The last time they licensed the operating system to non-Apple hardware it nearly killed the company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
I'd expect them to license the OS again approximately when hell freezes over.
As a tech support professional who supported a mixed environment of Mac clone desktops, Windows 95 desktops, and Sun Solaris servers in the mid-90s, however, I hope I'm wrong about this. That environment was a tech support full-employment act! We had four full time staffers doing tech support for an office of 30 employees! Good times.
Erm, I'm assuming Google is in italy because they turn a profit there. I would call that a connection to Google's success. And for them to stop "providing links" would be like for Pepsi to stop providing sugar water in exchange for money. This is not a route to success. Where did you go to business school, anyway?
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate.
Or you could put a tariff on everything these corporations sell in the US, since they're claiming to be foreign companies. We've given them enough carrots, now it's time for the stick.
Swings in the prices of energy and food are the result of factors having nothing to do with the Fed's management of the money supply. That's why they are excluded from the base inflation rate.
So instead of having the IRS enforce taxes on payroll, you'd have a different government agency enforce sales taxes on trillions of business transactions. And you imagine this will lead to a reduction in administrative overhead.
And the benefit of this system which costs more to administer is, we get a tax which inflicts additional misery on the poor and working class, and discourages consumption at a time when we are in a recession driven by lack of consumer demand.
But the presses can't run forever, sooner or later the world will stop accepting the funny paper and the bottom WILL fall out. Not in any way attempting to Godwin but I'd point out the crazy Austrian got elected by a landslide on a "bread and jobs" platform and frankly I know huge amounts of people that would happily elect our very own crazy Austrian if it meant a guaranteed good job and food on the table.
Oh please. The inflation rate is close to zero, the interest rate the US government pays to borrow money is close to zero. If anything, the Fed should print *more* money, and let inflation rise a little. But that would amount to a de facto tax on wealth: people with large savings would see their savings diminish, while those with debts (including the US government) would see their debts diminish. You can imagine why the banks and Wall Street don't see that as such a hot idea, so it'll never happen as long as they're in charge.
Corporations are simply groups of individuals who freely enter into an agreement. A marriage is a corporation of sorts,...
Um, no. "Corporation" is explicitly defined in law. If you have been registered with the government as a corporation, you are a corporation. Otherwise, you're not. There is no informal sense of the word. Is your marriage a legally recognized third person that shields you and your spouse from any debts incurred by the "marriage" person? Then it is nothing like a corporation.
New Hampshire actually still has the highest business tax rate in the nation [watchdog.org], which is what's keeping it from being the wealthiest place in the world,
It's also cold, mountainous, landlocked, largely inaccessible, and a host of other things that make it not the place where people would establish a trading center or do anything requiring a lot of manpower or inexpensive access to resources.
Except that when AOL was deluging the world with free installation CDs, it was clear that most of AOL's users would migrate to The Real Internet as soon as they got a clue. I don't see a successor to Facebook on the horizon just yet. Not that it can't happen.
He has a point in that in there are some unknown quantities in Facebook's revenue model. We don't know how valuable all the information they've collected on users will turn out to be in terms of actually increasing the effectiveness of advertising. We know that it is desireable to marketers at the moment, but marketing trends change.
Does anyone else remember when AOL had a market cap of $222 billion, because the Internet was the new big thing and AOL, with its acquisition of Netscape and Time Warner, was sure to dominate that space forever?
If Steve Jobs so much as sneezes Apple loses 20 percent of its market cap. Not because he's so essential, but because investors want to get out ahead of the gigantic Hype bubble deflating. We've seen this before. When will people learn?
I don't think this is a good idea. For example, I live in the Financial District of San Francisco, and find it obnoxious that some of my coworkers insist on commuting to work in their SUVs every day when BART runs trains to a stop two blocks from my office every 5 minutes during rush hour. On the other hand, I concede that there may be some circumstances where driving a large vehicle into the city might be justified. Why bar someone from bringing an SUV with six people in it, but permit someone to drive a slightly smaller vehicle carrying only one person? A congestion tax or toll seems a more reasonable approach.
Why should water, with appropriate regulation in place, not be privatized?
A better question would be, what do ratepayers have to gain by allowing water to be sold to them by a regulated monopoly--with all the adminstrative overhead and bureaucracy that entails--rather than simply having the government own the water system outright?
