The president of Foxconn was asked about this in 2010; why not manufacture in the US using automation? He said, "I worry America has too many lawyers. I don’t want to spend time having people sue me every day.” Labor costs aren't the only concern; the US is a regulatory and political mine field filled with lavishly funded pressure groups that impose huge costs on industrial investment.
Pointing this out invariably provokes the knee-jerk Sierra club trained response; "so you think the filthy pig-dog capitalists should be allow to pollute everything right?" This is done using some device manufactured in China because the writer couldn't afford to purchase a machine manufactured under the regulator regime he insists on for his own country. So we shit up Asia instead and feather our own regulatory nest.
The actual message is here. The politician mentioned in the story is this guy.
The politician, Salim Mehajer, is really something. Sort of an Australian Donald Trump. He runs people over with his super car, threatens people, violates election laws and then gets himself acquitted or wrist-slapped for all of it in court. The editor wanted to elaborate on details of this stuff in Salim Mehajer's Wikipedia page and the powers-that-be blocked him. Seems like the editor was trying to do the equivalent of investigative reporting, to the degree that it amounted to original research and detail excessive for a Wikipedia page.
just download the.MP3 s to your phone and listen to the selection of music that you want
Uncoil your back. Lift your head. Try to focus your eyes on something beyond your front paws, if you still can. There is a lot more going on in the world than just listening to recorded music. FYI.
AM is a no-go; antenna problems. They do news, talk and sports on FM too, just so you know.
The breakfast menu is a fine analogy and has the immense benefit of being automatically familiar to everyone in the Western world. I can easily imagine someone with sufficient social skills successfully conveying the concept of an API using a restaurant menu analogy. I think the real problem is the choice of using these celebrity geeks, all of whom appear to be suffering various degrees of Aspergers. They can't explain things to `normals' whether they use analogies or not.
It was recycled in the US. Your criticism of the story isn't misplaced; the writers are careful not to point out that 2/3's of the e-waste they traced was recycled or disposed of by domestic recyclers. The story claims 200 items were tracked. 65 ended up in various third world hellholes. All of it "went through U.S. recyclers," so it's reasonable to conclude the other 135 items did not get exported. Omitting this is deliberate; most readers are left believing all of our e-waste is exported and polluting the world without the least care. Creating outrage at ebil planet wrecking 'murcia is job one at PBS et. al.
Yeah, but they did this one right. They broke the story but held back evidence; just enough to make headlines but leave room for plausible denials. Naturally Facebook categorically denied everything. Boom; leaked editorial guidelines published; oh look, editors everywhere. "Blacklists." "Injection."
It will be interesting to see their response to the Senate. Particularly if they maintain records of what got blacklisted and injected.
And there has never been as much love for the `rights' of private corporations — or Fakebook in particular — on Slashdot. Watching you people scatter in the light is really amazing.
So does google. Every day all the time. No one is surprised.
Honestly, we're past this. Facebook et al. provide the romper room world view preferred by the low information crowd and and the rest of us found suitable alternatives long ago.
That's great. Someone has the temerity to point out obvious hypocrisy and the fanbois respond by trying to discredit the whole concept of hypocrisy. Brilliant.
Today has me thinking back to January when the GOP power brokers started to feel the heat. This video leaked; an establishment oligarch ranting about `our party.'
Not any more pal.
The dems had their chance with Bernie, but they did exactly what you'd expect people who own the status quo to do; coronate a status qou candidate. Trump supporters have been marginalized their entire lives and they are past caring; they know there are only a few years left before the statists criminalize them for effectively everything they have, do, say or believe. So the recycled stump speech lines Cruz had been trained to recite whenever someone pointed a camera at him did not play.
Today has me thinking about the Republican party gentry of Colorado and Wyoming: @cologop "We did it. #NeverTrump." How's that investigation going, boys? Figure out who `hacked' your twitter feed?
Don't be naive. The structure(s) would be hollow. The picture of the pretty green mountain in the story is just to keep you from freaking out too much; in reality it would be a giant rebar and concrete shell, built by disposable immigrant labor (like everything else in UAE) and unburdened by any OSHA/NLRB/EEOC/EPA friction. The global climate cabal will say nothing at all because they never trouble themselves with nations that are not prone to tolerating wealth transfer schemes.
