Surely the tax hit would be less than the dog's breakfast MS will make of LI. Overvaluing LI means they cannot easily unload it except in a fire sale.
The only explanation that makes sense to me is one some industry wag mentioned: MS was scared Google or Apple would get LI and know what to do with it. MS never really understood the social media wave, they do not have any inkling on how it interacts with mobile devices since they never got those either. One presumes LI knows what they are doing in social media but I have my doubts. MS did say they were going to keep LI's management structure in place, but that won't last long once the fiefdoms in MS start looking at LI as a "resource".
The version of Safari I have is 9.0.x and has been for awhile. I recall 8.0.x and 7.0.x, it seems they've been updating it regularly.
I don't care for it, I like Seamonkey, the interface doesn't change, I get a sidebar full of links, folders of links, folders of folders of links, etc. And it works with my Smartcard where Safari seems to fuck it up for some sites, but not all. I guess they like to keep me guessing.
"This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete."
Creepy is isn't quite the right word...hmmmm...what is it, what is it? Ah, here it is: inane. What professional wants to be subjected to a constant stream of hints and suggestions that they "utilize" some dork they've never heard of because MS thinks it can help them do what they already know how to do?
MS seems to have this idea that its users wander about in a fog and the fog could be lifted if only they would use its products to their full potential. If they would take the $26 Billion and spend it on security and bug fixing, then we could use their products to their full potential...well, someone could...theoretically...in the fullness of time.....
Yes, but that is not how China will treat that lab. Their take over of the S. China Sea is only preparation for assaulting Taiwan with bad governance and the PLA. They figure it is not too dissimilar to when they discovered they owned Tibet because their ancestors use to go potty there several centuries ago. Their discovery of Taiwan is based on the grounds the Taiwanese are really Chinese, even the natives. They have not yet been able to get Taiwan to fork over their country to the Muppets in Beijing, so they'll have to do a Tibet on them. Preparations are already being made across the Taiwanese straits. The Muppets just have to wait long enough to remove the U.S.'s ability to fulfill their treat obligations to Taiwan. I give it another 10 years before China will take Taiwan and do for it what they are doing to Hong Kong.
Aye, that dirty little squit, Erdogan, was able to reach into Germany to stifle someone saying Erdogan's mother wears combat boots (or something like that).
The U.N. just got "lobbied" by Saudi Arabia to take it off the its human rights blacklist. They used the tactic of threatening to withhold funding, and that they wouldn't be able to stop their clerics from declaring the U.N. anti-Muslim. And the U.N. caved, declared victory with honor, and removed those jerks from the blacklist.
Yes, pay no attention to those spanking new Chinese islands in the S. China Sea, nor to their claims to own the entire S. China Sea because their ancestors used to piss in it 2000 years ago. Also please ignore the threatening moves across the Taiwan strait, those have nothing to do China acting like a bully to get Taiwan and thus provide alleged Chinese leaders (sic) a reason for being allowed to continue to run the Chinese fascist state. And those nice Norks should not be persuaded by the Chinese to stop building nukes since the Norks are so well adjusted, the Chinese are in no way accountable for their lapdog's actions.
The U.S. and S. Korea are not "antagonizing" the Norks. They are self-antagonizing, they'll simply invent slights where none occur no matter what their opponents do. There is no placating them, they have every intention of turning S. Korea into the workers' paradise that is the North. Without the external enemy, the Nork leadership (sic) have no reason to exist. If they took over S. Korea tomorrow, they'd start in on Japan next. If they got that they, start in on the U.S. bases in the Pacific as a mortal threat. If they got those, they'd be looking for property in California. There is NO placating them.
The exercises are merely there to show the Norks they won't be successful.
I wouldn't call the leaders of Pakistan sensible. They see nothing wrong with playing along with Islamist nutjobs who would like nothing better than another war with India. Mind you, Indira Gandhi got the ball rolling over there by nuclear testing first. It didn't take long for the Pakistanis to go running to the Norks for expertise on getting their own nuclear arsenal. Now, they have one of the fastest growing nuclear arsenals on the planet.
