Sony is unique among Japanese corporations in the percent of it's equity held by foreigners - still, 60% is held by Japanese institutions/individual investors.
This is not really a bad thing for Sony and Americans are looking at it much differently than the way a Japanese investor does.
Over there, they take a longer term view and do not live and die by the quarter like they do here in the US. This is partially cultural. It's not necessarily a good thing but it is a factually true thing. They are more forgiving for this kind of financial result than investors in the US are.
However, another, and not necessarily helpful reason for this patient view is that the equity owners who normally would jump ship are often also the debt holders of the corporation. This is almost unheard of here in the US and the result in Japan is that corporations are more likely to ignore long term problems with a corporation because the best solution (dumping shares) would hurt their debt value so they tend to stay the course and hope for the best.
People get paid what they are willing to get off the bench for.
Cortana is willing to show up for ~$400 and Sean Connery is not.
Same for NFL players and school teachers. And for you.
Unless you work for the government, where there is a very imperfect market, you get paid what you are worth. And, yes, Sean Connery is economically worth 5,000,000,000 times what you are.
It's not really anyones business what anyone gets paid for anything.
360 got the battery thing right here. You can use batteries that you can replace or you can use the power-pack that charges within the controller. A third option is to use your own rechargable batteries.
I don't consider achievements to be a matter of seeing who gets the highest score but a way to look at what you have done in each game and look at what other people have done and to use that as an object of discussion. I think I'll get my brothers xbox 360s for Xmas and this will be fun.
Workers can buy stock. Or they can leave and start their own corporation. Or they can be grateful people who are willing to take risks to create jobs have given them something to do for a living.
If you want to know the truth of Enron, read this.
You are pretty messed up in your world view. I do believe you probably are a hacker type because they are so removed from reality that they can have the perspective you do. I can knock the tenents out with ease.
1) Corporations do not fund volunteers. The never do. I'm managing a volunteer effort now. Everyone is giving freely of their time. Seniors, students, working single people, married people, parents - very wide strata from every economic level. They just care enough to make it a priority in their lives. I've been managing volunteer efforts since I was in high school at every level - local, state, national. It's jsust people who care who can spend a few nights a week. I can tell you've never gotten off your ass and gotten involved because you can think anything contrary to this.
2) The test case for RvW is on the ballot in South Dakota (voteyesforlife.com). If it wins in November, it goes to the SCOTUS. Why don't you cut them a check. The state passed the law because the SCOTUS membership had changed.
3) Tax breaks to the productive are what allow people to have jobs. Nowhere has Marxism resulted in anything less than death and starvation. Just look at the satallite imagery of the Koreas. North versus south. All the same - but the North is a death camp. I suppose you think that Marxism wasn't really tried there, but it was with great 'success.'
4)I think you have a government job because that is the only kind of job someone with your mindset is suited for. You want someone to 'give' you a job. Let me tell you something. One and a half years ago, I had never made a website in my life. In that time, I have learned some coding, marketed myself, provided a job to an artist, and created enough wealth for me to live very comfortably - and that is just a fraction of what my firm does.
I can't really continue to give you a free education. You can read some Ayn Rand and she will fix you up just fine as long as you have an open mind and givev it a fair try. You tangle with me a lot (and others, too, I think) on slashdot, and you need some help.
FYI - don't think that government jobs can't be outsourced or eliminated through AI. Working very hard on that now.
I presume people use names that mean something - like Marxist.
If your interest is right to life, you should recognize that you have to take responsibility within the Republican Party through the primary process. You can't just sit on the sidelines and carp about choices in November. You must be really far outside the system and foolishly skeptical to think that everything is controlled by a oligarch of corporations. It is activists who play the largest role.
Since you are a voter - let me take this moment to inform you that Republicans have been moving the ball down the field on abortion as best they can. Even the non-right to lifers (Specter) in the party help the pro-lifers (Bush) make headway by confirming judges (Alito, Roberts) who would overturn RvW.
