Google has a bit of a natural monopoly since the more people who use a search engine the more valuable the search engine becomes via features like AdWords as well as more rational page ranking. As long as a search engine has the most users all it has to do is be a collaborative search engine and not be stupid about the load leveling algorithms across its servers.
Microsoft, on the other hand, can pretty much hold the whole computer industry hostage by virtue of having the most deployed systems hence anyone who wants to buy or write software for a computer has to obtain the MS OS to transact business. This is worse than the classic "utility" type natural monopoly -- the better analogy would be if someone owned a perpetual patent on 60Hz AC.
When the fertility rate of US citizen techs matches the world average -- preferably the average of Indian techs -- then the NYT can start complaining about the status of techs. If you take sociosexual status from someone you have to give them money to compensate or you lose your technology. That's what's been happening to the US and the NY culture, as represented by the NYT's bias is partly to blame.
De Pretto was attempting to deal with the results of the Michelson -Morley experiment which seemed to disprove the existence of the aether. The fact that it had been decades since Michaelson-Morley's experiment before De Pretto's derivation of E=mc^2 and then only another 2 years before Einstein's theory of relativity seems pretty convincing that De Pretto's derivation was seminal. This is particularly convincing given the fact that it is known Einstein was informed of De Pretto's work well before Einstein's paper on special relativity was published and possibly before he had begun writing it.
Einstein's failure to cite other scientists for that work was simply unethical.
Poincare still believed in the ether, and thus an absolute referene frame and an absolute time. It was Einstein who, with his observations about the very nature of time being relative, did away with a ficntional "local time" and an absolute reference frame.
No if anyone "observed" that time was relative it was Michelson-Morley. Einstein postulated this observation as the basis of a formal system which yielded new testable hypotheses.
The
mathematical equation that ushered in the atomic age was discovered by
an unknown Italian dilettante two years before Albert Einstein used it
in developing the theory of relativity, it was claimed yesterday.
Olinto De Pretto, an industrialist from Vicenza, published the equation E=mc2 in a scientific magazine, Atte, in 1903, said Umberto Bartocci, a mathematical historian.
Einstein
allegedly used De Pretto's insight in a major paper published in 1905,
but De Pretto was never acclaimed, said Professor Bartocci of the
University of Perugia.
De
Pretto had stumbled on the equation, but not the theory of relativity,
while speculating about ether in the life of the universe, said Prof
Bartocci. It was republished in 1904 by Veneto's Royal Science
Institute, but the equation's significance was not understood.
A
Swiss Italian named Michele Besso alerted Einstein to the research and
in 1905 Einstein published his own work, said Prof Bartocci. It took
years for his breakthrough to be grasped. When the penny finally
dropped, De Pretto's contribution was overlooked while Einstein went on
to become the century's most famous scientist. De Pretto died in 1921.
"De
Pretto did not discover relativity but there is no doubt that he was
the first to use the equation. That is hugely significant. I also
believe, though it's impossible to prove, that Einstein used De
Pretto's research," said Prof Bartocci, who has written a book on the
subject....
Any simulation of culture that doesn't evolve the ability to communicate from an artificial genetic basis is bound to fail the most important test:
How is the genetic capacity for communication maintained in the presence of the evolutionary incentive to manipulate signals rather than communicate?
My preliminary research based on the demographic memetic prisoner dilemma (with climate variation) indicates it is very difficult to sustain communication if high migration rates are allowed.
I'll tell you what's "ideal".... the idea that non-subsistence property rights aren't a mere social construct that could fall apart with catastrophic consequences.
I'm not saying there is no technical fix here -- there is -- its not "nanotechnology" as people have been discussing it and I really am fed up with people going on about "nanotechnology". I suggest if you care about solving the hard social and political problems arising from technological civilization that you start using well defined terms so people don't think you're a mere palaverer.
The real problem, as I continue to point out, is not job loss: the problem is how to more equitably share the productivity gains of centuries of progress.
These guys are going directly against Stewart Brand's sage advice of centralizing everybody in urban areas where they will be sodomized and made gay. We know gay is good because it reduces the population growth rate -- hence urban areas are good.
Oh, wait, didn't Deliverance tell us that all the sodomy is going on in the rural areas? We all know movies never lie! So maybe Brand should rethink his ruralophobia and encourage greater localization of production and consumption of food.
