Its another example of China streamlining a process and using it in their war against the rest of the planet. Like gold farming or melanin tainted baby formula.
There seems to be news like this in abundance. When corporate profits start to sag, or don't skyrocket the legal teams start looking for people to mess with to rack up billable hours. It's disgusting to say the least how willing these companies are to alienate fans in pursuit of profits.
It also works well it for-profit juvenile detention centers. If there is a buck to be made on it, it will be made at any and all costs. Check this one out and think to yourself how many times this is happening and not being caught.
I totally agree with your point. I think internet presence != success, but it is certainly helpful and when you have ubiquitous knowledge at your fingertips by being able to go google something it beats the hell out of having to stand in line for an hour to use a computer for 30 minutes.
Seconded, there is a computer room in my apartment complex and there is always a long line of kids waiting to check their FB. My kids always have a few friends that want to use their computers to do the same. Not having a computer does not exclude you from having an online presence.
Yeah because only liberals like Bloomberg run large metropolitan cities. And liberals like Mitt Romney run states with cities with horrid subways like Boston.
Are you serious? Yeah, letting AT&T do and charge what they please when they are 1 of 3 soon to be 1 of 1 cell phone carrier will solve all the problems. Good call Rush.
I'm not sure that is exactly correct. It may be time consuming and expensive, but that doesn't exactly make it difficult. I used to work in a semiconductor fab and some of the process we used processed at 1200C (melting point of Si is 1420C or close to that) and we more often than not used argon gas in processing due to it's properties as an inert gas. Being that hydrogen is a pretty abundant substance it seems the raw materials are fairly easy to come by. I guess the real challenge would be to find a market for large scale production and to find a viable manufacturing location since I'm sure it has to be performed in a clean room environment. Once you have the proper elements in place though, you could have a monkey pushing the start, stop, and unload buttons. That's pretty much what fab operators are in general anyhow. Just my 0.02.
I think really in the context of FB in general, they might say they want accountability, but in actual practice they want a name and an address they can use to market and sell garbage to. The fuckwits at FB don't really give one wet fart whether you are an online prince charming or an online asshat. They just want something or someone they can sell.
Don't allow them to obfuscate the issue with talk of manners and accountability because they are more concerned with putting a dollar sign to a name than anything else.
I work for an agency here in the states and we are a Dell shop. Dell likes to charge $700 for a system bragging they they gave us a $200 discount on a $900 machine that is actually worth $300. The biggest problem we have in our shop is that we don't have an IT budget. All It procurements are made from the general or individual funds and the IT director just rubber stamps many of them just to keep people happy.
There is a bigger problem though with the industry in general in that IT people are often not in charge of IT departments, business people are and they don't know shit about computers or what a good deal is so they let companies like Dell give them a big pile of crap deal while getting their ego's massaged and pockets filled.
That has always been the big issue with allocating power to the states and was the big holdup to the whole "shopping for health insurance across state lines" bullshit. There will always be one state (usually a more rural one) that will sell it's own people down the toxic river just to entice some mega corp or another to come do business in their state thus forcing the lower common denominator for the rest of the country.
The steep decline started in the 80's, but you are correct that it didn't exactly start in the 80's. It really started in the 60's, but you can't deny that the steepest decline occurred during the last 30 years and if you are not willing to admit that the really who is the ignorant one? Not really implying the r's are more to blame for this than the d's, but they just happen to have been in power for the most part during the steepest decline.
It's true. Starting in the 80's American freedoms and liberties started taking a backseat to corporate profits. From 80-00 It was a slow decline but from 00-08 it was pretty much a raging plummet.
