Have you considered the impact on your economy? Why, tell me, should I store my data in your insecure country? Why should I do business in your country when I have to pretty much assume that anyone can intercept my communication? Furthermore, how easy do you intentionally make it for foreign competitors to spy on sensitive data and communication of your companies?
And that's just the tip of the ice berg.
You are crippling your economy in this time and age if you disallow encryption. Communication via the internet cannot be beat in terms of speed and price. Yes, it is possible to establish mostly secure communication without opening your communication to eavesdropping, but the cost alone would ruin your chance to be competitive internationally.
If you think the Chinese are stealing your trade secrets now already that you CAN encrypt, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You really need more evidence than what you can gather yourself? Tell me, how many "productive" hours are really in your work day. I mean productive. Where you actually do productive, meaningful work. And how many hours do you spend in meetings, with eyes glazing over and actually being HAPPY that you can be there so you don't feel like you have to do something? How many hours are wasted because you can't figure something out that you SHOULD be able to figure out easily (usually happens after 9+ hours in the office, usually around Thursday)? How many hours are wasted on something else that you do because you need a break?
If you now say that there are no such hours in your work day, I want your job. Because it sure is by some margin less exhausting than mine.
You will see the results only in the long run when you have fewer burnouts, fewer attention related accidents and higher retention and commitment levels. Because that's what you get out of something like that.
Ford paid his workers pretty much double what the competition paid, and of course in the short run it cost him more money. In the long run he had people who were committed to their job, who did pretty much everything to keep it, who gained experience and stayed and workers that identified with his company to the point where they spent their now available additional income on his products because they wanted to document that commitment and loyalty. Paying his workers more in the end meant that he made even more profit.
A similar effect can most likely be observed here, a company that lets me enjoy my life is a company I want to work for, being able to take care of my family properly means that my mind is 100% focused on work while I'm at work (instead of potentially worrying about something I could not get done) and of course this being a considerable job perk means that you can get people to WANT to work for you. You might even start feeling a net gain in the short run when you have people that actually do work those 32 hours they're in (instead of spending some of them to organize their personal life), freeing up office space that may let you get another worker without having to increase your office space.
Absolutely. It was the most productive time of my life. No people pestering me, no phone calls, it was perfect. Unfortunately everyone else thought just like me.
Whoever said that nobody wants to work the graveyard shift never worked in IT...
Almond and soy milk are sold as cow milk? That's outrageous!
No, wait... almond milk is actually called almond milk, and soy milk gets sold as soy milk. It's not even "milk". It's without fail sold with the qualifier "almond" or "soy".
And sorry, if people are too stupid to know that you don't squeeze cows and milk almonds, I have very, very little sympathy for them.
With any hint of luck, we could get the idiots that think that relabeling a condition changes the condition to jump on this and make room for people who actually could work on changing the condition.
It clearly says "up to" 15 drops. That's like the "up to" 100mbit you get on your internet connection. Maybe 100mbit around 4am, more likely 1kbit around prime time.
Remember: "0 times" is still well within any "up to" number.
Even more of a reason to dump those voting machines.
People pretty much have to trust paper and pencil. It's something everyone understands and trying to spin some conspiracy of how someone "stole" the election is pretty hard that way.
That gets way easier with a tool that few people understand, even fewer can audit and only a handful actually get anywhere close to actually auditing it.
That makes matters even worse. You do know that cellphones are hardly a market with a few thousands manufacturers, right? Let's ponder for a moment what happens with the phone market if you subtract Android.
The fine and especially it's level, is WAY too high to be considered "cost of doing business" by Google. So it makes no sense to use it as such. If the EU wanted to simply impose some sort of "fine tax", it would be set much lower so Google keeps paying. This is something Google will want to avoid.
The goal is not to create a competitor for Google. The goal is to be bought by Google for a couple billions and have more money than you can spend in a lifetime.
Competing with someone is hard. And risky. Now why would anyone want that?
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Have you considered the impact on your economy? Why, tell me, should I store my data in your insecure country? Why should I do business in your country when I have to pretty much assume that anyone can intercept my communication? Furthermore, how easy do you intentionally make it for foreign competitors to spy on sensitive data and communication of your companies?
And that's just the tip of the ice berg.
You are crippling your economy in this time and age if you disallow encryption. Communication via the internet cannot be beat in terms of speed and price. Yes, it is possible to establish mostly secure communication without opening your communication to eavesdropping, but the cost alone would ruin your chance to be competitive internationally.
