Apparently some would rather modbomb a solution than present their own.
Forbes Wasnt Forbes the one who released the study that stated it was permissible to drop quality by the wayside? Taking them seriously as an ethical entity becomes hard after seeing that one come out.
1. Bill Gates
Silverspoon Harvardite that dropped out early. Maybe when there are universal, no-refusal (by any means, financial or otherwise) admissions to any university offered to multigenerational citizens of all backgrounds, followed up by a policy that you cannot be discriminated by your nonacademic conduct - then I'll take Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the ilk seriously. Otherwise they're just a bunch of schools to write off.
7. Christy Walton 8. Robson Walton 10. Alice Walton
Since these three have done a 180 to the company in terms of ethics, maybe they'd be well served somewhere that they can regain that lost sense. I'd gladly accept a nice 90% bracket on their foreign assets crafted for entities such as them. Foreign asset loopholes need to be closed somehow.
9. Michael Dell
There was a point where they crossed the ethics-profit line much like any other fast-growing company.
So, about half the people on the list deservedly need to be respected for the way they came from humble beginnings to contribute so much. They're just outliers who eschewed ethics for profit.
And other half are due to Sam old man Walton who might have unceremoniously departed before he could have thought about charity or some other social contribution. But hey all the bucks that even he accumulated and left for his bounty litter, must be spent and given back to the society, or invested in it to make more of it, right?
What part of ethics do you not understand?
They're lost causes. The best you can do is put foreign assets in a 90% tax bracket, used in part to fund universal admissions to clean up their mess. Allowing a by-country exemption would just get them to set up fronts for companies that have abused their status.
In other words, there is virtually no 50-inch-class plasma TV market outside the United States
In other words, there are virtually no television sets manufactured inside the United States.
Fixed that for you.
Apparently some people dont get sarcasm or humor but definitely dont mind modbombing.
The point in question appears to be poking fun at the apparent lack of consumer goods made in the US , versus the brands that have US branding but are just CKD's of Far East noname brands.
Lenovo cemented its commitment to high-value design by acquiring IBM's PC (ThinkPad) business unit
That commitment somehow got lost in the Congress bribery^W^W sale of IBM PCD.
No, by the looks of things, they want to turn IBM Thinkpads into another low-quality Dell. So far they've
been on the mark on reaching that goal ever since they were given access to the T43 and the T60 and the
literal cheapness (in the worst sense) of the construction is creeping in. The only thing that even saves
them is the part that IBM support has in cleaning up the mess.
The most that Lenovo has made has really been a knockoff, or designs on par with Sony. Looks good, crumbles fast.
Somehow I see it as a mix of the worst of Stanford elitism multiplied by the magnitude of unethical practices of SCO.
It's not like we've seen precedents of each, given that Google, SCO, and Apple follow in their footsteps. Microsoft just
pulls strings(*cough*uses lobbyists*cough*) at the federal, state, or local levels if they cant buy up or starve someone out.
Wake up people, fear mongering about this company is completely misdirected, they have a good opportunity to do a lot of good, the true fear that should be exposed here is the ability to abuse the intellectual property laws in america, IV has nothing to do with it.
I already woke up, got the coffee and headed out - I know what the enemy has done, and can do with a (greater part) certain regard to ethics/morals.
IV would be auctioned off to creditors already if the profits matched their character. Unfortunately, ethics and morals are inversely related to profit.
Here, it clearly shows that concept in fullest of all known senses.
