Particularly since the majority of cell phone owners worldwide earn about $3,000 per year. The article is about The Battle for the "Good Enough" Market. I would doubt either Firefox or Android has a stranglehold on Baidu. http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/...
I think this is incorrect, or at least you need to better define "the oil industry". Here is booklet put out by the USA Refiners in support of maintaining the crude export ban. If by "industry" you include Dutch Shell, BP, and others who want to refine in competition with the USA's domestic refiners, you can find their "rebuttal" on page 16. http://priceofoil.org/content/...
I did some reading to find the basis of the 1975 law, administered by my "favorite" federal agency, the Bureau of Land Management (Jack Abramoff's digs). Apparently it was originally passed during the OPEC embargo when the USA was concerned about domestic shortages. Then it becomes like ethanol or agricultural subsidies, it stays because it reduces competition. Probably a violation of the WTO as well, same as when USA, EU and Japan challenged China's rare earth metal export bans... which China tried to express as an "environmental law"... which is the only current argument I can find for the crude export ban (CO emissions).
So is it a case of corporations skirting a government law, or a government skirting an international fair trade treaty?
Think of the anonymity. How can I be accused of accessing or doing anything online if my online access point could have been accessed by anyone? My history is your history.
Exactly. Radio Shack was able to do this at scale before online competition, and I've got a lot of positive nostalgia for them. Now they compete in price with Amazon, but compete for real estate rental with coffee shops. (We can't realistically order a cup of coffee online). Sharing locations with a hardware store may keep them around to service the market which really wants the "hot demand" part that afternoon, but expect the larger RS stores to go the way of Blockbuster video, replaced by small Best Buy vending machines, like Redbox.
My theory: This "student loan bubble" is actually the bubble that caused the mortgage bubble. For the past 30 years, college loan professionals have been convincing 18 year olds that 5-digit debt is ok. We were "broken" (as in horse context) by the time we borrowed for our first car, our eyes glazed when buying our first house. We were trained to be numb by rationalizations worthy of drug pushers. The first thing a young person does at 18 is sabotage any hope of compound interest savings accounts, as every penny that would have been put away is spent on compounding interest in the wrong direction.
Ok, my college experience turned out ok. But I circumvented work-study and doubled my working hours (food service). If you DO borrow to go to college, it may turn out ok, but be sure to work in a few economics and accounting classes.
Modern shredders have magnets which remove metals at the front end. It's true that older incinerators capture the metal post burn, which would free the solder. But the smokestack emmissions are pretty well monitored and I don't recall seeing lead pb in incinerator smoke, but I'm not sure. Using devices for longer, however, is by far the best method, and that's what the Africans do better than anyone else.
Hmm. A CRT with one year left of life on it? That would be, what, a 24 year old CRT? Those are what is photographed at the Agbogbloshie and Lagos dumps, for sure. But when UN examined the sea containers, and Greenpeace filmed them, they found 10 year old TVs, some taken from hotel - flat-screen-replacements. The hypothesis that the Africans are buying goods that will only last an average of one year is an interesting one, but I don't think they could accomplish that buying used product even if they tried. And the Africans I know try the opposite, try to find the newest and best and most reliable brands (they won't buy an e-Machine).
You seem to imply I'm playing fast and loose with facts, and that while you concede the NGO falsified data, you attempt to create a middle ground by insinuating that I've made up data, too. But your only response to my data is an insinuation that the imported TVs, what.. typically? have 1 year left of life. That is as true as saying that the used printing presses Benjamin Franklin purchased in London, at 19 years old, and brought back to Philadelphia, were "probably" going to fail in a year and pollute Philadelphia. And that Africa will be better off buying brand new devices, which creates more coltan and conlfilct mining jobs for Africans.
The photos in the Guardian are kids at a dump. If you send white kids to a Texas dump, they will find 25 year old TVs to stand on, but it does not mean that the Japanese sent old TVs to USA dumps. The difference is that EU and USA voluntarily upgrade to brand new TVs after only 10 years, leaving devices with 15 more years of life on them in their attics, at the dumps, in a recycling shredder, or sold to an African who needs a TV for 10-15 more years and cannot for the life of him afford a new one.
I read both stories, can't quite figure out why we needed a double header. There's nothing related between the two articles other than, perhaps, the correlations to getting a giggle out of a 13 year old. The story on coprolites is more classically interesting, by the way.
