1) $100,000 in what is touted as an election that involved $6+ billion in campaigning. Um, drop in the bucket.
2) We have freedom of speech and freedom of press. That means even Russia is within their right to take out full page ads and express their views. And since the United States conducts international business, including with Russian firms and individuals, why would we expect them not to have an opinion on matters that could affect their economic investments with the U.S.?
3) "Most of the ads and accounts didn't have to explicitly do with the election or either of the then-candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Instead, they were focused on divisive political topics, including LGBT issues, immigration and gun rights."
More than likely, what REALLY happened, is that $100,000 was American's who funneled funds thru Russia to purchase ads beyond what we allow individuals to donate to campaigns.
Can we stop with the Russia election BS. Trump did not win because of Russia. Trump won because the Democrats chose to cheat their non-establishment candidate out of the nomination. And then ran a candidate who was the epitome of establishment and a long running history of scandals, and "getting away" with crap the average person never would. Hence, the Democrats lost because of Hillary. And nothing else is to blame.
It's about paying the right wage for the right skills. And presently, corporations do NOT want to do that. Why should they? When they can import those skills for much cheaper.
The big deciding factor for many is student loans. A MD or IT worker from India can take jobs that an America cannot afford to take due to the lack of large monthly student loan payments.
Job 1: Social Worker - Must have master's degree. Salary $35,000/year. [Translation, must be someone who did not get their degree in the U.S. because there is no way one can pay for a master's on $35K/year.]
Job 2: Warehouse $12-$14/hr. Flexible hours (either 60 or 20, but not 40). $29,000 a year...with little prospect of moving up. Maybe $17/hr after you've been there 10 years. Support your family on THAT!
Job 3: IT Position $60K a year in major urban city requiring you to live in very expensive housing, the slums, or outside of the city requiring 2-3 hours commuting a day. Please note, we understand that between your commute, mortgage, family, and student loans, that this salary is not sustainable for you. However, it allows us to employ an IT engineer from India, seeing as they do not have a several hundred a month student loan payment.
They want to have a monopoly that requires they have a license from the state, then they're subjected to that license.
Frankly, we have been paying fees to the telcos for decades, these funds were supposed to facilitate their reaching rural areas. Except they basically pocked them and do zero upgrades to their infrastructure. Sorry, absolutely zero sympathy for Comcast.
I found a number of the sequels - Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers to be significantly better than the last endeavors.
But agreed...that, and often movies I want to see are not even in the theaters long enough for me to see them. The Sniper's Bodyguard, or whatever it was called. I even had a discount ticket for it, but couldn't make it and it was gone in only two weeks.
I don't think they realize how busy and over-worked Americans are these days.
You realize that the tax code is so convoluted and conflicting, that the IRS advisors won't even guarantee their own work. That often, one can use several different methods for handling a tax item. And technically, everyone cheats. I don't think there is a single American who has reported every single dime they've received, every single barter exchange they have done, etc.
The telecoms, do this for financial reasons, understandably. A low income neighborhood is less likely to be able to afford the higher tiers of internet. However, the government knows this, and has enabled massive subsidies for decades for just this reason. The number of incentives, fees, tax.
The telecoms benefit from the extra $$$ but rarely put any good faith into the efforts.
"10. Find my Device: Google has introduced a new feature, called Find my Device, which is a similar feature to Apple's Find my iPhone and allows people to locate, lock and wipe their Android devices in the event when they go missing or get stolen."
I've been using this for years....perhaps they mean a user interface update for it.
Suddenly, you're working and commuting 40-60 hours a week to live in a mobile home paycheck to paycheck while bill collectors bombard you. All your labor is so you can have your kids a measly 4 days a month. Your health declines, your quality of life declines, and you realize you are a slave to your employer, ex, and government.
- Healthcare now costs us a few hundred a month, plus thousands in co-pays and deductibles.
- Vacation/Personal Time, many of us are in our 40's and find ourselves with 2 weeks of vacation. We have less vacation, personal, and sick time today then we did when we were 20. Difference is, now most of our times goes to medical appointments.
- We don't have enough time to address medical needs, so we work with ailments delaying treatment by months or years.
- Management has grown inflexible again, kind of like the 1960's except without the great benefits and pension plans.
- We're underpaid. But what can we do about it, they will just import more H1B Visa holders.
