Only it doesn't work, because this type of system ensures that only the top percentile remain in the team in the long run, meaning that last year's top performances become this year's average target.
In short, if you're an overachiever, you'll raise the bar for everyone else, including yourself. It's a self-defeating system.
Imagine the number of starving people they could feed, or development projects they could fund, with the money they channel into running computers to control the citizenry...
I've been in that situation a few years ago, and one thing that works well, provided the client is reasonably well known, is to threaten to shame the hell out of them on various websites / forums and getting search engines to come up with "these guys don't pay their bills", "thieves" or other such results when someone types their name.
Of course, it's not that easy to do, but it's doable enough (and has been done before) that the client might think again and cough up the money.
As for judge.me, what can I say... As if we didn't have enough lawyers lining their pockets off of conflicting parties in real life. Geez...
Tell you what: the "cloud" hype will come crashing down the minute some big company that invested massively in off-site services and storage loses internet connection for a few hours...
The grand word "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" hides the very simple concept of an oversized radio-controlled plane. Amateurs have been doing aerial photography - and sometimes very good aerial photography - on the cheap with RC planes for a long time. Nothing earth-shattering here...
Email took off and stayed established because it was an open interface and anyone could set up a server.
No. Email took off because it was *useful*. Even closed source email tools such as Exchange have success for the same reason.
Facebook on the other hand is not useful. It may be fun (to each his own), addictive, a great time waster, but it's not essential. I've had friends - real friends - with whom I've exchanged messages way before FB even existed, through email, Fidonet before that, and *gasp* telephone and hamradio before that.
You can do without FB, and ultimately this will be FB's undoing: either people will move on to some other nonessential such service to get their kicks, or they'll waste their free time on something else if Zuckerberg tries a little too hard to squeeze money out of them.
I find humanity strange: there's an ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET completely pristine and untouched, waiting to be explored, and all people can think off is returning to a few square miles of it that's already been visited.
It's like a dog coming back to sniff its own poo when there's the rest of the garden to visit.
That's illogical right from Go. France made a national decision to decide certain things at the EU level. Why are you distorting such an obvious thing? Do you think the EU came from outer space or something? Crawl out of the tinfoil. France is a major architect of the EU.
Just because you willingly decide to tread in manure doesn't mean you won't regret the stink on your shoes later, or that it was a good idea.
They may not enjoy corn on the cob, but they eat corn alright, as does most of the world, in the form of processed food. You find corn derivatives in a bewildering varieties of industrial foods.
France also produces a lot of corn, amazingly, considering the problems they have with water table depletion every other summer.
Not because the EU overturned the ban, but because the EU can overrule national decisions in such important matters, and a vast majority of other matters in almost all aspects of life.
French authorities may or may not be right about not trusting Monsanto's GMOs, I am not qualified to have an opinion on the subject, but what I see here is that, in effect, they only have a consulting role since a another body in Brussels disagreed and decided otherwise. That's what you get when you relinquish your national sovereignty to a half-assed de-facto federal government that doesn't speak its name.
It's the same for the ability to lower certain taxes, doing protectionism, devaluing the currency they no longer have control of, and a whole slew of important and less important things that define an independent nation. EU member states don't have any real say over these things anymore. That's why I'm amazed to see people in the streets of France celebrate the election of their new prez, hoping for a brighter future with him, when in reality he's just a figurehead with almost no power to do anything meaningful.
A common misconception. Since money isn't tied to anything physical, there is no reason that more of it need lower the value. The current value is already arbitrary.
The price of things is based on offer and demand. Suppose I offer to sell you a satsuma at $1 and you earn only $10 a day, I've priced it too high and you won't buy, so I'll lower my price until you and I agree that the price is okay for you and me (i.e. when you estimate the satsuma is worth whatever portion of your work I ask for it - your money, that is - and I estimate I can make a reasonable profit with your purchase).
Now suppose you photocopy a bunch of dollar bills: you come to be with $1000 in your pocket and buy my satsuma for $1 like it was nothing. What do you think I'm gonna do when I see you're so rich? I'll raise my price since I can make a bundle out of you and you don't care. So I'll sell my satsumas at, say, $20 a pop.
