Just for laughs I downloaded Amaya and fed it a typical client web page. It gave me "Error(s) in source code" and gave up.
If you have the luxury of writing your own pages from scratch, and you don't mind that horribly blurry OS X-style text smoothing, and if you don't need auto-complete, then maybe Amaya is a good choice. For me, I can guarantee right now it's going to choke and fail on every client web page I feed it, so I'm not going to bother.
On the other hand, Visual Studio can use its "auto-format document" feature even on pages with horrible errors (well, depending on the class of horrible error) and come up with a readable document. Amaya seems to have no such option.
I do enjoy the mysteiously-named "Save current geometry" button. Good thing there's no in-line or tooltip help.
First of all, I hope the letters people are writing using Word are a hell of a lot better than your Slashdot postings-- you might know how to use a Word Processor, but you certainly have no clue how to write a decent document. "learn people" indeed.
Secondly, there's nothing to prevent the teaching of concepts and not memorization using Windows and Word. If a particular student's teacher didn't do that, blame the teacher, not the tool. Guess what? You can even teach programming concepts in any language as well, like Visual Basic, if you please.
What they were really talking about is constantly f*sking with their file formats so that when a user with a new system sends a document to a user with an old system the recipient can't open it... even if the document does not use any of the new 'features' of the updated software... and they then suffer the social shame of *still* being on last year's s/w?
This article is about Windows 7. Praytell, what file format in Windows 7 is incompatible with previous versions of Windows? (Hint: the only file formats Windows even ships with are basically the various image formats supported by Paint, and the RTF files written by WordPad. And text files of course.)
My guess is you're actually complaining about Office. Office, which has changed file formats *ONCE IN ITS ENTIRE HISTORY*, you're griping about.
There is no reason for it other than to trap people into upgrade cycles that are spurious.
You must have missed all the griping about how the DOC format was a horrible binary blob that was rampant on this and other technical sites before Office 2007 came out. No reason for it? You're full of crap, there were a hundred reasons to upgrade the DOC format to something that at least slightly resembles a modern document format.
Not to say that the Office 2007 format is perfect, but at least it's not made by writing C structs directly to fucking disk!
Coda might be a better option, although it's commercial and not open source, it really is a very good editor.
(I'm probably going to get chided for this on Slashdot, and it doesn't really answer the question, but I actually like Visual Studio's HTML editor best, if you have access to a Windows machine you can run Visual Web Developer Express for free. Or buy Expression Web, it's pretty affordable.)
Last I tried Inkscape on Mac, it was an X11 app and didn't run natively, and it had extremely basic bugs in it. (i.e. the open dialog couldn't sort alphabetically), which I think were inherited from the GTK+ toolkit it uses. I wouldn't recommend it unless the Mac user has a *lot* of patience for buggy, alien-looking apps. (Most don't.) Unfortunately, I don't know of a better alternative.
Yeah, but everybody's experienced the SQL query which, when re-written to say the same thing a different way (i.e. replacing a sub-query with a join) runs 10 times faster than before. The trick to get good at SQL is just to remember these cases and avoid them... the fact that the SQL parser/engine can't do this optimization on its own doesn't speak well for SQL's design.
It also doesn't help that when extensions are made to SQL (like T-SQL), the very first thing they add are procedural looping operators.
That's not to say the *concept* of SQL is flawed, just that the language itself is, IMO.
Who cares if global warming is caused by humans or not? Do we actually need to prove that to reach the conclusion that polluting its own environment is a rather stupid behavior for any living being?
Yeah, but things aren't nearly as dire as most climate activists tell us.
You have to realize that the rise in pollution almost directly corresponds with the rise in quality-of-life, over the past few centuries. (And yes, even workers in those horrible polluted cities in the early-industrial period had better quality-of-life than rural workers at the time; people didn't just flood into the cities because they were retarded.) While this behavior might be "stupid", the simple fact is that it's *worked* for a very long time.
Depending on how you look at the problem, the "solutions" to it are vastly different. What the debate really needs is people to be open-minded... there's no real debate if half the people in it are brainwashed by Greenpeace and the other half are brainwashed by Exxon.
Cisco's VPN dialer is a piece of shit. It doesn't work if you have more than one network card, it doesn't work if you use ICS (which I guess requires more than one network card... so uh.) It has a godawful UI, gives mysterious error messages for no reason at all (especially on Mac.)