That dirty little squit, Putin, has also made comments that more or less say his dick is bigger, has less added sugar, and is now low-fat, all courtesy of nuclear weapons. Given his attempt to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again to feed and water his paranoia, he could easily do something stupid.
And create a growth market for the supply of opium. If you are guaranteed a price which makes it worth your while to grow opium, then you have every incentive to maximize your acreage. And there's nothing stopping you from siphoning some off for the local warlords you need to keep happy for the privilege of growing opium. To stop the siphoning means ramping up enforcement. If you, as an opium grower, is faced with enforcement from the U.S. or local governments, that still will fail to compete against death from your friendly neighborhood warlord.
The fun wouldn't stop there though. A guaranteed money supply will encourage the local authorities to look the other way and siphon a bit off for themselves.
I find your idea not very intriguing, but then it wouldn't be the first bright idea run into the shoals by human behavior.
Oh, so it is easy looking for a new job, yes? Ever reach 50 and try looking for a new job? Companies only want to hire young and dumb. Your years of experience mean you are too expensive to employ. They also mean you are too wedded to what you have previously learned and cannot be up on the latest whizzy things or molded into the kind of corporate drone they'd like to see. Your health care costs will be rising as you plough through your 50's. And you'll be looking for an off ramp to retirement the first chance you get.
Yes, because science fiction is always predictive, yes? One thing missing in the replicators story trajectory was how they got their energy to be autonomous. The Big Bugs always hooked into a power main somewhere. The little one miraculously ran, and ran, and ran...even the Energizer Bunny was jealous. Also, the joints didn't need any external "tendons" to move, they didn't contain small motors either. See, anything is possible, just close your eyes and click your red slippers together.
Yes, nice argument. However, let's look at higher education. Some 30-40 years ago, government started footing the bill for more higher education. What happened? It created an inflation in higher education. Those darling keepers of the gates of knowledge decided to chase each other with rising salaries. Eventually, in the last 10 years or so, state governments got tired of the constant increases in funding and pulled back. Then the Great Recession happened, and they pulled back a lot more.
The result is that higher education prices didn't come down, but the funding did. And now young bunnies who think a free education is something the rest of country owes them are being priced out of higher education. And their expectations will not be abated by explaining they merely grew up in a higher education bubble. This what gives people like Foghorn Sanders his gas supply.
The boy wants to spend another $1 trillion on higher education. Nope, that won't cause an inflation that will suck up all that glorious new money will it? Higher educators will be happy with what they have, won't they?
Paying people not to work...so we get more people not working....sitting around idle. Now, do they use their new found freedom to educate themselves, by essential things they haven't been, or start new businesses? Or do they sit at home and watch TV, buy toys they do not need, or start new drug habits?
If it is the latter, with 5 years of that lifestyle, they are unemployable. So if you are wrong about human nature, you have just signed on for their keep for the rest of their lives.
So could you please register yourself with the IRS for this program. If it turns out as I think it will, then the IRS can make sure your and your like-minded buddies will be the ones paying the bill. You shouldn't mind, because you are correct, yes?
Trump here, my ego can expand faster than any universe, faster than you can imagine, the universe currently fits into a tiny corner of it...it's that big.
Back then there was a large unautormated economy to absorb those workers, it never became a big issue. Also, to shift jobs wasn't such a big deal in the sense that one didn't need an entirely different and technology based skill set.
The automation being applied these days, I think, is of a different, much more effective quality due to technological progress. Much of manufacturing has already been automated, the services industry is being automated. Where do large numbers of unemployed and unemployable people go? Most people don't go to uni, what do they do with low skill sets when low skill set jobs are being done by machine?
Paying people to be underemployed is not a particular good answer. Idle hands are the devil's playground, we see what happens to underemployed youth. Most people want to be part of something, if that something is a gang run by ruthless leaders who got to their position by removing competitors, society will revert back to tribal origins. All we need do is look at the Mid-East to see how that works.
Aye, what the U.S. should do is declare Kurdistan is the brand, spanking new NATO ally...after shipping Incirlik to Kurdistan and removing the U.S. defensive missiles in Turkey.
