Yeah sorry about that. But if I wanted a treatise on climatology I'd go to the source not the agendized ravings of anonymous web posters. The way I look at the deniers are missing the point. It's nearly incontrovertible that warming is occurring. All they're arguing about is who's fault it is as if that is exculpatory fact to excuse us from addressing it. Why not take another approach - admit that it is happening for whatever reason and take some steps to address it. I for one see no upside to simply sticking our heads in a hole and the ground being smug that some hate radio guys are telling the other hate radio guys that they're disloyal traitorous partisans for even bringing it up in the first place.
First off I think they mean 100% of their inventory for sale in North America and EU countries. I don't see them selling hybrids in Kinshaha or Tehran or Kuala Lampur or Beijing.
Second, even for the US I don't see fat stupid greedy Americans trading in their F-250s for a hybrid truck. You might as well call them homosexual Islamic terrorist devil worshipers. Now while your typical redneck probably doesn't drive a Tundra today, you have to figure that by 2020 the sum total of all of Detroit's output will be 1200hp 4mpg $200,000 "Man-Van" SUV's. This will leave the market open to everyone else.
In either case I just don't see the American market spending a dime to reallocate what it honestly believes is its god-given right to be stupid and wasteful. Even $10/gal gas won't change that. After all in EU countries like France where gas has always been incredibly pricey it hasn't caused anyone to drive less or drive slower. So it's not going to happen here.
All problems are theoretical until they happen to you. Before they happen to you they fall into two categories:
It can never happen to you Probability = 0.0 It might happen to you Probability 0.0 x 100.0
The problem is that we don't know this when we hear of a problem. All we hear about is the theoretical problem and the probability of a theoretical problem being theoretically true = 100.0%. If we had a way to neatly classify vulnerabilities into both the probability of occurence and the probability that something of a given 'oh-shit'-edness happening then we could easily ignore problems that are more expensive to fix than the risks they present. Since we can't really do risk analysis we're stuck with trying to do everything, I guess, or not. I'm not sure. Maybe it doesn't matter much.
I have no problem with no lights at all until an error occurs. I really don't need a flashing blue annulus to tell me the monitor is in sleep mode. I don't need a light to tell me the print server is running. I need a red or orange light if something is wrong, and guess what it has one of those. I don't need 6 flashing lights on my router. If it's messed up I'll have to reboot it. Again, put up an idiot light if something is wrong. I might once in a while need to know that my printer is online but more often the red error light tells me its time for an ink replacement. My VoIP TA is connected in a non standard way so one of the lights you would expect to see, you don't. There is only one of the three remaining lights that even tells me anything useful if something is wrong. The office phone that's connected to the TA has a power on/off hook like but I don't need any lights on the base station. No one should, it's a base station and you're never looking at it.
Of course it's realistic. Either it's a congestion/construction zone or you're moving. For the most part. And if traffic is traffic then every single car sitting at an intersection is getting exactly zero miles per gallon regardless. Hard to understand how that F250 next to you suffers less of a degradation of efficiency than a Prius.
But - aren't hybrids of two different basic designs? Don't some run on electric until they need extra power then the gasoline motor kicks in while others run on the gasoline motor until they add electric motor power? Seems to me that they're ignoring this critical difference.
This idea of perfect and just competition is quaint. You're beginning to sound as theoretical as the Marxist-Leninists who claim that it's a perfect system that's never been correctly implemented. Theoretically speaking all theories work too.
But considering Reuters is openly and for a long time, the official water carriers for EU agenda items it's hard to put too much faith in a 'study' from the folks spending millions of Euros to sue Apple in Europe into obscurity.
Anyone with eyes and a brain can see these numbers are junk. I own a 2004 Camry. With two people in the car, on the highway, on cruise control @79mph I get 33mpg all day everyday. Anyone who tells me I'm really getting several mpg less than that is simply being a paid shill for Detroit.
What lobbyist paid 'science' are they going to discover next? The fumes from my neighbor's custom built F-450 (yes FOUR fifty) SUV is health food? C'mon people at least learn to know when they're humping your leg.
How dare these communists and agitators dare PAY people for their work when slavery worked so well before. My walrus mustache chortles at them. I say. Now I must go and get my monocle washed with the tears of brown-ish children. Get back to work, losers.
