if I own a house I should be able to rent it out to anyone I choose.
You can in accordance with the local zoning laws. Typically that means no short-term rentals in a residential area. If you want to run a hotel, open a hotel where it is permitted, and run it in accordance with the local regulations governing the operation of a hotel.
In my town short term rental housing is prohibited. AirBnB hosts try to get past that by telling their guests to lie. The town has been aggressive about enforcing the laws.
To some it may sound draconian but no one wants a steady stream of strangers in the house next door.
If I had $20k to burn on a TV, I'd buy a used one on Craigslist for $500 and take a trip around the world.
I bought my 50" Pioneer Elite plasma TV on Craigslist for $60. It was probably over $6000 when new. It may not be state of the art now but I think the picture is great.
The desktop's role isn't going anywhere. However, in a lot of companies, the desktop computer is being replaced by laptops and docks, and at home, a lot of people find that a laptop serves their needs well enough that they don't need a desktop PC either.
I am not surprised by this in the least. Desktop PCs will still always be around, but the role is easily handled by laptops and tablets like the Microsoft Surface and the Dell 2-in-1s, especially with breakout boxes for GPUs, so the heavy-lifting for gaming can stay in a separate box at home.
For work I need a lot of desktop. A laptop is painful, and a tablet is impossible. I suppose it would be cool to have a high-end tablet that can hook to a dock with monitors, keyboard, and mouse but it sounds expensive.
This is an annual report. They list everything that could affect them in some way. Crypto is barely mentioned, but it is mentioned in three risk contexts, all of which they can address.
Geopolitical regulatory risk: " Emerging technologies, such as cryptocurrencies, could limit our ability to track the movement of funds. Our ability to comply with these laws is dependent on our ability to improve detection and reporting capabilities and reduce variation in control processes and oversight accountability."
Competition risk " Further, clients may choose to conduct business with other market participants who engage in business or offer products in areas we deem speculative or risky, such as cryptocurrencies."
Technology risk: "In addition, the widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services as we grow and develop our internet banking and mobile banking channel strategies in addition to remote connectivity solutions."
I wonder whether it can be explained by the gut biome taking a large role in the actual metabolism of food consumed? There's all the stories lately about how the composition and behavior of the gut bacteria actually favor/prevent people's efforts to change their diet and effects on weight. Would make sense then that one's own DNA has less to do with it.
I think the gut bacteria studies look very promising. The impact of fecal transplant from an obese person to a thin person has been observed multiple times.
The DNA thing is old news. This is from 2006. I've read much older articles too. All say it is quackery. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/1406...
H1B is a dog whistle for the rabidly unqualified white male cheetos eating group that is bitter about having their jobs taken by an Indian guy who vastly more qualified than the cheetos eaters.
Cheetos are available in India too, moron. Here there are on Amazon India: https://www.amazon.in/Fritolay... Vegetarian product, guaranteed one-day delivery to Mumbai
Many users on here live in a nation where they are just coming around to the idea that converting your rifle into a machine gun with a bump stock isn't necessarily that good for public safety
We live in a nation that allows one to do lots of things that aren't good for public safety. So what?
It will not be possible to just disable the display. Cars already come with a single display that integrates many functions like GPS, climate control, entertainment, maintenance. No way to just shut it off.
You need to take into account some of the subterfuges that companies pull. Some Disney employees were replaced by low-cost H-1Bs they had to train when Disney hired a company to provide IT services who already had cheap people on abused visas. A company can create a new job title, advertise with impossible requirements and low salary, claim no US applicants qualify, and then apply for H-1Bs, so there are no US people with the same job title.
I agree with you. There has to be some way to craft this law to eliminate or severely punish gaming the system.
Trump conspired with Russia, and whatever Fox news claims, its not OK for the President of the United States to conspire with a foreign power to attack the US elections.
Yeah, a real hero. Just doing a cursory check on his name with other court websites like pacermonitor, or justia, or recap, it looks like your hero is a nuisance filer.
The complaint shows he doesn't even have a lawyer. He's just a pest.
For H1B, I've seen them be very good much of the time. However, the outsourced overseas contractor, or the limited visa, those are mediocre to bad.
I agree with you on both counts. I have worked with some very good H1-B colleagues, and I like them as individuals. That said, I believe if the laws were enforced companies would hire (or develop) local talent.
I think these programs should be amended as follows:
All H1-B employees hired must be paid at least 25% over the top of the salary scale across all employers hiring for that position. After all, they are specialists, the cream of the crop, and should be compensated as such.
Any company hiring H1-B employees is prohibited from laying off or reducing the salaries of any local employees in similar positions for a period of 5 years after all H1-B employees are eliminated.
Any company hiring H1-B employees, including outsourcing companies, must have a training program and plan in place to replace them with local employees within 2 years.
