I've been hearing that Apple was an inferior choice and that they were dying since before I got my first Apple computer... in 1979... and every one since then.
Not every business decision is driven by the single quarter turnaround you describe. Many companies have serious long-term plans and a long-term mission. I don't know where you work, but if your board is focused on nothing but survival to the next quarter (and presumably, getting out) I would suggest that perhaps you should be getting out too.
My value in my workplace is measured in large part by the amount of resources that aren't wasted. Eliminating waste is a direct result of my work (software development), as is improving our capabilities and reputation as perceived by our customers. I have a side project that may end up as a retail product eventually, but really I have zero prospects of "making the company money" (and the owners understand this - we talk about ROI in relative terms all the time.)
I hired my landscaper because (1) I live in a neighborhood with a HOA that is dying due to a 30% vacancy rate, and they love to pick on ME, (2) I get bombarded by offers from Mexican-American family businesses who want to charge me upwards of $300 just to do basic lawn service, and (3) this guy does excellent work for $45 every three weeks, working much harder than I ever would even for my own house. It wouldn't surprise me if he was educated, but I don't care.
I used to use a laundromat where the attendant lived in his van in the parking lot. One night I was doing Organic chem homework while waiting for my clothes to dry, and he came up and talked to me about what I was doing. It turns out he has an MS in Biochemistry from UCSD, had started a PhD, burned out, and as far as I could tell, was happy as a clam to be living in a van working at a laundromat.
I don't have any point here, but I think this country is probably effing great.
With a really *good* business plan, you can get startup capital. I've seen it done in 2011. Why is "inheriting money" the only way you can think of to start a business?
Getting a cert also presumes you can get a response from the zone authority of your domain name. Some organizations are so dysfunctional as to not even be able to take that for granted. A place where I worked had one company identity with a domain name where the registrar's contact person could not be bothered to approve the cert being issued. I would say it was shocking, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is common.
For every foreign student who was a genius, I saw dozens if not hundreds cheating... shamelessly collaborating on individual projects was the main form of cheating that I saw, but this was definitely the most noticeable characteristic that separated foreign students from the Americans at my college. It upset me a lot that they got away with it.
So many people talk in terms of the exposure level at Fukushima since the accident, but that's never been the issue. They have, so far, avoided the disaster with some pretty amazing mitigating actions, and some very good luck. Speculation as to what will happen if those attempts at mitigation eventually fail is the scary part, not the *current* risk. But what would happen if their efforts fail and they end up with an exclusion zone that happens to include half the farmland that feeds Tokyo? THAT hasn't happened and probably won't happen, but if it did, all this talk about how wonderful and low the exposure is today would be irrelevant.
As I see it, the real problem is, whether there is a risk of the disaster taking a turn for the worse, it is impossible to gauge the risk because the people in control of information are not as forthcoming as they should be, considering they have been caught lying about things in the past. This, the fact that the people controlling information are already known not to be trustworthy, is the central issue of Fukushima.
There are images, angles, and details in the two links you posted unlike anything I have seen despite being an absolute monger for news and information about the Fukushima accident. Did NHK-TV broadcast this material?
Some of the fear mongering is disgusting, but some of the *fear* is legitimate and is exacerbated by the information embargo, and the knowledge that the plant operators have proven to be untrustworthy in the past.
One of my "worst case scenarios" opens with a North Korean submarine using the opportunity presented by the withdrawal of US Navy ships from the harbor, and some kind of light artillery attack on what's left of the Fukushima plant.
Would you be willing to feed your own child from infancy to adulthood on a diet consisting solely of gulf seafood and vegetables grown near the gulf shore?
>Or the government deciding to wait until all the facts are in before telling the whole story? The footage won't show anything that the people actually WORKING this t >thing don't already know.
But that's irrelevant, since the people working at the site don't have a primary concern in knowing whether the Japanese government is lying or withholding important facts. There are a lot of people who are becoming increasingly convinced that this is the case, and it doesn't help one bit to know they have high resolution photos and a reason for not sharing them.
And yet they rarely manage to parlay their superior knowledge and abilities into a better position for themselves. If you're so smart, why don't you start a business and put yourself on top of the hierarchy -- and institute a structure that isn't outdated, while you're at it?
Japan will remain *habitable*, beginning *today*. Not "inside of a generation or two". Not "within one or two half lives of some isotope of Pu". THAT is the threshold of "disaster" that we're working with.
Not likely at all. On the other hand, how likely is it that the destruction of a windmill will make its location uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years?
Maybe they should build their wind farm somewhere that's not in view of $12 million real estate, then use the huge piles of money they make from their windmills to buy Cape Cod, problem solved.
It is now much more widely known that a light artillery attack can drain a water tank that will cause the reactor to be better than any "dirty bomb" you could make.
I learned recently that a commercial pilot's salary is on a level of what we pay our undergrad interns, until they accumulate years of tenure with one company. It makes me wonder how that scheme actually manages to attract the best and brightest...
They have some information that makes me wonder about their sources, and makes me realize that both government and media know things they aren't disclosing.
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>3) The "rush to stardom at an early age and cash in" mindset the recording industry has adopted recently.
Recently, or has it been going on for generations?
>More accurately, it's about $750,000 per tax-payer in the USA.
So it brings it down to a comprehensible number. That says more about the huge size of the population than it does about the damage amount.
