When the low-level service jobs start drying up, I'm not sure what will be the new foundation of that pyramid.
The pyramid would have its lowest layer removed, after which the next lowest layer will be removed until in the end only the top is left (if the top hasn't been removed by force by everyone who's not part of the pyramid anymore).
Assuming that the NK top military are not religious nut cases or just outright stupid, the only reason for the sabre rattling, would be to divert attention of the general population away from internal issues and keep them in line; I would expect the levels of dissent among the NK population to be quite high.
Does someone have any direct information on general position of the NK population of its leaders?
Please do some back ground checks with someone who really has had some experience living in Europe, before you start blurting out nonsense.
Europe is not going broke under the weight of Socialistic market controls. It's going broke because in the last 15-20 years everything that was governed by 'socialistic market controls' has been privatised, after which prices of those services started soaring and the actual service received dropped significantly.
Due to privatisation, instead of just going to the GP and getting a prescription, patients now go to the GP, who tells them to get a some further tests with a specialist in the hospital, who in turn does some additional tests 'just to be sure', then another appointment at the GP later that person gets the same prescription.
After privatisation, money is made by every additional bit of work someone does, resulting in lots of unnecessary steps. Also because hospitals are essentially competing with one another, every hospital now needs that multi-million CAT scanner that sits idle for 80% of the time. Previously if a test like that was required and no profit was made, a patient would be sent to a different hospital, Now patients pay for expensive equipment that sits idle most of the time.
Same with the railroads; railroads are privatised after which the companies that run them are completely uninterested in actually maintaining the existing infrastructure, in turn resulting in degraded public transport. This goes on until the infrastructure is really broken and the private company has completely sucked dry the investment done by all previous generations of citizens, after which the government can buy their own infrastructure back at a premium.
Electricity grid and telecommunications, same story.
It's not the so-called 'Socialistic market controls' killing Europe, it's unbounded neo-liberalism and unchecked privatisation and short-sighted, short-term profits and pure greed of a relatively small group of people at the expense of generations of citizens who paid for good infrastructure with their taxes and saw their politicians squander it inside just a few short years.
This would only work if the artificial boundaries between countries were completely lifted and free flow of people over the globe is possible. Since countries will never all give up their sovereignty overnight, this will never be true.
Yes, she definitely had the balls to call Pinochet a close friend and Nelson Mandela a terrorist and the balls to help out Pol Pot with british troops (possibly because they were somewhat inefficient in whittling down their own population).
Great leader, Mrs Thatcher.
On that note Genghis Khan was a great leader as well.
Apart from that, the capitalist class is actively making it hard for people not in that group to become part of that group. It's getting harder each year for 'normal people' to reach the tipping point of where one can use money to generate more money.
The gap between 'haves' and 'have nots' is actively being made wider by the 'haves'.
Bullshit. If you just make enough money to pay your rent and groceries every month, there's nothing left to invest.
Typical response by someone who has never been in as situation like that.
Doesn't really feel like this law is doing anything but putting into law what was already happening in the real world.
So in a sad way, it does clarify the situation for master and slave^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rich and poor ^H^H^H^H^H^H employer and employee.
This sounds great in theory and I would support this wholeheartedy if you can solve one issue; how does one establish objectivelu if someone has put i.n enough effort to educate themselves before voting.
Just a brain storm, but I believe lots of side issues can be resolved by ensuring that companies are allowed a maximum staff of 1000 people (or a similarly fairly low limit) and can't own other companies. This will take care of issue 8 in your list as well and might be a resolution to issue 1 not providing enough diversity.
Having such a restriction will ensure:
- Real competition; companies can't now just grow market share by absorbing other companies.
- Increase in productivity through efficiency; since corporations can't just throw more people at a problem, this means that the only way to gain a competitive edge is to train staff and to become more efficient. This will also mean that corporations will become specialists in only a limited number of areas, since they can't have enough staff to be a specialist in all areas.
- Standardisation; some products may need more than 1000 staff to produce, which will decrease the number of companies that have complete end to end production lines (with only small components delivered by other companies). This means these companies need to start even more relying on parts produced by other companies, which increases the need for standardisation to be able to compete. The companies sourcing parts are not able to monopolise one complete part supply line, due the the restricted size in staff.
- Economic growth; because of the limit in the number of staff, there is more money flowing between different corporations, since more companies will need the services and products of other companies to be able to operate. The size of an economy is the amount of money in an economy multiplied by the rate at which the money flows through an economy.