In short: I don't blame Microsoft for Cisco's software sucking shit, I blame Cisco. So should you.
This story isn't about netbooks (specifically), it's about notebooks (in general.) Most notebooks sold in the last 2 years can run Vista without any problem; all will be able to run Windows 7 without any problems.
While I can see the merit in comparing against the version that's most commonly-used, if the goal is for Linux to beat Microsoft, then Linux should be competing with Microsoft's latest development and not Microsoft products of days past. There's no point in beating XP when Windows 7 is right around the corner, in short.
Except why doesn't the kernel just do that all the time, like the ones in OS X and Windows Vista/Windows 7? What's the benefit to *not* installing a "tickless kernel?"
I mean, I understand your explanation, but what I need now is an explanation of why this obviously superior mode isn't the default everywhere for every reason.
Since you're being so helpful, please point me to the download link for the laptop version of Ubuntu. Or are you just being an abrasive asshole while telling people to install a product which does not exist?
Hm, I think the latter.
There's no reason that you should have to download a different version of your OS for laptop hardware. Hell, Windows *SERVER* 2008 has better power management than the average Linux distro, simply because it uses the same power management code as the other Windows versions.
It's definitely more popular on netbooks than it is on traditional laptops, or desktops, but netbooks still overwhelmingly include Windows XP by default. And Windows XP only works on netbooks basically by chance, it was never designed for that usage scenario-- when Windows 7 is released, expect it to conquer the small remaining Linux holdouts in the netbook market in no time at all.
In short, I think you're a little deluded from reading too much Slashdot.
And remember XP is *8* years old now. You shouldn't even be comparing with it, you should do the comparison with Vista (which by the way is a full 2 years old now) and Windows 7, both of which are much better at battery life. (Due to Microsoft's recent battle against software polling.)
Please, Linux advocates, when you're doing comparisons with Windows, use the *current* version of Windows. Yes, even if you personally dislike it.
Because it takes like 3 hours (on my beefy desktop!) to rip my Netflix movie into DIVX (or MP4 or whatever) format. That's a chore I'd have to do *before* I actually want to watch the movie on my tiny netbook. (Plus I'd have to decide which movie to watch far in advance of deciding to watch a movie.)
So basically, you're saying that instead of fixing Linux to work correctly, everybody should just wait a minimum of 3 hours with their computer plugged-in before watching a DVD movie? That's close to the most retarded recommendation I've ever heard.
And yes, you sound like a jerkwad. A particularly clueless one.
Regarding background processes, at least in Mac OS X, most daemons are heavily tuned to not do anything until asked. Instead of polling from user space up into the kernel, they call up into the kernel and then sit waiting in select() on a socket or mach_msg_trap on a mach port until the other end of the socket/pipe/mach port sends a message to tell them that something needs to happen.
Just FYI, you mentioned OS X, but that's also the correct way of doing it in Windows, as well. Unfortunately, bad developers still poll for stuff, but there's nothing (feasible) Microsoft can do to prevent apps from doing it.
Then please respect my second point, and stop complaining about because I'm getting fucking sick of hearing it over and over and over whenever the topic comes up. Just cope and move on.
This whole debate about "you can't play Starcraft on LAN!" reminds me of the Fallout 3 detractors who constantly yelled "Fallout 3 won't let me kill children!"
Yeah, yeah, we get it: you enjoyed that feature in the past game. But is it really that big a deal? Is this really the number one thing you base a purchase decision on? I mean, I'm not going to go as far as saying "get a grip," since, at minimum, it's at least a much bigger deal than the idiotic Fallout 3 complaints, and frankly I don't know how big LAN play is. I do know that I've personally used it... once? Ever?
At the very least, let's see some NEW bitching. This one is getting old, and I'm sick of reading it over and over again.
The most Avatar can hope for is some blacklight posters sold at Spencers.
Are you kidding?
It has the whole space marine playset, including the camp walls, the headless combat robot action figure, the hovercraft vehicle pack, the brain-transfer lab playset, a spaceplane and space station LEGO kit, etc etc.
Then added to that you have the warrior alien action figure, the archer alien action figure, the giant alien cat figure, the alien butterfly/dragon action figure...
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Yup! That's the spirit!
Wow, you were easily swayed.
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Even if NASA could build the equipment quickly enough, it could take several years of travel time to just arrive at the thing to splash paint on it, or attach the rockets. And then would it still be distant enough for those very slow methods to change its course enough?
