Market IS individuals making individual choices to do something, to buy something, to produce something, not to buy something else, to short another thing. Market consists of individuals.
What USA has now is not a normal market, it's distorted by government's cheap money and regulations. When helicopter Ben comes out and says: interest rates will stay at 0 for 2 years, what he does is inflate another bubble (more of the US debt, it's T-bill bubble), but also he is allowing heavily leveraged banks to speculate freely, knowing that the money is free for 2 years. It's great for speculation, what good does anybody see from this except the bank executives and politicians?
Of-course a monopoly was being created, what else do you call it when POTUS provides you with half billion USD and promises to provide you with a market for your products via some regulations?
Blocking an American company from buying out American assets back from a German company. Blocking merger, that would produce economies of scale. Actually a pro-liberal administration going against unions (as AT&T has a union and T-mobile does not, so union would automatically get more members). If the deal falls through AT&T will be on a hook for about 7 Billion USD in penalties. Great idea for American government to do that to American investors (how many mutual funds own the AT&T stocks?)
Government likes to pretend it is there to break up monopolies, but in reality it creates monopolies every time it spends any money.
Solyndra LLC of Fremont California, a manufacturer of solar panel has filed for bankruptcy protection and has laid off its remaining 1,100 workers. Obama provided them with loan packages of 535 Million dollars, Obama personally visited that company over a year ago, promoting that worthless business that cannot generate profits even with government support. How many businesses could have used that money if dollars could be allocated privately where market needs them? Instead a monopoly was being created, but it failed even with government support. Figures.
I see. I have developed a set of systems over the past 2 years for retail integration and analysis, have it running in a 15 store chain with 65 suppliers connected to the system. I don't get much sleep at all.
Actually in her case she was doing a pretty good job at staying anonymous while posting her blog entries about her sex life, but then she published a book and some asshole 'journalists' tracked her down and gave out all her personal details.
She lost her job. She stopped writing her blogs, and let's be honest, the readers lost an interesting character to read about on the interwebs.
I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away⦠People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ⦠I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.
USA is suffering shortage of liberties, not shortage of engineers.
I am looking at Obama right now and I almost pity the... man.
If I could do 1 thing right now in his place, I would stop the wars and bring all troops home.
If I could do 2 things, the second thing would be this: stop printing and borrowing money.
If I could do 3 things, the third thing would be this: stop subsidizing businesses and people.
If I could do 4 things, the fourth thing would be this: stop regulating businesses, especially this concerns all new startups. If you are a startup, you should be able to get up and running in a couple of days. That should be the goal.
If I could do 5 things, the fifth thing would be tax reform and abolishment of income taxes, payroll taxes, all income related taxes.
The thing that would be 6th: stop the drug war, let all the people out of jails who are there for non-violent drug related offenses.
The 7th thing: allow competition in money.
The only real thing is of-course: follow the Constitution, your job is to protect the liberties, not create jobs, not provide capital, not regulate monopolies, not be the world's police.
Of-course USA lacks engineering jobs. It won't get them back until it is clear that it stopped trying to destroy the foundation upon which the jobs can be created.
So how many of software people end up starting their own companies and developing their own lines of products or doing projects (and end up hiring more people as well)?
Really, ask them who is interested first, before giving them your presentation, whatever it is, because those who are interested will bear through it, whatever it is. Those who are not - don't make them suffer and don't suffer them. Nothing useful will come out of this if you try to make a bunch of kids sit through this, where majority of them are bored to hell and don't listen to you and then they don't let those few who are interested to listen to you either.
As to how you do it - I am looking at the highly marked comments here: games and all that. Maybe you should talk about video games and then connect that to how things are done IRL, how there is a connection between things that are modeled in video games and reality.
Why not talk about a flight simulator game and then talk about a real airplane and talk about the human in the cockpit and how the inputs from the machines can be the same, whether the flight is actually real or is modeled on a computer? Get them interested, dazed and confused about reality - what's real, what's not? Bring Matrix into it (the movie), ask them how do they know things are "real" or modeled?
