You are assuming that the long term costs are footed by the company themselves. For instance, most places have insurance policies that will pay for damages from storms/weather and the drivers of the vehicles (and/or their insurance companies) pay for it when they are involved. Those prices are SUBSTANTIALLY lower than the costs involved in getting new "right of ways", checking against documented and undocumented subterranean lines (water, sewer, gas, oil, etc.) as well as the costs to actually excavate and bury the lines.
Seriously, you are 100% correct in what you say, but according to the GOP, the government doesn't create jobs, and thus, the government can't hire qualified people to do work, but instead needs to outsource it all to private industry, all the while not having the expertise needed to even evaluate the private companies it is contracting to do the work.
That is/was actually best practices for a secured network. One of the exploits for gaining access to the network required rebooting the network equipment so that it would load code injected by the attacker either from local/physical access or remote access. By having all the settings wipe, the attacker would trip monitoring sensors (due to the network segment going down) as well as not be able to gain any more information about the network from the device that was breached.
However, usually when this is done, a network backup copy of the config is located somewhere that the admin knows. Terry very well could have had such backup copied, but since the city had already fired him, he felt no obligation to give them any more information than what was already documented (which very well may have been saved in a readme, or disaster recovery document that was available somewhere on the network, but again, he was fired on the spot and thus, should not have had any obligation to tell them where to go looking other then between his cheeks as he walked out the door).
He was asked to give the passwords over during a meeting with several people who had not signed the appropriate papers for having said access and had not been documented by information/system security for having a right to the passwords. There was also a conference call being held on the phone in the room with unknown persons who would have then also been privy to the password divergence. Terry simple say "no" to diverging the passwords in that location, at that time, in that manner. In his contract, he had a duty to protect the passwords, and he was still an employee at that time. Giving up the passwords in that location at that time would have been a breach of his contract and he could have been fired on the spot for doing so. He was placed in an impossible situation, where they were firing him if he gave them the passwords or didn't give them the passwords. At that time, no one from security had authorize anyone else to have the passwords, and as such, Terry did the only thing he felt was correct, which was to attempt to give them to the only person who was in charge of the system, which was the mayor, who could then give them to whoever he felt like, in whatever manner he thought he should since it was not written in any contract that he had to protect the passwords or be fired for giving them to someone who had not filled out the proper paperwork and been given approval to have them and doing so in a location where only the person who had been authorized to have them would receive them.
Someone must not realize that Oracle DB is the go to database for big government projects. As this was a "big government project" to begin with, Oracle DB was probably used as the backend in the existing design.
I think a planet like this is just more data backing up the rogue planet theory that some planets have formed either outside of solar systems with a star and/or have been flung out of their solar system when the system came too close to either a black hole or other solar systems. Or for transference of a planet from one solar system into another.
I'm pretty serious with that statement. Steve Jobs would have never let that update out without testing it on every device model. He also would have probably quashed the problems within a couple days by releasing an official statement with an official "fix" to at least rollback the device to an older version (i.e. would have removed the version control checks from the updater). And then the majority of the angry mob would have calmed down since they have a working phone again, and given them time to fix the real problem in the new version.
No, this is actually flying/piloting a spaceship in WWII style dog-fights (with the aid tracking/locking computers, but aiming I believe will be up to the pilot for many ships/guns). Damage occurs based on what was actually hit by the aimed shots which ships having physical locations for things like engines, weapons, life systems, power generators, shields, armor, thrusters, etc., and damaging those different systems will physically affect the operation of the ship (i.e. if you lost all your port thrusters, and the ship doesn't have have a thruster on a gimbal/omni mount, you won't be able to turn to the starboard side (and would instead have to first roll the ship upside down so that you have active/working thrusters so you could then turn to the direction now that you have thrusters that work to push you there).
So actual flying skills will mater. Knowing how to properly dodge enemy fire, perform evasive maneuvers (possibly overriding safety systems that limit the G-forces you receive to do more extreme maneuvers, but then risking blacking out if you go beyond your body's and your suit's limits to keep oxygen going to your brain).
