Utter nonsense. None of these types of operations are centralized enough for this to matter. Even if you go into an IBM run facility, your entire team will be spread to the four corners of the earth. Even if you work with people in the same building, those people will be nowhere near you.
Working in large corporate outfits like this is still effectively telecommuting even if you have to drive into one of their offices.
Oddly enough, I've managed to haul ass better on American highways with a performance sedan then I could manage in Germany on the Autobahn. Get on a nice long stretch of road and you can be breaking personal speed records without even realizing it.
Even in town, it's very helpful to have "excess" power getting in and out of traffic and avoiding dangerous situations.
A cabal of IT geeks should understand the problems inherent in under-spec'ing your equipment. Peak use requirements may be infrequent but are often very brutal.
Companies that move things around or have fleets of cars, LOVE efficiency. They don't want to spend any more money moving something from point A to point B than they have to.
They are not government beaurocrats that get brownie points for using all of their budget or increasing their fiefdom.
Tech moves forward, just not in Detroit usually. A proper gear head can walk through an auto show, point at the engines, and tell you how they have improved over time (or not).
This is only news because it's Detroit. Not news in Tokyo or Stuttgart.
Where is that space ship you came to planet Earth on?
NO ONE believes that kind of nonsense you are pushing. Indulging in expensive home improvements won't do squat for your home value. You will NEVER get that money back. So don't even go there and pretend you ever will.
You better personally enjoy what overpriced nonsense you put into your house because you aint getting that money back.
Having the most expensive house on the block is financial suicide if you view your house as an investment.
In some places, a fancier roof would get broken just as quickly. The tiles serve a pretty simple, basic purpose and you don't really need anything more expensive unless you are trying to show off for your neighbors.
The money you blow on junk like that is lost opportunity cost. It's money you can't spend on something else.
> With the lower infant mortality why don't we hear THINK OF THE CHILDREN when public healthcare comes up?
That mortality occurs within the American public system. Those are the people that are already taking advantage of what American social welfare programs have to offer. That includes our "single payer" system such as it is.
Americans have more bankruptcies in general. That's a reflection of American consumerism. It has much less to do with any inability to pay.
If Canadian prices are only half, they're really not coming out ahead. American prices are greatly exaggerated by a liberal media hell bent on pushing socialism down your throat.
> You're one of those types who would rather die in a hospital ER waiting room than receive healthcare funded by the government like those commies in Canada, arent you?
Thanks to unbridled capitalism we have more hospital capacity than we know what to do with. Thanks to a Republican president, all of those ERs have to treat me regardless of my ability to pay.
It's the Canadians that will die waiting in line.
If you had to depend on what the US government wants to pay, every hospital in your area would close.
Trump won for one single reason. He played the game like he actually understood the rules. He focused on likely swing states that Hillary ignored (and even denigrated).
The stupid Cheeto actually knew what he was doing.
Also, Clinton is as much of an amateur in a contested election as Trump is. In general the Democrats drank too much of their own Kool-aid and the ensuing arrogance prevented them from doing what really needed done.
As a chronic cancer patient, the liberal agenda is the LAST thing I want. The last thing I want is the private market turned into something like Medicaid, Medicare, or the VA.
Social engineering? That's the job of the political parties.
If they are being outdone by 3rd party spoilers, then they need to close up shop and go home.
Who needs "social engineering" when deplorables have hated Hillary for decades? This is the real problem that remains completely unacknowledged by liberals.
Now you're just trying to "out idiot" each other. It's embarrassing.
It's still a conspiracy theory. It is so not because it didn't happen but because it's moot. Voters already have a pretty good idea of which way they lean well before an election. While I can't be quite so sure of this for France, I can certainly be sure of it in the US where the parties in question had a long established history.
Having everyone's opinions on display also doesn't hurt.
Losers need this hacking narrative to explain their failures. Not that it's ultimately productive.
Actually you can. The use of power tools doesn't eliminate the possibility of precision. Anyone that's been forcibly subjected to shop class can attest to this.
It's pretty easy to isolate different requirements for different class of operators.
Not that I buy for a minute that any part of a Trump administration gives a sh*t about "the little guy".
That's pretty much the definition of ethics in the real world. That's certainly the ultimate definition of corporate ethics.
You can not expect people to not be greedy. Therefore you can't expect them to be immune to temptation and corruption. You have to police people. They won't police themselves.
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Utter nonsense. None of these types of operations are centralized enough for this to matter. Even if you go into an IBM run facility, your entire team will be spread to the four corners of the earth. Even if you work with people in the same building, those people will be nowhere near you.
Working in large corporate outfits like this is still effectively telecommuting even if you have to drive into one of their offices.
Oddly enough, I've managed to haul ass better on American highways with a performance sedan then I could manage in Germany on the Autobahn. Get on a nice long stretch of road and you can be breaking personal speed records without even realizing it.
Even in town, it's very helpful to have "excess" power getting in and out of traffic and avoiding dangerous situations.
A cabal of IT geeks should understand the problems inherent in under-spec'ing your equipment. Peak use requirements may be infrequent but are often very brutal.