Well, anyway, Stewart Brand should nuke China anyway because they didn't obey to his sage advice as a matter of faith.
H-1bs are preferred over US employees. Now we see that outsourcing is also preferred over US employees. This won't stop till US politics and society is restructured to stop the globalizers from selling-out the country that made them -- both here and abroad.
Corporations have no god-given right to their property-rights. They were given the environment that provided their property rights by the US's citizens who defended not only defended those property rights with their lives and tax dollars, but were the source technologically creative culture these globalizing traitors now sell-out to foreign competitors with the cooperation of corrupt politicians.
PS: This isn't to say this movement of labor off-shore isn't welcomed. The less power companies like HP have over the US the faster the US will recover from the slide to third-world status created by these Frankenstein monstrosities.
National Socialism has a counterpart in International Socialism aka Communism.
What you are talking about is International Capitalism, aka Globalization. It has a counterpart in National Capitalism or traditional capitalism which gives national security priority over multinational profits. BTW: "Homeland Security" and the associated loss of civil liberties domestically is simply the manifestation of national insecurity predictably arising by this shift in priorities.
That was not my published article but a Usenet post asking for data to eliminate the possibility of foul play in Koopman's death. My article did not posit foul play nor did it exclude foul play because I was unable to find anything to substantiate conclusions either way. My explaination for Koopman's death given in my prior response is just as consistent with my article as is active foul play during the morning of Koopman's death.
If you're saying it is unreasonable to investigate the possibility of foul play in a death such as Koopman's, then we clearly see who the crackpot is here.
Software is no more a mature sweatshop technology than is science.
What you are doing with software is coming up with formal systems that model reality. It is easy to come up with complex models of reality -- just enumerate all the data you have and call that a "theory".
Where science gets its power is where software gets its quality: Parsimony. The problem with parsimony is that it's hard. It's so hard you can't find a better definition for artificial intelligence quality than Kolmogorov compression ratio.
"Anonymous Coward" asks us to "consider the source". This otherwise incredible request is perfectly understandable given the way he so mendaciously distorts the real history here:
I was advising a member of Gary Hart's AIDS policy committee (Andrew Cutler) with whom I had previously worked on science and technology policy, when the topic of quarantine came up. The topic came up because Cuba had successfully contained the AIDS epidemic there by setting up towns for its HIV-positive population. Our proposal was less radical: Blanket HIV-antibody testing of the population, stiff criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of HIV status to the public, stiff criminal sentences for exposure of others to HIV infection, mandatory contact tracing and behavioral counseling for the HIV-positive population. The subsequent death toll of the AIDS epidemic has been homophobic and racially hostile to minorities. I wonder if our Anonymous Coward think this is "God's Judgment on sodomites and mud people". He can, of course, say anything he wants in response to this since he cannot be held accountable due to his anonymity.
During this same period of time I discovered and was the first (and apparently only one) to report to the authors a serious error in the epidemiology model of AIDS published in the Nature cover story: May RM, Anderson RM: Transmission dynamics of HIV infection. Nature 1987, 326:137-142 which was corrected in the later article: Anderson, RM, May RM: Epidemiological parameters of HIV transmission. Nature 1988; 333:514-519. This error had apparently led a CDC-affiliated AIDS activist to spread the "good news" that the AIDS epidemic was over to various mass media outlets. Stupidity can kill. Bad judgement about who is a "crackpot" can kill even more.
I wrote a short article for a locally published space newsletter describing a series of tragic deaths involving people who had been leading lights of opening up commercial space. Two of these figured most prominently: Malcolm Baldridge and George Koopman -- both men with whom I had contact during their fights with NASA because I was among the few space enthusiasts who were advocating a cut-back in NASA's role in technology and services in favor of patronizing the private risk takers. I offered no conspiracy theory although I did imply that NASA could not be held entirely blameless. For example, there is no conspiracy required to explain Koopman's death. He died in a single car accident on a desert highway early in the morning. He had been known for cocaine abuse during the filming of "The Blues Brothers" which contained one of the biggest auto-accident sequences in the history of motion pictures. The issue in my mind isn't Koopman's part in his own death -- but why hybrid rocket motor technology (a variant of which won the X-Prize) ended up going from a Silicon Valley firm "Starstruck" to the control of a man like Koopman. I'm not hostile to Koopman -- I did know the man and although I think he was the wrong man for the job and had real character issues -- it was the environment created by NASA contracting practices that led to the Starstruck's failure and to a man like Koopman doing a job for which he was ill suited. The stress probably ultimately killed him just as it killed the company. As for Malcolm Baldridge -- he was threatening NASA's space station program with commercial alternatives via his Office of Commercial Space in the Department of Commerce. He died when he was thrown from a spooked horse during a parade and his offices was subsequently taken over by the former chief counsel for NASA. The commercial alternatives promptly ditched. Maybe it was a coincidence. How much money has to be at stake for suspicions of foul play to be reasonable?