Do you think they're worth it or are you just stuck on the concept that whatever you can grab is somehow a virtue? Because honestly, I could outsource 10's of thousands of jobs for 1/10th of what they get. Anyone could. I mean what if they just liquidated the entire company and sold all the assets and just paid off the stockholders? If that's a virtue then why not do that to every company?
Office phone (VoIP) Most/all of the broadband data Allotment for office equip: Printer, Router, etc. up to a fixed dollar amount Monthly office supplies, paper, ink, etc. Use a corporate credit card and submit expenses monthly
I do this and the only noise I get is about the high price of printer ink. But it's from their preferred retailers so screw them.
Space science will be long dead by then. Space is being commercialized and weaponized for near earth orbit. Telescopes? Bwahahaha. Who's going to pay for that? And relying on the ESA? LOL. They can't get Galileo off the ground. No, I think we have to disabuse ourselves of this notion. The era of space science is nearly over. It was a good run but between the Left and the Right, politically, no one wants to spend anything for it anymore.
Why would they? What incentive is there for them to do that? I was listening to some idiot on NPR yesterday who actually said that people will soon PREFER to watch movies on their PC's soon. Yeah. Staring at a jerky image on a 19" monitor. Sounds like paradise to me. This kind of thinking is why consumers tell the tech companies to go pound sand.
And how is that paranoia working out that the tech companies are helping to foster? Use a PC and terrorists will rape your kids on the internet while stealing your identity.
With vaguely homoerotic overtones, like Spiderman. Because Hollywood hasn't turned everything into shit just yet.
But to be fair, T-3 was pretty close to that. All that they need to do is fill the cast with whatever interchangeable hunks and chicks are in whatever is hot on the WB at that time.
Oh yeah and did I mention that Sarah Conners has to be black?
Who are 10 years behind the rest of the world in bandwidth and services and cost. Blame the cable monopolies who are only a little less horrible than record companies in the rape and pillage the consumers department. Blame Microsoft who, let's face facts, sees you as a wallet. They don't really care how well their crap works and their prices go up not down in contradiction to everything we've ever been promised about the 'digital age.'
I would have thought the neo-Libertarians here would be cheering for state controlled corporatism. Isn't that what you've been working for?
I'm sorry but there is not a single thing the record business has ever done to make anything cheaper or more available or more usable to the consumer. The record business is the ultimate consumer screwing industry. We were promised cheaper when they switched from vinyl to CD too. All such a chip would accomplish to engineer a way to prevent you from reselling your CD or DVD or worse, expire it so that you can't use it beyond a certain point. The record business is built on restrictions, lawsuits, threats and intimidation.
The only question I have is when they will discard the plastic media completely, rent everything to us as DRM restricted, time limited content on a USB drive and jack up the prices 10%/year? Because you know it's coming and you know they'll blame you for the price increase like they always do.
We think that not having SLA's saves us gobs of loot but in the end all that happens is that customers are miserable and when it comes to re-up the contract they either fight like like hell to extract insane price cuts, or they just walk.
And on a personal note the three times I have needed a PW reset from India, I'm sorry but I could NOT understand what the person on the phone was speaking to me. It's a string of random numbers and letters. There's no context. Even spelling it out with a military alphabet took 3 tries.
If this is how they think they will save their way to prosperity then the suits up in the Armonk Ship's Prow (HQ) have some awesome weed.
There are about 60,000 total GS ee's in the US. Total North American (CA/US/MX) staffing is about 3x that. The 12,000 number world wide is probably low by 50% and that total number will represent FT ee's only no yellow badges. EMEA always gets hammered worse than NA. AP is already so damn thin there's nothing left to hack. LA is also thin. So the brunt will be in NA and EMEA. My guess is 24,000 total. We've just had 5.5% in one week. This will probably continue at a pace of about 5%/month this year and 10%/month in 2008. This would put the total reduction of 24,000 to end by June 08. At the same time they can hire 24,000 new heads in India and South America and save themselves 80% of the headcount cost for those 24,000 relative to US costs.
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Yeah sorry about that. But if I wanted a treatise on climatology I'd go to the source not the agendized ravings of anonymous web posters. The way I look at the deniers are missing the point. It's nearly incontrovertible that warming is occurring. All they're arguing about is who's fault it is as if that is exculpatory fact to excuse us from addressing it. Why not take another approach - admit that it is happening for whatever reason and take some steps to address it. I for one see no upside to simply sticking our heads in a hole and the ground being smug that some hate radio guys are telling the other hate radio guys that they're disloyal traitorous partisans for even bringing it up in the first place.
