I think you just equated taiwan and mainland china. let's ignore politics, because it's got no definitive standards, but you simply must face two simple facts. Taiwan and Mainland China have massively different industrial complexes. Taiwan's makes higher end electronics.
The problem is, the online news services are all leaching off the traditional media for their content.
I'm actually looking forward with mild amusement to the panic when the flow of content from the big boys ceases.
So am I, because then whoever is business-savvy will change their business model to reflect the changing times. here's a tip, the AP isn't going to die this way, because if every newspaper in the world went belly up tomorrow, half the governments on the planet would pay to keep them in business. This is because the value of the AP is internationally recognized, and anyone funding it gets the kind of good reputation Britain does for hosting the BBC. The same with Reuters, the same with Al Jazeera, not that AJ relies on print copy revenue of course...
I suppose that's one way to think about it. Another is that since those drugs are illegal, they tend to be supplied by large drug-smuggling operations.
I run a mom-and-pop drug smuggling operation, you insensitive clod!
hahahaha... that's awesome. Incidentally, so does your mom. no wait, I mean my mom.
But don't publishers try to sell "new editions" to the districts every six months, or is that only a college problem?
oh, they may darn well try. And I kinda wished they succeeded, at least once a decade or so. My high school science textbooks, and math and a few others besides, were older than I was.
In this case it is far worse. This is a 10% cut in the rate to the employment agency, so they have to cut the employees wage even further, on costs, insurance, profit etc, employees themselves are likely to get around double that cut.
I see that you have some problem with economics. Reduced pay for employees results in reduced spending, which generates lay-offs. A lot of people base their debt payments upon the salary level with out much gap between them. A 20% pay cut will often result in bankruptcy, as the employees can not just whip up a quick letter telling their creditors they will now be paying them 20% less and if they don't like it, they wont pay them anything.
Now is the pay cut to enable M$ to survive or is it to allow M$ to maintain it's current profit margin or even increase them. M$ has a history of having a total disregard for the costs of it's actions upon other people and companies as long their own profits keep increasing.
You're right. This is what's going to happen. This is what most people do.
That said, what kinda idiots do this? Why do so many people believe they shouldn't have any contingency plans in life? Next month, I could be hit by a bus. If I do, I live in Canada, so medical costs will be okay, I have credit card insurance to cover a year of interest payments on that (it only costs me $5/month), and I save enough money that I'll be able to live, if miserably, for at least 6 months. Why don't more people do this? And don't say they can't, because the people who are going to be missing their mortgages had enough money to buy a house, apparently, so they should have gotten a cheaper one or continued to rent until they could *actually* afford a house. gah!
I don't know what the story is with brazil, but as of 2003, russian men were 6 times more likely to commit suicide than russian women (and both numbers are too high), so I'd say russia has a problem that other parts of the world want none of.
Your brother is wrong. What happens(or has happened historically) is that you ahve a bunch of angry young men that need an outlet; which means war. Either internally, if the government see this, then it will be an external war.
They'll still treat women like dirt. It takes an open atmosphere to voice opinion to change that.
which, if only relative to a century ago, india has:)
putting aside how horrible an idea that is for a moment, let's face that that's certainly what is happening.
In india, their are more boys than girls now, which is something of an oddity, and in some communities the new generation are so predominantly male than they're having to do reverse-dowries. As my brother put it, "sooner or later they're going to run out of girls to subjugate, and they'll have to stop treating girls like dirt. either that or the guys will all go gay, but oh wait, that's against crummy traditional values too."
Even if you don't associate yourself with a picture on Facebook, a friend can still upload a picture of you and a current employer or coworker or prospective employer, may see it and recognize you.
as long as you untag yourself from those photos, the odds of them finding it are pretty tiny though... if your potential company is going to pore over all your coworkers photos looking for something embarrassing, they're the CIA or obsessive compulsives who couldn't function in the real world.
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dur... I'm an engineer. I have an education that will give me a decent rate of pay compared to my neighbours almost anywhere on the planet. so, like all skilled professionals, I can be a little choosier...
I know you're just a troll, but I had to throw that out there, because I've actually turned down an employer once word got out among my alumni that they were doing this. not hiring someone because they have drunk photos of themselves on facebook implies all kinds of moral hypocrisy, because odds are you get drunk with friends too.
I understand the difference, I think, between Napster and BitTorrent. But as I understand it, both require central servers to track the locations of files. So if the music industry found it simple to shut down Napster, why is it so difficult for them to shut down TPB?
