Sorry but I work with them on a daily basis. Their grammar is good but the accent varies from interesting (about the same as from another area in america) to very strong.
The chinese however have atrocious grammar *and* accent problems on top of bad grammar. This last week, one email read something like "I fix problem. It bad file cause." from a guy who has been in the US at least 6 years. The team leads *budget* extra time for these guys because the communication issues represent a real "risk".
Frequently they have issues with "face" that prevents them from admitting they have a problem unless you approach them very carefully and offer to give them just a few tips (like using bloody helping verbs).
However, with indians it is mostly speed, cadence, and accents instead of grammar.
I've read some articles over the last few years that young women are finding harder to find men to marry and have kids with.
Apparently the men are finally getting the message: If there is a divorce you *will* be screwed for a very long time. Everyone seems to know someone who ended up paying the house payments while the ex lived there with her new boyfriend or someone who paid child support, got to see their kids 6 days out of 30 and watched the money spent on toys for the ex-wife instead of the kids.
And 50% of marriages end in divorce so you have a 50/50 chance of your "true love" turning into a pox on your existance-- and that's assuming you didn't do something to deserve her wrath like screwing around-- if you did that she is likely to spend the rest of her life thinking of new ways to torment you.
Owning a house provides you protection from future inflation. My mother's house payment went from 2 weeks pay to 3 days pay over the course of 15 years. My house payment has remained about $700 while rent for a similar quality apartment has gone from $750 to $1100. In 4 more years, it will be paid off and my rent will drop to $300 per month (taxes- currently about $275 per month).
This is all provided you don't move.
But houses are not free. You rent from the government (property taxes). And you have to cover all repairs and upgrades.
But in the midwest/south you can retire on $80k after about 10 years if you are not being stupid.
Or you can live like you are rich *after* about 10 years when the house and car are paid off.
Personally, I'm going to also get about $10k to $16k of solar too so I do not have to worry about rising electricity bills.
The nasty kicker in the states is medical insurance. You can have a million dollars and not be able to retire because you have to keep insurance going or you may be wiped out financially at any time.
A bud of mine in the FBI told me in just the last six years they have gone from being able to hold people 24 hours without any cause to 72 hours without any cause. Just hold them... no charge, no reason, no constitutional protections to speak of.
Britain is shooting for longer-- I guess we'll use them as an example to "average up" against.
My relative who was in the Air Force said... Join the air force. They treat you like a number but they also treat you like a person unlike the Army where they just treat you like a number.
--- In any case... from a trivial search for France (which I presume is part of Europe)
The last part of this news article says: "French officials have said all traffic cameras on the road that Diana's car took, and within the tunnel, were not working the night of the crash. But Monday's Daily Express newspaper challenged that finding, saying a woman was caught speeding by a camera in the Pont d'Alma tunnel moments before Diana's crash."
Apparently the french have lots of cameras, but very few of them actually work.
1) Europe is going down the same slope (with surveillance cameras every quarter mile in parts of europe).
The fact that you are a highly compensated expert taking that job means that is one more job not available to an american citizen and one more reason for students to *correctly* choose not to study for your field. Seriously-- only a fairly insane american student would choose IT right now. My company has shed 8 to 10 american IT workers recently and simply replaced each with 1-2 new infosys employees.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to accept this or a grossly longer prison term when convicted of a crime.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen in the US to buy a gun.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to work in certain professions or not (I mean police would really benefit from being chipped right?)
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to choose to own a car and drive one (along with our "voluntary" insurance we have to have).
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to work or not.
--- Put up a wall 20' high on the southern border. Throw the business owners who have too high a percentage of illegal employees in jail for conspiracy. Remove automatic citizenship for being born here. And STOP giving out free benefits to non-citizens.
That's what's really needed.
We are racing to the bottom until we will have rich people and a bunch of low wage outsourced and illegal local workers while screwing the middle class and the poor american citizens.
I view the immigration issue as one of the largest *fixable* problems that we have today.
We need to seal the border and we need to start putting people who hire illegals in jail. I would say if over 10% of your workforce is illegal would be a reasonable threshhold.
