if they think needlessly insulting someone could cause them to get unexpected and violent visitors.
I'm serious actually, we seem to have built a society wehre it's normal to score points by getting in peoples faces and not even spending a second thinking about stuff from someone else's point of view. I'm not just talking about schoolyard teasing either. It's become normal to think people are weak if they show the ability to consider not just their immediate interests when expressing their viewpoints.
Learning to control your desire to dump on someone that is somehow offensive to you is like an early childhood lesson, or it should be.
Couple that with the general frustration people are feeling (at least over her in the US) with how stagnant wage is and how hard it is to afford the basics of education, healthcare and retirement and you got a bad mix of emotions.
It doesn't help that the current US gov't is teaching a new generation that violence is an acceptable solution to problems, but I guess people could have more than one view on that.
Sorry, the US gov't is far from welcoming the tired, poor and huddled masses anymore. Now, I'm a US citizen and I love my country despite so many of our mistakes and troubles, but legal immigration to the US is a nightmarish hassle. I know for a fact since my wife, who is a Chinese national, has been doing the immigration dance since March of 2006. It takes a lot of time and money (poor or even average income people from third world countries can just forget it). Also they put you through a series of humiliations. For example there is only one hospital in all of Beijing that is certified to get your health check, and the people there know it so they charge a lot of extra money and treat you very poorly. There are several decent hospitals in Beijing so there is no reason for this rule, but I guess someone somewhere is getting a kickback for this.
Now, I'm not sure if this is good or bad (it's been bad for me of course) for the country as a whole. We need to have a sane immigration policy that looks after the people already here, I understand that. Also a lot of immigrants do feel welcomed after they get to the US (and a lot face serious racism of course) but the gov't process is very bad and unwelcoming. Since this is most immigrants first view of the US I can't see how it will not negatively color their perception of the Country.
Of course this is a bigger problem, since the actions of the US gov't have long negatively affects peoples view of the country and the people, but that's another posting:)
So that's why so many people simple sneak into the country. It's actually much easier to get in that way versus the legal way. If my wife was just going to come here to live with me and not work I'd be tempted to go that route, and save her the humilation of the process.
I can see it now, they will be sitting around the convention halls fighting between the old trekkies that saw the originals and the new kids that only watched the new CGI stuff.
Normally I wouldn't comment unless I have something useful and productive to say, but on behalf of all people paying their student loans back for years and years, what you are doing is LAME. If you don't need the money (and if you are thinking about investing it you clearly don't) you should not take the loan. Taking an unneeded loan just pushes up the rates on all the rest of us who do (or did).
If you really are living on this loan just leave it in the bank. You are not going to get much more interest on it with anything safe during the time period you are going to need the money. If you try to invest it you are likely to lose it all. Given your lack of social awareness (and legality) of your ideas on the loan I imagine you'd be the type to default on paying back, which would also hurt those of us who are.
Student loans are for paying school investments, not screwing around. I don't even know how you got a hold of it, usually they disburse the money straight to the school. Plus if you are on interest free loans, those loans are given to people with the greatest need (most of us had to take interest bearing loans) and if you are not needing it you should being returning it.
Maybe I should be less harsh on you since I don't fully understand your situation. But it's just very hard on a lot of people to pay for school and you really come off as a jerk with the way you are asking this question. Most people have to scrap and beg to get enough money to pay for tuition, books and all the expenses of being a student. My dad had to borrow money against his 401K to help me finish my last year in college. So if you have money you don't need you really should give it back. And if you do need it you shouldn't be fooling around with it. No investment is going to be much better than the bank over the course of a semester or a year unless it is a very high risk opportunity. Even putting the money in a mutual fund or money market account isn't so smart, since the rate is generally not much more than a few percent over a basic savings account and neither are FDIC insured.
Just enjoy being in school and being one of the lucky ones without money woes. Time to worry about investing and so forth when you are done.
