in NYC the rich people buy up municipal bonds that are used to build infrastructure. actually its done like this all around the USA
rich people with lots of money like say $10,000,000 want a safe low risk place to park it and live off the interest. cities and counties want people to lend them money at low interest because there is no other way to build large infrastructure projects. NYC for instance they are building a huge new water pipe and there is almost $20 billion of transportation construction going on now.
it's not like this money is not doing anything useful
not really, chances are the property of the estate is put up as collateral for a huge loan to live off of. person dies and the debts must be paid, so everything is sold off to pay the debts.
but wait, there was an insurance policy. policy pays off the debts or just pays the heirs and the estate is sold off saving lots of money in taxes
well the way it works out the heirs would have to pay the taxes to get the property and then pay the capital gains taxes again if they sell it a few years later
I dont know about dead tree books but the kindle books always go on sale for less than $10. There are even sites out there to track your favorite books and authors for sales
worked for a DoD agency one time that was a major conduit of pork money for infrastructure projects. the PHB's would go to DC to testify to congress on a regular basis and they had briefing books for every member of congress of every committee that they reported to
no one is perfect and sometimes something happens where the media picks up on it, turns it into a major issue and starts calling for people in the government who made the decision to be fired. government workers know this and so they CYA everything they do down to the exact letter of the law or regulation
this is why comcrap sucks they don't have direct connections to everyone on the interwebs and they don't update their dns seconds after every change around the world
there was an issue with itunes and google dns years ago. apple uses akamai for their CDN and people using google dns when they rented movies on apple tv would stream from 3000 miles away instead of a local copy because google's DNS IP's are virtual IP's and the true IP passed to who ever you are trying to access may be any server around the world
only downside is that some streaming services use your DNS IP for location info and decide where to stream content from. this might result in slow streaming speeds since the content might be coming from far away instead of a closer server
for the last 10 years i've had cable internet service the price has been about the same and risen only about $5 per month and my speed has gone from 5mbps or so to 20mbps down. and will go up to 50mbps for the same price by the end of this year
they just got clone wars onto netflix so expect star wars soon as well
now that disney owns star wars you can expect more than periodic releases on dvd or blu ray with slightly more content for GL to get more money from you
email and traditional databases have peaked out long ago. the future is having to search huge amounts of non-relational data. its still in the early stages where the software is immature and you need to do lots of legwork to search the data.
no one makes their car 100% internally, even today but lots of car makers build their own engines and other major components or have them made to exact specs
phones and tech in general is going the way vertical integration like the auto industry almost 100 years ago
at one point cars were "open" where you could mix and match and lots of manufacturers made the different parts then came henry ford and the industry went vertical where one company was doing all the design and most of the manufacturing for most of the parts alfred sloan took it one step further where he had a few basic designs with slightly different bodies to look different and sold them under different brands
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in NYC the rich people buy up municipal bonds that are used to build infrastructure. actually its done like this all around the USA
rich people with lots of money like say $10,000,000 want a safe low risk place to park it and live off the interest. cities and counties want people to lend them money at low interest because there is no other way to build large infrastructure projects. NYC for instance they are building a huge new water pipe and there is almost $20 billion of transportation construction going on now.
it's not like this money is not doing anything useful
not really, chances are the property of the estate is put up as collateral for a huge loan to live off of. person dies and the debts must be paid, so everything is sold off to pay the debts.
but wait, there was an insurance policy. policy pays off the debts or just pays the heirs and the estate is sold off saving lots of money in taxes
well the way it works out the heirs would have to pay the taxes to get the property and then pay the capital gains taxes again if they sell it a few years later
I dont know about dead tree books but the kindle books always go on sale for less than $10. There are even sites out there to track your favorite books and authors for sales
even the maintenance part is a separate paid service that the airline wasn't paying for. imagine how much the remote voice recording will cost
my galaxy note 3 is microusb, but i think it needs more ma
at work we were looking at the chargers for different android phones and they were all different specs
my pediatrician's father died decades ago via heart failure. he told me all about it
a normal bacterial infection spread and destroyed his heart. before widespread use of antibiotics. that's real immunity for you.
they used a doctor to try to get into the compound where he was to report what he saw
yep, all the parents i know are rotting in jail because their kids turned them in for kiddie porn
OMG, google will know where i've taken all the photos of my kids
yep
worked for a DoD agency one time that was a major conduit of pork money for infrastructure projects. the PHB's would go to DC to testify to congress on a regular basis and they had briefing books for every member of congress of every committee that they reported to
the micromanaging is there due to the media
no one is perfect and sometimes something happens where the media picks up on it, turns it into a major issue and starts calling for people in the government who made the decision to be fired.
government workers know this and so they CYA everything they do down to the exact letter of the law or regulation
go type up 20 pages of whatever with no grammar, capitals, periods or anything and see how readable it is
this is why comcrap sucks
they don't have direct connections to everyone on the interwebs and they don't update their dns seconds after every change around the world
not akamai
there was an issue with itunes and google dns years ago. apple uses akamai for their CDN and people using google dns when they rented movies on apple tv would stream from 3000 miles away instead of a local copy because google's DNS IP's are virtual IP's and the true IP passed to who ever you are trying to access may be any server around the world
only downside is that some streaming services use your DNS IP for location info and decide where to stream content from. this might result in slow streaming speeds since the content might be coming from far away instead of a closer server
strange,
for the last 10 years i've had cable internet service the price has been about the same and risen only about $5 per month and my speed has gone from 5mbps or so to 20mbps down. and will go up to 50mbps for the same price by the end of this year
i can stream netflix and HBO Go or time warner cable live TV at the same time in HD with no problems on 20/2
of course almost everything i have is on cat 5 and i'm not streaming into different rooms via wifi
$uck$ to be you
in NYC time warner is upgrading my 20/2 internet to 50/5 later this year for the same price i'm paying now. they doubled speeds last year as well.
later this year the top tier for TWC in NYC and LA is going to be 300/50 or so
they just got clone wars onto netflix so expect star wars soon as well
now that disney owns star wars you can expect more than periodic releases on dvd or blu ray with slightly more content for GL to get more money from you
at some point every product category sees a slowing of new features in new releases
look at desktop OS's, smartphones, etc
hadoop, cloudera, etc
email and traditional databases have peaked out long ago. the future is having to search huge amounts of non-relational data. its still in the early stages where the software is immature and you need to do lots of legwork to search the data.
no one makes their car 100% internally, even today
but lots of car makers build their own engines and other major components or have them made to exact specs
phones and tech in general is going the way vertical integration like the auto industry almost 100 years ago
at one point cars were "open" where you could mix and match and lots of manufacturers made the different parts
then came henry ford and the industry went vertical where one company was doing all the design and most of the manufacturing for most of the parts
alfred sloan took it one step further where he had a few basic designs with slightly different bodies to look different and sold them under different brands
1st amendment has been limited for hundreds of years
no threats
no panics
no releasing classified info