Thanks to A.C. for giving me the opportunity to restate this history, of which I am actually somewhat proud.
recent worries concerning science and engineering in the US
You just said a mouthful there... Nothing is going to pull things out of this nose-dive but a radical restructuring of the US's political and social structures. Not even nanotechnology:
The June payroll jobs
report did not receive much attention due to the July 4
holiday, but the depressing 21st century job performance
of the US economy continues unabated.
Only 144,000 private
sector jobs were created, each one of which was in
domestic services.
56,000 jobs were
created in professional and business services, about
half of which are in administrative and waste services.
38,000 jobs were
created in education and health services, almost all of
which are in health care and social assistance.
19,000 jobs were
created in leisure and hospitality, almost all of which
are waitresses and bartenders.
Membership
associations and organizations created 10,000 jobs and
repair and maintenance created 4,000 jobs.
Financial activities
created 16,000 jobs.
This most certainly is
not the labor market profile of a first world country,
much less a superpower.
Where are the jobs for
this year's crop of engineering and science graduates?
US manufacturing lost
another 24,000 jobs in June.
A country that doesn't
manufacture doesn't need many engineers. And the
few engineering jobs available go to foreigners.
Readers have sent me
employment listings from US software development firms.
The listings are discriminatory against American
citizens. One ad from a company in New Jersey that is a
developer for
many companies, including Oracle, specifies that the
applicant must have a TN visa.
A TN or
Trade Nafta visa is what is given to Mexicans and
Canadians, who are willing to work in the US at below
prevailing wages.
Another ad from a
software consulting company based in Omaha, Nebraska,
specifies it wants software engineers who are
H-1B transferees. What this means is that the firm
is advertising for foreigners already in the US who have
H-1B work visas.
The reason the US
firms specify that they have employment opportunities
only for foreigners who hold work visas is because the
foreigners will work for
less than the prevailing US salary.
Gentle reader, when
you read allegations that there is a
shortage of engineers in America, necessitating the
importation of foreigners to do the work, you are
reading a bald faced lie. If there were a shortage of
American engineers, employers would not word their job
listings to read that no American need apply and that
they are offering jobs only to foreigners holding work
visas.
What kind of country
destroys the job market for its own citizens?
How much longer will
parents shell out $100,000 for a
college education for a son or daughter who end up
employed as a bartender, waitress, or temp?
Dr.
Roberts, [email
him] a former Associate Editor of the
Wall Street Journal and a
former Contributing Editor of National Review,
was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the
Reagan administration. He is
The article ignores the hidden costs of discarding your prior work with the PC you are throwing away.
You will have to:
Reinstall your applications (including a new XP license).
Locate your critical data files from the earlier disk.
Move said files to the new computer in such a way as to retain their function.
When hidden dependencies that you haven't accounted for produce errors, you must deal with them and run the risk that failure to have done so has already corrupted the state of your new install.
Any one of these costs can be enough to drive the "fix vs buy" decision.
These kinds of isolationists, who like to call their gay-islamo-neo-nazi-ecoterrorism xenophobic "self-sufficiency" are undoubtedly stockpiling food and preparing for the day when their paranoid dreams of Armageddon comes to pass. "Off-the grid"... more like "off the mud people."
They're probably unemployed loser programmers who just have too much time on their hands and rather than spending their time doing what they should be doing -- asking their government for retrianing -- are trying to distance themselves further and further from the all-inclusive global mind.
Stewart Brand lead a SWAT team of Homeland Security forces to shoot them before they make him squeal like a pig during his next weekend jaunt out of the city to bring light unto the inbreds.
