Sadly, and I say sadly because I am love to admit I've watched this movie, it sounds much like the book that John Cusack's character wrote in that horrible movie 2012.
For a storable good, if I can buy all your stock at below cost, then I can sell it (either immediately while you're out of stock or later when the price rises) at a higher price.
Okay. So now you're sitting on all this inventory you're not selling. You now have a reduced cash flow because your money is tied up in these parts that aren't moving. In the mean time the lower priced stores reaps a short term cash flow increase, with no impact on the long term cash flow, while continuing to sell at their current pricing.
(usually when they're selling below cost and don't want their competitor to use them as a supplier)
Why would they care if their customers are doing that? There's no fiscal reason for do that. You're going to keep the same sales since the competitor still can't sell what they buy from you at your price (figure they'll markup at least 10% to make it worthwhile). You'll still be the cheaper option and you get even more business since they're buying from you.
Any concerns about such behavior should stem from other reasons, like they're not allowed to sell to commercial customers due to the agreement they reached with their supplier.
Exactly. It's not so much that a blackout occurred, it's the length that is the troubling part. 15 minutes when the longest length for Apollo was 6 minutes (under highly unusual circumstances) and the norm was 3 minutes.
And with DVD rental going via postage there's always the fact that the USPS wants to decrease the number of days mail is delivered. That's only going to hurt the DVD side as people aren't getting DVDs as soon as they want.
Intel gets to ensure that they get to use the discoveries causes by the research without having to pay licensing for it.
They're essentially outsourcing brain-storming to universities then take what they come up with and refine it with their own engineers at a cost far lower than what they would need to self invest. It's open source because Intel wants to be able to use the research and there's no way the universities would accept the money and give any inventions that came from it to Intel.
Under the SQL standard a NULL string is different from a zero length string (""). It's subtle but it's a difference.
Oracle does not differentiate between the two. A zero-length string behaves identically to a NULL. If a customer wrote an application where ("") equated to a NULL then fixing Oracle to differentiate between the two would break those applications.
If they make it an optional feature Oracle needs to make it an opt-out feature in order to maintain backward compatibility while still allowing their customers the ability to update.
In otherwise, it's easier to ignore the standard on this one thing than screw with things for their customers.
It costs >$1 to figure that out if you outsource it. Otherwise you will be spending way more time than $1 worth trying to figure out the tax rate for 1313 Bumfuck Road Shitstone, California.
False premise? I suggest you take a look at some of the companies that exist that are dedicated solely to determining the proper amount of sales tax that needs to be collected based on the shipping address of a product.
Yes. It's the shipping address. You can't determine tax based on Zipcode, State, or City. You need the street address in order to determine the proper tax rate.
So these companies exists solely to poor through legal doctrine to figure out the tax rates for one side of the street against the other (yes those cases exist).
Brick and mortar stores don't have to deal with that bullshit because they have one rate based on their address.
If California is like other states, the Kindle won't count. Stores deal with tangible goods. E-books are not tangible and under some states Use Tax won't even qualify for it since they require tangible goods.
That's also a pretty huge stretch since the storefront for the Kindle isn't on the device but rather located on Amazon's servers. If the Kindle qualified then any PC would qualify and any mail-order catalog would qualify under the same guise.
Indiana exempts non-tangible goods and casual sales from the use tax. So basically game purchases off Steam and purchases from garage sales or auctions on personal property.
I'm pretty sure most foreign nations use DD/MM/YYYY for date formats. Because of that, my 20 year old Australian friend was able to drink in a bunch of bars in the US when he came for a visit.
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Sadly, and I say sadly because I am love to admit I've watched this movie, it sounds much like the book that John Cusack's character wrote in that horrible movie 2012.
For a storable good, if I can buy all your stock at below cost, then I can sell it (either immediately while you're out of stock or later when the price rises) at a higher price.
Okay. So now you're sitting on all this inventory you're not selling. You now have a reduced cash flow because your money is tied up in these parts that aren't moving. In the mean time the lower priced stores reaps a short term cash flow increase, with no impact on the long term cash flow, while continuing to sell at their current pricing.