You have to remember what this decision is for: Erdogan is a whore who wants to bury democracy. One less element in his nascent fascist state is one more point he figures to be in his favor. Merkel lost her chance, when talking to the press about Erdogan, she should have finished it off with Heil die neue Fuehrerin...even if the little fuck thinks of himself as male.
It was military punishment, and meant for soldiers who were mutinous in one form or another en masse. It wasn't universally used. It was felt, not by the soldiers involved, that to whack them all meant you had no soldiers but you could blow some non-mutinous air into the lot if only 1/10 got whacked.
Modern corporations do it all the time but not adhering to the 1/10 rule. Instead it is felt by the MBAs that when bonuses are reduced, this must be because of inattention to their bonuses by the rank and file must have occurred, and that whacking a fair number of them will steel the rest to taking the MBA's bonuses more seriously.
The word is that it generally fails to achieve its objective, see IBM for an example.
Incompetence of the federal government? Let's assume you are referring to the executive branch since that's what's usually meant by that term. Lessee, which branch of government has refused to put money into infrastructure so that we have a country with unsafe bridges? That's only the tip.
The FDA keeps your food and drugs safe from Joe's Fish and Drug Company. SS keeps grandma from moving in with you, but I'd rather she did just so she wasn't subject to "incompetence" any more. Planes? Federal oversight. Clean water? Federal oversight...at least when state regulators aren't fucking it up. The list goes on.
Your problem is you look at the news which only reports things out of the ordinary. It doesn't regularly report on the things the government does well, every day.
Depending upon 8" floppies is not stupid and broken. Check eBay, you get scads of them for $10. Floppy controllers go for $25-50, more if you want better, but certainly reasonable. And the OSes used don't support a lot, so the threat footprint is much smaller than current systems.
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Surely the tax hit would be less than the dog's breakfast MS will make of LI. Overvaluing LI means they cannot easily unload it except in a fire sale.
The only explanation that makes sense to me is one some industry wag mentioned: MS was scared Google or Apple would get LI and know what to do with it. MS never really understood the social media wave, they do not have any inkling on how it interacts with mobile devices since they never got those either. One presumes LI knows what they are doing in social media but I have my doubts. MS did say they were going to keep LI's management structure in place, but that won't last long once the fiefdoms in MS start looking at LI as a "resource".
The version of Safari I have is 9.0.x and has been for awhile. I recall 8.0.x and 7.0.x, it seems they've been updating it regularly.
I don't care for it, I like Seamonkey, the interface doesn't change, I get a sidebar full of links, folders of links, folders of folders of links, etc. And it works with my Smartcard where Safari seems to fuck it up for some sites, but not all. I guess they like to keep me guessing.
"This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete."
Creepy is isn't quite the right word...hmmmm...what is it, what is it? Ah, here it is: inane. What professional wants to be subjected to a constant stream of hints and suggestions that they "utilize" some dork they've never heard of because MS thinks it can help them do what they already know how to do?
MS seems to have this idea that its users wander about in a fog and the fog could be lifted if only they would use its products to their full potential. If they would take the $26 Billion and spend it on security and bug fixing, then we could use their products to their full potential...well, someone could...theoretically...in the fullness of time.....
Yes, but that is not how China will treat that lab. Their take over of the S. China Sea is only preparation for assaulting Taiwan with bad governance and the PLA. They figure it is not too dissimilar to when they discovered they owned Tibet because their ancestors use to go potty there several centuries ago. Their discovery of Taiwan is based on the grounds the Taiwanese are really Chinese, even the natives. They have not yet been able to get Taiwan to fork over their country to the Muppets in Beijing, so they'll have to do a Tibet on them. Preparations are already being made across the Taiwanese straits. The Muppets just have to wait long enough to remove the U.S.'s ability to fulfill their treat obligations to Taiwan. I give it another 10 years before China will take Taiwan and do for it what they are doing to Hong Kong.
Aye, that dirty little squit, Erdogan, was able to reach into Germany to stifle someone saying Erdogan's mother wears combat boots (or something like that).
