Outsourcing sucks because it transfers relatively high-paying jobs to other countries, who use those skills to deliver products back to the country who outsourced the work.
As a result, North Americans are sending vast amounts of money overseas, are losing skillsets that took generations to build up, and are becoming nations of burger flippers with a few rich corporate managers sitting at the top. Those corporate managers are the only ones who will benefit long-term from this skill transfer.
As this trend continues, we will become less and less able to actually buy the products that we used to be able to make. Our standard of living has actually been decreasing for the last 15 years and that trend is accelerating. We're in a race to the bottom with nations whose idea of the bottom is far far scarier than most North Americans could stomach.
So, to answer your question, while "some" Americans may be in favour of globalization and while I myself believe that free trade with equal trading partners is a good way to increase everyone's standards of living, I do not think that competing in a race to the bottom with third-world labour is quite the same.
bzzr. per-capita gun ownership in many parts of Canada is higher than in much of the US. And, as a bonus, per-capita gun ownership is the lowest and gun control laws are the tightest in the areas of the US with the highest gun violence rates (similar ratios are observed in Canada).
Speaking purely from a statistical perspective, it is clear to me that gun ownership prevents violence.
Speaking from a common-sense perspective, it seems clear that something other than gun control laws keeps Canadians from killing each other.
That's true of any OS. Users new to Windows are just as lost (or worse). Future Shop doesn't have a computer support department because Windows is easy for people to use.
Well, not really. Fedora will change fast and won't be supported for very long. Which means you either upgrade every 6 months or you will have trouble getting security patches (from RedHat at least). That's problematic in an environment where stability is important.
I do expect though that the community will provide longer-term support for Fedora releases, which should alleviate this problem.
I totally understand why RedHat is doing what they're doing - they have to make money. However, if your requirement is a cheap(or free) distro RedHat may no longer be a good choice.
RedHat's a lousy desktop distro anyway. Great server distro though. If I change distros I'll miss RedHat kernels a lot.
>populace's own good). How would you like to drive >around a place where anyone can print out a phony >driver's license, kids with no driver training just >go sit behind wheels, and people get killed daily by >the doesen?
I don't know about Britain, but here in Canada all those things happen every day despite our mandatory drivers' licenses./shrug. Clearly a national ID card will do much better, though. Terrorists are so much more likely to obey the law than teenagers.
lol. How many times have you seen taxes lowered, anywhere, for any reason? The only thing that lowers taxes is a revolution, and that just starts the cycle back up again.
Blocking all cable/DSL systems blocks an enormous amount of spam and virus traffic coming from trojanned windows boxes at very little cost in terms of false positives.
The sad fact is that Microsoft + clueless home users have allowed spammers and virus writers to turn broadband Internet connections into the single biggest source of E-mail (and DDoS) abuse on the Internet.
Any large provider, faced by this onslaught of abuse, is going to eventually decide that they'll risk blocking mail from the tiny percentage of home users who run their own mail servers rather than accept all the crap that comes off those networks.
So, basically, I beg to differ with your assertion that this method will not help block spam - it can and does block huge volumes of spam and virus traffic. It doesn't target the spammers, but it does target the systems they currently use to send the bulk of their crap out; trojanned broadband-connected home computers.
I live in Vancouver, have been going to bars here for 10 years, and I've never even had to show ID, let alone get it scanned. I must not go to the right bars.
>What this story suggests to me is that, for bartenders to take this kind of risk, Vancouver bar patrons must historically be pretty bad tippers to begin with.
Try that. You can send one SYN packet. You certainly can't setup a conversation and actually send an E-mail from that forged IP. If spammers could do that they would be - be a lot easier than hunting down open relays and open proxies to send mail through.
Back in the day when you could predict the remote host's behaviour you probably could have, but not these days.
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Outsourcing sucks because it transfers relatively high-paying jobs to other countries, who use those skills to deliver products back to the country who outsourced the work.
As a result, North Americans are sending vast amounts of money overseas, are losing skillsets that took generations to build up, and are becoming nations of burger flippers with a few rich corporate managers sitting at the top. Those corporate managers are the only ones who will benefit long-term from this skill transfer.
As this trend continues, we will become less and less able to actually buy the products that we used to be able to make. Our standard of living has actually been decreasing for the last 15 years and that trend is accelerating. We're in a race to the bottom with nations whose idea of the bottom is far far scarier than most North Americans could stomach.
