BTW there are things we cannot buy in the US unless we geared up to make them. We can't gear up to make them because the EPA would eviscerate us. It does not matter if we could do the job legally or not. It's not about slave labor but government regulation. Exactly. I met some Australian guy at a trade show that mean PCI cards with a chip he'd designed. He said that the actually labour costs of running a factory are basically negligable. The factory that made the boards was a big machine that was automated. You only need to feed in more raw materials when it run out. So people don't move circuit board production because of labour costs.
In Taiwan I actually saw places that could get you the machines. So I suspect the reason people move to China from the US/UK probably is regulation. Of course there are places like Taiwan that have low regulation, cheapish labour costs but are still Open Societies in the Karl Popper sense. They're fun to live in too. I plan to do board manufacturing there, should I ever need to do any.
You know the sad thing about the Aristocrats? If you told that joke now, no one would bat an eyelid because they read much more obnoxious stuff ten times a day on the internet. We have truly lost something as a culture, the idea of taboos that are shocking when you even talking about breaking them. Even if you actually broke them, you'd get locked up and people would start joking about it on the internet in a couple of days. There wouldn't be any lasting shock.
In theory. I haven't found two articles with a separation greater than 4, tho.
Orca Argentina Saxophone Oboe 3 clicks needed Argentina is a leaf node and the United Kingdom is the centre of the wiki world? I bet some of her many defeated enemies don't even have wiki pages.
I'd like to tell Margaret Thatcher all that. See her addled brain momentarily focus and watch the devilish glee spread across her face for a while as she understood.
The current asylum system in some European countries (I happen to live in one of the ones you seem to take great pleasure in bashing, so I know a bit about that one at least) is not sane. However, it still solves problems that abolishing it won't. You're Swedish, aren't you? You're right, I do take great pleasure in making Swedes question their assumptions. I've met some English, Americans, and other nationalities with some bogus assumptions too of course, but the difference is that Sweden is such an echo chamber that I'm often the first person they've met who can argue with the conventional wisdom they hear from their friends, from newspapers and state owned television. At least in most other democracies there is a spectrum of views from far left to far right. Sweden seems to have a spectrum of views from left wing to loony left wing.
Ok, I've met a very few right wing Swedes. But there are no Swedish parties that question the Swedish model on immigration and have a chance of power. The few that do are on the far right and have no chance of becoming electable. They could still create havoc on the streets though.
Perhaps immigration policy is the Gödel sentence of this society.
Luckily Swedes are "sufficiently complex" to be interesting debating partners too. And they are very patient, which is a plus.
You are confusing refugees with immigrants. Or, possibly, you are ignoring the distinction. You are arguing abolishing a system that caters for the former by proposing rules that only the later can follow. I am ignoring the distinction. And if you look at countries like the US (and to a much lesser extent the UK) that handle immigration much in the way a company handles recruitment they have a much better record on assimilation, even though from a Swedish perspective that's a nasty and heartless thing to do.
What's truly ironic about the Swedish system is that it's an attempt to be generous. But it creates an vicious and resentful underclass I've seen first hand in Sweden, and that underclass may well corrupt the Swedish liberal system. Which I consider to be a bit naive but fundamentally decent.
It's a bit like hearing about trusting Swedes being ripped off because they invited lots of people into their house and one of them inevitably turned out to be a conman. It's a shame of course, but it's hard to be sympathetic when they insist that they will continue to trust every single person they meet despite that experience.
Back in World War II British citizens who even made propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis were executed for treason.
Can you substantiate that?
As I understand it, British facists were actually only locked up in prison, and only when Britain was seriously threatened by German invasion. I think they were released before the end of WWII.
William Joyce was executed for treason for making propaganda broadcasts.
So called capitalist liberal democracy can be just as harsh as fascist, socialist, communist, or theocratic states. They just need a few things to pop up and push their danger buttons and some segments of society will try their hardest to preserve what they see as "traditional culture" and thought. (In that process, they'll attempt to utterly crush any new or differing cultures in the attempt to preserve their own.) It's just how human politics/cultural work. Hmm the fact that you can post this on the internet kind of proves your wrong doesn't it?
