We will be there to help these people to increase production. We will be there to help them to get huge efficient and more productive farms with GPS-optimized fertilization and irrigation.
If there were one word to explain what Monsanto is about, it would have to be farmers. Billions of people depend upon what farmers do. And so will billions more. In the next few decades, farmers will have to grow as much food as they have in the past 10,000 years â" combined. It is our purpose to help farmers do exactly that. To produce more food. To produce more with less, conserving resources like soil and water. And to improve lives. We do this by selling seeds, traits developed through biotechnology, and crop protection chemicals.
We will be there for you, together with our friends in government.
Google's market share is at 5 percent, while Baidu's is 74 percent. And then you said turn their backs on the largest market on the planet for purely ethical reasons. and also I guess this kind of corporate dictatorship is cool when it means that ethics can overcome greed.
To me it sounds as if they left because of greed and not ethics. Sure, it might mean that they can not do business in China on their ethical scale, but they left because of the profits.
Government will acquire more power? More likely the people they work for. Oh, that ain't you unless your name ends with inc. or the like. (companies are people too)
If people want Linux for the Desktop, having it re-installed is the only way. PC sellers are willing to sell their PCs with any OS on it, as long as they make money.
The margins on hardware are minimal, so they look at extra income. Anti-virus programs are a nice source of income. So if they can generate extra income from Linux, they will be interested in doing that.
This is not about you and me who install are sorts of add blockers and on our Windows machines, run our free Anti virus programs. This is about your parents PCs who will run things as they come.
Extra income will make the Linux Desktop possible. Pity that it is Ubuntu. Well, it IS the Windows distribution from Linux.
Funny that you use a German word. If you refer to the Nazi period: Adolf Hitler was elected in a democracy. If your refer to the Stasi of East Germany, the second D stood for Democratic.
And as we know from the USofA, having a democratic system does not mean anything by itself.
Posting as John Smith, Adrian Cronauer, Samual T. Jameson or any non-fake looking name. Interesting part is that my alias is more distinct then if I were be using my own name. And look right here what happens when you use your own name and that name is Justin Bieber.
Where I work we recently had a password requirement change. Programs we use must have 8 character passwords (at least 1 upper/lower case, one number) and that is how the network password was as well.
They changed it for the network password. It must be at least 10 characters. Contain two numbers, one special character and one upper/lower case.
Previously you needed to change the password every 40 days or so. They have changed that to 30 days. Now the downside of all this (besides the fact that they did not tell us that this new requirement was in place)
1) You need two passwords instead of 1. Having it done all automatically will cause a security issue, so no, that is not an option. 2) People who, like me and the rest of my department, change it every month can't anymore, because months have 31 days and it must be changed after 30. 3) We still have no idea what the special characters are. I have no idea if there are some that are not allowed. 4) I have seen people writing them down and I have adviced people to use their 8 character password and add +1 to it.
T his all means that the system has become LESS secure, but sure, the IT department can tell they did their job, as they only look at the theoretical part and not the practical part.
Too many IT departments when looking at password security do not vector in the users who are actually will be using it. If you do not do that, it will be less secure. If you do not use all parameters available, your outcome will be wrong.
It also has increased the out time for people who are waiting for a password reset and therefore the workload for the IT department.
At another company I once calculated that changing the time a password is valid from 30 to 90 days would save my department two FTE days per month as we were the ones they called and not IT. That was denied. People could not call IT due to language problems.
My nick is houghi. On some sites I have been asked to fill out a first and last name. I also am asked to enter existing addresses. My details on some sites is now: Mrs. Hou Ghi DOB: 01-01-1950 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20502
I hope I never do anything wrong, because I would hate to bring the people who live there in trouble.
especially when doing something about it costs money
Costing money is the ONLY reason. Why would an ISP implement IPv^ if they can upsell fixed IPv4 addresses and put everybody else behind local addresses.
Now many sell the IPv4 addresses for about 50EUR a month. This because they say that there are not enough of them. This way with NO investment they can ask 50 EUR more from any (small) business.
Once IPv6 is around, they can not do that anymore and small businesses will just buy cheaper personal accounts.
So this situation is ideal. No extra investing + extra income vs the opposite.
I recently put an SSD in my desktop. I see serious increase in speed during startup or reboot. I boot up into my multiple desktop and I start all the programs I need already on the different desktops.
So Firefox is already loaded. Libreoffice is already loaded. Several programs are already running. Liferea is already downloading the latest RSS feeds. Music is playing, servers are running.
So once I have booted, I do not see a many serious differences. And booting is something I do once a day. And that most of the time from Suspend.
So my main gain would be about 2 minutes per day.
