Tell the truth, that's a bit of a lie though. Those people in those factories are paid nearly US wages, more so if you compensate for them wasting manpower 2-3x what US companies do.
The bigger issue is investment dollars. They got to build these plant for pennies on the dollar with little to no oversight and the governments picking up a huge part of the tab. It was about investors chasing that quick 20% turnaround. Of course now the money-losing part of the industry is moved so its cheaper to build where factories are already at.
The US isn't that much more expensive. At my company, we beat our Brazillian counterparts in $$/worker that more than accounts for wages. Of course the bigger costs are energy and materials... Which of course are barely subsidized (and hijaked buy the same investors that move things out) there versus other countries.
That's because most stations buy on consignment.when gas takes a steep dip, they still have to sell at the higher price. When gas goes up, they get a brief chance to pad the books until they have to buy the next tank. Here in the US most stations only make about 10-15 cents per gallon net profit. They don't have padding to cover credit card fees by percent, let alone the price changes. Service stations are MLM at its best... That's how the parent companies get rich.
And that is the problem... Valve makes a killing on renting out Stream because it's the least terrible DRM out there. Ubi and EA are PUBLISHERS that don't want to give the keys to somebody else. Ironically, THEY don't want to RENT IP from somebody else either! Even if it would solve their problem.
YouTube operates under "TV-Like" rules to proactively keep from being censored. Blogger is about speech. There is plenty of grey between an extreme opinion and illegal speech.
If speech is illegal we have this process with the laws and courts.... Google will happily pull blogs... With the proper warrants.
Barring that process, shut up and track who posts subversive blogs... Hint: the bad guys aren't the ones running their mouths off publically. Those guys won't ever get on an airplane or near US customs.
The issue is that intel FORCES "HD3000" graphics to buy the mobile processors.
In my opinion that is a deal breaker on things like the Air. Even light modern gaming is painful on intel graphics... Sure the new Air is "better" than the last one... With 3x the CPU thrown at the problem. Consider the Air with the same CPU but newer Nvidia graphics? At that point an AMD processor that's slower, but with a better tightly bound graphics is going to be a better experience for the target low-end users more likely to play games.
I have older C2D MacBooks with intel and with Nvidia. The intel is criminally awful at even light WoW with roughly the same CPU. That makes almost all of the current cheap MacBooks unacceptable for a 5 year investment.
This insurance is probably like home Title insurance. Title Insurance backs the claim to the property, or in this case that the artists genuinely own the works they have sold the label.
I don't think this covers things you acknowledged but didn't PAY for. In the same way title insurance doesn't keep the Bank from taking your house for not paying.
But something like a House over 30 years (to even the lumps) can be about 7% per year and that's considered an average to bad investment. Investors are buying Microsoft in "house -sized" chunks... I think they'd expect more.
Also, the dollar has taken a beating since 2000. I wouldn't say that 2000 dollars were worth twice 2010 dollars, but at least 1.5 of them... Do that $9B is more like $15B apples-to-apples. Which is about 6%-10% real growth for ten years. Not bad for any company... But nothing to reward either. When they are sitting on $40b in cash. Their growth doesn't even account for a good return on all that cash!
Exactly. At one point they were sitting on $40+ BILLION in cash. (adjusted for inflation more than Apple has now)
That's fine when they're growing, but why sit on it if the stock isn't going up. It's just an excuse for sloppy lawsuits, and missed product launches. $5B loss for 5 years on Xbox seemed to pay off...
Of course both Apple and Nintendo start making money on Day One of selling a product. if Microsoft's stock is "flat" then it's worth 20% less than ten years ago.
So, what have they done with $40+ billion in cash for ten years? That's the amount of money used to bail out the airline industry after 9/11. That's several times the money used to bail out GM and Chrysler (not to mention write-offs... How many home mortgages would that finance? New energy efficient power? This is one of those 1% issues because the guys at the top are mooching a few million of this each year to their buddies but not adding value to their Owners. Again, these companies are structured so just under half the company represents thousands of investors... While 5-10 guys make the decisions to hoard astronomical amounts of cash.
What's really missing is the catalog of "ingredients" you'd need for this stuff. A more interesting project would be to develop a "cookbook" for technology, and use the most basic pieces possible. This is a start to built non-agrarian technology moving past what the Amish are doing to live at bare minimum.
But in our society a lot of this stuff could be cannibalized from other stuff either in junk yards, or built up front. Figure you would eithr plan for this, or be survivor of some "depopulating event" with lots of broken stuff available.
I find this intreguing because there's a long way from playing in the SCA to actually building a society. I think what they are looking for are "things to build things".. Even the Amish have a pretty impressive array of "technology" to get by every day.
