...or go a long way to breaking the backs of businesses that really do need to downsize and scale back production to stay alive. Instead of having a handful of unemployed from a business, you would see the entire business fold. The entire idea of a golden parachute is a poison pill. Top level execs get them simply because they have the power to do so. And you know... if I had formed a business, you can be damn sure I'd do the same if for no other reason than to help me keep the business I built.
Customers are only a herd to be exploited because we only make purchase decisions based on cost anymore. Buy the cheapest crap and throw it away when you're done. So no, it isn't just a problem with the company, it's a problem with the entire market at both the producer and consumer ends.
Sure, there are tons of companies out there who are in it for the long haul (for themselves *and* their employees) with great quality and support, but few people are willing to pay the premium for it. On top of that, we need to go way out of our way to find them - lord knows they won't have anything on the shelf at the big box stores.
You need to reassess your understanding of the risks. Any given day I am orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by a motorist than I am by an accident at a nuclear plant. Are you going to say motorists don't have any right to make the choice to get in their cars which endanger my life every day? Should that be where their freedom stops?
I don't understand where all the fear and bad press of nuclear energy started or under whose agenda - but it is there and ridiculously strong. Compare the direct and indirect deaths of the nuclear industry to that of coal or oil, compare the ecological damage done, then come back and tell me with a straight face that nuclear energy truly is an affront to your freedom.
I'm not claiming nuclear is the best solution for energy. Not claiming it's the cheapest or even the safest. I am stating, however, that you have somehow become gripped by a fear that is entirely disproportionate to the risks. Everything in life has associated risks, deal with it.
Maybe you're too used to looking at pictures taken by a cell phone camera so a good quality camera no longer looks natural? It's OK, I have the same problem.
It isn't quite that simple... you could have inventors who license out to third parties to implement their inventions. Not everybody chooses to do their own manufacturing or development. IE - I have some sweet idea but no means to manufacture, so I license the patent out to you and your big company to develop and manufacture and we split the profits. Now say immakiku comes in and starts using the same technology without licensing the patent. That is a pretty reasonable situation which under such a simple test would be classified as a troll.
So no, it will remain pretty difficult to identify a troll from a legitimate inventor - the solution really involves raising the bar to be granted a patent. A lot of the patent trolls we see today seem to be holding on to patents that describe the most obvious solution to a problem that didn't exist when the patent was filed. It's certainly not a trivial issue and if I figure out a way to solve the patent system, I'm sure as hell gonna patent it!:P
We simply can't repay all the debt we owe at one sitting - that is as big of a problem for China as it is for us. Demanding all of our loans be repaid would wreak havoc in both economies.
They aren't legal currency - they have no cash value and can not really be traded for anything other than time at whatever gaming machine is designed to accept them. The transaction occurs when you buy the tokens - 25 cents for one credit on whatever game I want. A fuzzier example would be gambling chips at casinos which can be bought with money and then exchanged back for money. The government only cares when one of these is becoming (or is intended to be) a de facto currency.
I don't know if we're that much of a fringe... Anybody that *enjoys* driving a car will still enjoy it. Nostalgia doesn't really factor in to it. This demographic today are the drivers that take their task seriously and regularly practice and aren't going to go away when self-driven cars pop up.
If you only drive to get from point A to point B - fine and dandy, you'll want all the helpers and farkles you can get to make that trip as safe and smooth as possible. As my sibling poster points out; however, if you just want to get from place to place, a reliable public transportation system is a cheaper and safer way to go about it. I'd honestly rather not see self driving cars go mainstream. It doesn't solve the parking issues in urban areas, and it does very little to ease traffic issues - both of which are significantly eased by mass transit systems.
Wikis for the UH-60 show 8000 or 9000 lbs cargo capacity depending on configuration. Wouldn't be comfy in there, but when it's your only ride out, you make it work.
I'm pretty sure you're just with the wrong bank. At every branch of my credit union - while there may be posters and fliers about other loans and services - the tellers are polite, do their business, and finish with "anything else I can help you with today?" and that is it. I stopped shopping Best Buy because of the constant pressure to buy their extra services. I would drop my bank in a heartbeat if they started down that road.
Genius!! So you get somebody else to pay a portion of your schooling on the promise that you'll pay it back when you have a career - sort of like a loan... For students...
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...or go a long way to breaking the backs of businesses that really do need to downsize and scale back production to stay alive. Instead of having a handful of unemployed from a business, you would see the entire business fold. The entire idea of a golden parachute is a poison pill. Top level execs get them simply because they have the power to do so. And you know... if I had formed a business, you can be damn sure I'd do the same if for no other reason than to help me keep the business I built.
Excuse me sir but I think your tin foil hat has a leak...