Put another way, why couldn't Napster just have relocated to a place like Sweden? Is there some technical difference I don't understand, or was it a legal/political issue?
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The technical reason is that Napster is one central tracker which covered the entire napster file sharing system. The pirate bay is one of hundreds, and of at least dozens of popular sites.
The bigger social reason is that relocating to the other side of the world to run your business would require loving your business more than your friends, neighbours, family, and everything in your country you enjoy. Like Lisa Simpson said, "I miss America. Sure, it has its problems, but it's got it's charm too, and mostly, it's where all our stuff is." (paraphrased)
The 'parodox' goes away if you are willing to call rituals and religions delusions, which is pretty easy for anyone to do when you consider that at most one of the major religions in the world could possibly be true, since they contradict each other so well. The only thing that properly defines a delusion is that it is an incorrect belief.
guess what kind of tv the typical indian buying a $12 computer has?
that's right, the crappy kind. the kind probably left over from the 90s or 80s or earlier, like most electronics in india.
that said, text isn't readable on an old TV largely because it's in a font designed for a computer monitor. do you have much trouble reading subtitles?
Yeah, but in the Mars trilogy, they did it anyway, and the idea of not putting all their eggs in one basket was just one reason why.
Also, there's a segment of any society that really wants to go see the fronter, and they really haven't had one for the last century or so. It'd be nice if antisocial but otherwise very useful types could go build a new civilization on mars, I think...
So we'll just have to do what we do with cellphones.
If you stop paying your cellphone bill, you can't make phone calls. Except to the phone company (to give them your credit card number), and to emergency services, because it's mandated by Canadian law. I think it's the same in the states. I have no idea about anywhere else.
As is this wasn't an unfortunate enough reality, keep in mind that in a US prison, inmates are routinely beaten and raped. So being forced to become a hobo might actually be better than the alternative.
Well Joe, anti-piracy lawsuits, and the fear that goes with them, are actually a healthy part of the Media Ecosystem. You see, there exists a test bed for new shows, where they are usually created, and then individual market players can get all sue-happy, or whatever they like, confined in the test-bed known as the 'united states of america'.
Because you see, my dear Joe Pirate, nobody of consequence (eg. me, in calm Canada) gets sued. It's all these imaginary "americans", who as you know from watching television, are a make-believe people that couldn't possibly exist in real life. I mean, just imagine some of the whackyhijinks these "americans" get up to every week. They're ridiculous, really only a Corporate-Media creation for our entertainment.
This allows the consumers, you and me, to download all the shows we like in peace, secure in the knowledge that immoral copyright lawsuits and whatnot will only happen in fictionalprogramming, where it belongs.
the US gov has blatantly refused to comply with North American Free Trade Agreement rulings telling them to stop putting tariffs and subsidies on things, so yeah, I think you're right.
And who on earth would impose sanctions on the usa? No one is dumb enough to impede themselves in a market that big and consumer-oriented.
I've said this before, and I'm sure you've thought of it. Remember anything common in all those cartoons with flying cars? They usually had humans living in space. Or at least in high-orbit. The jetsons lived in a floating city, Bespin-style.
As long as we mostly live in 2d suburbs/cities, the best way of getting to work or the grocery store is going to be 2d motion, like on the ground or just above it. If we ever start living in cities with actual seperate layers, we'll probably alrighty be somewhere where that makes sense, with low gravity. In which case flying cars will be easy. Until then, flying cars will never work in common daily life for the same reason moving walkways aren't in our homes. Because there's no good reason for anyone to pay enough money to have them.
What if you took... I don't know, say 50% of the resources that SETI uses and invest that into planet finding telescopes.
That's about 1% of the cost of a planet-finding telescope. The hubble cost about $6 billion, as an extreme example. Just thought I'd put that in perspective for you.
If that's true, it's really significant. I did a quick google search and found nothing though, so could someone please post a link verifying this? If it's true, I think it justifies me writing a few letters.
Even in private industry, the sole motivator of research is not profit. Researchers will tend to work for whoever will pay them well, but given that there is a limited supply of genius, smart people tend to choose their field of research based on their own personal feelings, including their morals.
While morals don't really explain the massive research behind Viagra, they do explain some of the morals behind urinary tract infection research, for example, since there really are more profitable fields of medical research to be in.
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I think you just equated taiwan and mainland china. let's ignore politics, because it's got no definitive standards, but you simply must face two simple facts. Taiwan and Mainland China have massively different industrial complexes. Taiwan's makes higher end electronics.
