(heh!) I'm gonna have to disagree with you there bobbo - it's stigmatized because intelligent creative causes aren't NECISSARY. Evolution happens, and we understand a great deal about how it works. Evolution is supported by the minutia in every scientific discipline from chemistry, geology, and astronomy to biology and physics. For every question intelligent design raises about the validity of a particular test, real science has an answer; Sometimes, perhaps even often, the answer is "I don't know", but it's never "something smarter than me must have made it that way". That answer doesn't get you any closer to understand the process that you're looking at, and invariably a NATURAL process can be found to explain it, even understand it, and that natural explanation NEVER involves a 'intelligent creator'. The oft-cited 'if you find a watch, who created it' is a perfect example - a watch-maker made it - the watch maker evolved from a single celled ancestor with a biology that gave it the intelligence to create the watch. Point being - the watch maker isn't the product of a intelligent designer, he's the product of evolution - and there's absolutely nothing in the natural world that we know of that would REQUIRE the manipulation of an 'intelligence' rather than of a natural process to exist.
Evolution is clearly and without a doubt a natural process limited by the natural world and the fundamental laws of the universe. Intelligent design tries to name the author of the laws of the universe. That's an exercise in cosmic gossip, not science.
I'm sorry, because you're reply #2, you're in violation of "refrain from the corruption/collusion arguments for at least 3 posts...", and I've had to go ahead and report you to the MPAA.
I've seen it before, but I've never quite understood how any government can be convinced to collect taxes for a non-government enterprise. Unless the government is now going to start producing, regulating or in some other way getting involved in the music industry, and intends to use the taxes to pursue that enterprise, why exactly would they collect taxes for it? -- I know it's slashdot but this is a serious question if anyone knows [seriously though - I know it's slashdot, but please refrain from the corruption/collusion arguments for at least 3 posts... ] [[no, seriously... ]]
I totally agree with you to a point - the problem is, what to do about it, and what's causing it? The problem, imho, doesn't have anything to with outsourcing or to a smaller extent the greed that motivates it. It has to do with opportunity, which can reasonably be provided by a responsive government. The government should be doing far more to promote small businesses, because (generally speaking) they outsource less, are far more responsive and efficient to the customer, provide more jobs and generate more tax revenue (fewer loopholes to exploit and fewer resources to exploit the loopholes). The government should also be cutting subsidies for large businesses, especially mutli-nationals. It simply doesn't make sense that we, as a country, support multi-nationals with subsidies - if those markets were to collapse because our government stopped funding them, there would be a thousand small business spawned to pick up the pieces. More competition means lower prices, more jobs, and more overall stability.
Imagine the effect of Delta and American Airlines going under tomorrow. It would be chaos. Now what would happen if McDonalds went under? A lot of Subway's and Burger Kings would get good real estate. Competition is critical to stability and you don't have a lot of competition at the super-industry level - competition that's PREVENTED by governments supporting the conglomerates themselves. A transition at this point would be tough, but if those services were required (like the airlines) we'd all benefit in the long run. But understand that I'm not anti-large business or multi-national, I'm just pro small-business & I believe it would work itself out. I honestly think that government benefits (subsidies, tax breaks, etc) should limited to companies with less than 1000 employees, and less than 10 years old.
I also believe that claims of "lack of a qualified workforce at home" is an outstanding way to start a company on the government dime using the language that corporations use to explain their need - and when they say we need to outsource, you can say "no you don't - we offer exactly what your asking for". And then they'd have to explain that they don't want to pay for it, which typically doesn't go over too well in a congressional hearing. So to me, it's opportunity knocking...
I certainly didn't mean to put down technical people, sorry for the inference - I'm suggesting that technical people should be far more bold about their work and WHERE they work. Get a job at Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic [honestly, these are places I really want to work at, I'm sure there are others] and the like. Technical people -have- the creative ideas that business people -sell-. It's true that there are creative people all over the world, but business people who outsource to save a buck aren't really all that creative (they think they are, but they're really not), and shouldn't capitalize on YOUR ideas. So if you're an engineer, work for someone else to make your big ideas happen. Don't give it up to that non-creative company who's going to take your idea (and job) and run from you because you're expensive. You'll also be much more bold and creative when you know you're not a risk of losing your job.