Too bad -- getting a profile with the same measurement instrument over the entire bubble-bust cycle would have been very valuable for historians of technology and the politics of H-1b visas most particularly.
I suspect what the graphs would have shown was a far faster drop-off in the jobs for languages other than Java than for Java due primarily to the fact that the Indian CS diploma mills were set up largely by guys from Sun and related companies.
That's correcting itself somewhat now that there are so many project failures due to the attempt to run the presentation layer on the server because -- well -- that's where the cheap programmers know how to program stuff.
Although you mean "inbreeding" rather than "interbreeding" (they're actually antonyms), inbreeding is simply a measure of the degree to which a population is not in a Hardy-Wienberg equilibrium with the rest of the population.
Humans, and indeed all animals, have some natural degree of inbreeding and some natural degree of gene-flow to which they are optimally adapted. Not all populations of a species may be equally adapted to the same rates of inbreeding/gene-flow, btw. For example, there is a lot more gene-flow among Bantu Africans than most other populations. Interestingly the hunter-gatherer Bushmen have a lot higher inbreeding and lower gene-flow.
A fundamental problem with our economy at present is what might
be called "risk inversion" where households with high net worth
disproportionately invest in low risk instruments while
households with low net worth find their savings unwisely
invested at high risk by deregulated but relatively unskilled
financial institutions.
New technologies and job-creating enterprises find it difficult
to obtain capital because they are caught in the horns of a
dilemma: The wealthy, who have the business experience needed to
manage the risks of a new enterprise, have given their money to
government or corporate bureaucracies to manage while small
savers find their savings accounts squandered in speculative
investments by institutions which are, in reality, qualified to
do little more than purchase Treasury paper, which is what they
should, in fact, be doing.
Even more perverse, the government finds itself stepping away
from its traditional low-risk investments in mature
infrastructure in order to perform functions for which it is
particularly ill-suited, such as technical innovation, while
private sector businesses retreat from the very technical risk it
is most suited to manage.
The government then finds itself bailing out the failed
investments of insured, but deregulated, financial institutions,
thus creating even more government debt which is purchased by
those most qualified to capitalize business enterprise.
The Amish have an incidence of autism that is less than 1/10th of the general population of the US.
The Hutterites, even more inbred than the Amish, have been the highest growth rate, both population and economic, group of any Protestant heritage group -- including the Mormons.
The Hutterites have a far lower rate of deliterious recessive disease expression than should be expected given their level of inbreeding. U of Chicago researchers who have been tracking their geneaologies for decades hypothesize Hutterite females must have some means of detecting when a Hutterite male has matching deliterious recessives.
The Amish were forced into the cash economy when the government forbade their midwives from deliving their children. This had a traumatic effect according to friends of mine whose families have lived as neighbors to the Amish for generations.
In case it slipped anyone's attention: mutations are typically recessive so if you want to see really novel evolution in action you are less likely to see it through cross breeding than through inbreeding. Yes, you'll see a lot more junk just because that's what mutations usually produce... but...
There isn't any reason to blame anyone for these terrorist acts but the high officials that are invading the world and inviting the world.
If they'd seal the borders, which they can do, just look at what the rag-tag Minuteman project did, and get the hell out of the countries of other cultures there wouldn't be any of this horseshit to deal with and we wouldn't have to worry about "show me your papers" being the new standard for freedom. If you don't speak English fluently, you shouldn't be in the US without a visa.
And with the US going into predominantly Islamic cultures with a "constitution" based on Orwellian "principles" like:
The federal system shall be based upon geographic and historical realities and the separation of powers, and not upon origin, race, ethnicity, nationality, or confession.
As though race, ethnicity, nationality and confession have nothing to do with "geographic historical realities".
and:
It shall not be permitted to possess, bear, buy, or sell arms except on licensure issued in accordance with the law.
Right -- that's going to go over real great with a clan-based agrarian people -- many similarities to the people who founded the US and gave us the Second Amendment.
As well as the second paragraph:
Gender-specific language shall apply equally to male and female.
Oh gee aren't we wonderful getting rid of SEXISM in ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.
This sort of politically correct supremacist horseshit is what makes the Islamic world see the West as "The Great Satan".
