I think the word you are looking for is *secure*: *secure the borders* instead of *close the borders*.
Closing the borders completely would be counterproductive and will greatly hurt the US by stopping tourists, workers (the legal kind), students, business peolpe and sscientists.
Does not surprize me one bit. Well, my first Uni had "Spanish for Crackers" course (called something like "Agricultural Spanish for field work coordinators"). They also had a major in Home Economics (knew a girl that did a double major: HE/Biology). You could also take Fishing, Hunting, or Hiking for credit.
Just goes to show you that colleges don't care so long as parents pay up.
1) Companies get greedy and fuck up, weakening their home country. 2) Said country is relegated to the ash-heap of history. 3) A new stronger country emerges to dominate the World?
Well, why not dual-boot Vista (the cheapest one) for games, and use *nix for everything else? Or why not get Xbox or another dedicated appliance for games and leave personal computers for serious stuff?
Or do they plan to restrict certain games to Ultimate?
By the way, quake runs on FreeBSD pretty well. And it plays so much better at 1600x1200!
For example, a B.Sci. Biology degree from the Bob Jones University (BJU, a private kookservative school, where interracial dating is verboten, and where reading a paper on evolution/molecular genetics can get you expelled) is nearly worthless since the program is not accredited.
How do cells in your body know "what to do"? How do viruses know which cells to kill? All the future nanotechnology research will be built upon what biologists already know today about things such as bacteriophages, flagella, ribosomes, etc. These have worked for billions of years rather well.
Check out a pic of a nanometer-scale killing machine biologists can make at whim:) Use of these has been approved by the FDA!
Don't put words in my mouth. I am not worried about Indian competence. This issue has nothing to do with relative intelligence or abilities (or looks). What I am worried about is that it costs much less to hire an engineer in India because the rest of the population is piss-poor for reasons I listed.
I am worried that it is cheaper to hire a worker in a Communist country because s/he is a political prisoner at a labor camp.
I am worried that it is cheaper to hire a 12 year old child that does not need to waste time on reading lessons, and who is starved just enough to keep them motivated, and whose young body can handle the industrial toxins just long enough (and whose future funeral the Company would not have to pay for)
There are two ways of leveling the field: One is to lower the standard for everybody by getting rid of our labor laws, minimum wage, insurance, etc. here at home... with the result being 50% literacy rate, life expectancy of 38, and no Freedom to speak of, but huge payoffs to the chosen few.
The other way is to require any company and country wishing to do business with the United States to support civil rights (to Life, Liberty, etc.), allow unions, and pay a fair wage.
Cracking such a thing is trivial once you answer the question who watches the watchman?
As Apple just learned with their TPM kernel extension, all that hackers need to do is replace the binary that verifies all other binaries, and the "goodies" are up for grabs.
Just shows you how dumb the current aproach to the immigration really is.
Instead of those Indian engineers living in the US, buying US-made goods, paying interest on US-issued loans, in short spending their money here to create jobs for carpenters, car manufacturers, teachers, doctors, garbage collectors, administrators, computer technicians, etc. etc.
Instead of that, our money goes to India, a contry with 50% literacy rate (and a nuclear stockpile), a country with no labor laws or labor movement, where it gets spend to creates sweatshops and child labor camps with forced abortions and whatnot.
Who wins? Not us, and not them, but a few chosen uber-rich assholes.
well, your argument is valid, though it's not quite as hard to get started as you claim.
Even for a very esoteric hardware, chances are good that someone somewhere has gone though the trouble of hacking it all together, and posted the detailed howto. In most cases, there will be a straightforward patch or even a binary install disk image you can download...
I see what you are saying. But Bill Gates is probably a bad example since the guy needs creative smart people (whom he happens to pay very well I am told (H1-B or not)).
Assembly-line industries employing low-skilled workers would like China better. Industries like auto manufacturing, textiles, consumer electronics, farming, etc.
Good thing we did not try to establish checks and balances by electing those Democrats. Now, with the single Party in charge of the House, Senate, White House, and the Supreme Court, we have done so much better.
We have budget surplus! We caught Bin Laden and prevented Al Qaeda recruitment (e.g. in Iraq) We destroyed nuclear ambitions of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea! We have outlawed abortion! We have reduced the government! We defended our Constitution and Habeas Corpus. Our small busnesses are growing and We stopped the outsourcing!
See how much we accomplished with the "true conservatives" at the wheel...
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I think the word you are looking for is *secure*: *secure the borders* instead of *close the borders*.
Closing the borders completely would be counterproductive and will greatly hurt the US by stopping tourists, workers (the legal kind), students, business peolpe and sscientists.
Why shut the borders?
I am confused here:
$cheap_product1== Linux?
$more_expensive_product2== Windows?
Why would you need to pirate Linux, exactly? And why do you assume it has less features?
Does not surprize me one bit. Well, my first Uni had "Spanish for Crackers" course (called something like "Agricultural Spanish for field work coordinators"). They also had a major in Home Economics (knew a girl that did a double major: HE/Biology). You could also take Fishing, Hunting, or Hiking for credit.
Just goes to show you that colleges don't care so long as parents pay up.
