How beautiful. Then we can finally get all those hydrogen atoms accounted for.
You appear to be assuming that a group of lawyers will not file a class action on the behalf of all hydrogen atoms everywhere (and any when) in order to protect their right to privacy.
But no, even worse: We're destined to entwine the legal system throughout every facet of our lives until we reach stasis between wanting to act and fearing to act and then entropy will take over and we'll just...stop.
Far cheaper to pwn the government in toto, as you'll be able to attack at points of intersection and consolidation rather than across thousands of servers spread throughout hundreds of buildings. And way cheaper to offshore the whole kit and kaboodle once the work of migrating to "the cloud" is done.
Yup...government is being run like a business: Zilch in the way of advantages to the American people or the nation other than cost.
According to British journalist Simon Jenkins 'words on paper can be made secure, electronic archives not.'"
That's bogus...anything can be made secure - except people.
But you can make people a lot more secure if you try to avoid screwing this, that, or the other people to help not your nation but a few corporation and/or individuals who are interested in gaining an advantage in trade in the region or access to or a monopoly of the region's resources.
Keeping secrets requires idealism; the most potent solvent for idealism is corruption.
Apple wins because Apple's management is focused on driving Apple forward into the future with the expectation of profiting thereby. Most of the rest of America's corporations, however, are lead by those focused upon enriching themselves in the most expedient manner possible - which is typically through cost-cutting and offshoring. I.e., Apple builds, while the rest? They destroy. I should note that the former is harder than the latter, and requires far more competence and intelligence.
I reckon Apple will be around longer than them...easy to outlive something that is eating itself.
Time for the world to make a decision: Are the peoples of the world going to control both their presents and their futures, or are they going to cede that power to a literal handful of corporate owner/operators who care nothing about them?
Sounds like the winner is predestined to source support from India, Bangladesh, or the People's Republic of China, doesn't it? Or maybe from an Microsoft-centric equivalent of "SEK, a state-run animation studio of North Korea" as per the/. story on the Simpsons?
There are two reasons why Nokia won’t be abandoning Symbian anytime soon.
Firstly, Symbian is tightly integrated with Nokia’s variant management process. Nokia is the only OEM that has mastered variant management, i.e. being able to generate 100s of variants (SKUs) at the press of a button. That’s how Nokia can deliver 100s of customised smartphones to operators and retailers around the world. This variant management process is ‘hardcoded’ to Symbian, which means that replacing Symbian would seriously compromise Nokia’s ability to cater to operator requirements around the world and it would seriously hurt its market share.
Secondly, Nokia’s economies of scale rely on in-house control of core components, and the operating systems is one of them. If Nokia were to license Windows Phone it would reduce its differentiation to industrial design and Ovi alone. In the case of Android, Nokia would have to branch Android (and to sustain the cost of Android development), port Qt on Android which means another 12+ months for a stable implementation. While this remains a long-term possibility, it is still a gamble when Nokia’s priority should be to focus on killer devices and not a killer OS. Qualcomm’s BREW MP is another candidate but only when Qualcomm has a good developer platform story and that means waiting for BREW MP to launch a web-based platform akin to RIM’s WebWorks.
Symbian may no longer be a symbiotic system, but will live within Nokia for many years to come as the workhorse under the hood of Nokia smartphones.
Now, after getting a pittance for all the rare earth sold for the past few decades, China finally wakes up and realize that having a rare earth reserve is actually IMPORTANT in the long term. And surprise(!), they don't to continue to sell on the cheap. So they are now trying to consolidate the rare earth mining industry (which takes time), and in the meanwhile, use administrative means to limit the export (i.e. limit their losses).
I'm sure that your use of the world "finally" is unintentional. China, on the other hand, rarely does anything unintentionally:
Entering the 21st century, the pace of industrial and economic globalization is speeding up. As China enters the WTO, the Chinese government has begun the implementation of its policy to develop its western regions. Located in western China, Baotou is famous for its rich rare earth resources, thus being named "The Mother Lode of Rare Earth". In 1992, Chinese President Deng Xiaoping pointed out, "There is oil in the Middle East; there is rare earth in China...."
Given the fact that the OPEC model of monopolistic control of resources was firmly established by 1992, I do not believe that Xiaoping - and China - had any intention other than gaining a monopoly, or they would have compared rare earths to dà biàn rather than oil.
