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lol. a corporation doesn't like to bother with complaints and threatens to retaliate by providing even less customer support - and the response is to take it out on the guy that identified the problem? this assumes the facts are accurate as originally posted - and if they are not, as AAA...

yes. the american education system has been reduced to a certification system. university is used as an entrance fee to a type of employment, and they've duped people into believing that more money means more qualified, enabling them to increase tuitions beyond all reason, and to saddle 18...

this is true -- however it does not relate to "outsourcing" as discussed here. if American companies have found that these "naturally-selected" workers are so much better and more adaptable, then why don't they move their entire companies there? why go to the trouble and expense of...

not sure, but as a guess, a mix of incompetence, stupidity, shortsightedness, fear, buck-passing, and CYA. obviously they all failed miserably at providing for the well-being of their constituents. but their failure doesn't justify bush's -- the administration has enormous resources and...

assuming for argument's sake that the superdome was the proper place, it doesn't address the error: you can't put 20k people in a stadium, bar them from leaving, then leave them there for a week in august without food, water, communication, or laws. this is obvious. there is simply no excuse...

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exactly - looting or not, the insurance companies are picking up the tab anyway, and after the inevitable federal bailout, that means you're paying for it. and it seems some people in new orleans have that one figured out.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/2038242&from=rss

system administration, obviously, differs, but from the point of view of the end user, some of the the current desktop environments such as KDE are indistinguishable from MS, in terms of features and functionality. http://www.kde.org/screenshots/

yes. linspire is just another Linux distribution, but with some extra attention to making it less scary for windows users. it doesn't use a "traditional windows platform," (not sure exactly what that is), and whatever compatibility it has with MS products can be replicated with any other...

The Principality of Sealand is a micronation (i.e. a self-declared, unrecognised state-like entity) that claims as its territory Roughs Tower, a derelict man-made structure located in the North Sea six miles (10 km) off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom, at 51° 53′ 40″ N 1°...

possible, but it's too early to tell what the exact motives are here, imo (although it seems possible goog may factor into this somewhere...). in any event, if they go too far, the project will just fork, that's the beauty of OSS.

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/Sturgeons-Law.html

you left out a portion of the quoted post, but your response is no less fitting:

they don't - that's what lobbyists are for.

assuming this were true, they've had 5+ years to fix it

yeah, that's nuts. it'd be like.... like shouting and ranting about anthrax and unmanned transatlantic drones and nuclear mushroom clouds without having any evidence at all or... like cooking up story about a celebrity soldier being shot by "terrorists" despite knowledge it was friendly...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

there is already an artificial wall against competitors, the whole outsourcing scheme depends on that wall -- if the market were truly as "free" as claimed by the multinationals, then the chinese slave laborer could simply choose to move to the US to seek a higher wage and the protection of...

good question... realistically, an active solution is unlikely, in that the profit motives are only on one side - the parties with the power to change it have no incentive to do so, and the people being exploited have little power. meanwhile, the chinese are working, saving, and learning from...