And as long as it's better paid to administrate than to actually do something productive
Actually among themselves they say that they "create wealth". Which I personally believe is an exquisite way to describe churning wealth "for a percentage" for their big scores while leeching another percentage from the forced 401K contributions of the productive types as their "bread and butter".
That latter carries them through the periods when their excesses have become...excessive.
...barring truly equitable currency exchange rates globally, it is impossible for me to say whether an investment made in technology education won't be wasted when it results in wholesale layoffs of a generation or two due to those technology workers being undercut on costs.
America has been there, done that. All Hail Carly Fiorina!
Sounds like the American Northwest...if you can remember what it looked like in the '70s and '80s, you prefer lots of altitude when you fly over so that you can't see the mountainsides which have been swept entirely clean or where variety has been replaced by monoculture.
lollll...yes, avoiding blame for the wholesale destruction of the planet and India and China in particular is important to me. I realize that it is secondary to profits in your opinion, but still when you think of the world's top three polluters one would think that you would consider 1) trade as it is today did not exist prior to actions by Clinton and Bush, 2) so those countries did not have the massive point-source pollution emitters they have now, 3) the U.S. could have and should have insisted on environmental responsibility when writing those trade treaties, and 4) the U.S. and other "western" countries financed or built much of the industry that is now emitting toxins in those lesser-developed countries without incorporating pollution control.
That is, your argument that they - the peoples of those lands - "chose" to kill themselves is inaccurate; Corporate America and other Western multinationals "chose" to kill them as that is more profitable than controlling pollution and because they could as their own governments do not value their citizens enough (because they are communistic or because of thousands of years of a "caste" system that views some humans as...disposable) to defend their quality and length of life.
If you are concerned for no other reason, you should be concerned about giving such a wonderful strawman argument to the PRC for use in motivating their people should they decide they must have more land upon which to grow food.
Luo Wenxi, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said earlier this month that one sixth of China's farmland is polluted by heavy metals and only 11 percent of local arable land in Guangdong Province is heavy metal free.
Investigations done six years ago found that 20 million hectares of land in China, one fifth of the country's total arable land, had been polluted by heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, chromium and lead.
Due to heavy metal pollution, the annual grain production of arable land around the country is down by 10 million tons, while 12 million tons of grain have been polluted with heavy metals. Heavy metals can cause chronic diseases.
Yes, if it turns out the PRC needs more...lebensraum...they'll have quite the handy villains. Like I said, I do hope that the peoples of India and China remember that it was only our 1% - represented exclusively by the Republicans (with a handful of neoliberal Democrats thrown in for spice) - who truly bear responsibility.
Some parts just choose to accept a lower threshold of public health and greater pollution than the developed world does.
The driver for that, of course, is that the CEOs and the shareholders of the (too often nominally American) multinational corporations that produce in and/or source from those "lesser developed" nations don't want to give up the income represented by the expense of pollution controls sufficient to avoid the eventual wholesale slaughter of the indigenous populations...the same theory of operation as American corporations have ever employed in all third-world nations.
Your argument seems to be that inflicting death for profit is justifiable - which I would note is precisely the argument of the mob of old and the gangs of America today.
The inevitable question, of course, is when the bill for poisoning their lands comes due will the peoples of nations like India and China conclude that all of America is their enemy as those riled by Big Oil's manipulations in the Middle East did, or will they restrict their attacks to Corporate America's owner/operators? I.e., will they go after "the 99%", or just "the 1%" in America - the people who truly "profited" through inflicting lasting and even permanent harm upon their nations and their futures? (Quite possibly all the way down to a chromosomal level.)
For it is Corporate America - at the insistent urging of Wall Street, of course - that rushed to offshore America's industry to/source from their lands - lands where they could emit staggering tonnages of toxins with impunity - in order to evade the crimp that America's environmental regulations put into their profits...I doubt not that the peoples of those nations already understand that.
Just like it's a simple matter to prevent drug smuggling? The US has done the tariff war thing before. It doesn't work, especially with all the perks and benefits society apparently wants. If you want gold-plated environmental regulations (as you apparently do), then the industries need to go somewhere else or the regulations need to be selectively enforced.
Drug smuggling? lollll...now rather than accept reality you attempt to equate the smuggling of items with an enormous value-to-size ratio to massive ships full of cargo containers?
