"In the quarterly earnings call following the defeat of his attempted acquisition of T-Mobile, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson was quick to lash out at the FCC, claiming that because his company was unable to acquire more spectrum to handle the explosion of mobile data users, AT&T would be forced to raise prices and take additional action against the highest data users. PCMag looked into the other side of the story, finding that 'The FCC spokesman... pointed out that the FCC has approved more than 150 commercial mobile transaction applications in the past year and more than 300 in the past two years, "facts [that] were completely ignored in the [AT&T] conference call," he said.'"
It's not just heavy users AT&T attacks, it's also regular users. AT&T was just denied the means to get rid of competition that was doing just fine.
Perhaps AT&T should think about improving their own service and removing those caps. It's not like Sprint has suffered much with the iDevices having sane, flat-rate data.
Trying to push metered data in a flat-rate world just doesn't work for superior service.
Then the US can cast a wider net, giving favor to companies that abandon China's type of practices while rewarding those that put the US/EU first. It's all in how government policy wants to go. That, and tariffs are designed to make the foreign product unfavorable.
Airespace had something where you could actively "discourage" or otherwise overwhelm the rogue AP within a defined area. Now that Cisco took over, it's just a "spot the rogue, hope you're right" type of deal.
That's not the case - Apple and other companies do have that option and it is a good thing that they do, because USA is unbearable and nobody should have to be put into a position of hiring an American or a European worker with all the rules, regulations and taxes (including the counterfeiting tax of inflation, that destroys investment capital) present in those systems.
Pardon if you're denied divine right and are required to have some sort of respect for those that aren't business owners. But not everyone is fit to be a business owner, nor should they be consigned to destitution for that specialization.
By hiring a worker in USA or some of Europe the entrepreneur becomes a whipping boy and a slave of the system, the entrepreneur has to be a fool to subject himself to such a stupid predicament.
While making the worker the whipping boy? All you support are totalitarian systems that reduce freedom unless you're a favored entity.
The only thing that governments should do is make sure your kind don't have the option, and have to hire US and EU workers - on the terms of the worker. For as long as your kind refuses balance and nations like China exist.
The problem with that is that such "improvements" come at the cost of pulling the US down. All that suggests is that you're trying to put a wedge between the First and Third World's folks.
A lesser evil is still evil - even if it looks shinier than the other. State capitalism only rewards totalitarianism while providing an interface to nations that have the (as viewed by business) encumbrance of worker-side freedoms.
I did. I'm quite sure that it's quite inefficient to introduce middlemen for labor to get around law (e.g. temp labor), to burn tons of fuel to go offshore, to have a legal staff defend against Chinese counterfeits, and to generally hold contempt for US citizens.
We have tons of people that, if allowed, would more than fix those alleged supply chain issues.
They don't talk about the slavery that it takes for such manufacturing.
The workers live under constant threat, where the company, government, and Apple make sure that workers aren't free. That, and a constant supply of replacements seal their fate as unfree. But feel free to write what you're told by the PRC to shape opinion.
The only good way to fix it is to tariff until they start harmonizing worker conditions to EU standards.
As for Mr. Cook, he's lucky that there's no McCarthy to punish him. He's quite un-American in his alliance with the PRC. His contempt for worker freedom, as opposed to business freedom, should be enough to send him and his kind to GITMO.
The supply chain can always be made to go to the US, despite the will of Cook.
At one time, companies made a point of providing the relevant training and skills so that they had the workforce they wanted. It worked quite well then and would work well today.
US citizens, if provided direct-hire, full-time and well-paid middle-class jobs, they would outshine the world. The problem is that they are too free to object against business. Business hates freedom that it can't control - which is not freedom, but slavery.
You have the mindset that's making things worse in the US - the Southerner's one. Or one that is envious enough to want to tear down the US down to Third World levels.
As for your canard about "competition", it implies a defect that does not exist.
So how much do you want taxes raised so the US can track and verify the pedigree of every product coming into it? Are companies manufacturing in China bad? What about a Chinese company that makes a product no one else does? What about manufacturing in Germany? What about Spain which has lower costs than Germany to a German company? Poland, an upstanding EU member?
All evaluated on their impact on the US. No impact, no tariff. Any front companies in the chain, as the US determines them, get evaluated as the worst possible country.