With the way jobs are going, these are the top 10 things that "dont matter" in said industry but are not exclusive to said industry:
1. Job Security
2. Domestic Talent
3. Non-Exclusionary access to all levels and all places of education(this means being able to enter into a university without Fraternity connections, dubious high school volunteer projects, or using merit as a status symbol)
4. Morals/Ethics in corporations in all aspects
5. Quality of Worker = Quality of Product
6. Quality of the resulting product
7. Worker group bargaining in any worker-favorable manner
8. Treating anyone not of the investor class with respect (this does not include such things as mutual funds, this is more towards corporate investment)
9. The Midwest as a valuable pool of workers worth subsidizing all education on merit blind basis
10. Other minor areas not covered by #9
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Do you also mean Bill "I wont attack a newspaper but my fans will" O'Reilly? You probably mean it. Check Bill's Shame list and the newspaper he attacked according to the Google search- you'll see something more than just a coincidence. It's more like a cheap shot for him if he cant attack the AJC.
It just makes it more obvious of your endrun, especially when it's a job that's in a mainly english speaking country that has a lot of english speaking employees that are NOT doing translation work.
Sure. Or you could have them have to interview every US worker first under realistic circumstances (read: the ones they give to H1-B's, and you'd have to demonstrate that you went through 200m+ interviews with the conditions being ones that were realistic - no "years of experience > years of skill/product existence" requirements) before even thinking of H1-B/L1's. Then have to hire by blood citizenship first, legal permament resident, and drop out all the H1-B's if the fixed quota is reached.
You must just have skills that are outdated or some other deficiency holding you back because the job market is better than it has been in a LONG time.
Somehow I thought that the truth just diverged from the contents of your post at that point. Try the Midwest area of the Rust Belt (Ohio/Michigan), and you'll see things gone screwy. I'll take the "humanitarian megacorporation" days, and forced merit blinding and subsidy of universities.
It's tiring to see things being turned against the domestic populace without any regards to transitioning them in (or in the case of universities, jacking up tuition and for the first time I've seen it, a State funded school (The Ohio State University being a fine example) going closed). Unfortunately you will have to expand capacity, and if done well, you can get an admit rate that is at least the inverse of an Ivy or better.
It never ceases to amaze me how, globally, we have virtually free movement of capital, a moderately free movement of goods, but a heavily restricted movement of people. The three major components of the economy have dramatically different levels of restrictions depending on how the given component cuts between the wealthy and the working "classes".
When production runs of goods end or get moved to slave labor countries, they dont complain as they dont have any intelligence to do so. When jobs get moved to slave labor countries in the guise of moved capital, expect people to (rightfully) "raise less corn and more Hell" as there is a lot more at stake. Never mind the lightning fast immigration system- I'm for having companies that H1B include all foreign assets in taxes, be required to consider and hire (under the same specs as the H1B) all 250m+ before touching any H1B quotas, and be required to pay for all costs of every displaced worker to transition if they have to displace perfectly good workers.
As with anything in this vein, I ask - why is it that the economy goes well if the middle class is being screwed (H1B/L1/Offshoring), but a cardinal sin to have the same middle class have any upper hand on any industry? The only thing free about the "Free Market" is the ability of large companies to freely exploit the middle class.
So, contrary to what Lou Dobbs would have you believe, IT and High Tech jobs are not leaving the US for India and China. IT and High Tech is alive and well in the US and will be for some time.
Obviously you havent lived where they still want to do this economically unsound approach. You sound like the kind that would rather see him off the air - which seems to lend some if not a lot of truth to that message. Guess your kind is quite hurt enough to throw blood money (from slave labor countries such as India and China) to get him (and like minded people) out of the public view.
When I speak to companies who are doing offshoring these days, I am not hearing issues about labor costs at the front of the back. Rather, it is about finding specific skill sets and to attract people who don't want to live in Silicon Valley, the US, etc. Least you think the last point is fantasy, I personally know of a good 1/2 dozen folks who have moved to India and China (accepting local pay packages) in order to have a better quality of life (for example, household servants).
Cao ni ma de.
Well, if you like to live in a country that exploits its own physically as it does to the world politically, fine. Just dont be surprised when you cant get anything of quality and that your every move is watched even more carefully. Forget protests, unless your family wants to pay for the bullets. While the EU/US kick out the free-exploiters *again*, you'll live in a society that will not care if you die to some "accident".
