. Internal organization and negotiation would be another (but not up to union level)
At that point you are actually a union so you might as well register as one so you won't all be fired en mass and replaced with cheaper labor.
Most unions and their behavoirs are basically a reflection of how the managment\employee relationship is before the union was formed. Since most of those realationships are really screwed up, most unions are really screwed up.
While that was true in the earlier days of the program, the tax rates and benefits have not been adjusted, other than the max income subject to the tax to indexed inflation, since 1983. Even so, only very minor changes might be needed to ensure all the promised benefits are paid out.
It's not the rates that makes the tax code complex (it's like a page of the entire code), it's all the deductions, definitions of taxiable income and what's not that make it so complex.
Most all of the supporters of the "flat tax" want a flat rate, but refuse to get rid of the deductions and non-taxible income sources.
If you want a single rate on all income (wages, salaries, bonuses, capital gains, inheretance) no exceptions, no deductions that's one thing.
Ireland does this quite well with a flat 12.5% tax rate on corporate income. But they have no deductions for health benefits, no deductions for being in a certian business lines, no deductions for anything. People see the 12.5% rate as something we should set the US statutory rate to, but they neglect the fact their tax code allows for absolutely no deductions. The real US Corp tax rate is about 17.2% (vice the the statutory rate 35%) because of deductions.
That being said, we'll never get rid of deductions because it's Congresses preference for some reason to do indistry stimulus and aid to the voters as tax deductions, focused tax cuts, and tax credits instead of direct grants or investments to those industries or people. Until that preference changes the flat tax is DOA.
Did you actually read what he said? It's not "Social Security and Medicare", it's just Medicare. And only Medicare.
And this is because our health care system has such screwed up incentives the costs are spiralling out of control system wide which is driving up the Medicare costs to levels that cannot be supported.
Since our government simply refuses to do anything to get the situation under control it'll what bankrupt us, not Social Security which has been 40 years away from bankruptcy for like the last 50 years (and even if and when the trust fund empties it'll be able to provide along the lines of 90% of the promised benefits).
They're being lumped together for partisan, idological reasons that have nothing to do with the fiscal stability of Social Security.
Since most sites have a bunch of silly restrictions (no special characters, no more than 8, etc) most systems if the don't enforce strength, randomness, etc will degrade down to the lowest level where the password will work on all the systems.
Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
This hasn't been true since Windows 2000 (due to changes introduced in NTFS 5.0). You can mount a drive to a folder on an existing mounted file system through a process called Volume Mount Point.
Works just like Linux. Granted it's a little more buried to find out how to do it than in Linux, but not that much.
The justification is they got someone to pay $18,000 for it without any sort of fraud. In a market economy that's really all you need. It's not the companies fault the people who buy their equipment are dumb.
It's been in development for 5 years, the new Star Trek has only existed for about 2 and didn't really exist until earlier this year. It's a matter of timing in the development cycle.
And it's Next Generation so there is no analog for the new universe, yet, of course.
[T]hough many Americans are still without decent internet access
If they're AT&T customers that's probably especially true.
I have no problem with removing analog phone lines from a requirement as long as they're required to still provide phone service to rural areas via VOIP boxes or cell to landline convertors or something similar. I think they'll find that the whole thing will wind up being more expensive than just keep analog pairs around (especially if the phone still needs to work in a power outage).
They're working on it, but the main line between Seoul and Busan just half opened. It's only high speed between Seoul to Daegu (3/4th of the way) and lower speed the rest of the way onto Busan. It still doesn't cover the Western coast of the country. They are still in the catch up phase, but further along than most ever other country.
Austria and Germany are using high-speed rolling stock on low-speed lines. As such they're limited to about 75km\h for most of the entire route. Very little of the German and non of the Austrian system is updated to support high speed rail travel.
The subsidies in the the US generally favor roads then air travel over all other forms of transportation causing a total disconnect on the cost. For instance the ICC\MD 200 road in Maryland was to be built without any subsidies or public money. That wound up meaning the only way to pay for it was to put the tolls at the actual cost of the road (which wound up being at $0.35/mile). If you drive the whole route it'll cost you $6.60 per trip. People are up in the arms because of the toll cost, but that's what it actually costs. It's just been hidden under other taxes on all the previous roads.