And in fifty years the US would be a shit hole separated from the global economy and running on technology decades behind everyone else.
Only in your dreams.
Look what happened to American car manufacturers when they had no competition. The Japanese manufactured cars in the US and still killed those companies. That's what your holy protectionism leads to.
Insufficient legal coverage. Had there been a push to include transplants/contracted manufacturing in the quotas, they'd be shut out.
We'd have wonderfully large & reliable cars and you'd have to pay tons to get a golfcart - instead of the other way around.
The US is not the center of the world, many other countries have companies perfectly capable of shipping goods into the US.
They still have to play by the US's rules. That, and the legal toolbox that the US has is quite unfriendly to those opposing the US.
The US has plenty of resources to prove you wrong.
2. Apple didn't get help from government coming up with their own computer, it was all private enterprise.
Only if you don't count the PRC funding all the factories and supplying them with pliant labor.
3. Apple has done PLENTY for USA and the world, produced products people loved, hired other people, who got paid, weren't a drain on the system, paid their taxes.
Not enough for the USA. But if you want to apologize for some despotic hellhole, go right ahead. Just leave your US citizenship and assets at the door.
Multiplying by 5 just makes a politically defensible number while ignoring the ways value is added. $30-50 is more likely given how various inputs are used, currency differences, and how one must account for the costs of using various despotic and knockoff-prone countries.
Also, it is easy to use the proverbial consumer to justify harm against our own - while suggesting that those that would not cause harm as those that would cause harm.
With the US, there is plenty of room for various industries of differing scales, instead of having to specialize in supplying labor for other countries. What is it with your home country that makes it ill-suited for people to remain in it?
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"In the quarterly earnings call following the defeat of his attempted acquisition of T-Mobile, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson was quick to lash out at the FCC, claiming that because his company was unable to acquire more spectrum to handle the explosion of mobile data users, AT&T would be forced to raise prices and take additional action against the highest data users. PCMag looked into the other side of the story, finding that 'The FCC spokesman ... pointed out that the FCC has approved more than 150 commercial mobile transaction applications in the past year and more than 300 in the past two years, "facts [that] were completely ignored in the [AT&T] conference call," he said.'"
It's not just heavy users AT&T attacks, it's also regular users. AT&T was just denied the means to get rid of competition that was doing just fine.
Perhaps AT&T should think about improving their own service and removing those caps. It's not like Sprint has suffered much with the iDevices having sane, flat-rate data.
Trying to push metered data in a flat-rate world just doesn't work for superior service.
They could have gotten higher ones investing in manufacturing in the US for US markets versus this unproductive litigation.
If the US starts taking over all these tax havens by surprise, it would be able to put a stop to that.
Then the US can cast a wider net, giving favor to companies that abandon China's type of practices while rewarding those that put the US/EU first. It's all in how government policy wants to go. That, and tariffs are designed to make the foreign product unfavorable.
Airespace had something where you could actively "discourage" or otherwise overwhelm the rogue AP within a defined area. Now that Cisco took over, it's just a "spot the rogue, hope you're right" type of deal.
That's not the case - Apple and other companies do have that option and it is a good thing that they do, because USA is unbearable and nobody should have to be put into a position of hiring an American or a European worker with all the rules, regulations and taxes (including the counterfeiting tax of inflation, that destroys investment capital) present in those systems.
Pardon if you're denied divine right and are required to have some sort of respect for those that aren't business owners. But not everyone is fit to be a business owner, nor should they be consigned to destitution for that specialization.
By hiring a worker in USA or some of Europe the entrepreneur becomes a whipping boy and a slave of the system, the entrepreneur has to be a fool to subject himself to such a stupid predicament.
While making the worker the whipping boy? All you support are totalitarian systems that reduce freedom unless you're a favored entity.
The only thing that governments should do is make sure your kind don't have the option, and have to hire US and EU workers - on the terms of the worker. For as long as your kind refuses balance and nations like China exist.
If they want to deal with US customers and not be considered on equal footing with AQ, they can start doing things in the US.
The problem with that is that such "improvements" come at the cost of pulling the US down. All that suggests is that you're trying to put a wedge between the First and Third World's folks.
A lesser evil is still evil - even if it looks shinier than the other. State capitalism only rewards totalitarianism while providing an interface to nations that have the (as viewed by business) encumbrance of worker-side freedoms.