As for those companies that you deal with, I bet they're also some of the ones that want Dobbs out. No sense in trying to endrun the US wages if everyone sees that you're trying to recreate the Gilded Age again.
Simply put, salaries cannot grow at this rate (a CAGR of 29%) for an extended period of time without coming into line with those in the US. The ratio between the US and India is no longer 1:10, it is more like 1:4 and shrinking. This is the reality of a world which is flat. Things reach a point of balance. And in this case, the point of balance is moving up.
Unfortunately, you're not going to get more than a lynch mob in the Midwest after you've taken their job to India, and only jack up education costs to insane levels. Community colleges do not a solution make; it is the redirection of existing subsidy in other areas to education, and the removal of any ability to exclude people from any institution for any reason.
Sounds like the moderation was done with the only knowledge that free-trade in practice does not become exploitative trade. Maybe when the people can speak up(e.g. the rightful rewriting of the CPE after public input) and see the US as a bad example of it, they know what happens if they allow free-trade policies to enter.
It's not competition when you throw the game by offshoring, even in trade.
Aptly said. One does not throw a match in a competition, and similarly, one does not hand the country over in trade.
The notion of "Buy American" again reflects the notion that GM and Ford pay taxes in the US when they are profitable.
That's why Delphi and GM get away with not having to include foreign assets in any bankruptcy. That's how you can drive a company to the ground, fire as many domestics as you want and be able to use what's left to break any contracts between you and a "free-exploitation" run company. That applies even to the computer industry, especially to R^HLenovo/IBM. Besides, when was the last machine made that had parts from countries with strong labor protections, strict immigration enforcement, and/or laws that disfavored this kind of loophole?
It's nice to have the smaller cars, but the immediate reality is you're going to have to match feature-for-feature (outside of the high-emission, low-efficiency parts) in performance and otherwise without ending up in the Lexus or BMW range, and doing so without the driver noticing. That includes similar size and performance without having to take any notice as to driving a low-emission car, with the down-the-road option of converting existing cars over to low emissions parts that do the same but retain the body and performance of the previous engine/drivetrain as close as possible (again, without the price being beyond a conventional swap of such kind).
Quite doable, nothing contradictory about it. Where are these options?
Not all of us care to drive something that would result in a guaranteed pre-packaged closed casket burial in the event of the Absolutely Unavoidable Collision- especially if such vehicle performs in a manner that would predispose it to being a 5'x8'x5' object with relative ease in ordinary operation.
Efficiency is ok, but to run across one of these Clever cars is asking "I dropped $35,000 for this?". That's what the parent poster is meaning, nothing more.
It's nice to have the smaller cars, but the immediate reality is you're going to have to match feature-for-feature (outside of the high-emission, low-efficiency parts) in performance and otherwise without ending up in the Lexus or BMW range, and doing so without the driver noticing. That includes similar size and performance without having to take any notice as to driving a low-emission car, with the down-the-road option of converting existing cars over to low emissions parts that do the same but retain the body and performance of the previous engine/drivetrain as close as possible (again, without the price being beyond a conventional swap of such kind).
Quite doable, nothing contradictory about it.
Not all of us care to drive something that would result in a guaranteed pre-packaged closed casket burial in the event of the Absolutely Unavoidable Collision- especially if such vehicle performs in a manner that would predispose it to being a 5'x8'x5' object with relative ease in ordinary operation.
Efficiency is ok, but to run across one of these is asking "I dropped $35,000 for this?". That's what the parent poster is meaning, nothing more
Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport Is that part of the name or an instruction for fellow drivers on what to do to a low-emissions vehicle?
(not to get too far off track, but O'Reilly seems to like playing with hornet's nests with his stings that he gets too regularly)
He's no real shining example of freedom, but he sure seems to like his revenge. The case speaks for itself.
Between his railing of France for standing up to globalization and doing a right-winger's cheap shot in return when he got called for something, I'd say he'd have to have all the L^HDiebold machines rigged anywhere just to get a vote (or get Murdoch to buy his state's legislators to agree).