1) How are people supposed to eat and pay rent while they're making this new company? Ruth of Ruth Chris' steak house mortgaged her home for 23k (had 242million in income last year - also going international). Chris Gardner was played by Will Smith recently in his life-movie - I assume you can look up other examples?
2) CEOs in India are soon going to undercut CEOs in America....LOL! So... you mean the guys who are off shoring American jobs might lose.. their... jobs? I say it serves them right. Also There is not one single innovation that can be achieved here that can't be discovered there, cheaper Tough shit. Seriously - there's nothing you can do about that. Adapt.
3) You're a retard, not a marine. Off shoring isn't taking away drive through fast food jobs. They're taking away BIOTECH RESEARCH jobs, IT jobs and financial accounting jobs. LMAO! [You need to capitalize Marine btw...] Trav, I'm guessing you're not in biotech or financial accounting. But really - why do you think that is? Because biotech research is less restrictive in other countries than it is in America? Because other countries have a need for medicine? There are a hundred reasons this is happening, and they are all legitimate from an open market, (financially speaking) capitalist point of view. There ISN'T another way if you're an American - short of socialism. Period. Accounting isn't going anywhere (half of it's based on tax codes), and IT is totally location agnostic. It's also not that hard, so yeah - anyone can do it.
4) When your social security number is used in Bangalore to defraud you, guess what? That has what to do with outsourcing? Your social security number being used to defraud you is a problem caused (and preventable) by the US government capitulating to credit card and marketing companies over your right to privacy. Make it harder to get credit and to actually verify someone's ID and this would be a much smaller problem, and much easier to track. Of course, it'd cost credit card companies billions... so no. That's not going to happen. (And the CIA would come to get me if the "perps" were in India by way of Bangalore for an attack in Iraq, dumbass. CIA = International. FBI = Domestic.)
5) What company have you started? Black Sheep Coffee House - failed on start up (or rather prior) because I didn't dare put down the 30k I needed for a business loan. Currently working for a (top 100) financial services company in IT, and looking forward to my severance if it ever gets outsourced so I can try it again. (Not a coffee house - something else)
You're just a trust fund baby raised by parents who made their money working at US factories. You inherited your wealth and if you were to lose it... you would have to join the Marines to get a job. If ONLY! My mother was a single mom and nurse working double shifts with 5 kids after my father died of cancer (I was 1). As a matter of fact, I DID join the Marine Corps to get a job. Because I knew that moving piano's days, working nights as a dishwasher, and later nights at warehouse had a limited growth potential - and I still couldn't afford college. I'm going on 35 and should get my degree this year - mostly because I refused to take a single student loan and paid for the whole damn thing myself [of course, half with the GI Bill]. And your confusing 'not caring' about my country with not agreeing with you. I actually believe in American and the ability of Americans to survive anything the world has to throw at it - at least those of us who don't crawl into our own little pools of self pity over having to compete with people who are just as capable (or, in fact, destroying ourselves outright over nameless fears of random attacks). At times I imagine starting a company that offers 'US Local' services to those Indian companies. Funny, and profitable.
You see jobs being outsourced to India and China and think 'omg! what am i going to do? how will i pay rent? poor me and my country!'. I think 'Outstanding. Now what am I going to DO about it'. Seriously Travoltus, rhetoric aside - what are you really afraid of?
So why is anti-off shoring "Racism" against east indians?
It's not. I'm not aware that anyone thinks it is... in fact, I can't even begin to fathom where that comment comes from, so I'll just leave it.
As for protectionism... I don't apologize for protecting my own country
Didn't say you had to. I was just pointing out how inane it is to use 'racism' incorrectly.
Just as a point of curiosity - you're clearly anti-globalism and pro-American... which is funny, since ECONOMIC globalism (which is, I assume, your specific gripe) is called "Americanism" by the rest of the world. Which makes sense, as it's American companies that are going global, setting up shop in other countries and bringing the bacon home, so to speak. You're clearly not socialist or communist, so what is it about globalism, as an American, that you're against?