They just want leverage against Intel in order to get a better licensing agreement. Or possibly they want some sort of backdoor for snooping encrypted traffic. Believe me, the Chinese gov't is not interested in the fairness or unfairness of monopoly.
feel free to drop me a line at my email. I'm working on a large project using perl and Catalyst (Catalyst is similar to RubyOnAlls). If you are interested in those technologies I can give you a place to start.
The IT field is huge. You need to find your own way around it. You might like client side development using Javascript and AJAX, or you might prefer to work in the database with languages like PLSQL (Oracle). I always found I learned the most by taking on a tough project and working at it until I made it work. Your results might vary.
Although I sympathize with telecommuters (I have state residence in NYC, but currently work in Beijing for a client in Atlanta) I doubt this law will end up helping us much. NY goes after a lot of telecommuters because a lot of companys use remote offices as a way to get around paying tax, not because they want to go after the 'little guy on a terminal in Michigan'. The same reasoning applies to people working in NYC but living in NJ or elsewhere, we ask them to pay NYC tax because the City is providing all the infrastructure necessary to help them become successful. It's just not fair for someone to make money because of all the effort and local tax dollars spent to make NYC a good place to do business and not contribute to that effort.
I hear you when you say that why should I pay if I don't live there or if I don't go there to an office. But your clients do live there or work there and they are there because of the huge investment in tax dollars to make NYC a place for you to find clients. Otherwise you'd just find local clients. So it's reasonable to ask for you to pitch into that community effort. I think we just need to come up with a better way to measure that 'pitch in' amount and make sure it's directly tied to your direct benefit and not to pork projects in upstate NY that primarily benefit politicians trying to hold on to thier positions.
My feeling is that this is just another wedge issue, like the marriage penalty tax, that certain people in Washington will use to push through more tax cuts for the wealthy or for corporations. We will get our commuter tax 'relief' but 100 times more in tax breaks to people with enough already will be attached to it.
Personally I think all taxes are too high, but I am wary of people in washington with an agenda riding my annoyance to push through things I am not in favor of.
I would hesitate to draw this conclusion. Do people really feel any more secure? Is this the reason they are giving for not caring about the program? I think people are just ambivalent about gov't. I also think that most people don't fully grasp the issue, since the American school system does a poor job of educating students on the fundementals of why our Consitution has certain provisions in it. For example you have to memorize the first 10 Amendments (The Bill of Rights), but you won't really need to understand why all that stuff about how trials by jury, protection against unneed search and seizure, gun rights, etc., were put in there in as a response to direct problems the forefathers had with British rule. Our Consitution is seen as a cultural choice, part of our increasingly diverse tradition, rather than a document with significant philosophical and ethical value. As a result people don't grasp the problem when it is violated.
Additionally out culture has become much more comfortable with voyuerism due to so many reality TV shows and widespread social networking on the internet. We don't understand there is a difference between this type of voyuerism (which is a self made choice) and gov't spy programs, which for the most part are something you can't opt out of and which are totally unmonitored. They are often a first step on the road to dictatorship.
People in the US haven't had experience with the direct negative results of an overbearing and controlling gov't in recent memory. Right now the biggest pain people are feeling is gasoline prices. This coupled with our generally poor education has lead us to a situation where a self important gov't feels free to ignore founding principals which are the direct moral authority for the power they are wielding in our name. I fear will will pay a huge price for this (even more than we are currently paying) in the not too distant future.
I don't see the big deal. Most people around here know that you just need to get a secure connection to a proxy server in a non censoring country and then you can access the web without trouble. A guick google search will turn up lots of companies that offer web proxing for a very small charge (avoid all the 'free' proxy lists since many of then are honey pots).
Unless the gov't is specifically spying on you this is more than enough.
