Remington will go upside down relatively soon. Colt is still trying to recover from Bankruptcy. But the underlying issue is fairly simple: all technical innovation in firearms has been coming (as expected) from belgian, german, and austrian engineers. The most popular weapon in the states is effectively open sourced (the AR15) – so much so that like gaming computers and harley davidson’s it’s a kit-gun open for constant customization. The AR15/M4 is actually a poor quality platform – it’s just cheap, light, and reasonably accurate. While the plastic gun craze of the 80s-00’s resulted in a ridiculous number of failed designs, we seem to be exiting that period. And aside from Smith and Wesson, it doesn’t appear that american companies can come close to the production quality of FN/Steyr/HK/Glock. And given that there are no patents on some of the most popular guns (CZ/1911), and that nearly anyone can buy CAD/CAM systems with barrels being the only particularly challenging bit of technology, it’s just …. well, not a good market for americans. I see it as a continuation of the american design ethic, business ethic. We are sort of like the brits now. We can only make labor intensive products with heavy adult supervision.
Theme: Institution
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by Igor Rogov Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitiv
by Igor Rogov Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitive advantage, that may undermine corporate structure. And corporate competition undermines healthy sexual relationship. The problem as I see it is in mixing two ethical systems: one of production of goods and another of sexuality. They are not entirely mutually exclusive, but certainly not fully compatible. It would be good to make proper barriers and keep them apart, but alas. -
by Igor Rogov Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitiv
by Igor Rogov Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitive advantage, that may undermine corporate structure. And corporate competition undermines healthy sexual relationship. The problem as I see it is in mixing two ethical systems: one of production of goods and another of sexuality. They are not entirely mutually exclusive, but certainly not fully compatible. It would be good to make proper barriers and keep them apart, but alas. -
by Igor Rogov Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitiv
by Igor Rogov
Sexuality may undermine productivity and lead to unfair competitive advantage, that may undermine corporate structure. And corporate competition undermines healthy sexual relationship.
The problem as I see it is in mixing two ethical systems: one of production of goods and another of sexuality. They are not entirely mutually exclusive, but certainly not fully compatible.
It would be good to make proper barriers and keep them apart, but alas.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-22 22:10:00 UTC
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In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increa
In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increases, gay men can be a profound asset to the management team, for the simple reason that they will tell you uncomfortable truths that the women are unwilling unable, or biased against telling you. -
In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increa
In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increases, gay men can be a profound asset to the management team, for the simple reason that they will tell you uncomfortable truths that the women are unwilling unable, or biased against telling you.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-22 17:44:00 UTC
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In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increa
In a white collar work environment, especially as the percentage of women increases, gay men can be a profound asset to the management team, for the simple reason that they will tell you uncomfortable truths that the women are unwilling unable, or biased against telling you. -
So, why don’t we just cut out the bureaucracy and license and build Russian mili
So, why don’t we just cut out the bureaucracy and license and build Russian military hardware? Their equipment is superior because their design process is superior. And their design process is better because of the combination of the economic priority of the military sector, the russian character, design philosophy, and decision process. We win by our men, their character, training, combat philosophy, and maneuver. (really). We know the weakness in russian warfare, and it’s character. We know the strength in anglo-german warfare – and it’s character. (really). We know russian weapons are superior. -
So, why don’t we just cut out the bureaucracy and license and build Russian mili
So, why don’t we just cut out the bureaucracy and license and build Russian military hardware? Their equipment is superior because their design process is superior. And their design process is better because of the combination of the economic priority of the military sector, the russian character, design philosophy, and decision process. We win by our men, their character, training, combat philosophy, and maneuver. (really). We know the weakness in russian warfare, and it’s character. We know the strength in anglo-german warfare – and it’s character. (really). We know russian weapons are superior. -
by Bill Joslin Replace the notion of transcendental ideals as a motive force for
by Bill Joslin Replace the notion of transcendental ideals as a motive force for group cohesion with the notion of a grounded ideal whereby the ideal remains under the authority of natural consequences and thus meets the criteria of truthful explanation (operational explanation)