No, actually, the big thing corporations provide is legal absolution for the investors in the corporation to not be held personally responsible for any negative things done in behalf of the corporation.
People working make goods and provide services, whether they're bound up in a corporation or not.
The means to make those and get (commodities and products) to and from corporations and markets is infrastructure, and that is mostly provided and/or maintained by or was initially provided by (land grants to railroads, airports and harbors, eminent domain laws, etc) governments...
Corporations are a convenient abstraction. Remember that the Brooklyn Bridge was financed by a corporation (the Brooklyn Bridge Corporation), that had private investors, and dissolved after some period of time after the bridge was built and moneys returned back to the investors with some measure of profit IIRC (but not a windfall...)? Too bad corporations can't go back to a more symbiotic instead of parasitic (profit maximizing) relationship with society, and that corporate and financial laws and regulations really won't allow this to happen, either (shareholder "rights", etc).
Oh, I don't know... the ones who know there's a dichotomy between their work and the rest of their lives, and are trying to keep that dichotomy in place?
While speech between people is natural, it is not a natural interface with our devices. We've learned to tune out the one-sided conversations other people may be having on cell phones in our presence. Not so sure about a command interface, however. How many people actually use the voice dialing feature on their cell phones? Yes, I'm sure some of you will, but...
However, if I won the lottery, I'd put up some money for someone to hack it and create a Tourette's mode for it... Now, THAT could be some good comedy!
There have been a few quasi-smart phones with keypad buttons that had eInk in them - the icon in the key (letter, symbol, whatnot) could change depending on the context... It seemed kind of cool, actually.
I'd say that dog breeding is probably a better area than livestock. At least with livestock, we generally eat or get rid of the bad ones, and not too many lines with otherwise powerfully expressed, good traits have some really negative traits that come along in their offspring (wikipedia mentions a couple of holstein bull lines that have one, quarterhorses have a couple of lines with a very bad inherited skin disorder, etc).
With dogs, however, there are negative traits in some popular breeds that have come to be (hip dysplasia, cocker spaniels, etc), that are only now trying to be bred out of the breed, and it's an uphill battle.
well, I knew someone who was doing research on table rocks in the area, to guesstimate how long those rocks had been teetering on their pedestals, with the hypothesis that a significant earthquake would have knocked them off...
As I recall, their research indicated that of the ones they'd checked, they'd probably been on their pedestals for a few thousand years, at least...
Holy Crap! I'm going to Gitmo then for all the pens in my desk that are not "legitimately" mine! (It's a lot of pens!) Please, I beg of you, don't call HR!!!
There's also a lot of the form of law that takes into account intent and the scale of the action, too, that you don't seem to (or want to) get.
Technically, if someone walks away from a bunch of french fries and doesn't come back, and some homeless person comes in (after waiting awhile) and starts eating them, in your world he's just as guilty of a serious crime as a car thief, you know, by applying that "unlawful taking" or "unlawful gains" thing...
So, should I throw a fit at the manager of the restaurant until he calls the cops when I come back in, remembering I left my order of french fries at the table, and find some dude is there eating them down?
(Yes, I know that cars are granted a de facto real property status legally, and french fries are definitely chattel in the eyes of the law...but by most measures, cell phones are going to be considered chattel as well).
Actually, it's not. Go to a web site (tom's hardware, Wired, etc), where their long-content articles are broken up into "pages".
And then read the comments, at least on Wired, where 90% of them are bitching about how there's not a "view all" option.
maybe a different gesture to scroll one page at a time is what is really needed on tablets/smartphones, but that should really be the milleau of the tablet OS, not HTML 5 or the browser, because it would probably be useful in more than just a web browser on these platforms.
Well, so far only a few fools have hooked balloons to their lawn chairs for the hell of it.
The rocket shot was done at Black Rock Desert, where the HPR (Tripoli.org) folks have a big annual get together, and they do get FAA restrictions/clearance to do what they do.
This won't be replicated by "copycats" any time soon, if only for the time and money involved.
