I don't know the term but while the federal rate has gone down the "real world" rate (state, medicare, gas, etc) of taxes paid is and has been rising, as a percentage of income, for a long time. All that has happened is that people being bad at math focus on that one federal number while their pockets are picked clean in a myriad of taxes and fees used to make up the difference.
How much of their "sit on FB all day" crowd is playing Zynga games? What is the spend per user for a FB only user versus a Zynga + FB user? My anecdotal evidence suggests that a demographic of people who will spend 5$ for a fake chair in a game is a advertisers wet dream. But hey, I'm not a CEO of a 58billion...err I mean 55billion....ooops took to long to type that 50billion...aw screw it. A big company.
"...But it would certainly make a lot more sense, and be far less grievous, than a beating for no reason whatsoever.....". No, not really. Well not for most people who take an objective look at what was seen. The "just world" juries give police a very high benefit of the doubt in the first place, and usually "you don't know what happened before or after the recording" is their biggest defense should they find themselves in trouble. It's definitely the mating call of the apologist.
It's pretty stupid. "More fines and prison time for a crime I know nothing about, sure." Voters deserve the society they are making for themselves. On a positive note in a decade or so most everyone will have some felony and be on some offender list so the "welp not me" vote will be the minority.
Has always worked so well in the past. Let's just look at the lower rates of everything we are exceptionally tough on: [insert infinity "loading" circle here]
I assume it has gotten better over the years but historically DSL has been great for latency but really bad at reliability and packet loss. Of course this varies wildly by location but from doing residential and business voip I can say that if you have older "plant" (aerial street wires and older houses) there's a good chance your DSL will be pretty awful for gaming, voip or anything else real/time.
Yes, more speed increases competition and raises the overall quantity/quality for everyone. It also opens the doors for new services and products because a developer isn't going to build out a network to support something like Steam. Just look at 12 years ago, 1Mbps (yes the little b) was ~500-800$ a month, now we are hovering in the 2-3$per Mbps. That has made the internet as you know it possible, in an amazingly (relatively) short time.
You seem to envision an "end" like most do in which there is short downward spiral and somehow we'll all be on a relatively even playing field because monetary wealth means nothing. What is more likely (and actually happening right now) is that the corporations and rich will continue to suck on the corpse of their country, society, and neighbors for a very long time and until it is bone dry. Once the "line" (share price/profit margin) stops moving because of the exploitation of cheap Asian labor and lack of regulation happens, what next? We're circling the toilet bowl on many fronts and while the environment is scary because it is essentially irreversible the economic and political cliffs we are standing on or much more pressing and solvable issues that *have* to be addressed before we can even start a rational discussion on international climate changing measures.
This is ridiculous, unless you like work for the mafia or something. Maybe there is some lunatic employers out there that hold their positions like a girlfriend but most realize that people (especially talented ones) might be tempted by outside offers. The only time I could think of that a normal employer would do stuff like that is if you are obviously leveraging the new position to twist their arm. A little honesty goes a long way, if he brought this question to his current employer they would respect the honesty and heads up most likely. I've left a couple companies who have countered and they would gladly take me back tomorrow.
If it's fraud so be it, if it's deception then he's just playing the same game the actual politicians do to make people part with their money. At least his deceptions deprive a relatively small amount of people of money they are ok with parting with (probably to someone else deceiving them) anyway., instead of, ya know, ones that bankrupt a country.
The awesome thing is that they spend tons of cash lobbying for "tort reform" and with the other arm are using tort to roto-root people into insolvency for the pettiest of damages.
Pilots pretty much have a "zero bullshit" policy. For the most part they're not interested in the TSA, NSA,SCOTUS, 9/11, 9/12, Chick-a-fila, or whatever else. If you have flown enough you would know why, people causing a stir (even if unintentional) can make for a very bad flight for everyone and a couple hundred irritated/angry people in a 300,000lb box in the sky is the very definition of "unsafe". I'm not saying it's "right" at a customer level it's just the way it is.
You're wrong. They will usually "find for the plaintiff" to one degree or another. The purpose of arbitration is to avoid punitive(etc) damages in court and to deal with broad abuse on a case by case basis as a kind of firewall against a broad "assault" against widespread abuse. Arbitrators are good for businesses to deal with each other because they generally are "fair" to all parties involved, it's not good for business to consumer because what's "fair" is for you to get your money back and the business to continue fucking people over.
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Just need to get rid of that pesky "last mile" of secure content delivery and DRM is a success!
I don't know the term but while the federal rate has gone down the "real world" rate (state, medicare, gas, etc) of taxes paid is and has been rising, as a percentage of income, for a long time. All that has happened is that people being bad at math focus on that one federal number while their pockets are picked clean in a myriad of taxes and fees used to make up the difference.