The train from Wuhan to Guangzhou in China takes 3 hours to cover 1068km (that's scheduled service not a test run). When you want a point to point high speed train it isn't hard to build one. (It replaced a pre-existing line that took 10.5 hours to complete the same route).
Trains can be fast and competitive if you build them right. Most system in the world are a hodgepodge of different systems that have evolved from different systems and standards over the years. As such the top speeds are impressive, but the average speeds suck royally (the route you indicated above Dusseldorf to Vienna is almost completely un-upgraded with a top speed of about 75km\h for most of the route). The only countries with unified, completely upgraded systems to support higher speeds are France and Japan. Everyone else is playing catch up.
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But ask your self how did these long-term retiree contracts even exist if management hadn't thought it was a good idea to offer them in lue of a 50 or a dollar an hour raise back in the 1950s? How did the become under-funded over years of management not funding them?
Did these contracts appear out of thin air? Nope each side went into the agreement with something they can accept and signed on the dotted line and expected the other side to hold up their end.
These were all management decisions that were made by GM's board and the decisions they made catasrophicly bad. They based them on assumptions that became appearent in the late 60's were not holding up, but GM kept making them over and over again. Based on their size it let them asorb the hits until the 80's, but by then it was way, way too late to make the changes.
Blaming the guy on the factory floor trying to keep a middle class life for things he cannot control is sad.
Then there's that old urban legend of the old Saab owner challenging a Porsche owner to a race... in Reverse.
this is from the Saab orignal 2 stroke engine deisgn. With a 2 stroke engine if the car is moving backwards at ignition it's possible to to get the pistons to turn in reverse so fowards gears move the car in reverse. A normal car is stuck in a low gear ratio since it cannot pull off the same trick. At that point it's relatively easy for the Saab to beat just about anythng.
Personally, I understand completely why developers are leaving. Apple is aggressively anti-developer with the iPhone.
Because they are pro-user. It's shift in paradigm from the old days where Apple and Microsoft are so pro-developers that the users are pretty much left out of the equasion when it comes to actually writing and using software and some people don't like being a little fish again.
In a deregulated industry will keep prices high if the barrier to entry into that industry is high as well. For cell phone providers the barrier to entry is really high since it costs millions to buy spectrum and billions to buy and install cell towers.
Yea, you can lease time from the already installed towers, but again it's really expensive and since those who run the towers also provide end-user service so they can dictate the terms to the renting providers and don't really care if you lose money or not.
It's not like the original ISP days were there were 1,000 of ISP all offering dail-up service. It pushed the price down to like $4.95 a month since they actually had to compete on price. At that time most ISP actually bought their telephone services from secondary CLECs who bought their service from ILEC (Verizon, SBC, etc) who used some pricing rules set by the ILEC to take advantage of the unique nature of ISP call traffic. The large Telecoms have since changed the rules and fought tooth and nail to prevent that situation from ever happening again and have largely won at this point.
In Europe, Japan and South Korea they actually regulations that prevent selling locked phones, long term contracts, and to force reselling of connections at reasonable prices. As such those markets are much, much more competetive that a deregulated US market since it's realitvely easy for customers to change providers since they actually have a choice and more importantly a MEANS to change.
You're screwing up the part of the Uncertainty principle that most people do. It's not position v. velocity accuracy, but position v momentum. For most large things like planets, cars, insects, and protozoa the mass part of the momentum calculation can drive the accuracy error of measuring both down to about zero. The Uncertainty principle only really matters for really small things like molecules, atoms, and quarks where the mass doesn't overwhelm the equation.
Think about it this way in normal everyday life we're not losing a car because it has a speedometer or the Earth because some one is keeping track of a year. For things like traffic tickets the accuracy of both speed and position are extremely accurate.
No, when they moved to x86 architecture it was a race to increase their profit margins. Since they can take advantage of the economy of scale for the PC parts and engineering while keeping their prices the same.
They got to pocket the money they were spending to keep PowerPC alive as a desktop platform. No downside for them really.
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. Internal organization and negotiation would be another (but not up to union level)
At that point you are actually a union so you might as well register as one so you won't all be fired en mass and replaced with cheaper labor.
Most unions and their behavoirs are basically a reflection of how the managment\employee relationship is before the union was formed. Since most of those realationships are really screwed up, most unions are really screwed up.
