Expirey Goatse -- 2 hits on Google Expiry Goatse -- 14,500+ hits
Conclusion:
As a spelling nazi you are x7,500 times more likely to crave goatse than someone who cannot spell. But you probably already knew that about yourself, you pervie
There are plenty of skilled Americans, but guess what? Anyone who is any good already got a job, and multiple offers lined up.
Hiring a citizen is never a problem, outbidding Google or Microsoft to hire a citizen who can do the work is the issue here...
With 300,000,000 people in the US and 6,000,000,000 in the rest of the World, that works out to 95% of the brains belonging to non-citizens. In other words, statistically, the absolute majority of smart people are foreign.
GP is correct, if you are an American without a job, you either live in the wrong area, or you just aren't as good as you think you are
This would sound like a reasonable suggestion, but it is currently illegal for most foreigners to start a business while in the United States. In particular, foreign students, tourists, H1-B and other workers cannot start a business.
To apply for a business permit, a foreigner needs to have at least $500,000 personal funds upfront (not investments from others, mind you, but personal funds), and would have to quit their job/school, leave the country, and reapply from the outside. Their kids (older than 21) or relatives would not be permitted to come with them to America.
How many Americans could start a business if they had to follow these rules?
Well, if they absolutely had to drop shit from the ceiling and involve the lame-ass robots, wouldn't it be cooler to drop ballpens with hidden RFID chips broadcasting that stolen DVD key, then make those raptors and random gadgets harass the carrier? Hunter-seeker transistor ants homing in on your cellphone? Mounted paintball guns targeting a passerby until she begs them to killer aunt delete select all? A tape recorder hidden in an elevator demanding MAFIAA royalties for listening to the elevator music the visitors "have not bought": hand over $2000 or we sue you for x100 that? A suit or armour OCRing the badges/name tags, then chatbotting the visitors. A rigged soda machine locking out non-diet cans if your BMI is too high? Anything, but this?
I would have to agree with GP, this MIT prank would be great for a Sunday school or a fat camp.
Most people don't demand the shoes that last years, so the market responds to the demand by offering a lower cost lower quality product. For me, keeping shoes for five years is not a big plus since my feet sweat and my sneakers start to stink after several months, so today I save much more money on my shoes than I would 20 years ago.
Today you can get a computer that will serve you much better than an olden typewriter, for half the cost.
I saw an old add for an electronic watch: the cheapest was about $50; today they are basically free.
You can get a TV for $70 bucks that's the same screen size but better colors, functions, and remote, whereas 20 years ago you would have a hard time even finding a crappy TV for under $400. Also consider that the $70 TV is more like a $20 TV in the inflation-adjusted dollars.
Today's stuff you are supposed to throw out and not repair. This is the price you pay for compact design and other cost-cutting measures such as automated or low-skill line production (seven layers of circuit boards can fit in one laptop what was formerly housed in a closet, though it's now hell to repair). Valve radios lasted decades (my uncle still listens to one) but costed 100 times the IC version of today (that fits in your pocket), I can repair my uncle's radio and I cannot even look at the circuit of mine, but that's the price you pay for low cost and portability.
Sorry to go off on a rant like that but the "good ol' day" people really piss me off, maybe because I remember my poor parents thinking about buying a washer or a TV or a hoover as a major investment.
The French Code was great for its time given the period's low mobility, localized economy, and universal illiteracy.
Since then, personal rights have remained where they were while the property protections have gotten a lot better (see patents/IP/MAFIAA, WTO/World Bank, banking laws, trade treaties, etc.)
Two hundred years later your status and rights are still at the whim of the sovereign and depend entirely by where you your mother pushed you out. It's high time us humans got something better, wouldn't you say?
Well, at least it's not Auschwitz. You gotta be glad it hasn't come to that yet.
Seems pretty silly that in this 21st century the billionaires can move their funds and trade across the globe in milliseconds... But the ordinary people still need some silly visa permit from the king to move their skills likewise. Trade at the post-industrial level, immigration at the Napoleonic law level?
Kind of a sweet deal for the industry: move your production to whichever country has cheaper citizen slaves knowing the people cannot follow in kind.
this sounds like someone needed something to publish or perish.
An Arxiv paper doesn't really "count" as a publication for most purposes and certainly will not prevent you from "perishing" (that's what the peer-reviewed scientific journals are for).
Publishing in Arxiv is more like posting to a blog or slashdot where you semi-formally share your ideas and try to start up a discussion on the topic of interest to you.
Of course, some of the papers over there ended up being darn important.
Perhaps it's time we "liberate" Mexico, install democracy, and use it as a buffer zone of sorts? Seems silly to fight all over the globe but no in our backyard.
Just because you have "high demand" for 6'5" blond double-D American cheerleaders does not mean you can actually afford to get any!
Same with your employer, no matter how great the demand, after the salary hits a certain high, it's just not worth it to hire you (i.e. you cannot produce enough to justify your paycheck to the stockholders).
Don't get me wrong, it an average programmer salary was $1,000,000 then Microsoft and Google would still hire by the hundreds, but your average mom-and-pop helpdesk -- not so much.
