The companies still collect the state taxes from their employees, but then don't have to pass the money onto the state. They literally are allowed to keep the state taxes they withheld from their employees' paychecks as tax-free income. Pure profit. On the backs of the employees. And guess what? Now somebody else has to cover the shortfall.
This outright lie invalidated any point you were trying to make. All you proved is you don't understand taxes at all. Income withholding taxes are pass-through taxes, and if the employer knowingly keeps them from the government they are supposed to deposit them towards, people go to jail and companies go under. Income withholding taxes in no way impact a companies' tax liability or credit against a companies tax liability, it's money employees would have paid the state or fed directly but due to volume is mandated to be withheld and remitted by the employer.
It's great that you got that opportunity, living in Georgia. I wanted to go to Georgia Tech, but out of state it was around $35,000 a year. What I'm getting at with that statement is your option to go to GT as a good school is predicated on your either living in Georgia or having lots of money, both of which adolescents have zero control over. If you're born in Idaho or North Dakota, it really hampers your options, essentially making it education by birthright.
Cargo ship is still significantly more fuel efficient than trains. Its not a case of trains being equal to cargo ships, its that cargo ships are vastly more efficient than any other form of mass goods transportation we use.
Believe me, if it was that simple, it'd already be done because there's a large workforce available to tap at low wages and low cost of living. My fiance is from the area you speak of, a town whose mine left 20 years ago and now the only real employment outside of places like McD's and Aaron's is in the hospital and in the prison. Drugs are rampant, teen pregnancy is horrible with the low desire to focus on abstinence and welfare babies are a real thing. It's not the ghetto of a large city, its an old mining town that's 98% white with similar problems and similar need for solutions.
The cities' disenfranchised have an advantage though, they have infrastructure. There is little to no reason to produce anything in Appalachia if you don't have to because you have to import the materials and create infrastructure on very uneven and difficult ground, plus the snow lock issues you suffer in the winter. These towns were built where they were only because of the natural resources available, outside of that they do not function well when competing with other locations. The only remaining major possibilities for these locations include utilizing the already present rail hubs for distribution facilities or if someone solves the holy grail of employment sourcing with decentralized gig economy style telecommuting at the level and expansiveness of Amazon. Outside of that, the only answer for people in these areas is often to flee if they find an out, perpetuating the cycle.
The other thing that bothers me about stories like this: "In 50 years, this may become a problem, and we don't have the means to immediately correct it right now!" Outside the dishonesty, its a major false equivalency because it compares a long-term change with the ability to correct it with immediacy. Junk clickbait news or dishonest mental masturbation, take your pick.
The reason bulk carriers work is because they're simple. The weight that goes into these ships is almost unbelievable, and adding moving components to the very bottom of that weight is a recipe for disaster. Bulk carriers are used for homogeneous goods sold in mass quantities for prices low enough that putting them in containers is cost prohibitive. I'm surprised that this is an issue, but I could see why the hold would have limited possible fixes for a situation like this. I think the eventual fix would more likely employ sensors of some sort to understand what types of resonance are causing the issue, or spotting them as they occur.
The stupidest thing about this ad isn't even the ending, it's the whole duration. The kid goes around to multiple areas in the city and in trees to...stare at the same screen. Making an ad about being in nature with your tech, but being in nature with your tech and not experiencing nature at all is completely disingenuous.
The USD isn't backed by a commodity but instead the entire US economy and US fiscal policy. The fed has shown a willingness to create domestic debt in order to maintain currency stability. That kind of reliability is why it's seen as the safest currency worldwide.
Really the worst possible brand to rag on about battery life. Motorola tends to have the highest battery capacity of all smartphones, and is why I own one. My Z has a 3500mAh battery with the expansion part on the back for an additional 6k. I could take it into the woods for 4 days and it not die on me.
