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Tech sector is growing

Grisham 2015 (Preston Grisham, United States Tech Industry Employs 6.5 Million in 2014,
February 10th, 2015, https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2015/02/10/unitedstates-tech-industry-employs-6.5-million-in-2014)
Washington, D.C., February 10, 2015 The U.S. tech industry added 129,600 net jobs between 2013
and 2014, for a total of nearly 6.5 million jobs in the U.S., according to Cyberstates 2015: The
Definitive State-by-State Analysis of the U.S. Tech Industry published by CompTIA. The report
represents a comprehensive look at tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors nationally
and state-by-state, covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This years edition
shows that tech industry jobs account for 5.7 percent of the entire private sector workforce. Tech
industry employment grew at the same rate as the overall private sector, 2 percent, between 20132014. Growth was led by the IT services sector which added 63,300 jobs between 2013 and 2014 and
the R&D, testing, and engineering services sector that added 50,700 jobs. The U.S. tech industry
continues to make significant contributions to our economy, said Todd Thibodeaux, president and
CEO, CompTIA. The tech industry accounts for 7.1 percent of the overall U.S. GDP and 11.4
percent of the total U.S. private sector payroll. With annual average wages that are more than
double that of the private sector, we should be doing all we can to encourage the growth and vitality of our nations tech industry.

Tech spending increasing now despite projections

Seitz 1/30/15
(Patrick, 1/30/15, Investors Business Daily, Software apps to continue dominating cloud sales,
http://news.investors.com/technology-click/013015-736967-software-as-a-service-gets-lions-share-ofpublic-cloud-revenue.htm, 7/13/15, SM)
Public cloud computing services are a bright spot in the otherwise stagnant corporate information technology market, and software-as-a-service
(SaaS) vendors are seen benefiting disproportionately in the years ahead. Public cloud spending reached $67 billion in

2014 and is expected to hit $113 billion in 2018, Technology Business Research said in a report Wednesday. "While the vast
majority of IT companies remain plagued by low-single-digit revenue growth rates at best, investments in public cloud from
software-centric vendors such as Microsoft and SAP are moving the corporate needle ," TBR analyst Jillian
Mirandi said in a statement. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is pushing the cloud development platform Azure and migrating Office customers to
the cloud-based Office 365. SAP (NYSE:SAP) got a late start to the public cloud but has acquired SuccessFactors and Ariba to accelerate its
efforts. The second half of 2014 was marked by partnerships and integration of services from different vendors in the software-as-a-service
sector. SaaS vendors like Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and Workday (NYSE:WDAY) have also added cloud-based

analytics applications, which have increased their appeal to business users, Mirandi said. Software-as-aservice accounted for 62% of public cloud spending last year, and the percentage will decline only modestly in the
years ahead. Technology Business Research estimates that SaaS will be 59.5% of public cloud spending in 2018. Infrastructure-as-aservice (IaaS)is the second-largest category of public cloud spending, at 28.5% in 2014, but
climbing to 30.5% in 2018. IaaS vendors include Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google
(NASDAQ:GOOGL). Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is the third category, accounting for 9.5% of spending last year and projected to be 10% in
2018, TBR says. PaaS vendors include Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com.

Tech spending is through the roof now

Holland 1/26 (Simon Holland, Marketing technology industry set for explosive revenue gains,
1/26/15 http://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2015/jan/26/marketing-technology-industry-setexplosive-revenue-gains/)
Companies investing in marketing technology will continue to raise their budgets , with global
vendor revenue forecasted to touch $32.2 billion by 2018. The projections, part of an IDC webinar on the
marketing software revolution, reveal a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.4% and total spend of $130
billion across the five-year stretch between 2014 and 2015. Customer relationship management
software is a sizable growth sector of marketing, with projections from IDCs software tracker predicting CRM
application revenue will reach $31.7 billion by 2018, a CAGR of 6.9%. A MaaS revival Most marketing solutions are available in the
cloud, but some large businesses are acquiring these point solutions, investing in them and then turning them into a marketing as a service
platform. The MaaS, an industry segment bundling a tech platform, creative services and the IT services to run it, is making a comeback after
economic uncertainty stunted investment in this area for so many years. IDCs view on marketing as a service platforms is that it will blend
global media and marketing tech expenditure. There may have been little or no budget being attributed to this type of product in 2014, but IDC

has forecasted increases in the run up to 2018. Getting the investment in early can set a company up for a similar or larger
return later down the road, a fact demonstrated by IDC that puts spend from digital marketing leaders at $14
million while achievers and contenders set aside $4.2 million and $3.1 million respectively .

