“The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
Next comes the one who is feared.
The worst one is the leader that is despised
But he is talking warfare. In business a despised leader is better than a feared one. I despise a lot of great leaders as human beings, though I recognize their results as leaders.
1,425% is ambiguous. It can be read as 1.425% by people who normally use commas as decimal separators. Thousand separators are meant to be used for clarity, but in an international forum they create confusion instead, so don't use them. Digit grouping is an alternative, but doing that in a typographically correct way requires non-breakable narrow spaces. Honestly, if you need help reading a four digit number, maybe reading isn't for you.
If anyone reads the number as 1.425% in relation to this story, then I would agree with you. Maybe reading isn't for you.
Then again, maybe this forum isn't for you either. Clearly there's a comprehension problem that has fuck-all to do with commas or decimals.
I read it as 1.425%. No one uses thousand separators for just 4 digits, so 1 point something was much more likely.
Yes. Google had a tool bar, no one is contesting that; but was it forced down your throat by google? If you downloaded any google software, did you have to specifically uncheck a box to not have it installed, or did you have to explicitly click on a link that said "Get the google toolbar" that was more than a few lines below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons where you couldn't accidentally miss the button by a few pixels to click on the link? If I remember right, it fit more the latter case I presented.
That's a lot different from putting a checkbox with 8pt Text in a 12pt body that you have to find and uncheck to prevent the installer from automatically installing the toolbar.
When I download free windows software I very often have to check "Do not install Chrome". They are bundling it with all kinds of things now to force it on everybody.
Then his statement would be even weirder - he wishes labs were segregated, so that he wouldn't have met any female colleagues at work, and thus he probably wouldn't even be married to the woman who is his wife. I.e. he values the purity of a male-only lab more than his own marriage.
That is because it is a joke. They always seem a bit weird if you try to take them serious.
"It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry."
I'd appreciate if someone would pull the CEO of Sony out from under his rock and let him know it's the year 2015.
You've got to be fucking kidding me with this. As if no one has ever heard of a streaming music service before.
On a related note (ba dum tiss), must be fun to be a board member for Apple. Fuck it, why not has become the financial motto, especially when identifying cash-on-hand as the justification here.
Considering their cash on hand, they actually seem surprisingly reluctant with new ideas.
Because they studied Computer Science. If it was easier to do, we would also have people making new CPU architectures and operating systems, just because.
As others have pointed out, betting against the housing market is a good thing. It was betting for, not against, the housing market that caused the problem. By betting against it, he incrementally raised the cost to the banks of making bad decisions. This is beneficial to society.
The question is what is implied with that "he convinced the banks to create the securities that could bet against". That might be fraud or at least morally questionable.
Impress us all by publishing a full rebuttal of global warming in the journal of your choice.
Does it count if the journal is a blog with a black background, animated GIFs and at least 20 different fonts in a variety of sizes? Also do I get extra credibility points for any of the phrases "global conspiracy", "ivory tower" or "just look at how rich climate scientists are from all the bribe money they take"?
No, but please post them. I collect crackpots. Gotta catch'm all!
Whatever the content of the treaty the fact that TPA is just standard procedure.
You can't hammer out an agreement between multiple different countries only for a national legislature to take issue with a single concession that was won by another country and agreed to by the delegates. The negotiators are there to get the best possible deal for their country. Congress then gets to decide whether or not the deal is good enough, they can't unilaterally renegotiate it.
No, no, no.. Especialyl not when the negotiations are secret, if they were public, the parliaments and public could comment on the procedings, but when they are secret, they can only comment and correct "mistakes" afterwards. And if you can't make a treaty that everyone will agree on in the end, maybe you are negotiating someting unacceptable. Rejecting it piecemeal by national parliaments is exactly how this should be dealt with.
Prove it. What's to say we don't figure out a way to harness cosmic expansion or the other 90% of the universe's energy in the vacuum and create a pocket dimension that traverses a Kerr black hole so that we wave to ourselves leaving before we enter the event horizon in an infinite loop?