I find it quite ironic that most of the people who continually complain about the US/SI issue are from bilingual or ESL countries. All the US system is is a language to describe units of measure, nothing more, nothing less. Would you expect everyone in France to abandon the language and start speaking English just because English has become the dominant language? No. The argument then comes about the precision of French as a language and the reason it was used as the language of diplomacy, just like the argument comes for the US system about how it relates more to everyday unit usage in common tasks.
They both describe the same thing with different words, and changing things over would be unnecessarily complex and a overall waste of time and resources for the little possible future gains.
This reads like a paranoid schizophrenic's writing. I'm not a fan of centralization, but most of your points focus on hair-brained nightmares of a libertarian without properly thinking them through. For example, #4 isn't possible because the value of the dollar is only stable internationally due to its reliability - if you want to see what happens when governments confiscate assets from private individuals and corporations without cause, look at Argentina and Venezuela and their currency volatility. Confiscating people's savings would send the dollar into a tailspin and cause it to lose more value than they gain by stealing it. Your take on this shows a severe lack of understanding in macroeconomics and how the global economy works, especially the focus on the national debt.
Ten thousand years ago, we looked up at the sun, stars, and moon and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural deities to rationalize their existence. 70 years ago, we saw military test aircraft with flashing lights in the sky in the western US and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence. 20 years ago, we recorded and saw unusual lighting phenomenon in rare circumstances, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence.
The common ground is a human being's desire to explain something they don't understand, not the flashing lights in the sky.
I remember working at Staples as a kid, seeing parents coming in during May and thinking they were clever buying shit for next years' school year. Little did they know the price of their $50 basket cost less than $10 during the Back to School sales, they're marked up during slower times to ensure the margin on keeping those isles stocked makes sense.
Sales happen during holidays and events because predictable movement of merchandise for revenue is extremely beneficial to retailers. Shopping outside of season to avoid the crowd almost always ensures you're paying a premium, unless you're buying holiday decorations or shopping the clearance sales after a season's end.
If you ask me, the biggest waste isn't daylight. It's all the road space, electrical generating capacity, and cell network bandwidth that goes unused every night, because there's a silly stigma against working the graveyard shift. Unless you work outside, it makes absolutely no difference whether the sun is shining over your place of employment. Convince half the population to be nocturnal and you've doubled the capacity of your roads, without paving a single new lane.
Good luck with that. Nocturnal schedules are significantly harder on the body. It has nothing to do with preference, it has everything to do with biology.
Motorola has a good hold on that market. Their android skinning is very limited and their phones have already been in that ballpark. I was interested in the essential phone, but at the price compared to my Moto Z it just wasn't worth it.
California has the most abused disability system in the continental US and still owes the federal unemployment trust fund a metric buttload of money they haven't paid back, resulting in employers paying way higher federal unemployment tax for their operations in that state - the only state still with a deficit. The lack of accountability in CA with government spending is absolutely staggering and it drives up costs for employers and employees alike.
I agree, it was a pretty fun movie. The planning scenes reminded me a lot of the Witcher 3's Novigrad arc and the combat scenes were really cool. The camera play with the special effects in the combat was a really interesting take.
It's not the gems themselves that cost the money, its the cutting process. It's a very time consuming manual process that takes a lot of training. You can buy one of those big ol' slabs of lab diamond, but good luck paying someone to cut them and ending up significantly below cost of buying a precut one from a wholesaler.
The people who made lab diamonds economical are doing extremely well for themselves, but the price isn't going to tank substantially until someone automates the cutting process.
It's just like reading a science article where the journalist flubs it up. Press releases of this nature are intentionally vague and job creation being en vogue like it is is just a talking point, with the financial benefits being reported in laymans terms with a lot of info left out. There's a lot of follow-on costs that will be taxed in a way to bring revenue to the area. The end result jobs at the data center don't add much at the end of the day - the business sales and use tax, utility revenue, infastructure development, construction phase, et al add up to quite a bit. Not only that, these incentives are almost always tied into expected costs as percentage credits, so they often can't be taken unless they're paying something in the first place.
