He was 25, so yes, I do think he should be tried as an adult. He should be in prison, but he's not because Fox (and by extension their mindless viewers) adore him for his destruction of an organization that had the gall to try to help poor people.
No, he served nearly a year in prison. It was that punk kid who falsified evidence to shut down ACORN and who tried to wiretap a senator's office who got off with minimal punishment.
You've never actually read the NYT, have you? I know of precious few sources which have more diversity of opinion. Among other things, they run a regular (almost daily) feature called "Room for Debate", in which people with widely varying opinions respond to a central question. Here's the one on SOPA/PIPA. I linked to an opinion you'd probably agree with, but you'll find several others.
You can disagree with them all you want. But when you start complaining that they post opinions you don't like while simultaneously calling them an echo chamber, you're just being a hypocrite.
It's their EBITDA margin, i.e. earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Those last two bits are killer in industries with high infrastructure costs.
ATT's actual profit margin is 3.3%. Every percentage point off their EBITDA margin also comes off their profit margin. In other words, if their EBITDA margin falls from 50% to 46%, then their net profit margin will fall from 3.3% to -0.7%, making them unprofitable and probably resulting in layoffs/service reductions.
For reference, Verizon's profit margin is 9.2%, so they're a bit better off, but still not raking it in by any stretch of the imagination.
Why the article chose to focus on EBITDA margin is beyond me. To paraphrase Warren Buffett, do they think the tooth fairy pays for expanding 4G coverage?
Just because someone doesn't toe the iPhone zealotry line doesn't make them an Android zealot. Most of us are simply sick of both groups baiting and arguing over whose phone is the best. It is beyond bizarre that people get worked up over phones or consoles or graphic cards, but not so much over jeans or shampoo or mattresses.
Most people, including in Anon, don't have contacts with the sort of people who'd pay for the code. They would be fearful of contacting an undercover cop, of getting rooked, or of getting in over their heads.
Besides, I suspect they would have released the data whether they got paid or not. You know... "for the lulz."
I know that's what you want to believe, but read the emails. It's abundantly clear that they did want the money. The only reason they didn't get caught is because they refused to transfer the money in any way that might be traceable.
Anonymous are not the white knights you imagine them. Anyone can "be" them, and that causes them to attract a lot of thugs and sociopaths.
And who governs in the meantime? Don't say "nobody", because the government has some essential functions and we can't just shut down the country every time we don't like the candidates. And if the answer is "whoever is currently in power", then voting "none of the above" is essentially a vote for the incumbent.
He is far more likely to be just some dumb guy working off a whole bunch of faulty assumptions:
1) He thinks violent video games are bad 2) He thinks a 50 cent tax would dissuade people from buying them 3) He thinks that you can solve cultural problems by throwing money at them 4) He thinks a couple million dollars (which is what they'd likely raise based on current gaming industry revenue and the population of the state) would be enough to solve those cultural problems.
Obviously he doesn't know what he's doing, but it's foolish to assign these evil motives to him. There are very few truly evil people in the world, and plenty of stupid ones, so by Bayesian inference it makes far more sense to assume stupidity as a motive. You need a lot more evidence than this before you start imagining someone as a comic book villain.
I've been thinking a good solution would be a tax on imports that's based on the regulations followed by the company being imported from.
Mandatory work week > 40 hours? +1% tax No time and half pay for overtime? +1% tax No worker fraternization? +5% tax Dumping toxic waste into the drinking water? +10% tax and so on, up to a maximum of 30% or so.
Give them specific, quantifiable goals to reach, and an economic incentive to meet them. Companies like Foxconn would start treating their workers better or else lose business to those that do, since the American companies that buy from them will go after the cheapest source. Plus this way, you don't need to get the Chinese government involved, since lord knows they're not going to lift a finger to help the peasant class. And putting a cap on it prevents the initial spike in prices from being significant enough to cause a backlash at home.
He's a vile, contemptible, parasitic piece of verminous scum who exploits fear and ignorance in order to gain power. He is a creature without any personal worth, a loathsome leech who feeds off the misery and pain of others, and grows fat and happy on their suffering.
Christ dude, he proposed a 1% tax on video games. Chill out. Yeah, it's a dumb proposal, but holy shit. If that's how you describe someone who wants Skyrim to cost an extra 60 cents, what adjectives do you have left for actual bad people?
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, do you? Please try, if you can, to explain what was wrong with the statement.
