You can't have winners in life when there are no losers.
Download the book Adam Smith Wealth of Nations but also remember that while Capitalism benefits the wealth of the whole and the majority of participants it does not guarantee the increased wealth of all participants in particular countries with little resources and an unskilled low productivity labour force that have no money to purchase internet backbone/wireless routers even worse if landlocked by hostile countries that do not permit trade such as the Kurdish people. Where's the Kurdish government's internet site? Do they have a TLD at all???
Small H-1B caps and become a tech worker, large H-1B caps and invest in software businesses (which is where the profit goes) nothing to see here, move along...
So what was the "right" thing to do in that situation? On the one hand, I felt a moral imperative to help this kind, tender and wonderful person. On the other, I had a commitment and moral responsibility to the company I worked for.
Finally, I reached the correct solution: I resigned my position as manager of the team
I'm gonna call BS. I work in a very large company, and I've seen this happenning and I've also been offerred positions based on whether I'm friends with or related to someone without interview. Wise people know that a business exists as a collection of people, you can make it a happy place or unhappy place, productive or unprouctive, mainly based on management decisions. It is up to each individual manager to act on their own moral beliefs as well as on bottom-line decisions, like Picard in Star Trek TNG. I've even seen people without MBAs become managers just because their friend was in management and had "a quiet word" with the CEO/interviewers.
It's a free world, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to be the "best" manager all the time by doing something you feel is morally not-so-right, after all that's probably the only difference between you and an Enron manager, remember that the "ain't-such-a-cool-thing-to-do" feeling is because it's morally wrong, and therefore going against your morals doesn't make it just another "difficult management decision".
Always remember, if you're a bad manager - it's your managers job to fire you, so while he doesn't, you're a good manager. That's the ideal, but in real life politics, ethics, personal relationship and all that murky stuff comes in. I've heard of managers that expect to be able to have sex with their secretaries.
Really? How much exactly do these robots cost?
Is it more than about $3 an hour, including maintenance?
And do they reproduce themselves?
Many years ago farmers employed bullocks and labourers to turn the soil, sow seeds, and harvest the crops. Now it's done by tractors and combine harvesters. What's so special about fruits? A little visual object recognition and a telescopic arm with a rotating claw on the end don't sound too much like science fiction... Where did the cheap labour go before? To the cities. Where's the cheap labour going to go now? To Walmart/slaughter houses etc. or the illegal ones plain won't enter the US because globalisation would provide them with jobs in their own countries
I am grateful to live outside the United States when I see lawyers, judges and DMCA bureaucrats shackling reasonable fair use and fair experimentation research.
I tend to think at best, just for a SWAG, we have to go on past planetary history. We usually wind up with major wars fought by major powers with whatever the major weapons of that time period were. It has eventually always happened. I see nothing that convinces me todays humans are any better than yesterdays humans in that regard. So the combination of lame hoomannz and natural cyclical warming trends should indicate for the next generation or more we will have _more warming_.
I agree, and therefore conclude that even though we might have some clever people, humans are pretty dumb on overall actions (just look at corporate software development). The global warming gasses seem to be altering Albedo and placing the majority of the heat into the oceans, quoting
The ocean was the logical place to look for any extra heat the Earth is collecting. "It's the biggest bucket to hold heat," says Willis. "It has the largest heat capacity of any single component of the climate system." A high heat capacity means that it takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature. "You know it takes a lot of energy to boil a pot of water, so imagine how much you'd need to increase the ocean's temperature," adds Willis. "It takes at least a 1000 times more energy to raise the temperature of the ocean than it does the atmosphere."
"We know that if the ocean temperature is rising," says Willis, "there is a lot of energy that is causing it. The only way we have to explain that much heating is by greenhouse gases."
Backed up here as well with the additional information that even if we stopped putting out greenhouse gasses, so much extra heat is now stored up in the oceans that the world will continue heating for 100 years before stabilising. Hotter oceans would cause rainfall changes, fishing changes, cloud cover changes, tropical storm changes, world conveyor belt changes and possibly Hadley cell changes that could melt the whole Antarctic ice sheet which seems less unlikely due to the high sensitivity of ice sheets to small surface temperature changes. Thing is if I lived in India or China I'd definitely want air conditioning in 45 Celsius temperatures, it's hotter than Texas over there! Well, at least my children will have something interesting to watch on their TVs apart from terrorists, and I might make lots of money by buying stock in desalination plant construction companies.
But they call it a blog, a term that means one thing - a site for public news and discourse. Then they try to make it something else that suits their PR .. But if you ask for feedback from the community, and you give the appearance of being impartial - deal with the consquences
Well done, are you going to put them into jail then? All talk no action, except for pushing the Submit button
It appears you have a distorted view of Capitalism. Capitalism PAYS INVESTORS when it earns money. This system will never pay investors.
It does pay. A while back I bought some HP shares, the shares went up and I sold them. I got my money back and then some.