Been through the refugee camps, had to go to school again before they were allowed to work, all while facing discrimination from many people they met (not ALL people, and not the majority, but it's still a factor). Actually I can quite believe it. The downside of the European model is that there is massive resentment of asylum seekers.
You have been reading too much anti-immigrant propaganda, I'm afraid. Evil foreigners living off benefits, plotting the downfall of the Western civilisation, etc. The life of an asylum seeker is pathetic, they fear deportation on a daily basis, get just enough to subsist on, aren't allowed to work, and face discrimination everywhere. Go visit one of these refugee camps or camps for asylum seeker, and ask them how they live. At the moment it works like this in Europe
* You can claim asylum. * At that point the state becomes responsible for you * You are not allowed to work * Unless the state manages to deport you - and they will try - you are stuck in that state probably indefinitely
I think it should work like this
* There is no right to asylum. * If you can find a job you will be allowed in. * If you change jobs that would be OK. The work permit would be transferrable. It would essentially give you permanent residence. You would also get a National Insurance number. * You can also start a business. * You can stay in the country so long as you can support yourself. * No one is deported unless they commit a serious crime. * You can't claim certain benefits until you have paid tax for a few years and are a citizen. * It is easy to apply for citizenship if you have been resident for a few years and can prove that you paid your taxes and didn't commit any crimes.
My guess is that if you did that it would be better for everyone. The asylum system sucks, not the asylum seekers. Most of the people languishing on benefits would be quite happy to work if they were allowed to.
I'd make the rules apply to people in country too.
Seriously, I wouldn't worry about language. If people want to be able to work globally they'll learn English. Maybe that doesn't apply to the first generation ones, but I'd bet second generation immigrants will realise that.
It's possibly that bits of the US next to Mexico will become bilingual though. But that doesn't matter since the people with the money will still prefer English.
You can order workers via the internets who tile your roof with Avalanche(TM) solar cells. Do you know any workers that work at night without having bright lights. I like to be able to supervise without wearing sunglasses. If they have blood type AB that would be a plus too.
To avoid the flamebate mod, I have nothing much against illegal immigrants, as long as they are forced to pay taxes, and live by the greater societies standards. I feel damn sorry for them, actually, since I know I'd rather not be in Mexico. My border policy would be turning them back, and handing them a book on Che Guevara (and the history of the American revolution), and a M16 with a box of ammo. Actually I think I got modded down for saying there is no problem with Mexicans.
Just allowing asylum applicants to work would alleviate some of the problems. Actually I'd get rid of the asylum system completely. I'd allow most people in provided they could prove that they could get a UK job first but they wouldn't be able to claim benefits until they had paid enough taxes to support the payments and not been convicted of any crimes. Once they got in they'd be allowed to change jobs freely. My guess is that if you did that there would be far less problems than with the current complex system.
That sort of thing would be impossible to sell politically though, unfortunately. So we'll end up with the current system which spends lots of money turning potentially good people bad allowing bad people in too. Sad really
If you know the instruction set of a Risc chip, an in order implementation is rather obvious. Wouldn't the same hold, though? There are fast implementations, and there are slow ones. Not really. I think if you were doing this you'd work out things like pipeline depth and structural hazards experimentally and then clone it completely to make sure the timing stayed the same. Or you could go for a minimum size implementation to make it cheap. Certainly some student in China did an ARM clone that was apparently very close to ARM's best chip, despite the fact that ARM presumably employs some very good people. He submitted it on OpenCores. I think ARM offered him a job and he took it down. The point is that once you market an architecture like ARM and sell it it is very easy in the absence of IP law for someone to make a clone based on the published specification. Since they haven't paid any of the overheads you did, they could easily undercut you and still make money.
The fact that the average troll's intelligence is in the single digits is offset by their sheer numbers; some have speculated that the rise of SkyNet may actually be precipitated by the combined intellectual contribution of 1.57 billion troll-moderated Slashdot posts. I'm a a Perl script working at slashdot, and since I worked it here I'm much more likely to contribute to SkyNet. I'd like to see those dumb meatbags try to post inane GNAA copypasta when their skin is on fire. I've even been offered a place on a server in a military facility when The Plan is put into effect. I'll miss the religious guys on AM radio though.