At least in the US, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) explictly exempts people delivering newspaper from both minumum wage and overtime laws.
While that was true in the earlier days of the program, the tax rates and benefits have not been adjusted, other than the max income subject to the tax to indexed inflation, since 1983. Even so, only very minor changes might be needed to ensure all the promised benefits are paid out.
It's not the rates that makes the tax code complex (it's like a page of the entire code), it's all the deductions, definitions of taxiable income and what's not that make it so complex.
Most all of the supporters of the "flat tax" want a flat rate, but refuse to get rid of the deductions and non-taxible income sources.
If you want a single rate on all income (wages, salaries, bonuses, capital gains, inheretance) no exceptions, no deductions that's one thing.
Ireland does this quite well with a flat 12.5% tax rate on corporate income. But they have no deductions for health benefits, no deductions for being in a certian business lines, no deductions for anything. People see the 12.5% rate as something we should set the US statutory rate to, but they neglect the fact their tax code allows for absolutely no deductions. The real US Corp tax rate is about 17.2% (vice the the statutory rate 35%) because of deductions.
That being said, we'll never get rid of deductions because it's Congresses preference for some reason to do indistry stimulus and aid to the voters as tax deductions, focused tax cuts, and tax credits instead of direct grants or investments to those industries or people. Until that preference changes the flat tax is DOA.
Did you actually read what he said? It's not "Social Security and Medicare", it's just Medicare. And only Medicare.
And this is because our health care system has such screwed up incentives the costs are spiralling out of control system wide which is driving up the Medicare costs to levels that cannot be supported.
Since our government simply refuses to do anything to get the situation under control it'll what bankrupt us, not Social Security which has been 40 years away from bankruptcy for like the last 50 years (and even if and when the trust fund empties it'll be able to provide along the lines of 90% of the promised benefits).
They're being lumped together for partisan, idological reasons that have nothing to do with the fiscal stability of Social Security.
Since most sites have a bunch of silly restrictions (no special characters, no more than 8, etc) most systems if the don't enforce strength, randomness, etc will degrade down to the lowest level where the password will work on all the systems.
sdaa for the 27th
sdab for the 28th
and so on.
Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
This hasn't been true since Windows 2000 (due to changes introduced in NTFS 5.0). You can mount a drive to a folder on an existing mounted file system through a process called Volume Mount Point.
Works just like Linux. Granted it's a little more buried to find out how to do it than in Linux, but not that much.
The justification is they got someone to pay $18,000 for it without any sort of fraud. In a market economy that's really all you need. It's not the companies fault the people who buy their equipment are dumb.
Power of attorney does not make one an attorney so attorney-client privilege doesn't apply.
All power of attorney provides is the power to make legal decisions for someone else if they are unable to for what ever reason.
It's been in development for 5 years, the new Star Trek has only existed for about 2 and didn't really exist until earlier this year. It's a matter of timing in the development cycle.
And it's Next Generation so there is no analog for the new universe, yet, of course.
[T]hough many Americans are still without decent internet access
If they're AT&T customers that's probably especially true.
I have no problem with removing analog phone lines from a requirement as long as they're required to still provide phone service to rural areas via VOIP boxes or cell to landline convertors or something similar. I think they'll find that the whole thing will wind up being more expensive than just keep analog pairs around (especially if the phone still needs to work in a power outage).
It's usually:
Red->Square
Yellow-> Diamond
Green-> Circle
But that's just in Canada. I don't think it's approved for use in the US.
But in the horizontal configuration the red light is always on the left and the gree light is always on the right. Same rules apply.
Except if the consumer lies about their address the product will get shipped to someone else.
They're working on it, but the main line between Seoul and Busan just half opened. It's only high speed between Seoul to Daegu (3/4th of the way) and lower speed the rest of the way onto Busan. It still doesn't cover the Western coast of the country. They are still in the catch up phase, but further along than most ever other country.
Austria and Germany are using high-speed rolling stock on low-speed lines. As such they're limited to about 75km\h for most of the entire route. Very little of the German and non of the Austrian system is updated to support high speed rail travel.