Tech industry spending high now

Columbus 14
(Louis, 2/24/14, Forbes, The Best Cloud Computing Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2014,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2014/02/24/the-best-cloud-computing-companies-and-ceosto-work-for-in-2014/, 7/17/15, SM)
IT decision makers spending on security technologies will increase 46% in 2015, with cloud computing
increasing 42% and business analytics investments up 38%. . Enterprise investments in storage will increase 36%, and
for wireless & mobile, 35%. Cloud computing initiatives are the most important project for the majority of IT departments today (16%) and are
expected to cause the most disruption in the future. IDG predicts the majority of cloud computings disruption will be focused on improving
service and generating new revenue streams. These and other key take-aways are from recent IDG Enterprise research titled Computerworld
Forecast Study 2015. The goal of the study was to determine IT priorities for 2015 in areas such as spending, staffing and technology.
Computerworld spoke with 194 respondents, 55% of which are from the executive IT roles. 19% from mid-level IT, 16% in IT professional roles
and 7% in business management. You can find the results and methodology of the study here. Additional key take-aways from the study
include: Enterprises are predicting they will increase their spending on security technologies by 46%, cloud computing by 42% with the
greatest growth in enterprises with over 1,000 employees (52%), 38% in business analytics, 36% for storage
solutions and 35% for wireless & mobile. The following graphic provides an overview of the top five tech spending increases in 2015:

The tech sector is growing nowemployment

Snyder 2/5 (Bill Snyder, The best jobs are in tech, and so is the job growth, Febuary 5 th, 2015,
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2879051/it-careers/the-best-jobs-are-in-tech-and-so-is-the-jobgrowth.html)
In 2014, IT employment grew by 2.4 percent. Although that doesnt sound like much, it represents
more than 100,000 jobs. If the projections by CompTIA and others hold up, the economy will add even
more this year. Tech dominates the best jobs in America A separate report by Glassdoor, a large job
board that includes employee-written reviews of companies and top managers, singled out 25 of the best
jobs in America, and 10 of those were in IT. Judged by a combination of factors -- including earnings
potential, career opportunities, and the number of current job listings -- the highest-rated tech job was
software engineer, with an average base salary of $98,074. In the last three months, employers have
posted 104,828 openings for software engineers and developers on the Glassdoor job site, though many
are no longer current. (Glassdoor combines the titles of software developers and software engineers, so
we don't know how many of those positions were just for engineers.) The highest-paid tech occupation
listed on Glassdoor is solutions architect, with an average base pay of $121,657. Looked at more broadly,
the hottest tech occupation in the United States last year was Web developer, for which available jobs
grew by 4 percent to a total of 235,043 jobs -- a substantial chunk of the 4.88 million employed tech
workers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As for tech support, jobs in that occupation

increased by 2.5 percent to 853,256, which is a bit more than overall tech job growth of 2.4 percent.
Taken together, the two new reports provide more evidence that we can expect at least another year of
buoyant employment prospects in IT -- and give rough guidelines of the skills you need to get a great
job and the potential employers you might contact. Hiring across the economy Most striking is the shift
in employer attitudes over the last year or two, says Tim Herbert, CompTIAs vice president of
research. Theres less concern about the bottom dropping out, he said. Even worst-case estimates
by employers are not at all bad, he adds. The survey found that 43 percent of the companies say they
are understaffed, and 68 percent say they expect filling those positions will be challenging or very
challenging. If thats the case, supply and demand should push salaries even higher. One of the
most positive trends in last years employment picture is the broad wave of IT hiring stretching
across different sectors of the economy. Companies that posted the largest number of online ads for ITrelated jobs were Accenture, Deloitte, Oracle, General Dynamics, Amazon.com, JP Morgan, United
Health, and Best Buy, according to Burning Glass Technologies Labor Insights, which tracks online
advertising. Information technology now pervades the entire economy , says CompTIAs Herbert.
Whats more, technologies like cloud computing and software as a service are cheap enough and
stable enough for small and medium-sized businesses to adopt, which in turn creates even more job
opportunities, he notes.