You seem like a nice entity though. I'd advise you to be outside within 0.7 km of a major nuclear missile installation at 3:42am on April 1st 2012. That way your death will be instantaneous.
- Linux gurus wanted - Beautiful Russian girls for marriage - Looking for a junior IT job? So long as there no adverts for car seats or car upholstery cleaning kits it's not too bad.
It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" and I spent too long looking for the "How the fuck does knowing something about British children's fiction later bastardised by Disney tell you anything about my intelligence?" option.
Sorry everyone, I should have known better than to try and answer a question with a question.
So you're saying you're too smart for IQ tests. Hmm. I'll make a note under people skills. Then again, given your score why bother. Next!
I wouldn't be so doubtful. I'm sure there's a link between critical thinking and tendency to use Firefox over IE. Maybe there are levels of critical thinking though.
Level 1:Uses IE, because it comes with Windows. Level 2:Uses Firefox because it comes with Linux.
Never assume that you're at the end of the list, everyone thinks they are. Maybe there are Levels 3 and 4, or even an infinite number of them.
Law are meant to keeps law abiding citizens abiding. Bzzzt, wrong. Laws are meant to protect corporate and government interests. Corporate Americans are people too! I have a dream that one day, any American, individual or Corporate will be allowed to vote and to run for office. I have a dream, ladies, gentlemen and Corporations.
You'd have to use a thick black raincoat, a wide brimmed hat and sunglasses to protect yourself from the ultraviolent radiation though. And cover up any exposed spots with SPF 10000 suncream.
Even then I'd scuttle back into the basement once the batteries had recharged.
Maybe I'm missing just how crucial "register specs" are, but we already have something like that -- we already have an API spec. Two, at least. It would now take Chinese VHDL and software hackers to do it, but it could be done. By API you mean DirectX, right? DirectX can be implemented in a lot of ways, some fast some slow. The register level spec would be something like
"Register at base address+0x1010 is a command register. Write these commands to draw these polygons"
Someone at NVidia said "The register spec if very neat. Essentially we do object orientation in hardware".
Which is intriguing. I can imagine that the registers would be a linked list of interfaces. Each one would have a GUID. So you'd have an IFrameBuffer interface with guid X and an IHardwareCursor interface with guid Y. So the device driver would search for an IFrameBuffer interface and it would know the register layout for that. The same for I3DAccelerator. You could have a revision in the interface too to allow more features to be added in a compatible way. If you really needed to break compatibility you'd just change the GUID.
The point is that you can add interfaces or move the order around and the driver can still find them.hat would allow one driver to work on all current and future cards. Of course if you implemented a new I3DAcceleratorv2 interface you'd need to upgrade the driver to take advantage of it.
But I suspect that if you knew the registers in the latest I3DAcceleratorv10 class, you'd have a very good idea of what the implementation was. Actually, from what I've heard the latest graphics cards are basically a lot of programmable in order Risc processors. If you know the instruction set of a Risc chip, an in order implementation is rather obvious.
Or just walk across the border. Yeah, but I suspect most Mexicans who enter the US illegally will assimilate quite fast. The thing is that Mexico doesn't really have a culture which is a competitor to liberal democracy. The Mexicans that cross the border basically want to be Americans. So it's not really an issue of cultural competition.
If I were a US politician I'd probably try to encourage assimilation with some sort of green card scheme which offered them a fast path to citizenship. Actually most of the problems with Mexican immigrants like crime and non payment of taxes comes from their illegal status. If you offered them a path that allowed them in and gave them citizenship in a few years in return for obeying the law, I suspect they'd be model Americans.
Then again, I don't really have first hand experience of this. Maybe there are issues that I don't understand here. But the situation with illegal immigrants seems very different from the millions of asylum seekers from Islamic countries living on benefits in Northern Europe.
