"economies in Eastern Europe have led to severe labor shortages"
Aren't these the same countries that are refusing to accept refugees? I'm missing the logic here. Or maybe they feel that keeping a 'pure' ethnic environment is more important than a good economy.
Yes, you are missing the logic here.
Some questions of interest:
- How many refugees actually applied or have been assigned by quotas to Eastern Europe. Is this number even economically relevant?
- How many of those would move to Germany as soon as possible (there is free movement across EU)
- How many of them are willing and capable of working in European standard
- What are the long term consequences of accepting people to do cheap work, as opposed to people who want to share your culture?
Exactly! It's funny how people try to come up with "solutions" like hunting the scalpers, requiring names etc. If the organizers would just let the market take care of this, they would have bigger profit and happier customers.
Wow, that's not at all true, not even a little bit. First off, odds are that Google is not in your legal jurisdiction -- especially in the US, you're looking at one state and not another. Second, a web-site privary agreement has no actual legal merit -- it's not a legal document. Third, if money hasn't transferred hand, (i.e. you haven't paid google for the thing being used) then no contract covers anything, even an actual legal contract has to have money changing hands in association for 90% of the contract to be enforcable. You know far more about legal stuff than me (=nothing) and you're right. Legal crap in the US would be a reason for me to avoid doing my own business there..
Oh, and read their many many many privacy policies. Keep reading them until you see the line that reads something like "this policy can be retro-actively changed without notice". Continue reading to see that they already read your client's secrets in the e-mails. They already read them, they already aggregate them, they already analyze them, they already sell them, they already profit from them. Why do you think their services are free? They must process the messages to give you "relevant" ads and it's quite probable that they use the data for other stuff, like spam filter training,...
But there is important distinction between processing (automatic - no humans) of your anonymized messages and breaching your privacy, misusing concrete messages etc. Could you give some concrete example of the second case? Or are you just not OK with the 1st one ?
Oh, you are the "Communism isn't bad, it only wasn't implemented properly" guy. I really wish you had the opportunity to live in a communist country for a few years!
Communism IS a stupid idea and always leads to some form of dictatorship - it just cannot work for countries that have humans as citizens. It may be good for martians though;)
Not so fast regarding the AI. True, most todays games' "AI" is scripting (no needed FPU at all). But Cell will probably allow real-time usage of massive neural nets and other FPU-hungry goodies.
Hey buddy, I know that Americans have that brain thingy with maps, but please don't refer to Europe the same way as to Germany. It makes a huge difference, especially with culture:-)
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"economies in Eastern Europe have led to severe labor shortages"
Aren't these the same countries that are refusing to accept refugees? I'm missing the logic here. Or maybe they feel that keeping a 'pure' ethnic environment is more important than a good economy.
Yes, you are missing the logic here. Some questions of interest:
- How many refugees actually applied or have been assigned by quotas to Eastern Europe. Is this number even economically relevant?
- How many of those would move to Germany as soon as possible (there is free movement across EU)
- How many of them are willing and capable of working in European standard
- What are the long term consequences of accepting people to do cheap work, as opposed to people who want to share your culture?
Exactly! It's funny how people try to come up with "solutions" like hunting the scalpers, requiring names etc. If the organizers would just let the market take care of this, they would have bigger profit and happier customers.
You could sue google if they broke their pricacy agreement. If they don't, they cannot get any of your client's SECRETS from the e-mails.
Oh, you are the "Communism isn't bad, it only wasn't implemented properly" guy. I really wish you had the opportunity to live in a communist country for a few years! Communism IS a stupid idea and always leads to some form of dictatorship - it just cannot work for countries that have humans as citizens. It may be good for martians though ;)
Not so fast regarding the AI. True, most todays games' "AI" is scripting (no needed FPU at all). But Cell will probably allow real-time usage of massive neural nets and other FPU-hungry goodies.
Hey buddy, I know that Americans have that brain thingy with maps, but please don't refer to Europe the same way as to Germany. It makes a huge difference, especially with culture :-)