The SEC isn't trying to protect the analysts who have access to the Facebook page. They're trying to protect the rest of the investors who DON'T have an equal opportunity to look at those bits of data.
Actually, the SEC isn't trying to punish Reed Hastings as much as they are trying to protect the traditional media used to make these disclosures regardless how trivial the information.
Who'd thought that McDonalds may have been breaking SEC rules with those signs stating "Over a billion hamburgers served".
I meant grass roots social media communications, not private one-to-one communications (which is bad). The important thing being that the information is disclosed publicly where it has a chance to be seen by the greatest number of individuals. The difference in this story being that information is being disclosed where ordinary investors are more likely to see it versus being disclosed where mostly institutional investors will see it.
Ironically, the Facebook IPO brings into question the fairness of the disclosure of important financial informations. Since big investors shied away from the IPO (which was suspicious) while smaller investors purchased the stock without any warning that IPO was over valued.
Me thinks that the SEC is biased toward the institutional investors.
You can't reasonably count on investors to follow the CEOs and CFOs of companies they invest in on corporate blogs and news feeds, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linked In, and wherever else. Information with material value to investors needs to be made available to all investors at the same time through the usual channels: SEC filings, letters to the investors, and press releases.
Except in this case your investor is an institutional investor (eg. Hedge funds, money markets, etc.) who already possess a huge advantage over the individual investor. In this one case, the individual investor may have had an advantage against an institutional investor since the CEO used a nontraditional forum to disclose his excitement about reaching a corporate landmark. Information that has little to do with the actual financial well being of the company, and the disclosure amounts to the difference between "near 1 billion hours" that was disclosed earlier to "over 1 billion hours" that was disclosed on Facebook.
I think this is an over enforcement by the SEC. The cynic in me believes that SEC is acting on behalf of some entities that make up the traditional disclosure media that fear the shift to more direct communications with individual investors.
You may have heard of this small first world area of the globe with a high tech manufacturing base and a larger economy than the USA known as "Europe".
This wouldn't be the same Europe that has corporations opening production and engineering facilities in the southeastern United States?
As for the larger economy? Multiple countries versus a single country... sounds like a fair comparison.
want real hardware store with quality stuff? try ACE or TrueValue. they havent yet succumbed to the big box store mentality.
ACE and TrueValue are hardware cooperatives that allow locally owned hardware store owners purchase name brand tools at a lower cost since they purchase them as a collective. Also they are able to carry their cooperative branded items which are comparable to items sold with a national hardware store brand. There are no inherent differences in quality of goods sold except that you'll find some lesser quality options at ACE that are priced similarly to a mid-tier at a Home Depot or Lowe's.
While I don't know about your Home Depot, but the ones in my area have people who know their trade working in the departments. I can ask a question and either they know it "off the top of their head" or they can ask their department head who knows it. Of course the Home Depots in my area are much older than the rest of their corporate chain, but while on the road I occasionally pick up something at a Home Depot and haven't noticed any difference in service. In fact customer service is what gave Home Depot a competitive edge against Lowe's who, until they began losing significant market share to Home Depot, focused most of their attention on contractors.
The Home Depot has a distinct advantage in my area. Not only does it supply everything at lower prices, they can afford to hire tradesmen as department heads. My ACE Hardware store has a good selection of most items, but I don't expect him to hire the large number of people that man a Home Depot at any given time of day. I also don't expect him to know everything about every item in the store. That said my ACE hardware guy can special order some fixtures or cabinet hardware and since he has less customer traffic he calls me when they are ready for pickup (ie. he is able to offer more personal service).
Up until the recent downturn in the US economy. Employers were begging for people to pursue blue-collar jobs.
That said the existence of a blue collar job market doesn't discount the importance of college degrees. In fact, the downturn in the economy is proof that while temporary gains can be made in the blue-collar industry, you'll be competing with a larger number of potential applicants when the jobs become scarce and this is where a college degree can be advantageous. Not because you are magically bestowed with infinite knowledge, but because your competition is smaller in numbers.
That is good to know and the discussion on the ethics behind them sharing aggregate medical data outside of their duties as format arbiter is just as applicable.
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It already is a political issue, the moment the idiots wanted politics involved in HealthCare. Don't want politics involved, then stop involving politics.
That is a multifaceted statement, so I'm sure it will generate some arguments covering various topics.
First of all, calling anybody an idiot for any reason especially for not agreeing with you is not conducive to a healthy discussion. I only bring this up because name calling plays a major part of the US government being dysfunctional.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making anything a political issue. This is how a functioning democracy (more accurately republic) works. I'll go out on a limb and state that one major distinction between a republic and a dictatorship is the republic's ability to have political issues. I can only conclude that people who dislike political issues are those that wouldn't mind a dictator as long as that dictator did everything that the individuals wanted despite the fact that they might actually be in the minority of that country's population that agreed. Just reflect on that for a moment. There is no such thing as "I believe in a constitutional government as long as it only does what I believe it should" simply because there are other people involved and a lot of them pay their share of taxes too.
which brings me to this:
This is the full problem of centralizing decision making away from the people.
You have to centralize the decision process in order for political discussion to take place. You have two senators and a several house representatives that bring your local issues to this forum. Every time I see someone say we need to take our freely elected government back, I always ask "from who?".
Anyway back to the real topic -- government has to be involved to protect our rights as patients. Who else should it be?
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I believe NEMSIS' ultimate goal is to benefit individual patients by providing a mechanism to share en-route EMS data to participating hospitals and the various health departments.
This may be different than the goals of the medical companies mentioned in the article that may benefit pharmaceutical companies or others.
In other words, NEMSIS seems to be enforcing a data format that enables the transfer of data between medical participants (directly benefits patient and others may benefit indirectly from the government agency monitoring), while the companies mentioned in the article are trying to market the data that they have collected (directly benefiting themselves and others may benefit indirectly from advances made in medical science from aggregated data being sold).
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I'm more concerned about a third-party selling my data. All medical information should only be between the doctor and the patient. Any intermediaries should have limits that prevent them from sharing the data with anyone other than the patient or the doctor (who is really acting on behalf of the patient). If there is a loophole that allows companies like Medtronic to sell patient data then congress should address this (I can't even type this with a straight face).
I'd thought these limitations are already in place and data from medical devices would be covered like data from labs and radiologists.
It could also be because Windows is significantly more popular than Linux and they expect better sales on the Windows version so they can afford to be competitively priced against similar models made by other manufacturers. The Linux version won't sale as well and the $50 premium also pays for some other options that make the laptop hardware friendlier to a Ubuntu install.
Jesus fucking christ. If the driver is so stupid that we have to post signs that tell him in detail how to drive then it would be better, for all concerned, to revoke his drivers license and make him use public transportation.
However as a taxpayer, I like the additional revenue without the cost of having a cop manually giving tickets. I mean lets get to the real meat of this controversy which is -- MONEY.
If I can pay less taxes by having the city make money off of drivers who can't follow some simple traffic rules then it sounds like a win.
So basically what you are saying is that cameras don't cause crashes - people do.
Personally I'd rather have the cameras and give people time to learn how to drive. If more people have accidents because they drive like assholes, then why should I care?
I guess in the print edition, the WSJ and Lukianoff can assume most people won't actually read the statement being attacked.
The conservative media doesn't report the news anymore. They take statements out of context and generate their own version of news. Weren't you here during the last election season?;-)
The math of Obamacare for most businesses means less money will be lost if employees don't work more than 28 hours. What decision should a business make?
I'm sorry but that is a piss poor slam at Obama that has very little basis in fact. Too bad there aren't much facts in political hyperbole that has flooded the US media prior to the election and still very little in the sour grapes that flood it now.
You know what influence business owners? Certainty!
It's the dysfunctional cluster fuck that we have as a government that is hurting US businesses. The irony is that most of this uncertainty was created by the republican obstructionist tactics that failed to gain them a presidency. It's ironic because they accuse the democrats of stunting business growth.
Give us a fucking number. Tell me how much I need to budget for taxes and what benefits I should provide and what benefits the government will provide. Once I have these numbers, I can use them in my business planning. The politicians act like I wouldn't just pass the costs to the consumer. Oh I don't hire people just because I can afford it, I hire people because I NEED to. So stop with the bullshit that if only I had to pay less taxes I would hire another person.
Give it up guys. We all know when you talk about lower taxes to the "job creators", you really mean lower personal taxes to the wealthy.
We should thank the young Indians. If it weren't for their poor quality software, the older folks wouldn't have a carrier fixing it or making work arounds. Salute the young Indians and please continue your low quality of work.
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Actually, the SEC isn't trying to punish Reed Hastings as much as they are trying to protect the traditional media used to make these disclosures regardless how trivial the information.
Who'd thought that McDonalds may have been breaking SEC rules with those signs stating "Over a billion hamburgers served".
Clarification:
I meant grass roots social media communications, not private one-to-one communications (which is bad). The important thing being that the information is disclosed publicly where it has a chance to be seen by the greatest number of individuals. The difference in this story being that information is being disclosed where ordinary investors are more likely to see it versus being disclosed where mostly institutional investors will see it.
Ironically, the Facebook IPO brings into question the fairness of the disclosure of important financial informations. Since big investors shied away from the IPO (which was suspicious) while smaller investors purchased the stock without any warning that IPO was over valued.
Me thinks that the SEC is biased toward the institutional investors.
Except in this case your investor is an institutional investor (eg. Hedge funds, money markets, etc.) who already possess a huge advantage over the individual investor. In this one case, the individual investor may have had an advantage against an institutional investor since the CEO used a nontraditional forum to disclose his excitement about reaching a corporate landmark. Information that has little to do with the actual financial well being of the company, and the disclosure amounts to the difference between "near 1 billion hours" that was disclosed earlier to "over 1 billion hours" that was disclosed on Facebook.
I think this is an over enforcement by the SEC. The cynic in me believes that SEC is acting on behalf of some entities that make up the traditional disclosure media that fear the shift to more direct communications with individual investors.
This wouldn't be the same Europe that has corporations opening production and engineering facilities in the southeastern United States?
As for the larger economy? Multiple countries versus a single country... sounds like a fair comparison.
ACE and TrueValue are hardware cooperatives that allow locally owned hardware store owners purchase name brand tools at a lower cost since they purchase them as a collective. Also they are able to carry their cooperative branded items which are comparable to items sold with a national hardware store brand. There are no inherent differences in quality of goods sold except that you'll find some lesser quality options at ACE that are priced similarly to a mid-tier at a Home Depot or Lowe's.
While I don't know about your Home Depot, but the ones in my area have people who know their trade working in the departments. I can ask a question and either they know it "off the top of their head" or they can ask their department head who knows it. Of course the Home Depots in my area are much older than the rest of their corporate chain, but while on the road I occasionally pick up something at a Home Depot and haven't noticed any difference in service. In fact customer service is what gave Home Depot a competitive edge against Lowe's who, until they began losing significant market share to Home Depot, focused most of their attention on contractors.
The Home Depot has a distinct advantage in my area. Not only does it supply everything at lower prices, they can afford to hire tradesmen as department heads. My ACE Hardware store has a good selection of most items, but I don't expect him to hire the large number of people that man a Home Depot at any given time of day. I also don't expect him to know everything about every item in the store. That said my ACE hardware guy can special order some fixtures or cabinet hardware and since he has less customer traffic he calls me when they are ready for pickup (ie. he is able to offer more personal service).
Up until the recent downturn in the US economy. Employers were begging for people to pursue blue-collar jobs.
That said the existence of a blue collar job market doesn't discount the importance of college degrees. In fact, the downturn in the economy is proof that while temporary gains can be made in the blue-collar industry, you'll be competing with a larger number of potential applicants when the jobs become scarce and this is where a college degree can be advantageous. Not because you are magically bestowed with infinite knowledge, but because your competition is smaller in numbers.
That is good to know and the discussion on the ethics behind them sharing aggregate medical data outside of their duties as format arbiter is just as applicable.
That is a multifaceted statement, so I'm sure it will generate some arguments covering various topics.
