To be fair, no investor in there right mind would be buying shares in Apple. While it is hugely profitable, there's a lot of fluff to it and companies that run like Apple does are far too risky for investment. Same goes for Google, you see people throwing larger and larger sums of money at them, but it strikes me as a bit bizarre that Apple would be worth more than MS when MS has already taken most of its antitrust lumps and is more profitable than either of the other two. Combine that with a much more durable market position and it's difficult in my mind to justify the price people are willing to pay for the other two. I don't like MS, don't get me wrong about that, but even with the mistakes of the last decade, they're still doing better than the competition is. Let's just see how Apple does when the inevitable antitrust investigations start coming.
That's a toughy, sort of like what exactly is pornography. Unfortunately, you can't say that severe torture is anything particular, but you can say that somebody that's fallen completely apart as a result was severely tortured. Which is why the Bush administration's view that they weren't torturing people was so asinine. The person committing the atrocity doesn't get to make that call, it has to be done on an impartial basis and I've yet to hear anybody that's been treated in that fashion not describe it as torture or at least serious abuse. If memory serves even former Bush administration insider Richard Armitage was on record very clearly as stating that he was water boarded and that he does consider it to be torture.
They aren't completely exterior to the US, Nokia Siemans bought the wireless equipment division from Motorola recently, and by the time this ends up in court they'll have received full ownership of those assets. I'm sorry, but that just isn't descriptive of a company that's fully outside of the US. And I'm not sure what other assets they may own inside the US.
That's not true. They're being sued for exporting the goods to Iran. The US has all kinds of restrictions upon what can and cannot be provided to nations like Iran which are particularly blatant in their abuse of power. I'm a bit fuzzy as to how we have jurisdiction over a case which would appear to not involve us directly. As far as I can tell, the acquisition of Motorola's wireless equipment division gave them potential exposure to the US' restrictions on providing that sort of gear to the Iranian authorities. And given that the suit is about cell phone equipment, I suspect that's what's going on there. But IANAL and there's probably something that I'm missing in this.
The problem isn't what we did 60 years ago, it's that we continue to have the same view of the world. A view which has led to a huge amount of lives lost for very little gain. The ethnic cleansing in Iraq is ultimately our responsibility for failing to ensure that there was an adequate presence to ensure that the known sectarian suspicion and resentment didn't spill over into retribution. Similarly on some level the fact that we haven't adjusted our policies in Iran for the modern era at all is probably not helping our cause.
A year? I don't recall mine going that long without needing a reinstall. I'm sure it was possible, I just didn't feel like putting in the work it took to make happen. Back during the days when DOS was the thing, it wasn't so bad, even with Win 3.1 bolted on top of it, but somehow Win 95 marked the more or less beginning of the end of any effort at keeping up the appearance that the customer is the person that purchases the copy.
Xplorer2 is great, somehow I think it was a mistake of MS to not include a dual pane option, as it's a real pain in the ass at times to copy things around the file tree using explorer. But given either Xplorer2 or Teracopy and it works out a lot more effectively.
I know you're joking, but for one thing there are now swimming pools which are small enough to just about fit into an average apartment, by shooting jets of water in one direction they make you swim upstream constantly to stay where you are. I think those were originally designed for training Olympic athletes.
There's a reason for that. I'm not sure about other cities, but the Seattle public school district allows the community to donate facilities. Which is how the elementary school I went to came to have such a nice playground set up. The community got together and raised the funds, did a lot of the work themselves and suddenly there was a nice playground. Replacing the previous playground which wasn't quite as nice.
Unfortunately due to a lack of time, money and organization that tends not to happen in poorer neighborhoods.
But it's more than that, it's the swimming pool, murals and a marble statue of RFK. That's hardly indicitive of fiscal responsibility. The statue and the murals at least could've easily been added down the road when the economy and California's situation in general was less precarious. What's more, leaving those bits out at the last minute wouldn't have been that difficult to do.