I bought one of these devices back in August of 2005 to replace my portable DAT recorder that finally irrecoverably died. The device is really a hassle to use. Although the disk itself shows up as a removable drive, anything I recorded on it (even my own stuff recored via the microphone) needs to be imported using their special soundstage tool and then exported as a wav file before I can edit it. The soundstage tool is really buggy and cumbersome to use, plus it keeps trying to push me to their online music store.
I've also tried to use it for playing music when I am at the gym but again the soundstage software makes it hard to import the music tracks I want.
Overall the device is mediocre for all it's published uses. This is because of the software and interface.
Although I can respect the parent posters frustration with the Senator from NY, my gut is telling me that it's not Lieberman hooking with Clinton, but the other way around. Lieberman has a long history of being down on what many would consider freedom of speech issue when it comes to violence and sex in media.
My guess here is that it's Clinton hooking on to him in order to burnish her 'moderate liberal' image. Her husband did much the same. Remember the V-chip?
I wouldn't worry too much if it's just postering by a presidential wannabe from a member of the out of power party. This is not likely to lead anywhere except to some tough talking press briefs.
To be honest it is my opinion we have a lot more to worry about in terms of our government restricting our liberties than this action.
I'm really sad this happened, even though in theory it means that I will have better access to Google in the near future.
The idea that serving something is better than nothing is totally false. The idea that by serving a little now someday it will help influence people to demand change from the gov't is also false. I live in Beijing and with all the free market capitalism here there is not an equal demand for freedom (other than freedom to buy stuff). That's because people are convinced the best they can hope for is to have money to buy stuff and dodge the gov't as much as possible. Cynical, yes, but after living here for 2 years that is what I see.
All that it does is tell the Chinese Gov't people are willing to accede to their demands to help them inprove fascism. It's part of a strategy to give the appearance of freedom without the moral depth.
Anyone out their good with Gimp and can wip up a nice little logo? If that query suddenly became the most popular search string at google maybe it will wake them up.
Since the movie pretty much solved all the primary mysteries and romantic tensions from the TV show. The only thing I think they didn't explain or solve was the back history of the Preacher. So they's need to start from scratch with a whole new plot.
What I'd like to see is the whole thing released to the Creative Commons and let the fans start making their own content. Similar to the way Lucas does it with Star Trek, but without all the fascist rule mongering and Copyright trouble.
Compared to other countries I've worked in I found the USA to be pretty balanced. Now I worked for 11 years in the IT field inNew York City (which I know if not very representative of the USA) and had 7 direct bosses. Of the 7, three were female (1 was white, 1 was asian and 1 was black) and of the 4 who were male all were white. However of my direct peers there was always a mix of races and genders.
Oh, when I am referring to 'male/female' I am referring to how they identified themselves, not necessarily their biological sex which is something I have no knowledge of.
Seems the issue is more high up the ladder. By the time you get to the VP level it's almost all old white guys running the show.
This all comes down to the company's termination policy. Many will disable your account right away, it's a security thing.
This didn't happen to me, but it did happen to others at my company. It might have had something to do with the fact I worked for them for 6 years and had a good track record (I'd been promoted three times) so they probably decided I was an acceptable risk. Plus I was in the middle of finishing up some big projects. I actually gave a little more than 3 weeks notice and I was able to tie everything up. But they just as easily could have told me to not return to work after I had the talk with my boss. It's well within their right to protect the company.
Hate to say it, but after living in Beijing for the last 20 months this place is nothing like the USA level of the 1940-50s. Not even the USA level of the depression years.
Yeah, there are some hot spots, like parts of Beijing and Shanghai that have built up huge capital because of all the (for all intents and purposes) slave labor but most of the country is no wear like that. Addionally the buildup of basic education and health care services is just beginning.
Additionally we have to remember there is basically a fascist oligarchy in charge of it all, make sure the majority of any profits are pooled into their hands or into the pockets of their friends.
...controlling a higher percentage of market share you could be right. I have no way to test this. But for me progress is not about marketshare but about the advancement of ideals that support freedom in many senses. Too often we are seduced by market forces and the power that comes with more sales and higher marketshare. For me I'd rather have less and be free then have more but be restricted.
