While yes, the number doesn't mean what it used to, there's a reason to be optimistic that opportunities could open up in the US. The stability of the US is a major factor that draws people right now, because a lot of them bet big on emerging markets and are losing their asses. There really isn't anywhere else you can put your money right now to get big returns with reasonable risk - Brazil is in a crisis, the Euro is in danger of breaking apart, Russia is Russia, the Middle East turmoil is turning that part of the world upside down, all the oil producing countries' economies are struggling, and China/Asia is looking riskier by the day. What's left? Stable returns on stable investments in the US.
Stable markets are very valuable right now because we live in a very unstable world.
NC is a very "purple" state and not homogeneous by any measure. Not just the RTP triangle, but Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington are huge areas where people are quite socially liberal, and those 4 alone make up over half the population of the state. I live in Charlotte, and people in Charlotte tend to be particularly annoyed when Raleigh craps on things Charlotte wants to do, particularly in terms of funding and policy, as Charlotte is the largest metropolitan area in the state.
I'm confident that this legislation will eventually be overturned, but it makes me angry because it does scare away open-minded people and businesses who might want to live in this state. Charlotte is currently undergoing a real estate boom and things are going great, it would suck for our economy to struggle because of politicians.
There's a lot of cynics here, but this kind of thing is great for someone who needs sodium regulation, especially the elderly. Simulated taste could also help a lot of people work towards a healthier lifestyle.
I personally think time is only part of the problem. It takes motivation, and motivation is treated like a magic word in our society. If we take that word and try to quantify it, instead of treating it as 'you either have it or you dont' then we can start to see a clearer picture.
If we look at motivation like a currency, a currency that gets used up when you do things you don't want to do and accrued during moments of rest or happiness, we can see people living more somber lives are less likely to have the motivation left to do things to make their situation better. Even worse, when we factor in the psychological factor and factor that in as a capacity factor, we see that the 'motivation piggy bank' of the depressed is extremely small and/or has a hole in the bottom.
When viewing motivation through this model, its easier to see how to improve a situation. The answer isn't to 'get up and do it,' its to find the things that are draining motivation, find more things that could increase a person's capacity to be motivated, or change activities the person is doing so there's a better balance of positives to negatives. In school, mental health isn't a primary topic and is rarely discussed at all, so most children and many adults do not know how to understand themselves or what they're going through. Giving people strategies like this to work on bettering themselves on step at a time, rather than having them staring at the peak of the mountain when they're only just at the base of it.
It does, however, benefit the companies' economies of scale. They can operate bigger more efficient plants for neighboring areas, and get a full picture on energy distribution for grid build-out plans. Also important, they can implement larger projects without as much risk which is useful due to the high upfront costs of renewables deployment.
This is one area where regulation has been pretty successful, at least where I'm at. Profit margins and prices of power are limited where I'm at so a power company can't go chasing a dream.
The very act of a macro removing the macros from the document is at a high privilege level already, because it has the ability to modify the macros. A macro with the ability to modify a macro or save a file is already at the application layer and filesystem layer.
Also, certain tools can be used at different privilege levels. I've used FileSystemObject to write CSVs out of the files directly (write/create), and I've also used it just to get a directory list (read). I mean, you could blacklist certain parts of each command, but a lot of that stuff can be done about 100 different ways via different roundabout methods I can generate a new CSV without modifying anything but the current file, formatting a tab and saving it as a CSV then re-saving as the original, to get the exact same result as read/write access of the FSO scripting previously mentioned. The application layer also allows control of error handling/messaging and even screen updating, giving you the ability to do it covertly.
Everything about macros in these programs are very powerful, but they're also extremely useful, which is why they're used.
This method requires too many beneficial ifs and doesn't account for any of the adverse ifs. If there is a power outage and the intersection can't coordinate cars, what happens? If there's no line of sight to crossing traffic for the autonomous cars via weather or elevation, what happens? How does it handle pedestrians or unusual traffic like a windmill flatbed or a wide load? All of these things have to have a smooth transition mechanism.
Its only pocket friendly because your pockets are too small. I'm not a big fan of the whole skinny jean hip-huggers so tight they cut the circulation off to your balls and raise your voice an octave.
In all seriousness, I understand how pockets shrink the smaller you are and you can't expect a 110b 5'1'' woman to wear baggy enough clothes to store a phablet in their pocket. However, while phones have gotten bigger, they've also gotten much thinner and many have tapered edges. My 5.7'' screen phone fits fine in my front pocket because of this, while my droid 1 from like 5 years ago was a bulky mess at half the size because of its thickness and sharp edges.