I did. I'm quite sure that it's quite inefficient to introduce middlemen for labor to get around law (e.g. temp labor), to burn tons of fuel to go offshore, to have a legal staff defend against Chinese counterfeits, and to generally hold contempt for US citizens.
We have tons of people that, if allowed, would more than fix those alleged supply chain issues.
They don't talk about the slavery that it takes for such manufacturing.
The workers live under constant threat, where the company, government, and Apple make sure that workers aren't free. That, and a constant supply of replacements seal their fate as unfree. But feel free to write what you're told by the PRC to shape opinion.
The only good way to fix it is to tariff until they start harmonizing worker conditions to EU standards.
As for Mr. Cook, he's lucky that there's no McCarthy to punish him. He's quite un-American in his alliance with the PRC. His contempt for worker freedom, as opposed to business freedom, should be enough to send him and his kind to GITMO.
The supply chain can always be made to go to the US, despite the will of Cook.
At one time, companies made a point of providing the relevant training and skills so that they had the workforce they wanted. It worked quite well then and would work well today.
US citizens, if provided direct-hire, full-time and well-paid middle-class jobs, they would outshine the world. The problem is that they are too free to object against business. Business hates freedom that it can't control - which is not freedom, but slavery.
You have the mindset that's making things worse in the US - the Southerner's one. Or one that is envious enough to want to tear down the US down to Third World levels.
As for your canard about "competition", it implies a defect that does not exist.
So how much do you want taxes raised so the US can track and verify the pedigree of every product coming into it? Are companies manufacturing in China bad? What about a Chinese company that makes a product no one else does? What about manufacturing in Germany? What about Spain which has lower costs than Germany to a German company? Poland, an upstanding EU member?
All evaluated on their impact on the US. No impact, no tariff. Any front companies in the chain, as the US determines them, get evaluated as the worst possible country.
And in fifty years the US would be a shit hole separated from the global economy and running on technology decades behind everyone else.
Only in your dreams.
Look what happened to American car manufacturers when they had no competition. The Japanese manufactured cars in the US and still killed those companies. That's what your holy protectionism leads to.
Insufficient legal coverage. Had there been a push to include transplants/contracted manufacturing in the quotas, they'd be shut out.
We'd have wonderfully large & reliable cars and you'd have to pay tons to get a golfcart - instead of the other way around.
The US is not the center of the world, many other countries have companies perfectly capable of shipping goods into the US.
They still have to play by the US's rules. That, and the legal toolbox that the US has is quite unfriendly to those opposing the US.
The US has plenty of resources to prove you wrong.
Qualified to them could mean "non-US citizen described in a legally compliant way".
That, and if they're really hard up for finding US citizens, train them.
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With the NDAA, the US doesn't have to worry about the silly thing called jurisdiction.
1. Nobody owns you a job.
Then fix things so that the obligation exists.
2. Apple didn't get help from government coming up with their own computer, it was all private enterprise.
Only if you don't count the PRC funding all the factories and supplying them with pliant labor.
3. Apple has done PLENTY for USA and the world, produced products people loved, hired other people, who got paid, weren't a drain on the system, paid their taxes.
Not enough for the USA. But if you want to apologize for some despotic hellhole, go right ahead. Just leave your US citizenship and assets at the door.
The rest is just a tax squabble.
The PRC becomes a glowing parking lot, courtesy of its own internal fighting and a hyper-nationalist US taking advantage of the situation.
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It wouldn't be surprising for that be the case.
Not that it should deter one from work, but to put that $16.75 in perspective:
That's roughly the same amount as federal assistance if calculated to 12 months and no taxes, ~$15k/year.
While it might get to be a bit OT, here's the link for the benefit of the parent poster:
PSA Airlines - Flight Attendant
Multiplying by 5 just makes a politically defensible number while ignoring the ways value is added. $30-50 is more likely given how various inputs are used, currency differences, and how one must account for the costs of using various despotic and knockoff-prone countries.
It is the truth.
Also, it is easy to use the proverbial consumer to justify harm against our own - while suggesting that those that would not cause harm as those that would cause harm.
Free trade floats the boat-holding business owners, but drowns the boatless individuals that are not business owners.
With the US, there is plenty of room for various industries of differing scales, instead of having to specialize in supplying labor for other countries. What is it with your home country that makes it ill-suited for people to remain in it?