If the West or Israel or China or whoever wants to liberate the world there's a very simple standard:
Territorial allocations under eminent domain compensation and migratory support for the governmental self-determination of consenting adults of like mind.
For example, if some Arabs decide they like a vegetarian libertarian feminism with camel rights constitution they can petition for a territorial allocation for that and the US can intervine for the sole purpose of identifying the territory that would minimize the costs of eminent domain compensation to those displaced and resettlement support.
Of course, since this would require that the rest of us be allowed self-determination -- well they wouldn't do that would they? So since these assholes who call themselves statesmen and diplomats etc can't behave themselves then the next least violent thing is to get them to just go home and stay the hell out of other people's business.
So long as the West goes around with "constitutions" that have no right of secession built in as a corner stone -- the West is fair game to ANYONE -- east, west or mideast. The same goes for any culture that opposes the right of self-determination for groups of like-minded consenting adults. They don't respect the right of others' self-determination with territory? That respect is returned.
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Microsoft, on the other hand, can pretty much hold the whole computer industry hostage by virtue of having the most deployed systems hence anyone who wants to buy or write software for a computer has to obtain the MS OS to transact business. This is worse than the classic "utility" type natural monopoly -- the better analogy would be if someone owned a perpetual patent on 60Hz AC.
When the fertility rate of US citizen techs matches the world average -- preferably the average of Indian techs -- then the NYT can start complaining about the status of techs. If you take sociosexual status from someone you have to give them money to compensate or you lose your technology. That's what's been happening to the US and the NY culture, as represented by the NYT's bias is partly to blame.
Einstein's failure to cite other scientists for that work was simply unethical.
No if anyone "observed" that time was relative it was Michelson-Morley. Einstein postulated this observation as the basis of a formal system which yielded new testable hypotheses.
Rory Carroll in Rome
Thursday November 11, 1999
Guardian
The mathematical equation that ushered in the atomic age was discovered by an unknown Italian dilettante two years before Albert Einstein used it in developing the theory of relativity, it was claimed yesterday.Olinto De Pretto, an industrialist from Vicenza, published the equation E=mc2 in a scientific magazine, Atte, in 1903, said Umberto Bartocci, a mathematical historian.
Einstein allegedly used De Pretto's insight in a major paper published in 1905, but De Pretto was never acclaimed, said Professor Bartocci of the University of Perugia.
De Pretto had stumbled on the equation, but not the theory of relativity, while speculating about ether in the life of the universe, said Prof Bartocci. It was republished in 1904 by Veneto's Royal Science Institute, but the equation's significance was not understood.
A Swiss Italian named Michele Besso alerted Einstein to the research and in 1905 Einstein published his own work, said Prof Bartocci. It took years for his breakthrough to be grasped. When the penny finally dropped, De Pretto's contribution was overlooked while Einstein went on to become the century's most famous scientist. De Pretto died in 1921.
"De Pretto did not discover relativity but there is no doubt that he was the first to use the equation. That is hugely significant. I also believe, though it's impossible to prove, that Einstein used De Pretto's research," said Prof Bartocci, who has written a book on the subject....
Nigger's Day.
On Nigger's Day, all the niggers got an extra slice of watermellon.
Do Sysadmins get an extra slice of watermellon or is System Administrator Appreciation Day just another empty gesture by overpaid executives?
Damn.
How is the genetic capacity for communication maintained in the presence of the evolutionary incentive to manipulate signals rather than communicate?
My preliminary research based on the demographic memetic prisoner dilemma (with climate variation) indicates it is very difficult to sustain communication if high migration rates are allowed.
I'll tell you what's "ideal".... the idea that non-subsistence property rights aren't a mere social construct that could fall apart with catastrophic consequences.
I'm not saying there is no technical fix here -- there is -- its not "nanotechnology" as people have been discussing it and I really am fed up with people going on about "nanotechnology". I suggest if you care about solving the hard social and political problems arising from technological civilization that you start using well defined terms so people don't think you're a mere palaverer.
And the real problem as I continue to point out is that you should solve the equity problem before you remove people's means of livelihood -- not after you have disenfranchised and rendered them politically impotent as most certainly they have been by the globalists.
These guys are going directly against Stewart Brand's sage advice of centralizing everybody in urban areas where they will be sodomized and made gay. We know gay is good because it reduces the population growth rate -- hence urban areas are good.