I hope you have a backup plan in case you get blackballed and Verizon does run through after they restore your "unauthorized changes" that affected your customers.
So? Lots of players from several countries (including Asian coutries) play on the US servers.
WoW does not do geolocation to filter connections.
Play Lineage II, and you'll see why you'll want geolocation and a firm policy to ban farmers, even for WoW's standards.
Likewise, almost all "chinese farmers" in WoW play in the US servers. That's where their customers are.
That's also where the torturers (by continuous PK, aka botkilling) are as well. When you can outright disrupt farming operations in multiple areas, deny them safe farming grounds, and (in some mmo's) deleveling them out of their gear and cash, you can make their idea of globalization not a good idea.
As for making this worthwile, there's nothing like a bot having its controller spout out random obscenities because you killed their currency collecting boss that was supposed to kill you. Over and over. On top of that, the next person to step up to the console gets the same displeasure as they dont know anything more than that their program is being actively broken, their characters pursued, with no end- and they might be new to farming. If they move to a new spot, you expand your operations to cover it.
The idea is, that if you're exploiting the US(or anywhere else) via globalization in an MMO, there are those that have it as their duty to correct your actions with everything short of effective legislation. You will be run into the ground.
You do have to have a key to use the game, but it is on the server side and means not much afterwards on the client after account creation. That means you have the code, but you really cant use it on their servers if you dont have something they have generated(game card codes/initial key), or will accept (credit cards/game cards). As for their licensing, they use the banhammer to enforce it- as characters gain a good deal of value over time spent. If you try to login 2 chars, both get denied and logged out.
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Re:expanding customer base?
(Score:-1, Troll)
AKA luserbase.
Thought that was the ipod userbase's name.
How predictable for an Apple response to mod it down in that direction.
Apparently some would rather modbomb a solution than present their own.
Forbes
Wasnt Forbes the one who released the study that stated it was permissible to drop quality by the wayside? Taking them seriously as an ethical entity becomes hard after seeing that one come out.
1. Bill Gates
Silverspoon Harvardite that dropped out early. Maybe when there are universal, no-refusal (by any means, financial or otherwise) admissions to any university offered to multigenerational citizens of all backgrounds, followed up by a policy that you cannot be discriminated by your nonacademic conduct - then I'll take Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the ilk seriously. Otherwise they're just a bunch of schools to write off.
7. Christy Walton
8. Robson Walton
10. Alice Walton
Since these three have done a 180 to the company in terms of ethics, maybe they'd be well served somewhere that they can regain that lost sense. I'd gladly accept a nice 90% bracket on their foreign assets crafted for entities such as them. Foreign asset loopholes need to be closed somehow.
9. Michael Dell
There was a point where they crossed the ethics-profit line much like any other fast-growing company.
So, about half the people on the list deservedly need to be respected for the way they came from humble beginnings to contribute so much.
They're just outliers who eschewed ethics for profit.
And other half are due to Sam old man Walton who might have unceremoniously departed before he could have thought about charity or some other social contribution. But hey all the bucks that even he accumulated and left for his bounty litter, must be spent and given back to the society, or invested in it to make more of it, right?
What part of ethics do you not understand?
They're lost causes. The best you can do is put foreign assets in a 90% tax bracket, used in part to fund universal admissions to clean up their mess. Allowing a by-country exemption would just get them to set up fronts for companies that have abused their status.
In other words, there is virtually no 50-inch-class plasma TV market outside the United States
In other words, there are virtually no television sets manufactured inside the United States.
Fixed that for you.
Apparently some people dont get sarcasm or humor but definitely dont mind modbombing.
The point in question appears to be poking fun at the apparent lack of consumer goods made in the US , versus the brands that have US branding but are just CKD's of Far East noname brands.
Also useful are the pigpail and pigpile tags.