Was it worth it? Not really. Not for me. Not as long as they are seriously much larger in capacity for a seriously lower price. I can buy 4TB for 300 EUR. That is a factor 10 compared to SSD.
That is how I learned to swim. My father just threw me in the water. Swimming was the easy part. The hard part was getting out of the bag, but luckily babies have pretty sharp nails.
I never get this. Why must there be only 1 union for a profession? Where I live, I can go to several different unions, regardless of my profession. They then can do deals depending on the industry or even with separate parts of an industry or even individual companies. When I change jobs, I do not need to change unions.
Also I can be in a union, but I do not have to be. From a employers point of view, there is absolutely no difference. No one will ever ask.
Sure, there are things that you could do wrongly and abusing power is one of them. The basic reason for a union is indeed about power. It is about having the same power as the company. It is about the leveling the playing field. A company and an individual are not equal partners. Unions has the ability to make them just that.
Always great people telling others to just quit and get another job. This is not always an option and just because you do not like one part of the job, does not mean you hate everything about it.
I would wait it out and see what they actually do with the data. Are they going apeshit if you take 20 seconds more then assigned? Then I would leave. Do they tell you to watch it when you take 20 minutes more each day, then I would stay.
It could well be that they are doing it because people are taking 60 minutes shit breaks and let the others take the calls.
I also have seen management asking for whatever sort of numbers and then do absolutely nothing with it. (Seen the opposite as well)
Do you hear a doctor strutting about in pride about how she or he did not need to get a medical degree and can still heal patients?
No. Not for the reasons you might think. If they would do that, they would be arrested, because it is required BY LAW. Not because they are not proud of it or are unable to do so.
It is a pittance compared to what a degree from a university costs.
This says more about the price and value of the university.
Are you seriously telling me that you are that unwilling to invest in a profession or trade that you intend to pursue for the rest of your life??
If it is an unwise investment, Yes. I know a LOT of hiring people who rather look at experience then at degrees, unless a degree is required by law. There are exceptions who will hire first by degree and later by experience (or not look at experience at all). Some government agencies come to mind. If you want to go that route, it is an investment in that route.
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There are several Linux distributions directed at education/schools. Most (All?) based on existing distributions with different packages installed.
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Education is just one of them. Using SUSE studio makes it easy to make your own.
Before SUSE Studio, there was Lincat for Catalunia. http://linkat.xtec.cat/portal/index.php. They have moved to openSUSE edu.
We will be there to help these people to increase production. We will be there to help them to get huge efficient and more productive farms with GPS-optimized fertilization and irrigation.
From our website:
We will be there for you, together with our friends in government.
Kind regards,
Monsanto Management
Google's market share is at 5 percent, while Baidu's is 74 percent. And then you said turn their backs on the largest market on the planet for purely ethical reasons. and also I guess this kind of corporate dictatorship is cool when it means that ethics can overcome greed.
To me it sounds as if they left because of greed and not ethics. Sure, it might mean that they can not do business in China on their ethical scale, but they left because of the profits.
Government will acquire more power? More likely the people they work for. Oh, that ain't you unless your name ends with inc. or the like.
(companies are people too)
If people want Linux for the Desktop, having it re-installed is the only way. PC sellers are willing to sell their PCs with any OS on it, as long as they make money.
The margins on hardware are minimal, so they look at extra income. Anti-virus programs are a nice source of income. So if they can generate extra income from Linux, they will be interested in doing that.
This is not about you and me who install are sorts of add blockers and on our Windows machines, run our free Anti virus programs.
This is about your parents PCs who will run things as they come.
Extra income will make the Linux Desktop possible. Pity that it is Ubuntu. Well, it IS the Windows distribution from Linux.
Funny that you use a German word. If you refer to the Nazi period: Adolf Hitler was elected in a democracy. If your refer to the Stasi of East Germany, the second D stood for Democratic.
And as we know from the USofA, having a democratic system does not mean anything by itself.
Posting as John Smith, Adrian Cronauer, Samual T. Jameson or any non-fake looking name.
Interesting part is that my alias is more distinct then if I were be using my own name.
And look right here what happens when you use your own name and that name is Justin Bieber.
Where I work we recently had a password requirement change.
Programs we use must have 8 character passwords (at least 1 upper/lower case, one number) and that is how the network password was as well.
They changed it for the network password. It must be at least 10 characters. Contain two numbers, one special character and one upper/lower case.
Previously you needed to change the password every 40 days or so. They have changed that to 30 days. Now the downside of all this (besides the fact that they did not tell us that this new requirement was in place)
1) You need two passwords instead of 1. Having it done all automatically will cause a security issue, so no, that is not an option.
