If they're not a highly-valued (ie speculative) startup, or one with a CLEAR PATH TO PROFIT, why the fuck would/should anyone be investing in them?
It is called the "the greater fool theory". It is investing in a venture even after knowing it has no real prospects, investing in ponzi schemes knowing well it is a ponzi scheme etc. Basic idea is, "yes it is a scam. I know it is a scam. I might be a fool to invest in this thing, but, I will flip the investment to some greater fool before the whole thing comes crashing down."
It is the taxes paid by hedonistic godless coastal states that keeps the fly over country afloat. The only steady jobs there are the ones funded by the federal government. Social security forms 30% of the purchasing power of those states.
All those hedonistic godless people are showered with such high incomes, while the God fearing folks in the fly over country are getting very low wages. Why, God! Why are you testing your faithful believers so much?
21% growth rate? Per annum? Is it really a big deal? When the first baby is born the family is growing at a dizzying rate of 50% per annum. Adding up all the families growing at this rate, I am sure the world population is going to exceed three quadrillion by the end of next quarter.
It is the dream of every ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers.
They completely killed the personal aviation industry with liability lawsuits. The precedents set are like, "the manufacturer is liable even if there was no way they could have known such an issue could exist when the flying machine was manufactured."
So the relatives first guy to die in this will become millionaires. The sugar daddy vulture capitalists will flee.
67% is such a large portion, people should be shocked that it is this high instead of being disappointed or dismissive.
Discount small children, very old people with failing eye sight and arthritic fingers, this is probably as large as it gets. In USA voter turn out struggles to reach 67% and cracks 60% only in presidential elections.
I am very suspicious of the angles chosen in the video and the lack of visual clues to indicate true scale. Not sure what the payload was for this version. And already it has 30 feet wingspan. I doubt it is lifting anything more than the "tesla" like battery.
Letting one corporate giant rifle through your personal email is bad enough. Letting two of them? Why? "I have a hole in my head. Let me improve it by drilling another hole in the head"!!!! How can that be an improvement?
My nephew was accused of attempting to hack into the school system to visit websites in the school's black list. This boy has unlimited access data plan in his cell phone and there is no real reason to hack into school wifi to reach any site. But the admin adamantly claims he had "logs" tying his mac address to attempts to bypass security. This boy asked, "why would I? I can turn on local hot spot and connect to my cell phone. Why would I even bother hacking through your system?". Admin got flustered and talked darkly about insane things teenagers do and insisted on one day suspension. His dad decided not to escalate the issue, but warned the admin, if the same accusation happens again, he will move the courts and subpoena his "logs". Told him to make sure he preserves all logs and data if he ever dares to accuse his son of any malfeasance. The admin clearly did not expect that level of push back. Dad did his PhD in asynchronous transfer mode protocols and is a top researcher for Bell labs, (in whatever name it survives today. )
You it really sucks, when you dedicate your entire life to being the best tyrant in history and then your lifetime of achievement degenerate into punch lines and jokes because of these fan subtitles. Just 10 years ago search for Hitler, you would get millions of hits about genocide and brilliant military victories and tragic losses. He became the definitive last word in any argument , as recognized by the noted historian Godwin.
Then these fan subtitlers came in. Every Tom Dick and Harry had a Downfall spoof on the net. Half the hits for "Hitler" in the net are for Downfall spoof. From the most hated man in history to most laughed at man in History in mere six years!
Let this be a warning to you all. All your great work and achievements will be nullified and sullied by these sub titlers. Now Hitler can rest easy. His place in history is made secure once more.
All the people who used shout about onerous government regulations that kills jobs and deprives us of liberty will keep quiet now. They will pipe up only when people talk about doing something about fraud.
It is quite easy to steal small amounts of money from a large number of people. Most people will not pursue any serious legal action.
This is a limited liability company. All profits and assets will flow one way to the owners, all liability will stop with the entity that goes bankrupt. But corporations are people my friend. And the courts are ruling corporations have free speech rights, and have ruled spending money is speech, they also have free will, conscience and religious liberty, according to our courts.
It takes two real people and nine months to make a fresh citizen, and just a filing fee to create a corporate citizen. Real citizens can not dodge criminal liabilities of their actions, corporate citizens can. They are only assessed civil damages at best.
These corporations play one party against another and are going scot free. (scot was a kind of tax in old England).
Corporations are a great threat to our liberties. People who rail about and aware of the threat government power poses to our liberties are silent about the threat posed by corporate power.
Skype was popular among people who wanted to save international calling rates, who were willing to put up with bad quality to save money. This company would never have made money. The moment they charge anything more than 5$ a year, its subscribers would flee to other services. There is no real switching costs and all its users and cheapstakes. Selling it as a business solution where even the rake rate of international calls (like 2$ per minute) is a small fraction of the hourly rate of the people on the conference call is just plain dumb.
