A word other than negotiation is in order if American taxpayers ended up footing the bill.
My observation of the situation is that managers signed contracts their company couldn't afford. The people who were screaming loudest against bailing out homeowners doing the same for mortgage contracts they can't afford suddenly changed sides at this point and screamed at the unions for having unaffordable contracts, so what did you expect the outcome to be?
Also, since 1974, the PBGC has been bailing out pensions, so even if GM had been allowed to crash and burn, taxpayers would still end up footing the bill, with no stock sales to try and get some of the money back.
There are tons of companies reselling Amazon and other webservices, and they make good money by adding value like preconfigured images and other services like backup software that backs up to S3. I don't see why this is news now.
Oh wait, I get it, this guy wants to make good money without adding any value at all. Good luck with that, if he tries to corner the market in AMZN.S3 "stock" (capacity), Amazon's shareholders would happily vote for issuing more "stock" by buying additional capacity, and profiting heartily by selling storage on them too. Unlike stock, there's no intrinsic value to be cheapened by issuing more capacity. Without collusion, the speculator will be unable to raise prices on their block of capacity.
Yeah, someone said "There aren't enough middle men!" and is trying hard to figure out how they can keep us from just getting the services directly like we can now.
Yeah, sure, because the first thing the cops check for when they're told 5523 south 43rd street is selling drugs is whether they've got wireless or not.
If you're lucky, they bothered to double check the address so they don't kick in your door at 5532 with a no-knock warrant, unannounced, guns blazing.
It does seem to be overkill, especially when you realize that the majority of games will be getting played on and streamed from the windows PC elsewhere.
Maybe the titan ships separately for use in the PC (actually, I could see a custom video card for this streaming being a considerable boost, especially for anyone who's ever ran fraps and watched their framerate go to shit).
And you know it's a USB flash drive and not a gumstix or other tiny computer because... the sign said "usb flash drive!!1! plug in here for good porn!!one!" and signs could never lie?
How much was your increase this year? My small company (3 insured) rates would have roughly doubled every year for the last 10 years, if we hadn't switched to worse and worse coverage every year. We started with a $500 deductible, $20 copay, no coinsurance and this last year we went to $5000 deductible and 20% coinsurance and I pay $70 to see my neurologist. Company pays 50% and I deduct about $200/mo from my paycheck for my share to get that from BCBS, nonsmoker. I'd take a 16% increase to keep the same insurance any day of the week because believe me, it's a pain in the ass when you have to go to a different doctor every year and start over, and it's getting harder and harder to find insurance that doesn't want me to pay 20% of the cost of my meds (I had to buy them out of pocket one month because our company fucked up the paperwork one year while switching. Thankfully I keep several paychecks in savings because that was an entire paycheck)
Oh by the way, all that stuff about covering preexisting conditions, bulllllshiiiit. The government may not let them say no, but the government can't force them to like it, and they don't have to let us like it either. We'd regularly get quotes tripled (apparently the maximum state law allows them to increase the quote, according to the agent) once the insurance company finds out I'd be on the plan. If I had to get a new job, I can see that going down real well: "So we hired this guy and now our rates are tripling?" "Hmm, how does 'Not a team player' sound to you?"
Which takes money, and lots of it, since you're paying for the insurance without the help of your ex employer, plus a 2% administrative fee on top (plus 50% if you file for disability and get an extension). It also takes having an employer that provides insurance in the first place, and not being one of the 1 in 6 employees working for a firm with less than 20 employees and therefore exempt from COBRA.
Not that I think the ACA was a good move, I've said in the past that it's the wrong answer to the wrong problem. All it does is prop up grossly inefficient insurance companies by guaranteeing them a supply of customers. The entire model of health insurance is horribly broken, but nobody wants to fix it, just keep slapping more bandaids on top.
I'd assume Natural Language Processing given the context of "unstructured texts". Not sure what IR is though but I bet if I put it into google... yep, google thinks it means "Information Retrieval".