I've been hearing that Apple was an inferior choice and that they were dying since before I got my first Apple computer... in 1979... and every one since then.
What the hell kind of college did you go to that you'd need to find *hookers?* Some kind of boy's school??
Not every business decision is driven by the single quarter turnaround you describe. Many companies have serious long-term plans and a long-term mission.
I don't know where you work, but if your board is focused on nothing but survival to the next quarter (and presumably, getting out) I would suggest that perhaps you should be getting out too.
My value in my workplace is measured in large part by the amount of resources that aren't wasted. Eliminating waste is a direct result of my work (software development), as is improving our capabilities and reputation as perceived by our customers. I have a side project that may end up as a retail product eventually, but really I have zero prospects of "making the company money" (and the owners understand this - we talk about ROI in relative terms all the time.)
Thanks for your post. I sometimes wonder if the rules change drastically when GA/VFR fliers share a facility with small jets.
I hired my landscaper because (1) I live in a neighborhood with a HOA that is dying due to a 30% vacancy rate, and they love to pick on ME, (2) I get bombarded by offers from Mexican-American family businesses who want to charge me upwards of $300 just to do basic lawn service, and (3) this guy does excellent work for $45 every three weeks, working much harder than I ever would even for my own house. It wouldn't surprise me if he was educated, but I don't care.
I used to use a laundromat where the attendant lived in his van in the parking lot. One night I was doing Organic chem homework while waiting for my clothes to dry, and he came up and talked to me about what I was doing. It turns out he has an MS in Biochemistry from UCSD, had started a PhD, burned out, and as far as I could tell, was happy as a clam to be living in a van working at a laundromat.
I don't have any point here, but I think this country is probably effing great.
With a really *good* business plan, you can get startup capital. I've seen it done in 2011.
Why is "inheriting money" the only way you can think of to start a business?
Getting a cert also presumes you can get a response from the zone authority of your domain name. Some organizations are so dysfunctional as to not even be able to take that for granted. A place where I worked had one company identity with a domain name where the registrar's contact person could not be bothered to approve the cert being issued. I would say it was shocking, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it is common.
For every foreign student who was a genius, I saw dozens if not hundreds cheating... shamelessly collaborating on individual projects was the main form of cheating that I saw, but this was definitely the most noticeable characteristic that separated foreign students from the Americans at my college. It upset me a lot that they got away with it.
Atomic bombs are designed to consume as much of the fissionable material as possible. A plant disaster is more of a "dirty bomb" scenario.
So many people talk in terms of the exposure level at Fukushima since the accident, but that's never been the issue. They have, so far, avoided the disaster with some pretty amazing mitigating actions, and some very good luck. Speculation as to what will happen if those attempts at mitigation eventually fail is the scary part, not the *current* risk. But what would happen if their efforts fail and they end up with an exclusion zone that happens to include half the farmland that feeds Tokyo? THAT hasn't happened and probably won't happen, but if it did, all this talk about how wonderful and low the exposure is today would be irrelevant.
As I see it, the real problem is, whether there is a risk of the disaster taking a turn for the worse, it is impossible to gauge the risk because the people in control of information are not as forthcoming as they should be, considering they have been caught lying about things in the past. This, the fact that the people controlling information are already known not to be trustworthy, is the central issue of Fukushima.
There are images, angles, and details in the two links you posted unlike anything I have seen despite being an absolute monger for news and information about the Fukushima accident. Did NHK-TV broadcast this material?
Some of the fear mongering is disgusting, but some of the *fear* is legitimate and is exacerbated by the information embargo, and the knowledge that the plant operators have proven to be untrustworthy in the past.
One of my "worst case scenarios" opens with a North Korean submarine using the opportunity presented by the withdrawal of US Navy ships from the harbor, and some kind of light artillery attack on what's left of the Fukushima plant.
Would you be willing to feed your own child from infancy to adulthood on a diet consisting solely of gulf seafood and vegetables grown near the gulf shore?
>Or the government deciding to wait until all the facts are in before telling the whole story? The footage won't show anything that the people actually WORKING this t
>thing don't already know.
But that's irrelevant, since the people working at the site don't have a primary concern in knowing whether the Japanese government is lying or withholding important facts. There are a lot of people who are becoming increasingly convinced that this is the case, and it doesn't help one bit to know they have high resolution photos and a reason for not sharing them.
And yet they rarely manage to parlay their superior knowledge and abilities into a better position for themselves.
If you're so smart, why don't you start a business and put yourself on top of the hierarchy -- and institute a structure that isn't outdated, while you're at it?
Japan will remain *habitable*, beginning *today*. Not "inside of a generation or two". Not "within one or two half lives of some isotope of Pu".
THAT is the threshold of "disaster" that we're working with.
Not likely at all. On the other hand, how likely is it that the destruction of a windmill will make its location uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years?
Maybe they should build their wind farm somewhere that's not in view of $12 million real estate, then use the huge piles of money they make from their windmills to buy Cape Cod, problem solved.
It is now much more widely known that a light artillery attack can drain a water tank that will cause the reactor to be better than any "dirty bomb" you could make.
I learned recently that a commercial pilot's salary is on a level of what we pay our undergrad interns, until they accumulate years of tenure with one company.
It makes me wonder how that scheme actually manages to attract the best and brightest...
They have some information that makes me wonder about their sources, and makes me realize that both government and media know things they aren't disclosing.