Globalism is not good. One small problem. Someone in India can live off of $5000 a year, but an American can't even pay rent and utilities with that in a year. Let India build it's own economy within it's own country selling products to it's own people! The middle class will be erased in America, and that will crash the American economy. This will result in other stock markets crashing because they tend to be connected. This is not a good thing. Globalism is a bad thing.
I don't see what leveling the playing field has to do with this. American jobs should be for Americans. Americans need to support themselves and their families.
I don't see how Globalism is good at all. All I see greedy corporations searching for more 3rd world countries to take advantage of. What will happen when places like China uncut India, and India starts to lose jobs?
As more Americans lose their high paying jobs to offshore outsourcing companies, they have to take lower paying jobs. This means lower tax income for the US Government, and that means the Government won't have enough money to do all that Americans and the World demand of it. The first thing American will probably demand is that we pull out of all other countries, and that we stop giving money to other countries (such as Isreal and the other Middle East Coutries).
I think the Government should penalise all companies that use foriegn labor (either in country or out of the country). Before you hide behind the typical liberal racist comment, get it straight. I am a nationalist. I believe America, and Americans, should come first. Other countries do it, and America should be allowed to do so too.
I am going to continue to work to get foriegn labor penalised in America for a field that has high unemployment!
No. I am a naitonlist. Get your insults right! You are an ignorant bastard hiding behind an annonymous shield and the typical liberal "racist" comment when someone thinks Americans should come first in America!
Actually, even if you are REALLY good at what you do, you should worry about your job. Most people that are really good at what they do get paid good. Cost cutting can mean that you are laid off with the other 2 or 3 "really good people" so that the upper-upper management can get/keep their annual bonuses (and other extra benefits).
Then, when you are unemployed, your resume will get lost in a stack of over 500 resumes that were submitted in the first 2 hours that the job was posted.
There is no job security for ANYONE in the United States anymore unless your job involves a service type industry. All other jobs can be moved overseas.
The job shift to overseas is not just happening in the Tech industry. It's happening in the Call Center business and Accounting business.
Why should a company in America keep you employed when they can pay someone in India $5000 a year without all the benefits!?!
One small problem. YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT. This happened to the Textile industry, and now it is happening to the Technology industry. Currently, accounting jobs are also starting to move overseas, and companies don't bother to tell there customers these things.
Call centers are also being sent overseas. They, call center's in India, are even teaching their employees to talk with various American accents, and the call center employees take a new American name for their job.
Freedom means nothing if you can't support yourself and your family (if you have one). Businesses are sending jobs overseas to increase profits at the cost of American jobs. This won't stop with Tech jobs. All jobs that can be moved overseas all in the name of increased profits will be if nothing is done to stop it This is erasing the middle class! Without a middle class, most capitalistic economies will colapse! The middle class is the backbone of a capitalistic economy.
You are completely missing the point. I think a country should protect the jobs of it's citizens. Why should a foriegner get a job over an American in America? I think h1-bs and l1s should be eliminated when there is high unemployment of American citizens in a given field. Why do companies need to bring in foriegn labor when there is existing American labor unemployed!!!
Unfortunately, these things won't always help. What about call centers? They are being outsourced to India (like AT&T). What about accounting? Accounting is starting to be outsourced to India. Tarifs will not help in these situations.
How is this insightful? This is clueless. This just shows how little you know about the current unemployment situation!
Excellent programmers get lost in the stack of 500 or more other resumes that get sent to the company within the first 2 hours that a job is posted!
The problem is not limited to California. I live in Southern NH, and Southern NH & Northern Mass has a lot of unemployed Programmers/Software Engineers/Software Developers, IT people, and other tech related people.
Usually, the person who gets hired (70% to 80% of the time) is the person who had a friend or relative in the company. It's called networking, and it has nothing to do with computers or skills. As long as you might fit the bill you can get in.
The other thing you failed to mention is that most start ups fail in the first year. Half of the rest fail in the next few years.
I REALLY hope you don't have to experience the current unemployment problem from a first hand perspective.
I should mention that contracting is as much an option as it used to be because a lot of contracting shops are being under bid by foriegn labor too. I know people who work for some.
Now, 8pm on Boston WGBH 2 on Bill Moyers show there was a segment on this. This is the information I recieved from WashTech:
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I want to point out that this is not just Technology jobs! Accounting jobs are being sent to India, and also call centers.
