This article is exceptionally vague. The declines in revenue over the last year or two are a couple of percentage points, and there were declines from 2005-2006 too when Gates was at the helm.
Nothing moves straight up forever. To have your revenue fall a couple Billion to $60 Billion is certainly a problem I'd like to have.
I'm well aware of this bill. It hasn't got enough support in the Senate yet, and they're trying to attach it to another bill which shouldn't happen.
Bernanke the fraud along with tax fraud Tim Geithner are trying to argue that 'we' don't want to politicize monetary policy even though the Fed Chair is appointed by a politician.
Given that this bill has way more support than the health care bill, or any of the bailouts(which were passed in about 2 days) and is only one page in length, it should have been passed last year.
His point was that just because one driller made a mistake, doesn't mean the rest are bad. Every time someone has a car accident, we don't shut down the freeways for 6 months.
If not for the Federal Government, they never would have gone to deep water. The Feds passed a law limiting BP's liablity, and now they want to repeal it. They also disallow off shore drilling as well as on shore drilling. So if not for the Federal Government, they never would have gone to the risky deep water drilling.
Everyone wants to villify BP even though they help to keep oil costs low(because they increase competition with the other oil companies), and employ 80,000 people. I hope those who went out to protest DON'T OWN CARS, or any other petroleum based product. I'm sure they do, hypocrites.
But the value in the product is not in the tech, it's in the marketing. The fact is, without major support from other major media outlets, twitter never would have survived.
That is a tautology, so I can't disagree with you on it.
I assume you're suggesting that code from two different programmers is of equal value no matter what? If so, I have to disagree with you. I've seen working code that is impossible to maintain. I've seen flaky code that works say 70% of the time. I've seen exceptionally clean code that doesn't work. And of course, my code...which is of course perfect. Both easy to read and maintain.
The oddball who INSISTS that he is going to drive 10 to 30 mile over the speed limit is an utter moron, and he needs to be taken to court, fined, driver's license suspended, and possibly given some jail time. He has no business on the road.
The posted limit is 65mph in California. That is so ridiculously slow. 80 - 85 mph is perfectly safe. In fact, I'd argue that going 80+ mph with 5 car lengths of separation on front, back and no one on either side ( i.e. an X ) is WAY safer than going 65mph with 2 inches of separation and cars or trucks on both sides. We should be enforcing safe driving distances more so than slow speeds. I wouldn't even mind if we enforced 1 car length per 10 mph. Although I'd agree there is a speed that is no longer safe, but it's really more about speed differences than total speed. Driving 100+ on the 5 freeway at 3am when there's no traffic isn't really that dangerous.
We should be ticketing people for following to close or driving side by side (although I believe the CHP does give you a break if you're driving 80 with reasonable safety precautions).
Don't worry about the state going bankrupt. The Federal Government will bail the stupid legislators out. I'd like it to be clear that the citizens are not being bailed out unless you're a firefighter or teacher. We've been paying taxes, and getting screwed just like the rest of the country will soon be.
Software and hardware engineers don't go around making excuses for the high cost of computers. They just lower them. The cost of computers has been reduced from $600,000 to $600 and the speed has been increased by 16 Million Times since 1950. On top of that, that's funny money. If you look at it in terms of real money, the cost of a computer has dropped from 20,000 ounces of gold to about 0.5 ounces.
When technology gets better, the cost of services should come down. The problem with health care is that the government has so much involvement with it. Instead of health care prices dropping, like they should be, for standard procedures they are rising. If you look at plastic surgery and lasik, two non government subsidized procedures, you'll see that they've come down dramatically in price just in the last 10 years.
Get rid of the HMO, Medicare, Medicaid, government regulations on what insurance companies must sell, The Prescription Drug Program. the AMA, licensure laws which politicize who may or may not be a doctor and do little to ensure quality of care. These are all government imposed monopolies or oligopolies Get the government out of education so that it doesn't cost half a working career salary just to get a medical degree.
We've seen Russia crumble though. The US thrived for the first 137 years of it's existence. There were bumps, but there was nothing like the Great Depression until we started going with centralized power. During that time we had an abundance of resources.