Guess FuckedGoogle was right about their 767 being up in flames, albeit of the legal kind ;).
Dang, there must be some mods on crack today... What, they cant be allowed such things as karmic justice?
Lenovo cemented its commitment to high-value design by acquiring IBM's PC (ThinkPad) business unit
That commitment somehow got lost in the Congress bribery^W^W sale of IBM PCD.
No, by the looks of things, they want to turn IBM Thinkpads into another low-quality Dell. So far they've
been on the mark on reaching that goal ever since they were given access to the T43 and the T60 and the
literal cheapness (in the worst sense) of the construction is creeping in. The only thing that even saves
them is the part that IBM support has in cleaning up the mess.
The most that Lenovo has made has really been a knockoff, or designs on par with Sony. Looks good, crumbles fast.
Somehow I see it as a mix of the worst of Stanford elitism multiplied by the magnitude of unethical practices of SCO.
It's not like we've seen precedents of each, given that Google, SCO, and Apple follow in their footsteps. Microsoft just
pulls strings(*cough*uses lobbyists*cough*) at the federal, state, or local levels if they cant buy up or starve someone out.
Wake up people, fear mongering about this company is completely misdirected, they have a good opportunity to do a lot of good, the true fear that should be exposed here is the ability to abuse the intellectual property laws in america, IV has nothing to do with it.
I already woke up, got the coffee and headed out - I know what the enemy has done, and can do with a (greater part) certain regard to ethics/morals.
IV would be auctioned off to creditors already if the profits matched their character. Unfortunately, ethics and morals are inversely related to profit.
Here, it clearly shows that concept in fullest of all known senses.
With the way jobs are going, these are the top 10 things that "dont matter" in said industry but are not exclusive to said industry:
1. Job Security
2. Domestic Talent
3. Non-Exclusionary access to all levels and all places of education(this means being able to enter into a university without Fraternity connections, dubious high school volunteer projects, or using merit as a status symbol)
4. Morals/Ethics in corporations in all aspects
5. Quality of Worker = Quality of Product
6. Quality of the resulting product
7. Worker group bargaining in any worker-favorable manner
8. Treating anyone not of the investor class with respect (this does not include such things as mutual funds, this is more towards corporate investment)
9. The Midwest as a valuable pool of workers worth subsidizing all education on merit blind basis
10. Other minor areas not covered by #9
Por qué?
Do you also mean Bill "I wont attack a newspaper but my fans will" O'Reilly? You probably mean it. Check Bill's Shame list and the newspaper he attacked according to the Google search- you'll see something more than just a coincidence. It's more like a cheap shot for him if he cant attack the AJC.
It just makes it more obvious of your endrun, especially when it's a job that's in a mainly english speaking country that has a lot of english speaking employees that are NOT doing translation work.
Mandate they hire Americans?
Sure. Or you could have them have to interview every US worker first under realistic circumstances (read: the ones they give to H1-B's, and you'd have to demonstrate that you went through 200m+ interviews with the conditions being ones that were realistic - no "years of experience > years of skill/product existence" requirements) before even thinking of H1-B/L1's. Then have to hire by blood citizenship first, legal permament resident, and drop out all the H1-B's if the fixed quota is reached.
You must just have skills that are outdated or some other deficiency holding you back because the job market is better than it has been in a LONG time.
Somehow I thought that the truth just diverged from the contents of your post at that point. Try the Midwest area of the Rust Belt (Ohio/Michigan), and you'll see things gone screwy. I'll take the "humanitarian megacorporation" days, and forced merit blinding and subsidy of universities.
It's tiring to see things being turned against the domestic populace without any regards to transitioning them in (or in the case of universities, jacking up tuition and for the first time I've seen it, a State funded school (The Ohio State University being a fine example) going closed). Unfortunately you will have to expand capacity, and if done well, you can get an admit rate that is at least the inverse of an Ivy or better.