It's interesting that there isn't a single country on the face of the earth where you won't find coca cola - an American product. Sure, I understand you mean the off shoring of those spectacular jobs like... taking orders at the local drive through... w00t... But how about, instead of crying over how you're losing shitty jobs to 'foreigners', you use your American ingenuity to start your own company. You know - like those guys that made America what it is today... guys like Thomas Edison, Ray Kroc (you know - McDonalds? Outsourcing?), Sam Walton (Wal-Mart), Jack Welch (GE), Trump (bad comb over), Martha Stewart (is a dude), Steve Jobs... Americans who are rich because they took advantage of the opportunities available to them in AMERICA... and who's crap is made, bought and sold the world over. If I'm not totally mistaken, it's what they call the AMERICAN DREAM. Also, interestingly, not people who whined about losing their shitty job to someone else who's smarter than them. Someone who, at the very least, speaks two languages, if not more. As an added bonus - which to me, as a Marine, is the real selling point - someone who won't go to War with the United States because they'd lose their shitty job.
Don't get me wrong Trav - I appreciate that you're defending America in the best way you know how. But I'm an American too, and quite frankly, you're embarrassing me with your fear of losing any job from outsourcing. You're an American. Be American by having the courage to stand up and compete - get with your newly unemployed friends and make a better product [you always said you could do it better, right?], provide better service, be smarter, more flexible, invent something, create a new market, whatever. Hire only US citizens if you want to, but for hell's sakes don't bitch about what other people, American or not, are or aren't doing.
While making some valid points, you fail to recognize that the foundation our economic stability is built on is being eroded by the multinational conglomerates you claim are doing the damage, but not for the reasons you think. The damage comes from people who are willing to take minimum wage jobs and then try to hold on to them for 20, 30 or 40 years. America wasn't built and isn't stabilized by the 'economic elite', it was built and IS stabilized by disruptive players and hard work [if you've had the same job for 40 years... you're not working hard or smart]. We all know that the technology industry, the MULTI-BILLION dollar technology industry was sparked, built and expanded by relatively unknown players with big dreams - like Steve Jobs. If you have a bachelors in Computer Science, why would you condemn yourself to 20 years of programming? Why not build your own company with your own big ideas?
When Americans stop dreaming, building, or doing, we'll collapse. That will happen regardless of who has the money.
Americans are not a "race". Spin the wheel of inflamatory words and go again. I would recommend finding whatever word means the reverse of 'protectionism'.
Personally I'm fully of the opinion that 'innovation' is [or rather should be] reserved for something entirely new, never seen before, a cream of the crop class of inventions. The Wii joystick control...thing would, I'm pretty sure, qualify. Joystick? Motion sensor? Wireless-mouse-controller-thing? The fact that it's hard to describe proves the point - it's original, new, INNOVATIVE... The original mouse was innovative, the *first* gui for sure - maybe even the first true 'icon' in software (debatable). I think we've diluted the word itself (or rather allowed the dilution by not scoffing at its over-use) which is why the debate even happens. For me, that's the crime - it makes it harder to define something that truly is 'innovative'. That word has lost its meaning and we're left scratching for a new word that adequately describes, defines, or classifies the importance of the thing.
Software innovations are harder because almost everything has been an incremental improvement. The 3D desktop could have been innovative if Sun's 'looking glass' project had gotten it right 4 years ago, but if it takes 5 years of making incremental improvements (like we're doing now), it loses it's 'newness - and becomes an invention, or God forbid Vista [joke].
I don't know - for me, "innovation" is hard to describe - which is, I guess, precisely the point. An innovation should be hard to describe. I'd bet the first shipment of frozen vegetables was a very hard conversation to understand for the first grocery store that got them.
