Let's ignore for a second that the government cares about how an Indian government interprets and Indian law for an American domestic manufacturer. Here's the utter stupidity...
If you have something like ivory or some rare wood, if you make the value of it next to nothing, legitimate businesses will have no incentive to have that resource conserved.
Let's say you are in some rainforest and you have this really rare tree that is valuable for its wood. If legitimate businesses can use it and it has value, you can find a way to harvest it and make sure more grows. If it has no value, you plow the thing over and grow some crops.
The same goes for different animal species as well.
Do you think elephants will stop being hunted because of ivory bans? If you allow a certain percentage of elephants to be culled, I'm pretty sure a group of people will make sure there are plenty of elephants.
This is sort of similar to the question from a post yesterday about Earth ejecta finding its way to the rest of the Solar System and seeding life. If we discover life on Mars, how do we know where the source is from?
Also, how do we know there wasn't a common ancestor?
In the 3+ billion years life has been on Earth I would guess that life from Earth could have gotten to Mars even if it has lower probability than other locales.
So if we find life on Mars, or some moon of a gas giant, do we assume it got their from Earth or not?
I interviewed at a Wall Street startup that was trying to do something similar. They test against historical data prior to buying and selling on the open market.
I would assume they are doing the same thing. That said, one month is nothing.
I don't expect Android to give much ground, but the reason for Android's growth is obvious. Cell phone companies needed something to compete with the iPhone and the Android OS was free. If they end up lagging behind Motorolla due to their special access, they may latch onto another OS.
I don't envision it happening but crazier things have happened.
Default means not paying your loans.The Obama administration said that not raising the debt ceiling raised the possibility of default. But that didn't have to be true.
As long as you commit to paying government debt first, with tax revenue that's always coming in, you won't default. Unless your debt is incredibly out of control, even more so than now.
Depends on whose perspective. Verizon is paying more. Workers will pay more. Looks worse from each end. So it seems like a pay cut, but it depends on your perspective.
As TV and pay per view/On Demand revenue goes down and gets cannibalized by the Internet, Internet service costs are going to go up. I fear we'll pay one way or the other.
It's sort of like driving like a jerk. If everyone does it, there won't be any gains. Not that there is anything wrong at all with using the Internet to save costs and consume media.
The cable companies will do as much as possible to prolong the old paradigm. Or at least keep you subscribing (things like HBO GO).
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I love hearing left-wingers think that Richard Nixon is a right-winger because he has a "R" after his name.
Let's ignore for a second that the government cares about how an Indian government interprets and Indian law for an American domestic manufacturer. Here's the utter stupidity...
If you have something like ivory or some rare wood, if you make the value of it next to nothing, legitimate businesses will have no incentive to have that resource conserved.
Let's say you are in some rainforest and you have this really rare tree that is valuable for its wood. If legitimate businesses can use it and it has value, you can find a way to harvest it and make sure more grows. If it has no value, you plow the thing over and grow some crops.
The same goes for different animal species as well.
Do you think elephants will stop being hunted because of ivory bans? If you allow a certain percentage of elephants to be culled, I'm pretty sure a group of people will make sure there are plenty of elephants.
Others have mentioned Apple. So I would add no company that relies on another company's OS will be able to do better than have really low margins.
I thought that was the point of WebOS. I assume they thought it wasn't going to work so they pulled the plug.
I didn't see the video of a federal employee with "push button to attack Iranian nuclear facilities" on the screen in the background.
So if I'm reading the summary correctly he isn't lying. But his approach of using tree rings could still be significantly flawed.
So his "hiding the decline" was deliberate fraud. But it could be poor science.
If there was a multi-multi-million dollar ad campaign and there's no interest, you at least need to regroup.
Winners never quit and quitters never win, but if you neither quit nor win you are just a fool.
This is sort of similar to the question from a post yesterday about Earth ejecta finding its way to the rest of the Solar System and seeding life. If we discover life on Mars, how do we know where the source is from?
Also, how do we know there wasn't a common ancestor?
In the 3+ billion years life has been on Earth I would guess that life from Earth could have gotten to Mars even if it has lower probability than other locales.
So if we find life on Mars, or some moon of a gas giant, do we assume it got their from Earth or not?
Based on what you said, I really hope they manage Vertica well. I enjoy working with the product and it is great in the Big Data space.
We'll see.
They just bought Vertica, which is a pretty great columnar database.
I don't think they would have bought Vertica in March if they were going to get rid of their server line of business.
I interviewed at a Wall Street startup that was trying to do something similar. They test against historical data prior to buying and selling on the open market.
I would assume they are doing the same thing. That said, one month is nothing.
North Koreans would have a valid complaint here. If they had cell phone towers.
But it is good to see that we may not export as much as we used to, but at lease the USA can export our culture of litigiousness.
I don't expect Android to give much ground, but the reason for Android's growth is obvious. Cell phone companies needed something to compete with the iPhone and the Android OS was free. If they end up lagging behind Motorolla due to their special access, they may latch onto another OS.
I don't envision it happening but crazier things have happened.
And if the file formats can be opened in both, it shouldn't matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSXbgfKFWg
It's broke now.
It's stinks, but it's better because if yo commit to paying the bondholders you can still get access to credit markets and a lower interest rate.
Default means not paying your loans.The Obama administration said that not raising the debt ceiling raised the possibility of default. But that didn't have to be true.
As long as you commit to paying government debt first, with tax revenue that's always coming in, you won't default. Unless your debt is incredibly out of control, even more so than now.
In Washington, it you plan on increasing spending by $10 billion and you only increase it by $9 billion, you call that a $1 billion cut.
No, the only people who are trying to reduce the deficit...let's blame them. It's the Tea Party's fault.
1) Plan on gaining 100 pounds.
2) Gain 75 pounds.
3) Congratulations. You have a weight loss of 25 pounds.
Depends on whose perspective. Verizon is paying more. Workers will pay more. Looks worse from each end. So it seems like a pay cut, but it depends on your perspective.
Given the interdependency of everyone, I fail to see the international cabal of bankers rooting for war. Anyone you want to identify?
As TV and pay per view/On Demand revenue goes down and gets cannibalized by the Internet, Internet service costs are going to go up. I fear we'll pay one way or the other.
It's sort of like driving like a jerk. If everyone does it, there won't be any gains. Not that there is anything wrong at all with using the Internet to save costs and consume media.
The cable companies will do as much as possible to prolong the old paradigm. Or at least keep you subscribing (things like HBO GO).
I meant all of them combined produce about the same amount of revenue. And that seems backed by observation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Tax_Receipts_as_a_Percentage_of_GDP_1945%E2%80%932015.jpg