If this is not enough, the government is still allowing foriegners to take American jobs using L1s and H1-Bs.
Also, states are sending their money to jobs overseas. ANY job that doesn't require a physical presence in the United States can be sent overseas to places like India!
RIAA is nothing compared to the loss of our jobs to foriegners and overseas. We, that means everybody (tech and non-tech) need to make our Government understand we will not stand for jobs being moving overseas or foriegners taking our jobs!
Before this could become common place we need to take away the strangle hold debeers has on the diamond market, or come up with a cheap way to manufactor diamonds. I know people inRussia were working on it at one time (to load the market with counterfits).
I know I will take a karma hit for this, but so be it! I am tired of people saying Bush hasn't done anything.
The Democrats in Congress specifically. All you have to do is look at the Democrats responce over the blackouts. Before 24 hours was over, Hillary Clinton and others started to blame Bush for this--despite the fact that Bush has been saying we need to update the power grid systems since he started running for election.
The Democrats have been stalling current legislation in congress that would have taken a big step in the right direction. These were the parts the Liberal media didn't tell you about in the bill to drill for oil in Alaska. Apperently, getting more fuel for to increase power in the United States wasn't good for them.
Regarding the Republicans controlling congress, all you need to do is lok at judicial nominations to see that the Democrats can stall anythign they want. At least 2 high qualified candidates have not even been given an up or down vote becuase the Democrats are illegally philabustering (sp?) their nominations. Both candidates have VERY HIGH recogmendations from the ABA (American Bar Association). One of them is being illegally discriminated against because they are Catholic and don't reflect the "liberal" beliefs of Democrats.
So, you are actually wrong Bush has tried to do things, but the media you followed just didn't bother to tell you. They only told you he wanted to drill for oil in Alaska. The only people not doing things is Democrats. The only thing they do is try and point fingers at Bush. Bush tried to do something about it, but the Democrats blocked him. I suggest you actually try paying attention first before you comment. All in all, you are wrong on all accounts.
A lot of states are currently doing something like that. What will most likely happen is that the source of the power will change, but you'll get it from the same power lines that you you do now. There will be some form of a usage fee for the wires that gets paid to the maintainers of the wires in the area.
Look at the telephone industry. You don't have multiple telephone lines. This is because the phone companies rent time on each others line cheaper than they charge us. They make a profit off the margin. Incidentally, that is what California tried to do, but the power cost them more what they could charge the customers and the margin of profit changed to a margin of loss.
I would like to point out that a vast majority of New England States (Maine, NH Vermont, Mass, Rhode Island, & Conneticut for those who don't know the states that make up New England) didn't experience a power loss. Some parts of western Massachussets and western Vermont, and some of Conneticut did becuase they are hooked into the Niagra power gird, but the rest of New England has technology in place to prevent the power from going off.
In the US power consumption grew 30% while the power capacity only grew 15%, and the Democrats have been blocking all attempts to increase the power capacity.
This power outage just goes to prove that President Bush was right. He was talking about the need to increase, improve, and modernize out infrastructure.
Yeah, but the real question is whether or not NASA/Air Force will lend India the cool movie studios it used to film the moon landing and the Alien disection.
Actually, I don't believe any of it. Ice on land is not taken into account.
For the last 20 years, or more, scietist have said the ice caps are going to melt because of global warming and flood all the costal areas. Then they said we are heading for an ice age. Seriously, I think you would a better prediction by throwing a dart or randomly pick a card from a deck of cards.
This actually reminds me more of the Membari 360 degree display of battles, and the display screens on the Whitestar fleet. They both came down from the ceiling.
This is cool technology! Although, I'd think you'd want to keep it away from wall and wooden areas to prevent the growth of mold and mildew.
No kidding! Who reads a book that has in a nutshell in the title? There are not many nuts that are big. The analogy obvious means there is just enough information to remind you. In other words, you need to already know it!
Am I the only one who sits down to browse through a book before I buy it? Especially when I am expecting to learn the language from it?
It seems SCO finally answered that stupid South Park mystery:
1. Pretend to like linux and pay someone to put their own code in an open source company. 2. *** Sue Everyone under the Sun and Moon *** 3. PROFIT!!!!!!