You forgot that the combat is also twitch/skill based and not formula based. In Eve, 1v1 combat is all about knowing your ship's strengths and weaknesses, outfitting it properly to exploit those said strengths and weaknesses and knowing which targets are most vulnerable to your strengths with least ability to threaten your weaknesses... This plus the number of skill points the pilot has giving bonuses to the skills that affect the strengths/weaknesses of the ship.
In gang fights (which most fights are), it is mostly about who has the best logistics and/or best concentrated DPS (typically the group with the most people will win, but not always).
Well, that is due to proper market analysis more so than anything else. It is obviously in the best interest of the current share holders to properly evaluate the stock price before an IPO. An accurate evaluation with erroring on the side of being low means it will grow in price out of the gate, allowing those early backers a chance to sell their existing stock without fear of flooding the market with sell orders when there are no buy orders for the stock.
The use of "an" instead of "a" is determined by the beginning of the word after the "an" or "a". If the word following it is in singular form and begins with a vowel sound, "an" is used. Otherwise "a" is used for the singular form.
This rule is not unlike many other languages. In Spanish, for instance, verbs take on a masculine or feminine form depending on if the subject is a male or female....
On a side note, I would love to see that happen personally because then my wages might actually go up with less H1Bs willing to work for chump-change in the US if there are other places around the world which are actively competing for the personnel.
My sentiment exactly. The US has all these services because companies based in the US developed them. You want to compete, build your own "Silicon Valley" like location where you have a high number of programmers and engineers + venture capital to fund them.
Reviews on these sites can be mitigated by requiring that the person purchased the item and wait a week before they can make the review on the site they are posting the review. It won't stop it entirely, but it sure would slow it down, especially in the beginning when it is a new product as they wouldn't be able to start launch day with 50-100 reviews (especially on physical goods that have not even shipped yet). Only verified owners would be able to review it. Digital items are a little more tricky, but still the 1 week wait would force people to spend a little more time with it before making a snap review...
I hate to say it but you may be a little short sighted in your current view. Yes, you learn many different things by actually doing instead of learning in school. But those are two completely different kinds of things that you are learning, and a good school/college/university will be able to get you both the experience in doing as well as the experience in academia that will get your the step up on others.
Your current experience exists in those 2 jobs, a helpdesk job, and a municipal IT job. But you have not experienced (or maybe you have) the biggest problem without having the degree, being getting HR at companies to not simply toss your resume into the round filing bin (i.e. trashcan) when they do the first pass on their resume's to see if they meet the requirements of "Degree in CS/ECE/IST".
He already stated he uses Octave which is the open source equivalent to Matlab, it can even read in about 95-98% of all Matlab scripts (the exceptions being a couple of lesser used toolboxes).
Bwahahaha, I guess you are modded insightful because it is the new funny? I actually lol-ed a little at your comment. Compared to many areas in Europe, yes, but compared to many of the better scoring nations, and especially the #1 scorer, Japan, which is well known for work-a-haulism (among other -ahaulisms), Americans definitely are not work-ahaulics.
Actually, the average America works more hours per year than the average Japanese by about ~40 hours. The times vary from year to year. Last year (2012) it was 45 hours, but in 2011, it was over 60. Go see for yourself:
As for education, I do have to agree with you for education up to and including high school education. The current system in the USA is completely broken, which isn't surprising as it was designed in the 1800's, not the 21st century. It is still based on concepts and criteria to produce factory line workers and farmers, not critical thinkers, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, or artists. Even the very concept of the "school year" itself is based on 1800's agricultural needs of the children to be home working on the farm planting/harvesting crops, which is why there exists such a thing as "summer vacation". More is lost in the 2-3 months of "summer vacation" than is taught in 2 months of classes (more for students of low income families). That actually means that in terms of education knowledge gained, our students only have 5-6 months of school while countries that do not have a 2-3 month summer vacation received 10-11 months in the same time period. It is no wonder our students do not do as well....
As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
Except that Obamacare is already fully funded and isn't subject to yearly budgetary allocations, since there is no money that is given to it on a yearly basis by the government. This is why you see that the exchanges opened up to people on October 1st, even though the rest of the government shutdown, because it is already fully funded separately, and thus not subject to the whims of the House, excepting for the complete overturning/modification of it via a new law that needs to get past the House, the Senate, and a possible Presidential veto, which the last 48 times the House attempted to do so have failed...
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.
Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.
