The US military has been using drones that are not only designed and built in China, they are connected to the internet the whole time sending telemetry to Chinese servers??? Why not just cc them on every order our troops receive? Loop them in on every conversation in the Pentagon?
Are we frikkin idiots or something? Are we just crossing our fingers and hoping our largest rival isn't snooping on that data? That they aren't slipping nasty surprises into our equipment? That they aren't doing the rational thing that any other nation would do and using this to gain an advantage over us?
What's next, buying our radios from North Korea? Our encryption from Russia?
So, they can get a credit equal to 17% of their payroll each year until it reaches a total of $1.5b. They can get a credit for 15% of their annual capital expenditures up to $1.35 billion. The remaining $.25b is a preexisting manufacturing credit.
Nope! They get the credits if and only if they hire all the people they promised to, and do all the construction they promised. That's 13,000 people making an average of $54k/year, or Foxconn has to give it all back.
Not quite. They get two refundable credits, one for up to 17% of payroll and one for up to 15% of capital expenditure, if they are spending and hiring at the agreed rates. Those have a total cap of 1.5 and 1.35 billion respectively.
There's still far more money coming into the State then the State government is refunding. While the government worries about when it breaks even, the people are getting good jobs and tons of compounding economic activity is going on.
So? If you have concerns your boss might do something wrong, does that mean you preemptively stab them in the back? Of course not! You raise your concerns internally.
Ah. Our networking department is me, and there are three other people in the IT department. We all do desktop/end-user support as well, so I'm stretched a bit thin. If your company has the resources for the staff and management hardware to do everything locally, more power to you. Mine does not, and the Merakis make my job doable. I know some companies have people who manage servers, others who handle SCCM, more for networking, etc. In mine, that's all me.
Why was this leaked? Because somebody thought it might be suppressed? How about giving the administration a chance before assuming it will be suppressed and breaking the law? Why publish it right away instead of waiting to see if it does get suppressed? This is just like Reality Winter's dumb-ass move.
This is a problem, and it indicates there's a huge problem in the Federal bureaucracy with paper-pushers deciding for themselves how to run the government. If the administration was hiding something, that would be one thing, but if nobody gives them the chance to do the right thing then that sets up a self-fulfilling prophesy.
What if your infrastructure isn't local? Mine is spread across dozens of offices scattered around a major metropolitan area. Rolling out Merakis has made my job easier by several orders of magnitude.
We lost three floorplan images. Well, not really lost because there are multiple copies floating around, including those on my laptop. I haven't even bothered to re-upload them yet.
I don't get the criticisms I'm seeing. They don't match my experience in any respect. There are a few things that are lacking or need improvement, but when isn't that the case? If there's a perfect product out there, I've never seen or heard of it.
Given that conflict between the US and China is hardly impossible, it is absolutely ridiculous for the military to use anything made in China. Why not just hand over our nuclear codes to them?
As in, "my boss is doing something wrong and the people need to know." Not for releasing the tools used by the CIA. What public benefit could there possibly be to putting the contents of James Bond's pockets on display? So far, I've only seen massive harm as malicious actors take these leaked tools and turn them into ransomware. Who should be sued for NotPetya, a Ukrainian firm that got hit, or Wikileaks for handing these exploits to the people who use them to hurt everyone?
Well, if your country is the US, it happened in 1969 when the Cuyahoga river caught fire. It was quite the wakeup call.
What I don't get is why India didn't hear about it and take the warning. They have the opportunity not to make the same mistakes we did without having to bear the cost of figuring out how. Instead they are making the same mistakes, and apparently the developed nations are supposed to feel bad about it.
Think about what you just said. Less energy but more pollution. In the air and in the water.
Unlike developed nations that started from scratch with industrialization and didn't even think to not pollute for well over a hundred years, India doesn't have to develop dirty. Why ignore the hard lessons learned by the US and Europe?
Isn't that where emissions are increasing the fastest? India is #3 or 4 on the list of polluters, neighboring China is #1. India is expected to surpass the emissions of the entire EU by 2020, and their recent increases canceled out decreases in the US and China. India is already making it's air unbreathable, maybe they should stop before it also cooks them.
Were it not for all the anti-nuke nonsense, I think it likely that we would have plants now that safely reprocess waste on-site. How much of the cost and danger is from pulling old barrels of waste out of storage? If it all happens on-site, how much cost and danger would be eliminated?
However, I'm thinking about the 1950's to now, not going forwards. As renewables become feasible for large scale generation, they become the way to go. Still, NPP's being built now are worth finishing. Cancelling them partway through is a huge waste of money, and starting over again from scratch (no matter what kind of plant you build instead) is a huge waste of time. Especially considering how much of the cost of building one is artificially imposed by people who are just dead set against nuclear power.
