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Success no longer lies in what we do; how we do what we do now matters most. In a world where information flows and technology connects us instantly around the globe, the rules of the game for business today have changed dramatically.

Warren Buffett, October 1, 2008:

- Well, the patient that’s on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street.  It’s the American economy.

- I think the biggest thing we need now is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus — if we do, it’s — it should go to the lower and middle-income people.  I mean the truth is, I’ve never had it so good in terms of taxes.  I am paying the lowest tax rate that I’ve ever paid in my life.  Now, that’s crazy.  And if you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or — whomever around their office.

- And so I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.  I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.  But I think that a stimulus plan should really be geared to the people. 

- But just imagine living on 21,000 a year, Charlie, 22,000 a year.  I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that… I would push $1,000 of purchasing to those people… They need it.  And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

- The capital gains tax is 15 percent now.  So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it. The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she’s paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. 

- I think it’s terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor…  And they don’t take that from me on capital gains.  They don’t take that from me on dividends.  They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

Questions to be answered: * Can innovation and creativity be managed? * Where do creative ideas come from? * Can I take advantage of disruption? * Where can I find innovative solutions?

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation — HBS Working Knowledge

An exclusive conversation with Warren Buffett - Charlie Rose

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And yet only a few decades ago, it was assumed by even the most civilized societies that women were not fit for serious intellectual pursuits, especially scientific ones. The occasional female endowed with truly extraordinary talent occupied the unfortunate position of the George Eliot character who tells her son: “You may try—but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”

Resigned Harvard president Lawrence Summers became an academic outcast after speculating that there might be an “intrinsic” basis for the unequal numbers of men and women engaged in science and engineering at the university level. The idea that men and women are different creatures, with distinct drives and ways of thinking, is apparently so radical that even to raise it leads to the academic guillotine.

It could be that the female voice is perceived as being a gentle suggestion, as opposed to an order. Since most pilots are still male, it allows the man to feel that he is still the one in control of the situation and is not being ordered around by the computer. The following is a c/p of an article about this very thing. It makes a lot of sense to me, though the findings tend to contradict themselves. See what you think:

 The message “Bad Command or Wrong File Name” is about as informative as “If you don’t know why I am mad, then I’m certainly not going to tell you.”

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I do not know where you got this information about a female computer voice. The 747 uses a male computer voice. Watch a few cockpit videos of the 747 on finals and you’ll hear the computer.

Where can i download clips of the female computer voice from star trek?

With a versatile female voice coupled with articulate pronounciations and accents to match. I am able to modulate my voice to suit various types of Voice over work, like smooth, fun and sexy for commercials where the laughter can actually be heard in the voice, professional and cutting edge for presentations, high pitched and comical for cartoons and animation - I can do an excellent baby, child and an even better evil witch / old lady. I’m good at changing my voice to suit various styles. I do voice overs in English using North American, British and Neutral accents - But I’m best at sultry, alluring and mysterious female voices.

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Only the female computer voice was kept at a higher rate, since it adds a strong note of personality. (Check out a sample of her voice below.) All the voice games that followed were allocated 12 or 16K; even the foreign versions of Space Spartans (Gli Spartani Dello Spazio, Les Spartiates De L’Espace and Spartaner Aus Dem All) were given 12K each.

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Babylon 5 - female computer voice: Password confirmed. Please stand by.

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Wipeout Fusion (Sony) * “The female computer voice of you’re ship’s on-board systems announce various warnings and system’s status. A booming PA announcer voice announces finishing positions and eliminations. The culmination of all these sounds creates an auditory experience second to none.” impactsites2000

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The 1996 Discotech Remix of Jellybean’s song “Sidewalk Talk” features a sample of the phrase “approach and identify”, spoken by the female computer voice in the movie.

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March 19, 2006 The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. * A “FeMac” computer appears, looking much like the Apple Computer “iMac”. * A female computer voice says “You’ve got mail”, a reference to the America Online software.

