If you want to live the same lifestyle they did, you can probably still do it now with a relatively equal amount of work. The difference is, of course, that nobody wants to live that way.
That's because most blu-rays (that I've seen) are not mastered well. Either the original material doesn't have the quality to take advantage of the extra resolution, or they cram more content into the disk than they should. And because the maximum bitrate for a bluray is less than that of DVD when compared to the number of pixels. 480p versus 1080p is about 6x greater, while the max video bitrate (10mb/s versus 40mb/s) is only 4x. And that's if they use the maximum.
Too big to fail doesn't mean "these guys are super important and we love them." It means that if an institution like that fails, it will take vast chunks of the economy down with it. It means that the collateral damage of a failure would not be worth it.
Because other non government banks were foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the income from sub prime loans. Holy fuck, they thought to themselves, bonds are paying a percent or two, regular mortgages are paying four or five, and these subprimes are paying 8%? And they are rated AAA? Gimme, gimme, gimme.
What fucked Freddie and Fannie was the 80/15/5 game that brokers were using. A 100% financed home loan is inherently risky, and as such sells for a higher interest rate. But people don't want to pay that much. So what the brokers would do is split the mortgage into three parts. A super expensive 5% of the loan value, a moderately expensive 15% and then a completely normal 80% (20% down) mortgage, which they would sell to Fannie/Freddy. As far as they knew, these were completely standard loans with the normal, low risk of a 20% down mortgage. But in reality, they were far more risky because the whole deal was 0% down. So these loans that looked kosher were failing at a greater rate than they should and fucking up their cashflow. It wasn't necessarily fraud, because apparently underwriting never asked where the 20% down was coming from.
Incorrect. Fanny and Freddie were late comers to the subprime game. There were a couple of public (non government) banks that were buying loans that were much more shakey than the F and F standards. That's what lit the fuse.
The banks were free to set their own higher standards (within regulations), as long as they didn't use things like ethnicity and neighborhood as credit risk calculators.
They don't increase the risk of suicide by some occult mechanism. They treat depression, which is a disease that among other things, reduces motivation. So if you are depressed and suicidal, you aren't going to bother killing yourself. But if you are treated for depression and no longer depressed, but still suicidal, then you might have the motivation to go out and jump off that bridge.
The problem with that job is that you have to be there when court is in session. Can't just pop a sick day every now and then without causing major grief in your own schedule down the line and the hundreds of people in and out of the courtroom every day.
Another wrinkle is that it sounds like that he isn't being charged as a programmer per se, but as a guy selling software. To do illegal things, for cash and money orders. That alone seems like enough to create some suspicion.
If they want to choose to not belong to the union, then the union shouldn't be required to represent them. That's where "right to work" laws are flawed.
But GM was already planning on firing HP and in-sourcing their IT. Maybe GM violated their contract, maybe not. But these employees didn't cost HP any business. They had already lost it. And those workers were probably going to get the boot when the GM contract ended anyway.
Answer: who cares? You find the center line of the wall and the center line of the window and work off of those. You can do that with two sticks and a pencil. When Norm wants to build things that are identical and repeatable, he doesn't measure each one down to the thousandth. He builds a jig of some kind so that each thing ends up being the same size.
1- We use metric where it counts. I don't think we have made a car in 30 years that wasn't mostly metric. All science is metric. (Or at least it was when it was being taught to me. Maybe that has changed?)
2- You can shove your commie paper sizes up your "arse".
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If you want to live the same lifestyle they did, you can probably still do it now with a relatively equal amount of work. The difference is, of course, that nobody wants to live that way.
They were only banned from being sold as toys, for christ's sake.
If the outside of the plane starts burning, then the people that were inside probably don't have many worries left.
That's because most blu-rays (that I've seen) are not mastered well. Either the original material doesn't have the quality to take advantage of the extra resolution, or they cram more content into the disk than they should. And because the maximum bitrate for a bluray is less than that of DVD when compared to the number of pixels. 480p versus 1080p is about 6x greater, while the max video bitrate (10mb/s versus 40mb/s) is only 4x. And that's if they use the maximum.
Too big to fail doesn't mean "these guys are super important and we love them." It means that if an institution like that fails, it will take vast chunks of the economy down with it. It means that the collateral damage of a failure would not be worth it.
Because other non government banks were foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the income from sub prime loans. Holy fuck, they thought to themselves, bonds are paying a percent or two, regular mortgages are paying four or five, and these subprimes are paying 8%? And they are rated AAA? Gimme, gimme, gimme.
What fucked Freddie and Fannie was the 80/15/5 game that brokers were using. A 100% financed home loan is inherently risky, and as such sells for a higher interest rate. But people don't want to pay that much. So what the brokers would do is split the mortgage into three parts. A super expensive 5% of the loan value, a moderately expensive 15% and then a completely normal 80% (20% down) mortgage, which they would sell to Fannie/Freddy. As far as they knew, these were completely standard loans with the normal, low risk of a 20% down mortgage. But in reality, they were far more risky because the whole deal was 0% down. So these loans that looked kosher were failing at a greater rate than they should and fucking up their cashflow. It wasn't necessarily fraud, because apparently underwriting never asked where the 20% down was coming from.
Incorrect. Fanny and Freddie were late comers to the subprime game. There were a couple of public (non government) banks that were buying loans that were much more shakey than the F and F standards. That's what lit the fuse.
The banks were free to set their own higher standards (within regulations), as long as they didn't use things like ethnicity and neighborhood as credit risk calculators.
The government didn't force the banks to make risky loans.
They don't increase the risk of suicide by some occult mechanism. They treat depression, which is a disease that among other things, reduces motivation. So if you are depressed and suicidal, you aren't going to bother killing yourself. But if you are treated for depression and no longer depressed, but still suicidal, then you might have the motivation to go out and jump off that bridge.
Exempt just means they aren't forced to pay overtime. They aren't prevented from paying it.
Sure it has. When's the last time you sat around waiting for an important phone call, or stopped at a phone to call and check in with the family/work?
The correlation is there because these people are psychotic.
The problem with that job is that you have to be there when court is in session. Can't just pop a sick day every now and then without causing major grief in your own schedule down the line and the hundreds of people in and out of the courtroom every day.
Wow, that's rough. What do you do the second week of work?
It's accrual accounting versus cash accounting.
Vehicle weight is a big one. Light vehicles do almost no damage to the roads.
Nobody is forcing you to upgrade from a working version.
Another wrinkle is that it sounds like that he isn't being charged as a programmer per se, but as a guy selling software. To do illegal things, for cash and money orders. That alone seems like enough to create some suspicion.
If they want to choose to not belong to the union, then the union shouldn't be required to represent them. That's where "right to work" laws are flawed.
But GM was already planning on firing HP and in-sourcing their IT. Maybe GM violated their contract, maybe not. But these employees didn't cost HP any business. They had already lost it. And those workers were probably going to get the boot when the GM contract ended anyway.
You can see the plane crash into the side of the road on the right side of the screen at about 0:09.
Answer: who cares? You find the center line of the wall and the center line of the window and work off of those. You can do that with two sticks and a pencil. When Norm wants to build things that are identical and repeatable, he doesn't measure each one down to the thousandth. He builds a jig of some kind so that each thing ends up being the same size.
1- We use metric where it counts. I don't think we have made a car in 30 years that wasn't mostly metric. All science is metric. (Or at least it was when it was being taught to me. Maybe that has changed?)
2- You can shove your commie paper sizes up your "arse".
SSRIs are not addictive.
They were doing lobotomies before that.