not quite, one of the great advantages of the global economy is the barrier it creates to military conflict. If the country (a) moves job (a) overseas to country (b) then country (a) is purchasing goods and services from country (b). If country (b) declares war on country (a) then country (b)'s economy suffers from a loss of demand for goods and services. As long as country (a) remains an active customer of country (b) it creates a downward pressure ability to declare war with country (a). The same is true in reverse. A completely connected world makes it very difficult for countries to declare war on each other. Think about the global economic impact of a current replay of the second world war. The economies of all participants would fall rapidly, creating a disincentive to continue the conflict.
As someone who is both incredibly drunk right now AND living through this situation in a worst-case-scenario kind of way I'd advice against it. While you may be bi-polar enough to be able to seperate work from pleasure those around you might not. A friend of mine refers to family businesses as incestuous and until now I never really understood what he meant.
The GF is tolerable (you can break up with them in a pinch) but brothers are hard to come by.
If there is any chance of failure this is a quick path to hell, if there is no chance of failure then by all means go for it (and I have some lovely property in florida for sale. A bit damp, but never the less.....)
If it's taking you that long to get titles from Netflix you should complain. It takes me only 1 (max 2) days to get titles from Netflix. One of their distribution centers is in Danbury (in CT).
As a *fuckwad* (ie, a patent holder), I would like to know why I am such a fuckwad. Similarly to the fellow in the article:
1) I belone to a group that has an idea 2) We are patenting the idea 3) We intend to wait until the market matures to the point when our idea will become economically viable 4) We will then sell our idea.
We: A) Came up with a novel idea B) have assumed the risk (it's not a cheap process) C) have no desire to become a manufacturing firm (can we say "cost of capital")
So, if I am to understand your arguement, because we intend to neither follow through now, nor intend to make the device ourselves, we are all *fuckwads*.
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not quite, one of the great advantages of the global economy is the barrier it creates to military conflict. If the country (a) moves job (a) overseas to country (b) then country (a) is purchasing goods and services from country (b). If country (b) declares war on country (a) then country (b)'s economy suffers from a loss of demand for goods and services. As long as country (a) remains an active customer of country (b) it creates a downward pressure ability to declare war with country (a). The same is true in reverse. A completely connected world makes it very difficult for countries to declare war on each other. Think about the global economic impact of a current replay of the second world war. The economies of all participants would fall rapidly, creating a disincentive to continue the conflict.
As someone who is both incredibly drunk right now AND living through this situation in a worst-case-scenario kind of way I'd advice against it. While you may be bi-polar enough to be able to seperate work from pleasure those around you might not. A friend of mine refers to family businesses as incestuous and until now I never really understood what he meant. The GF is tolerable (you can break up with them in a pinch) but brothers are hard to come by. If there is any chance of failure this is a quick path to hell, if there is no chance of failure then by all means go for it (and I have some lovely property in florida for sale. A bit damp, but never the less.....)
If it's taking you that long to get titles from Netflix you should complain. It takes me only 1 (max 2) days to get titles from Netflix. One of their distribution centers is in Danbury (in CT).
As a *fuckwad* (ie, a patent holder), I would like to know why I am such a fuckwad. Similarly to the fellow in the article:
1) I belone to a group that has an idea
2) We are patenting the idea
3) We intend to wait until the market matures to the point when our idea will become economically viable
4) We will then sell our idea.
We:
A) Came up with a novel idea
B) have assumed the risk (it's not a cheap process)
C) have no desire to become a manufacturing firm (can we say "cost of capital")
So, if I am to understand your arguement, because we intend to neither follow through now, nor intend to make the device ourselves, we are all *fuckwads*.
Please elaborate as to why I am a fuckwad...