Making as much money as possible as quickly as possible is pretty much the point of capitalism
No.
Sorry: yes. If you take my money (capital) in order to make money with it, I want you to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible. If not, I will give it to someone else. Scale that notion up and you have explained the capital markets.
I've seen so many of the big labs die. I happened to be at IBM Alamaden the day IBM exited the disk drive business, a sad day and the beginning of the end for Alamaden. Who in American industry is still doing basic research?
Well, IBM still is, and on a lot cooler stuff that just disk drives.
Welcome to modern western culture... it's all about making a quick buck.
Modern? At what point wasn't it like that?
Any and every company out there is all about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible... what ever happend to making a modest amount of money while actually taking risks?
You can do that with your own money. Making as much money as possible as quickly as possible is pretty much the point of capitalism, where you're using other people's money.
Actually, SSNs are never reused by the Social Security Administration. Ever. Yes, that does mean there is a problem approaching, especially since the space available (9 digits) is further segmented, as the first three digits are broken up by state.
It is very difficult to change your SSN. No, being a victim of identity theft and having money stolen from your accounts is not sufficient reason.
SSNs are often available even from people who've been careful.
To take a simple example: until 5-10 years ago, it was common to list SSNs in divorce filings. Get divorced and your SSN was listed in the filings, which are public records and can be looked at by anyone. Even today, in some states, you have to file a motion to have the SSN suppressed from the public version (routinely granted, but still it illustrates how common SSN publication is).
Publishing SSNs found in public certainly advertises the problem, but it also creates problems for innocent, even cautious people who have no way of fixing them.
Of course, the real problem is why we have tied so much personal information to a single government-issued number...perhaps because it's the only nationally unique identification number issued by the Federal government...
The law is NOW that you're officially driving drunk when your blood alcohol level is.08. In some people that's LESS THAN ONE BEER.
This has led to gestapo style checkpoints where drivers are randomly pulled aside for breathalyzer tests merely because they were at a rock concert.
Don't feel bad, kid - in about another 10 years, you'll be past your partying years and won't care any more.
In the US nearly EVERYTHING has this poison in it because it is cheaper.
Oh stop it. 90% of food at the grocery store does not have high-fructose corn syrup in it.
The problem with HFCS is that the liver stops processing other items until all of the HFCS is processed, if you eat lots of it it never lets the other stuff in to be processed.
That is so non-sensical it's hard to know where to start. You make it sound like the liver is the primary digestive organ. Also, according to you, if I eat some HFCS, I can then eat 20,000 calories and it'll never be processed. Hurray! HFCS is the cure for obesity.
The question is "why is HFCS so cheap here?" and the answer is federal subsidies.
Sorry, wrong. The reason is the high import tariff on sugar in the USA. That's not the same thing as a subsidy.
I think that this is also why we still have an embargo against Cuba too.
It's been fun, but you should run along and finish your homework before posting on Slashdot again.
It's a problem because like smoking and other addictions, such people can become a burden on society.
As a taxpayer, I wish more people smoked. It's cheaper when they die of lung cancer in their 60s than when they collect Social Security and Medicare until they're 90.
Umm.. I work for a company where everyone is salaried and "at will". My employer can require us to do anything they like because they can let us go without notice and without reason. In the real world (which is where I work) people get whatever conditions they are willing to put up with, and people who don't "play the game" get shown the door.
Out of interest, is there any reason why you're staying with them? That sounds like utterly horrible working conditions to me, and the implications from your previous posts is that having a family/partner/life is frowned upon and discouraged.
At the very least, I hope you're being paid a sh*t load of money to compensate...
Every company (at least in the USA) is at-will employment. Every company in the USA can let you go without reason and without notice. They can't fire you because you're a certain ethnicity or gender, etc., but other than a (very few) protectected category, any other reason is fair game. "We decided that employees may no longer have tattoos - oh you have some? You're fired." "I just don't like you any more." "Oh, you like the Rolling Stones? Sorry, I'm a Beatles man - there's the door."
Of course, everyone else in the company may quit if they hear about it, no one may want to work there, etc.
No, but employers are responsible for their employees. If employees have needs, they need to be met.