Well, maybe it's a good thing.
1) Companies get greedy and fuck up, weakening their home country.
2) Said country is relegated to the ash-heap of history.
3) A new stronger country emerges to dominate the World?
Well, why not dual-boot Vista (the cheapest one) for games, and use *nix for everything else? Or why not get Xbox or another dedicated appliance for games and leave personal computers for serious stuff?
Or do they plan to restrict certain games to Ultimate?
By the way, quake runs on FreeBSD pretty well. And it plays so much better at 1600x1200!
Unions.
Unions are supposed to represent paycheck-to-paycheck guys (which currently they fail to do).
For example, a B.Sci. Biology degree from the Bob Jones University (BJU, a private kookservative school, where interracial dating is verboten, and where reading a paper on evolution/molecular genetics can get you expelled) is nearly worthless since the program is not accredited.
Their MrS degree on the other hand...
Practically, places like Dell and HP will charge you OEM XP price anyways, plus the extra in "removal" fees (home users requesting no os).
*In Linux word, bug fixes are called "improvements". Don't dare to use this word when talking about Windows in ./*
The difference being that most users are not forced to pay for a copy of "Linux" whenever they buy a new computer.
Or asking a Congress page about her penis size ;-)
How do cells in your body know "what to do"? How do viruses know which cells to kill? All the future nanotechnology research will be built upon what biologists already know today about things such as bacteriophages, flagella, ribosomes, etc. These have worked for billions of years rather well.
:)
Check out a pic of a nanometer-scale killing machine biologists can make at whim
Use of these has been approved by the FDA!
Don't put words in my mouth. I am not worried about Indian competence. This issue has nothing to do with relative intelligence or abilities (or looks). What I am worried about is that it costs much less to hire an engineer in India because the rest of the population is piss-poor for reasons I listed.
I am worried that it is cheaper to hire a worker in a Communist country because s/he is a political prisoner at a labor camp.
I am worried that it is cheaper to hire a 12 year old child that does not need to waste time on reading lessons, and who is starved just enough to keep them motivated, and whose young body can handle the industrial toxins just long enough (and whose future funeral the Company would not have to pay for)
There are two ways of leveling the field: One is to lower the standard for everybody by getting rid of our labor laws, minimum wage, insurance, etc. here at home... with the result being 50% literacy rate, life expectancy of 38, and no Freedom to speak of, but huge payoffs to the chosen few.
The other way is to require any company and country wishing to do business with the United States to support civil rights (to Life, Liberty, etc.), allow unions, and pay a fair wage.
Cracking such a thing is trivial once you answer the question who watches the watchman?
As Apple just learned with their TPM kernel extension, all that hackers need to do is replace the binary that verifies all other binaries, and the "goodies" are up for grabs.
Just shows you how dumb the current aproach to the immigration really is.
Instead of those Indian engineers living in the US, buying US-made goods, paying interest on US-issued loans, in short spending their money here to create jobs for carpenters, car manufacturers, teachers, doctors, garbage collectors, administrators, computer technicians, etc. etc.
Instead of that, our money goes to India, a contry with 50% literacy rate (and a nuclear stockpile), a country with no labor laws or labor movement, where it gets spend to creates sweatshops and child labor camps with forced abortions and whatnot.
Who wins? Not us, and not them, but a few chosen uber-rich assholes.
You assume Jesus had to die to save us. Had He not been executed, who's to say He would not establish Heaven on Earth or something.
You also assume He had to go easy on us during His execution, chosing to cleanse our sins (as opposed to, say sending the entire humanity to Hades).
Got it wrong once with Jesus...
Anyone willing to take another chance at the death penalty?
Damn, that just made my day.
well, your argument is valid, though it's not quite as hard to get started as you claim.
Even for a very esoteric hardware, chances are good that someone somewhere has gone though the trouble of hacking it all together, and posted the detailed howto. In most cases, there will be a straightforward patch or even a binary install disk image you can download...
That thing would bring about the end of civilization.
Just download a "crack"
I see what you are saying. But Bill Gates is probably a bad example since the guy needs creative smart people (whom he happens to pay very well I am told (H1-B or not)).
Assembly-line industries employing low-skilled workers would like China better. Industries like auto manufacturing, textiles, consumer electronics, farming, etc.
It spamhaus moved to .co.uk, could the Judge order ICANN to 'unplug' the entire .uk TLD?
Damn right.
Good thing we did not try to establish checks and balances by electing those Democrats. Now, with the single Party in charge of the House, Senate, White House, and the Supreme Court, we have done so much better.
We have budget surplus!
We caught Bin Laden and prevented Al Qaeda recruitment (e.g. in Iraq)
We destroyed nuclear ambitions of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea!
We have outlawed abortion!
We have reduced the government!
We defended our Constitution and Habeas Corpus.
Our small busnesses are growing and
We stopped the outsourcing!
See how much we accomplished with the "true conservatives" at the wheel...
1) Chinese hacked US Govt computers
2) Most of US Govt computers run MS Windows
3) Bill Gates is in charge of MS
Therefore, Bill Gates is a Chinese Spy!!1!!!!11