Of the companies I'd worry about making a proprietary connector, AMD isn't one of them. AMD tends to make open standards that can be used on either companies' GPUs without licensing requirements or proprietary hardware. However, if they did make one, I fully expect that NVidia would not use it and make their own implementation.
Chances are this is more about cutting into Steam than anything else. Likely synchronous release, buy once and play on both platforms *if and only if purchased through Windows store* kind of tomfoolery. This would give them a cut of the PC gaming sales, as well as push PC gamers towards XBox should they decide to add a console to their repertoire.
Surprisingly, quite hard. Its not about the quantity of mines, its about how large the mined areas are. Its not just small 1 mile sections of old fronts, its hundreds of thousands of square miles. The mine clearing machines like the one you mentioned cover a very small amount of land at a very slow speed. Its almost comparable to a commercial lawn mower - half to three times slower than a mower but about 3-4x wider.
Better to lay off slowly and shed company parts yearly instead of going ass up 2 years later and canning everyone at once. That's actually what a CEO's job in a declining company entails: bleed slower so the death is more manageable, and so you can sell off parts at reasonable prices rather than them becoming worthless in a bankruptcy auction after the company burns.
Durability of the tablet isn't the only factor, durability of the whole tower could be problematic. This thing is tall and narrow so its going to need some serious anchoring and heavy duty materials at the base to prevent being damaged long-term. I mean, have you ever looked and how scuffed up and dented phone booths are? Those have flex and size to absorb the body blows. People are going to bang into these things, either accidentally or on purpose (teenagers) on a consistent basis.
It looks nice, and the billboard funding was a good idea to manage cost, but the M&R on these things could end up being insane in the long term. Also, these things have a lot more valuable components than an old phone booth, so they could become targets for commercial theft, similar to copper thieves targets.
The U.S. Melting Pot has one big thing that these other countries lack: a lack of history. People in the US are not resistant to their immigrant compatriots adoptiong American culture, and in fact readily share it. Most European countries like Italy, Greece, France, and so on, have a hidden yet obvious nationalistic bias tied to heritage. In France or Italy, you will never become a true Frenchman/Italian as an immigrant even if you adopt their culture, whereas in America, the Indian who Americanizes him/herself is applauded rather than shunned.
In Europe, ethnicity is closely tied to nationalism, and the borders are drawn accordingly. That is not the case in the US because the only native ethnicity available is one that was sadly wiped out.
If you want to understand the timeframes that this actually works, watch the movie Meet the Patels. It takes one to two generations for ethnicities that self-isolate to integrate, primarily through their kids.
I think you're suggesting if maybe they just hammered away to butcher a dead animal?
No one in this thread really addressed it clearly, so I'll explain. They can tell if a wound/break to the skeletal structure happened before or after death. Its similar in nature to breaking a branch off a living tree vs breaking a branch off a dead tree. The breaks are completely different.
Even with the money made, the investment is still in the red. Remember, they paid $4b for the rights.
You're right that its not a loss leader, but its not going to be worth the investment on the movies alone. We're taking needing a $6b profit by 2020 for the investment to make sense, and they're not going to make that just on the movies.
Agreed. While I actually had an amazing civics teacher, he certainly wouldn't be suited to teaching this. The history teachers would fare even worse: of all the teachers I had, the most irrational and ridiculous teaching methods came from US History and World History. In one class, we spent 50 minutes copying notes verbatim from the overhead and if we used shorthand we'd end up losing 10% of our grade on the notebook test.
Interesting history tidbit: North Carolina was the last state to secede, and only seceded when all surrounded states had seceded. To clarify, due to regional pressure, it HAD to secede. Slavery was more important in Virginia and South Carolina, the states bordering to the North and South.
The moderation in this thread is a shame, really. Lots of big city dwellers who have no idea spitting hot takes, being the same as the very ignorant assholes that the story is criticizing.
Over half of NC's population was not born in the state, a majority of them moving to NC from the Northeast. It is well known to be a huge transplant state.
A bigger dirty little secret: Some CEOs are brought into failing companies not for rebuilding, but to make the declines manageable. A failing company diversifies via M&A's with what little money it has, then sells parts on a yearly basis to prop up the P&L while shrinking the company. This is often the real plan but the CEOs can't really divulge it or it'd go bust. It helps the shareholders because their stocks don't become worthless overnight. It helps the employees because the layoffs are more gradual and the job market doesn't get flooded. It helps the economy because the economy doesn't tend to react well to large crashes of large companies. Its about distributing what wealth is left in the company to other companies that can use it without crushing the shareholders overnight. Big drops, like Lehman, cause panic and problems.