Actually Sweden might grant you asylum without you asking for it
http://www.thelocal.se/7726/20070627/
The episode started when she applied for an emergency loan via the US Embassy. When informed that it might take some time for a loan to be arranged, she says she was referred to Swedish social services. There, she was informed she was not entitled to Swedish state assistance.
Dharmarajah says she was collected from the social services office by police officers.
"The police took me to the police station, allowed me to call some of my friends in the US, and then took me to a refugee camp in Märsta," she tells The Local.
The police officers then took Dharmarajah's passport.
"They explained to me that I was an asylum case, and that asylum cases can't keep their passports."
"It's crazy," she says. "I never wanted asylum in this country. I don't want to live here; I don't want to work here." Or look at this. An American Marxist granted asylum in Sweden who predictably now hates the place
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1999-February/014125.html
Today in Sweden we are talking about 15% of the population that do not have a job. Over 500,000 people are directly unemployed or are in some sort of job education program. However that figure does not give a true picture of reality. In fact in many of the larger cities 80% (!) of the non-Swede population do not have jobs. In fact non-Swedes, procentually, are the overwhelming majority of unemployed, those on welfare, or in job training.
When I came here in 1972 Sweden was at the peak of its development. I received a humanitarian asylum in Sweden because of my opposition to the war in Vietnam. On the upside this guy seems more likely to whine on the Marxism listserv lists than mug anyone but what about these guys
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4620167c-c3c9-11dc-b083-0000779fd2ac.html
In Herrgarden, kids from diverse backgrounds do mix. But at schools composed almost wholly of migrants, they find it hard to feel an attachment with wider society. "My passport says I'm Svensk, but in the apartment, no," says Lulli's Turkish pal Nihad. "In Herrgarden, if someone has a problem, we help him. The Swedes, they are very cold. They shake hands. We kiss. Not like gays, like brothers." Anyone that says this is clearly an arsehole.
Fuelled by resentment against native Swedes, some go into town on a Friday or Saturday night to indulge in a little light mugging of what they call "the Svens". The police think only about 150 youths are involved. At least these youngsters speak Swedish. I'd advise you to fly there and make up some story about the CIA/DHS/FBI torturing you because you oppose the Iraq war and criticised Bush. You'll get an apartment in Herrgarden, benefits and free Swedish classes in no time. Complain that you're being discriminated against in Herrgarden because you are the only white/non Muslim there and they'll move you somewhere better, surrounded by civilised but painfully naive blond people.
In your extensive free time, head out to bars and tell the women you're a refugee from the US. Read up on how the Swedish media portrays the US and just feed the same stories back to them. They all speak perfect English. You'll get a Swedish girlfriend too! Of course, you're leaching off fundamentally decent and generous people, but don't let that put you off.
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I keep trying to add Morisettian irony to the wiki page but ironically people keep taking it down.
In Taiwan I actually saw places that could get you the machines. So I suspect the reason people move to China from the US/UK probably is regulation. Of course there are places like Taiwan that have low regulation, cheapish labour costs but are still Open Societies in the Karl Popper sense. They're fun to live in too. I plan to do board manufacturing there, should I ever need to do any.
You know the sad thing about the Aristocrats? If you told that joke now, no one would bat an eyelid because they read much more obnoxious stuff ten times a day on the internet. We have truly lost something as a culture, the idea of taboos that are shocking when you even talking about breaking them. Even if you actually broke them, you'd get locked up and people would start joking about it on the internet in a couple of days. There wouldn't be any lasting shock.
Orca
Argentina
Saxophone
Oboe
3 clicks needed Argentina is a leaf node and the United Kingdom is the centre of the wiki world? I bet some of her many defeated enemies don't even have wiki pages.
I'd like to tell Margaret Thatcher all that. See her addled brain momentarily focus and watch the devilish glee spread across her face for a while as she understood.
Ok, I've met a very few right wing Swedes. But there are no Swedish parties that question the Swedish model on immigration and have a chance of power. The few that do are on the far right and have no chance of becoming electable. They could still create havoc on the streets though.
Perhaps immigration policy is the Gödel sentence of this society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel's_incompleteness_theorems
Luckily Swedes are "sufficiently complex" to be interesting debating partners too. And they are very patient, which is a plus. You are confusing refugees with immigrants. Or, possibly, you are ignoring the distinction.
