I wish! It might work for that, but NBC is pretty good about getting takedowns on youtube so that you have to watch videos on their very-poorly-designed website.. which I guess is unavailable outside the US.
Let me repeat it: THE BUDGET OF GREECE IS BALANCED.
Not if it doesn't have the money to pay debts. Debt payments are a government expense just as valid as roads, army, health care, pensions, or anything else that the government pays for. It's only when you remove debt payment that the budget becomes balanced.
Literally junk would be Greece. Russia has the same credit rating as Portugal, Croatia or Hungary (all three are EU countries by the way) and as soon as the Saudis stop their oil glut, oil will become more expensive again. And since Russia is accustomed to austerity, the recession would not be nearly as bitter as you think.
They have a lot of problems, but being broke hasn't been one of them for a decade.
Why do you think the Saudis will stop their oil glut? The last time they did that, competitors in the Middle East and from other regions (Canada, Russia) increased their supply and siphoned away much of the Saudi business. They don't want to make that mistake twice.
You can only raise profits by decreasing supply and increasing prices if you control a market (regionally or globally). There are too many large players in the gas and oil business for the Saudis to have the influence they once had.
Back to Uber, you are falling for the premise that Uber wants to compete with a taxi services. They don't, otherwise they would follow the laws applicable to a taxi service.
I think they do want to compete with the taxi services, but they can't -say- that for the reasons you mentioned. They want to compete with the taxi services while pretending they're a limousine-like service. Most of their users don't know the difference, and I think Uber is totally fine with and encourages the confusion. They want to be known as the upscale, private taxi service because that benefits them, but officially, they'll always be a private car service.
They can't officially compete with taxis because then their business would live or die at the whim of local officials who want to limit the number of "taxis" (branded or not) on the road.
Why are you so fixated specifically on Intel? Why does competing with Intel need to be the be-all, end-all here? Pecos was talking about how one could start a business like Uber to compete with local taxi services, and you started talking about how the barriers of entry for business are too high, then you bring up the difficulties of setting up fab plants to go against Intel. Sure, no one is starting a company anytime soon that will dent Intel's market share, but what does that have to do with Pecos's assertion that someone can start one company to compete with others?
As I understand it, he was technically within the law to do it because he simply swapped out vehicles so regularly, none of them were owned long enough to require a plate? And parking in a handicapped space? I *think* he was only caught doing that on Apple's own campus --- not out in grocery store lots or anyplace else?
And Pixar. Basically, any place that wouldn't have got him towed. Both of those things (required to have license plates, parking in the handicapped spots) were expressions of the same attitude: "Those people can't tell me what to do." If there was a requirement, he would find a way around it because he knew better and the rules didn't apply to him.
So not only is he a dick to people around him, he's also a skilled and habitual bullshitter.
Indeed, those are two of the most required and valuable CEO skills. The ability to take bold action rather than dither with mediocrity, and the ability to convince others that your products are great. Being a dick is a good executive skill. Lying---I'm sorry, I meant "marketing" is another.
Gary Johnson: "We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!"
Just like Americans voted for the bad policies that resulting in having to take out loans. If WE were part of the EU, how much would we be requesting?
Probably not much because so far, the US is fairly sufficient and is not defaulting on loans. You may recall a year ago certain political careers got deep-sixed over the suggestion of a situation that could let the US default.
The iMac - a minimalist, low-cost, laptop-derived machine with a CRT that was extremely easy to set up and which was design-forward - good-looking enough to put it in the center of your living area and not hide under a desk. Yeah, that was totally already done.
Are we talking about these things? The only time something like that was good enough looking to put in the living room was a short period in the 60s (if they came out in the 70s, they would have been uglier shades of orange and earthen brown). I'd rather have a beige mini-tower in comparison.
It was not exactly a stunning debut for Ive's design; he got a lot better when he discovered the joys of barely-translucent white. Most of the rest of his designs have been home runs.
There were plenty of people with the same attitude in the early 20th century who said that we'd never visit the moon another planet. Or that the rockets would pierce the dome of the heavens and the stars would fall to earth (this was not an unpopular theory). I'd rather side with the unrealistic dreamers rather than the apocryphal patent commissioner who stated everything was already invented.
Humanity should always strive for what we do not have, it would still be stuck griming about in the mud if it did not. It's the old conflict between pure/theoretical science and applied science. Sometimes, when researching the 'impossible', you get it. And sometimes you find something entirely unexpected which might be far more practical.
It's no worse than extrapolating Moore's Law into "we'll have AI in thirty years time because the computing power available will dwarf the sum of all the puny human brains".
Sadly, Moore lived to see the end of the law named after him.
I'm sorry if you find it so hard to start a business that you don't find it to be worth it, but fortunately not everyone thinks that way.
I look forward to your entry into the state of the art chip fab sector and your rapid overthrow of Intel.
I was unaware that my corner bakery required a state of the art chip fab sector, or that the local chain of shoe stores had to overthrow Intel to be considered successful. Running a successful business doesn't mean you have to compete with the biggest, nor is tech the be-all, end-all. But if we're talking about tech, althought it doesn't apply to Intel specifically, plenty of tech companies were started in garages or as a project between like-minded people on the Internet. We hear over and over that small companies are the true drivers of the economy. If no one started them, thinking they couldn't possibly compete against the likes of Intel, we'd be truly screwed.