Uh, did this come from their "It really, truly is news!" side, or from their "It is just opinion." side? I think I better wait for independent verification.
Who hates the PRC? If America were to offer me the world on a silver platter, I'd take it, too; the PRC is just doing what nations do. Now those Americans who are lining up to give everything America has away? Those Americans who are sacrificing the future of the American people and our country to make a fast buck today?
Them I don't like.
The truly infuriating thing is that those particular Americans - Corporate America's owners and operators - are "the right", and our right claims "patriotism" as one of their primary characteristics. Judging by their actions and their negative consequences upon America and the American people, I am forced to conclude that there is an inverse relationship between their patriotism and profit potential.
What a waste...to successfully revolt from England, only to become a rerun of "Great" Britain, upon whose empire the sun once never sat. People should read the Wikipedia entry on Theories of New Imperialism to see if the part about Britain reminds them of anybody.
I don't like being in the position of having nothing left but the "hope" that the PRC will play nice with the rest of the world's people once they attain true global supremacy.
As in, you have the worm, so you created or spread it?
That "possession is proof of the crime" is an attribute of the legal system here, and it is getting ever cheaper to use it to your benefit: Where once you had to drop some serious cash buying coke to plant on your targets, now you just link them to an autodownloader that drops some child porn on their computer(s). You don't even have to run the risk of linking yourself to the incident by ratting 'em out...some eager-beaver IT type or an automated sentry program will usually do it for you.
The possibilities in a state such as Iran which has even more "Thou shalt nots!!!" than we do (at this time) and a legal system that is even more "conservative" than ours is (at this time) are...staggering.
That obsessive hatred of American labor, by the way, is another weakness with which you can manipulate America's right. Why else would mighty AINO (American in name, only) Rupert Murdoch's organization be running stings on the parking lots of Detroit's automobile manufacturers? lolll...kind of trivial pursuit for a national - no, an international - news organization, unless you have additional goals that benefit from keeping the obsessive hatred of "Business-with-a-capital-B" for American labor primed.
It rather adds to the argument that America's automobile manufacturers should relocate that last of America's easily-convertible heavy industry offshore, don't you think?
I am having difficulty locating the historical records of any successful (let alone dominant) sports teams, businesses, or nations whose philosophy was "Que sera, sera.". Assuming the best will yield you this
Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles.
Chinese customs officials are halting shipments to Japan of so-called rare earth elements, preventing them from being loading aboard ships at Chinese ports, industry officials said on Thursday.
which is hardly a good thing when the opposing business has leadership that is not blinded by greed and so thinks far longer term than your business leaders do:
Amid such elemental abundance, your correspondent could not help pondering, as he turned for home, the recent moves by the Chinese to restrict their exports of rare-earth elements--scandium, yttrium and lanthanum, plus the 14 so-called lanthanides. Today, China supplies 97% of the world's demand for rare-earth metals, thanks to a far-sighted government policy going back to the 1960s that envisaged the rare earths as "the oil of the twenty-first century".
Again, America is cursed with individuals who think that their greed is of paramount importance and if they should endanger America in satiating that greed, then that's not their problem. The essential characteristic of America's right - of America's Republicans - is they feel that they are entitled to accumulate more wealth faster now without any constraints or guidelines whatsoever, and somebody else can worry about tomorrow.
To repeat myself, it is my judgment that China concluded that predominant characteristic of America's right was and is the greatest weakness that America has and so decades ago they set their hook (in Nixon!). Precisely as anticipated, ever since our right has been eagerly pursuing their twin goals of getting fabulously wealthy while hurting American "labor" (a.k.a. consumers and soldiers; hence, the shortsightedness).
We decline as China rises, which is an entirely predictable result when you gamble in the Orient using their cards...as anybody who has been in that area eventually learns.
In America, our capitalists insist that the individual's (i.e., their own) interests come before the state's and the people's, and anything that they do is justified by the profit motive even if it should hurt America. In China, capitalism is used as a motivational tool to benefit the state - with the constraint that hurting the state will result in your being gifted with some of that uniquely Chinese jewelry: A bullet behind the ear.