And "the regulations need to be selectively enforced"? That is what puts the "inequitable" in "free trade"; environmental regulations are selectively enforced rather than being uniform across all of our trading partners. When everybody faces the same costs of environmental responsibility, it is a level playing field. Our manufacturers and energy generators/consumers don't like that, so they alternate between fleeing to nations where they can safely pollute America from a distance and attempts to destroy America's environmental laws and regulations.
The target of the blame remains the same no matter who actually commits the harm. That tells me that you have a deeply ingrained bias which prevents you from understanding this subject.
It would have been a simple matter to shape free trade to mandate environmental controls equal to or better than our own. It is, after all, an expense incurred primarily during factory/power plant design and construction. Given the fact that trade (the treaties which enabled it, to be precise) was not shaped to include environmental responsibility as a prerequisite and given how much U.S. money went and is going into constructing massive pollution sources in China and India and given how much U.S. industry immediately relocated to those nations now sourcing so much of the planetary toxic loading in large part as a means of increasing their profits by evading U.S. environmental laws, of course I correctly point the finger at those responsible.
I wouldn't leave a handgun out where my child could access it and say "Not my fault!" if and when the horrific happened, either.
The movie title is commonly known as "sarcasm" in America - intended to point out and support the rest of my post; to whit, the 1950s era pollution (x 10) that was once a killer in the "developed world" is now sourced from China and India - but still blows over here.
The proper term here is "comparable advantage".
Guess if you call a combination of criminally negligent or absent environmental laws and rigging your currency exchange rate to ensure an incomparable advantage equitable, you might be right. Or you might be a GE manager or otherwise work for the communists in the PRC....hard to say; but I am again forced to note that you're not familiar with American sarcasm which I personally found to be common in Asia.
And there is still too much pollution originating from America...we're partly responsible for the biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases. Mostly responsible, if you include the fact that our multinational corporations are jacking their profits and management salaries up by taking advantage of the aforementioned environmental criminal negligence in India and China.
Which will, of course, affect America. It is hilarious, in a way: Those "scary" Eastern nations are indeed attacking us, but the operators of the weapons - in the final analysis - are Americans.
Air pollution is much better in the developed world than it was in the 50s, all paid for by the people who burn fossil fuels.
I.e., the pollution emitters used inequitable free trade to relocate to China and India. And we can't even say "Well, at least it isn't here!" 'cuz apparently the guy who was supposed to tell the wind to stop blowing got pink-slipped in the rush to offshore jobs.
They'll have to open all the mail in Britain to ensure that they aren't "distributing content that they don't own the copyright to". Convenient excuse, anyway; seems almost inevitable.
All I want are systems with interchangeable fan/air inlet filters on the outside of the case that do not require a tool to remove and replace - let alone a power cycle. Is that so much to ask?
It's funny...I have cases where that sort of filter exists for a bottom-mounted power supply, but the case's own fans? Have to take 'em apart to properly clean the filters. And please don't say "Just lug a vacuum cleaner around." - they rarely do a good job if they actually are "luggable"; they (in a rare phrase) don't suck hard enough.
It is my experience that dirt and heat are the single greatest enemies of any electronic device, and will be as long as superconductivity without cooling is infeasible.
Wouldn't bet on the brown; it would depend upon how deep it is. I remember the pool at the Paradise Hotel in Udorn was variously brown, green, and blue...as was the stuff on the bottom of the pool. And the surface water - particularly in the klongs - can be even more...interesting.
This is why governments and most 3rd-generation corporations (ie two or more CEOs since the founder) can't write mobile apps. Too many people with decision rights that just can't be bothered to actually understand the technology.
And why the patent court instead of innovation is now used both to drive profits for the corporation and block external innovation that might obsolete it.
I would, however, dispute the assertion that the transformation doesn't occur until the 3rd gen.
A generation or two of MBAs trying to outsource/offshore anything they don't understand even as Hollywood was bombarding American youth with "nerd" movie after "nerd" movie. I.e. our kids have got peer pressure when they're young saying "Don't be a nerd!" backed up by their high school guidance counselor saying "Well, pay and job security in those fields is declining..." - all backed up by real-world knowledge of this, that, or the other kid's parent who was in science/engineering/technology and go laid off for their investment in those "difficult" university courses....
It isn't that our kids are dumb; they're smart enough to see when a game is rigged against..."nerds".
"Corporate America's" pattern of behavior suggests to me that a suit in an executive suite somewhere will order a bunch of this material to be put in the water discharges of all the nuke facilities he can affect to contain "minor problems", and then lay all maintenance crews off except one - which will be tasked with doing what they can to prevent a major catastrophe at all of the facilities on a rotating basis.