The problem is, the online news services are all leaching off the traditional media for their content.
I'm actually looking forward with mild amusement to the panic when the flow of content from the big boys ceases.
So am I, because then whoever is business-savvy will change their business model to reflect the changing times. here's a tip, the AP isn't going to die this way, because if every newspaper in the world went belly up tomorrow, half the governments on the planet would pay to keep them in business. This is because the value of the AP is internationally recognized, and anyone funding it gets the kind of good reputation Britain does for hosting the BBC. The same with Reuters, the same with Al Jazeera, not that AJ relies on print copy revenue of course...
I suppose that's one way to think about it. Another is that since those drugs are illegal, they tend to be supplied by large drug-smuggling operations.
I run a mom-and-pop drug smuggling operation, you insensitive clod!
hahahaha... that's awesome. Incidentally, so does your mom. no wait, I mean my mom.
But don't publishers try to sell "new editions" to the districts every six months, or is that only a college problem?
oh, they may darn well try. And I kinda wished they succeeded, at least once a decade or so. My high school science textbooks, and math and a few others besides, were older than I was.
In this case it is far worse. This is a 10% cut in the rate to the employment agency, so they have to cut the employees wage even further, on costs, insurance, profit etc, employees themselves are likely to get around double that cut.
I see that you have some problem with economics. Reduced pay for employees results in reduced spending, which generates lay-offs. A lot of people base their debt payments upon the salary level with out much gap between them. A 20% pay cut will often result in bankruptcy, as the employees can not just whip up a quick letter telling their creditors they will now be paying them 20% less and if they don't like it, they wont pay them anything.
Now is the pay cut to enable M$ to survive or is it to allow M$ to maintain it's current profit margin or even increase them. M$ has a history of having a total disregard for the costs of it's actions upon other people and companies as long their own profits keep increasing.
You're right. This is what's going to happen. This is what most people do.
That said, what kinda idiots do this? Why do so many people believe they shouldn't have any contingency plans in life? Next month, I could be hit by a bus. If I do, I live in Canada, so medical costs will be okay, I have credit card insurance to cover a year of interest payments on that (it only costs me $5/month), and I save enough money that I'll be able to live, if miserably, for at least 6 months. Why don't more people do this? And don't say they can't, because the people who are going to be missing their mortgages had enough money to buy a house, apparently, so they should have gotten a cheaper one or continued to rent until they could *actually* afford a house. gah!
I don't know what the story is with brazil, but as of 2003, russian men were 6 times more likely to commit suicide than russian women (and both numbers are too high), so I'd say russia has a problem that other parts of the world want none of.
oh yeah, and they beat up foreigners. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0123/p07s02-woeu.html
oh russia, what're you doing...
Your brother is wrong. What happens(or has happened historically) is that you ahve a bunch of angry young men that need an outlet; which means war. Either internally, if the government see this, then it will be an external war.
They'll still treat women like dirt. It takes an open atmosphere to voice opinion to change that.
which, if only relative to a century ago, india has :)
putting aside how horrible an idea that is for a moment, let's face that that's certainly what is happening.
In india, their are more boys than girls now, which is something of an oddity, and in some communities the new generation are so predominantly male than they're having to do reverse-dowries. As my brother put it, "sooner or later they're going to run out of girls to subjugate, and they'll have to stop treating girls like dirt. either that or the guys will all go gay, but oh wait, that's against crummy traditional values too."
Even if you don't associate yourself with a picture on Facebook, a friend can still upload a picture of you and a current employer or coworker or prospective employer, may see it and recognize you.
as long as you untag yourself from those photos, the odds of them finding it are pretty tiny though... if your potential company is going to pore over all your coworkers photos looking for something embarrassing, they're the CIA or obsessive compulsives who couldn't function in the real world.
dur... I'm an engineer. I have an education that will give me a decent rate of pay compared to my neighbours almost anywhere on the planet. so, like all skilled professionals, I can be a little choosier...
I know you're just a troll, but I had to throw that out there, because I've actually turned down an employer once word got out among my alumni that they were doing this. not hiring someone because they have drunk photos of themselves on facebook implies all kinds of moral hypocrisy, because odds are you get drunk with friends too.
http://www.groklaw.net/ or perhaps http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ and for that matter, I know it's from the original sources, but how about: http://trial.thepiratebay.org/ . These are all investigative bloggers! zing!