And, the probability of bird strikes is really a low altitude risk. How often really do planes go down from goose indigestion? Once? Twice?
Could this problem just be the CompSci version of Godel's Theorem, or Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, etc.? I bet Douglas Hofstadter could make a book out of it...
"A self-referential definition, by definition, is not a definition".
actually, sitting on a pile of cash makes the company more likely to suffer a takeover effort of some sorts. Private equity company sees your clean balance sheet and big cash reserves? Cool. Here's a 50-80% premium over your stock price for us to buy your company. (Private equity = Leveraged Buyout Firm). Hopefully your company is also very profitable.
Then, when private equity company takes over your company, one of two things happens: no growth, because they're happy to have the positive cash flow, but expenses become watched over with laser focus. Bye-bye free coffee (Starbucks/SBC/whatever -> Folgers -> BYOC), etc. Which is OK, I guess.
Or, the new owners need a new tax loss company: cash is transferred to shareholders. Lots of debt is added to the company, far more than cash reserves. Somehow Wall St. thinks this is good, and stock price goes up, along with a few rounds of "right-sizing" the company, as Wall St. also rewards layoffs and "expense controls". Stock price hits a magic amount, and the private equity company, as well as the few stool pigeons they kept around from the old regime, profit nicely, able to cash out enough of their shares at the all-time high points while the shell of the company is sold off as an operating asset, or just simply killed outright, so the owners can claim a huge tax loss writeoff. Sucks that you and all your friends and buddies are now out of a job. Just ask someone who worked at H-P before Carly or The Hurd (or IBM or...)
And, plenty of companies won't hire you if you know how to use SharpDevelop or Eclipse for C# programming, because everyone else there uses Visual Studio.
What 37Signals chooses for its internal development environment is its choice.
or, another translation, "I can't wrap my brain around Rails/Ruby, and wish I could do things the way I would do them in [fill in the blank]".
If I didn't like SQL joins, and all my experience was with non-SQL databases, I'd probably feel at home using cursors. Doesn't make it right (but they do have a few uses, but they don't call those edge cases without reason...).
Exactly. And by the same logic of the plantiffs and judge, perhaps it would have been in order to put an injunction on IVF as well for the exact reasons for the fate of the unused embryos. After all, "human lives" *are* being destroyed as well.
But, on the other hand, I can see the ethical dilemma as well, and it seems right in line with...do we use the research done by the Nazis and Japanese for the medical "experimentation" they did on their prisoners with regards to burns, hypothermia, or whatever their sick minds came up with? Does using it legitimize to one degree or another what those sadistic bastards did? Does using it to save lives tip the karmic scales a little bit back to the good side? Is the gain for the rest of humanity that could be/has been learned from it outweigh the obvious human costs to collect that data? Or do we ignore it and passively try to gather more or less the same information, over a much longer period of time, with incidental suffering by those who get massive burns, hypothermia, etc.?
Well, with all those poor embryos that go to waste from IVF, perhaps the judge would have also been correct and just to put an injunction on IVF as well?
...as opposed to the corporate fascists in the US advocating the exact opposite (monitoring employee's off-hours lives via Facebook, etc), thin-skinned managers and corporate officers, etc doing likewise? Granted, there are industries where there are needs (having worked for quite awhile at a company that blocked web-based internet mail, such as Gmail), where it would be entirely possible to cut-and-paste a customer's (or a few million) PII into a message somewhere, and yet the company has a legal mandate, because of the industry (in my case, SEC and other financial regulations, but HIPPA is another), to at some level be able to monitor or reactively look for such violations through its servers.
This isn't even with regards to protecting confidential corporate information or trade secrets.
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No, actually, the big thing corporations provide is legal absolution for the investors in the corporation to not be held personally responsible for any negative things done in behalf of the corporation.
People working make goods and provide services, whether they're bound up in a corporation or not.
The means to make those and get (commodities and products) to and from corporations and markets is infrastructure, and that is mostly provided and/or maintained by or was initially provided by (land grants to railroads, airports and harbors, eminent domain laws, etc) governments...