Oh, wait, didn't Deliverance tell us that all the sodomy is going on in the rural areas? We all know movies never lie! So maybe Brand should rethink his ruralophobia and encourage greater localization of production and consumption of food.
Well, anyway, Stewart Brand should nuke China anyway because they didn't obey to his sage advice as a matter of faith.
The Horror... The Horror...
Corporations have no god-given right to their property-rights. They were given the environment that provided their property rights by the US's citizens who defended not only defended those property rights with their lives and tax dollars, but were the source technologically creative culture these globalizing traitors now sell-out to foreign competitors with the cooperation of corrupt politicians.
PS: This isn't to say this movement of labor off-shore isn't welcomed. The less power companies like HP have over the US the faster the US will recover from the slide to third-world status created by these Frankenstein monstrosities.
What you are talking about is International Capitalism, aka Globalization. It has a counterpart in National Capitalism or traditional capitalism which gives national security priority over multinational profits. BTW: "Homeland Security" and the associated loss of civil liberties domestically is simply the manifestation of national insecurity predictably arising by this shift in priorities.
If you're saying it is unreasonable to investigate the possibility of foul play in a death such as Koopman's, then we clearly see who the crackpot is here.
What you are doing with software is coming up with formal systems that model reality. It is easy to come up with complex models of reality -- just enumerate all the data you have and call that a "theory".
Where science gets its power is where software gets its quality: Parsimony. The problem with parsimony is that it's hard. It's so hard you can't find a better definition for artificial intelligence quality than Kolmogorov compression ratio.
Thanks to A.C. for giving me the opportunity to restate this history, of which I am actually somewhat proud.
You just said a mouthful there... Nothing is going to pull things out of this nose-dive but a radical restructuring of the US's political and social structures. Not even nanotechnology:
July 15, 2005
America's Descent Into The Third World
By Paul Craig Roberts
The June payroll jobs report did not receive much attention due to the July 4 holiday, but the depressing 21st century job performance of the US economy continues unabated.
Only 144,000 private sector jobs were created, each one of which was in domestic services.
56,000 jobs were created in professional and business services, about half of which are in administrative and waste services.
38,000 jobs were created in education and health services, almost all of which are in health care and social assistance.
19,000 jobs were created in leisure and hospitality, almost all of which are waitresses and bartenders.
Membership associations and organizations created 10,000 jobs and repair and maintenance created 4,000 jobs.
Financial activities created 16,000 jobs.
This most certainly is not the labor market profile of a first world country, much less a superpower.
Where are the jobs for this year's crop of engineering and science graduates?
US manufacturing lost another 24,000 jobs in June.
A country that doesn't manufacture doesn't need many engineers. And the few engineering jobs available go to foreigners.
Readers have sent me employment listings from US software development firms. The listings are discriminatory against American citizens. One ad from a company in New Jersey that is a developer for many companies, including Oracle, specifies that the applicant must have a TN visa.
A TN or Trade Nafta visa is what is given to Mexicans and Canadians, who are willing to work in the US at below prevailing wages.
Another ad from a software consulting company based in Omaha, Nebraska, specifies it wants software engineers who are H-1B transferees. What this means is that the firm is advertising for foreigners already in the US who have H-1B work visas.
The reason the US firms specify that they have employment opportunities only for foreigners who hold work visas is because the foreigners will work for less than the prevailing US salary.
Gentle reader, when you read allegations that there is a shortage of engineers in America, necessitating the importation of foreigners to do the work, you are reading a bald faced lie. If there were a shortage of American engineers, employers would not word their job listings to read that no American need apply and that they are offering jobs only to foreigners holding work visas.
What kind of country gives preference to foreigners over its own engineering graduates?
What kind of country destroys the job market for its own citizens?
How much longer will parents shell out $100,000 for a college education for a son or daughter who end up employed as a bartender, waitress, or temp?
Dr. Roberts, [email him] a former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal and a former Contributing Editor of National Review, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration. He is
You will have to:
Any one of these costs can be enough to drive the "fix vs buy" decision.
They're probably unemployed loser programmers who just have too much time on their hands and rather than spending their time doing what they should be doing -- asking their government for retrianing -- are trying to distance themselves further and further from the all-inclusive global mind.