Prove (mem)Brane theory is wrong, and we don't discover that dark matter is simply the universe next-door some number of us will be able to hop to, perhaps by constructing duplicates in the neighboring universes, and thus propagating across the megaverse (or true universe, since the brane world would then be considered the universal encapsulation medium).
For fuck's sake we haven't even figured out what happens at the event horizon of a black hole, let alone the singularity. For all we know every single galaxy has a super massive gateway to another universe at its center.
I'm not saying that the heat death won't end all intelligent life in this universe, just that it might not.
You prove any of your makebelieve theories, or find any shred of evidence for them. This is science not religion, you can't just make up your own bullshit and then expect people to take it serious. You need evidence for your theories, otherwise they are just fiction.
and sounds based along the same lines of an individual can't ignore a law even if they think it will (at some point) be deemed unconstitutional. So Cisco should have moved to have the patent revoked prior to making use of it rather than infringe and then try after (if at all).
Yes you can, and you have to. If there are two laws that contradict each other you have to decide which one to follow. If one of the two laws happens to be the constitution, that is an easy choice. Beware though that a lot of people thinks the constitution says a lot more specific things than it really does.
IMO, this shouldn't be up to governments. They should act as a source of trusted advice, at best. The idea that the FDA might have killed more people than it's saved (by delaying the use of medicines that were later found to be safe and effective) is an interesting one, though I can't remember if it's ever actually been proven or is just some libertarian meme.
In other words, you are completely insane!
Saying it shouldn't be up to the goverment is saying anything should be allowed, so let in the lead paint. Surely the free market would never feed our children poison. It is not like they haven't done in numerous times before and continues to do so in counties with less regulation.
Well. Good luck with running a test feeding suspected toxics to human test subjects. While the scientific way it is not how we do medical research since Mengele.
As Dick Cheney famously said on the eve of the Iraq War, "Deficits don't matter".
He said that because sovereign debt really isn't like personal debt when the sovereign debt is in a convertible fiat currency. Because the difference between you and a nation is the power to issue currency. Do you know how many countries have ever actually paid off their debt? Take a guess.
The IMF is like a loan shark. They don't want countries to pay off their debts. They want countries to service their debts until such time as they can burn it down for the insurance (CDO) money.
What you are using a Dick quote as something other than a joke? What are you, a moron?
And that was new loans AT INSANE RATES. Last time I've checked check dept per citizen numbers, Greek was roughly on the level of Germany. But interest rates they are paying (and that mostly to German banks), oh my goodness:
Interest rates reflect the lenders perceived risk of not being able to retrieve the loan on time or at all.German citizens are vastly more productive than Greek citizens.
Not really, and that is not the main issue. The German government is a lot more reliable than the Greek one, and have been running a balanced economy for a long time, not just when they were forced to. It is one of the prime examples that austerity is the only was to prosperity. Of course every other North European countries has done the same, and have similar strong economies, only those who tried to spend their way out of debt are in trouble.
Yeah, but the Fields medal is bit difficult because it has a low age limit. So you have write somthing great and get recognized for it before the age of 30
As long as female culture remains the culture of fear
What is 'female culture?'
Serious question.
Culture specifically targeting women and primarily consumed by women, such as women's magazines and a long range of TV show. I think you know a few if you think about it.
They ironically tend to be way more sexist (against women even) than mainstream culture.
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You mean Estonia. This is an Esonian law not overruled by a court that is unrelated to EU.
You cannot trust NObody.
No that is easy. You just have to trust anybody, and then you won't trust nobody anymore.
Now what you and the GP probably meant with is to "not trust anybody" or "trust nobody".
“The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist.
The next best is a leader who is loved and praised.
Next comes the one who is feared.
The worst one is the leader that is despised
But he is talking warfare. In business a despised leader is better than a feared one. I despise a lot of great leaders as human beings, though I recognize their results as leaders.
