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Skip to comments.Use of fiction by Ayn Rand
Posted on 10/02/2006 6:59:27 PM PDT by Rob Larrikin
Lefties commonly say there is something wrong with Rands use of fiction as a vehicle for Objectivist beliefs. In a 1957 review of Atlas Shrugged, Whittaker Chambers, who had no idea how successful Atlas Shrugged would be, said, The mischief here is that the author, dodging into fiction, nevertheless counts on your reading it as political reality. Lefties have been using that same approach ever since. Using fiction is mischief and dodging.
Rand was trying to make an otherwise dull subject interesting, and she also wanted to show what might happen in a world where businessmen really did go on strike. Since that hasnt happened, it would need to be fiction. Duhh...
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And those steamy scenes in "The Fountainhead" too. Hubba. hubba.
Nice post. I like Whittaker Chambers even better than Rand.
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That was one heavy book. I read 3/4 of it but it seemed to be repeating itself. I also read The Fountainhead like every other weenie who wanted to be an Architect. FLLW never looked so good as in that book. And he was screwing everything that moved in real life.
Can't believe the book is 40 years old already. Rand was way ahead of her time.
Personally I thought it a very enjoyable novel if far too long and in spots impossibly repetitive. I don't think you can really balance polemic and fiction very well and where she restricted herself to plot, character, and pace Atlas Shrugged stands on its own.
I do take issue with Chambers' statement The mischief here is that the author, dodging into fiction, nevertheless counts on your reading it as political reality. The novel works best where it does describe political reality - her ability to portray the characters she describes as "looters and moochers" is so incredibly sharp that I swear I know personally each and every one of them. It may be that their presence wasn't quite so obvious in 1957 as it is today, but you could drop any one of their bleatings seamlessly into today's degenerate political discourse and never guess that it was half a century old.
Her protagonists, however, weren't in my opinion quite so finely drawn. Not a one of them had a single character flaw except a self-doubt that was removed by the workings of the Ubermenschen Galt, d'Anconia, etc. The real world isn't actually much like that as I see it, and because of that we are unlikely to see the series of events she postulated. Atlas, such as he is, is likely to remain in chains. All IMHO and subject to furious debate, of course.
You have that right. Witness is a tougn but important read.
I'm totally in awe of what authors like Rand did without the benefit of a word processor. Vonnegut too, with Sirens of Titan.
At the time he wrote this article, he hadn't been a leftie in a long time.
I spent a summer reading "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." I know what you mean. How those authors churned out those massive works - alone - is fantastic.
I discovered it when I was 15. For about a year, it seemed like the most important thing ever written. But that speech by John Galt at the end. Snooooooooze . . . .
Except promiscuity and arrogance.
"If they won't build it my way, then, well, I'll just blow it up. There's a good idea! After all, they just own the building. I am the artiste."
Her protagonists were sociopaths. But as you say, her portraits of the moochers was so right on, it hurt. But then, they were sociopaths too.
leftists use ficticious claims, photos, and voters all the time...
Now that is a very interesting point. I don't think Rand regarded either trait as a flaw, actually - the promiscuity in particular was a rejection of conventional sexual morality roughly a decade before it became fashionable that she very much shared and acted upon. It wasn't one of her more endearing personal characteristics.
As far as arrogance goes I'm also inclined to agree. But what need does a person who is perfect have of humility?
'The last time I checked, Whittaker Chambers wasn't exactly a "leftie."'
I said, "Lefties have been using that same approach ever since."
The only perfect man was also the most humble.
The more one has in the way of brains, good looks, drive, money etc, the more desperately one needs humility and the more difficult it is to have. And at that point, it becomes difficult not to have pride in one's humility.
That's why they call it fiction. 1984 didn't describe the real world either but the overall theme sure had a touch of reality. Sometimes it takes a tome to make a point or two. It is not often that one can engage someone in a four or ten hour political discussion and keep their interest while they don't even know its political. Rand uses the correct device. She grew up in pre-revolution and revolution St. Petersburg. She knew of that which she spoke.
Who are the great political fiction writers today? Did Ayn Rand truly begin the great conservative movement or was it Buckley?
"Two words: Farenheit 9/11."
I think Moore made his mocumentary using a collection of truths, mistruths, and cunning lies. He would say, "A = B because [insert lie here]."
Rand was saying, "A is not B," and provided a 'for example' in the form of fiction.
What about Catch 21? The book that spawned a dozen assassinations. Hah!
"Thanks for the vanity, Rob. What an erudite, in-depth commentary on Whitaker Chambers' review of Ayn Rand's masterpiece 'Atlas Shrugged'. The tightly knotted complexity of Chambers' carefully constructed review questioning Rand's merits as a novelist and thinker were simply cut away to nothing by the forceful--even Alexandrian-- simplicity of your deceptively plainspoken counterargument. The mind simply boggles."
Translation: You should use avoidable word baggage to counter an incorrect view.
I disagree.
"Can't believe the book is 40 years old already. Rand was way ahead of her time."
Yes, 40 years old, but still contemporary. As long as we have a party which wants to tax and spend, redistribute income from the have's to the have nots (vote buying), Atlas Shrugged will continue to be contemporary.
I'm luck, I'm retired now and I CAN choose to leave this country/economy if the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua makes it and I CAN stay away for her one term before the people are absolutely outraged and tar and feather her, sending her and the perp to oblivion.
Excellent read, tpaine. Thanks.
Who is Ayn Rand and why should I care?
I have a theory that Rand considered editors the be the "looters and moochers" of the publishing world and wouldn't let one touch her magnum opus no matter how much it needed it.
I agree, in a sense. Read the novel, then read Galt's speech by itself, and it makes more sense. I have always thought that Ayn got kinda long winded with the Galt speech, but in and of itself, it is good, but you have to have the pretext of the novel before it to really appreciate it.
I will agree that it is mighty long, and tends to make the same points over and over.
To read the Galt manifesto without the novel would probably make no sense, but to put the book down when the speech starts and make it a read on it's own (it is!) a day or few later, and it is easier to swallow.
The best use of Ayn Rand's writings fiction or not is as a sleep aid. "WARNING: Do not read The Fountainhead while operating heavy machinery."
Another sleep inducer is Brian Greenes The Fabric Of The Cosmos.
Im glad we dont judge ideas by how well they put you to sleep. Where would Einstein be if we did?
As any Marine will tell you, there is no such animal as an "ex-Marine."
Likewise, there are no ex-Communists and there are no ex-Socialists. Just examine the Clinton family for proof of that.
Who is Ayn Rand and why should I care?
Our socialistic world needs Rand like a desert needs water. Unless you prefer larrikinism, but a lot of it was inspired by Rand.
Here's what I mean, and Rand fans, forgive me, but it's a case in point. The scene where the steam locomotive goes through the tunnel carrying its passengers to their deaths was a metaphor so perfect other authors would kill to have thought of it. It was what happens (and her case is that it's a metaphor for an entire society) when the less capable expropriate the efforts of others and think that they know their proper employment. But she couldn't let the art stand on its own - for passenger after passenger she drives home the specific philosophical mistake that caused him or her to die, hammering the point so deep into the ground that the reader can hardly see it from there anymore. Surely anyone who had paid attention up to then would have figured it out? That's why you trouble to use a metaphor in the first place.
A good literary editor would have cut and polished that gem had she allowed it. That's what you pay them for. And that's what I mean when I say that it's difficult to mix fiction with polemic. Perhaps that's true of all art. It certainly explains why there's so little of the good stuff around these days.
Four Words. Who is John Galt?
I believe the answer is "yes." But they attracted different people to the cause; I'd guess Rand attracted a third, Buckley a third, and the remainder were influenced by both.
The fellow could certainly write beautifully. I happen to think he missed several points with respect to his review of Atlas Shrugged, as I've mentioned above, but not all of them. I would not characterize Rand as a fascist, for example, but I do detect a whiff of the autocrat in nearly all her writings, and in her personal life she certainly behaved like it.
I also think the gas chamber comment was over the top. But what fate did she really think would face the looters and moochers? The novel ends before she has to say. I do not think it would have been pretty. And what place in the society to come would be occupied by those incapable of displaying the sort of personal independence and brilliance she ascribed to Reardon, Galt, and Taggart? I don't think even Rand pretended that was a universal human characteristic. It's a little uncomfortable to contemplate, frankly. I suspect that her utopia would have had a very dark side to it. All IMHO with the usual reservations, of course.
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'The last time I checked, Whittaker Chambers wasn't exactly a "somebody."'
I find value in Rand's works. For the curious who want to know what all the fuss is about, I would recommend the following to be read in the order listed.:
1. _We the Living_ (novel) Of all of Rand's fiction, this one reads the most like a conventional novel. But a lot of her philosphical meaning gets through, even though it's still early in her career. I think it's her best meld of story and philosophy. Characters in the novel have motivations and convictions and carry them consistently through the novel. I could go on, but just read it. Or rent the Italian movie _Noi Vivi_ if you're more into movies. Among ther best and truest movie adaptations ever. I recommend this even more than _he Fountainhead_.
2. _The Virtue of Selfishness_ (philosophical work) Probably the best distillation of her philosophy. Written around the time of _Atlas_. Reading this book is excellent grounding for a reading of either _The Fountainhead_ or _Atlas Shrugged_. Mainly to get a better handle on all the philospohical profiles of the chracters, their interactions, andd where their choices lead them.
If you only read the first two books, you'd probably have a much better understanding of Ayn than any critic could tell you and why, at the very least, you DON'T like her.
If you want to read more novels, you might resume with
3. _Anthem_ (Novella) and then follow through with:
4. _The Fountainhead_ and/or _Atlas Shrugged._
or if you want to read more books covering her thinking, you might read:
_ Philosophy: Who Needs It?
_ The Romantic Manifesto
_ Capitalism: The Unknow Ideal
and finally
_The Ayn Rand Lexicon_ (philosophical overview)
A fantastic overview of Ayn's position on a number of social, political, economic, and philosphical topics. As well as terms ideas that Ayn uses throughout her writing. While this large volume discusses most specific points of her philosphy and opinion in full context, I find it best to have read most of the previous works before jumping into this one.
As for her writing... It's Ayn's own effort in what she calls the Romantic (as opposed to Naturalistic) style of writing. Most of us are familar with the Romantic style in such genres as superhero comics and pulp fiction. Ayn took superheroes and made them into people that never changed out of their suits, so to speak. Now, THAT IS a gross simplification, because the characters are much more complex than the traditional superheroes of HER time, but perhaps not so much more than of the graphic novel superheroes of OUR time.
The mistake many make with Ayn after reading her novels is thinking that they HAVE to be the EXACT same kind of person that they just read about. Or that applying Rand's ideas will turn you into some sort of monster. Well, no, you don't and no, it won't. You are still you and you do the very best you can. You can be your pleasant, normal, FReeper self and still understand and even(!) appreciate what she had to say. You CAN find points that you agree with her on and not "lose your soul"!
Of course that was before the socialists hijacked the term to suit their purposes (young conservatives who think their ideology should be spread throough the gun barrel).
Any Rand knew liberals well. Her language was often subtle and drawn out. A more candid Rand will be found in "The Letters of Ayn Rand".
Or, hey, forget Rand's books. If you want an entertaining read by the master of science fiction that covered a LOT of the same ground, I encourage you to read Robert Heinlein's _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_. It's almost as if Heinlein had read _Atlas_ and he said, in the form of a novel, "HERE'S how you say all that to an American audience!" There are some real zingers for ideas, but at least he explains them and puts a recognizable human face on them.
Great point!
Does Owen Kellogg really need to label his post as sarcasm when asking Who is Ayn Rand and why should I care?
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"How oft when men are at the pointof death have they been merry! which their keepers call a lightning before death." Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3
Where will you be, God, when life-time warranties are running out, familiar faces muddling and fading, lovers' own language sliding into recitation; and when I am wanting to rally to welcome one last poem, I keep colliding with that ancient passion for sacred sleep?Where will you be, God, during kisses I can't return but only savor forever, when precious hands as though my own are touching for the last time my body's prayer places?Where, God, will you be as my odyssey ends— this one that keeps folding back upon itself as though to start anew, this odyssey now running out of road?Will you be so much me that I could miss you, so present that I am at last fully realized, or so far away that I am left with the nevertheless of mere surrender and my own bright laughter?
Oh, that's a Pignut Hickory, she says, showing off, and pointing to a great splash of yellow and green.One lonely cedar stands tall in its own climate of ripe fall fragrance you want to keep on your fingers as you break its seed with your nail.An oak still green with one small spray of tan, as though to say impatiently, I know, I know. Just wait.
If God is that small space left at the table, then go ahead and sit there if you like.Even if you weren't invited, that doesn't mean you aren't welcome.Perhaps you were just overlooked, missed, as in they would have missed you and wished you were here if you hadn't come . . . not forgotten only misplaced when places were set.Yes, there, wedge into that spot where John leans away to rest his head on Jesus . . . right next to Judas, where perhaps you'll have time to whisper in his ear, or even chat a moment, just small talk you understand until supper starts.
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Recent changes to nbrowse-feature-requests-bugshttps://sourceforge.net/p/gmod/nbrowse-feature-requests-bugs/2010-07-21T22:06:32Zmetadata switch after session loading won't work2010-07-21T22:06:32Z2010-07-21T22:06:32ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.net47c10ef9aced5bb0276c34f8eb9b8c8bd1c5d745

