Recently watched Gattaca. Found it interesting how in that world, DNA profiling for job placement was illegal, but because the technology was so widespread and available, it was easy to circumvent the regulations without getting caught. Just shake someone's hand or take a drug test, and they have your entire genome.
Govt will not take any action because Wall Street floods politician's election campaigns with dollars so they play ball. If they don't play ball, Wall Street funds a challenger to the seat.
How does Wall St, collectively and en masse decide and go about doing this? I'm not saying that they don't - I think that it has been fairly well reported that the sums of money coming from Wall St. as campaign contributions are large - I would just like to know if there is any coordinated mechanism or is it a kind of wisdom of the financial crowds ...
Well, it's not that complicated. In a tribe, you help your friends and you hinder your enemies.
Imagine some techie eating lunch with his techie buddies. Is he likely to talk about how he's against net-neutrality, or is it likely that he's for it? If he were against it, he'd seem weird.
Basically, you're not going to screw the people you hang out with all the time, and might want to work with later.
The profit motive should drive the use, not the implementation of a trading system that effects the world economy so directly.
I've maintained that the standard increment for trades should be hours or days, not microseconds. This way liquidity is maintained on a macro scale, and parasitic orders based on micro manipulations of the system are eliminated.
I doubt how we treat the young and the elderly will stop changing. Just look at child labor laws and social security, medicade/care in the US for one example of radical change.
The major changes you mention are from 40+ years ago. Social security is only played with when there is a funding problem on the horizon. I don't see what is changing for the better.
Well sure, but you seem to be scoping your statement down to recent events, in America, and only positive change. Before you were addressing any type of change in society as a whole, in the future. I was merely pointing out the vagaries of such over arching statements.
If we are to consider society as a whole, over time, i think things are moving in a positive direction for the liberties of children and the elderly. It's hard to predict what may or may not change in American legislation in the future, but I doubt it will be "nothing".
I don't see anything wrong with these alleged agreements, per se, but it sets a terrible anti competitive precedent that is all manner of bad for employee marketability. It would be difficult to sus out the truth of what these types of agreements actually do behind the closed doors of these company's HR departments.
Do you believe in the free market? If so, you really don't see anything wrong with companies conspiring together to constrict that market for employees?
Well good luck to you. Don't worry about the haters that say you won't make it because there is no trust built up like the trust users have for Paypal. Who trusted Paypal when they first got started? And many people certainly don't trust them now.
I doubt he will actually cough up the money. It's not based on any assumptions about his character based on that movie, just my sense of how much of a paper tiger his and facebook's financials are.
The only reason I don't use Chrome is because of the Google info sharing. Chromium is unclear as to weather it actually shares data or not. I believe at one point there was a bug where it was definitely connecting to googles servers. I believe they fixed it, but it was enough to keep me on Firefox.