1,425% is ambiguous. It can be read as 1.425% by people who normally use commas as decimal separators. Thousand separators are meant to be used for clarity, but in an international forum they create confusion instead, so don't use them. Digit grouping is an alternative, but doing that in a typographically correct way requires non-breakable narrow spaces. Honestly, if you need help reading a four digit number, maybe reading isn't for you.
If anyone reads the number as 1.425% in relation to this story, then I would agree with you. Maybe reading isn't for you.
Then again, maybe this forum isn't for you either. Clearly there's a comprehension problem that has fuck-all to do with commas or decimals.
I read it as 1.425%. No one uses thousand separators for just 4 digits, so 1 point something was much more likely.
Yes. Google had a tool bar, no one is contesting that; but was it forced down your throat by google? If you downloaded any google software, did you have to specifically uncheck a box to not have it installed, or did you have to explicitly click on a link that said "Get the google toolbar" that was more than a few lines below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons where you couldn't accidentally miss the button by a few pixels to click on the link? If I remember right, it fit more the latter case I presented.
That's a lot different from putting a checkbox with 8pt Text in a 12pt body that you have to find and uncheck to prevent the installer from automatically installing the toolbar.
When I download free windows software I very often have to check "Do not install Chrome". They are bundling it with all kinds of things now to force it on everybody.
Then his statement would be even weirder - he wishes labs were segregated, so that he wouldn't have met any female colleagues at work, and thus he probably wouldn't even be married to the woman who is his wife. I.e. he values the purity of a male-only lab more than his own marriage.
That is because it is a joke. They always seem a bit weird if you try to take them serious.
"It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry."
I'd appreciate if someone would pull the CEO of Sony out from under his rock and let him know it's the year 2015.
You've got to be fucking kidding me with this. As if no one has ever heard of a streaming music service before.
On a related note (ba dum tiss), must be fun to be a board member for Apple. Fuck it, why not has become the financial motto, especially when identifying cash-on-hand as the justification here.
Considering their cash on hand, they actually seem surprisingly reluctant with new ideas.
Because they studied Computer Science. If it was easier to do, we would also have people making new CPU architectures and operating systems, just because.
No, but please post them. I collect crackpots. Gotta catch'm all!
Try these on for size:
http://dailymail.co.uk/
http://foxnews.com/
Not enough animated GIFs.
As others have pointed out, betting against the housing market is a good thing. It was betting for, not against, the housing market that caused the problem. By betting against it, he incrementally raised the cost to the banks of making bad decisions. This is beneficial to society.
The question is what is implied with that "he convinced the banks to create the securities that could bet against". That might be fraud or at least morally questionable.
Impress us all by publishing a full rebuttal of global warming in the journal of your choice.
Does it count if the journal is a blog with a black background, animated GIFs and at least 20 different fonts in a variety of sizes? Also do I get extra credibility points for any of the phrases "global conspiracy", "ivory tower" or "just look at how rich climate scientists are from all the bribe money they take"?
No, but please post them. I collect crackpots. Gotta catch'm all!
Whatever the content of the treaty the fact that TPA is just standard procedure.
You can't hammer out an agreement between multiple different countries only for a national legislature to take issue with a single concession that was won by another country and agreed to by the delegates. The negotiators are there to get the best possible deal for their country. Congress then gets to decide whether or not the deal is good enough, they can't unilaterally renegotiate it.
No, no, no.. Especialyl not when the negotiations are secret, if they were public, the parliaments and public could comment on the procedings, but when they are secret, they can only comment and correct "mistakes" afterwards. And if you can't make a treaty that everyone will agree on in the end, maybe you are negotiating someting unacceptable. Rejecting it piecemeal by national parliaments is exactly how this should be dealt with.
I was afraid we would have skylake ultrabook chips before broadwell desktop. This was a close call.
64 bits should be enough for anybody
Yes, and 80bit floating point gives you exactly 64 significant bits ;)
Eventually, it all must end.