I have an answer for you. It's simple supply and demand. The producers (RIAA & associates) are not sellering the products at a price the consumer is willing to pay. The consumers just don't want to pay high prices on cds which can go into the 20s when you factor in sales tax. The usual tactic is to lower the cost ont he latest and greatest for a couple of weeks while the more interesting stuff can cost $15 to 16 or more.
There is less competition in the market place, and that means less options and quality. The people at the top of the Record companies are going to need to lower their own salaries, and they are going to have to stop paying the major artist so much money!
The same goes for the executives at other companies such as the airlines. Both industries can save money by lowering the salaries of the top people. If the people at the top don't change, then the companies will colapse under the weight of the top executives.
In a capitalist society, you change with the times by find away to make your product worth buying int he eyesin the consumer!
Aside from the racial slurs, I basically agree with you. I, and 3 other people, was laid of so the top 4 execs could get their annual $30,000 bonus, and the #1 exec could get a $30,000 raise despite having frozen the wages of everyone else!
There are currently two bills in congress that will increase the number of visas allow. The following is from the 495eic yahoo group ( A Boston, MA area networking group that addresses political concerns:
To: Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:53 PM Subject: TE Network: Political action alert - urgent
Forwarded from the computer-related list. Please feel free to distribute this urgent alert to all appropriate on-line and off- line groups of unemployed folks and encourage them to take action ASAP.
"AT this moment in time the House of Representatives is discussing HR 2738 Chile Free Trade Agreement, and HR 2939 Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
Both bills contain provisions that would create a new "W" non- immigrant visa. The agreements also prohibit Congress from placing any numerical limits, labor certification requirements or other protections for American workers on the issuance of L-1 visas.
These 2 bills, with immigration provisions, mark a new approach to trade agreements that include endless 'temporary workers' and the end of IT jobs in America.
Call your congressional rep: The Toll-Free number to the DC-House of Representatives is 800-648-3516. Just ask to be transferred to your Representative."
It looks like the government as a whole has sold our jobs to foriegn workers. That will leave us working for places like Wal*Mart! I too am conservative, and I have been happy with the President until now. I wrote an email, and now I am currently working on a letter that I will snail mail. I am making this an election issue because for me it is, and if enough people start complaining (both employed and unemployed) to the respresentatives and the Presidents, then the parties will have to start listening. Of course, if they don't just don't vote for them!
Even so, IBM now has an Ace in the hole. IANAL, but If an Caldera (and SCO owns Caldera) employee put a lot of the code in question in the kernel, then it's reasonable to argue that the code became public domain unless there is a copyright and license in the code when it was submitted. In fact, it may be argued that SCO by the fact that they own Caldera probably copied the linux kernel themselves. As I have said all along, SCO complaints smell really bad, and I doubt they have any case against IBM or anyone else.
I think you can do make type targets with the MSYS platform which is a part of the MinGW projects. People have successfully used it with wxWindows (an awesome crossplatform platform {it is more than just a library}), and I plan on compiling with it this afternoon, or tonight.
I know I will take a Karma hit for this, but you people are morons! The president is just doing what every other person who is popular (good or bad)--such as movie stars, tv stars, singer, etc.--is doing. Hell, even Cmdrtaco doesn't reply to every email he gets. Even companies do this when you send your resume. You get an autoreply, and they don't read every coverletter and resume the get. Someone scans them keeping the relevant information. You can't assume people will respond.
I don't think this story is even worth noting. Some idiotic reporter is upset because President Bush is snubbing him, and not bowing to, or listening to, his personal warped eyeglass look at the world! Big deal! Get over it.
If every American wrote the President of the United States on a regular basis, he and his staff would not be able to read them all AND do his work as the leader of the World's most powerful country.
The subject contents of the paranoids, crybabies, and everyone out there would end up keeping the him, and those under him, answering and investigating those that sound plausible ideas, comments, etc.
I myself recent wrote the President to complain about techjobs be sent over seas and H1Bs being used in a time with high employment rates--especially in the tech industry. It wasn't hard to find the page to send an email to the President. You fill in some information and select a subject from a list that best describes what you want to say, and there is more items than for or against.
Then you write your comments! Big Deal! {SARCASM}That was way to hard.{/SARCASM} A day, or so, later, I got an email saying basically that if I was serious about my comment and want a responce to reply via email. I am not going to hold my breath for a responce because I know he is a very busy man!
