That everybody gives uncle Bill a clean bill of health. Billions buying a rewriting of history? What exactly do you want?
Industrialists, entrepreneurs rejoice: the end justifies the means. Be a person that uses dubious, illegal and immoral tactics to do business, as long as you make billions and then donate them to worthy causes, we shall sing your prises and sweep under the carpet all the pain and frustration caused during such minor commercial dealings.
Because, hey, if you are curing AIDS you become whiter than white, did never do any wrong, Sir Bill, we salute you.
And we would be ingrate if after you fucked us up , you become a saint and we dare as much as remind everybody how those billions were acquired.
When somebody leading a charitable foundation squandered moral standing in the business community he was supposed to work with, I fail to see why the people affected are at fault by pointing such monumental flaws and inconsistencies between the entrepreneur and the charitable man.
You may wish to dissociate one from each other, I fail to see how any reasonable person could possibly do that.
Management get paid better because they hold the balance of power, not because they are intrinsically more valuable, better or cleverer.
In the current economic turmoil (where all these "valuable" people wouldn't recognize a bad loan if it would hit them in the face) there are examples a dime a dozen of people royally screwing up whose talents are dubious, to say the least.
.... because exploitation has been exported elsewhere.
The time will come where there is no place to exploit, then the contradictions of exploiting labour for profit will become painfully obvious in ways we can't even imagine now.
.... are transferring that poverty to China, India and other places.
It can't last, the capitalist system is no longer neatly contained to each country, but now the poor people making goods for the rich are no longer people in a different town in the same country.
Monopolies force their services in a public that is not defended by the institutions that should be doing so.
Services offered by a monopoly are not necessarily the best, but frequently are the only ones viable for the consumer (when people used to pay for a phone handset it wasn't because the handsets in offer were the best, but because you could not get nother handsets and in many cases your line rental contract forbade you from doing so. Check your Windows or Office EULA closely to realize how many prerogatives MS gives itself in regards to the software you are licensing).
To say that MS's software is the best just because they have a dominant position in the market is to disregard history, plain and simple.
Churchill during the war had no qualms to use rationing (a socialist technique) instead of allowing the markets to fix problems of supply and demand.
Although communism was disastrous where it was tried ( Cambodia, Mao's China), socialism has a far better record in improving the living conditions of the population (Cuba, several parts of the Soviet Block) and certainly many governments have introduced Socialist measures to a general acceptance as necessary for a fair society (UK's NHS, Mexico's oil industry, education in pretty much every country, modern labour laws, etc).
In places where people lived in misery socialist measures helped to bring many of those people to a level that although was still poor, it was not miserable anymore (most of the Soviet block, Cuba).
If you start from a point where you have a wealthy middle class, then yes, maybe strong socialist measures may be counterproductive, but if you start from a poor state of development uncontrolled capitalism may be a recipe for disaster.
If you see a more equitable society as something negative you have a point. But you are failing to tell us how to stop all those CEOs getting millions for failures while workers salaries don't raise remotely as fast as those fat golden parachutes and CEO's and other privileged people's salaries, or how to punish abusers of the free markets with more than a mild slap in the wrist, or how to get rid of corrupt politicians that are intertwined with industrialists in many countries (Venezuela's support for Hugo Chavez'es socialist government steamed from being fed up with the abusive behavior of the capitalist elite).
Those people needing the food tomorrow should wait until a local farming industry develops (competing against the obscenely subsidized Western agricultural powerhouses).
And you are wrong. Inflation in the US is pretty low.
You may not agree with the methodology to measure it, but once a given methodology is chosen inflation is the result of applying a pretty boring formula.
Edward Jenner worked in the countryside and his clients where humble people like farmers and milk maids.
The motivation for his work was the high levels of mortality that smallpox inflicted on the population he treated in a daily basis, not the hope of making himself wealthy.
He was never moved by profit (which only came in the from of a government grant for more research, years later after his breakthrough) to say so is most disingineous.
And their share's value is at the same level as it was in 2001 (i.e. it is less valuable).
What good it is to make more profits than ever if you have to spend all your savings to support them?
Check the trend of MS's share price: nice down then up curve with highest points between 2001 and now. That is,it has recovered a bit but by no means have the confidence of the professional market makers.