Winer is right because "Innovation" does not mean 'new and improved', it means 'NEW', 'GROUNDBREAKING', 'Never been seen before'. Nothing Scoble cited was 'NEW' in any way, it was "improved". Better error messages (say what?!)? Better fonts (cleartype BS aside, that's a better FONT, not NEW LETTERS)? Halo? He must be kidding. Scoble even had the literary gall to say "three innovations, like, say, the blog, the wiki, and search..." which are not in any way INNOVATIVE, or even revolutionary, they're evolutionary. How irksome that someone who apparently writes for a living doesn't even understand the words that are coming out of his mouth.
MATH! OMG! (%^#(&^ -
what did all that mean? That you make more in the Netherlands and get more benefits, or that you'll lose half (52%) of your paycheck to taxes?!
That news today ISN'T delivered by plastic coated manufactured imitations of human beings? Well, there's nothing I look forward to more than getting my news from Cartoons. At least it'll be honest deception.
It's kind of like the rest of the business world, but different: Full members, who are freelancers in high-tech professions and have full voting rights - These are usually called "Employees". Associated members such as lawyers who provide services to the co-op - These are known as "Management" Non-members with an investment in the company - These are known as "Investors".... yeah, I don't really know how that's different. Maybe there's no dental plan?
I'm sorry I posted this earlier today, but I'm only stealing from myself...
The follow up report will be about how all forms of entertainment on earth will be destroyed, taking with it almost all life on earth except for the main characters who are probably working in the mall or at the cable company with you. It's aNOTHER side effect of piracy. You might have seen it in such Hollywood blockbusters as "Armageddon", or "Volcano", or even "The Day After Tomorrow". You see, without Hollywood, we wouldn't have known that these catastrophes were even possible, much less how we might actually survive them. I for one thank God almost every day for the Big 5 [Movie/Music studio]'s whom without which we would all be dead. And Tom Cruise. Always for Tom Cruise.
I'm sure we can all be confident that Wal-Mart, Apple, and the major studios are making this alliance in the best interests of all the artists involved in making those movies, TV shows and music. This deal is sure to bring the artists, and all the people involved in creating those forms of entertainment, just a little bit closer to eaking out a living and being able to provide for their loved ones. Unless the pirates continue to steal their products and make the studio's, Apple, and Wal-Mart spend all their money on prosecuting those thieves in order to protect the artists - who will then, of course, get nothing.
Oh, and all forms of entertainment on earth will be destroyed, taking with it almost all life on earth except for the main characters who are probably working in the mall or at the cable company with you. It's a side effect of piracy. You might have seen it in such Hollywood blockbusters as "Armageddon", or "Volcano", or even "The Day After Tomorrow". You see, without Hollywood, we wouldn't have known that these catastrophes were even possible, much less how we might actually survive them. I for one thank God every day for Wal-Mart and the Big 5 [name it]'s whom without which we would all be dead. And Tom Cruise.
Sure, but competition in the voting machine industry would be nice. Slot machines could be easily modified to fit the need with 50 years of a solid security history. Diebold seems to be the only game in town, despite the fact that the gaming industry has the money, technology, and backing to enter the voting market and make a fortune doing it. The question I really have is - why aren't they?
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Evolution is clearly and without a doubt a natural process limited by the natural world and the fundamental laws of the universe. Intelligent design tries to name the author of the laws of the universe. That's an exercise in cosmic gossip, not science.
I'm sorry, because you're reply #2, you're in violation of "refrain from the corruption/collusion arguments for at least 3 posts...", and I've had to go ahead and report you to the MPAA.
All right then - & thanks!
I've seen it before, but I've never quite understood how any government can be convinced to collect taxes for a non-government enterprise. Unless the government is now going to start producing, regulating or in some other way getting involved in the music industry, and intends to use the taxes to pursue that enterprise, why exactly would they collect taxes for it? -- I know it's slashdot but this is a serious question if anyone knows [seriously though - I know it's slashdot, but please refrain from the corruption/collusion arguments for at least 3 posts... ] [[no, seriously... ]]
But no. They have all been caused by Chuck Norris, depending on how hot or cold he is, and how many people he's decided to let live.
HP48G here - I've had it for years and it's awesome.
Imagine the effect of Delta and American Airlines going under tomorrow. It would be chaos. Now what would happen if McDonalds went under? A lot of Subway's and Burger Kings would get good real estate. Competition is critical to stability and you don't have a lot of competition at the super-industry level - competition that's PREVENTED by governments supporting the conglomerates themselves. A transition at this point would be tough, but if those services were required (like the airlines) we'd all benefit in the long run. But understand that I'm not anti-large business or multi-national, I'm just pro small-business & I believe it would work itself out. I honestly think that government benefits (subsidies, tax breaks, etc) should limited to companies with less than 1000 employees, and less than 10 years old.
I also believe that claims of "lack of a qualified workforce at home" is an outstanding way to start a company on the government dime using the language that corporations use to explain their need - and when they say we need to outsource, you can say "no you don't - we offer exactly what your asking for". And then they'd have to explain that they don't want to pay for it, which typically doesn't go over too well in a congressional hearing. So to me, it's opportunity knocking...
I certainly didn't mean to put down technical people, sorry for the inference - I'm suggesting that technical people should be far more bold about their work and WHERE they work. Get a job at Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic [honestly, these are places I really want to work at, I'm sure there are others] and the like. Technical people -have- the creative ideas that business people -sell-. It's true that there are creative people all over the world, but business people who outsource to save a buck aren't really all that creative (they think they are, but they're really not), and shouldn't capitalize on YOUR ideas. So if you're an engineer, work for someone else to make your big ideas happen. Don't give it up to that non-creative company who's going to take your idea (and job) and run from you because you're expensive. You'll also be much more bold and creative when you know you're not a risk of losing your job.
1) How are people supposed to eat and pay rent while they're making this new company? Ruth of Ruth Chris' steak house mortgaged her home for 23k (had 242million in income last year - also going international). Chris Gardner was played by Will Smith recently in his life-movie - I assume you can look up other examples?
2) CEOs in India are soon going to undercut CEOs in America. ...LOL! So... you mean the guys who are off shoring American jobs might lose .. their... jobs? I say it serves them right. Also There is not one single innovation that can be achieved here that can't be discovered there, cheaper Tough shit. Seriously - there's nothing you can do about that. Adapt.
3) You're a retard, not a marine. Off shoring isn't taking away drive through fast food jobs. They're taking away BIOTECH RESEARCH jobs, IT jobs and financial accounting jobs. LMAO! [You need to capitalize Marine btw...] Trav, I'm guessing you're not in biotech or financial accounting. But really - why do you think that is? Because biotech research is less restrictive in other countries than it is in America? Because other countries have a need for medicine? There are a hundred reasons this is happening, and they are all legitimate from an open market, (financially speaking) capitalist point of view. There ISN'T another way if you're an American - short of socialism. Period. Accounting isn't going anywhere (half of it's based on tax codes), and IT is totally location agnostic. It's also not that hard, so yeah - anyone can do it.
4) When your social security number is used in Bangalore to defraud you, guess what? That has what to do with outsourcing? Your social security number being used to defraud you is a problem caused (and preventable) by the US government capitulating to credit card and marketing companies over your right to privacy. Make it harder to get credit and to actually verify someone's ID and this would be a much smaller problem, and much easier to track. Of course, it'd cost credit card companies billions... so no. That's not going to happen. (And the CIA would come to get me if the "perps" were in India by way of Bangalore for an attack in Iraq, dumbass. CIA = International. FBI = Domestic.)
5) What company have you started? Black Sheep Coffee House - failed on start up (or rather prior) because I didn't dare put down the 30k I needed for a business loan. Currently working for a (top 100) financial services company in IT, and looking forward to my severance if it ever gets outsourced so I can try it again. (Not a coffee house - something else)
You're just a trust fund baby raised by parents who made their money working at US factories. You inherited your wealth and if you were to lose it... you would have to join the Marines to get a job. If ONLY! My mother was a single mom and nurse working double shifts with 5 kids after my father died of cancer (I was 1). As a matter of fact, I DID join the Marine Corps to get a job. Because I knew that moving piano's days, working nights as a dishwasher, and later nights at warehouse had a limited growth potential - and I still couldn't afford college. I'm going on 35 and should get my degree this year - mostly because I refused to take a single student loan and paid for the whole damn thing myself [of course, half with the GI Bill]. And your confusing 'not caring' about my country with not agreeing with you. I actually believe in American and the ability of Americans to survive anything the world has to throw at it - at least those of us who don't crawl into our own little pools of self pity over having to compete with people who are just as capable (or, in fact, destroying ourselves outright over nameless fears of random attacks). At times I imagine starting a company that offers 'US Local' services to those Indian companies. Funny, and profitable.