After loading session file - if user wishes to select different species or database - meta data will not load properly.

problem showing initial go term slection2010-04-01T14:48:16Z2010-04-01T14:48:16ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.netfe62cf09b0d2b9fd093c1e9bbde6000369846783

There is a problem showing inital go term selection. The problem is caused by to go terms loading too late after the initial database query. Queries need to be combined into one thread.

pop up needed to indicate no gene interaction2010-04-01T14:43:59Z2010-04-01T14:43:59ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.net13ef223b50cc3f3980b504e9c0558ddbd4d57616

A popup is needed to indicate there is no gene interaction.

synonym db loader should add ids as common2010-03-26T14:47:35Z2010-03-26T14:47:35ZMark Gibsonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/mgibson/https://sourceforge.netad582090c8147f0d520f13cc98b788da94903bec

\so the db is such that if a node/gene has an id/node_primary_name but no common name then
 one must put the id in the node synonyms data load file for the server/nbrowse-db/dataloader_node_syn.pl perl script.
 If one neglects to do this - as tair has done as its easy to forget - it screws up nbrowse - in that the
 nodes actually wont come in with out the common synonym. tair has understandably asked to make this process easier/ more robust.
 One easy fix would be to add functionality to the end of dataloader_node_syn script that after all syns are loaded it does a check to see if
 there are any nodes that lack a common synonym - and if so then add the id as a common syn. this would be easy to add - and make that part
 of the loading easier on folks putting together loading files - one less thing to remember thats sort of tedious to remember

make gui of node attribute query2010-03-25T20:35:45Z2010-03-25T20:35:45ZMark Gibsonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/mgibson/https://sourceforge.netd14f7876f66a28a5f74fdb6c6e457365f238a83f

currently can query node attributes with post fix
 make user friendly gui

acyclic edges for same node drawn on each other2010-03-24T18:37:02Z2010-03-24T18:37:02ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.netb4b43782defdef755628abe4b25d84d839c87190

Acyclic edges for same node are drawn on one another. AT5G35750 in TAIR is good example of this. They need to be separated out.

nb1 nb2 diff2010-03-23T21:59:33Z2010-03-23T21:59:33ZMark Gibsonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/mgibson/https://sourceforge.net080c3a7182dd8d793faad76e9fd7c3b3f56b0069

modifying user docs from nb1 to nb2 points up differences - some interesting some less so:

- Display this # of hops from node - this we want folks have asked for this!

