Do you have some point of you'd like to make, or are you just flaming for fun? I was talking about Schwartz and Sun's valuation. Do you have anything to contribute to the topic at hand?
He's been unable to stop Sun's decline since he got the job, but if he can sell the carcass for double its current market cap, he's a far better salesman than I've given him credit for.
Assholes are on every team and it has nothing to do with eccentricities.
If you've found assholes everywhere you've worked, then you need to do a better job of screening potential employers. I've worked in a lot of places, in organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to four-man shops, and over the course of more than 25 years, I've only encountered about a half-dozen assholes in my career. In most of the places I've ever worked, my colleagues have been decent, well-meaning people.
Men have to register for the draft as a condition for getting student loans or applying for government jobs.
Well, it's wrong of course to require anyone to register for the draft, because the draft is unconstitutional in the first place. I wouldn't describe this as men and women being unequal before the law, since we're talking about an illegal victimization of men.
Whatever it is, it's not science. The way I generally describe it is, it's a very long-winded and tedious way of saying "Nuh-uh!" to everything we've learned about biology, geology, astronomy and physics.
Silly me, and to think that I thought feminism was all about equality with males
It was, but it's following a common pattern of reform movements. Back when the movement started, the issue was obtaining equality before the law. That's been achieved, so the reasonable people have moved on to other pursuits, leaving the dregs behind. It's similar to the way that the leadership of the civil rights movement degenerated from MLK to the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
-military service is bad for males (it reduces their post-service income by 30% when compared to civilian men the same age when they return to civilian life)
Two questions spring to mind: first, how does this differ for officers and enlisted men, and secondly, isn't this skewed a bit by the fact that people with lower incomes are more likely to go into the military?
5) Waste the Secretary of State job as a consolation prize to mollify some lying, race-baiting, sniveling loser's fan clup instead of appointing a career diplomat who can actually gain the respect of foreign leaders.
I will give credit where credit is due, though. At least Obama postponed a Hillary Clinton administration for a minimum of four years, and he may have prevented it altogether.
As far as I can tell, there's only one real Republican (Ron Paul) and one real Democrat (Dennis Kucinich) left in the congress, and they both get ostracized by their parties.
IFF Obama focus on getting the economy GOING, and once going focuses on balancing the budget with a balanced budget amendment ( the anti-neo-con or anti-republican amendment), he will be one of my hero's.
And if he flapped his arms and flew to the moon, I'd be similarly surprised.
Obama is bought and paid for. It's why he voted for the Bush/Paulson bailout, it's why he appointed a bankster from the New York Federal Reserve Bank to run the Treasury department, and it's why he pushed so hard for the porkulus bill.
But he sure does a great Deepak Chopra routine as long as the teleprompter is working. It just feels so good to listen to him blather.
No it takes capital and the *want* and *desire* to
Of course.
I think it's more the dollar an hour wages and virtual slave labour that entice companies to China rather than tax incentives.
You're leaving out the relative productivity difference between the USA and China. Lower wages aren't as much of a draw as you think they are; the USA still has some of the highest productivity anywhere. That's one of the reasons why it makes sense for Toyota to have plants here instead of building all their cars in China and shipping them over.
It's a bit disappointing that an MIT publication wouldn't bother to get meaningful figures, isn't it? I presume they mean that the battery can deliver 25KW for ten seconds, since they're touting the fast discharge cycle.
...and all the ZeroConf code, the IOKit, LaunchD, all the Firewire library code from Zayante, CoreFoundation, the GCC Objective-C implementation, a lot of additions to SQLite, not to mention all the work they're doing on LLVM (which will finally end the dark ages of GCC).
China will continue laughing all the way to the bank producing physical goods from nuts and bolts to electronics to massive and complex machines and tools of industry, an income stream and power base that can't be taken without mass violence.
What utter nonsense. It doesn't take any violence to build a factory in the USA, and when we abandon the asinine tax incentives for sending work offshore, we'll increase domestic manufacturing again. There's still quite a lot of manufacturing going on here, as it happens.
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You were the one that threw out a malicious one-liner in response to a post that you didn't read past the first sentence.
Oh, you're psychic and can divine what another person has or hasn't read? I responded as I chose to respond, and fuck you if you disapprove.
-jcr
Ah, content-free conversation, nothing like it
Do you have some point of you'd like to make, or are you just flaming for fun? I was talking about Schwartz and Sun's valuation. Do you have anything to contribute to the topic at hand?
-jcr
Sun is worth a lot more than its current market cap
Not with Schwartz in charge, it's not.
-jcr
He's been unable to stop Sun's decline since he got the job, but if he can sell the carcass for double its current market cap, he's a far better salesman than I've given him credit for.
-jcr
Another person who doesn't get what Atlas Shrugged is all about. Did you ever read it?
The heroes in that book don't abuse anyone, they just refuse to be abused themselves. They go on strike.
-jcr
Assholes are on every team and it has nothing to do with eccentricities.
