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"Jamaican" beer not brewed in Jamaica
I wonder if any of the recently legalized products in CO and WA might reference Jamaican origins. I remember reading that some of Bob Marley's family might be licensing the Marley name for some products.— August 3, 2015 3:20 p.m.
"Jamaican" beer not brewed in Jamaica
I agree. If fraud is being committed then it should be prosecuted by the criminal justice system or the company should be fined by an appropriate regulatory agency. I think in cases like this the "victims" "damages" - and I use those terms loosely - cannot possibly amount to more than a few dollars. Clearly the lawyers are the primary beneficiary of suits like this. If it was up to me I would ban all class action suits unless each member of the class has significant amount of damage (say > $5k / person).— August 3, 2015 3:16 p.m.
Ales Spanos – beneficiary of public largesse
Yes - let's forget about all of the vibrant culture, museums, and excellent universities both these cities have. An old ballpark means a backwards city. And now I see Boston has turned down the chance to go billions of dollars in debt to host an Olympics. What are they thinking?— July 28, 2015 7:01 a.m.
Ales Spanos – beneficiary of public largesse
I still can't believe the Red Sox play in such an old and outdated stadium. Boston cannot possibly be a "world class city".— July 25, 2015 1:41 p.m.
Qualcomm traveling Wall Street's road
I don't mean technical from the Wall Street definition of technical (which I think is basically some hocus pocus pattern searching) I mean he looks at the science and technical and business aspects of what the company is doing. What technologies does the company have and what could they move into to make money?— July 24, 2015 7:59 a.m.
Massive layoffs rumored for Qualcomm
There's a middle ground between complete open borders (which is what we have right now for both high tech workers and low tech manual laborers) and complete isolation. Personally I think somewhere in that middle ground is where we should be. With existing immigration policy the US gov't is ignoring what's best for middle class Americans and struggling lower class Americans - in order to help big businesses attain higher profit margins.— July 24, 2015 6:51 a.m.
Massive layoffs rumored for Qualcomm
The CA WARN act requires that employers give at least 60 days notice to all full time employees for major layoffs - certainly the QCOM layoffs in CA will fall under WARN act.— July 23, 2015 10:51 p.m.
Massive layoffs rumored for Qualcomm
Employers can always create a "need" by changing job requirements. 20 years ago someone with a BS in CS or EE from a decent school would have plenty of opportunities. Now companies like QCOM require an MS or PhD from a top program to even get an interview. Then they can say they can't find enough qualified candidates to fill the job. It used to be companies would take decent candidates with BS degrees and train then the rest of the way to where they were good design engineers. Not any more. They expect applicants to have received that expertise from many years in grad school. The way the system is set up there isn't much incentive for Americans to go into engineering as a career choice. BTW I don't doubt your stories one bit and I hope I haven't given the impression that I have. I'm just looking at things from a different perspective which is as an engineer but not often involved in the hiring / firing process directly. And things may be done somewhat differently at different companies.— July 23, 2015 7:24 p.m.
Qualcomm traveling Wall Street's road
They're buzzwords because what they omit the words "short term" before the word "value" - "short term value" is what people usually really mean when they say those words. I would argue that a company has responsibilities to shareholders, employees, customers, and society as a whole. I don't think their sole responsibility is to shareholders.— July 23, 2015 2:47 p.m.
Qualcomm traveling Wall Street's road
The semiconductor industry faces many challenges now 1. For the last ~50 years the semiconductor industry (as well as many other industries) have benefitted from consistent scaling of transistors on integrated circuits. But Moore's law is coming to an end (or at least slowing down). Foundaries (TSMC) won't be able to keep producing smaller and smaller transistors for less and less money. 2. New chips are more and more expensive to produce and design. The most advanced chips now cost 10's or even hundreds of millions of dollars to design, prototype, and bring to production. This pretty much shuts out startups from doing a lot of things and even limits what big companies can do. 3. There is no apparent "next big thing" to follow PC business and smartphone business. Maybe bio-med, internet-of-things ? Maybe not. To be successful the industry needs an end product for which there is big demand for high performance, lower power, new chips. It's not clear right now where that demand is going to come from. 4. The Chinese gov't has invested highly in Chinese semiconductor companies to compete with American and multi-national semiconductor companies. 5. Huge smartphone companies (Apple and Samsung) are increasingly vertically integrated and will be able to produce their own chipsets.— July 23, 2015 2:36 p.m.