AND you are also paying directly with $118/barrel oil.
There are just a few other contributors to that, you know -- including some major fields currently down due to the effects of weather, but mostly because China is on a major petroleum buying binge. Total demand for the stuff in the last five years is up a lot, while the dollar is down.
Put another way, the price of oil in Euros isn't up nearly as much.
no: give us fox news, and give us cnn, and msnbc, and give us anyone else who wants to play the game, and let all of the ideologies screm all of the manipulations and propaganda they want as loud as they want
From Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.:
We begin with the common ground. Under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries, but on the competition of other ideas.
Time was, countries like the USA and Australia prided themselves on standing up for individual freedom and protecting the rights of the individual against the State. Well, it seems there is a life cycle to cultures as much as anything else.
I'm old enough that I worry more for my grandchildren than for myself, but I am inclined to take some degree of pride and comfort in the thought that my parents' generation managed to spread some of those values widely. What I've seen from Brazil, for instance, gives me hope that there are seeds of Jefferson and Paine scattered around the world for when we forget them.
Is that still around? You couldn't tell by the number of "your warranty is about to expire" and "notice about your credit card" automated calls I get every day one both the landline and the cell phone.
Those calls may theoretically be illegal, but the laws aren't enforced.
It's interesting that you talk about ethics in one branch of business, when clearly, there is a lack of ethics in most branches of business.
No, not really. After all, there are children dying of AIDS in Africa, of hunger all over the world. Old people are being neglected, education is a mess, etc. Apparently your strategy is to give up on doing anything because we can't do everything. The advantage of this approach is to make the problem so far beyond our powers to solve that we can justify not even trying.
In response, I call your attention to the words of a sage from when things were a hell of a lot worse: "It is not for you to finish the task - nor are you free to desist from it."
It may be trite, but doing something to improve one corner of the world beats whining on/. about how bad it all is.
Step two: Find another job. If you take a cut, see step one.
Step three: Pull no punches when you resign. Leave a resignation letter stating that you cannot in good conscience continue to sweep serious liabilities under the rug, and that under the circumstances you have no choice but to leave. Copy the BOD. If you want to really play hardball, copy the company's liability underwriters.
Make no mistake, this is a major bridge-burning exercise. It may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to your career, but don't count in it. See step one.
I've worked for an Apple supplier, and it's a bit creepy to have someone take mug shot of you because "Mr. Jobs wants to know what you look like." Not as creepy as getting a phone call at home late at night because they want hand-holding, but creepy.
... until we get to Larry Niven's dystopic idea that the demand for "spare parts" will grow so huge that legislatures first order that organs be harvested from all executed felons?
After that, of course, public objections to the death penalty drop since it's a source of spare parts. Eventually death becomes the standard penalty for any felony.
The very concept is crazy: organised terrorists who have something to hide KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRAVEL USING IDENTIFIABLE METHODS OF PAYMENT.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the whole War On Terror (tm) is founded on the idea that the Bad Guys are too stupid to use any of the fifty thousand or so obvious attacks that we have no way to defend against and instead will attack where the Forces of Truth and Justice (tm) have spent billions on security theater.
It's a really good thing, for instance, that Al Queda was never able to recruit anyone who knew anything about engineering.
They come in two flavours. One, *cough* anonymous, wihthout reduction and one, personalised, with 40% reduction. It appears anonymity comes at a price.
Unless they take annoying steps to prevent it, this will just lead to the same response that a lot of people in the USA used: trading. People swap loyalty cards all the time, which I'm sure leads to some amazing connections turning up.
As we all know, the former Soviet Union and China are the closest we've come to paradise-on-earth.
I believe that the DDR (former East Germany) holds the record with something like 30% of the population keeping tabs on the rest. Their status as a workers' paradise is left to the reader to judge.
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As one of my professors used to teach us, it's the smart rat that leaves before the ship sinks.
It's all billable hours, remember.
Put another way, the price of oil in Euros isn't up nearly as much.
The techniques have improved since Robert McNamara, but the game remains the same.
I'm old enough that I worry more for my grandchildren than for myself, but I am inclined to take some degree of pride and comfort in the thought that my parents' generation managed to spread some of those values widely. What I've seen from Brazil, for instance, gives me hope that there are seeds of Jefferson and Paine scattered around the world for when we forget them.
Those calls may theoretically be illegal, but the laws aren't enforced.
No, not really. After all, there are children dying of AIDS in Africa, of hunger all over the world. Old people are being neglected, education is a mess, etc. Apparently your strategy is to give up on doing anything because we can't do everything. The advantage of this approach is to make the problem so far beyond our powers to solve that we can justify not even trying.
In response, I call your attention to the words of a sage from when things were a hell of a lot worse: "It is not for you to finish the task - nor are you free to desist from it."
It may be trite, but doing something to improve one corner of the world beats whining on /. about how bad it all is.
Step two: Find another job. If you take a cut, see step one.
Step three: Pull no punches when you resign. Leave a resignation letter stating that you cannot in good conscience continue to sweep serious liabilities under the rug, and that under the circumstances you have no choice but to leave. Copy the BOD. If you want to really play hardball, copy the company's liability underwriters.
Make no mistake, this is a major bridge-burning exercise. It may turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to your career, but don't count in it. See step one.
Given that this is California, that could take quite a byte out of the deficit.
Looks like things are playing out as Joel predicted. It should be interesting to watch.
Let me know when he (or anyone else with a clue) makes CEO or some other policy-setting position. I might start buying music from his company again.
is material that can be used by anyone but Novell?
I never noticed that Linux had a problem in that regard.
I wondered what that garbage URL in the church newsletter was all about.
Corporate HQ is still there. Maybe you were thinking of AMD?
I've worked for an Apple supplier, and it's a bit creepy to have someone take mug shot of you because "Mr. Jobs wants to know what you look like." Not as creepy as getting a phone call at home late at night because they want hand-holding, but creepy.
After that, of course, public objections to the death penalty drop since it's a source of spare parts. Eventually death becomes the standard penalty for any felony.
Steve wants the bang: Micro!Soft!
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the whole War On Terror (tm) is founded on the idea that the Bad Guys are too stupid to use any of the fifty thousand or so obvious attacks that we have no way to defend against and instead will attack where the Forces of Truth and Justice (tm) have spent billions on security theater.
It's a really good thing, for instance, that Al Queda was never able to recruit anyone who knew anything about engineering.
Oh, wait ...
Unless they take annoying steps to prevent it, this will just lead to the same response that a lot of people in the USA used: trading. People swap loyalty cards all the time, which I'm sure leads to some amazing connections turning up.
Your sarcasmometer is overdue for recalibration.
I can understand your face being red -- whatEVER inspired you to do that for them anyway?
One does wonder just how popular it's become to wank (etc.) for the camera crews.
PS: Anyone else notice that previewing clears any edits made to the "Subject:" line?
I believe that the DDR (former East Germany) holds the record with something like 30% of the population keeping tabs on the rest. Their status as a workers' paradise is left to the reader to judge.