Because Romanians went trough the most atrocious dictator of the end of the century right in the middle of Europe - and they had to pay with thousands of lives and lots of blood for their freedom - the sad true is that only after experiencing on yourself slavery you learn to value the freedom.

On the political capital market in Germany - this is burning; it is hard to get it looking at it from inside of the US boundaries and social habits. Germans are socialist by nature - well, with a little bit of an extreme even today:-), they will let you down as politician is you show extreme preference for the money focus in your message vs the social focus message.

It's such a fine line between being *well intended* and *purportedly well intended*. The article is about how the system-in-place burned the politicians who where owned by the *Corporate*. Of course that this type of thing is going to happen everywhere and any time but the big question is does the *people/society* have the functional mechanism in place to defend its freedom? This article proves the Germans have it - and USA doesn't. " To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. " (George Orwell)

See, the difference is that in Germany the people own their society and their politicians are accountable to the people. In North America, it is the opposite - the Corporate owns the politicians and the society, the people are just a mass of slaves.

So, if you feel pity for the poor, or have christian believes you want to follow - this will be illegal? Being compassionate towards your fellow will be a crime? Giving help will be punishable? Good planning Corporate America for the *Zombing the nation* project

this is what it means; it means that all the crap on the Wall Street is nothing else but genuine *Poker*; and, as the Poker, the *Bank* drives the game and cheats as it wishes; you, the f&%^#$er on the main street just have to play for giving them the money. did someone expected something else?! not me,

of course there is nothing like the perfect solution - but worse is going to continue to make use of the more damaging one than the less damaging one just because of the purpose of perpetrating a status quo. it is about switching the balance and sharing - that's why the current status quo is going to stay as it is, just because the ones who should have a change of position will not do it because it will imply diminishing of their wealth and power and transfer it to the ones they need as servants of the system.

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564476&cid=31286192 just that we are too few and the others are too many :-); also, the *many* ones give no shit on your long term vision or risk assessment 'cause they can't grasp it - literally; this is the perfect blend for continuing the status quo of the energy*car&war industry. The blend can brake only when the variable 'the *many* ones' will gets changed to be defined by individuals having a different thinking pattern. are you betting on seeing this change? me not,

Ha, I'm not surprised; this is the result of a bogus, old-dated paradigm we submitted to for the sake of backward compatibility - the processing model based on state management. Everybody knows that when the system passes a certain level of complexity it becomes unstable and highly unpredictable because its state management becomes much more harder than the programmers can handle without errors - thanks Turing :-)! So, expect to see more and more BSDs while driving your new, smart, highly expensive and highly inefficient and useless toy. Maybe this will be another good case for refresh and start thinking from the core how we deal in our society with the dependencies on a system which is proven unsustainable ... and becomes deadly dangerous.

i was wondering how that it didn't happen yet?! no problem, no need to wait anymore LOL :-) the corporate smashing machine moved really slowly on it ...

add them to the luggage - on the current state of the market only Java is not going to get you a job. write a toy j2ee app with all the mvc buz in it - keep on the standards so that you learn the core - jsp, servlets, jdbc, leave the candies like spring/hibernate/struts/wicket for the icing at the end of handling the core like a pro.

hihihi - this is not stupidity; it is call subversive influence; if this would have been the reality nobody would have had trumpeted it over the seas and lands so that anybody interested hears it. Its real purpose is to seed the ground for implementing the mega-system who's going to control all the internet - the baby SkyNet has been conceived.

Who the f*!% in their 40s - as programmers, don't have at least 3 years of experience in *something* ?! If you are in the 40s and you have less than this *3* in any of the skills you declare that means you did a career conversion at the wrongest moment in your life. Id someone advised you/career coached to do it because of the $cash and you bought it, then go and buy a Colt and ask the as*80le for your money back.

This is the norm here; the typical requirement for a developer is to be as much as required horizontally skilled - this meaning even if you are hired as a j2ee developer you will have do to database programming normally you would expect to be done by a dba or etl guy, plus browser java script you would expect to be done by a browser guru. Also, you must expect everything to come onto your plate and you have to take it - can be even tasks you never dreamed you will have to do like windows drivers, linux api etc. - you must take it and shut up otherwise you go out. This is expected and of course, if you are not anymore a fresh one at the beginning of the career and you are already at the point where other commitments have their pressure on you - you are done. As experienced programmer your experience counts only in very vertical niches where there is no coverage or you have the connections to enter and not get smashed with assignments nobody ever mentioned you would have to expect for that position. I talked to friends in US and UK and it looks things are a little bit lighter there - of course, age is a discriminating factor, but an expected unlimited horizontal skills base required in the job chores is something they haven't encountered. The simple explanation is that, for the companies to achieve their maximized goals the single way they can do it is by abusing their developers - so, the current economical backslash is open season for them to introduce into their sweatshop lines only the slaves which can make it; exactly as on plantations or galley - you need only fully dependable, *enslavable* resources.

... this is the norm here in the last 7/8 years or so. doin' it differently - unit test, good design & practices, honesty, long term planning etc. - are the best strategies to get you bumped out of the project.