- Hide nodes with more than this many edges - i would think you would want the opposite - whats the use case here?

- rotate on a scroll bar (with zoom) - in nb2 rotate is an obscure mouse option

- anchor all nodes as handy button - todo

- adjust layout - im guessing this is the same as our layout button?

- save list of nodes (not edges)

- find and display all miRNAs predicted - is this the same as miRNA filter in nb2 - does it get special status in nb1 - or is it different?

its useful to go through nb1 user docs

node sizes not always uniform2010-03-12T20:09:29Z2010-03-12T20:09:29ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.netc9346a097d8b30bf8aae216e7da9e196c656d6a2

When using the edge filter, and generating new nodes in an existing graph, the new nodes will be the default size. If user changes the node size, the node sizes will not be uniform.

need to have formula setting for spring layout2010-03-01T14:47:50Z2010-03-01T14:47:50ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.net2ee67023fa1f07d2d568de869aad28cf9036ca87

Need to provide formula setting for spring layout. Need to provide formula dialog so that user can use it for doing Spring Layout.
 It should be: value1 * edge_value ^ value2 + value3. It will be applied to C1 in formula for edge attraction.

need to able to to shrink nodes to dots2010-03-01T14:41:46Z2010-03-01T14:41:46ZMonty Schulmanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/montys9/https://sourceforge.net50e62808e1aebb05b2bd85eac1503fa5b30b8cd9

Need to be able to shrink to dots when viewing graphs with many edges and using zoom to look at specific ones.