They provide a secure anonymous drop-box so that people can leak to them without leaving a trail by which to get caught. (It's important to note that Bradley Manning got caught because he went around bragging to others about leaking; WikiLeaks didn't blow his cover, he did that himself)
So what was Bob Woodward doing when he refused to reveal the identity of Deep Throat? What have countless other journalists done in refusing to reveal sources, to the point of being put in jail for contempt of court?
What exactly is Wikileaks doing that all these other media organizations aren't also doing?
No one gave Wikileaks a security clearance; they are incapable of leaking anything. They are merely publishing information that was leaked by someone else. So how are all these attacks on Wikileaks' right to publish justified vs. those of the NY Times or the Associated Press?
Human work can be separated into two types: productive work and make-work.
Not really. People who take care of the aged and infirm add little if anything to capital, but they add to quality of life. What they do is not "useless," unless you define everything in terms of economic efficiency. And what's the point of creating more and more wealth if the end result is that people still have to worry about being put out on an ice floe the moment their cost outweighs their benefit? Do we manage the economy to serve the people, or the people to serve the economy?
Workers here had an extremely good deal, and lots of political power, up until the exact moment at which those resources were economically depleted. That was probably more than 20 years ago. It's time to recognize this fact, move on, and establish more efficient modes of production, rather than trying to re-erect a democratic worker's paradise without the resources to support one.
Except we *do* have the resources to support one. We have more resources at our disposal than we've ever had. The problem is in how they're distributed.
That's funny, because everyone I've listened to who *doesn't* think the Tea Partiers are nuts is breathtakingly ignorant about what is going on in the world.
Er... no. I lived in California from 1974-2010 and I don't recall anything approaching a "crisis" in electricity and natural gas prices until the one in the early 2000s.
Unless you mean "crisis" in the sense that we now have a crisis in Social Security: ie, a phony crisis ginned up by some folks on Wall Street who want to make a buck.
Lack of supply caused when energy traders figured out--in the badly deregulated market--that they could take plants offline for "repairs" at strategic moments and cause the price to spike by 1000 percent.
Anyone else remember these social networking sites? I was using them at least a year before Facebook existed, or was at least available to the general public. When Facebook rolled around my thought was "So what? Another social networking site." I only joined when the network effect kicked in and it was obvious the others were falling by the wayside.
The autobahn is run by and utilized by *Germans*. The people that this guy is proposing should be able to break the speed limit for $25 are *Nevadans*. That is a world of difference.
Autobahn: A guy in a well-engineered BMW or Mercedes, who has passed a required $2000 driving course, attentively cruising down the autobahn at the "advisory" speed limit of 130 km/h (80 mph) while maintaining lane discipline in accordance with the law.
I-80: Cletus the Slack-Jawed Nevadan weaving through traffic in his hillbilly mobile while chowing down on a Big Mac and a Thirsty 32 ouncer from 7-11, yelling at his 3 hillbilly kids in the backseat, while the hillbilly mobile takes horrifying damage from all the cracks in the pavement.
They called themselves teabaggers, at first. After a couple of days of tee-heeing on the Internet, they changed it to tea partiers. If you are cultivating a snarky, contemptuous tone then it's perfectly suitable to continue calling them teabaggers. Not all discourse needs to be civil.
So now the Army has money for flying robotic humvees just in case we have to occupy another country after we get out of the already grotesquely expensive occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan... and the Republicans are still trying to rob the Social Security trust fund.
Goodbye, USA. It was nice while it lasted.
Oh come on. All I want is a couple of extra express busses on the route I take to work in the morning so I don't get left standing on the curb as a full bus pulls away. Do you suppose my federal, state, and local governments could scrounge up some funds for that after they're done funding the military, some new sports stadiums, and tax cuts for billionaires? Pretty please?
My uninformed guess: There are ports all over the place that have fallen behind the times, where you could dock a repurposed container ship that was near the end of its seagoing life for a fraction of what it would cost to build a new facility in a similar location (ie, near a large body of water that can be used for cooling.)
The Port of Redwood City, for instance--where this ship will be docked: I don't think there's a heck of a lot going on there these days. Most of the container ship traffic is headed straight through the bay to Oakland.
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The last time they licensed the operating system to non-Apple hardware it nearly killed the company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone
I'd expect them to license the OS again approximately when hell freezes over.
