My guess is that something like 35% to 40%, if not more, is the sum of Federal and State income taxes. This will depend on how she disposes of this largess as long term or short term income. Many would like to reduce Federal taxes on businesses to something like 12% to 15%, so one way to get some of that back is to heavily tax the income of those paid these huge sums.
Your card is a Debit Card, not a Credit Card. Debit Cards have had swipe and pin for a long time, now Chip and Pin, and if you can also use it as a Credit Card it may be Chip and Signature in that use not Chip and Pin.
Here we are in the US with chip and signature, much less chip and biometrics. And not all all retailers have chip readers, including Costco, at least the one I shop at. My one man barber shop has a chip reader POS terminal. And what about using stolen cards with on line retailers before the owner knows about the theft? I'm not sure how the interface would work.
And you might need to be always connected to OneDrive or a new platform, Microsoft Drive, at some monthly fee. The apps could also be had for a monthly subscription fee, a la Office 365. One post suggested these devices should have cellular data capability which at $10 per GigaByte, along with the cloud drive fee and the app fee, might end up costing its owner far more than the initial cost of the device in a few months. This could be like the famous razor blade business plan.
Excellent points. I forgot about appealing to an audience that would sell what the sponsors want to sell without much, or any, controversy. All this leads to dull content. I don't mean the audience is dull or not intelligent. Others have made that connection. Then again, half the population has an IQ less than 100 and that's a significant population with some money to spend.
We NEVER watch broadcast TV. I don't know why the programming is so bad, whether it's the writers, the producers who invent the paradigm or the sponsors. It might be nice to revisit some of the old programs like Mary Tyler Moore, Gunsmoke. and others. If you get MeTV over the air many of these programs are shown there. The problem the networks will have is that these programs took up much more of the half-hour or hour than programs do today and commercial time would be reduced if they were shown in their original format. I guess technology could fix that. And as far a movies are concerned, dialog is almost non existent, it's just gun fights, car chases and unrealistic CGI; maybe that's cheaper than writing dialog for a good story or writers and others involved in making movies have no imagination.
I was an avid user of Os/2 and certainly used its included Windows 3.0 or was it 3.1? IIRC, IBM had the code for Windows and recompiled it using their own compiler and it worked faster and maybe better than Microsoft's product. It also had a neat terminal program - can't remember its name - that was produced by a company near my post office on Centennial Blvd in Colorado Springs. Can't remember its name either. Things have changed. Would things be better if OS/2 development had prevailed instead of development of the current Windows platforms? Maybe. We will never know.
Not sure if the Playstations allow emulators, but whether they do or not I'm guessing Sony will increase its gaming platform adoptions over Microsoft's product even more than its current ~2:1 advantage.
The cost of making the Costco golf balls and the Acushnet balls is probably similar. Acushnet spends a lot of money on advertising and gives a lot of its product to professional golfers so they're going to cost more to those who actually pay for them.
The Chinese might copy a patented item but that doesn't mean they can sell in countries where the patent exists. The Chinese market is surely very big, but not as big as the rest of the world.
Perhaps Google has discovered the costs of installing fiber to the home and it's a lot more than they first thought. Now Google will find out the cost of operating and maintaining their systems and those that have their service may find the price of continued subscriptions may go up, but I don't know that for sure. In addition, Google has reduced the number of folks involved in fiber operations, supposedly to investigate some kind of RF method for delivery of very high speed Internet and TV. How's that working out? I'm not anxiously waiting to see.
Seems to me the folks on the right, particularly the far right, want to go back to a time that never was or worse than now, than we have now. I'd rather be in the now and a better future given some of the problems of the past that have been solved, though the solutions haven't reached everywhere. I'm thinking particularly about SMOG in such places as southern California but not Beijing, health insurance in Germany or Sweden than the confusion we have in the US, and other situations. There's always the situation where new problems show up and need solutions, but ignoring them won't solve them.
That's a pretty good rainfall - 40 to 80 inches per year. Perhaps a bit off topic, but for comparison in the US state of Iowa, where my in laws live, the main crops are corn (maize) and soybeans, the rainfall averages 34 inches (plus or minus a few inches) per year, and there is generally no irrigation. Of course, some of that precipitation is in the form of snow. In much of the state the soil is incredibly deep and rich and seems to hold onto its water. Even with that much rain many of the fields I'm familiar with need good underground tiles (French drains?) for drainage because a there's too much water most years. Maybe sugar cane needs more and continuous watering. I didn't realize the sugar cane farmers didn't really pump well water but move it horizontally - a big difference from what goes on in some parts of the Great Plains of the US where water is drawn from wells.
Good point. Not sure if the engines are running a generator that operates an electric well pump. The ultimate source of energy, though, is Diesel fuel. When liquid fuel was very expensive a few years ago I remember a problem with these systems - the fuel was being stolen at night so the farmers needed to go out and empty the fuel tanks when irrigation was finished. I think they typically irrigated during the day.