Your median computing salary has peaked; it will never ever get larger, since if it ever does, it'll be much easier to replace you with the third-party programs, hosting, shell scripts, and an occasional call to Kelly Codemonkeys Inc. For the geniuses, there's still much money to be made here, for you -- not so much.
Not sure about GP's claim of 3000% but the general idea is correct. Electricity from oil does cost much more than nuclear.
See for example http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm where US costs per kWh are stated as 8 cents for oil and 2 cents for nuclear. For a country that can purify their own uranium, the costs would be 0.2 cents per kWh (US currently does not operate any centrifuges, just a single antiquated, underpowered and highly inefficient diffusion facility; we have to pay high import costs for our uranium fuel, hence the 2 cents quote, which is still cheaper than coal at 4 cents)
Currently, Iran is operating at their maximum extraction capacity, which means that they have to chose between exporting their oil, or burning it up, losing $50/bl. The costs of building fossil- or nuclear-stoked plants is about the same (actually less for nuclear). Also, Iran has massive uranium ore deposits that are essentially free for the taking, so it's a no-brainer that they want to invest into nuclear.
Hence on their face value, Iranian claims of wanting nuclear technology for power production are credible.
Of course, a nuclear reactor has multiple other benefits, such as stimulating research, producing radioactive isotopes, and even allowing for development of dual-use technology (nuclear weapons).
You could then use this bug to get rid of the crappy pre-installed firmware and load your own copy of linux (which gave you an industry-grade router for under $40).
This same bug was later used to force Lynksys to comply with GNU GPL.
Good parents will generally be aware of what their kids are doing.
Thinking back to my youth, my parents were not usually able to stop me from doing some crazy shit. But every single time I did something, I got caught.
In my anecdotal observation, women in particular tend to be extraordinarily good at "reading" their kids. If you aren't good at paying attention to people, try finding a wife who is.
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Expirey Goatse -- 2 hits on Google
Expiry Goatse -- 14,500+ hits
Conclusion:
As a spelling nazi you are x7,500 times more likely to crave goatse than someone who cannot spell. But you probably already knew that about yourself, you pervie
It may be slow for you, but I also keeps the MAFIAA happy. Who in their right mind would steal music/movies over a dialup?
Why would you need a keyboard when you can use voice recognition to double the killer delete select all?
Wise men strive to educate themselves, idiots try to lecture others?
I am not saying that Sen. Stevens is an idiot, mind you
An honest answer is probably not what you think it is.
If anything, H-1B probably slows down offshoring by keeping the rest of the team here (that's not to say the program isn't broken in other ways).
If the H1 system is the problem, then why do you want the employers investigated? Shouldn't you be calling for the sytem to be changed?
There are plenty of skilled Americans, but guess what? Anyone who is any good already got a job, and multiple offers lined up.
Hiring a citizen is never a problem, outbidding Google or Microsoft to hire a citizen who can do the work is the issue here...
With 300,000,000 people in the US and 6,000,000,000 in the rest of the World, that works out to 95% of the brains belonging to non-citizens. In other words, statistically, the absolute majority of smart people are foreign.
GP is correct, if you are an American without a job, you either live in the wrong area, or you just aren't as good as you think you are
This would sound like a reasonable suggestion, but it is currently illegal for most foreigners to start a business while in the United States. In particular, foreign students, tourists, H1-B and other workers cannot start a business.
To apply for a business permit, a foreigner needs to have at least $500,000 personal funds upfront (not investments from others, mind you, but personal funds), and would have to quit their job/school, leave the country, and reapply from the outside. Their kids (older than 21) or relatives would not be permitted to come with them to America.
How many Americans could start a business if they had to follow these rules?
Well, if they absolutely had to drop shit from the ceiling and involve the lame-ass robots, wouldn't it be cooler to drop ballpens with hidden RFID chips broadcasting that stolen DVD key, then make those raptors and random gadgets harass the carrier? Hunter-seeker transistor ants homing in on your cellphone? Mounted paintball guns targeting a passerby until she begs them to killer aunt delete select all? A tape recorder hidden in an elevator demanding MAFIAA royalties for listening to the elevator music the visitors "have not bought": hand over $2000 or we sue you for x100 that? A suit or armour OCRing the badges/name tags, then chatbotting the visitors. A rigged soda machine locking out non-diet cans if your BMI is too high? Anything, but this?
I would have to agree with GP, this MIT prank would be great for a Sunday school or a fat camp.
Most people don't demand the shoes that last years, so the market responds to the demand by offering a lower cost lower quality product. For me, keeping shoes for five years is not a big plus since my feet sweat and my sneakers start to stink after several months, so today I save much more money on my shoes than I would 20 years ago.
Today you can get a computer that will serve you much better than an olden typewriter, for half the cost.
I saw an old add for an electronic watch: the cheapest was about $50; today they are basically free.
You can get a TV for $70 bucks that's the same screen size but better colors, functions, and remote, whereas 20 years ago you would have a hard time even finding a crappy TV for under $400. Also consider that the $70 TV is more like a $20 TV in the inflation-adjusted dollars.
