The issue in Flint, and the issue in most Amerixan cities isn't 'the last mile' (so to speak) of the municipal water supply, it's the municipal 'backbone' that is the source for most lead/contamination issues.
Remember, in flint, everything was fine until they switched water supplies, which caused them to add chemicals to treat the dirty water, and it was those chemicals that leeched lead out of the city water mains, poisoning the citizens and will ultimately require Flibt to dig up and replace their entire water mains system.
The water in flint is contaminated well before it gets to your household plumbing.
Please, do.
In flint, high Union labor costs drove out the GM auto plant, killing the flint economy. (See rodger and me)
When the democratically-controlled city of flint couldn't afford to get it's water supply from the democratically-controlled city of Detroit water system, they decided to put the old Flint municipal water system back on line, but it would take a couple years to get everything working correctly.
When the democratically-controlled city of Detroit got wind of the Democratically-controlled city of Flint's plan to leave their water system, Democratically-controlled city of Detroit raised it's rates. A lot.
Unable to pay the new increased rates for water from the Democratically-controlled city of Detroit's water department, democratically-controlled Flint was forced to push up the timetable on their cutover to their local water system, and corners were cut, safety was compromised, and children were poisoned.
If you want to blame the republican-installed controller sent in to make sense of Flint's failing democrat government, you have to realize that one man cannot correct decades of failed economic decisions made by the decades of duly-elected democratic leadership at the state and local level.
It wasn't the republican-appointed controller that forced Flint to switch over to their own local water system, it was the democrat-led city of Detroit and it's increased water rates that backed Flint into a corner. Had Democrat-led Detroit water department worked with the Democrat-led city of Flint, working out repayment plans instead of raising the water rates beyond what flint already couldn't afford, this would have never happened.
Until you can show me where the republican-appointed controller knew the water was bad but forced the city to cutover AND suppressed/changed water quality reports, you'll have a hard time convincing me this was a republican-caused crisis.
I'm skeptical about this, because I don't think it is in an OEM's best interest to serve its existing users for long -- how else they will convince customers to purchase their new devices?
A device designed to be replaced in just two years has less value than one that has say a five-year lifetime...
A device with a two-year life is very hard to sell a year after it is released - it only has 12 more months of useful life after purchase.
Is a $35K robot 'cheaper' than a $15/hr employee? Of course!
If we are talking about a restaurant that is open from 6:00 am till 10:00 pm (16 hour day), seven days a week that $15/hr person costs over $87K/year - not including employer FICA, SS matching which makes a $15/hr employee cost more like $18.50.
A $35K employee will pay for itself in well under 6 months - after that, it is essentially free labor, aside from maint/upkeep/power costs.
Hillary claims that by keeping her emails secret for up to 6 years she is more transparent than her predecessors who used gov't email servers almost exclusively.
And her supporters accept it without question.
So you think the guy who got famous by bragging about the "hacks" he did (really just logging into email by guessing the answers to security questions) was able to hack into Clinton's server. A completely different skillset.
Why, was Hillary's email password so super-duper complex he couldn't have guessed it?
What, you think Hillary 'wipe - you mean like with a towel' Clinton, the woman Aides described as 'easily confused' came up with a password that included both upper and lower case letters, one or more digits and a punctuation mark? I bet it was something like 'Iluvhuma', 'pantsuits' or 'chelsea' - maybe even 'hillary2016'...
A product targeted towards women gets strong reviews from it's intended audience - women, and middling reviews from those outside the target audience - men.
If men rated it as highly as women (something the submitter expected) then isn't that an indication that the producers failed in focusing on their target audience?
Ask yourself why men are reviewing a show like 'Sex and the City'? Perhaps because the women in their lives 'forced' them to watch it... That they down-rated a show they were forced to watch isn't surprising.
Next we could make folks that think you can spend your way out of debt take an economics class, and those that claim (falsely) that global temperatures are rising or hurricanes more frequent/severe to take a science class!
Stop the presses! Rich executives hiring prostitutes?
So,about those immigrant prostitutes - assuming Seattle is a 'Sanctuary City' why didn't they go to police and turn in their captors? I thought sanctuary cities would allow illegals protection under the law?
Stricter border enforcement makes it harder to import sex slaves - open borders lead to increased human trafficking.
Give the US border agents clearly-defined laws and they can easily be as effective as the Canadians (a country, by the way, which happily deports illegals when discovered in their country).
"In the past three years, the TSA and Congress cut the number of front-line screeners by 4,622 -- or about 10% -- on expectations that an expedited screening program called PreCheck would speed up the lines. However, not enough people enrolled for TSA to realize the anticipated efficiencies."