Um, no. Employers offer an exchange: you do this work, we give you this money. Terms and conditions, enticements and rules, etc. are all negotiable and subject to the market.
The Founding Fathers (of the US) discoursed endlessly on the meaning of "republicanism." John Adams in 1787 defined it as "a government, in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last, are equally subject to the laws."
Problem is corporate money buys laws and finances government.
That's nice, but blogs are irrelevant to the election. Completely.
If you don't believe me, just ask yourself - when was the last time you changed your opinion or plans on who'd you vote for based upon something you read in a blog?
Blogs are just poor man's talk radio. People who listen to Air America are closed-minded liberals, just as people who listen to Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh are closed-minded conservatives. They tune in to have their views reinforced, not to challenge their thinking. Same thing for blogs.
Influence presidential politics? Forget it. I'd wager less than 1% of Americans even read blogs, much less political blogs, and they tend to be the digerati, concentrated in blue states where the state's electoral votes are already pretty obviously going one way...
Hey, nothing wrong with 'em, of course - talk all you want! But if you want to influence politics (local or national), the best way is to first become a multimillionaire and then start giving money. Sorry, I misspoke - it's the only way.
Your listening to corporate Propaganda again....Do some research before you post...Sell your Corporate Whore Bull$hit somewhere else...The truth is the truth, no amount of bull$hit is going
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Making as much money as possible as quickly as possible is pretty much the point of capitalism No.
Sorry: yes. If you take my money (capital) in order to make money with it, I want you to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible. If not, I will give it to someone else. Scale that notion up and you have explained the capital markets.
I've seen so many of the big labs die. I happened to be at IBM Alamaden the day IBM exited the disk drive business, a sad day and the beginning of the end for Alamaden. Who in American industry is still doing basic research?
Well, IBM still is, and on a lot cooler stuff that just disk drives.
Welcome to modern western culture... it's all about making a quick buck.
Modern? At what point wasn't it like that?
Any and every company out there is all about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible... what ever happend to making a modest amount of money while actually taking risks?
You can do that with your own money. Making as much money as possible as quickly as possible is pretty much the point of capitalism, where you're using other people's money.
Another problem is that they're not even unique.
Actually, SSNs are never reused by the Social Security Administration. Ever. Yes, that does mean there is a problem approaching, especially since the space available (9 digits) is further segmented, as the first three digits are broken up by state.
To take a simple example: until 5-10 years ago, it was common to list SSNs in divorce filings. Get divorced and your SSN was listed in the filings, which are public records and can be looked at by anyone. Even today, in some states, you have to file a motion to have the SSN suppressed from the public version (routinely granted, but still it illustrates how common SSN publication is).
Publishing SSNs found in public certainly advertises the problem, but it also creates problems for innocent, even cautious people who have no way of fixing them.
Of course, the real problem is why we have tied so much personal information to a single government-issued number...perhaps because it's the only nationally unique identification number issued by the Federal government...
Large prime numbers are used in cryptography
...which has nothing to do with finding Mersenne Primes.
It's easy to game for endless hours while you're baked.
Of course, if you catch a whiff of pizza next door you're off gorging yourself for the next hour...
Um, he just told you why.
The law is NOW that you're officially driving drunk when your blood alcohol level is .08. In some people that's LESS THAN ONE BEER.
This has led to gestapo style checkpoints where drivers are randomly pulled aside for breathalyzer tests merely because they were at a rock concert.
Don't feel bad, kid - in about another 10 years, you'll be past your partying years and won't care any more.
In the US nearly EVERYTHING has this poison in it because it is cheaper.
Oh stop it. 90% of food at the grocery store does not have high-fructose corn syrup in it.
The problem with HFCS is that the liver stops processing other items until all of the HFCS is processed, if you eat lots of it it never lets the other stuff in to be processed.
That is so non-sensical it's hard to know where to start. You make it sound like the liver is the primary digestive organ. Also, according to you, if I eat some HFCS, I can then eat 20,000 calories and it'll never be processed. Hurray! HFCS is the cure for obesity.
The question is "why is HFCS so cheap here?" and the answer is federal subsidies.
