Actually, Google is highly regressive in how it displays search results. Companies that can afford SEO tricks, renting links from other high PR sites, hiring staff to write useless content on blogs with links, etc will get the best results. The small company with a better mousetrap gets very little attention from Google.
The chicken-and-egg problem will exist in the meritocracy too --- there's no way to rise unless people can find you.
PS When I refer to you, I don't actually mean 'you' but I'm having a rant at the American nation in general. If you have such a problem with Americans, then stop doing business with us. I think you'll find it pretty hard to do anything with computers without using something that came from the USA. Or get decent medical care, or drugs, or pretty much anything...
And the criminal kills you (he's armed, you're not), and continues to rape your wife. Now we have a dead homeowner and a rape victim, instead of a just a dead rapist.
Do you expect the government to take responsibility for other aspects of your life other than your right of self defense?
Seeing how a lot of folk are blind drunk while hunting..... That's a false stereotype. I've hunted for 35 years with dozens of groups and I've NEVER seen a drunk hunter. I suspect that kind of behavior weeds itself out pretty quickly as it's pretty hard to navigate a deer stand while drunk.
2) Where do you live then? Baghdad? I live in Portsmouth and the worst that ever happened is a drunk attacked me. Do you really need to kill somebody for trying to steal your TV? Do thieves often sneak upstairs to kill everybody before taking said TV? The reason you need a gun to defend your house is because the criminals can buy them with the orange juice and frozen peas. No, actually criminals buy their guns illegally, just like they do in London where they're having a problem with guns flooding into the city. It's illegal for a felon to purchase a gun, but oddly enough they don't seem to care about the law. They buy them on the black market, instead of from a gun store where they'd have go through a background check and get a permit.
Call 911 and for a pizza, see which one arrives first. I've worked in 911 and my money is on the pizza guy. And if the crooks weren't assured that you were unarmed, they'd be a lot less likely to steal your TV in the first place. I suggest you put a big red sign on your house with a target that says "I don't believe in guns, please don't hurt me."
The right of self defense is the most basic human right. If you can't defend yourself from harm, what use is anything else?
Even if it came to an actual fight, your military has a lot more than just guns at its disposal. Considering what they can do against an actual army, I'd speculate they could dismantle even a sizable uprising without taking many casualties. Yes, that seems to be working well in Iraq.
How about citing a single source that reads the 2nd amendment the way DC does contemporaneous with the framers? This interpretation doesn't appear until recently, when the gun grabbing began.
"But the societal context has changed, and so must our reading." Sure. And the framers couldn't possibly have foreseen the internet, an era of instant communication, Islamic extremism, nuclear weapons, and 24 hour global news. So why don't the liberals think the reading of the 1st Amendment should change with the societal context?
I'd even move to India if I had to even if I hate the climate (as in: weather) down there.
That's like saying "I hate the weather in the US." India is a pretty big place. Bangalore, although in South India, is at elevation on a plain. Most of the time the weather is like the Bay Area. It's more pleasant there in August than most of the southern US.
Don't feel so bad for the $13k/year tech support person in India. To get a similar cost of living comparison, multiply the salary by 10. Yep, they're living like they make $130K/yr in the US.
A week's worth of groceries in Bangalore for a family of 4 will cost about 500 rupees if you don't shop carefully -- that's about $11. A really nice, top of the line apartment will cost around $700/month -- basic accomodations are much, much less. $1/day will pay for a maid. $30/day gets you a nice car and driver. 20-somethings in India making $13k/year are living the vida loca. Those prices are in Bangalore, which has seen rampant inflation.
By the time a senior engineer is making $40K/year, they're living like millionaires. How many American techies can afford a full staff of servants?
So you don't think that if a Fortune 500 company kicked out Oracle in favor of MySQL any Oracle people would lose their jobs?
OSS doesn't employ many salespeople.
I've seen the effects of outsourcing first hand. I'm fairly senior, and for the last year I've been involved in hiring a team in India to perform entry level tasks. Yes, I went to the dark side, but you've got to feed the bulldog. We're hiring like crazy in the US, because the India teams require a lot more supervision than a US team. So we're hiring manager level technical people. These managers would have been writing code 5 years ago, but there's not much future in writing simple code these days. The jobs are available in design and architecture and going to endless meetings.