Unfortunately the second issue requires a national database of some kind of us citizens with some kind of biometric data (you know-- a frikkin Driver's License PICTURE would be good enough-- there is no need for dna/fingerprints/retina scan). Such a database immediately raises the hackles of most americans and there we have a problem between two conflicting desires.
The final thing we need to do is rescind the law that says you are an american citizen if you are born on american soil. It should be born here from parents who are legally here and either citizens or officially recognized as working towards citizenship.
Those worked in a world model where certain rules of honor and civil behavior prevented people from behaving in certain ways.
If the british had had explosives and a willingness to sneak into those states and blow things up, then they would have been forced into the same surveillance methods we are being forced into.
The only way to stop it is to eradicate people who do not follow civilized behavior
I agree... the 20th time COULD be legitimate information.
Nah... after almost (or is it over?) 20 years of this crap (DOS aint' done til Lotus won't run...), there is no longer any doubt to give the benefit of.
No unfortunately the politicians have hand crafted the districts so that 80% of them can't lose and our votes don't matter.
I've kept track and over the last 8 years my vote has mattered one time (the incoming candidate one by 31 votes and I was #31). Every other issue and election has come out exactly as the gerrymandered districts would predict.
A first step to fixing the process is a requirement that districts be basically square with no outlying tendrils.
True, but I can reinstall it on a computer that isn't connected to the internet at this point. In the future, they want it to be more like an online game. You don't have a fully functioning copy of the software on your end unless you pay rent.
Seriously-- I don't like microsoft and I'm actively weaning myself off of their products but some times things are just so stupid you have to shout them down. There is a lot of group think here on/. (Even your post presumes that only anti-microsoft comments are by real people and anything else is a by a shill).
Microsoft is a bloody hard competitor that cheats using their O/S as the camel's nose to get in the door. They have also been convicted of stealing other companies products.
You must respect them or they will own you. They do an excellent job of marketing to business and making them easy to use (They spend a lot of money on making them easy to use).
Ultimately they want to put everyone on a monthly subscription for all of their products. Essentially cable tv bills for using word, the operating system, etc. We won't own our own software or machines- we'll just rent them.
Regardless of what cover stories they use, that's the prize. And that's the reason to get free of them permanently.
"Why are the authorities not involved in raiding the MPAA offices in this case? That seems to be the *first* step when the MPAA are after someone else."
The parent post's -answered- bob's question: "Uh, because it's a lawsuit filed by Torrentspy and not a federal crackdown?"
and -was- on topic.
The parent's post then continued with the opinion: I'll never understand why Slashdotters get so upset that the FBI does its job and enforces the law in this country. That includes busts of the big piracy rings.
We both know this is true... we've seen it many times. It's not off topic to this conversation.
Then he gets a bit hot and (and possibly flamebaitish but not off-topic) but I think it is legitimate since he's continuing and concluding from his base statements:
You may think you're magically entitled to download everything on the planet with paying a dime to anybody ever, but the law (and common ethics) says otherwise, especially if you're a larger group with a widespread infrastructure facilitating the spread of piracy. The FBI will beat down your door and stop you from your economic sabotage.
And concluded with the ironic predictive signature: If you're against piracy on Slashdot, you will be modded down.
Then you try to disparage *my* opinion by saying that I'm an alternate id for the parent poster. This is incorrect on the face if you just look at my account and see 871 Comments going back over a year. If you took the time to review them, you would find many anti-RIAA/MPAA comments in them.
However, I do typically despise cowardly modding down somoene to silence them when I think they said something unpopular. In this case, I read his post and saw the modding and felt he was being nuked unfairly.
Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean that I'm a shill.
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We are fairly likely to see inflation over 10% in the next decade for multiple reasons.
The parent is not flamebait. Sometimes modding on slashdot is strongly biased.
Sorry but I work with them on a daily basis. Their grammar is good but the accent varies from interesting (about the same as from another area in america) to very strong.
The chinese however have atrocious grammar *and* accent problems on top of bad grammar. This last week, one email read something like "I fix problem. It bad file cause." from a guy who has been in the US at least 6 years. The team leads *budget* extra time for these guys because the communication issues represent a real "risk".
Frequently they have issues with "face" that prevents them from admitting they have a problem unless you approach them very carefully and offer to give them just a few tips (like using bloody helping verbs).
