Comment Re:FWD.us? (Score 1) 484
If that were true then outsourcing to India would have done that a long time ago.
The only losers to mass immigration and outsourcing are the citizens (obviously) and the government (less taxes).
If that were true then outsourcing to India would have done that a long time ago.
The only losers to mass immigration and outsourcing are the citizens (obviously) and the government (less taxes).
The SOLE reason arseholes like Zuckerberk want to relax immigration controls is to keep wages low.
Care to provide evidence for your claim? I've bought many books from Amazon, not one of them contains an advert.
I think you need to check the sewers under your house, I expect you'll find grammar nazis, the syntax police and the spelling fairy down there arguing over who gets to tear you a new one first
But at least he didn't start any of his sentences with a conjunction.
What's dotslash?
Only in your fantasy parallel universe.
The vast majority of the population of South America are Spanish and Portugese. In other words they*are* the colonists.
US + UK + Europe, who have always backed the EU nations against South American ones, would stomp all over South America in any kind of conflict, trade, diplomatic or even outright war.
South America is a hodge-podge of second and third world pseudo-democracies highly dependent upon the first world.
England didn't import slaves either -in fact we were the first to oppose the trade. And yet we're rapidly, and with the collusion of successive Governments, turning into a mongrel nation of no culture.
Four big differences between SC and SC2:
1. DRM. You won't be able to play SC when Blizz goes bust.
2. You can't be banned from playing SC.
3. SC has LAN play.
4. SC was innovative, SC2 is just SC with a pretty face.
SC will still be played when SC2 is dead and forgotten.
First, they play SC, they are not athletes.
Second, retired professional athletes like Bolt will have made a lot of money and will be able to retire. Even if they hadn't they would make money from endorsements, they could become coaches etc.
Who the hell would be stupid enough to want a celebrity endorsement from some wide-as-he-is-tall SC addict who can't find the time to wash? Who would pay (or be able to stand being in the same room as) such a person?
I like my Apple kit and their packaging, but this has got to be a new low for Slashdot.
Sack Timothy and the average quality of the posts on
I'll put a tenner into the pot to pay the bribes necessary to get him sacked; clearly bribes are required or would be long gone.
So research paid for by the public got stolen and used to spin-off a company that's now being sold to Microsoft.
So how much of the purchase price will NYU and the US public see? Or will these blatant theft go un- noticed?
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra