This is true. But, this guy was judged as qualified for this position by the executives of this company. If he has no clue, he is not suited for the job. Someone who is not qualified for the job will show this by their performance. Ultimately, a chain reaction will occur. The good techs will leave first. After this, the systems will become unreliable. Next, the entire company's performance will suffer, compared to the competition. Stock performance will mirror the company's results, and heads will roll. Another boob will be assigned to the same position and the cycle will repeat until somebody actually qualified takes the job.
The problem that I have with this is that BMI is a poor way to measure obesity. I'm 5'11" and currently weigh 260 pounds. Yeah, I'm fat. When I was 18, I was a varsity athlete in soccer, basketball, and track. I weighed 190 pounds. According to BMI, I was overweight. BMI wants me to believe that my target weight is 135-175 pounds. 135 pounds, at 5'11", with a V-shaped torso, is sickening to even think about.
Another thought that just occurred to me is that this might cause the company's premiums to go up. If more employees start taking blood pressure and cholesterol-controlling medication, the insurance company's costs will go up and will be passed on to the company.
Exactly. 12.5 million is chump change. Also, how much airtime is this really? 8400 30-minute segments. Is this a one time allotment, or a periodic thing? These four companies own ~1600 radio stations. That works out to 5.25 segments per station. They could play the entire time allotment in one go, at 2:00 AM Sunday morning, without even noticing a blip in their listener numbers or revenue.
I just received the following email at work. Nice tongue-in-cheek, anti-Dow email and related website.
December 3, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"DOW" STATEMENT A HOAX "Historic aid package for Bhopal victims" a lie
Contact: Marina Ashanin, Corp. Media Relations, +41-1-728-2347
Related information: http://dowethics.com/bhopal/
Today on BBC World Television, a fake Dow spokesperson announced fake plans to take full responsibility for the very real Bhopal tragedy of December 3, 1984. (1) Dow Chemical emphatically denies this announcement. Although seemingly humanistic in nature, the fake plans were invented by irresponsible hucksters with no regard for the truth.
As Dow has repeatedly noted, Dow cannot and will not take responsibility for the accident. ("What we cannot and will not do... is accept responsibility for the Bhopal accident." - CEO Michael Parker, 2002.) The Dow position has not changed, despite public pressure.
Dow also notes the great injustice that these pranksters have caused by giving Bhopalis false hope for a better future assisted by Dow. The survivors of Bhopal have already suffered 20 years of false hope, neglect, and abdication of responsibility by all parties. Is that not enough?
To be perfectly clear:
* The Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) will NOT be liquidated. (The fake "Dow plan" called for the dissolution and sale of Dow's fully owned subsidiary, estimated at US$12 billion, to fund compensation and remediation in Bhopal.)
* Dow will NOT commit ANY funds to compensate and treat 120,000 Bhopal residents who require lifelong care. The Bhopal victims have ALREADY been compensated; many received about US$500 several years ago, which in India can cover a full year of medical care. (2)
* Dow will NOT remediate (clean up) the Bhopal plant site. We do understand that UCC abandoned thousands of tons of toxic chemicals on the site, and that these still contaminate the groundwater which area residents drink. Dow estimates that the Indian government's recent proposal to commission a study to consider the possibility of proper remediation at some point in the future is fully sufficient.
* Dow does NOT urge the US to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to India, where he has been wanted for 20 years on multiple homicide charges. (3)
* Dow will NOT release proprietary information on the leaked gases, nor the results of studies commissioned by UCC and never released.
* Dow will NOT fund research on the safety of Dow endocrine disruptors (ECDs) considered to have long-term negative effects.
* Dow DOES agree that "One can't assign a dollar value to doing what's morally right," as hoaxter Finisterra said. That is why Dow acknowledged and resolved many of Union Carbide's liabilities in the US immediately after acquiring the company in 2001. (4)
Again, most importantly of all:
* Dow shareholders will see NO losses, because Dow's policy towards Bhopal HAS NOT CHANGED. Much as we at Dow may care, as human beings, about the victims of the Bhopal catastrophe, we must reiterate that Dow's sole and unique responsibility is to its shareholders, and Dow CANNOT do anything that goes against its bottom line unless forced to by law.
For more information please contact Marina Ashanin, Corporate Media Relations, +41-1-728-2347, or reply to this email.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
(1) On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide - now part of Dow - accidentally killed thousands of residents of Bhopal, India, when its pesticide plant leaked a vast cloud of lethal gas over the city. Since that date, at least 12,000 more people have died from complications, and 120,000 remain chronically ill. The Dow Chemical Corporation hereby expresses its condolences to the victims.
(2) Union Carbide was originally forced to pay US$470 million in compensation to survivors, which amounts to about US$500 per victim. (Note: Dow hereby wishes to retract the 2002 statement o
It seems to me that a lot of people are jumping on this with the idea that there will be a fixed number of levels, and that each year the levels will be adjusted to reflect the latest hardware releases. Why not start with the best of today's hardware and give that a level 10. Go through the lower-end items and rate them between 0 and 10. The rating of the PC will then be the rating of the lowest piece of hardware in that PC, i.e., the 4 GHz processor with 128 MB of RAM is rated at the level of the RAM. Future hardware can then be rated in increments as it is released. There shouldn't be more than 3 new levels released per year. In fact, I believe that two levels per year would be more common. If a new piece of hardware that is unknown\not common today becomes common, then that hardware can be assigned a level and integrated into the system.
It's true that this is only a temporary restraining order, but by publishing the details of what is happening here, the ISP can possibly get other interested parties to file amicae curiae briefs. These "friend of the court" briefs will provide expert opinions to the court, and will most likely strengthen the ISP's case. Getting the word out about this is a good move by the ISP's attorney.
Yeah...I am outraged at the way my radio bill keeps rising. If this keeps up, I'm definitely going to switch to something fixed price, like my pirated MP3 collection.
Bring your dirty laundry to your aunt's house on Christmas day and ask her to wash it for you. If she refuses, remind her of how you took your time to fix her computer for her on Thanksgiving.
Somebody in L.A. County, perhaps a feel-good "cause-based" activist, should sue LA County based on the grounds that their support of in place systems using this terminology is offensive. Let L.A. County pay millions of dollars to correct the labelling on every piece of hardware that uses the master/slave terminology. They can't just say "from now on" this terminology is illegal, they need to fix the current "injustices" inherent in the system.
This sort of reminds me of the book Snow Crash. In Snow Crash, the highways have all been privatized. You can purchase access to the highways from the companies that control them, and each company specializes in a different kind of highway. I can't remember the details, but I think one company specialized in nice, smooth, well-maintained highways, but didn't have many off-ramps. Another company had off-ramps all over the place, but their road surfaces were in poor shape.
Think about this. A brokerage, set up their own IM servers that will log all traffic going through them. Then, the brokerage offers an IM client to all of their clients that offers direct access to their broker. Brand it with the brokerage's logo, and charge the client a "convenience fee". Boom - non-traditional revenue.
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This is true. But, this guy was judged as qualified for this position by the executives of this company. If he has no clue, he is not suited for the job. Someone who is not qualified for the job will show this by their performance. Ultimately, a chain reaction will occur. The good techs will leave first. After this, the systems will become unreliable. Next, the entire company's performance will suffer, compared to the competition. Stock performance will mirror the company's results, and heads will roll. Another boob will be assigned to the same position and the cycle will repeat until somebody actually qualified takes the job.
The problem that I have with this is that BMI is a poor way to measure obesity. I'm 5'11" and currently weigh 260 pounds. Yeah, I'm fat. When I was 18, I was a varsity athlete in soccer, basketball, and track. I weighed 190 pounds. According to BMI, I was overweight. BMI wants me to believe that my target weight is 135-175 pounds. 135 pounds, at 5'11", with a V-shaped torso, is sickening to even think about.
Another thought that just occurred to me is that this might cause the company's premiums to go up. If more employees start taking blood pressure and cholesterol-controlling medication, the insurance company's costs will go up and will be passed on to the company.
Exactly. 12.5 million is chump change. Also, how much airtime is this really? 8400 30-minute segments. Is this a one time allotment, or a periodic thing? These four companies own ~1600 radio stations. That works out to 5.25 segments per station. They could play the entire time allotment in one go, at 2:00 AM Sunday morning, without even noticing a blip in their listener numbers or revenue.
I just received the following email at work. Nice tongue-in-cheek, anti-Dow email and related website.
December 3, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"DOW" STATEMENT A HOAX
"Historic aid package for Bhopal victims" a lie
Contact: Marina Ashanin, Corp. Media Relations, +41-1-728-2347
Related information: http://dowethics.com/bhopal/
Today on BBC World Television, a fake Dow spokesperson announced fake plans to take full responsibility for the very real Bhopal tragedy of December 3, 1984. (1) Dow Chemical emphatically denies this announcement. Although seemingly humanistic in nature, the fake plans were invented by irresponsible hucksters with no regard for the truth.
As Dow has repeatedly noted, Dow cannot and will not take responsibility for the accident. ("What we cannot and will not do...
is accept responsibility for the Bhopal accident." - CEO Michael Parker, 2002.) The Dow position has not changed, despite public pressure.
Dow also notes the great injustice that these pranksters have caused by giving Bhopalis false hope for a better future assisted by Dow.
The survivors of Bhopal have already suffered 20 years of false hope, neglect, and abdication of responsibility by all parties. Is that not enough?
To be perfectly clear:
* The Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) will NOT be liquidated. (The fake "Dow plan" called for the dissolution and sale of Dow's fully owned subsidiary, estimated at US$12 billion, to fund compensation and remediation in Bhopal.)
* Dow will NOT commit ANY funds to compensate and treat 120,000 Bhopal residents who require lifelong care. The Bhopal victims have ALREADY been compensated; many received about US$500 several years ago, which in India can cover a full year of medical care. (2)
* Dow will NOT remediate (clean up) the Bhopal plant site. We do understand that UCC abandoned thousands of tons of toxic chemicals on the site, and that these still contaminate the groundwater which area residents drink. Dow estimates that the Indian government's recent proposal to commission a study to consider the possibility of proper remediation at some point in the future is fully sufficient.
* Dow does NOT urge the US to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson to India, where he has been wanted for 20 years on multiple homicide charges. (3)
* Dow will NOT release proprietary information on the leaked gases, nor the results of studies commissioned by UCC and never released.
* Dow will NOT fund research on the safety of Dow endocrine disruptors (ECDs) considered to have long-term negative effects.
* Dow DOES agree that "One can't assign a dollar value to doing what's morally right," as hoaxter Finisterra said. That is why Dow acknowledged and resolved many of Union Carbide's liabilities in the US immediately after acquiring the company in 2001. (4)
Again, most importantly of all:
* Dow shareholders will see NO losses, because Dow's policy towards Bhopal HAS NOT CHANGED. Much as we at Dow may care, as human beings, about the victims of the Bhopal catastrophe, we must reiterate that Dow's sole and unique responsibility is to its shareholders, and Dow CANNOT do anything that goes against its bottom line unless forced to by law.
For more information please contact Marina Ashanin, Corporate Media Relations, +41-1-728-2347, or reply to this email.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
(1) On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide - now part of Dow - accidentally killed thousands of residents of Bhopal, India, when its pesticide plant leaked a vast cloud of lethal gas over the city.
Since that date, at least 12,000 more people have died from complications, and 120,000 remain chronically ill. The Dow Chemical Corporation hereby expresses its condolences to the victims.
(2) Union Carbide was originally forced to pay US$470 million in compensation to survivors, which amounts to about US$500 per victim.
(Note: Dow hereby wishes to retract the 2002 statement o
It seems to me that a lot of people are jumping on this with the idea that there will be a fixed number of levels, and that each year the levels will be adjusted to reflect the latest hardware releases. Why not start with the best of today's hardware and give that a level 10. Go through the lower-end items and rate them between 0 and 10. The rating of the PC will then be the rating of the lowest piece of hardware in that PC, i.e., the 4 GHz processor with 128 MB of RAM is rated at the level of the RAM. Future hardware can then be rated in increments as it is released. There shouldn't be more than 3 new levels released per year. In fact, I believe that two levels per year would be more common. If a new piece of hardware that is unknown\not common today becomes common, then that hardware can be assigned a level and integrated into the system.
Did you ever notice that if you line up the copies of Maxim in chronological order, that there is a picture of a woman on the spine of the magazine?
-Andrew
It's true that this is only a temporary restraining order, but by publishing the details of what is happening here, the ISP can possibly get other interested parties to file amicae curiae briefs. These "friend of the court" briefs will provide expert opinions to the court, and will most likely strengthen the ISP's case. Getting the word out about this is a good move by the ISP's attorney.
-Andrew
Yeah...I am outraged at the way my radio bill keeps rising. If this keeps up, I'm definitely going to switch to something fixed price, like my pirated MP3 collection.
Bring your dirty laundry to your aunt's house on Christmas day and ask her to wash it for you. If she refuses, remind her of how you took your time to fix her computer for her on Thanksgiving.
Somebody in L.A. County, perhaps a feel-good "cause-based" activist, should sue LA County based on the grounds that their support of in place systems using this terminology is offensive. Let L.A. County pay millions of dollars to correct the labelling on every piece of hardware that uses the master/slave terminology. They can't just say "from now on" this terminology is illegal, they need to fix the current "injustices" inherent in the system.
the cornhole? I can already hear the support calls...
This sort of reminds me of the book Snow Crash. In Snow Crash, the highways have all been privatized. You can purchase access to the highways from the companies that control them, and each company specializes in a different kind of highway. I can't remember the details, but I think one company specialized in nice, smooth, well-maintained highways, but didn't have many off-ramps. Another company had off-ramps all over the place, but their road surfaces were in poor shape.
Think about this. A brokerage, set up their own IM servers that will log all traffic going through them. Then, the brokerage offers an IM client to all of their clients that offers direct access to their broker. Brand it with the brokerage's logo, and charge the client a "convenience fee". Boom - non-traditional revenue.