All this is political postering to make people mad at the President of the US, and you people fell right into it. They are pulling your strings like a puppet to get you mad at the President and consider an alternative. The sad thing is that some editor on slashdot fell for the postering. Face it people. Not everyone wants to hear what we say, and none of us have the time to filter and research all the information we get each day from a lot of information.
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Globalism is not good. One small problem. Someone in India can live off of $5000 a year, but an American can't even pay rent and utilities with that in a year. Let India build it's own economy within it's own country selling products to it's own people! The middle class will be erased in America, and that will crash the American economy. This will result in other stock markets crashing because they tend to be connected. This is not a good thing. Globalism is a bad thing.
I don't see what leveling the playing field has to do with this. American jobs should be for Americans. Americans need to support themselves and their families.
I don't see how Globalism is good at all. All I see greedy corporations searching for more 3rd world countries to take advantage of. What will happen when places like China uncut India, and India starts to lose jobs?
As more Americans lose their high paying jobs to offshore outsourcing companies, they have to take lower paying jobs. This means lower tax income for the US Government, and that means the Government won't have enough money to do all that Americans and the World demand of it. The first thing American will probably demand is that we pull out of all other countries, and that we stop giving money to other countries (such as Isreal and the other Middle East Coutries).
I think the Government should penalise all companies that use foriegn labor (either in country or out of the country). Before you hide behind the typical liberal racist comment, get it straight. I am a nationalist. I believe America, and Americans, should come first. Other countries do it, and America should be allowed to do so too.
I am going to continue to work to get foriegn labor penalised in America for a field that has high unemployment!
No. I am a naitonlist. Get your insults right! You are an ignorant bastard hiding behind an annonymous shield and the typical liberal "racist" comment when someone thinks Americans should come first in America!
Actually, even if you are REALLY good at what you do, you should worry about your job. Most people that are really good at what they do get paid good. Cost cutting can mean that you are laid off with the other 2 or 3 "really good people" so that the upper-upper management can get/keep their annual bonuses (and other extra benefits).
Then, when you are unemployed, your resume will get lost in a stack of over 500 resumes that were submitted in the first 2 hours that the job was posted.
There is no job security for ANYONE in the United States anymore unless your job involves a service type industry. All other jobs can be moved overseas.
The job shift to overseas is not just happening in the Tech industry. It's happening in the Call Center business and Accounting business.
Why should a company in America keep you employed when they can pay someone in India $5000 a year without all the benefits!?!
Small problem with that idea. Most new companies fail. only a couple of a hundred make it more than five years.
One small problem. YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT. This happened to the Textile industry, and now it is happening to the Technology industry. Currently, accounting jobs are also starting to move overseas, and companies don't bother to tell there customers these things.
Call centers are also being sent overseas. They, call center's in India, are even teaching their employees to talk with various American accents, and the call center employees take a new American name for their job.
Freedom means nothing if you can't support yourself and your family (if you have one). Businesses are sending jobs overseas to increase profits at the cost of American jobs. This won't stop with Tech jobs. All jobs that can be moved overseas all in the name of increased profits will be if nothing is done to stop it This is erasing the middle class! Without a middle class, most capitalistic economies will colapse! The middle class is the backbone of a capitalistic economy.
You are completely missing the point. I think a country should protect the jobs of it's citizens. Why should a foriegner get a job over an American in America? I think h1-bs and l1s should be eliminated when there is high unemployment of American citizens in a given field. Why do companies need to bring in foriegn labor when there is existing American labor unemployed!!!
Unfortunately, these things won't always help. What about call centers? They are being outsourced to India (like AT&T). What about accounting? Accounting is starting to be outsourced to India. Tarifs will not help in these situations.
How is this insightful? This is clueless. This just shows how little you know about the current unemployment situation!
Excellent programmers get lost in the stack of 500 or more other resumes that get sent to the company within the first 2 hours that a job is posted!
The problem is not limited to California. I live in Southern NH, and Southern NH & Northern Mass has a lot of unemployed Programmers/Software Engineers/Software Developers, IT people, and other tech related people.
Usually, the person who gets hired (70% to 80% of the time) is the person who had a friend or relative in the company. It's called networking, and it has nothing to do with computers or skills. As long as you might fit the bill you can get in.
