So what exactly is your point? Is it just the US that does this, and hence, a threat to the "free market" that is the EU?
Is throwing $$$ at supercomputer research and deployments of American supercomputers and clusters for US Government use somehow an unfair subsidy against Fujitsu and Hitachi?
Why doesn't the EU, under the guise of "academic-corporate research", do something similar?
No, upgrading in this case means pushing the "old" tech onto national guard/reserve/rear echelon units as the 82nd, 101st, SOC get the new stuff, unless those units happen to be from politically important congressional districts.
The USMC is slightly better at deploying new stuff across the board, because it is smaller and just more unified in purpose and focus. It doesn't have a bunch of rear-area commands that think they are as important as the sharp end of the spear to misallocate resources.
...any access to the "outside" would probably (hopefully) be done through proxy servers. This would keep the editorial control aspect of it in the military's hands.
Printed maps are good for physical geography (except perhaps in an area that lacks discernable topographical features...), but not much else. That gravel road looks like it might go near where you need to go, but it's not on your map. Do you take it and risk getting side-tracked (or worse... we're talking military land-nav here, which implies some sort of combat or combat-training risk), or do you keep pounding through the brush/trees?
One learns this quickly enough doing land-nav excercises. Try hiking through the woods with a 1:150 000 map (like a DeLorme atlas book) compared with a 1:24 000 map or 1:7 500 map...
Plus, maps aren't very helpful at night or if you can't see out of the forest of trees that you are in when you need to answer the critical "where are we" question.
...but they don't need to lay fibre, at least in the US. The problem is, how do you protect the fibre between installations? Sure, most of it will be underground, but there will probably be demarks outside of military installations, where amplifiers, conditioners, etc. are located.
Unless the telcos start killing off technicians after they're done working for them, the knowledge will be out there, waiting to be pieced together.
We won't know much about it, but those who want to really know (i.e., China) will know more about it than anyone would feel comfortable about. That knowledge then becomes a tradeable commodity. "Hey, Mr. bin-Laden, if you could get a team here, in this obscure location in Colorado, you shut down about half of MCI's main backbones across the country. Oh, and a couple of 'mil-net' fibre backbones go through here as well."
Or, even scarier, "Hey, you minion of David Koresh, if you really want to settle a score, blow this building up in downtown Chicago. It's the funny skyscraper without windows, a few blocks north of the Sears Tower. Screw blowing up the federal buildings, etc. Blow this one up, and you'll definitely get their attention. Even better, coordinate a similar attack in Denver and Boise, and you put a serious bollux in US telecomms. Let all your bank robber fiends know about it, too."
The cooling towers are there to help make the steam process more efficient, not for the nuclear reactors. Once the steam isn't not enough, then they let it flash out until it's very hot water. Maybe someone could develop some sort of heterodynamic/convective turbine that would work with this also, to help extract a few more kilowatts out of the hot water? (oh, like maybe a bunch of Sterling engines?) But anyways.
Coal-fired steam plants have big water-cooling aparatuses as well, whether these are evaporative coolers, giant cooling ponds, rivers or natural lakes. It's just an inherent part of using steam as an energy exchange medium.
the natural gas-powered "kicker" plants have relatively small water-cooling facilities. These burn the gas in gas turbines (think: they're on the size and scale of the steam turbines at a nuke or coal power plant). The water used in these is to help keep the equipment cool enough.
...well, wind is probably good for small, isolated communities, though. Like I said earlier, there are several communities along I-90 in Minnesota and S. Dakota that have their own wind turbines (yes, the big ones, 100' tall). I'm gonna guess that these stations are either community owned or co-ops, and not run by the big power utility corps in those states.
1. Its too expensive, the last plant to come on line in the eighties in the US, generated electricity a cost higher than solar power of the same era (the luz plant). After around $3 trillion in R&D funding, subsidies, loan guarantees, insurance no fault legislation, etc nuclear power is STILL a commercial failure only to exist out of the "goodness" of governments around the world.
Uh, I think this is really only a problem with nuclear power in the US. It doesn't seem to have stopped Japan or Europe.
Until we develop massive ways to store electrical energy as well as route it around the world, then solar energy does you no good at least 50% of the time. It's a suppliment to other generation methods.