I mean, I see your point, but I just don't think the odds of successfully intercepting a big one, even with years of warning, are very good. Maybe I'm just a pessimist.
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Ok, they find the asteroid... and then what? I hate to break this to you, but Armageddeon was a work of fiction. (Shocking, I know.) We don't have anything that can land on an asteroid and do anything about it-- and we probably wouldn't have time to build one after we detected the sucker.
LOL. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, right?
Right, you gigantic asshole.
Sorry, you're a victim of a myth. On a per capita basis, the US accepts roughly the same number of immigrants (and/or refugees) as many western European countries, but less than other countries. By contrast, Canada accept far more. Hell, I think Greece has higher immigration numbers.
And your point is...?
And if you factor in the anti-immigrant rhetoric and attitudes prevalent across so much of the US (and the lack of such things as health care and basic social safety nets, I'd suggest that the US is hardly a welcoming place.
There is no "anti-immigration rhetoric." YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT. I've literally never, ONCE, heard a single person in the US complain about legal immigration. That includes everybody I've known in real life, any TV or radio I've listened to-- that sentiment simply DOES NOT EXIST.
There is anti-illegal immigration rhetoric. You're a retard if you don't realize that that's something completely different.
The reason, for example, why the US has low immigration numbers
It does? You haven't proven that yet, buddy... you can't work off of points you haven't yet addressed!
and continues to spend less per capita on charitable foreign aid than most industrialised countries, is that the US simply doesn't like and has never liked foreigners, least of all when they try to immigrate.
Look, I don't know what redneck hell-hole you got your impression of the US from, but: FUCK YOU.
As for the article, the immigration process does require a complete health check, so the issues related to the spread of infectious diseases are addressed. The problem, however, is that not everyone who comes here is eligible to become part of that process, and there is no free public health care for them or anyone else. Consider tuberculosis, for example. Mandatory screening when applying for a green card, but the rates of infection in the US go up by 20K cases per year.
Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be because of *illegal* immigration? Immigrants who don't go through that complete health check you just mentioned because they're under the government's radar? HMM! WHAT A PUZZLER!!
Jesus Christ you're an asshole. Praytell, what country do you come from, that's so much better than the US when it comes to immigration? The aforementioned Greece?
Yes but how open are the legal channels, as compared to the illegal ones?
Already more open than almost every other nation on Earth. I mean, seriously, what more could we do?
The porous north and south borders are obviously a problem here.
Yeah, because they're huge borders and they've always been borders with friendly nations so we've never bothered to really defend them in any serious manner.
Every time I turn around the US government is finding new and innovative ideas in fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. Scratch that. The US government is using the same old tried and true methods of fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. They steal jobs. They bring crime. They bring disease. It's the same old song and dance.
Uh, the US allows more immigration than the vast majority of first-world countries. Have you ever tried emigrating to another country? I've looked into moving to New Zealand for example-- the requirements are insane. If you don't have a PhD, you might as well not even try. In comparison, someone from New Zealand moving to the US is almost trivial.
Now, I've heard your arguments applied to *illegal* immigration. But not immigration in general. Remember the motto on the Statue of Liberty? We follow that model pretty damn closely.
In a world of modern transportation, it is essentially impossible to screen every person who crosses into our country for diseases.
It's possible to screen legal immigrants for diseases, as we know who they are and where they are living. It's impossible to screen illegal immigrants, as they stay under the radar of government (for obvious reasons.)
The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border,
Border patrols stop *illegal* immigration. Which are you talking about? Your post is so confused, I have no idea.
I used to fly internationally all the time, but with the growing anti-immigrant policies of the US, I find myself having a worse and worse time traveling even though I am a US citizen. The TSA and Immigration Control have made flying a mode of travel that is completely unattractive.
What the hell are you talking about? You're living in your own little fantasy world.
Look, air travel is more popular than ever. The TSA has made flying *slightly* more inconvenient than ten years ago, but it's still far more convenient than any other method of traveling internationally. Immigration hasn't changed at all, as far as I'm aware, and in any case, only illegal immigrants would have to worry about that. For everybody else it's a rubber-stamp.
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Just for laughs I downloaded Amaya and fed it a typical client web page. It gave me "Error(s) in source code" and gave up.