First of all, calling anybody an idiot for any reason especially for not agreeing with you is not conducive to a healthy discussion. I only bring this up because name calling plays a major part of the US government being dysfunctional.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making anything a political issue. This is how a functioning democracy (more accurately republic) works. I'll go out on a limb and state that one major distinction between a republic and a dictatorship is the republic's ability to have political issues. I can only conclude that people who dislike political issues are those that wouldn't mind a dictator as long as that dictator did everything that the individuals wanted despite the fact that they might actually be in the minority of that country's population that agreed. Just reflect on that for a moment. There is no such thing as "I believe in a constitutional government as long as it only does what I believe it should" simply because there are other people involved and a lot of them pay their share of taxes too.
which brings me to this:
You have to centralize the decision process in order for political discussion to take place. You have two senators and a several house representatives that bring your local issues to this forum. Every time I see someone say we need to take our freely elected government back, I always ask "from who?".
Anyway back to the real topic -- government has to be involved to protect our rights as patients. Who else should it be?
I believe NEMSIS' ultimate goal is to benefit individual patients by providing a mechanism to share en-route EMS data to participating hospitals and the various health departments.
This may be different than the goals of the medical companies mentioned in the article that may benefit pharmaceutical companies or others.
In other words, NEMSIS seems to be enforcing a data format that enables the transfer of data between medical participants (directly benefits patient and others may benefit indirectly from the government agency monitoring), while the companies mentioned in the article are trying to market the data that they have collected (directly benefiting themselves and others may benefit indirectly from advances made in medical science from aggregated data being sold).
I'm more concerned about a third-party selling my data. All medical information should only be between the doctor and the patient. Any intermediaries should have limits that prevent them from sharing the data with anyone other than the patient or the doctor (who is really acting on behalf of the patient). If there is a loophole that allows companies like Medtronic to sell patient data then congress should address this (I can't even type this with a straight face).
I'd thought these limitations are already in place and data from medical devices would be covered like data from labs and radiologists.
If you don't like gorilla glass then you may not like the Nexus 4.
Martians have the advantage when it comes to Mardi Gras. They have 3 breasts if I totally recall...
Agree. Apple computers come with Unix installed. I keep my Linux installs on my servers.
It could also be because Windows is significantly more popular than Linux and they expect better sales on the Windows version so they can afford to be competitively priced against similar models made by other manufacturers. The Linux version won't sale as well and the $50 premium also pays for some other options that make the laptop hardware friendlier to a Ubuntu install.
I thought the way to mitigate the problem was to revoke the drivers license and have steep fines for driving without a valid drivers license.
Jesus fucking christ. If the driver is so stupid that we have to post signs that tell him in detail how to drive then it would be better, for all concerned, to revoke his drivers license and make him use public transportation.
True.
However as a taxpayer, I like the additional revenue without the cost of having a cop manually giving tickets. I mean lets get to the real meat of this controversy which is -- MONEY.
If I can pay less taxes by having the city make money off of drivers who can't follow some simple traffic rules then it sounds like a win.
So basically what you are saying is that cameras don't cause crashes - people do.
Personally I'd rather have the cameras and give people time to learn how to drive. If more people have accidents because they drive like assholes, then why should I care?
Download Mint is a much shorter comment.
That's because all those unwanted CDs take too much space and need to be sold at clearance.
The conservative media doesn't report the news anymore. They take statements out of context and generate their own version of news. Weren't you here during the last election season? ;-)
It's not really a protest if there isn't a rule being broken and an arrest being made!
I'm sorry but that is a piss poor slam at Obama that has very little basis in fact. Too bad there aren't much facts in political hyperbole that has flooded the US media prior to the election and still very little in the sour grapes that flood it now.
You know what influence business owners? Certainty!
It's the dysfunctional cluster fuck that we have as a government that is hurting US businesses. The irony is that most of this uncertainty was created by the republican obstructionist tactics that failed to gain them a presidency. It's ironic because they accuse the democrats of stunting business growth.
Give us a fucking number. Tell me how much I need to budget for taxes and what benefits I should provide and what benefits the government will provide. Once I have these numbers, I can use them in my business planning. The politicians act like I wouldn't just pass the costs to the consumer. Oh I don't hire people just because I can afford it, I hire people because I NEED to. So stop with the bullshit that if only I had to pay less taxes I would hire another person.
Give it up guys. We all know when you talk about lower taxes to the "job creators", you really mean lower personal taxes to the wealthy.
carrier should be career. Who wrote this damn auto correct? Oh wait...
We should thank the young Indians. If it weren't for their poor quality software, the older folks wouldn't have a carrier fixing it or making work arounds. Salute the young Indians and please continue your low quality of work.