Does this count?" I suspect the difference between the $75k figure and your linked blog's $56k figure is that the $74k is denoted in full-time-equivalent hours. If you take every employee of the union and average their paychecks, you probably do get $56k. But if you correct for all the non-teacher union employees and the people only working part time, you get $75k. I looked at some of the FOIA reports for the CPS and found that there are a number of people on the payroll that work far less than full time.
Also, the two different numbers cover different populations. The CPS numbers are just for CPS union employees, whereas the the BLS account for all people in that category in the metro area. This includes private schools, suburban schools, pre-schools and so on. Of course it's going to be lower.
Also, $50k starting salary for someone with a BA is pretty damn good.
No doubt, teachers' salaries vary across the country, and they suck in many places. But in many places, they are very competitive with other jobs with the same education requirements.
They are conservative because they want to return to an imagined past where things were better. That's the fundamental of conservatism. That things were great in the way-before, and the only way to return to this greatness is to return to those practices. I guess that's technically reactionary, but those lunatics have appropriated the word conservative to the point where that's what it means now.
It can be related to newer firmware using a new technology that the older firmware doesn't recognize. The existing firmware (is supposed to) do some verification on the incoming firmware image before allowing it to update. If the new firmware is sufficiently different from the old, the old one can lose its mind. They *should* fail gracefully, but don't always.
The other issue is with firmware fails is flash corruption. Smart firmware is supposed to have some kind of failsafe that it can boot into if the update fails, but not all do. And sometimes the flash chip has gotten corrupted to the point that even if the firmware has this mechanism, it keeps hitting bad spots on the flash and failing. In my experience, it is best to reflash something two or three times to make sure the writes are successful. Since I've started doing this, I have had way fewer re-flash failures.
By comparison, the company I work for still runs calendar fiscal years, and it's a giant pain in the ass to get all of the auditing and reporting done in late December when nobody wants to do any work. It happens to work out on paper, however, because that's when our volume is lowest. A company that deals in retail and depends on Christmas sales, however, is still licking its wounds from the Christmas rush, and only slows down in Jan or Feb. So it makes sense to make that the end of the fiscal year.
That's the opposite of my experience. I own two Latitudes, and they have been great for the most part. One is nearly 10 years old and still performs admirably. Of all the machines I've seen on the road, the Dells are the ones that can take a beating.
When they say "shareholders", they really mean the board of directors. There are also different classes of stock that have different voting rights. Depending on how it is set up, a minority of owners (as a percentage of market cap) can have a majority of voting power. You buy the stock because you want to ride the coattails of their good decisions, not because you want a say in how the company runs.
The IPO was the goal because that's the business startups were in. Convince investors and employees to work for equity, and when the product gets successful, they sell out and profit.
Companies routinely buy and sell their own stock. It's another way to make money. If they have a bad quarter and the stock drops because the fickle day traders get spooked, they can buy their own stock cheap because they know they have better quarters in the pipeline. Their large/long term investors appreciate this because it props up the stock price, and the company profits when they have their next good quarter and can sell off the stock at a profit. In this case, Dell just decided to go all in on such a trade. In a few years, they might do another IPO and get $25 a share, doubling their money.
Nobody forced the banks to make loans that are risky. The banks were salivating at the risk because the money was good. All the government did was force banks to have the same standards for different colored people in different neighborhoods.
Lotus Notes is a great idea, implemented horribly. But Netware? They basically invented the fileserver. They were doing things 15 years ago that MS can barely do now.
A lot of the newer dashboards are kind of like that. The contrast changes depending on how the sun is striking it. They aren't eInk, but they are some kind of LCD thing.
Easiness of access doesn't mean that access is allowed. It's not a zero sum game. If I leave my house unlocked and it gets ransacked, I'm an idiot and deserve blame for the trouble. But the person doing the ransacking doesn't lose any of the blame for his own part.
Have you ever seen one of those windmills? They are huge. They have stairs on the inside. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of rudimentary elevator.
As you point out, the Laffer Curve has two sides. When tax rates are above 50%, lowering them raised revenue. When they are below 50%, lowering them reduces revenue.
Words like "since" and "then" can only apply to our local time, and no time has passed "since" the light left the distant star - that "since" is only valid in our time frame, not outside our cone of causality.
If no time passed since it left the star, why did it take so long to get here?
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Does this count?" I suspect the difference between the $75k figure and your linked blog's $56k figure is that the $74k is denoted in full-time-equivalent hours. If you take every employee of the union and average their paychecks, you probably do get $56k. But if you correct for all the non-teacher union employees and the people only working part time, you get $75k. I looked at some of the FOIA reports for the CPS and found that there are a number of people on the payroll that work far less than full time.
