internet isn't anonymous!
It's still much cheaper. You can pay an American in India $50K per year, and he can live the way he would in the US for $150K per year.
See your weak link here is believing that corporations care about the quality of life of their staff. Also, keep in mind that they can employ an Indian to do the same job for $10k a year. Why would they waste money on sending an American? Couple this with your savings on overhead, and you can see why reverse outsourcing is ludicrous.
Anybody who works in foreign development knows somebody who has taken a posting in a developing nation, because it allows them to save a huge amount of their salary.
Ah but that's project control and coordination positions. Thats not reverse outsourcing, thats management. Outsourcing is where you find people who do the same job in other countries on the cheap; what you are talking about is putting in a few people to control all of these new employees.
From first-hand experience, I can tell you that on a middle class US salary, you can live like a rich man in India.
Absoloutely. However, my point was, why would they give someone a middle class salary in India, when they can give someone the same in the US without any of the associated problems? Reverse outsourcing is nonsense.
Crappier infrastrcuture??? At 300 million mobile phones, i wish to think different.
You can wish all you like, but you'd still not understand what he was talking about. He means things like roads, indoor plumbing, you know... infrastructure. Not mobile phones. This whole story is laughable in any case, I mean what, in 2004 25% of India's population was below the poverty line, which is, wait for it, about 8 dollars a month. Indians won't be getting western wages anytime soon, and if they do, you know what will happen? The companies will move straight on to China. Or south east asia. Or Russia. Companies don't go to India because they like the curry, they go there because its cheap. Thats what we call the bottom line.
And that whooshing sound was the joke flying right over your head. :D
Not that smart. In-depth personality profiles (like the MMPI I mentioned in my original post) can be extremely difficult to fudge, unless you have an eidetic memory. Sociopathy can be detected ...
Well not to put too fine a point on it, but attaining the rank of the CEO of a major company isn't exactly easy either. I have complete faith in the ability of sociopaths to appear non-sociopathic when it suits them. That is, after all, exactly how they achieve these positions.
Besides that, my point still stands. If they are the best at a particular job, then thats the job they should be in. If they are denied that role, they will go elsewhere to achieve their aims. You want these people in politics? Err, never mind. Failing all else they will simply go to a country where this testing isn't in place, turn around, and kick your asses, once they are through dogfighting the local sociopaths for power and wealth.
Make the law harsh, and enforce the law. So yes, its not prevention, but believe me its a cure, on a case by case basis anyway. As the "war on terror" has proven, we will never be safe, but then again we never were. Life is a contact sport, and some places will never have a safety net for the general public.
Oh, ripping off the consumer for ink is another female created advancement.
Hey, so hows that puerile misogyny coming along?
American businessman King Gillette famously invented the razor and blades business model, in which safety razors were sold or even given away as loss leaders so that his company could profit by selling disposable razor blades.
That would be flat out illegal, and they would never do such a thing.
Erm. RTFA?
If Patricia Dunn spies on her employees like this, how can I trust her enough to be a customer of HP?
To be honest if HP produced equipment that was halfway decent and sold at a reasonable price, it wouldn't bother me one way or the other. They don't, on both counts, so the point is moot. Regardless, I'd tap that sociopathic ass.
Naughty Patricia.
Naughty.
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be a requirement for corporate upper management to have to take an APD test.
:D
The reason that would be a waste of time is that most of these people are really, really smart. Maybe not maths geniuses or that kind of smart, but they know exactly how to pull the levers in people to get what they want. Unless the APD test checks for some sort of chemical imbalance (preferably while they are comatose), they will know exactly what to say to the relevant questions in order to make themselves look as un-sociopathic as possible. Hell, most of them will look it up before the test, or pay a psychologist to do it for them.
We are trying to determine if you have any positive emotions towards your fellow man. Do you like children?
Why yes, I love children, I donated $500 to a childrens foundation just this month!
There really isn't an easy answer to this one. Can they do the jobs they are employed to do better than anyone else? If the answer is yes, then they belong in that job. The only thing that can be done is to ensure that if they commit crimes, they are punished to an extent that it will give other sociopaths pause before attempting the same thing. If the RIAA (sociopath city) can sue someone per song in their collection, high level corporate crime should be dealt with on a per-victim basis.
Steal the pension funds of 500 people? Thats 500 counts of theft or fraud, to be run one after another. Even if they only get 6 months per case, thats still 250 years of hard time. That might seem a bit harsh, but as they say, with great power comes great responsibility.