Then talk about how our senses perceive information whether it's "real" or not and that we can fake things with computers to look like they are real (photoshop?)
Talk about capturing real live data with computer sensors and storing it so that it can be played back later to make it seem like the events are taking place now.
That's what I would try probably.
Many people will say: simulate the inner workings of the CPU, the RAM, etc... OK, that's somewhat interesting maybe, but isn't it more interesting to understand WHY we use computers and WHY programs are useful, not necessarily HOW specific architectures are implemented, after all, Turing machine is just tape and some read/write heads and electrical motor, not a bunch of electrons flowing around in circuits. The implementation details are not really that important at this stage, the important thing is to understand WHY any of it matters at all.
- oh really? So they are defending YOU I suppose with all those Blackwater and Halliburton and oil contracts?
build roads for ME to drive on
- So they are giving you something to drive on, not the auto makers something to sell you and not politicians a way to rob you of your liberties with all the interstate BS?
to protect the environment I live in,
- they sure care about your environment, with 70million USD liability cap for deep water drilling and snorting coke off oven tops while fucking in beach side getaways.
The more assets I have, the more there is to protect
- all that American oil with all those Arab countries over it. Surely, the oil needs protection. Iraq, Libya... Syria and Iran next?
The man living under a bridge has far less to lose as the result of an invader than the man in a mansion.
- the man under the bridge tried starting a business, but was put out of business with anti-competitive regulations created to help the man, that just flew over the bridge in his chopper.
It costs money to do these things.
- only to the Chinese, so who cares. As to the future generations - why, you'll just print the debt away. Never mind the consequences of a run-away inflation. Just print the debt away.
You don't go to war and cut taxes.
- EXACTLY. How about you don't BORROW and go to war either? How about you RAISE TAXES before you go to war? Maybe nobody would go to war under those conditions?
Taxes really are the price we pay for civilized society.
- liberties is what gives men civilized society, not taxes.
Therefore the alternative to taxes is the end of civilized society.
SAP. It's much cheaper to hire an assassin than to pay 1.3 billion to an extortionist (and it's never the right policy to pay the Dane-Geld). I think extortion is never right and above certain level any response becomes justified. People dealt with extortionists very harshly when they could over the history of human race. I don't see many people crying over Oracle's CEO should something nasty happen to him.
Are you ready to back up those accusations that the papers are fake?
How about answering this question: what legal authority does the US DOJ have to enforce FOREIGN laws upon US citizens at all, let alone foreign laws where the foreign country doesn't even see a law being broken?
India doesn't have the problem with the wood not being finished there, the export was legal, the papers are in order. The reasons for this are political but as all political reasons there is something behind it about money.
No they don't. Their imports are legal, the Indian exporter is not in any trouble, there are 2 certification letters, one from Indian government, one from forest stewardship council, some 3rd party auditor of these materials. You may want to listen to that audio after all (starts at minute 40).
As to your assertions, they are all wrong. Indian side provided paperwork that the export is legitimate. The exporter on the Indian side is not bothered. The US justice department is pretending that the reason for the 2 raids of the company is Indian law, it's not that.
Indian government allowed the export of the rosewood and ebony boards. They have certified letter from Indian government and they have 3rd party independent auditor - forest stewardship council, certifying the legality of this export.
This is some government vendetta against that particular company and it's going to be interesting to observe what is going to happen there, because this may have a chilling effect on any employer in USA. Just today we heard about BP offices being raided in Moscow, Russia. USA is raiding its companies, shutting down guitar manufacturers, shutting down other companies that provide server space, etc. What's the difference between the most openly corrupt government of Russia and this covertly corrupt government in USA?
You are a piece of meat that exists at the whim of your political masters. You can't get away from this fact anymore.
Who are you, you think you are a citizen, a person? You think you have rights? Liberties? You must have read that silly document from 1787 or whatever. That doesn't apply anymore, didn't you know?
Didn't you know you are now property, an asset that is used as collateral for more government borrowing on the one hand and on the other you are a piece of meat to be used fighting in conflicts that help the bona-fide persons - real people with government connections.
