Let's not forget that Amazon is soon to roll out their own delivery service that competes directly with FedEx and UPS, delivering not only their own products, but those of the same shippers currently using FedEx and UPS. The cost of using their own delivery service has to be funded with the funds redirected from the existing delivery services - ie. FedEx and UPS. Their "free delivery" with Amazon Prime is funded with Prime dollars, regardless of who the actual shipper is. By increasing the Prime member fees, they will be "over-funding" their own delivery service, effectively "subsidizing" the delivery service and giving them an unfair competitive cost edge over both FedEx and UPS. It's how you take over a(nother) market. By their own admission, they have over 100,000,000 Prime subscribers. At $119 each that is almost $12B dollars a year subsidy. To put that in some perspective, FedEx's gross annual income in 2017 was $13.77B.
They won't do anything bad with your data. Promise. Yeah, right! I don't want MS storing all my personal and contacts' information anywhere - they are the least secure mainstream OS in the world. I was a long time Skype user on LINUX. Recent versions want access to all kinds of private data on my system so I have purged Skype from my main computer (LINUX) and my MACs as well. There are plenty of other free, secure, multi-platform and unobtrusive alternatives out there, many of them browser-based so you don't need to install anything at all.
I think that Walmart's recent (2017) policy of refusal to conduct business with any partner who uses AWS has probably driven a lot of business in the direction of Azure. And big businesses.
There is starvation occurring all over our world and we have no better idea than to convert food that could be saving lives into fuel to burn? At a higher cost than petroleum fuel? Starving individuals and families can't eat the less expensive petroleum product. Who makes these decisions about who eats and who does not - who lives and who dies? Particularly when there is a better alternative?
One has to ask if this is just ignorance or willful disregard.
... the statement that "Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning is the cause of the large-scale deoxygenation". There is and has always been "Climate change" for many reasons. In the 1600's the world and its oceans were warmer than they are today and I'm fairly certain that there was less fossil fuel burning that there is today. Let's not perpetuate misinformation. That being said, I am 100% in favor of eliminating fossil fuel burning as a source of energy and all over the world we're making great strides already. Norway crossed the 50% mark in 2017 where there are now more Electric and Hybrid cars than there are gasoline/diesel ("Lillyhammer" anyone?). Petroleum/Oil products are also used extensively in the production of synthetic products (plastics, fabrics, adhesives, paints etc.) many of which wind up in our oceans as well. Mankind is a terrible polluter and destroyer of environments - climate change? It happened before us and it'll happen after us. All the other stuff we do to our environment - not so much.
We can thank the lamestream media for misrepresenting the facts and so vociferously and incessantly blasting this misinformation all over the air waves. It isn't the extreme vetting that's the problem - its the deliberate "re-interpretation" of the vetting by the media. The common name for this is "scare tactics". When are we all going to wise up? Who is NEVER held accountable for misinformation, riots, lives ruined as the result of misinformation? The media. People die, lives ruined and communities and countries are sabotaged and there is zero accountability of the media. Shame, shame, shame. The greatest evil of our time has free reign - at least, in the "civilized" world. You'd be shot for that kind of behavior in the "third world". There must be a way to express social injustice without fear of reprisal and at the same time not mislead an entire population for political gain. The press cannot be "controlled" but they have lost their moral compass, in favor of ratings. Now all we are left with is the unaccountable and irresponsible manipulation of populace.
For those who just can't pass up the opportunity to make everything political, grow up and spare this respectable forum your empty vessel clatter. For the immigration lawyers who are complaining that it isn't as easy as it was - so you actually have to do some *work* for a living? Breaks my heart. Get a grip people and earn your achievements.
That means great colleges. It will likely need to be on, or close to, the east coast. It will have to be corporate tax friendly. It will need to be easily accessible domestically and internationally - great airports. They won't want to fish in the same pond as Google, Microsoft etc. for talent - drives up their labor costs. It will need great communications infrastructure (networking, roads, power...).