Today's stuff you are supposed to throw out and not repair. This is the price you pay for compact design and other cost-cutting measures such as automated or low-skill line production (seven layers of circuit boards can fit in one laptop what was formerly housed in a closet, though it's now hell to repair). Valve radios lasted decades (my uncle still listens to one) but costed 100 times the IC version of today (that fits in your pocket), I can repair my uncle's radio and I cannot even look at the circuit of mine, but that's the price you pay for low cost and portability.
Sorry to go off on a rant like that but the "good ol' day" people really piss me off, maybe because I remember my poor parents thinking about buying a washer or a TV or a hoover as a major investment.
The French Code was great for its time given the period's low mobility, localized economy, and universal illiteracy.
Since then, personal rights have remained where they were while the property protections have gotten a lot better (see patents/IP/MAFIAA, WTO/World Bank, banking laws, trade treaties, etc.)
Two hundred years later your status and rights are still at the whim of the sovereign and depend entirely by where you your mother pushed you out. It's high time us humans got something better, wouldn't you say?
Well, at least it's not Auschwitz. You gotta be glad it hasn't come to that yet.
Seems pretty silly that in this 21st century the billionaires can move their funds and trade across the globe in milliseconds... But the ordinary people still need some silly visa permit from the king to move their skills likewise. Trade at the post-industrial level, immigration at the Napoleonic law level?
Kind of a sweet deal for the industry: move your production to whichever country has cheaper citizen slaves knowing the people cannot follow in kind.
An Arxiv paper doesn't really "count" as a publication for most purposes and certainly will not prevent you from "perishing" (that's what the peer-reviewed scientific journals are for).
Publishing in Arxiv is more like posting to a blog or slashdot where you semi-formally share your ideas and try to start up a discussion on the topic of interest to you.
Of course, some of the papers over there ended up being darn important.
Feminists got it all wrong. Glass ceilings in high-rise office buildings are all about female empowerment!
Where else can a woman get men to look up to her by simply showing up in a skirt?
...that the beatings will continue until the morale improves
Perhaps it's time we "liberate" Mexico, install democracy, and use it as a buffer zone of sorts? Seems silly to fight all over the globe but no in our backyard.
Democrat and Republican constituents want merit-based, front door only, no employer sponsored immigration.
There, fixed it for you. However, what politicians want is really quite different.
System work very well right now. The market responds to demand exceptionally well: we have PBS and CSPAN for the kooky minority that demands it.
If the pubic makes political copyright a larger issue, the media will meet that demand as well (as in fact they just did).
Plus, once the candidates are elected, all of their speeches given "in capacity" automatically become public domain.
What is it exactly that offends you here?
PHB's answer:
We have enabled knowledge-based decision making based on real-time information by implementing an enterprize resource management system.
OK I will bite.
Just because you have "high demand" for 6'5" blond double-D American cheerleaders does not mean you can actually afford to get any!
Same with your employer, no matter how great the demand, after the salary hits a certain high, it's just not worth it to hire you (i.e. you cannot produce enough to justify your paycheck to the stockholders).
Don't get me wrong, it an average programmer salary was $1,000,000 then Microsoft and Google would still hire by the hundreds, but your average mom-and-pop helpdesk -- not so much.
Your median computing salary has peaked; it will never ever get larger, since if it ever does, it'll be much easier to replace you with the third-party programs, hosting, shell scripts, and an occasional call to Kelly Codemonkeys Inc. For the geniuses, there's still much money to be made here, for you -- not so much.
Not sure about GP's claim of 3000% but the general idea is correct. Electricity from oil does cost much more than nuclear.
See for example http://www.uic.com.au/nip08.htm where US costs per kWh are stated as 8 cents for oil and 2 cents for nuclear. For a country that can purify their own uranium, the costs would be 0.2 cents per kWh (US currently does not operate any centrifuges, just a single antiquated, underpowered and highly inefficient diffusion facility; we have to pay high import costs for our uranium fuel, hence the 2 cents quote, which is still cheaper than coal at 4 cents)
Currently, Iran is operating at their maximum extraction capacity, which means that they have to chose between exporting their oil, or burning it up, losing $50/bl. The costs of building fossil- or nuclear-stoked plants is about the same (actually less for nuclear). Also, Iran has massive uranium ore deposits that are essentially free for the taking, so it's a no-brainer that they want to invest into nuclear.
Hence on their face value, Iranian claims of wanting nuclear technology for power production are credible.
Of course, a nuclear reactor has multiple other benefits, such as stimulating research, producing radioactive isotopes, and even allowing for development of dual-use technology (nuclear weapons).
What did they do this time?
It is insightful.
Reminds me of a buffer overflow in a cheap consumer router http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
You could then use this bug to get rid of the crappy pre-installed firmware and load your own copy of linux (which gave you an industry-grade router for under $40).
This same bug was later used to force Lynksys to comply with GNU GPL.
Good parents will generally be aware of what their kids are doing.
Thinking back to my youth, my parents were not usually able to stop me from doing some crazy shit. But every single time I did something, I got caught.
In my anecdotal observation, women in particular tend to be extraordinarily good at "reading" their kids. If you aren't good at paying attention to people, try finding a wife who is.