Yeah, McCain sure seems better than Bush. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat too if I actually believed that some silly impression of "character" that I get from a politician playing with their charisma was representative of the merit their policies have.
Regardless of how "cool" McCain seems (and let's face it, he's cool), he's still a Republican. His domestic policies would still be a train wreck. He'd still give tax breaks to the rich, he'd still contribute (more) to the erosion of our civil liberties, and he'd still use privatization as The Answer For Everything.
People don't just end up in political parties randomly. They're there because, for the most part, they toe their party's line. People who say "I don't vote on party lines, I vote for whichever is the better candidate" are ignoring the most important attribute by far of a candidate. If someone was too far outside their party's platform, they simply wouldn't get nominated.
Just curious, did they mention any Windows compatibility with this? Unless someone writes some kind of translation layer for Windows API calls (which sounds like a lot of work), how does this assist migration from Windows apps?
even those with skills have trouble finding employment
To me, that seems to bolster TFA's point more than it does yours. If it's that hard even for skilled people to find employment, it means that people in this industry will probably be clinging to their jobs with tooth and nail. I see no reason why "pseudogeeks" would be much more eager to give up their tech job than "real geeks" would. A paycheck is a paycheck.
Not that it's really comparable, but my roommate has had that bigger Archos player that's been out for a while (I forget the model number) since around when it released... it gets used every day, has been dropped a couple times, still works fine (she even takes pictures with it from time to time).
If the ALA wants a cause, it ought to look into John Kerry trying to force the Swiftboat Vets to stop publishing their book.
And I suppose if you were a public figure, and someone wrote a book with the obvious intent to tarnish your name with false accusations (as it happening in this case), you'd be waving the flag and thumping the first amendment. What if they went further, explained how you were in fact a criminal, or responsible for several murders?
You're trying to paint this as an absolute, when clearly it's not. There's an arbitrary line drawn between freedom of speech and slander, and Kerry thinks the Swiftboaters have crossed it, simple as that.
On that subject, I've heard the "only used against lice" claim made by other authors that say the holocaust didn't happen. But apparently it takes orders of magnitude more poison to kill lice than it does humans, so that argument is pretty baseless.
When the people you employ have no chance of living under the same conditions that you do, it's exploitation.
I disagree. Say, for the sake of argument, India's tech support workers are the equivalent of American blue collar workers. Then they're making a living, and they're certainly not living under the same conditions that their counterpart in the States is used to. What if these jobs used to pay $500,000 a year in some other country, and they outsourced to America? Would that also be exploitation?
When the conditions in China improve, then we can start this conversation again.
China isn't the topic here, unless the surge of IT outsourcing was redirected to the northeast? Nevertheless, I do agree completely that there is exploitation in China and companies like Nike that outsource to countries where they can get away with paying their workers a fraction of what they need to survive. But c'mon, don't tell me that Joe Indian working tech support in Delhi is starving.
Capitalism is a bitter pill, and companies are free to shop for low prices just like consumers. That's the whole idea, isn't it? America and other first world countries are used to technology barriers keeping poorer countries from competing in these job markets. Once those walls started crumbling, the participants in the oligopoly unsurprisingly start complaining. I sympathize, because my standard of living and well-being are threatened as well. But I can hardly feel justified begrudging my job to someone who, frankly, probably needs the money more than I do.
Bitch and moan as we may, this ridiculous imbalance in world wealth doesn't look very stable to me. Outsourcing this kind of stuff had to happen.
There are masses of very poor people out there now able to afford a computer and internet access. Their disadvantages are many, their only advantage is that they're poor. So of course they will work for less. Suck-it-up dept is right.
I don't support the exploitation of workers in poor countries, but it's hardly exploitation if these people are making a living doing what they do.
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I thought the Titan bet was a great deal until I RTFA and found out it's intelligent life on Titan. I think I'll pass.
At first I thought this sounded pretty useless. My friends can always just call me to find out where I am, and vice versa.
But I can see this holding some appeal for people with large acquaintance networks who like to bar-hop. It's always fun to run into people you know (assuming you like those people, at any rate) when you're out on the town. Certainly easier than calling twenty plus people to find out if they're within a few blocks.
Okay, so it's clear there's no way in hell that each of these guys had millions of dollars worth of data storage. So the sods at the DoJ have got to be talking about the total amount of data shared on the hub.
This being the case, Grokster pretty much sums it up. What exactly TF did they get raided for again? Does someone need to call the ACLU?
Listen to your elder (parent). If I really like group X, I generally may want to listen to any given album of theirs at any given time. Now, this of course isn't always true, but for some people, it's true most of the time. Just because some specific song in my collection hasn't been played in three months doesn't mean it doesn't belong there.