Thereby generating "shareholder value" by reducing labor costs and increasing the possibility of a major nuclear catastrophe.
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And as long as it's better paid to administrate than to actually do something productive
Actually among themselves they say that they "create wealth". Which I personally believe is an exquisite way to describe churning wealth "for a percentage" for their big scores while leeching another percentage from the forced 401K contributions of the productive types as their "bread and butter".
That latter carries them through the periods when their excesses have become...excessive.
...barring truly equitable currency exchange rates globally, it is impossible for me to say whether an investment made in technology education won't be wasted when it results in wholesale layoffs of a generation or two due to those technology workers being undercut on costs.
America has been there, done that. All Hail Carly Fiorina!
Sounds like the American Northwest...if you can remember what it looked like in the '70s and '80s, you prefer lots of altitude when you fly over so that you can't see the mountainsides which have been swept entirely clean or where variety has been replaced by monoculture.
That is, your argument that they - the peoples of those lands - "chose" to kill themselves is inaccurate; Corporate America and other Western multinationals "chose" to kill them as that is more profitable than controlling pollution and because they could as their own governments do not value their citizens enough (because they are communistic or because of thousands of years of a "caste" system that views some humans as...disposable) to defend their quality and length of life.
If you are concerned for no other reason, you should be concerned about giving such a wonderful strawman argument to the PRC for use in motivating their people should they decide they must have more land upon which to grow food.
They'll need it, you know; to quote the Beijing Review:
Luo Wenxi, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said earlier this month that one sixth of China's farmland is polluted by heavy metals and only 11 percent of local arable land in Guangdong Province is heavy metal free.
Investigations done six years ago found that 20 million hectares of land in China, one fifth of the country's total arable land, had been polluted by heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, chromium and lead.
Due to heavy metal pollution, the annual grain production of arable land around the country is down by 10 million tons, while 12 million tons of grain have been polluted with heavy metals. Heavy metals can cause chronic diseases.
Yes, if it turns out the PRC needs more...lebensraum...they'll have quite the handy villains. Like I said, I do hope that the peoples of India and China remember that it was only our 1% - represented exclusively by the Republicans (with a handful of neoliberal Democrats thrown in for spice) - who truly bear responsibility.
Some parts just choose to accept a lower threshold of public health and greater pollution than the developed world does.
The driver for that, of course, is that the CEOs and the shareholders of the (too often nominally American) multinational corporations that produce in and/or source from those "lesser developed" nations don't want to give up the income represented by the expense of pollution controls sufficient to avoid the eventual wholesale slaughter of the indigenous populations...the same theory of operation as American corporations have ever employed in all third-world nations.
Your argument seems to be that inflicting death for profit is justifiable - which I would note is precisely the argument of the mob of old and the gangs of America today.
The inevitable question, of course, is when the bill for poisoning their lands comes due will the peoples of nations like India and China conclude that all of America is their enemy as those riled by Big Oil's manipulations in the Middle East did, or will they restrict their attacks to Corporate America's owner/operators? I.e., will they go after "the 99%", or just "the 1%" in America - the people who truly "profited" through inflicting lasting and even permanent harm upon their nations and their futures? (Quite possibly all the way down to a chromosomal level.)
For it is Corporate America - at the insistent urging of Wall Street, of course - that rushed to offshore America's industry to/source from their lands - lands where they could emit staggering tonnages of toxins with impunity - in order to evade the crimp that America's environmental regulations put into their profits...I doubt not that the peoples of those nations already understand that.
Just like it's a simple matter to prevent drug smuggling? The US has done the tariff war thing before. It doesn't work, especially with all the perks and benefits society apparently wants. If you want gold-plated environmental regulations (as you apparently do), then the industries need to go somewhere else or the regulations need to be selectively enforced.
Drug smuggling? lollll...now rather than accept reality you attempt to equate the smuggling of items with an enormous value-to-size ratio to massive ships full of cargo containers?
And "the regulations need to be selectively enforced"? That is what puts the "inequitable" in "free trade"; environmental regulations are selectively enforced rather than being uniform across all of our trading partners. When everybody faces the same costs of environmental responsibility, it is a level playing field. Our manufacturers and energy generators/consumers don't like that, so they alternate between fleeing to nations where they can safely pollute America from a distance and attempts to destroy America's environmental laws and regulations.
The target of the blame remains the same no matter who actually commits the harm. That tells me that you have a deeply ingrained bias which prevents you from understanding this subject.
