Ravenscall, that 5000+ member church sounds awful. It sounds like they are waiting in the wings to do the same thing in the USA that the clerics are doing in Iran. Be careful, though, that in pointing out problems in the Christian churches that you do not let the Iranian nutcases off the hook. They not only have those intolerant views but they have the power of a state backing them up. That makes them worse.
I wish the current war had been pitched by GWB as a war of pluralism against fundamentalism. Where fundamentalism is any religion that wants to use force to stomp on individual liberties. Instead there are many Christians in the USA who see it as a binary fight about the one true religion.
I agree that this is probably yet another dose of false hope but I'd love it if it were true.
Personal access to cheap energy for everyone can have a very progressive effect on society. Cheap personal transportation means that a highly mobile work force can supply labor at a wide and changing array of locations near or far from their homes. I like this better than the utopia envisioned by some where we are all compelled by force to live in commune like dense housing with access only to 'public' transit. That vision is extremely regressive and a sure way to cement forever the wide gap between rich and poor.
Cheap and private transportation is the great emancipator and I hope that this long shot of personal fusion devices can enable it.
This example shows well what could happen when government clumsily interferes with a free market. The number of products and services are reduced. Consumers lose.
France has yet to learn that lesson. Another recent example is the grief that the French president is getting by trying to introduce at will employment for folks under 26. If he fails, the net result will be fewer jobs and higher unemployment.
Gee whiz! Your argument argues for illegal and immoral behavior merely to spite government. If you follow that to its logical extreme then I imagine that you enjoy bar room disputes that end in beheadings and rape. That makes you glad. Right?
They are storing the creative work that resulted from several man years of effort and the tremendous financial risk the producers took to produce a film.
Your idea is clearly NOT pro consumer. Your idea would reduce the number of companies offering consumer products that require access to the consumer's private information. That reduced competition would concentrate power in a small handful of huge companies that would not face much competition. Consumers need competition to have power.
I believe in conservation as a means to make our society more energy efficient. However, in a world of increasing population and bringing 3rd world economies into a one world modern economy, we cannot expect global energy consumption to decrease. This means either burning fossil fuels at a faster rate, wind and solar, or nuclear. As far as burning fossil fuels go, realize that we will run out and that burning coal releases tremendous radioactivity into the atmosphere. I love wind and solar but I think we need to hedge our bets with a major committment to developing safe nuclear power generation.
For the sake of argument, let's say that 'quality is being pushed out by improper information'. I don't believe that but let's pretend I do for the sake of this discussion. I hereby appoint you to be that 'something outside' of market forces.
What will you do as a 'fix'? You are all powerful and you have a free hand. Please tell us what to do.
This article is evidence that its best to let free markets decide the value of things such as out sourcing. So long as consumers have choices, they'll be free to make choices based on what they value. In this case, people don't like the out sourced solution and they are moving to the competitors product.
This is all a lot more neat, clean, and effective than a heavy handed reponse from a clumsy government. Consumers always win when they have an array of free and voluntary choices.
Can you give us an idea of how you would write a 'guaranteed contract'? I'm just curious as to the language you would use.
And, in case you wondered what I think, the guarantee you are looking for comes from within yourself. Your ability to make yourself valuable to a company, to contribute to the goals of the business, and to be a positive role model for others in the company will give you more opportunities than you can possibly handle in one lifetime. That's a lot more fun than trying to find the right company to be your surrogate parent.
I'm sure that for most companies, the proportion of their customers who have aol.com email addresses is dropping each year. As long as this idea does not catch hold in the growing domains like hotmail and gmail then we can just laugh as AOL gets more and more desparate to find a new angle for growth. This is not that angle.
Ok, cool. So in your model, I'm a business owner and I am free to stay put with my 3 experienced engineers and zero apprentices. I can make the free and voluntary choice to run my business that way. I'm cool with that.
I asked you a simple question and you've ducked it. Surely your model for forcing apprentice programs has enough credibility that you'll answer my question: Which experienced engineer should I fire so I can hire an apprentice?
Let's say I run my business at break even and I employ 3 experienced engineers. I don't take a salary for myself as CEO because I want to put that money into growing the business. Then, you come along and force me to pay an entry level apprentice. The only way to pay for this is to let one of the 3 experienced engineers go. Which one should I fire?