I am becoming less convinced that the work attributed to "Fancy Bear, APT 28" are in fact Russian. We've already exposed NSA/CIA as acting in disguise as foreign entities.
The irony, is for all the talk of Russian interference. We have done the exact thing in Russia's elections and dozens of other nations. We're the biggest hypocrites. Lastly, the majority of hacking and election tampering was done by the DNC to impede Bernie Sanders and prevent him from winning the nomination.
Will ensure I NEVER sign up for their streaming service. They tried it before and failed. I'd buy movies and my points would expire before they were supposed to. Their support was horrible....
I'll buy the movies I want....but I am not paying for a Disney streaming service. And I think many others will not.
Tesla can make 25% profit on each vehicle, and still not be a profitable company. They're not the same thing.
Let's simplify. I sell a widget for $100. Each widget costs me $75 to make. I earn $25 per widget. However, I can only build a 1,000 widgets. My maximum earnings are $25,000. But I have orders for 5,000 and market potential for 100,000. But in order to produce that many I will need to build a new factory for $500,000. So I borrow money to build the $500,000 factory. Now I have a $100,000 a year loan payment. I am running a loss of -$75,000 a year. So is that bad? Well, it depends. If I can now scale up to 5,000 orders. I'll earn a $125,000 on my widgets, and after the paying the -$100K I'll have a $25,000 annual profit. What, that's no better than what I had before I took this loan. True... But now my factory can make up to 100,000 widgets. If I can continue to increase market share I can grow. And now I have room to be profitable beyond $25,000 - which I was capped at prior. And this is essentially what is going on.
The question is, do I really have 5,000 orders waiting and market potential for more. If so, then this is not a concern, but if those are not realized then there will be issues. I need at a minimum the 5,000 orders to remain in business. But if I can even get 10,000 then I will achieve growth and profitability.
Well look at all the other automobile manufacturers, many of them have failed to be profitable in many years. And these are well established corporations with almost a century of history building meager evolutionary products rather than innovative ones.
All things considered, Tesla is doing surprisingly well considering. I do hope they succeed. But I think they need to move beyond cars and expand into infrastructure to do that.
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I have iPhone users continuously amazed with my Android-based LG V20 camera. This phone has two cameras, a standard and wide-angle. It has a full on manual mode that allows one to adjust exposure, f/stop, shutter speed, white balance, ISO, etc. It also has a camera roll feature which is great. It displays the image in a multi-grid panel with several exposure/style settings. So you can easily select the one that is capturing the image most closely to what you want.
But the quality, is amazing. I have photos that folks have thought were taken from an SLR. And in fact, the quality of images surpasses the DSLRs I owned 10 years ago.
Pretty much all the private schools do to. In fact, even here is Pennsyltucky, most religious schools will not accept children without their vaccinations. Almost ALL schools follow the state policies. It may be slightly easier to get a state waiver and have a religious school accept it. But an interesting aspect is that while a public school MUST accept such waivers, private schools do not. And often will still refuse entry of a child without immunizations.
How about you stop being as stupid as an anti-vaxxer, and be a bit more scientific and open-minded. I am not saying vaccines are bad. Just that, well maybe we need to look at new formulations of our vaccines for greater efficacy.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/up... "Among the 51 measles cases linked directly to Disneyland, six of the people had received their measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" (honestly, since schools mandate this, do you really think less than 12% of people were vaccinated? Or is it more likely they simply couldn't provide proof of vaccination. Can you? Can you provide proof of your own vaccination or your children's? Most folks cannot.
We're blaming anti-vaxxers, and we tout the tiny handful of kids who have immune deficiencies. But a much more likely truth for many of these resurgences is that the vaccines have not been updated in several decades. Why? Because the big pharmaceutical companies neither want to spend money in new development nor do they want to get rid of millions of doses of the old vaccines.
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1) $100,000 in what is touted as an election that involved $6+ billion in campaigning. Um, drop in the bucket.
2) We have freedom of speech and freedom of press. That means even Russia is within their right to take out full page ads and express their views. And since the United States conducts international business, including with Russian firms and individuals, why would we expect them not to have an opinion on matters that could affect their economic investments with the U.S.?
3) "Most of the ads and accounts didn't have to explicitly do with the election or either of the then-candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Instead, they were focused on divisive political topics, including LGBT issues, immigration and gun rights."
