Of course one will. In the case you set forward, the money is a signaling mechanism. Even if I happen to feel that Y is more productive for the company, It has been signaled to me that the company places greater value on X. As such, I should engage in X.
This assumes that the X in question isn't some perverse gaming of the system.
To use as an example, I worked at a company that was obsessed with EBITDA. All meetings, and management contact, were required to include emphasis on EBITDA objectives (yes, this resulted in a manager hiding in his office a lot). I realize that was just plain stupid. However, it was clearly expressed that the EBITDA objectives were what the company was concerned with.
I could have forged off in my own direction. I do think the company would have been better for it. However, to do so would have been an act of insubordination, yes, I would have also missed my bonus. However, the bonus was not the issue; the issue was that the company had, clearly, signaled its primary area of concern. It was my job to focus on that concern.
[EBITDA -- Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization is a measure of a company's operating performance. Essentially, it's a way to evaluate a company's performance without having to factor in financing decisions, accounting decisions or tax environments.] BTW, it is a worthless measure https://hbr.org/2009/11/how-eb...
The problem is that the focus is on the wrong word. You even used the word. The word you used was "healthcare." The problem is that the word being used when the law is being worked on is not, "care," it is,"insurance.
The emphasis remains to provide insurance, with the assumption that care will follow. The focus needs to be on healthcare.
If it cuts out a huge slice of profit for a small number of people employed in health insurance, that must be viewed as the cost of increasing national efficiency in providing health care.
Stagflation is not the coexistence of deflation and inflation. Stagflation, as coined and seen the late 70's; it is the coexistence of high inflation and high unemployment. This is something that traditional economic theory considered to be impossible. It was the condition that saw the success of the supply side theories that were the core of Thatcherism and Reaganism. The trouble with supply side isn't that it doesn't work in specific circumstances; it is that its adherents try to apply it to all circumstances.
No one says that Uber drivers are not hardworking and conscientious. The issue is with the Uber system that passes the cost of the business model onto the lowest paid person in the chain.
However, even if people were permitted to sell organs, as part of their estate, then the money would be part of the estate. It would then be attached by the hospital that created the availability in the first place, as compensation for the medical expenses.
The result would be a morbid incentive to the hospitals while providing, essentially, no remuneration to the family of the deceased.
. . . it is a good idea, but the presence of people in the system will screw it up.
I am currently reading "Dark Money." I am about 3/4 of the way through and give it a string thumbs up. It contains a lot of detail information, it is well researched; yet, through all that, it remains very readable.
I actually wanted to play Free-Civ last summer. However, the program is randomly scattered over a half dozen sites. Can you put it in one place where a person can just download and install it?
Nope, USA. Before coming to the school district I am at I worked in China for eight years. At the school in China, the concern was money. At this school it is about silos of control.
I am a computer teacher at a middle school and I requested some of the surplus computers for my students to learn something other than Microsoft and Google office tools on. Quite literally, the school dumpstered the old computers instead. I am explicitly forbidden from teaching about the computer (yes, the topics I am not to discuss are in the state curriculum, I am just not to teach those sections).
I am not to teach scripts or programming outside of the robotics class, in that class I am to only use the Lego EV3 programming environment. I am not to introduce things like the Arduino, or any other single board, microcontroller.
As far as things like a Linux club, the students have asked for that. However, the restrictions the district created are too much. The district will not support it in any way (no surplus computers; remember, they go to the dumpster). Further, the linux computers may not be connected to the network, or used to form an independent network, in the school. They must not, through any means access any other network or the internet (that clause was to address the idea of a high gain antenna to my home wifi, as I only live a block from the school and have a clear, rooftop, line of sight). That means standalone computers only.
Frankly, until the schools support computer education, beyond office apps, middle school is not a place that will turn kids onto computers.
The family story went like this; a company (company A) my Grandfather worked as an engineer wanted a better understanding of what the competitor (company B) as doing.
Company A had my grandfather apply at company B as a watchman (yes, what an ironic title). As a result he wandered around and sketched and took notes of everything. People at company B just thought he was doing a great job; however, for reasons no one at Company B ever understood, their competitor suddenly began to duplicate their processes.
The family story goes on that he later met the owner of Company B at a trade event. The owner recognised my grandfather as his former watchman and the reality of what had happened finally hit him. My grandfathers words to him were, "you really have to pay attention to who you let through your doors."
Even though my Chinese friends rely on QQ I have given up on it. If I connect to QQ with a proxy server on, the account is frozen. It has happened several times. I can remember to turn the proxy server off; however, forget once, and that account is locked forever and I have to make a new account and inform everyone of the account change.
It is not really usable to me, a help desk could fix it in minutes; but there isn't one.