I understand the difference, I think, between Napster and BitTorrent. But as I understand it, both require central servers to track the locations of files. So if the music industry found it simple to shut down Napster, why is it so difficult for them to shut down TPB?
Put another way, why couldn't Napster just have relocated to a place like Sweden? Is there some technical difference I don't understand, or was it a legal/political issue?
- Alaska Jack
The technical reason is that Napster is one central tracker which covered the entire napster file sharing system. The pirate bay is one of hundreds, and of at least dozens of popular sites. The bigger social reason is that relocating to the other side of the world to run your business would require loving your business more than your friends, neighbours, family, and everything in your country you enjoy. Like Lisa Simpson said, "I miss America. Sure, it has its problems, but it's got it's charm too, and mostly, it's where all our stuff is." (paraphrased)
The 'parodox' goes away if you are willing to call rituals and religions delusions, which is pretty easy for anyone to do when you consider that at most one of the major religions in the world could possibly be true, since they contradict each other so well. The only thing that properly defines a delusion is that it is an incorrect belief.
guess what kind of tv the typical indian buying a $12 computer has? that's right, the crappy kind. the kind probably left over from the 90s or 80s or earlier, like most electronics in india. that said, text isn't readable on an old TV largely because it's in a font designed for a computer monitor. do you have much trouble reading subtitles?
Miniscule competition is a lot like none, and the marketshare of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and OpenSolaris isn't killing Linux any time soon.
Yeah, but in the Mars trilogy, they did it anyway, and the idea of not putting all their eggs in one basket was just one reason why.
Also, there's a segment of any society that really wants to go see the fronter, and they really haven't had one for the last century or so. It'd be nice if antisocial but otherwise very useful types could go build a new civilization on mars, I think...
So we'll just have to do what we do with cellphones.
If you stop paying your cellphone bill, you can't make phone calls. Except to the phone company (to give them your credit card number), and to emergency services, because it's mandated by Canadian law. I think it's the same in the states. I have no idea about anywhere else.
As is this wasn't an unfortunate enough reality, keep in mind that in a US prison, inmates are routinely beaten and raped. So being forced to become a hobo might actually be better than the alternative.
It hurt to say that.
Well Joe, anti-piracy lawsuits, and the fear that goes with them, are actually a healthy part of the Media Ecosystem. You see, there exists a test bed for new shows, where they are usually created, and then individual market players can get all sue-happy, or whatever they like, confined in the test-bed known as the 'united states of america'.
Because you see, my dear Joe Pirate, nobody of consequence (eg. me, in calm Canada) gets sued. It's all these imaginary "americans", who as you know from watching television, are a make-believe people that couldn't possibly exist in real life. I mean, just imagine some of the whacky hijinks these "americans" get up to every week. They're ridiculous, really only a Corporate-Media creation for our entertainment.
This allows the consumers, you and me, to download all the shows we like in peace, secure in the knowledge that immoral copyright lawsuits and whatnot will only happen in fictional programming, where it belongs.
the US gov has blatantly refused to comply with North American Free Trade Agreement rulings telling them to stop putting tariffs and subsidies on things, so yeah, I think you're right.
And who on earth would impose sanctions on the usa? No one is dumb enough to impede themselves in a market that big and consumer-oriented.
I've said this before, and I'm sure you've thought of it. Remember anything common in all those cartoons with flying cars? They usually had humans living in space. Or at least in high-orbit. The jetsons lived in a floating city, Bespin-style. As long as we mostly live in 2d suburbs/cities, the best way of getting to work or the grocery store is going to be 2d motion, like on the ground or just above it. If we ever start living in cities with actual seperate layers, we'll probably alrighty be somewhere where that makes sense, with low gravity. In which case flying cars will be easy. Until then, flying cars will never work in common daily life for the same reason moving walkways aren't in our homes. Because there's no good reason for anyone to pay enough money to have them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
If that's true, it's really significant. I did a quick google search and found nothing though, so could someone please post a link verifying this? If it's true, I think it justifies me writing a few letters.
Even in private industry, the sole motivator of research is not profit. Researchers will tend to work for whoever will pay them well, but given that there is a limited supply of genius, smart people tend to choose their field of research based on their own personal feelings, including their morals.
While morals don't really explain the massive research behind Viagra, they do explain some of the morals behind urinary tract infection research, for example, since there really are more profitable fields of medical research to be in.
Forgot to add that. Seriously, does the States have even 1 news channel that reports on protests on a regular basis?