Nuclear plants ARE operated by Simpsons like personnel. Think for a moment, who would work in such an environment if he could get ANY other job?
My personal position? If the price is right for me, yes. And yes, if agreed on the contract, one could expect from me a level of professionalism higher than the one depicted for Homer (expect though my resignation if requested to deal with the aftermaths of an accident that didn't catch me on the site).
Compare and contrast with the Japanese workers who volunteered to rotate into the crippled nuclear plant to try their best to keep the disaster from escalating.
Were they requested to volunteer? (does anything in my post remotely touch the volunteering aspect?)
Nuclear plants ARE operated by Simpsons like personnel. Think for a moment, who would work in such an environment if he could get ANY other job?
My personal position? If the price is right for me, yes. And yes, if agreed on the contract, one could expect from me a level of professionalism higher than the one depicted for Homer (expect though my resignation if requested to deal with the aftermaths of an accident that didn't catch me on the site).
Just because a large portion of the world has shitty internet, doesn't mean everyone should have shitty internet. It's only funny in the sad/pathetic/hopeless sort of way... just because they let it happen doesn't mean we do. If everyone else drank urine, and we drank water... we'd protest when people started pissing in our faces too...
You see, seems to me that one may finish in needing to make a choice between "eating" unlimited amount of crappy bandwidth or "drinking the piss" of paying for how much you download without bandwidth compromises. 'Cause I can't see how "unlimited download with unlimited bandwidth" is economically sustainable - not in the near future.
Somehow, I feel the risk they try to avoid is making people think the nuclear plants are operated by "Simpson like" personnel. Meaning... a real good-bye to public being opened to even listen arguments about nuclear energy being needed.
Maybe if the US companies stopped suing eachother they would have more money to spend on R&D.
At least they'll have some money for a while. Even so, I'm not so sure they'll spend it on R&D... better chances are for the some dividends (to raise their stock prices) followed executive bonuses (because of the stock performance)... while the money last.
Let them do the heavy lifting for a while so we can just acquire it and reverse engineer it.
'R you sure you have enough funds and wetware for the R&D required to reverse-engineer? It's not like China would fill obliged to fill patent application with the US Patent Office to let you know how stuff work, "trade secrets" may be just enough for them.
We do have some advantages, such as infrastructure which we aren't renewing and are allowing to go to waste. We do have a bigger economy which we aren't using to our advantage. It's our destiny to be the slaves of the Chinese. America has become a nation of pathetic silent servants.
Interesting metaphor, let's see if one can extend it. How does this work? "On top of irrelevant (for China) advantages, US also has the biggest trade deficit and foreign debt with China. To translate: the Chinese already paid for "merchandise" on the "international slave market" - the clock towards the moment they'll assert the ownership is ticking".
Awesome. Then we can just copy their IP for a change.
Aww, go ahead and mod me troll. You know it's true.
Interesting. Here's a question to ponder, how is US going to pay the debt to China?
1. commodities? Australia covers most of the mineral sector, thank you; as for agri-exports, there are countries with lower prices.
2. US production? China owns it.
3. IP? China is (or will be) ahead - this assuming China actually gives a more than a damn about IP.
4. Music/movies/entertainment? Somehow, I don't think the Chinese people are actually interested in Lady Gaga, Pink or the like.
5. "Fast pizza delivery" and other (local) services?
The mystery: how exactly is US planning to pay the foreign debt and balance the trade deficit with China?
If you are tempted by "who gives a damn about foreign debt/trade deficit, US can default" as the "nuclear threat of the 2010 decade". Imagine what would happen if Chinese would "retaliate" and dump, on the international financial market and within a month or so, the US treasury bonds they own - if US defaults, they are worthless anyway. What you think would happen with the prices in US if suddenly the price of crude oil is expressed in other currency but USD - for example, what about yuan/renmimbi? Finally, please remind me who was the champion of globalization in the last 20 years?
Everybody knows that paying taxes make one less competitive.
You jest, but the trouble is that it's true. US corporations pretty much have three options:
1) Send their operations off shore where labor is cheaper and taxes are lower.
2) Keep operations in the US but hire a bunch of bean counters to avoid the higher US taxes.