It has tons of buttons that don't require moving the hands at all.
Assuming you only want to press one of them at a time.
That was the REAL achievement of the diamond configuration: the thumb could easily cover two buttons for when you needed to run AND jump.
At least these days you can usually remap them so you can use A and the underside button... assuming your hand wraps around the controller well enough to reach it.
Yeah, this design is basically screaming "Please redesign all your games with our controller in mind!" X and Y on the left? If you're lucky you'll be able to remap the controls so shit you never use is on X and Y. Meanwhile the giant right trackpad will be mostly unused except for the few games with camera control on the right stick. Of the games I play with a controller (on both console and PC), right stick is used well by twinstick shooters and poorly by FPSes, and not at all by pretty much every single other game.
The rear buttons also look like they'll be a nightmare for anyone with hands that aren't the right size to grip the controller with the fingertips resting on the button.
I consider it the evolution of the photo counter. Instead of dropping off your film canister you drop off your plans and pick up your finished chunk of plastic when it's done.
Don't worry they can only fit a few hundred terabytes in the little box they drew on the blueprint marked "Datacenter" that they let everyone see to prove they weren't storing a whole lot of data there. Don't mind the dozens of all black blueprint pages marked sub-basement [redacted] through sub-basement [redacted] I'm sure none of their data center capacity would ever be classified. They've been nothing but fully transparent these last few years, after all!
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A word other than negotiation is in order if American taxpayers ended up footing the bill.
My observation of the situation is that managers signed contracts their company couldn't afford. The people who were screaming loudest against bailing out homeowners doing the same for mortgage contracts they can't afford suddenly changed sides at this point and screamed at the unions for having unaffordable contracts, so what did you expect the outcome to be?
Also, since 1974, the PBGC has been bailing out pensions, so even if GM had been allowed to crash and burn, taxpayers would still end up footing the bill, with no stock sales to try and get some of the money back.
If I have to read that again, I'm heading for the closest bridge at high speed.
There are tons of companies reselling Amazon and other webservices, and they make good money by adding value like preconfigured images and other services like backup software that backs up to S3. I don't see why this is news now.
Oh wait, I get it, this guy wants to make good money without adding any value at all. Good luck with that, if he tries to corner the market in AMZN.S3 "stock" (capacity), Amazon's shareholders would happily vote for issuing more "stock" by buying additional capacity, and profiting heartily by selling storage on them too. Unlike stock, there's no intrinsic value to be cheapened by issuing more capacity. Without collusion, the speculator will be unable to raise prices on their block of capacity.
Yeah, someone said "There aren't enough middle men!" and is trying hard to figure out how they can keep us from just getting the services directly like we can now.
But there is no conceivable enforcement action that the Treasury/IRS can take in a terrorism case
Isn't that how they took down the mobsters, though? I'm sure the government figures they can use whatever weapons they've got.
This just in: government gets to decide the meaning of "registered sex offender" and "terrorist".
cold fjord is happy with the definitions the government uses and presumably thinks that those definitions will never change.
Yeah, sure, because the first thing the cops check for when they're told 5523 south 43rd street is selling drugs is whether they've got wireless or not.
If you're lucky, they bothered to double check the address so they don't kick in your door at 5532 with a no-knock warrant, unannounced, guns blazing.
Which is kind of sad, because the back of the $2 bill has been pretty awesome since 1976.
It does seem to be overkill, especially when you realize that the majority of games will be getting played on and streamed from the windows PC elsewhere.
Maybe the titan ships separately for use in the PC (actually, I could see a custom video card for this streaming being a considerable boost, especially for anyone who's ever ran fraps and watched their framerate go to shit).
You must show proper difference to the editors!
And you know it's a USB flash drive and not a gumstix or other tiny computer because... the sign said "usb flash drive!!1! plug in here for good porn!!one!" and signs could never lie?
Hopefully we can use what he have learned at Gitmo to improve efficiency.
Fifty Shades of Gray for everyone!