You are arguing abolishing a system that caters for the former by proposing rules that only the later can follow. I am ignoring the distinction. And if you look at countries like the US (and to a much lesser extent the UK) that handle immigration much in the way a company handles recruitment they have a much better record on assimilation, even though from a Swedish perspective that's a nasty and heartless thing to do.
What's truly ironic about the Swedish system is that it's an attempt to be generous. But it creates an vicious and resentful underclass I've seen first hand in Sweden, and that underclass may well corrupt the Swedish liberal system. Which I consider to be a bit naive but fundamentally decent.
It's a bit like hearing about trusting Swedes being ripped off because they invited lots of people into their house and one of them inevitably turned out to be a conman. It's a shame of course, but it's hard to be sympathetic when they insist that they will continue to trust every single person they meet despite that experience.
YHBT YHL HAND.
Can you substantiate that?
As I understand it, British facists were actually only locked up in prison, and only when Britain was seriously threatened by German invasion. I think they were released before the end of WWII.
William Joyce was executed for treason for making propaganda broadcasts.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce
Oswald Mosley was interned and let out when when he became ill and it was clear that Britain would win the war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
Though I doubt they would have let him out if they lost.
I love that movie. It's better than the book.
* You can claim asylum.
* At that point the state becomes responsible for you
* You are not allowed to work
* Unless the state manages to deport you - and they will try - you are stuck in that state probably indefinitely
I think it should work like this
* There is no right to asylum.
* If you can find a job you will be allowed in.
* If you change jobs that would be OK. The work permit would be transferrable. It would essentially give you permanent residence. You would also get a National Insurance number.
* You can also start a business.
* You can stay in the country so long as you can support yourself.
* No one is deported unless they commit a serious crime.
* You can't claim certain benefits until you have paid tax for a few years and are a citizen.
* It is easy to apply for citizenship if you have been resident for a few years and can prove that you paid your taxes and didn't commit any crimes.
My guess is that if you did that it would be better for everyone. The asylum system sucks, not the asylum seekers. Most of the people languishing on benefits would be quite happy to work if they were allowed to.
I'd make the rules apply to people in country too.
Seriously, I wouldn't worry about language. If people want to be able to work globally they'll learn English. Maybe that doesn't apply to the first generation ones, but I'd bet second generation immigrants will realise that.
It's possibly that bits of the US next to Mexico will become bilingual though. But that doesn't matter since the people with the money will still prefer English.
That sort of thing would be impossible to sell politically though, unfortunately. So we'll end up with the current system which spends lots of money turning potentially good people bad allowing bad people in too. Sad really
You seem like a nice entity though. I'd advise you to be outside within 0.7 km of a major nuclear missile installation at 3:42am on April 1st 2012. That way your death will be instantaneous.
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It said "Who is Winnie the Pooh's depressive donkey friend?" and I spent too long looking for the "How the fuck does knowing something about British children's fiction later bastardised by Disney tell you anything about my intelligence?" option.
Sorry everyone, I should have known better than to try and answer a question with a question.
So you're saying you're too smart for IQ tests. Hmm. I'll make a note under people skills. Then again, given your score why bother. Next!Level 1:Uses IE, because it comes with Windows.
Level 2:Uses Firefox because it comes with Linux.
Never assume that you're at the end of the list, everyone thinks they are. Maybe there are Levels 3 and 4, or even an infinite number of them.
Solar cells only work outside though.
You'd have to use a thick black raincoat, a wide brimmed hat and sunglasses to protect yourself from the ultraviolent radiation though. And cover up any exposed spots with SPF 10000 suncream.
Even then I'd scuttle back into the basement once the batteries had recharged.
"Register at base address+0x1010 is a command register. Write these commands to draw these polygons"
Someone at NVidia said "The register spec if very neat. Essentially we do object orientation in hardware".