3) Go out of business, because your foreign competitors have lower costs (in the form of taxes) which means you can't win in the competition for customers, investors, etc.
You can't "close tax loopholes" and not expect corporations to just replace (2) with (1).
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate. Become the country companies shift their profits to instead of from and you get a smaller slice of a much bigger pie. 4% of a billion dollars is a lot more than 35% of nothing. Plus, the way things are discriminates against small businesses: GE can afford to hire accountants to eliminate its corporate tax burden, smaller companies can't.
Hell, yes.
Except that... optimizing the prices/competitiveness of the economy and optimizing the overall good for the society are two different objectives, isn't it? Chasing one with means for the other is what brought US in the current situation.
Just like people hire hackers and crackers to improve their security, maybe higher tax evaders to reform tax laws is a good thing.
His job is to improve "Jobs and Competitiveness", not to plugs the holes in taxation. And he's showing a big promise: one way to be competitive is to avoid taxes.
The paradox of "partial optimization" ("divide and conquer" methods applied to optimization) - one may end hurting the overall objective even if the partial objectives are met.
To what good would it be to be the president of Jobs and Competitiveness if one still has to pay taxes? Everybody knows that paying taxes make one less competitive.
(grin)
This is quite simply amazing. And even though it's not perfect, can you imagine the implications of this? Everything from weaponization to ornithology. Imagine being able to observe a flock of birds on a migratory route as part of the flock! It's really quite stunning.
Implications of this? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
If there's anything "chilling" about this request, I sure don't see it. When you write a blog article that is critical of a political party, and get over a half-million hits within days, you should expect a little attention from the people you're poking a stick at.
A little attention would have been good. Seems rather a case of huge attention and too small of a care
TFA:
A number of the emails caught in the net of Mr. Thompson’s open records request are messages between myself and my students. All thus fall within the purview of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (FERPA, sometimes known as the “Buckley Amendment,” named for its author Senator James Buckley—the brother of conservative intellectual William F. Buckley). The Buckley Amendment makes it illegal for colleges or universities to release student records without the permission of those students, [...]
A number of the emails caught in the net of Mr. Thompson’s open records request are messages between myself and my students. All thus fall within the purview of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (FERPA, sometimes known as the “Buckley Amendment,” named for its author Senator James Buckley—the brother of conservative intellectual William F. Buckley). The Buckley Amendment makes it illegal for colleges or universities to release student records without the permission of those students, [...]
Many more of the emails that would be released under this open records request are communications with colleagues of mine at other institutions about various matters that have nothing whatsoever to do with Wisconsin politics or the official business of the University of Wisconsin-Madison—but they do involve academic work that typically assumes a significant degree of privacy and confidentiality. [...]The emails include, for instance, conversations with authors and editors about book manuscripts, and also the deliberations of two professional boards on which I sit, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the American Historical Association (AHA), the latter of which I now serve as President-Elect. Online email exchanges among members of these boards are expected to be confidential, so that all of us are admonished not to share each other’s emails lest doing so discourage colleagues from being candid in sharing their views.
If Microsoft China employs engineers who wear pirated Nike t-shirts, can Nike sue Microsoft?
If Microsoft Seattle hires a H1B, delivered 25 years ago by a midwife in a clinic who's administrator wears pirated Nike runners... etc (even letting aside jurisdiction in investigation, enforcement, etc what are the limits in taking the responsibility in concerning time, subject of the obligation, aso)
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Nuclear plants ARE operated by Simpsons like personnel. Think for a moment, who would work in such an environment if he could get ANY other job?
My personal position? If the price is right for me, yes. And yes, if agreed on the contract, one could expect from me a level of professionalism higher than the one depicted for Homer (expect though my resignation if requested to deal with the aftermaths of an accident that didn't catch me on the site).
Compare and contrast with the Japanese workers who volunteered to rotate into the crippled nuclear plant to try their best to keep the disaster from escalating.
Were they requested to volunteer? (does anything in my post remotely touch the volunteering aspect?)
Nuclear plants ARE operated by Simpsons like personnel. Think for a moment, who would work in such an environment if he could get ANY other job?
