The last CEO planned to peak IBM revenue. He sold this plan to the board and worked it into the very blood of IBM, what he didn't tell them that he wasn't just going to peak revenue but that it was genuinely going to peak and then start to decline. He create hostile work policies to ensure high turn over rates and now they are trying to drive all the older people away, you know the ones with all the institutional knowledge that create the backbone of knowledge that brings them customers and replace them all with a bunch of college grads that don't know their ass from their chair.
The plan all along was to peak revenue and dividends at the highest possible, but that peak is a true peak, not a peak and level off. On top of this they want to outsource as much as possible and hand all that institutional knowledge to a bunch of non-Americans offshore. Anyone invested in IBM should be invested short because they are in for a long slow drop and eventually a sectioning out and selling off of all their assets. IBM as a company won't be around in 2050.
That's what happens when you let next quarters revenue be more important than next years growth.
Actually with regard to a safe the owner can be compelled to divulge the combination.
This is the precedent under which most of these decisions are made, the judge equates the password or pin code to a safe combination and using prior supreme court precedent that defendants have no 5th amendment protection in a combination are then compelled to divulge the combination/password/pin.
He slashing the DOE budget to the point where ARPA-E has suspended future funding announcements because they aren't sure they will have the money to fund any research. Expect the same in all the other departments that do any kind of research, EPA, DARPA, etc. There is NO chance of us getting to Mars during the next 4 years. In fact I'd lay a higher probability that Elon Musk will make it Mars before the US does.
Wasn't everyone already aware he's a thing skinned narcissist? Everything has always been about him. Everything. Why do you think his wife doesn't want to live with him in DC?
Microsoft will suffer in this market from the affliction of "not making enough money", Microsoft for a decade or more exploited the educational market for vast sums of money, the loss of that revenue is painful so their solution will be to try to match the Google model while charging just as much as they did. They will inevitably fail.
9 of 13 episodes, anyone desperate enough to download this is going to be very dissappointed in the lack of an ending. This could actually increase netflix subscriptions just to find out how it ended.
Probably a lot, right? And it would take forever to pay back
I didn't know 10 years was forever. Goodness. Just installed solar panels, payback is 10 years at my current average 14.5 cents per kwh. That's payback, which is a ROI of more than 10%. On top of that I'm guaranteed an additional 15 years of power for free. After the 25 year warranty expires I'lll get an unknown number of years additional power for free, probably the rest of my lifetime.
It's frankly amazing how many people know exactly diddly squat about solar.
Demand to be heard for what? The Engineering board has nothing to do with signal timing. Their sole function is licensing professional engineers. He wants to talk signal timing he should be talking to the people who own the signals, the cities, counties and state departments of transportation.
The engineering board does one thing, they license engineers. That's it, sending them a letter about anything while claiming in the letter to be an engineer is the equivalent of claiming to be any type of registered professional directly to the people that do the registering. It's beyond strange. This is like going before a judge and claiming to be a lawyer, that'll get you jail and a fine.
He mailed the engineering board, the licensing authority, NOT the people in charge of traffic lights or having anything to do with them. Either he was trying to get fined by claiming to be an engineer or he's a fucking moron.
Some states have very strict licensing laws with regard to the term engineer, other restrict that to the term professional engineer. Nevada blocked Novell "engineers" from claiming they are such. The law on this is pretty settled, the guy is going to be lucky to pay that fine, by claiming he was an engineer directly to the licensing board he opened himself to the boards authority and they have the authority to incarcerate engineers under their authority and they can levy some pretty hefty fines.
I still can't figure out why he mailed anything to the engineering board. They have nothing at all to do with traffic lights, their sole purpose is engineering licensing. He mailed them a letter claiming to be an engineer. He might as well have mailed the bar claiming to be a lawyer or the medical licensing board claiming to be a medical doctor. That's how stupid what he did was.
Hate to break it to you but the Fed government is far to harder to corrupt than your local government. Your state and local government is corrupt almost without exception because relatively small amounts of money in coordination with non-existent oversight and ethics can buy just about every local politician and even law enforcement. To the point that your local government was bought and sold long before you were even born.
There is one power I'd like to see drastically expanded and that's the power of Federal law enforcement to monitor and prosecute corrupt local politicians and police agencies (I'd also like to see a similar nonpartisan office at the federal level going after federal corruption). Our founders thought local government would be more accountable and it is in some regard, but it's far easier to corrupt and it is corrupt in almost every state in the union, usually to the benefit of Property developers or other locals with money.
