And this is the problem, countries like India and China can get away with horrible working conditions, lapses in saftey standards and employee rights that we take for granted in the U.S.
I'm from Argentina and I work in a Outsourced call center. Talking to U.S. people down here they were saying that our labor laws are far more beneficial for worker than the ones in the US.
We have paid vacations... sick days (no limitation if you are really sick) study days (If you are studying you have 10/20 days a year of paid leave if you have exams).
And firing a worker is far more difficult and expensive here than in the US.
I think I comes down to cost, because we are on a 3 to 1 relation to you guys exchange-wise.
"Egypt is not a democracy, unless you count the "one candidate" kind of election a democracy. Mubarak is working on his sixth term as "president". It's a dictatorship, and everyone knows it."
Somebody call the CIA and please let them know they are wrong... because everybody knows the above statement.
-- All of this is from the CIA World FactBook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ eg.html
Government type: republic
Executive branch: chief of state: President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK (since 14 October 1981) head of government: Prime Minister Ahmed NAZIF (since 9 July 2004) cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president elections: president nominated by the People's Assembly for a six-year term, the nomination must then be validated by a national, popular referendum; national referendum last held 26 September 1999 (next to be held NA October 2005); prime minister appointed by the president election results: national referendum validated President MUBARAK's nomination by the People's Assembly to a fourth term
Political parties and leaders: Nasserist Arab Democratic Party or Nasserists [Dia' al-din DAWUD]; National Democratic Party or NDP [President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK] - governing party; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu [Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [No'man GOMA]; Socialist Liberal Party or Al-Ahrar [Hilmi SALIM]; Tomorrow Party or Al-Ghad [Ayman NOUR] note: formation of political parties must be approved by the government
Blaming GTA for a graffitti is on the same line as blaming Marilyn Manson for the Columbine Massacre... Complete nonsense...
If a person is involved in a car accident, are we going to say: "OH, he crashed... that's because he's arround too many Windows Boxes"??
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"When I did this, it automatically took *their* contact list and assumed I wanted to add everyone on my contact list. Needless to say this wasn't desired".
Yeah! I have a fiend that use to call that the "promiscuous feature" of the Trillian. It's really unsafe and the main reason of why I switched to Gaim when I was still running Win98 on my box.
Down here in Argentina.... probably 50% or 60% of the new computers in the market are shipped with Linux on it (Xandros, mostly)
It's done to save costs (arround 80 U$S) but its a great oportunity for Linux to grow.
Of course, piracy is a big issue here, so of all the computers bought, not a lot of them stay using Linux, but it is still the first option if you want to buy a cheap computer.
Look spammers are lazy. (otherwise maybe they'd get a real job)
That's not entirely true. There is a lot of money going back and forth with this SPAM issue. This are not teenagers bored.
Trust me, there is people putting money and a lot of energy into this.
The question is how much did we have to wait for the security fixes...
when Microsoft release a massive "fixes only" update, we must scorn them. When KDE do it, it's a sign of their high standards of quality control.
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Maybe the guy was using "Occlumency" and her God-like power were blocked.
I can't believe thay can blame her for anything.
"Egypt is not a democracy, unless you count the "one candidate" kind of election a democracy. Mubarak is working on his sixth term as "president". It's a dictatorship, and everyone knows it."
... because everybody knows the above statement.
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Somebody call the CIA and please let them know they are wrong
--
All of this is from the CIA World FactBook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
Government type: republic
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK (since 14 October 1981)
head of government: Prime Minister Ahmed NAZIF (since 9 July 2004)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president
elections: president nominated by the People's Assembly for a six-year term, the nomination must then be validated by a national, popular referendum; national referendum last held 26 September 1999 (next to be held NA October 2005); prime minister appointed by the president
election results: national referendum validated President MUBARAK's nomination by the People's Assembly to a fourth term
Political parties and leaders:
Nasserist Arab Democratic Party or Nasserists [Dia' al-din DAWUD]; National Democratic Party or NDP [President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK] - governing party; National Progressive Unionist Grouping or Tagammu [Rifaat EL-SAID]; New Wafd Party or NWP [No'man GOMA]; Socialist Liberal Party or Al-Ahrar [Hilmi SALIM]; Tomorrow Party or Al-Ghad [Ayman NOUR]
note: formation of political parties must be approved by the government
Blaming GTA for a graffitti is on the same line as blaming Marilyn Manson for the Columbine Massacre... Complete nonsense... If a person is involved in a car accident, are we going to say: "OH, he crashed ... that's because he's arround too many Windows Boxes"??
"When I did this, it automatically took *their* contact list and assumed I wanted to add everyone on my contact list. Needless to say this wasn't desired".
Yeah! I have a fiend that use to call that the "promiscuous feature" of the Trillian. It's really unsafe and the main reason of why I switched to Gaim when I was still running Win98 on my box.
Down here in Argentina .... probably 50% or 60% of the new computers in the market are shipped with Linux on it (Xandros, mostly)
It's done to save costs (arround 80 U$S) but its a great oportunity for Linux to grow.
Of course, piracy is a big issue here, so of all the computers bought, not a lot of them stay using Linux, but it is still the first option if you want to buy a cheap computer.
newsflash! I don't know about rock stars, but artist have a union ... SAG http://www.sag.org/
They are all workers after all
There will always be cyber coffes around the world. Or Telepohones ...
It sounds good but I don't know how practical can the order really get.
The question is how much did we have to wait for the security fixes... when Microsoft release a massive "fixes only" update, we must scorn them. When KDE do it, it's a sign of their high standards of quality control.
Somebody call the Russians and ask them kindly if they still have all their satellites on the sky.