For me the GPL is the only license I see that succeeds in that, at least in the ways that are meaningful to me. Now, I suppose those freedoms may not be meaningful to you. I can't judge it, only be sure of my personal convictions in the matter. Time will tell who is right, I think.
not that anyone is likely to read this way off topic post but...
Technically Clinton was not impeached for having an affair, but for lying about having it under oath. Now, I was a Clinton supporter and I doubt he did anything different under the circumstances that another man would, but it was a little more serious offense, since oaths before a court of law are serious things. It didn't bother me so much because he lied about something that seemed to have little to no effect or bearing on any matter of substance. It was also clear to me this was part of a witch hunt by republicans that never accepted either of the two Clinton elections as legitimate.
Well, I am interested to see who actually reads this post:)
Kennedy said that we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
The point of NASA is to take on stuff private companies could or would not do. This would set the stage for the eventual trickle down of the technology to private industry. We are starting to see this happen now.
To say we shouldn't have built the shuttle because it barely works now is engaging in a lot of armchair quarterbacking well after the fact. At the time we wanted to push the limit and engage our imagination. Maybe it didn't work so well, but personally I think that amount of money quoted, which is less then will we spend on the military budget for only one year, is not unreasonable.
You shouldn't say that money could have been spent on better stuff. If that money had not been spent it would have gone into more military spending or more tax cuts for the weathly elite.
It's common knowledge that the republican party doesn't like the word "International" so much and so they don't like the ISS project. So I am not too surprised to see this new Admin choosen by Bush to be towing the party line. This administration has been expert in putting such people into power all over the gov't. Personally I don't see any other way to test human ability to endure long term space travel. Maybe the ISS goals could be more focused and simplied in order to bring the costs in line with what is more reasonable and achievable during the expected life of the craft.
If anything we did not go far enough. The original design for the Space Shuttle did not include two things which caused our accidents. In the original plan the external tank was supposed to be a rocket in it's own right that was supposed to be manned and returned for reuse. The booster rockets were added afterward (cause of Challenger accident was faulty O-ring in the booster)
1) Near slavery working conditions (people take a job and never make enough money to pay back the agent; mainwhile the agent holds all the worker's legal papers) 2) Handicapped children chained to a hospital wall 3) Child labor 4) Inhumanely dangerous working conditions for coal miners and construction workers 5) Women kidnapped to service the sex industry 6) Police abusing dissidents 7) Gov't critics dissappearting 8) executions for trivial crimes
This is just the stuff I personally witnessed, not stuff I heard from friends.
I'm not saying china is the worst place in the world, so don't say I'm rascist against chinese people. I know similar things are happening all over the world. Even here in the US we are becoming more like a police state. That's why I get so annoyed when all you hear about on the news is how China's economy is growing so fast. There is so much more going on over there, but it's not well reported.
So what I meant in my post is that next time you think about buying some cheap chinese made item, keep it mind it was probably made by some people making less money than they need to live while all of the profits are going to a cabal of weathly and powerful private and gov't people. I realize there is little you can do about it since you don't even have a choice when purchasing most things, but you should at least keep in mind what is going on and not accept it blindly.
We hear this every couple of years. Who remembers when Sun was pushing 'thin client' web applications delivered as java applets to the brower.
The desktop PC, running windows, linux or MacOSX will continue to be useful. Having power like that directly in the hands of end users can't be replaced.
What will happen is that new applications paradigms that only make sense because of the Web will emerge. We have already seen some of that.
Slashdot Mirror
if they think needlessly insulting someone could cause them to get unexpected and violent visitors.
I'm serious actually, we seem to have built a society wehre it's normal to score points by getting in peoples faces and not even spending a second thinking about stuff from someone else's point of view. I'm not just talking about schoolyard teasing either. It's become normal to think people are weak if they show the ability to consider not just their immediate interests when expressing their viewpoints.
