That is actually interesting statement. You are not from US I suppose or? I may be from UK but I would not be so sure about that either after all the only history lessons you seem to get in UK is about this bad painter from Vienna...
Yes there is a need for labour laws. There are sometimes very intimidating for an employer. Some even say that they prevent creation of jobs. The question what jobs are created if there is no protections at all does not appear important to those that go with this job creation argument. Of course some liberty for employer is needed after all s/he is in besting his own money well at least most of the time. In any case London Hanged is an interesting lecture not only because of brutality needed to get industrial revolution going but also because the violent changes in (also labour) markets is nothing new raise and fall of whole sectors of (British) economy was happening sometimes within a dozen years, sometimes improvement of work conditions was directly followed by demise of whole sectors which were moved to say Holland because of 'better' i.e. less labour protective laws there. All has its pros and cons it seems.
unless OC you are the unlucky bastard that they chose to make a statement. I think also that boxes solutions discussed some posts above is not as good as it looks like. I think baseball bat should be more appropriate - with number of friends these good fellows are making per day police should be in big trouble checking all suspects...
Monkey is a monkey and it does not depend on whether you are a coding monkey or call center monkey. The cash and required skills may differ but I would not bet your career on actually working - this is wrong approach. Any job you do however is going to teach you something sometimes in very painful ways. These teachings called also lessons in life may allow you to get a distance and broader perspective. With some luck you either start your own business, become a well paid consultant (there are also badly paid consultants - in EU the Commission took care to protect you from becoming any money by introducing rules and regulations that actually ban consulting altogether unless you work for banks or for them but that is another story) or start working for a huge, google like corporation where you can step up the said career path. In any case jump jobs every few years. It is the same as with girls or broader: partners unless you sleep around to see what it looks like on the meat market you are not going to get a good deal.
Good luck with your quest.
liquidity and equalizing the prices across different exchanges are admittedly benefits of arbitrage. Yet doing it in millisecond is not only pointless but benefits only some of the agents in the trade. Then again speeding up the networks is a good thing only this purpose is at least doubtful. For the purpose of arbitrage I think trading every minute is good enough. Real world and real economy is not changing that fast at least we humans do not perceive it so. Already the fact that we talk about real economy and the rest (i.e finance world) is telling.
It seems we tackled the perverted or just promiscuous priests issue pretty well and church in some areas is rather ruined or close to it. But the issue of perverted dogs has somehow escaped public attention - lockem up those pervert dogs!!!
I think the boss of the guy resigned already. Still come to think of it there is something wrong with finance sector. Take arbitrage - it serves a purpose but if done in milliseconds tact it actually does not serve any purpose other than screwing others out of business - why is high frequency trading at all allowed I do not know especially as some of big actors can look into the future. Take so called innovation in finance - the economist run a polling once on whether innovation in finance is actually a good or bad thing - it turned out people believed it is not such a good idea. Seems like an old idea of Kenneth Galbraith - published long time ago - still a novelty for some. Take CDS or some other nonsense like calling finance sector an industry as if they produced something - hey does it not worry you that your bank is producing something? They were supposed to hold your money and invest now they produce something - what could this be?
I guess something is wrong - yet nobody is not willing to look at it in a way control theory has it - put some breaks and it will stop swirling out of control - this however prevents them from making another stash of (mostly virtual) money - guess a change will come only if something really drastic happens. I hope I will not be around when it does.
Other than that - it is only 2 billions. German gov threw 150 at HRE only to throw some more and now it is doing the same with Greece - I guess 2 billions is not such a big sum after all.
interestingly till google entered mobile market companies that were there before were in some kind of peace or no-fighting mode. Apple came with its one asshole takes all attitude and see what happens. I could hardly believe they actually sued Nokia - I mean how stupid this IP thing can actually get? Is it not obvious that it actually (in its current form) is a hurdle not a help for the industry? Just wonder - when next well paid report on how good patent trolls are for human kind arrive.