Haven't read the linked article, but there are differences between big systems (solar farms, windmill farms) attached to the grid and roof top solar or household windmills. The economics are likely very different.
Windmills are still being used to pump water in my part of the US - the Colorado Plains and Western Nebraska. The water, though, is not for cops but for cattle watering. For crops, including corn, it seems there's a mixture of motorized pumps and electric I'd guess depending on the availability of electricity.
I wonder why sugar cane is being grown in what I assume is a pretty dry climate using irrigation. The Aussies might want to look at the history of irrigation farming in places like West Texas where wells kept getting deeper and deeper until it was economically unsustainable to pump water from the Ogallala Aquifer thousands of feed down. The destruction of this water supply has had major economic consequences. Of course in Texas, there's something else that can be pumped from the ground: black gold.
The electric utility might increase prices even more if folks reduce their electricity usage. The company will want to maintain profits if it's a private company or if publicly owned, maintain its current income. If fewer KWHrs are being consumed but fixed costs remain constant, the company will have less income, so will need to raise rates. The size of any increase would probably depend on the fraction of use of these farmers.
My point involved "cloud-only" storage for important, immediately needed data or services. One of the first principles of backup is multiple methods of storage and availability. Cloud storage and availability is pretty reliable, but can go down as can local equipment. It's even less likely both will go down at the same time. If the local electricity goes out and there is no power backup, including for the carrier's Internet, there's nothing one can do except wait. It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.
I'm assuming these Software as a Service systems are running on some kind of Azure system run by Microsoft. Not good publicity. Amazon's AWS had problems last week. So much for cloud-only storage of important, immediately needed data or services.
Front and back should have the category embossed in high contrast color to the background color. The readers shouldn't need to open the card to read the category their announcing the winner.
Just my thought exactly. They have produced two versions of the Pixel phone and they can't be purchased because they can't be made fast enough. Well, they can be purchased but the wait time is weeks if not months. If Google comes out with new Pixels they need to find a company that can keep the channel filled. How about Samsung?
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My guess is that something like 35% to 40%, if not more, is the sum of Federal and State income taxes. This will depend on how she disposes of this largess as long term or short term income. Many would like to reduce Federal taxes on businesses to something like 12% to 15%, so one way to get some of that back is to heavily tax the income of those paid these huge sums.
heartbroken = "I'm affraid our customers run away and now I can't selly stock for a lot of $$$ to some investor".
...$$$ to some stupid investors who'll lose what was spent buying my stupid idea. I can then spend 10% of that $$$ on my next investment scam.
Fixed that for you.
Your card is a Debit Card, not a Credit Card. Debit Cards have had swipe and pin for a long time, now Chip and Pin, and if you can also use it as a Credit Card it may be Chip and Signature in that use not Chip and Pin.
Here we are in the US with chip and signature, much less chip and biometrics. And not all all retailers have chip readers, including Costco, at least the one I shop at. My one man barber shop has a chip reader POS terminal. And what about using stolen cards with on line retailers before the owner knows about the theft? I'm not sure how the interface would work.
And you might need to be always connected to OneDrive or a new platform, Microsoft Drive, at some monthly fee. The apps could also be had for a monthly subscription fee, a la Office 365. One post suggested these devices should have cellular data capability which at $10 per GigaByte, along with the cloud drive fee and the app fee, might end up costing its owner far more than the initial cost of the device in a few months. This could be like the famous razor blade business plan.
EDIT: ... that would buy what the sponsors want to sell. ....
Excellent points. I forgot about appealing to an audience that would sell what the sponsors want to sell without much, or any, controversy. All this leads to dull content. I don't mean the audience is dull or not intelligent. Others have made that connection. Then again, half the population has an IQ less than 100 and that's a significant population with some money to spend.
We NEVER watch broadcast TV. I don't know why the programming is so bad, whether it's the writers, the producers who invent the paradigm or the sponsors. It might be nice to revisit some of the old programs like Mary Tyler Moore, Gunsmoke. and others. If you get MeTV over the air many of these programs are shown there. The problem the networks will have is that these programs took up much more of the half-hour or hour than programs do today and commercial time would be reduced if they were shown in their original format. I guess technology could fix that. And as far a movies are concerned, dialog is almost non existent, it's just gun fights, car chases and unrealistic CGI; maybe that's cheaper than writing dialog for a good story or writers and others involved in making movies have no imagination.
I was an avid user of Os/2 and certainly used its included Windows 3.0 or was it 3.1? IIRC, IBM had the code for Windows and recompiled it using their own compiler and it worked faster and maybe better than Microsoft's product. It also had a neat terminal program - can't remember its name - that was produced by a company near my post office on Centennial Blvd in Colorado Springs. Can't remember its name either. Things have changed. Would things be better if OS/2 development had prevailed instead of development of the current Windows platforms? Maybe. We will never know.