It's precisely because of that local corruption that the Fed's have had to step into many things they shouldn't be involved in.
They'd be foolish to try to enforce it because the judge was negligent in determining if he/she had jurisdiction. The court clearly didn't have jurisdiction in this case, it was a US charity posting on a US server to a US audience and too boot the complaint is that it caused US based companies to react. There wasn't a thing in this lawsuit that involved Australia and the judge should have thrown it out for lack of jurisdiction.
But regardless no US court is going to enforce anything related to this as the case clearly violates US speech rights. This was the exact intent of the SPEECH act, to prevent just this type of bullshit.
They aren't going to maintain their majority for 4. They'll be LUCKY if they don't lose the house in 2018 and Trump is a one term president. They've got two years at best to fuck everything up they can.
Who knew, it's amazing how totally surprising this is and how there was no gradual slide to this as papers and real reporting fell to web publications who make their money not on subscriptions but on web advertising where getting people to look at the page is all that matters.
Like Trump you need to grow the fuck up, this exists because of the way we pay for these news services now. The system totally encourages them to do whatever it takes to get clicks because that's how they get paid. This is the press we've created and you should stop fucking complaining about it or do something about it and subscribe to real news services so they don't need to rely on web advertising.
Or you can be a whiney bitch like the president and complain about the press while being part of the problem, your choice.
I'm sure the test was perfectly fair and they didn't do anything like ensure Chrome was loading and running flash on a video loop while their own used HTML5 and refused to autoplay. No way Microsoft would be that underhanded.
If it took the 59 cruise missiles and not the request/promise to raise military spending 50 billion to be paid for by Meals on Wheels and other extremely cheap and very effective government programs you were missing the entire picture of what Trump is. Trumps no more isolationist than Bush.
The rich can leave, or at least move their wealth to somewhere the government can't reach.
Some do, most don't because they value a safe western society where property rights are respected and the second there is conflict or a threat the ones that did leave come running right back to the US. Personally I'd like to see stricter rules on this, you take your money and leave to avoid taxes and the government isn't responsible to repatriot you when the inevitable conflict brings them running back.
You want the benefits of living in a protected western economy you should have to pay the taxes to support that.
And the most important bit is that the 47% paying no Federal Income taxes (a single tax) are in fact paying far higher percentages of their earnings in the remaining taxes than the richest people pay. No one is exempt from the 15% SS/Medicare/Medicaid taxes, everyone pays state income/sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, etc. The tax burden of the average person in Romney's "47%" is more than 50% of their income (the true working poor can have tax rates as high as 60-70% if they live in a state that taxes food) while people like Romney are paying 0-15% taxes if they pay any at all.
That level of dishonesty is infuriating because it's deliberately obscuring the truth with a lie by omission. The working poor aren't lazy people not paying taxes, they pay higher percentages of taxes than just about anyone else.
Nobody with a paycheck pays 0%. Anyone that says that willfully disregards Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid taxes which are NOT exempted under any circumstance. Anyone making a paycheck is paying at a minimum the 15% social security and Medicare taxes. The lovely dishonesty about your claim is it's kinda true if you specifically narrow the count to a specific tax, 40% pay no federal income tax in addition to the SS and Medicare/Medicaid taxes.
You and Romney should get together and have lunch because you're being as dishonest as him in claiming 40% don't pay taxes, everyone earning a wage pays taxes including illegal imigrants who often pay social security and Medicare taxes but will never benefit from them.
If they still have an old analog 2G phone they aren't making any phone calls because the entire system was turned off a year ago which is the event that triggered the FCC/FAA to have a deregulation hearing on whether to still ban phone calls, exactly as they should have.
But Thanks to Donald Trump we don't have to worry about sensible safety based restrictions, we get to go with jack booted government thugs dictating that you cannot use a harmless device because someone could get annoyed.
This should be up to the airlines to decide, not regulatory authority that's no longer needed.
Yes thank you Mr Trump for implementing the small government plan of forcing airlines to do something that's completely unrelated to safety.
Nothing says small and limited government like government minders telling you that you can't use a private phone on a private aircraft and they will put you in jail for doing so.
