It's worked wonders in the garment industry for years. Many tier 1 retail corps inspect and verify to ensure their products and good name are not trashed.
I think Apple is an excellent example of the type of corporation that is very susceptible to open protest and well as the quiet protest of not buying from companies that do not work with reputable manufacturing partners.
Make no mistake. We are hearing about Apple because they are one of the worst offenders, not just because they are popular at the moment.
Sort of. AT&T used to be a large player in Rogers (Canada). And if you think the US is bad, Canada is worse. Rogers is easily the worst GSM provider in the world. As compared with AT&T (USA), T-Mobile, Orange (Spain), TIM (Italy and Brazil), Vodafone (Hong Kong and S. Africa), China Moblie (China), China Unicom (China), and Telkomsel (Indonesia).
I am strongly of the opinion that if/when AT&T swallows T-Mobile in the USA they will quickly be in competition with Rogers for worst in the world. Interestingly WIND in Canada (Running a T-Mobile freq) appears to be a much better option in the Great White North) and comparable to T-Mobile USA.
With regards to subways, there is a vast difference between NYC / Chicago which can be very sketchy vs San Francisco, D.C. and Boston. It has a lot to do with the culture of the cities and the age of the system.
In my personal experience I lump (worst to best). NYC, Chicago, Mexico City, Barcelona, Paris roughly together. Sau Paulo with Rome San Francisco, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen Hong Kong and Singapore And finally Athens as the best public transport I've used.
I think you should be looking to the Cargil's and ADM's of the world as they set the price of corn and grain on the world market, which allows them the ability to manipulate the price on the domestic market by adjusting demand.
Yes, but prior to 9/11, how plausible would it have struck you that a group of Islamic Extremists could hijack four commercial airliners and perform kamikaze attacks with them?
In 1994, two jetliners were hijacked by people who wanted to crash them into buildings, one of them by an Islamic militant group. And the 2000 edition of the FAA's annual report on Criminal Acts Against Aviation, published this year, said that although Osama Bin Laden 'is not known to have attacked civil aviation, he has both the motivation and the wherewithal to do so,' adding, 'Bin Laden's anti-Western and anti-American attitudes make him and his followers a significant threat to civil aviation, particularly to U.S. civil aviation'.
Unfortunately that slightly higher rate needed to make up for China's absence is a 'death spiral' where the interest rate offered to sell will quickly push the short term debt beyond the amount likely for the US tax base being able to pay, which drives the rate higher, which... yeah, death spiral, no more debt issuance for you. Yikes.
Nope, the US and China are tied together in this game of chicken. It's not going to end well.
Actually, as a comparison to when I worked in a factory in high-school vs the factories I've visited in China (very, very many) it looks to me to be about the same level of work, or a little less work, for about the same pay and benefits relative to what I got back then. At least on the East coast of China, I hear the middle/west is not as nice but I have not had any dealings out there.
It's already the case. It's called a CFC, or Controlled Foreign Corporation and it is taxed exactly as it if is a US owned/based corporation. However the taxes paid by foreign individuals in foreign countries is the responsibility of the those individuals, not the corporation. Just as it is the US. It is also the reality is the corporation isn't replacing their us workforce with 1-1 skilled people (at least not at the outset) they are replacing 1 for 10 outsourced and still spending less. Heck I could try the same thing without going over seas. How about I replace my IC designer with 10 recent graduates. Should I pay the same FICA for the 10 graduates, am I really cheating the IRS? What if my IC designer wasn't 'in-sourced' but died (bus, heart attack, whatever)? Frankly large companies that do stupid stuff *should* be eliminated. The normal course is bankruptcy and liquidation. If 10 recent graduates can do the same job and still cost less then I say have at it. Of course I think they can't and I charge accordingly.