And if enough people photocopy dollar bills, everybody will rise their prices. Who's losing? Those who don't photocopy dollar bills. Suddenly, they can't afford my satsumas anymore. They've lost purchasing power. For them, their money has lost value.
I have news for you: in pretty much every country, politicos and powers-that-be mostly care about (1) lining their pockets and (2) being reelected to carry on lining their pockets for a few more years. Oh and yes, a sizable bunch of them also get off on power and control, and seeing their own faces on TV. At any rate, precious few care about their constituents...
That's a bit silly. It's like telling a kid who has terminal cancer he doesn't need to carry on going to school because there's no point. Cancer kids and Greece have a right to fully functional lives.
There is another issue: if people knew **AA shenanigans could be put on hold if their country was in dire straights, that would be reason enough for people to demand that the government bankrupt the country. Just for the joy of sticking it up the **AAs' collective ass, ya know...
When is the battery problem going to be solved? Yes I know batteries have been getting better over the years, but devices these days have a hard time saying alive more than 24 hours doing anything useful these days.
All these wonderful gadgets all end up sucking pond water from the bottom because you need to tether them to a mains socket every few hours...
Well no, the Greeks and everybody else can tell creditors to stick it up their collective asses. Ultimately, the economy of the whole world may fail, but it won't endanger our biotope. Screwing up the weather however can't be undone.
Remember, debt is an artificial human construct. Global warning (if/when it happens) is reality. You can't dismiss reality.
Funny, the first thing that went through my mind before reading TFA was that they had arrested him for running a scam whereby his organization made viruses to boost his antivirus software sales numbers...
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Only it doesn't work, because this type of system ensures that only the top percentile remain in the team in the long run, meaning that last year's top performances become this year's average target.
In short, if you're an overachiever, you'll raise the bar for everyone else, including yourself. It's a self-defeating system.
What's the best way to survive this type of system?
It's called a union.
It's actually very representative of the two-faced attitude of humanity: the message of peace in the record is delivered by a former Nazi.
That's the real problem with this record, not the fact that it's copyrighted.
The only losers here are AmeriCash Advance customers.
Imagine the number of starving people they could feed, or development projects they could fund, with the money they channel into running computers to control the citizenry...
I've been in that situation a few years ago, and one thing that works well, provided the client is reasonably well known, is to threaten to shame the hell out of them on various websites / forums and getting search engines to come up with "these guys don't pay their bills", "thieves" or other such results when someone types their name.
Of course, it's not that easy to do, but it's doable enough (and has been done before) that the client might think again and cough up the money.
As for judge.me, what can I say... As if we didn't have enough lawyers lining their pockets off of conflicting parties in real life. Geez...
Yeah, it's aboot time.
Sounds like bullshit world to me...
Tell you what: the "cloud" hype will come crashing down the minute some big company that invested massively in off-site services and storage loses internet connection for a few hours...
The grand word "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" hides the very simple concept of an oversized radio-controlled plane. Amateurs have been doing aerial photography - and sometimes very good aerial photography - on the cheap with RC planes for a long time. Nothing earth-shattering here...
I remember in the early days logging into a BBS waaaaay back in the day. What was that? It was basically the internet _and_ a social network in one.
Ahh, animated ASCII art pr0n over modem. Only 4 users could jerk off at any one time. Those were the days...
Email took off and stayed established because it was an open interface and anyone could set up a server.
No. Email took off because it was *useful*. Even closed source email tools such as Exchange have success for the same reason.
Facebook on the other hand is not useful. It may be fun (to each his own), addictive, a great time waster, but it's not essential. I've had friends - real friends - with whom I've exchanged messages way before FB even existed, through email, Fidonet before that, and *gasp* telephone and hamradio before that.
You can do without FB, and ultimately this will be FB's undoing: either people will move on to some other nonessential such service to get their kicks, or they'll waste their free time on something else if Zuckerberg tries a little too hard to squeeze money out of them.
I find humanity strange: there's an ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET completely pristine and untouched, waiting to be explored, and all people can think off is returning to a few square miles of it that's already been visited.
It's like a dog coming back to sniff its own poo when there's the rest of the garden to visit.
That's illogical right from Go. France made a national decision to decide certain things at the EU level. Why are you distorting such an obvious thing? Do you think the EU came from outer space or something? Crawl out of the tinfoil. France is a major architect of the EU.