Airlines should be able to make this call, the Obama FCC was right to give the airlines control over this rule once they showed modern cell phones no longer caused interference on planes. You may not remember this but every seat used to have a phone, the rates were just ridiculous enough to keep people from calling in everything but an emergency but it was still perfectly acceptable to make a call. It was only with the rise of personal phones that this ability was taken away out of safety fears which are no longer applicable.
But thanks to Mr "small government" Trump we've ensured that no naughty person will make a phone call from a private airplane.
Maybe you don't understand, if this was a criminal prosecution they would have brought charges against a John Doe and applied for a warrant. Using the national security tool they are using (designed for foreign actors outside US jurisdiction) bypasses the requirement to obtain a warrant and avoids that nasty complication of proving the speech in question is NOT protected speech.
Your blatant disregard of how this bypasses standard criminal procedures by waiving it away blatantly ignores that they are doing it this way so they don't have to get a subpoena and document why this speech isn't protected. Any time the wrong procedure is being used like this you can bet dollars to donuts the are abusing the process because what they are doing would have never met the requirements for a valid warrant. Don't cheer lead so hard that you ignore abuse of power.
Twitter has every right to decide that people saying stuff in their house is reason for those people to be expelled from their house. The most anti-free speech action you could ever take would be to require private entities (not government) to not only be forced to carry speech they are opposed to but to support the broadcast of that speech using that private entities resources. That you fools on the alt-right don't get that just speaks to how much contempt you have for the constitution and the bill of rights.
This isn't so much an endorsement of Gnome as a rejection of Shuttleworth's pie in the sky "follow every trend" style of management and their extreme desire to reinvent the wheel at every turn. Rather than use Gnome they "developed" unity. Rather than use Wayland they "developed" Mir. Rather than pursue a desktop OS they pivoted towards the phone taking over everything.
So Unity is dead like most of their other NIH house custom plumbing projects so I suspect Mir will be next. Shuttleworth would get far more bang for his buck if he spent his money helping established projects rather than trying to reinvent the wheel at every turn.
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The last CEO planned to peak IBM revenue. He sold this plan to the board and worked it into the very blood of IBM, what he didn't tell them that he wasn't just going to peak revenue but that it was genuinely going to peak and then start to decline. He create hostile work policies to ensure high turn over rates and now they are trying to drive all the older people away, you know the ones with all the institutional knowledge that create the backbone of knowledge that brings them customers and replace them all with a bunch of college grads that don't know their ass from their chair.
The plan all along was to peak revenue and dividends at the highest possible, but that peak is a true peak, not a peak and level off. On top of this they want to outsource as much as possible and hand all that institutional knowledge to a bunch of non-Americans offshore. Anyone invested in IBM should be invested short because they are in for a long slow drop and eventually a sectioning out and selling off of all their assets. IBM as a company won't be around in 2050.
That's what happens when you let next quarters revenue be more important than next years growth.
Actually with regard to a safe the owner can be compelled to divulge the combination.
This is the precedent under which most of these decisions are made, the judge equates the password or pin code to a safe combination and using prior supreme court precedent that defendants have no 5th amendment protection in a combination are then compelled to divulge the combination/password/pin.
He slashing the DOE budget to the point where ARPA-E has suspended future funding announcements because they aren't sure they will have the money to fund any research. Expect the same in all the other departments that do any kind of research, EPA, DARPA, etc. There is NO chance of us getting to Mars during the next 4 years. In fact I'd lay a higher probability that Elon Musk will make it Mars before the US does.
Wasn't everyone already aware he's a thing skinned narcissist? Everything has always been about him. Everything. Why do you think his wife doesn't want to live with him in DC?
Microsoft will suffer in this market from the affliction of "not making enough money", Microsoft for a decade or more exploited the educational market for vast sums of money, the loss of that revenue is painful so their solution will be to try to match the Google model while charging just as much as they did. They will inevitably fail.
9 of 13 episodes, anyone desperate enough to download this is going to be very dissappointed in the lack of an ending. This could actually increase netflix subscriptions just to find out how it ended.
I didn't know 10 years was forever. Goodness. Just installed solar panels, payback is 10 years at my current average 14.5 cents per kwh. That's payback, which is a ROI of more than 10%. On top of that I'm guaranteed an additional 15 years of power for free. After the 25 year warranty expires I'lll get an unknown number of years additional power for free, probably the rest of my lifetime.
