Newsflash! Ditching a custom Accenture solution for an offshore offering from Sri Lanka cuts costs! News at 11.
Look guys, I'm a Microsoft basher along with the best of them (I'm a Solaris administrator), but it seems to me like most of this cost savings is delivered by offshoring and ditching a major systems integrator.
(Discloser: I also used to work for Accenture).
That means Apple owns all logos that are apple shaped?
No, just the ones in the consumer electronics and music categories. And also just the ones with a reasonable likeness to theirs.
If they have to sue Woolworths then they also have to sue Taco Bell
But Taco Bell haven't submitted a their trademark in the consumer electronic products and services category. Woolworths HAVE, positioning themselves as a competitor to Apple which is why Apple raised an objection to the trademark.
The latter is a drug addled fantasy as a purchase price of two billion plus dollars is generally reserved for high performing or very high potential companies, not for startups with a paper profit, a few million in cash flow, and heavy obligations.
Tell that to myspace, youtube, et al.
As for Tesla, a potentially disruptive company to a 100 year old industry, with a nice patent portfolio in an area that will clearly be around for the next 50 years; now that's a "high potential" company.
Honestly, this country is so big...there is plenty going on here to keep me occupied just trying to keep up with it. Unlike the EU, where you're countries are small and close togetherm we are not used to interacting or driving easily to another country. If you don't get that kind of exposure growing up, you really do kind of live in an isolated world. I rarely hear much going on outside the US, and I've never really had much need to do so.
This has nothing to do with geography. Australia is even more isolated that the US and also has no exposure to "driving easily to another country" yet Aussies are one of the more well-traveled people in the world. At least US citizens *can* drive to Mexico or Canada.
I suspect it has more to do with a culture of fear and oppression. You are not encouraged to explore the world... you are taught to fear it and you had better stay at home and be a good little consumer.
Do you really think the medical industry wants to work without reaping the rewards for their hard labor? We're not talking about a non-profit religion. We are talking about JOBS. When you remove the incentive to work hard, people often cut back on the quality of their services or jump ship to another career all together.
Unless you plan on holding a gun to a doctors head and enslaving them to indentured servitude, it's not going to be better than a privatized system either. Even then, I still wouldn't trust the system.
And yet, the life expectancy in a socialized healthcare system (say, Australia's at 81.4 years) can exceed that of your treasured privatized system (say, the US' at 78.1 years).
It was a nice theory, though.
What this country needs is a good five dollar plasma weapon.
