One of three buttons connects the winner with a company representative, who will explain that the person has won a Chevrolet Equinox SUV. Pressing a different button activates the GPS beacon, which sends the winner's location to the company...
So, for $200,000 or so, Coke gets to find out the location of every coke drinker who presses the GPS beacon button...sounds like a steal to me!
Or set up a public "warez" server that requires a password which is the nth word on the page following the ad. If you like you can make the files random bits rather than copyrighted software, then limit the bandwidth so horrendously so no one ever finishes a download. Incidentally, this was quite commmon practice on, say, Hotline servers back in the Boom days, and netted many a college student tens of thousands of dollars ($0.25 a click! $2 per signup to ebay!)...
The solution is to quit your job, becoming a hunter-gatherer like a real wo/man, and stop bitching. But I take it you secretly like all those nice shiny things that come with the rat maze, don't you.
Most of the people who I know aren't upset because of trade, they are upset that the fucking playing field is majorly slanted against the American middle class.
Not to be a prick, but are you fucking retarded?!?! You think the playing-field is slanted against the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS?!?!?! Do you even know what is going on in the rest of the world? Like the other piss-poor 100+ countries who earn a thousandth of the american middle cclass?
Jesus H Christ. I hope to god you're trolling. Somone mod parent as a troll asap. Out of all 7 billion people on the earth, I can't believe you think the middle class of the richest and most powerful empire to ever exist somehow got the shaft. Fucking troll.
"When American investors take their money and invest in overseas operations that aren't bound by those rules, people in both countries suffer."
You're ignoring hundreds of years of economic history that says the exact opposite. When jobs/skills/etc get reallocated to a cheaper place, both countries benefit. Foreign country get foreign exchange, higher wages, etc etc. Local country gets more efficient/cheaper goods, which in turn free of domestic capital to re-invest that it couldn't do otherwise. You're claiming that a net plus for both countries is actually a net loss?! And what labor rights are you referring to anyway? The right to have PresBush/Regan/Clinton/etc tell you "You can't strike or you'll go to prison"? Shit...
As well, the more a country depends on exports -- especially in the case where the investors are foreign -- the less it will focus on improving the working and living conditions internally. This also keeps the internal market from improving.
Again, bullshit. What matters isn't exports but the distribution of them. I.e., if 90% of your foreign exchange comes from oil, and oil price drops, you're fucked. But if you're exports are in 20 different industries, you're set for life. You instead are saying that all exports are bad which is complete nonsense (buy a computer from x at $1, or produce yourself for $1 million...lememme see here...).
Keep in mind that the main reason for increased mobility of labor is to benefit the capital class of investors. First, they have access to depressed labor markets and lower costs due to fewer restrictions on their behavior. Some of that "trickles down" to the consumer, but not much. Second, local workers are forced to accept lower wages and fewer benefits to compete with foreign workers. This is the real win for capital as they can force all workers to the lowest common denominator.
This has nothing to do with labor mobility. You got your Marx completely backwards. It has to do with CAPITAL mobility, not labour. Labour isn't mobile, by definition. Not now not ever in the past. Cost to wire a trillion dollars across the world: $0.20. Cost to move a trillion people: take a guess. This is why capitalists push for open markets, because they can then move money in and out at a whim. That's all that matters, and as far as the rich are concerned, the people can sit on their asses and starve as long as they don't have to pay them. And, btw, the poor won't get to the rich's money because guess who guards the banks? Yeah, the fucking pound-you-in-the-ass feds with really big...guns.
...our border with Mexico is so lax yet the rhetoric about the evil migrant worker is so crazed. Seriously, if we really wanted the border to be secure, it would be secure. But the investors here want all that cheap labor to make local labor even cheaper. And thus NAFTA was born.
Yes, I agree with you on this, at least the NAFTA part. But while it makes local labour cheaper, that's not their primary motiviation because foreign labour is cheaper still. And Indian labour is cheaper than Mexican, and Chineese cheaper still...
