- Defences bolstered as floods threaten Thai capital
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Rescue workers reinforced make-shift walls and sand-bags around Bangkok on Saturday as the worst floods in half-a-century threatened Thailand's low-lying capital after swamping entire provinces in the north.
バンコク（ロイター） - 半世紀で最悪の洪水が北部で全体の省をswamping後にタイの低地資本を脅したとして、レスキュー隊員は、土曜日に行うシフトの壁とバンコク周辺の砂袋を強化
- Why Tax Havens Are A Force For Good
Being the world's self-appointed defender of so-called tax havens has led to some rather bizarre episodes. いわゆるタックスヘイブンの世界の自薦のディフェンダーは、かなり奇妙なエピソードにつながっているされている
- Arab Springs, Submarine Pens and Mandraulics - Designing The World Of Prometheus
There's a certain Kutzweilian circularity to linking to yourself (eventually, the link circle becomes self-aware), but of possible interest to the more science-fictional of the treasured readership might be a conversation I had with Arthur Max, the Production Designer of Prometheus, on the complexities of creating the visual style of future humanity and alien worlds. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Go Tell The Spartans - Passive Activities Makes It To 300 - Thanks To Jennifer Aniston Not In The Nude
Blogging about your own blog represents the height of self-absorption. That is why I have resolved to only do it at century marks. So this one makes 300. Not a huge number, but it was enough to save Greece from the Persians. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Dollar Not Doomed But You're Gonna Need More Of Them
?Businessmen can profit handsomely if they will disregard the pessimistic auguries of self-appointed prophets of doom.? - J. Paul Getty (1892 ? 1976) null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- 1.1 million face £100 tax fines
Just over one million taxpayers face a penalty of £100 for failing to submit their self-assessment tax returns on time, HM Revenue and Customs says. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- A Near Death Experience and the Birth of the Windows Phone
In a particularly gripping piece of tech writing, a story in this morning's New York Times Sunday Business section compares Microsoft's radical reboot of their mobile software to the true-life story of self-amputation in the movie 127 Hours. The mountain climber's near-death experience resonated with product managers who lived through null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Jack Dorsey On Social Change: It's Not Fun All The Time To Be Self-Aware
Jack Dorsey is the founder of Twitter and current CEO of Square, the payment app that is disrupting credit card networks by offering a slightly cheaper and much easier card-swipe software now doing $11 million a day in billings. (I wrote about Square a year ago when it was doing a LOT less in billings.) null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Chelsea Clinton: in front of the camera, out of the shadows
Unlike many others, Chelsea has been expert at staying out of view – which is why her taking a job at NBC is such a surpriseWithin just hours of the announcement, much has already been written on NBC News' hiring of Chelsea Clinton, pretty much all of it predictably snarky and negative.In the main, this is because the path from politician's daughter to TV news anchor is a career path as well-trodden as, say, the road from the Harvard Lampoon to TV comedy writer. (In both examples, onlookers are left to digest the ugly aftertaste of privilege and elitism accorded to others.) At least in the case of the former, sometimes this has worked out fine, sometimes less so.But one doesn't need to have stomached the unedifying sight and sound of Jenna Bush attempting to read an autocue on Good Morning America to feel a twinge of sarcasm at Monday's announcement.Clinton is clearly far more intelligent than Bush, so it's not the idea of her working alongside Brian Williams that flummoxes me – it's that she took this job at all.Throughout her awkwardly high-profile life, Clinton has been a sterling example of how to behave if you are the offspring of a famous parent or, in her case, very famous parents. She has remained commendably out of view and out of trouble (something that cannot be said of the Bush twins), and instead focused on accruing a slew of degrees. Few things are more tedious than celebrity offspring who believe that, merely by dint of being born, they should be accorded privileges of the gods. Examples of that demographic – and there are many – make up for in self-entitlement what they lack in self-awareness, and it's a combination that rarely ends well for anyone.Clinton has ducked that, working hard to be taken seriously on her own terms. So for her to enter the media null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Rebalancing the global economy needn't be painful – just let China grow
US policymakers should forget punitive tariffs against Chinese imports, letting China grow rich might do the trickMany take as fact that the current pattern of global imbalances – large and persistent trade deficits and surpluses across different parts of the world, eventually unsustainable – is due to China and the rest of east Asia consuming too little and saving too much. Since the global economy is a closed trading system, trade deficits and surpluses across all national economies must sum exactly to zero always. Therefore, because one part of the world saves too much and runs trade surpluses means other parts of the world – notably the US – must be running trade deficits.However, just because deficits and surpluses are tightly inter-connected does not mean that trade surpluses in China, say, have been responsible for US trade deficits: absent further information, causality could well have flowed in the opposite direction. Moreover, China's high savings might be dynamically welfare-optimising for its citizens – for instance, private enterprise in China might find self-accumulation the only way to generate investment funds – and, at the same time, only minimally if at all welfare-reducing for already-rich US citizens. Finally, it might be that global imbalances should best be viewed not as a bilateral (US-China) problem but instead a multilateral one.Be all that as it may, many US policymakers focusing on US trade deficits and China's trade surpluses urge policy actions against China to rebalance the global economy. Those policy actions include punitive tariffs against Chinese imports and tagging China a currency-manipulator – and thus moving it yet further from official free-market status. Some observers remark that without such external pressure, China will find it null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Iran will not accept these sanctions – it will respond | Tom Rogan