This will also reduce issues like corruption and buying votes somewhat, since corporations will have a limited size and lobbying capability.
While most VB hackers could make such a tool quicker than you can spell anti-trust, you have to take into account that if MS has to develop a tool that does that, you need to have at least 4 quadcores and 32GB of memory to be able to run it and they would need a development budget of around 300 million dollars.
Of course goncept knows this, but attacking someone's valid argument by attacking used hyperbole within that argument is a good way to try to discredit the entire argument itself, without actually having to counter the argument with own real arguments.
After that attention is further diverted away from the original argument by stating that it's all not that much different than we already have.
...the incompetence defense works every single time. Officials can do something they want to do and blame it on a mistake and the public accepts it unquestioningly every single time....
That sadly actually says a lot of expected competency of government officials that the public has.
The point wasn't whether the act itself was illegal or legal, it was about the question if someone who committed a crime in country A which causes damages in country B, should be tried in country B.
I agree that if this guy broke the law he should be prosecuted. Only by the country where the crime is committed, otherwise you leave loopholes open like the example I gave.
If a party in country B has damages, they can go through the legal system of country A to claim damages.
This just feels like some nationalistic 'We are americans and don't fuck with us' kneejerk reaction. I had hoped that attitude had gone with G.W.
So by your reasoning, you should be able to be imprisoned by the chinese government if you watch (by chinese government deemed) illegal content on a website that's hosted on a server in China.
Even though the content of the website is perfectly legal in the country where you are browsing in?
No? Didn't think so...
This type of entrapment is a slippery slope.
I dislike Steve as much as the next guy, but I think calling him a 300lb gorilla is taking it a bit far.
If we don't stop this behaviour here and now, people will start calling him a knuckle dragging, chair throwing submonkey next.
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That's why the initial question to a customer who wants a software solution should be 'what do you want to accomplish', instead of 'what do you want'.
That's what all Empire apologists say.
When the low-level service jobs start drying up, I'm not sure what will be the new foundation of that pyramid.
The pyramid would have its lowest layer removed, after which the next lowest layer will be removed until in the end only the top is left (if the top hasn't been removed by force by everyone who's not part of the pyramid anymore).
Sort of stopped reading after 'Sarah Kerrigan doesn't shop at Victoria's Secret'...
Assuming that the NK top military are not religious nut cases or just outright stupid, the only reason for the sabre rattling, would be to divert attention of the general population away from internal issues and keep them in line; I would expect the levels of dissent among the NK population to be quite high.
Does someone have any direct information on general position of the NK population of its leaders?
Please do some back ground checks with someone who really has had some experience living in Europe, before you start blurting out nonsense.
Europe is not going broke under the weight of Socialistic market controls. It's going broke because in the last 15-20 years everything that was governed by 'socialistic market controls' has been privatised, after which prices of those services started soaring and the actual service received dropped significantly.
Due to privatisation, instead of just going to the GP and getting a prescription, patients now go to the GP, who tells them to get a some further tests with a specialist in the hospital, who in turn does some additional tests 'just to be sure', then another appointment at the GP later that person gets the same prescription. After privatisation, money is made by every additional bit of work someone does, resulting in lots of unnecessary steps. Also because hospitals are essentially competing with one another, every hospital now needs that multi-million CAT scanner that sits idle for 80% of the time. Previously if a test like that was required and no profit was made, a patient would be sent to a different hospital, Now patients pay for expensive equipment that sits idle most of the time.
Same with the railroads; railroads are privatised after which the companies that run them are completely uninterested in actually maintaining the existing infrastructure, in turn resulting in degraded public transport. This goes on until the infrastructure is really broken and the private company has completely sucked dry the investment done by all previous generations of citizens, after which the government can buy their own infrastructure back at a premium.
Electricity grid and telecommunications, same story.
It's not the so-called 'Socialistic market controls' killing Europe, it's unbounded neo-liberalism and unchecked privatisation and short-sighted, short-term profits and pure greed of a relatively small group of people at the expense of generations of citizens who paid for good infrastructure with their taxes and saw their politicians squander it inside just a few short years.
This would only work if the artificial boundaries between countries were completely lifted and free flow of people over the globe is possible. Since countries will never all give up their sovereignty overnight, this will never be true.
