Ok. I admit I laughed. But the message should remain the same for any sovereign country. Don't let foreigners run your critical infrastructure. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
Whatabout whatabout whatabout.
Nice deflection. We're talking about Chinese products supply critical US infrastructure. Trying to change the topic to talk about US companies doesn't address the point at all - it just tries to redirect the conversation.
Short version: we MUST not allow foreign nation-state corporations to supply critical US infrastructure.
Right. The subscription model with huge cancellations. Promoted by cellphone producers, car leasers, new car manufacturers (like volvo), cable companies, satellite TV companies, digital / satellite radio companies. Autodesk. Katea. Solidworks.
It's disgusting. The only one of these that I buy into is the cell-phone plans, and that may likely change when I am out of this contract since the off-contract companies are now very competitive.
Really? I don't have a single sprinkler and none of my grass dies. Of course maybe you're confusing flyover country with California. or another hot arid state.
But billing info will still be required. It's a very short trip to connect this anonymous ID to all the real information that is required to do any internet business. From that point on, the real bad guys know exactly who you are. This makes security worse, not better.
Except..... this isn't protectionism. This is the same thing the US government goes after domestic companies for when they try to play tax haven games with places with Ireland. Which is why they enacted the whole "pay the taxes you owe overseas then pay the remainder that you owe here".
You clearly don't understand what's going on, so I'm trying to dumb this down to the point you'll get it. Korea is telling companies they need to pay taxes on money they make in Korea, like MANY other countries (including the US) already do....
That's true about bleach not being appropriate. Unsurprisingly, you'll find there are already bugs out there that can tolerate bleach, at least in the levels you'll find in your non-commercial cleaners and clothes washing bleach. We're dealing with that right now while taking care of an ailing family member at home who is prone to infection. The hospital has confirmed the strain of infection our family member has will be unaffected by low levels of bleach.
The average person the street is not smart enough to understand that "investors" have not a damn thing to do with real performance. They'll see this and think that somehow twitter is not a profitable or sustaining company, despite the fact that their profits are good.
What we have is irresponsible profit-driven reporters who want short clips rather than explaining what this actually means.
And in the mean time, we have a bunch of idiots who are so absorbed with another idiots that all they want to do is talk politics and trash talk eachother.
This easily could have been titled "Childish investors with no foresight have knee-jerk reaction to something that was already predicted." Or perhaps "Company does the right thing, angers investors."
Stock price no longer has any real tie in with the success or failure of companies. It's just a ticker number that people who participate in real-life gambling pay attention to.
This is what is called excercising soft power. Soft power is developed over time through financial and political influence. It is easily lost through buffoonery, name calling, and ineffectiveness. China has soft power. They rarely threaten or comment without taking action. Their financial situation and power affects every country in the world.
Essentially the Chinese have learned the mantra "Speak softly and carry and big stick." American government has done just the opposite.
For instance - making comments like XXX will suffer consequences, or "our nukes are bigger than yours" are exactly the kind of threat that destroys soft power. They are threats that are rarely or never acted upon, and they undermine your credibility.
Our current administration has spent every last big of political capitol that the United States had left. No one is afraid of us. We are no longer the biggest dog in the room, and we continue to put our fingers in too many holes in the dyke rather than picking our battles carefully.
Either private companies give up our privacy by allowing the government access to our communications...... or laws will be passed FORCING them to give up our privacy.
And we wonder why the United States Government won't pass a law protecting our personal data.
That's really all they can do. Let's face facts - people who get their actual news from Facebook are idiots. People who can't be bothered to fact check or even do the slightest amount of verification are idiots. And the vast vast majority of internet users are.... idiots. They'll grab the first thing they see that they agree with and use it as their evidence to support to their argument. Whether it's from politifact, snopes, or stormfront.
Facebook is an online chat. That's it. People who use it to gather factual data... there's not much we can do about it. *shrug*.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised when the vast majority of the responses blame the scooters, the government, and everything but the PEOPLE RIDING THE SCOOTERS.
It's just people refusing to aknowledge where the responsibility truly lies.
Lock the things up, require a credit card to use them, then have a set of rules that the police can enforce. Done. You know who was using the scooter and can enforce fines.
I'd like to start by saying hello to our new ride-share overlords.....
You may be right. I'm not that up in businesses in China. What I DO know is that China's lack of monopoly and anti-trust laws mean that they have mega-corporations there. Those mega-corporations are taking advantage of Chinese law (American's can't entirely buy a Chinese company). They are are also taking advantage of American law that limits just how large a company can grow inside America.
That has allowed Chinese corporations to grow unfettered until they are many times the American counterpart. Then they either crush or buy our companies.
We have a problem and I'm not sure how to fix it. I can, however, say that in the near future (10 years) Uber is going to be become a Chinese subsidiary when Didi goes after them.
They got run off because the majority of manufacturing plants in Flint were into component manufacturing. Spark plugs, fuel tanks, air cleaners, mass air flow sensors, alternators. At one point GM had close to 42 different plants turning out stuff.
EVERY ONE of those plants has gone to overseas businesses in China, Japan, and Taiwan where they turn the stuff out far cheaper.
It's that simple. It had nothing to do with the horrible mismanagement of the government of Flint.
P.S. - I lived there and worked there for a decade before I saw the writing on the wall.
Hey cool - and at the same time we get to use enormous amounts of energy to create something with zero lasting. Using so much power that we've overstressed some cheap grids here in the states.
That sounds like a great idea. Have computers chugging away to produce nothing of value. Wooooo environment!
By your reasoning , we'd be finding gps trackers installed in our cars so independent repairman can sell or location data. Plumbers would install remote shutoffs so we had to call them back. By your logic, no repair would ever be a safe repair if done by a third party. You are an idiot.
Really? I don't have any skepticism. Without rules like this, I can tell you exactly how this situation goes:
Google needs access to a particular pole as no available ground is around for them to put up one of their own. They contact the owner - let's say AT&T. AT&T replies that they have to go through a risk analysis: after all, there's a lot of important stuff on that pole.
Google hears nothing. In the mean time the clock is running, their investments in other infrastructure that is waiting on this pole are sitting costing money, etc. AT&T never responds, but when Google goes back to them they reply that the risk Assessment is done but they have to pass it through engineering as well.... and the public utility uses the pole already. So Google needs to get clearance from the local utility before AT&T will let them use the pole.
More weeks go by....... and eventually AT&T strangles any competition that needs access to that pole / tower / etc.
*disclaimer* I work for Ford. The UAW has little or no power anymore. They are desperately clinging to each contract knowing full well that the tide of consumer opinion, even within their own ranks, has turned against them.
They have people doing talentless labor who are collecting 20-30 dollars an hour. People in the same classification doing superb work collect the same amount. That is the heart of the discontent: it's always the high performers that are dragged down to the lowest common denominator. It's communism after all: if I'm going to be paid the same as the other guy despite my effort, I'm sure not going to do more work than him!
Anyway, Ford very nearly went under. They got LUCKY. They had a number of investments and had taken out a number of loans just prior to everything going to shit. Then on top of that they actually mortgaged the Ford symbol - told the money lenders that they would have it if Ford went belly up.
So yes, the Union is ball-less and toothless. And Ford is nothing magical, they just got a little lucky. Oh - and the current prices of industrial robots mean that replacing a human with a robot will usually tar out two years. It's a no-brainer.
Had you really care, instead of being either a knee-jerk fool or a paid shill (I vote for shill) you'd check those internet-emails you get before positing them on websites.
With corporate behavior like this, can anyone aside from Idget Pai really claim that Internet Providers won't create fast lanes the first chance they get?
Would have been officially send out documentation using the words "fetus," "transgender," "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "evidence-based" and "science-based". The fact that her statement carefully avoided saying any of those just throws more fuel on the fire.
So, Idgit Poophead is gonna watch out for companies doing something they shouldn't and tell them they're bad - and not have any regulation ability to actually STOP them from doing it because there technically won't be anything wrong with what they are doing!
It's like he's yelling "LOOK OVER THERE" to distract us while he shovels verizon cash into his duffel bag.
It's usually not argued nearly that seriously. What CEO or corporation would argue with a government willingly knowing that the end result is going to be a cessation of government contracts, barring from export, and anything else the government has that they can legally do that are in there powers?
It's usually held behind closed doors and handled, and if it isn't like the Apple issue, then there is a reason you and I don't know about. It will STILL get handled behind closed doors, the government will just have to give something up in return like looking the other way on Irish tax havens, etc.
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Ok. I admit I laughed. But the message should remain the same for any sovereign country. Don't let foreigners run your critical infrastructure. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
Whatabout whatabout whatabout. Nice deflection. We're talking about Chinese products supply critical US infrastructure. Trying to change the topic to talk about US companies doesn't address the point at all - it just tries to redirect the conversation. Short version: we MUST not allow foreign nation-state corporations to supply critical US infrastructure.
Right. The subscription model with huge cancellations. Promoted by cellphone producers, car leasers, new car manufacturers (like volvo), cable companies, satellite TV companies, digital / satellite radio companies. Autodesk. Katea. Solidworks. It's disgusting. The only one of these that I buy into is the cell-phone plans, and that may likely change when I am out of this contract since the off-contract companies are now very competitive.
Really? I don't have a single sprinkler and none of my grass dies. Of course maybe you're confusing flyover country with California. or another hot arid state.
But billing info will still be required. It's a very short trip to connect this anonymous ID to all the real information that is required to do any internet business. From that point on, the real bad guys know exactly who you are. This makes security worse, not better.
Except..... this isn't protectionism. This is the same thing the US government goes after domestic companies for when they try to play tax haven games with places with Ireland. Which is why they enacted the whole "pay the taxes you owe overseas then pay the remainder that you owe here".
You clearly don't understand what's going on, so I'm trying to dumb this down to the point you'll get it. Korea is telling companies they need to pay taxes on money they make in Korea, like MANY other countries (including the US) already do....
That's true about bleach not being appropriate. Unsurprisingly, you'll find there are already bugs out there that can tolerate bleach, at least in the levels you'll find in your non-commercial cleaners and clothes washing bleach. We're dealing with that right now while taking care of an ailing family member at home who is prone to infection. The hospital has confirmed the strain of infection our family member has will be unaffected by low levels of bleach.
City Hall, where these morons work, has it's own in-building cafeteria. They call it a Cafe... Talk about a bunch of hypocrites.
The average person the street is not smart enough to understand that "investors" have not a damn thing to do with real performance. They'll see this and think that somehow twitter is not a profitable or sustaining company, despite the fact that their profits are good.
What we have is irresponsible profit-driven reporters who want short clips rather than explaining what this actually means.
And in the mean time, we have a bunch of idiots who are so absorbed with another idiots that all they want to do is talk politics and trash talk eachother.
This easily could have been titled "Childish investors with no foresight have knee-jerk reaction to something that was already predicted." Or perhaps "Company does the right thing, angers investors."
Stock price no longer has any real tie in with the success or failure of companies. It's just a ticker number that people who participate in real-life gambling pay attention to.
This is what is called excercising soft power. Soft power is developed over time through financial and political influence. It is easily lost through buffoonery, name calling, and ineffectiveness. China has soft power. They rarely threaten or comment without taking action. Their financial situation and power affects every country in the world.
Essentially the Chinese have learned the mantra "Speak softly and carry and big stick." American government has done just the opposite.
For instance - making comments like XXX will suffer consequences, or "our nukes are bigger than yours" are exactly the kind of threat that destroys soft power. They are threats that are rarely or never acted upon, and they undermine your credibility.
Our current administration has spent every last big of political capitol that the United States had left. No one is afraid of us. We are no longer the biggest dog in the room, and we continue to put our fingers in too many holes in the dyke rather than picking our battles carefully.
Either private companies give up our privacy by allowing the government access to our communications...... or laws will be passed FORCING them to give up our privacy.
And we wonder why the United States Government won't pass a law protecting our personal data.
That's really all they can do. Let's face facts - people who get their actual news from Facebook are idiots. People who can't be bothered to fact check or even do the slightest amount of verification are idiots. And the vast vast majority of internet users are.... idiots. They'll grab the first thing they see that they agree with and use it as their evidence to support to their argument. Whether it's from politifact, snopes, or stormfront.
Facebook is an online chat. That's it. People who use it to gather factual data... there's not much we can do about it. *shrug*.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised when the vast majority of the responses blame the scooters, the government, and everything but the PEOPLE RIDING THE SCOOTERS. It's just people refusing to aknowledge where the responsibility truly lies. Lock the things up, require a credit card to use them, then have a set of rules that the police can enforce. Done. You know who was using the scooter and can enforce fines.
I'd like to start by saying hello to our new ride-share overlords..... You may be right. I'm not that up in businesses in China. What I DO know is that China's lack of monopoly and anti-trust laws mean that they have mega-corporations there. Those mega-corporations are taking advantage of Chinese law (American's can't entirely buy a Chinese company). They are are also taking advantage of American law that limits just how large a company can grow inside America.
That has allowed Chinese corporations to grow unfettered until they are many times the American counterpart. Then they either crush or buy our companies.
We have a problem and I'm not sure how to fix it. I can, however, say that in the near future (10 years) Uber is going to be become a Chinese subsidiary when Didi goes after them.
They got run off because the majority of manufacturing plants in Flint were into component manufacturing. Spark plugs, fuel tanks, air cleaners, mass air flow sensors, alternators. At one point GM had close to 42 different plants turning out stuff. EVERY ONE of those plants has gone to overseas businesses in China, Japan, and Taiwan where they turn the stuff out far cheaper. It's that simple. It had nothing to do with the horrible mismanagement of the government of Flint. P.S. - I lived there and worked there for a decade before I saw the writing on the wall.
Hey cool - and at the same time we get to use enormous amounts of energy to create something with zero lasting. Using so much power that we've overstressed some cheap grids here in the states. That sounds like a great idea. Have computers chugging away to produce nothing of value. Wooooo environment!
By your reasoning , we'd be finding gps trackers installed in our cars so independent repairman can sell or location data. Plumbers would install remote shutoffs so we had to call them back. By your logic, no repair would ever be a safe repair if done by a third party. You are an idiot.
Really? I don't have any skepticism. Without rules like this, I can tell you exactly how this situation goes:
Google needs access to a particular pole as no available ground is around for them to put up one of their own. They contact the owner - let's say AT&T. AT&T replies that they have to go through a risk analysis: after all, there's a lot of important stuff on that pole.
Google hears nothing. In the mean time the clock is running, their investments in other infrastructure that is waiting on this pole are sitting costing money, etc. AT&T never responds, but when Google goes back to them they reply that the risk Assessment is done but they have to pass it through engineering as well.... and the public utility uses the pole already. So Google needs to get clearance from the local utility before AT&T will let them use the pole.
More weeks go by....... and eventually AT&T strangles any competition that needs access to that pole / tower / etc.
*disclaimer* I work for Ford. The UAW has little or no power anymore. They are desperately clinging to each contract knowing full well that the tide of consumer opinion, even within their own ranks, has turned against them.
They have people doing talentless labor who are collecting 20-30 dollars an hour. People in the same classification doing superb work collect the same amount. That is the heart of the discontent: it's always the high performers that are dragged down to the lowest common denominator. It's communism after all: if I'm going to be paid the same as the other guy despite my effort, I'm sure not going to do more work than him!
Anyway, Ford very nearly went under. They got LUCKY. They had a number of investments and had taken out a number of loans just prior to everything going to shit. Then on top of that they actually mortgaged the Ford symbol - told the money lenders that they would have it if Ford went belly up.
So yes, the Union is ball-less and toothless. And Ford is nothing magical, they just got a little lucky. Oh - and the current prices of industrial robots mean that replacing a human with a robot will usually tar out two years. It's a no-brainer.
The other two replies to this currently are buried - so I'll add one more that has some karma attached and might make it past the zero-filter.
The 'town' that you are citing was made-up and fake, and created by a website like The Onion.
http://www.politifact.com/pund...
Had you really care, instead of being either a knee-jerk fool or a paid shill (I vote for shill) you'd check those internet-emails you get before positing them on websites.
With corporate behavior like this, can anyone aside from Idget Pai really claim that Internet Providers won't create fast lanes the first chance they get?
Would have been officially send out documentation using the words "fetus," "transgender," "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "evidence-based" and "science-based". The fact that her statement carefully avoided saying any of those just throws more fuel on the fire.
To get your money. Nice trick huh?
So, Idgit Poophead is gonna watch out for companies doing something they shouldn't and tell them they're bad - and not have any regulation ability to actually STOP them from doing it because there technically won't be anything wrong with what they are doing!
It's like he's yelling "LOOK OVER THERE" to distract us while he shovels verizon cash into his duffel bag.
It's usually not argued nearly that seriously. What CEO or corporation would argue with a government willingly knowing that the end result is going to be a cessation of government contracts, barring from export, and anything else the government has that they can legally do that are in there powers?
It's usually held behind closed doors and handled, and if it isn't like the Apple issue, then there is a reason you and I don't know about. It will STILL get handled behind closed doors, the government will just have to give something up in return like looking the other way on Irish tax havens, etc.