US tech Sector strong now. Growth is huge disproves the advantage

COMP TIA 14
(Comp TIA is the voice of the worlds information technology (IT) industry. As a non-profit trade
association, we advance the global interests of IT professionals and IT channel organizations. U.S Tech
Industry Adds Nearly 119,000 Jobs in First Half of 2014, TechAmerica Foundation Analysis Reveals
COMPTIA - Oct 15, 2014 - https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2014/10/15/u.stech-industry-adds-nearly-119-000-jobs-in-first-half-of-2014-techamerica-foundation-analysis-reveals)
The United States technology industry added nearly 119,000 net jobs during the first half of 2014, a new analysis by the
TechAmerica Foundation reveals. The industry employed some 6.3 million workers as of June 2014. During the first six months of the year
industry employment increased by 1.9 percent. This growth rate was slightly higher than the 1.8 percent growth during the same
period in 2013, but slower than the 3.5 percent growth in employment for the overall private sector. The latest edition of the TechAmerica
Foundations Competitiveness Series examines national tech employment trends for the past 18 months in five sectors: technology
manufacturing, telecommunications, software publishing, IT services and R&D, testing and engineering services. Each of
the five categories recorded job growth during the first six months of 2014. The IT services category, for example, added 36,000
jobs. This is a reflection of one of the most significant macro trends shaping the industry right now the ongoing shift to an agile, on-demand, as-a-service model, said Todd Thibodeaux, president and chief executive officer, CompTIA.

Solvency
The Aff cant undo the overwhelming perception of US surveillance
Fontaine 14 (President of the Center for a New American Security)
(Richard, Bringing Liberty Online: Reenergizing the Internet Freedom Agenda in a Post-Snowden Era,
SEPTEMBER 2014, Center for New American Security)

Such moves are destined to have only a modest effect on foreign reactions. U.S. surveillance will

inevitably continue under any reasonably likely scenario (indeed, despite the expressions of
outrage, not a single country has said that it would cease its surveillance activities). Many of the
demands such as for greater transparency will not be met, simply due to the clandestine
nature of electronic espionage. Any limits on surveillance that a government might announce
will not be publicly verifiable and thus perhaps not fully credible. Nor will there be an international nospying convention to reassure foreign citizens that their communications are unmonitored. As it has for centuries, state- sponsored espionage

The one major possible shift in

policy following the Snowden affair a stop to the bulk collection of telecommunications metadata in the United States will not
activities are likely to remain accepted international practice, unconstrained by international law.

constrain the activity most disturbing to foreigners; that is, Americas surveillance of them. At the same time,
U.S. offi- cials are highly unlikely to articulate a global right to privacy (as have the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and some
foreign officials), akin to that derived from the U.S. Constitutions fourth amendment, that would permit foreigners to sue in U.S. courts to
enforce such a right.39 The Obama administrations January 2014 presidential directive on signals intelligence refers, notably, to the legitimate
privacy interests of all persons, regardless of nationality, and not to a privacy right.40

Impacts
No impact to loss of U.S hegemony
Fettweis 10 (Christopher J. Professor of Political Science at Tulane, Dangerous Times-The
International Politics of Great Power Peace, pg. 175-6)
If the only thing standing between the world and chaos is the US military presence, then an adjustment in grand strategy would be exceptionally
counter-productive. But it is worth recalling that none

of the other explanations for the decline of war nuclear weapons,

complex economic interdependence , international and domestic political institutions , evolution in
ideas and norms necessitate an activist America to maintain their validity. Were American to become
more restrained, nuclear weapons would still affect the calculations of the would be aggressor ; the process of
globalization would continue, deepening the complexity of economic interdependence ; the United Nations could
still deploy peacekeepers where necessary; and democracy would not shrivel where it currently exists . More importantly, the
idea that war is a worthwhile way to resolve conflict would have no reason to return. As was argued in chapter 2,
normative evolution is typically unidirectional. Strategic restraint in such a world be virtually risk free.