Had a few this weekend but I think you peeps don't really understand world finance. Simple fact is that the US isn't even close to competitive in the world market when it comes to finance, holding earnings, inventment in r&d, and running a corporation. The real solution is to end corporate welfare (fat fsck'ing chance) and lowering the effective tax burden to 20% or less -- the competition is at 10% effective flat taxation. In reality there is no flat tax jurisdiction. Even HK is tax free for your first 16000 USD (single) 30000 USD (with dependent) and there is *no* VAT or sales tax on top. As a comparison the US tax rate starts at 5000 (federal) + state tax + city tax + property tax + with state sales tax (3-10% for most of the country). For most of the software writing and hardware designing workforce we are at 50+% effective tax burden. So at the end of the day a US citizen/resident is so tax burdened our 'socialist' neighbors [Canada, Europe] are taxed far less than us, of course many of them can't make the same raw income numbers... but it's what we can spend that counts, right? Now Asia where taxation is still sane... how to compete? Yeah, I know, most of us are running around with the wacky ideas that Asia hasn't changed in 30 (or 50) years, but it has. The infrustructure, wealth and ideas in Asia today leave the US hard pressed to compete on a level playing field. And it's not a level playing field. The US is behind on just about everything but work ethinc. We work 80 hard hours when Asia sit's on their collective ass for 50-60 of those same hours. And that's it. We charge 100x more for 3-5x the productivity and that just doesn't balance out at the end of the day. Of course in most of Asia I can maintain my standarnd of living (or better) for 1/3 of the income (which comes to 10x the income for 10x the productivity) works out. Unfortunatly the tax reverses the mess so now I make 5x the wage for 10x the productivity. Ouch. There are many ways to slice and dice the mess; I see it as:
- kill corporate welfare
- drop the effective tax burden
- drop the entitlement programs
- restore competition. If we do it on our schedule it will be much less painful that when it is done when we have no choice. The list really isn't optional, it will happen in less than 10 years. period. no choices. if we do it intentionally then the middle class will retain some wealth and/or maintain it's existance. I honestly believe that the middle class the the US is doomed because we/they don't, won't or can't exercise the power to push this agenda forward.
Because return of the cover is used as 'proof of no sale' which allows the retailer to claim the publisher and get credit against further purchases from said publisher.
First of all I don't know *why* it crashed I just know what I was doing.
Just because the entertainment system is using Linux as the OS doesn't mean they did a great job or are using solid hardware.
I flew on a Singapore Air flight and whenever all the entertainment consoles were in interactive they crashed. Seemed like a power problem to me. My guess is that Singapore Air was using a windows variant at the time [circa 2005].
Personally I'm jazzed whenever I see an airline using Linux, even if it is just for the entertainment system.
Just in case you were interested China Airlines uses Linux on their in-flight. I flew another airline that also used Linux but I don't recall which one. It's not very often you get to see the boot up but in one case they rebooted the system after they landed and in the other my partners crashed when we were trying to change the default language.
What sane person or business (with lots and lots of cash) keeps it all in one low interest bearing account?
Don't most push that kind of cash into non-insured instruments?
Basically I'm saying that nobody asked that person because they don't exist. Either they are aware of the S&L failure in 1991 and don't exceed the FDIC maximum or they are betting on some other non-insured instrument (bonds, funds, money market accts, stocks that pay dividends, etc).
You do realize that it wasn't conservative ideals that led them to vote no? It was the annoying strings attached to the corporate welfare. The only fiscally responsible option is 'no way'.
What company needs somebody who can and does do the work of 10 specialists? What manager will put all his/her eggs in one basket? What is that level of professional worth? Answer key: 1. few; 2 even fewer; 3. too much.
Maybe you should just advertise for Python programmers:-)
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and industrual policy will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the requirements of current misstions.
That's a nice translation of MODERN Greek into MODERN English. Unfortunatly the passage would have been written in ANCIENT Greek and would be (obviously) unreadable. ANCIENT Greek is vastly different from MODERN Greek in much the same way as OLDE English is from MODERN English, excepting that the Greek has been changing for a longer period and as diverged quite a bit farther.