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Skip to comments.'Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas' by CNN's Lou Dobbs
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"Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas," by Lou Dobbs (Warner Business Books, 208 pages, $19.95)
Look out, Silicon Valley! Bangalore, India, is gaining on you. Some folks in India even believe that their country's version of Silicon Valley has already surpassed its California counterpart as a center for high-tech employment.
In his new book, "Exporting America," CNN's Lou Dobbs shows how strongly that belief is held in India with a headline from the Jan. 6, 2004, issue of The Times of India: "Silicon Valley Falls to Bangalore."
The story under that headline, Dobbs writes, bragged that Bangalore has 150,000 information-technology engineers compared with 130,000 in Silicon Valley. Dobbs believes that that story can't be written off as merely nationalistic exaggeration.
"India is only one of the many countries benefiting from the exporting of American jobs. But it has also been one of the most aggressive in pursuing professional-level jobs, from medical technicians to software programs. American companies have been all too happy to answer India's siren call of educated English-speakers willing to work at some of the world's lowest wages," Dobbs writes.
General Electric's Capital International Services, Dobbs points out, was one of the pioneers of outsourcing domestic operations to India. The company, Dobbs writes, employs 1,300 at its four centers in India and says it saves about $400million annually by not having Americans do those jobs.
"The people there write software; they review invoices and insurance claims; they do market analysis. CIS also offers its services to other American companies looking for outsourced resources," Dobbs writes.
Although India lags behind other Asian countries in manufacturing, it has a leg up, according to Dobbs, in the service sector and is a magnet for some of America's highest-paying jobs.
"There are programmers all over the world, but the Indian Institutes of Technology (known as IITs) are turning out thousands of these programmers a year. They are men and women who are well-educated, speak impeccable English, and are thrilled to make $10,000 a year," Dobbs writes.
GE, as Dobbs makes clear in abundant detail, is only one of many companies outsourcing high-tech and professional jobs to India and other parts of the world where wage expectations are lower. Among the others spotlighted by Dobbs for outsourcing jobs to India, the Philippines, Romania, Ireland, Poland and other countries are IBM, SAS Institute, Intel, Microsoft, Perot Systems, Apple, Computer Associates, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Early in the book Dobbs delivers a broadside against the general trend of shipping jobs offshore. He says it is undermining the American middle class, putting Americans out of work, forcing Americans to work harder and longer for less pay, devastating some communities and depriving governments at all levels of the tax revenue for upgrading public education and providing other essential goods and services.
Dobbs, whose views on shipping jobs offshore have been under continual attack by advocacy groups and consultants for multinational corporations, takes the view that corporations who send jobs offshore are firing their own customers, because American workers will eventually find themselves unable to purchase the goods and services being exported back to America by American companies.
"India can provide our software; China can provide our toys; Sri Lanka can make our clothes; Japan make our cars. But at some point we have to ask, what will we export? At what will Americans work? And for what kind of wages? No one I've asked in government, business or academia has been able to answer those questions," Dobbs writes.
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You're so right. We Americans are certainly getting screwed up one side and down the other. Companies will reem us at every possible opportunity. Specifically, Americans certainly do get saddled with most if not all of the R&D costs of drugs.
You got that right.
I think most of the money the pharmaceutical corporations spend on "research" is research into into such things as how to change the formula when the patent on the old formula is about to expire.
Most of the real research is not done by drug companies.
And the other funny part is that people tend to look at medicine to save them from their own bad behavior and habits.
It's like, got a problem, take a pill. Then you can keep doing what got you sick to begin with. Ah, progress.
And the other lurking problem we have is that in our technological, increasingly knowledged based economy--just what are we supposed to do with the half of Americans who are of below average intelligence?
Yep. I would say MOSTLY salesmen. This entire "service" economy that "we're moving to" is nothing but endless sales jobs. There's nothing wrong with a sales career, I'm in sales myself. But there is certainly no technical expertise or education requirement, generally speaking, to sell ANY product or service. As a matter of fact, most salesmen are complete morons at everything else, that's why they're in SALES!
Right. And if there is not a disease that describes your "disorder" we'll invent one.
So true... I was an accountant for a lot of years for a Fortune 500 company (voluntary retirement/burnout) so I understand making a good return for stockholders. What I don't understand is the CEO's getting millions in bonuses due to big improvements in the bottom line and that improvement is to the detriment of the people who worked their fanny's off to get him those bonuses. The thing is: look at the guys from Enron, Global Crossing, etc., they didn't care if they screwed the little guy, they made their millions, had the big homes, yachts, etc... and when the companies went South figured they could retire to their little world.. THANK GOD George Bush has the BA!!s to take them to the woodshed. I actually remember when the CEO's got a salary and a "decent" bonus if the company did well... we had benefits, decent retirement plans, insurance at a reasonable cost, and the company made money and the stockholders made money and things hummed along just fine...
Someone mentioned the education-thing... well a lot of the Indian's, Pakistani's, etc., got their educations here and in England.
Another ramification not often mentioned: China is becoming so prosperous (thanks to us) that they are sucking up the worlds supplies of steel, wood, cement, and oil... so, ladies and gentlemen, we have shot ourselves in the foot on more than one issue...
Yes. Devaluation causes the price of everything imported to rise. Instead of buying cheap crap from China to fill our Wal-Marts, we will have to start producing it ourselves once again. This part is good, because it puts us back to work. The tough part is the price increases for things we cannot produce ourselves, like oil. we will have to get serious about energy independence, like a Japan-style program to build nuclear plants everywhere.
True... also spend millions on advertising so everyone will run to their local doctor and DEMAND that latest designer drug.... without advertising and bribes to doctors they could probably substantially lower the cost of drugs..
Seriously, they do sell cheaper to other countries and they use us in the USA to make up the difference...
How do you get 1/2 of the population is below average?
I actually believe it's a combination of: lack of mental stimulation/curiosity, kids too drugged due to the ADHD craze to be able to concentrate, drugs (illegal kind), and most importantly: Poor Diet! Sugar, Sugar and more sugar. Kids needs protein in the morning to get the brain cells working and they need sleep to recharge their brain cells... and they need parents who give a Da*n about what they are doing.
Because they invested in the right stocks back when they had jobs?
I guess we never learn. Remember way back when Japan would purposely take a loss on products competing against something we would make and then when they put the American Manufacturer out of business they would raise the price... then we got smart and started beating them at their own games. France subsidized the Airbus trying to put Boein gout of business -- I won't fly in an Airbus on principle and it ticks me off that any American Airline would buy one! China ignores our intellectual property and copies GM cars, Boeing airplanes, Cape Canaveral, etc., and we can thank Clinton for lifting rules against selling them our technological information that applied to National Security!
Same thing with college textbooks.
there was one website that was selling American textbooks from other English speaking countries to America at a fraction of what those books cost in their American editions--and the big American textbook publishers had their lawyers stop him.
I wonder how many other products this might apply to.
And irony is that people overseas can afford to work for less because their cost of living is less--and the American worker, by purchasing medicine, textbooks, and who knows what else, is subidizing the very condition that is costing America jobs.
How many Indians could have learned programming if they had to spend $150 for every textbook.
I used to shop at Akihabara too. Think of it as a giant flea market for Asian electronics. Actually, it's a lot like Fry's.
Except fewer and fewer U's are teaching engineering because that, too, is beginning to be outsourced!
Baloney. A company that I used to work for exported almost two hundred jobs to India (mine among them). All the jobs were held by people with degrees, many of them advanced. The jobs went to less educated, less skilled and knowledgable people. But they were less expensive employees, and there were far fewer environmental or other government regulations to be concerned with. The quality of the work suffered, and two years later the company was sold for pennies on the dollar.
Because that's how it works.
But even someone of average intelligence will be hard pressed to make a decent living the way things are going.
Wasn't that the French??? We don't play with a fair playing field as long as the Socialist countries subsidize their companies.
Our education system is a product of the NEA..
You got that right.
I have been systematically removing sugar and its cheap substitute, corn syrup, from my diet.
And if you read ingredients, they put that crap in almost everything!
If I eat canned vegetables, I rinse them out with tap water to remove as much sugar as possible.
I remember making bread from scratch--and it tasted better than any store-bought squish bread--and the stuff I made had very few ingredients--none of which was sugar or corn syrup (stuff you'll find in store bought bread).
But now I eat no bread at all on the premise that bread is an unnatural and unhealthy food our bodies were never designed to eat.
