Comments on a site with a name like, 'Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo', etc, etc, may not be taken seriously. Same as I have a hard time taking a guy who takes the time to make sure he has the correct amount of stubble when he does a presentation all that seriously.
$20/hr starting salary is roughly 40k a year. Not bad for a entry level position that doesn't require a degree. As to the 4 weeks training remember these are entry level. It seems for some reason the industry has a 1:10 ratio of people to towers, whether that's an actual number of implied by the job postings and number of turbines is unclear. This is an overall number, it doesn't mean that 1 person baby sits his/her 10 towers and is qualified for all situations. Depending what is wrong they'll bring in the people they think can do the job. At $250k+ the company isn't going to just let people have at them.
As for the safety, seriously, there was a time when children used to climb into machinery to fix it. Not saying that was right, but good lord have we become boring and unadventerous. Many people actually enjoy heights, or the sense of a little bit of danger. And lets be real here, you don't see on the news every night tales of workers falling to their deaths off of windtowers. The dangers are more perceived than actual assuming the proper procedures are followed. If some of you are married you better watch out, because your wife may at some point look at you, and then look at this guy with a somewhat exciting job 300' in the air and make a rash decision some night.
If heights is the reason for the lack of people then we have really lost our way. Reference the pictures of the guys building the Empire State Building, are they saying we couldn't get people to do that now?
The reality here is either you have an industry that is too new and unorganized, a union that is putting a choke holds on the labor pool, or some other dumb ass bureaucratic reason that is making the country noncompetitive.
Yet if you look at they graphic in the article it looks like they've only managed to reduce demand by about 10%. Not a huge reduction when you take into account the changes in living standards. Just goes to show that conservation will only go so far and it's all the things in the background that a required on a day to day basis that is the big hitters.
I love how all you hear from those paying much more are saying, 'Welcome to our world, that's what we pay, etc etc' as if US low prices are the problem. Perhaps what they should be doing is looking in the mirror and asking 'Why are we paying such astronomically high prices?' They'll all point to the use of mass transit. I don't really buy it. I've spent plenty of time in France for work and have sat in their 1hr+ traffic jams at rush hour, pulled into a company with it's parking lot full of employee driven cars, put up with the nasty smell of diesel while dining outside in Paris, not to mention my first trip into Paris with some Frenchmen at the wheel ended in a motor scoot side swiping us while cutting the inside going around the Arc de Triomphe, etc. Oh, it's nice PR, and I'm not denying they use mass transit more than the US, but it's not the silver bullet.
The reality is however that in general Europe's roads are much better maintained because of the revenue from the high taxes. That being said, I've yet to be able to drive from one place to another because of our 'crappier roads'. Sure you can argue less wear and tear on the cars on nicer roads. But not to the tune of tripling my yearly gas costs. So it's a matter of priorities. And we have different values for them. Each side can argue the plus and minuses until they go blue in the face.
The funny thing is if you read the majority of posts they are defending the 'bully' as doing nothing wrong. Why? Because in this case it appears the bully also has some nerdish qualities and was able to use a remote control something or other to spy. I wonder what this thread would have looked like if it were a member of the lacrosse team peering through a window with his dime a dozen cell phone cam at some people at a Linux users group.
Just save the money, deport him and never let him back. Should be punishment enough. He have enough idiots here already to think we have any reason to let a proven one back.
No, this is taxes levied before then. In order for Apple to pay out a decent dividend either directly or indirectly they would have to bring money they have over seas back the US. This is money they have paid no US taxes on. As soon as they bring it back, it's taxed. Then they pay out the dividend, and each individual is taxed. So the actual tax generated for each $1 brought back to pay as a dividend is $.50. 35c corporate to bring to the US, 15c from the individual who was paid the dividend.
Exactly! And this is why many of the larger funds won't even look at Apple until they start to offer dividends. Any company that doesn't offer dividends should be considered a short term investment, which basically makes you a bubble stock with people buying up stock on some romantic idea rather than long term value.
By some estimates, bringing the cash home today would eat up to 50% of the cash in taxes due when all is said and done. However, even if it's the 27% that was just proposed by Obama you are still talking about $10-20B of that cash disappearing as far as Apple is concerned. Same with Cisco. Until we give them a way to bring the money back cheaply it isn't going to happen. As for those that argue against this because of the apparently loss in revenue to the IRS in letting this happen, would you rather have the money sitting in a bank account in Ireland/Geneva/wherever, or in the bank accounts of, or spent by domestic investors.