The last plant to come on line I think was the Diablo Canyon plant in California, or the really big one west of Phoenix, AZ. Buying real estate in SoCal is cool. not only do you have to sign zillions of disclosure statements about earthquakes, termites, etc., but if you live within 50 miles of a nuclear facility (North Island NAS didn't count), there's one for that, too.
How many people have died flying on 747's compared to the Hindenburg?
Lemmee see here. 36 people died on the Hindenburg. When a 747 does a CFIT, you can count on 200-300 people dying (unless it's a cargo plane).
Ooo! the Fire! Well, the 747's that ran into each other in Tenerife caused a pretty big fire now, didn't they? Hindenburg fire was over in, oh, 10 minutes? If the passengers dont' have the luxury of crashing near an airport, the plane just burns itself out, more or less. At least that's what happened when KAL flight 800 crashed in Guam.
Really? Your muscles will still hurt from the effort.
Pushing on a 10-ton block with a seismometer sitting on top of it will register it.
It's just that your puny geekly muscles put out, oh, maybe 20 watts, and that's supposed to effect a multi-million pound building?
If the friction that the block is sitting on is low enough, you should be able to move it. It is a world of difference moving around a 500-lb grand piano on a dolly compared to trying to drag it around on carpeting...
Effects of thermal streams is greatly important. Look at a World Map [wikipedia.org], and compare cities in Northeastern USA and Canada with European cities at the same latitude. The European cities are MUCH warmer, thanks to lots of air and ocean currents carrying them heat. Now if these currents are interrupted, that means less heat flowing to these places.
Well, oceanic effects aren't quite what you think they are.
Having lived in San Diego, the moderating effects of the Pacific Ocean in San Diego go to about...oh, I-15, at least in the summer. It may only be 75 degrees at Ocean Beach, but if you go to La Mesa (about 15 miles away), it's 95-100. When it's producing the morning haze in the LA basin, yes, that helps keep temps down until the sun comes out, but it doesn't do much in Riverside.
When you're talking about Europe in the winter, you must mean all the moist storms that are pumped up because of moisture from the Gulf Stream. Somehow, I think this is really only a factor for Iceland, Ireland, Belgium, England and western France. Watching the weather channel, it's pretty cold in Berlin, Munchen, etc. in the winter, as it is in the Nordic countries as well. Europe doesn't have big mountans on the western side of the continent to suck the moisture out of those storms like North America has, so the effect goes in more. But Bend, Oregon (or Yakima, Washington) is about as cold and nasty as Chicago is in the winter.
To really extract kinetic energy out of the air, you'd probably want to have a very tall windmill, or tether some sort of ballon and turbine up above 40,000' altitude, and tap into the jet stream.
Your analogy with the trucks would be better perhaps if you were comparing the differences between asphalt-paved roads vs concrete roads, but as we know, atmospheric effects are non-linear, and small changes can have big effects sometimes (why does one cumulus cloud turn into a super-cell and the rest don't?)
It could be a conflict of things. Perhaps the dominant wasps also have "dominance" pheremones, and by painting geek wasps to look like dominant wasps, the resulting discordance within the wasp community with whatever other signalling mechanisms they have simply caused the conflict.
There are different ant species that get tricked by some spiders (behavior, pheremone or just physical similarity)... There are others that know when ants Not From This Cluster are dropped in, and they quickly dispatch the outsiders. And then there are fire ants...
Well, if you go into a commercial chicken house, and paint red spots on a couple of chickens, those chickens will get pecked to death (oddly enough, they don't do it if they're coverd with shit). With my own chickens, they seem to like pecking at my preety, shiny wedding ring. It's not bad when they're 3 weeks old, but by the time they're 8 weeks old, they're big enough that it starts to hurt.
Our sheep, we tried putting coats on them this summer. Well, we didn't get them all coated. The ones that were coated were ostracised by the rest of the flock... But once we got them all coated a couple of weeks later, they all seemed to realize quickly that they all had coats on, and they adjusted soon enough amd were back to behaving normally.
Think about it. America had been attacked. America looked weak, open, an inviting target. America's "liberal" openness was implicated in it (not withstanding YEARS of Airline industry fighting and lobbying against stronger security measures on their planes).
To vote against it seemed to be voting in favor of what happened. And no politician in their right mind wants to ever create a sense that they are a tool of the boogeyman.