Learning to control your desire to dump on someone that is somehow offensive to you is like an early childhood lesson, or it should be.
Couple that with the general frustration people are feeling (at least over her in the US) with how stagnant wage is and how hard it is to afford the basics of education, healthcare and retirement and you got a bad mix of emotions.
It doesn't help that the current US gov't is teaching a new generation that violence is an acceptable solution to problems, but I guess people could have more than one view on that.
peace
Sorry, the US gov't is far from welcoming the tired, poor and huddled masses anymore. Now, I'm a US citizen and I love my country despite so many of our mistakes and troubles, but legal immigration to the US is a nightmarish hassle. I know for a fact since my wife, who is a Chinese national, has been doing the immigration dance since March of 2006. It takes a lot of time and money (poor or even average income people from third world countries can just forget it). Also they put you through a series of humiliations. For example there is only one hospital in all of Beijing that is certified to get your health check, and the people there know it so they charge a lot of extra money and treat you very poorly. There are several decent hospitals in Beijing so there is no reason for this rule, but I guess someone somewhere is getting a kickback for this.
:)
Now, I'm not sure if this is good or bad (it's been bad for me of course) for the country as a whole. We need to have a sane immigration policy that looks after the people already here, I understand that. Also a lot of immigrants do feel welcomed after they get to the US (and a lot face serious racism of course) but the gov't process is very bad and unwelcoming. Since this is most immigrants first view of the US I can't see how it will not negatively color their perception of the Country.
Of course this is a bigger problem, since the actions of the US gov't have long negatively affects peoples view of the country and the people, but that's another posting
So that's why so many people simple sneak into the country. It's actually much easier to get in that way versus the legal way. If my wife was just going to come here to live with me and not work I'd be tempted to go that route, and save her the humilation of the process.
I can see it now, they will be sitting around the convention halls fighting between the old trekkies that saw the originals and the new kids that only watched the new CGI stuff.
Normally I wouldn't comment unless I have something useful and productive to say, but on behalf of all people paying their student loans back for years and years, what you are doing is LAME. If you don't need the money (and if you are thinking about investing it you clearly don't) you should not take the loan. Taking an unneeded loan just pushes up the rates on all the rest of us who do (or did).
If you really are living on this loan just leave it in the bank. You are not going to get much more interest on it with anything safe during the time period you are going to need the money. If you try to invest it you are likely to lose it all. Given your lack of social awareness (and legality) of your ideas on the loan I imagine you'd be the type to default on paying back, which would also hurt those of us who are.
Student loans are for paying school investments, not screwing around. I don't even know how you got a hold of it, usually they disburse the money straight to the school. Plus if you are on interest free loans, those loans are given to people with the greatest need (most of us had to take interest bearing loans) and if you are not needing it you should being returning it.
Maybe I should be less harsh on you since I don't fully understand your situation. But it's just very hard on a lot of people to pay for school and you really come off as a jerk with the way you are asking this question. Most people have to scrap and beg to get enough money to pay for tuition, books and all the expenses of being a student. My dad had to borrow money against his 401K to help me finish my last year in college. So if you have money you don't need you really should give it back. And if you do need it you shouldn't be fooling around with it. No investment is going to be much better than the bank over the course of a semester or a year unless it is a very high risk opportunity. Even putting the money in a mutual fund or money market account isn't so smart, since the rate is generally not much more than a few percent over a basic savings account and neither are FDIC insured.
Just enjoy being in school and being one of the lucky ones without money woes. Time to worry about investing and so forth when you are done.
They just want leverage against Intel in order to get a better licensing agreement. Or possibly they want some sort of backdoor for snooping encrypted traffic. Believe me, the Chinese gov't is not interested in the fairness or unfairness of monopoly.
feel free to drop me a line at my email. I'm working on a large project using perl and Catalyst (Catalyst is similar to RubyOnAlls). If you are interested in those technologies I can give you a place to start.