Diamonds are extremely cheap to mine in volume, so its unlikely that any artificial methods of creation would beat them on cost. Current artificial methods such as CVD are only profitable because of the jewelry industry and the artificially inflated value of diamonds, so it could see niche use if it shows better cost and results than CVD and high pressure methods.
Even if we were to get high quality diamonds in high surplus to use for jewelry, they'd still be somewhat expensive. Why? The cut is a specialized labor intensive skill process that can make or break a diamond. A lot of the price comes from this expensive process.
You are correct, in a sense. This is done to give parity to self-employed vs someone who works for a company. When you work for a company, 7.65% of your required match is paid directly by your employer and not in your paycheck at all, so your gross would be 7.65% lower. The 7.65% reduction to income and the lower employment tax figure is to make it fairer for self-employed, and as to not require them to create an LLC just to be treated on an equal tax burden. You're still "taxed" at 15.3%, but half of that tax is not considered personal income but company expense - hence the income reduction, and income deduction. This is how they combine both employer and employee tax into the same (SE) return without making it overly complicated. If you were to have to file a separate return for your farm company, its just more paperwork for the same result.
Its still beneficial to incorporate for other reasons, but it shouldn't be a necessity for everyone - this seeks to keep it that way and not flood the system with millions of personal LLCs because of unfair treatment.
You can't deduct fica taxes from fed taxable income, they fall under the same level (fed taxes) and thus use similar taxable buckets (albeit with different exemptions allowed). If you did, it would create a feedback loop. Some local taxes like property tax reduce income, or you may have been thinking about the bush tax holiday, where the percentages were lower by 2%, or thinking about a sole proprietorship aspect of income taxes on your yearly return. Paying fica taxes at a fixed percentage per paycheck/quarterly is a must requirement or you'll get smacked with under withholding and potentially penalized. There are deposit rules that trigger based on cumulative amount withheld. It doesn't matter if your yearly return says 10k due and you paid 10k over the year, if you didn't pay part of it after q1 at 2500 youre gonna get penalized.
The way to factor in income deductions is via the withholding allowances on your income tax (w-4).
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While yes, the number doesn't mean what it used to, there's a reason to be optimistic that opportunities could open up in the US. The stability of the US is a major factor that draws people right now, because a lot of them bet big on emerging markets and are losing their asses. There really isn't anywhere else you can put your money right now to get big returns with reasonable risk - Brazil is in a crisis, the Euro is in danger of breaking apart, Russia is Russia, the Middle East turmoil is turning that part of the world upside down, all the oil producing countries' economies are struggling, and China/Asia is looking riskier by the day. What's left? Stable returns on stable investments in the US.
Stable markets are very valuable right now because we live in a very unstable world.
NC is a very "purple" state and not homogeneous by any measure. Not just the RTP triangle, but Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington are huge areas where people are quite socially liberal, and those 4 alone make up over half the population of the state. I live in Charlotte, and people in Charlotte tend to be particularly annoyed when Raleigh craps on things Charlotte wants to do, particularly in terms of funding and policy, as Charlotte is the largest metropolitan area in the state.
I'm confident that this legislation will eventually be overturned, but it makes me angry because it does scare away open-minded people and businesses who might want to live in this state. Charlotte is currently undergoing a real estate boom and things are going great, it would suck for our economy to struggle because of politicians.
There's a lot of cynics here, but this kind of thing is great for someone who needs sodium regulation, especially the elderly. Simulated taste could also help a lot of people work towards a healthier lifestyle.
I personally think time is only part of the problem. It takes motivation, and motivation is treated like a magic word in our society. If we take that word and try to quantify it, instead of treating it as 'you either have it or you dont' then we can start to see a clearer picture.
If we look at motivation like a currency, a currency that gets used up when you do things you don't want to do and accrued during moments of rest or happiness, we can see people living more somber lives are less likely to have the motivation left to do things to make their situation better. Even worse, when we factor in the psychological factor and factor that in as a capacity factor, we see that the 'motivation piggy bank' of the depressed is extremely small and/or has a hole in the bottom.
When viewing motivation through this model, its easier to see how to improve a situation. The answer isn't to 'get up and do it,' its to find the things that are draining motivation, find more things that could increase a person's capacity to be motivated, or change activities the person is doing so there's a better balance of positives to negatives. In school, mental health isn't a primary topic and is rarely discussed at all, so most children and many adults do not know how to understand themselves or what they're going through. Giving people strategies like this to work on bettering themselves on step at a time, rather than having them staring at the peak of the mountain when they're only just at the base of it.