Head like a hole black as your soul I'd rather die than give you control
Depends. Do you see any stories about "yellow ribbons", etc? Not too many, and usually at the end of the broadcast when they have dead air to fill.
But get a couple of hundred people together in downtown, barricading the federal building, and it's a Big Deal, at least for about an hour, until they run out of gas.
Duh, it takes 60 votes to overcome a fillibuster in the senate.
Of course, the dirty trick will be labelling all democrats very well as "obstructionists". Do they not remember what happened to Congress half-way through Clinton's first term? Contract with America anyone? Do you not think that perhaps some level of this could bounce back the other way?
The DNC needs to study Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, et al.
"Moral values". WHAT 'moral values'?
What ever happened to "I will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those that do"? Are those not fundamental moral values as well?
Kerry "lied" about his medals? Hmm... It was Vietnam! It's hard to lie about being on a river boat in-country, rather than really lying and obfuscating about a purported National Guard "career". If I'm not supposed to worry about that, "aww, he was a young guy", then why should i give a flying fuck about what Kerry did when he got back to the US?
Besides, getting medals like Kerry got during that time was almost a political excercise as well, in order to manufacture heros. Yes, there were some amazingly valorous acts that were recognized. And there were other, less valorous ones, that were lionized as well. How long exactly did the My Lai massacre convicts actually spend in prison?
If you think that half of the shit that happened in Vietnam made sense, had any basis in reality, was not warped or perverted to extremes, well... The only things real were people getting shot and killed.
...but we didn't have much of this before 9/11, either. You could say that the FBI and ATF are doing their jobs well because we haven't had another OKC bombing, either.
The Taliban is regrouping in northern Afghanistan. I give them 3 or 4 years to secure enough opium $$$ to buy enough modern Russian and French weapons (assuming they're not giving them away at that point) to make another run at Kabul. And you thought the first Taliban was bad?
As far as the Hezbollah terrorists, how come Qaddafi, and the heads of most of the other Arabic Islamic countries are not also in jail?
And, again, where is Osama bin Laden? Why doesn't Ashcroft just invite him over so they can do some anointing together. Two very holy men seeking some religious insight into each other...
So, spreading fuel around the inside of my house, while egging on the cops to the point that they fire teargas and flash-bangs in it, which sets the house on fire, this is the police's problem?
David Koresh's actions killed the people in Waco.
My wife had to deal with a kid who grew up in there while she was still a psych nurse.
Actually, I think was that is the President's tradition to symbolically fire his Cabinet and staff, and ask those he wants back to apply again, and that one or two Cabinet members may have been thinking of jumping the gun.
Yes, I heard the same broadcast on the way to work...
If you were the CEO (President) of a corporation (US Government), and you were spending money (invasion of Iraq), leveraging assets (tax cuts and financial deals that will be dealt with in 5-10 years...) and giving away products or just slashing prices faster than Walmart (read: cheap timber sales, VERY cheap land deals for mineral extraction due to archaic federal law that seems impossible to get rid of, etc), the Board of Directors (Congress) would have your resignation secured in about two days.
But I suppose all these good businessmen Republicans who want to run Government like a business (I think that means, suck all the $$$ out of it, pay your employees as little as they will tolerate while working them to the bone while you're "managing" at your vacation home or playing golf) have got it right. Yep.
But farmers aren't businessmen, either. So what do I know?
Don't forget, there are often times subtle differences between things you can buy at Pest Buy compared to Staples, Circuit City, etc.
Great price on printer model. Ooo, can't find anyone else in the town that sells it. They all sell the 1024M instead of the 1024MM. Technically, not the same product!
Unless a company pays dividends, I would argue that shareholders don't matter very much, unless some of them happen to have extended credit to your corporation or they have someone sitting on your board of directors. THOSE shareholders are the ones wanting...things... Vulture capitalists come into play as well.
Except for the initial issue of shares, the company does not directly benefit from stock transactions. So why do so many companies worry about it? I suppose it's Da Buzz.
Oh well. I guess I'm an idealist. Silly me.
You would think most business people would see those who help make their company's products or provide the services would be better appreciated, instead of just a big fat collection of expenses that need to be minimized.
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So what exactly is your point? Is it just the US that does this, and hence, a threat to the "free market" that is the EU?
Is throwing $$$ at supercomputer research and deployments of American supercomputers and clusters for US Government use somehow an unfair subsidy against Fujitsu and Hitachi?