The regime is desperate to protect its nuclear ambitions, and will manipulate the west's fears of its irrational behaviour to do soThe EU has agreed to impose unprecedented sanctions on Iran. These restrictions prevent further Iranian oil export deals with EU states, provide a July deadline for current deals and freeze the European-based assets and trading capacity of Iran's central bank. This follows new US sanctions that were adopted earlier this month.While Iran is accustomed to being challenged over its nuclear programme, the scale and likely effect of these new sanctions means that the Iranian regime is unlikely to respond with quiet acceptance. By restricting Iran's sale of oil – the sustaining lifeblood of the regime – the latest sanctions foreshadow a major escalation in tensions.For Iran's leaders, attaining nuclear power is non-negotiable. From the regime's perspective, a nuclear Iran would effectively guarantee the ongoing Islamic revolution. With nuclear weapons, Iran's clerical leadership believes it would be free to engage in more forceful, overt support for theologically rooted Shia political movements across the region (most obviously, the Lebanese Hezbollah). At the same time, these leaders believe that establishing a nuclear capability would also establish a corollary security umbrella to deter foreign enemies from threatening the regime's existential security.Linked to the first point, an Iranian nuclear capability would be a huge propaganda coup for the regime. As a nuclear power, the self-asserted masters of Shia theological enlightenment would be able to present themselves as similar masters of scientific intellect. The importance of such a success for the regime's mythology cannot be understated.It is in this context of Iran's perceived nuclear ne null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Home HIV test available from October
US health regulators have approved OraSure Technologies self-administered home test for HIV, making it the first such test available for the virus tha... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Is The Goal Of A Corporation To Make Money?
In the outpouring of comments on the two articles on the Ten Most Hated Jobs and The Ten Happiest Jobs was a continuing theme about the goal of a corporation. For many people, it seems as though the idea that the goal of corporation is to make money is one of the immutable truths of the universe. For instance, one reader wrote:
The top 10 hated jobs are about making money. The ultimate goal of any corporation is to make money. Money is generally made at the expense of some other corporation or in business speak: “taking someone else’s share” or “creating a need or want” in the market.
For the most part companies of today falsify what is “needed” or “wanted” in the market…(otherwise known as people). There is nothing ‘human’ about satisfying a ‘need’ that forces you to spend tons of dollars on wrinkle cream that really doesn’t work anyway. I believe that that is not helping anyone…in fact…it is lying to people to take away their money. There is no real connection when you start lying and make ‘money’ your God to pursue. But here is the problem: in a disillusioned world if you want to have a comfortable living…you also have to be disillusioned...
It is well known that direct contact with other human beings where you can see your contribution create the change…is the most self-actualizing!
In a corporation, you will always be dispensable…because it is about money….not helping people.
The truth is that the ultimate goal of a corporation isn't necessarily to make money. True, this is the goal of traditional management, and of many organizations in the Fortune 500. But it's a choice made by those organizations, not a necessary fact. テンの2つの記事のコメントのほとばしるでほとんどのジョブを嫌われ、テンハッピーな仕事は、企業の目標についての継続的なテーマであった
- A Century on forbes.com - Ellen Degeneres Can You Hear Me Now?
I appreciate that blogging about your own blog must represent the height of self-absorption, but I hope you will forgive me. This is my 100th post on forbes.com and I am positively giddy. I started blogging on tax issues in December 2009. My first post was a meditation on the tax implications of slaughtering monsters to earn gold in World of Warcraft. I've gotten a little more serious since then, but I do revert from time to time, like when I figured out a way to work in a picture of Jennifer Aniston not being naked. My posts are largely driven by the raw material that the system feeds me. I try to at least look at every original source item on federal taxes, a practice that I have had for many years. The only person I know personally with a similar obsession is Lu Gauthier, whose Boston Tax Institute provides the best accounting CPE value in New England. He looks for items that are of practical use to his students, mostly local and regional practitioners. I look for those too, but also things that are funny like somebody who tries to get exempt status for a not for profit to distribute his own sperm. 私はあなた自身のブログについてのブログは自己吸収の高さを表す必要があることを理解する、しかし私はあなたが私をお許し願っています
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