With unlimited voice and text in cell phones for domestic calls and dirt cheap land lines, it boggles my mind our company decided to "save" costs by moving to skype. Our company had been using webex with reasonable levels of robustness, reliability and quality for quite some time. Then some ex Microsoft C?O showed up and suddenly they decided to "cut costs" by moving from Webex to Skype for all our teleconferencing needs.
There are so many problems, even people who swear by Microsoft and are fans of that company are put off by it. Randomly drops calls, suddenly drops the microphone, can not find the microphone... Even the very first "intro to skype" was a disaster, it died half way through... We are falling back to the free Google hangouts,.
Guys, this is my backyard. My former home state had been ruled by film actors/actresses/script writers ( MGR Jaylalitha Karunanidhi Annadurai ) who played do-gooder heros. The current crop of politicians in my home state is slimier than anything the world has ever seen. If the slime from the stupid frogs kills rhinoviruses, the slime from the current politicians would even kill HIV!!!! Just saying....
Why wouldn't cable set top boxes and roku like media players not collect such data? The incentives are enormous. All they need some legal fig leaf. Credit card companies have been consolidating spending habits. Target famously detected the pregnancy of a girl unbeknownst to her parents.
Think like a criminal. Given the network latencies it is not going to be precise enough to guide a missile to an airliner. Still it is a good idea to obfuscate and add time delays if they even make this data public. Hindukush and Himalayan ranges have peaks over FL200 even FL250. Everest is peaking at FL280. A small party of terrorists could lug short range heat seeking missiles (10000 feet vertical, and 5 mile horizontal range) and wait to ambush in the mountains.
This data need not be public. Flight aware shows the squawks from all plane transponders on your cell phone. Not sure how real time that data is.
I just got the results of this years lottery. My MS Mech UT Austin, and MS CompSci CalTech candidates did not make it. Makes me furious that they are going to bring in candidates with paper from diploma mills from my home state in India, while these good candidates are denied visa.
Our company makes very sincere effort to recruit Americans and comply with the laws in spirit as well as letter. We pay way above median wage for our areas. We are hard core engineering software company, not IT. I have not seen applicants with degrees from Indian Institutes of Technology in the last 10 years. It has simply dried up. IITians now a days get fantastic jobs in India, or they go do MBA and come to USA to do MBA and get jobs in top Wall Street firms and top 4 consultancy companies.
I do see applicants with degrees from next rung in India, NITs and good engineering colleges with Masters from USA.
The only change they really need to make to the H1B program is to state that degrees from accredited US universities will be given first preference. Degrees from diploma mills from India should not count. That would be enough to make sure these companies like TCS, Cogniscent, Wipro, Infosys and the lesser known body shoppers like R-systems, UBICS, Bharat Desai's companies, Sunil Wadhwani's companies etc stop gaming our laws.
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If they're not a highly-valued (ie speculative) startup, or one with a CLEAR PATH TO PROFIT, why the fuck would/should anyone be investing in them?
It is called the "the greater fool theory". It is investing in a venture even after knowing it has no real prospects, investing in ponzi schemes knowing well it is a ponzi scheme etc. Basic idea is, "yes it is a scam. I know it is a scam. I might be a fool to invest in this thing, but, I will flip the investment to some greater fool before the whole thing comes crashing down."
It is the taxes paid by hedonistic godless coastal states that keeps the fly over country afloat. The only steady jobs there are the ones funded by the federal government. Social security forms 30% of the purchasing power of those states.
All those hedonistic godless people are showered with such high incomes, while the God fearing folks in the fly over country are getting very low wages. Why, God! Why are you testing your faithful believers so much?
21% growth rate? Per annum? Is it really a big deal? When the first baby is born the family is growing at a dizzying rate of 50% per annum. Adding up all the families growing at this rate, I am sure the world population is going to exceed three quadrillion by the end of next quarter.
They completely killed the personal aviation industry with liability lawsuits. The precedents set are like, "the manufacturer is liable even if there was no way they could have known such an issue could exist when the flying machine was manufactured."
So the relatives first guy to die in this will become millionaires. The sugar daddy vulture capitalists will flee.
Discount small children, very old people with failing eye sight and arthritic fingers, this is probably as large as it gets. In USA voter turn out struggles to reach 67% and cracks 60% only in presidential elections.
Knowing wall street firms, they will be kind to their fellow criminals and use him to hack their rival firms, one would think.
All the plots look the same. May be if they had plotted emacs vs vi may be the curves will fight with one another....
I am very suspicious of the angles chosen in the video and the lack of visual clues to indicate true scale. Not sure what the payload was for this version. And already it has 30 feet wingspan. I doubt it is lifting anything more than the "tesla" like battery.