It sounds like the corporate version of "Hey we're completely happy, but we should date other people to make sure we are right for each other."
Because they want to hide their own activities.
How much of their "sit on FB all day" crowd is playing Zynga games? What is the spend per user for a FB only user versus a Zynga + FB user? My anecdotal evidence suggests that a demographic of people who will spend 5$ for a fake chair in a game is a advertisers wet dream. But hey, I'm not a CEO of a 58billion...err I mean 55billion....ooops took to long to type that 50billion...aw screw it. A big company.
They went with a hosted solution though. Their harvest festival pages were especially quick.
"...But it would certainly make a lot more sense, and be far less grievous, than a beating for no reason whatsoever.....". No, not really. Well not for most people who take an objective look at what was seen. The "just world" juries give police a very high benefit of the doubt in the first place, and usually "you don't know what happened before or after the recording" is their biggest defense should they find themselves in trouble. It's definitely the mating call of the apologist.
They should probably run a democrat.
Who heard that email in Cheetos crunching comic book guy voice?
It's pretty stupid. "More fines and prison time for a crime I know nothing about, sure." Voters deserve the society they are making for themselves. On a positive note in a decade or so most everyone will have some felony and be on some offender list so the "welp not me" vote will be the minority.
Hmmm I thought that was the carrier.
Simple, the USPS does not a have a profitable business model.
Has always worked so well in the past. Let's just look at the lower rates of everything we are exceptionally tough on: [insert infinity "loading" circle here]
I assume it has gotten better over the years but historically DSL has been great for latency but really bad at reliability and packet loss. Of course this varies wildly by location but from doing residential and business voip I can say that if you have older "plant" (aerial street wires and older houses) there's a good chance your DSL will be pretty awful for gaming, voip or anything else real/time.
Yes, more speed increases competition and raises the overall quantity/quality for everyone. It also opens the doors for new services and products because a developer isn't going to build out a network to support something like Steam. Just look at 12 years ago, 1Mbps (yes the little b) was ~500-800$ a month, now we are hovering in the 2-3$per Mbps. That has made the internet as you know it possible, in an amazingly (relatively) short time.
You seem to envision an "end" like most do in which there is short downward spiral and somehow we'll all be on a relatively even playing field because monetary wealth means nothing. What is more likely (and actually happening right now) is that the corporations and rich will continue to suck on the corpse of their country, society, and neighbors for a very long time and until it is bone dry. Once the "line" (share price/profit margin) stops moving because of the exploitation of cheap Asian labor and lack of regulation happens, what next? We're circling the toilet bowl on many fronts and while the environment is scary because it is essentially irreversible the economic and political cliffs we are standing on or much more pressing and solvable issues that *have* to be addressed before we can even start a rational discussion on international climate changing measures.
....Ready, set, lose your shit.
This is ridiculous, unless you like work for the mafia or something. Maybe there is some lunatic employers out there that hold their positions like a girlfriend but most realize that people (especially talented ones) might be tempted by outside offers. The only time I could think of that a normal employer would do stuff like that is if you are obviously leveraging the new position to twist their arm. A little honesty goes a long way, if he brought this question to his current employer they would respect the honesty and heads up most likely. I've left a couple companies who have countered and they would gladly take me back tomorrow.
If it's fraud so be it, if it's deception then he's just playing the same game the actual politicians do to make people part with their money. At least his deceptions deprive a relatively small amount of people of money they are ok with parting with (probably to someone else deceiving them) anyway., instead of, ya know, ones that bankrupt a country.
...My grandmas computer was fine while she had scareware and a few rootkits installed. So I told her to stop her whining.
Could Make a Mess of Hurricane.
The awesome thing is that they spend tons of cash lobbying for "tort reform" and with the other arm are using tort to roto-root people into insolvency for the pettiest of damages.
Pilots pretty much have a "zero bullshit" policy. For the most part they're not interested in the TSA, NSA,SCOTUS, 9/11, 9/12, Chick-a-fila, or whatever else. If you have flown enough you would know why, people causing a stir (even if unintentional) can make for a very bad flight for everyone and a couple hundred irritated/angry people in a 300,000lb box in the sky is the very definition of "unsafe". I'm not saying it's "right" at a customer level it's just the way it is.
You're wrong. They will usually "find for the plaintiff" to one degree or another. The purpose of arbitration is to avoid punitive(etc) damages in court and to deal with broad abuse on a case by case basis as a kind of firewall against a broad "assault" against widespread abuse. Arbitrators are good for businesses to deal with each other because they generally are "fair" to all parties involved, it's not good for business to consumer because what's "fair" is for you to get your money back and the business to continue fucking people over.
Good on you for singing the scam anthem "sorry you didn't get in on the ground floor of this excellent opportunity".