Those FLVs it downloads are useless. The sound's usually out of sync, it doesn't play in many players, and you can't skip any of it, you have to watch it all the way through.
To be a good CEO you don't need to know how the company works, you need to know how the industry works. It's no good knowing where all the computers are and what they all do when it comes to negotiating a big contract or acquisition. I've seen no evidence that IT people are more intelligent than other departments either.
And if you're good enough, you don't need to work hard.
If she's been alive for eighty years yet lacks the basic common sense to not send her life savings to a person she's never met in Nigeria, then she must have lived a very sheltered life.
The benefits of walking don't go very far. Eventually your weight loss will plateau off and disappear. Walking is no replacement for real exercise, and if you do that real exercise then you don't need to walk. Of course running from muggers/yobs may give you a good workout.
And the decision to sell your car may come back to bite you when you decide to go somewhere outside of your 'community'.
Anyway, the failure of town planners is going to work out by itself in the end.
Most towns are not planned, they develop organically over the centuries. People move to the suburbs because living in the city is unpleasant. Pollution, noise, crime, expense and lack of space are the five main problems.
Maybe you'd prefer it if we went back to the old system of peasants living in row after row of cramped terraced housing next to a mill pumping out soot, with the countryside reserved for the rich and their giant estates?
1. A national sales tax, but not on the essentials. Might as well make used items exempt too thus allowing the poor to avoid paying it.
You want a less regressive tax, then propose a more regressive tax? Under your scheme a billionaire could live a normal lifestyle and not pay any tax!
3. A gross wealth income tax. Large exemption bracket to exempt a lot of people. Own more than $5 million in property total and you hit the first bracket that has a rate greater than 0%. Bill Gates would be at the highest bracket obviously and would probably pay like 50% of his INCOME, whatever that may be.
Seems like a good way to drive rich people abroad so there'd be no money coming into the government at all. Then the poor would have to pay their own way.
I'd be interested in the scientific aspect of this. Doesn't it make more sense to 'fuel up' and then use that energy.. rather than work all day and THEN fuel up?
But then what have you got to look forward to all day?
This robot is exactly the wrong approach to be taking in a counterinsurgency.
So if this robot detects a sniper, so people can hide and avoid being assassinated, this is a bad thing? Perhaps you're prefer it if people didn't know about snipers and got shot?
I'm sure if there was a sniper trying to kill you, you'd like to know about it.
There may be a few types of jobs that's a truism for, but in general, that's an artifact of the way the company is built, not a given.
Ok, so let's say I run a bakery. How do my workers telecommute? Do they email in their loaves? How about a factory, or a train company, or a health service (biggest employer in many countries), or a supermarket, or a building site etc etc etc.
Why don't we have gay males use the girls' locker room then? In any case it's irrelevant. It's never appropriate to punish people because certain others can't control themselves.
So you're being punished by not being allowed in the women's locker room?
Of course, you can't lose an economic advantage just because you might SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD.
How is lowering CO2 output in America saving the world, when it will just be replaced, and then exceeded, in China and India?
And you're in a much better position to pressure China and India to sign on if you're already in compliance.
No, you're not. Do you honestly think that in 20 years if America has lowered its pollution levels, and China has increased them, China is going to turn round and start to cut their output levels? Hell no, they'll have built nigh on a thousand coal burning plants in twenty years, you think they're going to suddenly close them all down?
If America ratifies Kyoto, and much of America's production moves to China, when it comes around to China's turn to cut their pollution levels, they'll just give the world the finger and throw another bag of coal on the fire.
You can get a 3 mbit/s connection in most areas for about the same cost as an extended cable television hookup.
Yes, you can get a 3 Mbps connection, that doesn't mean you're going to download at 3 Mbps. I have an 8 meg connection, never seen it go higher than 1.
Now that many TVs come with SVideo and DVI connectors, running your laptop/computer to your TV isn't that difficult.