Letting one corporate giant rifle through your personal email is bad enough. Letting two of them? Why? "I have a hole in my head. Let me improve it by drilling another hole in the head"!!!! How can that be an improvement?
Remember what a great man said sometime back. "Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice, .. no you can't fool me."
My nephew was accused of attempting to hack into the school system to visit websites in the school's black list. This boy has unlimited access data plan in his cell phone and there is no real reason to hack into school wifi to reach any site. But the admin adamantly claims he had "logs" tying his mac address to attempts to bypass security. This boy asked, "why would I? I can turn on local hot spot and connect to my cell phone. Why would I even bother hacking through your system?". Admin got flustered and talked darkly about insane things teenagers do and insisted on one day suspension. His dad decided not to escalate the issue, but warned the admin, if the same accusation happens again, he will move the courts and subpoena his "logs". Told him to make sure he preserves all logs and data if he ever dares to accuse his son of any malfeasance. The admin clearly did not expect that level of push back. Dad did his PhD in asynchronous transfer mode protocols and is a top researcher for Bell labs, (in whatever name it survives today. )
Post is not complete without a link to a downfall spoof! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then these fan subtitlers came in. Every Tom Dick and Harry had a Downfall spoof on the net. Half the hits for "Hitler" in the net are for Downfall spoof. From the most hated man in history to most laughed at man in History in mere six years!
Let this be a warning to you all. All your great work and achievements will be nullified and sullied by these sub titlers. Now Hitler can rest easy. His place in history is made secure once more.
If only the editors read at least the head lines of stories and had enough RAM in their brain to remember if for 24 hours ....
It is quite easy to steal small amounts of money from a large number of people. Most people will not pursue any serious legal action.
This is a limited liability company. All profits and assets will flow one way to the owners, all liability will stop with the entity that goes bankrupt. But corporations are people my friend. And the courts are ruling corporations have free speech rights, and have ruled spending money is speech, they also have free will, conscience and religious liberty, according to our courts.
It takes two real people and nine months to make a fresh citizen, and just a filing fee to create a corporate citizen. Real citizens can not dodge criminal liabilities of their actions, corporate citizens can. They are only assessed civil damages at best.
These corporations play one party against another and are going scot free. (scot was a kind of tax in old England).
Corporations are a great threat to our liberties. People who rail about and aware of the threat government power poses to our liberties are silent about the threat posed by corporate power.
The Incas just had strings. The theory was entirely modern,
With unlimited voice and text in cell phones for domestic calls and dirt cheap land lines, it boggles my mind our company decided to "save" costs by moving to skype. Our company had been using webex with reasonable levels of robustness, reliability and quality for quite some time. Then some ex Microsoft C?O showed up and suddenly they decided to "cut costs" by moving from Webex to Skype for all our teleconferencing needs.
There are so many problems, even people who swear by Microsoft and are fans of that company are put off by it. Randomly drops calls, suddenly drops the microphone, can not find the microphone ... Even the very first "intro to skype" was a disaster, it died half way through... We are falling back to the free Google hangouts,.
Guys, this is my backyard. My former home state had been ruled by film actors/actresses/script writers ( MGR Jaylalitha Karunanidhi Annadurai ) who played do-gooder heros. The current crop of politicians in my home state is slimier than anything the world has ever seen. If the slime from the stupid frogs kills rhinoviruses, the slime from the current politicians would even kill HIV!!!! Just saying ....
Why wouldn't cable set top boxes and roku like media players not collect such data? The incentives are enormous. All they need some legal fig leaf. Credit card companies have been consolidating spending habits. Target famously detected the pregnancy of a girl unbeknownst to her parents.
Or the name has already been taken?
PhD s can apply for green card directly. No need for H1B.
This data need not be public. Flight aware shows the squawks from all plane transponders on your cell phone. Not sure how real time that data is.
I found your picture Not so anonymous now. But still a coward, I am sure.
Our company makes very sincere effort to recruit Americans and comply with the laws in spirit as well as letter. We pay way above median wage for our areas. We are hard core engineering software company, not IT. I have not seen applicants with degrees from Indian Institutes of Technology in the last 10 years. It has simply dried up. IITians now a days get fantastic jobs in India, or they go do MBA and come to USA to do MBA and get jobs in top Wall Street firms and top 4 consultancy companies.
I do see applicants with degrees from next rung in India, NITs and good engineering colleges with Masters from USA.
The only change they really need to make to the H1B program is to state that degrees from accredited US universities will be given first preference. Degrees from diploma mills from India should not count. That would be enough to make sure these companies like TCS, Cogniscent, Wipro, Infosys and the lesser known body shoppers like R-systems, UBICS, Bharat Desai's companies, Sunil Wadhwani's companies etc stop gaming our laws.
(my background: IIT, IISc, UT, F1, H1B, Green Card, Citizen now.)