The IT field is huge. You need to find your own way around it. You might like client side development using Javascript and AJAX, or you might prefer to work in the database with languages like PLSQL (Oracle). I always found I learned the most by taking on a tough project and working at it until I made it work. Your results might vary.
Although I sympathize with telecommuters (I have state residence in NYC, but currently work in Beijing for a client in Atlanta) I doubt this law will end up helping us much. NY goes after a lot of telecommuters because a lot of companys use remote offices as a way to get around paying tax, not because they want to go after the 'little guy on a terminal in Michigan'. The same reasoning applies to people working in NYC but living in NJ or elsewhere, we ask them to pay NYC tax because the City is providing all the infrastructure necessary to help them become successful. It's just not fair for someone to make money because of all the effort and local tax dollars spent to make NYC a good place to do business and not contribute to that effort.
I hear you when you say that why should I pay if I don't live there or if I don't go there to an office. But your clients do live there or work there and they are there because of the huge investment in tax dollars to make NYC a place for you to find clients. Otherwise you'd just find local clients. So it's reasonable to ask for you to pitch into that community effort. I think we just need to come up with a better way to measure that 'pitch in' amount and make sure it's directly tied to your direct benefit and not to pork projects in upstate NY that primarily benefit politicians trying to hold on to thier positions.
My feeling is that this is just another wedge issue, like the marriage penalty tax, that certain people in Washington will use to push through more tax cuts for the wealthy or for corporations. We will get our commuter tax 'relief' but 100 times more in tax breaks to people with enough already will be attached to it.
Personally I think all taxes are too high, but I am wary of people in washington with an agenda riding my annoyance to push through things I am not in favor of.
I would hesitate to draw this conclusion. Do people really feel any more secure? Is this the reason they are giving for not caring about the program? I think people are just ambivalent about gov't. I also think that most people don't fully grasp the issue, since the American school system does a poor job of educating students on the fundementals of why our Consitution has certain provisions in it. For example you have to memorize the first 10 Amendments (The Bill of Rights), but you won't really need to understand why all that stuff about how trials by jury, protection against unneed search and seizure, gun rights, etc., were put in there in as a response to direct problems the forefathers had with British rule. Our Consitution is seen as a cultural choice, part of our increasingly diverse tradition, rather than a document with significant philosophical and ethical value. As a result people don't grasp the problem when it is violated.
Additionally out culture has become much more comfortable with voyuerism due to so many reality TV shows and widespread social networking on the internet. We don't understand there is a difference between this type of voyuerism (which is a self made choice) and gov't spy programs, which for the most part are something you can't opt out of and which are totally unmonitored. They are often a first step on the road to dictatorship.
People in the US haven't had experience with the direct negative results of an overbearing and controlling gov't in recent memory. Right now the biggest pain people are feeling is gasoline prices. This coupled with our generally poor education has lead us to a situation where a self important gov't feels free to ignore founding principals which are the direct moral authority for the power they are wielding in our name. I fear will will pay a huge price for this (even more than we are currently paying) in the not too distant future.
I don't see the big deal. Most people around here know that you just need to get a secure connection to a proxy server in a non censoring country and then you can access the web without trouble. A guick google search will turn up lots of companies that offer web proxing for a very small charge (avoid all the 'free' proxy lists since many of then are honey pots).
Unless the gov't is specifically spying on you this is more than enough.
I bought one of these devices back in August of 2005 to replace my portable DAT recorder that finally irrecoverably died. The device is really a hassle to use. Although the disk itself shows up as a removable drive, anything I recorded on it (even my own stuff recored via the microphone) needs to be imported using their special soundstage tool and then exported as a wav file before I can edit it. The soundstage tool is really buggy and cumbersome to use, plus it keeps trying to push me to their online music store.
I've also tried to use it for playing music when I am at the gym but again the soundstage software makes it hard to import the music tracks I want.