The reality is that it is in use in China and works pretty well. Further, most of the people using it support it. The solution is a real ID system where the ID of posters is simple to check and that the users are aware that it is easy to check their ID.
Yes, there would be concerns to be addressed, such as protecting people from having their usage history published; however, it is not insurmountable. With th e sense of anonymity gone, most people would feel less free to act stupid.
Crowdfunding is not an investment, it is pre-purchasing a product that isn't in production, that is all it is. The buyers have no management, or ownership, control of the company. If a company has such a great idea then they can seek funding through selling shares of ownership. The investors, as owners, they can demand accountability from the other owners.
Crowdfunding is nothing but giving money to a person in the hope of a product at some future time. Investing is ownership.
No, it plays other games that I like. There isn't a case of right or wrong console, just different. However, I will probably wait a while for the Xbox version, that isn't a big deal to me, I don't have to play a game the week (or even the year) that it is released.
I was looking forward to it; however, I wanted a little more player interaction. I am a bit split on how much though. I prefer trading, yep, cargo hauling. However, I like the cargo to actually be meaningful to other players. At th esame time, I don't like games with a bunch of kids who think the best part of a game is to make it . . . un fun. . . for others.
Frankly,I realize that I am looking for an improved version of pardus.
Utopia, American Style, is turning out to be a hell for most people. Eventually we will need either some form of guaranteed income or guaranteed employment. The only alternative is mass despair, and the chaos that will come with it.
Keep in mind that as a technology teacher I have stayed up to date in the field. My original post may have left the impression that I crawled under a rock 15 years ago; but that is not the case.
I remain the "go to" person for my campus, in addition to my teaching duties. The advantage that gives me is that I am constantly being exposed to new problems. However, I recognise that the technical support I provide is in a narrow area (education).
The American war on unions has been one of the most successful propaganda campaigns that most of alive at this time have ever seen. It amazes me that people have been convinced to act against both their own, and the nation's, best interest in order to increase profits for so few.
We are only now seeing the results of continual decreases in aggregate spending power that is the result of the failure of the workers to organize both for themselves, and for the greater good. Instead organizing has become a historical footnote as we descend into a vicious circle brought about by lower aggregate spending as a direct result of decreased worker power.
Simply, about age 35 I was "too old" and was pretty well done in the tech industry. I wasn't even able to get back into the interviews. This was right after Y2K (see, I am old) and there really was a glut of IT workers looking for jobs.
I saw the writing on the wall when I looked around for old men and didn't see many. I went back to school and now I teach at a middle school. If I really believed the jobs were there, I honestly believe that I could go back to school and be up to speed an a semester or two. However, I know that the jobs are not there. I know plenty of 50 year old ex-IT workers.
The reality is that the lack of willingness to hire is the problem. The workers have been pushed out; but can quickly "retool" of the demand existed. However, stop and think, if we weren't so fixated on pushing people out of the tech industry, about how much expertise we would have grown. That is potential, and, frankly, education investment that this country has wasted.
Those of you thinking, "I am so awesome that it can't happen to me," consider the number of older IT guys that are driving cabs and delivering pizzas.
A good CEO moving to a company that he considers to be a career ender might demand a higher pay for that move. That company might be looking for an excellent CEO to mitigate, or slow, its collapse. To get an excellent CEO, it will cost more due to the risk to the CEO of being tarnished by the, predictable, failure.
To test this, we would also need to look at the company's performance before the high paid CEO entered the picture.
Again, this is just a possible explanation. However, there are so many studies out there that collaborate the theory that CEO pay does not positively reflect on company performance, that we might as well just treat it as a fact.
The real reason for extremely high top salaries is to save money on mid level manager salaries and promote 'no holds barred' competitiveness. Mid level managers see the only path to "good" pay as being to win in a cut-throat game of mid-manager shuffle. The result is that only the most vicious rise to the top and reap the big rewards, instead of equitable sharing. This is largely responsible for the unique American style of business that puts self first. This type of person is not driven to maximize corporate value, only to maximize personal earnings. Note, I am not saying it is good, only that it is.
A lot of the respondents to this post just don't get it. At a certain point the computer is not the ends, it is a means. Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
Instead of not working and expecting me to figure out what I need to do to fix the computer, they sometimes do have a update to install first. That is fine, I switch to some other task, or read, while that is happening. . . or just play a different game and instal the patch when I am done for the day.
At a certain point, the computer ceases to be a hobby unto itself.
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Of course one will. In the case you set forward, the money is a signaling mechanism. Even if I happen to feel that Y is more productive for the company, It has been signaled to me that the company places greater value on X. As such, I should engage in X.