MS's share price today is as good as it was in 2001. Absolute terms, which means, after taking inflation into account, you would actually be worse off than you were 6 years ago.
People betting their bonuses (and their clients' savings) are not buying MS.
Look, go tell your masters that the only hope would be if they could somehow convince content providers to release content without DRM.
Yup, that is right. The only chance in hell HD-DVD has now as a technology is to play the open card for all its worth.
This is simpler than it seems: companies keep clinging to obscure back catalogue like if it was the bee's knees. Release this in DRMless HD-DVD and you could have a winner.
Once you are back in the game come back and contact me to send me a check. I'll take 1% from each player sold.
In spite of being the most prosperous time for US people in the history of their country
Reading US/.ers whine about how difficult they have it is frankly tedious (Oh! Put a roof on the top of your head.! Feed yourself! And the children! You shall not forget the children!).
With minimal planning you should be in a position to resign at any moment if you are being mistreated. If you can't do that that means you are not handling your money wisely.
A good manager will not abuse his subordinates, he will prioritize tasks with the available resources and will negotiate extensions with the people above him for tasks that can't be completed with the available resources. And all this negotiation, no matter what you say, is not done in a fucking golf course. You go to a golf course to socialize, which is important, but it is frankly overrated as an integral part of proper management in the US (because nowhere else, not even in the UK where golf was invented, people actually do any business related activity in a golf course, for bunnies sakes. Stop watching those movies. Not all on them is true.).....
You can only better serve the needs of your bosses, and the organization as a whole, if you are not abusing the people that actually get the work done.
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.... and give all for cancer research, it is all OK then?
Because Sweden has not an irrational economical blockade lasting for almost 50 years?
That is wrong in so many levels that I will not even try to reply to it.
That everybody gives uncle Bill a clean bill of health. Billions buying a rewriting of history? What exactly do you want?
Industrialists, entrepreneurs rejoice: the end justifies the means. Be a person that uses dubious, illegal and immoral tactics to do business, as long as you make billions and then donate them to worthy causes, we shall sing your prises and sweep under the carpet all the pain and frustration caused during such minor commercial dealings.
Because, hey, if you are curing AIDS you become whiter than white, did never do any wrong, Sir Bill, we salute you.
And we would be ingrate if after you fucked us up , you become a saint and we dare as much as remind everybody how those billions were acquired.
When somebody leading a charitable foundation squandered moral standing in the business community he was supposed to work with, I fail to see why the people affected are at fault by pointing such monumental flaws and inconsistencies between the entrepreneur and the charitable man.
You may wish to dissociate one from each other, I fail to see how any reasonable person could possibly do that.
Management get paid better because they hold the balance of power, not because they are intrinsically more valuable, better or cleverer.
In the current economic turmoil (where all these "valuable" people wouldn't recognize a bad loan if it would hit them in the face) there are examples a dime a dozen of people royally screwing up whose talents are dubious, to say the least.
.... because exploitation has been exported elsewhere.
The time will come where there is no place to exploit, then the contradictions of exploiting labour for profit will become painfully obvious in ways we can't even imagine now.
.... are transferring that poverty to China, India and other places.
It can't last, the capitalist system is no longer neatly contained to each country, but now the poor people making goods for the rich are no longer people in a different town in the same country.
Monopolies force their services in a public that is not defended by the institutions that should be doing so.
Services offered by a monopoly are not necessarily the best, but frequently are the only ones viable for the consumer (when people used to pay for a phone handset it wasn't because the handsets in offer were the best, but because you could not get nother handsets and in many cases your line rental contract forbade you from doing so. Check your Windows or Office EULA closely to realize how many prerogatives MS gives itself in regards to the software you are licensing).
To say that MS's software is the best just because they have a dominant position in the market is to disregard history, plain and simple.
They have no government at all. Soon they will be in the UN's security council and dictating the policies in the IMF....
Churchill during the war had no qualms to use rationing (a socialist technique) instead of allowing the markets to fix problems of supply and demand.
