I will just remind our younger readers of the dotcom boom, where tech stocks were seen as the new big thing and pumped up a bubble that eventually crashed. You can tell the top of this by looking at a tech company that was registered on the NASDAQ called NETJ.COM,
This had all the right words in the name, "net", "J" (for Java, hot at the time) and ".com" but its description of what the company did was:
The company is not currently engaged in any substantial activity and has no plans to engage in such activities in the foreseeable future
and this raised several $110 million in IPO funding from ordinary investors when it floated.
So a dog coin cryptocurrency "worth" $1bn... just same shit, different day.
I avoided all the garbage dotcom stocks because I didn't want to get left holding the bag when they collapsed. Unfortunately when they collapsed they took the whole market with them.
During the real estate and mortgage insanity I avoided going into massive debt to buy property I couldn't afford because I didn't want to go broke when the housing market "which could never go down" collapsed. Unfortunately when it collapsed it crashed the economy.
Yet again I'm avoiding a gain for the same reasons. Lets hope we all don't all get burned again when it blows up.
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
I've flown on one of the Lufthansa 747-800is, and it is a glorious bird. (Of course, it helped that I splurged and spent 90,000 points on a first class seat). Even business class and economy was really nice on them, much more spacious than other aircraft I've been on. It's really too bad the economics of these don't work any more.
Earlier in 2017, I took my family to Europe upstairs in business class on a United 747, because it was the last week that 747 was going to be in service and probably the last chance my family would have to fly upstairs in a 747. I've been upstairs in a 747 a few times but the rest of my family never had.
It was nice up there. It felt like a private plane. So much room in the window seats.
Perhaps you should read what you post. Or give a comment. Your post makes otherwise no sense.
Perhaps you could have read the title of the article from The Guardian:
"Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity Report accuses UK public health bodies of colluding with food industry and calls for overhaul of dietary guidelines"
This was in response to your assertion that "Eat more carbs", sorry never heard about that advice. And I'm not aware of publications with that message in Europe"
Refuse connections that include the user-agent string of the device that you are trying to block.
But of course that only works if the browser "properly" sets it's user-agent. You could just then change your user-agent to report itself as a windows computer and then there's nothing they can do (assuming they don't want to block all windows computers from accessing YouTube).
Exactly. It is very common to spoof the user-agent
It works "OK" for now, but it will be no problem for Google to deploy another block. Amazon needs to work something out with Google, otherwise this just keeps going: Fix->Block->Fix->Block and so on...
Half a million Russian email addresses were used citing legitimate US identities who were not the submitters of the comment. Chairman Pai refused to investigate even these, or help State Attorneys investigate the identity fraud for people in their state. Adjit has said he is not filtering identifiable fake comments and is considering the substance.
What's the betting, he colluded with telcos to skew the submissions hiring Trump's foreign troll/hack friends?
Who would waste time investigating forged email addresses? I get spam constantly. I also own a domain and I get flooded with bounced emails using my domain as a return address. There's no point in wasting time on it
"Norway exempts new electric cars from almost all taxes and grants perks that can be worth thousands of dollars a year in terms of free or subsidized parking, re-charging and use of toll roads, ferries and tunnels."
EV and hybrid cars must be pretty unpopular if they need so many incentives to induce sales.
I guess one part of the problem is that americans usually completely ignore science from other parts of the world. "Eat more carbs", sorry never heard about that advice. And I'm not aware of publications with that message in Europe
There was "a link" between saturated fat and heart disease for decades. It was a lie and made society quite overweight. Forgive us if we say "wait, let's not rush to judgment on the basis of supposed scientific consensus, especially when dissent exists and has sound reasons to do so."
I remember when there was general agreement that Dr Robert Atkins was a quack. Nowadays they would brand him a "fat denialist, in the pocket of the meat industry".
"If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates -- are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Or, just possibly this: they find out both of the above are true."
I can't understand why superhero movies are so popular? Who, over 12 years old, is going to see them? They come out with a new one every 3 months and they all look identical to me. They also make a ton of money, so they will continue make them. I only see art films myself.
Really? What if it went up 500,000 in one year, 600,000 in the next, 850,000 the year after that - and then this year it didn't go up at all, let alone by a million?
My point was that they were making a big deal about the size of the layoff. I'm saying in absolute terms it's not a huge number. The IT job market there is still very robust.
Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House earlier this year hasn’t helped.
Since Trump took office, the fate of the H-1B, a six-year temporary work visa that Indian IT companies heavily depend on, has been hanging fire.
In March 2017, the US government stalled the premium processing of this visa category.