Really? Better check your "facts" on that. Social Security will have a bill of $12 billion due on the 10/23, and interest on bonds of $6 billion on 10/31. Both of those exceed the daily tax income, which means the government will not have enough in the bank on that day to pay the bill due that day, which means they default....
You want to prove me wrong? Want to win this debate? read on...but first, I don't need your reductive lecture on how procurement works.
Well obviously you did otherwise it wouldn't have been needed to tell you the obvious fatal flaw in your initial reasoning that budgets are always spent this way when you are dealing with a budget that accounts for incidentals, replacement parts, and consumables especially when you don't know what of those will be expended, wear out, or otherwise need more of to meet supply demands.
It's a free for all corporate giveaway. The **prime** example of government waste that shows the glaring lies of Obama's critics and GOP'ers in general.
To falsify my point, say your ramblings about imaginary and unapplicable replacement cycles is true. Almost all government divisions that have budgets for contractors do exactly as you say. Fine.
In that scenario you are still wrong.
Why? The question is, is this spending justified?
Yes, the spending is justified. Why? Because someone did a 3 or 5 year plan 1-2 years ago which went over the lists of all the things that are needed by the different departments. Those lists create a "wish list" of things that we can spend money on this year and not need to spend the money on next year. Most companies call it a capital expense plan, in which they perform a capital pull-in from the next year or more in advance on items which you can purchase now when you do have the money and save on purchasing later when you might not have the money due to some other unexpected expense.
The answer is no...no matter when people spend their budgets on contractors, the problem is the same **IT IS A WASTEFUL GIVEAWAY TO CORPORATIONS FOR NO GAIN TO CITIZENS**
So your solution is to not spend money on contractors, meaning you now have to hire in-house teams of scientists, engineers, and designers, purchase manufacturing facilities, hire manufacturing line workers, managers, HR staff, etc., etc., etc., duplicating many of the facilities that other companies already have built, expending trillions of capital to duplicate and compete against already in production companies across VAST business sectors such as CPU chip design, software engineering, computer manufacturing, automotive construction, heavy machinery construction, robotics, aerospace manufacturing, naval manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, etc., etc., etc... Yeah, that sure isn't a waste of tax payer dollars. Someone never went to business school as you obviously never learned how difficult it is and expensive it is to have to own and maintain all of those things. This is why most companies don't own their manufacturing, it is outsourced. Oh, you thought that BMW car you bought was made by BMW? They may have designed it, but that seat was made by another company. The dials used in the dash was made by another one. The tires were made by yet another. The wheels inside the tires was made by yet another. The bolts holding on the wheels were made by yet another. The glass for the windows and windshield were made by yet another company, etc., etc., etc., all contracted out...
I agree with you 100%. This is standard operating practice. The different branches all have a budget for the year, but do not know what emergency needs they will have during the year. For instance, the Navy won't know they need to buy 100 more Tomahawk missiles that year because they used 100 of them in some military action. There are all kinds of incidental items which can affect the ability to make some much needed equipment upgrades or other expenditures, but due to not knowing the unknowable operational needs for the year, they can't make those purchases until almost the last few days of the fiscal year when they they pretty much know the unknowable expenses they will incur during the year (since the year is over and new unknowable expenses will not be able to occur).
I think in the case of Star Citizen at least, the "stretch" goals were all originally planned, he just wasn't sure if there would be money to get to those features. For instance, the current stretch goal is FPS combat in other locations other than boarding ships. Given that the game engine itself is a FPS engine, this isn't feature creep, just something he wasn't sure he could do while making the space combat game, but was something he hoped he could do (I mean, think about it, why should combat only be limited to when you are in a ship if there are times when you might not be in a ship, you should still be in a situation where you might be attacked or want to attack someone else, why should the game mechanics force you to not be able to do something like that?).
Point in fact, every "stretch goal" was something he wanted to have the game do. He prioritized them internally in his mind as to, well if I had to get rid of something from this game, those things would be X, Y, and Z, and then he placed them up in stretch goals that are further away from what was needed to make the core game.
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You are assuming that the long term costs are footed by the company themselves. For instance, most places have insurance policies that will pay for damages from storms/weather and the drivers of the vehicles (and/or their insurance companies) pay for it when they are involved. Those prices are SUBSTANTIALLY lower than the costs involved in getting new "right of ways", checking against documented and undocumented subterranean lines (water, sewer, gas, oil, etc.) as well as the costs to actually excavate and bury the lines.