If you think the Chinese are stealing your trade secrets now already that you CAN encrypt, you ain't seen nothing yet.
But these things are possible...
The problem with the concept is not maglev. It's the vacuum.
You really need more evidence than what you can gather yourself? Tell me, how many "productive" hours are really in your work day. I mean productive. Where you actually do productive, meaningful work. And how many hours do you spend in meetings, with eyes glazing over and actually being HAPPY that you can be there so you don't feel like you have to do something? How many hours are wasted because you can't figure something out that you SHOULD be able to figure out easily (usually happens after 9+ hours in the office, usually around Thursday)? How many hours are wasted on something else that you do because you need a break?
If you now say that there are no such hours in your work day, I want your job. Because it sure is by some margin less exhausting than mine.
You will see the results only in the long run when you have fewer burnouts, fewer attention related accidents and higher retention and commitment levels. Because that's what you get out of something like that.
Ford paid his workers pretty much double what the competition paid, and of course in the short run it cost him more money. In the long run he had people who were committed to their job, who did pretty much everything to keep it, who gained experience and stayed and workers that identified with his company to the point where they spent their now available additional income on his products because they wanted to document that commitment and loyalty. Paying his workers more in the end meant that he made even more profit.
A similar effect can most likely be observed here, a company that lets me enjoy my life is a company I want to work for, being able to take care of my family properly means that my mind is 100% focused on work while I'm at work (instead of potentially worrying about something I could not get done) and of course this being a considerable job perk means that you can get people to WANT to work for you. You might even start feeling a net gain in the short run when you have people that actually do work those 32 hours they're in (instead of spending some of them to organize their personal life), freeing up office space that may let you get another worker without having to increase your office space.
Why not just hire two? One of them can read, the other one can write.
I could live with a 0 day work week. Provided the money is ok.
Absolutely. It was the most productive time of my life. No people pestering me, no phone calls, it was perfect. Unfortunately everyone else thought just like me.
Whoever said that nobody wants to work the graveyard shift never worked in IT...
Hmm. I guess in Europe you actually have to label your stuff based on what's inside, I can find "milk" on every single milk product, actually.
I wouldn't be so arbitrary. I just say, remove the warning labels of various items and let Darwin be right.
I'd pay to see that happen.
Well, I'm a bit torn. On one hand, yeah, you're 100% correct. On the other hand, stupid, ignorant people die when food labels aren't idiot proof.
You're not exactly helping your argument...
Almond and soy milk are sold as cow milk? That's outrageous!
No, wait... almond milk is actually called almond milk, and soy milk gets sold as soy milk. It's not even "milk". It's without fail sold with the qualifier "almond" or "soy".
And sorry, if people are too stupid to know that you don't squeeze cows and milk almonds, I have very, very little sympathy for them.
What about baby oil?
Or... well... hemorrhoid cream?
So... People are stupid and don't want to learn, so let's dumb down products so stupid, ignorant people can remain in that state?
You know, Idiocracy was not supposed to be an utopian movie...
With any hint of luck, we could get the idiots that think that relabeling a condition changes the condition to jump on this and make room for people who actually could work on changing the condition.
Out of curiosity: What name should we instead give to peanutbutter?
And that has what exactly to do with anything?
It clearly says "up to" 15 drops. That's like the "up to" 100mbit you get on your internet connection. Maybe 100mbit around 4am, more likely 1kbit around prime time.
Remember: "0 times" is still well within any "up to" number.
But why bother? I'm not greedy, I take a billion or two and be happy with it, I don't have to have 150 of them.
Which of them have a dominating position in their market?
Even more of a reason to dump those voting machines.
People pretty much have to trust paper and pencil. It's something everyone understands and trying to spin some conspiracy of how someone "stole" the election is pretty hard that way.
That gets way easier with a tool that few people understand, even fewer can audit and only a handful actually get anywhere close to actually auditing it.
That makes matters even worse. You do know that cellphones are hardly a market with a few thousands manufacturers, right? Let's ponder for a moment what happens with the phone market if you subtract Android.
How exactly do you lock up a corporation?
The fine and especially it's level, is WAY too high to be considered "cost of doing business" by Google. So it makes no sense to use it as such. If the EU wanted to simply impose some sort of "fine tax", it would be set much lower so Google keeps paying. This is something Google will want to avoid.
The goal is not to create a competitor for Google. The goal is to be bought by Google for a couple billions and have more money than you can spend in a lifetime.
Competing with someone is hard. And risky. Now why would anyone want that?