More than likely, what REALLY happened, is that $100,000 was American's who funneled funds thru Russia to purchase ads beyond what we allow individuals to donate to campaigns.
Can we stop with the Russia election BS. Trump did not win because of Russia. Trump won because the Democrats chose to cheat their non-establishment candidate out of the nomination. And then ran a candidate who was the epitome of establishment and a long running history of scandals, and "getting away" with crap the average person never would. Hence, the Democrats lost because of Hillary. And nothing else is to blame.
Position: Internet Application Developer
Salary $250K-$350K
REQUIREMENTS: Must have 5+ years of HTML6 experience, and be familiar with Windows 12.
It's about paying the right wage for the right skills. And presently, corporations do NOT want to do that. Why should they? When they can import those skills for much cheaper.
The big deciding factor for many is student loans. A MD or IT worker from India can take jobs that an America cannot afford to take due to the lack of large monthly student loan payments.
We have millions of job openings. See...
Job 1: Social Worker - Must have master's degree. Salary $35,000/year.
[Translation, must be someone who did not get their degree in the U.S. because there is no way one can pay for a master's on $35K/year.]
Job 2: Warehouse $12-$14/hr. Flexible hours (either 60 or 20, but not 40). $29,000 a year...with little prospect of moving up. Maybe $17/hr after you've been there 10 years. Support your family on THAT!
Job 3: IT Position $60K a year in major urban city requiring you to live in very expensive housing, the slums, or outside of the city requiring 2-3 hours commuting a day. Please note, we understand that between your commute, mortgage, family, and student loans, that this salary is not sustainable for you. However, it allows us to employ an IT engineer from India, seeing as they do not have a several hundred a month student loan payment.
They want to have a monopoly that requires they have a license from the state, then they're subjected to that license.
Frankly, we have been paying fees to the telcos for decades, these funds were supposed to facilitate their reaching rural areas. Except they basically pocked them and do zero upgrades to their infrastructure. Sorry, absolutely zero sympathy for Comcast.
I found a number of the sequels - Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers to be significantly better than the last endeavors.
But agreed...that, and often movies I want to see are not even in the theaters long enough for me to see them. The Sniper's Bodyguard, or whatever it was called. I even had a discount ticket for it, but couldn't make it and it was gone in only two weeks.
I don't think they realize how busy and over-worked Americans are these days.
You realize that the tax code is so convoluted and conflicting, that the IRS advisors won't even guarantee their own work. That often, one can use several different methods for handling a tax item. And technically, everyone cheats. I don't think there is a single American who has reported every single dime they've received, every single barter exchange they have done, etc.
YES, the NSA is reading ALL our emails, recording ALL our phone calls. Damn the Constitution full autocracy ahead.
The telecoms, do this for financial reasons, understandably. A low income neighborhood is less likely to be able to afford the higher tiers of internet. However, the government knows this, and has enabled massive subsidies for decades for just this reason. The number of incentives, fees, tax.
The telecoms benefit from the extra $$$ but rarely put any good faith into the efforts.
Let America launch the "War on Incompetency"...
Based on passed wars such as the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, we can expect an increase in incompetency, if that is possible to imagine.
I have three ZTE Zmax Pro's for my kids. They were $175, with decent screens, memory, power, and USB Type-C. Great buy. Zero problems...
"10. Find my Device: Google has introduced a new feature, called Find my Device, which is a similar feature to Apple's Find my iPhone and allows people to locate, lock and wipe their Android devices in the event when they go missing or get stolen."
I've been using this for years....perhaps they mean a user interface update for it.
Suddenly, you're working and commuting 40-60 hours a week to live in a mobile home paycheck to paycheck while bill collectors bombard you. All your labor is so you can have your kids a measly 4 days a month. Your health declines, your quality of life declines, and you realize you are a slave to your employer, ex, and government.
American corporations have slashed benefits...
- Healthcare now costs us a few hundred a month, plus thousands in co-pays and deductibles.
- Vacation/Personal Time, many of us are in our 40's and find ourselves with 2 weeks of vacation. We have less vacation, personal, and sick time today then we did when we were 20. Difference is, now most of our times goes to medical appointments.
- We don't have enough time to address medical needs, so we work with ailments delaying treatment by months or years.
- Management has grown inflexible again, kind of like the 1960's except without the great benefits and pension plans.
- We're underpaid. But what can we do about it, they will just import more H1B Visa holders.