Why doesn't the EU, under the guise of "academic-corporate research", do something similar?
Boo hoo.
No, upgrading in this case means pushing the "old" tech onto national guard/reserve/rear echelon units as the 82nd, 101st, SOC get the new stuff, unless those units happen to be from politically important congressional districts.
The USMC is slightly better at deploying new stuff across the board, because it is smaller and just more unified in purpose and focus. It doesn't have a bunch of rear-area commands that think they are as important as the sharp end of the spear to misallocate resources.
-From a non-Marine
...any access to the "outside" would probably (hopefully) be done through proxy servers. This would keep the editorial control aspect of it in the military's hands.
Printed maps are good for physical geography (except perhaps in an area that lacks discernable topographical features...), but not much else. That gravel road looks like it might go near where you need to go, but it's not on your map. Do you take it and risk getting side-tracked (or worse... we're talking military land-nav here, which implies some sort of combat or combat-training risk), or do you keep pounding through the brush/trees?
One learns this quickly enough doing land-nav excercises. Try hiking through the woods with a 1:150 000 map (like a DeLorme atlas book) compared with a 1:24 000 map or 1:7 500 map...
Plus, maps aren't very helpful at night or if you can't see out of the forest of trees that you are in when you need to answer the critical "where are we" question.
...but they don't need to lay fibre, at least in the US. The problem is, how do you protect the fibre between installations? Sure, most of it will be underground, but there will probably be demarks outside of military installations, where amplifiers, conditioners, etc. are located.
Unless the telcos start killing off technicians after they're done working for them, the knowledge will be out there, waiting to be pieced together.
We won't know much about it, but those who want to really know (i.e., China) will know more about it than anyone would feel comfortable about. That knowledge then becomes a tradeable commodity. "Hey, Mr. bin-Laden, if you could get a team here, in this obscure location in Colorado, you shut down about half of MCI's main backbones across the country. Oh, and a couple of 'mil-net' fibre backbones go through here as well."
Or, even scarier, "Hey, you minion of David Koresh, if you really want to settle a score, blow this building up in downtown Chicago. It's the funny skyscraper without windows, a few blocks north of the Sears Tower. Screw blowing up the federal buildings, etc. Blow this one up, and you'll definitely get their attention. Even better, coordinate a similar attack in Denver and Boise, and you put a serious bollux in US telecomms. Let all your bank robber fiends know about it, too."
The cooling towers are there to help make the steam process more efficient, not for the nuclear reactors. Once the steam isn't not enough, then they let it flash out until it's very hot water. Maybe someone could develop some sort of heterodynamic/convective turbine that would work with this also, to help extract a few more kilowatts out of the hot water? (oh, like maybe a bunch of Sterling engines?) But anyways.
Coal-fired steam plants have big water-cooling aparatuses as well, whether these are evaporative coolers, giant cooling ponds, rivers or natural lakes. It's just an inherent part of using steam as an energy exchange medium.
the natural gas-powered "kicker" plants have relatively small water-cooling facilities. These burn the gas in gas turbines (think: they're on the size and scale of the steam turbines at a nuke or coal power plant). The water used in these is to help keep the equipment cool enough.
...well, wind is probably good for small, isolated communities, though. Like I said earlier, there are several communities along I-90 in Minnesota and S. Dakota that have their own wind turbines (yes, the big ones, 100' tall). I'm gonna guess that these stations are either community owned or co-ops, and not run by the big power utility corps in those states.
1. Its too expensive, the last plant to come on line in the eighties in the US, generated electricity a cost higher than solar power of the same era (the luz plant). After around $3 trillion in R&D funding, subsidies, loan guarantees, insurance no fault legislation, etc nuclear power is STILL a commercial failure only to exist out of the "goodness" of governments around the world.
Uh, I think this is really only a problem with nuclear power in the US. It doesn't seem to have stopped Japan or Europe.
Until we develop massive ways to store electrical energy as well as route it around the world, then solar energy does you no good at least 50% of the time. It's a suppliment to other generation methods.
The last plant to come on line I think was the Diablo Canyon plant in California, or the really big one west of Phoenix, AZ. Buying real estate in SoCal is cool. not only do you have to sign zillions of disclosure statements about earthquakes, termites, etc., but if you live within 50 miles of a nuclear facility (North Island NAS didn't count), there's one for that, too.