Oh, and by the way: my digestion has been trouble free, with no surprise bathroom attacks for years.
Looking back at my former American diet, it's amazing to me now how I accepted digestion malfunction as a matter of course.
We could go a long way towards lowering the cost of medical insurance in this country is people would get into the habit of shopping only the outside isles of their supermarkets... realize that low fat = high sugar ... that sugar and preservatives are the worst thing possible for us and even worse for children. That water is healthier than cokes.
Having kids means dinner at the table with conversation and healthy food; not McD's day in and out...
I feed my dogs a healthier diet than most kids eat these days... so, once again, I say it's not lack of intelligence, but lifestyle.
That reminds me: I switched to plain cabonated water--seltzer--instead of soda. I am very happy I did.
Beg to differ my friend; let me explain...automotive and everything around it is in high demand. With the sophistication and complexity of the today's automobiles, one needs a highly qualified technician to "be allowed" to work on.(all, but all, car manufacturers demand a highly skilled/trained technician to diagnose/repair that particular vehicle)
I should know, I am a 25+ Years Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge Technician and I can tell you that, we can not find a decent technician to do the job right. Plenty of wanna be's ("carniceros", "boomerang tech", "butchers") no shortage (they last less than 3 weeks) but nothing of a reliable and honest, old school technicians!
The old "shade tree", "DIY", kinda of Saturday Morning type of "let me fix this ol' jalopy" is all but gone. We are talking about super sophisticated hard/software operating systems taking care of your wheels. On average any of todays cars has at least 9+ computers on board, controlling misc. functions.
In my daily routine, computer related, reprogramming, updating and set up's are the routine, instead of mechanical wrenching like in the past.
The thing am trying to emphasize is that life/jobs is an ever changing medium/society where by, we all have to adapt soon or later. So, be flexible,...everything will work out, provide you are not stuck in the 50th's panacea.
A lot of people don't realize soda (even diet) can contribute to diabetes, hypertension, digestive problems, weight gain, etc...
The publishing industry is very weird, in no small part because it is HIGHLY regulated by the FTC. A lot of people don't know this, but many dimensions of the pricing model are fixed by the Federal government. As odd as it may sound, the FTC considers all the major publishers a de facto monopoly and regulates them as such, even though that charge is pretty ludicrous upon casual inspection. If they do not follow certain pricing guidelines, they get hit with an anti-trust suit.
The primary reason prices are so high is that the publishers are required to show pricing parity across all wholesale transactions regardless of size. What this means is that they are not allowed to price books based on amortizing the overhead of acquiring the sale, whether they are selling one book or ten thousand in the deal. The net result is that the largest book distributors in the US (e.g. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, et al) must be sold books at a base discount no better than what they give to Joe's Book Shack who orders five books a year. In essence, the entire market must be priced at the level of the most expensive transaction they do. Otherwise the Feds jump all over them.
The big distributors do get some indirect and creative comps (essentially payola) for their volume, but it isn't tied to the actual price they get invoiced for a given book. In essence, the FTC has outlawed volume discounts for books, asserting that it is an anti-competitive practice to do so. Such idiotic laws do not apply to other countries, hence why their books are cheaper and why you are not allowed to import "unregulated" books.
Apparently a better living than anywhere else on the planet doesn't qualify as a "decent living"? Aren't you setting the bar a little high? Did no one in the 19th century make a decent living since none of them had a television?
Most "average" people in the US do very well by any reasonable standards, and that hasn't been changing. What has changed is that people want to live well without any of the effort and creativity that got us here in the first place. Average people with discipline and good sense can retire well before they collect Social Security in this country. The only thing you can argue has changed is that we are losing our discipline and good sense.
That is nuts!!! Inventors don't draw up plans for what they invent?????
You are saying the 12.4% of the workforce in America has control over the economy???
And what is the solution? Force American corporations to hire someone in the US at 10 times what they can pay for the same quality work somewhere else? Once a worker knows he is protected by law from losing his job, the entire country will be run like the Department of Motor Vehicles.
"what did they think"? Hey, at that time USA will be closer to Latin America, and in Latin America they have tradition of dealing promptly with the unruly voters, unions etc... :)
Maybe. I'll also wager that they didn't spend much time on FR whining that they cannot find a job, and telling others not to go to engineering school.
Good question!
Let me guess, you were out of job and then you found a new one. Am I right?
Simple solution - remove the clearance/citizenship requirement and Chinese will be glad to help, so will be the Iranians, even engineers from Western Europe! And many will be willing to work for FREE! :) A solution freetraders would love.
Only one thing keeps Reagan Democrats and Evangelical Protestants from voting against Republicans - it is strange infatuation of liberals with pederasty, abortion and secularism. Once Dems discover what handicaps them and moderate their stand, they will stay in power for generations!
There are lies, bigger lies and statistics. "Unemployment rate" is a very misleading measure.
He, he. Did you have your coffee yet?
How the outsourcing CEO fared? Did he bailed out before the collapse with a fat profit? Did he jump to another company to do the same scooping trick?
A non-unionised employee in a state with "at will" employment has no protection whatsoever from losing his job, unless he or she is part of a protected class, such as Black, female, or homosexual, and has enough $$$ to get an attorney to to take the case.
Under absolutely no circumstances (at least none that I've heard of) does an employee have even a ghost of a chance of suing if his entire function or department has been shut down.
I have reason to know this. After ten years as "management" in the same company, I was morally compelled to resign because I was threatened with reprisals if I refused to participate in an unethical scheme to defraud the union.
But here's the fun part, which most people don't know: if you are fired for refusing to do something unethical or illegal you have no recourse except in rare instances covered by specific laws.
For example, you work as a cashier and your boss tells you to short change the customers. You refuse and he fires you. Tough luck, Charlie. Maybe you shouldn't have been paying so much attention at church when you were a kid. But, no problem for the employer -- he'll just keep cycling through the labour pool until he finds someone willing to lie, cheat, and steal for him.
And, under such circumstances, don't expect to collect unemployment either, because unless you have amassed whole file cabinets of corroborating documentation, the state D-o-L is going to believe the employer rather than the ex-employee.
The idea of the pampered American worker is a myth used to justify the economic treason of American business.
Wages can only go up in one of two ways. A labor shortage which happens when population growth stabilizes somewhat and employers are competing for workers. The other way is when the government creates labor abundance through uncontrolled immigration or outsourcing and that is with unions. Right now countries like China which are Communist have a tight rope on their labor so labor will stay very cheap there but that could destabilize.
I think it's the education system and also NAFTA. In my area, NW PA, labor and manufacturing jobs have left in droves since NAFTA was enacted, leaving unemployment and other local business closings and a population and brain drain in it's wake. Many people I know, both with and without higher education, now work 2 or 3 lower paying jobs, still earning less than before and no more benefits. NAFTA has made it just plain less expensive for some labor employers to ship work to places like Mexico and others.
And since the US market accounts for about HALF their sales--that's the smart thing to do, right?
Actually, most of the bargaining agreements I've seen in the last few years have involved MINIMAL pay increases--maybe 3-4% max.
The smart unions are negotiating job security. That's where the action is. Surprise, surprise!
In that case, compressing CEO pay from current 300x lowest-worker to say, 10x lowest worker would be a BIG help in "maximizing ROI."
But of course, ROI maximization is a short-term-thinking mandate--you knew that, right?
After all, as Mr Sloan said: "What's good for GM is good for the Country."
Who could argue with him--he must be smart because he's rich!! (and dead at this time.)
When and if you get over your case of terminal consumerism, call home. Your Dad will be unemployed and will be grateful for the chance to talk.
The slump in Big Two sales has been happening since June. Only the gas-efficient foreign nameplates are selling--and the high-end stuff like BMW Lexus, Benz
MANY of those IIT grads cheated like hell--just as MANY of the PRChina "engineering" degrees are Xerox copies with rather poor forging.
Keep up with the news.
It was Ron Reagan who forced the Japanese to build their cars here--e.g., Honda and Toyota.
No accident. Reagan understood the National Interest--which Carly Fiorina couldn't SPELL.
Odd. Harley's "overpriced crap" outsells their capacity every year--here AND overseas.
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When the admin creates a post, they get a notification without issue so I don't think it is a spam/junk mail issue.
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The owners of a paper recycling plant in Travis said yesterday that they would build a new plant to make corrugated cardboard out of the paper they recycle. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the owners of Visy Paper announced that the company would build a 100,000-square-foot plant employing 125 people next to their existing plant. In exchange, the city's Economic Development Corporation has agreed to help build railroad tracks to the plant; the state is to provide it with inexpensive electricity; and the city is to provide what one official described as ''a small amount of tax benefits.'' Michael Cooper (NYT)


