How can Groupon lose $81 million every three months and still be in business? Where is the money coming from to pay the bills?
I started a business a year ago and have been profitable, and grown consistently, every month. And yet, not a single bank will talk to me about a loan to expand.
I guess I need to lose some big money before they'll talk to me...
Your computers and other electronic devices can be confiscated without warrants or your "permission" within 100 miles of the U.S. border without cause or suspicion because you have no right to privacy, and the contents of your phone can be examined by a police officer during a traffic stop, but their computers are private and protected by people with guns?
Right. Got it.
In the past, people would never have tolerated this. They'd have risen up against it and the evil bastards who propagated it.
Now, we're just weak little serfs in the new feudalism.
#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on earth.
#2 The United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.
#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.
#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.
#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.
#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far.
#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world.
#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.
#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world.
#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe. Eighty nine percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world.
#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year. Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976.
#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does. In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.
#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does.
#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world.
#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse. Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second.
Anyone else think the original post was written by "the writer," who is searching for some help with a story?
It reads like it was written by a woman and there is that troubling character development -- a "professional" writer, "everyone who knows her loves her" stuff.
If it's a real post, I think we all know that nothing says "I love you" more than having the guy whacked.;-)
"There is a natural urge to share the things you care about deeply." Who says? Do you have any proof of this natural urge?
"Its a shame, especially since political discourse is so very essential to a healthy society." Who says? Do you have any proof of this? The U.S. is obsessed with political discourse to the point of being a dysfunctional society.
I'm an ex-pat who's lived outside the U.S. for twenty years (this year). It's been fascinating to watch the transformation of America from a distance over the past decade.
It's fascinating, like watching a car crash in slow motion is fascinating.
I was working on contract with the dominant Japanese phone manufacturer that supplied NTT DoCoMo. The same concept (pipe dream) was discussed then and we all knew that simultaneous translation of Japanese (insert language) would be here about the same time we all get our flying cars.
Anyone who speaks Japanese knows the Grand Canyon-esque gap in context and meaning between spoken, informal Japanese and slang and idiom-ridden English.
You are leaping to some wrong conclusions. I do not live in the U.S. Apple did indeed force me to update. My iPads froze and the only function available was to download the iOS upgrade. I had no choice.
I have used Apple and Windows products for over 20 years. I liked my Apple Macbook and use iPads in one of my businesses. We deliver using the iPad maps app and maintained a history using the previous app.
Imagine losing all that data? That's what Apple did to me with this unannounced change. They put their own selfish agenda above their customers. They could have easily brought back the old app.
Bastards. I'm tired of both Apple and Windows forcing me to use devices and applications only the way they decide I should use them.
Give the best workers promotions and raises so they become the bosses of the slackers. Fire the slackers and hire non-slackers.
I know that seems mean and insensitive to Americans today, but it works in my business. I'm running a business, not a group therapy hug-a-thon.
America is headed into an abyss of economic pain next year and there will be plenty of people getting laid off. There will be far more people than jobs, so the slackers better get their heads out of their asses, because they're going to be out on their asses soon.
I bought iPads for my business mainly to use the maps feature for home delivery of our products. All of my data saved for customers is gone!.
The new maps are incomplete and utter crap. I'm in Japan and in Japan, we read and write Japanese. The new maps are in written using western alphabet and not kanji! Only an idiot company would piss off millions of (soon-to-be-previous) customers like this. Half of the countries on the planet now have no working maps function.
I've gone from being an Apple fan, who bought Apple for 20 years, to someone who will never, EVER, buy another Apple product.
There is a system in Japan where we get a flash of information on TV even before we feel a strong earthquake. I had a few seconds to brace before many of the hundreds of aftershocks after the large 9 Magnitude quake last March 11. Obviously, the warning time depends on how far you are from the epicenter.
It's ironic that almost the exact same percentage of Americans sponge off, uh, work for the government or are paid as a contractor or supplier to the government.