It would have been a simple matter to shape free trade to mandate environmental controls equal to or better than our own. It is, after all, an expense incurred primarily during factory/power plant design and construction. Given the fact that trade (the treaties which enabled it, to be precise) was not shaped to include environmental responsibility as a prerequisite and given how much U.S. money went and is going into constructing massive pollution sources in China and India and given how much U.S. industry immediately relocated to those nations now sourcing so much of the planetary toxic loading in large part as a means of increasing their profits by evading U.S. environmental laws, of course I correctly point the finger at those responsible.
I wouldn't leave a handgun out where my child could access it and say "Not my fault!" if and when the horrific happened, either.
The proper term here is "comparable advantage".
Guess if you call a combination of criminally negligent or absent environmental laws and rigging your currency exchange rate to ensure an incomparable advantage equitable, you might be right. Or you might be a GE manager or otherwise work for the communists in the PRC....hard to say; but I am again forced to note that you're not familiar with American sarcasm which I personally found to be common in Asia.
And there is still too much pollution originating from America...we're partly responsible for the biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases. Mostly responsible, if you include the fact that our multinational corporations are jacking their profits and management salaries up by taking advantage of the aforementioned environmental criminal negligence in India and China.
Which will, of course, affect America. It is hilarious, in a way: Those "scary" Eastern nations are indeed attacking us, but the operators of the weapons - in the final analysis - are Americans.
Air pollution is much better in the developed world than it was in the 50s, all paid for by the people who burn fossil fuels.
I.e., the pollution emitters used inequitable free trade to relocate to China and India. And we can't even say "Well, at least it isn't here!" 'cuz apparently the guy who was supposed to tell the wind to stop blowing got pink-slipped in the rush to offshore jobs.
Air Pollution Is Much Better in the Developed World Than It Was in the 50s", the movie.
They'll have to open all the mail in Britain to ensure that they aren't "distributing content that they don't own the copyright to". Convenient excuse, anyway; seems almost inevitable.
All I want are systems with interchangeable fan/air inlet filters on the outside of the case that do not require a tool to remove and replace - let alone a power cycle. Is that so much to ask?
It's funny...I have cases where that sort of filter exists for a bottom-mounted power supply, but the case's own fans? Have to take 'em apart to properly clean the filters. And please don't say "Just lug a vacuum cleaner around." - they rarely do a good job if they actually are "luggable"; they (in a rare phrase) don't suck hard enough.
It is my experience that dirt and heat are the single greatest enemies of any electronic device, and will be as long as superconductivity without cooling is infeasible.
Guess it depends on what is upstream of ya.
You might be right; a better question might have been "So what is the next President going to spend the money on with an 'Executive Order'?"
Wouldn't bet on the brown; it would depend upon how deep it is. I remember the pool at the Paradise Hotel in Udorn was variously brown, green, and blue...as was the stuff on the bottom of the pool. And the surface water - particularly in the klongs - can be even more...interesting.
Or are we going to offshore it?
Hence Dawn Stover's proactive piece for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists..
And why the patent court instead of innovation is now used both to drive profits for the corporation and block external innovation that might obsolete it.
I would, however, dispute the assertion that the transformation doesn't occur until the 3rd gen.
Wow...am I glad I only drank the pretty blue stuff from under the sink.
...after you get your dragon.
...zipping by to see if we've eliminated ourselves yet.
...'cuz I hate to think somebody having to rush a long-lost prequel to the Bible into print.
...given that they don't seem to have any problem convincing my/your/our members of Congress to represent them instead of us?
A generation or two of MBAs trying to outsource/offshore anything they don't understand even as Hollywood was bombarding American youth with "nerd" movie after "nerd" movie. I.e. our kids have got peer pressure when they're young saying "Don't be a nerd!" backed up by their high school guidance counselor saying "Well, pay and job security in those fields is declining..." - all backed up by real-world knowledge of this, that, or the other kid's parent who was in science/engineering/technology and go laid off for their investment in those "difficult" university courses....
It isn't that our kids are dumb; they're smart enough to see when a game is rigged against..."nerds".
Why does it say "C4 - Hand Dry Only"?
"Corporate America's" pattern of behavior suggests to me that a suit in an executive suite somewhere will order a bunch of this material to be put in the water discharges of all the nuke facilities he can affect to contain "minor problems", and then lay all maintenance crews off except one - which will be tasked with doing what they can to prevent a major catastrophe at all of the facilities on a rotating basis.
Thereby generating "shareholder value" by reducing labor costs and increasing the possibility of a major nuclear catastrophe.