Layers of trust. Most castles had maybe a hundred close residents. That's part of why trust and church and fealty were so important. In the middle ages a battle with 100 fighters was epic until the Crusades created massive armies.
The situation you describe is exactly like Europe from 800-1100 or so. That's exactly what made Vikings so terrible because the could field 40 guys that were practiced fighters on scattered villagers or maybe a city of a few hundred.
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Aluminum airframe craft must be replaced after a certain amount of time. Aluminum doesn't rust, but it fatigues under stress and vibration. There is a point after time where the failure becomes a fact under normal operation, unlike with steel used to frame buildings.
So you can spend time getting behind, or work on the next plane. The real problem is that the F35 is a cost-reduced version of the F22 that was in production. Even taking 5 years was too long really.
Most importantly you only need a few well paid libertatian nerds in bunkers to take care of indigenous problems... Or ones that are inconvenient and bad for business.
The motivation is clear that in our asymmetrical conflicts the ability of pilots to follow orders and unload on farmers with only small arms is going to be a problem.
Not to mention when the 1% needs to keep the crazies away!
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The bigger purpose is that those planes flying are pushing 30 years since they started production. Even the F35 is already 10 years old, with it's capabilities known and not actually shipping. What's missing is urgency. The need for these planes is in ten more years.
The biggest thing these bring to the table is standardization between branches. Even as far back as Bush 1 and Clinton the need was seen for a 72-hour strike capability. Meaning they want to have more flexible missions so they can send teams to use the nearest resources quickly refit rather than moving whole wings around the world. It also thins out the number of models fighters and allows us to share parts and crew with allies.
The idea was sound when we were looking to actually balance a budget. It's a page right out of FedEx or Southwest's operations.
The Republican Congress handed the Republican President and Vice President whatever they wanted for 6 years straight. Meanwhile the Republican President and Vice Prez spat on any inkling of Congressional oversight.
Why would Obama gives all that up again? It's not like Congress can "make him".. They couldn't control their own horse in the race.
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Tell the truth, that's a bit of a lie though. Those people in those factories are paid nearly US wages, more so if you compensate for them wasting manpower 2-3x what US companies do.
The bigger issue is investment dollars. They got to build these plant for pennies on the dollar with little to no oversight and the governments picking up a huge part of the tab. It was about investors chasing that quick 20% turnaround. Of course now the money-losing part of the industry is moved so its cheaper to build where factories are already at.
The US isn't that much more expensive. At my company, we beat our Brazillian counterparts in $$/worker that more than accounts for wages. Of course the bigger costs are energy and materials... Which of course are barely subsidized (and hijaked buy the same investors that move things out) there versus other countries.
But what am I supposed to sync my 64GB iPad to?
That's because most stations buy on consignment.when gas takes a steep dip, they still have to sell at the higher price. When gas goes up, they get a brief chance to pad the books until they have to buy the next tank. Here in the US most stations only make about 10-15 cents per gallon net profit. They don't have padding to cover credit card fees by percent, let alone the price changes. Service stations are MLM at its best... That's how the parent companies get rich.
And that is the problem... Valve makes a killing on renting out Stream because it's the least terrible DRM out there. Ubi and EA are PUBLISHERS that don't want to give the keys to somebody else. Ironically, THEY don't want to RENT IP from somebody else either! Even if it would solve their problem.
"illegal content" is the issue.
YouTube operates under "TV-Like" rules to proactively keep from being censored. Blogger is about speech. There is plenty of grey between an extreme opinion and illegal speech.
If speech is illegal we have this process with the laws and courts.... Google will happily pull blogs ... With the proper warrants.
Barring that process, shut up and track who posts subversive blogs... Hint: the bad guys aren't the ones running their mouths off publically. Those guys won't ever get on an airplane or near US customs.
You Have a tool that automatically outputs records by number, date, etc. But you can't change or modify the original files.
Sounds like somebody recreated the iSeries QSYSAUD journal (with a few improvements).
The issue is that intel FORCES "HD3000" graphics to buy the mobile processors.
In my opinion that is a deal breaker on things like the Air. Even light modern gaming is painful on intel graphics... Sure the new Air is "better" than the last one... With 3x the CPU thrown at the problem. Consider the Air with the same CPU but newer Nvidia graphics? At that point an AMD processor that's slower, but with a better tightly bound graphics is going to be a better experience for the target low-end users more likely to play games.
I have older C2D MacBooks with intel and with Nvidia. The intel is criminally awful at even light WoW with roughly the same CPU. That makes almost all of the current cheap MacBooks unacceptable for a 5 year investment.
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the pope might have an issue...
Zombie robot soldiers!
They had these in Sucker Punch!
This insurance is probably like home Title insurance. Title Insurance backs the claim to the property, or in this case that the artists genuinely own the works they have sold the label.