No impactstatistics prove that no war occurs from U.S.

economic decline
Drezner 12 Daniel is a professor in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts. (The Irony of Global Economic Governance: The System Worked, October
2012, http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/IR-ColloquiumMT12-Week-5_The-Irony-of-Global-Economic-Governance.pdf)
The final outcome addresses a dog that hasnt barked: the effect of the Great
Recession on cross-border conflict and violence. During the initial stages of the
crisis, multiple analysts asserted that the financial crisis would lead states to
increase their use of force as a tool for staying in power.37 Whether through greater
internal repression, diversionary wars, arms races, o r a ratcheting up of great power
conflict, there were genuine concerns that the global economic downturn would lead
to an increase in conflict. Violence in the Middle East, border disputes in the South

China Sea, and even the disruptions of the Occupy movement fuel impressions of
surge in global public disorder.
The aggregate data suggests otherwise, however. The Institute for Economics
and Peace has constructed a Global Peace Index annually since 2007. A key
conclusion they draw from the 2012 report is that The average level of
peacefulness in 2012 is approximately the same as it was in 2007.38 Interstate
violence in particular has declined since the start of the financial crisis as have
military expenditures in most sampled countries. Other studies confirm that the
Great Recession has not triggered any increase in violent conflict; the secular
decline in violence that started with the end of the Cold War has not been
reversed.39 Rogers Brubaker concludes, the crisis has not to date generated the
surge in protectionist nationalism or ethnic exclusion that might have been
expected.40
None of these data suggest that the global economy is operating swimmingly.
Growth remains unbalanced and fragile, and has clearly slowed in 2012.
Transnational capital flows remain depressed compared to pre-crisis levels, primarily
due to a drying up of cross-border interbank lending in Europe. Currency volatility
remains an ongoing concern. Compared to the aftermath of other postwar
recessions, growth in output, investment, and employment in the developed world
have all lagged behind. But the Great Recession is not like other postwar recessions
in either scope or kind; expecting a standard V-shaped recovery was
unreasonable. One financial analyst characterized the post-2008 global economy as
in a state of contained depression.41 The key word is contained, however. Given
the severity, reach and depth of the 2008 financial crisis, the proper comparison is
with Great Depression. And by that standard, the outcome variables look
impressive. As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff concluded in This Time is
Different: that its macroeconomic outcome has been only the most severe global
recession since World War II and not even worse must be regarded as
fortunate.42

Other countries have already decoupled with the U.S. economy

which means US isnt key to the global economy
Bloomberg 10 [Wall Street Sees World Economy Decoupling From U.S.,
October 4th, 2010, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-03/world-economydecoupling-from-u-s-in-slowdown-returns-as-wall-street-view.html, Chetan]

The main reason for the divergence: Direct transmission from a U.S. slowdown to
other economies through exports is just not large enough to spread a U.S. demand
problem globally, Goldman Sachs economists Dominic Wilson and Stacy Carlson
wrote in a Sept. 22 report entitled If the U.S. sneezes... Limited Exposure Take the
so-called BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. While exports account for
almost 20 percent of their gross domestic product, sales to the U.S. compose less
than 5 percent of GDP, according to their estimates. That means even if U.S. growth
slowed 2 percent, the drag on these four countries would be about 0.1 percentage
point, the economists reckon. Developed economies including the U.K., Germany