The other thing you failed to mention is that most start ups fail in the first year. Half of the rest fail in the next few years.
I REALLY hope you don't have to experience the current unemployment problem from a first hand perspective.
I should mention that contracting is as much an option as it used to be because a lot of contracting shops are being under bid by foriegn labor too. I know people who work for some.
I highly suggest signing up for this email. They notify people about people like this.
I want to point out that this is not just Technology jobs! Accounting jobs are being sent to India, and also call centers.
If this is not enough, the government is still allowing foriegners to take American jobs using L1s and H1-Bs.
Also, states are sending their money to jobs overseas. ANY job that doesn't require a physical presence in the United States can be sent overseas to places like India!
RIAA is nothing compared to the loss of our jobs to foriegners and overseas. We, that means everybody (tech and non-tech) need to make our Government understand we will not stand for jobs being moving overseas or foriegners taking our jobs!
Before this could become common place we need to take away the strangle hold debeers has on the diamond market, or come up with a cheap way to manufactor diamonds. I know people inRussia were working on it at one time (to load the market with counterfits).
How long before the whole music industry colapses in on itself because of greed? I think we should start taking bets!
I know I will take a karma hit for this, but so be it! I am tired of people saying Bush hasn't done anything.
The Democrats in Congress specifically. All you have to do is look at the Democrats responce over the blackouts. Before 24 hours was over, Hillary Clinton and others started to blame Bush for this--despite the fact that Bush has been saying we need to update the power grid systems since he started running for election.
The Democrats have been stalling current legislation in congress that would have taken a big step in the right direction. These were the parts the Liberal media didn't tell you about in the bill to drill for oil in Alaska. Apperently, getting more fuel for to increase power in the United States wasn't good for them.
Regarding the Republicans controlling congress, all you need to do is lok at judicial nominations to see that the Democrats can stall anythign they want. At least 2 high qualified candidates have not even been given an up or down vote becuase the Democrats are illegally philabustering (sp?) their nominations. Both candidates have VERY HIGH recogmendations from the ABA (American Bar Association). One of them is being illegally discriminated against because they are Catholic and don't reflect the "liberal" beliefs of Democrats.
So, you are actually wrong Bush has tried to do things, but the media you followed just didn't bother to tell you. They only told you he wanted to drill for oil in Alaska. The only people not doing things is Democrats. The only thing they do is try and point fingers at Bush. Bush tried to do something about it, but the Democrats blocked him. I suggest you actually try paying attention first before you comment. All in all, you are wrong on all accounts.
A lot of states are currently doing something like that. What will most likely happen is that the source of the power will change, but you'll get it from the same power lines that you you do now. There will be some form of a usage fee for the wires that gets paid to the maintainers of the wires in the area.
Look at the telephone industry. You don't have multiple telephone lines. This is because the phone companies rent time on each others line cheaper than they charge us. They make a profit off the margin. Incidentally, that is what California tried to do, but the power cost them more what they could charge the customers and the margin of profit changed to a margin of loss.
I would like to point out that a vast majority of New England States (Maine, NH Vermont, Mass, Rhode Island, & Conneticut for those who don't know the states that make up New England) didn't experience a power loss. Some parts of western Massachussets and western Vermont, and some of Conneticut did becuase they are hooked into the Niagra power gird, but the rest of New England has technology in place to prevent the power from going off.
In the US power consumption grew 30% while the power capacity only grew 15%, and the Democrats have been blocking all attempts to increase the power capacity.
This power outage just goes to prove that President Bush was right. He was talking about the need to increase, improve, and modernize out infrastructure.
Yeah, but the real question is whether or not NASA/Air Force will lend India the cool movie studios it used to film the moon landing and the Alien disection.
Actually, I don't believe any of it. Ice on land is not taken into account.
For the last 20 years, or more, scietist have said the ice caps are going to melt because of global warming and flood all the costal areas. Then they said we are heading for an ice age. Seriously, I think you would a better prediction by throwing a dart or randomly pick a card from a deck of cards.
Then something could get wet. Him I want to see this thing in action.
This actually reminds me more of the Membari 360 degree display of battles, and the display screens on the Whitestar fleet. They both came down from the ceiling.
This is cool technology! Although, I'd think you'd want to keep it away from wall and wooden areas to prevent the growth of mold and mildew.
