According to a CNN article about this, if MoviePass hadn't done a reverse stock split (ie, merged stock shares), it's current value would be roughly 1.5 cents (at the time that article was published, the share was at $3.50, it's now dropped to $2.50). MoviePass is a penny stock.
So basically a company with a monopoly is encouraging developers to not compete with each other.
No, they are saying if you make an Angry Birds clone called Ornery Penguins, you're going to get pulled. I see this as Google saying they don't want clones and spammy apps all with the same content, they want real competition with original content.
If Trump threatens disproportionate retaliation for not letting US companies use Taiwan, China will believe him.
The whole DPRK and Helsinki debacles have shown the world that all you have to do is make vague assurances not backed by substance and laud Trump with platitudes and tell him how great he is and he will walk away happy and saying how successful he was while you go on doing whatever you were doing. The US has turned into the dog that barks at you from the window but runs away when you walk up to the door.
My first ~ year as a vegetarian, I liked to point out that bacon is crispy. Meat isn't crispy. If you cook some meat and leave it sitting out on the counter all day, it'll spoil in a few hours. You can cook bacon and leave it out for days, weeks even if you cover it to keep the dust and flies off. Therefore bacon must not be meat,
Crispy bacon is disgusting. Bacon should be soft. The last cruise I went on, they separated their bacon in the buffet between crispy and soft and I thought I was in heaven.
I do like your way of thinking, though. I make the argument that mac and cheese counts as a vegetable because it can be served with a vegetable plate.
No, they do it because that's how they were raised. People's "tastes" form at a young age.
Tastes change. When I was young I used to love shrimp, can't stand seafood now. Same for things like chocolate milk. When I was in college I started really liking onion.
Although, my sister-in-law is vegetarian and her 4 year old girls will regularly pass up pizza for salad. I've joked that I've been tempted to Family and Child Services several times.
you really think that every square mile of burying beetle soil is going to be drilled?
no, that's silly. the majority of bugs and everything else will be left alone. irrational "protections" that are "symbolism over substance" and "mere horn tooting" should be eliminated
So I guess they just airdrop in the already constructed drilling rigs and have the rig workers come in by helicopter every day. Or, you know, they build roads, have construction areas with footprints larger than the footprints of the oil rigs, build support buildings, install pipelines (which need their own roads, construction areas, and support buildings), etc.
>> SpaceX has been killing it
Not sure you're old enough to remember deaths involved in space flight, but this may not be the smartest statement for the marketeers to put out.
They could say the growth in the rate of recovered stages has been explosive, or that the hopes of SpaceX detractors have been sent plummeting.
I suspect that the problem with building more runways is acquiring the land from the people who live or have businesses on the land. that could get expensive
There's currently a fight going on over the construction of a 3rd runway. The House of Commons last month voted approval but local officials including London's mayor are contesting it and asking for a judicial review.
I used to work on the ramp of a major airport and let me tell you, those tanks they kept in the cargo holds to store the chemicals were great. The chemicals have to be kept at a constant temperature so the tanks were always cool during the summer and warm during the winter. Good place to relax by if you had some downtime.
But now the American people have said very loudly that we want to revert to the Christian values that this nation was founded on.
Too bad the Founders were deists, not Christians. Core tenets of deism include "rejection of religions that are based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God", "rejection of religious dogma and demagogy", and "skepticism of reports of miracles, prophecies and religious mysteries". The founders wanted a nation built on reason and scientific thought. If anything we are currently trending to pre-Protestant Reformation era thought. People aren't even basing their thought on what a book (the Bible) says, they are basing it on what other people are telling them it says.
I hope this firm's 4-day work week is an unmitigated success, but this story misses the most important metrics for measuring the success: increased worker productivity, increased retention, various recruitment KPIs, etc. These are the metrics which can show that this plan will work for a larger number of companies. If the only thing that happens is happier employees, it is a failed experiment. Just give every employee a million dollars if you only care about happy employees. If you want to find a way to improve employee well-being while running a sustainable successful business, then you need to real metrics for success.
I really don't want this tried here in the US. We all know what will happen is that a company will try it and find that all the work can still get done in 4 days so an MBA will, instead of permanently reducing the number of work days from 5 to 4, just lay off 20% of the staff.