So, to answer your question, while "some" Americans may be in favour of globalization and while I myself believe that free trade with equal trading partners is a good way to increase everyone's standards of living, I do not think that competing in a race to the bottom with third-world labour is quite the same.
Ya, taking the first steps to secure the future of the human race. What a waste.
Now, Iraq, that's a waste. Unless you want to secure your access to 25% of the world's oil (and be permanently be parked next door to another 50%).
I already treat the CDR tax this way.
bzzr. per-capita gun ownership in many parts of Canada is higher than in much of the US. And, as a bonus, per-capita gun ownership is the lowest and gun control laws are the tightest in the areas of the US with the highest gun violence rates (similar ratios are observed in Canada).
Speaking purely from a statistical perspective, it is clear to me that gun ownership prevents violence.
Speaking from a common-sense perspective, it seems clear that something other than gun control laws keeps Canadians from killing each other.
>A martial arts master or a master carpenter
>generally don't have slaves.
You obviously haven't been to my dojo.
That's true of any OS. Users new to Windows are just as lost (or worse). Future Shop doesn't have a computer support department because Windows is easy for people to use.
Well, not really. Fedora will change fast and won't be supported for very long. Which means you either upgrade every 6 months or you will have trouble getting security patches (from RedHat at least). That's problematic in an environment where stability is important.
I do expect though that the community will provide longer-term support for Fedora releases, which should alleviate this problem.
I totally understand why RedHat is doing what they're doing - they have to make money. However, if your requirement is a cheap(or free) distro RedHat may no longer be a good choice.
RedHat's a lousy desktop distro anyway. Great server distro though. If I change distros I'll miss RedHat kernels a lot.
Unless what you REALLY want is a police state, and everything else is just a smokescreen to convince the sheep^H^H^H^H^citizenry it's a good idea.
>populace's own good). How would you like to drive
/shrug. Clearly a national ID card will do much better, though. Terrorists are so much more likely to obey the law than teenagers.
>around a place where anyone can print out a phony
>driver's license, kids with no driver training just
>go sit behind wheels, and people get killed daily by
>the doesen?
I don't know about Britain, but here in Canada all those things happen every day despite our mandatory drivers' licenses.
Depending how easy you made it to take your car, you can be held liable for things people do with it, even if stolen.
lol. How many times have you seen taxes lowered, anywhere, for any reason? The only thing that lowers taxes is a revolution, and that just starts the cycle back up again.
Blocking all cable/DSL systems blocks an enormous amount of spam and virus traffic coming from trojanned windows boxes at very little cost in terms of false positives.
The sad fact is that Microsoft + clueless home users have allowed spammers and virus writers to turn broadband Internet connections into the single biggest source of E-mail (and DDoS) abuse on the Internet.
Any large provider, faced by this onslaught of abuse, is going to eventually decide that they'll risk blocking mail from the tiny percentage of home users who run their own mail servers rather than accept all the crap that comes off those networks.
So, basically, I beg to differ with your assertion that this method will not help block spam - it can and does block huge volumes of spam and virus traffic. It doesn't target the spammers, but it does target the systems they currently use to send the bulk of their crap out; trojanned broadband-connected home computers.
The normal design is an inner chamber surrounded by water or lead. Not sure what they have on ISS.
only the first generation.
Actually he said it was the only BSD that didn't crash on him.
Who cares if they have an actual pink contract or not? If they don't boot the spammers, the effect is the sme.
If their games only ran on Linux, they would. That's the only reason I keep a Windows partition around.
I'd be even more amazed to find that only $40 was charged to the card.
always fun getting my ass kicked in public :)
thanks for the updates.
I live in Vancouver, have been going to bars here for 10 years, and I've never even had to show ID, let alone get it scanned. I must not go to the right bars.
Well, parts of Winnipeg have a gang problem. Think Compton with drunken Indians and snow.
>What this story suggests to me is that, for bartenders to take this kind of risk, Vancouver bar patrons must historically be pretty bad tippers to begin with.
Well, we are Canadians.
Uh huh. I'm trying to imagine neighborhood pubs being stupid enough to piss off customers like this. I'm failing though.
Try that. You can send one SYN packet. You certainly can't setup a conversation and actually send an E-mail from that forged IP. If spammers could do that they would be - be a lot easier than hunting down open relays and open proxies to send mail through.
Back in the day when you could predict the remote host's behaviour you probably could have, but not these days.
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