Let's start with our own media and politicians who can say whatever they want without any accountability. This is the new millennium "boy who cried wolf". With the deluge of fake news, misinformation, disinformation and unsubstantiated information that we are bombarded with daily people are now disbelieving of anything and everything. Before we concern ourselves with foreign "information" we need to first get our own house in order.
On a daily basis in my work environment Microsoft technology is used to a) record voicemail and b) generate text from the speech. Never, ever, have I received any converted voicemail that wasn't completely unintelligible gibberish. Seriously. This is utter nonsense.
Based on my 4 decades experience in big business these CEOs who joined the Business and Manufacturing Council did so to further their own interests by either creating or influencing the presidential industry and commerce policies. When they discovered that these councils were not convened for them and their own interests, and it wasn't an opportunity to solidify their place in the market they just bailed. If they were on the council for the betterment of American industry, business, the American people, employees, working conditions or any other non-self-serving interest they'd still be there - of course! Speaks for itself. When the going gets tough the self-serving bail. This is what integrity and leadership look like. Not perfection - that's not part of the presidential job description. Leadership and integrity of purpose - those are part of the job description.
These data are compiled from all the recruiters that attempted to recruit me between April 12th, 2017 and August 5th, 2017. Each unique recruiter is counted exactly once even if they tried to recruit me many times for more than one position. Recruiters * American/Hispanic/European 42 (17.1%) Includes Anglo-American, Hispanic and European names * Indian 196 (79.7%) Includes only Indian names - Arabic, Iranian and similar are excluded * All Other 8 (3.3%) Includes Arabic, Persian, Asian and others not included above
It begs the questions "what exactly are all those H1B visa recipients doing?", "Are Indian recruiters predisposed to hiring more Indian workers?", and "Are Americans really unqualified to do recruiting so that we need to import 80% of all tech recruiters from India?"
The media parrots misinformation in the belief that if you say it often enough it must be true. It is not carbon emissions that are causing warming of the earth. This is just rubbish. The earth was warmer in the 1600's than it is now. And it has been at other times in its history also. Cooling and warming happens and has always happened ( Ice Ages - hellooooo!). Of course the earth atmosphere is warming and the effects will change life on earth just as much as it did in eons past. It will affect humans more this time around because there are more humans to be affected. The incessant carping that mankind is spewing carbon emissions and that its the cause for climate warming is just rubbish. Another example of empty vessels making the most noise.
"... following Moscow's efforts to meddle in the 2016 American election." Rubbish!
This is not news, or even fact. You are parroting and perpetuating misinformation. After significant effort and expense and, oh, over six months of exhaustive digging, zero evidence can be produced to support this statement. If you're just going to parrot CNN or some other ratings-focused "news" rag, then I can just go there instead of slashdot when I want to be mislead. Seriously, for all the good work you publish here, this kind of drivil really doesn't do you justice and only serves to diminish the credibility of your other posts. You do yourself a grave injustice and insult the intelligence of the slashdot reader. Spare us the thinly disguised and feeble attempt at political commentary.
Why does Bloomberg think that Whole Foods needs robots to roam the isles taking inventory? The UPC code and other methods are used when anyone checks out at the cashier with their purchases. These purchases are subtracted from store inventory, so we know the instant, literally, when inventory is depleted. The inventory management system can automatically and accurately propose the daily/weekly/monthly reorder list. Inventory systems know the vendors, the lead times to order to compensate for shipping times etc. Even with spoilage etc. there are adjustments for those outliers. One cannot just accept the the word of some big name in one field (banking, finances, whatever) and assume that they know anything at all about every subject. Being a fantastic dentist doesn't automatically make you an expert on textile manufacturing. It's pretty scary when you think that a company like Bloomberg makes all these statements/predictions based on ignorance of the the facts, because people listen to that advice. We've all heard the saying "Empty vessels make the most noise" - and here it is - a perfect illustration of how people ignorant of the facts are so eager to expose that ignorance. "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage" - Publilius Syrus
All this hooplah isn't about Russians hacking the election - influencing the voters. The point being missed is that _if_ the Russians hacked and released facts about a candidate that the voters disliked enough to change their vote for another candidate, it means that that the "hacked" candidate was simply exposed for what they really are. If the accusers are right then Russia didn't "make up" the facts - just made them visible to all. Kinda like wikileaks. The deceit of hiding facts that voters would not support is the true "hacking the election". Now the lamestream media - they do make up the "facts". Where's that outrage?