It never ceases to amaze me how, globally, we have virtually free movement of capital, a moderately free movement of goods, but a heavily restricted movement of people. The three major components of the economy have dramatically different levels of restrictions depending on how the given component cuts between the wealthy and the working "classes".
When production runs of goods end or get moved to slave labor countries, they dont complain as they dont have any intelligence to do so. When jobs get moved to slave labor countries in the guise of moved capital, expect people to (rightfully) "raise less corn and more Hell" as there is a lot more at stake. Never mind the lightning fast immigration system- I'm for having companies that H1B include all foreign assets in taxes, be required to consider and hire (under the same specs as the H1B) all 250m+ before touching any H1B quotas, and be required to pay for all costs of every displaced worker to transition if they have to displace perfectly good workers.
As with anything in this vein, I ask - why is it that the economy goes well if the middle class is being screwed (H1B/L1/Offshoring), but a cardinal sin to have the same middle class have any upper hand on any industry? The only thing free about the "Free Market" is the ability of large companies to freely exploit the middle class.
So, contrary to what Lou Dobbs would have you believe, IT and High Tech jobs are not leaving the US for India and China. IT and High Tech is alive and well in the US and will be for some time.
Obviously you havent lived where they still want to do this economically unsound approach. You sound like the kind that would rather see him off the air - which seems to lend some if not a lot of truth to that message. Guess your kind is quite hurt enough to throw blood money (from slave labor countries such as India and China) to get him (and like minded people) out of the public view.
When I speak to companies who are doing offshoring these days, I am not hearing issues about labor costs at the front of the back. Rather, it is about finding specific skill sets and to attract people who don't want to live in Silicon Valley, the US, etc. Least you think the last point is fantasy, I personally know of a good 1/2 dozen folks who have moved to India and China (accepting local pay packages) in order to have a better quality of life (for example, household servants).
Cao ni ma de.
Well, if you like to live in a country that exploits its own physically as it does to the world politically, fine. Just dont be surprised when you cant get anything of quality and that your every move is watched even more carefully. Forget protests, unless your family wants to pay for the bullets. While the EU/US kick out the free-exploiters *again*, you'll live in a society that will not care if you die to some "accident".
As for those companies that you deal with, I bet they're also some of the ones that want Dobbs out. No sense in trying to endrun the US wages if everyone sees that you're trying to recreate the Gilded Age again.
Simply put, salaries cannot grow at this rate (a CAGR of 29%) for an extended period of time without coming into line with those in the US. The ratio between the US and India is no longer 1:10, it is more like 1:4 and shrinking. This is the reality of a world which is flat. Things reach a point of balance. And in this case, the point of balance is moving up.
Unfortunately, you're not going to get more than a lynch mob in the Midwest after you've taken their job to India, and only jack up education costs to insane levels. Community colleges do not a solution make; it is the redirection of existing subsidy in other areas to education, and the removal of any ability to exclude people from any institution for any reason.
Sounds like the moderation was done with the only knowledge that free-trade in practice does not become exploitative trade. Maybe when the people can speak up(e.g. the rightful rewriting of the CPE after public input) and see the US as a bad example of it, they know what happens if they allow free-trade policies to enter. It's not competition when you throw the game by offshoring, even in trade. Aptly said. One does not throw a match in a competition, and similarly, one does not hand the country over in trade.
Renovo. Yes, it's an incorrect aim at China that would apply more 20 years ago and to a Japanese company, but some dont let that get in the way.
The notion of "Buy American" again reflects the notion that GM and Ford pay taxes in the US when they are profitable.
That's why Delphi and GM get away with not having to include foreign assets in any bankruptcy. That's how you can drive a company to the ground, fire as many domestics as you want and be able to use what's left to break any contracts between you and a "free-exploitation" run company. That applies even to the computer industry, especially to R^HLenovo/IBM. Besides, when was the last machine made that had parts from countries with strong labor protections, strict immigration enforcement, and/or laws that disfavored this kind of loophole?