What if I am starting a small business and I can only employ one engineer. Can I hire the experienced engineer that will help my business grow or will you force me to train an inexperienced engineer who is a net drain on my business?
cubicledrone, you sound bitter. Along with all of this bitterness you must have invested some energy in thinking through a solution to this unfair system.
Let's say that I make you absolute ruler of our society. What will you do to correct the injustice that you so loudly decry? Please reply.
You really should find someplace else to work. You desire a quiet environment and yet you work in an environment where you are not allowed to ignore the phone or IM. Why do you work there?
This attitude disturbs me a great deal. In this matter, we should be seeking the truth, regardless of whether you were a Bush or Gore supporter in 2000. Free and fair elections benefit both sides.
Credibility in elections comes from transparency. If electronic voting machines make things expedient then let's find a way to use them without degrading transparency in vote counting or hurting our ability to do a recount. I'd like to use a voting machine that spits out 2 human readable records of how I votes. One goes in a box at the poll in case we need mass recounting. One goes home with me to do whatever I want with. It would also be cool if the paper receipts had a machine readable barcode. That would make recounting go a lot faster.
And, for the record, I voted for Bush in 2000. That was an election between 2 silver spooned jackasses and I picked Bush as the lesser of 2 jackasses. Now, I regret this.
What do you think the specific damage is that should be claimed in the class action? Who is doing the damaging? Did that defendant really make binding promises to you?
I think the early adopters knew what they were doing and the risks they were taking.
Pshaw! Learn to put first things first. You are making excuses.
Don't answer the phone unless you have to. Caller Id is wonderful for this. Most of the time I am in meetings or talking to people and I dump the phone calls into voice mail with one touch. I don't do instant messaging. It's one more interrupt source and I don't see the need. You don't have to YIM! That's all under your own control, don't abdicate that control for fashion! Put the Crackberry away!
Let me be the first to contradict this post. In the SF Bay Area right now software companies are scrambling to find good local Software Developers. There are more open positions and a steep increase in compensation as the competition heats up.
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Ravenscall, that 5000+ member church sounds awful. It sounds like they are waiting in the wings to do the same thing in the USA that the clerics are doing in Iran. Be careful, though, that in pointing out problems in the Christian churches that you do not let the Iranian nutcases off the hook. They not only have those intolerant views but they have the power of a state backing them up. That makes them worse.
I wish the current war had been pitched by GWB as a war of pluralism against fundamentalism. Where fundamentalism is any religion that wants to use force to stomp on individual liberties. Instead there are many Christians in the USA who see it as a binary fight about the one true religion.
I agree that this is probably yet another dose of false hope but I'd love it if it were true.
Personal access to cheap energy for everyone can have a very progressive effect on society. Cheap personal transportation means that a highly mobile work force can supply labor at a wide and changing array of locations near or far from their homes. I like this better than the utopia envisioned by some where we are all compelled by force to live in commune like dense housing with access only to 'public' transit. That vision is extremely regressive and a sure way to cement forever the wide gap between rich and poor.
Cheap and private transportation is the great emancipator and I hope that this long shot of personal fusion devices can enable it.
Really??
What kind of business insurance covers bankruptcy?
This example shows well what could happen when government clumsily interferes with a free market. The number of products and services are reduced. Consumers lose. France has yet to learn that lesson. Another recent example is the grief that the French president is getting by trying to introduce at will employment for folks under 26. If he fails, the net result will be fewer jobs and higher unemployment.
Gee whiz! Your argument argues for illegal and immoral behavior merely to spite government. If you follow that to its logical extreme then I imagine that you enjoy bar room disputes that end in beheadings and rape. That makes you glad. Right?
They are storing the creative work that resulted from several man years of effort and the tremendous financial risk the producers took to produce a film.
Your idea is clearly NOT pro consumer. Your idea would reduce the number of companies offering consumer products that require access to the consumer's private information. That reduced competition would concentrate power in a small handful of huge companies that would not face much competition. Consumers need competition to have power.
I believe in conservation as a means to make our society more energy efficient. However, in a world of increasing population and bringing 3rd world economies into a one world modern economy, we cannot expect global energy consumption to decrease. This means either burning fossil fuels at a faster rate, wind and solar, or nuclear. As far as burning fossil fuels go, realize that we will run out and that burning coal releases tremendous radioactivity into the atmosphere. I love wind and solar but I think we need to hedge our bets with a major committment to developing safe nuclear power generation.