Two things: 1) 4,622 jobs were cut? 2) How did a 10% headcount reduction result in a doubling or tripling of wait times?
It is interesting that the TSA and Congress agreed to the staff cuts (likely to pay for the failed 'pre-check program', which was likely designed by a former college room mate of Michelle Obama - total coincidence, BTW - yet these wizards of central planning are blaming a 10% workforce reduction for a trebling of of wait times...
Must be those rascally republicans!
it's only for company's with more than 50 employees - pretty sure they can afford to hire 1 or more nightshift workers to contact people in other timezones.
Says the fellow that has never had to 'make a payroll, never created a single job'.
No, what you meant to say was select employees could flex their work hours to meet company needs.
Rather than 'outlaw' after-hours emails, why not simply remind workers their employer can't require them to work after-hours, and remind employers that failure to review emails off the clock is not a justifiable reason for termination/discipline.
The issue is cultural, a legislative response is over-kill.
When your refusal to be arrested morphs into attacking a policeman, it can escalate quickly.
When your refusal starts to involve punching, kicking the officer, possibly pulling out a knife or reaching for the officer's gun, your refusal is now assault of a police officer - and shooting the attackers is a widely-accepted response in most developed countries.
I read an article in Fast Company where the CEO of Taco Bell was talking about their various innovations, including ordering kiosks - he said he wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but he saw people lined up to use kiosks to order their food while there was NO Customers at the counter, all the counter clerks were standing there idle.
I suspect the novelty of the kiosk was part of it, the other part was likely the desire to not have to interact with the person at the counter.
You are also forgetting the Microsoft is pushing office 2016 into the cloud. Governments can't store their work on microsofts servers.
I expect to see more and more of this as Microsoft pushes more and more cloud based control of their software.
Of course, you know that MS is making the entire Azure Cloud stack part of the next iteration of Windows Server, thereby allowing gov't entities to build their own private cloud that takes the place of MS public cloud, right? The gov't can run their own cloud on their own hardware in their own datacenter over their own private network.
How much is being spent to teach users how to work with Libre Office? If you read the article they are investing in E-learning to teach users how to work with Libre Office. This transition will take over 5 years, based on expiration of existing office licenses - the cost of that training eats into their 'expected' savings.
The union thought they were 'owed' those new jobs, and by creating (not moving, but creating *new* jobs) in a non-Union state, the union took it personally.
Clinton hired an independent contractor to set up her email server.
She then made history by creating the first-ever political appointment in the State Dept. IT department.
She paid this contractor monthly to maintain her email server while he was a State Department political appointee.
It apparently never occurred to Clinton to have her appointee manage her server as part of his official duties - why not?
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The issue in Flint, and the issue in most Amerixan cities isn't 'the last mile' (so to speak) of the municipal water supply, it's the municipal 'backbone' that is the source for most lead/contamination issues. Remember, in flint, everything was fine until they switched water supplies, which caused them to add chemicals to treat the dirty water, and it was those chemicals that leeched lead out of the city water mains, poisoning the citizens and will ultimately require Flibt to dig up and replace their entire water mains system. The water in flint is contaminated well before it gets to your household plumbing.
Please, do. In flint, high Union labor costs drove out the GM auto plant, killing the flint economy. (See rodger and me) When the democratically-controlled city of flint couldn't afford to get it's water supply from the democratically-controlled city of Detroit water system, they decided to put the old Flint municipal water system back on line, but it would take a couple years to get everything working correctly. When the democratically-controlled city of Detroit got wind of the Democratically-controlled city of Flint's plan to leave their water system, Democratically-controlled city of Detroit raised it's rates. A lot. Unable to pay the new increased rates for water from the Democratically-controlled city of Detroit's water department, democratically-controlled Flint was forced to push up the timetable on their cutover to their local water system, and corners were cut, safety was compromised, and children were poisoned. If you want to blame the republican-installed controller sent in to make sense of Flint's failing democrat government, you have to realize that one man cannot correct decades of failed economic decisions made by the decades of duly-elected democratic leadership at the state and local level. It wasn't the republican-appointed controller that forced Flint to switch over to their own local water system, it was the democrat-led city of Detroit and it's increased water rates that backed Flint into a corner. Had Democrat-led Detroit water department worked with the Democrat-led city of Flint, working out repayment plans instead of raising the water rates beyond what flint already couldn't afford, this would have never happened. Until you can show me where the republican-appointed controller knew the water was bad but forced the city to cutover AND suppressed/changed water quality reports, you'll have a hard time convincing me this was a republican-caused crisis.
A device designed to be replaced in just two years has less value than one that has say a five-year lifetime... A device with a two-year life is very hard to sell a year after it is released - it only has 12 more months of useful life after purchase.
