Ergo the oil argument that much of our oil supply is made from bacteria and not old dinosaurs. If the bacteria is supplied from the crust inside the earth, the oil fields can replenish and oil becomes much more sustainable than before.
Any way you look at this the findings become politically charged as the impact this has on our future energy supply could be enormous. With a little bit of googling you can readily find oil fields from old that have mysteriously started refilling with oil.
So by your argument, we don't have to worry about running out of oil because we can just sit back for another few billion years for the oil fields to get replenished back to their original levels? Hrm...seems like there's a problem in that logic that I can't quite put my finger on.
It's not too hard, considering there aren't very many jobs that go along with these data centers, and very few high skilled jobs. The jobs number at most in the hundreds, and many of those are low skilled jobs.
That $600 million Google datacenter? Up to 210 jobs. (no breakdown on skilled vs unskilled)
That $1 billion Apple datacenter? 50 full time jobs and 250 outside contractors for maintenance/landscaping/security.
That $17 million Wipro datacenter? 17 jobs.
etc...
That being said, the tax incentives (if I understand them correctly) are simply reductions in taxes. So it's not like the state is PAYING them to come here. The state still gets additional revenue through other means (income tax on workers, taxes on utilities, etc...).
I'm not sure why she is suing on behalf of her relatives. Wouldn't it be more logical (and stronger from a legal perspective) for her relatives to sue the collection agency for harassment?
As a male, can I request that I be frisked by a female TSA agent? If so, then I fully support these new security procedures, and I applaud the work you're doing!
If it were really the U.S. or Israel, I would assume that the folks over at Symantec would have gotten a visit from some friendly folks in suits, and you would not have seen this paper released. Or maybe that's the plausible deniability? (e.g. "If it was us, why would we let Symantec release the report?") Okay...my head is spinning, not unlike a centrifuge.
Or...it could be a computer expert in Iran with intimate knowledge about the nuclear program trying to sabotage it. Dissension within the ranks is not uncommon.
And when the company does finally collapse, the people who were responsible for the creative accounting are long gone doing the same thing to another company.
I tend to believe in the power of capitalism. But what I've seen lately is not just capitalism...it's pure greed. It's an economy run by narcissists who care of nothing else but their own personal pocketbooks. The company, the workers, the investors....it means nothing to them other than a means to an end. And we worship these people. And on the flip side, the people who actually produce the wealth in this country get castigated for being greedy because they want above-poverty-level wages.
Here's what you are missing: Everyone expects Microsoft to be highly profitable in their core business, and investors are used to the sad fact that Microsoft wastes a billion here and there on things like buying revenue for Ping. So if the losses in the online division grow, or XBox doesn't as well as expected, nobody cares much because the main business is safe as ever. All those losses in online can be stopped any second by just leaving that business area, if Microsoft wants, so it's nothing to worry about.
But if Microsoft makes less money in Windows, Office, or Server, or if it is found out that it props up its main business by moving money from other areas, that is a very, very bad sign and investors would be quite unhappy.
Hrm....maybe all those unprofitable divisions aren't so unprofitable after all?
In this case, the rabbit likely consumed radioactive materials, meaning that it is contaminated with radioactive materials. The rabbit itself though, is not radioactive.
That seems overly pedantic. By that definition, you could also say that the fuel elements and cladding are not radioactive either...they're just contaminated with radioactive materials.
The rabbit is likely emitting beta and gamma radiation (at least more than a usual rabbit does). Therefore, by definition, it's radioactive.
The only thing missing from that article was more sprinkled mentioning of FoxNews.com. FoxNews.com should really start mentioning FoxNews.com more in FoxNews.com articles.
If X tax revenue needs to be raised, and Y pays less, then Z must pay more. And having one of the richest companies in the world pay 2.4% when most of us are paying an order of magnitude more lacks justice.
That's only if you anthropomorphise a company. You could equally say that it's not fair that my wallet isn't taxed even though it's always flush with cash. Corporations aren't people. There is no fairness in whether they should or should not pay taxes. Corporations are simply collections of people.
As long as the people that make up that corporation are taxed, then there is no injustice. IMHO, it would probably be better to eliminate corporate taxes altogether and replace it with a VAT and income taxes. Then you would eliminate a lot of these loopholes.
Totally agreed. Corporations play so many games to reduce their tax burden, it's not worth it. We should just eliminate corporate taxes altogether and replace them with VAT and income taxes. Corporations waste a lot of resources playing these games, so they would become more efficient. Just think about the complexities of just calculating depreciation expenses. And imagine how many corporations would move back to the U.S.!
We tried letting business do anything without restriction, then around 1900 decided there's a better way. China will do the same or they won't have anyone left healthy enough to work. Do you seriously not see the barrel we're racing to the bottom of?
