Yeah right it is the customer. What about Christmas sales, or more correctly after Christmas sales? Companies hate that consumers will try to wait until after Christmas when companies make huge discounts on products to clear out their inventory. So why should the customer pay full price when next week it will be 25% off? Oh yeah, the bean counters say that it costs more to store product that is out of season, because they bought it on credit, than to hold onto it. So on clearance it goes!
Companies love to bitch and moan about customers to, but business taught the consumer everything they know. So I guess businesses are their own worst enemy!
Keep employees from installing software unless your an upper level executive who needs a business level package. You know, like Solitaire, their favorite screen saver, a program that will display files (like naked_britney_spears.zip.exe) they get in email.
You know, the policy that says I am too special to actually follow the rules...
The RAND corporation will be employing Jack Bauer to help with their investigation torturing suspected grandmothers and little kids for the source of their illegal DVD copies of Sesame Street. Nevermind they don't have a DVD player, in which there are also unamerican so they deserve what is coming to them.
GOD BLESS MPAA.
Wait, the story is not a movie script? Nevermind...
I wish they would invest more time in making available drugs that have already had their patent expired. I am not talking about stuff that expired yesterday, I am talking about stuff that been out for years but the market is too small for a large company to invest in it.
I forgot the name of the drug, but it was a cheap drug that served a small market, but it very vital. It was being produced cheaply for years from one factory that served the whole market. Somebody bought it and then jacked up the price by 100 fold. Why? Because no one was going to bother with drug that had such a small market share, but it was critical the people who depend on the drug.
Someone tell me what the drug is? I believe there was an article in the NY Times a few years ago about it.
Lets not forget the obvious, once we figure out how to do it with one material successfully we starting looking at cheaper and more common materials that could do the same thing. Especially true when a market has become successful rather than a pure research project.
Isn't this the real American way for the last 10 years? Cut employees or their salaries and give managers a big bonus?
If you don't think that it is true, look no farther than the republican party when comes to the financial bailouts. They insist that the auto-workers take cuts in benefits and salary. Then they turn around and complain that the government should not be involved in limiting salaries of failed bank executives to 500K. If that is not hypocrisy I don't know what is.
The whole reason for all of these procedures was because they do not trust their employees with money. Instead they put their trust in a system which is basically a Purchase Order number. Once someone knows the system they can keep the money coming like an ATM.
I am surprised that this does not happen more often because all it takes for someone to get money is the belief that the system will take care of it. A few months later when the mistake has been identified it is too late.
The obvious solution then is to reduce the number of square-footed people from flying. That would give the rest of us more room if only 1 person in 20 had square feet.
Just great, I am now imaging people driving around with their neighbor's arm or leg stick out of the gas tank. If the police pull them over they just say their commuting and that they LIKE to sit in the back of the car...
If these people did not know what was going on, they are not professionals, they are just a schmuck who is being paid too much. To say that the computer models did not anticipate their stupidity is just denial.
One hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, was a leader in reckless behavior back in the 90's. It seems like all the other hedge funds today had actually copied their model of investment.
They followed the same idea that a bunch of bad things could not happen all at once. They had leveraged themselves 30-1, which sounds familiar if you had seen the ratios for today's defunct investment banks, and took large positions in specific markets. When there was a financial crisis the capital for the markets dried up leaving themselves unable to sell their bonds, or payback loans, without driving the market down further and causing an economic crisis.
Unlike today, they were the only one who had been doing this, so the investment banks were able to buy their investments and prevent the market from blowing up. This should have been a lesson for the investment banks and the government, but once the crisis was addressed everyone gave themselves a good pat on the back and ignored this piece of history.
The government may have adjusted the rules to try and give people loans to poorer people, but you cannot say the bank was forced to give them loans. There is a lot of process that goes into getting a loan which includes checks and balances on whom is supposed to get approved. The fact of the matter is that too many people had in an interest in pushing loans, good or bad, because they got an immediate payoff and they could pass a bad loan to someone else. Think of all the people who get a cut when you sell a house,
Real Estate Agent
Property Assessor
Mortgage Broker
the Seller
Rating's Agencies
and the BANK!
That's right, the bank got an immediate payoff for making the loan! Why? Because they turned around and sold the loan. Basically everyone could pass the buck onto someone else. Unless your were the final sucker who got caught holding the loan which ends up worthless. It was a game of hot-potato being played by financial experts who convinced themselves they knew better than someone else.
As for politcal activism, that is a load of crap. It came down to businesses wanted to do business anyway they like without any oversight, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with this Ponzi scheme. If people had to actually hold onto the loans that they made none of this stuff would have happened. But you would have had rich financial analyst's screaming "this not a free market!"
Don't forget to mention how easy it is to photo-shop a picture. Stick a person's face on a something inappropriate and you have that 'bad shot'.