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Although the fans at Whitinsville Christian saw Tim Dufficy on the basketball court Monday night, for a five-minute span the Crusaders senior went to another place.
Dufficy was in what basketball players frequently refer to as "the zone" in the third quarter and fueled a 20-2 run that helped lift No. 10 WC to a 64-49 victory over No. 3 St. Peter-Marian High.
Dufficy finished with 30 points, with 12 coming in the third quarter during which the Crusaders outscored the Guardians, 20-4.
"We knew coming in (St. Peter-Marian) had a good team, but we also wanted to be the aggressor, and not shy away from them," said Dufficy, who snapped a 28-28 tie with a three-point play early in the third. "For me, I've been kind of struggling all season, but my teammates got me some great open looks, and I was just able to hit my shots."
St. Peter-Marian (9-2) was flying high coming into the game, having posted wins over Catholic Memorial, St. John's and Charlestown last week, so it didn't come as a surprise to Crusaders coach Jeff Bajema that the Guardians made one last surge in the fourth quarter.
"In fairness to (St. Peter-Marian), we caught them after a huge week," said Bajema, whose team is 7-1 and has a huge test against No. 7 St. Bernard's Thursday night. "We got the ball moving, and we had to because their defense puts so much pressure on you."
Trailing, 48-30, heading into the fourth quarter, the Guardians found something extra in their collective tank and got the Crusaders' lead down to 55-44 on two Tim Berry free throws with 2:58 left, but Whitinsville countered with a steal and layup from Richard Santos to create more cushion.
Guardians senior Jalen Evans-Ashton had seven of his 13 points in the fourth quarter, but St. Peter-Marian couldn't get the lead down to single digits.
"There's still room for improvement, but I'm pleased with how things are going," Bajema said. "You can see it every day in practice; the kids are really starting to believe they can be a good team."
Dufficy had five 3-pointers, but also displayed the ability to finish strong at the rim.
"The game was won on the glass, I think," Dufficy said. "Our bigs did a great job rebounding. (SPM) didn't get many second shots, and we were able to get some points in transition.
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the directory /svr/tftp permissions are 777: drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nobody 4096 Nov 14 10:32 svr
This thing should have full permissions as would anyone who wanted to write or read from that directory. I see nothing in the logs im really stumped on this. If the file is already in the directory I can read it all day long, I just cant make NEW files, can not put them, but I can do get's, I can only put to an existing file with permissions @777.