Yes, she definitely had the balls to call Pinochet a close friend and Nelson Mandela a terrorist and the balls to help out Pol Pot with british troops (possibly because they were somewhat inefficient in whittling down their own population). Great leader, Mrs Thatcher. On that note Genghis Khan was a great leader as well.
Apart from that, the capitalist class is actively making it hard for people not in that group to become part of that group. It's getting harder each year for 'normal people' to reach the tipping point of where one can use money to generate more money. The gap between 'haves' and 'have nots' is actively being made wider by the 'haves'.
Bullshit. If you just make enough money to pay your rent and groceries every month, there's nothing left to invest. Typical response by someone who has never been in as situation like that.
Doesn't really feel like this law is doing anything but putting into law what was already happening in the real world. So in a sad way, it does clarify the situation for master and slave^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rich and poor ^H^H^H^H^H^H employer and employee.
Welcome to the wonderful world of plutocracy.
Add to that mod_security if you're using Apache and should be fairly ok for basic sites.
Now let's first use it on our politicians.
An insightful rated whoosh. Wow. Just wow.
Looks like governments start noticing that 'the terrorists' are no longer an effective bogeyman and need to conjure up a new one.
This sounds great in theory and I would support this wholeheartedy if you can solve one issue; how does one establish objectivelu if someone has put i.n enough effort to educate themselves before voting.
Believe that would be a very good start...
Just a brain storm, but I believe lots of side issues can be resolved by ensuring that companies are allowed a maximum staff of 1000 people (or a similarly fairly low limit) and can't own other companies. This will take care of issue 8 in your list as well and might be a resolution to issue 1 not providing enough diversity.
Having such a restriction will ensure:
- Real competition; companies can't now just grow market share by absorbing other companies.
- Increase in productivity through efficiency; since corporations can't just throw more people at a problem, this means that the only way to gain a competitive edge is to train staff and to become more efficient. This will also mean that corporations will become specialists in only a limited number of areas, since they can't have enough staff to be a specialist in all areas.
- Standardisation; some products may need more than 1000 staff to produce, which will decrease the number of companies that have complete end to end production lines (with only small components delivered by other companies). This means these companies need to start even more relying on parts produced by other companies, which increases the need for standardisation to be able to compete. The companies sourcing parts are not able to monopolise one complete part supply line, due the the restricted size in staff.
- Economic growth; because of the limit in the number of staff, there is more money flowing between different corporations, since more companies will need the services and products of other companies to be able to operate. The size of an economy is the amount of money in an economy multiplied by the rate at which the money flows through an economy.
This will also reduce issues like corruption and buying votes somewhat, since corporations will have a limited size and lobbying capability.
Maybe 1000 staff is even a too high a number...
Any thoughts?
While most VB hackers could make such a tool quicker than you can spell anti-trust, you have to take into account that if MS has to develop a tool that does that, you need to have at least 4 quadcores and 32GB of memory to be able to run it and they would need a development budget of around 300 million dollars.
Of course goncept knows this, but attacking someone's valid argument by attacking used hyperbole within that argument is a good way to try to discredit the entire argument itself, without actually having to counter the argument with own real arguments. After that attention is further diverted away from the original argument by stating that it's all not that much different than we already have.
...the incompetence defense works every single time. Officials can do something they want to do and blame it on a mistake and the public accepts it unquestioningly every single time....
That sadly actually says a lot of expected competency of government officials that the public has.
will not touch it until it has been certified by an industry independent body like ISO.
The point wasn't whether the act itself was illegal or legal, it was about the question if someone who committed a crime in country A which causes damages in country B, should be tried in country B.
I agree that if this guy broke the law he should be prosecuted. Only by the country where the crime is committed, otherwise you leave loopholes open like the example I gave.
If a party in country B has damages, they can go through the legal system of country A to claim damages. This just feels like some nationalistic 'We are americans and don't fuck with us' kneejerk reaction. I had hoped that attitude had gone with G.W.
So by your reasoning, you should be able to be imprisoned by the chinese government if you watch (by chinese government deemed) illegal content on a website that's hosted on a server in China. Even though the content of the website is perfectly legal in the country where you are browsing in? No? Didn't think so... This type of entrapment is a slippery slope.
And why do you think that would keep high ranking government official from taking MS money and making windows mandatory in schools and government?
I dislike Steve as much as the next guy, but I think calling him a 300lb gorilla is taking it a bit far. If we don't stop this behaviour here and now, people will start calling him a knuckle dragging, chair throwing submonkey next.