I answered it perfectly. Pilots cannot be considered to work a 40 hour week because, by federal law, they can only work the equivalent of 20 hours a week if doing flight duty. Pilots with seniority are making well over $200 an hour base pay.
The major airlines do get hundreds more applicants than there are positions, but much like the NBA there are other options. Ups/FedEx, foreign carriers, etc. And remember, there is a hard retirement age of 65. A lot of pilots will simply be aging out soon and the worry is there won't be enough to replace them.
I didn't say starting for pilots, I said starting at the company. And honestly, I have no sympathy for people starting at $20-30 an hour but will eventually make $200-300 a year. I started out making $13 an hour. Unless you are lucky or born into money everyone starts out struggling
Those are contractually mandated minimums per hour of flight/block time. Of which they are federally mandated to have no more than 1000 of in any given year. High seniority captains in widebodies can make in the low to mid $200s an hour. And that is the base rate. It doesn't include "overtime" or incentive pay. Some pilots could be making $400-600 an hour depending on the circumstances
If you ever get a chance to meet a bunch of carrier aviators... and then get to meet their 'not-so-cool, calm & collected' fundie/Southern fratboy counterparts - i.e. Air Force fighter pilots - you wouldn't even risk mentioning them both in the same sentence.
Is it really true that while the other branches of the military have their recruits qualify at the rifle range Air Force pilots have to qualify at the driving range?
It isn't like you can work a typical second part time job from a random airport hotel. All that time is taken up by the job.
Fun Fact: Many pilots have side-jobs (actually, for some pilots senior enough that they can sit reserve and not fly while still getting full pay, "pilot" is their $200k a year side job). They might be away from home 3-5 days at a time (sometimes as long as 9 days for some international trips) but then they could be home for the next 2 weeks straight. plenty of time to have another career. Many own another business of some type.
...and, as the very same page on my google search helpfully tells me, "The average airline pilot logs 75 hours a month in the air and sometimes up to 150 hours per month performing ground duties like simulator training, maintaining records, performing pre-flight inspections, flight planning and traveling to and from hotels and airports."
...
Any simulator training that an airline pilot receives is paid on top of whatever flight time they have for that month (and must adhere to the same FARs as flight time such as 30 in 168). Pre-flight is about a 30-minute process, most flight planning is already done for them, and maybe an international pilot would spend about 3 hours combined going from cockpit to hotel room and hotel room back to airport. If a pilot is spending 150 hours in a simulator they are getting a type rating or qualifying on a new aircraft which can take over a month.
As for pay, well, I can also tell you from personal knowledge that the quoted pay they give in a specific example is out of date and off by about 25%(as in 25% too low)
According to the FARs(specifically 121.471), no commercial pilot can work more than 100hrs a month or 1000 hours in a calendar year. A person working 40hrs a week, assuming 2 weeks off, works 2000 hours in a calendar year. The average wage for someone with an advanced degree in the US is $70,000. If a pilot were to work at their wage for the standard 2000 hours a year at that $50 an hour rate, they would be making $100-120k a year, well over the average wage. Show me other part-time jobs that pay $50 an hour.
Part of the low wage problem at regionals is the constant churn at lower seniority levels with stagnation at the top. You can actually make captain much quicker at some major airlines than you can with regionals. You have some regional pilots sitting there because they they have good seniority and decent pay, but most are in and out in a few years to a major airline if they are any good.
Also people who have flown their tours in the military likely have families at that point or want to become astronauts, politicians, or all of them.
Most military pilots have enough flight time to go right to a major airline, skipping the regionals. Worst case they are in their late 30s-early 40s, are making 6 figures within 3-4 years, and have a guaranteed 25-year career. Part of the issue is the pool of military pilots is shrinking as well with the adoption of more multi-purpose aircraft and UAVs.
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According to a CNN article about this, if MoviePass hadn't done a reverse stock split (ie, merged stock shares), it's current value would be roughly 1.5 cents (at the time that article was published, the share was at $3.50, it's now dropped to $2.50). MoviePass is a penny stock.
So basically a company with a monopoly is encouraging developers to not compete with each other.