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Which cloud computing provider would you recomend for a windows stack, in terms of cost and reliability?
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I've been using Amazon EC2 instances of Windows Server 2003 for the last few months and have been very impressed. In the beginning the tooling was limited to a Firefox plugin for managing your servers, but now they've released a full web based dashboard for controlling everything and I must say it is VERY slick!
The Windows instances themselves have been running flawlessly - I can't say I've noticed any difference between remoting into my servers there versus remoting into my physical server at Rackspace. They're running websites on IIS of course, and you cannot tell the difference. The massive benefit is that I have all the content stored on an Elastic Block storage that I attach as an extra drive on the server (via the console) and spinning up a new server literally takes minutes!
The EC2 instance doesn't store state, so I just have some scripts on the same Elastic Block storage that I can run to configure IIS and we're up with a load balanced server in no time!
I'm still running it through its paces, but if this solution keeps working the way it is now, I'll be getting rid of my physical hosted solution pretty soon!
I haven't tried any of the other cloud providers out there, but to be honest, I haven't needed to. My research looked into others, but on features alone I went with Amazon and haven't been disappointed.
Hope that helps!
We've been using EC2, but not Windows. I've started up a Windows instance to try it out and was suprised by how well it performed (Remote desktop). They take a bit longer to spin up but it looks like Amazon has implemented this nicely.
Everything outside the OS is identical as far as the service is concerned and I'm very happy with the API and level of control provided. Elastic Block Storage solved a major headache for running databases.
Another thing to note... when you run an EC2 Windows instance you're not only paying on-demand for the CPU time, but also for the windows license. That's a major cost savings there for light usage.