Corporations are a convenient abstraction. Remember that the Brooklyn Bridge was financed by a corporation (the Brooklyn Bridge Corporation), that had private investors, and dissolved after some period of time after the bridge was built and moneys returned back to the investors with some measure of profit IIRC (but not a windfall...)? Too bad corporations can't go back to a more symbiotic instead of parasitic (profit maximizing) relationship with society, and that corporate and financial laws and regulations really won't allow this to happen, either (shareholder "rights", etc).
Can we put patent troll lawyers and most MBAs at the front of the line first?
Oh, I don't know... the ones who know there's a dichotomy between their work and the rest of their lives, and are trying to keep that dichotomy in place?
That it did, but until the Mac came out, did you honestly remember reading anything at all about what they were doing at PARC back then?
No? OK, so the Mac really did revolutionize the GUI, the mouse, etc. For most of the world at that time, the GUI didn't really exist at all.
While speech between people is natural, it is not a natural interface with our devices. We've learned to tune out the one-sided conversations other people may be having on cell phones in our presence. Not so sure about a command interface, however. How many people actually use the voice dialing feature on their cell phones? Yes, I'm sure some of you will, but...
However, if I won the lottery, I'd put up some money for someone to hack it and create a Tourette's mode for it... Now, THAT could be some good comedy!
There have been a few quasi-smart phones with keypad buttons that had eInk in them - the icon in the key (letter, symbol, whatnot) could change depending on the context... It seemed kind of cool, actually.
Sell more Windows Server & SQL Server Enterprise/Data Center licenses?
So hard... google linux juju.
I'd hate for you to strain a finger nail.
I'd say that dog breeding is probably a better area than livestock. At least with livestock, we generally eat or get rid of the bad ones, and not too many lines with otherwise powerfully expressed, good traits have some really negative traits that come along in their offspring (wikipedia mentions a couple of holstein bull lines that have one, quarterhorses have a couple of lines with a very bad inherited skin disorder, etc).
With dogs, however, there are negative traits in some popular breeds that have come to be (hip dysplasia, cocker spaniels, etc), that are only now trying to be bred out of the breed, and it's an uphill battle.
well, I knew someone who was doing research on table rocks in the area, to guesstimate how long those rocks had been teetering on their pedestals, with the hypothesis that a significant earthquake would have knocked them off...
As I recall, their research indicated that of the ones they'd checked, they'd probably been on their pedestals for a few thousand years, at least...
Well, they're certainly happy to pull left-field interpretations or justifications out of their asses, all with a straight face, too.
They probably get 1099'd, though. "Ill-gotten monetary gains" is taxable income in the eyes of the IRS.
If you don't want to sic the cops on them, sic the IRS on them...
Holy Crap! I'm going to Gitmo then for all the pens in my desk that are not "legitimately" mine! (It's a lot of pens!) Please, I beg of you, don't call HR!!!
There's also a lot of the form of law that takes into account intent and the scale of the action, too, that you don't seem to (or want to) get.
Technically, if someone walks away from a bunch of french fries and doesn't come back, and some homeless person comes in (after waiting awhile) and starts eating them, in your world he's just as guilty of a serious crime as a car thief, you know, by applying that "unlawful taking" or "unlawful gains" thing...
So, should I throw a fit at the manager of the restaurant until he calls the cops when I come back in, remembering I left my order of french fries at the table, and find some dude is there eating them down?
(Yes, I know that cars are granted a de facto real property status legally, and french fries are definitely chattel in the eyes of the law...but by most measures, cell phones are going to be considered chattel as well).
Actually, it's not. Go to a web site (tom's hardware, Wired, etc), where their long-content articles are broken up into "pages".
And then read the comments, at least on Wired, where 90% of them are bitching about how there's not a "view all" option.
maybe a different gesture to scroll one page at a time is what is really needed on tablets/smartphones, but that should really be the milleau of the tablet OS, not HTML 5 or the browser, because it would probably be useful in more than just a web browser on these platforms.
And what would the claymore do to the satellite it's mounted on when it is set off? Hmm...