You're right, it hasn't been banned yet - but we are working to gradually limit the number through initiatives like requiring information be presented to the mother, banning late term and partial birth (being litigated now - a law passed by Republicans and, hopefully, decided favorably by R-appointed judges). It will not happen overnight but these increments will only continue with Rs in power and will be reversed if the other side takes control. You've got to pay attention to the issue and be patient and do what you can.
Also, I am pretty convinced now you are way, way out of touch with reality. The person who took an ARM took a gamble and they get what they have coming to them. For a lot of poeple it worked out. And a lot of people who earn 50k a year are living just fine and paying their mortgage. My mom is one of them and she doesn't earn nearly that much. And if you are unhappy with your income under 50k - you have great freedom to make it higher. That's what a lot of Americans do.
1) Jerk-off employee doesn't want to have to do real work but enjoys flying around Second Life.
2) Said Jerk-off sells company on idea of having a 'branch office' in second life.
3) Jerk-off's bosses, trying to be forward thinking like they were when they put company's pension in pets.com back in 98, approve Jerk-off as manager of second life.
4) Jerk-off's life goal of getting paid to do nothing comes to fruition.
I have a corporation - it's an intrinsic part of Democracy to have the freedom to form business relationships as you see fit. You are a nut. You must have gone to college.
Corporate governance in this country is exceptionally strident because it is so easy to exchange the equity in those (public) corporations.
What kind of ordinary citizen can barely afford to pay his mortgage?What does that have to do with getting to the polls at 7 AM or 7 PM on election day or voting absentee?
You are useless. And irrelevant (name).
I do want to thank you for surpressing votes for Democrats by inciting cynacism among them, and marginalizing them, allowing my clients to triumph.
Corporations are still made up of individuals, of whom citizens still have a voice.
If you can donate to a candidate because he wants to surrender to your friends in North Korea, why can't a CEO donate to someone who is going to keep his company from going out of business and putting a few thousand employees out of work.
The problem with you proposing anything is that a Corporation cannot donate to a PAC, either. The reference you cite is for a state level election.
Also in the reference you cite, what exactly did the ceo get for 100k?
People vote. If you don't like the way your representative is voting, don't like who is giving money to him, or don't like him being left handed, you can vote him out.
BTW - I call copyright infrengment theft, too. It's a lot less syllables and means - for purposes of general discussion - the same thing.
And you do have a point - you CAN call it bribery (though you would be open to slander) and you can vote the guy out.
Or - even better- you can find a bunch of other people who don't like the guy, raise money from them, buy advertising explaining why he's a schmuck, and really have an impact. But that might entail getting off your ass, so never mind.
Why don't you tell me one non-prosecuted case of someone getting PAID to vote a certain way that is not in harmony with that representatives ideology or constituent interest to begin with? In fact, the way you speak, you should be able to name one dozen. How about it?
You have many facts wrong like so many liberals (US) do.
Bribary is very, very rare in US Government and is vigorously prosecuted.
Corporations also cannot contribute to candidates or political parties _at all_.
Corporations cannot vote. All votes are publicly recorded. If the public does not like how someone votes, they will get rid of them and replace him with someone else they think will vote the way they like. Just ask MAx Cleland.
BTW - there are less than a million homeless in the US - around 600k. THE MOST extreme numbers have 2 million - not 30. If yours facts here are so wrong, maybe most of the rest of what you write is also based on wrong facts. You must be a liberal arts college graduate (ok, maybe that is being to insulting to you, I apologize).
BTW - I have been homeless and unemployed. Twice. Neither is a condition to stop you from voting (you can list your residency as a park bench or a homeless shelter) OR from having fast internet access (public libraries).
You can gtalk me if you want - mbraynard@gmail.com - and I can straighten you out. I counted five factual errors in your first two paragraphs at least.
There are a bunch of minority parties represented in the Commons, but they there is and always only will be two parties - the one in party and the one out of power.
The difference in the US is that the citizens themselves decide to form the 'coalitions' wheras in parliamentary systems the citizens are removed from this selection and it is determined one level above them.
This is totally Democratic. There are thousands of organizations in DC representing all stripes of citizenry. They work to get people who agree with them elected and then work to help direct that policy after the elections.