However, with indians it is mostly speed, cadence, and accents instead of grammar.
I've read some articles over the last few years that young women are finding harder to find men to marry and have kids with.
Apparently the men are finally getting the message: If there is a divorce you *will* be screwed for a very long time. Everyone seems to know someone who ended up paying the house payments while the ex lived there with her new boyfriend or someone who paid child support, got to see their kids 6 days out of 30 and watched the money spent on toys for the ex-wife instead of the kids.
And 50% of marriages end in divorce so you have a 50/50 chance of your "true love" turning into a pox on your existance-- and that's assuming you didn't do something to deserve her wrath like screwing around-- if you did that she is likely to spend the rest of her life thinking of new ways to torment you.
You speak like someone who has never had a string of bad luck or had a relationship end.
Bad things happen that you cannot control.
However, only idiots live on the edge 1 payment away from bankruptcy.
Owning a house provides you protection from future inflation.
My mother's house payment went from 2 weeks pay to 3 days pay over the course of 15 years.
My house payment has remained about $700 while rent for a similar quality apartment has gone from $750 to $1100. In 4 more years, it will be paid off and my rent will drop to $300 per month (taxes- currently about $275 per month).
This is all provided you don't move.
But houses are not free. You rent from the government (property taxes).
And you have to cover all repairs and upgrades.
I can't speak for california and new york.
But in the midwest/south you can retire on $80k after about 10 years if you are not being stupid.
Or you can live like you are rich *after* about 10 years when the house and car are paid off.
Personally, I'm going to also get about $10k to $16k of solar too so I do not have to worry about rising electricity bills.
The nasty kicker in the states is medical insurance. You can have a million dollars and not be able to retire because you have to keep insurance going or you may be wiped out financially at any time.
The story itself collected the U.S. bank of genetic materials?
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Ah... the vagaries of grammar and antecedent pronouns.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/pronante.html
I think the original poster was joking for what it's worth.
Of course, "for what it's worth" is an idiom so the rules are probably thrown out there.
Well.. someone has to do it.
Due to a database error, your total was 3,000 posts but you really only have 2,997 posts.
A bud of mine in the FBI told me in just the last six years they have gone from being able to hold people 24 hours without any cause to 72 hours without any cause. Just hold them... no charge, no reason, no constitutional protections to speak of.
Britain is shooting for longer-- I guess we'll use them as an example to "average up" against.
My relative who was in the Air Force said... Join the air force. They treat you like a number but they also treat you like a person unlike the Army where they just treat you like a number.
Are you saying the UK is not part of Europe?
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In any case... from a trivial search for France (which I presume is part of Europe)
The last part of this news article says: "French officials have said all traffic cameras on the road that Diana's car took, and within the tunnel, were not working the night of the crash. But Monday's Daily Express newspaper challenged that finding, saying a woman was caught speeding by a camera in the Pont d'Alma tunnel moments before Diana's crash."
Apparently the french have lots of cameras, but very few of them actually work.
And the lady said...
.unt.
"Phone call for Mike Hunt"
"Some one is on the line for Mike Hunt!?!"
"I'm sorry.. Mike Hunt isn't available."
And the randy young boys on the other end just about died laughing.
---
The punchline is a four letter word for a female that ends in
And My Aunt wouldn't be very funny would it.
I agree with you except...
1) Europe is going down the same slope (with surveillance cameras every quarter mile in parts of europe).
The fact that you are a highly compensated expert taking that job means that is one more job not available to an american citizen and one more reason for students to *correctly* choose not to study for your field. Seriously-- only a fairly insane american student would choose IT right now. My company has shed 8 to 10 american IT workers recently and simply replaced each with 1-2 new infosys employees.
Sure thing.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to accept this or a grossly longer prison term when convicted of a crime.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen in the US to buy a gun.
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to work in certain professions or not (I mean police would really benefit from being chipped right?)
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to choose to own a car and drive one (along with our "voluntary" insurance we have to have).
And then it's voluntary for a citizen to work or not.
---
Put up a wall 20' high on the southern border.
Throw the business owners who have too high a percentage of illegal employees in jail for conspiracy.
Remove automatic citizenship for being born here.
And STOP giving out free benefits to non-citizens.
That's what's really needed.
