Every teaching must be capable of being made popular (that is, of being made sufficiently clear to the senses to be communicated to everyone) if the teacher is not to be suspected of being muddled in his own concepts. -Kant, the Doctrine of Right
it smacks a little bit of unfairness if my US based cousins can enjoy what is arguably the best part of the BBC (BBC Online) without having to contribute a penny.
I've often thought about that. I enjoy the BBC . Read the website and listen in when I can in the states.
The way I'd look at it is: Would you rather have the global media ideology dominated by American newscorps like CNN and FOX, or would you like the BBC viewpoint to have some influence? I appreciate the latter, and suspect others do as well.
That works... until the corporations themselves start going overseas. We're not faced with losing just departments, such as I/T and finance, but entire businesses.
Take California for example. We're so regulated to death here, most businesses prefer to move out or become incorporated in another state, or just not come here at all. This is a microcosm of what's happening between 1st and 2/3rd world countries. Less regulation and lower cost in other countries.
if the board thought it was good for the companies profits they would cut the CEO's salary AS WELL as the workers salaries.
False. Most board members in a given company are either CEOs or high-level execs in another company. It's a fairly elite group and I don't see this happening.
Companies are out to MAXIMIZE profits, not just to increase them a little bit.
True. But for whom? The stockholders. And who owns the majority stock? Ah yes. The board. So... the board is out to maximize profits for... the board. Go figure.
Also in europe, note that most employees can get 6 weeks of vacation and a lot of other benefits. It's a tangent, I know, but I'm on a project right now in England, and I'm amazed at the work/life balance here.
I believe it's directly due to the lack of corruption at the top rungs of the companies. And yes, I consider the multi-million dollar salaries of NA. execs corrupt. The payoff to Carly was a fine example of this. Legal? yes. Ethical? no.
Chief executives at U.S. companies that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 percent pay hike last year, more than five times the average CEO raise. If the U.S. minimum wage had increased as quickly as CEO pay has since 1990, it would be $15.76 an hour instead of the current $5.15. CEO pay overall was 301 times higher than the $26,899 earned by the average production worker. The pay for CEOs who outsource was about 3,300 times the pay of an Indian call center employee or 1,300 times that of an average Indian computer programer.
Ref: Title: U.S. CEOs Who Outsource Get Bigger Pay Hike-Survey Source: Reuters Author: Andrea Hopkins
Unfortunately, all the insurance companies in the US require SS numbers. So anything related to insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Automobile, Homeowner's... etc. All requires SS number. I can't stand it.
Mathematical science must be considered desirable in itself, though not with reference to the needs of daily life. If it is necessary to refer the benefit arising from it to something else, we must connect that benefit with intellectual knowledge, to which it leads the way and is a propaedeutic, clearing the eye of the soul and taking away the impediments which the senses place in the way of the knowledge of universals.
Huh. At my college (admittedly not the best) I think most of fellow students found that faking was working. Turns out, that was adequate peparation for most of them for the corporate life.
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Such a company has to give up 0.5% of their profits for the year just to license something they thought was free.
That's not counting the tax write-off which makes the total significantly less than 0.5%.
It's more than that. Petrol is 90p/liter in the UK, so 90p * 3.7854118 = £3.407 * 1.80709 (today's rate of UK £-$) = $6.16.
I must be partially British. I hate hanging up on Sales People too. So I just put them on hold.
..."
"Can you hold half a minute?"
"Sure
Natch, I just set the phone down and walk away.
Every teaching must be capable of being made popular (that is, of being made sufficiently clear to the senses to be communicated to everyone) if the teacher is not to be suspected of being muddled in his own concepts.
-Kant, the Doctrine of Right
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
- A.E. Houseman
Voice Over: What are they in it for, these old hoodlums, these layabouts in lace?
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First Granny: (voice over) Well it's something to do isn't it?
Second Granny: (voice over) It's good fun.
Third Granny: (voice over) It's like you know, well, innit, eh?
Voice Over: Favourite targets for the old ladies are telephone kiosks.
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/grannies.h
it smacks a little bit of unfairness if my US based cousins can enjoy what is arguably the best part of the BBC (BBC Online) without having to contribute a penny.
I've often thought about that. I enjoy the BBC . Read the website and listen in when I can in the states.
The way I'd look at it is: Would you rather have the global media ideology dominated by American newscorps like CNN and FOX, or would you like the BBC viewpoint to have some influence? I appreciate the latter, and suspect others do as well.
Spin the planet!
wheeeeee
Blade Runner > Alien. Any day.
I use an IBM thinkpad - doesn't have a windows key. has an FN key instead =)
what, you've mapped all your "CTRL+", "CTRL+ALT+", "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+", "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+FN+" combinations already and need even more special keys?
I mean, I thought I had a lot of hotkeys, but I'm still trying to work my way through mapping all the ctrl+alt+shift+fn keys...
the medium is the message.
try before you buy? what are you saying? that will never work!
That works ... until the corporations themselves start going overseas. We're not faced with losing just departments, such as I/T and finance, but entire businesses.
Take California for example. We're so regulated to death here, most businesses prefer to move out or become incorporated in another state, or just not come here at all. This is a microcosm of what's happening between 1st and 2/3rd world countries. Less regulation and lower cost in other countries.
if the board thought it was good for the companies profits they would cut the CEO's salary AS WELL as the workers salaries.
... the board is out to maximize profits for ... the board. Go figure.
False. Most board members in a given company are either CEOs or high-level execs in another company. It's a fairly elite group and I don't see this happening.
Companies are out to MAXIMIZE profits, not just to increase them a little bit.
True. But for whom? The stockholders. And who owns the majority stock? Ah yes. The board. So
reference a recent post of mine about north american executive salaries.
Also in europe, note that most employees can get 6 weeks of vacation and a lot of other benefits. It's a tangent, I know, but I'm on a project right now in England, and I'm amazed at the work/life balance here.
I believe it's directly due to the lack of corruption at the top rungs of the companies. And yes, I consider the multi-million dollar salaries of NA. execs corrupt. The payoff to Carly was a fine example of this. Legal? yes. Ethical? no.
Chief executives at U.S. companies that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 percent pay hike last year, more than five times the average CEO raise. If the U.S. minimum wage had increased as quickly as CEO pay has since 1990, it would be $15.76 an hour instead of the current $5.15. CEO pay overall was 301 times higher than the $26,899 earned by the average production worker. The pay for CEOs who outsource was about 3,300 times the pay of an Indian call center employee or 1,300 times that of an average Indian computer programer.
Ref:
Title: U.S. CEOs Who Outsource Get Bigger Pay Hike-Survey
Source: Reuters
Author: Andrea Hopkins
yea, possibly. Though in that case, it's the stopover in iceland for a cup of hot chocolate that's going to kill him.
yes, but some places in india, one can buy a meal for equivalent of US nineteen cents.
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Unfortunately, all the insurance companies in the US require SS numbers. So anything related to insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Automobile, Homeowner's ... etc. All requires SS number. I can't stand it.
"I have no orange" is also correct. Depends on the context, of course.
Mathematical science must be considered desirable in itself, though not with reference to the needs of daily life. If it is necessary to refer the benefit arising from it to something else, we must connect that benefit with intellectual knowledge, to which it leads the way and is a propaedeutic, clearing the eye of the soul and taking away the impediments which the senses place in the way of the knowledge of universals.
-Proclus
College is where faking stops working
Huh. At my college (admittedly not the best) I think most of fellow students found that faking was working. Turns out, that was adequate peparation for most of them for the corporate life.
lots and lots of service packs. That's about the only thing I would expect.