A law needs not to be respected to be obeyed. It only needs to be enforced by those who have the authority and power to do so. Or are you suggesting that a person may choose to obey no law they don't respect?
I'm saying we have a rich tradition in the US of civil disobedience over bad laws.
Pecos's comments make sense when you realize he doesn't live here on Earth with the rest of us. Pecos apparently lives in near a Jr. High physics class, where ropes and pulleys are massless and frictionless, so for him the entry and exit to capital and labor markets is costless.
I'm sorry if you find it so hard to start a business that you don't find it to be worth it, but fortunately not everyone thinks that way.
If you think that's the reason you really need to do some research. Until then it's pretty safe to assume you don't understand this topic in any great depth.
So having way fewer cabs on the street than needed, and never being able to hail an empty cab are just pleasant side benefits?
(Should perfectly - it's only TRUTH about online weasels that hide behind bs names & are EASILY tracked sheep online here @/., that's certain - you did THAT to yourselves!)
So what exactly is your point here? That's what I'm trying to delve down into. As far as I know you always post AC, so you're not against people posting anonymously. Is the argument that the "pseudononymous" nickname is not anonymous? Sure, I could agree with that, you responded to one of my posts where I said as much. I login to Slashdot for the convenience of easily tracking my posts, and I'm fine with other people doing so, as you have. You can call me an easily-tracked sheep if you want, that's certainly your prerogative, but maybe I'm fine with people tracking my posting history. I'm not ashamed of my posting history on Slashdot, whether I log in as "Rakarra Williams" or decide to just post as AC. Going through the history seems to me like it would be a waste of time, but I recognize that it's there if you want it.
Do you really think that the people who disagree with you are all sockpuppets trying to pull one over on you? I suppose when you employ sockpuppet accounts yourself, you start to see everyone else as a sockpuppet of whomever you currently have a beef with.
What a shame, I don't even have a problem with host-file-based browser security.
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She was definitely an OSS member, but I can't find any references to her being other than a typist and office coordinator for the Allies.
I wish! It might work for that, but NBC is pretty good about getting takedowns on youtube so that you have to watch videos on their very-poorly-designed website.. which I guess is unavailable outside the US.
Let me repeat it: THE BUDGET OF GREECE IS BALANCED.
Not if it doesn't have the money to pay debts. Debt payments are a government expense just as valid as roads, army, health care, pensions, or anything else that the government pays for. It's only when you remove debt payment that the budget becomes balanced.
It happened in 2008 and 2012, too.
And that's why it collapsed.
Oh, wait.
That Obama, he can't do anything right. He tries to crater the economy and now it's better than it was when he took office.
Literally junk would be Greece. Russia has the same credit rating as Portugal, Croatia or Hungary (all three are EU countries by the way) and as soon as the Saudis stop their oil glut, oil will become more expensive again. And since Russia is accustomed to austerity, the recession would not be nearly as bitter as you think.
They have a lot of problems, but being broke hasn't been one of them for a decade.
Why do you think the Saudis will stop their oil glut? The last time they did that, competitors in the Middle East and from other regions (Canada, Russia) increased their supply and siphoned away much of the Saudi business. They don't want to make that mistake twice.
You can only raise profits by decreasing supply and increasing prices if you control a market (regionally or globally). There are too many large players in the gas and oil business for the Saudis to have the influence they once had.
Hey now, those listings were taken in 2010. I'm sure the prices are much more reasonable now.
Back to Uber, you are falling for the premise that Uber wants to compete with a taxi services. They don't, otherwise they would follow the laws applicable to a taxi service.
I think they do want to compete with the taxi services, but they can't -say- that for the reasons you mentioned. They want to compete with the taxi services while pretending they're a limousine-like service. Most of their users don't know the difference, and I think Uber is totally fine with and encourages the confusion. They want to be known as the upscale, private taxi service because that benefits them, but officially, they'll always be a private car service.
They can't officially compete with taxis because then their business would live or die at the whim of local officials who want to limit the number of "taxis" (branded or not) on the road.
Why are you so fixated specifically on Intel? Why does competing with Intel need to be the be-all, end-all here? Pecos was talking about how one could start a business like Uber to compete with local taxi services, and you started talking about how the barriers of entry for business are too high, then you bring up the difficulties of setting up fab plants to go against Intel. Sure, no one is starting a company anytime soon that will dent Intel's market share, but what does that have to do with Pecos's assertion that someone can start one company to compete with others?
Oh really? To be in an economic bracket only matched by the top 0.1% of every human being on the planet is a loser?
Count me in.
I think the parent poster needed sarcasm tags!
As I understand it, he was technically within the law to do it because he simply swapped out vehicles so regularly, none of them were owned long enough to require a plate? And parking in a handicapped space? I *think* he was only caught doing that on Apple's own campus --- not out in grocery store lots or anyplace else?