Women are only exposed to the unpleasantness of the environment/after/ they have been recruited. There's no argument that a predominantly male (and perhaps a little on the socially underdeveloped male side of things) environment is one that most intelligent women prefer to avoid. Clearly its the reason that many women leave the profession after participating in it for a while but there are likely other reasons equally or more important for them not entering that environment in the first place. In other words, I don't think that the difficulty in recruiting women into tech, particularly IT/Computers/Software, is for the same reasons that women/leave/ tech after having worked in it. More facts, statistics (from 2017) and thoughts on the subject here: https://832412.wixsite.com/rum...
Slashdot is now being dragged down into the same parroting of misinformation, disinformation and misleading "news" that is the stape fare of the mainstream media. What a shame. Who proposed the aforementioned bill, and when? Oh, sorry, not mentioned. Which other companies and organizations support the bill? Oh, no mention of that either. This isn't informational. Its an insult to intelligence to post such thinly disguised political agendas in a forum like slashdot. Tch-tch. There goes the neighborhood:-(
Mainstream media has be hijacking democracy for decades and decades, reducing it to "mob rule". This is just the new medium. Tch-tch. Welcome to the new millennium:-)
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No. Just don't do it.
Let's not forget that Amazon is soon to roll out their own delivery service that competes directly with FedEx and UPS, delivering not only their own products, but those of the same shippers currently using FedEx and UPS. The cost of using their own delivery service has to be funded with the funds redirected from the existing delivery services - ie. FedEx and UPS. Their "free delivery" with Amazon Prime is funded with Prime dollars, regardless of who the actual shipper is. By increasing the Prime member fees, they will be "over-funding" their own delivery service, effectively "subsidizing" the delivery service and giving them an unfair competitive cost edge over both FedEx and UPS. It's how you take over a(nother) market. By their own admission, they have over 100,000,000 Prime subscribers. At $119 each that is almost $12B dollars a year subsidy. To put that in some perspective, FedEx's gross annual income in 2017 was $13.77B.
They won't do anything bad with your data. Promise. Yeah, right! I don't want MS storing all my personal and contacts' information anywhere - they are the least secure mainstream OS in the world. I was a long time Skype user on LINUX. Recent versions want access to all kinds of private data on my system so I have purged Skype from my main computer (LINUX) and my MACs as well. There are plenty of other free, secure, multi-platform and unobtrusive alternatives out there, many of them browser-based so you don't need to install anything at all.
I think that Walmart's recent (2017) policy of refusal to conduct business with any partner who uses AWS has probably driven a lot of business in the direction of Azure. And big businesses.
There is starvation occurring all over our world and we have no better idea than to convert food that could be saving lives into fuel to burn? At a higher cost than petroleum fuel? Starving individuals and families can't eat the less expensive petroleum product. Who makes these decisions about who eats and who does not - who lives and who dies? Particularly when there is a better alternative?
One has to ask if this is just ignorance or willful disregard.