Put another way, decades of observation of America taught China that you cannot depend upon "enlightened self-interest" or "their responsibility to shareholders" to keep humans motivated by greed on the high road, but if you shoot those who drift off the road you've chosen, you don't need sidewalks.
Put another way, China weaponized trade and used American greed against us. And now such as IBM wish to complain about the consequences of their eagerness to be fabulously wealthy victims? Who built Lenovo? Little green men from Mars?
Put another way, IBM whining about China investing in making them obsolete after a decade or two of IBM trying to make technology jobs in America obsolete is not American capitalism, it is American greed - and all that we have left.
Put another way, America herds cats, while China trains a tiger.
The question, of course, is can a business remotely ascertain if other servers, disks, and magnetic and optical storage (perhaps because of legitimate efforts to protect and back up their data; perhaps for other reasons) hold some or all of their data and wipe them, too?
The entire theory of "the cloud" is that you surrender the manipulation - and often the storage - of your data and in turn rely upon trust and trust alone to guarantee the security of your data. The reality of the usefulness of "trust" as a business security measure, however, can be ascertained by pondering the sheer numbers of lawyers in the world.
With Google, these things are much less transparent.
Oh...so you don't think the results harvested from "Google would like to know your location." are going into a massive database linking every IP address - and, by extension, IPs in the same subnet - to a physical location?
I.e., Google's "Tony" knows where you work AND live...and he's got your data.
Isn't capitalism essentially getting everybody to agree that you can charge them more for a good or service than it cost you to make or provide? I.e., extortion by mutual consent? A form of extortion that runs rampant when corporations grow to be large and few enough to rig marketplaces and buy politicians - a commonplace scenario, today?
My point is that perspective is everything, and the definition of crime these days often encompasses only the viewpoint of those with the most money.
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How beautiful. Then we can finally get all those hydrogen atoms accounted for.
You appear to be assuming that a group of lawyers will not file a class action on the behalf of all hydrogen atoms everywhere (and any when) in order to protect their right to privacy.
But no, even worse: We're destined to entwine the legal system throughout every facet of our lives until we reach stasis between wanting to act and fearing to act and then entropy will take over and we'll just...stop.
Far cheaper to pwn the government in toto, as you'll be able to attack at points of intersection and consolidation rather than across thousands of servers spread throughout hundreds of buildings. And way cheaper to offshore the whole kit and kaboodle once the work of migrating to "the cloud" is done.
Yup...government is being run like a business: Zilch in the way of advantages to the American people or the nation other than cost.
They didn't learn squat from WikiLeaks.
According to British journalist Simon Jenkins 'words on paper can be made secure, electronic archives not.'"
That's bogus...anything can be made secure - except people.
But you can make people a lot more secure if you try to avoid screwing this, that, or the other people to help not your nation but a few corporation and/or individuals who are interested in gaining an advantage in trade in the region or access to or a monopoly of the region's resources.
Keeping secrets requires idealism; the most potent solvent for idealism is corruption.
Apple wins because Apple's management is focused on driving Apple forward into the future with the expectation of profiting thereby. Most of the rest of America's corporations, however, are lead by those focused upon enriching themselves in the most expedient manner possible - which is typically through cost-cutting and offshoring. I.e., Apple builds, while the rest? They destroy. I should note that the former is harder than the latter, and requires far more competence and intelligence. I reckon Apple will be around longer than them...easy to outlive something that is eating itself.
One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked "Fragile" or "This Side Up."
I'm sure that the package would be handled much more carefully if you stamped "Fragile" and "This Side Up" on it in Arabic.
Time for the world to make a decision: Are the peoples of the world going to control both their presents and their futures, or are they going to cede that power to a literal handful of corporate owner/operators who care nothing about them?
Sounds like the winner is predestined to source support from India, Bangladesh, or the People's Republic of China, doesn't it? Or maybe from an Microsoft-centric equivalent of "SEK, a state-run animation studio of North Korea" as per the /. story on the Simpsons?
There are two reasons why Nokia won’t be abandoning Symbian anytime soon.
Firstly, Symbian is tightly integrated with Nokia’s variant management process. Nokia is the only OEM that has mastered variant management, i.e. being able to generate 100s of variants (SKUs) at the press of a button. That’s how Nokia can deliver 100s of customised smartphones to operators and retailers around the world. This variant management process is ‘hardcoded’ to Symbian, which means that replacing Symbian would seriously compromise Nokia’s ability to cater to operator requirements around the world and it would seriously hurt its market share.