Yea...but they have a cheap labor pool of 1.3 billion people. It will be a VERY long time before they run out of healthy workers. That, above anything else, is their largest asset.
While you're at it, sales tax should also be folded into the final price. If something costs $.99, then I should be able to pay for it with my $1 bill.
The article states that if you find it difficult remembering all your passwords, you shouldn't be writing them down or keeping them in a Word document, but rather using a password management tool. But which one? A google search for "password manager" brings up a bajillion hits. But how do I know I can trust ANY of them to keep my passwords secure? For all I know, I could be downloading malware and giving every single one of my passwords to some criminal.
I would....but I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
"New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality," the pope said. "The image can also become independent from reality, it can give birth to a virtual word, with various consequences -- above all the risk of indifference towards real life," he said.
What the heck does that mean? My eyes must be veiled by Satan or something.
I work for one of the large IT companies. Pay isn't my concern. I'm pretty happy with my salary.
My concern is job stability. They've been laying off people simply to prop up the stock price. Year after year, its round of layoff after round of layoffs despite near a record high stock price and record profits and revenue. We got rid of the low performers years ago, yet the layoffs keep on coming. They've even laid off distinguished engineers. That tells me that even if I perform so well in my job that I reach one of the highest levels for an engineer, even that's not going to keep me from being laid off. So what's the point? If I stay, I risk being laid off when I'm 50 when it's going to be even more difficult to find a job.
I'd be willing to take a $10k-$20k cut in salary for a more secure job...one that isn't going to lay me off unless it at least has good reason to.
I think you misunderstand. I'm not claiming all executives think like this. However, it is one way some executives justify their actions. Right now, I work for a major corporation who's business expansion plan is to purchase other U.S. companies, gut them, outsource the jobs to India/China, and use the savings to purchase more companies. And it's all done under the guise that the executives are ethically required to do what is in the best interests of the shareholders. So yea...I guess I'm a little anti-corporate when I see how greedy and callous some executives can get.
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Ergo the oil argument that much of our oil supply is made from bacteria and not old dinosaurs. If the bacteria is supplied from the crust inside the earth, the oil fields can replenish and oil becomes much more sustainable than before.
Any way you look at this the findings become politically charged as the impact this has on our future energy supply could be enormous. With a little bit of googling you can readily find oil fields from old that have mysteriously started refilling with oil.
So by your argument, we don't have to worry about running out of oil because we can just sit back for another few billion years for the oil fields to get replenished back to their original levels? Hrm...seems like there's a problem in that logic that I can't quite put my finger on.
It's not too hard, considering there aren't very many jobs that go along with these data centers, and very few high skilled jobs. The jobs number at most in the hundreds, and many of those are low skilled jobs.
That $600 million Google datacenter? Up to 210 jobs. (no breakdown on skilled vs unskilled)
That $1 billion Apple datacenter? 50 full time jobs and 250 outside contractors for maintenance/landscaping/security.
That $17 million Wipro datacenter? 17 jobs.
etc...
That being said, the tax incentives (if I understand them correctly) are simply reductions in taxes. So it's not like the state is PAYING them to come here. The state still gets additional revenue through other means (income tax on workers, taxes on utilities, etc...).
I'm not sure why she is suing on behalf of her relatives. Wouldn't it be more logical (and stronger from a legal perspective) for her relatives to sue the collection agency for harassment?
As a male, can I request that I be frisked by a female TSA agent? If so, then I fully support these new security procedures, and I applaud the work you're doing!
If it were really the U.S. or Israel, I would assume that the folks over at Symantec would have gotten a visit from some friendly folks in suits, and you would not have seen this paper released. Or maybe that's the plausible deniability? (e.g. "If it was us, why would we let Symantec release the report?") Okay...my head is spinning, not unlike a centrifuge.
Or...it could be a computer expert in Iran with intimate knowledge about the nuclear program trying to sabotage it. Dissension within the ranks is not uncommon.
And when the company does finally collapse, the people who were responsible for the creative accounting are long gone doing the same thing to another company.
I tend to believe in the power of capitalism. But what I've seen lately is not just capitalism...it's pure greed. It's an economy run by narcissists who care of nothing else but their own personal pocketbooks. The company, the workers, the investors....it means nothing to them other than a means to an end. And we worship these people. And on the flip side, the people who actually produce the wealth in this country get castigated for being greedy because they want above-poverty-level wages.
Here's what you are missing: Everyone expects Microsoft to be highly profitable in their core business, and investors are used to the sad fact that Microsoft wastes a billion here and there on things like buying revenue for Ping. So if the losses in the online division grow, or XBox doesn't as well as expected, nobody cares much because the main business is safe as ever. All those losses in online can be stopped any second by just leaving that business area, if Microsoft wants, so it's nothing to worry about. But if Microsoft makes less money in Windows, Office, or Server, or if it is found out that it props up its main business by moving money from other areas, that is a very, very bad sign and investors would be quite unhappy.