That's because "health insurance" is a lie and has always been a lie, it's never been insurance.
How much was your increase this year? My small company (3 insured) rates would have roughly doubled every year for the last 10 years, if we hadn't switched to worse and worse coverage every year. We started with a $500 deductible, $20 copay, no coinsurance and this last year we went to $5000 deductible and 20% coinsurance and I pay $70 to see my neurologist. Company pays 50% and I deduct about $200/mo from my paycheck for my share to get that from BCBS, nonsmoker. I'd take a 16% increase to keep the same insurance any day of the week because believe me, it's a pain in the ass when you have to go to a different doctor every year and start over, and it's getting harder and harder to find insurance that doesn't want me to pay 20% of the cost of my meds (I had to buy them out of pocket one month because our company fucked up the paperwork one year while switching. Thankfully I keep several paychecks in savings because that was an entire paycheck)
Oh by the way, all that stuff about covering preexisting conditions, bulllllshiiiit. The government may not let them say no, but the government can't force them to like it, and they don't have to let us like it either. We'd regularly get quotes tripled (apparently the maximum state law allows them to increase the quote, according to the agent) once the insurance company finds out I'd be on the plan. If I had to get a new job, I can see that going down real well: "So we hired this guy and now our rates are tripling?" "Hmm, how does 'Not a team player' sound to you?"
maintaining coverage under COBRA.
Which takes money, and lots of it, since you're paying for the insurance without the help of your ex employer, plus a 2% administrative fee on top (plus 50% if you file for disability and get an extension). It also takes having an employer that provides insurance in the first place, and not being one of the 1 in 6 employees working for a firm with less than 20 employees and therefore exempt from COBRA.
Not that I think the ACA was a good move, I've said in the past that it's the wrong answer to the wrong problem. All it does is prop up grossly inefficient insurance companies by guaranteeing them a supply of customers. The entire model of health insurance is horribly broken, but nobody wants to fix it, just keep slapping more bandaids on top.
As someone whose mother has clocked more time in bejeweled than I have in all my JRPGs combined, which is which?
I peeled back the label, it's clearly a rebadged tiger repeller.
Now joy on the other hand...
Selling joy's only legal in Nevada.
I'd assume Natural Language Processing given the context of "unstructured texts". Not sure what IR is though but I bet if I put it into google... yep, google thinks it means "Information Retrieval".
It has tons of buttons that don't require moving the hands at all.
Assuming you only want to press one of them at a time.
That was the REAL achievement of the diamond configuration: the thumb could easily cover two buttons for when you needed to run AND jump.
At least these days you can usually remap them so you can use A and the underside button... assuming your hand wraps around the controller well enough to reach it.
Yeah, this design is basically screaming "Please redesign all your games with our controller in mind!" X and Y on the left? If you're lucky you'll be able to remap the controls so shit you never use is on X and Y. Meanwhile the giant right trackpad will be mostly unused except for the few games with camera control on the right stick. Of the games I play with a controller (on both console and PC), right stick is used well by twinstick shooters and poorly by FPSes, and not at all by pretty much every single other game.
The rear buttons also look like they'll be a nightmare for anyone with hands that aren't the right size to grip the controller with the fingertips resting on the button.
I'll stick to my logitech F310.
I consider it the evolution of the photo counter. Instead of dropping off your film canister you drop off your plans and pick up your finished chunk of plastic when it's done.
The NSA has zombies mining bitcoins!
Don't worry they can only fit a few hundred terabytes in the little box they drew on the blueprint marked "Datacenter" that they let everyone see to prove they weren't storing a whole lot of data there. Don't mind the dozens of all black blueprint pages marked sub-basement [redacted] through sub-basement [redacted] I'm sure none of their data center capacity would ever be classified. They've been nothing but fully transparent these last few years, after all!
In Windows-land, we lost (unless you hack the registry) focus-follows-mouse from XP to 7
It was a registry hack in XP (of a binary flag no less, how's that for arcane configuration?). In 9x it was a PowerToy.