There is no way to have equitable distribution of resources. Some people are bigger and stronger, others are better looking, others are smarter. All of these traits affect productivity. You can't have a government(who has nothing, they don't produce, just consume) come in and somehow figure out how to take from one person and give to another. One party will lose in that deal.
My position is that a government who is the biggest monopoly of anyone is not the one to break up a monopoly or oligopoly. The FCC should not even exist. They are the ones that create rules and regulations that allow monopolies to form. So the guys who create the oligopoly, are definitely not going to break it up.
Using your philosophy, Atari would be the only game console, Wickes would be the only furniture store, Montgomery Ward would be the only department store, Ace would be the only hardware store, K-Mart would be the only discount retailer, and we'd all still be drinking Mr. Pibb! Given how young you are, you probably haven't even heard of many of these brands.
It's expensive to start an ISP because they have to abide by all kinds of rules and regulations as well as licensure laws. Start ups can't afford this cost.
You can't have a natural monopoly while at the same time have the FCC. That's a contradiction. Going even further, you can't have a natural monopoly with a government imposed monopoly of the money supply.
With the internet giving everyone a voice, that is a threat to the monopoly of broadcasting. Just like they took control of the airwaves in the 30's, and have controlled elections that way, they are looking to do the same with the internet. I'm sure the masses will fall for it since Idiocracy has long been in effect. Get ready to pay way more for internet access. The same way they said they've gotten involved with Health Care and Education in order to "help the poor"; but instead have driven prices up to unaffordable levels, they will now do the same to the internet. Too bad it's the poor that are stupid enough to believe these guys have their best interest at heart, and there's way too many poor who receive handouts...so the stupid cycle will continue.
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This article is exceptionally vague. The declines in revenue over the last year or two are a couple of percentage points, and there were declines from 2005-2006 too when Gates was at the helm.
Nothing moves straight up forever. To have your revenue fall a couple Billion to $60 Billion is certainly a problem I'd like to have.
As long as they don't start using the technologies on the citizens of the US. Do you trust them?
I'm well aware of this bill. It hasn't got enough support in the Senate yet, and they're trying to attach it to another bill which shouldn't happen.
Bernanke the fraud along with tax fraud Tim Geithner are trying to argue that 'we' don't want to politicize monetary policy even though the Fed Chair is appointed by a politician.
Given that this bill has way more support than the health care bill, or any of the bailouts(which were passed in about 2 days) and is only one page in length, it should have been passed last year.
The biggest counterfeiter of them all is the Federal Reserve. This is why you don't have frauds enforce fraud laws.
What is the fucking point?!?!?!?!?
His point was that just because one driller made a mistake, doesn't mean the rest are bad. Every time someone has a car accident, we don't shut down the freeways for 6 months.
If not for the Federal Government, they never would have gone to deep water. The Feds passed a law limiting BP's liablity, and now they want to repeal it. They also disallow off shore drilling as well as on shore drilling. So if not for the Federal Government, they never would have gone to the risky deep water drilling.
Everyone wants to villify BP even though they help to keep oil costs low(because they increase competition with the other oil companies), and employ 80,000 people. I hope those who went out to protest DON'T OWN CARS, or any other petroleum based product. I'm sure they do, hypocrites.
But the value in the product is not in the tech, it's in the marketing. The fact is, without major support from other major media outlets, twitter never would have survived.
probably about 2 days by referencing www.w3schools.com
No one is saying it's the biggest issue, it's an issue.
Code is generally code
That is a tautology, so I can't disagree with you on it.
I assume you're suggesting that code from two different programmers is of equal value no matter what? If so, I have to disagree with you. I've seen working code that is impossible to maintain. I've seen flaky code that works say 70% of the time. I've seen exceptionally clean code that doesn't work. And of course, my code...which is of course perfect. Both easy to read and maintain.
Is there any reason for the citizens to stay? I can see mass emigration ensuing is this crap continues.
The oddball who INSISTS that he is going to drive 10 to 30 mile over the speed limit is an utter moron, and he needs to be taken to court, fined, driver's license suspended, and possibly given some jail time. He has no business on the road.