And seriously, how could you not enjoy that much music? Check out a few bands similar to ones you like; try using cross-reference sites like allmusic or amazon to find out what people with similar tastes to yours enjoy. It's usually not hard to find a slew of good music if you bother to look for yourself instead of opening wide for whatever garbage is playing on the radio.
It's legal for Dutch businesses to advertise marijuana on websites accessible from the States. It's legal for Dutch businesses to sell marijuana to Dutch citizens. It's illegal for them to sell it to U.S. citizens (I think?).
Now the sticky part, because this relates to Yahoo: is it illegal for a site to effectively provide a communication channel through which U.S. citizens may (illegaly) purchase marijuana from a Dutch business? I realize the roles are reversed here, but it's really this distinction that matters. It's fairly obvious that attempting to send material that is illegal in a country to that country is going to get you in trouble with them. But is Yahoo really selling the stuff in the first place?
That's a problem. Another problem is when rampantly biased news sources claim they carry no bias. This is a problem across the political spectrum, but it seems particularly obvious and exaggerated with Fox. Some will argue that any intelligent person knows that Fox has a conservative slant, but remember that nagging tautology... half the population has an I.Q. less than 100. Many people simply have no idea that the popular news channel that proclaims "Fair And Balanced" the loudest is actually on of the least fair and most imbalanced.
Am I just ill-informed, or does KDE not have any transparency worth mentioning? Having a console whose background is a filtered version of the desktop background, updated by position, is nothing to write/home about.
Although I agree in spirit with much of what you're saying, I'm going to have to disagree overall on the ID card issue. The only thing worse than having a national ID is having a broken national ID. The SSN is essentially that, and it's not going anywhere. Personally, I'd rather see individuals that cared be able to quickly and efficiently prove citizenship and individuality before certain parties figure out more efficient schemes to disenfranchise large sections of the voters.
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I haven't seen a single political ad that discusses the truth or isn't hyperbole.
Of course not. CBS wouldn't want that to happen.
Hmm, sounds like you're advocating pre-emptive arrests. Didn't they make a movie about that...?
Yeah, McCain sure seems better than Bush. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat too if I actually believed that some silly impression of "character" that I get from a politician playing with their charisma was representative of the merit their policies have.
Regardless of how "cool" McCain seems (and let's face it, he's cool), he's still a Republican. His domestic policies would still be a train wreck. He'd still give tax breaks to the rich, he'd still contribute (more) to the erosion of our civil liberties, and he'd still use privatization as The Answer For Everything.
People don't just end up in political parties randomly. They're there because, for the most part, they toe their party's line. People who say "I don't vote on party lines, I vote for whichever is the better candidate" are ignoring the most important attribute by far of a candidate. If someone was too far outside their party's platform, they simply wouldn't get nominated.
TFA < /.
Just curious, did they mention any Windows compatibility with this? Unless someone writes some kind of translation layer for Windows API calls (which sounds like a lot of work), how does this assist migration from Windows apps?
even those with skills have trouble finding employment
To me, that seems to bolster TFA's point more than it does yours. If it's that hard even for skilled people to find employment, it means that people in this industry will probably be clinging to their jobs with tooth and nail. I see no reason why "pseudogeeks" would be much more eager to give up their tech job than "real geeks" would. A paycheck is a paycheck.
He doesn't "reveal" that he uses Firefox either. Nowhere in the article does it state such.
From article:
Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on my system.
So yes, it's possible that he only ever installs patches/upgrades to Firefox, and never actually "uses" it. But FAIAP, he uses Firefox.
indie cult classic
Wait. Wait.
Cult: Definitely
Classic: I'll give you that, with cult tacked on.
Indie: no???
I know that this guy is way indier than Smith.
Not that it's really comparable, but my roommate has had that bigger Archos player that's been out for a while (I forget the model number) since around when it released... it gets used every day, has been dropped a couple times, still works fine (she even takes pictures with it from time to time).
If the ALA wants a cause, it ought to look into John Kerry trying to force the Swiftboat Vets to stop publishing their book.
And I suppose if you were a public figure, and someone wrote a book with the obvious intent to tarnish your name with false accusations (as it happening in this case), you'd be waving the flag and thumping the first amendment. What if they went further, explained how you were in fact a criminal, or responsible for several murders?
You're trying to paint this as an absolute, when clearly it's not. There's an arbitrary line drawn between freedom of speech and slander, and Kerry thinks the Swiftboaters have crossed it, simple as that.
On that subject, I've heard the "only used against lice" claim made by other authors that say the holocaust didn't happen. But apparently it takes orders of magnitude more poison to kill lice than it does humans, so that argument is pretty baseless.
