if they were worried about their IP being stolen, perhaps they should manufacture in their own country... it's not like the USA is in need of more jobs or anything.
people pay enough for their iToys that it wouldn't hurt apple too much - it'd be slow and steady growth rather than meteoric rise and then sue-town for the next 50 years.
though it's not a completely fair model of outsourcing, the only part it misses is that quite often the standard of living is improved in the country outsourced to (not just the top 1%).
of course, that corresponds to a subtle drop in living standard in the country outsourced from...
i wonder if those free market types are aware that they have the same goals as communism?
"And yeah, it's still too early to detect any increase in cancer rates"...maybe read it again AFTER wiping the special sauce off your glasses (man, how does it even get there?).
Private companies have proven over and over again, that they do not take public safety as a serious issue, until it's too late.
at the risk of sounding like a neo-con libertarian tea partier, governments haven't exactly been too good at this. as i recall, the Pripyat facility was run by the government.
do you regularly get screened for cancer? not to worry you, but in the worst case scenario you could be a valuable data point, and in the best case scenario, we're all gonna be fine.
go ahead and make brilliant artwork that will never be seen, appreciated or understood. it'll just rot in a shed, get water damaged and rot, and be forgotten when you finally die and your children clear the place out. if you're lucky, some of it might get the shit scraped off it and end up in a second hand shop, next to a pile of James Last LPs.
Art needs an audience, or it's meaningless (and self indulgent).
this does not mean pandering to an audience, it just means keeping in mind that ultimately someone will see what you're making, and you have the opportunity to have an effect on them.
retouching a movie for the 4th time doesn't really touch on that spirit.
there comes a certain point where the creator is just being a dick and refusing to move on.
in which case there'd be greater value if we, the audience, were allowed to see all versions side-by-side and track the creator's descent into megalomania.
except Lucas didn't barge into my home and remove my decaying old VHS tapes.
there are still prints, there are (no doubt) still intermediates (or they'd have nothing to put the tweaks on in the first place - unless they're using the scans they did in 1996-97, which would be shit compared to today's gear).
the library of congress will have a copy in large format separation - all we need is an ocean's 11 style superteam of nerds to go break in and find it, then make their own version. as far as the cost - it'd be negligible, as all the post prod people would be glad to donate their time off the clock.
Who cares? The total forcing from CO2 added to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution is less than the daily variance in forcing from water vapor.
yeah! the difference is night and day!
(idiot).
so CO2 has no effect because night is several degrees cooler than day, and summer is much warmer than winter.
so the centre of the Earth was behind heating the oceans, then?
water is a heat sink. it can't change itself - it needs energy put in. the atmosphere, though not as large a heatsink, can influence how much energy gets stored in the oceans, then the oceans slosh around and affect areas differently.
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if they were worried about their IP being stolen, perhaps they should manufacture in their own country... it's not like the USA is in need of more jobs or anything.
people pay enough for their iToys that it wouldn't hurt apple too much - it'd be slow and steady growth rather than meteoric rise and then sue-town for the next 50 years.
actually, i really was curious. but okay. i'll give you some free snark just cause you asked.
i wonder why this got modded down?
though it's not a completely fair model of outsourcing, the only part it misses is that quite often the standard of living is improved in the country outsourced to (not just the top 1%).
of course, that corresponds to a subtle drop in living standard in the country outsourced from...
i wonder if those free market types are aware that they have the same goals as communism?
cool. i'll trust you then. you asked, after all.
i trust everyone who asked me, ever since watching Terminator 2. it was sad he had to be lowered into molten steel in the end.
read it again and you'll find this:
"And yeah, it's still too early to detect any increase in cancer rates" ...maybe read it again AFTER wiping the special sauce off your glasses (man, how does it even get there?).
3. yeah, population control measures will fly... seriously... what are you thinking??
they did say "please"...
i vote we turn all our fossil fuels into safe, clean, pink energon cubes.
like the transformers did. fill it with crude, squash it, repeat a few times, bingo. you have enough power to reclaim Cybertron and rule the universe!
Private companies have proven over and over again, that they do not take public safety as a serious issue, until it's too late.
at the risk of sounding like a neo-con libertarian tea partier, governments haven't exactly been too good at this. as i recall, the Pripyat facility was run by the government.
do you regularly get screened for cancer? not to worry you, but in the worst case scenario you could be a valuable data point, and in the best case scenario, we're all gonna be fine.
go ahead and make brilliant artwork that will never be seen, appreciated or understood. it'll just rot in a shed, get water damaged and rot, and be forgotten when you finally die and your children clear the place out. if you're lucky, some of it might get the shit scraped off it and end up in a second hand shop, next to a pile of James Last LPs.
Art needs an audience, or it's meaningless (and self indulgent).
this does not mean pandering to an audience, it just means keeping in mind that ultimately someone will see what you're making, and you have the opportunity to have an effect on them.
retouching a movie for the 4th time doesn't really touch on that spirit.
to say nothing of the poor buggers that did those stunning model shots, only to find no remaining example of their work to show their grandchildren.
i bet Lucas even removed their names from the credits.
there comes a certain point where the creator is just being a dick and refusing to move on.
in which case there'd be greater value if we, the audience, were allowed to see all versions side-by-side and track the creator's descent into megalomania.
except Lucas didn't barge into my home and remove my decaying old VHS tapes.
there are still prints, there are (no doubt) still intermediates (or they'd have nothing to put the tweaks on in the first place - unless they're using the scans they did in 1996-97, which would be shit compared to today's gear).
the library of congress will have a copy in large format separation - all we need is an ocean's 11 style superteam of nerds to go break in and find it, then make their own version. as far as the cost - it'd be negligible, as all the post prod people would be glad to donate their time off the clock.
those grapes can be a little sour when they're unripe.
just measure weight by bags of ice and be done with it.
i'm sick of people asking how many pounds and ounces my son was born at. i tell them 2.64Kg, or just shy of a bag of ice.
i love how, through this exchange, everyone posts as AC.
i think you'll find both work...
a woman walks into a bar and says to the barman "I want a double entendre".
so he gave her one.
models become theories when they grow up (ie, don't get disproven for a while).
you seem to be under the impression that the western world grow the food for the rest of the world.
yet what we buy (at least at supermarkets) is usually grown somewhere else.
perhaps we could cut out the middleman and just eat what we grow, and vice versa for the other countries?
just a thought.
Who cares? The total forcing from CO2 added to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution is less than the daily variance in forcing from water vapor.
yeah! the difference is night and day!
(idiot).
so CO2 has no effect because night is several degrees cooler than day, and summer is much warmer than winter.
so the centre of the Earth was behind heating the oceans, then?
water is a heat sink. it can't change itself - it needs energy put in. the atmosphere, though not as large a heatsink, can influence how much energy gets stored in the oceans, then the oceans slosh around and affect areas differently.
get it?
it's pretty different when it runs against a ceiling, lemme tell you.
you're gonna put 7 billion people in Antarctica?
that's your solution?
you're a twit. humanity "expanded" during these times because they were migrating to places with nicer climates.
we have nowhere to expand to. we've filled this world up.
irrelevant. us rich westerners still put out more CO2 per head than anybody.
and we don't have the excuse of using that footprint for something useful, like growing food.
we just sit at computers arguing about how those bastard farmers are destroying the world.