Umm. I get where you're coming from, but then by the same measure, he did in fact add 1 country to that list and is now seriously looking at adding another....
No. My contention is that it should be viewed as an enormously wealthy, enormously powerful entity that impacts our lives in an increasingly dramatic fashion.
The US government is the most powerful organization ever to exist on the planet.
My point is more that this very organization shouldn't and in reality is not very good at being an true arbiter of "fairness".
If the government really gave a shit about "fair share" for taxes, then they'd charge a flat rate percentage for everyone.
Instead they set up a Byzantine network of policies, tax breaks, and incentives and are shocked, shocked when people and companies actually use them or even modify their behavior to get around them.
I'm getting pretty sick of our government complaining about how poor it is and how everything would be better if us taxpayers, Apple included, would just give them a "fair share" of our money.
If you look at the balance sheet of the US, the money it takes in in taxes makes it by a good margin the richest entity in the entire world. To here members of our government continually bemoaning how the richest people and companies "owe" it more makes me sick. The richest person has two orders of magnitude less net worth than what the government makes in taxes each year. The richest companies are a full order of magnitude smaller in full valuation than the governments annual take.
Our goverment is poor (in debt) only because it sees fit to spend way more than the truly massive amount of money it takes in an effort to exert its power to make us (the citizens, and the world at large) act in the way it wants us too. Enforcing a nanny state and a global Pax Americana is a very expensive undertaking.....
Nothing. In fact if the previous poster had been paying attention that already happened in 2008.
No government devised by man will ever bring equal prosperity to all of its citizens. The most they can do is bring equal misery. We've seen quite a few that managed that.
Yet your guy has a list of names of people he want to kill with drones, often times in countries we are not at war with. Sometimes they're American citizens.
I agree that Bush did bad things and ratcheted back our freedoms. But Obama just got in there and EXPANDED the ratcheting back of more of our freedoms. Except you just cheer him on because he's your guy.
You have a blind hatred of Bush and a blind love of Obama. Your blind to the continual increase of the governments power over us because you've been duped into thinking this is a sporting event with two opposing teams.
Blind assholes like you and like those on the other "side" are costing us our liberty.
No, what it proves is that climate forcing due to CO2 is likely non-linear in impact. It also may indicate negative feedback loops responding to the changes. Also, since we're not measuring a closed system there are a huge number of possible things causing the current climate response.
This shit is really really really complicated. About the only thing I'm certain of is that all our models for climate so far are not good enough.
Imagine a metal cymbal shaped as a sphere with no holes in it floating free in the air. Now hit that cymbal with a mallet that is longer than the diameter than the cymbal. But hit the cymbal on the inside of the sphere. Oh and the interior of the sphere is a vacuum.
There you go, there are a few impossible geometries (and other things) in that scenario.
Bullshit. One car can't leave a train and then proceed to a different location from the other cars, while the rest of the cars keep moving along.
This is an enormous difference.
Everyone who continually spouts on about mass transit always takes the first step of discounting how much flexibility and independence matter in transit.
With this type of breakthrough we can get the benefits of the train (energy savings earned from the streamlining of the group of cars' movement), plus still retain flexibility (cars can leave the "train" dynamically).
Landsat pixels are 30m. It is a moderate resolution satellite, not a high res one.
Its a tradeoff, you get better time coverage and a larger viewing area with larger pixels, you get worse coverage and a smaller image with smaller pixels but better detail.
Also other factors affect coverage, which in the best case is once every 16 days. So a few cloudy days or gaps in the data and the pixels won't change very fast.
I would be willing to be that if the BB gun happened at a school, the zero tolerance policies would have pushed the prosecution of that to 11 as well.
In cases like this the school systems actively encourage overreaction by other authorities to back up their assertions about why these policies are right and necessary.
This report does effectively see what is going on. Its the continuing effort to destroy high wage jobs in the US because corporate interests do not want to pay high wages.
Manufacturing jobs have faced this over the past few decades. Middle management has faced this. Now the skilled technical worker is the target for wage lowering.
However, our Captains of Industry have lost the wisdom that Henry Ford had about making sure their employees can afford the things they make.
There is really a neo-feudalism being formulated right now with the CEOs and corporate officers and boards taking a huge chunk of the company money, and with the money changers on the other side skimming off the top as well. They fail to see that enriching and advancing the middle class is the best way to actually make more money in the future. Their current method is going to empty the tank for the engine of the economy and set us on a continuous downward spiral.
The key thing to fix this problem will be to have businesses move away from "Increase Shareholder Value" and back to "give the customer what they want."