I invite anyone here on an H1-B visa to please add to this list anything you believe would improve this program. For example, "H1-B employees are at liberty to change employer at will".
at least in the States. The H1-B program requires companies try to hire a local employee first. The rules say they can only have an H1-B if no qualified applicants are available. So everybody becomes a "Senior" developer and since there aren't enough people with the necessary credentials (there never are) they can always apply for an H1-B. This is also why companies don't pay to train anymore.
Agree completely with this. And an additional irony is many of the people hired through this program are very junior people marketed as "experienced".
My understanding is a "restore" disk does not have the OS image. It only has tools to help fix a broken installation. If the hard drive in the PC has been wiped there is nothing it can do.
But this post says he put the OS image on the disk too.
Also, the OS image and restore disk is still insufficient. Post install the OS will contact the Microsoft activation servers to match the hardware signature. If it can't match it will not have a valid license.
So I'm not sure what he's done here.
Maybe it's just about mass producing disks for distribution with Microsoft and Dell logos on them without a license. That was a bad idea. I wouldn't want to see his life destroyed over it though. I hope they can come to some reasonable arrangement.
Fracking creates wastewater and there's no other way to deal with it, so you're wrong. They reinject it everywhere fracking occurs, bar none. The alternative is tailing ponds which are just as bad though not for quakes.
I can't be wrong since I didn't express an opinion. I relayed the opinion of the USGS. Take it up with them, I'm sure people with your depth of experience are in great demand there.
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if I own a house I should be able to rent it out to anyone I choose.
You can in accordance with the local zoning laws. Typically that means no short-term rentals in a residential area. If you want to run a hotel, open a hotel where it is permitted, and run it in accordance with the local regulations governing the operation of a hotel.
In my town short term rental housing is prohibited. AirBnB hosts try to get past that by telling their guests to lie. The town has been aggressive about enforcing the laws.
To some it may sound draconian but no one wants a steady stream of strangers in the house next door.
If I had $20k to burn on a TV, I'd buy a used one on Craigslist for $500 and take a trip around the world.
I bought my 50" Pioneer Elite plasma TV on Craigslist for $60. It was probably over $6000 when new.
It may not be state of the art now but I think the picture is great.
Religion should be classified as mental illness.
Intersectionality is the new religion
https://www.nationalreview.com...
Legal because I have no doubt they can create a tax or fee on anything they want to.
Hypocritical because Rhode Island claims to also be in favor of "Net Neutrality"
http://www.providencejournal.c...
My current and previous company have been replacing all physical Windows desktops with thin clients and VM's. This report doesn't address that trend.
So it may be that physical desktop sales are down in part because the actual number of PC's (including VM's) in use is up.
The desktop's role isn't going anywhere. However, in a lot of companies, the desktop computer is being replaced by laptops and docks, and at home, a lot of people find that a laptop serves their needs well enough that they don't need a desktop PC either.
I am not surprised by this in the least. Desktop PCs will still always be around, but the role is easily handled by laptops and tablets like the Microsoft Surface and the Dell 2-in-1s, especially with breakout boxes for GPUs, so the heavy-lifting for gaming can stay in a separate box at home.
For work I need a lot of desktop. A laptop is painful, and a tablet is impossible.
I suppose it would be cool to have a high-end tablet that can hook to a dock with monitors, keyboard, and mouse but it sounds expensive.
Jeff is the richest person in the world. Evidence suggests that you are not smarter than he is.
Any idiot can make money given sufficient start-up capital. See: Trump's "small loan of a million dollars".
Not true. Many lottery winners destroy their lives.
People working for "US Intelligence" shouldn't be leaking such things.
If the information is correct they are leaking their detection capabilities.
If the information is incorrect they are revealing their weaknesses.
I hope they find the leakers and lock them up.
This is an annual report. They list everything that could affect them in some way. Crypto is barely mentioned, but it is mentioned in three risk contexts, all of which they can address.
Geopolitical regulatory risk: " Emerging technologies, such as cryptocurrencies, could limit our ability to track the movement of funds. Our ability to comply with these laws is dependent on our ability to improve detection and reporting capabilities and reduce variation in control processes and oversight accountability."
Competition risk " Further, clients may choose to conduct business with other market participants who engage in business or offer products in areas we deem speculative or risky, such as cryptocurrencies."
Technology risk: "In addition, the widespread adoption of new technologies, including internet services, cryptocurrencies and payment systems, could require substantial expenditures to modify or adapt our existing products and services as we grow and develop our internet banking and mobile banking channel strategies in addition to remote connectivity solutions."
