i agree, i don't care about regulating hauling, i just want to see law enforcement crack down on shoddy roof rack and bungie cord arrangements. it's not industrious, it's cheap and dangerous to the rest of us. i don't care if the person is hauling it themselves, they are haulers from craigslist, or whatever: pull them over, fine them, then make them pay to get a professional to pick up their crap on the side of the highway an deliver it, right there and then

great, until you hit a pothole and kill the guy in the car behind you on the highway

i don't know about regulating hauling, but i wouldn't mind seeing the police pull over and arrest some of the flimsy crap i've seen barely secured to trucks and SUVs going 70 in the highway

healthcare tourism is a thing: people will go to thailand or mexico to get operations or drugs because it is 1/10th - 1/100th of the cost in the USA. often you can fly there, have a lush vacation, and come home, and actually spend less. so i wouldn't worry about healthcare unless you require cutting edge care. in which case make your way to canada or europe to get care as good or better than the usa, and no $500,000 bill

and yes, judging by his story he's close to singapore, so he may be doing some sort of visa run. it might be legal grey area, but it's not immoral or unethical so you can live with yourself. besides, the topic is american jobs going overseas. if that's acceptable to malaysia and the usa, then what this guy is doing should be fair game too, regardless of actual legal details

hi

i'm just commenting to let you know your comment is completely unread

good luck on developing a social life

xoxox

like the racists who think black people are the problem

the fact they are modded up leads me to believe it might be time to leave slashdot

when racists get modded up, the forum is dying

laws also have to be enforced

you can pass any law you want, but if no one enforces them, the laws on the book don't mean anything

poverty and corruption track with homicides worldwide. not skin color you racist moron

it's kind of ironic, but it requires intellectual inferiority to believe in a theory of superiority via skin color

i saw something about troll and haha and stopped reading

the topic is "Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career?"

if you have something to say on that, great

if you have lame personal attacks on me based on low iq partisan prejudices that have nothing to do with me, then fuck off, troll

you are creating a fake conflict based on ignorant prejudices about me and what i think, then injecting the ignorant position into the thread as if i said any of the position you are opposing. then you want me to support the contrarian position you made up in your head, as if it has anything to do with what i actually think or as if any one anywhere would ever want to take you up on the retarded offer

all you are doing is you are telling us you operate on prejudices rather than honest communication, that you can't tell the difference between the one dimensional strawmen that only reside in your head and actual real people, and that you lack any friends and desperately desire social interaction, because you make it personal and you stalk people based on these shallow partisan stereotypes

you need real friends, you need to actually talk to people rather than profile and creep on them, and you need to shut the fuck up because you are off the fucking topic. your social hygiene is pathetic and diseased

the topic is "Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career?"

not me

not your partisan ignorance

you're one obsessed moron

you don't know anything about me but it's important for you to profile me, prejudice me, and act like we have some sort of relationship for you to spout stereotyped partisan ignorance as if i care or have a stake

you need friends. in real life. badly. you're sanity is leaking

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in short: guy moves to malaysia (he had no ties to the area, just picked it on economic considerations) and doesn't just survive, but does well, on $16k/yr, working 10 hours a week

John is not independently wealthy. He did not have a big IPO, and does not have have a revenue stream. Nor does he have a best-selling book on, say, how to live cheap. Instead, he was a practicing programmer and IT program manager who moved from Virginia to Malaysia, on the expectation of taking a year long “sabbatical,” and, if he could find a way to make it work, to stay a bit longer.

Pretty sure people already assume that every line of Perl code is an ugly hack anyways, so they didn't have to write a comment on it.

if you see dark conspiracies where basic human foibles are at work, you are stupid, and you are paranoid. objectively true

there is no intelligent viewpoint to debate

if you see dark conspiracies where simple human nature obviously dominates, you're a fucking nutcase

not a baseless insult. an objective determination

to think the highly highly improbable is more likely than the spankingly obvious and inevitable is just dumb, and unhinged

violent religious nuts exist. violent religious nuts do what they do

panicky mobs exist. panicky mobs do what they do

overreaching bureaucrats exist. overreaching bureaucrats do what they do

this is all inevitable. there is no cabal. to think so, to not see basic human foibles at work and instead dark plots means you're an idiot and mentally deranged