If you have the luxury of writing your own pages from scratch, and you don't mind that horribly blurry OS X-style text smoothing, and if you don't need auto-complete, then maybe Amaya is a good choice. For me, I can guarantee right now it's going to choke and fail on every client web page I feed it, so I'm not going to bother.
On the other hand, Visual Studio can use its "auto-format document" feature even on pages with horrible errors (well, depending on the class of horrible error) and come up with a readable document. Amaya seems to have no such option.
I do enjoy the mysteiously-named "Save current geometry" button. Good thing there's no in-line or tooltip help.
First of all, I hope the letters people are writing using Word are a hell of a lot better than your Slashdot postings-- you might know how to use a Word Processor, but you certainly have no clue how to write a decent document. "learn people" indeed.
Secondly, there's nothing to prevent the teaching of concepts and not memorization using Windows and Word. If a particular student's teacher didn't do that, blame the teacher, not the tool. Guess what? You can even teach programming concepts in any language as well, like Visual Basic, if you please.
What they were really talking about is constantly f*sking with their file formats so that when a user with a new system sends a document to a user with an old system the recipient can't open it... even if the document does not use any of the new 'features' of the updated software... and they then suffer the social shame of *still* being on last year's s/w?
This article is about Windows 7. Praytell, what file format in Windows 7 is incompatible with previous versions of Windows? (Hint: the only file formats Windows even ships with are basically the various image formats supported by Paint, and the RTF files written by WordPad. And text files of course.)
My guess is you're actually complaining about Office. Office, which has changed file formats *ONCE IN ITS ENTIRE HISTORY*, you're griping about.
There is no reason for it other than to trap people into upgrade cycles that are spurious.
You must have missed all the griping about how the DOC format was a horrible binary blob that was rampant on this and other technical sites before Office 2007 came out. No reason for it? You're full of crap, there were a hundred reasons to upgrade the DOC format to something that at least slightly resembles a modern document format.
Not to say that the Office 2007 format is perfect, but at least it's not made by writing C structs directly to fucking disk!
According to the Slashdot image accompanying the post, it looks like a Motorola brick circa 1996. Hardly stylish.
(Or maybe Slashdot's icons are just a freakin' decade out of date.)
Nvu is old and unsupported.
Coda might be a better option, although it's commercial and not open source, it really is a very good editor.
(I'm probably going to get chided for this on Slashdot, and it doesn't really answer the question, but I actually like Visual Studio's HTML editor best, if you have access to a Windows machine you can run Visual Web Developer Express for free. Or buy Expression Web, it's pretty affordable.)
Last I tried Inkscape on Mac, it was an X11 app and didn't run natively, and it had extremely basic bugs in it. (i.e. the open dialog couldn't sort alphabetically), which I think were inherited from the GTK+ toolkit it uses. I wouldn't recommend it unless the Mac user has a *lot* of patience for buggy, alien-looking apps. (Most don't.) Unfortunately, I don't know of a better alternative.
Yeah, but everybody's experienced the SQL query which, when re-written to say the same thing a different way (i.e. replacing a sub-query with a join) runs 10 times faster than before. The trick to get good at SQL is just to remember these cases and avoid them... the fact that the SQL parser/engine can't do this optimization on its own doesn't speak well for SQL's design.
It also doesn't help that when extensions are made to SQL (like T-SQL), the very first thing they add are procedural looping operators.
That's not to say the *concept* of SQL is flawed, just that the language itself is, IMO.
Who cares if global warming is caused by humans or not? Do we actually need to prove that to reach the conclusion that polluting its own environment is a rather stupid behavior for any living being?
Yeah, but things aren't nearly as dire as most climate activists tell us.
You have to realize that the rise in pollution almost directly corresponds with the rise in quality-of-life, over the past few centuries. (And yes, even workers in those horrible polluted cities in the early-industrial period had better quality-of-life than rural workers at the time; people didn't just flood into the cities because they were retarded.) While this behavior might be "stupid", the simple fact is that it's *worked* for a very long time.
Depending on how you look at the problem, the "solutions" to it are vastly different. What the debate really needs is people to be open-minded... there's no real debate if half the people in it are brainwashed by Greenpeace and the other half are brainwashed by Exxon.
Cisco's VPN dialer is a piece of shit. It doesn't work if you have more than one network card, it doesn't work if you use ICS (which I guess requires more than one network card... so uh.) It has a godawful UI, gives mysterious error messages for no reason at all (especially on Mac.)