Businessweek - A third of all tin comes from Bangka. http://www.businessweek.com/ar... Bangka tin mines were opened to supply deleaded solder. The point is that the environmental cost of extraction is nearly always more significant than the environmental cost of exposure. Environmental laws that consider only the "end of pipe" without considering lifecycle costs are to environmentalism what mercury laxative was to medicine (very effective if all you care about is an excellent crapping experience)
80% of lead supply is recycled content, the alternative (tin) must be mined. I thought the hype was that we'd be significantly safer with solid tin solder in lined capped landfills than we would be with leaded solder in lined capped landfills. What ROHS did was take a very minor, negligible risk from rich nations and displace the environmental costs to a hugely impactful practice (tin dredging) in developing nations, and label it "green" and give environmental awards with no study of the consequences upstream.
Want an organic, non-toxic raw material? Baby seal pelts. If all you care about is the final disposal effect, mercury made a great laxative. Primum non nocere
- Cities in Africa have had TVs for decades, generate their own "e-waste". Nigeria had 6.9M households with TV in 2007 (World Bank)
- According to the UN, the 6B people in "emerging markets" generate far more e-waste, and far more ewaste trade, than OECD nations.
- African importers have no financial interest in paying to import junk.
- UNEP studies of seized "e-waste" in Lagos and Accra found 91% reuse and repair, better than brand new sales.
- The Western Accuser (BAN.org) earns money from "certifying" that recyclers don't export, has a $$ interest in the accusations
The Western Accuser admits to fabricating the statistics about 80% e-waste exports. They lied and admit they lied. http://retroworks.blogspot.com...
These stories belittle the techs in Africa who tinker and repair, for financial gain among manufacturers intent on "planned obsolescence". "Parasites of the poor" is the label for these stories in Africa.
Banning lead gasoline - Best environmental law ever passed. Lower blood lead levels in kids, higher test scores, less crime in cities.
Banning lead in solder - Worst environmental law ever passed. Lead in solder never escaped in the environment, was at worst destined for a lined landfill. Was replaced by dredging coral reef islands for TIN and SILVER (the alternatives to lead). Tin and Silver have very low recycled content, the lead was 85% recycled content.
I'm very pro environment, very pro scientific method. The unintentional consequences of the success of lead gasoline bans were stupid tin mining in coral islands to divert solid solder from rich nations lined landfills.
The Economist shined the light on all these "rural internet stimulus" projects when they were kickstarted by the feds with $7B in 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/...
The general subject of rural subsidies, from airports to highways to analog television, is older. http://www.downsizinggovernmen... Geography, unlike race or income, is a choice. I'm not red-baiting tea party-er, but the "last mile of track" forgives a lot of costs the private sector won't ignore, and governments with a mission to ignore costs attracts a lot people who represent the worst of capitalism, eager to exploit the willingness of pork politicians to pay for mountain hermits to view streaming porn.
The WW2 analogy is just stupid in so many ways. Even if it is analogous, it has been less than 2 decades since the antitrust case (plenty of people continued to boycott Japs and Krauts in that timeframe), and for more reasons than we have time to list, or interest in reading, it's an idiotic comparison.
Carbon produced in food production is apparently greater than carbon produced in consumer transportation like cars. The non-egg food product is aimed at one of the most costly food production consumers, henhouses. The interest, and active investment, of Bill Gates, Li Ka-shing and Vinod Khosla indicates they RTFA.
It's simply a matter of statistics. There are millions more individuals than there are 'corporates' or governments. I don't "trust the average person less", but the average person is statistically more likely to be creepy outlier. And creepy outliers are perhaps more likely, at this point, to spend money to obtain google glass (or baidu glass) and are less likely to give a damn over simple admonishments like "don't be evil" or "don't be creepy". At least with corporations and governments, you are more likely to have more people involved, more checks and balances, and filters for risky and litigious behavior.
I actually assumed that the biggest losers in TW/Comcast Hookup would have been the cable content producers, who have to negotiate where their programming is carried. But I checked and Viacom at least saw it's stop spike up on the news of the merger (NASDAQ: VIAB), and Disney follows the same exact spike (NYSE: DIS) Then I figured wait, they are a big enough corporation that the end of Net Neutrality must be even better for them than the merger of Carriers is bad for them.
CNN reports that perhaps the merger will provide support to reverse the end of Net Neutrality http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/20... I think the "good news" logic would be that the more big corporations monopolize, the more hope that someone will do something in the future to correct it. I
You've fallen in love... you get ads for valentines. You're hungry... you get coupons for fast food. Your IPhone can have a "lie detector" app which gives you a little electric shock if you text a lame excuse. Big Brother is Won't Just Be Watching.