Although communism was disastrous where it was tried ( Cambodia, Mao's China), socialism has a far better record in improving the living conditions of the population (Cuba, several parts of the Soviet Block) and certainly many governments have introduced Socialist measures to a general acceptance as necessary for a fair society (UK's NHS, Mexico's oil industry, education in pretty much every country, modern labour laws, etc).
In places where people lived in misery socialist measures helped to bring many of those people to a level that although was still poor, it was not miserable anymore (most of the Soviet block, Cuba).
If you start from a point where you have a wealthy middle class, then yes, maybe strong socialist measures may be counterproductive, but if you start from a poor state of development uncontrolled capitalism may be a recipe for disaster.
If you see a more equitable society as something negative you have a point. But you are failing to tell us how to stop all those CEOs getting millions for failures while workers salaries don't raise remotely as fast as those fat golden parachutes and CEO's and other privileged people's salaries, or how to punish abusers of the free markets with more than a mild slap in the wrist, or how to get rid of corrupt politicians that are intertwined with industrialists in many countries (Venezuela's support for Hugo Chavez'es socialist government steamed from being fed up with the abusive behavior of the capitalist elite).
Those people needing the food tomorrow should wait until a local farming industry develops (competing against the obscenely subsidized Western agricultural powerhouses).
Great idea of yours buddy.
It is measured.
And you are wrong. Inflation in the US is pretty low.
You may not agree with the methodology to measure it, but once a given methodology is chosen inflation is the result of applying a pretty boring formula.
It is like if you disagree with 2+2=4.
Edward Jenner worked in the countryside and his clients where humble people like farmers and milk maids.
The motivation for his work was the high levels of mortality that smallpox inflicted on the population he treated in a daily basis, not the hope of making himself wealthy.
He was never moved by profit (which only came in the from of a government grant for more research, years later after his breakthrough) to say so is most disingineous.
And their share's value is at the same level as it was in 2001 (i.e. it is less valuable).
What good it is to make more profits than ever if you have to spend all your savings to support them?
Check the trend of MS's share price: nice down then up curve with highest points between 2001 and now. That is,it has recovered a bit but by no means have the confidence of the professional market makers.
Vista delayed by MS for years.
Nintendo running out of Wii stock.
Waiting list for Asuss EEE PC? At least one month.
Those corps, so organized and ready to make business.
If you think that is good you know nothing about inflation and will starve whne you get your pension (if any).
MS's share price today is as good as it was in 2001. Absolute terms, which means, after taking inflation into account, you would actually be worse off than you were 6 years ago.
People betting their bonuses (and their clients' savings) are not buying MS.
Look, go tell your masters that the only hope would be if they could somehow convince content providers to release content without DRM.
Yup, that is right. The only chance in hell HD-DVD has now as a technology is to play the open card for all its worth.
This is simpler than it seems: companies keep clinging to obscure back catalogue like if it was the bee's knees. Release this in DRMless HD-DVD and you could have a winner.
Once you are back in the game come back and contact me to send me a check. I'll take 1% from each player sold.
It was pretty obvious to everybody who was going to win.
What a load of pointless smugness.
In spite of being the most prosperous time for US people in the history of their country
/.ers whine about how difficult they have it is frankly tedious (Oh! Put a roof on the top of your head.! Feed yourself! And the children! You shall not forget the children!).
Reading US
With minimal planning you should be in a position to resign at any moment if you are being mistreated. If you can't do that that means you are not handling your money wisely.
In all other civilized countries socialist is a legitimate term to describe a valid political philosophy.
How nice, I wonder who lobbied for such vagueness.
Unpaid overtime?
15 hour work days?
Golf? No, really. Golf?
A good manager will not abuse his subordinates, he will prioritize tasks with the available resources and will negotiate extensions with the people above him for tasks that can't be completed with the available resources. And all this negotiation, no matter what you say, is not done in a fucking golf course. You go to a golf course to socialize, which is important, but it is frankly overrated as an integral part of proper management in the US (because nowhere else, not even in the UK where golf was invented, people actually do any business related activity in a golf course, for bunnies sakes. Stop watching those movies. Not all on them is true.).....
You can only better serve the needs of your bosses, and the organization as a whole, if you are not abusing the people that actually get the work done.
A good manager with a track record: priceless.
Credentials? immaterial.
I will fire any uber educated schmug resenting me.