As a tech support professional who supported a mixed environment of Mac clone desktops, Windows 95 desktops, and Sun Solaris servers in the mid-90s, however, I hope I'm wrong about this. That environment was a tech support full-employment act! We had four full time staffers doing tech support for an office of 30 employees! Good times.
Erm, I'm assuming Google is in italy because they turn a profit there. I would call that a connection to Google's success. And for them to stop "providing links" would be like for Pepsi to stop providing sugar water in exchange for money. This is not a route to success. Where did you go to business school, anyway?
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate.
Or you could put a tariff on everything these corporations sell in the US, since they're claiming to be foreign companies. We've given them enough carrots, now it's time for the stick.
Swings in the prices of energy and food are the result of factors having nothing to do with the Fed's management of the money supply. That's why they are excluded from the base inflation rate.
So instead of having the IRS enforce taxes on payroll, you'd have a different government agency enforce sales taxes on trillions of business transactions. And you imagine this will lead to a reduction in administrative overhead.
And the benefit of this system which costs more to administer is, we get a tax which inflicts additional misery on the poor and working class, and discourages consumption at a time when we are in a recession driven by lack of consumer demand.
Maybe you should think this through.
But the presses can't run forever, sooner or later the world will stop accepting the funny paper and the bottom WILL fall out. Not in any way attempting to Godwin but I'd point out the crazy Austrian got elected by a landslide on a "bread and jobs" platform and frankly I know huge amounts of people that would happily elect our very own crazy Austrian if it meant a guaranteed good job and food on the table.
Oh please. The inflation rate is close to zero, the interest rate the US government pays to borrow money is close to zero. If anything, the Fed should print *more* money, and let inflation rise a little. But that would amount to a de facto tax on wealth: people with large savings would see their savings diminish, while those with debts (including the US government) would see their debts diminish. You can imagine why the banks and Wall Street don't see that as such a hot idea, so it'll never happen as long as they're in charge.
Corporations are simply groups of individuals who freely enter into an agreement. A marriage is a corporation of sorts,...
Um, no. "Corporation" is explicitly defined in law. If you have been registered with the government as a corporation, you are a corporation. Otherwise, you're not. There is no informal sense of the word. Is your marriage a legally recognized third person that shields you and your spouse from any debts incurred by the "marriage" person? Then it is nothing like a corporation.
New Hampshire actually still has the highest business tax rate in the nation [watchdog.org], which is what's keeping it from being the wealthiest place in the world,
It's also cold, mountainous, landlocked, largely inaccessible, and a host of other things that make it not the place where people would establish a trading center or do anything requiring a lot of manpower or inexpensive access to resources.
Except that when AOL was deluging the world with free installation CDs, it was clear that most of AOL's users would migrate to The Real Internet as soon as they got a clue. I don't see a successor to Facebook on the horizon just yet. Not that it can't happen.
He has a point in that in there are some unknown quantities in Facebook's revenue model. We don't know how valuable all the information they've collected on users will turn out to be in terms of actually increasing the effectiveness of advertising. We know that it is desireable to marketers at the moment, but marketing trends change.
Does anyone else remember when AOL had a market cap of $222 billion, because the Internet was the new big thing and AOL, with its acquisition of Netscape and Time Warner, was sure to dominate that space forever?
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/fortune/1002/gallery.biggest_losers.fortune/8.html
Yeah.
If Steve Jobs so much as sneezes Apple loses 20 percent of its market cap. Not because he's so essential, but because investors want to get out ahead of the gigantic Hype bubble deflating. We've seen this before. When will people learn?
I don't think this is a good idea. For example, I live in the Financial District of San Francisco, and find it obnoxious that some of my coworkers insist on commuting to work in their SUVs every day when BART runs trains to a stop two blocks from my office every 5 minutes during rush hour. On the other hand, I concede that there may be some circumstances where driving a large vehicle into the city might be justified. Why bar someone from bringing an SUV with six people in it, but permit someone to drive a slightly smaller vehicle carrying only one person? A congestion tax or toll seems a more reasonable approach.
Why should water, with appropriate regulation in place, not be privatized?
A better question would be, what do ratepayers have to gain by allowing water to be sold to them by a regulated monopoly--with all the adminstrative overhead and bureaucracy that entails--rather than simply having the government own the water system outright?