The U.N. just got "lobbied" by Saudi Arabia to take it off the its human rights blacklist. They used the tactic of threatening to withhold funding, and that they wouldn't be able to stop their clerics from declaring the U.N. anti-Muslim. And the U.N. caved, declared victory with honor, and removed those jerks from the blacklist.
Yes, pay no attention to those spanking new Chinese islands in the S. China Sea, nor to their claims to own the entire S. China Sea because their ancestors used to piss in it 2000 years ago. Also please ignore the threatening moves across the Taiwan strait, those have nothing to do China acting like a bully to get Taiwan and thus provide alleged Chinese leaders (sic) a reason for being allowed to continue to run the Chinese fascist state. And those nice Norks should not be persuaded by the Chinese to stop building nukes since the Norks are so well adjusted, the Chinese are in no way accountable for their lapdog's actions.
The U.S. and S. Korea are not "antagonizing" the Norks. They are self-antagonizing, they'll simply invent slights where none occur no matter what their opponents do. There is no placating them, they have every intention of turning S. Korea into the workers' paradise that is the North. Without the external enemy, the Nork leadership (sic) have no reason to exist. If they took over S. Korea tomorrow, they'd start in on Japan next. If they got that they, start in on the U.S. bases in the Pacific as a mortal threat. If they got those, they'd be looking for property in California. There is NO placating them.
The exercises are merely there to show the Norks they won't be successful.
I wouldn't call the leaders of Pakistan sensible. They see nothing wrong with playing along with Islamist nutjobs who would like nothing better than another war with India. Mind you, Indira Gandhi got the ball rolling over there by nuclear testing first. It didn't take long for the Pakistanis to go running to the Norks for expertise on getting their own nuclear arsenal. Now, they have one of the fastest growing nuclear arsenals on the planet.
That dirty little squit, Putin, has also made comments that more or less say his dick is bigger, has less added sugar, and is now low-fat, all courtesy of nuclear weapons. Given his attempt to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again to feed and water his paranoia, he could easily do something stupid.
And create a growth market for the supply of opium. If you are guaranteed a price which makes it worth your while to grow opium, then you have every incentive to maximize your acreage. And there's nothing stopping you from siphoning some off for the local warlords you need to keep happy for the privilege of growing opium. To stop the siphoning means ramping up enforcement. If you, as an opium grower, is faced with enforcement from the U.S. or local governments, that still will fail to compete against death from your friendly neighborhood warlord.
The fun wouldn't stop there though. A guaranteed money supply will encourage the local authorities to look the other way and siphon a bit off for themselves.
I find your idea not very intriguing, but then it wouldn't be the first bright idea run into the shoals by human behavior.
Oh, so it is easy looking for a new job, yes? Ever reach 50 and try looking for a new job? Companies only want to hire young and dumb. Your years of experience mean you are too expensive to employ. They also mean you are too wedded to what you have previously learned and cannot be up on the latest whizzy things or molded into the kind of corporate drone they'd like to see. Your health care costs will be rising as you plough through your 50's. And you'll be looking for an off ramp to retirement the first chance you get.
So why would a company hire you?
Yes, because science fiction is always predictive, yes? One thing missing in the replicators story trajectory was how they got their energy to be autonomous. The Big Bugs always hooked into a power main somewhere. The little one miraculously ran, and ran, and ran...even the Energizer Bunny was jealous. Also, the joints didn't need any external "tendons" to move, they didn't contain small motors either. See, anything is possible, just close your eyes and click your red slippers together.
Yes, nice argument. However, let's look at higher education. Some 30-40 years ago, government started footing the bill for more higher education. What happened? It created an inflation in higher education. Those darling keepers of the gates of knowledge decided to chase each other with rising salaries. Eventually, in the last 10 years or so, state governments got tired of the constant increases in funding and pulled back. Then the Great Recession happened, and they pulled back a lot more.
The result is that higher education prices didn't come down, but the funding did. And now young bunnies who think a free education is something the rest of country owes them are being priced out of higher education. And their expectations will not be abated by explaining they merely grew up in a higher education bubble. This what gives people like Foghorn Sanders his gas supply.