I'd consider driving in Idaho.
When the people you employ have no chance of living under the same conditions that you do, it's exploitation.
I disagree. Say, for the sake of argument, India's tech support workers are the equivalent of American blue collar workers. Then they're making a living, and they're certainly not living under the same conditions that their counterpart in the States is used to. What if these jobs used to pay $500,000 a year in some other country, and they outsourced to America? Would that also be exploitation?
When the conditions in China improve, then we can start this conversation again.
China isn't the topic here, unless the surge of IT outsourcing was redirected to the northeast? Nevertheless, I do agree completely that there is exploitation in China and companies like Nike that outsource to countries where they can get away with paying their workers a fraction of what they need to survive. But c'mon, don't tell me that Joe Indian working tech support in Delhi is starving.
Capitalism is a bitter pill, and companies are free to shop for low prices just like consumers. That's the whole idea, isn't it? America and other first world countries are used to technology barriers keeping poorer countries from competing in these job markets. Once those walls started crumbling, the participants in the oligopoly unsurprisingly start complaining. I sympathize, because my standard of living and well-being are threatened as well. But I can hardly feel justified begrudging my job to someone who, frankly, probably needs the money more than I do.
Bitch and moan as we may, this ridiculous imbalance in world wealth doesn't look very stable to me. Outsourcing this kind of stuff had to happen.
There are masses of very poor people out there now able to afford a computer and internet access. Their disadvantages are many, their only advantage is that they're poor. So of course they will work for less. Suck-it-up dept is right.
I don't support the exploitation of workers in poor countries, but it's hardly exploitation if these people are making a living doing what they do.
I thought the Titan bet was a great deal until I RTFA and found out it's intelligent life on Titan. I think I'll pass.
Sneaky fuckin Russian media...
At first I thought this sounded pretty useless. My friends can always just call me to find out where I am, and vice versa.
But I can see this holding some appeal for people with large acquaintance networks who like to bar-hop. It's always fun to run into people you know (assuming you like those people, at any rate) when you're out on the town. Certainly easier than calling twenty plus people to find out if they're within a few blocks.
Okay, so it's clear there's no way in hell that each of these guys had millions of dollars worth of data storage. So the sods at the DoJ have got to be talking about the total amount of data shared on the hub.
This being the case, Grokster pretty much sums it up. What exactly TF did they get raided for again? Does someone need to call the ACLU?
Listen to your elder (parent). If I really like group X, I generally may want to listen to any given album of theirs at any given time. Now, this of course isn't always true, but for some people, it's true most of the time. Just because some specific song in my collection hasn't been played in three months doesn't mean it doesn't belong there.
And seriously, how could you not enjoy that much music? Check out a few bands similar to ones you like; try using cross-reference sites like allmusic or amazon to find out what people with similar tastes to yours enjoy. It's usually not hard to find a slew of good music if you bother to look for yourself instead of opening wide for whatever garbage is playing on the radio.
It's legal for Dutch businesses to advertise marijuana on websites accessible from the States. It's legal for Dutch businesses to sell marijuana to Dutch citizens. It's illegal for them to sell it to U.S. citizens (I think?).
Now the sticky part, because this relates to Yahoo: is it illegal for a site to effectively provide a communication channel through which U.S. citizens may (illegaly) purchase marijuana from a Dutch business? I realize the roles are reversed here, but it's really this distinction that matters. It's fairly obvious that attempting to send material that is illegal in a country to that country is going to get you in trouble with them. But is Yahoo really selling the stuff in the first place?
That's a problem. Another problem is when rampantly biased news sources claim they carry no bias. This is a problem across the political spectrum, but it seems particularly obvious and exaggerated with Fox. Some will argue that any intelligent person knows that Fox has a conservative slant, but remember that nagging tautology... half the population has an I.Q. less than 100. Many people simply have no idea that the popular news channel that proclaims "Fair And Balanced" the loudest is actually on of the least fair and most imbalanced.
Am I just ill-informed, or does KDE not have any transparency worth mentioning? Having a console whose background is a filtered version of the desktop background, updated by position, is nothing to write /home about.
The /. I knew and loved is no more.
If I see one more post with "obligatory" in the title, I'll be obliged to punch my unsuspecting roommate.
I'd hate to wake up in the hospital as a Republican.
Although I agree in spirit with much of what you're saying, I'm going to have to disagree overall on the ID card issue. The only thing worse than having a national ID is having a broken national ID. The SSN is essentially that, and it's not going anywhere. Personally, I'd rather see individuals that cared be able to quickly and efficiently prove citizenship and individuality before certain parties figure out more efficient schemes to disenfranchise large sections of the voters.