What wonders me is this one sidedness that is associated with this: the A-bomb is so powerful that it will stop all the wars, internet will guarantee freedom for all, robots are evil, nuclear power is good/evil - there is no one side usually. There are different ways humans use things. It may be that the system of growing intelligence first in our heads than in silicon ones is perpetuating itself and will stop only when the energy runs out consuming everything in a process including its middle steps like us also. Who knows. Instead of panic statements like this we should possibly look in the future and try to figure out what we can do with spare time and all these people that used to clean the streets or pick cotton/strawberries etc - send them all to uranium mines will possibly not an option either at some point. Ultimately it is not the machines but humans that will be the reason of our demise.
it is a common mistake to propose only two alternatives i.e. either gov body running everything or pure private sector - you may do things like hiring private enterprises to do the job gov wants to do and do it in a way acceptable for customers as well as businesses. I guess even subsidies could be good in such case as to deliver a letter or parcel to remote area say in Alaska cannot be as cheap as it is in any metropolitan area. I guess hot heads in congress would have to comprehend that but to this they are not able because they are preoccupied with fighting the great enemy of the nation i.e. their president.
it can also chose to let it adjust to changing world but I guess your politicians in US are even worse than ours in Europe and are incapable of changing anything besides increasing subsidies to their own protectorates. US may still be a world power and one of the richest countries in the world but this will not last if you f*k up everything you have and do not allow it to adapt to modern world.
It takes 3 years not to deliver on saturdays????? I mean they are doomed if their organisation is so inflexible. I suppose you can chose to prolong the misery and pay or just stop paying ad let it die all on its own.
this is funny DHL is sorting their parcels automatically and I believe they are profitable as is Deutsche Post. They still missed the online payment services but had enough cash to open Post Bank. They closed almost all offices in Germany and replaced them with 'frenchized' operations, stopped delivery twice a day and on sundays and they hire sub-contractors for wages that are a shame to deliver their stuff but they are profitable./Jacek
Not entirely true - just read all the posts - still there seems to be a consensus that an organisation that is charged with ensuring security has certain responsibility and while we know it is impossible to guarantee that such things never happen you could do something at least and the admins in this authority did not do much which means they are at least partially to blame.
I suppose they can masquerade themselves as a truck or something no need for a cow signature here. This of course is not going to work well with peace loving, human rights & laws of war obeying and conscious militaries of say Burma, NK or Iran to mention the most prominent ones.
But does the small issue of effectiveness actually matter in case of military HW? I mean they just order and all is justified by love for the country i.e. if you express doubts you are a commie and belong in jail or? Well I exaggerate of course but not too much or?
I wonder. Basis for this are the fact that neither I nor nobody I know know anybody who ever actually watched pr0n. Even the s-f magazines like playboy are not read by anybody ever since I stopped buying the stuff 15 years ago and even then I was wondering how could a magazine survive if only one person buys and this not even on regular basis??? If that is so then I wonder why is this so important to have or not.xxx domain???
If they are friends then I speak the language that they do (when they speak with me) but how does that work if I want to address all of them? I would have to produce an output in three different languages or in one that all of them speak - the second is impossible because there does not seem to be a language that all of them speak at once. However I do not have the problem with FB at all as these friends of mine are real. This by the way raises another interesting question. In old speak there were friends and then there were _real_ friends. Now we have FB friends, real world friends and real real world friends (the order of appearance makes a difference and is intentional of course).
but they still are terrible at least for majority of purposes they are so hyped to be used for. There are few uses for which they are good for and this has to be acknowledged but that is it. Unless a major breakthrough in IO is achieved I do not see how they go beyond all the limited entertainment device.
probably not quite true. Neither way has only bad or good sides. The fact that US f.d up is telling. Germany is going the same way too. I think Holland tried to change their system in such where basic coverage is for everyone and everyone living there has to have basic insurance which from what I know is bought from private companies which in turn are obliged by law to accept everybody. On top of this system is private insurance for those who can and want to have an insurance providing a bit more sophisticated services (blue pill and such). Not sure if the system works but it provides basic service for all while keeping relatively free market. I would appreciate if somebody from NL say something about details. Of course maniacs from US will not have it because that is 'communism'. Well possibly this is another sign of decline in education in US. I love how the efforts of not having general solution for the whole nation (communism) result in expensive, ineffective and widespread state run systems that do not provide what is paid for because they try to cut the costs so much..
Well kids dying early and wars distort the picture quite some. I recall my study of church books I did while searching for roots - I found out that 200ya my folks lliving off the farms (not as owners mind me) lived into their 80ties and had kids till they died (with new wives of course). This has changed quite a lot when area got industrialized - quite often folks were brought back home from the factory before even reaching 50yoa. This trend has reversed after the second big one and My mum is almost as old as my grand ma from 200ya. Life and death are more complicated than what they seem to be. Nevertheless I would not swap penicillin for living on the farm back then.