How many people have died flying on 747's compared to the Hindenburg?
Lemmee see here. 36 people died on the Hindenburg. When a 747 does a CFIT, you can count on 200-300 people dying (unless it's a cargo plane).
Ooo! the Fire! Well, the 747's that ran into each other in Tenerife caused a pretty big fire now, didn't they? Hindenburg fire was over in, oh, 10 minutes? If the passengers dont' have the luxury of crashing near an airport, the plane just burns itself out, more or less. At least that's what happened when KAL flight 800 crashed in Guam.
Really? Your muscles will still hurt from the effort.
Pushing on a 10-ton block with a seismometer sitting on top of it will register it.
It's just that your puny geekly muscles put out, oh, maybe 20 watts, and that's supposed to effect a multi-million pound building?
If the friction that the block is sitting on is low enough, you should be able to move it. It is a world of difference moving around a 500-lb grand piano on a dolly compared to trying to drag it around on carpeting...
Effects of thermal streams is greatly important. Look at a World Map [wikipedia.org], and compare cities in Northeastern USA and Canada with European cities at the same latitude. The European cities are MUCH warmer, thanks to lots of air and ocean currents carrying them heat. Now if these currents are interrupted, that means less heat flowing to these places.
Well, oceanic effects aren't quite what you think they are.
Having lived in San Diego, the moderating effects of the Pacific Ocean in San Diego go to about...oh, I-15, at least in the summer. It may only be 75 degrees at Ocean Beach, but if you go to La Mesa (about 15 miles away), it's 95-100. When it's producing the morning haze in the LA basin, yes, that helps keep temps down until the sun comes out, but it doesn't do much in Riverside.
When you're talking about Europe in the winter, you must mean all the moist storms that are pumped up because of moisture from the Gulf Stream. Somehow, I think this is really only a factor for Iceland, Ireland, Belgium, England and western France. Watching the weather channel, it's pretty cold in Berlin, Munchen, etc. in the winter, as it is in the Nordic countries as well. Europe doesn't have big mountans on the western side of the continent to suck the moisture out of those storms like North America has, so the effect goes in more. But Bend, Oregon (or Yakima, Washington) is about as cold and nasty as Chicago is in the winter.
To really extract kinetic energy out of the air, you'd probably want to have a very tall windmill, or tether some sort of ballon and turbine up above 40,000' altitude, and tap into the jet stream.
Your analogy with the trucks would be better perhaps if you were comparing the differences between asphalt-paved roads vs concrete roads, but as we know, atmospheric effects are non-linear, and small changes can have big effects sometimes (why does one cumulus cloud turn into a super-cell and the rest don't?)
Oh, there are a few communities in South Dakota and Minnesota along I-90 that have their own wind turbines in place...
It could be a conflict of things. Perhaps the dominant wasps also have "dominance" pheremones, and by painting geek wasps to look like dominant wasps, the resulting discordance within the wasp community with whatever other signalling mechanisms they have simply caused the conflict.
There are different ant species that get tricked by some spiders (behavior, pheremone or just physical similarity)... There are others that know when ants Not From This Cluster are dropped in, and they quickly dispatch the outsiders. And then there are fire ants...
Well, if you go into a commercial chicken house, and paint red spots on a couple of chickens, those chickens will get pecked to death (oddly enough, they don't do it if they're coverd with shit). With my own chickens, they seem to like pecking at my preety, shiny wedding ring. It's not bad when they're 3 weeks old, but by the time they're 8 weeks old, they're big enough that it starts to hurt.
Our sheep, we tried putting coats on them this summer. Well, we didn't get them all coated. The ones that were coated were ostracised by the rest of the flock... But once we got them all coated a couple of weeks later, they all seemed to realize quickly that they all had coats on, and they adjusted soon enough amd were back to behaving normally.
Think about it. America had been attacked. America looked weak, open, an inviting target. America's "liberal" openness was implicated in it (not withstanding YEARS of Airline industry fighting and lobbying against stronger security measures on their planes).
To vote against it seemed to be voting in favor of what happened. And no politician in their right mind wants to ever create a sense that they are a tool of the boogeyman.
Head like a hole
black as your soul
I'd rather die
than give you control
Depends. Do you see any stories about "yellow ribbons", etc? Not too many, and usually at the end of the broadcast when they have dead air to fill.