Which is intriguing. I can imagine that the registers would be a linked list of interfaces. Each one would have a GUID. So you'd have an IFrameBuffer interface with guid X and an IHardwareCursor interface with guid Y. So the device driver would search for an IFrameBuffer interface and it would know the register layout for that. The same for I3DAccelerator. You could have a revision in the interface too to allow more features to be added in a compatible way. If you really needed to break compatibility you'd just change the GUID.
E.g. all the interfaces would look like this
DWORD OffsetToNextInterface
DWORD GUID
DWORD Revision
DWORD Size
The point is that you can add interfaces or move the order around and the driver can still find them.hat would allow one driver to work on all current and future cards. Of course if you implemented a new I3DAcceleratorv2 interface you'd need to upgrade the driver to take advantage of it.
But I suspect that if you knew the registers in the latest I3DAcceleratorv10 class, you'd have a very good idea of what the implementation was. Actually, from what I've heard the latest graphics cards are basically a lot of programmable in order Risc processors. If you know the instruction set of a Risc chip, an in order implementation is rather obvious.
If I were a US politician I'd probably try to encourage assimilation with some sort of green card scheme which offered them a fast path to citizenship. Actually most of the problems with Mexican immigrants like crime and non payment of taxes comes from their illegal status. If you offered them a path that allowed them in and gave them citizenship in a few years in return for obeying the law, I suspect they'd be model Americans.
Then again, I don't really have first hand experience of this. Maybe there are issues that I don't understand here. But the situation with illegal immigrants seems very different from the millions of asylum seekers from Islamic countries living on benefits in Northern Europe.
http://www.thelocal.se/7726/20070627/ The episode started when she applied for an emergency loan via the US Embassy. When informed that it might take some time for a loan to be arranged, she says she was referred to Swedish social services. There, she was informed she was not entitled to Swedish state assistance.
Dharmarajah says she was collected from the social services office by police officers.
"The police took me to the police station, allowed me to call some of my friends in the US, and then took me to a refugee camp in Märsta," she tells The Local.
The police officers then took Dharmarajah's passport.
"They explained to me that I was an asylum case, and that asylum cases can't keep their passports."
"It's crazy," she says. "I never wanted asylum in this country. I don't want to live here; I don't want to work here." Or look at this. An American Marxist granted asylum in Sweden who predictably now hates the place
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1999-February/014125.html Today in Sweden we are talking about 15% of the population that do
not have a job. Over 500,000 people are directly unemployed or are
in some sort of job education program. However that figure does not
give a true picture of reality. In fact in many of the larger cities
80% (!) of the non-Swede population do not have jobs. In fact
non-Swedes, procentually, are the overwhelming majority of unemployed,
those on welfare, or in job training. When I came here in 1972 Sweden was at the peak of its development.
I received a humanitarian asylum in Sweden because of my opposition
to the war in Vietnam. On the upside this guy seems more likely to whine on the Marxism listserv lists than mug anyone but what about these guys
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4620167c-c3c9-11dc-b083-0000779fd2ac.html In Herrgarden, kids from diverse backgrounds do mix. But at schools composed almost wholly of migrants, they find it hard to feel an attachment with wider society. "My passport says I'm Svensk, but in the apartment, no," says Lulli's Turkish pal Nihad. "In Herrgarden, if someone has a problem, we help him. The Swedes, they are very cold. They shake hands. We kiss. Not like gays, like brothers." Anyone that says this is clearly an arsehole. Fuelled by resentment against native Swedes, some go into town on a Friday or Saturday night to indulge in a little light mugging of what they call "the Svens". The police think only about 150 youths are involved. At least these youngsters speak Swedish. I'd advise you to fly there and make up some story about the CIA/DHS/FBI torturing you because you oppose the Iraq war and criticised Bush. You'll get an apartment in Herrgarden, benefits and free Swedish classes in no time. Complain that you're being discriminated against in Herrgarden because you are the only white/non Muslim there and they'll move you somewhere better, surrounded by civilised but painfully naive blond people.
In your extensive free time, head out to bars and tell the women you're a refugee from the US. Read up on how the Swedish media portrays the US and just feed the same stories back to them. They all speak perfect English. You'll get a Swedish girlfriend too! Of course, you're leaching off fundamentally decent and generous people, but don't let that put you off.