Sorry, wrong. The reason is the high import tariff on sugar in the USA. That's not the same thing as a subsidy.
I think that this is also why we still have an embargo against Cuba too.
It's been fun, but you should run along and finish your homework before posting on Slashdot again.
It's a problem because like smoking and other addictions, such people can become a burden on society.
As a taxpayer, I wish more people smoked. It's cheaper when they die of lung cancer in their 60s than when they collect Social Security and Medicare until they're 90.
I'm not saying it's common, just that it's the law. The tradeoff is that we have very low unemployment.
Umm.. I work for a company where everyone is salaried and "at will". My employer can require us to do anything they like because they can let us go without notice and without reason. In the real world (which is where I work) people get whatever conditions they are willing to put up with, and people who don't "play the game" get shown the door.
Out of interest, is there any reason why you're staying with them? That sounds like utterly horrible working conditions to me, and the implications from your previous posts is that having a family/partner/life is frowned upon and discouraged.
At the very least, I hope you're being paid a sh*t load of money to compensate ...
Every company (at least in the USA) is at-will employment. Every company in the USA can let you go without reason and without notice. They can't fire you because you're a certain ethnicity or gender, etc., but other than a (very few) protectected category, any other reason is fair game. "We decided that employees may no longer have tattoos - oh you have some? You're fired." "I just don't like you any more." "Oh, you like the Rolling Stones? Sorry, I'm a Beatles man - there's the door."
Of course, everyone else in the company may quit if they hear about it, no one may want to work there, etc.
No, but employers are responsible for their employees. If employees have needs, they need to be met.
Um, no. Employers offer an exchange: you do this work, we give you this money. Terms and conditions, enticements and rules, etc. are all negotiable and subject to the market.
There is none. It's endemic to the species. Most humans are motivated by their own selfish desires.
The Founding Fathers (of the US) discoursed endlessly on the meaning of "republicanism." John Adams in 1787 defined it as "a government, in which all men, rich and poor, magistrates and subjects, officers and people, masters and servants, the first citizen and the last, are equally subject to the laws." Problem is corporate money buys laws and finances government.
18th century mercantilism is so much better.
I don't want children (I'm 27), I wasn't aware having a child was an important responsibility to society. I owe it nothing and vice a versa.
"Vice a versa"? Your best contribution to society might be to not have children.
or an American Idol devotee
Depends on her stats.
I can play most of Neil Young's Heart of Gold on real guitar.
That's the kind of risk you take when you decide to learn to play guitar.
I think that's a very dangerous statement... It is not solely necessary for the capital expense to appreciate for it to be an investment.
It's not as dangerous as confusing capital expenditures and expenses.
MCI Worldcom and Arthur Anderson went out of business for trying to use labels loosely like that.
That's nice, but blogs are irrelevant to the election. Completely.
If you don't believe me, just ask yourself - when was the last time you changed your opinion or plans on who'd you vote for based upon something you read in a blog?
Blogs are just poor man's talk radio. People who listen to Air America are closed-minded liberals, just as people who listen to Michael Savage or Rush Limbaugh are closed-minded conservatives. They tune in to have their views reinforced, not to challenge their thinking. Same thing for blogs.
Influence presidential politics? Forget it. I'd wager less than 1% of Americans even read blogs, much less political blogs, and they tend to be the digerati, concentrated in blue states where the state's electoral votes are already pretty obviously going one way...
Hey, nothing wrong with 'em, of course - talk all you want! But if you want to influence politics (local or national), the best way is to first become a multimillionaire and then start giving money. Sorry, I misspoke - it's the only way.
Sounds ... cheesy...
And if it was a new offering from Google or Apple, people would be posting how cool it is.
More transactions run through the world's mainframes in an hour than run through Google in a day.
Your listening to corporate Propaganda again....Do some research before you post...Sell your Corporate Whore Bull$hit somewhere else...The truth is the truth, no amount of bull$hit is going to cover it up.
Well, there you have it.
Grunt work? Setting up and administering systems is "grunt work" in my book. Programming requires far more skill and expertise.
He's here all week. Tip your waitresses.