The lawyer/engineer ratio at the FCC — as at every other Federal agency — has shifted and the number of field agents actually capable of investigating is now very small. The FCC has been shutting down field offices for years and focusing the money on Washington staff.
what is the cost to me for society to contain individuals who don't have basic needs met?...... No city is happy with homeless people pissing in the streets, criminals who burgle or engage in other crimes
Right there you're implying outcomes that rational people have every reason to dismiss as nonsense. The most violent nation in the world today that isn't actually fighting a war is post revolution socialist Venezuela. It is a criminal hellhole, festooned with blood spattered signs declaring guns illegal. To date the only solution we've found for the criminality and general corruption that emerges in these nightmare societies is extreme coercion. Thus North Korea; no commercial billboards, few cars, obesity cured, low energy use, cooperative domestic politics, free healthcare... and they owe it all to their GULAGs and the endemic fear they provide.
Sam Altman's proposal is as fundamentally flawed as every other expression of these bad ideas we've ever seen. The best you can say for him is that he's doing no worse than making the same naive mistake as every other well meaning fool before him; assuming real people are going to behave like the fictional model citizen he cultivates inside his head. Any real society the has 90% of it's members subsisting on bennies and hedonism while the other 10% create all the value will inevitably devolve into yet another failed state and write yet another chapter in the book of atrocities. Even if it were somehow possible to govern such a world without GULAGs it would be indistinguishable from an idiocracy.
VW fanbois grasp at any explanation to excuse the worlds largest car manufacturer for their fraud. The same mentality that enables corporate staff to rummage around until they find some "test" software that "works" with zero curiosity about why is exactly how banks and regulators hand-waved fraud in the mortgage industry as long as the right fairness in lending goals were achieved. But the former are great folks that made a "mistake" and the latter are criminal capitalist pig dogs.
It's amusing watching hypocrites twist themselves in knots. The day of reckoning is coming, however; the environmental establishment is going to have it's due if only for having been made fools; VW is going to pay through the nose and be called what they are: frauds.
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The president of Foxconn was asked about this in 2010; why not manufacture in the US using automation? He said, "I worry America has too many lawyers. I don’t want to spend time having people sue me every day.” Labor costs aren't the only concern; the US is a regulatory and political mine field filled with lavishly funded pressure groups that impose huge costs on industrial investment.
Pointing this out invariably provokes the knee-jerk Sierra club trained response; "so you think the filthy pig-dog capitalists should be allow to pollute everything right?" This is done using some device manufactured in China because the writer couldn't afford to purchase a machine manufactured under the regulator regime he insists on for his own country. So we shit up Asia instead and feather our own regulatory nest.
What's a gallon?
8.9 mutchkins or about 4.5 chopins.
Pretty much wrecking the eyes of an entire generation.
The actual message is here. The politician mentioned in the story is this guy.
The politician, Salim Mehajer, is really something. Sort of an Australian Donald Trump. He runs people over with his super car, threatens people, violates election laws and then gets himself acquitted or wrist-slapped for all of it in court. The editor wanted to elaborate on details of this stuff in Salim Mehajer's Wikipedia page and the powers-that-be blocked him. Seems like the editor was trying to do the equivalent of investigative reporting, to the degree that it amounted to original research and detail excessive for a Wikipedia page.
just download the .MP3 s to your phone and listen to the selection of music that you want
Uncoil your back. Lift your head. Try to focus your eyes on something beyond your front paws, if you still can. There is a lot more going on in the world than just listening to recorded music. FYI.
AM is a no-go; antenna problems. They do news, talk and sports on FM too, just so you know.
The breakfast menu is a fine analogy and has the immense benefit of being automatically familiar to everyone in the Western world. I can easily imagine someone with sufficient social skills successfully conveying the concept of an API using a restaurant menu analogy. I think the real problem is the choice of using these celebrity geeks, all of whom appear to be suffering various degrees of Aspergers. They can't explain things to `normals' whether they use analogies or not.
WTF happened to the other 66% of electronics?!?!
It was recycled in the US. Your criticism of the story isn't misplaced; the writers are careful not to point out that 2/3's of the e-waste they traced was recycled or disposed of by domestic recyclers. The story claims 200 items were tracked. 65 ended up in various third world hellholes. All of it "went through U.S. recyclers," so it's reasonable to conclude the other 135 items did not get exported. Omitting this is deliberate; most readers are left believing all of our e-waste is exported and polluting the world without the least care. Creating outrage at ebil planet wrecking 'murcia is job one at PBS et. al.
Yeah, but they did this one right. They broke the story but held back evidence; just enough to make headlines but leave room for plausible denials. Naturally Facebook categorically denied everything. Boom; leaked editorial guidelines published; oh look, editors everywhere. "Blacklists." "Injection."
It will be interesting to see their response to the Senate. Particularly if they maintain records of what got blacklisted and injected.
And there has never been as much love for the `rights' of private corporations — or Fakebook in particular — on Slashdot. Watching you people scatter in the light is really amazing.
You don't know for a fact that he didn't send any email to her
Except I do.