Not sure if the Playstations allow emulators, but whether they do or not I'm guessing Sony will increase its gaming platform adoptions over Microsoft's product even more than its current ~2:1 advantage.
The cost of making the Costco golf balls and the Acushnet balls is probably similar. Acushnet spends a lot of money on advertising and gives a lot of its product to professional golfers so they're going to cost more to those who actually pay for them.
The Chinese might copy a patented item but that doesn't mean they can sell in countries where the patent exists. The Chinese market is surely very big, but not as big as the rest of the world.
Perhaps Google has discovered the costs of installing fiber to the home and it's a lot more than they first thought. Now Google will find out the cost of operating and maintaining their systems and those that have their service may find the price of continued subscriptions may go up, but I don't know that for sure. In addition, Google has reduced the number of folks involved in fiber operations, supposedly to investigate some kind of RF method for delivery of very high speed Internet and TV. How's that working out? I'm not anxiously waiting to see.
Seems to me the folks on the right, particularly the far right, want to go back to a time that never was or worse than now, than we have now. I'd rather be in the now and a better future given some of the problems of the past that have been solved, though the solutions haven't reached everywhere. I'm thinking particularly about SMOG in such places as southern California but not Beijing, health insurance in Germany or Sweden than the confusion we have in the US, and other situations. There's always the situation where new problems show up and need solutions, but ignoring them won't solve them.
That's a pretty good rainfall - 40 to 80 inches per year. Perhaps a bit off topic, but for comparison in the US state of Iowa, where my in laws live, the main crops are corn (maize) and soybeans, the rainfall averages 34 inches (plus or minus a few inches) per year, and there is generally no irrigation. Of course, some of that precipitation is in the form of snow. In much of the state the soil is incredibly deep and rich and seems to hold onto its water. Even with that much rain many of the fields I'm familiar with need good underground tiles (French drains?) for drainage because a there's too much water most years. Maybe sugar cane needs more and continuous watering. I didn't realize the sugar cane farmers didn't really pump well water but move it horizontally - a big difference from what goes on in some parts of the Great Plains of the US where water is drawn from wells.
Good point. Not sure if the engines are running a generator that operates an electric well pump. The ultimate source of energy, though, is Diesel fuel. When liquid fuel was very expensive a few years ago I remember a problem with these systems - the fuel was being stolen at night so the farmers needed to go out and empty the fuel tanks when irrigation was finished. I think they typically irrigated during the day.
Haven't read the linked article, but there are differences between big systems (solar farms, windmill farms) attached to the grid and roof top solar or household windmills. The economics are likely very different.
Windmills are still being used to pump water in my part of the US - the Colorado Plains and Western Nebraska. The water, though, is not for cops but for cattle watering. For crops, including corn, it seems there's a mixture of motorized pumps and electric I'd guess depending on the availability of electricity.
I wonder why sugar cane is being grown in what I assume is a pretty dry climate using irrigation. The Aussies might want to look at the history of irrigation farming in places like West Texas where wells kept getting deeper and deeper until it was economically unsustainable to pump water from the Ogallala Aquifer thousands of feed down. The destruction of this water supply has had major economic consequences. Of course in Texas, there's something else that can be pumped from the ground: black gold.
The electric utility might increase prices even more if folks reduce their electricity usage. The company will want to maintain profits if it's a private company or if publicly owned, maintain its current income. If fewer KWHrs are being consumed but fixed costs remain constant, the company will have less income, so will need to raise rates. The size of any increase would probably depend on the fraction of use of these farmers.
IIRC, in the past wasn't DST a county option in Indiana? Depending on where you were while moving around you never knew what time it was.
My point involved "cloud-only" storage for important, immediately needed data or services. One of the first principles of backup is multiple methods of storage and availability. Cloud storage and availability is pretty reliable, but can go down as can local equipment. It's even less likely both will go down at the same time. If the local electricity goes out and there is no power backup, including for the carrier's Internet, there's nothing one can do except wait. It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.
I'm assuming these Software as a Service systems are running on some kind of Azure system run by Microsoft. Not good publicity. Amazon's AWS had problems last week. So much for cloud-only storage of important, immediately needed data or services.
Front and back should have the category embossed in high contrast color to the background color. The readers shouldn't need to open the card to read the category their announcing the winner.
Just my thought exactly. They have produced two versions of the Pixel phone and they can't be purchased because they can't be made fast enough. Well, they can be purchased but the wait time is weeks if not months. If Google comes out with new Pixels they need to find a company that can keep the channel filled. How about Samsung?
He has ordered all of this "cloud" nonsense to be banned, as not Great Enough for America.
I thought Trump blamed Obama for the outage?