No, they are saying if you make an Angry Birds clone called Ornery Penguins, you're going to get pulled. I see this as Google saying they don't want clones and spammy apps all with the same content, they want real competition with original content.
Isn't it part of the issue that they didn't built out infrastructure they promised to do?
Appearing crazy is a soft power in and of itself.
If Trump threatens disproportionate retaliation for not letting US companies use Taiwan, China will believe him.
The whole DPRK and Helsinki debacles have shown the world that all you have to do is make vague assurances not backed by substance and laud Trump with platitudes and tell him how great he is and he will walk away happy and saying how successful he was while you go on doing whatever you were doing. The US has turned into the dog that barks at you from the window but runs away when you walk up to the door.
Yep, bacon is the gateway drug.
My first ~ year as a vegetarian, I liked to point out that bacon is crispy. Meat isn't crispy. If you cook some meat and leave it sitting out on the counter all day, it'll spoil in a few hours. You can cook bacon and leave it out for days, weeks even if you cover it to keep the dust and flies off. Therefore bacon must not be meat,
Crispy bacon is disgusting. Bacon should be soft. The last cruise I went on, they separated their bacon in the buffet between crispy and soft and I thought I was in heaven.
I do like your way of thinking, though. I make the argument that mac and cheese counts as a vegetable because it can be served with a vegetable plate.
No, they do it because that's how they were raised. People's "tastes" form at a young age.
Tastes change. When I was young I used to love shrimp, can't stand seafood now. Same for things like chocolate milk. When I was in college I started really liking onion.
Although, my sister-in-law is vegetarian and her 4 year old girls will regularly pass up pizza for salad. I've joked that I've been tempted to Family and Child Services several times.
Because the alternative was even worse!
I must have missed where Hillary was the only other person on the ballot.....
you really think that every square mile of burying beetle soil is going to be drilled?
no, that's silly. the majority of bugs and everything else will be left alone. irrational "protections" that are "symbolism over substance" and "mere horn tooting" should be eliminated
So I guess they just airdrop in the already constructed drilling rigs and have the rig workers come in by helicopter every day. Or, you know, they build roads, have construction areas with footprints larger than the footprints of the oil rigs, build support buildings, install pipelines (which need their own roads, construction areas, and support buildings), etc.
>> SpaceX has been killing it Not sure you're old enough to remember deaths involved in space flight, but this may not be the smartest statement for the marketeers to put out.
They could say the growth in the rate of recovered stages has been explosive, or that the hopes of SpaceX detractors have been sent plummeting.
I suspect that the problem with building more runways is acquiring the land from the people who live or have businesses on the land. that could get expensive
There's currently a fight going on over the construction of a 3rd runway. The House of Commons last month voted approval but local officials including London's mayor are contesting it and asking for a judicial review.
I used to work on the ramp of a major airport and let me tell you, those tanks they kept in the cargo holds to store the chemicals were great. The chemicals have to be kept at a constant temperature so the tanks were always cool during the summer and warm during the winter. Good place to relax by if you had some downtime.
But now the American people have said very loudly that we want to revert to the Christian values that this nation was founded on.
Too bad the Founders were deists, not Christians. Core tenets of deism include "rejection of religions that are based on books that claim to contain the revealed word of God", "rejection of religious dogma and demagogy", and "skepticism of reports of miracles, prophecies and religious mysteries". The founders wanted a nation built on reason and scientific thought. If anything we are currently trending to pre-Protestant Reformation era thought. People aren't even basing their thought on what a book (the Bible) says, they are basing it on what other people are telling them it says.
I hope this firm's 4-day work week is an unmitigated success, but this story misses the most important metrics for measuring the success: increased worker productivity, increased retention, various recruitment KPIs, etc. These are the metrics which can show that this plan will work for a larger number of companies. If the only thing that happens is happier employees, it is a failed experiment. Just give every employee a million dollars if you only care about happy employees. If you want to find a way to improve employee well-being while running a sustainable successful business, then you need to real metrics for success.
I really don't want this tried here in the US. We all know what will happen is that a company will try it and find that all the work can still get done in 4 days so an MBA will, instead of permanently reducing the number of work days from 5 to 4, just lay off 20% of the staff.