To quote a later AC post that seems to also be from you: "You can't create mass, it's a basic concept in science."
Believe it or not, there's more to science than what you learned in grade school. If the composition of the Earth's atmosphere changes in such a way that it traps more energy from the sun, that will cause an increase in mass.
Not all (or even most) churches teach people to be bigots, just like not all (or even most) parents teach their kids to be bigots. But a significant portion (of both) most certainly do, and it's foolish to try to deny it.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education. I remember because they misspelled "resistance" on the tee shirts they handed out. The only other thing I remember from that class is that pot is 40x more likely to cause cancer than cigarettes (not even remotely true).
If you don't understand the difference between a representative in the Oklahoma state legislature and the president of the United States, please refrain from voting. A coin toss would be better informed.
I've been to factories across Asia for my job, and you are right that Foxconn is better (or at least no worse) than most. But the conditions are still very bad. And what's worse is that a lot of very powerful people are trying quite hard to bring our working conditions, here in the US, down to that level. Call it selfish, but at the end of the day, most people care more about themselves and their loved ones than some people they'll never meet on the other side of the globe.
We as a society should be working to improve the conditions at Asian manufacturers, because the alternative is a race to the bottom that we'll all lose. Foxconn is just an easy focal point for that discussion, because they happen to be the biggest.
This used to be common in America too. Young people would line up around the block to work in slaughterhouses, textile mills, etc. They, being young, thought themselves invincible. They thought they could handle whatever was thrown at them, and work their way out of poverty. They were wrong.
They'd be used up, and thrown away like chaff, and a new batch of starry-eyed youngsters would be brought in.
As long as workers are disorganized, businesses will play them against each other, and the workers will suffer for it.
You laugh, but your odds of getting a reasonably good looking woman to sleep with you would go up if you groomed, dressed, and carried yourself the way you would while trying to pick up a supermodel.
If you just take the path of least resistance (ugliest girl left at last call, to continue the analogy), you'll never know what you're capable of.
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He was 25, so yes, I do think he should be tried as an adult. He should be in prison, but he's not because Fox (and by extension their mindless viewers) adore him for his destruction of an organization that had the gall to try to help poor people.
No, he served nearly a year in prison. It was that punk kid who falsified evidence to shut down ACORN and who tried to wiretap a senator's office who got off with minimal punishment.
You've never actually read the NYT, have you? I know of precious few sources which have more diversity of opinion. Among other things, they run a regular (almost daily) feature called "Room for Debate", in which people with widely varying opinions respond to a central question. Here's the one on SOPA/PIPA. I linked to an opinion you'd probably agree with, but you'll find several others.
You can disagree with them all you want. But when you start complaining that they post opinions you don't like while simultaneously calling them an echo chamber, you're just being a hypocrite.
It's their EBITDA margin, i.e. earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Those last two bits are killer in industries with high infrastructure costs.
ATT's actual profit margin is 3.3%. Every percentage point off their EBITDA margin also comes off their profit margin. In other words, if their EBITDA margin falls from 50% to 46%, then their net profit margin will fall from 3.3% to -0.7%, making them unprofitable and probably resulting in layoffs/service reductions.
For reference, Verizon's profit margin is 9.2%, so they're a bit better off, but still not raking it in by any stretch of the imagination.
Why the article chose to focus on EBITDA margin is beyond me. To paraphrase Warren Buffett, do they think the tooth fairy pays for expanding 4G coverage?
Just because someone doesn't toe the iPhone zealotry line doesn't make them an Android zealot. Most of us are simply sick of both groups baiting and arguing over whose phone is the best. It is beyond bizarre that people get worked up over phones or consoles or graphic cards, but not so much over jeans or shampoo or mattresses.
Most people, including in Anon, don't have contacts with the sort of people who'd pay for the code. They would be fearful of contacting an undercover cop, of getting rooked, or of getting in over their heads.
Besides, I suspect they would have released the data whether they got paid or not. You know... "for the lulz."
I know that's what you want to believe, but read the emails. It's abundantly clear that they did want the money. The only reason they didn't get caught is because they refused to transfer the money in any way that might be traceable.
Anonymous are not the white knights you imagine them. Anyone can "be" them, and that causes them to attract a lot of thugs and sociopaths.
I hear the withdrawal effects with air are even worse than with heroin.
It's time to move on. The team is now making Archer, which is fantastic.
You haven't met many computer nerds, have you?
http://xkcd.com/435/
I bet I can guess how he would have answered the question.