For those people who say, it is easy to distinguish a photo-shop picture, remember we are talking about some administrative worker who is focused upon paperwork. They may examine the picture all of 5 seconds. It is not going to be examined closely like a fake ID to get beer or a Passport to get in and out the country.
Recently I just finished a personal project, a Baseball Management game called HEBL (shamless plug BTW). I am trying to scrape together 12 people to help finish me find bugs and play the game(for free), hell where do I go? There are several thousand Rotisserie baseball sites out there, but this not Rotisserie baseball. So it can hard just finding random people to take a risk with what you are doing.
The rules of my game are detailed, but not complicated, and I just have to get people to register and maybe I can get interest. Do you realize how HARD it is just to get people to register? I work for a subscription web-site company and it is a HUGE challenge to get people to just register. Hell, I basically for an email and a name on my web-site, some people will look at it and say 'to much trouble!'.
If you think you are going to start a programming project and people are going to start working with you right away without knowing you, good luck, but be realistic. There are hundreds of people out there pursuing their own interests, not just looking around for someone else to provide them with one.
I worked for one government agency in the Child Support Enforcement division for the state. They had an online Child Support calculator that was a standalone program that was severely outdated. I wanted to integrate it with mainframe system that they used to determine the 'ACTUAL' amounts that were determined for 'Child Support'. I was told no.
Another project I was working on was for documentation on various laws, regulations and guidelines for child support information. It was only accessible via the intranet. If you wanted to have access to the materials you had to go to a Child Support office, where a printed copy was available. I said we should make this available on the Internet and we would not have to pay to publish this huge book of regulations. I was once again told no.
Later someone explained it to me, they don't want the public to know what the laws are. If people could find what the laws were people could more easily identify when CS screwed up and fight them in court. Example: You cannot contest your child support payment if you don't know how they calculated it.
Where can I find the company that will let me out-source by posts at slashdot? I don't have time to make clever witty comments, and the quality of my postings were low anyways. By out-sourcing my posting my productivity will jump 100%!
I hope that they succeed. It would is nice to know that when they actually claim it is news, it is not a piece of fiction more in line with Harlequin romance novels.
Slashdot Mirror
I love the irony.
I believe his name is really Bat-Manuel!
Yeah right it is the customer. What about Christmas sales, or more correctly after Christmas sales? Companies hate that consumers will try to wait until after Christmas when companies make huge discounts on products to clear out their inventory. So why should the customer pay full price when next week it will be 25% off? Oh yeah, the bean counters say that it costs more to store product that is out of season, because they bought it on credit, than to hold onto it. So on clearance it goes!
Companies love to bitch and moan about customers to, but business taught the consumer everything they know. So I guess businesses are their own worst enemy!
Keep employees from installing software unless your an upper level executive who needs a business level package. You know, like Solitaire, their favorite screen saver, a program that will display files (like naked_britney_spears.zip.exe) they get in email.
You know, the policy that says I am too special to actually follow the rules...
The RAND corporation will be employing Jack Bauer to help with their investigation torturing suspected grandmothers and little kids for the source of their illegal DVD copies of Sesame Street. Nevermind they don't have a DVD player, in which there are also unamerican so they deserve what is coming to them.
GOD BLESS MPAA.
Wait, the story is not a movie script? Nevermind...
I wish they would invest more time in making available drugs that have already had their patent expired. I am not talking about stuff that expired yesterday, I am talking about stuff that been out for years but the market is too small for a large company to invest in it.
I forgot the name of the drug, but it was a cheap drug that served a small market, but it very vital. It was being produced cheaply for years from one factory that served the whole market. Somebody bought it and then jacked up the price by 100 fold. Why? Because no one was going to bother with drug that had such a small market share, but it was critical the people who depend on the drug.
Someone tell me what the drug is? I believe there was an article in the NY Times a few years ago about it.
Lets not forget the obvious, once we figure out how to do it with one material successfully we starting looking at cheaper and more common materials that could do the same thing. Especially true when a market has become successful rather than a pure research project.
Isn't this the real American way for the last 10 years? Cut employees or their salaries and give managers a big bonus?
If you don't think that it is true, look no farther than the republican party when comes to the financial bailouts. They insist that the auto-workers take cuts in benefits and salary. Then they turn around and complain that the government should not be involved in limiting salaries of failed bank executives to 500K. If that is not hypocrisy I don't know what is.
The whole reason for all of these procedures was because they do not trust their employees with money. Instead they put their trust in a system which is basically a Purchase Order number. Once someone knows the system they can keep the money coming like an ATM.
I am surprised that this does not happen more often because all it takes for someone to get money is the belief that the system will take care of it. A few months later when the mistake has been identified it is too late.
The obvious solution then is to reduce the number of square-footed people from flying. That would give the rest of us more room if only 1 person in 20 had square feet.
I looked at the picture of the Enterprise, the curves remind me of a 50's car. Less concern for functionality than for looking stylish.