But if thousands of people have "false needles", it becomes like the "Convoy" song or movie, doesn't it? Black ops can't arrest everybody. And why would they even bother with the expense of flying me to a black op once they investigated and found the data to have been the product of random generation?
There is a third choice. Data pollution. What I really want is a program that doesn't require me to do it manually - entering in false "tags", random "birthdates", and randomly searching for consumer items I don't necessarily have interest in. Antiphorm was evidently a program developed to do something like this, but it disappeared.
Cookie camouflage, digital haystacks, bitshit, there must be a lot of names for it. Nature almost never evolves invisibility, but evolves camouflage. I haven't been able to interest any programmers in developing this, but think it could just be as simple as a browser hunting forms online and populating them with garbage.
"We all have a civil obligation to generate false data." - Spartacus, 71 BC
This is my field... not Cuba, but IT trade in emerging markets. The second link critiquing private infrastructure investment is flawed, kind of stupid, and possibly biased (in favor of government's active participation). Look at the data on the chart and gee, it looks like the emerging markets (the author still uses the word "developing") are way behind. But you have to weight the charts by population... weighted average tells a completely different story. 3B3K (three billion people living in nations earning an average of $3,000 per year) increased internet access per capita at ten times the rate of growth of the 1.3 billion people in the OECD. By combining the fastest growing internet market of 3 billion with the 3 billion poorest people - combining say Chili and Malaysia with Sudan and Eithiopia - they create a category "developing" which is just stupid.
Internet isn't growing in countries. It's growing in cities. Huge cities like Lima, Cairo, Lagos, Karachi and Mumbai are getting online like wildfire. If government gets involved, they tend to try to run cables and highways out into the boonies. The private investment sector the paper criticizes is much more efficient, much more bang for the buck, and only looks bad if you postulate "universal coverage" as the goal, which may be noble but who pays for it and by putting government in charge do you get in the way of the enormous progress in the cities? Look to Cuba for an example of a government which tries to control it and winds up without the access in Havana that you can find in any similar large city which allows private investment to cover the cheapest kilometer of cable, the 20% of cell phone towers in reach of 80% of the users.
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Particularly since the majority of cell phone owners worldwide earn about $3,000 per year. The article is about The Battle for the "Good Enough" Market. I would doubt either Firefox or Android has a stranglehold on Baidu. http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/...
I think this is incorrect, or at least you need to better define "the oil industry". Here is booklet put out by the USA Refiners in support of maintaining the crude export ban. If by "industry" you include Dutch Shell, BP, and others who want to refine in competition with the USA's domestic refiners, you can find their "rebuttal" on page 16. http://priceofoil.org/content/...
I did some reading to find the basis of the 1975 law, administered by my "favorite" federal agency, the Bureau of Land Management (Jack Abramoff's digs). Apparently it was originally passed during the OPEC embargo when the USA was concerned about domestic shortages. Then it becomes like ethanol or agricultural subsidies, it stays because it reduces competition. Probably a violation of the WTO as well, same as when USA, EU and Japan challenged China's rare earth metal export bans... which China tried to express as an "environmental law"... which is the only current argument I can find for the crude export ban (CO emissions).
So is it a case of corporations skirting a government law, or a government skirting an international fair trade treaty?
Ok, it's not turnkey. But instead of "anonymous browsing" I can access my own modem as a visitor.
Think of the anonymity. How can I be accused of accessing or doing anything online if my online access point could have been accessed by anyone? My history is your history.
Exactly. Radio Shack was able to do this at scale before online competition, and I've got a lot of positive nostalgia for them. Now they compete in price with Amazon, but compete for real estate rental with coffee shops. (We can't realistically order a cup of coffee online). Sharing locations with a hardware store may keep them around to service the market which really wants the "hot demand" part that afternoon, but expect the larger RS stores to go the way of Blockbuster video, replaced by small Best Buy vending machines, like Redbox.
My theory: This "student loan bubble" is actually the bubble that caused the mortgage bubble. For the past 30 years, college loan professionals have been convincing 18 year olds that 5-digit debt is ok. We were "broken" (as in horse context) by the time we borrowed for our first car, our eyes glazed when buying our first house. We were trained to be numb by rationalizations worthy of drug pushers. The first thing a young person does at 18 is sabotage any hope of compound interest savings accounts, as every penny that would have been put away is spent on compounding interest in the wrong direction.
Ok, my college experience turned out ok. But I circumvented work-study and doubled my working hours (food service). If you DO borrow to go to college, it may turn out ok, but be sure to work in a few economics and accounting classes.