This isn't an investment in education, at least not purely, they could've had a much simpler building which was still perfectly safe and functional, even if it would likely lack the murals, statue and swimming pool. Things which none of the schools around here have. Well, one of them sort of has a swimming pool, but mostly because the public pool was constructed right next to the high school.
Depends where you live. In some parts of the world college is free for anybody that's able to out compete the competition to get admitted. Which is a completely different type of elitism. In the US, if you're that poor the odds are much better of getting somebody else to pay for it, provided you can demonstrate that you need the money more than the other people do.
What we really need to be moving away from is the idea that everybody needs to go to college. A significant number of people out there would be both happier and better off skipping college in favor of a technical certificate program. Personally I don't see a compelling reason to encourage people to go out and get a PhD in say literature so that they can work in a coffee shop, somehow that seems wasteful to me, but I'm sure there's probably something about that which is less wasteful than it appears from the outside.
You must not have gone to a very good school then. The one I went to had a huge amount of stuff to learn both in and out of class time. Very stressful at times not really ever being completely on my own time, but I learned an amazing amount of stuff about the process of learning.
Indeed, most jobs are so poorly advertised that the only people that apply are hopelessly deluded or arrogant. They'll ask for 4x as much experience as they need, an extra level of education and still expect to pay less than what a typical graduate without experience can afford to take. Then there's the attitude that they'll have of expecting people to fill the qualifications precisely. Granted when the economy gets ugly enough they can get away with it, but in general I'm not sure how this would be OK.
I agree with you in the sense that for the last decade or two at least there's been a real disincentive provided for competence or knowledge of the field you're managing. Some people are genuinely able to manage workers that are doing things they don't get with great results, however usually it doesn't work out, the ego just gets in the way. If a particular manager can set aside his or her ego to get the people doing the work the resources to do a good job and can find genuine talent as well as deflect the criticism and problems from above, then that can definitely work out. It's just not common for managers to know anything about managing or to give a rat's ass about the output if it isn't directly linked into their banking account.
That would require them to get an entirely new business model, and at this point the one they've got still works plenty well. They bring in large amounts of cash every year and their market share is still large enough to represent a formidable opponent to any that might try and compete with them. Sure it won't go on like this forever, but at this point there's very little incentive for them to do anything too radical. The only change I'd think they should be making is dumping Ballmer for a geek or nerd, or at least somebody that gets the technical aspects of their business. Which I'm not personally convinced he gets. Steve Jobs over at Apple for better or for worse over all gets it or at least for the most part is smart enough to let people who do know that stuff get things accomplished.
It's been a need for sometime to have niche language experts. For instance the German English hybrid which common in Amish country, is difficult to understand without some understanding of the languages involved, and almost impossible to speak without knowing the specific rules. Not to mention the parts of the country where there's still holdover languages from times past before English became the more or less default language for everything.
It's derived from the dialects of the south, but that doesn't mean that it's likely to bear much of a resemblance. I mean after all, down south for a really long time there were limitations on education, employment and just general mixing of the races. Suggesting that a linguistic grouping would be derived in a straightforward way is ignorant. If you don't believe me, try comparing the dialects of Korean between the speakers from the North and the speakers from the South and you'd get the picture.
Indeed, however some of the dialects down south are less comprehensible. Cajuns have their own language which is a challenge to say the least for people that aren't familiar with it. But even the relatively easy to understand AAVE does have disadvantages and does carry with it a limitation on gainful employment in some sectors, unless the individual is able to use standard English or whatever dialect the local well to do use.
They should have plenty of fuel for that, while idling in traffic does burn up more fuel than driving straight through, I doubt very much that it takes that much more fuel. I think in this day and age it's fairly typical for a vehicle to have enough fuel for several times that distance. Although, if you didn't start in on a full tank of gas, you might be in trouble.
