No. There was a time when the company loyalty thing went both ways.
These days, though, it seems not so much. You are expected to give your all, to open up your private life, to work more for less and never ever to expect pensions or well funded 401K plans, but they are not expected to have any loyalty at all back to you.
gmail, google+, docs, business services - all were research projects, and all are conveyance mechanisms for google ads - and for building up the associative data bases for ad placements.
You take all these google services for granted, but each and every one came out of their research areas.
Except they are showing themselves to be completely stupid. google research led to Android, gmail, google+, goodle docs/business services - all of which are transport mechanisms for.... yep, you guessed it. Google ads and target ad data generation.
But remember - most of the shareholders are not individuals, but hedge funds and banks. And they want the short term profits, and thus, will attempt to impose change that is unhealthy for the business in the interest of said short term looting. And obviously, they can vote their shares en masse.
What you're missing here is the sea change in the investor-investee relationship.
30 years ago, it was the case that while the shareholders had the final say in a company, they generally invested with an eye towards the long term, and didn't get involved in the day to day or leadership as long as they had faith in the long term profitability. A bad quarter was the cost of doing business.
These days, it's ALL about short term profits. It's a looter mentality. It's the little kid screaming because they have to have a healthy dinner before they get their ice cream, instead of just a trough of ice cream and chocolate.
And it is absolutely destructive to innovation, and to the long term sustainability of American business.
Given your sig, I'd be curious to know what you would do to prevent those who have the the money from looting those who have the ideas and drive and actually create tangible goods and services of value.
... when they were building out their third party platform and transaction risk management programs.
Bezos pretty much told the inverters to pound sand, and as a result, Amazon is THE platform, not just THE store.
The companies that invest in actually building things, and not just in short term profit are the ones that win again and agin.
Yet the investors just want to make a buck today; the trading houses just want their short term microtrading algorithms to work without having to actually know anything about what is of true value and worth. If they continue to get their way, the US will be finished as a technological innovator.
The definition of investor has gone from "someone who places a portion of their wealth into a company in the belief that what the company is doing has inherent value and worth and will make money over time" to "someone who buys the privilege of gorging at a cannibalistic feast."
... into an innovative company, and then don't want them to innovate. They want their nice safe already-innovated to profit like a not-quite-so-safe innovator. Paradoxical, yes - but seems the norm.
Just waiting for a shareholder initiative to kill the 20% developer personal research time off. To soon be followed by demands of a new CEO that will outsource and reduce staff to improve sagging profits.
Let's say that every week there is a 25% chance that there will be drift in one direction, the next week, a 25% chance of drift in the other, and a 50% chance of no drift.
This means that this weeks accurate calibration means nothing about last week's, or the week's before. Because two weeks ago, it could have drifted one way, drifted back the next week, and be zero again now.
The one advantage of the supreme court is that there is nothing to keep the justices from changing their minds and views once on the bench for a few years. So, the current political power can't hold them.
With that said, the Roberts Court is about the most corrupt we've ever had.
Yet the bleeding heart liberals are accused of being tolerant of crime, destroying the institution for being tolerant of gays, being hippies for being tolerant of drugs, being godless for being tolerant of other religions, being naive for being tolerant for other forms of government...
I know it's in vogue to go all Rove on stuff, but sheesh.
Why should anyone believe the SFPD, though, that it was that professional experience and not the fact that the cop in question thought the person being arrested was a royal jackass?
The breathalyzer and blood tests remove the qualitative and moves things into the quantitative domain. And no matter how good the quantitative results can be, they are still inherently weaker than qualitative.
And now that the department has been shown to engage in systematic deception, it weakens the quantitative aspects substantially.
Where the aspect of malice comes into play on top of the fraud is whether or not the cops in question knew that the devices were giving consistent results of drunkenness or not.
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But if the customer is unhappy? Nope - they're bound to the contract.
Bastards.
No. There was a time when the company loyalty thing went both ways.
These days, though, it seems not so much. You are expected to give your all, to open up your private life, to work more for less and never ever to expect pensions or well funded 401K plans, but they are not expected to have any loyalty at all back to you.
The message is, "Fear the Corporations, and their subsidiary, the US Government."
and jobs as lobbyists after office with seven digit figure salaries...