The boy wants to spend another $1 trillion on higher education. Nope, that won't cause an inflation that will suck up all that glorious new money will it? Higher educators will be happy with what they have, won't they?
Paying people not to work...so we get more people not working....sitting around idle. Now, do they use their new found freedom to educate themselves, by essential things they haven't been, or start new businesses? Or do they sit at home and watch TV, buy toys they do not need, or start new drug habits?
If it is the latter, with 5 years of that lifestyle, they are unemployable. So if you are wrong about human nature, you have just signed on for their keep for the rest of their lives.
So could you please register yourself with the IRS for this program. If it turns out as I think it will, then the IRS can make sure your and your like-minded buddies will be the ones paying the bill. You shouldn't mind, because you are correct, yes?
Trump here, my ego can expand faster than any universe, faster than you can imagine, the universe currently fits into a tiny corner of it...it's that big.
Back then there was a large unautormated economy to absorb those workers, it never became a big issue. Also, to shift jobs wasn't such a big deal in the sense that one didn't need an entirely different and technology based skill set.
The automation being applied these days, I think, is of a different, much more effective quality due to technological progress. Much of manufacturing has already been automated, the services industry is being automated. Where do large numbers of unemployed and unemployable people go? Most people don't go to uni, what do they do with low skill sets when low skill set jobs are being done by machine?
Paying people to be underemployed is not a particular good answer. Idle hands are the devil's playground, we see what happens to underemployed youth. Most people want to be part of something, if that something is a gang run by ruthless leaders who got to their position by removing competitors, society will revert back to tribal origins. All we need do is look at the Mid-East to see how that works.
Aye, what the U.S. should do is declare Kurdistan is the brand, spanking new NATO ally...after shipping Incirlik to Kurdistan and removing the U.S. defensive missiles in Turkey.
No, it wouldn't. Erdogan and his dirty little political party never believed in democracy. He was always going be little pint sized dick.
Bullshit, Erdogan was on the fascist bent long before any spying by NSA/GCHQ. Please try to keep up.
You have to remember what this decision is for: Erdogan is a whore who wants to bury democracy. One less element in his nascent fascist state is one more point he figures to be in his favor. Merkel lost her chance, when talking to the press about Erdogan, she should have finished it off with Heil die neue Fuehrerin...even if the little fuck thinks of himself as male.
Errrr....why don't you suggest some innovations right here, we're all just dying to hear your ideas.
It was military punishment, and meant for soldiers who were mutinous in one form or another en masse. It wasn't universally used. It was felt, not by the soldiers involved, that to whack them all meant you had no soldiers but you could blow some non-mutinous air into the lot if only 1/10 got whacked.
Modern corporations do it all the time but not adhering to the 1/10 rule. Instead it is felt by the MBAs that when bonuses are reduced, this must be because of inattention to their bonuses by the rank and file must have occurred, and that whacking a fair number of them will steel the rest to taking the MBA's bonuses more seriously.
The word is that it generally fails to achieve its objective, see IBM for an example.
Incompetence of the federal government? Let's assume you are referring to the executive branch since that's what's usually meant by that term. Lessee, which branch of government has refused to put money into infrastructure so that we have a country with unsafe bridges? That's only the tip.
The FDA keeps your food and drugs safe from Joe's Fish and Drug Company. SS keeps grandma from moving in with you, but I'd rather she did just so she wasn't subject to "incompetence" any more. Planes? Federal oversight. Clean water? Federal oversight...at least when state regulators aren't fucking it up. The list goes on.
Your problem is you look at the news which only reports things out of the ordinary. It doesn't regularly report on the things the government does well, every day.
Depending upon 8" floppies is not stupid and broken. Check eBay, you get scads of them for $10. Floppy controllers go for $25-50, more if you want better, but certainly reasonable. And the OSes used don't support a lot, so the threat footprint is much smaller than current systems.
More to the point, Uncle Larry should change himself to "Don't Be Evil".
Hmmm...can one tickle a robot?