Your silly notions of rights and liberties are of no concern anymore, and you, yourself agree with this every day. Every day you want government to do something for you, to tax somebody and to borrow from somewhere, to print more money so that your special interest gets the tiny crumbs of the royal table, those are you 30 pieces of silver to sell your soul (obviously nobody will be paying you in silver, that's too fat. They have US federal reserve notes for that.)
What, you think it's too harsh? Trollish? A flamebait?
How about you listen to this short radio episode, the guest is Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars. You will find out how a classic American company became an enemy of the state by providing 1200 jobs IN USA, that's right. The reasons? Who knows. The government doesn't have to tell the reasons, you peons, not even peons in the sense that you do work. You are just a number in the line up that they can use for displaying the meat mass, how much there is there to "count the votes" or whatever they need you for, and you aren't too good for organs anymore, being on FDA approved drugs and department of Agriculture subsidized foods.
You don't like the machine scanning through your body, your flesh and bones? Who is asking you?
It doesn't matter what he is, his private liberties must be protected regardless of his political convictions. Just because he is wrong, doesn't mean he forgoes his liberties.
you are a jack ass - that's an appropriate comment for any place.
Inheritance tax is theft.
Any amount of money earned by a family is a pool of money anybody in the family can use and they don't have to pay income taxes when they use it. Your kid spends your money? Income tax time, right? Fucking waste of skin flakes you are.
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Market IS individuals making individual choices to do something, to buy something, to produce something, not to buy something else, to short another thing. Market consists of individuals.
What USA has now is not a normal market, it's distorted by government's cheap money and regulations. When helicopter Ben comes out and says: interest rates will stay at 0 for 2 years, what he does is inflate another bubble (more of the US debt, it's T-bill bubble), but also he is allowing heavily leveraged banks to speculate freely, knowing that the money is free for 2 years. It's great for speculation, what good does anybody see from this except the bank executives and politicians?
Of-course a monopoly was being created, what else do you call it when POTUS provides you with half billion USD and promises to provide you with a market for your products via some regulations?
Blocking an American company from buying out American assets back from a German company. Blocking merger, that would produce economies of scale. Actually a pro-liberal administration going against unions (as AT&T has a union and T-mobile does not, so union would automatically get more members). If the deal falls through AT&T will be on a hook for about 7 Billion USD in penalties. Great idea for American government to do that to American investors (how many mutual funds own the AT&T stocks?)
Government likes to pretend it is there to break up monopolies, but in reality it creates monopolies every time it spends any money.
Solyndra LLC of Fremont California, a manufacturer of solar panel has filed for bankruptcy protection and has laid off its remaining 1,100 workers. Obama provided them with loan packages of 535 Million dollars, Obama personally visited that company over a year ago, promoting that worthless business that cannot generate profits even with government support. How many businesses could have used that money if dollars could be allocated privately where market needs them? Instead a monopoly was being created, but it failed even with government support. Figures.
Obviously, they are a terrorist group.
I see. I have developed a set of systems over the past 2 years for retail integration and analysis, have it running in a 15 store chain with 65 suppliers connected to the system. I don't get much sleep at all.
Girl With One Track Mind can tell you all about the importance of being able to stay anonymous.
Actually in her case she was doing a pretty good job at staying anonymous while posting her blog entries about her sex life, but then she published a book and some asshole 'journalists' tracked her down and gave out all her personal details.
She lost her job.
She stopped writing her blogs, and let's be honest, the readers lost an interesting character to read about on the interwebs.
Staying anonymous is extremely important for many reasons, so people like facebookâ(TM)s marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, who also happens to be Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerbergâ(TM)s sister need to shut their yaps and stop spouting this type of nonsense:
I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away⦠People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ⦠I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.
You know, anybody can be an MBA. This 'cat engineer' got an MBA, it can't be that hard.
He is not the only guy I know who sleeps at work....