I just wish IBM would commence the hostile buyout and fire the management. Make everyone's pain go away.
No kidding! Who reads a book that has in a nutshell in the title? There are not many nuts that are big. The analogy obvious means there is just enough information to remind you. In other words, you need to already know it!
Am I the only one who sits down to browse through a book before I buy it? Especially when I am expecting to learn the language from it?
It seems SCO finally answered that stupid South Park mystery:
1. Pretend to like linux and pay someone to put their own code in an open source company.
2. *** Sue Everyone under the Sun and Moon ***
3. PROFIT!!!!!!
I have an answer for you. It's simple supply and demand. The producers (RIAA & associates) are not sellering the products at a price the consumer is willing to pay. The consumers just don't want to pay high prices on cds which can go into the 20s when you factor in sales tax. The usual tactic is to lower the cost ont he latest and greatest for a couple of weeks while the more interesting stuff can cost $15 to 16 or more.
There is less competition in the market place, and that means less options and quality. The people at the top of the Record companies are going to need to lower their own salaries, and they are going to have to stop paying the major artist so much money!
The same goes for the executives at other companies such as the airlines. Both industries can save money by lowering the salaries of the top people. If the people at the top don't change, then the companies will colapse under the weight of the top executives.
In a capitalist society, you change with the times by find away to make your product worth buying int he eyesin the consumer!
There are currently two bills in congress that will increase the number of visas allow. The following is from the 495eic yahoo group ( A Boston, MA area networking group that addresses political concerns:
It looks like the government as a whole has sold our jobs to foriegn workers. That will leave us working for places like Wal*Mart! I too am conservative, and I have been happy with the President until now. I wrote an email, and now I am currently working on a letter that I will snail mail. I am making this an election issue because for me it is, and if enough people start complaining (both employed and unemployed) to the respresentatives and the Presidents, then the parties will have to start listening. Of course, if they don't just don't vote for them!
Anything is better than pkzip for windows. It sucks. It is way to slow just to load! Winzip is faster, but I will try this one.
Even so, IBM now has an Ace in the hole. IANAL, but If an Caldera (and SCO owns Caldera) employee put a lot of the code in question in the kernel, then it's reasonable to argue that the code became public domain unless there is a copyright and license in the code when it was submitted. In fact, it may be argued that SCO by the fact that they own Caldera probably copied the linux kernel themselves. As I have said all along, SCO complaints smell really bad, and I doubt they have any case against IBM or anyone else.
I think you can do make type targets with the MSYS platform which is a part of the MinGW projects. People have successfully used it with wxWindows (an awesome crossplatform platform {it is more than just a library}), and I plan on compiling with it this afternoon, or tonight.
I know I will take a Karma hit for this, but you people are morons! The president is just doing what every other person who is popular (good or bad)--such as movie stars, tv stars, singer, etc.--is doing. Hell, even Cmdrtaco doesn't reply to every email he gets. Even companies do this when you send your resume. You get an autoreply, and they don't read every coverletter and resume the get. Someone scans them keeping the relevant information. You can't assume people will respond.
I don't think this story is even worth noting. Some idiotic reporter is upset because President Bush is snubbing him, and not bowing to, or listening to, his personal warped eyeglass look at the world! Big deal! Get over it.
If every American wrote the President of the United States on a regular basis, he and his staff would not be able to read them all AND do his work as the leader of the World's most powerful country.
The subject contents of the paranoids, crybabies, and everyone out there would end up keeping the him, and those under him, answering and investigating those that sound plausible ideas, comments, etc.
I myself recent wrote the President to complain about techjobs be sent over seas and H1Bs being used in a time with high employment rates--especially in the tech industry. It wasn't hard to find the page to send an email to the President. You fill in some information and select a subject from a list that best describes what you want to say, and there is more items than for or against.
Then you write your comments! Big Deal! {SARCASM}That was way to hard.{/SARCASM} A day, or so, later, I got an email saying basically that if I was serious about my comment and want a responce to reply via email. I am not going to hold my breath for a responce because I know he is a very busy man!
All this is political postering to make people mad at the President of the US, and you people fell right into it. They are pulling your strings like a puppet to get you mad at the President and consider an alternative. The sad thing is that some editor on slashdot fell for the postering. Face it people. Not everyone wants to hear what we say, and none of us have the time to filter and research all the information we get each day from a lot of information.