and Japan also have limited exposure, they said. Economies outside the U.S. have
room to grow that the U.S. doesnt, partly because of its outsized slump in house
prices, Wilson and Carlson said. The drop of almost 35 percent is more than twice as
large as the worst declines in the rest of the Group of 10 industrial nations, they
found. The risk to the decoupling wager is a repeat of 2008, when the U.S. property
bubble burst and then morphed into a global credit and banking shock that
ricocheted around the world. For now, Goldman Sachss index of U.S. financial
conditions signals that bond and stock markets arent stressed by the U.S. outlook.
Weaker Dollar The break with the U.S. will be reflected in a weaker dollar, with the
Chinese yuan appreciating to 6.49 per dollar in a year from 6.685 on Oct. 1,
according to Goldman Sachs forecasts. The bank is also betting that yields on U.S.
10-year debt will be lower by June than equivalent yields for Germany, the U.K.,
Canada, Australia and Norway. U.S. notes will rise to 2.8 percent from 2.52 percent,
Germanys will increase to 3 percent from 2.3 percent and Canadas will grow to 3.8
percent from 2.76 percent on Oct. 1, Goldman Sachs projects. Goldman Sachs isnt
alone in making the case for decoupling. Harris at BofA Merrill Lynch said he didnt
buy the argument prior to the financial crisis. Now he believes global growth is
strong enough to offer a handkerchief to the U.S. as it suffers a growth recession
of weak expansion and rising unemployment, he said. Giving him confidence is his
calculation that the U.S. share of global GDP has shrunk to about 24 percent from
31 percent in 2000. He also notes that, unlike the U.S., many countries avoided
asset bubbles, kept their banking systems sound and improved their trade and
budget positions. Economic Locomotives A book published last week by the World
Bank backs him up. The Day After Tomorrow concludes that developing nations
arent only decoupling, they also are undergoing a switchover that will make them
such locomotives for the world economy, they can help rescue advanced nations.
Among the reasons for the revolution are greater trade between emerging markets,
the rise of the middle class and higher commodity prices, the book said. Investors
are signaling they agree. The U.S. has fallen behind Brazil, China and India as the
preferred place to invest, according to a quarterly survey conducted last month of
1,408 investors, analysts and traders who subscribe to Bloomberg. Emerging
markets also attracted more money from share offerings than industrialized nations
last quarter for the first time in at least a decade, Bloomberg data show. Room to
Ease Indonesia, India, China and Poland are the developing economies least
vulnerable to a U.S. slowdown, according to a Sept. 14 study based on trade ties by
HSBC Holdings Plc economists. China, Russia and Brazil also are among nations with
more room than industrial countries to ease policies if a U.S. slowdown does weigh
on their growth, according to a policy- flexibility index designed by the economists,
who include New York-based Pablo Goldberg. Emerging economies kept their
powder relatively dry, and are, for the most part, in a position where they could act
countercyclically if needed, the HSBC group said. Links to developing countries are
helping insulate some companies against U.S. weakness. Swiss watch manufacturer
Swatch Group AG and tire maker Nokian Renkaat of Finland are among the
European businesses that should benefit from trade with nations such as Russia and
China where consumer demand is growing, according to BlackRock Inc. portfolio
manager Alister Hibbert. Theres a lot of life in the global economy, Hibbert, said
at a Sept. 8 presentation to reporters in London.

Disadvantages
Turn They increase cloud computing, which hurts the environment
Schmidt 10 (Stephan Schmidt, writer for the Guardian, "The dark side of cloud computing:
soaring carbon emissions," The Guardian, 4-1-2010,
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/apr/30/cloud-computing-carbon-emissions, al)
However, things turned out differently. Each day we generate more and more data your digital
footprint, so to speak, requires huge amounts of server space and energy. A part of that digital
footprint may be described as digital waste just think about all the data that you have created
online that you no longer use. Almost everything we do online increases our carbon footprint. As
a perverse example, Antivirus Company MacAffee reports that the electricity needed just to
transmit the trillions of spam e-mails sent every year is equivalent to powering two million
homes in the United States and generates the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as that
produced by three million cars. According to a recent Greenpeace report, Make IT Green: Cloud
Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change, the electricity consumed by cloud
computing globally will increase from 632 billion kilowatt hours in 2007 to 1,963 billion kWh
by 2020 and the associated CO2 equivalent emissions would reach 1,034 megatonnes.
Extinction and food insecurity 24 academic and professional bodies for scientific, medical
and engineering say we must stop emitting carbon now
Carrington 7/20 (Damian Carrington, head of environment at the Guardian, "Act on climate
change now, top British institutions tell governments," The Guardian, 7-20-2015,
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/21/act-on-climate-change-now-top-britishinstitutions-tell-governments, al)
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming that the climate is warming and that human activity
is largely responsible for this change through emissions of greenhouse gases. Governments will
meet in Paris in November and December this year to negotiate a legally binding and universal
agreement on tackling climate change. Any international policy response to climate change must

