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| 2008/5/6-9 [Industry/Startup] UID:49889 Activity:kinda low |
5/6 I'm inclined to believe that having a CEO as chairman of the board or
really on the board of directors at all is not such a great idea.
Yet nearly ervery company has this. Some of this are bif stock holders
and could get a seat without any outside support, but are there
reasons that it's a good idea to have the CEO on the board? Just
curious if there's a different perspective on this.
\_ "I started this company, and I get to vote however I want to vote
like 10X raise for all the executives." -CEO
\_ A more beginner's question: What's the difference between chairman,
president, and CEO? Thx.
\_ CEO: a leech you would love to get rid of but doing so would
be detrimental to stock values. Case in point, Larry Ellison,
Bill Gates, etc.
\_ Chairman: chairs the board, part time job at best
CEO: represents the company, talks to investors, banks, the media
President: runs the company on a day to day basis
Other's may have a different defn, but that is what I have seen.
\_ 1. What does "chair the board" mean besides, I guess, driving
the agenda in board meetings?
2. I thought it's the COO that runs the company on a day-to-
day basis. No?
Thanks again. -- PP
\_ 1) The board represents the owners/shareholders interests,
while
the CEO represents their selfish interests of ego, fame
and $.
We have a cult of the CEO in US. Separate CEO and Chairman\
more
\_ 1) The board represents the owners/shareholders
interests, while the CEO represents their selfish
interests of ego, fame and $. We have a cult of
the CEO in US. Separate CEO and Chairman more
common in Europe.
2) Depends on company. All corporations have a charter.
"operations" may not be all of "running the company",
which
may not be all of "leading the company", which may be
separated
from determining best strategy to maximize shareholder
value.
Ford has executive chairman and vice-chairmen, some of
whom have
real responsibility for sourcing strategy, design, etc.
\- there ws actually a study about "superstar
CEOs" and under performace ... i forgot what
they correlated to ... airtime or magazine
covers etc but it was pretty negative. dunno
how they addressed regression to the mean tho.
\_ It's not difficult to show that most CEOS
in the US don't do jack. The bigger question
is what can we do about it... nothing.
2) Depends on company. All corporations have a
charter. "operations" may not be all of
"running the company", which may not be all of
"leading the company", which may be separated
from determining best strategy to maximize
shareholder value. Ford has executive chairman
and vice-chairmen, some of whom have real
responsibility for sourcing strategy, design,
etc.
\_ yet they still make inferior cars |
| 2008/5/6-9 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:49890 Activity:nil |
5/6 Will someone tell Hillary that our antitrust laws don't extend to
foreign countries?
\_ She made it clear that she would allow common citizens to sue and
get them at the WTO, etc.
\- hillary isnt the SOA on this:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-879
of course it would be interesting to see other countries
deciding US pushed IP regimes dont apply in their
domain. --psb |
| 2008/5/6-9 [Reference/Military, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:49891 Activity:nil |
5/6 So much for the $1M-per-piece "mine-resistant" vehicle.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080505/wl_mcclatchy/2930304
\_ Armor piercing shells from Iran can do that ya know.
\_ AP from Syria works fine, too, and those AP shells smuggled
out of Afghanistan are da BOMB.
\_ Out of Afghanistan? No. They're going _into_ Afghanistan
from Iran. How do you figure they're going from Afghanistan
into Iraq? *boggle* Here's the key parts of the article the
OP didn't read (from their own link):
The military has praised the vehicles for saving hundreds of
lives, saying they could withstand the IEDs, or improvised
explosive devices, which have been the biggest killers of
Americans in Iraq . The Pentagon has set aside $5.4 billion
to acquire 4,000 MRAPs at more than $1 million each, making
the MRAP the Defense Department's third largest acquisition
program, behind missile defense and the Joint Strike Fighter.
But last Wednesday's attack has shown that the MRAPs are
vulnerable to an especially potent form of IED known as an
EFP, for explosively formed penetrator, which fires a
superheated cone of metal through the vehicle's armor.
Military officials are still trying to determine whether last
week's attack is a sign of "new vulnerabilities (in the
vehicle) or new (weapons) capabilities" on the part of
insurgents, said Navy Capt. John Kirby , a spokesman for Adm.
Michael Mullen , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
U.S. officials don't know if the EFP that pierced the MRAP
was larger, redesigned or a lucky shot from an old one. But
explosive experts in Iraq are investigating, said Col. Jerry
O'Hare , a military spokesman in Iraq .
So maybe the vehicle is flawed. Maybe the Iranians have
developed a new weapon. Maybe it was a lucky shot. OP is
pretty flip about it and fortunately not in a position to
make decisions in the military.
\_ Yeah I read the whole article before posting. I was just
disappointed that some $1M-per-piece hyped hardware
deployed only a year ago is already showing its
shortcomings at the theatre that it's designed to operate.
deployed merely a year ago is already showing its
shortcomings at the theatre that it's meant to operate.
-- OP
\_ Shaped metal projectiles penetrate tanks that cost much
more than $1M. Our tanks now have explosive armor that
detonates projectiles like this. The response is that
newer projectiles are two-stage shells--the first stage
takes the blast from the explosive armor, the second
stage penetrates. Welcome to the arms race.
\_ Tank = $1 million
IED = $1 thousand
\_ You're confused. The armor was never about
protecting the tank. It is there to protect the
guys inside. If they didn't put armor on anything
they could put more/bigger weapons/go faster on
the vehicles but the soldiers would die from
stray bullets. With armor it takes special
weapons to kill them which are not readily
available.