State Department claims it can't find any Pagliano email
Not deleting stuff would be nice.
Citation needed
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you’ll also see featured stories at the top of the page that are curated by the News Lab at Google
What news organizations are proudly called out on the top page at Google News Lab? The News York Times. The Guardian. The Verge [Vox].
The usual suspects.
So does google. Every day all the time. No one is surprised.
Honestly, we're past this. Facebook et al. provide the romper room world view preferred by the low information crowd and and the rest of us found suitable alternatives long ago.
Not enough low-risk dollars to justify building out a delivery fleet.
How, exactly, do you know that? Are you privy to Amazon's Prime subscriber maps and same day delivery sales figures?
Or did you just make that up to fit your preferred conclusion?
That's great. Someone has the temerity to point out obvious hypocrisy and the fanbois respond by trying to discredit the whole concept of hypocrisy. Brilliant.
It would at least be less self serving and hypocritical.
Does anybody actually still believe
Torvalds.
Today has me thinking back to January when the GOP power brokers started to feel the heat. This video leaked; an establishment oligarch ranting about `our party.'
Not any more pal.
The dems had their chance with Bernie, but they did exactly what you'd expect people who own the status quo to do; coronate a status qou candidate. Trump supporters have been marginalized their entire lives and they are past caring; they know there are only a few years left before the statists criminalize them for effectively everything they have, do, say or believe. So the recycled stump speech lines Cruz had been trained to recite whenever someone pointed a camera at him did not play.
Today has me thinking about the Republican party gentry of Colorado and Wyoming: @cologop "We did it. #NeverTrump." How's that investigation going, boys? Figure out who `hacked' your twitter feed?
I know who hacked your fucking party.
that much materiel
Don't be naive. The structure(s) would be hollow. The picture of the pretty green mountain in the story is just to keep you from freaking out too much; in reality it would be a giant rebar and concrete shell, built by disposable immigrant labor (like everything else in UAE) and unburdened by any OSHA/NLRB/EEOC/EPA friction. The global climate cabal will say nothing at all because they never trouble themselves with nations that are not prone to tolerating wealth transfer schemes.
The lawyer/engineer ratio at the FCC — as at every other Federal agency — has shifted and the number of field agents actually capable of investigating is now very small. The FCC has been shutting down field offices for years and focusing the money on Washington staff.
The president has a theory.
TD;DR summary; ignorant 'muricans don't appreciate what I've done.
Hopefully Hillary will stick with that view as well.
Swastikas?
Dear libtards, try not be be so obvious.
Cruz's recently acquired anti "H1-B stance" is election year politics just like his recently acquired anti TPP stance.
It's sort of like Vermont banning fracking. There aren't any economically recoverable gas/oil deposits in Vermont, but they banned it anyway.
Trying to build a new building in SF is next to impossible, but by god if anyone tries it they'll put solar panels on the roof!
Collective virtue signaling.
what is the cost to me for society to contain individuals who don't have basic needs met? ...... No city is happy with homeless people pissing in the streets, criminals who burgle or engage in other crimes
Right there you're implying outcomes that rational people have every reason to dismiss as nonsense. The most violent nation in the world today that isn't actually fighting a war is post revolution socialist Venezuela. It is a criminal hellhole, festooned with blood spattered signs declaring guns illegal. To date the only solution we've found for the criminality and general corruption that emerges in these nightmare societies is extreme coercion. Thus North Korea; no commercial billboards, few cars, obesity cured, low energy use, cooperative domestic politics, free healthcare... and they owe it all to their GULAGs and the endemic fear they provide.
Sam Altman's proposal is as fundamentally flawed as every other expression of these bad ideas we've ever seen. The best you can say for him is that he's doing no worse than making the same naive mistake as every other well meaning fool before him; assuming real people are going to behave like the fictional model citizen he cultivates inside his head. Any real society the has 90% of it's members subsisting on bennies and hedonism while the other 10% create all the value will inevitably devolve into yet another failed state and write yet another chapter in the book of atrocities. Even if it were somehow possible to govern such a world without GULAGs it would be indistinguishable from an idiocracy.
It's fraud.
VW fanbois grasp at any explanation to excuse the worlds largest car manufacturer for their fraud. The same mentality that enables corporate staff to rummage around until they find some "test" software that "works" with zero curiosity about why is exactly how banks and regulators hand-waved fraud in the mortgage industry as long as the right fairness in lending goals were achieved. But the former are great folks that made a "mistake" and the latter are criminal capitalist pig dogs.
It's amusing watching hypocrites twist themselves in knots. The day of reckoning is coming, however; the environmental establishment is going to have it's due if only for having been made fools; VW is going to pay through the nose and be called what they are: frauds.