Why? Because they have those folks at the door that insists on checking bags. I don't want to have to deal with it. And I don't feel like the trouble of going in there and proving to them that they do not have a legal right to check bags. It's funny, but a guy during the Christmas rush here in ATL just walked out because there was a line at the door. They came after him. He just said "PROVE THAT I STOLE SOMETHING!" And kept walking. They took his plate down and supposedly called the police. He NEVER heard a thing. This was at Best Buy. There's no point in arguing with the store staff or proving a point by doing the same thing as that guy did.
I just say "Fuck'em!" Their prices aren't that good to put up with any of that shit or to prove a point! I can do better else where. That's how I'm also protesting. By voting with my $$$.
Also, ANYONE who has to rely on adware, telemarketeers, or any other hard selling methods has a shit product or service - no exceptions. None. That's why they have to use such shitty methods, becuase they SUCK!
Just seeing that headline made me cringe. I've gotten the run around so many times by company's because they said "No, it's not our problem. We contract that out to a firm to do that."
Yeah, yeah, I KNOW that they're (the original companies)responsible, but trying to get around the clerks and middle mgt. I usually have to make some sort of complaint to some regulator. They just then say "Fix it." to the company that wouldn't take responsibility.
What I'm trying to say is, these firms are just going to say it was a subcontractor to a contractor. Then they say, we'll investigate. At most get a slap on the wrist. Some free publicity. (all publicity is good publicity - isn't that how it goes?) And JQ public forgets about it - that's assuming he even cares.
I'm going to just sake my head now and put it in the oven.
I saw the mispelling of "shake" and thought "sake is good too!"
I just had this image of guys in suits yelling at each other about the merits of Firefox and IE; saying things like "Firefox is a liberal plot to undermine American values!", etc...
Of all the FOSS projects out there, it looks as if Firefox is the most successful in terms of market penetration. People who never have heard of Linux/GNU know about Firefox.
Will be through ownership. I detest this treatment of people like cogs as much as anyone, but the way survive this globalization trend is to become one those owners.
It's the owners who are receiving the benfits of this mentality who are going to win with globalization - not the workers. They're fucked. Labor, including smart people (90th percentile -.1*1 billion = 100 million very smart people in India alone!), is a commodity, now.
Another avenue is creativity. Not just the artsy folks, but being creative with new products and services and try to create your own asset to own.
Just what I've been hearing from folks who are making it in this new economy.
that here in the US of A, spending beyond our means is a way of life. [Joke]Why, we have to. Without out us, the rest of world's economies couldn't grow. So it's a moral imperative that we run up huge amounts of debt! [/Joke]
I, myself, ask that nobody give me anything for Christams. I don't need anymore stuff. I have too much stuff as it is. But, unfortunately, there seams to be this "law" somewhere that people have to buy "stuff" for others and spend waayyy too much money.
I really wish Christmas was about friends and family. Getting together and having a nice meal, party, or whatever - no gifts! Sadly, that's not the way it is - at least here in the US of A.
The point of a business is to so that it shows that you thought of how to start, operate and exit the business - NOT how to operate the business
If this looks like a contradiction, it isn't. It's the difference between thinking about operations and what's needed to actually operating it. In other words, everyone will know that you're not going to operate the business EXACTLY or even close for that matter as you described in the business plan. It just shows that you have a really good idea how to do it and you thought of the in and outs.
I need some advice on how to write up a killer business plan, everyone involved knows exactly where the business is heading.
The point of a business is to so that it shows that you thought of how to start, operate and exit the business - NOT how to operate the business. When you start, you'll find that things WILL change and you have to make adjustments. So, when an investor sees the B-plan, they'll know that you investigated the business thouroughly (or not) and that you are the expert.
Which leads me to another thing: DON'T BE (TOO) PARANOID ABOUT INVESTORS STEALING YOUR IDEA. Nothing will stop the works faster than demanding a NDA. For one thing, the investors are into investing, they don't want to be bothered with starting a biz. Prefessionals, like accoutnants, lawyers, etc... are doing their thing and they don't want to implement you idea and blabbing your idea all over will hurt them more than you - they don't want to have the reputation of blabbing people's ideas all over the place. Also, this is hard to take, I know, your idea is probably NOT that unique. Serendipity has its affect. Someone else has had your idea but just didn't have your guts to implemnt it. I know an entrepreneur who says that he can publish any of his ideas on the web for all to see and it wouldn't matter because it's the implemntation that's key. And he's a master.
That's right, I also said exit plan. An exit plan is necessary, because, one day, you WILL be leaving that business (death, retirement, or the most likely selling). The VCs will want to get out of your business after about 3 to 5 years. They have to in order to get the ROI that they demand.