It is, considering that my computer is at the other end of the house to the TV, and is often switched off or doing something else.
What happens when someone's watching a streaming film when someone else decides to download something? Or do some heavy processing that freezes up the computer?
OK so if they make the Godfather 4, the Don has to be black? And a film about Al-Qaeda has to have Osama Bin Laden played by a white, ginger-haired Scotsman?
Considering how long bittorrent takes to download anything, let alone anything that's 20GB, it'd take less time to work overtime to earn the money to buy the DVD, then walk to the shop and back, that it would take to download via bittorrent.
"At my work (city hall) bilinguals get $600 extra per month just for knowing another language."
You have to work out whether the extra cash is worth the time investment in learning and maintaining a language. If it takes you five years to learn a language at twenty hours a week, and you have to study it for twenty hours a week afterwards just to not lose it, then that works out at less than $7 an hour. In many places that's way below minimum wage.
It would be more profitable to spend the same time stacking shelves.
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Those FLVs it downloads are useless. The sound's usually out of sync, it doesn't play in many players, and you can't skip any of it, you have to watch it all the way through.
Google's interface was better at playing the videos, but it was a nightmare to find them in the first place compared to youtube.
How exactly do you have houses away from roads? How would you get to them?
And how can you plan a town? Knock down all the buildings and start again?
To be a good CEO you don't need to know how the company works, you need to know how the industry works. It's no good knowing where all the computers are and what they all do when it comes to negotiating a big contract or acquisition. I've seen no evidence that IT people are more intelligent than other departments either.
And if you're good enough, you don't need to work hard.
As long as the companies are making money and the stock prices keep up, why would the shareholders want anything to change?
I've yet to hear any reason that CIOs would make good CEOs.
God forbid that the top managers are chosen from management. You wouldn't want a CEO in charge of IT, so why would you want the IT guy as CEO?
If she's been alive for eighty years yet lacks the basic common sense to not send her life savings to a person she's never met in Nigeria, then she must have lived a very sheltered life.
The benefits of walking don't go very far. Eventually your weight loss will plateau off and disappear. Walking is no replacement for real exercise, and if you do that real exercise then you don't need to walk. Of course running from muggers/yobs may give you a good workout.
And the decision to sell your car may come back to bite you when you decide to go somewhere outside of your 'community'.
Maybe you'd prefer it if we went back to the old system of peasants living in row after row of cramped terraced housing next to a mill pumping out soot, with the countryside reserved for the rich and their giant estates?
Seems like a good way to drive rich people abroad so there'd be no money coming into the government at all. Then the poor would have to pay their own way.
I'm sure if there was a sniper trying to kill you, you'd like to know about it.
So you're being punished by not being allowed in the women's locker room?
No, you're not. Do you honestly think that in 20 years if America has lowered its pollution levels, and China has increased them, China is going to turn round and start to cut their output levels? Hell no, they'll have built nigh on a thousand coal burning plants in twenty years, you think they're going to suddenly close them all down?
If America ratifies Kyoto, and much of America's production moves to China, when it comes around to China's turn to cut their pollution levels, they'll just give the world the finger and throw another bag of coal on the fire.
And my computer can't download during the night when it's switched off.
Somehow I don't see Al-Qaeda run by Japs or Eskimos.
This whole thread is ridiculous, films and TV have villains of pretty much every race and nationality.
It is, considering that my computer is at the other end of the house to the TV, and is often switched off or doing something else.
What happens when someone's watching a streaming film when someone else decides to download something? Or do some heavy processing that freezes up the computer?
OK so if they make the Godfather 4, the Don has to be black? And a film about Al-Qaeda has to have Osama Bin Laden played by a white, ginger-haired Scotsman?
Considering how long bittorrent takes to download anything, let alone anything that's 20GB, it'd take less time to work overtime to earn the money to buy the DVD, then walk to the shop and back, that it would take to download via bittorrent.
It would be more profitable to spend the same time stacking shelves.