Carly didn't build her plants, she expected Industrial Development Boards to do that. When they got cold feet she became the proponent of offshoring. (Take note investors --- YOU LOST ON THIS!) Offshore she could go into the full depth of corporate government partnership where everything became total Faschism.
My God! Well to be honest, I'm not surprised, I'd expect this sort of mafia corporate-government collusion thing to happen all the time, just look at Bush and oil companies. I'd imagine in third world countries it would be much more. Thing is, HP share price is still going up and giving me (the investor) more money.
If you equity fund you have to take it out of your customers.
Yup, but I don't see a problem with this, nobody's forcing the customers to buy stuff. To avoid tax, instead of putting profits on the balance sheet, buy a small property for business storage or whatever, sell it and buy a bigger one, then sell it and buy a new store.
The reality is that this is what is the matter with the whole of US Corporate America. The CEO's who do little or nothing but talk themselves up get the rewards and inventive types get walked down the hall
This is why big companies sometimes go bust. When a company's growing, investors are happy to pour money in, but then when the company stabilises, investors want to see where their money's going. If I'm a stockholder, why should I invest my money into an unaccountable R&D department with no guarantee of when the next big thing is invented. In management, everything must go into a Ganttt chart, invention is difficult to put into a Gannt chart. People keep saying that past performance is not a gurantee of future performance, so why should I allow HP to invest so much of my stock money in R&D simply on the basis of past performance. Can HP labs guarantee when the next innovation is going to come out?
Throwing a pile of money into a Department or business and hoping for an outcome without a Ganntt chart is what happened in the dot com boom. Is this the only way?
Don't give me any replies claiming that this is Capitalism. It isn't! Capitalism pays its investors. This is Faschism in its purest form
It's Capitalism, HP's share price is going up, not down. The company hasn't gone bankrupt yet, and isn't even in bankruptcy protection! It's doing pretty well. If HP ditches R&D completely, then IBM can increase its R&D size so that they'll get the revenue from R&D activities instead, and increase their marketshare.
Less educated people (not likely to have great multitasking skills) are more likely to have more children at an earlier age. Thus, the evolutionary pull is probably stronger toward stupidity than it is toward intelligence.
Beyond that, evolution in the human species can no longer function since we don't let the weak die of natural causes due to the high value we place on every individual life and through the application of technology to keep the weak in the gene pool
Unless this group has such an increased chance of dying by perhaps either driving cheap cars too fast or overdosing on drugs/McDonalds that the evolutionary pull is nullified.
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India's economy is one of the most protectionist on earth. So until Indians start buying American stuff, I am going to resist outsourcing,
Battery life. A typical Li-ion battery will lose twenty percent of its capacity every year, from the day that they are manufactured. With a pure electric vehicle, that means a 20% drop in range
The article also states that at 0 degrees Celsius the degradation is slowed from 20% per year to 6% per year. A low power air con unit to cool the Li-Ion batteries should fix this problem.
Human society functions better in a nonstationary environment
This depends on the definition of "society". I would adjust your statement to indicate that Human society is most likely to survive in a violent environment in the event that a maximum diversity in human behaviour exists; except where groups (perhaps oppressive Governments or Corporations acting in lieu) terminating subsets of such diversity, or a systematic mechanism that favours a behavioural subset's ability to terminate another behavioural subset (e.g. vigilantes kill all peadophiles and the remaining men will be with non-virgins who have AIDS, kill/tax fat people then the remaining thin people susceptible to cold die in an ice age).
A stationary environment where the survival rate of any behavioural group is lowered will result in a decrease in such diversity and leave all vulnerable to population loss in the event that the stationary environment reverts to a dynamic one.
Employers don't want walking encyclopedias they want projects finished on time and on budget for their clients. What I am trying to say is a degree is more than a cert in knowledge it is a cert in the abilities to get the job done and done right. A professional and ethical attitude and behavior
Trash. Here's a list of people that need to be stripped of their degree or PhD that have pissed off people:
RMS (extremist),
All members of Cult of Dead Cow (H4x0R5),
Phil Zimmerman (PGP is used to encrypt kiddie pr0n)
Linus Torvads (Linux may destroy Micro$oft ad Sun, major Fortune50 stocks, collapsing the value of all 401k in the US, forcing old people into poverty)
All degree-holders that worked for VIA (for infringing IP)
Jon Johansen (for writing DeCSS)
The only people that should have degrees are boring people that tow the company line, ask no questions, you are a number, not a free man, otherwise lose your degree.
Is it right for a discredited man to have his pHD removed? Is it right that popular opinion can determine how
qualified someone is to make a statement in their field?
If you work in a Capitalist corporation, it's your obligation to make the company money. Period. All the managers surrounding me lie continuously to the customers to retain them; money has nothing to do with honesty, there are lots of bank robbers with millions of dollars that are a testament to this. Doing what a profit-maximising corporation requires you to do has nothing whatsoever to do with a PhD which you earned whilst at an educational institution. Or does it?
Most "PHP for dummies" books/tutorials don't make it clear how to program PHP securely from the outset, and don't emphasise these bits. As with all corporate projects, I need a way to port a huge (80k LOC) VB/IIS web app project over to PHP in a couple of days without it failing and me/my staff looking incompetent.