Modern shredders have magnets which remove metals at the front end. It's true that older incinerators capture the metal post burn, which would free the solder. But the smokestack emmissions are pretty well monitored and I don't recall seeing lead pb in incinerator smoke, but I'm not sure. Using devices for longer, however, is by far the best method, and that's what the Africans do better than anyone else.
Hmm. A CRT with one year left of life on it? That would be, what, a 24 year old CRT? Those are what is photographed at the Agbogbloshie and Lagos dumps, for sure. But when UN examined the sea containers, and Greenpeace filmed them, they found 10 year old TVs, some taken from hotel - flat-screen-replacements. The hypothesis that the Africans are buying goods that will only last an average of one year is an interesting one, but I don't think they could accomplish that buying used product even if they tried. And the Africans I know try the opposite, try to find the newest and best and most reliable brands (they won't buy an e-Machine).
You seem to imply I'm playing fast and loose with facts, and that while you concede the NGO falsified data, you attempt to create a middle ground by insinuating that I've made up data, too. But your only response to my data is an insinuation that the imported TVs, what.. typically? have 1 year left of life. That is as true as saying that the used printing presses Benjamin Franklin purchased in London, at 19 years old, and brought back to Philadelphia, were "probably" going to fail in a year and pollute Philadelphia. And that Africa will be better off buying brand new devices, which creates more coltan and conlfilct mining jobs for Africans.
The photos in the Guardian are kids at a dump. If you send white kids to a Texas dump, they will find 25 year old TVs to stand on, but it does not mean that the Japanese sent old TVs to USA dumps. The difference is that EU and USA voluntarily upgrade to brand new TVs after only 10 years, leaving devices with 15 more years of life on them in their attics, at the dumps, in a recycling shredder, or sold to an African who needs a TV for 10-15 more years and cannot for the life of him afford a new one.
I read both stories, can't quite figure out why we needed a double header. There's nothing related between the two articles other than, perhaps, the correlations to getting a giggle out of a 13 year old. The story on coprolites is more classically interesting, by the way.
Businessweek - A third of all tin comes from Bangka. http://www.businessweek.com/ar... Bangka tin mines were opened to supply deleaded solder. The point is that the environmental cost of extraction is nearly always more significant than the environmental cost of exposure. Environmental laws that consider only the "end of pipe" without considering lifecycle costs are to environmentalism what mercury laxative was to medicine (very effective if all you care about is an excellent crapping experience)
80% of lead supply is recycled content, the alternative (tin) must be mined. I thought the hype was that we'd be significantly safer with solid tin solder in lined capped landfills than we would be with leaded solder in lined capped landfills. What ROHS did was take a very minor, negligible risk from rich nations and displace the environmental costs to a hugely impactful practice (tin dredging) in developing nations, and label it "green" and give environmental awards with no study of the consequences upstream.
Want an organic, non-toxic raw material? Baby seal pelts. If all you care about is the final disposal effect, mercury made a great laxative. Primum non nocere
Bored unemployed teenagers. See photos.
- Cities in Africa have had TVs for decades, generate their own "e-waste". Nigeria had 6.9M households with TV in 2007 (World Bank)
- According to the UN, the 6B people in "emerging markets" generate far more e-waste, and far more ewaste trade, than OECD nations.
- African importers have no financial interest in paying to import junk.
- UNEP studies of seized "e-waste" in Lagos and Accra found 91% reuse and repair, better than brand new sales.
- The Western Accuser (BAN.org) earns money from "certifying" that recyclers don't export, has a $$ interest in the accusations
The Western Accuser admits to fabricating the statistics about 80% e-waste exports. They lied and admit they lied. http://retroworks.blogspot.com...
These stories belittle the techs in Africa who tinker and repair, for financial gain among manufacturers intent on "planned obsolescence". "Parasites of the poor" is the label for these stories in Africa.
Banning lead gasoline - Best environmental law ever passed. Lower blood lead levels in kids, higher test scores, less crime in cities.
Banning lead in solder - Worst environmental law ever passed. Lead in solder never escaped in the environment, was at worst destined for a lined landfill. Was replaced by dredging coral reef islands for TIN and SILVER (the alternatives to lead). Tin and Silver have very low recycled content, the lead was 85% recycled content.
I'm very pro environment, very pro scientific method. The unintentional consequences of the success of lead gasoline bans were stupid tin mining in coral islands to divert solid solder from rich nations lined landfills.
The Economist shined the light on all these "rural internet stimulus" projects when they were kickstarted by the feds with $7B in 2011. http://www.economist.com/node/...
