You will find yourself outside the offices of the company which you founded and grew without outside capital , screwdriver in hand and an attorney at your side, jimmying open the locks because the investment bankers you tried to fire had the locks changed. Your newly hired comptroller, selected with input from the bankers, will stay on for a few weeks, leaving you a note with "do not try to track me down" in the last line, and he will turn up along with the majority of your employees in a firm you had declined to purchase because its booked business was bogus. Because Mary Jo White is the United States Attorney for your district, no one worries about prosecution. True story.
Rarely have I met with a venture capitalist who did not start trying to deal out my other shareholders within five minutes of an introduction.
In the end, business is about cash-in exceeding cash-out, a condition that can be met one of two ways: 1) buying an interest in a firm and selling that interest for a higher price or 2) selling better stuff for a lot more than it costs you to create. 1 requires a lot less talent and discipline than 2, and not just because investment bankers don't have to take returns from disappointed customers who bought their hype.
If SnapChat's founders really made this call, then they are toast, but I doubt it. They are following the guidance of investors. Most likely, declining this offer enables them to use their now highly-inflated shares to acquire other assets, trading movie-set houses for real houses.
Iran diverted production for domestic heating this winter. Total productivity decreased because of deteriorating plant. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101186643
The people who betray this country are those who assigned to find the traitors. Robert Hanssen. Aldrich Ames. Counterintelligence, traitors.
Everybody goes all sober when these names come up, not for a moment letting their minds play with the idea that there is something natural about that result, something predictable in the nature of all large organizations where a policy of paranoia replaces accountability.
Let us for a moment postulate that somewhere, sometime, the so-called "intelligence services" of some country transgresses its constitution or creeps into a level of power far beyond any level acceptable to the people.
How then, should a moral whistleblower attempt to bring these transgressions into public deliberations without incurring the presumption of treason?
After all, the term "intelligence" is a euphemism for "minimal accountability" and the reason for any specific secret is itself a secret. How not to violate?
There has never been a disclosure that has not been ridiculed with cheap paranoia.
This from a guy who never would have been allowed to sit in any of the three ten-thousand-dollar fighter-pilot seats he jettisoned if his father had not been a general.
More most branches of engineering, successful coding reflects the talent-times-concentration of a small team.
The result reflects the intensity and inspiration a small number of people summoned to their minds.
Billing by the hour, paying in salary, creating standard paygrades merely apply a fantasy of process to something that happens in much more interesting form.
It's possible that some of what I've done in my life counts as coding, but I have no experience to match the performances of people I've hired to code. The value of what they deliver exceeds the copyright of a hit song, and so I have tried to get contracts that create a common goal of making something excellent, payable tomorrow if it's done.
I don't recommend this approach. You have no idea what investment bankers will do to kill it.
It raised a legitimate question. Down rating is wrong. Replying to the question is right.
Down-rating isn't for being wrong. The same question is going to occur in a lot of minds, so it's nice that someone articulated it and lucky that someone else replied to it in substance. This is dialogue in the healthy form.
Smart, well-meaning people ask questions because they don't want to be wrong. The mildly caustic tone merely indicates a lifelong annoyance with being the nominal party-pooper by being right too often.
If I tell you that I am going to lock the front door until all the votes have been counted, you have a perfect right to demand that all exits be locked. You don't have to prove that anyone intends to remove ballot boxes. You don't have to know how many other exits there are.
Dealing with secret agencies, it can hardly be encumbent on the public to name the organizations or the methods by which the law could be circumvented. It might even be illegal to say what one knows.
The right question is, "How do we know this spying is not continued under different rubric?" The answser is we don't know, and until we do know, we'd be fools to think it isn't being renamed rather than ended.
After all, reorganization, renaming, and privatization have been the methods that the so called "intelligence" services have always used to expand when ordered to cut back.
"United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet Collection, and Online Monitoring Act — also known by its less-clunky acronym version, the USA Freedom Act."
Actually, the acronym of that title is USA FREED COMA
Or, now that the cat is out of the bag, different fractions within the intelligence community are fighting for its future by leaking information to the press and steering the narrative in the direction they want.
Yes. That's just terrible. Tell the CIA and the National Geospatial Survey that we don't need any of their testimony. Their old pal NSA is giving us everything we need about their participation, too. We are so shocked to hear that they would abuse the services of the NSA to bypass the executive chain of command, we don't even want to see their faces.
Unfortunately, there's more to the story. Woodward was a trained naval intelligence officer using his contacts from that experience. Both parties were trained in evasion and deception.
Oh, wait, nevermind. Evasion and deception are precisely what we've come to expect from journalists. Throw away the key.
It is about a survey which indicates that only 14% of of girls and only 35% of boys in high school are considering a career in cybersecurity.
It has nothing to do with shortages in the pool of available workers.
Its one and only point is that teachers and guidance counselors in high school should promote this "career" choice. If they don't, the most we can hope for is 24.5% of the population in cybersecurity. Unless, of course, people don't decide what field to pursue during high school.