We are racing to the bottom until we will have rich people and a bunch of low wage outsourced and illegal local workers while screwing the middle class and the poor american citizens.
I view the immigration issue as one of the largest *fixable* problems that we have today.
We need to seal the border and we need to start putting people who hire illegals in jail. I would say if over 10% of your workforce is illegal would be a reasonable threshhold.
Unfortunately the second issue requires a national database of some kind of us citizens with some kind of biometric data (you know-- a frikkin Driver's License PICTURE would be good enough-- there is no need for dna/fingerprints/retina scan). Such a database immediately raises the hackles of most americans and there we have a problem between two conflicting desires.
The final thing we need to do is rescind the law that says you are an american citizen if you are born on american soil. It should be born here from parents who are legally here and either citizens or officially recognized as working towards citizenship.
Those worked in a world model where certain rules of honor and civil behavior prevented people from behaving in certain ways.
If the british had had explosives and a willingness to sneak into those states and blow things up, then they would have been forced into the same surveillance methods we are being forced into.
The only way to stop it is to eradicate people who do not follow civilized behavior
I agree... the 20th time COULD be legitimate information.
Nah... after almost (or is it over?) 20 years of this crap (DOS aint' done til Lotus won't run...), there is no longer any doubt to give the benefit of.
No unfortunately the politicians have hand crafted the districts so that 80% of them can't lose and our votes don't matter.
I've kept track and over the last 8 years my vote has mattered one time (the incoming candidate one by 31 votes and I was #31). Every other issue and election has come out exactly as the gerrymandered districts would predict.
A first step to fixing the process is a requirement that districts be basically square with no outlying tendrils.
True, but I can reinstall it on a computer that isn't connected to the internet at this point. In the future, they want it to be more like an online game. You don't have a fully functioning copy of the software on your end unless you pay rent.
Seriously-- I don't like microsoft and I'm actively weaning myself off of their products but some times things are just so stupid you have to shout them down. There is a lot of group think here on /. (Even your post presumes that only anti-microsoft comments are by real people and anything else is a by a shill).
Microsoft is a bloody hard competitor that cheats using their O/S as the camel's nose to get in the door. They have also been convicted of stealing other companies products.
You must respect them or they will own you. They do an excellent job of marketing to business and making them easy to use (They spend a lot of money on making them easy to use).
Ultimately they want to put everyone on a monthly subscription for all of their products. Essentially cable tv bills for using word, the operating system, etc. We won't own our own software or machines- we'll just rent them.
Regardless of what cover stories they use, that's the prize. And that's the reason to get free of them permanently.
Ou are you referring to?
All they have to do is cover the planes with animated ads and most of us would never be able to see them!
My eyes instinctively ignore them these days if the browser doesn't block them to begin with.
Of course, why whine against something that's not happening right? That would be silly.
The GP post by Bob was...
"Why are the authorities not involved in raiding the MPAA offices in this case? That seems to be the *first* step when the MPAA are after someone else."
The parent post's -answered- bob's question:
"Uh, because it's a lawsuit filed by Torrentspy and not a federal crackdown?"
and -was- on topic.
The parent's post then continued with the opinion:
I'll never understand why Slashdotters get so upset that the FBI does its job and enforces the law in this country. That includes busts of the big piracy rings.
We both know this is true... we've seen it many times. It's not off topic to this conversation.
Then he gets a bit hot and (and possibly flamebaitish but not off-topic) but I think it is legitimate since he's continuing and concluding from his base statements:
You may think you're magically entitled to download everything on the planet with paying a dime to anybody ever, but the law (and common ethics) says otherwise, especially if you're a larger group with a widespread infrastructure facilitating the spread of piracy. The FBI will beat down your door and stop you from your economic sabotage.
And concluded with the ironic predictive signature:
If you're against piracy on Slashdot, you will be modded down.
Then you try to disparage *my* opinion by saying that I'm an alternate id for the parent poster. This is incorrect on the face if you just look at my account and see 871 Comments going back over a year. If you took the time to review them, you would find many anti-RIAA/MPAA comments in them.
However, I do typically despise cowardly modding down somoene to silence them when I think they said something unpopular. In this case, I read his post and saw the modding and felt he was being nuked unfairly.
Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean that I'm a shill.