... the statement that "Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning is the cause of the large-scale deoxygenation". There is and has always been "Climate change" for many reasons. In the 1600's the world and its oceans were warmer than they are today and I'm fairly certain that there was less fossil fuel burning that there is today. Let's not perpetuate misinformation. That being said, I am 100% in favor of eliminating fossil fuel burning as a source of energy and all over the world we're making great strides already. Norway crossed the 50% mark in 2017 where there are now more Electric and Hybrid cars than there are gasoline/diesel ("Lillyhammer" anyone?). Petroleum/Oil products are also used extensively in the production of synthetic products (plastics, fabrics, adhesives, paints etc.) many of which wind up in our oceans as well. Mankind is a terrible polluter and destroyer of environments - climate change? It happened before us and it'll happen after us. All the other stuff we do to our environment - not so much.
The original movie. Still a cult classic!
We can thank the lamestream media for misrepresenting the facts and so vociferously and incessantly blasting this misinformation all over the air waves. It isn't the extreme vetting that's the problem - its the deliberate "re-interpretation" of the vetting by the media. The common name for this is "scare tactics". When are we all going to wise up? Who is NEVER held accountable for misinformation, riots, lives ruined as the result of misinformation? The media. People die, lives ruined and communities and countries are sabotaged and there is zero accountability of the media. Shame, shame, shame. The greatest evil of our time has free reign - at least, in the "civilized" world. You'd be shot for that kind of behavior in the "third world". There must be a way to express social injustice without fear of reprisal and at the same time not mislead an entire population for political gain. The press cannot be "controlled" but they have lost their moral compass, in favor of ratings. Now all we are left with is the unaccountable and irresponsible manipulation of populace.
For those who just can't pass up the opportunity to make everything political, grow up and spare this respectable forum your empty vessel clatter. For the immigration lawyers who are complaining that it isn't as easy as it was - so you actually have to do some *work* for a living? Breaks my heart. Get a grip people and earn your achievements.
Wow. The "anonymous reader" who published this really doesn't know what they're talking about. Please don't believe this rubbish.
That means great colleges. It will likely need to be on, or close to, the east coast. It will have to be corporate tax friendly. It will need to be easily accessible domestically and internationally - great airports. They won't want to fish in the same pond as Google, Microsoft etc. for talent - drives up their labor costs. It will need great communications infrastructure (networking, roads, power ...).
Let's start with our own media and politicians who can say whatever they want without any accountability. This is the new millennium "boy who cried wolf". With the deluge of fake news, misinformation, disinformation and unsubstantiated information that we are bombarded with daily people are now disbelieving of anything and everything. Before we concern ourselves with foreign "information" we need to first get our own house in order.
Lol.
On a daily basis in my work environment Microsoft technology is used to a) record voicemail and b) generate text from the speech. Never, ever, have I received any converted voicemail that wasn't completely unintelligible gibberish. Seriously. This is utter nonsense.
Based on my 4 decades experience in big business these CEOs who joined the Business and Manufacturing Council did so to further their own interests by either creating or influencing the presidential industry and commerce policies. When they discovered that these councils were not convened for them and their own interests, and it wasn't an opportunity to solidify their place in the market they just bailed. If they were on the council for the betterment of American industry, business, the American people, employees, working conditions or any other non-self-serving interest they'd still be there - of course! Speaks for itself. When the going gets tough the self-serving bail. This is what integrity and leadership look like. Not perfection - that's not part of the presidential job description. Leadership and integrity of purpose - those are part of the job description.
These data are compiled from all the recruiters that attempted to recruit me between April 12th, 2017 and August 5th, 2017. Each unique recruiter is counted exactly once even if they tried to recruit me many times for more than one position.
Recruiters
* American/Hispanic/European 42 (17.1%) Includes Anglo-American, Hispanic and European names
* Indian 196 (79.7%) Includes only Indian names - Arabic, Iranian and similar are excluded
* All Other 8 (3.3%) Includes Arabic, Persian, Asian and others not included above
It begs the questions "what exactly are all those H1B visa recipients doing?", "Are Indian recruiters predisposed to hiring more Indian workers?", and "Are Americans really unqualified to do recruiting so that we need to import 80% of all tech recruiters from India?"