And Pixar. Basically, any place that wouldn't have got him towed. Both of those things (required to have license plates, parking in the handicapped spots) were expressions of the same attitude: "Those people can't tell me what to do." If there was a requirement, he would find a way around it because he knew better and the rules didn't apply to him.
So not only is he a dick to people around him, he's also a skilled and habitual bullshitter.
Indeed, those are two of the most required and valuable CEO skills. The ability to take bold action rather than dither with mediocrity, and the ability to convince others that your products are great. Being a dick is a good executive skill. Lying---I'm sorry, I meant "marketing" is another.
Gary Johnson: "We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!"
Just like Americans voted for the bad policies that resulting in having to take out loans. If WE were part of the EU, how much would we be requesting?
Probably not much because so far, the US is fairly sufficient and is not defaulting on loans. You may recall a year ago certain political careers got deep-sixed over the suggestion of a situation that could let the US default.
The iMac - a minimalist, low-cost, laptop-derived machine with a CRT that was extremely easy to set up and which was design-forward - good-looking enough to put it in the center of your living area and not hide under a desk. Yeah, that was totally already done.
Are we talking about these things? The only time something like that was good enough looking to put in the living room was a short period in the 60s (if they came out in the 70s, they would have been uglier shades of orange and earthen brown). I'd rather have a beige mini-tower in comparison.
It was not exactly a stunning debut for Ive's design; he got a lot better when he discovered the joys of barely-translucent white. Most of the rest of his designs have been home runs.
There were plenty of people with the same attitude in the early 20th century who said that we'd never visit the moon another planet. Or that the rockets would pierce the dome of the heavens and the stars would fall to earth (this was not an unpopular theory). I'd rather side with the unrealistic dreamers rather than the apocryphal patent commissioner who stated everything was already invented.
Humanity should always strive for what we do not have, it would still be stuck griming about in the mud if it did not. It's the old conflict between pure/theoretical science and applied science. Sometimes, when researching the 'impossible', you get it. And sometimes you find something entirely unexpected which might be far more practical.
It's no worse than extrapolating Moore's Law into "we'll have AI in thirty years time because the computing power available will dwarf the sum of all the puny human brains".
Sadly, Moore lived to see the end of the law named after him.
Another colloquialism: Close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades. :-)
I'm sorry if you find it so hard to start a business that you don't find it to be worth it, but fortunately not everyone thinks that way.
I look forward to your entry into the state of the art chip fab sector and your rapid overthrow of Intel.
I was unaware that my corner bakery required a state of the art chip fab sector, or that the local chain of shoe stores had to overthrow Intel to be considered successful. Running a successful business doesn't mean you have to compete with the biggest, nor is tech the be-all, end-all. But if we're talking about tech, althought it doesn't apply to Intel specifically, plenty of tech companies were started in garages or as a project between like-minded people on the Internet. We hear over and over that small companies are the true drivers of the economy. If no one started them, thinking they couldn't possibly compete against the likes of Intel, we'd be truly screwed.
A law needs not to be respected to be obeyed. It only needs to be enforced by those who have the authority and power to do so. Or are you suggesting that a person may choose to obey no law they don't respect?
I'm saying we have a rich tradition in the US of civil disobedience over bad laws.
Damn statists expecting laws to be obeyed! The nerve!
A law needs to be justified to be respected. "The law is the law" is not an argument for that respect.
Pecos's comments make sense when you realize he doesn't live here on Earth with the rest of us. Pecos apparently lives in near a Jr. High physics class, where ropes and pulleys are massless and frictionless, so for him the entry and exit to capital and labor markets is costless.
I'm sorry if you find it so hard to start a business that you don't find it to be worth it, but fortunately not everyone thinks that way.
Good, what goes around comes around and here in Canada we've been being sued by American investors for banning poisons and such.
I think the proliferation of bad laws is not something to be celebrated, but always fought against.
If you think that's the reason you really need to do some research. Until then it's pretty safe to assume you don't understand this topic in any great depth.
So having way fewer cabs on the street than needed, and never being able to hail an empty cab are just pleasant side benefits?
(Should perfectly - it's only TRUTH about online weasels that hide behind bs names & are EASILY tracked sheep online here @ /., that's certain - you did THAT to yourselves!)
So what exactly is your point here? That's what I'm trying to delve down into. As far as I know you always post AC, so you're not against people posting anonymously. Is the argument that the "pseudononymous" nickname is not anonymous? Sure, I could agree with that, you responded to one of my posts where I said as much. I login to Slashdot for the convenience of easily tracking my posts, and I'm fine with other people doing so, as you have. You can call me an easily-tracked sheep if you want, that's certainly your prerogative, but maybe I'm fine with people tracking my posting history. I'm not ashamed of my posting history on Slashdot, whether I log in as "Rakarra Williams" or decide to just post as AC. Going through the history seems to me like it would be a waste of time, but I recognize that it's there if you want it.
Do you really think that the people who disagree with you are all sockpuppets trying to pull one over on you? I suppose when you employ sockpuppet accounts yourself, you start to see everyone else as a sockpuppet of whomever you currently have a beef with.
What a shame, I don't even have a problem with host-file-based browser security.