(usually when they're selling below cost and don't want their competitor to use them as a supplier)
Why would they care if their customers are doing that? There's no fiscal reason for do that. You're going to keep the same sales since the competitor still can't sell what they buy from you at your price (figure they'll markup at least 10% to make it worthwhile). You'll still be the cheaper option and you get even more business since they're buying from you.
Any concerns about such behavior should stem from other reasons, like they're not allowed to sell to commercial customers due to the agreement they reached with their supplier.
Exactly. It's not so much that a blackout occurred, it's the length that is the troubling part. 15 minutes when the longest length for Apollo was 6 minutes (under highly unusual circumstances) and the norm was 3 minutes.
And with DVD rental going via postage there's always the fact that the USPS wants to decrease the number of days mail is delivered. That's only going to hurt the DVD side as people aren't getting DVDs as soon as they want.
Don't forget cats. Cats catch rats.
he uses the same tonal inflection that he uses when he calls the dog over then says 'bad dog. go lay down'. He can be a jerk sometimes.
Does the dog listen to the parrot?
What's your address...?
I have an uh.... friend... who is interested in meeting you.
Also, and this is completely unrelated, but how attached are you to your head?
Intel gets to ensure that they get to use the discoveries causes by the research without having to pay licensing for it.
They're essentially outsourcing brain-storming to universities then take what they come up with and refine it with their own engineers at a cost far lower than what they would need to self invest. It's open source because Intel wants to be able to use the research and there's no way the universities would accept the money and give any inventions that came from it to Intel.
They have a nasty habit of showing up when you're out on a snipe hunt.
Under the SQL standard a NULL string is different from a zero length string (""). It's subtle but it's a difference.
Oracle does not differentiate between the two. A zero-length string behaves identically to a NULL. If a customer wrote an application where ("") equated to a NULL then fixing Oracle to differentiate between the two would break those applications.
If they make it an optional feature Oracle needs to make it an opt-out feature in order to maintain backward compatibility while still allowing their customers the ability to update.
In otherwise, it's easier to ignore the standard on this one thing than screw with things for their customers.
That dumb reason is backwards compatibility for their customers due to Oracle being older than the SQL standard.
In pie we trust.
It's what babies call tits. Something you haven't seen since you were one except those in the rampant collection of pornography you have.
It costs >$1 to figure that out if you outsource it. Otherwise you will be spending way more time than $1 worth trying to figure out the tax rate for 1313 Bumfuck Road Shitstone, California.
False premise? I suggest you take a look at some of the companies that exist that are dedicated solely to determining the proper amount of sales tax that needs to be collected based on the shipping address of a product.
Yes. It's the shipping address. You can't determine tax based on Zipcode, State, or City. You need the street address in order to determine the proper tax rate.
So these companies exists solely to poor through legal doctrine to figure out the tax rates for one side of the street against the other (yes those cases exist).
Brick and mortar stores don't have to deal with that bullshit because they have one rate based on their address.
If California is like other states, the Kindle won't count. Stores deal with tangible goods. E-books are not tangible and under some states Use Tax won't even qualify for it since they require tangible goods.
That's also a pretty huge stretch since the storefront for the Kindle isn't on the device but rather located on Amazon's servers. If the Kindle qualified then any PC would qualify and any mail-order catalog would qualify under the same guise.
Indiana exempts non-tangible goods and casual sales from the use tax. So basically game purchases off Steam and purchases from garage sales or auctions on personal property.
I didn't realize that graphite and diamonds were the byproduct of power generation.
Unfortunately this wasn't done from orbit. It was done from ground-side.
Fusion. Not fission.
It still won't be able to run Crysis.
Noticing the woosh but I have to point this out.
I'm pretty sure most foreign nations use DD/MM/YYYY for date formats. Because of that, my 20 year old Australian friend was able to drink in a bunch of bars in the US when he came for a visit.
That's the civilian way of writing dates.
Military style is YYYYMMDD.
what would keep some 'rouge' entity (nation or otherwise) from launching themselves into orbit
Damn communists. Always trying to steal our shit.