Indeed. One of the biggest peeves of mine are the insistence of the grabbers that whatever the Democratic establishment passes down is the gospel truth when it comes to guns. A bit of education would make a civil discussion a lot easier.
You need to check your talking points. According to the left he wasn't a terrorist, had no affiliation to ISIS and wasn't a muslim. Of course that doesn't stop them from claiming terrorism when they want a law passed...
I agree completely. The whole outrage culture that we've developed is insane and the insistence on firing damn near anyone who posts an opinion is ridiculous.
The systems were designed in the 70s and have had minimal upgrades since then. Honestly I'm not even convinced we could actually prosecute a complete nuclear war at this point. The other problem is that designing a new system would cost tens of billions of dollars due to the inevitable cost overruns and waste from the Military-Industrial Complex.
We should produce upgraded command and control systems, but we should also have fixed price contracts to keep things in line.
Very interesting. I do wonder how effective an apprenticeship would be for knowledge skills like programming or engineering. Given the number of self-taught programmers I expect that would work just fine, engineering I'd be a little more leery of.
CxOs are necessary yes, however few of them are particularly valuable.
Anecdote time! Where my dad used to work they went through about 4 presidents in 10 years, each of them overspent and did nothing to grow the business, the current one does literally nothing, but gets away with it because the company has been running itself for some time. If he disappeared for a month literally nothing would be worse for wear.
Executives are needed, but they are usually interchangeable, losing one in the short-term likely has few negative effects and the next one can slot in and take over. You have to have one, but they aren't nearly as valuable or important as they think they are.
Indeed. One of the mid-term solutions would be to mandate shorter work weeks and possibly more vacation time to encourage more jobs in the remaining fields. Eventually even those would start to get squeezed out, but that could buy a LOT of time.
Because they want to build some sort of buzz and anticipation. If they waited until it came out there's a good chance you'd read the reviews before buying, if they build some buzz you might order it early.
The iMac came out in '98 and revitalized the company, gaining a (relative) lot of marketshare back for them and put them on the map again. Your assertion that the other MP3 players were never marketed is simply stupid. They were marketed, but there's few companies as good at marketing as Apple (at least when Jobs is at the helm). I'm not sure exactly what your angle is, it seems to simply be abrasive and confrontational, but the FACT of the matter is that the only actual innovation the iPod had was it's storage size, the rest was PR magic.
All this can be now said about a company that a decade ago, saw a world filled with CD players, and figured out how to bring your entire music collection with you at once....all with a slick interface.
I had an MP3 player before the iPod came out. They didn't invent it, or even make it good. All they did was make one with a hard drive and a slick marketing campaign that made people willing to pay the extremely high price.
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Indeed. One of the biggest peeves of mine are the insistence of the grabbers that whatever the Democratic establishment passes down is the gospel truth when it comes to guns. A bit of education would make a civil discussion a lot easier.
You need to check your talking points. According to the left he wasn't a terrorist, had no affiliation to ISIS and wasn't a muslim. Of course that doesn't stop them from claiming terrorism when they want a law passed...
Because the Republicans are the ones playing obstructionism and have been for 7 years now.
They weren't court invented. The 2nd Amendment wasn't written for hunting, or muskets, it was written for the purpose of having an armed citizenry.
Actually they're no longer in session. When the Dems said they were gonna do the sit-in the Republicans said "K, we're gonna go home then."
I agree completely. The whole outrage culture that we've developed is insane and the insistence on firing damn near anyone who posts an opinion is ridiculous.
I'm already registered as a donor, but in the unlikely event that I get the tattoo I might just do that.
The only tattoo I'd consider.
I mean...if you're really that twitchy about it just get a PS4.
DX12 will bring the XBoner and Windows closer together. So ports from XBoner will probably use it as their primary in not too long.
The systems were designed in the 70s and have had minimal upgrades since then. Honestly I'm not even convinced we could actually prosecute a complete nuclear war at this point. The other problem is that designing a new system would cost tens of billions of dollars due to the inevitable cost overruns and waste from the Military-Industrial Complex.
We should produce upgraded command and control systems, but we should also have fixed price contracts to keep things in line.
This. It's probably a lot easier than a fast food robot too.
It's cheaper than hiring 3 people at $8 too. The only question is exactly how much you're saving.
Very interesting. I do wonder how effective an apprenticeship would be for knowledge skills like programming or engineering. Given the number of self-taught programmers I expect that would work just fine, engineering I'd be a little more leery of.
CxOs are necessary yes, however few of them are particularly valuable.
Anecdote time! Where my dad used to work they went through about 4 presidents in 10 years, each of them overspent and did nothing to grow the business, the current one does literally nothing, but gets away with it because the company has been running itself for some time. If he disappeared for a month literally nothing would be worse for wear.
Executives are needed, but they are usually interchangeable, losing one in the short-term likely has few negative effects and the next one can slot in and take over. You have to have one, but they aren't nearly as valuable or important as they think they are.
Indeed. Billions shovelled into useless programs just to feed the beast. Eisenhower was right.
Indeed. One of the mid-term solutions would be to mandate shorter work weeks and possibly more vacation time to encourage more jobs in the remaining fields. Eventually even those would start to get squeezed out, but that could buy a LOT of time.
Or he's stating that there's a problem coming that needs to be planned for.
Because they want to build some sort of buzz and anticipation. If they waited until it came out there's a good chance you'd read the reviews before buying, if they build some buzz you might order it early.
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1/10, not even mad bro. Anyway, it's clear you don't have an actual argument, so have fun masturbating to your iPod.
The iMac came out in '98 and revitalized the company, gaining a (relative) lot of marketshare back for them and put them on the map again. Your assertion that the other MP3 players were never marketed is simply stupid. They were marketed, but there's few companies as good at marketing as Apple (at least when Jobs is at the helm). I'm not sure exactly what your angle is, it seems to simply be abrasive and confrontational, but the FACT of the matter is that the only actual innovation the iPod had was it's storage size, the rest was PR magic.
Probably because they didn't have a PR genius with a captive audience at the helms of their companies.
All this can be now said about a company that a decade ago, saw a world filled with CD players, and figured out how to bring your entire music collection with you at once....all with a slick interface.
I had an MP3 player before the iPod came out. They didn't invent it, or even make it good. All they did was make one with a hard drive and a slick marketing campaign that made people willing to pay the extremely high price.
It already is, by far. The only thing that's not better is range.
Do you shop for more expensive or less expensive consumer items?
As much as possible I shop for the RIGHT product.