But get a couple of hundred people together in downtown, barricading the federal building, and it's a Big Deal, at least for about an hour, until they run out of gas.
Duh, it takes 60 votes to overcome a fillibuster in the senate.
Of course, the dirty trick will be labelling all democrats very well as "obstructionists". Do they not remember what happened to Congress half-way through Clinton's first term? Contract with America anyone? Do you not think that perhaps some level of this could bounce back the other way?
The DNC needs to study Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, et al.
"Moral values". WHAT 'moral values'?
What ever happened to "I will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those that do"? Are those not fundamental moral values as well?
Kerry "lied" about his medals? Hmm... It was Vietnam! It's hard to lie about being on a river boat in-country, rather than really lying and obfuscating about a purported National Guard "career". If I'm not supposed to worry about that, "aww, he was a young guy", then why should i give a flying fuck about what Kerry did when he got back to the US?
Besides, getting medals like Kerry got during that time was almost a political excercise as well, in order to manufacture heros. Yes, there were some amazingly valorous acts that were recognized. And there were other, less valorous ones, that were lionized as well. How long exactly did the My Lai massacre convicts actually spend in prison?
If you think that half of the shit that happened in Vietnam made sense, had any basis in reality, was not warped or perverted to extremes, well...
The only things real were people getting shot and killed.
...but we didn't have much of this before 9/11, either. You could say that the FBI and ATF are doing their jobs well because we haven't had another OKC bombing, either.
The Taliban is regrouping in northern Afghanistan. I give them 3 or 4 years to secure enough opium $$$ to buy enough modern Russian and French weapons (assuming they're not giving them away at that point) to make another run at Kabul.
And you thought the first Taliban was bad?
As far as the Hezbollah terrorists, how come Qaddafi, and the heads of most of the other Arabic Islamic countries are not also in jail?
And, again, where is Osama bin Laden? Why doesn't Ashcroft just invite him over so they can do some anointing together. Two very holy men seeking some religious insight into each other...
So, spreading fuel around the inside of my house, while egging on the cops to the point that they fire teargas and flash-bangs in it, which sets the house on fire, this is the police's problem?
David Koresh's actions killed the people in Waco.
My wife had to deal with a kid who grew up in there while she was still a psych nurse.
Actually, I think was that is the President's tradition to symbolically fire his Cabinet and staff, and ask those he wants back to apply again, and that one or two Cabinet members may have been thinking of jumping the gun.
Yes, I heard the same broadcast on the way to work...
If you were the CEO (President) of a corporation (US Government), and you were spending money (invasion of Iraq), leveraging assets (tax cuts and financial deals that will be dealt with in 5-10 years...) and giving away products or just slashing prices faster than Walmart (read: cheap timber sales, VERY cheap land deals for mineral extraction due to archaic federal law that seems impossible to get rid of, etc), the Board of Directors (Congress) would have your resignation secured in about two days.
But I suppose all these good businessmen Republicans who want to run Government like a business (I think that means, suck all the $$$ out of it, pay your employees as little as they will tolerate while working them to the bone while you're "managing" at your vacation home or playing golf) have got it right. Yep.
But farmers aren't businessmen, either. So what do I know?
...maybe municipalities should start 1099'ing people in jail for their food and meals and part of the cost for being incarcerated...
...are you sure that a big part of California's budget problems aren't discretionary spending by legislators (aka Pork)?
Illinois is good with this. Billion-dollar budget deficit, but no reduction in discretionary programs, only non-discretionary programs.
Don't forget, there are often times subtle differences between things you can buy at Pest Buy compared to Staples, Circuit City, etc.
Great price on printer model. Ooo, can't find anyone else in the town that sells it. They all sell the 1024M instead of the 1024MM. Technically, not the same product!
Unless a company pays dividends, I would argue that shareholders don't matter very much, unless some of them happen to have extended credit to your corporation or they have someone sitting on your board of directors. THOSE shareholders are the ones wanting...things... Vulture capitalists come into play as well.
Except for the initial issue of shares, the company does not directly benefit from stock transactions. So why do so many companies worry about it? I suppose it's Da Buzz.
Oh well. I guess I'm an idealist. Silly me.
You would think most business people would see those who help make their company's products or provide the services would be better appreciated, instead of just a big fat collection of expenses that need to be minimized.