What you typically do is report the income as miscellaneous, which for small sums of money the IRS is OK with, you still pay the standard income tax rate for your bracket, but they can't come back and say you didn't pay your taxes. Not sure about state income tax, we don't have that here. Last I checked which was a few years back, they didn't really tax this sort of thing unless something was produced in the process. The only tax here on this sort of thing is the B&O tax, which will hopefully finally be repealed later this year in exchange for a select income tax on high earners.
I briefly had a site with ads, and in my experience, Google does whatever it can to rape the site for revenue without shelling out. I recall the javascript they supplied at the time didn't work correctly, resulting in all the ads being for charities when viewed with the wrong browser. And not being given a satisfactory way of fixing it either. That was years ago, but I doubt it's gotten that much better as Google has even less competition now than they did back then.
It wouldn't be shocking to me if her site isn't really turning much of a profit if any.
Until, people start winding up at the hospital with food poisoning. The rules surrounding food distribution exist for a very good reason. If you've ever suffered the effects of food poisoning you'd understand why it's so serious.
They use it because denial and delusion make people do stupid things. They think that it helps, when there's no compelling evidence that it does. If they're lucky, they can keep it from being cracked for the first month or two, most of the time that's a stretch, but it's the belief that it works and is profitable that leads them to do it. This is precisely why MBAs should be allowed nowhere near a company that's still in operation.
As somebody that got screwed over by the DRM mistakes MS made on the Pitt I can assure you that it isn't unprotected. I was stuck buying them because MS fraudulently made me buy more points than I needed for the previous content and then lied about not being able to give me a refund. After that I haven't shelled out for a single MS product, nor will I ever if that corrupt behavior is deemed acceptable by them. FO3 was a game of much potential fucked up beyond belief by greed and incompetence. I'd be really curious to learn how it is that Assassin's Creed both of them, Prototype and Batman: Arkham Asylum are all relatively free of bugs, when FO3 seems to be completely infested with them.
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To be fair, no investor in there right mind would be buying shares in Apple. While it is hugely profitable, there's a lot of fluff to it and companies that run like Apple does are far too risky for investment. Same goes for Google, you see people throwing larger and larger sums of money at them, but it strikes me as a bit bizarre that Apple would be worth more than MS when MS has already taken most of its antitrust lumps and is more profitable than either of the other two. Combine that with a much more durable market position and it's difficult in my mind to justify the price people are willing to pay for the other two. I don't like MS, don't get me wrong about that, but even with the mistakes of the last decade, they're still doing better than the competition is. Let's just see how Apple does when the inevitable antitrust investigations start coming.
Well, they'd be making more money if they weren't inventing reasons to turn down Apps and looking to keep the store the Disneyland of smartphones.
That's a toughy, sort of like what exactly is pornography. Unfortunately, you can't say that severe torture is anything particular, but you can say that somebody that's fallen completely apart as a result was severely tortured. Which is why the Bush administration's view that they weren't torturing people was so asinine. The person committing the atrocity doesn't get to make that call, it has to be done on an impartial basis and I've yet to hear anybody that's been treated in that fashion not describe it as torture or at least serious abuse. If memory serves even former Bush administration insider Richard Armitage was on record very clearly as stating that he was water boarded and that he does consider it to be torture.
They aren't completely exterior to the US, Nokia Siemans bought the wireless equipment division from Motorola recently, and by the time this ends up in court they'll have received full ownership of those assets. I'm sorry, but that just isn't descriptive of a company that's fully outside of the US. And I'm not sure what other assets they may own inside the US.
That's not true. They're being sued for exporting the goods to Iran. The US has all kinds of restrictions upon what can and cannot be provided to nations like Iran which are particularly blatant in their abuse of power. I'm a bit fuzzy as to how we have jurisdiction over a case which would appear to not involve us directly. As far as I can tell, the acquisition of Motorola's wireless equipment division gave them potential exposure to the US' restrictions on providing that sort of gear to the Iranian authorities. And given that the suit is about cell phone equipment, I suspect that's what's going on there. But IANAL and there's probably something that I'm missing in this.