Nest keeps being referred to as novel and innovative in the article and honeywell as the old giant, yet how can that really be when they clearly infringed on patents that honeywell previously had. Honeywell was clearly more novel and innovative before Nest even existed.
I'll only agree with you on ep 3. The Vader/Obi Wan fight was painfully poor. And notice this guy didn't work on that one. I think that Lucas had no idea that his little creation would take off like it did and that his light saber concoction would turn into what it did, so not a great deal of effort was put into it.
A ridiculous idea from the beginning, but when I got to the point where they think they can have a few gardens to replace the need for outside ventilation I had to laugh.
Programming in your basement is easy. Only a quarter (if that) of your classes for an actual degree are programming. All you mention are tools and languages, you're lacking tons of foundation and methodology. Sure colleges are in it to make money, but they are also in it to provide industry with what they are looking for. That includes the silly computer ethics, public speaking, etc, etc that most have to take.
This is a bit like buying a TV ad and complaining that it is costing you money for the airtime. The idea behind groupon is that you attract new customers with crazy low one time prices. Of course it may cost money. Advertising always does. In the end all she should care about is whether or not she adds enough extra customers to purchase more than $20k, or whatever her costs were do to this promotion, later on down the road.
While the video aspect of it seems a no brainer, I'm not following how the apps will work.
Supposedly you can translate from flash to air in which case it becomes a locally installed app.
My question is how will the facebooks of the world like this? You no longer need their website, you just run the app. I can't see this very good for them as far as revenue from ads/hits, etc. And how is this supposed to jive with apple's vision of the world where everything must be done via iTunes? I can't see them changing their tune. Again, if you need to grab all these from iTunes and not directly from the website you are on where is the incentive for Facebook to continue deploying more apps?
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Ask a bunch of people whether they need more resources and they got back a "yes! we can't do your job with what we have".
People have been doing this, either knowing or unknowingly, since the inception of sports gambling.
Comments on a site with a name like, 'Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo', etc, etc, may not be taken seriously. Same as I have a hard time taking a guy who takes the time to make sure he has the correct amount of stubble when he does a presentation all that seriously.
$20/hr starting salary is roughly 40k a year. Not bad for a entry level position that doesn't require a degree. As to the 4 weeks training remember these are entry level. It seems for some reason the industry has a 1:10 ratio of people to towers, whether that's an actual number of implied by the job postings and number of turbines is unclear. This is an overall number, it doesn't mean that 1 person baby sits his/her 10 towers and is qualified for all situations. Depending what is wrong they'll bring in the people they think can do the job. At $250k+ the company isn't going to just let people have at them. As for the safety, seriously, there was a time when children used to climb into machinery to fix it. Not saying that was right, but good lord have we become boring and unadventerous. Many people actually enjoy heights, or the sense of a little bit of danger. And lets be real here, you don't see on the news every night tales of workers falling to their deaths off of windtowers. The dangers are more perceived than actual assuming the proper procedures are followed. If some of you are married you better watch out, because your wife may at some point look at you, and then look at this guy with a somewhat exciting job 300' in the air and make a rash decision some night.
If heights is the reason for the lack of people then we have really lost our way. Reference the pictures of the guys building the Empire State Building, are they saying we couldn't get people to do that now? The reality here is either you have an industry that is too new and unorganized, a union that is putting a choke holds on the labor pool, or some other dumb ass bureaucratic reason that is making the country noncompetitive.
Yet if you look at they graphic in the article it looks like they've only managed to reduce demand by about 10%. Not a huge reduction when you take into account the changes in living standards. Just goes to show that conservation will only go so far and it's all the things in the background that a required on a day to day basis that is the big hitters.
As is having to pack two types of clothes on business trips, one for work, and then leisure. Yet people do it.
One could argue that this only shows that people can't handle freedom.