Of course, if you did know... would you even care?
Which is completely irrelevant, unless you think you can get 7 billion different people all to agree on the same moral/ethical standards, and to follow them over everything in the world, including life/death and such.
"If you do the crime, you better be prepared to do the time."
Uh ok, you raving fascist. You can't put someone in jail for a year just for making some shitty-ass recording of a movie. It's not a crime against society, therefore there shouldn't be any time served. A fine or whatnot sure. But jail? r u fucking serious?
Yes, Wal-mart is the Big Dog. A story: You may remember Rome, the Empire, who had to give away food to all of Rome, the city, in order to keep them happy. They ended up deforesting and gutting most of northern Africa to do so, turning it into a far larger desert than previous. I compare Wal-Mart to that process: cheap as shit goods, but it's for the masses of the newest and greatest empire, which goes a long way to explaining why it's #1 in the Fortune 500. Do not fuck with Wal-Mart. They are king. Now, in other news, I just found a quote u may find interesting:
...a recent study by McKinsey, a consultancy, credited efficiencies in retailing (mainly Wal-Mart's) for more of America's recent productivity spurt than technology investment.
In case you've missed out of the past decade or two, Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the WORLD. It happens to be the largest employer in most U.S. states. Revenue-wise it is one of the biggest companies in the world. Do not mess with Wal-Mart. They're as big as it gets, and anything sold there basically makes its owners bizillions if for no other reason than pure volume (i.e., sales). This move by Sun has EVERYTHING to do with sales.
I'm not sure why the von Neumann architecture is such a security problem. I mean, the problem with computers not working isn't how they're built per se--turing machine, post machine, hell use cellular automata--it's that the mathematical theory says "it is impossible to write code (in general) that is guaranteed to be bug free". You could change the von Neumann archiecture, sure, but you could just as easily 'write an interpreter' (though with hardware) for the architecture. Either way, if you're writing code, you're going to have bugs.
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So, for $200,000 or so, Coke gets to find out the location of every coke drinker who presses the GPS beacon button...sounds like a steal to me!
You copied this strait from the comments below the article's text. You could at least mention this isn't your writing or thoughts or...
Or set up a public "warez" server that requires a password which is the nth word on the page following the ad. If you like you can make the files random bits rather than copyrighted software, then limit the bandwidth so horrendously so no one ever finishes a download. Incidentally, this was quite commmon practice on, say, Hotline servers back in the Boom days, and netted many a college student tens of thousands of dollars ($0.25 a click! $2 per signup to ebay!)...
Don't forget to spend your four years getting laid. You'll understand people a lot better.
Someone mod parent up. Last I looked, Mozilla XUL apps were SLOW AS SHIT.
The solution is to quit your job, becoming a hunter-gatherer like a real wo/man, and stop bitching. But I take it you secretly like all those nice shiny things that come with the rat maze, don't you.
I completely agree. LISTEN UP SLASHDOT: You need to know the business as well as the managers! People who only know how to code don't know shit.
You forgot to mention the filthy-rich (2%) who will be supporting all their service-attendents (90%).
Not to be a prick, but are you fucking retarded?!?! You think the playing-field is slanted against the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS?!?!?! Do you even know what is going on in the rest of the world? Like the other piss-poor 100+ countries who earn a thousandth of the american middle cclass? Jesus H Christ. I hope to god you're trolling. Somone mod parent as a troll asap. Out of all 7 billion people on the earth, I can't believe you think the middle class of the richest and most powerful empire to ever exist somehow got the shaft. Fucking troll.
"When American investors take their money and invest in overseas operations that aren't bound by those rules, people in both countries suffer."