be rooted in the latest scientific evidence. This indicates that if we are to have a reasonable
chance of limiting global warming in this century to 2C relative to the pre-industrial period, we
must transition to a zero-carbon world by early in the second half of the century. To achieve this
transition, governments should demonstrate leadership by recognizing the risks climate change
poses, embracing appropriate policy and technological responses, and seizing the opportunities
of low-carbon and climate-resilient growth. Risks. Climate change poses risks to people and
ecosystems by exacerbating existing economic, environmental, geopolitical, health and societal
threats, and generating new ones. These risks increase disproportionately as the temperature
increases. Many systems are already at risk from climate change. A rise of 2C above preindustrial levels would lead to further increased risk from extreme weather and would place more
ecosystems and cultures in significant danger. At or above 4C, the risks include substantial
species extinction, global and regional food insecurity, and fundamental changes to human
activities that today are taken for granted.
Increased cloud computing contributes to ghg emissions
Greenpeace 11 (non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty
countries, How dirty is your data?: A Look at the Energy Choices That Power Cloud
Computing, Greenpeace International, April 2011,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2011/Cool
%20IT/dirty-data-report-greenpeace.pdf/, al)
Data centres to house the explosion of virtual information currently consume 1.5-2% of all
global electricity; this is growing at a rate of 12% a year. The IT industry points to cloud
computing as the new, green model for our IT infrastructure needs, but few companies provide
data that would allow us to objectively evaluate these claims. The technologies of the 21st
century are still largely powered by the dirty coal power of the past, with over half of the
companies rated herein relying on coal for between 50% and 80% of their energy needs. IT
innovations have the potential to cut greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of the economy,
but ITs own growing demand for dirty energy remains largely unaddressed by the worlds
biggest IT brands. There is a lack of transparency across the industry about ITs own greenhouse
gas footprint and a need to open up the books on its energy footprint. In emerging markets,
where there is limited reliable grid electricity, there is a tremendous opportunity for telecom
operators to show leadership by investing in renewable energy, but many are relying on heavily
polluting diesel generators to fuel their growth. Data center clusters (Google, Facebook, Apple)
are cropping up in places like North Carolina and the US Midwest, where cheap and dirty coalpowered electricity is abundant. IT companies are failing to prioritize access to clean and
renewable energy in their infrastructure siting decisions. Of the 10 brands graded, Akamai, a
global content distribution network, earned top-of-the-class recognition for transparency; Yahoo!
had the strongest infrastructure siting policy; Google & IBM demonstrated the most
comprehensive overall approach to reduce its carbon footprint to date.
Warming causes the sixth mass extinction
Zielinski 4/30 (Sarah Zielinski, award-winning science writer and editor, "Climate Change Will
Accelerate Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction," Smithsonian, 4-30-2015,
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/climate-change-will-accelerate-earths-sixthmass-extinction-180955138/?no-ist, al)

Climate change is accelerating species loss on Earth, and by the end of this century, as many as
one in six species could be at risk of extinction. But while these effects are being seen around the
world, the threat is much higher in certain sensitive regions, according to two new
comprehensive studies. The planet is experiencing a new wave of die-offs driven by factors such
as habitat loss, the introduction of exotic invaders and rapid changes to our climate. Some people
have called the phenomenon the sixth mass extinction, on par with the catastrophic demise of the
large dinosaurs 65 million years ago. To try and combat the declines, scientists have been racing
to make predictions about which species are most likely to go extinct, along with when and
where it will happen, sometimes with widely varying results.