This. Wishing I had mod points.
Ah, you must be a follower of Supply Side Jesus!
Not exposing the misdeeds of Nazis is offensive to the rest of the world; several different magazines have written articles on this.
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Except that your premises are false.
gmail, google+, docs, business services - all were research projects, and all are conveyance mechanisms for google ads - and for building up the associative data bases for ad placements.
You take all these google services for granted, but each and every one came out of their research areas.
Except they are showing themselves to be completely stupid. google research led to Android, gmail, google+, goodle docs/business services - all of which are transport mechanisms for.... yep, you guessed it. Google ads and target ad data generation.
But remember - most of the shareholders are not individuals, but hedge funds and banks. And they want the short term profits, and thus, will attempt to impose change that is unhealthy for the business in the interest of said short term looting. And obviously, they can vote their shares en masse.
What you're missing here is the sea change in the investor-investee relationship.
30 years ago, it was the case that while the shareholders had the final say in a company, they generally invested with an eye towards the long term, and didn't get involved in the day to day or leadership as long as they had faith in the long term profitability. A bad quarter was the cost of doing business.
These days, it's ALL about short term profits. It's a looter mentality. It's the little kid screaming because they have to have a healthy dinner before they get their ice cream, instead of just a trough of ice cream and chocolate.
And it is absolutely destructive to innovation, and to the long term sustainability of American business.
Given your sig, I'd be curious to know what you would do to prevent those who have the the money from looting those who have the ideas and drive and actually create tangible goods and services of value.
... when they were building out their third party platform and transaction risk management programs.
Bezos pretty much told the inverters to pound sand, and as a result, Amazon is THE platform, not just THE store.
The companies that invest in actually building things, and not just in short term profit are the ones that win again and agin.
Yet the investors just want to make a buck today; the trading houses just want their short term microtrading algorithms to work without having to actually know anything about what is of true value and worth. If they continue to get their way, the US will be finished as a technological innovator.
Who needs "search"? Gopher fills that niche.
The definition of investor has gone from "someone who places a portion of their wealth into a company in the belief that what the company is doing has inherent value and worth and will make money over time" to "someone who buys the privilege of gorging at a cannibalistic feast."
... into an innovative company, and then don't want them to innovate. They want their nice safe already-innovated to profit like a not-quite-so-safe innovator. Paradoxical, yes - but seems the norm.
Just waiting for a shareholder initiative to kill the 20% developer personal research time off. To soon be followed by demands of a new CEO that will outsource and reduce staff to improve sagging profits.
Let's say that every week there is a 25% chance that there will be drift in one direction, the next week, a 25% chance of drift in the other, and a 50% chance of no drift.
This means that this weeks accurate calibration means nothing about last week's, or the week's before. Because two weeks ago, it could have drifted one way, drifted back the next week, and be zero again now.
The one advantage of the supreme court is that there is nothing to keep the justices from changing their minds and views once on the bench for a few years. So, the current political power can't hold them.
With that said, the Roberts Court is about the most corrupt we've ever had.
Yet the bleeding heart liberals are accused of being tolerant of crime, destroying the institution for being tolerant of gays, being hippies for being tolerant of drugs, being godless for being tolerant of other religions, being naive for being tolerant for other forms of government...
I know it's in vogue to go all Rove on stuff, but sheesh.
Why should anyone believe the SFPD, though, that it was that professional experience and not the fact that the cop in question thought the person being arrested was a royal jackass?
The breathalyzer and blood tests remove the qualitative and moves things into the quantitative domain. And no matter how good the quantitative results can be, they are still inherently weaker than qualitative.
And now that the department has been shown to engage in systematic deception, it weakens the quantitative aspects substantially.
Have to blame ourselves for what happened there.
After all, compare and contrast Beiber's media attention in the US with say Rush...
But systematic fraud.
Where the aspect of malice comes into play on top of the fraud is whether or not the cops in question knew that the devices were giving consistent results of drunkenness or not.
.. it's all theirs now?
They can send you to jail for not cooperating (or even citing the constitution at them), prevent you from traveling freely and deny you the right to exit the country. They can put you on watch lists that make the "more traditional" TLA's pay attention to you. And their influence is spreading.
So, yes, they are.