Hrm....maybe all those unprofitable divisions aren't so unprofitable after all?
In this case, the rabbit likely consumed radioactive materials, meaning that it is contaminated with radioactive materials. The rabbit itself though, is not radioactive.
That seems overly pedantic. By that definition, you could also say that the fuel elements and cladding are not radioactive either...they're just contaminated with radioactive materials.
The rabbit is likely emitting beta and gamma radiation (at least more than a usual rabbit does). Therefore, by definition, it's radioactive.
The only thing missing from that article was more sprinkled mentioning of FoxNews.com. FoxNews.com should really start mentioning FoxNews.com more in FoxNews.com articles.
...or Light Emitting Resistors?
You mean light bulbs?
How the heck did you figure that out? Only someone from that time period could have known that it was a hearing aid. Hrm...
If X tax revenue needs to be raised, and Y pays less, then Z must pay more. And having one of the richest companies in the world pay 2.4% when most of us are paying an order of magnitude more lacks justice.
That's only if you anthropomorphise a company. You could equally say that it's not fair that my wallet isn't taxed even though it's always flush with cash. Corporations aren't people. There is no fairness in whether they should or should not pay taxes. Corporations are simply collections of people. As long as the people that make up that corporation are taxed, then there is no injustice. IMHO, it would probably be better to eliminate corporate taxes altogether and replace it with a VAT and income taxes. Then you would eliminate a lot of these loopholes.
Totally agreed. Corporations play so many games to reduce their tax burden, it's not worth it. We should just eliminate corporate taxes altogether and replace them with VAT and income taxes. Corporations waste a lot of resources playing these games, so they would become more efficient. Just think about the complexities of just calculating depreciation expenses. And imagine how many corporations would move back to the U.S.!
Only poor people pay taxes.
Oh, BS. This meme is stupid, and can be disproved in moments with the US Government's own publications:
It's not a meme...it's a direct quote from Leona Helmsley.
We tried letting business do anything without restriction, then around 1900 decided there's a better way. China will do the same or they won't have anyone left healthy enough to work. Do you seriously not see the barrel we're racing to the bottom of?
Yea...but they have a cheap labor pool of 1.3 billion people. It will be a VERY long time before they run out of healthy workers. That, above anything else, is their largest asset.
I paid cash for the phone, cash for the connection fee (no contract), pay the bill at a gas station or convenience store with cash.
Have you checked for funny looking electronic devices attached to your car lately?
While you're at it, sales tax should also be folded into the final price. If something costs $.99, then I should be able to pay for it with my $1 bill.
The article states that if you find it difficult remembering all your passwords, you shouldn't be writing them down or keeping them in a Word document, but rather using a password management tool. But which one? A google search for "password manager" brings up a bajillion hits. But how do I know I can trust ANY of them to keep my passwords secure? For all I know, I could be downloading malware and giving every single one of my passwords to some criminal.
So if I Tivo a soccer match and replay it, then the players have no free will?
That's correct. The players do not have the ability to go back in time and change how they played. They do not have "free will" to change the outcome.
I would....but I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
"New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality," the pope said. "The image can also become independent from reality, it can give birth to a virtual word, with various consequences -- above all the risk of indifference towards real life," he said.
What the heck does that mean? My eyes must be veiled by Satan or something.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ozymandias win in the end?
Did anyone else initially misread that title as "LEGO Exoskeleton"? Now THAT would be AWESOME!
I work for one of the large IT companies. Pay isn't my concern. I'm pretty happy with my salary.
My concern is job stability. They've been laying off people simply to prop up the stock price. Year after year, its round of layoff after round of layoffs despite near a record high stock price and record profits and revenue. We got rid of the low performers years ago, yet the layoffs keep on coming. They've even laid off distinguished engineers. That tells me that even if I perform so well in my job that I reach one of the highest levels for an engineer, even that's not going to keep me from being laid off. So what's the point? If I stay, I risk being laid off when I'm 50 when it's going to be even more difficult to find a job.
I'd be willing to take a $10k-$20k cut in salary for a more secure job...one that isn't going to lay me off unless it at least has good reason to.
I think you misunderstand. I'm not claiming all executives think like this. However, it is one way some executives justify their actions. Right now, I work for a major corporation who's business expansion plan is to purchase other U.S. companies, gut them, outsource the jobs to India/China, and use the savings to purchase more companies. And it's all done under the guise that the executives are ethically required to do what is in the best interests of the shareholders. So yea...I guess I'm a little anti-corporate when I see how greedy and callous some executives can get.