If anything, being in airforce is less honorable than being a marine, a firefighter, a cop, a paramedic, a janitor even. How much risk do they take bombing cavemen from 20,000 feet?
We don't have conscription in this country. If the risk/reward ratio is not right for you, feel free to try your luck elsewhere. But don't pretend to be holier than the Pope's horse please.
Well, that's implied. "Stealing jobs" is the basic idea of the social parasitism believers. The premise is usually that people do not create value but are mere consumers/parasites living off the finite government/society/planet's tit.
Hence you get claims that "this country is not big enough to support all of us" which usually conclude that people actually steal the limited jobs/resources from each-other.
After that, the believers try to justify why they deserve the "limited" resource more than anybody else (be it by birth, nationality, skin color, gender, IQ, etc.)
Hey give them a break. You try working full-time for $20k/year, lifting heavy bags all day and dealing with smug assholes that think they are better than you.
Frankly, I am surprized one of those guys/gals doesn't pull a gun and go postal.
In practice that will never happen since the corporations will not want to give up their visa slaves, nor the populace will want additional competition (however fair it might be). Nobody really cares that we are shooting ourselves in the foot by shutting 95% of skilled workers out.
Right now I'd be hesitant to get rid of H1-B since right now that's about the only legal way to employ a foreigner since green card applications can take years, sometimes decades to process (and I don't need that worker in 2014, I need her right now).
Consider that in 1900 there were only 90 million of people in America. Hundred years later, in 2000 there are about 300 million (that's 210 million extra workers "stealing your job"). Are the wages down compared to 1900?
GP makes a perfectly valid point: the moment they start throwing people in jail for not carrying ID/papers, the whole country is fucked.
And yes, technically neither Jews in Germany, nor dissidents in Russia or Poland had anything to hide or did anything wrong. Didn't help the many millions of them that died in the camps.
But I still don't think that answers GP's question: why is this happening now instead of back when IRA blew up bomb and killed people pretty much weekly?
Is it the teletubbies instilling their gay agenda into the young minds? All the mercury in marmite rotting their brains? The hot East-European chicks infecting the populate with the highly contageous BendOverForAuthoritis?
Why are Britons turning into a bunch of craven pussy chickenshits (for lack of a better word)?
Part of the problem here is that robots don't have an inherent right to self-defence. If someone punches you, you can hit back no problem... If someone punches a robot, it would be illegal for you to have your robot retaliate.
I didn't read TFA of course, but if this happens in California or Britain or some crazy liberal place like that, even YOU can't hit trespassers, certainly not for things like littering or using needles or stealing your stuff so long as they don't threaten you personally... your only (legal) recourse is to ask them to stop or call the cops.
On a personal note, one guy in CA got jailed for keeping an unlicensed flamethrower. That's right folks, going to jail over a home defence project!
That's probably because your university's IT people are clueless (since most of the better ones are hired away by the industry).
What they should have done is imposed a hard 1000 MB/day bandwidth limit or something like that. Enough for legitimate uses, not enough to be a bandwidth hog.
What's the use of military secrecy in times of peace (esp. for a Superpower like us)?
That's like getting a guard dog and not posting a "beware of dog" sign or like getting a nuclear arsenal and keeping it a secret until you are attacked, or getting a red Ferrari and not using it to pick up hot chicks... Idiotic, in other words!
People who can't get a woman to marry? That's gonna be half of slashdot, at least, so considering we are up to 7-digit UIDs now, it will be more than five.
Also, FTFS: "vacuuming, picking up toys off the floor of a living room, taking dishes out of a dishwasher, and most importantly of all, using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew." I would think the most important of all would be the price of the thing... and/or the ability to understand spoken double killer select delete select.
What good is free Internet if you don't have a computer? I heard somewhere that it would take an average Cuban about 5 months' worth of salary to afford a $100 OLPC
Hell, there must be some fresh/. admin on the loose.
How else to explain a whole bunch of -1's to all of the interesting/insightful comments in this thread? That, or them testing a new AI moderator plugin.
You are not thinking outside the box (and neither does our military).
You don't deter suicide bombers by threatening to shoot them! What they should do instead is tell them you will soak their bodies in pig intestines or whatever it is their religion says will send them to hell. Throw in the promiss that their sisters/mothers will be converted to Christianity and married off to an infidel, and the suicide dumbasses just might see that they still got a lot to lose. Now combine that with free reading lessons (OTHER THAN Koran), clean drinking water, and cheap jobs, and you got yourself a nice carrot/stick situation.
I would be willing to bet good money that simple signs in Arabic "Guards are armed with pig lard-loaded shotguns" would be a hell of a lot more effective in controlling violence then all the other weapons we got in Iraq combined.
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I pay him for it, don't I?
If anything, being in airforce is less honorable than being a marine, a firefighter, a cop, a paramedic, a janitor even. How much risk do they take bombing cavemen from 20,000 feet?
We don't have conscription in this country. If the risk/reward ratio is not right for you, feel free to try your luck elsewhere. But don't pretend to be holier than the Pope's horse please.
Well, that's implied. "Stealing jobs" is the basic idea of the social parasitism believers. The premise is usually that people do not create value but are mere consumers/parasites living off the finite government/society/planet's tit.