Secondly, Nokia’s economies of scale rely on in-house control of core components, and the operating systems is one of them. If Nokia were to license Windows Phone it would reduce its differentiation to industrial design and Ovi alone. In the case of Android, Nokia would have to branch Android (and to sustain the cost of Android development), port Qt on Android which means another 12+ months for a stable implementation. While this remains a long-term possibility, it is still a gamble when Nokia’s priority should be to focus on killer devices and not a killer OS. Qualcomm’s BREW MP is another candidate but only when Qualcomm has a good developer platform story and that means waiting for BREW MP to launch a web-based platform akin to RIM’s WebWorks.
Symbian may no longer be a symbiotic system, but will live within Nokia for many years to come as the workhorse under the hood of Nokia smartphones.
Even seventy year olds can maintain it with little effort. :)
Until the kudzu eats them, anyway.
So if you've paid the entry fee - and you're all paid up on the monthlies - they'll save your/city's/county's/state's/country's lives?
Second quote comes from http://www.rev.cn/en/int.htm - out of the horse's mouth, as it were. I previewed the html tag right out of existence.
Now, after getting a pittance for all the rare earth sold for the past few decades, China finally wakes up and realize that having a rare earth reserve is actually IMPORTANT in the long term. And surprise(!), they don't to continue to sell on the cheap. So they are now trying to consolidate the rare earth mining industry (which takes time), and in the meanwhile, use administrative means to limit the export (i.e. limit their losses).
I'm sure that your use of the world "finally" is unintentional. China, on the other hand, rarely does anything unintentionally:
Entering the 21st century, the pace of industrial and economic globalization is speeding up. As China enters the WTO, the Chinese government has begun the implementation of its policy to develop its western regions. Located in western China, Baotou is famous for its rich rare earth resources, thus being named "The Mother Lode of Rare Earth". In 1992, Chinese President Deng Xiaoping pointed out, "There is oil in the Middle East; there is rare earth in China...."
Given the fact that the OPEC model of monopolistic control of resources was firmly established by 1992, I do not believe that Xiaoping - and China - had any intention other than gaining a monopoly, or they would have compared rare earths to dà biàn rather than oil.
Uh, did this come from their "It really, truly is news!" side, or from their "It is just opinion." side? I think I better wait for independent verification.
a lot of people hate China for some reasons
Who hates the PRC? If America were to offer me the world on a silver platter, I'd take it, too; the PRC is just doing what nations do. Now those Americans who are lining up to give everything America has away? Those Americans who are sacrificing the future of the American people and our country to make a fast buck today?
Them I don't like.
The truly infuriating thing is that those particular Americans - Corporate America's owners and operators - are "the right", and our right claims "patriotism" as one of their primary characteristics. Judging by their actions and their negative consequences upon America and the American people, I am forced to conclude that there is an inverse relationship between their patriotism and profit potential.
What a waste...to successfully revolt from England, only to become a rerun of "Great" Britain, upon whose empire the sun once never sat. People should read the Wikipedia entry on Theories of New Imperialism to see if the part about Britain reminds them of anybody.
I don't like being in the position of having nothing left but the "hope" that the PRC will play nice with the rest of the world's people once they attain true global supremacy.
As in, you have the worm, so you created or spread it?
That "possession is proof of the crime" is an attribute of the legal system here, and it is getting ever cheaper to use it to your benefit: Where once you had to drop some serious cash buying coke to plant on your targets, now you just link them to an autodownloader that drops some child porn on their computer(s). You don't even have to run the risk of linking yourself to the incident by ratting 'em out...some eager-beaver IT type or an automated sentry program will usually do it for you.
The possibilities in a state such as Iran which has even more "Thou shalt nots!!!" than we do (at this time) and a legal system that is even more "conservative" than ours is (at this time) are...staggering.
That obsessive hatred of American labor, by the way, is another weakness with which you can manipulate America's right. Why else would mighty AINO (American in name, only) Rupert Murdoch's organization be running stings on the parking lots of Detroit's automobile manufacturers? lolll...kind of trivial pursuit for a national - no, an international - news organization, unless you have additional goals that benefit from keeping the obsessive hatred of "Business-with-a-capital-B" for American labor primed.
