Nordic countries can't compete internationally because their labor laws are insane. Everyone gets paid a lot of money, they can't be made to work very hard, about 99% of the calendar is a paid holiday, there's a lavish benefit for everything from paternity leave to trash collection day and all labor disputes are decided in favor of who resembles Sesame Street the most.
Every technical/technological post this and the prior admin has tried to staff has crashed and burned. The White House understands generally, what lobbyists and Congressional staffers tell them to understand. If it doesn't have to do with posturing about either giving stuff to poor people or pretending to give educational things to the teachers of some target group it doesn't mean squat.
Remember with the appointment of Steve Chen we were going to have algae powered teleportation in 3 years? Yeah how did that Nobel Laureate work out?
DC's are supposed to have redundant power lines in or at the least a highly reliable power source. It's unlikely that the residential customers would be on the same primary power lines. Which is both bad and good. Good because the homeowners wouldn't get browned out by the DC, bad because in the case of a bad storm there's no incentive for the power company to reestablish power to the homes as quickly as the DC. So in the case of a bad mid winter storm the blacked out homes in the cold can look out their windows at the DC purring happily away.
Round up some web billionaires and get them to lobby the hell out of congress. If you can't get the money out of politics then use money as a weapon the same way Hollywood and the Music Industry does. "Going Dark" is insufferably silly because it gives ordinary anonymous slackers the impression they are doing something while in fact it accomplishes nothing. You'd be better off selling ribbon magnets.
All the fresh young things who imagined that the net would become an instrument of freedom got it wrong. The net is and will be a weapon of oppression and control.
Clearly you no longer 'own' hardware or software anymore. You're renting it or licensing your use of it or whatever legal fiction they call it today. In either case, with rental the firm or person you rent it from now has substantially greater responsibilities to maintain that which is rented, Moreover substantial liabilities transfer to the firm or individual you rent from as a result.
Of course the results of any government mandated reduction is an explosion of growth. The first thing to happen is an audit to identify all these facilities. It gets passed up the food chain where some under deputy flunky discovers the true size of his or her empire. Then they all move in unison to protect their own at everyone else's expense. This results in everything being reclassified as critical, they are all protected and then they discover how to exploit their own budget process to make them grow and grow.
The return is obvious. They no longer have to buy or lease equipment or software. The risk is unmanaged anarchy and regulatory and audit fines for non compliance. Companies like IBM though, being IBM try to get it both ways - tell people they 'can' use their own stuff at least in so far as smart phones is concerned. And also micromanaged according to The One True Specification To Rule Them All. But lapstops, no longer. It's just too much work for them to manage laptops they don't own and build while STILL supporting help desk calls for them. My sources tell me though that as a kind of weak hedge they've decided to keep their own laptops in service longer - stretching them out years past the standard FASB depreciation as a cost cutting measure. Which is pretty funny when you show up at a customer with a 5 year old Thinkpad running XP and it takes 9 minutes to boot.
Slashdot Mirror
Was to exterminate all the people like the RIAA.
Hard to believe you lost the WHOLE empire.
And all the companies that job their manufacturing to this company. Why Apple is singled out is completely beyond reason.
And you live alone. Yaaay you.
Be that as it may this is the world you live in. When you spend $2000 for an iPad made in a panda friendly environment, let me know.
Nordic countries can't compete internationally because their labor laws are insane. Everyone gets paid a lot of money, they can't be made to work very hard, about 99% of the calendar is a paid holiday, there's a lavish benefit for everything from paternity leave to trash collection day and all labor disputes are decided in favor of who resembles Sesame Street the most.
Everything you've ever touched online, every file, every object every email. All of it. I think a billion petabytes should do the trick.
What's fair is fair.
They sell TV's, car stereos, washing machines and video games.
You kill pirates. Just like in the real world. Shoot them and dump them in the ocean. If it takes 10 million so be it.
Every technical/technological post this and the prior admin has tried to staff has crashed and burned. The White House understands generally, what lobbyists and Congressional staffers tell them to understand. If it doesn't have to do with posturing about either giving stuff to poor people or pretending to give educational things to the teachers of some target group it doesn't mean squat.
Remember with the appointment of Steve Chen we were going to have algae powered teleportation in 3 years? Yeah how did that Nobel Laureate work out?
I have full faith that NC will screw it up and it will be stillborn.
DC's are supposed to have redundant power lines in or at the least a highly reliable power source. It's unlikely that the residential customers would be on the same primary power lines. Which is both bad and good. Good because the homeowners wouldn't get browned out by the DC, bad because in the case of a bad storm there's no incentive for the power company to reestablish power to the homes as quickly as the DC. So in the case of a bad mid winter storm the blacked out homes in the cold can look out their windows at the DC purring happily away.
I am sure our libertarian/liberal fascist nazi blogging overlords wholeheartedly endorse this.
So your solution is to vainly hope that human nature changes in response to your pout? Good luck with that.
That's actually pretty childish. Take your ball and go home.
You're gonna be sorry, you're ALL gonna be sorry!!!!1
Round up some web billionaires and get them to lobby the hell out of congress. If you can't get the money out of politics then use money as a weapon the same way Hollywood and the Music Industry does. "Going Dark" is insufferably silly because it gives ordinary anonymous slackers the impression they are doing something while in fact it accomplishes nothing. You'd be better off selling ribbon magnets.
All the fresh young things who imagined that the net would become an instrument of freedom got it wrong. The net is and will be a weapon of oppression and control.
Clearly you no longer 'own' hardware or software anymore. You're renting it or licensing your use of it or whatever legal fiction they call it today. In either case, with rental the firm or person you rent it from now has substantially greater responsibilities to maintain that which is rented, Moreover substantial liabilities transfer to the firm or individual you rent from as a result.
Of course the results of any government mandated reduction is an explosion of growth. The first thing to happen is an audit to identify all these facilities. It gets passed up the food chain where some under deputy flunky discovers the true size of his or her empire. Then they all move in unison to protect their own at everyone else's expense. This results in everything being reclassified as critical, they are all protected and then they discover how to exploit their own budget process to make them grow and grow.
We will be on XP for years more. Because in the corporation change is expensive change is evil.
IBM leads the world in nutrition micromanagement in order to pay its employers less?
The return is obvious. They no longer have to buy or lease equipment or software. The risk is unmanaged anarchy and regulatory and audit fines for non compliance. Companies like IBM though, being IBM try to get it both ways - tell people they 'can' use their own stuff at least in so far as smart phones is concerned. And also micromanaged according to The One True Specification To Rule Them All. But lapstops, no longer. It's just too much work for them to manage laptops they don't own and build while STILL supporting help desk calls for them. My sources tell me though that as a kind of weak hedge they've decided to keep their own laptops in service longer - stretching them out years past the standard FASB depreciation as a cost cutting measure. Which is pretty funny when you show up at a customer with a 5 year old Thinkpad running XP and it takes 9 minutes to boot.
Then I can eliminate 6/7ths of all serious accidents tomorrow by not allowing anyone under the age of 25 or over the age of 65 to drive.