I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for 'disrupting' a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. This is his statement: "… those who write the rules are those who profit from the status quo. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. Mr. There are alternating characterizations that Mr Huber would like you to believe about me. In nearly every paragraph, the government’s memorandum uses the words lie, lied, lying, liar. Mr Huber also makes grand assumptions about my level of respect for the rule of law. But here is the important point that Mr Huber would rather ignore. My public statements about jury nullification were not the only political statements that Mr Huber thinks I should be punished for. This is really the heart of what this case is about.
Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success David Hummels, Rasmus Jørgensen, Jakob R. Munch, Chong Xiang , 10 December 2011 Fuelled by concerns over rising income inequality, Occupy Wall Street has grown into a global movement in slightly over 2 months, with protests in over 900 cities worldwide. Nor is there consensus regarding the policies likely to ameliorate inequality. However, there is a growing concern that college isn’t enough. Early work on offshoring and college premium in the 1980s focused on industry-level data and examined average wage bills. When we focus on workers who remain employed with the firm, we find that offshoring raises the college wage premium, both by increasing wages (elasticity +3.6%) for college-educated workers and lowering wages (elasticity -1.6%) for workers without a college education. At first pass, our findings appear consistent with the older literature – that trade raises the college wage premium and with it, inequality. Does globalisation leave all non-college-educated employees behind?
World population densities mapped National Geographic has a look at where and how we live: The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). It's interesting, but the map is a little wonky, because the income levels and population densities differ in granularity. There are also three other slides that follow the map (like the one below), but they're mostly just run-of-the-mill list of facts with cutesy icons to show percentages. I dunno, I'm on the fence here. [National Geographic | Thanks, Laura]
How Technology is Recreating the 21st-century Economy W. Brian Arthur, PARC Visiting Researcher series: Entrepreneurial Spirit 4 August 20115:30-7:00pmGeorge E. about PARC forum description Every 50 years or so a new body of technology comes along and slowly transforms the economy. Brian Arthur -- an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, pioneer of complexity theory, and longtime PARC Visiting Researcher – will attempt to answer these and other questions in this PARC Forum talk. Digital technology runs deeper than merely providing computation, internet commerce, and social media. presenter(s) W. Arthur pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks/ increasing returns in the economy -- in particular, their role in magnifying small, random economic events -- and this work became the basis of our understanding of the high-tech economy. Arthur was the Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University, and the first director of the Economics Program at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. audio
Alternative Technology Association website The Future of Advertising Nanointervencionismo » Destaque » Instituto Millenium O Estado encontra-se em pronunciada transição. Transformam-se a matriz francesa de divisão entre poderes e o modelo anglo-americano de freios e contrapesos (checks and balances). Hoje, em diferentes nações, o Executivo julga. O espectro esquerda-direita, a nós legado pelos “Estados Gerais” que antecederam a Revolução Francesa, é demasiado simplificador. O liberalismo econômico se confunde com o renascimento keynesiano no âmago da Grande Recessão de 2008. Tamanho ou coloração ideológica do Estado são menos importantes para comunidades que se querem prósperas, justas e livres. Em muitos países, entre eles o Brasil, o esvanecimento de macro-objetivos ideológicos, que povoaram sonhos políticos, tem esvaziado agendas mais ambiciosas. Nos últimos 10 anos, o Brasil editou cerca de 4 milhões de normas. A esfera individual, célula-mãe da noção de “Ocidente”, passa a gravitar em torno do Estado. O Estado hipercodificador é economicamente ilógico. A sociedade brasileira perde tempo.
Brainstorming 2.0: Making Ideas That Really Happen One of the most common questions we hear at 99U is: “How do I get more out of my brainstorming sessions?” While brainstorming sessions have become perhaps the most iconic act of creativity, we still struggle with how to give them real utility. The problem of course is that most brainstorming sessions conclude prematurely. We all love to dream big and come up with “blue sky” ideas. We’re less fond of diving into the nitty-gritty details of creative execution. So how can we retool our approach to brainstorming to make it more effective? Disney’s rigorous creative process involves 3 distinct phases of idea development, each of which is designed to unfold in a separate room. Step 1 asks “WHAT are we going to do?” It’s all about dreaming big. Room Setup: Airy rooms with high-ceilings are the best locations for thinking big. Mentality: Any idea is fair game. Set aside your assumptions and push yourself to think in new ways. Step 2 asks “HOW are we going to do it?” How Do You Work?
Como se tornar um líder do século 21 A julgar pelo que se diz no mundo dos negócios, uma revolução libertadora está a caminho. “Deem ordens ao seu chefe o quanto antes; experimentem fazer isso logo no início. Se ele for o tipo certo de chefe, nada o agradará mais; se não for, ele não é a pessoa certa com quem vocês devam ficar”, afirmou um dos maiores nomes da siderurgia mundial. “Todo esse falatório sobre supergênios é besteira. Descobri que quando as estrelas vão embora, raramente seus departamentos sofrem”, adicionou um de seus pares. O discurso libertário criou mofo faz tempo nas bibliotecas corporativas, mas o modelo autoritário de liderança dá sinais reais de esgotamento e algo novo começa, finalmente, a ser erguido em seu lugar. Sacudidas de um torpor de décadas para uma recessão global, muitas companhias se deram conta de que, em um período crítico de suas histórias, estão sendo comandadas por líderes do século passado. O século 21 trouxe com ele uma mudança de paradigma no modo como se gerencia.
The 'Trophy Kids' Go to Work Stand Up for Owners' Rights If you buy something, you can do with it—and do away with it—as you want. Right? The digital age is challenging this most basic of expectations in a few ways, and EFF and its allies are on the lookout. The Supreme Court will soon review a court decision that, if upheld, could put handcuffs on our ability to sell digital goods, or even physical goods with copyrighted logos or artwork, simply because the goods were manufactured outside the U.S. This case is important, but its also just a small piece of a larger assault on ownership rights. Over the past decade, courts and copyright owners have quietly been creating a world in which digital goods are never truly owned, but only licensed. EFF has signed on to the Citizens' Petition for Ownership Rights, urging the U.S. government and the courts to protect our basic assumption that if you buy it, you own it, and can dispose of it as you please. The petition was prompted by Kirtsaeng v. In Kirtsaeng, the U.S.
The Ultimate Guide To Enterprise SEO: 25 Things To Know Before You Take The Plunge Enterprise Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not rocket science. In fact, it is not even as faceted as many other sectors of SEO in which practitioners have to perform many more nuanced SEO tasks (and often by themselves). So why is Enterprise SEO so underserved and why do so few large organizations embrace it properly? Because Enterprise SEO is much more like Supply Chain Management than it is Marketing. As an executive considering investing in an Enterprise SEO initiative, hopefully you can learn from this primer and my experiences over the last decade leading large institutions into SEO. Setting The Stage 1. I have seen dozens of large business deploy a ton of money into an Enterprise SEO initiative only to find out that Organic Search just was not as critical to their business as they would have hoped. 2. Not only will the executives drive the cultural shift, but Enterprise SEO is not cheap. 3. 4. 5. Search engines are truly the scoreboard of the Internet. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.