Except we don't have anything approaching real competition in either internet, phone, cell or cable industries in the US.
That's why you can get cheaper phone+unlimited high speed internet+tv+cell in places like South Korea, $30 a month for that package last I heard, than here in the USA.
Though our inability to do realistic experiments will make it extremely difficult, especially when so many insist on calling hunches, sociatally excepted truisms, and wishful thinking to be scientific facts. This will cause making computer models very difficult, or at least contrivertial.
You know, there ARE Makers and Takers in our society, and while the Makers Make, the Takers feel they are entitled to take a big percentage right off the top of whatever profits the Makers bring in.
They think bloviation adds value, hold countless pointless meetings, attempt to make real money out of accounting tricks, and love words like synergy and downsizing.
This is just another instance of Takers trying to steal the work of others, so as to avoid the process of having to work themselves to produce something of REAL, tangible value.
They are parasites who's only real talent, if they have any at all, is to leave with their booty before the destruction they've wrought encompases themselves too.
I can't help but think of another current/. story that theorises that there have been no real inventions in the past 50 years. If it's true, is there any wonder?
Why is the incentive to create only extended to businesses in the current economic model? Why do those who wax poetic about how the OWNERS of creative works must be "incentivised" to create, while refusing provide any real incentives to the people who ACTUALLY create?
Who WOULDN'T feel excited to contribute to their employer's bottom line if they were to see rewards commencerate with the impact their ideas and work had on that bottom line?
There was a small country once that consisted of an apartment in the city of Rome. (Read that once in the CIA's yearly report on the various countries in the world.)
Though we've known it for years. Children, dogs and octipi beating the "best" finantial minds on Wallstreet. Government and business economic projections that are consistantly off the mark.
Those who think that it is science, has no idea of what being a Science entails.
Economics has way too many unchallenged assumptions, it's theories are often un disproveable, and there are never any real experiments done. Just anecdotal evidence. REAL testing of the theories would take hundreds of years, and require dividing humans into different test groups. And who want's to live their lives inside an experiment that is so likely to have a massive effect on your life, and those of your childern?
We haven't the vision, patience, or the selflessnessto commit ourselves to something that's benifits wouldn't be felt for generations.
You ever had a bos that considered you his enemy? Not disliked you, or enjoyed making your life hell, but considered you an enemy?
That is an untenible and professionally dangerous situation.
Bosses HATE being questioned or shown-up. They DISPISE being publically humiliated and being exposed as unethicle, and possibly a criminal. That's not the sort of thing they're likely to laugh about over drinks later. Being a boss is about being in control. If they loose that, they've been gelded as a boss.
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Except we don't have anything approaching real competition in either internet, phone, cell or cable industries in the US.
That's why you can get cheaper phone+unlimited high speed internet+tv+cell in places like South Korea, $30 a month for that package last I heard, than here in the USA.
I'm shocked, shocked.
Did I tell you how shocked I am? Really, I'm so shocked.
Did someone tell you there was gambling in "Rick's Place"?
How about saying "Too big to fail" = "Too big to exist, but the exact right size to split up."
Study it scientifically of course.
Though our inability to do realistic experiments will make it extremely difficult, especially when so many insist on calling hunches, sociatally excepted truisms, and wishful thinking to be scientific facts. This will cause making computer models very difficult, or at least contrivertial.
"Over 20 Million (pages) served!"
http://eff.org/
Hands free porn surfing!
That two antenna's are like 1 larger (more sensitive) antenna.
Wow! Now I can play Ultima ][ with just my mind!
No, no.
#3 ???
#4 Profit!
You know, there ARE Makers and Takers in our society, and while the Makers Make, the Takers feel they are entitled to take a big percentage right off the top of whatever profits the Makers bring in.
They think bloviation adds value, hold countless pointless meetings, attempt to make real money out of accounting tricks, and love words like synergy and downsizing.
This is just another instance of Takers trying to steal the work of others, so as to avoid the process of having to work themselves to produce something of REAL, tangible value.
They are parasites who's only real talent, if they have any at all, is to leave with their booty before the destruction they've wrought encompases themselves too.
I can't help but think of another current /. story that theorises that there have been no real inventions in the past 50 years. If it's true, is there any wonder?
Why is the incentive to create only extended to businesses in the current economic model? Why do those who wax poetic about how the OWNERS of creative works must be "incentivised" to create, while refusing provide any real incentives to the people who ACTUALLY create?
Who WOULDN'T feel excited to contribute to their employer's bottom line if they were to see rewards commencerate with the impact their ideas and work had on that bottom line?
I rewrote that clause to specifically say that all my work was my own, as long as it was not directly assigned to me, and got my boss to sign it.
Was easier than I immagined it would be.
I know with a spell checker your gauranteed to spell words correctly!
Even your misspelled words will still be spelled correctly!
A foreseeable result of bringing current "total business" (like the Germen concept of "Total War") corprate culture into schools.
I just want to know when Hari Seldon joined Microsoft?
I think we're a little more short-term than climate change.
Isn't this a job for the Time Bandets?
It's not enough to talk dirty anymore. They've gotta talk hostile takeover and bringing the world economy to it's knees!
Kinky!
WalMart has pre-opening pep rallies,
Oh yes, and Wallmart employees have the respect and envy of the world.
Premium jobs those are.
Haven't they outlawed them yet?
...a post-genomic world be one in which we had stopped fiddeling with genes and DNA and such?
Aren't we more in the midst of a Genomics Revolution?
Or more accurately, we are in the infancy of the Genomics Revolution.
There was a small country once that consisted of an apartment in the city of Rome. (Read that once in the CIA's yearly report on the various countries in the world.)
That would be a pretty small hurricane.
... the concept of Economics as a Science.
Though we've known it for years. Children, dogs and octipi beating the "best" finantial minds on Wallstreet. Government and business economic projections that are consistantly off the mark.
Those who think that it is science, has no idea of what being a Science entails.
Economics has way too many unchallenged assumptions, it's theories are often un disproveable, and there are never any real experiments done. Just anecdotal evidence. REAL testing of the theories would take hundreds of years, and require dividing humans into different test groups. And who want's to live their lives inside an experiment that is so likely to have a massive effect on your life, and those of your childern?
We haven't the vision, patience, or the selflessnessto commit ourselves to something that's benifits wouldn't be felt for generations.
this is a sign that-over ten years after the first iPod-the MiniDisc now belongs to a bygone era.
Really? That was the sign?
Hmm...
better to stay
You ever had a bos that considered you his enemy? Not disliked you, or enjoyed making your life hell, but considered you an enemy?
That is an untenible and professionally dangerous situation.
Bosses HATE being questioned or shown-up. They DISPISE being publically humiliated and being exposed as unethicle, and possibly a criminal. That's not the sort of thing they're likely to laugh about over drinks later.
Being a boss is about being in control. If they loose that, they've been gelded as a boss.