Come on. What is the point of putting out nonsense like this, if not to force teenagers to listen to their elders associate cybersecurity with economic security.
The one thing it is not about is the current job market.
Well, I did have a security clearance, and my paycheck said "Radiation, Inc, a subsidiary of Raytheon", even though I had never met anybody from those companies.
It was the CIA that hired me, and it turned out that what they needed all that cover for was to spy on delegates to the national nominating conventions for the Presidency and maybe to add something to the internal organs of computers that would generate "test" counts.
So let's assume that Raytheon is a cover here, too, and someone at some agency thinks that high-school teachers should talk more to our trusting boys and girls about the necessity of bugging their iPhones and about all the careers perks available to those who spy on their fellow citizens.
But if we are talking about television, it's progress toward expanding the private concessions for transferring video content. Trinitron was originally developed for analog broadcast, and analog had to be rendered obsolete.
They were never after picture quality. It was always about pretending to have an existing exclusive license to distribute digital video.
Because concentrating political and economic power into an oligopoly of propagandists has done so much more to elevate our access to knowledge than has widespread individual control of video-capable transceivers.
What I learned from fellow students far exceeded what I learned in class. Perhaps that's why I took so few science courses; the people in those courses were such urgent careerists and the teachers unduly condescending, with the exception of one Physics professor who wanted to colonize space. Anyway, I went in with more advance placement credits in science than I needed for a degree, and more than I felt I deserved, so I luxuriated in nineteenth century British essayists, twentieth century epistemology, independent study in the influence of the bong on musical appreciation, and physical coeducation.
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Try not selling.
You will find yourself outside the offices of the company which you founded and grew without outside capital , screwdriver in hand and an attorney at your side, jimmying open the locks because the investment bankers you tried to fire had the locks changed. Your newly hired comptroller, selected with input from the bankers, will stay on for a few weeks, leaving you a note with "do not try to track me down" in the last line, and he will turn up along with the majority of your employees in a firm you had declined to purchase because its booked business was bogus. Because Mary Jo White is the United States Attorney for your district, no one worries about prosecution. True story.
Rarely have I met with a venture capitalist who did not start trying to deal out my other shareholders within five minutes of an introduction.
In the end, business is about cash-in exceeding cash-out, a condition that can be met one of two ways: 1) buying an interest in a firm and selling that interest for a higher price or 2) selling better stuff for a lot more than it costs you to create. 1 requires a lot less talent and discipline than 2, and not just because investment bankers don't have to take returns from disappointed customers who bought their hype.
If SnapChat's founders really made this call, then they are toast, but I doubt it. They are following the guidance of investors. Most likely, declining this offer enables them to use their now highly-inflated shares to acquire other assets, trading movie-set houses for real houses.
Yeah, the article is bogus.
Iran diverted production for domestic heating this winter. Total productivity decreased because of deteriorating plant. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101186643
GCHG is a British thing. i.e. not much oversight from US branches of government.
Mr. Snowden worked for United States agencies only, yet he is the one disclosing this "retail" operation.
Plus, this sort of operation is "out of character" for the United Kingdom.
Is it remotely possible that the two countries do each others' dirty work, especially in cases one might have an advantage in avoiding oversight?
GCHQ and NSA. Are they identical twins, or do they have some secret weapon that makes everyone see double when they look?
The people who betray this country are those who assigned to find the traitors. Robert Hanssen. Aldrich Ames. Counterintelligence, traitors.
Everybody goes all sober when these names come up, not for a moment letting their minds play with the idea that there is something natural about that result, something predictable in the nature of all large organizations where a policy of paranoia replaces accountability.
Let us for a moment postulate that somewhere, sometime, the so-called "intelligence services" of some country transgresses its constitution or creeps into a level of power far beyond any level acceptable to the people.
How then, should a moral whistleblower attempt to bring these transgressions into public deliberations without incurring the presumption of treason?
After all, the term "intelligence" is a euphemism for "minimal accountability" and the reason for any specific secret is itself a secret. How not to violate?
There has never been a disclosure that has not been ridiculed with cheap paranoia.
This from a guy who never would have been allowed to sit in any of the three ten-thousand-dollar fighter-pilot seats he jettisoned if his father had not been a general.
A cup is eight ounces.
Of the six objects displayed, the last must make up the difference.
Therefore, we need three more ounces to make a cup.
Let anybody sell healthcare, in any form for which there is a market.
Let anybody collect premiums. Let anybody sell medical services.
Let the doctor and the patient decide what constitutes medicine.
Let individuals decide the competence of surgeons when they are shopping for an emergency appendectomy.
Let insurers decide whether a heart attack was due to the patient's negligence and therefore not covered.
Thanks.
More most branches of engineering, successful coding reflects the talent-times-concentration of a small team.
The result reflects the intensity and inspiration a small number of people summoned to their minds.
Billing by the hour, paying in salary, creating standard paygrades merely apply a fantasy of process to something that happens in much more interesting form.