It's frankly amazing how many people know exactly diddly squat about solar.
Demand to be heard for what? The Engineering board has nothing to do with signal timing. Their sole function is licensing professional engineers. He wants to talk signal timing he should be talking to the people who own the signals, the cities, counties and state departments of transportation.
The engineering board does one thing, they license engineers. That's it, sending them a letter about anything while claiming in the letter to be an engineer is the equivalent of claiming to be any type of registered professional directly to the people that do the registering. It's beyond strange. This is like going before a judge and claiming to be a lawyer, that'll get you jail and a fine.
He mailed the engineering board, the licensing authority, NOT the people in charge of traffic lights or having anything to do with them. Either he was trying to get fined by claiming to be an engineer or he's a fucking moron.
Some states have very strict licensing laws with regard to the term engineer, other restrict that to the term professional engineer. Nevada blocked Novell "engineers" from claiming they are such. The law on this is pretty settled, the guy is going to be lucky to pay that fine, by claiming he was an engineer directly to the licensing board he opened himself to the boards authority and they have the authority to incarcerate engineers under their authority and they can levy some pretty hefty fines.
I still can't figure out why he mailed anything to the engineering board. They have nothing at all to do with traffic lights, their sole purpose is engineering licensing. He mailed them a letter claiming to be an engineer. He might as well have mailed the bar claiming to be a lawyer or the medical licensing board claiming to be a medical doctor. That's how stupid what he did was.
Hate to break it to you but the Fed government is far to harder to corrupt than your local government. Your state and local government is corrupt almost without exception because relatively small amounts of money in coordination with non-existent oversight and ethics can buy just about every local politician and even law enforcement. To the point that your local government was bought and sold long before you were even born.
There is one power I'd like to see drastically expanded and that's the power of Federal law enforcement to monitor and prosecute corrupt local politicians and police agencies (I'd also like to see a similar nonpartisan office at the federal level going after federal corruption). Our founders thought local government would be more accountable and it is in some regard, but it's far easier to corrupt and it is corrupt in almost every state in the union, usually to the benefit of Property developers or other locals with money.
It's precisely because of that local corruption that the Fed's have had to step into many things they shouldn't be involved in.
They'd be foolish to try to enforce it because the judge was negligent in determining if he/she had jurisdiction. The court clearly didn't have jurisdiction in this case, it was a US charity posting on a US server to a US audience and too boot the complaint is that it caused US based companies to react. There wasn't a thing in this lawsuit that involved Australia and the judge should have thrown it out for lack of jurisdiction.
But regardless no US court is going to enforce anything related to this as the case clearly violates US speech rights. This was the exact intent of the SPEECH act, to prevent just this type of bullshit.
Eight years? LOL
They aren't going to maintain their majority for 4. They'll be LUCKY if they don't lose the house in 2018 and Trump is a one term president. They've got two years at best to fuck everything up they can.
The SPEECH act prevents the enforcement of ANY legal action covered by the SPEECH act.
The EFF isn't going to be paying anything and you should give up the armchair lawyer card because you aren't any good at it.
Oh ma gawd. The press is in it for the clicks???
Who knew, it's amazing how totally surprising this is and how there was no gradual slide to this as papers and real reporting fell to web publications who make their money not on subscriptions but on web advertising where getting people to look at the page is all that matters.
Like Trump you need to grow the fuck up, this exists because of the way we pay for these news services now. The system totally encourages them to do whatever it takes to get clicks because that's how they get paid. This is the press we've created and you should stop fucking complaining about it or do something about it and subscribe to real news services so they don't need to rely on web advertising.
Or you can be a whiney bitch like the president and complain about the press while being part of the problem, your choice.
I'm sure the test was perfectly fair and they didn't do anything like ensure Chrome was loading and running flash on a video loop while their own used HTML5 and refused to autoplay. No way Microsoft would be that underhanded.
If it took the 59 cruise missiles and not the request/promise to raise military spending 50 billion to be paid for by Meals on Wheels and other extremely cheap and very effective government programs you were missing the entire picture of what Trump is. Trumps no more isolationist than Bush.
The rich can leave, or at least move their wealth to somewhere the government can't reach.
