(Of course, he's talking about the board versus the general employee base.)
"Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company. Cypress will never do it. Furthermore, we will never be pressured into it, because bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise. I would rather be labeled as a person who is unkind to religious groups than as a coward who harms his employees and investors by mindlessly following high-sounding, but false, standards of right and wrong."
More here:
http://www.cypress.com/documen...
California can't admit that kow-towing to environmentalists got them into this mess, so yeah... "warm blob."
But, hey... Californians still have their delta smelt...
There are many different strains of libertarian thought. Only Randian anarcho-capitalists would really complain about a pollution tax. In fact, they'd try to put a market around it--"cap and trade."
Even Milton Friedman conceded that laws and regulations are necessary in situations where market forces can't really make someone hole. It's not practical for a smoke-billowing plant to compensate everyone whose shirt is dirtied from the soot, for example.
Despite a few flashes of brilliance, all that he did was peddle smugness and laugh lines to fellow Manhattan liberals. While it's true that he often caught the mainstream media sleeping, he kept jumping back and forth between "Take me seriously!" and "My show is on after a show about prank-calling puppets!" whenever it suited him.
Of course, i can't express this opinion without someone reflexively yelling "FOX NEWS!! BRIETBART! KOCH BROTHERS!!" In a way, Stewart is at least partially responsible for the fact that "persuasion" and "argument" is today simply defined as "successful soundings into the right echo chambers."
I spent 10 years in Silicon Valley doing PR for flash and other nonvolatile memories. In 1997, we thought we were having Hugo Gernsback visions of the future when we were talking about flash eventually hitting $1/MB.
Seems kind of silly now.
Check out this Actel whitepaper (PDF). Describes a similar phenomenon, with such errors taking place three times more often in mile-high Denver than Baghdad by the Bay San Francisco.
The story about Blendtec that almost NEVER gets told is how your salesforce used the videos to convince smoothie shops to go with you rather than, say, Black & Decker. Can you talk about the videos' *offline* success in driving revenue?
I lived in a very large Chicago high-rise with an HOA. They decided to go with the fractional fiber-optic approach with a small provider/reseller/whatever. I'd have to say, the service was incredible. Haven't had anything like it before or since. The best part was that the tech support didn't skip a beat when he asked me about my OS and I said "Ubuntu."
Then again, this was the same building that told me I couldn't have orange drapes in my 15th floor unit. Whatever...
I advise companies large, small, tiny and gigantic in terms of this kind of thing.
There is never any justification for this activity. Ever.
I tell people: 95% of the time, I can appeal to someone's God-given instinct to want to do the right thing at all times. 5% of the time, this doesn't work. So I resort to putting wild-eyed fear into that person in terms of what's going to happen when (not if) they get caught.
I'm reading some phenomenally bad advice here that takes the form of "Why don't you just try the software and vote it up if you like it?" Fact is, the Federal Trade Commission won't see it that way. You're a paid advocate. End of story.
You can encourage friends to try it out, disclosing to them that your employer is involved.
...when did "health insurance" become conflated with "health care"?
You buy insurance to ensure that you can get past some kind of catastrophic event, say, if you total your car. I don't expect AllState to pay for my gas, tune-ups, etc.
It's about spreading risk, rather than a mechanism to take money from one guy and give to another to that you can buy what you want.
HSAs for routine procedures is the way to go. Keep the insurance markets competitive and targeted towards what "insurance" actually means IN EVERY OTHER INSTANCE WHERE IT IS APPLIED!
- They're framed in terms of protecting the employee FIRST (coming to a mutual understanding of acceptable behavior), *then* the company.
- They don't insult the employee's intelligence.
- They're simple.
- They don't attempt to squelch free speech and *only* seek to put guidelines around online behavior of-or-concerning the company (which isn't an unreasonable request).
- They're *integrated* into current HR policies and handbooks, not treated as an inelegant bolt-on.
- They don't fall prey to the fallacy that the online world excuses behavior that is reasonably considered bad form in the offline world.
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(Of course, he's talking about the board versus the general employee base.) "Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company. Cypress will never do it. Furthermore, we will never be pressured into it, because bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise. I would rather be labeled as a person who is unkind to religious groups than as a coward who harms his employees and investors by mindlessly following high-sounding, but false, standards of right and wrong." More here: http://www.cypress.com/documen...
