Delta Pilots End Era of Luxurious Pay

What I saw visiting one of the ships that put out such cables - this is the
case.

Nik

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"nobody" wrote

Fibre optic repeaters every 40 to 60km need electricity to
regenerate/amplify
the light pulses.

The high voltage reduces current and hence loss of energy through
resistance
over such long distances.

I understand the concept, but is it not true that the cable being used,
has
metal (copper) strands, and glass strands in the same cable to make this
work? That was my only point.
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Jim in NC


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In article , Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
CEOs are highly paid for
the same reason NBA Basketball stars are, not many people can do those
jobs.

Millions of people have business degrees, and I resent looking upon those
folks as "stars" .

They aren't "stars", and it's almost a perversion of the laws of supply
and demand if you look at it simplistically. Take the sports or music
example from the original poster.

There are relatively few rock stars paid millions. Is this because there
are only a few people who can manage to be rock stars? No. In this
island I live on, with a population of 76000, there are dozens of bands
of various types who make GOOD original music. Musical talent is a
pretty common trait in the population as a whole - most people given the
inclination can learn to play an instrument well or sing or write songs,
and many do.
Same with sports - let's take football (tr. American: soccer) - football
stars are paid millions. But, take for example, Wayne Rooney. I bet
there are tens of thousands of people in Britain who are at least as
skilled as him.
And same with CEOs.

Now surely, with the laws of supply and demand, since there's only a few
jobs to fill (of either the rock star, footballer or CEO kind), but tens
of thousands of people (at least) who have the talent to do them,
surely, with 10,000 people available to fill each job (and willing to do
so) you shouldn't even have to pay them?

I think it comes down to cult of personality. Wayne Rooney, for example,
is worth millions as a footballer not because he's unique in his talent,
but because he's Wayne Rooney and there's only one of him (even if
there may be thousands who have his talent). Same with bands. Same with
CEOs - it becomes about a particular person, and often (especially in
business) about the networks they have developed and politicking they
can do rather than the laws of supply and demand for a particular skill.

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"Mike Rapoport" wrote

I agree that
the industry needs to shed capacity but it is hard to do.

Why don't they sell them to the Chinese? They ought to be needing more
capacity about now.

Cross posting deleted.
--
Jim in NC


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