Some do, most don't because they value a safe western society where property rights are respected and the second there is conflict or a threat the ones that did leave come running right back to the US. Personally I'd like to see stricter rules on this, you take your money and leave to avoid taxes and the government isn't responsible to repatriot you when the inevitable conflict brings them running back.
You want the benefits of living in a protected western economy you should have to pay the taxes to support that.
And the most important bit is that the 47% paying no Federal Income taxes (a single tax) are in fact paying far higher percentages of their earnings in the remaining taxes than the richest people pay. No one is exempt from the 15% SS/Medicare/Medicaid taxes, everyone pays state income/sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, etc. The tax burden of the average person in Romney's "47%" is more than 50% of their income (the true working poor can have tax rates as high as 60-70% if they live in a state that taxes food) while people like Romney are paying 0-15% taxes if they pay any at all.
That level of dishonesty is infuriating because it's deliberately obscuring the truth with a lie by omission. The working poor aren't lazy people not paying taxes, they pay higher percentages of taxes than just about anyone else.
Nobody with a paycheck pays 0%. Anyone that says that willfully disregards Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid taxes which are NOT exempted under any circumstance. Anyone making a paycheck is paying at a minimum the 15% social security and Medicare taxes. The lovely dishonesty about your claim is it's kinda true if you specifically narrow the count to a specific tax, 40% pay no federal income tax in addition to the SS and Medicare/Medicaid taxes.
You and Romney should get together and have lunch because you're being as dishonest as him in claiming 40% don't pay taxes, everyone earning a wage pays taxes including illegal imigrants who often pay social security and Medicare taxes but will never benefit from them.
If they still have an old analog 2G phone they aren't making any phone calls because the entire system was turned off a year ago which is the event that triggered the FCC/FAA to have a deregulation hearing on whether to still ban phone calls, exactly as they should have.
But Thanks to Donald Trump we don't have to worry about sensible safety based restrictions, we get to go with jack booted government thugs dictating that you cannot use a harmless device because someone could get annoyed.
This should be up to the airlines to decide, not regulatory authority that's no longer needed.
Yes thank you Mr Trump for implementing the small government plan of forcing airlines to do something that's completely unrelated to safety.
Nothing says small and limited government like government minders telling you that you can't use a private phone on a private aircraft and they will put you in jail for doing so.
Airlines should be able to make this call, the Obama FCC was right to give the airlines control over this rule once they showed modern cell phones no longer caused interference on planes. You may not remember this but every seat used to have a phone, the rates were just ridiculous enough to keep people from calling in everything but an emergency but it was still perfectly acceptable to make a call. It was only with the rise of personal phones that this ability was taken away out of safety fears which are no longer applicable.
But thanks to Mr "small government" Trump we've ensured that no naughty person will make a phone call from a private airplane.
So?
Maybe you don't understand, if this was a criminal prosecution they would have brought charges against a John Doe and applied for a warrant. Using the national security tool they are using (designed for foreign actors outside US jurisdiction) bypasses the requirement to obtain a warrant and avoids that nasty complication of proving the speech in question is NOT protected speech.
Your blatant disregard of how this bypasses standard criminal procedures by waiving it away blatantly ignores that they are doing it this way so they don't have to get a subpoena and document why this speech isn't protected. Any time the wrong procedure is being used like this you can bet dollars to donuts the are abusing the process because what they are doing would have never met the requirements for a valid warrant. Don't cheer lead so hard that you ignore abuse of power.
Your obviously an anti-free speech fool.
Twitter has every right to decide that people saying stuff in their house is reason for those people to be expelled from their house. The most anti-free speech action you could ever take would be to require private entities (not government) to not only be forced to carry speech they are opposed to but to support the broadcast of that speech using that private entities resources. That you fools on the alt-right don't get that just speaks to how much contempt you have for the constitution and the bill of rights.
This isn't so much an endorsement of Gnome as a rejection of Shuttleworth's pie in the sky "follow every trend" style of management and their extreme desire to reinvent the wheel at every turn. Rather than use Gnome they "developed" unity. Rather than use Wayland they "developed" Mir. Rather than pursue a desktop OS they pivoted towards the phone taking over everything.
So Unity is dead like most of their other NIH house custom plumbing projects so I suspect Mir will be next. Shuttleworth would get far more bang for his buck if he spent his money helping established projects rather than trying to reinvent the wheel at every turn.