A Communist revolution made that difficult. Consider the history of the Amber Room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
WWII and the looter mentality of Nazi Germany is what made the Amber room disappear, not the Communist Revolution.
I answered it perfectly. Pilots cannot be considered to work a 40 hour week because, by federal law, they can only work the equivalent of 20 hours a week if doing flight duty. Pilots with seniority are making well over $200 an hour base pay.
The major airlines do get hundreds more applicants than there are positions, but much like the NBA there are other options. Ups/FedEx, foreign carriers, etc. And remember, there is a hard retirement age of 65. A lot of pilots will simply be aging out soon and the worry is there won't be enough to replace them.
I didn't say starting for pilots, I said starting at the company. And honestly, I have no sympathy for people starting at $20-30 an hour but will eventually make $200-300 a year. I started out making $13 an hour. Unless you are lucky or born into money everyone starts out struggling
Those are contractually mandated minimums per hour of flight/block time. Of which they are federally mandated to have no more than 1000 of in any given year. High seniority captains in widebodies can make in the low to mid $200s an hour. And that is the base rate. It doesn't include "overtime" or incentive pay. Some pilots could be making $400-600 an hour depending on the circumstances
...when it was all ex navy and air force pilots
If you ever get a chance to meet a bunch of carrier aviators... and then get to meet their 'not-so-cool, calm & collected' fundie/Southern fratboy counterparts - i.e. Air Force fighter pilots - you wouldn't even risk mentioning them both in the same sentence.
Is it really true that while the other branches of the military have their recruits qualify at the rifle range Air Force pilots have to qualify at the driving range?
It isn't like you can work a typical second part time job from a random airport hotel. All that time is taken up by the job.
Fun Fact: Many pilots have side-jobs (actually, for some pilots senior enough that they can sit reserve and not fly while still getting full pay, "pilot" is their $200k a year side job). They might be away from home 3-5 days at a time (sometimes as long as 9 days for some international trips) but then they could be home for the next 2 weeks straight. plenty of time to have another career. Many own another business of some type.
...and, as the very same page on my google search helpfully tells me, "The average airline pilot logs 75 hours a month in the air and sometimes up to 150 hours per month performing ground duties like simulator training, maintaining records, performing pre-flight inspections, flight planning and traveling to and from hotels and airports."
...
Any simulator training that an airline pilot receives is paid on top of whatever flight time they have for that month (and must adhere to the same FARs as flight time such as 30 in 168). Pre-flight is about a 30-minute process, most flight planning is already done for them, and maybe an international pilot would spend about 3 hours combined going from cockpit to hotel room and hotel room back to airport. If a pilot is spending 150 hours in a simulator they are getting a type rating or qualifying on a new aircraft which can take over a month.
As for pay, well, I can also tell you from personal knowledge that the quoted pay they give in a specific example is out of date and off by about 25%(as in 25% too low)
According to the FARs(specifically 121.471), no commercial pilot can work more than 100hrs a month or 1000 hours in a calendar year. A person working 40hrs a week, assuming 2 weeks off, works 2000 hours in a calendar year. The average wage for someone with an advanced degree in the US is $70,000. If a pilot were to work at their wage for the standard 2000 hours a year at that $50 an hour rate, they would be making $100-120k a year, well over the average wage. Show me other part-time jobs that pay $50 an hour.
Part of the low wage problem at regionals is the constant churn at lower seniority levels with stagnation at the top. You can actually make captain much quicker at some major airlines than you can with regionals. You have some regional pilots sitting there because they they have good seniority and decent pay, but most are in and out in a few years to a major airline if they are any good.
Also people who have flown their tours in the military likely have families at that point or want to become astronauts, politicians, or all of them.
Most military pilots have enough flight time to go right to a major airline, skipping the regionals. Worst case they are in their late 30s-early 40s, are making 6 figures within 3-4 years, and have a guaranteed 25-year career. Part of the issue is the pool of military pilots is shrinking as well with the adoption of more multi-purpose aircraft and UAVs.
If they were that desperate they would be training pilots themselves.
They are. Jetblue has an ab initio program and other major airlines are following suit with similar programs.