Comment Re:SciFri / Staples (Score 1) 127
FTFY
FTFY
Income inequality is what gives poor people a way of buying food - they work for the rich! Take it away, and no one works for anyone. If you are not self-sufficient, you die.
I know here on
People dont risk death because their e-neighbour has a Hummer and they have a Ford Fiesta. They risk death because the alternative is a slower and more painful death of their entire family Whether by war, famine, of mafia inspired shootouts, its esactly the same reasoning.
I expect Dubai to go up in flames any time soon, but I doubt the dome will make a difference to when or how.
"Je suis Marxist, avec tendence Groucho!"
It is generally better to give drivers information than hide it.
More importantly, drivers have to pass a test, pedestrians don't, and may be (often are) drunk, insane or just mildly stupid. There is no law against stupidity, and never will be - it would not be in the interests of politicians. Some politicans appear to be both drunk and insane. There may be a law against it, but it does not seem to deter them.
Ie standard US policy
Alternatively they want someone who will lie a lot about timescales, or is not easily bored.
Of course they know, because they have done it and got the t-shirt, that you can learn the syntax of a new language by reading a couple of sides of A4. However, they also know it takes a few years to get familiar with the language gochas and the compiler bugs.
Dont expect a job optimising SQL from me! And stay away from my Cobol compiler.
I assume you know the use of a lawn by now,
A lot of the problem is people (PHBs) who do not want to employ someone under them who is older than them, because they are embarassed about:
A) Giving instructions to an older person
B) Giving (probably stupid) instructions to someone who understands the issues.
No one is going to own up to these factors.
Sometimes there is a "good" reason to hire the inexperienced. The company maya ctually require people who have not got the experience to spot mass corruption, When the company collapses, it is often necessary to be able to claim "no one on the team saw it coming" despite the fact that anyone who had ever been in an IT project before knows that version control is not just a good idea. (etc)
If you see an empty barrel - look for pork bellies!
Aljazeera news and Nollywood movies - so much better than Fox News and Hollywood.
Where would you get the power to run it?
From a Honda Generator.
I live in the UK, and I am using a desktop 3 years old, the family PC is over five years old, and our laptops that are 5 year old Lenovo T61's because they are better than the newer models. We dont play games on PCs - we have Android phones for that. PCs are for LibreOffice and Firefox (and the occasional bit of PCB layout). I think our company (Sun) servers are also more than 4 years old. They work fine. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
More relevantly: West African transport operators want mechanically injected diesel lorries with no ECU's because if the ECU goes wrong, the lorry and its load are lost. This means buying old lorries. The Western "polution reduction" Euro 5 etc, is about lining pockets for "Add-blu" sales, not about saving the planet.
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