Or Veridian Dynamics
Customers are only a herd to be exploited because we only make purchase decisions based on cost anymore. Buy the cheapest crap and throw it away when you're done. So no, it isn't just a problem with the company, it's a problem with the entire market at both the producer and consumer ends.
Sure, there are tons of companies out there who are in it for the long haul (for themselves *and* their employees) with great quality and support, but few people are willing to pay the premium for it. On top of that, we need to go way out of our way to find them - lord knows they won't have anything on the shelf at the big box stores.
Lord knows Chernobyl is a barren wasteland right now...
You're dead to me, oldmac!!!
You need to reassess your understanding of the risks. Any given day I am orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by a motorist than I am by an accident at a nuclear plant. Are you going to say motorists don't have any right to make the choice to get in their cars which endanger my life every day? Should that be where their freedom stops?
I don't understand where all the fear and bad press of nuclear energy started or under whose agenda - but it is there and ridiculously strong. Compare the direct and indirect deaths of the nuclear industry to that of coal or oil, compare the ecological damage done, then come back and tell me with a straight face that nuclear energy truly is an affront to your freedom.
I'm not claiming nuclear is the best solution for energy. Not claiming it's the cheapest or even the safest. I am stating, however, that you have somehow become gripped by a fear that is entirely disproportionate to the risks. Everything in life has associated risks, deal with it.
Most US coal comes from the US... So if it makes you feel any better we *are* blowing up our own back yard :)
Or worse because you can't depose a majority of your voters as easily as you can a dictator...
And they taste bad.
Sucks to be them I guess.
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It doesn't hurt to be nice.
I admit, I laughed a little.
Maybe you're too used to looking at pictures taken by a cell phone camera so a good quality camera no longer looks natural? It's OK, I have the same problem.
It isn't quite that simple... you could have inventors who license out to third parties to implement their inventions. Not everybody chooses to do their own manufacturing or development. IE - I have some sweet idea but no means to manufacture, so I license the patent out to you and your big company to develop and manufacture and we split the profits. Now say immakiku comes in and starts using the same technology without licensing the patent. That is a pretty reasonable situation which under such a simple test would be classified as a troll.
:P
So no, it will remain pretty difficult to identify a troll from a legitimate inventor - the solution really involves raising the bar to be granted a patent. A lot of the patent trolls we see today seem to be holding on to patents that describe the most obvious solution to a problem that didn't exist when the patent was filed. It's certainly not a trivial issue and if I figure out a way to solve the patent system, I'm sure as hell gonna patent it!
Well, they would have added more GPS satellites above Vermont, but the residents complained about it ruining the view!
Oh man... imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!!
We simply can't repay all the debt we owe at one sitting - that is as big of a problem for China as it is for us. Demanding all of our loans be repaid would wreak havoc in both economies.
...an outbreak that would start from where exactly? This logic seems a bit circular.
Hey, I'll still take it!
They aren't legal currency - they have no cash value and can not really be traded for anything other than time at whatever gaming machine is designed to accept them. The transaction occurs when you buy the tokens - 25 cents for one credit on whatever game I want. A fuzzier example would be gambling chips at casinos which can be bought with money and then exchanged back for money. The government only cares when one of these is becoming (or is intended to be) a de facto currency.
I don't know if we're that much of a fringe... Anybody that *enjoys* driving a car will still enjoy it. Nostalgia doesn't really factor in to it. This demographic today are the drivers that take their task seriously and regularly practice and aren't going to go away when self-driven cars pop up.
If you only drive to get from point A to point B - fine and dandy, you'll want all the helpers and farkles you can get to make that trip as safe and smooth as possible. As my sibling poster points out; however, if you just want to get from place to place, a reliable public transportation system is a cheaper and safer way to go about it. I'd honestly rather not see self driving cars go mainstream. It doesn't solve the parking issues in urban areas, and it does very little to ease traffic issues - both of which are significantly eased by mass transit systems.
...in cooperation. Is the US military awful because we allow the Canadian Snowbirds to fly into our major cities without scrambling any jets?
Wikis for the UH-60 show 8000 or 9000 lbs cargo capacity depending on configuration. Wouldn't be comfy in there, but when it's your only ride out, you make it work.
And technically if you take inflation into account it has gotten quite a bit cheaper.
I'm pretty sure you're just with the wrong bank. At every branch of my credit union - while there may be posters and fliers about other loans and services - the tellers are polite, do their business, and finish with "anything else I can help you with today?" and that is it. I stopped shopping Best Buy because of the constant pressure to buy their extra services. I would drop my bank in a heartbeat if they started down that road.
Genius!! So you get somebody else to pay a portion of your schooling on the promise that you'll pay it back when you have a career - sort of like a loan... For students...
I know! We can call it the student loan!!