In short: I don't blame Microsoft for Cisco's software sucking shit, I blame Cisco. So should you.
This story isn't about netbooks (specifically), it's about notebooks (in general.) Most notebooks sold in the last 2 years can run Vista without any problem; all will be able to run Windows 7 without any problems.
While I can see the merit in comparing against the version that's most commonly-used, if the goal is for Linux to beat Microsoft, then Linux should be competing with Microsoft's latest development and not Microsoft products of days past. There's no point in beating XP when Windows 7 is right around the corner, in short.
Except why doesn't the kernel just do that all the time, like the ones in OS X and Windows Vista/Windows 7? What's the benefit to *not* installing a "tickless kernel?"
I mean, I understand your explanation, but what I need now is an explanation of why this obviously superior mode isn't the default everywhere for every reason.
Since you're being so helpful, please point me to the download link for the laptop version of Ubuntu. Or are you just being an abrasive asshole while telling people to install a product which does not exist?
Hm, I think the latter.
There's no reason that you should have to download a different version of your OS for laptop hardware. Hell, Windows *SERVER* 2008 has better power management than the average Linux distro, simply because it uses the same power management code as the other Windows versions.
Linux is a popular choice for netbooks,
It's definitely more popular on netbooks than it is on traditional laptops, or desktops, but netbooks still overwhelmingly include Windows XP by default. And Windows XP only works on netbooks basically by chance, it was never designed for that usage scenario-- when Windows 7 is released, expect it to conquer the small remaining Linux holdouts in the netbook market in no time at all.
In short, I think you're a little deluded from reading too much Slashdot.
And remember XP is *8* years old now. You shouldn't even be comparing with it, you should do the comparison with Vista (which by the way is a full 2 years old now) and Windows 7, both of which are much better at battery life. (Due to Microsoft's recent battle against software polling.)
Please, Linux advocates, when you're doing comparisons with Windows, use the *current* version of Windows. Yes, even if you personally dislike it.
Because it takes like 3 hours (on my beefy desktop!) to rip my Netflix movie into DIVX (or MP4 or whatever) format. That's a chore I'd have to do *before* I actually want to watch the movie on my tiny netbook. (Plus I'd have to decide which movie to watch far in advance of deciding to watch a movie.)
So basically, you're saying that instead of fixing Linux to work correctly, everybody should just wait a minimum of 3 hours with their computer plugged-in before watching a DVD movie? That's close to the most retarded recommendation I've ever heard.
And yes, you sound like a jerkwad. A particularly clueless one.
Regarding background processes, at least in Mac OS X, most daemons are heavily tuned to not do anything until asked. Instead of polling from user space up into the kernel, they call up into the kernel and then sit waiting in select() on a socket or mach_msg_trap on a mach port until the other end of the socket/pipe/mach port sends a message to tell them that something needs to happen.
Just FYI, you mentioned OS X, but that's also the correct way of doing it in Windows, as well. Unfortunately, bad developers still poll for stuff, but there's nothing (feasible) Microsoft can do to prevent apps from doing it.
Ok, dad.
Then please respect my second point, and stop complaining about because I'm getting fucking sick of hearing it over and over and over whenever the topic comes up. Just cope and move on.
This whole debate about "you can't play Starcraft on LAN!" reminds me of the Fallout 3 detractors who constantly yelled "Fallout 3 won't let me kill children!"
Yeah, yeah, we get it: you enjoyed that feature in the past game. But is it really that big a deal? Is this really the number one thing you base a purchase decision on? I mean, I'm not going to go as far as saying "get a grip," since, at minimum, it's at least a much bigger deal than the idiotic Fallout 3 complaints, and frankly I don't know how big LAN play is. I do know that I've personally used it... once? Ever?
At the very least, let's see some NEW bitching. This one is getting old, and I'm sick of reading it over and over again.
The most Avatar can hope for is some blacklight posters sold at Spencers.
Are you kidding?
It has the whole space marine playset, including the camp walls, the headless combat robot action figure, the hovercraft vehicle pack, the brain-transfer lab playset, a spaceplane and space station LEGO kit, etc etc.
Then added to that you have the warrior alien action figure, the archer alien action figure, the giant alien cat figure, the alien butterfly/dragon action figure...
And that's just from the trailer!
Avatar - Dances with Wolves with Headless Robots: http://blakeyrat.com/index.php/2009/08/avatar-dances-with-wolves-with-headless-robots/ (my own blog)
Yup! That's the spirit!