It brings out all the closet ignorant right wing assholes who should stay hidden and not let anyone else see what 20 year old morons they are.
First off I think they mean 100% of their inventory for sale in North America and EU countries. I don't see them selling hybrids in Kinshaha or Tehran or Kuala Lampur or Beijing.
Second, even for the US I don't see fat stupid greedy Americans trading in their F-250s for a hybrid truck. You might as well call them homosexual Islamic terrorist devil worshipers. Now while your typical redneck probably doesn't drive a Tundra today, you have to figure that by 2020 the sum total of all of Detroit's output will be 1200hp 4mpg $200,000 "Man-Van" SUV's. This will leave the market open to everyone else.
In either case I just don't see the American market spending a dime to reallocate what it honestly believes is its god-given right to be stupid and wasteful. Even $10/gal gas won't change that. After all in EU countries like France where gas has always been incredibly pricey it hasn't caused anyone to drive less or drive slower. So it's not going to happen here.
And find out that unlimited plans have a limit. MCI Neighborhood is 7000 minutes a month I think. Try doing that with a cell phone plan.
All problems are theoretical until they happen to you. Before they happen to you they fall into two categories:
It can never happen to you Probability = 0.0
It might happen to you Probability 0.0 x 100.0
The problem is that we don't know this when we hear of a problem. All we hear about is the theoretical problem and the probability of a theoretical problem being theoretically true = 100.0%. If we had a way to neatly classify vulnerabilities into both the probability of occurence and the probability that something of a given 'oh-shit'-edness happening then we could easily ignore problems that are more expensive to fix than the risks they present. Since we can't really do risk analysis we're stuck with trying to do everything, I guess, or not. I'm not sure. Maybe it doesn't matter much.
I have no problem with no lights at all until an error occurs. I really don't need a flashing blue annulus to tell me the monitor is in sleep mode. I don't need a light to tell me the print server is running. I need a red or orange light if something is wrong, and guess what it has one of those. I don't need 6 flashing lights on my router. If it's messed up I'll have to reboot it. Again, put up an idiot light if something is wrong. I might once in a while need to know that my printer is online but more often the red error light tells me its time for an ink replacement. My VoIP TA is connected in a non standard way so one of the lights you would expect to see, you don't. There is only one of the three remaining lights that even tells me anything useful if something is wrong. The office phone that's connected to the TA has a power on/off hook like but I don't need any lights on the base station. No one should, it's a base station and you're never looking at it.
Of course it's realistic. Either it's a congestion/construction zone or you're moving. For the most part. And if traffic is traffic then every single car sitting at an intersection is getting exactly zero miles per gallon regardless. Hard to understand how that F250 next to you suffers less of a degradation of efficiency than a Prius.
But - aren't hybrids of two different basic designs? Don't some run on electric until they need extra power then the gasoline motor kicks in while others run on the gasoline motor until they add electric motor power? Seems to me that they're ignoring this critical difference.
This idea of perfect and just competition is quaint. You're beginning to sound as theoretical as the Marxist-Leninists who claim that it's a perfect system that's never been correctly implemented. Theoretically speaking all theories work too.
But considering Reuters is openly and for a long time, the official water carriers for EU agenda items it's hard to put too much faith in a 'study' from the folks spending millions of Euros to sue Apple in Europe into obscurity.
Anyone with eyes and a brain can see these numbers are junk. I own a 2004 Camry. With two people in the car, on the highway, on cruise control @79mph I get 33mpg all day everyday. Anyone who tells me I'm really getting several mpg less than that is simply being a paid shill for Detroit.
What lobbyist paid 'science' are they going to discover next? The fumes from my neighbor's custom built F-450 (yes FOUR fifty) SUV is health food? C'mon people at least learn to know when they're humping your leg.
How dare these communists and agitators dare PAY people for their work when slavery worked so well before. My walrus mustache chortles at them. I say. Now I must go and get my monocle washed with the tears of brown-ish children. Get back to work, losers.