Well you can cost justify *CABLE* pretty easy, if you ditch the telco and go VOIP. You're typical cheap VOIP has all the features the telco offers for no extra cost, cheaper access to everywhere, etc. So $50 for Cable internet (and basic cable) but we almost never watch TV (about 1hr a month). Add $20 for Packet8 vs $40 phone, $10-18 for ISP. (the second line is another $25) w/o the TV for distraction we are heavy 'net users.
I worked with OS/2 for a medical device company. And they still use OS/2 and are still attempting to migrate to NT (now embedded XP, embedded NT never shipped). The is a very, very big difference between working with IBM and with Microsoft and it isn't the quality of the code -- it's the support. IBM offers source level fixes on the OEM version you pick (for a fee). Microsoft does not offer this support for ANY fee.
Which is why I am ROTFLMAO. The on-schedule transition is very, very late (3+ years) and shows no signs of shipping, ever.
Oh, I'm fairly certain we are talking about the same medical device mfg, because AFAIK there is only one on OS/2.
There *are* medical companies that have rolled out NT/2K/XP devices (Lasik) and several others. Of course the day that shipped the courting stopped. Microsoft got what they wanted -- little check box next to 'used in medical devices'.
I played with the the 'Green Hills' compiler, named gcc curiously enough. It also has very similar options to the famed GNU gcc compiler. They even ofter gcc extentions. Unfortunatly it isn't a very up-to-date compiler. They document some old known 'bugs' like the library search order issue of years past that ld has had.
My OPINION is that it is an older gcc compiler. And that is the CORE of why these 'nice people' are so worried. The don't have any value add over the free software solutions because a few guys simply can't keep pace with adding their patches on top of current releases and so are behind the times.
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It's worked wonders in the garment industry for years.
Many tier 1 retail corps inspect and verify to ensure their products and good name are not trashed.
I think Apple is an excellent example of the type of corporation that is very susceptible to open protest and well as the quiet protest of not buying from companies that do not work with reputable manufacturing partners.
Make no mistake. We are hearing about Apple because they are one of the worst offenders, not just because they are popular at the moment.
Sort of.
AT&T used to be a large player in Rogers (Canada). And if you think the US is bad, Canada is worse. Rogers is easily the worst GSM provider in the world. As compared with AT&T (USA), T-Mobile, Orange (Spain), TIM (Italy and Brazil), Vodafone (Hong Kong and S. Africa), China Moblie (China), China Unicom (China), and Telkomsel (Indonesia).
I am strongly of the opinion that if/when AT&T swallows T-Mobile in the USA they will quickly be in competition with Rogers for worst in the world. Interestingly WIND in Canada (Running a T-Mobile freq) appears to be a much better option in the Great White North) and comparable to T-Mobile USA.
With regards to subways, there is a vast difference between NYC / Chicago which can be very sketchy vs San Francisco, D.C. and Boston. It has a lot to do with the culture of the cities and the age of the system.
In my personal experience I lump (worst to best).
NYC, Chicago, Mexico City, Barcelona, Paris roughly together.
Sau Paulo with Rome
San Francisco, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen
Hong Kong and Singapore
And finally Athens as the best public transport I've used.
Can you elaborate? I am doing a fair amount of arm dev and would appreciate any pointers on chips to avoid and why of course.
Thanks!
I think you should be looking to the Cargil's and ADM's of the world as they set the price of corn and grain on the world market, which allows them the ability to manipulate the price on the domestic market by adjusting demand.
Yes, but prior to 9/11, how plausible would it have struck you that a group of Islamic Extremists could hijack four commercial airliners and perform kamikaze attacks with them?
It was a known and planned for scenario.
ny times
In 1994, two jetliners were hijacked by people who wanted to crash
them into buildings, one of them by an Islamic militant group. And
the 2000 edition of the FAA's annual report on Criminal Acts Against
Aviation, published this year, said that although Osama Bin Laden 'is
not known to have attacked civil aviation, he has both the motivation
and the wherewithal to do so,' adding, 'Bin Laden's anti-Western and
anti-American attitudes make him and his followers a significant
threat to civil aviation, particularly to U.S. civil aviation'.