Hence you get claims that "this country is not big enough to support all of us" which usually conclude that people actually steal the limited jobs/resources from each-other.
After that, the believers try to justify why they deserve the "limited" resource more than anybody else (be it by birth, nationality, skin color, gender, IQ, etc.)
Considering that 1 in 4 teenage girls already have STDs, those will be in high demand.
Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VBB9D00&show_article=1
Much easier to ask (and I honestly don't know).
How many does "Visual Basic" return?
How about "Microsoft Word?"
You know, your future children might steal my job. I hope that wouldn't make you abort them.
Be that as it may, why you think you deserve Freedom and Success more than some guy in India or Mexico is beyond me.
How tall are you? They always seem to pick on tall white guys as well as anyone who stands out (e.g. sikhs).
Hey give them a break. You try working full-time for $20k/year, lifting heavy bags all day and dealing with smug assholes that think they are better than you.
Frankly, I am surprized one of those guys/gals doesn't pull a gun and go postal.
Without googling for goatse, identify this symbol:
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Sounds like an interesting idea in theory.
In practice that will never happen since the corporations will not want to give up their visa slaves, nor the populace will want additional competition (however fair it might be). Nobody really cares that we are shooting ourselves in the foot by shutting 95% of skilled workers out.
Right now I'd be hesitant to get rid of H1-B since right now that's about the only legal way to employ a foreigner since green card applications can take years, sometimes decades to process (and I don't need that worker in 2014, I need her right now).
Repeat after me: it's not a zero-sum game.
Consider that in 1900 there were only 90 million of people in America.
Hundred years later, in 2000 there are about 300 million (that's 210 million extra workers "stealing your job").
Are the wages down compared to 1900?
Guess that's the last time there'll be another IT fair in Germany.
GP makes a perfectly valid point: the moment they start throwing people in jail for not carrying ID/papers, the whole country is fucked.
And yes, technically neither Jews in Germany, nor dissidents in Russia or Poland had anything to hide or did anything wrong. Didn't help the many millions of them that died in the camps.
Papiere bitte, asshole.
But I still don't think that answers GP's question: why is this happening now instead of back when IRA blew up bomb and killed people pretty much weekly?
Is it the teletubbies instilling their gay agenda into the young minds? All the mercury in marmite rotting their brains? The hot East-European chicks infecting the populate with the highly contageous BendOverForAuthoritis?
Why are Britons turning into a bunch of craven pussy chickenshits (for lack of a better word)?
A single 840 cm mirror is like 9 yards across. Big, but not huge.
Part of the problem here is that robots don't have an inherent right to self-defence. If someone punches you, you can hit back no problem... If someone punches a robot, it would be illegal for you to have your robot retaliate.
I didn't read TFA of course, but if this happens in California or Britain or some crazy liberal place like that, even YOU can't hit trespassers, certainly not for things like littering or using needles or stealing your stuff so long as they don't threaten you personally... your only (legal) recourse is to ask them to stop or call the cops.
On a personal note, one guy in CA got jailed for keeping an unlicensed flamethrower. That's right folks, going to jail over a home defence project!
That's probably because your university's IT people are clueless (since most of the better ones are hired away by the industry).
What they should have done is imposed a hard 1000 MB/day bandwidth limit or something like that. Enough for legitimate uses, not enough to be a bandwidth hog.
What's the use of military secrecy in times of peace (esp. for a Superpower like us)?
That's like getting a guard dog and not posting a "beware of dog" sign or like getting a nuclear arsenal and keeping it a secret until you are attacked, or getting a red Ferrari and not using it to pick up hot chicks... Idiotic, in other words!
People who can't get a woman to marry? That's gonna be half of slashdot, at least, so considering we are up to 7-digit UIDs now, it will be more than five.
Also, FTFS: "vacuuming, picking up toys off the floor of a living room, taking dishes out of a dishwasher, and most importantly of all, using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew." I would think the most important of all would be the price of the thing... and/or the ability to understand spoken double killer select delete select.
What good is free Internet if you don't have a computer? I heard somewhere that it would take an average Cuban about 5 months' worth of salary to afford a $100 OLPC
Because it's less expensive to lay pipes in the ground then high up it up in the air.
What I am wondering is how they manage to send the many billions of phonecalls down a single DS-3 line?
I am curious, did you also support Hitler rounding up those illegal aliens stealing jobs from the native German Aryans?
And what do you think of the illegals that managed to escape and came to America to steal jobs from us (Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, to name just a few)?
Hell, there must be some fresh /. admin on the loose.
How else to explain a whole bunch of -1's to all of the interesting/insightful comments in this thread? That, or them testing a new AI moderator plugin.
You are not thinking outside the box (and neither does our military).
You don't deter suicide bombers by threatening to shoot them! What they should do instead is tell them you will soak their bodies in pig intestines or whatever it is their religion says will send them to hell. Throw in the promiss that their sisters/mothers will be converted to Christianity and married off to an infidel, and the suicide dumbasses just might see that they still got a lot to lose. Now combine that with free reading lessons (OTHER THAN Koran), clean drinking water, and cheap jobs, and you got yourself a nice carrot/stick situation.
I would be willing to bet good money that simple signs in Arabic "Guards are armed with pig lard-loaded shotguns" would be a hell of a lot more effective in controlling violence then all the other weapons we got in Iraq combined.