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Jokes aside, wouldn't it be great to be able to do useful stuff while asleep? Oohhh, how much sleep could be had....
USA is suffering shortage of liberties, not shortage of engineers.
I am looking at Obama right now and I almost pity the ... man.
If I could do 1 thing right now in his place, I would stop the wars and bring all troops home.
If I could do 2 things, the second thing would be this: stop printing and borrowing money.
If I could do 3 things, the third thing would be this: stop subsidizing businesses and people.
If I could do 4 things, the fourth thing would be this: stop regulating businesses, especially this concerns all new startups. If you are a startup, you should be able to get up and running in a couple of days. That should be the goal.
If I could do 5 things, the fifth thing would be tax reform and abolishment of income taxes, payroll taxes, all income related taxes.
The thing that would be 6th: stop the drug war, let all the people out of jails who are there for non-violent drug related offenses.
The 7th thing: allow competition in money.
The only real thing is of-course: follow the Constitution, your job is to protect the liberties, not create jobs, not provide capital, not regulate monopolies, not be the world's police.
Of-course USA lacks engineering jobs. It won't get them back until it is clear that it stopped trying to destroy the foundation upon which the jobs can be created.
so do you have something to show, or is it just an idea?
So how many of software people end up starting their own companies and developing their own lines of products or doing projects (and end up hiring more people as well)?
Really, ask them who is interested first, before giving them your presentation, whatever it is, because those who are interested will bear through it, whatever it is. Those who are not - don't make them suffer and don't suffer them. Nothing useful will come out of this if you try to make a bunch of kids sit through this, where majority of them are bored to hell and don't listen to you and then they don't let those few who are interested to listen to you either.
As to how you do it - I am looking at the highly marked comments here: games and all that. Maybe you should talk about video games and then connect that to how things are done IRL, how there is a connection between things that are modeled in video games and reality.
Why not talk about a flight simulator game and then talk about a real airplane and talk about the human in the cockpit and how the inputs from the machines can be the same, whether the flight is actually real or is modeled on a computer? Get them interested, dazed and confused about reality - what's real, what's not? Bring Matrix into it (the movie), ask them how do they know things are "real" or modeled?
Then talk about how our senses perceive information whether it's "real" or not and that we can fake things with computers to look like they are real (photoshop?)
Talk about capturing real live data with computer sensors and storing it so that it can be played back later to make it seem like the events are taking place now.
That's what I would try probably.
Many people will say: simulate the inner workings of the CPU, the RAM, etc... OK, that's somewhat interesting maybe, but isn't it more interesting to understand WHY we use computers and WHY programs are useful, not necessarily HOW specific architectures are implemented, after all, Turing machine is just tape and some read/write heads and electrical motor, not a bunch of electrons flowing around in circuits. The implementation details are not really that important at this stage, the important thing is to understand WHY any of it matters at all.
They're there to defend ME
- oh really? So they are defending YOU I suppose with all those Blackwater and Halliburton and oil contracts?
build roads for ME to drive on
- So they are giving you something to drive on, not the auto makers something to sell you and not politicians a way to rob you of your liberties with all the interstate BS?
to protect the environment I live in,
- they sure care about your environment, with 70million USD liability cap for deep water drilling and snorting coke off oven tops while fucking in beach side getaways.
The more assets I have, the more there is to protect
- all that American oil with all those Arab countries over it. Surely, the oil needs protection. Iraq, Libya... Syria and Iran next?
The man living under a bridge has far less to lose as the result of an invader than the man in a mansion.
- the man under the bridge tried starting a business, but was put out of business with anti-competitive regulations created to help the man, that just flew over the bridge in his chopper.
It costs money to do these things.
- only to the Chinese, so who cares. As to the future generations - why, you'll just print the debt away. Never mind the consequences of a run-away inflation. Just print the debt away.
You don't go to war and cut taxes.
- EXACTLY. How about you don't BORROW and go to war either? How about you RAISE TAXES before you go to war? Maybe nobody would go to war under those conditions?
Taxes really are the price we pay for civilized society.