I've also seen that we pay quite a bit less for manager level jobs than we did before. I make less today than I used to have to pay a developer five years ago. I know lots of developers that got out of technology because the market was so dismal. Forget being a college kid trying to land an entry level programming job, they just aren't available.
So we're basically eating our children. There's no future in entry level jobs for the US tech worker -- those jobs are gone. By definition, the pool of senior people is getting smaller each day, so those jobs should become higher paying over time. But right now there's a lot of highly experienced people available and even though hiring is up, salaries are not following because the pool of people available is still pretty large.
20 years from now we'll be as dependent upon foreign tech workers as we are today on foreign oil.
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A Hybrid? All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
What makes you think it went off without a hitch? Just look around...
Read the article. Katee says "Yeah, this might be, this may be our last year."
Olmos was more definitive, but frankly I think this is marketing hype, designed to make noise.
Actually, Google is highly regressive in how it displays search results. Companies that can afford SEO tricks, renting links from other high PR sites, hiring staff to write useless content on blogs with links, etc will get the best results. The small company with a better mousetrap gets very little attention from Google. The chicken-and-egg problem will exist in the meritocracy too --- there's no way to rise unless people can find you.
I wonder how many guide services will take blind people hunting and say "Wow, he was huge. Too bad you missed. You should have seen him!"
Sure, but I'm not posting about "having a general rant" about the Chinese either and saying the rest of the world is just laughing at them.
And the criminal kills you (he's armed, you're not), and continues to rape your wife. Now we have a dead homeowner and a rape victim, instead of a just a dead rapist. Do you expect the government to take responsibility for other aspects of your life other than your right of self defense?
How about citing a single source that reads the 2nd amendment the way DC does contemporaneous with the framers? This interpretation doesn't appear until recently, when the gun grabbing began.
"But the societal context has changed, and so must our reading." Sure. And the framers couldn't possibly have foreseen the internet, an era of instant communication, Islamic extremism, nuclear weapons, and 24 hour global news. So why don't the liberals think the reading of the 1st Amendment should change with the societal context?
Don't feel so bad for the $13k/year tech support person in India. To get a similar cost of living comparison, multiply the salary by 10. Yep, they're living like they make $130K/yr in the US. A week's worth of groceries in Bangalore for a family of 4 will cost about 500 rupees if you don't shop carefully -- that's about $11. A really nice, top of the line apartment will cost around $700/month -- basic accomodations are much, much less. $1/day will pay for a maid. $30/day gets you a nice car and driver. 20-somethings in India making $13k/year are living the vida loca. Those prices are in Bangalore, which has seen rampant inflation. By the time a senior engineer is making $40K/year, they're living like millionaires. How many American techies can afford a full staff of servants?
I am curious, but yellow.
So you don't think that if a Fortune 500 company kicked out Oracle in favor of MySQL any Oracle people would lose their jobs? OSS doesn't employ many salespeople.
Free hardware? I'll take a Porsche!
I've seen the effects of outsourcing first hand. I'm fairly senior, and for the last year I've been involved in hiring a team in India to perform entry level tasks. Yes, I went to the dark side, but you've got to feed the bulldog. We're hiring like crazy in the US, because the India teams require a lot more supervision than a US team. So we're hiring manager level technical people. These managers would have been writing code 5 years ago, but there's not much future in writing simple code these days. The jobs are available in design and architecture and going to endless meetings.
I've also seen that we pay quite a bit less for manager level jobs than we did before. I make less today than I used to have to pay a developer five years ago. I know lots of developers that got out of technology because the market was so dismal. Forget being a college kid trying to land an entry level programming job, they just aren't available.
So we're basically eating our children. There's no future in entry level jobs for the US tech worker -- those jobs are gone. By definition, the pool of senior people is getting smaller each day, so those jobs should become higher paying over time. But right now there's a lot of highly experienced people available and even though hiring is up, salaries are not following because the pool of people available is still pretty large.
20 years from now we'll be as dependent upon foreign tech workers as we are today on foreign oil.