I am becoming less convinced that the work attributed to "Fancy Bear, APT 28" are in fact Russian. We've already exposed NSA/CIA as acting in disguise as foreign entities.
The irony, is for all the talk of Russian interference. We have done the exact thing in Russia's elections and dozens of other nations. We're the biggest hypocrites. Lastly, the majority of hacking and election tampering was done by the DNC to impede Bernie Sanders and prevent him from winning the nomination.
Will ensure I NEVER sign up for their streaming service. They tried it before and failed. I'd buy movies and my points would expire before they were supposed to. Their support was horrible....
I'll buy the movies I want....but I am not paying for a Disney streaming service. And I think many others will not.
Tesla can make 25% profit on each vehicle, and still not be a profitable company. They're not the same thing.
Let's simplify. I sell a widget for $100. Each widget costs me $75 to make. I earn $25 per widget. However, I can only build a 1,000 widgets. My maximum earnings are $25,000. But I have orders for 5,000 and market potential for 100,000. But in order to produce that many I will need to build a new factory for $500,000. So I borrow money to build the $500,000 factory. Now I have a $100,000 a year loan payment. I am running a loss of -$75,000 a year. So is that bad? Well, it depends. If I can now scale up to 5,000 orders. I'll earn a $125,000 on my widgets, and after the paying the -$100K I'll have a $25,000 annual profit. What, that's no better than what I had before I took this loan. True... But now my factory can make up to 100,000 widgets. If I can continue to increase market share I can grow. And now I have room to be profitable beyond $25,000 - which I was capped at prior. And this is essentially what is going on.
The question is, do I really have 5,000 orders waiting and market potential for more. If so, then this is not a concern, but if those are not realized then there will be issues. I need at a minimum the 5,000 orders to remain in business. But if I can even get 10,000 then I will achieve growth and profitability.
Well look at all the other automobile manufacturers, many of them have failed to be profitable in many years. And these are well established corporations with almost a century of history building meager evolutionary products rather than innovative ones.
All things considered, Tesla is doing surprisingly well considering. I do hope they succeed. But I think they need to move beyond cars and expand into infrastructure to do that.
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Except they left out HuffPo, MSNBC, and CNN.
So in other words, they had a very clear political bias.
Hopefully, they also included the duffleblog (military Onion) and babylonbee (religious Onion) sites.
I have iPhone users continuously amazed with my Android-based LG V20 camera. This phone has two cameras, a standard and wide-angle. It has a full on manual mode that allows one to adjust exposure, f/stop, shutter speed, white balance, ISO, etc. It also has a camera roll feature which is great. It displays the image in a multi-grid panel with several exposure/style settings. So you can easily select the one that is capturing the image most closely to what you want.
But the quality, is amazing. I have photos that folks have thought were taken from an SLR. And in fact, the quality of images surpasses the DSLRs I owned 10 years ago.
Actually, it's not so much a giant vat made in the 70's as much as the select genepool continuously (in)bred for generations.
Pretty much all the private schools do to. In fact, even here is Pennsyltucky, most religious schools will not accept children without their vaccinations. Almost ALL schools follow the state policies. It may be slightly easier to get a state waiver and have a religious school accept it. But an interesting aspect is that while a public school MUST accept such waivers, private schools do not. And often will still refuse entry of a child without immunizations.
How about you stop being as stupid as an anti-vaxxer, and be a bit more scientific and open-minded. I am not saying vaccines are bad. Just that, well maybe we need to look at new formulations of our vaccines for greater efficacy.
http://www.thv11.com/news/loca...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
https://www.scientificamerican...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/up...
"Among the 51 measles cases linked directly to Disneyland, six of the people had received their measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" (honestly, since schools mandate this, do you really think less than 12% of people were vaccinated? Or is it more likely they simply couldn't provide proof of vaccination. Can you? Can you provide proof of your own vaccination or your children's? Most folks cannot.
Hey science heads...
How much do you think a virus evolves in nearly half a century?
"In the United States, the vaccine was licensed in 1971"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We're blaming anti-vaxxers, and we tout the tiny handful of kids who have immune deficiencies. But a much more likely truth for many of these resurgences is that the vaccines have not been updated in several decades. Why? Because the big pharmaceutical companies neither want to spend money in new development nor do they want to get rid of millions of doses of the old vaccines.