I read a in a German newspaper last week (that is a dead tree form on which somebody printed so called news) that they just cut the division that has a profit margin below median in HP. I read that twice to ensure I did not misread - so if you have two profitable divisions that you have to sell one because it performs worse than the other??? Hmmm
yes indeed. There is plenty of so called business analysts that predict demise of laptops or whatever because what they do not see what keyboard is good for etc. In fact managers of some companies may think the same. It even can be that in the distant (or not so) future we will do away with keyboards and pointing devices as we know it. This all makes the argument quite relevant actually even if actual usage of many types of devices built around PC HW&SW is in separate domains:
that is beyond the point. If you have the money you can use the justice system to intimidate or even destroy whoever you want. Worked wonder so far. I suppose unless some despaired citizen takes justice in his/her own hands (the shotgun sort of) or by a miracle the law production facilities around the globe (US Congress, European parliaments etc) change something to make such actions more difficult nothing will change. Just to be clear: I think that IP is not necessarily a bad thing but I think it went into wrong direction years ago and continues to do so.
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Yes there is a need for labour laws. There are sometimes very intimidating for an employer. Some even say that they prevent creation of jobs. The question what jobs are created if there is no protections at all does not appear important to those that go with this job creation argument. Of course some liberty for employer is needed after all s/he is in besting his own money well at least most of the time. In any case London Hanged is an interesting lecture not only because of brutality needed to get industrial revolution going but also because the violent changes in (also labour) markets is nothing new raise and fall of whole sectors of (British) economy was happening sometimes within a dozen years, sometimes improvement of work conditions was directly followed by demise of whole sectors which were moved to say Holland because of 'better' i.e. less labour protective laws there. All has its pros and cons it seems.
unless OC you are the unlucky bastard that they chose to make a statement. I think also that boxes solutions discussed some posts above is not as good as it looks like. I think baseball bat should be more appropriate - with number of friends these good fellows are making per day police should be in big trouble checking all suspects...
Monkey is a monkey and it does not depend on whether you are a coding monkey or call center monkey. The cash and required skills may differ but I would not bet your career on actually working - this is wrong approach. Any job you do however is going to teach you something sometimes in very painful ways. These teachings called also lessons in life may allow you to get a distance and broader perspective. With some luck you either start your own business, become a well paid consultant (there are also badly paid consultants - in EU the Commission took care to protect you from becoming any money by introducing rules and regulations that actually ban consulting altogether unless you work for banks or for them but that is another story) or start working for a huge, google like corporation where you can step up the said career path. In any case jump jobs every few years. It is the same as with girls or broader: partners unless you sleep around to see what it looks like on the meat market you are not going to get a good deal. Good luck with your quest.
liquidity and equalizing the prices across different exchanges are admittedly benefits of arbitrage. Yet doing it in millisecond is not only pointless but benefits only some of the agents in the trade. Then again speeding up the networks is a good thing only this purpose is at least doubtful. For the purpose of arbitrage I think trading every minute is good enough. Real world and real economy is not changing that fast at least we humans do not perceive it so. Already the fact that we talk about real economy and the rest (i.e finance world) is telling.
It seems we tackled the perverted or just promiscuous priests issue pretty well and church in some areas is rather ruined or close to it. But the issue of perverted dogs has somehow escaped public attention - lockem up those pervert dogs!!!
Possibly it depends on the (size of) genitals too?
Other than that - it is only 2 billions. German gov threw 150 at HRE only to throw some more and now it is doing the same with Greece - I guess 2 billions is not such a big sum after all.
interestingly till google entered mobile market companies that were there before were in some kind of peace or no-fighting mode. Apple came with its one asshole takes all attitude and see what happens. I could hardly believe they actually sued Nokia - I mean how stupid this IP thing can actually get? Is it not obvious that it actually (in its current form) is a hurdle not a help for the industry? Just wonder - when next well paid report on how good patent trolls are for human kind arrive.
Well using this logic you could also say that just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. There is a problem with this sort of thinking even if to some extent replacement of humans in workplaces is a fact.
What wonders me is this one sidedness that is associated with this: the A-bomb is so powerful that it will stop all the wars, internet will guarantee freedom for all, robots are evil, nuclear power is good/evil - there is no one side usually. There are different ways humans use things. It may be that the system of growing intelligence first in our heads than in silicon ones is perpetuating itself and will stop only when the energy runs out consuming everything in a process including its middle steps like us also. Who knows. Instead of panic statements like this we should possibly look in the future and try to figure out what we can do with spare time and all these people that used to clean the streets or pick cotton/strawberries etc - send them all to uranium mines will possibly not an option either at some point. Ultimately it is not the machines but humans that will be the reason of our demise.
it is a common mistake to propose only two alternatives i.e. either gov body running everything or pure private sector - you may do things like hiring private enterprises to do the job gov wants to do and do it in a way acceptable for customers as well as businesses. I guess even subsidies could be good in such case as to deliver a letter or parcel to remote area say in Alaska cannot be as cheap as it is in any metropolitan area. I guess hot heads in congress would have to comprehend that but to this they are not able because they are preoccupied with fighting the great enemy of the nation i.e. their president.
it can also chose to let it adjust to changing world but I guess your politicians in US are even worse than ours in Europe and are incapable of changing anything besides increasing subsidies to their own protectorates. US may still be a world power and one of the richest countries in the world but this will not last if you f*k up everything you have and do not allow it to adapt to modern world.