Just because you willingly decide to tread in manure doesn't mean you won't regret the stink on your shoes later, or that it was a good idea.
The French are not big eaters of corn, anyways.
They may not enjoy corn on the cob, but they eat corn alright, as does most of the world, in the form of processed food. You find corn derivatives in a bewildering varieties of industrial foods.
France also produces a lot of corn, amazingly, considering the problems they have with water table depletion every other summer.
Not because the EU overturned the ban, but because the EU can overrule national decisions in such important matters, and a vast majority of other matters in almost all aspects of life.
French authorities may or may not be right about not trusting Monsanto's GMOs, I am not qualified to have an opinion on the subject, but what I see here is that, in effect, they only have a consulting role since a another body in Brussels disagreed and decided otherwise. That's what you get when you relinquish your national sovereignty to a half-assed de-facto federal government that doesn't speak its name.
It's the same for the ability to lower certain taxes, doing protectionism, devaluing the currency they no longer have control of, and a whole slew of important and less important things that define an independent nation. EU member states don't have any real say over these things anymore. That's why I'm amazed to see people in the streets of France celebrate the election of their new prez, hoping for a brighter future with him, when in reality he's just a figurehead with almost no power to do anything meaningful.
A common misconception. Since money isn't tied to anything physical, there is no reason that more of it need lower the value. The current value is already arbitrary.
Wow, you've really skipped economics 101 haven't you...
The price of things is based on offer and demand. Suppose I offer to sell you a satsuma at $1 and you earn only $10 a day, I've priced it too high and you won't buy, so I'll lower my price until you and I agree that the price is okay for you and me (i.e. when you estimate the satsuma is worth whatever portion of your work I ask for it - your money, that is - and I estimate I can make a reasonable profit with your purchase).
Now suppose you photocopy a bunch of dollar bills: you come to be with $1000 in your pocket and buy my satsuma for $1 like it was nothing. What do you think I'm gonna do when I see you're so rich? I'll raise my price since I can make a bundle out of you and you don't care. So I'll sell my satsumas at, say, $20 a pop.
And if enough people photocopy dollar bills, everybody will rise their prices. Who's losing? Those who don't photocopy dollar bills. Suddenly, they can't afford my satsumas anymore. They've lost purchasing power. For them, their money has lost value.
You just noticed? How quaint.
I have news for you: in pretty much every country, politicos and powers-that-be mostly care about (1) lining their pockets and (2) being reelected to carry on lining their pockets for a few more years. Oh and yes, a sizable bunch of them also get off on power and control, and seeing their own faces on TV. At any rate, precious few care about their constituents...
That's a bit silly. It's like telling a kid who has terminal cancer he doesn't need to carry on going to school because there's no point. Cancer kids and Greece have a right to fully functional lives.
There is another issue: if people knew **AA shenanigans could be put on hold if their country was in dire straights, that would be reason enough for people to demand that the government bankrupt the country. Just for the joy of sticking it up the **AAs' collective ass, ya know...
At a first level (the lowest court level in the Greek judiciary system) an order has been issued
At the last level, you have to kill a boss and say "I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck" to win the court case.
When is the battery problem going to be solved? Yes I know batteries have been getting better over the years, but devices these days have a hard time saying alive more than 24 hours doing anything useful these days.
All these wonderful gadgets all end up sucking pond water from the bottom because you need to tether them to a mains socket every few hours...
How is cloning gonna help anything? The problem isn't obtaining nerves, it's connecting them.
Think of it like this but at microscopic level, and with no labels on the cables to figure out what should be connected to what.
Well no, the Greeks and everybody else can tell creditors to stick it up their collective asses. Ultimately, the economy of the whole world may fail, but it won't endanger our biotope. Screwing up the weather however can't be undone.
Remember, debt is an artificial human construct. Global warning (if/when it happens) is reality. You can't dismiss reality.
the conservative blogosphere was all atwitter
You Sir are my grammar hero of the day. What a beautiful sentence :)
Funny, the first thing that went through my mind before reading TFA was that they had arrested him for running a scam whereby his organization made viruses to boost his antivirus software sales numbers...
Quick, TSA enact law forbidding laptops onboard airplanes, so the evil terrorist don't kill implanted people in flight!