The people holding the shares during the AGM should vote... when people simply bounce stocks around we get the current situation, where once great companies with large reserves of money, assets and good will become vehicles for self-enrichment of management as they perform a decade long nosedive.
Here's a different idea... they slim the fuck down to focus on the parts of the business turning a profit and liquidate assets not to pay beyond market price for startups but simply to pay dividends to shareholders. Let those shareholders find new uses for the money, of course then Yahoo would be a small company and Mayer would be grossly overpaid...
Shareholder diligence doesn't exist any more, the lunatics are running the asylum.
You might be able to just put the container away, continue loading and then at the end correct the center of gravity with a container filled with the correct amount of bricks (the idiot who misdeclared the weight was nice enough to leave room on the ship for the brick container).
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As I said to the other guy... you haven't worked very many menial jobs in your life have you?
Most countries on this planet aren't energy/fuel/food/fertilizer self sufficient any more at this point, so the world would be overpopulated by that definition (which I would agree with).
It's not deterioration of the plastic which causes CDs/DVDs to be unreliable, it's de-lamination of the reflective layer and deterioration of the organic dye for the recordable ones. The first is just causes by poor manufacturing, the second is a little more serious but the method in this article doesn't use dyes, it uses photopolymerization... which would not necessarily be as failure prone.
A single diffractive optical element could achieve both those functions, but those can't get below the diffraction limit either in the general case (superoscillations can do it as a special case, but those don't really produce spots).
What they are actually using is two photon absorption, the two beam setup allows them to have a tighter distribution of two photon absorption events.
Yields per acreage are actually stalling... and we haven't even hit peak phosphorus yet. Also a fair amount of the technology we use to increase yields is not exactly side effect free, insecticides for instance are killing bees and making people retards.
How is the Egyptian government keeping water scarce?
It was more a semantic argument really... when I hear anti-fat stigma or anti-fat bias I interpret that as being biased against fatness (ie. being fat is not beautiful or being fat is not healthy). Similar to how fat positive generally glamorizes fatness rather than assign positive personality traits to fat people.
Anti-fat person bias would be better term for what they and you are describing IMO.
Being obese will generally impact your health quite immediately, but I was more talking about people who are simply overweight... which still has some impact, but in the bigger picture it's just not that big a deal.
But I was talking about the "treatment of obesity"... to treat your obesity he needs to tell you (how) to lose weight, there is no alternative.
It might be more humane to accept the patient is a fat fuck who is never going to help himself in that regard until things get a whole lot worse and treat symptoms in the mean time and simply not talk about the real problem, but that will not help with the treatment of the actual obesity itself.
I "blame" fat people for being fat for the same reason I blame criminals for being criminals... not because I don't recognize hereditary and environmental aspects, but because the concept of personal responsibility is rather important to a functioning society.
PS. if they don't feel self pithy, aren't fat enough to suffer health problems and don't care that I find it ugly then I don't really blame them... it's just a lifestyle choice which doesn't really impact me.
Government spending in the form of social safety nets and common (natural monopoly) infrastructure construction is vital... everything else can be handled by taxation. Taxation is a dirty word in the modern world though, so debt it is the alternative... and the advantage of debt is that it's mostly hidden from the voters, in the short term, so they are more likely to accept government waste/corruption.
Labour at zero cost is a scarce resource, that doesn't preclude jobs above subsistence cost being scarce too...
Why would the bosses hand out Jetson's job to lots of different people working 5 hours for 2 days out of the week... much more efficient to have someone there longer, less shift hand overs means less room for mistakes. Unless the law demands it, the jobs won't be spread out across the entire population.
Labour can't pull itself up by the bootstraps either, since natural resources ARE scarce... there is no more land to homestead.
That depends if it's rgb or ycm, rgb has low max brightness/contrast (more grey than white) without active lighting... but ycm might have trouble with viewing angles (it's hard to say no one has demonstrated one yet).
That said, they have a youtube clip showing a rgb display playing a pokemon cartoon and with the right lighting and content even rgb can look amazing... but not good enough to displace black and white for text.
They also get richer despite the taxes... which is unsustainable in a non growing economy.
Mobility is irrelevant, they are capitalists... not the middle class engineers and entrepreneurs which a country really needs to sustain a standard of living. The ultra-rich have an extremely inflated sense of import, them leaving the country is not a brain drain. Them leaving and being allowed to take away profits on domestic capital to foreign countries year after year with negligible taxation... that is the problem.
It's quite easy to structure taxation such that the only thing they can with them is their brains and some fixed assets which won't affect the current account balance year after year though... at which point losing them becomes entirely irrelevant, hell it becomes a net benefit.
Not necessarily forms of taxation the WTO agrees with though...
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The people holding the shares during the AGM should vote ... when people simply bounce stocks around we get the current situation, where once great companies with large reserves of money, assets and good will become vehicles for self-enrichment of management as they perform a decade long nosedive.
Here's a different idea ... they slim the fuck down to focus on the parts of the business turning a profit and liquidate assets not to pay beyond market price for startups but simply to pay dividends to shareholders. Let those shareholders find new uses for the money, of course then Yahoo would be a small company and Mayer would be grossly overpaid ...