This is what is so dangerous about the Hedge fund managers' desires to increase Apple dividend payments. Apple has a clear focus on giving the customer good products. Turning them into a shareholder value type of company will only lead to disaster.
I don't think it will be long now before suits are filed against most of the digital locker services to try to "catch" them with pre 1972 content.
And if they manage to shut down the file lockers, they will ramp up the courage to go after YouTube. And with it already proven that it is nearly completely impossible for YouTube to perfectly filter everything automatically, they will lose.
I have decided, and told my children to look at any music they are purchasing and make sure it is not copyrighted by UMG.
I am fine with buying digital music online, but I am not fine with giving any money to a company who supports policies that could destroy the internet.
Companies that try to pursue actions and decisions that cripple the internet are IMHO enemies of mankind.
That might be because you were arguing for a bill that would limit our rights in the story about a bill that is going to limit our rights.
If you want universal background checks to pass and CISPA, not to pass, you are being logically inconsistent with respect to citizen's constitutional rights.
You would effectively liquidate the stock market and a great portion of the savings in the banking system. I assume you would jail the 1%ers whose property you'd confiscated. Thus the companies and businesses they run would be in complete disarray, especially all the public ones whose stock market valuations had just cratered.
The entire economy would completely break down, but your confiscatory government would have the power to implement martial law and kill anyone that opposes them. The fact that nearly every aspect of the bill of rights would have to be violated to carry out the confiscation would finalize the shredding of the constitution and the president who executed this action would become dictator for life. This would lead to open civil war and possibly fractured fighting between military groups.
Yeah, your idea is a great fucking idea....
Confiscation of wealth (not income) to fix our nation will be the mark of our end as a nation.
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Umm. I get where you're coming from, but then by the same measure, he did in fact add 1 country to that list and is now seriously looking at adding another....
No. My contention is that it should be viewed as an enormously wealthy, enormously powerful entity that impacts our lives in an increasingly dramatic fashion.
The US government is the most powerful organization ever to exist on the planet.
My point is more that this very organization shouldn't and in reality is not very good at being an true arbiter of "fairness".
Love your analogy.
It too bad our vicious dog that protects is is off the leash and has bred an entire pack and now has us backed into a corner....
If the government really gave a shit about "fair share" for taxes, then they'd charge a flat rate percentage for everyone.
Instead they set up a Byzantine network of policies, tax breaks, and incentives and are shocked, shocked when people and companies actually use them or even modify their behavior to get around them.
I'm getting pretty sick of our government complaining about how poor it is and how everything would be better if us taxpayers, Apple included, would just give them a "fair share" of our money.
If you look at the balance sheet of the US, the money it takes in in taxes makes it by a good margin the richest entity in the entire world. To here members of our government continually bemoaning how the richest people and companies "owe" it more makes me sick. The richest person has two orders of magnitude less net worth than what the government makes in taxes each year. The richest companies are a full order of magnitude smaller in full valuation than the governments annual take.
Our goverment is poor (in debt) only because it sees fit to spend way more than the truly massive amount of money it takes in an effort to exert its power to make us (the citizens, and the world at large) act in the way it wants us too. Enforcing a nanny state and a global Pax Americana is a very expensive undertaking.....
Nothing. In fact if the previous poster had been paying attention that already happened in 2008.
No government devised by man will ever bring equal prosperity to all of its citizens. The most they can do is bring equal misery. We've seen quite a few that managed that.
Yet your guy has a list of names of people he want to kill with drones, often times in countries we are not at war with. Sometimes they're American citizens.
I agree that Bush did bad things and ratcheted back our freedoms. But Obama just got in there and EXPANDED the ratcheting back of more of our freedoms. Except you just cheer him on because he's your guy.
You have a blind hatred of Bush and a blind love of Obama. Your blind to the continual increase of the governments power over us because you've been duped into thinking this is a sporting event with two opposing teams.
Blind assholes like you and like those on the other "side" are costing us our liberty.
Fuck you.
No, what it proves is that climate forcing due to CO2 is likely non-linear in impact. It also may indicate negative feedback loops responding to the changes. Also, since we're not measuring a closed system there are a huge number of possible things causing the current climate response.
This shit is really really really complicated. About the only thing I'm certain of is that all our models for climate so far are not good enough.
Imagine a metal cymbal shaped as a sphere with no holes in it floating free in the air. Now hit that cymbal with a mallet that is longer than the diameter than the cymbal. But hit the cymbal on the inside of the sphere. Oh and the interior of the sphere is a vacuum.
There you go, there are a few impossible geometries (and other things) in that scenario.