Also, if you have MS Office, there's plenty of FREE startup templates on their site. here I don't know if Open Office and other FOSS can use those.
Oh! I almost forgot, the book, "The Portable MBA in ENTREPRENEURSHIP" , Bygrave and Zacharakis is an excellent resource!
Good luck!! Maybe one day when I'm "Down Under" I'll see a huge office complex with your name on it!
I wish they would release the text screen version that they had for DOS as freeware with source. Then we could port it over to Linux and *BSD. There's been times where I really wished for something like that.
Sigh. I guess not they're pursuing the kickass world of business-speak (including but not limited to the term: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)).
It's not only that, but the thing that always gets me is when you up to these company's websites to find out exactly what they do, it's just pages and pages of business speak. How are you supposed to get customers if they can't even figure out if they even need you?
A friend of mine has a small company that does a lot of software for banking transactions. When you ask what he does, he explains it quite well and you can understand it. If you went to his website, it's just a bunch gobbly-gook like the above. I don't get it. He says that's the way to do it.
Voice, eye tracking, subvocal implants, those are the input devices that will rid us of the current spate of RSI and the limitations of the WIMP paradigm.
Well let's start with the eye tracking. It would be completely useless for imaging applications. Well, for one thing, the mouse pointer would always be on any women's breasts and crotch.
The Voice tracking and sub-vocal, well, that wouldn't work for the same causes as the eye-tracking.
The WIMP paradigmn wouldn't work for people who are afraid of dangerous things. Oh, WIMP is an acronym - oops! Sorry!
Now they can pay to have their emails sent to guaranteed valid addresses, charge more for their "service" and they now have some legitimacy because, well, they PAID for the access!
I saw the title and I thought of that book. I'm also thinking of an author who took the advice and is having a bittersweet experience. He gave up a six figure job to write full time. He's been published and all, but he has no money and is relying on charity from friends and family - he hates it.
He's been out of corporate too long to go back. I have my own pretty rotten story regarding doing what you love and the money will follow - NOT!
Unfortunately, what I or someone else loves to do is also loved by many others, and as a result of supply and demand, there's usually not much money to be made. And by not much, I mean not being able to make a living at it. Ex. The majority of Artists, writers, well anything artistic; most pilot jobs pay shit, as in having to apply for food stamps (See archives of Patrick Smith's column on Salon.com), I'm sure you can think of some yourself.
Don't get me wrong, it's obvious that what you did was right for you. As a matter of fact, I know an attourney that got so sick of it, she became a High School teacher herself. She says she doesn't regret it at all. Even though she's broke all the time now.
What I'm getting at is, maybe it should be "Do what you love and don't count on the money following, but if it comes, it's icing on the cake."
Until I see "fatwas" or whatever they're called from the Islamic leadership or some other strong condemnation of these rioter's actions who call themselves Muslims, I will think that the Islamic people in this world condone the rioter's and terrorist's actions. End of story.
Before violence erupted there were calls for boycotts (perfectly reasonable) to which the EU responded by threatening them if they dared to boycott a member state.
No excuse. And I've never seen anyting about boycots. Again, no excuse for the violence
They tried peaceful means first. Violence only came later.
Still, no excuse.
Second, these images of Muhammad are as offensive to muslims as it would be to christians to depict the Virgin Mary getting fucked by a pig with the caption "Technically, she's still a virgin."
There would be outrage, but there wouldn't be any of the violence and murder that is occuring now. Any religion that will go nuts over a cartoon but not the murder (by them) of innocent people (not of their religion or even their version of their "faith") is a pathetic excuse for anyone that calls themsleves "children of God". Think of all the times Sunnis, Shiites, etc.. are all exterminating each other because they don't beleive the "right" way.
Based on this FTFA: One is Gonzalo Frasca's "September 12," in which players shoot missiles at terrorists in a small village. The fun quickly turns political, however, as villagers mourning friends and relatives accidentally killed by the missiles morph into terrorists themselves. The message, clearly, is to think about consequences.
The premise is this, some radical elements of a religion, really pisssed off over cartoons that were published on the other side of the world, riot and kill people in protest for depicting their religion as being violent, intollerant of free expression and hateful. People seeing these folks reacting like this (violence, murder, etc...) now see this particular religion as being: violent, murderous, and everything that the protestors say they're not. So what happens? People become really afraid of this religion because their actions prove the cartoons are correct. And when people become afraid , they start to do some radical things. Here's were I think I'll have this game go: there's another Holocost for this particular religion except:
It's done to some other religion besides th Jews.