My state pays more to the government than it collects as do 90% of the blue states in the union. I also happen to work for the state so I know the limits of what the state is allowed to do. So in your model, a company from Va. comes to my state and mines gold then leaves a huge mess to clean up. The company then leaves a huge toxic mess and goes back to Va. My state goes after said company for the cost of the cleanup. There are 2 scenarios here under your schema:
1. Said company cannot be pursued because it is a Va. company and my state has no actual juridsiction over it or
2. Said company then dissolves the corporation and reforms under a different name leaving no actual entity available for recovery of funds. (This is what actually happens)
Then my state is left with the associated costs of cleaning up a huge toxic strip mining mess. Oh wait, the state doesn't have enough money to pay for the clean up because the Va. company signed a contract stating they would be a good corporate citizen and not do what they just did.
Does that then mean my state could go after Va. for the cost? If not, then who do we turn to?
Like it or not, we are a union, not a series of countries, and no matter how much your cry "states rights" nothing is going to change the fact that we need a large centralized entity to watch over the country as a whole.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying there is no place for states rights, but there has to be a federal government to oversee things like the military and international trade. You can't trust each state to properly take care of it's people as it is, do you think it would get better if we gave them all the power?
Exactly. People will bitch and moan about the government all day but then they get to drive to work on paved roads with traffic moderation and other amenities. There are several superfund sites in my state left over by the mining industry when it was policing itsself for years and years. Now who has to clean the mercury out of the aquifer so these ignorant a-holes can drink clean water? It isn't the company that created the mess I can tell you that for sure and it isn't the state government. The Federal government does have a very needed purpose in the lives of the people and anyone that doesn't think so is completely ignorant. I'm not saying everything they do is great, but there are some things that the market simply wouldn't care to do even if they had the opportuninty to do so. Safe food? Government. Safe housing? Government. Safe infrastructure? Government. Clean air and Water? Government. State government can only do so much and a lot of what it can do is pretty ineffectual when you consider the broader implications of interstate commerce.
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Its another example of China streamlining a process and using it in their war against the rest of the planet. Like gold farming or melanin tainted baby formula.
They posted->archived->reposted the article leading to the time shift.
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There seems to be news like this in abundance. When corporate profits start to sag, or don't skyrocket the legal teams start looking for people to mess with to rack up billable hours. It's disgusting to say the least how willing these companies are to alienate fans in pursuit of profits.
It also works well it for-profit juvenile detention centers. If there is a buck to be made on it, it will be made at any and all costs. Check this one out and think to yourself how many times this is happening and not being caught.
I totally agree with your point. I think internet presence != success, but it is certainly helpful and when you have ubiquitous knowledge at your fingertips by being able to go google something it beats the hell out of having to stand in line for an hour to use a computer for 30 minutes.
Seconded, there is a computer room in my apartment complex and there is always a long line of kids waiting to check their FB. My kids always have a few friends that want to use their computers to do the same. Not having a computer does not exclude you from having an online presence.
Yeah because only liberals like Bloomberg run large metropolitan cities. And liberals like Mitt Romney run states with cities with horrid subways like Boston.
Man you beat me to it.
Are you serious? Yeah, letting AT&T do and charge what they please when they are 1 of 3 soon to be 1 of 1 cell phone carrier will solve all the problems. Good call Rush.
The merger of Steve and Bill or the merge of Laura and Lucy.
I'm not sure that is exactly correct. It may be time consuming and expensive, but that doesn't exactly make it difficult. I used to work in a semiconductor fab and some of the process we used processed at 1200C (melting point of Si is 1420C or close to that) and we more often than not used argon gas in processing due to it's properties as an inert gas. Being that hydrogen is a pretty abundant substance it seems the raw materials are fairly easy to come by. I guess the real challenge would be to find a market for large scale production and to find a viable manufacturing location since I'm sure it has to be performed in a clean room environment. Once you have the proper elements in place though, you could have a monkey pushing the start, stop, and unload buttons. That's pretty much what fab operators are in general anyhow. Just my 0.02.
The rise of the "Tea Party" here in America is a similar phenomenon. They're just neo-nazis with a good public relations department.
Well said sir, except I don't think they have a good PR department, just a really really stupid audience.
Way to take a joke cry baby.