No shit. Especially when you consider where the RMB will float to without the middle kingdoms downward pressure.
Unfortunately that slightly higher rate needed to make up for China's absence is a 'death spiral' where the interest rate offered to sell will quickly push the short term debt beyond the amount likely for the US tax base being able to pay, which drives the rate higher, which ... yeah, death spiral, no more debt issuance for you. Yikes.
Nope, the US and China are tied together in this game of chicken. It's not going to end well.
Actually, as a comparison to when I worked in a factory in high-school vs the factories I've visited in China (very, very many) it looks to me to be about the same level of work, or a little less work, for about the same pay and benefits relative to what I got back then. At least on the East coast of China, I hear the middle/west is not as nice but I have not had any dealings out there.
It's already the case. It's called a CFC, or Controlled Foreign Corporation and it is taxed exactly as it if is a US owned/based corporation.
However the taxes paid by foreign individuals in foreign countries is the responsibility of the those individuals, not the corporation. Just as it is the US. It is also the reality is the corporation isn't replacing their us workforce with 1-1 skilled people (at least not at the outset) they are replacing 1 for 10 outsourced and still spending less.
Heck I could try the same thing without going over seas. How about I replace my IC designer with 10 recent graduates. Should I pay the same FICA for the 10 graduates, am I really cheating the IRS? What if my IC designer wasn't 'in-sourced' but died (bus, heart attack, whatever)?
Frankly large companies that do stupid stuff *should* be eliminated. The normal course is bankruptcy and liquidation.
If 10 recent graduates can do the same job and still cost less then I say have at it. Of course I think they can't and I charge accordingly.
Had a few this weekend but I think you peeps don't really understand world finance. Simple fact is that the US isn't even close to competitive in the world market when it comes to finance, holding earnings, inventment in r&d, and running a corporation. ... but it's what we can spend that counts, right? ... how to compete? Yeah, I know, most of us are running around with the wacky ideas that Asia hasn't changed in 30 (or 50) years, but it has. The infrustructure, wealth and ideas in Asia today leave the US hard pressed to compete on a level playing field. And it's not a level playing field. The US is behind on just about everything but work ethinc. We work 80 hard hours when Asia sit's on their collective ass for 50-60 of those same hours. And that's it. We charge 100x more for 3-5x the productivity and that just doesn't balance out at the end of the day.
The real solution is to end corporate welfare (fat fsck'ing chance) and lowering the effective tax burden to 20% or less -- the competition is at 10% effective flat taxation.
In reality there is no flat tax jurisdiction. Even HK is tax free for your first 16000 USD (single) 30000 USD (with dependent) and there is *no* VAT or sales tax on top.
As a comparison the US tax rate starts at 5000 (federal) + state tax + city tax + property tax + with state sales tax (3-10% for most of the country). For most of the software writing and hardware designing workforce we are at 50+% effective tax burden. So at the end of the day a US citizen/resident is so tax burdened our 'socialist' neighbors [Canada, Europe] are taxed far less than us, of course many of them can't make the same raw income numbers
Now Asia where taxation is still sane
Of course in most of Asia I can maintain my standarnd of living (or better) for 1/3 of the income (which comes to 10x the income for 10x the productivity) works out. Unfortunatly the tax reverses the mess so now I make 5x the wage for 10x the productivity. Ouch.
There are many ways to slice and dice the mess; I see it as:
- kill corporate welfare
- drop the effective tax burden
- drop the entitlement programs
- restore competition.
If we do it on our schedule it will be much less painful that when it is done when we have no choice. The list really isn't optional, it will happen in less than 10 years. period. no choices. if we do it intentionally then the middle class will retain some wealth and/or maintain it's existance.
I honestly believe that the middle class the the US is doomed because we/they don't, won't or can't exercise the power to push this agenda forward.