The general subject of rural subsidies, from airports to highways to analog television, is older. http://www.downsizinggovernmen... Geography, unlike race or income, is a choice. I'm not red-baiting tea party-er, but the "last mile of track" forgives a lot of costs the private sector won't ignore, and governments with a mission to ignore costs attracts a lot people who represent the worst of capitalism, eager to exploit the willingness of pork politicians to pay for mountain hermits to view streaming porn.
The WW2 analogy is just stupid in so many ways. Even if it is analogous, it has been less than 2 decades since the antitrust case (plenty of people continued to boycott Japs and Krauts in that timeframe), and for more reasons than we have time to list, or interest in reading, it's an idiotic comparison.
Riots correlate to food shortages. http://necsi.edu/research/soci...
Carbon produced in food production is apparently greater than carbon produced in consumer transportation like cars. The non-egg food product is aimed at one of the most costly food production consumers, henhouses. The interest, and active investment, of Bill Gates, Li Ka-shing and Vinod Khosla indicates they RTFA.
It's simply a matter of statistics. There are millions more individuals than there are 'corporates' or governments. I don't "trust the average person less", but the average person is statistically more likely to be creepy outlier. And creepy outliers are perhaps more likely, at this point, to spend money to obtain google glass (or baidu glass) and are less likely to give a damn over simple admonishments like "don't be evil" or "don't be creepy". At least with corporations and governments, you are more likely to have more people involved, more checks and balances, and filters for risky and litigious behavior.
I actually assumed that the biggest losers in TW/Comcast Hookup would have been the cable content producers, who have to negotiate where their programming is carried. But I checked and Viacom at least saw it's stop spike up on the news of the merger (NASDAQ: VIAB), and Disney follows the same exact spike (NYSE: DIS) Then I figured wait, they are a big enough corporation that the end of Net Neutrality must be even better for them than the merger of Carriers is bad for them.
CNN reports that perhaps the merger will provide support to reverse the end of Net Neutrality http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/20... I think the "good news" logic would be that the more big corporations monopolize, the more hope that someone will do something in the future to correct it. I
If we are all on every FBI watchlist, ever, we are Spartacus.
You've fallen in love... you get ads for valentines. You're hungry... you get coupons for fast food. Your IPhone can have a "lie detector" app which gives you a little electric shock if you text a lame excuse. Big Brother is Won't Just Be Watching.
But if thousands of people have "false needles", it becomes like the "Convoy" song or movie, doesn't it? Black ops can't arrest everybody. And why would they even bother with the expense of flying me to a black op once they investigated and found the data to have been the product of random generation?
There is a third choice. Data pollution. What I really want is a program that doesn't require me to do it manually - entering in false "tags", random "birthdates", and randomly searching for consumer items I don't necessarily have interest in. Antiphorm was evidently a program developed to do something like this, but it disappeared.
Cookie camouflage, digital haystacks, bitshit, there must be a lot of names for it. Nature almost never evolves invisibility, but evolves camouflage. I haven't been able to interest any programmers in developing this, but think it could just be as simple as a browser hunting forms online and populating them with garbage.
"We all have a civil obligation to generate false data." - Spartacus, 71 BC
This is my field... not Cuba, but IT trade in emerging markets. The second link critiquing private infrastructure investment is flawed, kind of stupid, and possibly biased (in favor of government's active participation). Look at the data on the chart and gee, it looks like the emerging markets (the author still uses the word "developing") are way behind. But you have to weight the charts by population... weighted average tells a completely different story. 3B3K (three billion people living in nations earning an average of $3,000 per year) increased internet access per capita at ten times the rate of growth of the 1.3 billion people in the OECD. By combining the fastest growing internet market of 3 billion with the 3 billion poorest people - combining say Chili and Malaysia with Sudan and Eithiopia - they create a category "developing" which is just stupid.
Internet isn't growing in countries. It's growing in cities. Huge cities like Lima, Cairo, Lagos, Karachi and Mumbai are getting online like wildfire. If government gets involved, they tend to try to run cables and highways out into the boonies. The private investment sector the paper criticizes is much more efficient, much more bang for the buck, and only looks bad if you postulate "universal coverage" as the goal, which may be noble but who pays for it and by putting government in charge do you get in the way of the enormous progress in the cities? Look to Cuba for an example of a government which tries to control it and winds up without the access in Havana that you can find in any similar large city which allows private investment to cover the cheapest kilometer of cable, the 20% of cell phone towers in reach of 80% of the users.