Shareholder diligence doesn't exist any more, the lunatics are running the asylum.
Who would remain to pay the 100$ tickets if robots did all the jobs?
You might be able to just put the container away, continue loading and then at the end correct the center of gravity with a container filled with the correct amount of bricks (the idiot who misdeclared the weight was nice enough to leave room on the ship for the brick container).
As I said to the other guy ... you haven't worked very many menial jobs in your life have you?
Dystopian? You haven't had very many menial jobs in your life have you?
Most countries on this planet aren't energy/fuel/food/fertilizer self sufficient any more at this point, so the world would be overpopulated by that definition (which I would agree with).
It's not deterioration of the plastic which causes CDs/DVDs to be unreliable, it's de-lamination of the reflective layer and deterioration of the organic dye for the recordable ones. The first is just causes by poor manufacturing, the second is a little more serious but the method in this article doesn't use dyes, it uses photopolymerization ... which would not necessarily be as failure prone.
A single diffractive optical element could achieve both those functions, but those can't get below the diffraction limit either in the general case (superoscillations can do it as a special case, but those don't really produce spots).
What they are actually using is two photon absorption, the two beam setup allows them to have a tighter distribution of two photon absorption events.
AFAICS he's just hedging his bets for societal collapse, Island paradise, food and energy self sufficiency, supply of servants ...
Yields per acreage are actually stalling ... and we haven't even hit peak phosphorus yet. Also a fair amount of the technology we use to increase yields is not exactly side effect free, insecticides for instance are killing bees and making people retards.
How is the Egyptian government keeping water scarce?
What does hops have to do with anti-freeze? (Anti-freeze is generally sweet.)
India is more like Greece than China ...
It was more a semantic argument really ... when I hear anti-fat stigma or anti-fat bias I interpret that as being biased against fatness (ie. being fat is not beautiful or being fat is not healthy). Similar to how fat positive generally glamorizes fatness rather than assign positive personality traits to fat people.
Anti-fat person bias would be better term for what they and you are describing IMO.
Being obese will generally impact your health quite immediately, but I was more talking about people who are simply overweight ... which still has some impact, but in the bigger picture it's just not that big a deal.
But I was talking about the "treatment of obesity" ... to treat your obesity he needs to tell you (how) to lose weight, there is no alternative.
It might be more humane to accept the patient is a fat fuck who is never going to help himself in that regard until things get a whole lot worse and treat symptoms in the mean time and simply not talk about the real problem, but that will not help with the treatment of the actual obesity itself.
I "blame" fat people for being fat for the same reason I blame criminals for being criminals ... not because I don't recognize hereditary and environmental aspects, but because the concept of personal responsibility is rather important to a functioning society.
PS. if they don't feel self pithy, aren't fat enough to suffer health problems and don't care that I find it ugly then I don't really blame them ... it's just a lifestyle choice which doesn't really impact me.
"anti-fat stigma is so prevalent and a significant barrier to the treatment of obesity"
Being fat-positive would help with the treatment of obesity?
Government spending in the form of social safety nets and common (natural monopoly) infrastructure construction is vital ... everything else can be handled by taxation. Taxation is a dirty word in the modern world though, so debt it is the alternative ... and the advantage of debt is that it's mostly hidden from the voters, in the short term, so they are more likely to accept government waste/corruption.
Proven? Prove it ...
US has had a trade deficit going on 4 decades ... the US has never been the charitable one in this game.
Labour at zero cost is a scarce resource, that doesn't preclude jobs above subsistence cost being scarce too ...
Why would the bosses hand out Jetson's job to lots of different people working 5 hours for 2 days out of the week ... much more efficient to have someone there longer, less shift hand overs means less room for mistakes. Unless the law demands it, the jobs won't be spread out across the entire population.
Labour can't pull itself up by the bootstraps either, since natural resources ARE scarce ... there is no more land to homestead.
That depends if it's rgb or ycm, rgb has low max brightness/contrast (more grey than white) without active lighting ... but ycm might have trouble with viewing angles (it's hard to say no one has demonstrated one yet).
That said, they have a youtube clip showing a rgb display playing a pokemon cartoon and with the right lighting and content even rgb can look amazing ... but not good enough to displace black and white for text.
They also get richer despite the taxes ... which is unsustainable in a non growing economy.
Mobility is irrelevant, they are capitalists ... not the middle class engineers and entrepreneurs which a country really needs to sustain a standard of living. The ultra-rich have an extremely inflated sense of import, them leaving the country is not a brain drain. Them leaving and being allowed to take away profits on domestic capital to foreign countries year after year with negligible taxation ... that is the problem.
It's quite easy to structure taxation such that the only thing they can with them is their brains and some fixed assets which won't affect the current account balance year after year though ... at which point losing them becomes entirely irrelevant, hell it becomes a net benefit.
Not necessarily forms of taxation the WTO agrees with though ...
Except hind sight poisons the opinion in the eyes of the law and is thus rendered entirely irrelevant.