8-/
King of the Hill OCD defense: "I'd do that, but if I do, Garth Brooks will die.
...you won't pay *half* that.
Missing earnings estimates wiped out the $8B in market value, not the tweet.
California can't admit that kow-towing to environmentalists got them into this mess, so yeah... "warm blob." But, hey... Californians still have their delta smelt...
I really, really want to see that third test.
There are many different strains of libertarian thought. Only Randian anarcho-capitalists would really complain about a pollution tax. In fact, they'd try to put a market around it--"cap and trade." Even Milton Friedman conceded that laws and regulations are necessary in situations where market forces can't really make someone hole. It's not practical for a smoke-billowing plant to compensate everyone whose shirt is dirtied from the soot, for example.
Despite a few flashes of brilliance, all that he did was peddle smugness and laugh lines to fellow Manhattan liberals. While it's true that he often caught the mainstream media sleeping, he kept jumping back and forth between "Take me seriously!" and "My show is on after a show about prank-calling puppets!" whenever it suited him. Of course, i can't express this opinion without someone reflexively yelling "FOX NEWS!! BRIETBART! KOCH BROTHERS!!" In a way, Stewart is at least partially responsible for the fact that "persuasion" and "argument" is today simply defined as "successful soundings into the right echo chambers."
...from the very same gov't that treats its citizens' privacy as a threat. Pass.
I spent 10 years in Silicon Valley doing PR for flash and other nonvolatile memories. In 1997, we thought we were having Hugo Gernsback visions of the future when we were talking about flash eventually hitting $1/MB. Seems kind of silly now.
Check out this Actel whitepaper (PDF). Describes a similar phenomenon, with such errors taking place three times more often in mile-high Denver than Baghdad by the Bay San Francisco.
It was a small Bay Area pharmacy that used Rx30, which ran on NT.
The story about Blendtec that almost NEVER gets told is how your salesforce used the videos to convince smoothie shops to go with you rather than, say, Black & Decker. Can you talk about the videos' *offline* success in driving revenue?
I lived in a very large Chicago high-rise with an HOA. They decided to go with the fractional fiber-optic approach with a small provider/reseller/whatever. I'd have to say, the service was incredible. Haven't had anything like it before or since. The best part was that the tech support didn't skip a beat when he asked me about my OS and I said "Ubuntu." Then again, this was the same building that told me I couldn't have orange drapes in my 15th floor unit. Whatever...
There is never any justification for this activity. Ever.
I tell people: 95% of the time, I can appeal to someone's God-given instinct to want to do the right thing at all times. 5% of the time, this doesn't work. So I resort to putting wild-eyed fear into that person in terms of what's going to happen when (not if) they get caught.
Your employer might have heard of Reverb Communications?
I'm reading some phenomenally bad advice here that takes the form of "Why don't you just try the software and vote it up if you like it?" Fact is, the Federal Trade Commission won't see it that way. You're a paid advocate. End of story.
You can encourage friends to try it out, disclosing to them that your employer is involved.
Cheap flash memory attached to USB keys did
...when did "health insurance" become conflated with "health care"? You buy insurance to ensure that you can get past some kind of catastrophic event, say, if you total your car. I don't expect AllState to pay for my gas, tune-ups, etc. It's about spreading risk, rather than a mechanism to take money from one guy and give to another to that you can buy what you want. HSAs for routine procedures is the way to go. Keep the insurance markets competitive and targeted towards what "insurance" actually means IN EVERY OTHER INSTANCE WHERE IT IS APPLIED!
There are good policies and bad ones.
The characteristics of good ones are:
- They're framed in terms of protecting the employee FIRST (coming to a mutual understanding of acceptable behavior), *then* the company.
- They don't insult the employee's intelligence.
- They're simple.
- They don't attempt to squelch free speech and *only* seek to put guidelines around online behavior of-or-concerning the company (which isn't an unreasonable request).
- They're *integrated* into current HR policies and handbooks, not treated as an inelegant bolt-on.
- They don't fall prey to the fallacy that the online world excuses behavior that is reasonably considered bad form in the offline world.