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  1. It's not missing work that causes the dips, it's the uncertainty of overtime pay that causes the issues. There's a pretty common problem among non-exempt hourly employees where they plan their finances around the assumption of having the overtime pay because the company aims for 50 hours a week per employee. They don't plan under the assumption that they will can get 40 hours a week. If you get knocked from 50 to 40 hours a week then your pay checks at 40 hours are about 70% of the size of your paycheck at 50 hours.

  2. Re:So you exclude half the taxes and what you get? on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I am self employed, I have a S-Corporation.

    I pay unemployment taxes to Feds and State annually.

    A few years back, I as in between contracts for a few months. I tried to collect unemployment...money I HAD PAID INTO THE SYSTEM. They told me I could not by law collect it, since I was the owner and employee of the company....?!!??

    So, I am forced to pay, but I can never collect it...?

    You are paid as an employee of the S-Corp and since you are an employee of your S-Corp the S-Corp is required to pay into unemployment insurance for you. You would be able to collect unemployment insurance if you were no longer employed by your S-Corp. Your S-Corp lacking a current contract just means that the S-Corp is without revenue.

  3. Re:So you exclude half the taxes and what you get? on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Property taxes would be a little more difficult to assess. Even if the US and the UK have the same property tax rate that does not translate into an identical average percentage of the individuals income. For example, a farmer has a fairly high property tax liability when compared against their income. Then you get into the muddiness of rental property where numerous individuals don't directly pay their property tax as it's incorporated into the rent. Furthermore, you'd have to show that property prices are comparable between the UK and US in order to determine that the property tax rates cause the same value of liability. If the UK or US has lower average property prices but identical rates then country with the higher average rates has a higher property tax liability for the individual. If incomes don't trend with that difference then you will end up with differing effective property taxation against income.

  4. Re: 500 customers on the other flight on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone who's talking four hours to drive the employees is lowballing the figure because 4 hours is about the time you'll spend on I-65. That's not including the time once you get to Louisville because who knows precisely where their hotel rooms are or getting from O'Hare to I-65.

    When the next flight departs is actually quite pertinent as well as you cannot expect a crew to be well rested attempting to rest in a car versus a hotel room. In this case you're probably substitute about half of the rest the crew would get in a hotel with rest in a car coupled with an interruption to the sleep midway due to arrival.

  5. Re:Because it is profitable to do so on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of the specifics of the situation are lacking from my investigation but the total trip time from O'Hare to Louisville is going to be about 6 hours by car compared to the about 80 minutes by plane which is unfortunately going to factor into the best solution when you're dealing with the last flight out for the day for a crew that has to fly out on a flight in the morning. The flight in question was Flight 3411 and based on it being the "last" flight of the day on Sunday that means its departure was at 7:42PM central with an arrival in Louisville at 10:00 PM eastern (1hr 19m). If they were to instead hired a limo to take them to Louisville, we'll assume that the delay caused by the incident would be about the same as the time it would take to get the limo for the employees, they would have departed around 7:45PM central and arrived in Louisville around 2:45AM eastern. The difference in these arrival times is certainly a factor for crew that are expected to go out on an early flight. It is unlikely that the crew would be rested for the flight out unless that was a late morning flight (I'd say no earlier than 10AM) as I would not expect people to be able to rest during a 6 hour drive in a limo.

  6. Re: Had he been a Rust programmer he'd still be a on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad that Weird Al finally wrote an anthem for you guys.

  7. Re:Radio / TV on US Hacker Sets Off 156 Sirens At Midnight (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    As a counter example to your 5 minute example...

    http://wane.com/2016/10/10/jai...

    Amber Pasztor claims she killed her kids after hearing the amber alert.

  8. Re: Failed logic on Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Such animals are vermin and not domesticated. They are wild animals that live within proximity to humans which carry with the negative effects. In the case of pigeons their poop is a health hazard. In the case of wolves you would increase the probability of attacks on humans as well as them potentially hunting potentially easier prey like actual domesticated animals such as chickens, pigs, or cows. A wolf in this circumstance is no different from a coyote.

  9. The article mentions that packing items in boxes is still done by hand, and I imagine loading/unloading trucks is still done with humans. However I can foresee completely-automated Amazon warehouses in the near future.

    Amazon would need to have more tightly entwined work with UPS and FedEx or push their own truck delivery system which is probably why they're putting effort into drone delivery. There's technology out there for "smart shipping" which will pack stuff into a delivery vehicle which can cause the vehicle to be packed based on the route that it will take. This being optimal as you can reduce the volume required since you no longer need to have space for the driver to get into the storage portion of the vehicle and search through the packages for the one to deliver. This means either smaller delivery vehicles or more packages in the delivery vehicle. It also optimizes the delivery process a bit more for automated warehouse to door shipping.

    To do this you need to be able to stock your vehicle to a reasonable fullness which means packages need to sit in a staging area for the loading dock until some combination of time and volume quantity has been achieved.

    Amazon is probably using the drone delivery right now because automated vehicles are still a restricted technology or they may be assuming that UPS and FedEx and the like are also at least doing some element of research into automated delivery systems in order to not be obsoleted by it.

    My feeling is that picking and shipping, while done by humans, are going to be solved by the same technology. The big issue with picking is making sure the goods aren't damaged by the robot hand when selecting various goods from within a container. Shipping should be a quick to solve problem once the picker problem is solved as the part about picking items out of the container to pack into a box is solved and at that point its a computation problem of the dimensions of the products and optimizing the order to package them as well as any packaging.

