When someone can pick up a plant from China and plop it down in WA, pay the same wages, follow the same work rules, dispose of their waste in the same manner, THEN you can say outsourcing is a fair thing to do.
The fact is that you can't. And you can't for reasons that most people agree are reasonable...health and safety of the workers, environmental protection, workplace environment rules, etc. Most people would agree that these rules are in place for what they might call moral reasons, or, it's the right thing to do.
But for some reason, it's no longer the right thing to do when that plant is in China or other third world places. Somehow, what is considered immoral pollution here is not immoral pollution in China. Intolerable work environments here are some how perfectly fine in the third world. But, US consumers and manufacturers are more than happy to take advantage of the low costs of product even when that is only possible in a factory that would be sued out of existence were it in the US.
Outsourcing to China and other places isn't "competition" it's exploitation. But try and do anything about it and you will be called a protectionist or worse.
How much does it cost to change the batteries in a Tesla?
Ya.
And then:
No Child Left Behind...don't promote morons who didn't learn the material. So I guess you didn't benefit fro that policy.
Trickle Down...only produced the longest expansion of the economy in recent history. As opposed to the last 8 years of trickle up which has stalled growth at 2% or so.
When Musk builds a plant that can power Tuscan, throughout the year, without subsidies, then we can talk taxpayer money.
If you took $250 million from each Billionaire jetting around the world talking about Global Warming, they could probably build a demonstration plant that could run Vegas or Tuscon.
Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers.
I forgot...if the CEO STILL wants to proceed, then IT is on the hook for making he realizes the true costs, not just the cost of your software licenses.
That's like saying Mechanics don't run the Metro Bus system.
That's like saying the crew Chief of a fighter jet doesn't fight the battle.
The CEO is merely the bus driver. The pilot just flies and fights the plane.
Nor mechanics, no crew chiefs, no buses or fighter jets.
If you go to the CEO of Walmart and say, "I have this great new POS system", It's the CIO's job to determine if it's going to require upgrading every store's data connections, maybe new servers to support the increased traffic, maybe even a new, higher performance database to support the new features and load.
I.T. is on the hook for everything and part of their job is to prevent stupid ass CEO's from making stupid ass decisions related to technology.
So it is not, in fact, in the data. It is actually in a derivation of the data. or at least a completely;y different data set. That also is not bias, but perhaps incompetence.
Further, the fact that more people of a particular race are persecuted is not a reflection of bias in the data, rather a bias in the prosecution.
Data is Data. It cannot exhibit a bias.
Plus, being from the Guardian, I am skeptical that they didn't twist the data some to obtain their desired outcome, which ironically touches on the subject of this story.
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Who is responsible for injuries when the fault is clearly with the self driving car?
Meh...the best parts of Spartacus and GoT can be found on Pornhub.
The rest is boring as shit.
When someone can pick up a plant from China and plop it down in WA, pay the same wages, follow the same work rules, dispose of their waste in the same manner, THEN you can say outsourcing is a fair thing to do.
The fact is that you can't. And you can't for reasons that most people agree are reasonable...health and safety of the workers, environmental protection, workplace environment rules, etc. Most people would agree that these rules are in place for what they might call moral reasons, or, it's the right thing to do.
But for some reason, it's no longer the right thing to do when that plant is in China or other third world places. Somehow, what is considered immoral pollution here is not immoral pollution in China. Intolerable work environments here are some how perfectly fine in the third world. But, US consumers and manufacturers are more than happy to take advantage of the low costs of product even when that is only possible in a factory that would be sued out of existence were it in the US.
Outsourcing to China and other places isn't "competition" it's exploitation. But try and do anything about it and you will be called a protectionist or worse.
H-1B.
They couldn't find any Americans to lay off 124 workers.
Just use the tax money to buy targets and make the bikers wear those on their backs.
Why does CA think it can unilateral terminate a voluntary contract between an employee and employer?
And I say this after just having tossed my Fat Mac, upgraded to a Mac Plus with 1 megabyte of ram while cleaning out the garage
Apple has used up almost al the Steve Jobs karma it had. They are being more and more just another Dell,IBM,Sony, etc.
The Vision is gone. Look for the product lines to dry up and turn into just another dreary corporate marketing exercise.
Chicklet Keyboard mentality.
This is why they will ultimately move to Imperial Storm Trooper Helmets.
Seems like these upgraded glasses would be perfect for Law Enforcement. See what they saw in High Def.
Of course it has scary implications such as Face Recognition as they look at people...almost like portrayed in the Terminator movies.
Actually, that'd be kind of cool if you were the one wearing them.
Then it should be easy for him to do it and say, "look! It works!"
As opposed to , "I know it will work, give me money".
We can wait then.
How much does it cost to change the batteries in a Tesla?
Ya.
And then:
No Child Left Behind...don't promote morons who didn't learn the material. So I guess you didn't benefit fro that policy.
Trickle Down...only produced the longest expansion of the economy in recent history. As opposed to the last 8 years of trickle up which has stalled growth at 2% or so.
When Musk builds a plant that can power Tuscan, throughout the year, without subsidies, then we can talk taxpayer money.
Because powering my home is the same thing as powering a city.
GTFO
He built SpaceX and trusted the government.
Why not do the same here for a small or medium sized city?
Why should we give him a truckload of money and trust him?
If you took $250 million from each Billionaire jetting around the world talking about Global Warming, they could probably build a demonstration plant that could run Vegas or Tuscon.
Do that, prove it works, then come to the taxpayers.
The fact that he is wanting other people to pay for it first demonstrates his lack of faith in his vision.
Would building such a plant cost anymore than SpaceX did before received his first check?
Pornhub never asks me.
Maybe they just know me as a regular.
I forgot...if the CEO STILL wants to proceed, then IT is on the hook for making he realizes the true costs, not just the cost of your software licenses.
"IT departments don't run business."
That's like saying Mechanics don't run the Metro Bus system.
That's like saying the crew Chief of a fighter jet doesn't fight the battle.
The CEO is merely the bus driver. The pilot just flies and fights the plane.
Nor mechanics, no crew chiefs, no buses or fighter jets.
If you go to the CEO of Walmart and say, "I have this great new POS system", It's the CIO's job to determine if it's going to require upgrading every store's data connections, maybe new servers to support the increased traffic, maybe even a new, higher performance database to support the new features and load.
I.T. is on the hook for everything and part of their job is to prevent stupid ass CEO's from making stupid ass decisions related to technology.
If YouTube had to pay what they ate legally obligated to pay for all the pirated stuff they host, Alphabet company would be in bankruptcy
Next thing you know they will enter into cooperative agreements to curb nuclear proliferation and reduce the likelihood of nuclear war!!!!
"Further, the fact that more people of a particular race are prosecuted is not a reflection of bias in the data, rather a bias in the prosecution."
You are suggesting that the AI program not only keeps track of race, but that it also uses race as a factor in making it's decision.
That's a pretty harsh accusation.
The reality is that i these situations, the race only becomes a factor when analyzing the data and you include race as a data point after the fact.
That's how you get "disparate out", one of the more evil principles in the SJW tool box.
So it is not, in fact, in the data. It is actually in a derivation of the data. or at least a completely;y different data set. That also is not bias, but perhaps incompetence.
Further, the fact that more people of a particular race are persecuted is not a reflection of bias in the data, rather a bias in the prosecution.
Data is Data. It cannot exhibit a bias.
Plus, being from the Guardian, I am skeptical that they didn't twist the data some to obtain their desired outcome, which ironically touches on the subject of this story.