No, paying ME $80-$90k/year would have saved the taxpayers money. As for the cost of living, I see what happened. I searched for cost of living in DC and got a map with CoL by State. So, while you're probably right (I assume you are, I just don't want to verify it right now), according to that map the CoL in DC is higher than the average CoL for any State.
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Are we frikkin idiots or something? Are we just crossing our fingers and hoping our largest rival isn't snooping on that data? That they aren't slipping nasty surprises into our equipment? That they aren't doing the rational thing that any other nation would do and using this to gain an advantage over us?
What's next, buying our radios from North Korea? Our encryption from Russia?
Okay... Does that justify leaking in response to suppression that hasn't happened?
Then they have to pay it back.
So, they can get a credit equal to 17% of their payroll each year until it reaches a total of $1.5b. They can get a credit for 15% of their annual capital expenditures up to $1.35 billion. The remaining $.25b is a preexisting manufacturing credit.
They spend and hire as agreed, or get nothing. If they do as you say, they have to pay it all back.
Nope! They get the credits if and only if they hire all the people they promised to, and do all the construction they promised. That's 13,000 people making an average of $54k/year, or Foxconn has to give it all back.
There's still far more money coming into the State then the State government is refunding. While the government worries about when it breaks even, the people are getting good jobs and tons of compounding economic activity is going on.
So? If you have concerns your boss might do something wrong, does that mean you preemptively stab them in the back? Of course not! You raise your concerns internally.
Ah. Our networking department is me, and there are three other people in the IT department. We all do desktop/end-user support as well, so I'm stretched a bit thin. If your company has the resources for the staff and management hardware to do everything locally, more power to you. Mine does not, and the Merakis make my job doable. I know some companies have people who manage servers, others who handle SCCM, more for networking, etc. In mine, that's all me.
This is a problem, and it indicates there's a huge problem in the Federal bureaucracy with paper-pushers deciding for themselves how to run the government. If the administration was hiding something, that would be one thing, but if nobody gives them the chance to do the right thing then that sets up a self-fulfilling prophesy.
What if your infrastructure isn't local? Mine is spread across dozens of offices scattered around a major metropolitan area. Rolling out Merakis has made my job easier by several orders of magnitude.
I don't get the criticisms I'm seeing. They don't match my experience in any respect. There are a few things that are lacking or need improvement, but when isn't that the case? If there's a perfect product out there, I've never seen or heard of it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Madness.
More than that, it means focusing on importing exactly the people SV wants! This is illogical to the point of absurdity. Nay, insanity!
There wasn't anything arguable about it. They were the two least popular candidates in the history of polling.
If it was 'most', they aren't willing to say so yet.
What the hell are you talking about? Done what? Are you talking about a different article?
As in, "my boss is doing something wrong and the people need to know." Not for releasing the tools used by the CIA. What public benefit could there possibly be to putting the contents of James Bond's pockets on display? So far, I've only seen massive harm as malicious actors take these leaked tools and turn them into ransomware. Who should be sued for NotPetya, a Ukrainian firm that got hit, or Wikileaks for handing these exploits to the people who use them to hurt everyone?
What I don't get is why India didn't hear about it and take the warning. They have the opportunity not to make the same mistakes we did without having to bear the cost of figuring out how. Instead they are making the same mistakes, and apparently the developed nations are supposed to feel bad about it.
Unlike developed nations that started from scratch with industrialization and didn't even think to not pollute for well over a hundred years, India doesn't have to develop dirty. Why ignore the hard lessons learned by the US and Europe?
Isn't that where emissions are increasing the fastest? India is #3 or 4 on the list of polluters, neighboring China is #1. India is expected to surpass the emissions of the entire EU by 2020, and their recent increases canceled out decreases in the US and China. India is already making it's air unbreathable, maybe they should stop before it also cooks them.
However, I'm thinking about the 1950's to now, not going forwards. As renewables become feasible for large scale generation, they become the way to go. Still, NPP's being built now are worth finishing. Cancelling them partway through is a huge waste of money, and starting over again from scratch (no matter what kind of plant you build instead) is a huge waste of time. Especially considering how much of the cost of building one is artificially imposed by people who are just dead set against nuclear power.
No, paying ME $80-$90k/year would have saved the taxpayers money. As for the cost of living, I see what happened. I searched for cost of living in DC and got a map with CoL by State. So, while you're probably right (I assume you are, I just don't want to verify it right now), according to that map the CoL in DC is higher than the average CoL for any State.
I nominate this for "Best Comment So Far".