  10. I made 17 dozen deviled eggs one holiday season.

    This only raises more questions. One egg can be turned into two deviled eggs. How the heck did you end up with 17? I'll guess you poorly filled the egg whites and had one sad egg white remaining? What happened to the other three eggs from the dozen?

  11. Re:Great news for the Canucks tourism industry! on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    All we have around here is farm land. I guess riding a tractor or combine/harvester could be fun or exciting, but well, not really. While they are big, they don't go very fast or do any tricks.

    How am I supposed to drive a Zamboni all over Saskatchewan if you don't have any?

  12. Re:Not our problem. We'll be dead by then. on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    It applies well enough to most of the current living population so I don't know why you're singling out boomers. They're specifically talking about "by 2100". Anyone alive now would have to reach an age of at least 83 in order to even see that year. Anyone currently old enough to even influence policy decisions, we'll say 18 so you can vote, would need to reach the age of 101 to see 2100. The average age of the current crop of lawmakers is about 56, which means they would need to reach the ripe old age of 139 to see 2100. All boomers and GenXers should be dead by 2100. Most millennials should be dead by 2100. The post-millennial generation will be in its retirement years. The people that will have to deal with it aren't even born yet.

  13. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    HIPAA has only ever governed health providers, insurance companies, and health clearing houses or some other phrase I can't remember. It doesn't govern lawyers, the company you work for, your ISP, your dog, or the guy that snoops through your trash. That's why situations like this http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/... are not HIPAA violations.

  14. I'm not sure why you're limiting yourself to just sex. Why should any activities that an employee engages in outside of work hours matter? Brandon Eich was forced to resign from Mozilla for supporting Prop8. Garfield was asked to leave Drupal because he engaged in a behavior which is seen as sexist towards women.

  15. Crash, because it doesn't run well on Windows 7.

  16. Re: The climevangelists are busy today on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds more mooving than wonderful.

  17. Rotten Tomatoes has two aggregate scores. It has an aggregate critic score, which was 27% for Dawn of Justice, and an aggregate audience score which was 63%. You can see an even bigger discrepancy with Iron Fist which has a 17% critic rating and a 83% audience rating. I'm sure if we went looking through it we can find numerous examples like this and in every case Rotten Tomatoes will promote the critic rating and rarely promotes the audience rating unless you dig into the title in question.

  18. Re:We'll see what Trump does on 17,000 AT&T Workers Go On Strike In California and Nevada (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The freeloading "problem" only exists because unions negotiate for closed shops in right-to-work states but Unions don't want employees knowing about their Beck rights. We'll see if the requirement for businesses to post notifications of Beck rights for employees will be reinstated under Trump after Obama had removed it.

  19. Re:Compare to defense budget on Trump Adds To NASA Budget, Approves Crewed Mission To Mars (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's already selected Red Forman to lead the charge on putting boots on Uranus.

  20. RHPS is a film that is over 40 years old. It should be common sense that midnight showings of anything is going to attract a different type of crowd than what you would be expecting during a normal movie going experience. It's also an anomaly in that it's one of those movies where pretty much every normal behavior that should be expected of movie goers is intentionally thrown aside, figuratively and literally.

  21. Re:Trump following the people's will on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Immigrants from seven countries were prohibited, as far as number of Muslims we have:

    Iran (#6 at 74,819,00)
    Sudan (#11 at 39,027,950)
    Iraq (#13 at 31,108,000)
    Yemen (#18 at 24,023,000)
    Syria (#20 at 20,895,000)
    Somalia (#29 at 9,231,000)
    Libya (#37 at 6,325,000)
    Total: 205,428,950

    The world total is at 1.7 billion so the ban effects 11-12% of the world's muslim population. Amusingly, Trump could double the number of muslims affected by the ban by simply adding Indonesia to the list.

  22. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    But if these ADA students needed to view these videos - e.g. someone else required these ADA students to view the videos for a paid online course - then they should be the ones responsible for paying to close-caption the required videos.

    Under which of the following scenarios do you believe UC Berkley should provide CC for the videos?

    A. The students making the complaint are students at UC Berkley (public university, part of the University of California system).
    B. The students making the complaint are students at UC Davis (public university, part of the University of California system).
    C. The students making the complaint are students at University of Virginia due to the videos being used in a course there (public university).
    D. The students making the complaint are students at MIT due to the videos being used in a course there (private university).
    E. The students making the complaint are not students at any university.

  23. Yes, my favorite chapter was the Intestine of the Leviathan... because it didn't involve any character that was part of the story but instead went about describing the sewers of Paris based off the tales from various real figures.

  24. Re:Okay then on Dungeons and Dragons Goes Digital (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Roll20 does have a tablet application so if you want a digital character sheet that's a really good option to use. I've been using it to store my character information for a face to face session and it works wonderfully since the r20 sheet calculates various things for me.

  25. He boasting on his ability to deliver the on the promise. The contract will certainly include clauses that remove liability of providing the system for free in the case of other actors that can influence it that are outside of his control including a nature induced issue during shipping, piracy, the shipment held up by Australian customs, and union strikes that remove the ability to actual move material. That's just a limited list of the things that will probably show up.