For the sake of argument, let's say that 'quality is being pushed out by improper information'. I don't believe that but let's pretend I do for the sake of this discussion. I hereby appoint you to be that 'something outside' of market forces.
What will you do as a 'fix'? You are all powerful and you have a free hand. Please tell us what to do.
This article is evidence that its best to let free markets decide the value of things such as out sourcing. So long as consumers have choices, they'll be free to make choices based on what they value. In this case, people don't like the out sourced solution and they are moving to the competitors product.
This is all a lot more neat, clean, and effective than a heavy handed reponse from a clumsy government. Consumers always win when they have an array of free and voluntary choices.
Cubicledrone,
Can you give us an idea of how you would write a 'guaranteed contract'? I'm just curious as to the language you would use.
And, in case you wondered what I think, the guarantee you are looking for comes from within yourself. Your ability to make yourself valuable to a company, to contribute to the goals of the business, and to be a positive role model for others in the company will give you more opportunities than you can possibly handle in one lifetime. That's a lot more fun than trying to find the right company to be your surrogate parent.
Who cares what AOL does anymore?
I'm sure that for most companies, the proportion of their customers who have aol.com email addresses is dropping each year. As long as this idea does not catch hold in the growing domains like hotmail and gmail then we can just laugh as AOL gets more and more desparate to find a new angle for growth. This is not that angle.
What is that assertion based on? Did you survey car owners?
How many cars does 10% of new cars sold in California in one year represent? Do you really think that many people want an all electric car?
Ok, cool. So in your model, I'm a business owner and I am free to stay put with my 3 experienced engineers and zero apprentices. I can make the free and voluntary choice to run my business that way. I'm cool with that.
I asked you a simple question and you've ducked it. Surely your model for forcing apprentice programs has enough credibility that you'll answer my question: Which experienced engineer should I fire so I can hire an apprentice?
Let's say I run my business at break even and I employ 3 experienced engineers. I don't take a salary for myself as CEO because I want to put that money into growing the business. Then, you come along and force me to pay an entry level apprentice. The only way to pay for this is to let one of the 3 experienced engineers go. Which one should I fire?
What if I am starting a small business and I can only employ one engineer. Can I hire the experienced engineer that will help my business grow or will you force me to train an inexperienced engineer who is a net drain on my business?
The apprenticeship idea is a good one but who should pay for it?
cubicledrone, you sound bitter. Along with all of this bitterness you must have invested some energy in thinking through a solution to this unfair system.
Let's say that I make you absolute ruler of our society. What will you do to correct the injustice that you so loudly decry? Please reply.
You really should find someplace else to work. You desire a quiet environment and yet you work in an environment where you are not allowed to ignore the phone or IM. Why do you work there?
This attitude disturbs me a great deal. In this matter, we should be seeking the truth, regardless of whether you were a Bush or Gore supporter in 2000. Free and fair elections benefit both sides.
Credibility in elections comes from transparency. If electronic voting machines make things expedient then let's find a way to use them without degrading transparency in vote counting or hurting our ability to do a recount. I'd like to use a voting machine that spits out 2 human readable records of how I votes. One goes in a box at the poll in case we need mass recounting. One goes home with me to do whatever I want with. It would also be cool if the paper receipts had a machine readable barcode. That would make recounting go a lot faster.
And, for the record, I voted for Bush in 2000. That was an election between 2 silver spooned jackasses and I picked Bush as the lesser of 2 jackasses. Now, I regret this.
What do you think the specific damage is that should be claimed in the class action? Who is doing the damaging? Did that defendant really make binding promises to you?
I think the early adopters knew what they were doing and the risks they were taking.
Pshaw! Learn to put first things first. You are making excuses.
Don't answer the phone unless you have to. Caller Id is wonderful for this. Most of the time I am in meetings or talking to people and I dump the phone calls into voice mail with one touch. I don't do instant messaging. It's one more interrupt source and I don't see the need. You don't have to YIM! That's all under your own control, don't abdicate that control for fashion! Put the Crackberry away!
Let me be the first to contradict this post. In the SF Bay Area right now software companies are scrambling to find good local Software Developers. There are more open positions and a steep increase in compensation as the competition heats up.