My personal position? If the price is right for me, yes. And yes, if agreed on the contract, one could expect from me a level of professionalism higher than the one depicted for Homer (expect though my resignation if requested to deal with the aftermaths of an accident that didn't catch me on the site).
Like streams of electrons or ions?
No, positrons baby! Using those definitely has certain... fringe benefits.
FTFY
Just because a large portion of the world has shitty internet, doesn't mean everyone should have shitty internet. It's only funny in the sad/pathetic/hopeless sort of way... just because they let it happen doesn't mean we do. If everyone else drank urine, and we drank water... we'd protest when people started pissing in our faces too...
You see, seems to me that one may finish in needing to make a choice between "eating" unlimited amount of crappy bandwidth or "drinking the piss" of paying for how much you download without bandwidth compromises.
'Cause I can't see how "unlimited download with unlimited bandwidth" is economically sustainable - not in the near future.
but you do know that most Linux distros also use bittorrent to distribute, right?
Roger that. But guess what? Rogers don't give a fuck about Linux, not for their customers at least.
Somehow, I feel the risk they try to avoid is making people think the nuclear plants are operated by "Simpson like" personnel. Meaning... a real good-bye to public being opened to even listen arguments about nuclear energy being needed.
Maybe if the US companies stopped suing eachother they would have more money to spend on R&D.
At least they'll have some money for a while. Even so, I'm not so sure they'll spend it on R&D... better chances are for the some dividends (to raise their stock prices) followed executive bonuses (because of the stock performance)... while the money last.
Let them do the heavy lifting for a while so we can just acquire it and reverse engineer it.
'R you sure you have enough funds and wetware for the R&D required to reverse-engineer? It's not like China would fill obliged to fill patent application with the US Patent Office to let you know how stuff work, "trade secrets" may be just enough for them.
We do have some advantages, such as infrastructure which we aren't renewing and are allowing to go to waste. We do have a bigger economy which we aren't using to our advantage. It's our destiny to be the slaves of the Chinese. America has become a nation of pathetic silent servants.
Interesting metaphor, let's see if one can extend it.
How does this work? "On top of irrelevant (for China) advantages, US also has the biggest trade deficit and foreign debt with China. To translate: the Chinese already paid for "merchandise" on the "international slave market" - the clock towards the moment they'll assert the ownership is ticking".
... ummm ...
facebook profiles per capita?
Yeah! That'll show 'em! Hell yeah! USA! USA! USA!
In the same category, don't forget "fast pizza delivery".
Awesome. Then we can just copy their IP for a change.
Aww, go ahead and mod me troll. You know it's true.
Interesting. Here's a question to ponder, how is US going to pay the debt to China?
1. commodities? Australia covers most of the mineral sector, thank you; as for agri-exports, there are countries with lower prices.
2. US production? China owns it.
3. IP? China is (or will be) ahead - this assuming China actually gives a more than a damn about IP.
4. Music/movies/entertainment? Somehow, I don't think the Chinese people are actually interested in Lady Gaga, Pink or the like.
5. "Fast pizza delivery" and other (local) services?
The mystery: how exactly is US planning to pay the foreign debt and balance the trade deficit with China?
If you are tempted by "who gives a damn about foreign debt/trade deficit, US can default" as the "nuclear threat of the 2010 decade".
Imagine what would happen if Chinese would "retaliate" and dump, on the international financial market and within a month or so, the US treasury bonds they own - if US defaults, they are worthless anyway.
What you think would happen with the prices in US if suddenly the price of crude oil is expressed in other currency but USD - for example, what about yuan/renmimbi?
Finally, please remind me who was the champion of globalization in the last 20 years?
...for and against before I provide my opinion.
I'd like a jury to decide... but... err... should that jury be allowed... hmmm!?
No... They can sit at their desks and play WoW during work hours... I mean, chase cybermoneylaunderers...
Tell ya, mate... time for ATO open some offices in WoW and the like. If they do, I promise to work extra hours and pay all the taxes in WoW-gold.
Everybody knows that paying taxes make one less competitive.
You jest, but the trouble is that it's true. US corporations pretty much have three options: 1) Send their operations off shore where labor is cheaper and taxes are lower. 2) Keep operations in the US but hire a bunch of bean counters to avoid the higher US taxes. 3) Go out of business, because your foreign competitors have lower costs (in the form of taxes) which means you can't win in the competition for customers, investors, etc.