The problem isn't what we did 60 years ago, it's that we continue to have the same view of the world. A view which has led to a huge amount of lives lost for very little gain. The ethnic cleansing in Iraq is ultimately our responsibility for failing to ensure that there was an adequate presence to ensure that the known sectarian suspicion and resentment didn't spill over into retribution. Similarly on some level the fact that we haven't adjusted our policies in Iran for the modern era at all is probably not helping our cause.
A year? I don't recall mine going that long without needing a reinstall. I'm sure it was possible, I just didn't feel like putting in the work it took to make happen. Back during the days when DOS was the thing, it wasn't so bad, even with Win 3.1 bolted on top of it, but somehow Win 95 marked the more or less beginning of the end of any effort at keeping up the appearance that the customer is the person that purchases the copy.
Xplorer2 is great, somehow I think it was a mistake of MS to not include a dual pane option, as it's a real pain in the ass at times to copy things around the file tree using explorer. But given either Xplorer2 or Teracopy and it works out a lot more effectively.
I know you're joking, but for one thing there are now swimming pools which are small enough to just about fit into an average apartment, by shooting jets of water in one direction they make you swim upstream constantly to stay where you are. I think those were originally designed for training Olympic athletes.
There's a reason for that. I'm not sure about other cities, but the Seattle public school district allows the community to donate facilities. Which is how the elementary school I went to came to have such a nice playground set up. The community got together and raised the funds, did a lot of the work themselves and suddenly there was a nice playground. Replacing the previous playground which wasn't quite as nice.
Unfortunately due to a lack of time, money and organization that tends not to happen in poorer neighborhoods.
But it's more than that, it's the swimming pool, murals and a marble statue of RFK. That's hardly indicitive of fiscal responsibility. The statue and the murals at least could've easily been added down the road when the economy and California's situation in general was less precarious. What's more, leaving those bits out at the last minute wouldn't have been that difficult to do.
This isn't an investment in education, at least not purely, they could've had a much simpler building which was still perfectly safe and functional, even if it would likely lack the murals, statue and swimming pool. Things which none of the schools around here have. Well, one of them sort of has a swimming pool, but mostly because the public pool was constructed right next to the high school.
Depends where you live. In some parts of the world college is free for anybody that's able to out compete the competition to get admitted. Which is a completely different type of elitism. In the US, if you're that poor the odds are much better of getting somebody else to pay for it, provided you can demonstrate that you need the money more than the other people do.
What we really need to be moving away from is the idea that everybody needs to go to college. A significant number of people out there would be both happier and better off skipping college in favor of a technical certificate program. Personally I don't see a compelling reason to encourage people to go out and get a PhD in say literature so that they can work in a coffee shop, somehow that seems wasteful to me, but I'm sure there's probably something about that which is less wasteful than it appears from the outside.
You must not have gone to a very good school then. The one I went to had a huge amount of stuff to learn both in and out of class time. Very stressful at times not really ever being completely on my own time, but I learned an amazing amount of stuff about the process of learning.
Indeed, most jobs are so poorly advertised that the only people that apply are hopelessly deluded or arrogant. They'll ask for 4x as much experience as they need, an extra level of education and still expect to pay less than what a typical graduate without experience can afford to take. Then there's the attitude that they'll have of expecting people to fill the qualifications precisely. Granted when the economy gets ugly enough they can get away with it, but in general I'm not sure how this would be OK.
I agree with you in the sense that for the last decade or two at least there's been a real disincentive provided for competence or knowledge of the field you're managing. Some people are genuinely able to manage workers that are doing things they don't get with great results, however usually it doesn't work out, the ego just gets in the way. If a particular manager can set aside his or her ego to get the people doing the work the resources to do a good job and can find genuine talent as well as deflect the criticism and problems from above, then that can definitely work out. It's just not common for managers to know anything about managing or to give a rat's ass about the output if it isn't directly linked into their banking account.