You're ignoring hundreds of years of economic history that says the exact opposite. When jobs/skills/etc get reallocated to a cheaper place, both countries benefit. Foreign country get foreign exchange, higher wages, etc etc. Local country gets more efficient/cheaper goods, which in turn free of domestic capital to re-invest that it couldn't do otherwise. You're claiming that a net plus for both countries is actually a net loss?! And what labor rights are you referring to anyway? The right to have PresBush/Regan/Clinton/etc tell you "You can't strike or you'll go to prison"? Shit...
As well, the more a country depends on exports -- especially in the case where the investors are foreign -- the less it will focus on improving the working and living conditions internally. This also keeps the internal market from improving.
Again, bullshit. What matters isn't exports but the distribution of them. I.e., if 90% of your foreign exchange comes from oil, and oil price drops, you're fucked. But if you're exports are in 20 different industries, you're set for life. You instead are saying that all exports are bad which is complete nonsense (buy a computer from x at $1, or produce yourself for $1 million...lememme see here...).
Keep in mind that the main reason for increased mobility of labor is to benefit the capital class of investors. First, they have access to depressed labor markets and lower costs due to fewer restrictions on their behavior. Some of that "trickles down" to the consumer, but not much. Second, local workers are forced to accept lower wages and fewer benefits to compete with foreign workers. This is the real win for capital as they can force all workers to the lowest common denominator.
This has nothing to do with labor mobility. You got your Marx completely backwards. It has to do with CAPITAL mobility, not labour. Labour isn't mobile, by definition. Not now not ever in the past. Cost to wire a trillion dollars across the world: $0.20. Cost to move a trillion people: take a guess. This is why capitalists push for open markets, because they can then move money in and out at a whim. That's all that matters, and as far as the rich are concerned, the people can sit on their asses and starve as long as they don't have to pay them. And, btw, the poor won't get to the rich's money because guess who guards the banks? Yeah, the fucking pound-you-in-the-ass feds with really big...guns.
Yes, I agree with you on this, at least the NAFTA part. But while it makes local labour cheaper, that's not their primary motiviation because foreign labour is cheaper still. And Indian labour is cheaper than Mexican, and Chineese cheaper still...
Of course, if you did know ... would you even care?
Which is completely irrelevant, unless you think you can get 7 billion different people all to agree on the same moral/ethical standards, and to follow them over everything in the world, including life/death and such.
i'm hurt. seriously.
Uh ok, you raving fascist. You can't put someone in jail for a year just for making some shitty-ass recording of a movie. It's not a crime against society, therefore there shouldn't be any time served. A fine or whatnot sure. But jail? r u fucking serious?
they'd call their software the Linspire Linsuit.
I'd imagine the parent was referring to The Dick's (Cheney) statement that "defecits are not relevant to the economy"?
Sun is scared to open-source Java because the "zealots" will end up turning it into LISP.
Sorry michael, but u asked for it...
Haha. Notice that michael is the one posting all these lame-ass 'jokes'...
Writing worms and viri for spammers. And go figure, the fucker split when I had finished and paid me in Penis Enlargement Pills.
U mean me? Or parent? Or the mods that made parent +3 insightful? Anonymous prick. ;p
In case you've missed out of the past decade or two, Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the WORLD. It happens to be the largest employer in most U.S. states. Revenue-wise it is one of the biggest companies in the world. Do not mess with Wal-Mart. They're as big as it gets, and anything sold there basically makes its owners bizillions if for no other reason than pure volume (i.e., sales). This move by Sun has EVERYTHING to do with sales.
It's just marketing-speak. The Walmart page is an advertisement, after all.
I'm not sure why the von Neumann architecture is such a security problem. I mean, the problem with computers not working isn't how they're built per se--turing machine, post machine, hell use cellular automata--it's that the mathematical theory says "it is impossible to write code (in general) that is guaranteed to be bug free". You could change the von Neumann archiecture, sure, but you could just as easily 'write an interpreter' (though with hardware) for the architecture. Either way, if you're writing code, you're going to have bugs.
Look here.
And this is relevant because....?