Most city/state governments don't get fleeced in these agreements like some have in the past, the agreements are written up in a way to ensure the tax breaks don't trigger unless they do what they agreed to do.
Not only that, there's very little legal wiggle room around "unpaid internships" in the US. If you're doing any real, actual work, you have to be paid. It's why in all the snoody movies about working for a publisher or fashion or writing or producing the "intern" only ever gets coffee - that's all they're allowed to do, pretty much get coffee or lunch and observe the industry. Most unpaid internships are smaller employers trying to scam people and save money by skirting the labor laws.
California still owes the US Federal Unemployment Trust Fund a metric butt-load of money because their state unemployment went deep into the red. Instead of paying it back, employers in the state are having to fork out a lot of extra money every year to cover their shit.
FYI, California is the only state in the union that is still on the Credit Reduction list for this very issue.
Funny that you mention yarn. I live near the NC/SC border, and in SC, there's about 4 or 5 large buildings dedicated to textile manufacturing that have popped up in the past decade or so. Several of them even have foreign owners as shown by the Chinese letters (Keer) and then there's the old mainstays like Springs. Historically the Carolinas had a large textile industry, but it was weird seeing the jobs come back to the area under a Chinese overlord.
It's already started. My girlfriend used likeaglove smart pants so she could find jeans that fit her well. She's got a badonkadonk and lymphadema so it's been hard to find pants she likes, the smart pants found her a good match that she's happy with.
The reason they added 30 seconds was because they went through their checks to attempt to get the engines back online before diverting. The simulations were diverting almost immediately after the bird strikes because they knew the bird strike resulted in failure, when most bird strikes do not and most bird strikes allow engine restarts.
Honestly? I'm more interested in what Intel's legal bass tastes like. Is it more like a sea bass, or one of those skanky lake bass? This is important stuff.
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The companies still collect the state taxes from their employees, but then don't have to pass the money onto the state. They literally are allowed to keep the state taxes they withheld from their employees' paychecks as tax-free income. Pure profit. On the backs of the employees. And guess what? Now somebody else has to cover the shortfall.
This outright lie invalidated any point you were trying to make. All you proved is you don't understand taxes at all. Income withholding taxes are pass-through taxes, and if the employer knowingly keeps them from the government they are supposed to deposit them towards, people go to jail and companies go under. Income withholding taxes in no way impact a companies' tax liability or credit against a companies tax liability, it's money employees would have paid the state or fed directly but due to volume is mandated to be withheld and remitted by the employer.
It's great that you got that opportunity, living in Georgia. I wanted to go to Georgia Tech, but out of state it was around $35,000 a year. What I'm getting at with that statement is your option to go to GT as a good school is predicated on your either living in Georgia or having lots of money, both of which adolescents have zero control over. If you're born in Idaho or North Dakota, it really hampers your options, essentially making it education by birthright.
Cargo ship is still significantly more fuel efficient than trains. Its not a case of trains being equal to cargo ships, its that cargo ships are vastly more efficient than any other form of mass goods transportation we use.
Believe me, if it was that simple, it'd already be done because there's a large workforce available to tap at low wages and low cost of living. My fiance is from the area you speak of, a town whose mine left 20 years ago and now the only real employment outside of places like McD's and Aaron's is in the hospital and in the prison. Drugs are rampant, teen pregnancy is horrible with the low desire to focus on abstinence and welfare babies are a real thing. It's not the ghetto of a large city, its an old mining town that's 98% white with similar problems and similar need for solutions.
