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Well, they don't need if they're willing to simply kill prisoners.

Well, to be fair, Russia does actually have to deal with them from time to time unlike the US who nearly never does.

How many really odd deaths of people who had information the NSA wouldn't like getting out before we consider the possibility?

If you "know" that then you're wrong. Success isn't a guarantee even if you work hard. Ask Nikola Tesla.

np, sorry I was too lazy to post any links but I think I gave enough info to find it on the internet.

What a disgusting post. "Pay your dues just like I did". Just because you chose to be exploited with the hope that you'll some day get compensated for it doesn't mean the model is right. And your quip about where the highest quality innovate work comes from is unproven and probably unprovable.

Except there are plenty of places that expect 50+ hours/week and pay 20% less than market at least. Likewise, I'm sure there are jobs that pay market or better and get close to 40 hour weeks.

The market doesn't work as efficiently as you imagine it does, nor could it since companies do all they can to hide what salaries actually are (i.e. imagine trying to buy fruit when nothing had prices, no one would tell you what they paid, and you had to negotiate in private for what they cost you).

I can never remember. I thought it was North Korea but lately I heard it was somewhere in Africa. I only know the US is one of two places and the other isn't part of the developed world so it's not the best company to be keeping.

We know that people behave better when they're accountable for what they do and say, and worse when they're not.

What you're saying here is that people conform to social norms better when they can be "held accountable" for not doing so. Now imagine some of the unhealthy social norms of the past and how people were "held accountable" for violating them.

Anonymity has a cost, but it is a cost that must be paid or we do not have a free society in any sense of the word.

So if I want to edit some open source project, I would be forced to dick around with vim if the person who made the project wrote it in that? Are you trying to go forwards or backwards?

And actually Sun approached Viacom to license Smalltalk at much less than what they were currently charging. Viacom wouldn't budge so Sun invested in "Oak" that they were already playing with in house.

I want a specific format to our proprietary systems. In C# I can just say "date.Format("dd.MM.YYYY")" or what ever I want.

How do you know Wireshark isn't compromised? Further, MS does phone home all the time to check for updates and so on. If something extra was hidden in there would we know?

Actually people in Europe do care and I would expect something to happen as a result. I don't expect MS to go out of business, but it wouldn't surprise me if they lost certain key projects over the next decade.

Keep in mind this was in Germany and it doesn't read like native English. I.e. you're almost certainly reading a translation.

Ok, I appreciate this information (and I'm trying to follow the discussion but I didn't see you talking of Ken's work).

But I'm still curious; even though you can write the disassembler by hand, how can you be sure that you're compiling it with a non-compromised compiler? Or do you mean write it in e.g. ELF format directly (and that's assuming the OS isn't involved in filtering offending code, though it seems extraordinarily unlikely that the OS could be generally modified in such away without detection)?

The FBI still uses the polygraph? I would hope the FBI would be looking for the kind of people that know a polygraph is near worthless.

How does this deal with [1]? Also, how do you know that your disassembler isn't compromised?

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184874/is-ken...

Yeah, I know: it's not Javascript that's broken, it's the DOM.

No, JavaScript itself is a ridiculous language. Every time I have to deal with it I grit my teeth. Right now I'm dealing with dates. Luckily JS has a built in Date class! Which, of course, does nearly nothing. If you call "getDay" you get a zero indexed number representing the day of the week. So since there's no formatting functions to print out dates, how do you get the month-day number? Oh, right, you call getDate...

If I didn't know better I would think this abomination were created by someone who thought the secret of PHP's success was being horribly defined.

Either something is okay, in which case it's okay to do with a machine, or it's not

Actually, if you follow someone around everywhere they go, even in public, unless they've famous and you're a paparazzi you're likely to get charged with stalking.

Why on earth do you live in France? It sounds like you don't believe in anything that makes France France.

And health care is most definitely more expensive in Switzerland than France. It's privatized but there are strict regulations on how much money insurance companies can make and all citizens are required by law to have insurance.

Not for subsidizing movie producers

France makes great movies, but they could never compete against Hollywood financially. I for one am quite glad that France does what they need to to make sure good, original French movies (ok, not all of them, but much better than Hollywood) don't lose out to fast-food garbage the US is pumping out.

Because the more profit Google and Amazon make, the more value they produce for society as in more work, better technology, better life etc.

Yea, because trickle down economics works fantastic: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html?_r=0

The problem is that Hollande is very left wing, yet France already had one of the best income equality ratios in the western world.

It might have been better if France got someone very conservative like Obama and the US got someone from the true left like Hollande (though he wouldn't get a single thing done in the US, it would be fun to watch people like Rush Limbaugh literally die on air).

You're correct. If you're married and file joint I think that number is $130k. So if a dual income family makes $180 that means paying tax, a portion of which was made by someone who isn't and was never American.

Even the Mafia was never so cheeky.

So if the foreign country has a higher tax rate, you will never pay US tax.

If I live and work completely in a foreign country why would I ever pay US income tax under any circumstances at all? The US is one of two countries on this planet that expect people who's only tie is being a citizen (perhaps never having set foot there and not speaking the language) to file income tax and potentially pay a portion of their income.

Even worse, the US expects you to file with them the way you file in your country of residence. File join in the country you live in? You're expected to file joint with the US then. Which means your foreign spouse who has no ties to the US of any kind (outside of being married to a citizen) will potentially have to pay US tax on their income.

And worst of all, the tax is mostly an annoyance. The true problem is that you have to report every account you have signing power over. That includes pension fund. That includes your companies bank accounts that you manage (which is why an American will never hold such a position in e.g. Switzerland). Lots of banks also won't take Americans on as customers. They don't get enough to warrant dealing with US bureaucracy to report information on these accounts.

You can always renounce your US citizenship

Which is what many people are doing. The US is one of the few nations on earth that people give up citizenship from.

Right back at you: a lot of smart people have realized what you propose is not very likely. What are the changes that they are all wrong? What are the chances it is just you who is wrong?

They want to be called agent, but "pimp" or "head hunter" is closer to what they do. The parallel with a Hollywood/sports agent doesn't really exist, and to be fair we wouldn't realistically want to pay enough to justify such a model.

They are just CV movers but they often know key individuals within different companies and even provide kick backs. As slimy as they can be at times they have connections that a sterile CV in a pile of sterile CVs just can't have.

Wait a minute. When you said $800/day I assumed you must be talking contracting [1]. Freelancing would be more like $300/HOUR, not $800/day. That would be an utterly insane rate for consulting.

[1] Consulting would be more like 9/10 billable or even more. Some contractors take the absolute minimum required time off since they're paid by the day (I've heard of guys who haven't had a consistent week off for years), which would put them at 11+/10 relatively.

Various groups may have decided that, and may even be right in some cases but there are plenty of valid reasons to bring up the Nazis for base line comparisons.

No one is locking them out of protesting in general. Just our protest.