I wonder whether it can be explained by the gut biome taking a large role in the actual metabolism of food consumed? There's all the stories lately about how the composition and behavior of the gut bacteria actually favor/prevent people's efforts to change their diet and effects on weight. Would make sense then that one's own DNA has less to do with it.
I think the gut bacteria studies look very promising. The impact of fecal transplant from an obese person to a thin person has been observed multiple times.
The DNA thing is old news. This is from 2006. I've read much older articles too. All say it is quackery.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/1406...
H1B is a dog whistle for the rabidly unqualified white male cheetos eating group that is bitter about having their jobs taken by an Indian guy who vastly more qualified than the cheetos eaters.
Cheetos are available in India too, moron.
Here there are on Amazon India: https://www.amazon.in/Fritolay...
Vegetarian product, guaranteed one-day delivery to Mumbai
Many users on here live in a nation where they are just coming around to the idea that converting your rifle into a machine gun with a bump stock isn't necessarily that good for public safety
We live in a nation that allows one to do lots of things that aren't good for public safety. So what?
284,000 miles and still going strong.
It will not be possible to just disable the display. Cars already come with a single display that integrates many functions like GPS, climate control, entertainment, maintenance. No way to just shut it off.
I don't want to voluntarily "bug" my house, sending audio and possibly even video to strangers out in the cloud with these always on products
Get an Alexa Tap. You have to press a button to activate it and it is rechargeable too.
You need to take into account some of the subterfuges that companies pull. Some Disney employees were replaced by low-cost H-1Bs they had to train when Disney hired a company to provide IT services who already had cheap people on abused visas. A company can create a new job title, advertise with impossible requirements and low salary, claim no US applicants qualify, and then apply for H-1Bs, so there are no US people with the same job title.
I agree with you. There has to be some way to craft this law to eliminate or severely punish gaming the system.
Trump conspired with Russia, and whatever Fox news claims, its not OK for the President of the United States to conspire with a foreign power to attack the US elections.
This is the new McCarthyism
Yeah, a real hero. Just doing a cursory check on his name with other court websites like pacermonitor, or justia, or recap, it looks like your hero is a nuisance filer.
The complaint shows he doesn't even have a lawyer. He's just a pest.
For H1B, I've seen them be very good much of the time. However, the outsourced overseas contractor, or the limited visa, those are mediocre to bad.
I agree with you on both counts. I have worked with some very good H1-B colleagues, and I like them as individuals.
That said, I believe if the laws were enforced companies would hire (or develop) local talent.
I think these programs should be amended as follows:
All H1-B employees hired must be paid at least 25% over the top of the salary scale across all employers hiring for that position. After all, they are specialists, the cream of the crop, and should be compensated as such.
Any company hiring H1-B employees is prohibited from laying off or reducing the salaries of any local employees in similar positions for a period of 5 years after all H1-B employees are eliminated.
Any company hiring H1-B employees, including outsourcing companies, must have a training program and plan in place to replace them with local employees within 2 years.
I invite anyone here on an H1-B visa to please add to this list anything you believe would improve this program. For example, "H1-B employees are at liberty to change employer at will".
at least in the States. The H1-B program requires companies try to hire a local employee first. The rules say they can only have an H1-B if no qualified applicants are available. So everybody becomes a "Senior" developer and since there aren't enough people with the necessary credentials (there never are) they can always apply for an H1-B. This is also why companies don't pay to train anymore.
Agree completely with this. And an additional irony is many of the people hired through this program are very junior people marketed as "experienced".
Is the most distracted driving I do.
My understanding is a "restore" disk does not have the OS image. It only has tools to help fix a broken installation.
If the hard drive in the PC has been wiped there is nothing it can do.
But this post says he put the OS image on the disk too.
Also, the OS image and restore disk is still insufficient. Post install the OS will contact the Microsoft activation servers to match the hardware signature. If it can't match it will not have a valid license.
So I'm not sure what he's done here.
Maybe it's just about mass producing disks for distribution with Microsoft and Dell logos on them without a license.
That was a bad idea. I wouldn't want to see his life destroyed over it though. I hope they can come to some reasonable arrangement.
This is a distinction without a difference:
The wastewater is created as part of the fracking process.
The wastewater is disposed of by injecting it into the earth.
The wastewater injection is causing the earthquakes.
Therefore the cause of the earthquakes is fracking.
Nice logical progression but the USGS disagrees with you. Take it up with them.
Fracking creates wastewater and there's no other way to deal with it, so you're wrong. They reinject it everywhere fracking occurs, bar none. The alternative is tailing ponds which are just as bad though not for quakes.
I can't be wrong since I didn't express an opinion. I relayed the opinion of the USGS.
Take it up with them, I'm sure people with your depth of experience are in great demand there.
Ask Bezos...Amazon did it for years!
Not true. https://www.gurufocus.com/fina...