I thought they were overtly Jewish...
Seriously, you are 100% correct in what you say, but according to the GOP, the government doesn't create jobs, and thus, the government can't hire qualified people to do work, but instead needs to outsource it all to private industry, all the while not having the expertise needed to even evaluate the private companies it is contracting to do the work.
That is/was actually best practices for a secured network. One of the exploits for gaining access to the network required rebooting the network equipment so that it would load code injected by the attacker either from local/physical access or remote access. By having all the settings wipe, the attacker would trip monitoring sensors (due to the network segment going down) as well as not be able to gain any more information about the network from the device that was breached.
However, usually when this is done, a network backup copy of the config is located somewhere that the admin knows. Terry very well could have had such backup copied, but since the city had already fired him, he felt no obligation to give them any more information than what was already documented (which very well may have been saved in a readme, or disaster recovery document that was available somewhere on the network, but again, he was fired on the spot and thus, should not have had any obligation to tell them where to go looking other then between his cheeks as he walked out the door).
He was asked to give the passwords over during a meeting with several people who had not signed the appropriate papers for having said access and had not been documented by information/system security for having a right to the passwords. There was also a conference call being held on the phone in the room with unknown persons who would have then also been privy to the password divergence. Terry simple say "no" to diverging the passwords in that location, at that time, in that manner. In his contract, he had a duty to protect the passwords, and he was still an employee at that time. Giving up the passwords in that location at that time would have been a breach of his contract and he could have been fired on the spot for doing so. He was placed in an impossible situation, where they were firing him if he gave them the passwords or didn't give them the passwords. At that time, no one from security had authorize anyone else to have the passwords, and as such, Terry did the only thing he felt was correct, which was to attempt to give them to the only person who was in charge of the system, which was the mayor, who could then give them to whoever he felt like, in whatever manner he thought he should since it was not written in any contract that he had to protect the passwords or be fired for giving them to someone who had not filled out the proper paperwork and been given approval to have them and doing so in a location where only the person who had been authorized to have them would receive them.
Someone must not realize that Oracle DB is the go to database for big government projects. As this was a "big government project" to begin with, Oracle DB was probably used as the backend in the existing design.
I think a planet like this is just more data backing up the rogue planet theory that some planets have formed either outside of solar systems with a star and/or have been flung out of their solar system when the system came too close to either a black hole or other solar systems. Or for transference of a planet from one solar system into another.
I'm pretty serious with that statement. Steve Jobs would have never let that update out without testing it on every device model. He also would have probably quashed the problems within a couple days by releasing an official statement with an official "fix" to at least rollback the device to an older version (i.e. would have removed the version control checks from the updater). And then the majority of the angry mob would have calmed down since they have a working phone again, and given them time to fix the real problem in the new version.
No, this is actually flying/piloting a spaceship in WWII style dog-fights (with the aid tracking/locking computers, but aiming I believe will be up to the pilot for many ships/guns). Damage occurs based on what was actually hit by the aimed shots which ships having physical locations for things like engines, weapons, life systems, power generators, shields, armor, thrusters, etc., and damaging those different systems will physically affect the operation of the ship (i.e. if you lost all your port thrusters, and the ship doesn't have have a thruster on a gimbal/omni mount, you won't be able to turn to the starboard side (and would instead have to first roll the ship upside down so that you have active/working thrusters so you could then turn to the direction now that you have thrusters that work to push you there).
So actual flying skills will mater. Knowing how to properly dodge enemy fire, perform evasive maneuvers (possibly overriding safety systems that limit the G-forces you receive to do more extreme maneuvers, but then risking blacking out if you go beyond your body's and your suit's limits to keep oxygen going to your brain).
You forgot that the combat is also twitch/skill based and not formula based. In Eve, 1v1 combat is all about knowing your ship's strengths and weaknesses, outfitting it properly to exploit those said strengths and weaknesses and knowing which targets are most vulnerable to your strengths with least ability to threaten your weaknesses... This plus the number of skill points the pilot has giving bonuses to the skills that affect the strengths/weaknesses of the ship.