The cities' disenfranchised have an advantage though, they have infrastructure. There is little to no reason to produce anything in Appalachia if you don't have to because you have to import the materials and create infrastructure on very uneven and difficult ground, plus the snow lock issues you suffer in the winter. These towns were built where they were only because of the natural resources available, outside of that they do not function well when competing with other locations. The only remaining major possibilities for these locations include utilizing the already present rail hubs for distribution facilities or if someone solves the holy grail of employment sourcing with decentralized gig economy style telecommuting at the level and expansiveness of Amazon. Outside of that, the only answer for people in these areas is often to flee if they find an out, perpetuating the cycle.
The other thing that bothers me about stories like this: "In 50 years, this may become a problem, and we don't have the means to immediately correct it right now!" Outside the dishonesty, its a major false equivalency because it compares a long-term change with the ability to correct it with immediacy. Junk clickbait news or dishonest mental masturbation, take your pick.
The reason bulk carriers work is because they're simple. The weight that goes into these ships is almost unbelievable, and adding moving components to the very bottom of that weight is a recipe for disaster. Bulk carriers are used for homogeneous goods sold in mass quantities for prices low enough that putting them in containers is cost prohibitive. I'm surprised that this is an issue, but I could see why the hold would have limited possible fixes for a situation like this. I think the eventual fix would more likely employ sensors of some sort to understand what types of resonance are causing the issue, or spotting them as they occur.
The stupidest thing about this ad isn't even the ending, it's the whole duration. The kid goes around to multiple areas in the city and in trees to...stare at the same screen. Making an ad about being in nature with your tech, but being in nature with your tech and not experiencing nature at all is completely disingenuous.
The USD isn't backed by a commodity but instead the entire US economy and US fiscal policy. The fed has shown a willingness to create domestic debt in order to maintain currency stability. That kind of reliability is why it's seen as the safest currency worldwide.
Really the worst possible brand to rag on about battery life. Motorola tends to have the highest battery capacity of all smartphones, and is why I own one. My Z has a 3500mAh battery with the expansion part on the back for an additional 6k. I could take it into the woods for 4 days and it not die on me.
I find it quite ironic that most of the people who continually complain about the US/SI issue are from bilingual or ESL countries. All the US system is is a language to describe units of measure, nothing more, nothing less. Would you expect everyone in France to abandon the language and start speaking English just because English has become the dominant language? No. The argument then comes about the precision of French as a language and the reason it was used as the language of diplomacy, just like the argument comes for the US system about how it relates more to everyday unit usage in common tasks.
They both describe the same thing with different words, and changing things over would be unnecessarily complex and a overall waste of time and resources for the little possible future gains.
This reads like a paranoid schizophrenic's writing. I'm not a fan of centralization, but most of your points focus on hair-brained nightmares of a libertarian without properly thinking them through. For example, #4 isn't possible because the value of the dollar is only stable internationally due to its reliability - if you want to see what happens when governments confiscate assets from private individuals and corporations without cause, look at Argentina and Venezuela and their currency volatility. Confiscating people's savings would send the dollar into a tailspin and cause it to lose more value than they gain by stealing it. Your take on this shows a severe lack of understanding in macroeconomics and how the global economy works, especially the focus on the national debt.
Ten thousand years ago, we looked up at the sun, stars, and moon and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural deities to rationalize their existence. 70 years ago, we saw military test aircraft with flashing lights in the sky in the western US and didn't understand them, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence. 20 years ago, we recorded and saw unusual lighting phenomenon in rare circumstances, so we made them supernatural entities to rationalize their existence.
The common ground is a human being's desire to explain something they don't understand, not the flashing lights in the sky.
I remember working at Staples as a kid, seeing parents coming in during May and thinking they were clever buying shit for next years' school year. Little did they know the price of their $50 basket cost less than $10 during the Back to School sales, they're marked up during slower times to ensure the margin on keeping those isles stocked makes sense.
Sales happen during holidays and events because predictable movement of merchandise for revenue is extremely beneficial to retailers. Shopping outside of season to avoid the crowd almost always ensures you're paying a premium, unless you're buying holiday decorations or shopping the clearance sales after a season's end.