You can't "close tax loopholes" and not expect corporations to just replace (2) with (1).
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate. Become the country companies shift their profits to instead of from and you get a smaller slice of a much bigger pie. 4% of a billion dollars is a lot more than 35% of nothing. Plus, the way things are discriminates against small businesses: GE can afford to hire accountants to eliminate its corporate tax burden, smaller companies can't.
Hell, yes.
Except that... optimizing the prices/competitiveness of the economy and optimizing the overall good for the society are two different objectives, isn't it? Chasing one with means for the other is what brought US in the current situation.
Just like people hire hackers and crackers to improve their security, maybe higher tax evaders to reform tax laws is a good thing.
His job is to improve "Jobs and Competitiveness", not to plugs the holes in taxation. And he's showing a big promise: one way to be competitive is to avoid taxes.
The paradox of "partial optimization" ("divide and conquer" methods applied to optimization) - one may end hurting the overall objective even if the partial objectives are met.
To what good would it be to be the president of Jobs and Competitiveness if one still has to pay taxes? Everybody knows that paying taxes make one less competitive.
(grin)
This is quite simply amazing. And even though it's not perfect, can you imagine the implications of this? Everything from weaponization to ornithology. Imagine being able to observe a flock of birds on a migratory route as part of the flock! It's really quite stunning.
Implications of this? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cited in an Australian patent?
Of course. That is hardly relevant. The question is, how hard is it to write bad code?
Far easier than to write a good code, no matter the language (on some languages, it's even impossible to write good code)
Congratulations, Qatar, you have reinvented blimps!
Graf Zeppelin would be so proud.
Except that the blimp is "in the cloud" and is using "renewable energy" - making those blimps fashionable.
If there's anything "chilling" about this request, I sure don't see it. When you write a blog article that is critical of a political party, and get over a half-million hits within days, you should expect a little attention from the people you're poking a stick at.
A little attention would have been good. Seems rather a case of huge attention and too small of a care
TFA:
A number of the emails caught in the net of Mr. Thompson’s open records request are messages between myself and my students. All thus fall within the purview of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (FERPA, sometimes known as the “Buckley Amendment,” named for its author Senator James Buckley—the brother of conservative intellectual William F. Buckley). The Buckley Amendment makes it illegal for colleges or universities to release student records without the permission of those students, [...]
The FOI is perfectly legal,
Except the cases in which is illegal.
TFA:
Let me offer just a few concrete examples.
A number of the emails caught in the net of Mr. Thompson’s open records request are messages between myself and my students. All thus fall within the purview of the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (FERPA, sometimes known as the “Buckley Amendment,” named for its author Senator James Buckley—the brother of conservative intellectual William F. Buckley). The Buckley Amendment makes it illegal for colleges or universities to release student records without the permission of those students, [...]
Many more of the emails that would be released under this open records request are communications with colleagues of mine at other institutions about various matters that have nothing whatsoever to do with Wisconsin politics or the official business of the University of Wisconsin-Madison—but they do involve academic work that typically assumes a significant degree of privacy and confidentiality. [...]The emails include, for instance, conversations with authors and editors about book manuscripts, and also the deliberations of two professional boards on which I sit, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the American Historical Association (AHA), the latter of which I now serve as President-Elect. Online email exchanges among members of these boards are expected to be confidential, so that all of us are admonished not to share each other’s emails lest doing so discourage colleagues from being candid in sharing their views.
But choosing .NET is a choice, and whenever anybody does it, I can't help but ask "why?"
I do .NET because that's where the money is. Next question please!
Startups don't have money, but only potential. Next candidate please.
AngryBirdsVille? CatPhysicsVille? CubeRunnerVille?
Nope! For domination they'll need to come with a MUD via SMS.
If Microsoft China employs engineers who wear pirated Nike t-shirts, can Nike sue Microsoft?
If Microsoft Seattle hires a H1B, delivered 25 years ago by a midwife in a clinic who's administrator wears pirated Nike runners... etc (even letting aside jurisdiction in investigation, enforcement, etc what are the limits in taking the responsibility in concerning time, subject of the obligation, aso)