In gang fights (which most fights are), it is mostly about who has the best logistics and/or best concentrated DPS (typically the group with the most people will win, but not always).
Well, that is due to proper market analysis more so than anything else. It is obviously in the best interest of the current share holders to properly evaluate the stock price before an IPO. An accurate evaluation with erroring on the side of being low means it will grow in price out of the gate, allowing those early backers a chance to sell their existing stock without fear of flooding the market with sell orders when there are no buy orders for the stock.
The use of "an" instead of "a" is determined by the beginning of the word after the "an" or "a". If the word following it is in singular form and begins with a vowel sound, "an" is used. Otherwise "a" is used for the singular form.
This rule is not unlike many other languages. In Spanish, for instance, verbs take on a masculine or feminine form depending on if the subject is a male or female....
On a side note, I would love to see that happen personally because then my wages might actually go up with less H1Bs willing to work for chump-change in the US if there are other places around the world which are actively competing for the personnel.
My sentiment exactly. The US has all these services because companies based in the US developed them. You want to compete, build your own "Silicon Valley" like location where you have a high number of programmers and engineers + venture capital to fund them.
Reviews on these sites can be mitigated by requiring that the person purchased the item and wait a week before they can make the review on the site they are posting the review. It won't stop it entirely, but it sure would slow it down, especially in the beginning when it is a new product as they wouldn't be able to start launch day with 50-100 reviews (especially on physical goods that have not even shipped yet). Only verified owners would be able to review it. Digital items are a little more tricky, but still the 1 week wait would force people to spend a little more time with it before making a snap review...
I mean, if black powder is illegal, use something else that ignites easily, like gun cotton...
I hate to say it but you may be a little short sighted in your current view. Yes, you learn many different things by actually doing instead of learning in school. But those are two completely different kinds of things that you are learning, and a good school/college/university will be able to get you both the experience in doing as well as the experience in academia that will get your the step up on others.
Your current experience exists in those 2 jobs, a helpdesk job, and a municipal IT job. But you have not experienced (or maybe you have) the biggest problem without having the degree, being getting HR at companies to not simply toss your resume into the round filing bin (i.e. trashcan) when they do the first pass on their resume's to see if they meet the requirements of "Degree in CS/ECE/IST".
Says someone who obviously never went to a school which fosters creativity...
Because that costs money and creates jobs. Both of which according to the GOP the government doesn't have and/or can't do.
He already stated he uses Octave which is the open source equivalent to Matlab, it can even read in about 95-98% of all Matlab scripts (the exceptions being a couple of lesser used toolboxes).
Bwahahaha, I guess you are modded insightful because it is the new funny? I actually lol-ed a little at your comment. Compared to many areas in Europe, yes, but compared to many of the better scoring nations, and especially the #1 scorer, Japan, which is well known for work-a-haulism (among other -ahaulisms), Americans definitely are not work-ahaulics.
Actually, the average America works more hours per year than the average Japanese by about ~40 hours. The times vary from year to year. Last year (2012) it was 45 hours, but in 2011, it was over 60. Go see for yourself:
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
As for education, I do have to agree with you for education up to and including high school education. The current system in the USA is completely broken, which isn't surprising as it was designed in the 1800's, not the 21st century. It is still based on concepts and criteria to produce factory line workers and farmers, not critical thinkers, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, or artists. Even the very concept of the "school year" itself is based on 1800's agricultural needs of the children to be home working on the farm planting/harvesting crops, which is why there exists such a thing as "summer vacation". More is lost in the 2-3 months of "summer vacation" than is taught in 2 months of classes (more for students of low income families). That actually means that in terms of education knowledge gained, our students only have 5-6 months of school while countries that do not have a 2-3 month summer vacation received 10-11 months in the same time period. It is no wonder our students do not do as well....
As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
Except that Obamacare is already fully funded and isn't subject to yearly budgetary allocations, since there is no money that is given to it on a yearly basis by the government. This is why you see that the exchanges opened up to people on October 1st, even though the rest of the government shutdown, because it is already fully funded separately, and thus not subject to the whims of the House, excepting for the complete overturning/modification of it via a new law that needs to get past the House, the Senate, and a possible Presidential veto, which the last 48 times the House attempted to do so have failed...