It does, however, benefit the companies' economies of scale. They can operate bigger more efficient plants for neighboring areas, and get a full picture on energy distribution for grid build-out plans. Also important, they can implement larger projects without as much risk which is useful due to the high upfront costs of renewables deployment.
This is one area where regulation has been pretty successful, at least where I'm at. Profit margins and prices of power are limited where I'm at so a power company can't go chasing a dream.
The very act of a macro removing the macros from the document is at a high privilege level already, because it has the ability to modify the macros. A macro with the ability to modify a macro or save a file is already at the application layer and filesystem layer.
Also, certain tools can be used at different privilege levels. I've used FileSystemObject to write CSVs out of the files directly (write/create), and I've also used it just to get a directory list (read). I mean, you could blacklist certain parts of each command, but a lot of that stuff can be done about 100 different ways via different roundabout methods I can generate a new CSV without modifying anything but the current file, formatting a tab and saving it as a CSV then re-saving as the original, to get the exact same result as read/write access of the FSO scripting previously mentioned. The application layer also allows control of error handling/messaging and even screen updating, giving you the ability to do it covertly.
Everything about macros in these programs are very powerful, but they're also extremely useful, which is why they're used.
This method requires too many beneficial ifs and doesn't account for any of the adverse ifs. If there is a power outage and the intersection can't coordinate cars, what happens? If there's no line of sight to crossing traffic for the autonomous cars via weather or elevation, what happens? How does it handle pedestrians or unusual traffic like a windmill flatbed or a wide load? All of these things have to have a smooth transition mechanism.
Its only pocket friendly because your pockets are too small. I'm not a big fan of the whole skinny jean hip-huggers so tight they cut the circulation off to your balls and raise your voice an octave.
In all seriousness, I understand how pockets shrink the smaller you are and you can't expect a 110b 5'1'' woman to wear baggy enough clothes to store a phablet in their pocket. However, while phones have gotten bigger, they've also gotten much thinner and many have tapered edges. My 5.7'' screen phone fits fine in my front pocket because of this, while my droid 1 from like 5 years ago was a bulky mess at half the size because of its thickness and sharp edges.
Of the companies I'd worry about making a proprietary connector, AMD isn't one of them. AMD tends to make open standards that can be used on either companies' GPUs without licensing requirements or proprietary hardware. However, if they did make one, I fully expect that NVidia would not use it and make their own implementation.
Chances are this is more about cutting into Steam than anything else. Likely synchronous release, buy once and play on both platforms *if and only if purchased through Windows store* kind of tomfoolery. This would give them a cut of the PC gaming sales, as well as push PC gamers towards XBox should they decide to add a console to their repertoire.
Surprisingly, quite hard. Its not about the quantity of mines, its about how large the mined areas are. Its not just small 1 mile sections of old fronts, its hundreds of thousands of square miles. The mine clearing machines like the one you mentioned cover a very small amount of land at a very slow speed. Its almost comparable to a commercial lawn mower - half to three times slower than a mower but about 3-4x wider.
Better to lay off slowly and shed company parts yearly instead of going ass up 2 years later and canning everyone at once. That's actually what a CEO's job in a declining company entails: bleed slower so the death is more manageable, and so you can sell off parts at reasonable prices rather than them becoming worthless in a bankruptcy auction after the company burns.
Durability of the tablet isn't the only factor, durability of the whole tower could be problematic. This thing is tall and narrow so its going to need some serious anchoring and heavy duty materials at the base to prevent being damaged long-term. I mean, have you ever looked and how scuffed up and dented phone booths are? Those have flex and size to absorb the body blows. People are going to bang into these things, either accidentally or on purpose (teenagers) on a consistent basis.
It looks nice, and the billboard funding was a good idea to manage cost, but the M&R on these things could end up being insane in the long term. Also, these things have a lot more valuable components than an old phone booth, so they could become targets for commercial theft, similar to copper thieves targets.
The U.S. Melting Pot has one big thing that these other countries lack: a lack of history. People in the US are not resistant to their immigrant compatriots adoptiong American culture, and in fact readily share it. Most European countries like Italy, Greece, France, and so on, have a hidden yet obvious nationalistic bias tied to heritage. In France or Italy, you will never become a true Frenchman/Italian as an immigrant even if you adopt their culture, whereas in America, the Indian who Americanizes him/herself is applauded rather than shunned.