Essentially, the problem is with those making insecure scripts, not the whole PHP and SQL system
I use VB for scripting and Micro$hit secures it for me automatically (crashes whenever users give funny inputs and I can then shout at the customers yeah!). Why should I switch to Linux/PHP/mySQL if I have to take time off or an expensive course to learn a whole new security paradigm, language and OS? If you want to make it hard for me to switch from VB to PHP/mySQL/Linux then that's your decision.
The problem with the current situation is that we are burning up a lot of resources to keep the illusion of market economics alive
These are dangerous truths old friend. I would suggest a slight correction, however. Instead of "keep the illusion of market economics alive" it would be "keep the illusion of meritocracy (work in exchange for prosperiy) alive)
We work in glass skyscrapers touching the sky, and live in earthquake-proof insured houses with automatic hot water and automatic air con/heating plus Wi-Fi.
beautiful parks
This is due to cost-cutting and low levels of US Federal/State taxation. In Europe we have high taxation but lots of free parks, free schools, and free healthcare.
construct statues to artists, composers,
There are Guggenheims all over the place. In the UK you can enter many museum free of charge. Britney Spears' CDs are so common that she doesn't even need a statue for people to know her.
Simple math proves that faster speeds equate to less time spent in travel
Yes, or maybe you'll just drive further every day.
The using more gas part is incorrect too. Fuel consumption is fairly complex, and is different for every vehicle, depending on aerodynamics, gearing, engine design, etc. Many vehicles get better fuel economy at speeds over 60
Above 50mph for almost every car economy drops off significantly.
If the guy is selling his open source version of Oracle, and it does the same or better job as Oracle for a lower price, then how is it fair to tax him to protect a company which produces a worse, more expensive product ?
Because if I'm on welfare and write software for Mandrake or whatever, then the Government is in effect paying me to write software and I give this free to a company which can then undercut salaried workers from a competing company. If Mandrake was paying me a full salary then it would be a fair competition. This is perhaps similar to a company comitting fraud to obtain Government grants so that they can undercut their competitors, you'd expect the Government to tax/stop it.
To compete with Mandrake/Suse/Redhat Microsoft will have to fire all of its developers and tell them to live on welfare and contribute voluntarily to Microsoft. This is impractical.
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Small H-1B caps and become a tech worker, large H-1B caps and invest in software businesses (which is where the profit goes) nothing to see here, move along...
I'm gonna call BS. I work in a very large company, and I've seen this happenning and I've also been offerred positions based on whether I'm friends with or related to someone without interview. Wise people know that a business exists as a collection of people, you can make it a happy place or unhappy place, productive or unprouctive, mainly based on management decisions. It is up to each individual manager to act on their own moral beliefs as well as on bottom-line decisions, like Picard in Star Trek TNG. I've even seen people without MBAs become managers just because their friend was in management and had "a quiet word" with the CEO/interviewers.
It's a free world, you can do whatever you like, you don't have to be the "best" manager all the time by doing something you feel is morally not-so-right, after all that's probably the only difference between you and an Enron manager, remember that the "ain't-such-a-cool-thing-to-do" feeling is because it's morally wrong, and therefore going against your morals doesn't make it just another "difficult management decision".
Always remember, if you're a bad manager - it's your managers job to fire you, so while he doesn't, you're a good manager. That's the ideal, but in real life politics, ethics, personal relationship and all that murky stuff comes in. I've heard of managers that expect to be able to have sex with their secretaries.
There's quite a few books on choosing frameworks, here's one.
I am grateful to live outside the United States when I see lawyers, judges and DMCA bureaucrats shackling reasonable fair use and fair experimentation research.
Throwing a pile of money into a Department or business and hoping for an outcome without a Ganntt chart is what happened in the dot com boom. Is this the only way?
It's Capitalism, HP's share price is going up, not down. The company hasn't gone bankrupt yet, and isn't even in bankruptcy protection! It's doing pretty well. If HP ditches R&D completely, then IBM can increase its R&D size so that they'll get the revenue from R&D activities instead, and increase their marketshare.A stationary environment where the survival rate of any behavioural group is lowered will result in a decrease in such diversity and leave all vulnerable to population loss in the event that the stationary environment reverts to a dynamic one.
RMS (extremist),
All members of Cult of Dead Cow (H4x0R5),
Phil Zimmerman (PGP is used to encrypt kiddie pr0n)
Linus Torvads (Linux may destroy Micro$oft ad Sun, major Fortune50 stocks, collapsing the value of all 401k in the US, forcing old people into poverty)
All degree-holders that worked for VIA (for infringing IP)
Jon Johansen (for writing DeCSS)
The only people that should have degrees are boring people that tow the company line, ask no questions, you are a number, not a free man, otherwise lose your degree.
Or does it?
You're killing Linux
To compete with Mandrake/Suse/Redhat Microsoft will have to fire all of its developers and tell them to live on welfare and contribute voluntarily to Microsoft. This is impractical.