The posted limit is 65mph in California. That is so ridiculously slow. 80 - 85 mph is perfectly safe. In fact, I'd argue that going 80+ mph with 5 car lengths of separation on front, back and no one on either side ( i.e. an X ) is WAY safer than going 65mph with 2 inches of separation and cars or trucks on both sides. We should be enforcing safe driving distances more so than slow speeds. I wouldn't even mind if we enforced 1 car length per 10 mph. Although I'd agree there is a speed that is no longer safe, but it's really more about speed differences than total speed. Driving 100+ on the 5 freeway at 3am when there's no traffic isn't really that dangerous.
We should be ticketing people for following to close or driving side by side (although I believe the CHP does give you a break if you're driving 80 with reasonable safety precautions).
Don't worry about the state going bankrupt. The Federal Government will bail the stupid legislators out. I'd like it to be clear that the citizens are not being bailed out unless you're a firefighter or teacher. We've been paying taxes, and getting screwed just like the rest of the country will soon be.
That's a good one. I may do that on top of sending password protected .zip files when sending sensitive info (if I must)
Software and hardware engineers don't go around making excuses for the high cost of computers. They just lower them. The cost of computers has been reduced from $600,000 to $600 and the speed has been increased by 16 Million Times since 1950. On top of that, that's funny money. If you look at it in terms of real money, the cost of a computer has dropped from 20,000 ounces of gold to about 0.5 ounces.
When technology gets better, the cost of services should come down. The problem with health care is that the government has so much involvement with it. Instead of health care prices dropping, like they should be, for standard procedures they are rising. If you look at plastic surgery and lasik, two non government subsidized procedures, you'll see that they've come down dramatically in price just in the last 10 years.
Get rid of the HMO, Medicare, Medicaid, government regulations on what insurance companies must sell, The Prescription Drug Program. the AMA, licensure laws which politicize who may or may not be a doctor and do little to ensure quality of care. These are all government imposed monopolies or oligopolies Get the government out of education so that it doesn't cost half a working career salary just to get a medical degree.
You're salary will be $5000 - $200,000 per year. Would you like the job?
If a company used this, they'd effectively be sharing all of their trade secrets with Google. Why would anyone do that?
Then he could throw the stupid Pakistani lawyer in jail.
I don't even listen to him, but Thanks!
We've seen Russia crumble though. The US thrived for the first 137 years of it's existence. There were bumps, but there was nothing like the Great Depression until we started going with centralized power. During that time we had an abundance of resources.
There is no way to have equitable distribution of resources. Some people are bigger and stronger, others are better looking, others are smarter. All of these traits affect productivity. You can't have a government(who has nothing, they don't produce, just consume) come in and somehow figure out how to take from one person and give to another. One party will lose in that deal.
My position is that a government who is the biggest monopoly of anyone is not the one to break up a monopoly or oligopoly. The FCC should not even exist. They are the ones that create rules and regulations that allow monopolies to form. So the guys who create the oligopoly, are definitely not going to break it up.
Using your philosophy, Atari would be the only game console, Wickes would be the only furniture store, Montgomery Ward would be the only department store, Ace would be the only hardware store, K-Mart would be the only discount retailer, and we'd all still be drinking Mr. Pibb! Given how young you are, you probably haven't even heard of many of these brands.
It's expensive to start an ISP because they have to abide by all kinds of rules and regulations as well as licensure laws. Start ups can't afford this cost.
You can't have a natural monopoly while at the same time have the FCC. That's a contradiction. Going even further, you can't have a natural monopoly with a government imposed monopoly of the money supply.
With the internet giving everyone a voice, that is a threat to the monopoly of broadcasting. Just like they took control of the airwaves in the 30's, and have controlled elections that way, they are looking to do the same with the internet. I'm sure the masses will fall for it since Idiocracy has long been in effect. Get ready to pay way more for internet access. The same way they said they've gotten involved with Health Care and Education in order to "help the poor"; but instead have driven prices up to unaffordable levels, they will now do the same to the internet. Too bad it's the poor that are stupid enough to believe these guys have their best interest at heart, and there's way too many poor who receive handouts...so the stupid cycle will continue.
Why don't you look in to why you only have 2 ISPs to choose from before blaming the "Evil Corporations".
How would you even know? You've never experienced it.