He was 50 years old, and healthy. I sincerely doubt he considered himself to be ready to die.
And who governs in the meantime? Don't say "nobody", because the government has some essential functions and we can't just shut down the country every time we don't like the candidates. And if the answer is "whoever is currently in power", then voting "none of the above" is essentially a vote for the incumbent.
You're guessing.
He is far more likely to be just some dumb guy working off a whole bunch of faulty assumptions:
1) He thinks violent video games are bad
2) He thinks a 50 cent tax would dissuade people from buying them
3) He thinks that you can solve cultural problems by throwing money at them
4) He thinks a couple million dollars (which is what they'd likely raise based on current gaming industry revenue and the population of the state) would be enough to solve those cultural problems.
Obviously he doesn't know what he's doing, but it's foolish to assign these evil motives to him. There are very few truly evil people in the world, and plenty of stupid ones, so by Bayesian inference it makes far more sense to assume stupidity as a motive. You need a lot more evidence than this before you start imagining someone as a comic book villain.
I know we don't have the collective willpower to skip the joke this time, so let's just get it out of the way.
I've been thinking a good solution would be a tax on imports that's based on the regulations followed by the company being imported from.
Mandatory work week > 40 hours? +1% tax
No time and half pay for overtime? +1% tax
No worker fraternization? +5% tax
Dumping toxic waste into the drinking water? +10% tax
and so on, up to a maximum of 30% or so.
Give them specific, quantifiable goals to reach, and an economic incentive to meet them. Companies like Foxconn would start treating their workers better or else lose business to those that do, since the American companies that buy from them will go after the cheapest source. Plus this way, you don't need to get the Chinese government involved, since lord knows they're not going to lift a finger to help the peasant class. And putting a cap on it prevents the initial spike in prices from being significant enough to cause a backlash at home.
He's a vile, contemptible, parasitic piece of verminous scum who exploits fear and ignorance in order to gain power. He is a creature without any personal worth, a loathsome leech who feeds off the misery and pain of others, and grows fat and happy on their suffering.
Christ dude, he proposed a 1% tax on video games. Chill out. Yeah, it's a dumb proposal, but holy shit. If that's how you describe someone who wants Skyrim to cost an extra 60 cents, what adjectives do you have left for actual bad people?
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, do you? Please try, if you can, to explain what was wrong with the statement.
To quote a later AC post that seems to also be from you: "You can't create mass, it's a basic concept in science."
Believe it or not, there's more to science than what you learned in grade school. If the composition of the Earth's atmosphere changes in such a way that it traps more energy from the sun, that will cause an increase in mass.
Not all (or even most) churches teach people to be bigots, just like not all (or even most) parents teach their kids to be bigots. But a significant portion (of both) most certainly do, and it's foolish to try to deny it.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education. I remember because they misspelled "resistance" on the tee shirts they handed out. The only other thing I remember from that class is that pot is 40x more likely to cause cancer than cigarettes (not even remotely true).
If you don't understand the difference between a representative in the Oklahoma state legislature and the president of the United States, please refrain from voting. A coin toss would be better informed.
I hear that phrase all the time, I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, what's that you say? "Hire" with an "h"? Nevermind then...
I've been to factories across Asia for my job, and you are right that Foxconn is better (or at least no worse) than most. But the conditions are still very bad. And what's worse is that a lot of very powerful people are trying quite hard to bring our working conditions, here in the US, down to that level. Call it selfish, but at the end of the day, most people care more about themselves and their loved ones than some people they'll never meet on the other side of the globe.
We as a society should be working to improve the conditions at Asian manufacturers, because the alternative is a race to the bottom that we'll all lose. Foxconn is just an easy focal point for that discussion, because they happen to be the biggest.
This used to be common in America too. Young people would line up around the block to work in slaughterhouses, textile mills, etc. They, being young, thought themselves invincible. They thought they could handle whatever was thrown at them, and work their way out of poverty. They were wrong.
They'd be used up, and thrown away like chaff, and a new batch of starry-eyed youngsters would be brought in.
As long as workers are disorganized, businesses will play them against each other, and the workers will suffer for it.
You laugh, but your odds of getting a reasonably good looking woman to sleep with you would go up if you groomed, dressed, and carried yourself the way you would while trying to pick up a supermodel.
If you just take the path of least resistance (ugliest girl left at last call, to continue the analogy), you'll never know what you're capable of.