I love how all you hear from those paying much more are saying, 'Welcome to our world, that's what we pay, etc etc' as if US low prices are the problem. Perhaps what they should be doing is looking in the mirror and asking 'Why are we paying such astronomically high prices?' They'll all point to the use of mass transit. I don't really buy it. I've spent plenty of time in France for work and have sat in their 1hr+ traffic jams at rush hour, pulled into a company with it's parking lot full of employee driven cars, put up with the nasty smell of diesel while dining outside in Paris, not to mention my first trip into Paris with some Frenchmen at the wheel ended in a motor scoot side swiping us while cutting the inside going around the Arc de Triomphe, etc. Oh, it's nice PR, and I'm not denying they use mass transit more than the US, but it's not the silver bullet. The reality is however that in general Europe's roads are much better maintained because of the revenue from the high taxes. That being said, I've yet to be able to drive from one place to another because of our 'crappier roads'. Sure you can argue less wear and tear on the cars on nicer roads. But not to the tune of tripling my yearly gas costs. So it's a matter of priorities. And we have different values for them. Each side can argue the plus and minuses until they go blue in the face.
Yes, considering over 20% of what is given is eaten up by Administration and Fund Raising costs.
The funny thing is if you read the majority of posts they are defending the 'bully' as doing nothing wrong. Why? Because in this case it appears the bully also has some nerdish qualities and was able to use a remote control something or other to spy. I wonder what this thread would have looked like if it were a member of the lacrosse team peering through a window with his dime a dozen cell phone cam at some people at a Linux users group.
Just save the money, deport him and never let him back. Should be punishment enough. He have enough idiots here already to think we have any reason to let a proven one back.
No, this is taxes levied before then. In order for Apple to pay out a decent dividend either directly or indirectly they would have to bring money they have over seas back the US. This is money they have paid no US taxes on. As soon as they bring it back, it's taxed. Then they pay out the dividend, and each individual is taxed. So the actual tax generated for each $1 brought back to pay as a dividend is $.50. 35c corporate to bring to the US, 15c from the individual who was paid the dividend.
Exactly! And this is why many of the larger funds won't even look at Apple until they start to offer dividends. Any company that doesn't offer dividends should be considered a short term investment, which basically makes you a bubble stock with people buying up stock on some romantic idea rather than long term value.
By some estimates, bringing the cash home today would eat up to 50% of the cash in taxes due when all is said and done. However, even if it's the 27% that was just proposed by Obama you are still talking about $10-20B of that cash disappearing as far as Apple is concerned. Same with Cisco. Until we give them a way to bring the money back cheaply it isn't going to happen. As for those that argue against this because of the apparently loss in revenue to the IRS in letting this happen, would you rather have the money sitting in a bank account in Ireland/Geneva/wherever, or in the bank accounts of, or spent by domestic investors.
Tell us what school you teach at so I'm certain my daughter doesn't apply.
Nest keeps being referred to as novel and innovative in the article and honeywell as the old giant, yet how can that really be when they clearly infringed on patents that honeywell previously had. Honeywell was clearly more novel and innovative before Nest even existed.
I'll only agree with you on ep 3. The Vader/Obi Wan fight was painfully poor. And notice this guy didn't work on that one. I think that Lucas had no idea that his little creation would take off like it did and that his light saber concoction would turn into what it did, so not a great deal of effort was put into it.
You do understand what Hillary Clinton, the head of the State Department does, don't you?
I'm not sure why, but the trend of starting a sentence with the word 'Think' really grates on my last nerve.
100% of the bill introducers are democrats.
A ridiculous idea from the beginning, but when I got to the point where they think they can have a few gardens to replace the need for outside ventilation I had to laugh.
Programming in your basement is easy. Only a quarter (if that) of your classes for an actual degree are programming. All you mention are tools and languages, you're lacking tons of foundation and methodology. Sure colleges are in it to make money, but they are also in it to provide industry with what they are looking for. That includes the silly computer ethics, public speaking, etc, etc that most have to take.
This is a bit like buying a TV ad and complaining that it is costing you money for the airtime. The idea behind groupon is that you attract new customers with crazy low one time prices. Of course it may cost money. Advertising always does. In the end all she should care about is whether or not she adds enough extra customers to purchase more than $20k, or whatever her costs were do to this promotion, later on down the road.
While the video aspect of it seems a no brainer, I'm not following how the apps will work.
Supposedly you can translate from flash to air in which case it becomes a locally installed app.
My question is how will the facebooks of the world like this? You no longer need their website, you just run the app. I can't see this very good for them as far as revenue from ads/hits, etc. And how is this supposed to jive with apple's vision of the world where everything must be done via iTunes? I can't see them changing their tune. Again, if you need to grab all these from iTunes and not directly from the website you are on where is the incentive for Facebook to continue deploying more apps?
I must be missing something.