It rather adds to the argument that America's automobile manufacturers should relocate that last of America's easily-convertible heavy industry offshore, don't you think?
Why has everyone been so negative?
I am having difficulty locating the historical records of any successful (let alone dominant) sports teams, businesses, or nations whose philosophy was "Que sera, sera.". Assuming the best will yield you this
Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles.
Chinese customs officials are halting shipments to Japan of so-called rare earth elements, preventing them from being loading aboard ships at Chinese ports, industry officials said on Thursday.
which is hardly a good thing when the opposing business has leadership that is not blinded by greed and so thinks far longer term than your business leaders do:
Amid such elemental abundance, your correspondent could not help pondering, as he turned for home, the recent moves by the Chinese to restrict their exports of rare-earth elements--scandium, yttrium and lanthanum, plus the 14 so-called lanthanides. Today, China supplies 97% of the world's demand for rare-earth metals, thanks to a far-sighted government policy going back to the 1960s that envisaged the rare earths as "the oil of the twenty-first century".
Again, America is cursed with individuals who think that their greed is of paramount importance and if they should endanger America in satiating that greed, then that's not their problem. The essential characteristic of America's right - of America's Republicans - is they feel that they are entitled to accumulate more wealth faster now without any constraints or guidelines whatsoever, and somebody else can worry about tomorrow.
To repeat myself, it is my judgment that China concluded that predominant characteristic of America's right was and is the greatest weakness that America has and so decades ago they set their hook (in Nixon!). Precisely as anticipated, ever since our right has been eagerly pursuing their twin goals of getting fabulously wealthy while hurting American "labor" (a.k.a. consumers and soldiers; hence, the shortsightedness).
We decline as China rises, which is an entirely predictable result when you gamble in the Orient using their cards...as anybody who has been in that area eventually learns.
They'll call you about once a day, and you divide what they demand right now by your cost per kilowatt/hour.
Major Areas of Operation: Texas, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma
Oh.
Does calling somebody a name while they're whipping you change the fact that they're whipping you?
In America, our capitalists insist that the individual's (i.e., their own) interests come before the state's and the people's, and anything that they do is justified by the profit motive even if it should hurt America. In China, capitalism is used as a motivational tool to benefit the state - with the constraint that hurting the state will result in your being gifted with some of that uniquely Chinese jewelry: A bullet behind the ear.
Put another way, decades of observation of America taught China that you cannot depend upon "enlightened self-interest" or "their responsibility to shareholders" to keep humans motivated by greed on the high road, but if you shoot those who drift off the road you've chosen, you don't need sidewalks.
Put another way, China weaponized trade and used American greed against us. And now such as IBM wish to complain about the consequences of their eagerness to be fabulously wealthy victims? Who built Lenovo? Little green men from Mars?
Put another way, IBM whining about China investing in making them obsolete after a decade or two of IBM trying to make technology jobs in America obsolete is not American capitalism, it is American greed - and all that we have left.
Put another way, America herds cats, while China trains a tiger.
The question, of course, is can a business remotely ascertain if other servers, disks, and magnetic and optical storage (perhaps because of legitimate efforts to protect and back up their data; perhaps for other reasons) hold some or all of their data and wipe them, too?
The entire theory of "the cloud" is that you surrender the manipulation - and often the storage - of your data and in turn rely upon trust and trust alone to guarantee the security of your data. The reality of the usefulness of "trust" as a business security measure, however, can be ascertained by pondering the sheer numbers of lawyers in the world.
With Google, these things are much less transparent.
Oh...so you don't think the results harvested from "Google would like to know your location." are going into a massive database linking every IP address - and, by extension, IPs in the same subnet - to a physical location?
I.e., Google's "Tony" knows where you work AND live...and he's got your data.
Isn't capitalism essentially getting everybody to agree that you can charge them more for a good or service than it cost you to make or provide? I.e., extortion by mutual consent? A form of extortion that runs rampant when corporations grow to be large and few enough to rig marketplaces and buy politicians - a commonplace scenario, today?
My point is that perspective is everything, and the definition of crime these days often encompasses only the viewpoint of those with the most money.