The fact remains that if a US company is convicted of bribing officials in a foreign country, that company can be prosecuted under domestic law. Whether NewsCorp will be or not is another question, but there have been strong hints dropped since the case really exploded in Britain that US authorities are carefully watching what happens in Britain.
Yes indeed. The fundamental problem is that these firms are themselves essentially sociopathic. It's little wonder they attract psychopaths.
Frankly, I think the best cure is one "man in black" in an isolated, sound proof cubicle with a direct line to the SEC in one hand and a machine gun in the other. When the call comes in, there goes the firm, psychopaths and all.
Can you structure things in that fashion. One of the attractions of the entire industry is the promise of reward for sound investing. The problem is that a psychopath can game the system by achieving the reward through carefully constructed investments that will collapse inevitably, but after the reward has been gained. In some cases, those rewards appear to have been gained simply by lying (various iterations of cooking the books), and thus catching the cooking takes longer than the reward cycle.
The only way I can see it is to push the reward off into the distance by years, so that whatever investment strategy is made today, the guy doing it will have to wait a year, two years, or even more before they get their reward.
Even where systems like that have been implemented (ie. paid in shares rather than in cash or perks), it seems there are still ways for a sufficiently nasty person to grasp the reward that ultimately they did not deserve.
The problem here is that an investment banker, for instance, should be in the game not only for personal reward, but also to help their clients. There is considerable opportunity for an investment banker to further their own enrichment that will do substantial harm to their clients.
Greed is good. Greed unmoderated by any sense of responsibility to anyone but one's self is not a good thing.
To some extent, perhaps, though a lot of what went on in Wall Street leading up to the crash could only be considered success providing the insanely hideous effects on 99.9% of the population were discounted. The difference between a sociopath and a normal person is that a normal person possesses empathy, and empathy means that they will at least make a small effort to weigh personal benefit against benefit to their fellowman (including, but not limited to investors), whereas a sociopath/psychopath is in it for the thrills and power, and will happily drive the institution they're in charge of into a brick wall if there is immediate short term benefit to themselves.
There's no denying there is a place for insane risk takers, but as Captains of Industry (or whatever they're called these days), not so much.
There is evidence of some degree of cultural transmission in at least some primates, so you're not quite right there. And let us remember here that the evolution of humans since the first tool using apes was marked by toolkits that remained insanely stagnant for hundreds of thousands of years. I think the explanation is advanced language capacity. Without it, cultural transmission is crude and limited, and introducing innovations very unreliable. Once you have language, you have a means of communicating accurately and articulately not just existing knowledge, but also innovations. If other primates had language skills near as ours, even if other cognitive abilities weren't as strong, I think you would likely see that sort of innovation spread through such a population.
There are a helluva lot of complexities. I think many of the differences are not necessarily in the genes themselves, but in gene expression during fetal development. So while there may be a single gene that is different as it relates to neural development, you also have to factor in the whole developmental matrix involved. I would think just throwing this gene into a fertilized chimp egg probably isn't going to get you a near-human IQ chimp, and there are a whole host of factors surrounding gene expression during fetal brain development, which will almost certainly involve many other genes.
This is a forum dedicated to uncontrolled mass consumption. We don't want your charitable kind around here. Don't you have a dank alley to patrol for losers?
Believe me. He just saved you the horrors of the final episode, where you say, at the end of it, "WTF! I suffered through the fifth and sixth seasons and this is what you hand me as a tie-it-all-together episode?"
Strikes me as a return to the olden days of vacuum tubes and early transistor computers, where component failure was frequent and brought everything to halt while the bad component was hunted down.
In the long run if you're running tens of thousands of nodes, then you need to be able to work around failures.
He's a victim like a guy who had the choice between a $3000 used car with seatbelts and a $100 heap with a garbage bag for a passenger-side window, and picked the latter.
Well, I do have OWA open to the world, mainly because of ActiveSync, but the actual SMTP server, no way. I've seen joe job and dictionary attacks bring an Exchange server running on damned heavy hardware brought to its knees. I run a Postfix server running postgrey, SpamAssassin and ClamAV that sits on port 25 and weeds out all the nasty bits and hands everything else off to Exchange. There's no way in hell I'd ever let Exchange's SMTP service feel the full force of what the nastier folks on the tubes can throw at it. If someone DDoSs Exchange's IIS daemon, oh well.
As does any kind of warrant. How is this any different than a search of a house, which will contain lots of materials that have nothing to do with the case?
I'm sorry. "Electric nature of the solar system"? Are you talking about charged particles? WTF? What you wrote reads like word salad, and I suspect probably is.
Remember, for pseudo-skeptics, even the most appallingly idiotic skeptical comment is proof against whatever science they are battling, but the bar on science's side must always be set impossibly high.
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And probably the fact that after poll suggests a majority of Britons are at least moderate Eurosceptic.
Yes. Apparently this is what we now call "innovation".
The fact remains that if a US company is convicted of bribing officials in a foreign country, that company can be prosecuted under domestic law. Whether NewsCorp will be or not is another question, but there have been strong hints dropped since the case really exploded in Britain that US authorities are carefully watching what happens in Britain.
He's lost himself. What parent meant to say was "NBC didn't report my conspiracy theory about Benghazi.."