That should read 'robot' not 'employee'.
Is a $35K robot 'cheaper' than a $15/hr employee? Of course! If we are talking about a restaurant that is open from 6:00 am till 10:00 pm (16 hour day), seven days a week that $15/hr person costs over $87K/year - not including employer FICA, SS matching which makes a $15/hr employee cost more like $18.50. A $35K employee will pay for itself in well under 6 months - after that, it is essentially free labor, aside from maint/upkeep/power costs.
Hillary claims that by keeping her emails secret for up to 6 years she is more transparent than her predecessors who used gov't email servers almost exclusively. And her supporters accept it without question.
Why, was Hillary's email password so super-duper complex he couldn't have guessed it? What, you think Hillary 'wipe - you mean like with a towel' Clinton, the woman Aides described as 'easily confused' came up with a password that included both upper and lower case letters, one or more digits and a punctuation mark? I bet it was something like 'Iluvhuma', 'pantsuits' or 'chelsea' - maybe even 'hillary2016'...
A product targeted towards women gets strong reviews from it's intended audience - women, and middling reviews from those outside the target audience - men. If men rated it as highly as women (something the submitter expected) then isn't that an indication that the producers failed in focusing on their target audience? Ask yourself why men are reviewing a show like 'Sex and the City'? Perhaps because the women in their lives 'forced' them to watch it... That they down-rated a show they were forced to watch isn't surprising.
Next we could make folks that think you can spend your way out of debt take an economics class, and those that claim (falsely) that global temperatures are rising or hurricanes more frequent/severe to take a science class!
'Cloud' is the new 'mainframe' - there are 'clouds' that are not accessible on/connected to the public internet.
Stop the presses! Rich executives hiring prostitutes? So,about those immigrant prostitutes - assuming Seattle is a 'Sanctuary City' why didn't they go to police and turn in their captors? I thought sanctuary cities would allow illegals protection under the law? Stricter border enforcement makes it harder to import sex slaves - open borders lead to increased human trafficking.
Give the US border agents clearly-defined laws and they can easily be as effective as the Canadians (a country, by the way, which happily deports illegals when discovered in their country).
Two things: 1) 4,622 jobs were cut? 2) How did a 10% headcount reduction result in a doubling or tripling of wait times? It is interesting that the TSA and Congress agreed to the staff cuts (likely to pay for the failed 'pre-check program', which was likely designed by a former college room mate of Michelle Obama - total coincidence, BTW - yet these wizards of central planning are blaming a 10% workforce reduction for a trebling of of wait times... Must be those rascally republicans!
Says the fellow that has never had to 'make a payroll, never created a single job'. No, what you meant to say was select employees could flex their work hours to meet company needs.
Rather than 'outlaw' after-hours emails, why not simply remind workers their employer can't require them to work after-hours, and remind employers that failure to review emails off the clock is not a justifiable reason for termination/discipline. The issue is cultural, a legislative response is over-kill.
When your refusal to be arrested morphs into attacking a policeman, it can escalate quickly. When your refusal starts to involve punching, kicking the officer, possibly pulling out a knife or reaching for the officer's gun, your refusal is now assault of a police officer - and shooting the attackers is a widely-accepted response in most developed countries.
I read an article in Fast Company where the CEO of Taco Bell was talking about their various innovations, including ordering kiosks - he said he wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but he saw people lined up to use kiosks to order their food while there was NO Customers at the counter, all the counter clerks were standing there idle. I suspect the novelty of the kiosk was part of it, the other part was likely the desire to not have to interact with the person at the counter.
Of course, you know that MS is making the entire Azure Cloud stack part of the next iteration of Windows Server, thereby allowing gov't entities to build their own private cloud that takes the place of MS public cloud, right? The gov't can run their own cloud on their own hardware in their own datacenter over their own private network.
How much is being spent to teach users how to work with Libre Office? If you read the article they are investing in E-learning to teach users how to work with Libre Office. This transition will take over 5 years, based on expiration of existing office licenses - the cost of that training eats into their 'expected' savings.
Do Italian soldiers write a lot of scientific papers?
"You didn't build that!"
The union thought they were 'owed' those new jobs, and by creating (not moving, but creating *new* jobs) in a non-Union state, the union took it personally.
Clinton hired an independent contractor to set up her email server. She then made history by creating the first-ever political appointment in the State Dept. IT department. She paid this contractor monthly to maintain her email server while he was a State Department political appointee. It apparently never occurred to Clinton to have her appointee manage her server as part of his official duties - why not?
And this differs from either Democrat candidate's plans should they Rae office how, exactly?
Too bad solar generates 0% of it's energy while the sun is 'down'...