Stewart Brand lead a SWAT team of Homeland Security forces to shoot them before they make him squeal like a pig during his next weekend jaunt out of the city to bring light unto the inbreds.
Too bad -- getting a profile with the same measurement instrument over the entire bubble-bust cycle would have been very valuable for historians of technology and the politics of H-1b visas most particularly.
I suspect what the graphs would have shown was a far faster drop-off in the jobs for languages other than Java than for Java due primarily to the fact that the Indian CS diploma mills were set up largely by guys from Sun and related companies.
That's correcting itself somewhat now that there are so many project failures due to the attempt to run the presentation layer on the server because -- well -- that's where the cheap programmers know how to program stuff.
Humans, and indeed all animals, have some natural degree of inbreeding and some natural degree of gene-flow to which they are optimally adapted. Not all populations of a species may be equally adapted to the same rates of inbreeding/gene-flow, btw. For example, there is a lot more gene-flow among Bantu Africans than most other populations. Interestingly the hunter-gatherer Bushmen have a lot higher inbreeding and lower gene-flow.
From A Net Asset Tax Based On The Net Present Value Calculation and Market Democracy
CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND RISK INVERSION
A fundamental problem with our economy at present is what might be called "risk inversion" where households with high net worth disproportionately invest in low risk instruments while households with low net worth find their savings unwisely invested at high risk by deregulated but relatively unskilled financial institutions.
New technologies and job-creating enterprises find it difficult to obtain capital because they are caught in the horns of a dilemma: The wealthy, who have the business experience needed to manage the risks of a new enterprise, have given their money to government or corporate bureaucracies to manage while small savers find their savings accounts squandered in speculative investments by institutions which are, in reality, qualified to do little more than purchase Treasury paper, which is what they should, in fact, be doing.
Even more perverse, the government finds itself stepping away from its traditional low-risk investments in mature infrastructure in order to perform functions for which it is particularly ill-suited, such as technical innovation, while private sector businesses retreat from the very technical risk it is most suited to manage.
The government then finds itself bailing out the failed investments of insured, but deregulated, financial institutions, thus creating even more government debt which is purchased by those most qualified to capitalize business enterprise.
If they'd seal the borders, which they can do, just look at what the rag-tag Minuteman project did, and get the hell out of the countries of other cultures there wouldn't be any of this horseshit to deal with and we wouldn't have to worry about "show me your papers" being the new standard for freedom. If you don't speak English fluently, you shouldn't be in the US without a visa.
And with the US going into predominantly Islamic cultures with a "constitution" based on Orwellian "principles" like:
As though race, ethnicity, nationality and confession have nothing to do with "geographic historical realities".and:
Right -- that's going to go over real great with a clan-based agrarian people -- many similarities to the people who founded the US and gave us the Second Amendment.As well as the second paragraph:
Oh gee aren't we wonderful getting rid of SEXISM in ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.
This sort of politically correct supremacist horseshit is what makes the Islamic world see the West as "The Great Satan".
If the West or Israel or China or whoever wants to liberate the world there's a very simple standard:
Territorial allocations under eminent domain compensation and migratory support for the governmental self-determination of consenting adults of like mind.
For example, if some Arabs decide they like a vegetarian libertarian feminism with camel rights constitution they can petition for a territorial allocation for that and the US can intervine for the sole purpose of identifying the territory that would minimize the costs of eminent domain compensation to those displaced and resettlement support.
Of course, since this would require that the rest of us be allowed self-determination -- well they wouldn't do that would they? So since these assholes who call themselves statesmen and diplomats etc can't behave themselves then the next least violent thing is to get them to just go home and stay the hell out of other people's business.
So long as the West goes around with "constitutions" that have no right of secession built in as a corner stone -- the West is fair game to ANYONE -- east, west or mideast. The same goes for any culture that opposes the right of self-determination for groups of like-minded consenting adults. They don't respect the right of others' self-determination with territory? That respect is returned.
- Caused by the insane dual policy of:
- Invade the world to impose our form of society.
- Invite the world by opening the borders to all the people who want to exploit or hate us as a result.
- An excuse used by the neocons to get us to give up our freedom in exchange for their supposed "protection" against the resulting "terrorism".
- Mainly in the foreign policy interests of Israel.
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