According to an article at CNet.com, many companies are finding some tech jobs are best done in the U.S.
For many of the most crucial technology tasks, they find that a work force operating within the American business environment better suits their needs.
And it didn’t require government intervention…
From R00kie:
12. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
11. Life is sexually transmitted.
10. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
9. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.
8. Some people are like Slinkies . … . not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
7. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
6. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
5. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
4. Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?
3. In the 60’s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
2. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Yes, this one is old, but it gets more relevant every year.)
AND THE # 1 THOUGHT FOR 2004:
You read about all these Terrorists, most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of immigration.
… Much better written by Steven Den Beste than by almost anyone else I have ever read. Read this post, and think about how some of these things are going to directly affect us day by day (Kerry being elected). We also need to think about how some things that we have started need to be finished, not just for our sake but for everyone else’s sake, especially those who are being taken advantage of by kickbacks.
I’m going to go to bed, and dream happy dreams of nuclear weapons.
No, I didn’t know that there was a “National TV Turnoff Week.” And if I had known, my response would have been more like this from Kim DuToit. But, I am giving it a try. I’m tired of coming home and flipping on the giant eye and then watching meaningless dribble until far too late. Instead, I’ll be working on homework and the myriad of side projects that I have laying around the house and on the computer. For instance, the reskinning of this website, which I started a month (if not more) ago. We’ll see how well I actually do, but I have discovered a lot of music sitting on my computer and it has been getting me through. 
Once again, some peoples’ sense of humour is nowhere to be found. After CO GOP candidate Pete Coors’ picture showed up at the top of a story of the KKK, the campaign said that it was “so outrageous it’s kind of funny. It could have been worse. Pete could have been identified as John Kerry.”
So the CO Terrorist Appeaser Democratic Party promptly demanded an apology, saying it was name calling. Apparently, their mother wasn’t able to console them and their self esteem was hurt. The next step, in case no apology is forthcoming, is the silent treatment, and possibly double-secret probation.
The danger, for the GOP at least, is that Coors could actually be identified as Kerry. Since Kerry has covered every base (e.g. waffled) on every issue, there is a subset of Kerry positions that could be identified as Coors. So, it very well could have been worse. They do seem to be taking a page from the one thing that someone never waffles about: “I’m not George Bush.”
I am not sure that comparing a Democratic candidate to a KKKer would be much of a distinction. They seem to hold the same idea on race being a prime factor in a person’s makeup, they just disagree on their expression (affirmative action, anyone?). The only difference is that (D) is acceptable no matter what they say, where KKK is (as it should be) strung up in most places.
I’m going to quit asking for the cheese, since certain national organizations seem to need all the cheese they can get to go with their w[h]ine party.
I have now done almost as much work on weekends this quarter as I did work all quarter. Sucko. At least I am getting the work done now, instead of spinning my wheels like I was the last two weekends.
Bring me the cheese.
Esoteric Diatribe started it, all I did was help out, but “waffles” on Google now goes to the Kerry website. Hells yeah. You should also check out what Yahoo is returning for “waffles”.
Additionally, the Spirit of America effort has been rolling along. The Fighting Fusileers are currently up by $1900 on second place, but we need to keep on keepin’ on. Overall, the various “coalitions” have raised almost $17K, which is a good chunk of change. Go donate, you penny pinching winos. (I can say that since I am one) I’ll send the legions of insane pirate ninja monkeys after you if you don’t… Alternatively, go buy a really big cannon shell…
We’ll start about a week and a half ago. The Compaq is in the shop, getting the small problem of running at a very high temperature fixed. I already knew that Otter needed it off to her ASAP, so that meant I was free to get a new computer. I decided on a 17” Toshiba from BestBuy (gotta love those Reward Zone points!!), which is where the saga really begins.
The next night, without having used it yet, I start the upgrade to XP Pro. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t very smart about the setup process. The first run of setup (hmmm, foreshadowing?), I selected the entire hard drive as a partition and a full (vs quick) NTFS partition. Doing a full format on 80GB takes more than two and a half hours, which is a long time to be sitting at your friend’s house with everyone asking about progress. Oh yeah, and they are all either CompSci dorks or CompEngr geeks. When they figured out what I was doing, that’s when they told me some of what I should be doing. Of course, it was only part since I never ask questions and they assumed I know the principles. [Read more →]
My lack of a heart (surgically removed) only allows me to do one good/chartable thing a year. For some reason, I’m helping out the Marines this year…
The Spirit of America project is working on getting needed equipment for the Marines over in the sandbox. Fotunately, we are now in a competition to see who can raise the most money for them, and I’m on the Fighting Fusileers for Freedom blog team. So, go and give some money, ‘cos when I do it, you know it has to be special. Use this link (or the one on the image…).
Do you expect to be lied to, or at least mislead, on a daily basis?
I do, but I don’t really have a problem with it. The reason? I’m not being misled by people that are close to me. Everyday, we take in and process a huge amount of information, not all of which is factual or unbiased, but that we need to use to determine what we are going to do and think. There are two major areas that I see as the primary areas of misleading information today. [Read more →]