There is nothing wrong with any of this - it's just the 1st amendment's right to petition the government in action. Just because you don't agree with the JEWS (that's what you mean by neocon, right - you totally give yourself away there), it doesn't mean there is anything corrupt about it.
To answer your other question, the representatives work about as much as they like to - some work furiously, others just show up and vote and take fact finding vacations. There are these types in both parties. And don't judge the official floor action as work week. During recess they are still working.
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Your analogy fails because other departments in your university probably could not go out get a competitive price from another 'IT department.'
Sony is unique among Japanese corporations in the percent of it's equity held by foreigners - still, 60% is held by Japanese institutions/individual investors.
Over there, they take a longer term view and do not live and die by the quarter like they do here in the US. This is partially cultural. It's not necessarily a good thing but it is a factually true thing. They are more forgiving for this kind of financial result than investors in the US are.
However, another, and not necessarily helpful reason for this patient view is that the equity owners who normally would jump ship are often also the debt holders of the corporation. This is almost unheard of here in the US and the result in Japan is that corporations are more likely to ignore long term problems with a corporation because the best solution (dumping shares) would hurt their debt value so they tend to stay the course and hope for the best.
Someone consented to be paid what someone else consented to pay them. End of story. Sit down, shut up, eat your Cheerios.
People get paid what they are willing to get off the bench for.
Cortana is willing to show up for ~$400 and Sean Connery is not.
Same for NFL players and school teachers. And for you.
Unless you work for the government, where there is a very imperfect market, you get paid what you are worth. And, yes, Sean Connery is economically worth 5,000,000,000 times what you are.
It's not really anyones business what anyone gets paid for anything.
It will be very shiny, with lots of orcs, er, spartans, I'm sure.
What weapon do you use?
I don't consider achievements to be a matter of seeing who gets the highest score but a way to look at what you have done in each game and look at what other people have done and to use that as an object of discussion. I think I'll get my brothers xbox 360s for Xmas and this will be fun.
If you want to know the truth of Enron, read this.
1) Corporations do not fund volunteers. The never do. I'm managing a volunteer effort now. Everyone is giving freely of their time. Seniors, students, working single people, married people, parents - very wide strata from every economic level. They just care enough to make it a priority in their lives. I've been managing volunteer efforts since I was in high school at every level - local, state, national. It's jsust people who care who can spend a few nights a week. I can tell you've never gotten off your ass and gotten involved because you can think anything contrary to this.
2) The test case for RvW is on the ballot in South Dakota (voteyesforlife.com). If it wins in November, it goes to the SCOTUS. Why don't you cut them a check. The state passed the law because the SCOTUS membership had changed.
3) Tax breaks to the productive are what allow people to have jobs. Nowhere has Marxism resulted in anything less than death and starvation. Just look at the satallite imagery of the Koreas. North versus south. All the same - but the North is a death camp. I suppose you think that Marxism wasn't really tried there, but it was with great 'success.'
4)I think you have a government job because that is the only kind of job someone with your mindset is suited for. You want someone to 'give' you a job. Let me tell you something. One and a half years ago, I had never made a website in my life. In that time, I have learned some coding, marketed myself, provided a job to an artist, and created enough wealth for me to live very comfortably - and that is just a fraction of what my firm does.
I can't really continue to give you a free education. You can read some Ayn Rand and she will fix you up just fine as long as you have an open mind and givev it a fair try. You tangle with me a lot (and others, too, I think) on slashdot, and you need some help.
FYI - don't think that government jobs can't be outsourced or eliminated through AI. Working very hard on that now.
Your problem with Ken Lay is more a legal issue than a corporate governance issue.
If your interest is right to life, you should recognize that you have to take responsibility within the Republican Party through the primary process. You can't just sit on the sidelines and carp about choices in November. You must be really far outside the system and foolishly skeptical to think that everything is controlled by a oligarch of corporations. It is activists who play the largest role.
Since you are a voter - let me take this moment to inform you that Republicans have been moving the ball down the field on abortion as best they can. Even the non-right to lifers (Specter) in the party help the pro-lifers (Bush) make headway by confirming judges (Alito, Roberts) who would overturn RvW.
