Re:For everyone saying "There should be a law..."
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There can be one. It's easy - you just have to convince enough people to vote for you, then enough of your fellow legislators to agree with you, and you can pass any law you like. Go to it.
You're thinking of an elected dictator. In the US system it takes many more people like the one you described before a bill becomes law. I fear the day a lone man can do it all.
I think the biggest blow to democracy was universal suffrage. There are some people who I really think aren't equipped to cast an informed vote.
For everyone saying "There should be a law..."
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There can be one. It's easy - you just have to convince enough people to vote for you, then enough of your fellow legislators to agree with you, and you can pass any law you like. Go to it.
In a previous life I worked in a bank, and our answer was always the form "If that check were in our hands today and in good order then it would be honoured".
If you want to hear that as a "Yes, that piece of paper you've just described to me but which I haven't seen yet is definitely good, so go ahead and bet the farm on it" then that's your problem.
Oh, I'm not whining about it - I'm an alumnus of an establishment that has educated kings, and it's served me well in terms of networking and schmoozing jobs with the Old Boys.
But then again, I am actually competent. The other side is that there are an awful lot of Ivy League Chief $FOO Officers out there who couldn't find their own backside with two hands and a map. Their titles and connections can bring a short term marketing benefit, but sooner or later they'll bubble up to a position where they do real damage - either a spectacular gaffe, or a creeping realisation in your business partners that you're run by morons.
Still, when all your competitors are run by Old Money Harvard MBA types, what are you going to do? Have your company represented by a bunch of smelly peasants? Competence is just another word for nouveau riche.
The position is that recruiters can now say "So, just one more thing - did I mention that faggots can't serve? And you kind of look like you love the cock. Do you love the cock? You have to tell me."
Photovoltaic scamufacturers should be crapping their pants about now, and with good reason. Solar-thermal is about to show them up as the pork barrel frauds they've always been.
People haven't changed. We haven't suddenly evolved to be able to work productively in hamster cages - we are most productive in large, silent, private offices.
What's changed is that a generation of consultants have grown fat on telling senior management what they want to hear - that we have changed, and that they can get the same productivity by squeezing us into smaller boxes. And if productivity drops, heck, bring in a new bunch of consultants to sell you Six-Sigma.
I'd be working right now, but there are three conversations going on within earshot, only one of which is work related.
"with a bit of technical assistance from the crew" understates it a little. It's a great presentation, but get distracted by the monkey and you can forget that it's the organ grinders doing all the work.
In your heathen tract, maybe. In mine, the original American one, the Baby Jesus speaks English, weighs in pounds, pays in dollars and cents, and drives a Ford. Which produces horsepower and does miles to the gallon.
Or scream in your ear when you check its breathing? Or start convulsing and thrashing so hard that you need to have three people lie on it before you can treat it? No? Then it's not a replacement for an experienced casualty actor, who will do any or all of the above.
If pound-force was good enough for the Baby Jesus, it should be good enough for NASA. What the hell is a Newton anyway - some kind of French furry fetish?
But thinking up new stuff is hard. You can just re-publish old work every few years to keep your funding coming, then you have more free time to harass the admin office poppets.
Physicists figured this out in 1930 or so, but computer scientists foolishly kept inventing new things until fairly recently - glad to see we've finally smartened up.
They know exactly what they're doing - they're gaming the system. It was a long shot that they'd be allowed to proceed with such a clearly prejudicial case, but they knew they'd be allowed to amend and re-file, so they lose nothing. Plus, they've moved the goalposts several miles out of the field: now when they file the amended claim, it'll still be prejudicial to the defendants, just not as blatantly so, and they'll assert adamantly that they've satisfied the court's requirements.
It's a great opening move - it really sets the tone for the rest of the case.
It's not a gaffe, it's a shrewd move. It was a long shot that they'd be allowed to proceed with such prejudicial case, but they gambled (correctly) that they'd be allowed a do-over. So now they file the case they should have filed in the first place. They've lost nothing except lawyer time, but since all of these patent cases are really about the enrichment of lawyers anyway, that's hardly going to keep them awake at night. What keeps them awake at night is the need to feed.
Tell me about it. I've seen people being "awarded" payouts by Employment Tribunals, then the employers saying "Well, that's nice, now we'll see you in Grown Up Court. Our lawyers are on salary - how about yours?"
Most capitalism is and always has been about imaginary property.
Here, I'll show you. You go build me a car factory, and in return, I'll give you a shiny number of your very own. Then you give some of your number back to me and in return I'll give you a car from my factory.
Technically, they're only losing money because their retired employees are refusing to die. It's those selfish geezers who are stealing from the rest of us. What, you want GM to whack them just so your tax bill comes down by 25 cents? That's the kind of solution Hitler would be proud of - I'm disgusted that you even suggested it.
Well, that's elementary economics, I'm surprised so few people are getting your point.
Also, the current inability of national, regional or local grids to copy with the increased load of charging electric vehicles is also solved by volume. When there's enough of them out there, they'll actually start suck power down the lines, so that the power stations don't have to blow the electrons down the pipes as hard. They can just stick the ends of the cables into barrels of electrons and let siphoning take care of the rest.