That would require them to get an entirely new business model, and at this point the one they've got still works plenty well. They bring in large amounts of cash every year and their market share is still large enough to represent a formidable opponent to any that might try and compete with them. Sure it won't go on like this forever, but at this point there's very little incentive for them to do anything too radical. The only change I'd think they should be making is dumping Ballmer for a geek or nerd, or at least somebody that gets the technical aspects of their business. Which I'm not personally convinced he gets. Steve Jobs over at Apple for better or for worse over all gets it or at least for the most part is smart enough to let people who do know that stuff get things accomplished.
It's been a need for sometime to have niche language experts. For instance the German English hybrid which common in Amish country, is difficult to understand without some understanding of the languages involved, and almost impossible to speak without knowing the specific rules. Not to mention the parts of the country where there's still holdover languages from times past before English became the more or less default language for everything.
It's derived from the dialects of the south, but that doesn't mean that it's likely to bear much of a resemblance. I mean after all, down south for a really long time there were limitations on education, employment and just general mixing of the races. Suggesting that a linguistic grouping would be derived in a straightforward way is ignorant. If you don't believe me, try comparing the dialects of Korean between the speakers from the North and the speakers from the South and you'd get the picture.
Indeed, however some of the dialects down south are less comprehensible. Cajuns have their own language which is a challenge to say the least for people that aren't familiar with it. But even the relatively easy to understand AAVE does have disadvantages and does carry with it a limitation on gainful employment in some sectors, unless the individual is able to use standard English or whatever dialect the local well to do use.
They should have plenty of fuel for that, while idling in traffic does burn up more fuel than driving straight through, I doubt very much that it takes that much more fuel. I think in this day and age it's fairly typical for a vehicle to have enough fuel for several times that distance. Although, if you didn't start in on a full tank of gas, you might be in trouble.
What you typically do is report the income as miscellaneous, which for small sums of money the IRS is OK with, you still pay the standard income tax rate for your bracket, but they can't come back and say you didn't pay your taxes. Not sure about state income tax, we don't have that here. Last I checked which was a few years back, they didn't really tax this sort of thing unless something was produced in the process. The only tax here on this sort of thing is the B&O tax, which will hopefully finally be repealed later this year in exchange for a select income tax on high earners.
I briefly had a site with ads, and in my experience, Google does whatever it can to rape the site for revenue without shelling out. I recall the javascript they supplied at the time didn't work correctly, resulting in all the ads being for charities when viewed with the wrong browser. And not being given a satisfactory way of fixing it either. That was years ago, but I doubt it's gotten that much better as Google has even less competition now than they did back then.
It wouldn't be shocking to me if her site isn't really turning much of a profit if any.
Until, people start winding up at the hospital with food poisoning. The rules surrounding food distribution exist for a very good reason. If you've ever suffered the effects of food poisoning you'd understand why it's so serious.
They use it because denial and delusion make people do stupid things. They think that it helps, when there's no compelling evidence that it does. If they're lucky, they can keep it from being cracked for the first month or two, most of the time that's a stretch, but it's the belief that it works and is profitable that leads them to do it. This is precisely why MBAs should be allowed nowhere near a company that's still in operation.
As somebody that got screwed over by the DRM mistakes MS made on the Pitt I can assure you that it isn't unprotected. I was stuck buying them because MS fraudulently made me buy more points than I needed for the previous content and then lied about not being able to give me a refund. After that I haven't shelled out for a single MS product, nor will I ever if that corrupt behavior is deemed acceptable by them. FO3 was a game of much potential fucked up beyond belief by greed and incompetence. I'd be really curious to learn how it is that Assassin's Creed both of them, Prototype and Batman: Arkham Asylum are all relatively free of bugs, when FO3 seems to be completely infested with them.