You're right, it hasn't been banned yet - but we are working to gradually limit the number through initiatives like requiring information be presented to the mother, banning late term and partial birth (being litigated now - a law passed by Republicans and, hopefully, decided favorably by R-appointed judges). It will not happen overnight but these increments will only continue with Rs in power and will be reversed if the other side takes control. You've got to pay attention to the issue and be patient and do what you can.
Also, I am pretty convinced now you are way, way out of touch with reality. The person who took an ARM took a gamble and they get what they have coming to them. For a lot of poeple it worked out. And a lot of people who earn 50k a year are living just fine and paying their mortgage. My mom is one of them and she doesn't earn nearly that much. And if you are unhappy with your income under 50k - you have great freedom to make it higher. That's what a lot of Americans do.
yeah, but I filled in the step 3 there without using a cliche
2) Said Jerk-off sells company on idea of having a 'branch office' in second life.
3) Jerk-off's bosses, trying to be forward thinking like they were when they put company's pension in pets.com back in 98, approve Jerk-off as manager of second life.
4) Jerk-off's life goal of getting paid to do nothing comes to fruition.
I have a corporation - it's an intrinsic part of Democracy to have the freedom to form business relationships as you see fit. You are a nut. You must have gone to college.
Corporate governance in this country is exceptionally strident because it is so easy to exchange the equity in those (public) corporations.
You are useless. And irrelevant (name).
I do want to thank you for surpressing votes for Democrats by inciting cynacism among them, and marginalizing them, allowing my clients to triumph.
If you can donate to a candidate because he wants to surrender to your friends in North Korea, why can't a CEO donate to someone who is going to keep his company from going out of business and putting a few thousand employees out of work.
Also in the reference you cite, what exactly did the ceo get for 100k?
People vote. If you don't like the way your representative is voting, don't like who is giving money to him, or don't like him being left handed, you can vote him out.
BTW - I call copyright infrengment theft, too. It's a lot less syllables and means - for purposes of general discussion - the same thing.
And you do have a point - you CAN call it bribery (though you would be open to slander) and you can vote the guy out.
Or - even better- you can find a bunch of other people who don't like the guy, raise money from them, buy advertising explaining why he's a schmuck, and really have an impact. But that might entail getting off your ass, so never mind.
If he is voting against his constituent's interests, why do they keep voting for him?
You have many facts wrong like so many liberals (US) do.
Bribary is very, very rare in US Government and is vigorously prosecuted.
Corporations also cannot contribute to candidates or political parties _at all_.
Corporations cannot vote. All votes are publicly recorded. If the public does not like how someone votes, they will get rid of them and replace him with someone else they think will vote the way they like. Just ask MAx Cleland.
BTW - there are less than a million homeless in the US - around 600k. THE MOST extreme numbers have 2 million - not 30. If yours facts here are so wrong, maybe most of the rest of what you write is also based on wrong facts. You must be a liberal arts college graduate (ok, maybe that is being to insulting to you, I apologize).
BTW - I have been homeless and unemployed. Twice. Neither is a condition to stop you from voting (you can list your residency as a park bench or a homeless shelter) OR from having fast internet access (public libraries).
You can gtalk me if you want - mbraynard@gmail.com - and I can straighten you out. I counted five factual errors in your first two paragraphs at least.
Irrelevant. All corporations are made up of citizens. Retard.
Anyone who can setup a website can be 'heard.'
There are a bunch of minority parties represented in the Commons, but they there is and always only will be two parties - the one in party and the one out of power.
The difference in the US is that the citizens themselves decide to form the 'coalitions' wheras in parliamentary systems the citizens are removed from this selection and it is determined one level above them.
Jews can be some of the worst anti-semites you will ever encounter. And yeah, Chomsky is one, too.
There is nothing wrong with any of this - it's just the 1st amendment's right to petition the government in action. Just because you don't agree with the JEWS (that's what you mean by neocon, right - you totally give yourself away there), it doesn't mean there is anything corrupt about it.
To answer your other question, the representatives work about as much as they like to - some work furiously, others just show up and vote and take fact finding vacations. There are these types in both parties. And don't judge the official floor action as work week. During recess they are still working.