Do you think they're worth it or are you just stuck on the concept that whatever you can grab is somehow a virtue? Because honestly, I could outsource 10's of thousands of jobs for 1/10th of what they get. Anyone could. I mean what if they just liquidated the entire company and sold all the assets and just paid off the stockholders? If that's a virtue then why not do that to every company?
Were compensated damn close to 800 million dollars last year if not more. I hope all the Libertarians here starve in the freezing cold this year.
Because I have missed those 3 dozen or so critical messages that were sent and yet I never saw.Hmm well good to know it's MY fault.
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Office phone (VoIP)
Most/all of the broadband data
Allotment for office equip: Printer, Router, etc. up to a fixed dollar amount
Monthly office supplies, paper, ink, etc.
Use a corporate credit card and submit expenses monthly
I do this and the only noise I get is about the high price of printer ink. But it's from their preferred retailers so screw them.
Space science will be long dead by then. Space is being commercialized and weaponized for near earth orbit. Telescopes? Bwahahaha. Who's going to pay for that? And relying on the ESA? LOL. They can't get Galileo off the ground. No, I think we have to disabuse ourselves of this notion. The era of space science is nearly over. It was a good run but between the Left and the Right, politically, no one wants to spend anything for it anymore.
Why would they? What incentive is there for them to do that? I was listening to some idiot on NPR yesterday who actually said that people will soon PREFER to watch movies on their PC's soon. Yeah. Staring at a jerky image on a 19" monitor. Sounds like paradise to me. This kind of thinking is why consumers tell the tech companies to go pound sand.
And how is that paranoia working out that the tech companies are helping to foster? Use a PC and terrorists will rape your kids on the internet while stealing your identity.
With vaguely homoerotic overtones, like Spiderman. Because Hollywood hasn't turned everything into shit just yet.
But to be fair, T-3 was pretty close to that. All that they need to do is fill the cast with whatever interchangeable hunks and chicks are in whatever is hot on the WB at that time.
Oh yeah and did I mention that Sarah Conners has to be black?
Who are 10 years behind the rest of the world in bandwidth and services and cost. Blame the cable monopolies who are only a little less horrible than record companies in the rape and pillage the consumers department. Blame Microsoft who, let's face facts, sees you as a wallet. They don't really care how well their crap works and their prices go up not down in contradiction to everything we've ever been promised about the 'digital age.'
I would have thought the neo-Libertarians here would be cheering for state controlled corporatism. Isn't that what you've been working for?
I'm sorry but there is not a single thing the record business has ever done to make anything cheaper or more available or more usable to the consumer. The record business is the ultimate consumer screwing industry. We were promised cheaper when they switched from vinyl to CD too. All such a chip would accomplish to engineer a way to prevent you from reselling your CD or DVD or worse, expire it so that you can't use it beyond a certain point. The record business is built on restrictions, lawsuits, threats and intimidation.
The only question I have is when they will discard the plastic media completely, rent everything to us as DRM restricted, time limited content on a USB drive and jack up the prices 10%/year? Because you know it's coming and you know they'll blame you for the price increase like they always do.
You can kill people that way. Woops, my bad.
Ever have to escort a bunch of suits through a new data center and have the Chief Operations Officer open the goddamn EPO and punch it?
I have.
We think that not having SLA's saves us gobs of loot but in the end all that happens is that customers are miserable and when it comes to re-up the contract they either fight like like hell to extract insane price cuts, or they just walk.
And on a personal note the three times I have needed a PW reset from India, I'm sorry but I could NOT understand what the person on the phone was speaking to me. It's a string of random numbers and letters. There's no context. Even spelling it out with a military alphabet took 3 tries.
If this is how they think they will save their way to prosperity then the suits up in the Armonk Ship's Prow (HQ) have some awesome weed.
There are about 60,000 total GS ee's in the US. Total North American (CA/US/MX) staffing is about 3x that. The 12,000 number world wide is probably low by 50% and that total number will represent FT ee's only no yellow badges. EMEA always gets hammered worse than NA. AP is already so damn thin there's nothing left to hack. LA is also thin. So the brunt will be in NA and EMEA. My guess is 24,000 total. We've just had 5.5% in one week. This will probably continue at a pace of about 5%/month this year and 10%/month in 2008. This would put the total reduction of 24,000 to end by June 08. At the same time they can hire 24,000 new heads in India and South America and save themselves 80% of the headcount cost for those 24,000 relative to US costs.
Yeah I think it will happen.