If you've found assholes everywhere you've worked, then you need to do a better job of screening potential employers. I've worked in a lot of places, in organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to four-man shops, and over the course of more than 25 years, I've only encountered about a half-dozen assholes in my career. In most of the places I've ever worked, my colleagues have been decent, well-meaning people.
-jcr
When I interview people, I look for the things they've done BESIDES their education.
What I look for is the ability to solve a problem they've never seen before. I ask them for examples of such situations, and how they addressed them.
-jcr
I don't think we're dealing with the dregs
Oh, yes we are. Those goofballs who blather about how they're being oppressed by the "patriarchy" are definitely the dregs.
-jcr
Men have to register for the draft as a condition for getting student loans or applying for government jobs.
Well, it's wrong of course to require anyone to register for the draft, because the draft is unconstitutional in the first place. I wouldn't describe this as men and women being unequal before the law, since we're talking about an illegal victimization of men.
-jcr
"Advanced Creation Studies"? WTF is THAT?!
Whatever it is, it's not science. The way I generally describe it is, it's a very long-winded and tedious way of saying "Nuh-uh!" to everything we've learned about biology, geology, astronomy and physics.
-jcr
Silly me, and to think that I thought feminism was all about equality with males
It was, but it's following a common pattern of reform movements. Back when the movement started, the issue was obtaining equality before the law. That's been achieved, so the reasonable people have moved on to other pursuits, leaving the dregs behind. It's similar to the way that the leadership of the civil rights movement degenerated from MLK to the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
-jcr
-military service is bad for males (it reduces their post-service income by 30% when compared to civilian men the same age when they return to civilian life)
Two questions spring to mind: first, how does this differ for officers and enlisted men, and secondly, isn't this skewed a bit by the fact that people with lower incomes are more likely to go into the military?
-jcr
You must have faith in the Republicans
Nope.
-jcr
So where does your faith in the Republicans come from?
My what?
You don't know me very well, it seems.
-jcr
Have you ever tried decaf? Seriously, look into it.
-jcr
Nancy Pelosi uses Air Force jets as her private taxi service and ask yourself why that's not all over the news.
Isn't it? I know I've heard quite a bit about it.
-jcr
Don't forget:
5) Waste the Secretary of State job as a consolation prize to mollify some lying, race-baiting, sniveling loser's fan clup instead of appointing a career diplomat who can actually gain the respect of foreign leaders.
I will give credit where credit is due, though. At least Obama postponed a Hillary Clinton administration for a minimum of four years, and he may have prevented it altogether.
-jcr
As far as I can tell, there's only one real Republican (Ron Paul) and one real Democrat (Dennis Kucinich) left in the congress, and they both get ostracized by their parties.
-jcr
IFF Obama focus on getting the economy GOING, and once going focuses on balancing the budget with a balanced budget amendment ( the anti-neo-con or anti-republican amendment), he will be one of my hero's.
And if he flapped his arms and flew to the moon, I'd be similarly surprised.
Obama is bought and paid for. It's why he voted for the Bush/Paulson bailout, it's why he appointed a bankster from the New York Federal Reserve Bank to run the Treasury department, and it's why he pushed so hard for the porkulus bill.
But he sure does a great Deepak Chopra routine as long as the teleprompter is working. It just feels so good to listen to him blather.
-jcr
The problem with Reagan and Bush is that they didn't really practice what they preached.
Speaking of practicing what they preach, remember when the Democrats wanted to take all our money and give it to poor people?
Looting the workers to give the money to banksters is supposed to be anathema to the lefties.
-jcr
Sounds like you've been watching The Sopranos a bit too much.
-jcr
No it takes capital and the *want* and *desire* to
Of course.
I think it's more the dollar an hour wages and virtual slave labour that entice companies to China rather than tax incentives.
You're leaving out the relative productivity difference between the USA and China. Lower wages aren't as much of a draw as you think they are; the USA still has some of the highest productivity anywhere. That's one of the reasons why it makes sense for Toyota to have plants here instead of building all their cars in China and shipping them over.
-jcr
It's a bit disappointing that an MIT publication wouldn't bother to get meaningful figures, isn't it? I presume they mean that the battery can deliver 25KW for ten seconds, since they're touting the fast discharge cycle.
-jcr
...and all the ZeroConf code, the IOKit, LaunchD, all the Firewire library code from Zayante, CoreFoundation, the GCC Objective-C implementation, a lot of additions to SQLite, not to mention all the work they're doing on LLVM (which will finally end the dark ages of GCC).
-jcr
China will continue laughing all the way to the bank producing physical goods from nuts and bolts to electronics to massive and complex machines and tools of industry, an income stream and power base that can't be taken without mass violence.
What utter nonsense. It doesn't take any violence to build a factory in the USA, and when we abandon the asinine tax incentives for sending work offshore, we'll increase domestic manufacturing again. There's still quite a lot of manufacturing going on here, as it happens.
-jcr