Unfortunately, the stupidity actually is real, painful, intense and relentless. It's boundless, infinite and beyond the realm of understanding. It burns.
And the US has used Echelon for industrial espionage against even its "allies" for 30 years.
U.S. government agencies pass wiretapped and intercepted information to American companies all the time. Trade secrets of non-U.S. energy companies have been passed to American companies, cell phone technology, labor negotiation strategies of non-U.S. companies with factories in the U.S. and intellectual property has been stolen and transferred for decades.
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The bank name is Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ...
Ironically, Mitsubishi will probably be building and selling wind turbines as part of this deal.
There's nothing wrong with, though.
People everywhere, for all time, have been hoodwinked, lied to, maimed, killed and manipulated to murder others by "leaders" and politicians.
You do not need leaders. You need some liberty and freedom from "leaders."
But, I'm afraid humans will never be free from the tyranny of leaders.
Here is what's wrong with business today.
How can Groupon lose $81 million every three months and still be in business? Where is the money coming from to pay the bills?
I started a business a year ago and have been profitable, and grown consistently, every month. And yet, not a single bank will talk to me about a loan to expand.
I guess I need to lose some big money before they'll talk to me...
Your computers and other electronic devices can be confiscated without warrants or your "permission" within 100 miles of the U.S. border without cause or suspicion because you have no right to privacy, and the contents of your phone can be examined by a police officer during a traffic stop, but their computers are private and protected by people with guns?
Right. Got it.
In the past, people would never have tolerated this. They'd have risen up against it and the evil bastards who propagated it.
Now, we're just weak little serfs in the new feudalism.
The U.S. government has 'em beat -- they've had the TV, newspaper and movie industries in their back pocket for a generation.
#1 The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest total prison population on earth.
#2 The United States has the highest percentage of obese people in the world.
#3 The United States has the highest divorce rate on the globe by a wide margin.
#4 The United States is tied with the U.K. for the most hours of television watched per person each week.
#5 The United States has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.
#6 There are more car thefts in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world by far.
#7 There are more reported rapes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#8 There are more reported murders in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#9 There are more total crimes in the United States each year than anywhere else in the world.
#10 The United States also has more police officers than anywhere else in the world.
#11 The United States spends much more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.
#12 The United States has more people on pharmaceutical drugs than any other country on the planet.
#13 The percentage of women taking antidepressants in America is higher than in any other country in the world.
#14 Americans have more student loan debt than anyone else in the world.
#15 More pornography is created in the United States than anywhere else on the entire globe. Eighty nine percent is made in the U.S.A. and only 11 percent is made in the rest of the world.
#16 The United States has the largest trade deficit in the world every single year. Between December 2000 and December 2010, the United States ran a total trade deficit of 6.1 trillion dollars with the rest of the world, and the U.S. has had a negative trade balance every single year since 1976.
#17 The United States spends 7 times more on the military than any other nation on the planet does. In fact, U.S. military spending is greater than the military spending of China, Russia, Japan, India, and the rest of NATO combined.
#18 The United States has far more foreign military bases than any other country does.
#19 The United States has the most complicated tax system in the entire world.
#20 The U.S. has accumulated the biggest national debt that the world has ever seen and it is rapidly getting worse. Right now, U.S. government debt is expanding at a rate of $40,000 per second.
Anyone else think the original post was written by "the writer," who is searching for some help with a story?
It reads like it was written by a woman and there is that troubling character development -- a "professional" writer, "everyone who knows her loves her" stuff.
If it's a real post, I think we all know that nothing says "I love you" more than having the guy whacked. ;-)
confiscate your laptop like the U.S. does at the border.
If the quality is anything like the rest of the crap being made in the USA now, you better stay away from those models.
No one is "winning" the battle against cancer in general.
The cancer rate is increasing, not decreasing, despite all of the money spent and gone over the past 50 years.
Were killing ourselves by consumption and exposure to unnatural and unnecessary chemicals produced by a highly profitable chemical cartel.