It takes 3 years not to deliver on saturdays????? I mean they are doomed if their organisation is so inflexible. I suppose you can chose to prolong the misery and pay or just stop paying ad let it die all on its own.
this is funny DHL is sorting their parcels automatically and I believe they are profitable as is Deutsche Post. They still missed the online payment services but had enough cash to open Post Bank. They closed almost all offices in Germany and replaced them with 'frenchized' operations, stopped delivery twice a day and on sundays and they hire sub-contractors for wages that are a shame to deliver their stuff but they are profitable. /Jacek
Not entirely true - just read all the posts - still there seems to be a consensus that an organisation that is charged with ensuring security has certain responsibility and while we know it is impossible to guarantee that such things never happen you could do something at least and the admins in this authority did not do much which means they are at least partially to blame.
But does the small issue of effectiveness actually matter in case of military HW? I mean they just order and all is justified by love for the country i.e. if you express doubts you are a commie and belong in jail or? Well I exaggerate of course but not too much or?
I wonder. Basis for this are the fact that neither I nor nobody I know know anybody who ever actually watched pr0n. Even the s-f magazines like playboy are not read by anybody ever since I stopped buying the stuff 15 years ago and even then I was wondering how could a magazine survive if only one person buys and this not even on regular basis??? If that is so then I wonder why is this so important to have or not .xxx domain???
If they are friends then I speak the language that they do (when they speak with me) but how does that work if I want to address all of them? I would have to produce an output in three different languages or in one that all of them speak - the second is impossible because there does not seem to be a language that all of them speak at once. However I do not have the problem with FB at all as these friends of mine are real. This by the way raises another interesting question. In old speak there were friends and then there were _real_ friends. Now we have FB friends, real world friends and real real world friends (the order of appearance makes a difference and is intentional of course).
but they still are terrible at least for majority of purposes they are so hyped to be used for. There are few uses for which they are good for and this has to be acknowledged but that is it. Unless a major breakthrough in IO is achieved I do not see how they go beyond all the limited entertainment device.
probably not quite true. Neither way has only bad or good sides. The fact that US f.d up is telling. Germany is going the same way too. I think Holland tried to change their system in such where basic coverage is for everyone and everyone living there has to have basic insurance which from what I know is bought from private companies which in turn are obliged by law to accept everybody. On top of this system is private insurance for those who can and want to have an insurance providing a bit more sophisticated services (blue pill and such). Not sure if the system works but it provides basic service for all while keeping relatively free market. I would appreciate if somebody from NL say something about details. Of course maniacs from US will not have it because that is 'communism'. Well possibly this is another sign of decline in education in US. I love how the efforts of not having general solution for the whole nation (communism) result in expensive, ineffective and widespread state run systems that do not provide what is paid for because they try to cut the costs so much..
Well kids dying early and wars distort the picture quite some. I recall my study of church books I did while searching for roots - I found out that 200ya my folks lliving off the farms (not as owners mind me) lived into their 80ties and had kids till they died (with new wives of course). This has changed quite a lot when area got industrialized - quite often folks were brought back home from the factory before even reaching 50yoa. This trend has reversed after the second big one and My mum is almost as old as my grand ma from 200ya. Life and death are more complicated than what they seem to be. Nevertheless I would not swap penicillin for living on the farm back then.
I read a in a German newspaper last week (that is a dead tree form on which somebody printed so called news) that they just cut the division that has a profit margin below median in HP. I read that twice to ensure I did not misread - so if you have two profitable divisions that you have to sell one because it performs worse than the other??? Hmmm
that is beyond the point. If you have the money you can use the justice system to intimidate or even destroy whoever you want. Worked wonder so far. I suppose unless some despaired citizen takes justice in his/her own hands (the shotgun sort of) or by a miracle the law production facilities around the globe (US Congress, European parliaments etc) change something to make such actions more difficult nothing will change. Just to be clear: I think that IP is not necessarily a bad thing but I think it went into wrong direction years ago and continues to do so.