I don't think this covers things you acknowledged but didn't PAY for. In the same way title insurance doesn't keep the Bank from taking your house for not paying.
But is that worth the $40b in cash they sit on? Could the investors have made society better moving that cash somewhere else?
But something like a House over 30 years (to even the lumps) can be about 7% per year and that's considered an average to bad investment. Investors are buying Microsoft in "house -sized" chunks... I think they'd expect more.
Also, the dollar has taken a beating since 2000. I wouldn't say that 2000 dollars were worth twice 2010 dollars, but at least 1.5 of them... Do that $9B is more like $15B apples-to-apples. Which is about 6%-10% real growth for ten years. Not bad for any company... But nothing to reward either. When they are sitting on $40b in cash. Their growth doesn't even account for a good return on all that cash!
Exactly. At one point they were sitting on $40+ BILLION in cash. (adjusted for inflation more than Apple has now)
That's fine when they're growing, but why sit on it if the stock isn't going up. It's just an excuse for sloppy lawsuits, and missed product launches. $5B loss for 5 years on Xbox seemed to pay off...
Of course both Apple and Nintendo start making money on Day One of selling a product. if Microsoft's stock is "flat" then it's worth 20% less than ten years ago.
So, what have they done with $40+ billion in cash for ten years? That's the amount of money used to bail out the airline industry after 9/11. That's several times the money used to bail out GM and Chrysler (not to mention write-offs... How many home mortgages would that finance? New energy efficient power? This is one of those 1% issues because the guys at the top are mooching a few million of this each year to their buddies but not adding value to their Owners. Again, these companies are structured so just under half the company represents thousands of investors... While 5-10 guys make the decisions to hoard astronomical amounts of cash.
Considering the amount of caffeine IT people consume.. It's a good thing we're not spiders.
That's why lawyers in these cases work for a measly 40% of the settlement rather than cash up front...
They turn them into pork rinds....
Like arguing on /.
iPads play just fine with web apps ti get the NSFW materials. Just most airlines block that stuff from their in-flight Internet.
Of course, if you watch porn you brought with you now, you tend to get asked to turn it off or leave the plane.
What's really missing is the catalog of "ingredients" you'd need for this stuff. A more interesting project would be to develop a "cookbook" for technology, and use the most basic pieces possible. This is a start to built non-agrarian technology moving past what the Amish are doing to live at bare minimum.
But in our society a lot of this stuff could be cannibalized from other stuff either in junk yards, or built up front. Figure you would eithr plan for this, or be survivor of some "depopulating event" with lots of broken stuff available.
I find this intreguing because there's a long way from playing in the SCA to actually building a society. I think what they are looking for are "things to build things".. Even the Amish have a pretty impressive array of "technology" to get by every day.
Layers of trust. Most castles had maybe a hundred close residents. That's part of why trust and church and fealty were so important. In the middle ages a battle with 100 fighters was epic until the Crusades created massive armies.
The situation you describe is exactly like Europe from 800-1100 or so. That's exactly what made Vikings so terrible because the could field 40 guys that were practiced fighters on scattered villagers or maybe a city of a few hundred.
Aluminum airframe craft must be replaced after a certain amount of time. Aluminum doesn't rust, but it fatigues under stress and vibration. There is a point after time where the failure becomes a fact under normal operation, unlike with steel used to frame buildings.
So you can spend time getting behind, or work on the next plane. The real problem is that the F35 is a cost-reduced version of the F22 that was in production. Even taking 5 years was too long really.
Most importantly you only need a few well paid libertatian nerds in bunkers to take care of indigenous problems... Or ones that are inconvenient and bad for business.
The motivation is clear that in our asymmetrical conflicts the ability of pilots to follow orders and unload on farmers with only small arms is going to be a problem.
Not to mention when the 1% needs to keep the crazies away!
The bigger purpose is that those planes flying are pushing 30 years since they started production. Even the F35 is already 10 years old, with it's capabilities known and not actually shipping. What's missing is urgency. The need for these planes is in ten more years.
The biggest thing these bring to the table is standardization between branches. Even as far back as Bush 1 and Clinton the need was seen for a 72-hour strike capability. Meaning they want to have more flexible missions so they can send teams to use the nearest resources quickly refit rather than moving whole wings around the world. It also thins out the number of models fighters and allows us to share parts and crew with allies.
The idea was sound when we were looking to actually balance a budget. It's a page right out of FedEx or Southwest's operations.
The Republican Congress handed the Republican President and Vice President whatever they wanted for 6 years straight. Meanwhile the Republican President and Vice Prez spat on any inkling of Congressional oversight.
Why would Obama gives all that up again? It's not like Congress can "make him" .. They couldn't control their own horse in the race.