The media parrots misinformation in the belief that if you say it often enough it must be true. It is not carbon emissions that are causing warming of the earth. This is just rubbish. The earth was warmer in the 1600's than it is now. And it has been at other times in its history also. Cooling and warming happens and has always happened ( Ice Ages - hellooooo!). Of course the earth atmosphere is warming and the effects will change life on earth just as much as it did in eons past. It will affect humans more this time around because there are more humans to be affected. The incessant carping that mankind is spewing carbon emissions and that its the cause for climate warming is just rubbish. Another example of empty vessels making the most noise.
Talk to each other.
Look out the window and see the world around you.
Read a book.
Ever heard of the iPod?
Seriously, get a life.
"... following Moscow's efforts to meddle in the 2016 American election." Rubbish!
This is not news, or even fact. You are parroting and perpetuating misinformation. After significant effort and expense and, oh, over six months of exhaustive digging, zero evidence can be produced to support this statement. If you're just going to parrot CNN or some other ratings-focused "news" rag, then I can just go there instead of slashdot when I want to be mislead. Seriously, for all the good work you publish here, this kind of drivil really doesn't do you justice and only serves to diminish the credibility of your other posts. You do yourself a grave injustice and insult the intelligence of the slashdot reader. Spare us the thinly disguised and feeble attempt at political commentary.
Why does Bloomberg think that Whole Foods needs robots to roam the isles taking inventory? The UPC code and other methods are used when anyone checks out at the cashier with their purchases. These purchases are subtracted from store inventory, so we know the instant, literally, when inventory is depleted. The inventory management system can automatically and accurately propose the daily/weekly/monthly reorder list. Inventory systems know the vendors, the lead times to order to compensate for shipping times etc. Even with spoilage etc. there are adjustments for those outliers. One cannot just accept the the word of some big name in one field (banking, finances, whatever) and assume that they know anything at all about every subject. Being a fantastic dentist doesn't automatically make you an expert on textile manufacturing. It's pretty scary when you think that a company like Bloomberg makes all these statements/predictions based on ignorance of the the facts, because people listen to that advice. We've all heard the saying "Empty vessels make the most noise" - and here it is - a perfect illustration of how people ignorant of the facts are so eager to expose that ignorance. "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage" - Publilius Syrus
All this hooplah isn't about Russians hacking the election - influencing the voters. The point being missed is that _if_ the Russians hacked and released facts about a candidate that the voters disliked enough to change their vote for another candidate, it means that that the "hacked" candidate was simply exposed for what they really are. If the accusers are right then Russia didn't "make up" the facts - just made them visible to all. Kinda like wikileaks. The deceit of hiding facts that voters would not support is the true "hacking the election". Now the lamestream media - they do make up the "facts". Where's that outrage?
Women are only exposed to the unpleasantness of the environment /after/ they have been recruited. There's no argument that a predominantly male (and perhaps a little on the socially underdeveloped male side of things) environment is one that most intelligent women prefer to avoid. Clearly its the reason that many women leave the profession after participating in it for a while but there are likely other reasons equally or more important for them not entering that environment in the first place. In other words, I don't think that the difficulty in recruiting women into tech, particularly IT/Computers/Software, is for the same reasons that women /leave/ tech after having worked in it. More facts, statistics (from 2017) and thoughts on the subject here: https://832412.wixsite.com/rum...
Slashdot is now being dragged down into the same parroting of misinformation, disinformation and misleading "news" that is the stape fare of the mainstream media. What a shame. Who proposed the aforementioned bill, and when? Oh, sorry, not mentioned. Which other companies and organizations support the bill? Oh, no mention of that either. This isn't informational. Its an insult to intelligence to post such thinly disguised political agendas in a forum like slashdot. Tch-tch. There goes the neighborhood :-(
Maybe the illegals and terrorists are actually getting the message. Who knew that there were so many of them.
Mainstream media has be hijacking democracy for decades and decades, reducing it to "mob rule". This is just the new medium. Tch-tch. Welcome to the new millennium :-)