If you ask me, the biggest waste isn't daylight. It's all the road space, electrical generating capacity, and cell network bandwidth that goes unused every night, because there's a silly stigma against working the graveyard shift. Unless you work outside, it makes absolutely no difference whether the sun is shining over your place of employment. Convince half the population to be nocturnal and you've doubled the capacity of your roads, without paving a single new lane.
Good luck with that. Nocturnal schedules are significantly harder on the body. It has nothing to do with preference, it has everything to do with biology.
Motorola has a good hold on that market. Their android skinning is very limited and their phones have already been in that ballpark. I was interested in the essential phone, but at the price compared to my Moto Z it just wasn't worth it.
California has the most abused disability system in the continental US and still owes the federal unemployment trust fund a metric buttload of money they haven't paid back, resulting in employers paying way higher federal unemployment tax for their operations in that state - the only state still with a deficit. The lack of accountability in CA with government spending is absolutely staggering and it drives up costs for employers and employees alike.
I agree, it was a pretty fun movie. The planning scenes reminded me a lot of the Witcher 3's Novigrad arc and the combat scenes were really cool. The camera play with the special effects in the combat was a really interesting take.
It's not the gems themselves that cost the money, its the cutting process. It's a very time consuming manual process that takes a lot of training. You can buy one of those big ol' slabs of lab diamond, but good luck paying someone to cut them and ending up significantly below cost of buying a precut one from a wholesaler.
The people who made lab diamonds economical are doing extremely well for themselves, but the price isn't going to tank substantially until someone automates the cutting process.
It's just like reading a science article where the journalist flubs it up. Press releases of this nature are intentionally vague and job creation being en vogue like it is is just a talking point, with the financial benefits being reported in laymans terms with a lot of info left out. There's a lot of follow-on costs that will be taxed in a way to bring revenue to the area. The end result jobs at the data center don't add much at the end of the day - the business sales and use tax, utility revenue, infastructure development, construction phase, et al add up to quite a bit. Not only that, these incentives are almost always tied into expected costs as percentage credits, so they often can't be taken unless they're paying something in the first place.
Most city/state governments don't get fleeced in these agreements like some have in the past, the agreements are written up in a way to ensure the tax breaks don't trigger unless they do what they agreed to do.
Not only that, there's very little legal wiggle room around "unpaid internships" in the US. If you're doing any real, actual work, you have to be paid. It's why in all the snoody movies about working for a publisher or fashion or writing or producing the "intern" only ever gets coffee - that's all they're allowed to do, pretty much get coffee or lunch and observe the industry. Most unpaid internships are smaller employers trying to scam people and save money by skirting the labor laws.
California still owes the US Federal Unemployment Trust Fund a metric butt-load of money because their state unemployment went deep into the red. Instead of paying it back, employers in the state are having to fork out a lot of extra money every year to cover their shit.
FYI, California is the only state in the union that is still on the Credit Reduction list for this very issue.
Funny that you mention yarn. I live near the NC/SC border, and in SC, there's about 4 or 5 large buildings dedicated to textile manufacturing that have popped up in the past decade or so. Several of them even have foreign owners as shown by the Chinese letters (Keer) and then there's the old mainstays like Springs. Historically the Carolinas had a large textile industry, but it was weird seeing the jobs come back to the area under a Chinese overlord.
It's already started. My girlfriend used likeaglove smart pants so she could find jeans that fit her well. She's got a badonkadonk and lymphadema so it's been hard to find pants she likes, the smart pants found her a good match that she's happy with.
The reason they added 30 seconds was because they went through their checks to attempt to get the engines back online before diverting. The simulations were diverting almost immediately after the bird strikes because they knew the bird strike resulted in failure, when most bird strikes do not and most bird strikes allow engine restarts.
Honestly? I'm more interested in what Intel's legal bass tastes like. Is it more like a sea bass, or one of those skanky lake bass? This is important stuff.