I think the wife would object to the handling of a mini-van more than I would. She doesn't want to drive it any more than I do.
Companies that move things around or have fleets of cars, LOVE efficiency. They don't want to spend any more money moving something from point A to point B than they have to.
They are not government beaurocrats that get brownie points for using all of their budget or increasing their fiefdom.
> Heaven forbid people get to do one or two things that are not "for the greater good" in life.
Drive a crap car and you are quite literally putting your life at risk every day you drive it.
Tech moves forward, just not in Detroit usually. A proper gear head can walk through an auto show, point at the engines, and tell you how they have improved over time (or not).
This is only news because it's Detroit. Not news in Tokyo or Stuttgart.
That's just nonsense intended to weasel out of basic legal responsibilities.
Healthcare? But Obamacare was supposed to enable you to buy your own on the open market like you could in civilized non-blue states before.
Grabbing pussy was fine when the lech was a Democrat.
_...as were a large number of other things.
Where is that space ship you came to planet Earth on?
NO ONE believes that kind of nonsense you are pushing. Indulging in expensive home improvements won't do squat for your home value. You will NEVER get that money back. So don't even go there and pretend you ever will.
You better personally enjoy what overpriced nonsense you put into your house because you aint getting that money back.
Having the most expensive house on the block is financial suicide if you view your house as an investment.
In some places, a fancier roof would get broken just as quickly. The tiles serve a pretty simple, basic purpose and you don't really need anything more expensive unless you are trying to show off for your neighbors.
The money you blow on junk like that is lost opportunity cost. It's money you can't spend on something else.
> With the lower infant mortality why don't we hear THINK OF THE CHILDREN when public healthcare comes up?
That mortality occurs within the American public system. Those are the people that are already taking advantage of what American social welfare programs have to offer. That includes our "single payer" system such as it is.
Americans have more bankruptcies in general. That's a reflection of American consumerism. It has much less to do with any inability to pay.
If Canadian prices are only half, they're really not coming out ahead. American prices are greatly exaggerated by a liberal media hell bent on pushing socialism down your throat.
> You're one of those types who would rather die in a hospital ER waiting room than receive healthcare funded by the government like those commies in Canada, arent you?
Thanks to unbridled capitalism we have more hospital capacity than we know what to do with. Thanks to a Republican president, all of those ERs have to treat me regardless of my ability to pay.
It's the Canadians that will die waiting in line.
If you had to depend on what the US government wants to pay, every hospital in your area would close.
Time to lay off the liberal media narrative.
Trump won for one single reason. He played the game like he actually understood the rules. He focused on likely swing states that Hillary ignored (and even denigrated).
The stupid Cheeto actually knew what he was doing.
Also, Clinton is as much of an amateur in a contested election as Trump is. In general the Democrats drank too much of their own Kool-aid and the ensuing arrogance prevented them from doing what really needed done.
> Why then do so many guys get so upset when I need to take a piss and head into the men's room?
You can't pass? If you can't go into the ladies room without inspiring a lot of screaming, then perhaps you should re-evaluate your life choices.
The fact that you don't give a f*ck if you frighten old ladies is not really anything redeeming.
As a chronic cancer patient, the liberal agenda is the LAST thing I want. The last thing I want is the private market turned into something like Medicaid, Medicare, or the VA.
Social engineering? That's the job of the political parties.
If they are being outdone by 3rd party spoilers, then they need to close up shop and go home.
Who needs "social engineering" when deplorables have hated Hillary for decades? This is the real problem that remains completely unacknowledged by liberals.
Now you're just trying to "out idiot" each other. It's embarrassing.
It's still a conspiracy theory. It is so not because it didn't happen but because it's moot. Voters already have a pretty good idea of which way they lean well before an election. While I can't be quite so sure of this for France, I can certainly be sure of it in the US where the parties in question had a long established history.
Having everyone's opinions on display also doesn't hurt.
Losers need this hacking narrative to explain their failures. Not that it's ultimately productive.
Pirates have always drawn a bright red line when it comes to commercial exploitation of wares.
An imaginary damage raises to the level of a real and obvious one at that point.
> If you use a gun rightly, people die.
If you use a gun rightly, a criminal dies. You remove a mortal threat to self and others. It's a bit like wiping out a disease or cancer.
Alternately, you can become competent at using that gun or able to feed your family.
It's Copyright. You don't have to show any and never have. That's just sauce for the goose here.
Actually you can. The use of power tools doesn't eliminate the possibility of precision. Anyone that's been forcibly subjected to shop class can attest to this.
It's pretty easy to isolate different requirements for different class of operators.
Not that I buy for a minute that any part of a Trump administration gives a sh*t about "the little guy".
If the propaganda is true, then this seems like a "problem" that will sort itself out. No need for mindless hysterics.
That said, I'm still waiting for this stuff to be viable on the consumer level. I would love to "believe", but blind faith left me a long time ago.
That's pretty much the definition of ethics in the real world. That's certainly the ultimate definition of corporate ethics.
You can not expect people to not be greedy. Therefore you can't expect them to be immune to temptation and corruption. You have to police people. They won't police themselves.