It is not like those curves are for aerodynamics!
Just great, I am now imaging people driving around with their neighbor's arm or leg stick out of the gas tank. If the police pull them over they just say their commuting and that they LIKE to sit in the back of the car...
If these people did not know what was going on, they are not professionals, they are just a schmuck who is being paid too much. To say that the computer models did not anticipate their stupidity is just denial.
One hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, was a leader in reckless behavior back in the 90's. It seems like all the other hedge funds today had actually copied their model of investment.
They followed the same idea that a bunch of bad things could not happen all at once. They had leveraged themselves 30-1, which sounds familiar if you had seen the ratios for today's defunct investment banks, and took large positions in specific markets. When there was a financial crisis the capital for the markets dried up leaving themselves unable to sell their bonds, or payback loans, without driving the market down further and causing an economic crisis.
Unlike today, they were the only one who had been doing this, so the investment banks were able to buy their investments and prevent the market from blowing up. This should have been a lesson for the investment banks and the government, but once the crisis was addressed everyone gave themselves a good pat on the back and ignored this piece of history.
Finally I am going to have beachfront property! (I live in Tucson, AZ BTW).
How about, if you don't pay taxes in the US, you don't the benefits and business deductions of a US business? Sounds like the free market to me!
The government may have adjusted the rules to try and give people loans to poorer people, but you cannot say the bank was forced to give them loans. There is a lot of process that goes into getting a loan which includes checks and balances on whom is supposed to get approved. The fact of the matter is that too many people had in an interest in pushing loans, good or bad, because they got an immediate payoff and they could pass a bad loan to someone else. Think of all the people who get a cut when you sell a house,
That's right, the bank got an immediate payoff for making the loan! Why? Because they turned around and sold the loan. Basically everyone could pass the buck onto someone else. Unless your were the final sucker who got caught holding the loan which ends up worthless. It was a game of hot-potato being played by financial experts who convinced themselves they knew better than someone else.
As for politcal activism, that is a load of crap. It came down to businesses wanted to do business anyway they like without any oversight, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with this Ponzi scheme. If people had to actually hold onto the loans that they made none of this stuff would have happened. But you would have had rich financial analyst's screaming "this not a free market!"
Don't forget to mention how easy it is to photo-shop a picture. Stick a person's face on a something inappropriate and you have that 'bad shot'.
For those people who say, it is easy to distinguish a photo-shop picture, remember we are talking about some administrative worker who is focused upon paperwork. They may examine the picture all of 5 seconds. It is not going to be examined closely like a fake ID to get beer or a Passport to get in and out the country.
Recently I just finished a personal project, a Baseball Management game called HEBL (shamless plug BTW). I am trying to scrape together 12 people to help finish me find bugs and play the game(for free), hell where do I go? There are several thousand Rotisserie baseball sites out there, but this not Rotisserie baseball. So it can hard just finding random people to take a risk with what you are doing.
The rules of my game are detailed, but not complicated, and I just have to get people to register and maybe I can get interest. Do you realize how HARD it is just to get people to register? I work for a subscription web-site company and it is a HUGE challenge to get people to just register. Hell, I basically for an email and a name on my web-site, some people will look at it and say 'to much trouble!'.
If you think you are going to start a programming project and people are going to start working with you right away without knowing you, good luck, but be realistic. There are hundreds of people out there pursuing their own interests, not just looking around for someone else to provide them with one.
I worked for one government agency in the Child Support Enforcement division for the state. They had an online Child Support calculator that was a standalone program that was severely outdated. I wanted to integrate it with mainframe system that they used to determine the 'ACTUAL' amounts that were determined for 'Child Support'. I was told no.
Another project I was working on was for documentation on various laws, regulations and guidelines for child support information. It was only accessible via the intranet. If you wanted to have access to the materials you had to go to a Child Support office, where a printed copy was available. I said we should make this available on the Internet and we would not have to pay to publish this huge book of regulations. I was once again told no.
Later someone explained it to me, they don't want the public to know what the laws are. If people could find what the laws were people could more easily identify when CS screwed up and fight them in court. Example: You cannot contest your child support payment if you don't know how they calculated it.
Where can I find the company that will let me out-source by posts at slashdot? I don't have time to make clever witty comments, and the quality of my postings were low anyways. By out-sourcing my posting my productivity will jump 100%!
FYI, if not doing anything I can use some helping packing and moving. I will splurge for Pizza.
S.H.
So you ARE working at my company aren't you? I just wish the rookie was placed a little closer to the executive suite...
Great, I was just picturing one of the classes would be those commando guys. It would be played by griefers who run around saying "GO RECON" non-stop.
God forbid we even go to Counter-Strike Online, everyone running around with knives stabbing each other.
I hope that they succeed. It would is nice to know that when they actually claim it is news, it is not a piece of fiction more in line with Harlequin romance novels.