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film The Jetsons Meet the Flinstones (1987) as Judy Jetson/Female Computer (voice)

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Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within. Each menu has a female computer-voice-over that explains in an understandable way how to use some of the features,

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Homer Defined Metropolis - The monitor in position (2,2) of Burns’ array shows a scene from the beginning of the movie, workers marching in step up a staircase {tws} “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Alien, The Andromeda Strain - (STTNG) the sickeningly soothing female computer voice. - (Alien) female voice counting down to destruction. {sa} {slp} - (Andromeda Strain) female voice counting down to destruction. {pa} + Goldfinger - Homer saves the plant with 007 seconds remaining. {slp}

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Star Trek Computer soundsIf you are a Star Trek fan or love sound effects, this clips are for you! Hear the brilliantly futuristic sound effects of computers that were created by some of the best sound editors of that time.

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Carver: [Pointing a gun at Bond] You’re too late again, Mr. Bond. It’s a bad habit of yours. There’s nothing you can do. [An explosion distracts them both. Bond discovers the Sea-Vac controls and the drill is facing conveniently behind Carver]Female Computer Voice: “T”-minus two minutes and counting.

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It’s a path that many major-label artists are pursuing, but perhaps none with the same vigor or payoff as the raunchy Louisiana rhymer. He has recorded, for instance, hundreds of informal “mixtape” albums, quick-off exercises in rhyme that often feature plenty of trash talk between rappers and are followed by fans like verbal soap operas.

Hard-earned million - Los Angeles Times

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Capitalism’s defenders need to deal with two sorts of criticism. One has much more substance than the other.The weaker, populist argument is that Anglo-Saxon capitalism has failed. Critics claim that the “Washington consensus” of deregulation and privatisation, preached condescendingly by America and Britain to benighted governments around the world, has actually brought the world economy to the brink of disaster. If this notion continues to gain ground, politicians from Beijing to Berlin will feel justified in resisting moves to free up the movement of goods and services within and between their economies. Arguments for market solutions in, for instance, health and education will be made with less conviction, and dismissed with a reference to Wall Street’s fate.In fact, far from failing, the overall lowering of “barriers to intercourse” over the past 25 years has delivered wealth and freedom on a dramatic scale. Hundreds of millions of people have been dragged out of absolute poverty. Even allowing for the credit crunch, this decade may well see the fastest growth in global income per person in history. The free movement of non-financial goods and services should not be dragged into the argument—as they were, to disastrous effect, in the 1930s.A second group of critics focuses on deregulation in finance, rather than the economy as a whole. This case has much more merit. Finance needs regulation. It has always been prone to panics, crashes and bubbles (in Victorian times this newspaper was moaning about railway stocks, not house prices). Because the rest of the economy cannot work without it, governments have always been heavily involved.

Capitalism at bay | The Economist

The Economist opposes the command economy.

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Now economic liberty is under attack and capitalism, the system which embodies it, is at bay. This week Britain, the birthplace of modern privatisation, nationalised much of its banking industry; meanwhile, amid talk of the end of the Thatcher-Reagan era, the American government has promised to put $250 billion into its banks. Other governments are re-regulating their financial systems. Asians point out that the West appears to be moving towards their more dirigiste model: “The teachers have some problems,” a Chinese leader recently said. Interventionists are in full cry: “Self-regulation is finished,” claims France’s Nicolas Sarkozy. “Laissez-faire is finished.” Not all criticisms are that unsubtle (the more pointed ones focus on increasing the state’s role only in finance), but all the signs are pointing in the same direction: a larger role for the state, and a smaller and more constrained private sector.This newspaper hopes profoundly that this will not happen.

Capitalism at Bay - Today In Finance

[To some zealots, Capitalism is the same as de-regulation]

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the role of belief systems in advancing or inhibiting economic efficiency and socially acceptable behaviour.

IS GLOBAL CAPITALISM MORALLY DEFENSIBLE? — Dunning 24 (1): 135 — Contributions to Political Economy

The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.

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