Well, so far only a few fools have hooked balloons to their lawn chairs for the hell of it.
The rocket shot was done at Black Rock Desert, where the HPR (Tripoli.org) folks have a big annual get together, and they do get FAA restrictions/clearance to do what they do.
This won't be replicated by "copycats" any time soon, if only for the time and money involved.
And, the probability of bird strikes is really a low altitude risk. How often really do planes go down from goose indigestion? Once? Twice?
Find some other windmills to tilt at.
I'm holding out for the Monster Thunderbolt wires.
...and the people who like listening to the echoes.
Could this problem just be the CompSci version of Godel's Theorem, or Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, etc.? I bet Douglas Hofstadter could make a book out of it...
"A self-referential definition, by definition, is not a definition".
actually, sitting on a pile of cash makes the company more likely to suffer a takeover effort of some sorts. Private equity company sees your clean balance sheet and big cash reserves? Cool. Here's a 50-80% premium over your stock price for us to buy your company. (Private equity = Leveraged Buyout Firm). Hopefully your company is also very profitable.
Then, when private equity company takes over your company, one of two things happens: no growth, because they're happy to have the positive cash flow, but expenses become watched over with laser focus. Bye-bye free coffee (Starbucks/SBC/whatever -> Folgers -> BYOC), etc. Which is OK, I guess.
Or, the new owners need a new tax loss company: cash is transferred to shareholders. Lots of debt is added to the company, far more than cash reserves. Somehow Wall St. thinks this is good, and stock price goes up, along with a few rounds of "right-sizing" the company, as Wall St. also rewards layoffs and "expense controls". Stock price hits a magic amount, and the private equity company, as well as the few stool pigeons they kept around from the old regime, profit nicely, able to cash out enough of their shares at the all-time high points while the shell of the company is sold off as an operating asset, or just simply killed outright, so the owners can claim a huge tax loss writeoff. Sucks that you and all your friends and buddies are now out of a job. Just ask someone who worked at H-P before Carly or The Hurd (or IBM or...)
And, plenty of companies won't hire you if you know how to use SharpDevelop or Eclipse for C# programming, because everyone else there uses Visual Studio.
What 37Signals chooses for its internal development environment is its choice.
or, another translation, "I can't wrap my brain around Rails/Ruby, and wish I could do things the way I would do them in [fill in the blank]".
If I didn't like SQL joins, and all my experience was with non-SQL databases, I'd probably feel at home using cursors. Doesn't make it right (but they do have a few uses, but they don't call those edge cases without reason...).
Exactly. And by the same logic of the plantiffs and judge, perhaps it would have been in order to put an injunction on IVF as well for the exact reasons for the fate of the unused embryos. After all, "human lives" *are* being destroyed as well.
But, on the other hand, I can see the ethical dilemma as well, and it seems right in line with...do we use the research done by the Nazis and Japanese for the medical "experimentation" they did on their prisoners with regards to burns, hypothermia, or whatever their sick minds came up with? Does using it legitimize to one degree or another what those sadistic bastards did? Does using it to save lives tip the karmic scales a little bit back to the good side? Is the gain for the rest of humanity that could be/has been learned from it outweigh the obvious human costs to collect that data?
Or do we ignore it and passively try to gather more or less the same information, over a much longer period of time, with incidental suffering by those who get massive burns, hypothermia, etc.?
Well, with all those poor embryos that go to waste from IVF, perhaps the judge would have also been correct and just to put an injunction on IVF as well?
...as opposed to the corporate fascists in the US advocating the exact opposite (monitoring employee's off-hours lives via Facebook, etc), thin-skinned managers and corporate officers, etc doing likewise? Granted, there are industries where there are needs (having worked for quite awhile at a company that blocked web-based internet mail, such as Gmail), where it would be entirely possible to cut-and-paste a customer's (or a few million) PII into a message somewhere, and yet the company has a legal mandate, because of the industry (in my case, SEC and other financial regulations, but HIPPA is another), to at some level be able to monitor or reactively look for such violations through its servers.
This isn't even with regards to protecting confidential corporate information or trade secrets.