Bullshit. One car can't leave a train and then proceed to a different location from the other cars, while the rest of the cars keep moving along.
This is an enormous difference.
Everyone who continually spouts on about mass transit always takes the first step of discounting how much flexibility and independence matter in transit.
With this type of breakthrough we can get the benefits of the train (energy savings earned from the streamlining of the group of cars' movement), plus still retain flexibility (cars can leave the "train" dynamically).
Landsat pixels are 30m. It is a moderate resolution satellite, not a high res one.
Its a tradeoff, you get better time coverage and a larger viewing area with larger pixels, you get worse coverage and a smaller image with smaller pixels but better detail.
Also other factors affect coverage, which in the best case is once every 16 days. So a few cloudy days or gaps in the data and the pixels won't change very fast.
Yeah, youtube has nothing that anyone wants to watch. They ought to just shut it down already, its just a wasteland with no viable content at all.....
I would be willing to be that if the BB gun happened at a school, the zero tolerance policies would have pushed the prosecution of that to 11 as well.
In cases like this the school systems actively encourage overreaction by other authorities to back up their assertions about why these policies are right and necessary.
Your last line is spot on.
Zero tolerance policies are for zero brained educators.
Yes! Then you can look even more nerdy using them.
I think you spelled the word corporations wrong. It is not spelled a-r-t-i-s-t-s.
This report does effectively see what is going on. Its the continuing effort to destroy high wage jobs in the US because corporate interests do not want to pay high wages.
Manufacturing jobs have faced this over the past few decades. Middle management has faced this. Now the skilled technical worker is the target for wage lowering.
However, our Captains of Industry have lost the wisdom that Henry Ford had about making sure their employees can afford the things they make.
There is really a neo-feudalism being formulated right now with the CEOs and corporate officers and boards taking a huge chunk of the company money, and with the money changers on the other side skimming off the top as well. They fail to see that enriching and advancing the middle class is the best way to actually make more money in the future. Their current method is going to empty the tank for the engine of the economy and set us on a continuous downward spiral.
The key thing to fix this problem will be to have businesses move away from "Increase Shareholder Value" and back to "give the customer what they want."
This is what is so dangerous about the Hedge fund managers' desires to increase Apple dividend payments. Apple has a clear focus on giving the customer good products. Turning them into a shareholder value type of company will only lead to disaster.
Wow its almost like these old recordings have been given Super Copyright powers after falling in a vat of government legislation...
That good. Because the record companies aren't the problem the songwriters are. Oh, wait....
This decision is severely damaging.
I don't think it will be long now before suits are filed against most of the digital locker services to try to "catch" them with pre 1972 content.
And if they manage to shut down the file lockers, they will ramp up the courage to go after YouTube. And with it already proven that it is nearly completely impossible for YouTube to perfectly filter everything automatically, they will lose.
I have decided, and told my children to look at any music they are purchasing and make sure it is not copyrighted by UMG.
I am fine with buying digital music online, but I am not fine with giving any money to a company who supports policies that could destroy the internet.
Companies that try to pursue actions and decisions that cripple the internet are IMHO enemies of mankind.
That might be because you were arguing for a bill that would limit our rights in the story about a bill that is going to limit our rights.
If you want universal background checks to pass and CISPA, not to pass, you are being logically inconsistent with respect to citizen's constitutional rights.
There is zero evidence that the Economics lie of efficiency every occurred.
Seriously??
There is no way Western Civilization would be where it is today if we only had barter as a means of trade. Currencies were essential.
However, Forbes is still wrong. Bitcoin is a currency. There's nothing about currencies that says they have to not be volatile.
Agreed. /. was impressive with its news coverage on 9/11.
This is news for everyone.
Fourth - North Korea has stated that something will happen on April 15th.
Though I don't think its them.
If we did what you suggest, the world would burn.
You would effectively liquidate the stock market and a great portion of the savings in the banking system. I assume you would jail the 1%ers whose property you'd confiscated. Thus the companies and businesses they run would be in complete disarray, especially all the public ones whose stock market valuations had just cratered.
The entire economy would completely break down, but your confiscatory government would have the power to implement martial law and kill anyone that opposes them. The fact that nearly every aspect of the bill of rights would have to be violated to carry out the confiscation would finalize the shredding of the constitution and the president who executed this action would become dictator for life. This would lead to open civil war and possibly fractured fighting between military groups.
Yeah, your idea is a great fucking idea....
Confiscation of wealth (not income) to fix our nation will be the mark of our end as a nation.
If asked, would you guest star on Big Bang Theory?