It's done by multiple states - i.e. all over the world ( war on terror ya, know)
This time, no one stops it because the victims (of the holocost) refuse to live in this world with anyone who doesn't beleive the way they do.
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I currently boycott:
CompUSA
BestBuy
Mars Music
Why? Because they have those folks at the door that insists on checking bags. I don't want to have to deal with it. And I don't feel like the trouble of going in there and proving to them that they do not have a legal right to check bags. It's funny, but a guy during the Christmas rush here in ATL just walked out because there was a line at the door. They came after him. He just said "PROVE THAT I STOLE SOMETHING!" And kept walking. They took his plate down and supposedly called the police. He NEVER heard a thing. This was at Best Buy. There's no point in arguing with the store staff or proving a point by doing the same thing as that guy did.
I just say "Fuck'em!" Their prices aren't that good to put up with any of that shit or to prove a point! I can do better else where. That's how I'm also protesting. By voting with my $$$.
Also, ANYONE who has to rely on adware, telemarketeers, or any other hard selling methods has a shit product or service - no exceptions. None. That's why they have to use such shitty methods, becuase they SUCK!
They won't. The public has too a short of a memory.
Just seeing that headline made me cringe. I've gotten the run around so many times by company's because they said "No, it's not our problem. We contract that out to a firm to do that."
Yeah, yeah, I KNOW that they're (the original companies)responsible, but trying to get around the clerks and middle mgt. I usually have to make some sort of complaint to some regulator. They just then say "Fix it." to the company that wouldn't take responsibility.
What I'm trying to say is, these firms are just going to say it was a subcontractor to a contractor. Then they say, we'll investigate. At most get a slap on the wrist. Some free publicity. (all publicity is good publicity - isn't that how it goes?) And JQ public forgets about it - that's assuming he even cares.
I'm going to just sake my head now and put it in the oven.
I saw the mispelling of "shake" and thought "sake is good too!"
I just had this image of guys in suits yelling at each other about the merits of Firefox and IE; saying things like "Firefox is a liberal plot to undermine American values!", etc...
Could it mean the death of IE?
I would just be happy with cleaner air (it sucks in ATL in the Summer) and less dependence on fosil fuels for economic and security sakes.
It's the owners who are receiving the benfits of this mentality who are going to win with globalization - not the workers. They're fucked. Labor, including smart people (90th percentile - .1*1 billion = 100 million very smart people in India alone!), is a commodity, now.
Another avenue is creativity. Not just the artsy folks, but being creative with new products and services and try to create your own asset to own.
Just what I've been hearing from folks who are making it in this new economy.
I, myself, ask that nobody give me anything for Christams. I don't need anymore stuff. I have too much stuff as it is. But, unfortunately, there seams to be this "law" somewhere that people have to buy "stuff" for others and spend waayyy too much money.
I really wish Christmas was about friends and family. Getting together and having a nice meal, party, or whatever - no gifts! Sadly, that's not the way it is - at least here in the US of A.
Larry Ellison.
FTFA: Delivery of the layoff notices has already begun, and the bulk of the pink slips will be handed out in the next few weeks
I think it's better to get canned before Christmas. That way, you don't rack up a shit load of credit card debt.
If this looks like a contradiction, it isn't. It's the difference between thinking about operations and what's needed to actually operating it. In other words, everyone will know that you're not going to operate the business EXACTLY or even close for that matter as you described in the business plan. It just shows that you have a really good idea how to do it and you thought of the in and outs.
The point of a business is to so that it shows that you thought of how to start, operate and exit the business - NOT how to operate the business. When you start, you'll find that things WILL change and you have to make adjustments. So, when an investor sees the B-plan, they'll know that you investigated the business thouroughly (or not) and that you are the expert.
Which leads me to another thing: DON'T BE (TOO) PARANOID ABOUT INVESTORS STEALING YOUR IDEA. Nothing will stop the works faster than demanding a NDA. For one thing, the investors are into investing, they don't want to be bothered with starting a biz. Prefessionals, like accoutnants, lawyers, etc... are doing their thing and they don't want to implement you idea and blabbing your idea all over will hurt them more than you - they don't want to have the reputation of blabbing people's ideas all over the place. Also, this is hard to take, I know, your idea is probably NOT that unique. Serendipity has its affect. Someone else has had your idea but just didn't have your guts to implemnt it. I know an entrepreneur who says that he can publish any of his ideas on the web for all to see and it wouldn't matter because it's the implemntation that's key. And he's a master.