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I think the biggest blow to democracy was universal suffrage. There are some people who I really think aren't equipped to cast an informed vote.
There can be one. It's easy - you just have to convince enough people to vote for you, then enough of your fellow legislators to agree with you, and you can pass any law you like. Go to it.
In a previous life I worked in a bank, and our answer was always the form "If that check were in our hands today and in good order then it would be honoured".
If you want to hear that as a "Yes, that piece of paper you've just described to me but which I haven't seen yet is definitely good, so go ahead and bet the farm on it" then that's your problem.
Oh, I'm not whining about it - I'm an alumnus of an establishment that has educated kings, and it's served me well in terms of networking and schmoozing jobs with the Old Boys.
But then again, I am actually competent. The other side is that there are an awful lot of Ivy League Chief $FOO Officers out there who couldn't find their own backside with two hands and a map. Their titles and connections can bring a short term marketing benefit, but sooner or later they'll bubble up to a position where they do real damage - either a spectacular gaffe, or a creeping realisation in your business partners that you're run by morons.
Still, when all your competitors are run by Old Money Harvard MBA types, what are you going to do? Have your company represented by a bunch of smelly peasants? Competence is just another word for nouveau riche.
The position is that recruiters can now say "So, just one more thing - did I mention that faggots can't serve? And you kind of look like you love the cock. Do you love the cock? You have to tell me."
Am I missing something?
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Photovoltaic scamufacturers should be crapping their pants about now, and with good reason. Solar-thermal is about to show them up as the pork barrel frauds they've always been.
Pfft, I don't even have a computer to watch Hulu on. I'm posting this by shorting the terminals on a token ring cable.
Always with the blaming the admins and web developers. It's only 95% of them that give the other 5% a bad name, you know.
But none of them were ruthless enough to stab their peers in the back and steal their work. I mean, allegedly.
What's changed is that a generation of consultants have grown fat on telling senior management what they want to hear - that we have changed, and that they can get the same productivity by squeezing us into smaller boxes. And if productivity drops, heck, bring in a new bunch of consultants to sell you Six-Sigma.
I'd be working right now, but there are three conversations going on within earshot, only one of which is work related.
"with a bit of technical assistance from the crew" understates it a little. It's a great presentation, but get distracted by the monkey and you can forget that it's the organ grinders doing all the work.
The True Baby Jesus would rather push a Ford across water than drive a Chevy.
In your heathen tract, maybe. In mine, the original American one, the Baby Jesus speaks English, weighs in pounds, pays in dollars and cents, and drives a Ford. Which produces horsepower and does miles to the gallon.
Or scream in your ear when you check its breathing? Or start convulsing and thrashing so hard that you need to have three people lie on it before you can treat it? No? Then it's not a replacement for an experienced casualty actor, who will do any or all of the above.
If pound-force was good enough for the Baby Jesus, it should be good enough for NASA. What the hell is a Newton anyway - some kind of French furry fetish?
But thinking up new stuff is hard. You can just re-publish old work every few years to keep your funding coming, then you have more free time to harass the admin office poppets.
Physicists figured this out in 1930 or so, but computer scientists foolishly kept inventing new things until fairly recently - glad to see we've finally smartened up.
It's a great opening move - it really sets the tone for the rest of the case.
It's not a gaffe, it's a shrewd move. It was a long shot that they'd be allowed to proceed with such prejudicial case, but they gambled (correctly) that they'd be allowed a do-over. So now they file the case they should have filed in the first place. They've lost nothing except lawyer time, but since all of these patent cases are really about the enrichment of lawyers anyway, that's hardly going to keep them awake at night. What keeps them awake at night is the need to feed.
Sure! Would you trade your strawman for a kick in the balls? OK, special offer: two kicks for the price of one.
Tell me about it. I've seen people being "awarded" payouts by Employment Tribunals, then the employers saying "Well, that's nice, now we'll see you in Grown Up Court. Our lawyers are on salary - how about yours?"
Most capitalism is and always has been about imaginary property.
Here, I'll show you. You go build me a car factory, and in return, I'll give you a shiny number of your very own. Then you give some of your number back to me and in return I'll give you a car from my factory.
The secret to making a profit by giving away free carrots from the back of a truck is to get a really big truck?
Technically, they're only losing money because their retired employees are refusing to die. It's those selfish geezers who are stealing from the rest of us. What, you want GM to whack them just so your tax bill comes down by 25 cents? That's the kind of solution Hitler would be proud of - I'm disgusted that you even suggested it.
Well, that's elementary economics, I'm surprised so few people are getting your point.
Also, the current inability of national, regional or local grids to copy with the increased load of charging electric vehicles is also solved by volume. When there's enough of them out there, they'll actually start suck power down the lines, so that the power stations don't have to blow the electrons down the pipes as hard. They can just stick the ends of the cables into barrels of electrons and let siphoning take care of the rest.