In Europe, ethnicity is closely tied to nationalism, and the borders are drawn accordingly. That is not the case in the US because the only native ethnicity available is one that was sadly wiped out.
If you want to understand the timeframes that this actually works, watch the movie Meet the Patels. It takes one to two generations for ethnicities that self-isolate to integrate, primarily through their kids.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt23...
I think you're suggesting if maybe they just hammered away to butcher a dead animal?
No one in this thread really addressed it clearly, so I'll explain. They can tell if a wound/break to the skeletal structure happened before or after death. Its similar in nature to breaking a branch off a living tree vs breaking a branch off a dead tree. The breaks are completely different.
http://www.academia.edu/236437...
Even with the money made, the investment is still in the red. Remember, they paid $4b for the rights.
You're right that its not a loss leader, but its not going to be worth the investment on the movies alone. We're taking needing a $6b profit by 2020 for the investment to make sense, and they're not going to make that just on the movies.
Agreed. While I actually had an amazing civics teacher, he certainly wouldn't be suited to teaching this. The history teachers would fare even worse: of all the teachers I had, the most irrational and ridiculous teaching methods came from US History and World History. In one class, we spent 50 minutes copying notes verbatim from the overhead and if we used shorthand we'd end up losing 10% of our grade on the notebook test.
Interesting history tidbit: North Carolina was the last state to secede, and only seceded when all surrounded states had seceded. To clarify, due to regional pressure, it HAD to secede. Slavery was more important in Virginia and South Carolina, the states bordering to the North and South.
Great post and well said my neighbor.
The moderation in this thread is a shame, really. Lots of big city dwellers who have no idea spitting hot takes, being the same as the very ignorant assholes that the story is criticizing.
Over half of NC's population was not born in the state, a majority of them moving to NC from the Northeast. It is well known to be a huge transplant state.
A bigger dirty little secret: Some CEOs are brought into failing companies not for rebuilding, but to make the declines manageable. A failing company diversifies via M&A's with what little money it has, then sells parts on a yearly basis to prop up the P&L while shrinking the company. This is often the real plan but the CEOs can't really divulge it or it'd go bust. It helps the shareholders because their stocks don't become worthless overnight. It helps the employees because the layoffs are more gradual and the job market doesn't get flooded. It helps the economy because the economy doesn't tend to react well to large crashes of large companies. Its about distributing what wealth is left in the company to other companies that can use it without crushing the shareholders overnight. Big drops, like Lehman, cause panic and problems.
Diamonds are extremely cheap to mine in volume, so its unlikely that any artificial methods of creation would beat them on cost. Current artificial methods such as CVD are only profitable because of the jewelry industry and the artificially inflated value of diamonds, so it could see niche use if it shows better cost and results than CVD and high pressure methods.
Even if we were to get high quality diamonds in high surplus to use for jewelry, they'd still be somewhat expensive. Why? The cut is a specialized labor intensive skill process that can make or break a diamond. A lot of the price comes from this expensive process.
You are correct, in a sense. This is done to give parity to self-employed vs someone who works for a company. When you work for a company, 7.65% of your required match is paid directly by your employer and not in your paycheck at all, so your gross would be 7.65% lower. The 7.65% reduction to income and the lower employment tax figure is to make it fairer for self-employed, and as to not require them to create an LLC just to be treated on an equal tax burden. You're still "taxed" at 15.3%, but half of that tax is not considered personal income but company expense - hence the income reduction, and income deduction. This is how they combine both employer and employee tax into the same (SE) return without making it overly complicated. If you were to have to file a separate return for your farm company, its just more paperwork for the same result.
Its still beneficial to incorporate for other reasons, but it shouldn't be a necessity for everyone - this seeks to keep it that way and not flood the system with millions of personal LLCs because of unfair treatment.
You can't deduct fica taxes from fed taxable income, they fall under the same level (fed taxes) and thus use similar taxable buckets (albeit with different exemptions allowed). If you did, it would create a feedback loop. Some local taxes like property tax reduce income, or you may have been thinking about the bush tax holiday, where the percentages were lower by 2%, or thinking about a sole proprietorship aspect of income taxes on your yearly return. Paying fica taxes at a fixed percentage per paycheck/quarterly is a must requirement or you'll get smacked with under withholding and potentially penalized. There are deposit rules that trigger based on cumulative amount withheld. It doesn't matter if your yearly return says 10k due and you paid 10k over the year, if you didn't pay part of it after q1 at 2500 youre gonna get penalized.
The way to factor in income deductions is via the withholding allowances on your income tax (w-4).