That's right, I also said exit plan. An exit plan is necessary, because, one day, you WILL be leaving that business (death, retirement, or the most likely selling). The VCs will want to get out of your business after about 3 to 5 years. They have to in order to get the ROI that they demand.
Also, if you have MS Office, there's plenty of FREE startup templates on their site. here I don't know if Open Office and other FOSS can use those.
Oh! I almost forgot, the book, "The Portable MBA in ENTREPRENEURSHIP" , Bygrave and Zacharakis is an excellent resource!
Good luck!! Maybe one day when I'm "Down Under" I'll see a huge office complex with your name on it!
Oh, I'm not much of an Emacs fan.
It's not only that, but the thing that always gets me is when you up to these company's websites to find out exactly what they do, it's just pages and pages of business speak. How are you supposed to get customers if they can't even figure out if they even need you?
A friend of mine has a small company that does a lot of software for banking transactions. When you ask what he does, he explains it quite well and you can understand it. If you went to his website, it's just a bunch gobbly-gook like the above. I don't get it. He says that's the way to do it.
Wouldn't it be warmer there? The poles on the other hand, would be too cold!
Well let's start with the eye tracking. It would be completely useless for imaging applications. Well, for one thing, the mouse pointer would always be on any women's breasts and crotch.
The Voice tracking and sub-vocal, well, that wouldn't work for the same causes as the eye-tracking.
The WIMP paradigmn wouldn't work for people who are afraid of dangerous things. Oh, WIMP is an acronym - oops! Sorry!
Now they can pay to have their emails sent to guaranteed valid addresses, charge more for their "service" and they now have some legitimacy because, well, they PAID for the access!
He's been out of corporate too long to go back. I have my own pretty rotten story regarding doing what you love and the money will follow - NOT!
Unfortunately, what I or someone else loves to do is also loved by many others, and as a result of supply and demand, there's usually not much money to be made. And by not much, I mean not being able to make a living at it. Ex. The majority of Artists, writers, well anything artistic; most pilot jobs pay shit, as in having to apply for food stamps (See archives of Patrick Smith's column on Salon.com), I'm sure you can think of some yourself.
Don't get me wrong, it's obvious that what you did was right for you. As a matter of fact, I know an attourney that got so sick of it, she became a High School teacher herself. She says she doesn't regret it at all. Even though she's broke all the time now.
What I'm getting at is, maybe it should be "Do what you love and don't count on the money following, but if it comes, it's icing on the cake."
I know what my problems are.
Until I see "fatwas" or whatever they're called from the Islamic leadership or some other strong condemnation of these rioter's actions who call themselves Muslims, I will think that the Islamic people in this world condone the rioter's and terrorist's actions. End of story.
Actions, or lack of, speak louder than words.
No excuse. And I've never seen anyting about boycots. Again, no excuse for the violence
They tried peaceful means first. Violence only came later.
Still, no excuse.
Second, these images of Muhammad are as offensive to muslims as it would be to christians to depict the Virgin Mary getting fucked by a pig with the caption "Technically, she's still a virgin."
There would be outrage, but there wouldn't be any of the violence and murder that is occuring now. Any religion that will go nuts over a cartoon but not the murder (by them) of innocent people (not of their religion or even their version of their "faith") is a pathetic excuse for anyone that calls themsleves "children of God". Think of all the times Sunnis, Shiites, etc.. are all exterminating each other because they don't beleive the "right" way.
Again, there's no excuse for acting like animals.
The premise is this, some radical elements of a religion, really pisssed off over cartoons that were published on the other side of the world, riot and kill people in protest for depicting their religion as being violent, intollerant of free expression and hateful. People seeing these folks reacting like this (violence, murder, etc...) now see this particular religion as being: violent, murderous, and everything that the protestors say they're not. So what happens? People become really afraid of this religion because their actions prove the cartoons are correct. And when people become afraid , they start to do some radical things. Here's were I think I'll have this game go: there's another Holocost for this particular religion except:
It's done to some other religion besides th Jews.
It's done by multiple states - i.e. all over the world ( war on terror ya, know)
This time, no one stops it because the victims (of the holocost) refuse to live in this world with anyone who doesn't beleive the way they do.
A cost/benefit analysis was done and we found that this project is very wortwhile (to us)!
James Fischbach,
CEO of Intrepid Defense & Security Systems
I'll have to trash my business plan for a security firm that specializes in "Politics on Ice" shows.
Well, it's not like taxpayer money is used to build the stadiums, the infrastructure to support the stadium, the ...oh wait...
Nevermind.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need LASERs to make a Hologram? IIRC, you need a laser or two for making the Hologram and another to show it.