2) People who, like me and the rest of my department, change it every month can't anymore, because months have 31 days and it must be changed after 30.
3) We still have no idea what the special characters are. I have no idea if there are some that are not allowed.
4) I have seen people writing them down and I have adviced people to use their 8 character password and add +1 to it.
T his all means that the system has become LESS secure, but sure, the IT department can tell they did their job, as they only look at the theoretical part and not the practical part.
Too many IT departments when looking at password security do not vector in the users who are actually will be using it. If you do not do that, it will be less secure. If you do not use all parameters available, your outcome will be wrong.
It also has increased the out time for people who are waiting for a password reset and therefore the workload for the IT department.
At another company I once calculated that changing the time a password is valid from 30 to 90 days would save my department two FTE days per month as we were the ones they called and not IT. That was denied. People could not call IT due to language problems.
Well, at least you have a democracy where you can vote between "doesn't" and "won't".
Vegetarians. You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
They did not only drop the political part. They also dropped the terror part.
My nick is houghi. On some sites I have been asked to fill out a first and last name. I also am asked to enter existing addresses. My details on some sites is now:
Mrs. Hou Ghi
DOB: 01-01-1950
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20502
I hope I never do anything wrong, because I would hate to bring the people who live there in trouble.
Funny? Mod that insightful.
How CAN they proof if Michel Peter Abelton is really who he says he is.
They handle the cattle like office workers
Like all the ISPs who are not interested in going to IPv6 for this reason and who are ultimately the real customers for IP addresses.
Costing money is the ONLY reason. Why would an ISP implement IPv^ if they can upsell fixed IPv4 addresses and put everybody else behind local addresses.
Now many sell the IPv4 addresses for about 50EUR a month. This because they say that there are not enough of them. This way with NO investment they can ask 50 EUR more from any (small) business.
Once IPv6 is around, they can not do that anymore and small businesses will just buy cheaper personal accounts.
So this situation is ideal. No extra investing + extra income vs the opposite.
I recently put an SSD in my desktop. I see serious increase in speed during startup or reboot. I boot up into my multiple desktop and I start all the programs I need already on the different desktops.
So Firefox is already loaded. Libreoffice is already loaded. Several programs are already running. Liferea is already downloading the latest RSS feeds. Music is playing, servers are running.
So once I have booted, I do not see a many serious differences. And booting is something I do once a day. And that most of the time from Suspend.
So my main gain would be about 2 minutes per day.
Was it worth it? Not really. Not for me. Not as long as they are seriously much larger in capacity for a seriously lower price. I can buy 4TB for 300 EUR. That is a factor 10 compared to SSD.
Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Still relevant
That is how I learned to swim. My father just threw me in the water. Swimming was the easy part. The hard part was getting out of the bag, but luckily babies have pretty sharp nails.
So you are saying that because of the large numbers, the numbers on the end of the scale are larger as well? Wow.
Using percentages evens this out.
I never get this. Why must there be only 1 union for a profession? Where I live, I can go to several different unions, regardless of my profession.
They then can do deals depending on the industry or even with separate parts of an industry or even individual companies.
When I change jobs, I do not need to change unions.
Also I can be in a union, but I do not have to be. From a employers point of view, there is absolutely no difference. No one will ever ask.
Sure, there are things that you could do wrongly and abusing power is one of them. The basic reason for a union is indeed about power. It is about having the same power as the company. It is about the leveling the playing field. A company and an individual are not equal partners. Unions has the ability to make them just that.
Always great people telling others to just quit and get another job. This is not always an option and just because you do not like one part of the job, does not mean you hate everything about it.
I would wait it out and see what they actually do with the data. Are they going apeshit if you take 20 seconds more then assigned? Then I would leave. Do they tell you to watch it when you take 20 minutes more each day, then I would stay.
It could well be that they are doing it because people are taking 60 minutes shit breaks and let the others take the calls.
I also have seen management asking for whatever sort of numbers and then do absolutely nothing with it. (Seen the opposite as well)
No. Not for the reasons you might think. If they would do that, they would be arrested, because it is required BY LAW. Not because they are not proud of it or are unable to do so.
This says more about the price and value of the university.
If it is an unwise investment, Yes. I know a LOT of hiring people who rather look at experience then at degrees, unless a degree is required by law.
There are exceptions who will hire first by degree and later by experience (or not look at experience at all). Some government agencies come to mind. If you want to go that route, it is an investment in that route.
I see your sig and then what you wrote.
Some people where just looking for an excuse to invade Iraq and if it wasn't for 9/11, they would have found another reason.
I agree if you talk at all the people believing in the same God. You know, Christians, Jews and Muslims.