- liberties is what gives men civilized society, not taxes.
Therefore the alternative to taxes is the end of civilized society.
- logic fail.
Who are you, anyway, Cheney?
Clearly it's a weather balloon.
SAP. It's much cheaper to hire an assassin than to pay 1.3 billion to an extortionist (and it's never the right policy to pay the Dane-Geld). I think extortion is never right and above certain level any response becomes justified. People dealt with extortionists very harshly when they could over the history of human race. I don't see many people crying over Oracle's CEO should something nasty happen to him.
Are you ready to back up those accusations that the papers are fake?
How about answering this question: what legal authority does the US DOJ have to enforce FOREIGN laws upon US citizens at all, let alone foreign laws where the foreign country doesn't even see a law being broken?
India doesn't have the problem with the wood not being finished there, the export was legal, the papers are in order. The reasons for this are political but as all political reasons there is something behind it about money.
No they don't. Their imports are legal, the Indian exporter is not in any trouble, there are 2 certification letters, one from Indian government, one from forest stewardship council, some 3rd party auditor of these materials. You may want to listen to that audio after all (starts at minute 40).
The episode.
Meeting with the guest starts at the 40th minute.
As to your assertions, they are all wrong. Indian side provided paperwork that the export is legitimate. The exporter on the Indian side is not bothered. The US justice department is pretending that the reason for the 2 raids of the company is Indian law, it's not that.
Indian government allowed the export of the rosewood and ebony boards. They have certified letter from Indian government and they have 3rd party independent auditor - forest stewardship council, certifying the legality of this export.
This is some government vendetta against that particular company and it's going to be interesting to observe what is going to happen there, because this may have a chilling effect on any employer in USA. Just today we heard about BP offices being raided in Moscow, Russia. USA is raiding its companies, shutting down guitar manufacturers, shutting down other companies that provide server space, etc. What's the difference between the most openly corrupt government of Russia and this covertly corrupt government in USA?
You are a piece of meat that exists at the whim of your political masters. You can't get away from this fact anymore.
Sorry, here is the LINK
If you only care about the guest of the show, the CEO, then scroll to minute 40.
Who are you, you think you are a citizen, a person? You think you have rights? Liberties? You must have read that silly document from 1787 or whatever. That doesn't apply anymore, didn't you know?
Didn't you know you are now property, an asset that is used as collateral for more government borrowing on the one hand and on the other you are a piece of meat to be used fighting in conflicts that help the bona-fide persons - real people with government connections.
Your silly notions of rights and liberties are of no concern anymore, and you, yourself agree with this every day. Every day you want government to do something for you, to tax somebody and to borrow from somewhere, to print more money so that your special interest gets the tiny crumbs of the royal table, those are you 30 pieces of silver to sell your soul (obviously nobody will be paying you in silver, that's too fat. They have US federal reserve notes for that.)
What, you think it's too harsh? Trollish? A flamebait?
How about you listen to this short radio episode, the guest is Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars. You will find out how a classic American company became an enemy of the state by providing 1200 jobs IN USA, that's right. The reasons? Who knows. The government doesn't have to tell the reasons, you peons, not even peons in the sense that you do work. You are just a number in the line up that they can use for displaying the meat mass, how much there is there to "count the votes" or whatever they need you for, and you aren't too good for organs anymore, being on FDA approved drugs and department of Agriculture subsidized foods.
You don't like the machine scanning through your body, your flesh and bones? Who is asking you?
We won't like it when it's going to rain sharks all of a sudden!
It doesn't matter what he is, his private liberties must be protected regardless of his political convictions. Just because he is wrong, doesn't mean he forgoes his liberties.
you are a jack ass - that's an appropriate comment for any place.
Inheritance tax is theft.
Any amount of money earned by a family is a pool of money anybody in the family can use and they don't have to pay income taxes when they use it. Your kid spends your money? Income tax time, right? Fucking waste of skin flakes you are.
Be careful with your opinions here. /. is no place for any free type of thinking. They catch you - you'll have to go for "reeducation" somewhere.