I'm sorry, I was too busy writing obscene posts about Apple and Microsoft to hear what you said.
I can't figure out why anyone would pay for the WSJ any more? I felt like I was being robbed when I could read articles for free.
Yes indeed. The fundamental problem is that these firms are themselves essentially sociopathic. It's little wonder they attract psychopaths.
Frankly, I think the best cure is one "man in black" in an isolated, sound proof cubicle with a direct line to the SEC in one hand and a machine gun in the other. When the call comes in, there goes the firm, psychopaths and all.
You know that investment account your putting the proceeds of your success into. Well, a psychopath is probably administering it.
You may think you can win, but believe me, all you've done is remove one orifice their sticking their members into.
Can you structure things in that fashion. One of the attractions of the entire industry is the promise of reward for sound investing. The problem is that a psychopath can game the system by achieving the reward through carefully constructed investments that will collapse inevitably, but after the reward has been gained. In some cases, those rewards appear to have been gained simply by lying (various iterations of cooking the books), and thus catching the cooking takes longer than the reward cycle.
The only way I can see it is to push the reward off into the distance by years, so that whatever investment strategy is made today, the guy doing it will have to wait a year, two years, or even more before they get their reward.
Even where systems like that have been implemented (ie. paid in shares rather than in cash or perks), it seems there are still ways for a sufficiently nasty person to grasp the reward that ultimately they did not deserve.
The problem here is that an investment banker, for instance, should be in the game not only for personal reward, but also to help their clients. There is considerable opportunity for an investment banker to further their own enrichment that will do substantial harm to their clients.
Greed is good. Greed unmoderated by any sense of responsibility to anyone but one's self is not a good thing.
To some extent, perhaps, though a lot of what went on in Wall Street leading up to the crash could only be considered success providing the insanely hideous effects on 99.9% of the population were discounted. The difference between a sociopath and a normal person is that a normal person possesses empathy, and empathy means that they will at least make a small effort to weigh personal benefit against benefit to their fellowman (including, but not limited to investors), whereas a sociopath/psychopath is in it for the thrills and power, and will happily drive the institution they're in charge of into a brick wall if there is immediate short term benefit to themselves.
There's no denying there is a place for insane risk takers, but as Captains of Industry (or whatever they're called these days), not so much.
There is evidence of some degree of cultural transmission in at least some primates, so you're not quite right there. And let us remember here that the evolution of humans since the first tool using apes was marked by toolkits that remained insanely stagnant for hundreds of thousands of years. I think the explanation is advanced language capacity. Without it, cultural transmission is crude and limited, and introducing innovations very unreliable. Once you have language, you have a means of communicating accurately and articulately not just existing knowledge, but also innovations. If other primates had language skills near as ours, even if other cognitive abilities weren't as strong, I think you would likely see that sort of innovation spread through such a population.
There are a helluva lot of complexities. I think many of the differences are not necessarily in the genes themselves, but in gene expression during fetal development. So while there may be a single gene that is different as it relates to neural development, you also have to factor in the whole developmental matrix involved. I would think just throwing this gene into a fertilized chimp egg probably isn't going to get you a near-human IQ chimp, and there are a whole host of factors surrounding gene expression during fetal brain development, which will almost certainly involve many other genes.
So get them a Super Nintendo but don't let them use it?
This is a forum dedicated to uncontrolled mass consumption. We don't want your charitable kind around here. Don't you have a dank alley to patrol for losers?
Believe me. He just saved you the horrors of the final episode, where you say, at the end of it, "WTF! I suffered through the fifth and sixth seasons and this is what you hand me as a tie-it-all-together episode?"
Strikes me as a return to the olden days of vacuum tubes and early transistor computers, where component failure was frequent and brought everything to halt while the bad component was hunted down.
In the long run if you're running tens of thousands of nodes, then you need to be able to work around failures.
I certainly put freezes in place for a week or two surrounding major holidays like Christmas. But we're talking about a damned long freeze here.
He's a victim like a guy who had the choice between a $3000 used car with seatbelts and a $100 heap with a garbage bag for a passenger-side window, and picked the latter.
Well, I do have OWA open to the world, mainly because of ActiveSync, but the actual SMTP server, no way. I've seen joe job and dictionary attacks bring an Exchange server running on damned heavy hardware brought to its knees. I run a Postfix server running postgrey, SpamAssassin and ClamAV that sits on port 25 and weeds out all the nasty bits and hands everything else off to Exchange. There's no way in hell I'd ever let Exchange's SMTP service feel the full force of what the nastier folks on the tubes can throw at it. If someone DDoSs Exchange's IIS daemon, oh well.
As does any kind of warrant. How is this any different than a search of a house, which will contain lots of materials that have nothing to do with the case?
The very question itself suggests you have no idea what you're talking about
I'm sorry. "Electric nature of the solar system"? Are you talking about charged particles? WTF? What you wrote reads like word salad, and I suspect probably is.
The problem is that the scientists have no power to fix it. It is the politicians and everyone else that has to do the dirty work.
Remember, for pseudo-skeptics, even the most appallingly idiotic skeptical comment is proof against whatever science they are battling, but the bar on science's side must always be set impossibly high.