Overall the device is mediocre for all it's published uses. This is because of the software and interface.
Although I can respect the parent posters frustration with the Senator from NY, my gut is telling me that it's not Lieberman hooking with Clinton, but the other way around. Lieberman has a long history of being down on what many would consider freedom of speech issue when it comes to violence and sex in media.
My guess here is that it's Clinton hooking on to him in order to burnish her 'moderate liberal' image. Her husband did much the same. Remember the V-chip?
I wouldn't worry too much if it's just postering by a presidential wannabe from a member of the out of power party. This is not likely to lead anywhere except to some tough talking press briefs.
To be honest it is my opinion we have a lot more to worry about in terms of our government restricting our liberties than this action.
I'm really sad this happened, even though in theory it means that I will have better access to Google in the near future.
g +evil
The idea that serving something is better than nothing is totally false. The idea that by serving a little now someday it will help influence people to demand change from the gov't is also false. I live in Beijing and with all the free market capitalism here there is not an equal demand for freedom (other than freedom to buy stuff). That's because people are convinced the best they can hope for is to have money to buy stuff and dodge the gov't as much as possible. Cynical, yes, but after living here for 2 years that is what I see.
All that it does is tell the Chinese Gov't people are willing to accede to their demands to help them inprove fascism. It's part of a strategy to give the appearance of freedom without the moral depth.
Here's something. Send Google a message:
http://www.google.com/search?q=censorship+is+doin
Anyone out their good with Gimp and can wip up a nice little logo? If that query suddenly became the most popular search string at google maybe it will wake them up.
Since the movie pretty much solved all the primary mysteries and romantic tensions from the TV show. The only thing I think they didn't explain or solve was the back history of the Preacher. So they's need to start from scratch with a whole new plot.
What I'd like to see is the whole thing released to the Creative Commons and let the fans start making their own content. Similar to the way Lucas does it with Star Trek, but without all the fascist rule mongering and Copyright trouble.
Compared to other countries I've worked in I found the USA to be pretty balanced. Now I worked for 11 years in the IT field inNew York City (which I know if not very representative of the USA) and had 7 direct bosses. Of the 7, three were female (1 was white, 1 was asian and 1 was black) and of the 4 who were male all were white. However of my direct peers there was always a mix of races and genders.
Oh, when I am referring to 'male/female' I am referring to how they identified themselves, not necessarily their biological sex which is something I have no knowledge of.
Seems the issue is more high up the ladder. By the time you get to the VP level it's almost all old white guys running the show.
This all comes down to the company's termination policy. Many will disable your account right away, it's a security thing.
This didn't happen to me, but it did happen to others at my company. It might have had something to do with the fact I worked for them for 6 years and had a good track record (I'd been promoted three times) so they probably decided I was an acceptable risk. Plus I was in the middle of finishing up some big projects. I actually gave a little more than 3 weeks notice and I was able to tie everything up. But they just as easily could have told me to not return to work after I had the talk with my boss. It's well within their right to protect the company.
Hate to say it, but after living in Beijing for the last 20 months this place is nothing like the USA level of the 1940-50s. Not even the USA level of the depression years.
Yeah, there are some hot spots, like parts of Beijing and Shanghai that have built up huge capital because of all the (for all intents and purposes) slave labor but most of the country is no wear like that. Addionally the buildup of basic education and health care services is just beginning.
Additionally we have to remember there is basically a fascist oligarchy in charge of it all, make sure the majority of any profits are pooled into their hands or into the pockets of their friends.
I wish I had mod point to give you. I did yesterday but blew them modding down a bunch of first post trolls and award one +1 funny post.
if the gov't can claim it's dangerous to your health, it just validates any law or efforts to control and regulate the internet.
...controlling a higher percentage of market share you could be right. I have no way to test this. But for me progress is not about marketshare but about the advancement of ideals that support freedom in many senses. Too often we are seduced by market forces and the power that comes with more sales and higher marketshare. For me I'd rather have less and be free then have more but be restricted.