This assumes that the X in question isn't some perverse gaming of the system.
To use as an example, I worked at a company that was obsessed with EBITDA. All meetings, and management contact, were required to include emphasis on EBITDA objectives (yes, this resulted in a manager hiding in his office a lot). I realize that was just plain stupid. However, it was clearly expressed that the EBITDA objectives were what the company was concerned with.
I could have forged off in my own direction. I do think the company would have been better for it. However, to do so would have been an act of insubordination, yes, I would have also missed my bonus. However, the bonus was not the issue; the issue was that the company had, clearly, signaled its primary area of concern. It was my job to focus on that concern.
[EBITDA -- Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization is a measure of a company's operating performance. Essentially, it's a way to evaluate a company's performance without having to factor in financing decisions, accounting decisions or tax environments.] BTW, it is a worthless measure https://hbr.org/2009/11/how-eb...
Sorry I don't have any mod points right now. If someone reading this does, please mod the parent up.
The problem is that the focus is on the wrong word. You even used the word. The word you used was "healthcare." The problem is that the word being used when the law is being worked on is not, "care," it is ,"insurance.
The emphasis remains to provide insurance, with the assumption that care will follow. The focus needs to be on healthcare.
If it cuts out a huge slice of profit for a small number of people employed in health insurance, that must be viewed as the cost of increasing national efficiency in providing health care.
Stagflation is not the coexistence of deflation and inflation. Stagflation, as coined and seen the late 70's; it is the coexistence of high inflation and high unemployment. This is something that traditional economic theory considered to be impossible. It was the condition that saw the success of the supply side theories that were the core of Thatcherism and Reaganism. The trouble with supply side isn't that it doesn't work in specific circumstances; it is that its adherents try to apply it to all circumstances.
No one says that Uber drivers are not hardworking and conscientious. The issue is with the Uber system that passes the cost of the business model onto the lowest paid person in the chain.
However, even if people were permitted to sell organs, as part of their estate, then the money would be part of the estate. It would then be attached by the hospital that created the availability in the first place, as compensation for the medical expenses.
The result would be a morbid incentive to the hospitals while providing, essentially, no remuneration to the family of the deceased.
. . . it is a good idea, but the presence of people in the system will screw it up.
I am currently reading "Dark Money." I am about 3/4 of the way through and give it a string thumbs up. It contains a lot of detail information, it is well researched; yet, through all that, it remains very readable.
I actually wanted to play Free-Civ last summer. However, the program is randomly scattered over a half dozen sites. Can you put it in one place where a person can just download and install it?
I finally just gave up on it.
I am using OSx if that matters.
Nope, USA. Before coming to the school district I am at I worked in China for eight years. At the school in China, the concern was money. At this school it is about silos of control.
I am a computer teacher at a middle school and I requested some of the surplus computers for my students to learn something other than Microsoft and Google office tools on. Quite literally, the school dumpstered the old computers instead. I am explicitly forbidden from teaching about the computer (yes, the topics I am not to discuss are in the state curriculum, I am just not to teach those sections).
I am not to teach scripts or programming outside of the robotics class, in that class I am to only use the Lego EV3 programming environment. I am not to introduce things like the Arduino, or any other single board, microcontroller.
As far as things like a Linux club, the students have asked for that. However, the restrictions the district created are too much. The district will not support it in any way (no surplus computers; remember, they go to the dumpster). Further, the linux computers may not be connected to the network, or used to form an independent network, in the school. They must not, through any means access any other network or the internet (that clause was to address the idea of a high gain antenna to my home wifi, as I only live a block from the school and have a clear, rooftop, line of sight). That means standalone computers only.
Frankly, until the schools support computer education, beyond office apps, middle school is not a place that will turn kids onto computers.
The family story went like this; a company (company A) my Grandfather worked as an engineer wanted a better understanding of what the competitor (company B) as doing.
Company A had my grandfather apply at company B as a watchman (yes, what an ironic title). As a result he wandered around and sketched and took notes of everything. People at company B just thought he was doing a great job; however, for reasons no one at Company B ever understood, their competitor suddenly began to duplicate their processes.
The family story goes on that he later met the owner of Company B at a trade event. The owner recognised my grandfather as his former watchman and the reality of what had happened finally hit him. My grandfathers words to him were, "you really have to pay attention to who you let through your doors."
Even though my Chinese friends rely on QQ I have given up on it. If I connect to QQ with a proxy server on, the account is frozen. It has happened several times. I can remember to turn the proxy server off; however, forget once, and that account is locked forever and I have to make a new account and inform everyone of the account change.
It is not really usable to me, a help desk could fix it in minutes; but there isn't one.