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you do know the government was involved right? just before each of the planes hit they fired a missile into the towers, think I'm wrong? watch loose change, oh and also you think a jumbo jet can make such a small hole in the pentagon? watch some of the secuirity cameras, it clearly shows a missile hitting the pentagon now if you wish to prove me wrong and change my "opinion" e-mail me. overall I liked it nice flash. P.S if you fold a 20$ bill the right way it clearly shows the towers smoldering, ask any WW2 vet what they saw on their money back in the day and they'll tell you a little story. I don't mean to be an asshole if that's how I'm coming off, but after you research a bit it makes you wonder.
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Tragic event.... unspeakable atrocity... thousands of dead.
I read that with pleasure. Yes, pleasure. I'll be honest - I want to see USA and every last of its lapdogs burning in hell for what they did.
Only an idiot wouldn't realise by now that the whole thing was set up and executed by your own government. Sacrificing a few thousand drones and two old buildings in exchange for free resources of Afghan and Iraq, how that's a bargain. No al-qaida could plan this operation with shutting down NORAD, making buildings fall exactly on the same time and in unbeliavably short time - the thing was set up! You can ever see thermite bomb explosions when buildings started to fall.
The zionists in your government, using that pathetic excuse for a civilized human that somehow made it to presidency (and the elections were faked, yes) manipulate the world, throwing it into dark anarchy of chaos, terror and shadow of USA the police state standing over it.
You are already getting repelled. You got your second Vietnam in Iraq, and it's only a matter of time before your losses will start to grow, because arab states are not the only ones who want to see you purged from this planet. Russia slowly anbd painfully shook off your money leechers - the democrats, and no matter how much you whine about "lack of democracy", Putin - the ex-KGB officer, by the way, will lead Russia to new future. The new Soviet Union.
I hope I'll see the day when soviet tanks will drive over ruins of White House, how soviet missiles hit your cursed Statue of Liberty, how soviet troops burn Pentagon, how soviet submarines sink your precious aircraft carriers... I hope... no, I WILL see it!
Long live Soviet Union!
that really impacts people to see a tragic avent like that becuase i am one surviver of the crash its sad