Look, even the mammogram industry (doctors, hospitals and manufacturers) has programed the public with the myth that mammograms saves lives.
After ten years of study, it's been shown to not be true.
More people are diagnosed, but no more people die.
Mammograms are painful and a waste of time and money in many cases, but the almighty dollar is mightier than the truth.
And breast cancer rates keep going up, no matter how many ribbons people wear and money they give.
"There is a natural urge to share the things you care about deeply."
Who says? Do you have any proof of this natural urge?
"Its a shame, especially since political discourse is so very essential to a healthy society."
Who says? Do you have any proof of this? The U.S. is obsessed with political discourse to the point of being a dysfunctional society.
I'm an ex-pat who's lived outside the U.S. for twenty years (this year). It's been fascinating to watch the transformation of America from a distance over the past decade.
It's fascinating, like watching a car crash in slow motion is fascinating.
I was working on contract with the dominant Japanese phone manufacturer that supplied NTT DoCoMo. The same concept (pipe dream) was discussed then and we all knew that simultaneous translation of Japanese (insert language) would be here about the same time we all get our flying cars.
Anyone who speaks Japanese knows the Grand Canyon-esque gap in context and meaning between spoken, informal Japanese and slang and idiom-ridden English.
You are leaping to some wrong conclusions.
I do not live in the U.S.
Apple did indeed force me to update.
My iPads froze and the only function available was to download the iOS upgrade.
I had no choice.
I'm in Japan and the new Apple maps does not support addresses in Japan. There is no way to use any bookmarked locations with the new app.
I have used Apple and Windows products for over 20 years. I liked my Apple Macbook and use iPads in one of my businesses. We deliver using the iPad maps app and maintained a history using the previous app.
Imagine losing all that data? That's what Apple did to me with this unannounced change. They put their own selfish agenda above their customers. They could have easily brought back the old app.
Bastards. I'm tired of both Apple and Windows forcing me to use devices and applications only the way they decide I should use them.
How about calling them what they are: corn syrupy drinks?
Give the best workers promotions and raises so they become the bosses of the slackers. Fire the slackers and hire non-slackers.
I know that seems mean and insensitive to Americans today, but it works in my business. I'm running a business, not a group therapy hug-a-thon.
America is headed into an abyss of economic pain next year and there will be plenty of people getting laid off. There will be far more people than jobs, so the slackers better get their heads out of their asses, because they're going to be out on their asses soon.
And I'm one of them.
I bought iPads for my business mainly to use the maps feature for home delivery of our products. All of my data saved for customers is gone!.
The new maps are incomplete and utter crap. I'm in Japan and in Japan, we read and write Japanese. The new maps are in written using western alphabet and not kanji! Only an idiot company would piss off millions of (soon-to-be-previous) customers like this. Half of the countries on the planet now have no working maps function.
I've gone from being an Apple fan, who bought Apple for 20 years, to someone who will never, EVER, buy another Apple product.
There is a system in Japan where we get a flash of information on TV even before we feel a strong earthquake. I had a few seconds to brace before many of the hundreds of aftershocks after the large 9 Magnitude quake last March 11. Obviously, the warning time depends on how far you are from the epicenter.
"If you don't stop stalking and harassing me, I'm calling the police!"
"We are the police."
It's ironic that almost the exact same percentage of Americans sponge off, uh, work for the government or are paid as a contractor or supplier to the government.
Unfortunately, the stupidity actually is real, painful, intense and relentless. It's boundless, infinite and beyond the realm of understanding. It burns.
And the US has used Echelon for industrial espionage against even its "allies" for 30 years.
U.S. government agencies pass wiretapped and intercepted information to American companies all the time. Trade secrets of non-U.S. energy companies have been passed to American companies, cell phone technology, labor negotiation strategies of non-U.S. companies with factories in the U.S. and intellectual property has been stolen and transferred for decades.
is people. Digg is crap because most people who post are idiots.
There needs to be a grown-up table, and the kids need to sit in the kitchen and be seen and not heard (from), just like the old days. :)