It's nice to have the smaller cars, but the immediate reality is you're going to have to match feature-for-feature (outside of the high-emission, low-efficiency parts) in performance and otherwise without ending up in the Lexus or BMW range, and doing so without the driver noticing. That includes similar size and performance without having to take any notice as to driving a low-emission car, with the down-the-road option of converting existing cars over to low emissions parts that do the same but retain the body and performance of the previous engine/drivetrain as close as possible (again, without the price being beyond a conventional swap of such kind).
Quite doable, nothing contradictory about it. Where are these options? Not all of us care to drive something that would result in a guaranteed pre-packaged closed casket burial in the event of the Absolutely Unavoidable Collision- especially if such vehicle performs in a manner that would predispose it to being a 5'x8'x5' object with relative ease in ordinary operation.
Efficiency is ok, but to run across one of these Clever cars is asking "I dropped $35,000 for this?". That's what the parent poster is meaning, nothing more.
It's nice to have the smaller cars, but the immediate reality is you're going to have to match feature-for-feature (outside of the high-emission, low-efficiency parts) in performance and otherwise without ending up in the Lexus or BMW range, and doing so without the driver noticing. That includes similar size and performance without having to take any notice as to driving a low-emission car, with the down-the-road option of converting existing cars over to low emissions parts that do the same but retain the body and performance of the previous engine/drivetrain as close as possible (again, without the price being beyond a conventional swap of such kind). Quite doable, nothing contradictory about it. Not all of us care to drive something that would result in a guaranteed pre-packaged closed casket burial in the event of the Absolutely Unavoidable Collision- especially if such vehicle performs in a manner that would predispose it to being a 5'x8'x5' object with relative ease in ordinary operation. Efficiency is ok, but to run across one of these is asking "I dropped $35,000 for this?". That's what the parent poster is meaning, nothing more
Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport
Is that part of the name or an instruction for fellow drivers on what to do to a low-emissions vehicle?
(not to get too far off track, but O'Reilly seems to like playing with hornet's nests with his stings that he gets too regularly) He's no real shining example of freedom, but he sure seems to like his revenge. The case speaks for itself. Between his railing of France for standing up to globalization and doing a right-winger's cheap shot in return when he got called for something, I'd say he'd have to have all the L^HDiebold machines rigged anywhere just to get a vote (or get Murdoch to buy his state's legislators to agree).
...it's the Death Star!
I hope you have a backup plan in case you get blackballed and Verizon does run through after they restore your "unauthorized changes" that affected your customers.
So? Lots of players from several countries (including Asian coutries) play on the US servers.
WoW does not do geolocation to filter connections.
Play Lineage II, and you'll see why you'll want geolocation and a firm policy to ban farmers, even for WoW's standards.
Likewise, almost all "chinese farmers" in WoW play in the US servers. That's where their customers are.
That's also where the torturers (by continuous PK, aka botkilling) are as well. When you can outright disrupt farming operations in multiple areas, deny them safe farming grounds, and (in some mmo's) deleveling them out of their gear and cash, you can make their idea of globalization not a good idea.
As for making this worthwile, there's nothing like a bot having its controller spout out random obscenities because you killed their currency collecting boss that was supposed to kill you. Over and over. On top of that, the next person to step up to the console gets the same displeasure as they dont know anything more than that their program is being actively broken, their characters pursued, with no end- and they might be new to farming. If they move to a new spot, you expand your operations to cover it.
The idea is, that if you're exploiting the US(or anywhere else) via globalization in an MMO, there are those that have it as their duty to correct your actions with everything short of effective legislation. You will be run into the ground.
You do have to have a key to use the game, but it is on the server side and means not much afterwards on the client after account creation. That means you have the code, but you really cant use it on their servers if you dont have something they have generated(game card codes/initial key), or will accept (credit cards/game cards). As for their licensing, they use the banhammer to enforce it- as characters gain a good deal of value over time spent. If you try to login 2 chars, both get denied and logged out.