Because return of the cover is used as 'proof of no sale' which allows the retailer to claim the publisher and get credit against further purchases from said publisher.
Lilo and Stich?
Heck yeah. This was a really good one.
Too bad the sequels/series were done to such a low standard.
s/loose/lose/
Reminds me of Crypto AG.
First of all I don't know *why* it crashed I just know what I was doing.
Just because the entertainment system is using Linux as the OS doesn't mean they did a great job or are using solid hardware.
I flew on a Singapore Air flight and whenever all the entertainment consoles were in interactive they crashed. Seemed like a power problem to me. My guess is that Singapore Air was using a windows variant at the time [circa 2005].
Personally I'm jazzed whenever I see an airline using Linux, even if it is just for the entertainment system.
Just in case you were interested China Airlines uses Linux on their in-flight.
I flew another airline that also used Linux but I don't recall which one. It's not very often you get to see the boot up but in one case they rebooted the system after they landed and in the other my partners crashed when we were trying to change the default language.
FDIC insurance is up to 100000 per deposit acct.
What sane person or business (with lots and lots of cash) keeps it all in one low interest bearing account?
Don't most push that kind of cash into non-insured instruments?
Basically I'm saying that nobody asked that person because they don't exist. Either they are aware of the S&L failure in 1991 and don't exceed the FDIC maximum or they are betting on some other non-insured instrument (bonds, funds, money market accts, stocks that pay dividends, etc).
You do realize that it wasn't conservative ideals that led them to vote no? It was the annoying strings attached to the corporate welfare.
The only fiscally responsible option is 'no way'.
Simple:
:-)
It doesn't pay.
What company needs somebody who can and does do the work of 10 specialists? What manager will put all his/her eggs in one basket? What is that level of professional worth?
Answer key: 1. few; 2 even fewer; 3. too much.
Maybe you should just advertise for Python programmers
First paragraph on page 63:
RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdfThat's a nice translation of MODERN Greek into MODERN English.
Unfortunatly the passage would have been written in ANCIENT Greek and would be (obviously) unreadable. ANCIENT Greek is vastly different from MODERN Greek in much the same way as OLDE English is from MODERN English, excepting that the Greek has been changing for a longer period and as diverged quite a bit farther.
Well you can cost justify *CABLE* pretty easy, if you ditch the telco and go VOIP. You're typical cheap VOIP has all the features the telco offers for no extra cost, cheaper access to everywhere, etc.
So $50 for Cable internet (and basic cable) but we almost never watch TV (about 1hr a month).
Add $20 for Packet8
vs
$40 phone, $10-18 for ISP. (the second line is another $25)
w/o the TV for distraction we are heavy 'net users.
I worked with OS/2 for a medical device company. And they still use OS/2 and are still attempting to migrate to NT (now embedded XP, embedded NT never shipped). The is a very, very big difference between working with IBM and with Microsoft and it isn't the quality of the code -- it's the support. IBM offers source level fixes on the OEM version you pick (for a fee). Microsoft does not offer this support for ANY fee.
Which is why I am ROTFLMAO. The on-schedule transition is very, very late (3+ years) and shows no signs of shipping, ever.
Oh, I'm fairly certain we are talking about the same medical device mfg, because AFAIK there is only one on OS/2.
There *are* medical companies that have rolled out NT/2K/XP devices (Lasik) and several others. Of course the day that shipped the courting stopped. Microsoft got what they wanted -- little check box next to 'used in medical devices'.
I played with the the 'Green Hills' compiler, named gcc curiously enough. It also has very similar options to the famed GNU gcc compiler. They even ofter gcc extentions. Unfortunatly it isn't a very up-to-date compiler. They document some old known 'bugs' like the library search order issue of years past that ld has had.
My OPINION is that it is an older gcc compiler. And that is the CORE of why these 'nice people' are so worried. The don't have any value add over the free software solutions because a few guys simply can't keep pace with adding their patches on top of current releases and so are behind the times.