That's an interesting perspective considering America was founded on the back of a tax revolt. The subsequent success of the country was built upon laissez-faire economic policy, a success so great that its momentum alone is still accruing benefits even with the progressive movement toward higher effective taxes/overhead and government involvement. If you want to persuade me otherwise you'll have to look a little deeper into history than just yesterday.
As of 2012, Google had 18,500 employees in the USA, with a YoY employment growth rate of 33%. The "broom closet" is reserved for countries that like to confiscate productive wealth and burn it in the most unproductive manner manner possible. If countries want some of that wealth for themselves they can change their tax policies.
The country where the corporations are based, along with whatever country their shareholders live in. Any country can get some of that wealth and job creation for themselves by halting their confiscatory taxation policies.
Jesus there are already too few telecom companies in the USA as it is. If they're dead set on upgrading their position from oligopoly to monopoly then let them do so but regulate their rates like we do other natural monopolies. I imagine they'll quickly lose interest in merging.
So in other words, Ruby is running off the rails?
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"No, it also takes a seller of such weapons. And there aren't any, or we'd have been sweeping up the remains of some city, political center, or major chunk of infrastructure by now."
So because to our knowledge nobody has ever sold a rogue nuclear weapon to someone in the past that means it will never happen in the future? And you can leave out the government propaganda nonsense - I don't believe in government any more than you do.
They advertised and sold a product promising to secure customers' data yet they intentionally put an algorithmic backdoor inside that could be used not only by the US government but also discovered and used by hackers to compromise customers' security.
I'm more surprised that civilization has lasted this long considering the greedy nature of man. It only takes one wealthy wackjob to buy a chemical or nuclear weapon and use it to kill millions of people.
This $4.4B loss is one of those "throw everything out including the kitchen sink" financial quarters, where a struggling, money-losing public company tries to purge itself and basically write everything off at once, including expenses/charges that may not have happened yet. The purpose of this financial engineering is partly to make future earnings look better, both on a comparable basis but more importantly because so many expenses got thrown into the loss and so future revenue will have fewer expenses charged against it, giving the appearance of an earnings recovery. The stock is heavily shorted by smart money and they know this large "loss" is guaranteed result in future positive earnings "surprises" so they'd rather take their short earnings off the table and let the dumb money fight it out in the intermediate term.
I'm sure the NSA has been doing this for some time. Not to mention listening in on keyboard sounds and emissions from computer displays to get the same information.
Based on how much excess nutrition is flushed down the toilet. The human body is supremely adaptable - feed it too little of a nutrient and the digestive system will increase the absorption rate of that nutrient. Feed it to much and the nutrient will pass through the system and out to the world, hopefully to another organism who actually needs it.
They're the TMZ of the business reporting world. And the company's CEO is Henry Blodget, the disgraced analyst who was banned for life from the securities industry for dumping stocks to the public while privately ridiculing the companies. The fact the publication is named "Business Insider", a thinly-veiled homage to the insider ways that got him banned from the securities industry is just a big middle finger to his readers.
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That's an interesting perspective considering America was founded on the back of a tax revolt. The subsequent success of the country was built upon laissez-faire economic policy, a success so great that its momentum alone is still accruing benefits even with the progressive movement toward higher effective taxes/overhead and government involvement. If you want to persuade me otherwise you'll have to look a little deeper into history than just yesterday.
As of 2012, Google had 18,500 employees in the USA, with a YoY employment growth rate of 33%. The "broom closet" is reserved for countries that like to confiscate productive wealth and burn it in the most unproductive manner manner possible. If countries want some of that wealth for themselves they can change their tax policies.
The country where the corporations are based, along with whatever country their shareholders live in. Any country can get some of that wealth and job creation for themselves by halting their confiscatory taxation policies.
I root for the team that provides sustainable wealth creation and jobs.
Yes, corporations are sociopathic while governments are sane. Be careful which team you root for.
Jesus there are already too few telecom companies in the USA as it is. If they're dead set on upgrading their position from oligopoly to monopoly then let them do so but regulate their rates like we do other natural monopolies. I imagine they'll quickly lose interest in merging.
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load testing and performance bottlenecks"
That's great but how about we teach the average American how to spot Europe on a map first.
That's like going to jail over making 'Howard the Duck'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmp5dgzeZuk
"No, it also takes a seller of such weapons. And there aren't any, or we'd have been sweeping up the remains of some city, political center, or major chunk of infrastructure by now."
So because to our knowledge nobody has ever sold a rogue nuclear weapon to someone in the past that means it will never happen in the future? And you can leave out the government propaganda nonsense - I don't believe in government any more than you do.
They advertised and sold a product promising to secure customers' data yet they intentionally put an algorithmic backdoor inside that could be used not only by the US government but also discovered and used by hackers to compromise customers' security.
Like most criminals they probably never expected to be caught.
I'm more surprised that civilization has lasted this long considering the greedy nature of man. It only takes one wealthy wackjob to buy a chemical or nuclear weapon and use it to kill millions of people.
Couldn't resist.
This $4.4B loss is one of those "throw everything out including the kitchen sink" financial quarters, where a struggling, money-losing public company tries to purge itself and basically write everything off at once, including expenses/charges that may not have happened yet. The purpose of this financial engineering is partly to make future earnings look better, both on a comparable basis but more importantly because so many expenses got thrown into the loss and so future revenue will have fewer expenses charged against it, giving the appearance of an earnings recovery. The stock is heavily shorted by smart money and they know this large "loss" is guaranteed result in future positive earnings "surprises" so they'd rather take their short earnings off the table and let the dumb money fight it out in the intermediate term.
Or, because any discontinuity in Tesla's success will damage Tesla shareholders, for which there appears to be a large contingent here on /.
Where there's smoke there's (Tesla) fires.
I'll help get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
I mean, who wants the all-powerful UN coming after them, especially when the UN's largest financial contributor is the USA.
I'm sure the NSA has been doing this for some time. Not to mention listening in on keyboard sounds and emissions from computer displays to get the same information.
Based on how much excess nutrition is flushed down the toilet. The human body is supremely adaptable - feed it too little of a nutrient and the digestive system will increase the absorption rate of that nutrient. Feed it to much and the nutrient will pass through the system and out to the world, hopefully to another organism who actually needs it.
Economies of scale I suppose...
They're the TMZ of the business reporting world. And the company's CEO is Henry Blodget, the disgraced analyst who was banned for life from the securities industry for dumping stocks to the public while privately ridiculing the companies. The fact the publication is named "Business Insider", a thinly-veiled homage to the insider ways that got him banned from the securities industry is just a big middle finger to his readers.
Most people don't need the flexibility and attendant hassles of PCs anymore. Just give them an iPad or Nexus and be done with it.