Prove it. What's to say we don't figure out a way to harness cosmic expansion or the other 90% of the universe's energy in the vacuum and create a pocket dimension that traverses a Kerr black hole so that we wave to ourselves leaving before we enter the event horizon in an infinite loop?
Prove (mem)Brane theory is wrong, and we don't discover that dark matter is simply the universe next-door some number of us will be able to hop to, perhaps by constructing duplicates in the neighboring universes, and thus propagating across the megaverse (or true universe, since the brane world would then be considered the universal encapsulation medium).
For fuck's sake we haven't even figured out what happens at the event horizon of a black hole, let alone the singularity. For all we know every single galaxy has a super massive gateway to another universe at its center.
I'm not saying that the heat death won't end all intelligent life in this universe, just that it might not.
You prove any of your makebelieve theories, or find any shred of evidence for them. This is science not religion, you can't just make up your own bullshit and then expect people to take it serious. You need evidence for your theories, otherwise they are just fiction.
Schadenfreude is the best freude.
Certainly, and if you believe anything printed in the Bild (not a newspaper btw. but a picture-book/tabloid), you deserve nothing but Schadenfreude.
and sounds based along the same lines of an individual can't ignore a law even if they think it will (at some point) be deemed unconstitutional. So Cisco should have moved to have the patent revoked prior to making use of it rather than infringe and then try after (if at all).
Yes you can, and you have to. If there are two laws that contradict each other you have to decide which one to follow. If one of the two laws happens to be the constitution, that is an easy choice. Beware though that a lot of people thinks the constitution says a lot more specific things than it really does.
IMO, this shouldn't be up to governments. They should act as a source of trusted advice, at best. The idea that the FDA might have killed more people than it's saved (by delaying the use of medicines that were later found to be safe and effective) is an interesting one, though I can't remember if it's ever actually been proven or is just some libertarian meme.
In other words, you are completely insane!
Saying it shouldn't be up to the goverment is saying anything should be allowed, so let in the lead paint. Surely the free market would never feed our children poison. It is not like they haven't done in numerous times before and continues to do so in counties with less regulation.
Well. Good luck with running a test feeding suspected toxics to human test subjects. While the scientific way it is not how we do medical research since Mengele.
So you are advocating allowing untested chemicals in our food, and only ban it once people are dying?
Well. Fuck you!
As Dick Cheney famously said on the eve of the Iraq War, "Deficits don't matter".
He said that because sovereign debt really isn't like personal debt when the sovereign debt is in a convertible fiat currency. Because the difference between you and a nation is the power to issue currency. Do you know how many countries have ever actually paid off their debt? Take a guess.
The IMF is like a loan shark. They don't want countries to pay off their debts. They want countries to service their debts until such time as they can burn it down for the insurance (CDO) money.
What you are using a Dick quote as something other than a joke? What are you, a moron?
And that was new loans AT INSANE RATES.
Last time I've checked check dept per citizen numbers, Greek was roughly on the level of Germany.
But interest rates they are paying (and that mostly to German banks), oh my goodness:
Interest rates reflect the lenders perceived risk of not being able to retrieve the loan on time or at all.German citizens are vastly more productive than Greek citizens.
Not really, and that is not the main issue. The German government is a lot more reliable than the Greek one, and have been running a balanced economy for a long time, not just when they were forced to. It is one of the prime examples that austerity is the only was to prosperity. Of course every other North European countries has done the same, and have similar strong economies, only those who tried to spend their way out of debt are in trouble.
Yeah, but the Fields medal is bit difficult because it has a low age limit. So you have write somthing great and get recognized for it before the age of 30
As long as female culture remains the culture of fear
What is 'female culture?'
Serious question.
Culture specifically targeting women and primarily consumed by women, such as women's magazines and a long range of TV show. I think you know a few if you think about it.
They ironically tend to be way more sexist (against women even) than mainstream culture.
They will get to that right after they stop drawing male heroes in ripped and in skintight clothes or shirtless.