The reality is that it is in use in China and works pretty well. Further, most of the people using it support it. The solution is a real ID system where the ID of posters is simple to check and that the users are aware that it is easy to check their ID.
Yes, there would be concerns to be addressed, such as protecting people from having their usage history published; however, it is not insurmountable. With th e sense of anonymity gone, most people would feel less free to act stupid.
Crowdfunding is not an investment, it is pre-purchasing a product that isn't in production, that is all it is. The buyers have no management, or ownership, control of the company. If a company has such a great idea then they can seek funding through selling shares of ownership. The investors, as owners, they can demand accountability from the other owners.
Crowdfunding is nothing but giving money to a person in the hope of a product at some future time. Investing is ownership.
No, it plays other games that I like. There isn't a case of right or wrong console, just different. However, I will probably wait a while for the Xbox version, that isn't a big deal to me, I don't have to play a game the week (or even the year) that it is released.
I was looking forward to it; however, I wanted a little more player interaction. I am a bit split on how much though. I prefer trading, yep, cargo hauling. However, I like the cargo to actually be meaningful to other players. At th esame time, I don't like games with a bunch of kids who think the best part of a game is to make it . . . un fun. . . for others.
Frankly,I realize that I am looking for an improved version of pardus.
I am waiting for the xBox One version. I refuse to purchase a pile of game machines.
Well, plenty of people will say, "where theres smoke, theres fire."
(of course, those people may be idiots)
Utopia, American Style, is turning out to be a hell for most people. Eventually we will need either some form of guaranteed income or guaranteed employment. The only alternative is mass despair, and the chaos that will come with it.
Keep in mind that as a technology teacher I have stayed up to date in the field. My original post may have left the impression that I crawled under a rock 15 years ago; but that is not the case.
I remain the "go to" person for my campus, in addition to my teaching duties. The advantage that gives me is that I am constantly being exposed to new problems. However, I recognise that the technical support I provide is in a narrow area (education).
The American war on unions has been one of the most successful propaganda campaigns that most of alive at this time have ever seen. It amazes me that people have been convinced to act against both their own, and the nation's, best interest in order to increase profits for so few.
We are only now seeing the results of continual decreases in aggregate spending power that is the result of the failure of the workers to organize both for themselves, and for the greater good. Instead organizing has become a historical footnote as we descend into a vicious circle brought about by lower aggregate spending as a direct result of decreased worker power.
Simply, about age 35 I was "too old" and was pretty well done in the tech industry. I wasn't even able to get back into the interviews. This was right after Y2K (see, I am old) and there really was a glut of IT workers looking for jobs.
I saw the writing on the wall when I looked around for old men and didn't see many. I went back to school and now I teach at a middle school. If I really believed the jobs were there, I honestly believe that I could go back to school and be up to speed an a semester or two. However, I know that the jobs are not there. I know plenty of 50 year old ex-IT workers.
The reality is that the lack of willingness to hire is the problem. The workers have been pushed out; but can quickly "retool" of the demand existed. However, stop and think, if we weren't so fixated on pushing people out of the tech industry, about how much expertise we would have grown. That is potential, and, frankly, education investment that this country has wasted.
Those of you thinking, "I am so awesome that it can't happen to me," consider the number of older IT guys that are driving cabs and delivering pizzas.
A good CEO moving to a company that he considers to be a career ender might demand a higher pay for that move. That company might be looking for an excellent CEO to mitigate, or slow, its collapse. To get an excellent CEO, it will cost more due to the risk to the CEO of being tarnished by the, predictable, failure.
To test this, we would also need to look at the company's performance before the high paid CEO entered the picture.
Again, this is just a possible explanation. However, there are so many studies out there that collaborate the theory that CEO pay does not positively reflect on company performance, that we might as well just treat it as a fact.
The real reason for extremely high top salaries is to save money on mid level manager salaries and promote 'no holds barred' competitiveness. Mid level managers see the only path to "good" pay as being to win in a cut-throat game of mid-manager shuffle. The result is that only the most vicious rise to the top and reap the big rewards, instead of equitable sharing. This is largely responsible for the unique American style of business that puts self first. This type of person is not driven to maximize corporate value, only to maximize personal earnings. Note, I am not saying it is good, only that it is.
The interface is still terrible. I know it can be changed; but it isn't easy to use by default.
A lot of the respondents to this post just don't get it. At a certain point the computer is not the ends, it is a means. Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
Instead of not working and expecting me to figure out what I need to do to fix the computer, they sometimes do have a update to install first. That is fine, I switch to some other task, or read, while that is happening. . . or just play a different game and instal the patch when I am done for the day.
At a certain point, the computer ceases to be a hobby unto itself.