Wow, you were easily swayed.
Even if NASA could build the equipment quickly enough, it could take several years of travel time to just arrive at the thing to splash paint on it, or attach the rockets. And then would it still be distant enough for those very slow methods to change its course enough?
I mean, I see your point, but I just don't think the odds of successfully intercepting a big one, even with years of warning, are very good. Maybe I'm just a pessimist.
Ok, they find the asteroid... and then what? I hate to break this to you, but Armageddeon was a work of fiction. (Shocking, I know.) We don't have anything that can land on an asteroid and do anything about it-- and we probably wouldn't have time to build one after we detected the sucker.
LOL. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, right?
Right, you gigantic asshole.
Sorry, you're a victim of a myth. On a per capita basis, the US accepts roughly the same number of immigrants (and/or refugees) as many western European countries, but less than other countries. By contrast, Canada accept far more. Hell, I think Greece has higher immigration numbers.
And your point is...?
And if you factor in the anti-immigrant rhetoric and attitudes prevalent across so much of the US (and the lack of such things as health care and basic social safety nets, I'd suggest that the US is hardly a welcoming place.
There is no "anti-immigration rhetoric." YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT. I've literally never, ONCE, heard a single person in the US complain about legal immigration. That includes everybody I've known in real life, any TV or radio I've listened to-- that sentiment simply DOES NOT EXIST.
There is anti-illegal immigration rhetoric. You're a retard if you don't realize that that's something completely different.
The reason, for example, why the US has low immigration numbers
It does? You haven't proven that yet, buddy... you can't work off of points you haven't yet addressed!
and continues to spend less per capita on charitable foreign aid than most industrialised countries, is that the US simply doesn't like and has never liked foreigners, least of all when they try to immigrate.
Look, I don't know what redneck hell-hole you got your impression of the US from, but: FUCK YOU.
As for the article, the immigration process does require a complete health check, so the issues related to the spread of infectious diseases are addressed. The problem, however, is that not everyone who comes here is eligible to become part of that process, and there is no free public health care for them or anyone else. Consider tuberculosis, for example. Mandatory screening when applying for a green card, but the rates of infection in the US go up by 20K cases per year.
Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be because of *illegal* immigration? Immigrants who don't go through that complete health check you just mentioned because they're under the government's radar? HMM! WHAT A PUZZLER!!
Jesus Christ you're an asshole. Praytell, what country do you come from, that's so much better than the US when it comes to immigration? The aforementioned Greece?
Yes but how open are the legal channels, as compared to the illegal ones?
Already more open than almost every other nation on Earth. I mean, seriously, what more could we do?
The porous north and south borders are obviously a problem here.
Yeah, because they're huge borders and they've always been borders with friendly nations so we've never bothered to really defend them in any serious manner.
Every time I turn around the US government is finding new and innovative ideas in fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. Scratch that. The US government is using the same old tried and true methods of fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment. They steal jobs. They bring crime. They bring disease. It's the same old song and dance.
Uh, the US allows more immigration than the vast majority of first-world countries. Have you ever tried emigrating to another country? I've looked into moving to New Zealand for example-- the requirements are insane. If you don't have a PhD, you might as well not even try. In comparison, someone from New Zealand moving to the US is almost trivial.
Now, I've heard your arguments applied to *illegal* immigration. But not immigration in general. Remember the motto on the Statue of Liberty? We follow that model pretty damn closely.
In a world of modern transportation, it is essentially impossible to screen every person who crosses into our country for diseases.
It's possible to screen legal immigrants for diseases, as we know who they are and where they are living. It's impossible to screen illegal immigrants, as they stay under the radar of government (for obvious reasons.)
The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border,
Border patrols stop *illegal* immigration. Which are you talking about? Your post is so confused, I have no idea.
I used to fly internationally all the time, but with the growing anti-immigrant policies of the US, I find myself having a worse and worse time traveling even though I am a US citizen. The TSA and Immigration Control have made flying a mode of travel that is completely unattractive.
What the hell are you talking about? You're living in your own little fantasy world.
Look, air travel is more popular than ever. The TSA has made flying *slightly* more inconvenient than ten years ago, but it's still far more convenient than any other method of traveling internationally. Immigration hasn't changed at all, as far as I'm aware, and in any case, only illegal immigrants would have to worry about that. For everybody else it's a rubber-stamp.