\_ HEAT technology was invented in WWII.
\_ Yeah, who could have possibly imagined that Iran might try to
intervene into a US led occupation of Iraq?
\_ Where's your 2001 post saying this?
\_ http://csua.com/2003/01/31/#27260 (Jan 2003) |
| 2008/5/6-8 [Uncategorized] UID:49892 Activity:nil |
5/6 This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/06/phoneunlocking-simsh.html |
| 2008/5/6-9 [Academia/Berkeley, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:49893 Activity:high |
5/6 didnt anyone on the motd notice a berkeley townie STABBED
TO DEATH a UC Berkeley nuclear engineering senior on Friday?
I don't like nuclear power but this is ridiculous.
\_ This is just a case of two guys + dime store knife + alcohol.
I've never heard the phrase "berkeley townie" before. Since when
have we become some elite-better-than-the-citizens upper class at
Cal like some east coast school?
\_ A) Link?
\_ http://tinyurl.com/587ple
B) Is there any evidence that the attack was due to his major?
\_ no, it was due to a drunken argument.
\_ alcohol and nukes never mix
C) What have you got against nuclear power?
\_ Berkeley is a dangerous shithole. I can't believe how many
young, drunk co-eds walk around Berkeley at night alone. When I
was a student I would often escort these wayward lassies home
when they encountered me on the street (I kept late hours).
They were lucky I was a nice, normal guy who didn't even
approach their apartment buildings let alone try something.
This was the first student to die in 10 years AFAIK, but not the
first that was stabbed or shot in that time.
\_ You don't know what "dangerous shithole" means do you? If
Berkeley scares you you probably should just hide in your
room and never go outside.
\_ Is it Compton? No. It is a dangerous shithole? Yes, the
south and west sides are.
\_ 1. They aren't really dangerous or shitholes. (There are
very small patches of shitty areas in Berkeley, yes,
but the vast majority is safe.)
2. Not many students live that far south or that far west.
3. The stabbing was in frat row, which funny enough is
the part of Berkeley I like walking around in least
(mostly because all the frat boys are obnoxious as
hell.)
\_ No kidding, in my four years at Cal I was threatened
with violence four times and three of those times
were on Frat Row, which I mostly avoided.
\_ When were you there? I agree that Berkeley in
the early 90s was bad, but it's much better now.
Ditto for North Oakland and Berkeley near San
Pablo. -!pp
\_ Early 90s. It was the Fraternity members who
did the threatening. I am small, had long hair
and wore a motorcycle jacket and the combo
seemed to send them into some kind of feeding
frenzy.
\_ Well, sorry, man, that part of the pop.
probably hasn't changed much.
\_ Which is funny because I'm pretty sure
OP uses "dangerous shithole" as a
(probably self closted) code word for
"there are black people there" but
really the part of Bekeley that made
of a lot of us feel unsafe are the
super white frat boys which nicknames
like The Stevester.
\_ Hey, it's super-racist again! How's
it feel to be a dick?
\_ These days I have short hair, wear a
a Cal sweatshirt on game days (which
is when I go to Frat Row) and never
have any problems. In fact, they are
pretty friendly to me.
\_ In other words, you've changed, and
that part of the pop. hasn't.
\_ I lived on Frat Row (Durant near I-House) for 2 years
in a private residence which I rented. Frats were
sometimes obnoxious (usually only when they had
parties which isn't as often as you might think)
as were homeless people shouting in the middle of the
night. However, it wasn't that shitty or dangerous
compared to other parts of Berkeley. Almost all
of Berkeley is a shithole except for the Hills.
Not all of Berkeley is dangerous. Just all the
parts you might want to go to as a student and
some parts (on the West side) that you wouldn't.
\_ 'You don't know what "dangerous shithole" means do you?'
The meaning seems fairly straight forward to me, is there
some subtlety to the term I may be missing? -!pp
\_ Gourmet Ghetto and Solano Ave are particularly dangerous
at night. Not to mention Fourth Street. The roving bands of
yuppies scare the hell out of me.
\_ Why don't you like nuclear power? Are you a Luddite?
\_ See, those poor Berkeleyites get bitter and cling to knives and
environmentalim.
environmentalism.
\_ Stabbing someone is more environmentally sustainable than
nuking them. The fallout problems would be insane. |
| 2008/5/6-9 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:49894 Activity:moderate 75%like:49913 |
5/6 Hey, Yoo lover: Yale denounces its own
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/john-yoo-and-pr.html
Thanks for the link, psb.
\- er, so does berkeley
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/the-torture-mem.html
\_ It's always better when an entire school suffers from group-think,
right?
\_ You mean the hippie dippie liberal 'group think' that torture
is wrong, makes us look like complete idiots to the world,
and doesn't give us reliable intelligence? Sign me up
for group think then.
\_ No I don't mean that. It has nothing to do with agendas. It
has to do with the OP talking about a school "deouncing their
own". I'm saying a school is thousands of people. They
don't all have to agree with each other on everything.
That's inane.
\_ Any turly educated person agrees with me.
\_ How tur.
\_ Right. Your interpretation would be retarded, and I couldn't think
of a better verb than "denounces." I can't imagine anything
closer to "Yale denounces its own" having meaning, than the dean
of the law school criticizing Yoo on legal, ethical and moral
grounds at a large, official gathering of that institution, such
as commencement, which is exactly what happened. -op |