They provide a secure anonymous drop-box so that people can leak to them without leaving a trail by which to get caught. (It's important to note that Bradley Manning got caught because he went around bragging to others about leaking; WikiLeaks didn't blow his cover, he did that himself)
So what was Bob Woodward doing when he refused to reveal the identity of Deep Throat? What have countless other journalists done in refusing to reveal sources, to the point of being put in jail for contempt of court?
What exactly is Wikileaks doing that all these other media organizations aren't also doing?
No one gave Wikileaks a security clearance; they are incapable of leaking anything. They are merely publishing information that was leaked by someone else. So how are all these attacks on Wikileaks' right to publish justified vs. those of the NY Times or the Associated Press?
Human work can be separated into two types: productive work and make-work.
Not really. People who take care of the aged and infirm add little if anything to capital, but they add to quality of life. What they do is not "useless," unless you define everything in terms of economic efficiency. And what's the point of creating more and more wealth if the end result is that people still have to worry about being put out on an ice floe the moment their cost outweighs their benefit? Do we manage the economy to serve the people, or the people to serve the economy?
Workers here had an extremely good deal, and lots of political power, up until the exact moment at which those resources were economically depleted. That was probably more than 20 years ago. It's time to recognize this fact, move on, and establish more efficient modes of production, rather than trying to re-erect a democratic worker's paradise without the resources to support one.
Except we *do* have the resources to support one. We have more resources at our disposal than we've ever had. The problem is in how they're distributed.
Not only that, they are astonishingly uneducated about a wide array of subjects, from history to economics to science.
That's funny, because everyone I've listened to who *doesn't* think the Tea Partiers are nuts is breathtakingly ignorant about what is going on in the world.
Er... no. I lived in California from 1974-2010 and I don't recall anything approaching a "crisis" in electricity and natural gas prices until the one in the early 2000s.
Unless you mean "crisis" in the sense that we now have a crisis in Social Security: ie, a phony crisis ginned up by some folks on Wall Street who want to make a buck.
Except deregulation does matter. If they old regulations had been kept in place, there would not have been an energy crisis.
Lack of supply caused when energy traders figured out--in the badly deregulated market--that they could take plants offline for "repairs" at strategic moments and cause the price to spike by 1000 percent.
Anyone else remember these social networking sites? I was using them at least a year before Facebook existed, or was at least available to the general public. When Facebook rolled around my thought was "So what? Another social networking site." I only joined when the network effect kicked in and it was obvious the others were falling by the wayside.
The autobahn is run by and utilized by *Germans*. The people that this guy is proposing should be able to break the speed limit for $25 are *Nevadans*. That is a world of difference.
Autobahn: A guy in a well-engineered BMW or Mercedes, who has passed a required $2000 driving course, attentively cruising down the autobahn at the "advisory" speed limit of 130 km/h (80 mph) while maintaining lane discipline in accordance with the law.
I-80: Cletus the Slack-Jawed Nevadan weaving through traffic in his hillbilly mobile while chowing down on a Big Mac and a Thirsty 32 ouncer from 7-11, yelling at his 3 hillbilly kids in the backseat, while the hillbilly mobile takes horrifying damage from all the cracks in the pavement.
It *isn't* safe to go 90 mph on Nevada highways. That's why the highway patrol is not so keen on the idea.
They called themselves teabaggers, at first. After a couple of days of tee-heeing on the Internet, they changed it to tea partiers. If you are cultivating a snarky, contemptuous tone then it's perfectly suitable to continue calling them teabaggers. Not all discourse needs to be civil.
So now the Army has money for flying robotic humvees just in case we have to occupy another country after we get out of the already grotesquely expensive occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan... and the Republicans are still trying to rob the Social Security trust fund.
Goodbye, USA. It was nice while it lasted.
Oh come on. All I want is a couple of extra express busses on the route I take to work in the morning so I don't get left standing on the curb as a full bus pulls away. Do you suppose my federal, state, and local governments could scrounge up some funds for that after they're done funding the military, some new sports stadiums, and tax cuts for billionaires? Pretty please?
My uninformed guess: There are ports all over the place that have fallen behind the times, where you could dock a repurposed container ship that was near the end of its seagoing life for a fraction of what it would cost to build a new facility in a similar location (ie, near a large body of water that can be used for cooling.)
The Port of Redwood City, for instance--where this ship will be docked: I don't think there's a heck of a lot going on there these days. Most of the container ship traffic is headed straight through the bay to Oakland.