It's possible that some of what I've done in my life counts as coding, but I have no experience to match the performances of people I've hired to code. The value of what they deliver exceeds the copyright of a hit song, and so I have tried to get contracts that create a common goal of making something excellent, payable tomorrow if it's done.
I don't recommend this approach. You have no idea what investment bankers will do to kill it.
It raised a legitimate question. Down rating is wrong. Replying to the question is right.
Down-rating isn't for being wrong. The same question is going to occur in a lot of minds, so it's nice that someone articulated it and lucky that someone else replied to it in substance. This is dialogue in the healthy form.
Smart, well-meaning people ask questions because they don't want to be wrong. The mildly caustic tone merely indicates a lifelong annoyance with being the nominal party-pooper by being right too often.
It's the logic of accountability.
If I tell you that I am going to lock the front door until all the votes have been counted, you have a perfect right to demand that all exits be locked. You don't have to prove that anyone intends to remove ballot boxes. You don't have to know how many other exits there are.
Dealing with secret agencies, it can hardly be encumbent on the public to name the organizations or the methods by which the law could be circumvented. It might even be illegal to say what one knows.
The right question is, "How do we know this spying is not continued under different rubric?" The answser is we don't know, and until we do know, we'd be fools to think it isn't being renamed rather than ended.
After all, reorganization, renaming, and privatization have been the methods that the so called "intelligence" services have always used to expand when ordered to cut back.
"United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet Collection, and Online Monitoring Act — also known by its less-clunky acronym version, the USA Freedom Act."
Actually, the acronym of that title is USA FREED COMA
That is a classified listening device disguised as a car.
Agreed. So why aren't the intelligence services undermining him behind his back, rather than in the open?
Or, now that the cat is out of the bag, different fractions within the intelligence community are fighting for its future by leaking information to the press and steering the narrative in the direction they want.
Yes. That's just terrible. Tell the CIA and the National Geospatial Survey that we don't need any of their testimony. Their old pal NSA is giving us everything we need about their participation, too. We are so shocked to hear that they would abuse the services of the NSA to bypass the executive chain of command, we don't even want to see their faces.
Yes, if Fox news showed topless women, we would have Bild.
The other sources include Frankfurter Allgemeine and Der Spiegel, who are in the top tier of journalistic respectability.
Der Spiegel reports that Merkels was on a list provided to Presidents since 2002.
The only exclusive that Bild got was the 2010 briefing to the President by the senior NSA officials.
You know, the ones who are supposed to provide the President deniability.
Did you notice the agencies that are supposed to provide "deniability" to the President are the ones trying to stick it to him here?
He denied knowing because that's in the script the President is supposed to follow.
Apparently the NSA no longer takes its orders from the President.
In fact, they're pretty sure they can live without him.
Unfortunately, there's more to the story. Woodward was a trained naval intelligence officer using his contacts from that experience. Both parties were trained in evasion and deception.
Oh, wait, nevermind. Evasion and deception are precisely what we've come to expect from journalists. Throw away the key.
Thank goodness I was forced to master DOS in grad school, too. Anyone who didn't was bound to get left behind by the new computer era.
It is about a survey which indicates that only 14% of of girls and only 35% of boys in high school are considering a career in cybersecurity.
It has nothing to do with shortages in the pool of available workers.
Its one and only point is that teachers and guidance counselors in high school should promote this "career" choice. If they don't, the most we can hope for is 24.5% of the population in cybersecurity. Unless, of course, people don't decide what field to pursue during high school.
Come on. What is the point of putting out nonsense like this, if not to force teenagers to listen to their elders associate cybersecurity with economic security.
The one thing it is not about is the current job market.
Well, I did have a security clearance, and my paycheck said "Radiation, Inc, a subsidiary of Raytheon", even though I had never met anybody from those companies.
It was the CIA that hired me, and it turned out that what they needed all that cover for was to spy on delegates to the national nominating conventions for the Presidency and maybe to add something to the internal organs of computers that would generate "test" counts.
So let's assume that Raytheon is a cover here, too, and someone at some agency thinks that high-school teachers should talk more to our trusting boys and girls about the necessity of bugging their iPhones and about all the careers perks available to those who spy on their fellow citizens.
Real estate and energy savings.
But if we are talking about television, it's progress toward expanding the private concessions for transferring video content. Trinitron was originally developed for analog broadcast, and analog had to be rendered obsolete.
They were never after picture quality. It was always about pretending to have an existing exclusive license to distribute digital video.
Because concentrating political and economic power into an oligopoly of propagandists has done so much more to elevate our access to knowledge than has widespread individual control of video-capable transceivers.
What I learned from fellow students far exceeded what I learned in class. Perhaps that's why I took so few science courses; the people in those courses were such urgent careerists and the teachers unduly condescending, with the exception of one Physics professor who wanted to colonize space. Anyway, I went in with more advance placement credits in science than I needed for a degree, and more than I felt I deserved, so I luxuriated in nineteenth century British essayists, twentieth century epistemology, independent study in the influence of the bong on musical appreciation, and physical coeducation.