Sir, I'd like you to point out exactly how much American dignity and respect was there was before this deal. You can't kill something twice.
Cracker please.
I think really in the context of FB in general, they might say they want accountability, but in actual practice they want a name and an address they can use to market and sell garbage to. The fuckwits at FB don't really give one wet fart whether you are an online prince charming or an online asshat. They just want something or someone they can sell. Don't allow them to obfuscate the issue with talk of manners and accountability because they are more concerned with putting a dollar sign to a name than anything else.
I work for an agency here in the states and we are a Dell shop. Dell likes to charge $700 for a system bragging they they gave us a $200 discount on a $900 machine that is actually worth $300. The biggest problem we have in our shop is that we don't have an IT budget. All It procurements are made from the general or individual funds and the IT director just rubber stamps many of them just to keep people happy. There is a bigger problem though with the industry in general in that IT people are often not in charge of IT departments, business people are and they don't know shit about computers or what a good deal is so they let companies like Dell give them a big pile of crap deal while getting their ego's massaged and pockets filled.
That has always been the big issue with allocating power to the states and was the big holdup to the whole "shopping for health insurance across state lines" bullshit. There will always be one state (usually a more rural one) that will sell it's own people down the toxic river just to entice some mega corp or another to come do business in their state thus forcing the lower common denominator for the rest of the country.
The steep decline started in the 80's, but you are correct that it didn't exactly start in the 80's. It really started in the 60's, but you can't deny that the steepest decline occurred during the last 30 years and if you are not willing to admit that the really who is the ignorant one? Not really implying the r's are more to blame for this than the d's, but they just happen to have been in power for the most part during the steepest decline.
It's true. Starting in the 80's American freedoms and liberties started taking a backseat to corporate profits. From 80-00 It was a slow decline but from 00-08 it was pretty much a raging plummet.
My state pays more to the government than it collects as do 90% of the blue states in the union. I also happen to work for the state so I know the limits of what the state is allowed to do. So in your model, a company from Va. comes to my state and mines gold then leaves a huge mess to clean up. The company then leaves a huge toxic mess and goes back to Va. My state goes after said company for the cost of the cleanup. There are 2 scenarios here under your schema: 1. Said company cannot be pursued because it is a Va. company and my state has no actual juridsiction over it or 2. Said company then dissolves the corporation and reforms under a different name leaving no actual entity available for recovery of funds. (This is what actually happens) Then my state is left with the associated costs of cleaning up a huge toxic strip mining mess. Oh wait, the state doesn't have enough money to pay for the clean up because the Va. company signed a contract stating they would be a good corporate citizen and not do what they just did. Does that then mean my state could go after Va. for the cost? If not, then who do we turn to? Like it or not, we are a union, not a series of countries, and no matter how much your cry "states rights" nothing is going to change the fact that we need a large centralized entity to watch over the country as a whole. Keep in mind, I'm not saying there is no place for states rights, but there has to be a federal government to oversee things like the military and international trade. You can't trust each state to properly take care of it's people as it is, do you think it would get better if we gave them all the power?
Exactly. People will bitch and moan about the government all day but then they get to drive to work on paved roads with traffic moderation and other amenities. There are several superfund sites in my state left over by the mining industry when it was policing itsself for years and years. Now who has to clean the mercury out of the aquifer so these ignorant a-holes can drink clean water? It isn't the company that created the mess I can tell you that for sure and it isn't the state government. The Federal government does have a very needed purpose in the lives of the people and anyone that doesn't think so is completely ignorant. I'm not saying everything they do is great, but there are some things that the market simply wouldn't care to do even if they had the opportuninty to do so. Safe food? Government. Safe housing? Government. Safe infrastructure? Government. Clean air and Water? Government. State government can only do so much and a lot of what it can do is pretty ineffectual when you consider the broader implications of interstate commerce.
To be fair, no one in washington wants to raise taxes on wealthy americans because they are all wealthy americans.