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government will not be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default. Tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and it vastly exceeds the interest that has to be paid on the national debt.
Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted, that only means that government is not allowed to run up new debt. But that does not mean that it is unable to pay the interest on existing debt.
Really? Better check your "facts" on that. Social Security will have a bill of $12 billion due on the 10/23, and interest on bonds of $6 billion on 10/31. Both of those exceed the daily tax income, which means the government will not have enough in the bank on that day to pay the bill due that day, which means they default....
You want to prove me wrong? Want to win this debate? read on...but first, I don't need your reductive lecture on how procurement works.
Well obviously you did otherwise it wouldn't have been needed to tell you the obvious fatal flaw in your initial reasoning that budgets are always spent this way when you are dealing with a budget that accounts for incidentals, replacement parts, and consumables especially when you don't know what of those will be expended, wear out, or otherwise need more of to meet supply demands.
It's a free for all corporate giveaway. The **prime** example of government waste that shows the glaring lies of Obama's critics and GOP'ers in general.
To falsify my point, say your ramblings about imaginary and unapplicable replacement cycles is true. Almost all government divisions that have budgets for contractors do exactly as you say. Fine.
In that scenario you are still wrong.
Why? The question is, is this spending justified?
Yes, the spending is justified. Why? Because someone did a 3 or 5 year plan 1-2 years ago which went over the lists of all the things that are needed by the different departments. Those lists create a "wish list" of things that we can spend money on this year and not need to spend the money on next year. Most companies call it a capital expense plan, in which they perform a capital pull-in from the next year or more in advance on items which you can purchase now when you do have the money and save on purchasing later when you might not have the money due to some other unexpected expense.
The answer is no...no matter when people spend their budgets on contractors, the problem is the same **IT IS A WASTEFUL GIVEAWAY TO CORPORATIONS FOR NO GAIN TO CITIZENS**
So your solution is to not spend money on contractors, meaning you now have to hire in-house teams of scientists, engineers, and designers, purchase manufacturing facilities, hire manufacturing line workers, managers, HR staff, etc., etc., etc., duplicating many of the facilities that other companies already have built, expending trillions of capital to duplicate and compete against already in production companies across VAST business sectors such as CPU chip design, software engineering, computer manufacturing, automotive construction, heavy machinery construction, robotics, aerospace manufacturing, naval manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, etc., etc., etc... Yeah, that sure isn't a waste of tax payer dollars. Someone never went to business school as you obviously never learned how difficult it is and expensive it is to have to own and maintain all of those things. This is why most companies don't own their manufacturing, it is outsourced. Oh, you thought that BMW car you bought was made by BMW? They may have designed it, but that seat was made by another company. The dials used in the dash was made by another one. The tires were made by yet another. The wheels inside the tires was made by yet another. The bolts holding on the wheels were made by yet another. The glass for the windows and windshield were made by yet another company, etc., etc., etc., all contracted out...
I agree with you 100%. This is standard operating practice. The different branches all have a budget for the year, but do not know what emergency needs they will have during the year. For instance, the Navy won't know they need to buy 100 more Tomahawk missiles that year because they used 100 of them in some military action. There are all kinds of incidental items which can affect the ability to make some much needed equipment upgrades or other expenditures, but due to not knowing the unknowable operational needs for the year, they can't make those purchases until almost the last few days of the fiscal year when they they pretty much know the unknowable expenses they will incur during the year (since the year is over and new unknowable expenses will not be able to occur).
I think in the case of Star Citizen at least, the "stretch" goals were all originally planned, he just wasn't sure if there would be money to get to those features. For instance, the current stretch goal is FPS combat in other locations other than boarding ships. Given that the game engine itself is a FPS engine, this isn't feature creep, just something he wasn't sure he could do while making the space combat game, but was something he hoped he could do (I mean, think about it, why should combat only be limited to when you are in a ship if there are times when you might not be in a ship, you should still be in a situation where you might be attacked or want to attack someone else, why should the game mechanics force you to not be able to do something like that?).
Point in fact, every "stretch goal" was something he wanted to have the game do. He prioritized them internally in his mind as to, well if I had to get rid of something from this game, those things would be X, Y, and Z, and then he placed them up in stretch goals that are further away from what was needed to make the core game.