Also, the two different numbers cover different populations. The CPS numbers are just for CPS union employees, whereas the the BLS account for all people in that category in the metro area. This includes private schools, suburban schools, pre-schools and so on. Of course it's going to be lower.
Also, $50k starting salary for someone with a BA is pretty damn good.
No doubt, teachers' salaries vary across the country, and they suck in many places. But in many places, they are very competitive with other jobs with the same education requirements.
Vacation time is written up as debt in the US also. Or at least some kind of debt.
They are conservative because they want to return to an imagined past where things were better. That's the fundamental of conservatism. That things were great in the way-before, and the only way to return to this greatness is to return to those practices. I guess that's technically reactionary, but those lunatics have appropriated the word conservative to the point where that's what it means now.
No it isn't. You can sell your license as long as you sell the computer too.
You can sell the license, you just have to sell the hardware too. This is not a first sale doctrine issue.
It can be related to newer firmware using a new technology that the older firmware doesn't recognize. The existing firmware (is supposed to) do some verification on the incoming firmware image before allowing it to update. If the new firmware is sufficiently different from the old, the old one can lose its mind. They *should* fail gracefully, but don't always.
The other issue is with firmware fails is flash corruption. Smart firmware is supposed to have some kind of failsafe that it can boot into if the update fails, but not all do. And sometimes the flash chip has gotten corrupted to the point that even if the firmware has this mechanism, it keeps hitting bad spots on the flash and failing. In my experience, it is best to reflash something two or three times to make sure the writes are successful. Since I've started doing this, I have had way fewer re-flash failures.
By comparison, the company I work for still runs calendar fiscal years, and it's a giant pain in the ass to get all of the auditing and reporting done in late December when nobody wants to do any work. It happens to work out on paper, however, because that's when our volume is lowest. A company that deals in retail and depends on Christmas sales, however, is still licking its wounds from the Christmas rush, and only slows down in Jan or Feb. So it makes sense to make that the end of the fiscal year.
That's the opposite of my experience. I own two Latitudes, and they have been great for the most part. One is nearly 10 years old and still performs admirably. Of all the machines I've seen on the road, the Dells are the ones that can take a beating.
I'm pretty sure Zell's buyout was more heavily leveraged, and the newspaper business was and is in a different place than the computer business.
When they say "shareholders", they really mean the board of directors. There are also different classes of stock that have different voting rights. Depending on how it is set up, a minority of owners (as a percentage of market cap) can have a majority of voting power. You buy the stock because you want to ride the coattails of their good decisions, not because you want a say in how the company runs.
The IPO was the goal because that's the business startups were in. Convince investors and employees to work for equity, and when the product gets successful, they sell out and profit.
Companies routinely buy and sell their own stock. It's another way to make money. If they have a bad quarter and the stock drops because the fickle day traders get spooked, they can buy their own stock cheap because they know they have better quarters in the pipeline. Their large/long term investors appreciate this because it props up the stock price, and the company profits when they have their next good quarter and can sell off the stock at a profit. In this case, Dell just decided to go all in on such a trade. In a few years, they might do another IPO and get $25 a share, doubling their money.
Nobody forced the banks to make loans that are risky. The banks were salivating at the risk because the money was good. All the government did was force banks to have the same standards for different colored people in different neighborhoods.
Lotus Notes is a great idea, implemented horribly. But Netware? They basically invented the fileserver. They were doing things 15 years ago that MS can barely do now.
There is an app from (somewhere) that plays visual white noise for fixing LCDs. Might be from grc.com?
And they are really cool looking when you see it running on a 16 core system. Snakes!
A lot of the newer dashboards are kind of like that. The contrast changes depending on how the sun is striking it. They aren't eInk, but they are some kind of LCD thing.
Easiness of access doesn't mean that access is allowed. It's not a zero sum game. If I leave my house unlocked and it gets ransacked, I'm an idiot and deserve blame for the trouble. But the person doing the ransacking doesn't lose any of the blame for his own part.
But the giant smokestacks dumping heat and CO2 into the air have no effect??
Have you ever seen one of those windmills? They are huge. They have stairs on the inside. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of rudimentary elevator.
First, you have to find a mine that is below sea level.
As you point out, the Laffer Curve has two sides. When tax rates are above 50%, lowering them raised revenue. When they are below 50%, lowering them reduces revenue.
And a long life of drug abuse.
And squirrels can run up the side of a brick wall. But that don't make them able to do math.
Words like "since" and "then" can only apply to our local time, and no time has passed "since" the light left the distant star - that "since" is only valid in our time frame, not outside our cone of causality.
If no time passed since it left the star, why did it take so long to get here?
Safe in this context is relative to the age, mindset and experience of the occupants of the home.