The criteria for computer programmers to apply for the H-1B visa became tougher. In April, Trump signed the “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, promising to bring jobs back to the country, putting migrant workers in jeopardy. In November, the judicial committee of the US House of Representatives gave its nod to the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act (titled HR 170) which classifies any company that has more 15% of its workforce working on-site as “visa-dependent.” With this, the pressure is mounting on Indian outsourcing giants which sometimes have over 50% of their manpower working on-site.
Even the current workers have cause for concern—to clamp down on visa fraud, the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to double the number of visits to workplaces. “Indian IT companies, thus far champions of IT-based outsourcing, have been forced to go back to the drawing board in order to reposition themselves higher up in the value chain,” Anshul Prakash, a partner at Mumbai-based legal services firm Khaitan & Co, told Quartz.
Based on my experience with I.T. offshoring in India, I laughed out loud when I read that 1% represents the under performing employees. Perhaps its a nuance of the language and underperforming has no relationship to to good service or solving problems there.
Goldman Sachs cuts the bottom 5-10% every year, along with lots of others. 56,000 layoffs in the entire country seems like noise
Well, because it's settled Supreme Court precedence, you would probably need a constitutional amendment, and that takes a 2/3 majority in both chambers of Congress, plus ratification by 2/3 of the states. That won't happen.
It needs no such thing. All that is needed is 5 justices agreeing with a state law that life begins at conception, or some point very soon thereafter.
There already are such laws: http://www.ncsl.org/research/h... The difference between fetal homicide and abortion is very arbitrary.
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I will just remind our younger readers of the dotcom boom, where tech stocks were seen as the new big thing and pumped up a bubble that eventually crashed. You can tell the top of this by looking at a tech company that was registered on the NASDAQ called NETJ.COM,
This had all the right words in the name, "net", "J" (for Java, hot at the time) and ".com" but its description of what the company did was:
and this raised several $110 million in IPO funding from ordinary investors when it floated.
So a dog coin cryptocurrency "worth" $1bn... just same shit, different day.
I avoided all the garbage dotcom stocks because I didn't want to get left holding the bag when they collapsed.
Unfortunately when they collapsed they took the whole market with them.
During the real estate and mortgage insanity I avoided going into massive debt to buy property I couldn't afford because I didn't want to go broke when the housing market "which could never go down" collapsed.
Unfortunately when it collapsed it crashed the economy.
Yet again I'm avoiding a gain for the same reasons.
Lets hope we all don't all get burned again when it blows up.
You keep sticking to this "Only in the US" nonsense despite evidence to the contrary which the article has links to.
Here's one
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
They are all owned by multi billionaires.
I doubt they are lobbying to save the consumer money.
I like it a lot.
It is the only wireless one and it is not active listening unless you want it to be
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
I've flown on one of the Lufthansa 747-800is, and it is a glorious bird. (Of course, it helped that I splurged and spent 90,000 points on a first class seat). Even business class and economy was really nice on them, much more spacious than other aircraft I've been on. It's really too bad the economics of these don't work any more.
Earlier in 2017, I took my family to Europe upstairs in business class on a United 747, because it was the last week that 747 was going to be in service and probably the last chance my family would have to fly upstairs in a 747. I've been upstairs in a 747 a few times but the rest of my family never had.
It was nice up there. It felt like a private plane. So much room in the window seats.
The people who leave are always the best, never the worst. That is the curse of government employment.
It's true no matter who the employer is. The best always look for better opportunities
Perhaps you should read what you post. Or give a comment.
Your post makes otherwise no sense.
Perhaps you could have read the title of the article from The Guardian:
"Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity
Report accuses UK public health bodies of colluding with food industry and calls for overhaul of dietary guidelines"
This was in response to your assertion that "Eat more carbs", sorry never heard about that advice. And I'm not aware of publications with that message in Europe"
How do you block a web browser?
Refuse connections that include the user-agent string of the device that you are trying to block.
But of course that only works if the browser "properly" sets it's user-agent. You could just then change your user-agent to report itself as a windows computer and then there's nothing they can do (assuming they don't want to block all windows computers from accessing YouTube).
Exactly. It is very common to spoof the user-agent
It works "OK" for now, but it will be no problem for Google to deploy another block. Amazon needs to work something out with Google, otherwise this just keeps going: Fix->Block->Fix->Block and so on...
How do you block a web browser?
It is a terrible idea written by a terrible power grab attempt by a terrible administration.
Get off my Internet you socialist scum.
This is the exact opposite of a power grab.