You see jobs being outsourced to India and China and think 'omg! what am i going to do? how will i pay rent? poor me and my country!'. I think 'Outstanding. Now what am I going to DO about it'. Seriously Travoltus, rhetoric aside - what are you really afraid of?
It's not. I'm not aware that anyone thinks it is... in fact, I can't even begin to fathom where that comment comes from, so I'll just leave it.
As for protectionism... I don't apologize for protecting my own country
Didn't say you had to. I was just pointing out how inane it is to use 'racism' incorrectly. Just as a point of curiosity - you're clearly anti-globalism and pro-American... which is funny, since ECONOMIC globalism (which is, I assume, your specific gripe) is called "Americanism" by the rest of the world. Which makes sense, as it's American companies that are going global, setting up shop in other countries and bringing the bacon home, so to speak. You're clearly not socialist or communist, so what is it about globalism, as an American, that you're against? It's interesting that there isn't a single country on the face of the earth where you won't find coca cola - an American product. Sure, I understand you mean the off shoring of those spectacular jobs like... taking orders at the local drive through... w00t... But how about, instead of crying over how you're losing shitty jobs to 'foreigners', you use your American ingenuity to start your own company. You know - like those guys that made America what it is today... guys like Thomas Edison, Ray Kroc (you know - McDonalds? Outsourcing?), Sam Walton (Wal-Mart), Jack Welch (GE), Trump (bad comb over), Martha Stewart (is a dude), Steve Jobs... Americans who are rich because they took advantage of the opportunities available to them in AMERICA... and who's crap is made, bought and sold the world over. If I'm not totally mistaken, it's what they call the AMERICAN DREAM. Also, interestingly, not people who whined about losing their shitty job to someone else who's smarter than them. Someone who, at the very least, speaks two languages, if not more. As an added bonus - which to me, as a Marine, is the real selling point - someone who won't go to War with the United States because they'd lose their shitty job.
Don't get me wrong Trav - I appreciate that you're defending America in the best way you know how. But I'm an American too, and quite frankly, you're embarrassing me with your fear of losing any job from outsourcing. You're an American. Be American by having the courage to stand up and compete - get with your newly unemployed friends and make a better product [you always said you could do it better, right?], provide better service, be smarter, more flexible, invent something, create a new market, whatever. Hire only US citizens if you want to, but for hell's sakes don't bitch about what other people, American or not, are or aren't doing.
While making some valid points, you fail to recognize that the foundation our economic stability is built on is being eroded by the multinational conglomerates you claim are doing the damage, but not for the reasons you think. The damage comes from people who are willing to take minimum wage jobs and then try to hold on to them for 20, 30 or 40 years. America wasn't built and isn't stabilized by the 'economic elite', it was built and IS stabilized by disruptive players and hard work [if you've had the same job for 40 years... you're not working hard or smart]. We all know that the technology industry, the MULTI-BILLION dollar technology industry was sparked, built and expanded by relatively unknown players with big dreams - like Steve Jobs. If you have a bachelors in Computer Science, why would you condemn yourself to 20 years of programming? Why not build your own company with your own big ideas? When Americans stop dreaming, building, or doing, we'll collapse. That will happen regardless of who has the money.
Americans are not a "race". Spin the wheel of inflamatory words and go again.
I would recommend finding whatever word means the reverse of 'protectionism'.
If the format is designated as an "industry standard", won't that make it more susceptible to regulation by governments needing access?
n00b.