For me the GPL is the only license I see that succeeds in that, at least in the ways that are meaningful to me. Now, I suppose those freedoms may not be meaningful to you. I can't judge it, only be sure of my personal convictions in the matter. Time will tell who is right, I think.
not that anyone is likely to read this way off topic post but...
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Technically Clinton was not impeached for having an affair, but for lying about having it under oath. Now, I was a Clinton supporter and I doubt he did anything different under the circumstances that another man would, but it was a little more serious offense, since oaths before a court of law are serious things. It didn't bother me so much because he lied about something that seemed to have little to no effect or bearing on any matter of substance. It was also clear to me this was part of a witch hunt by republicans that never accepted either of the two Clinton elections as legitimate.
Well, I am interested to see who actually reads this post
Kennedy said that we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
The point of NASA is to take on stuff private companies could or would not do. This would set the stage for the eventual trickle down of the technology to private industry. We are starting to see this happen now.
To say we shouldn't have built the shuttle because it barely works now is engaging in a lot of armchair quarterbacking well after the fact. At the time we wanted to push the limit and engage our imagination. Maybe it didn't work so well, but personally I think that amount of money quoted, which is less then will we spend on the military budget for only one year, is not unreasonable.
You shouldn't say that money could have been spent on better stuff. If that money had not been spent it would have gone into more military spending or more tax cuts for the weathly elite.
It's common knowledge that the republican party doesn't like the word "International" so much and so they don't like the ISS project. So I am not too surprised to see this new Admin choosen by Bush to be towing the party line. This administration has been expert in putting such people into power all over the gov't. Personally I don't see any other way to test human ability to endure long term space travel. Maybe the ISS goals could be more focused and simplied in order to bring the costs in line with what is more reasonable and achievable during the expected life of the craft.
If anything we did not go far enough. The original design for the Space Shuttle did not include two things which caused our accidents. In the original plan the external tank was supposed to be a rocket in it's own right that was supposed to be manned and returned for reuse. The booster rockets were added afterward (cause of Challenger accident was faulty O-ring in the booster)
now I know chaining children to a wall because the hospital owner is too greedy to hired another nurse is not technically a crime against humanity.
I think the Bush administration is looking for people with such a good understanding of the law.
1) Near slavery working conditions (people take a job and never make enough money to pay back the agent; mainwhile the agent holds all the worker's legal papers)
2) Handicapped children chained to a hospital wall
3) Child labor
4) Inhumanely dangerous working conditions for coal miners and construction workers
5) Women kidnapped to service the sex industry
6) Police abusing dissidents
7) Gov't critics dissappearting
8) executions for trivial crimes
This is just the stuff I personally witnessed, not stuff I heard from friends.
I'm not saying china is the worst place in the world, so don't say I'm rascist against chinese people. I know similar things are happening all over the world. Even here in the US we are becoming more like a police state. That's why I get so annoyed when all you hear about on the news is how China's economy is growing so fast. There is so much more going on over there, but it's not well reported.
So what I meant in my post is that next time you think about buying some cheap chinese made item, keep it mind it was probably made by some people making less money than they need to live while all of the profits are going to a cabal of weathly and powerful private and gov't people. I realize there is little you can do about it since you don't even have a choice when purchasing most things, but you should at least keep in mind what is going on and not accept it blindly.
...next time you are shopping for cheap goods made in china.
After living in Beijing for the last 20 months, I've witnessed more crimes against humanity than I did in all my previous 36 years of life.
We hear this every couple of years. Who remembers when Sun was pushing 'thin client' web applications delivered as java applets to the brower.
The desktop PC, running windows, linux or MacOSX will continue to be useful. Having power like that directly in the hands of end users can't be replaced.
What will happen is that new applications paradigms that only make sense because of the Web will emerge. We have already seen some of that.