Half a million Russian email addresses were used citing legitimate US identities who were not the submitters of the comment. Chairman Pai refused to investigate even these, or help State Attorneys investigate the identity fraud for people in their state. Adjit has said he is not filtering identifiable fake comments and is considering the substance.
What's the betting, he colluded with telcos to skew the submissions hiring Trump's foreign troll/hack friends?
Who would waste time investigating forged email addresses? I get spam constantly. I also own a domain and I get flooded with bounced emails using my domain as a return address. There's no point in wasting time on it
"Norway exempts new electric cars from almost all taxes and grants perks that can be worth thousands of dollars a year in terms of free or subsidized parking, re-charging and use of toll roads, ferries and tunnels."
EV and hybrid cars must be pretty unpopular if they need so many incentives to induce sales.
An employer with 21,000 employees losing "several hundred" over two to three years would be thrilled.
A better headline might be "NSA has 99.9% annual employee retention rate"
I guess one part of the problem is that americans usually completely ignore science from other parts of the world.
"Eat more carbs", sorry never heard about that advice. And I'm not aware of publications with that message in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
There was "a link" between saturated fat and heart disease for decades. It was a lie and made society quite overweight. Forgive us if we say "wait, let's not rush to judgment on the basis of supposed scientific consensus, especially when dissent exists and has sound reasons to do so."
I remember when there was general agreement that Dr Robert Atkins was a quack. Nowadays they would brand him a "fat denialist, in the pocket of the meat industry".
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07...
"If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates -- are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Or, just possibly this: they find out both of the above are true."
I can't understand why superhero movies are so popular? Who, over 12 years old, is going to see them? They come out with a new one every 3 months and they all look identical to me. They also make a ton of money, so they will continue make them. I only see art films myself.
What were the best art films of 2017
He made it harder to get H1-B visas, but the insourcing trend actually started around the time of the 2008 market crash recovery (2010-2011).
That could be but that's not what this article is about
Really? What if it went up 500,000 in one year, 600,000 in the next, 850,000 the year after that - and then this year it didn't go up at all, let alone by a million?
My point was that they were making a big deal about the size of the layoff. I'm saying in absolute terms it's not a huge number. The IT job market there is still very robust.
the job loses were completely due to automation. Trump had nothing to do with it.
I guess you didn't RTFA. What I posted is an excerpt from TFA.
Oh, I was unaware the Orange One brought any tech jobs back.
You should read the article
That rather depends on what the trend was before, doesn't it?
No. Just the absolute numbers will do.
According to https://www.statista.com/stati... the direct IT employment is 3.86 million
56,000/3.86mm == 0.14%
Donald Trump’s arrival at the White House earlier this year hasn’t helped.
Since Trump took office, the fate of the H-1B, a six-year temporary work visa that Indian IT companies heavily depend on, has been hanging fire.
In March 2017, the US government stalled the premium processing of this visa category.
The criteria for computer programmers to apply for the H-1B visa became tougher. In April, Trump signed the “Buy American, Hire American” executive order, promising to bring jobs back to the country, putting migrant workers in jeopardy. In November, the judicial committee of the US House of Representatives gave its nod to the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act (titled HR 170) which classifies any company that has more 15% of its workforce working on-site as “visa-dependent.” With this, the pressure is mounting on Indian outsourcing giants which sometimes have over 50% of their manpower working on-site.
Even the current workers have cause for concern—to clamp down on visa fraud, the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to double the number of visits to workplaces. “Indian IT companies, thus far champions of IT-based outsourcing, have been forced to go back to the drawing board in order to reposition themselves higher up in the value chain,” Anshul Prakash, a partner at Mumbai-based legal services firm Khaitan & Co, told Quartz.
Based on my experience with I.T. offshoring in India, I laughed out loud when I read that 1% represents the under performing employees. Perhaps its a nuance of the language and underperforming has no relationship to to good service or solving problems there.
Goldman Sachs cuts the bottom 5-10% every year, along with lots of others.
56,000 layoffs in the entire country seems like noise
Well, because it's settled Supreme Court precedence, you would probably need a constitutional amendment, and that takes a 2/3 majority in both chambers of Congress, plus ratification by 2/3 of the states. That won't happen.
It needs no such thing. All that is needed is 5 justices agreeing with a state law that life begins at conception, or some point very soon thereafter.
There already are such laws: http://www.ncsl.org/research/h...
The difference between fetal homicide and abortion is very arbitrary.
"First, they asked 2145 people throughout the United States to take an online survey"
This is a survey of people who have nothing better to do.