Personally I'm fully of the opinion that 'innovation' is [or rather should be] reserved for something entirely new, never seen before, a cream of the crop class of inventions. The Wii joystick control ...thing would, I'm pretty sure, qualify. Joystick? Motion sensor? Wireless-mouse-controller-thing? The fact that it's hard to describe proves the point - it's original, new, INNOVATIVE... The original mouse was innovative, the *first* gui for sure - maybe even the first true 'icon' in software (debatable). I think we've diluted the word itself (or rather allowed the dilution by not scoffing at its over-use) which is why the debate even happens. For me, that's the crime - it makes it harder to define something that truly is 'innovative'. That word has lost its meaning and we're left scratching for a new word that adequately describes, defines, or classifies the importance of the thing.
Software innovations are harder because almost everything has been an incremental improvement. The 3D desktop could have been innovative if Sun's 'looking glass' project had gotten it right 4 years ago, but if it takes 5 years of making incremental improvements (like we're doing now), it loses it's 'newness - and becomes an invention, or God forbid Vista [joke].
I don't know - for me, "innovation" is hard to describe - which is, I guess, precisely the point. An innovation should be hard to describe. I'd bet the first shipment of frozen vegetables was a very hard conversation to understand for the first grocery store that got them.
Winer is right because "Innovation" does not mean 'new and improved', it means 'NEW', 'GROUNDBREAKING', 'Never been seen before'. Nothing Scoble cited was 'NEW' in any way, it was "improved". Better error messages (say what?!)? Better fonts (cleartype BS aside, that's a better FONT, not NEW LETTERS)? Halo? He must be kidding. Scoble even had the literary gall to say "three innovations, like, say, the blog, the wiki, and search..." which are not in any way INNOVATIVE, or even revolutionary, they're evolutionary. How irksome that someone who apparently writes for a living doesn't even understand the words that are coming out of his mouth.
Flash-mob mock-riots.
MATH! OMG! (%^#(&^ - what did all that mean? That you make more in the Netherlands and get more benefits, or that you'll lose half (52%) of your paycheck to taxes?!
That news today ISN'T delivered by plastic coated manufactured imitations of human beings? Well, there's nothing I look forward to more than getting my news from Cartoons. At least it'll be honest deception.
It's kind of like the rest of the business world, but different: ... yeah, I don't really know how that's different. Maybe there's no dental plan?
Full members, who are freelancers in high-tech professions and have full voting rights - These are usually called "Employees".
Associated members such as lawyers who provide services to the co-op - These are known as "Management"
Non-members with an investment in the company - These are known as "Investors".
I'm waiting for the movie.
The follow up report will be about how all forms of entertainment on earth will be destroyed, taking with it almost all life on earth except for the main characters who are probably working in the mall or at the cable company with you. It's aNOTHER side effect of piracy. You might have seen it in such Hollywood blockbusters as "Armageddon", or "Volcano", or even "The Day After Tomorrow". You see, without Hollywood, we wouldn't have known that these catastrophes were even possible, much less how we might actually survive them. I for one thank God almost every day for the Big 5 [Movie/Music studio]'s whom without which we would all be dead. And Tom Cruise. Always for Tom Cruise.
Oh, and all forms of entertainment on earth will be destroyed, taking with it almost all life on earth except for the main characters who are probably working in the mall or at the cable company with you. It's a side effect of piracy. You might have seen it in such Hollywood blockbusters as "Armageddon", or "Volcano", or even "The Day After Tomorrow". You see, without Hollywood, we wouldn't have known that these catastrophes were even possible, much less how we might actually survive them. I for one thank God every day for Wal-Mart and the Big 5 [name it]'s whom without which we would all be dead. And Tom Cruise.
Wait 'till we see what kind of drug they make for it. Whatever it is, I bet it'll make Duke Nuke 'Em Forever look awesome...
Sure, but competition in the voting machine industry would be nice. Slot machines could be easily modified to fit the need with 50 years of a solid security history. Diebold seems to be the only game in town, despite the fact that the gaming industry has the money, technology, and backing to enter the voting market and make a fortune doing it. The question I really have is - why aren't they?