The subsidies in the the US generally favor roads then air travel over all other forms of transportation causing a total disconnect on the cost. For instance the ICC\MD 200 road in Maryland was to be built without any subsidies or public money. That wound up meaning the only way to pay for it was to put the tolls at the actual cost of the road (which wound up being at $0.35/mile). If you drive the whole route it'll cost you $6.60 per trip. People are up in the arms because of the toll cost, but that's what it actually costs. It's just been hidden under other taxes on all the previous roads.
The train from Wuhan to Guangzhou in China takes 3 hours to cover 1068km (that's scheduled service not a test run). When you want a point to point high speed train it isn't hard to build one. (It replaced a pre-existing line that took 10.5 hours to complete the same route).
Trains can be fast and competitive if you build them right. Most system in the world are a hodgepodge of different systems that have evolved from different systems and standards over the years. As such the top speeds are impressive, but the average speeds suck royally (the route you indicated above Dusseldorf to Vienna is almost completely un-upgraded with a top speed of about 75km\h for most of the route). The only countries with unified, completely upgraded systems to support higher speeds are France and Japan. Everyone else is playing catch up.
But ask your self how did these long-term retiree contracts even exist if management hadn't thought it was a good idea to offer them in lue of a 50 or a dollar an hour raise back in the 1950s? How did the become under-funded over years of management not funding them?
Did these contracts appear out of thin air? Nope each side went into the agreement with something they can accept and signed on the dotted line and expected the other side to hold up their end.
These were all management decisions that were made by GM's board and the decisions they made catasrophicly bad. They based them on assumptions that became appearent in the late 60's were not holding up, but GM kept making them over and over again. Based on their size it let them asorb the hits until the 80's, but by then it was way, way too late to make the changes.
Blaming the guy on the factory floor trying to keep a middle class life for things he cannot control is sad.
Then there's that old urban legend of the old Saab owner challenging a Porsche owner to a race... in Reverse.
this is from the Saab orignal 2 stroke engine deisgn. With a 2 stroke engine if the car is moving backwards at ignition it's possible to to get the pistons to turn in reverse so fowards gears move the car in reverse. A normal car is stuck in a low gear ratio since it cannot pull off the same trick. At that point it's relatively easy for the Saab to beat just about anythng.
He also wasn't arrested, just banned from the game.
Personally, I understand completely why developers are leaving. Apple is aggressively anti-developer with the iPhone.
Because they are pro-user. It's shift in paradigm from the old days where Apple and Microsoft are so pro-developers that the users are pretty much left out of the equasion when it comes to actually writing and using software and some people don't like being a little fish again.
In a deregulated industry will keep prices high if the barrier to entry into that industry is high as well. For cell phone providers the barrier to entry is really high since it costs millions to buy spectrum and billions to buy and install cell towers.
Yea, you can lease time from the already installed towers, but again it's really expensive and since those who run the towers also provide end-user service so they can dictate the terms to the renting providers and don't really care if you lose money or not.
It's not like the original ISP days were there were 1,000 of ISP all offering dail-up service. It pushed the price down to like $4.95 a month since they actually had to compete on price. At that time most ISP actually bought their telephone services from secondary CLECs who bought their service from ILEC (Verizon, SBC, etc) who used some pricing rules set by the ILEC to take advantage of the unique nature of ISP call traffic. The large Telecoms have since changed the rules and fought tooth and nail to prevent that situation from ever happening again and have largely won at this point.
In Europe, Japan and South Korea they actually regulations that prevent selling locked phones, long term contracts, and to force reselling of connections at reasonable prices. As such those markets are much, much more competetive that a deregulated US market since it's realitvely easy for customers to change providers since they actually have a choice and more importantly a MEANS to change.
You're screwing up the part of the Uncertainty principle that most people do. It's not position v. velocity accuracy, but position v momentum. For most large things like planets, cars, insects, and protozoa the mass part of the momentum calculation can drive the accuracy error of measuring both down to about zero. The Uncertainty principle only really matters for really small things like molecules, atoms, and quarks where the mass doesn't overwhelm the equation.
Think about it this way in normal everyday life we're not losing a car because it has a speedometer or the Earth because some one is keeping track of a year. For things like traffic tickets the accuracy of both speed and position are extremely accurate.
No, when they moved to x86 architecture it was a race to increase their profit margins. Since they can take advantage of the economy of scale for the PC parts and engineering while keeping their prices the same.
They got to pocket the money they were spending to keep PowerPC alive as a desktop platform. No downside for them really.