The devaluation of the dollar has nothing to do with empire collapse and everything to do with fiscal policy by the Fed, they're trying to prime the pump by dumping ridiculous amounts of money into the system (both through zero percent interest rates and through their t-bill and other bond purchasing programs). This will necessarily devalue the USD, which is actually a good thing when you're trying to raise employment and exports (not so good if you're a saver, but there aren't that many of those in the US anyways).
Anyone who thinks that's going to increase efficiency has NEVER dealt with government contractors, their sole goal is to extract as much money as possible from the organization they "support", not to provide any level of service let alone a high level.
Except of course that your employer can fire you for any reason, or no reason at all in Texas so failing to follow company policy can get you fired whether your action is legal or not.
No, HIPPA definitely covers your employer. In fact I as a manager can not discuss the reason that any of my reports are on medical leave with anyone but my direct supervisor and HR. Now, I don't think the fact that you have coverage is covered PHI, but the broader statement that HIPPA doesn't apply to employers is false.
CEO (along with other senior executives) compensation (much more than just pay) has been public for some time, check out your companies 10Q filing (does not apply to private companies).
If you're talking about the CRA (it normally is when people talk about coercing banks into making loans), analysis shows that CRA loans had lower default and delinquency rates than conventional prime loans in the same markets. Lots of people like to blame the CRA for the housing crisis, it really was a non-factor, in fact that only federal program that significantly contributed to the problem was the Fannie/Freddie mortgage backed security program, and that only because the loan quality was opaque and in many cases fraudulent. It will be interesting to see what happens to the McGraw Hill suit announced today, the rating agencies should all probably be shut down and the management that allowed one of the largest frauds in history should be in irons.
Yep, Virgin Mobile is great, though the new best value for most folks is probably Republic Wireless, $19/month for unlimited text, talk, data. The deal is they use VoIP and WiFi for the vast majority of their users traffic, they handoff to Sprint and then Verizon only if you don't have a WiFi network available. The downside of this is that they only offer one phone and it's running Android 2.3 and since it took them 9+ months to get that working reliably it will be a bit before they do a new phone on ICS/JB.
Yeah, it was also happening anywhere that Fios was being installed, unfortunately Verizon has basically halted that project and sold off most of their landline holdings outside the densely packed east coast to Frontier which will never roll out another yard of Fios.
Yep, look at the cost per Mbps for colo bandwidth versus last mile, they were on a roughly parallel trajectory until the media companies bought up the cable companies and decided to increase costs to protect their existing models, they can only do that because in most markets they have a monopoly/duopoly position, give them some real competition and suddenly things get back on track.
Yeah, EVE was one of the first large test cases for SSD backed database servers I read about and the numbers they talked about amazed me because it far exceeded all the business processes for my S&P 500 company.
Yep, former coworker who happened to be a female DBA was bigtime into EVE for a while, she even played with her 16 year old daughter who was 600 miles away at the time living with her ex.
Ditto, I didn't move to Chrome until AdBlock Pro and Flashblock worked properly, which lucky for Google coincided with the Firefox team deciding that breaking the UI and 10-20% of plugins every few weeks was acceptable. I've played with Firefox again since things got back to a normal change of pace but I just haven't felt that I gained anything so I stick with Chrome due to better integration between desktop and mobile.
ACDSee Classic is still the fastest all around photo viewer I've tried and its error handling on malformed JPEG's is vastly superior to most (it will partially render the image rather than showing nothing or force closing like many viewers out there). I think I started using ACDSee on my 486, but it might have been the k5.
Why are they using a generator to charge the ipad? A 13W solar panel and battery that can charge the ipad several times over cost me $150 and will supply power virtually forever (the battery will eventually run out of charge cycles, but even then you can use the panel output as long as the sun is shining). My panel even provided a useful level of charge in the middle of Hurricane Sandy, so it's not like a pressure system would leave them without power. Slightly more efficient ways to get stored power to the front lines doesn't seem to be the right way to tackle the problem from my vantage point.
You were very confused, Linksys was a tiny gnat compared to Cisco when Cisco did the acquisition, Linksys cost Cisco $500M which was less than half of their net income for the quarter in which the deal closed. Hell, two years later they swallowed Scientific Atlantic which cost $6.9B.
I wasn't really talking about the routers (though most of them are crap, overheating problems abound, firmware is terrible, the whole cloud management fiasco, etc) but more things like the switches. I hear time and again from colleges that have to deal with clients with unmanaged or web "managed" switches that aren't working for whatever reason and where the consultant can't diagnose anything because the tools aren't there, the clients of course come back with "but I bought a Cisco, I was told they were the best!" Heck, our own telecom guy got suckered into that game, he told the VAR he needed an inexpensive Cisco switch for a midsized branch office, he was sold a Linksys unit with a Cisco badge, five dead ports and no ability to troubleshoot the issues later (probably $10k in lost productivity and IT time) and we finally had a real unit bought and sent to the location and haven't had a problem with it in 3 years.
An ex post facto tax can't be "unfair for the same reason an ex post facto law" is, because the principle invalidating ex post facto laws is intimately tied to the punitive nature of criminal law and the kind of penalties associated with criminal offenses.
Sure they can, let's say you cashed out of your small business investment in the spring of 2008, and reinvested it into the broader market (portfolio diversification, a very sound practice for a small business investor who has realized a gain), well in the fall of 2008 that broader market investment tanked by 30% so you decided to move into bonds so you could preserve your capital and continue to live in retirement. Now four years later you are told you owe taxes that were not applicable at the time, if you don't have the money to pay the tax man you are now a criminal.
What does this mean for the non-IOS/NXOS devices with roots at Linksys, did Chambers and company finally realize that they were diluting and tarnishing their name by slapping the Cisco logo on such utter crap?
Cat6 (there is no e) does nothing to help you futureproof, you need cat6a to do 10Gb as cat6 never made it into any spec (there was a draft version of 10GBaseT that allowed cat6 to 55m without AXT or 37m with AXT but it was not ratified)
Seasonal affective disorder is a serious problem at northern latitudes. Personally I've been much more productive and happy since I had my employer buy some full spectrum bulbs for the lights over my cube. It's probably the best investment they ever made since it was like $20 and they're already 3 years old, 3 winters of increased productivity has to worth over $100k.
US cracking operations are largely operating on natural gas at the moment because it's MUCH cheaper per BTU than crude, in fact natural gas is so cheap that the US in a net exporter of refined petroleum products again, primarily because it's cheaper for Mexico to send crude tankers to the US to be cracked by natural gas and then take tankers of gasoline back home then it is for them to use the equivalent percentage of each barrel to perform the cracking. The only thing keeping natural gas from going cheaper than it is now is insufficient pipeline capacity.
For commercial seller Amazon seems to be the vastly superior service. I know I only look at ebay if there's none listed on Amazon or none at what I consider a reasonable price. As far as payment processors for things like donations there's Google Wallet, Isis, and Amazon payments.
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The devaluation of the dollar has nothing to do with empire collapse and everything to do with fiscal policy by the Fed, they're trying to prime the pump by dumping ridiculous amounts of money into the system (both through zero percent interest rates and through their t-bill and other bond purchasing programs). This will necessarily devalue the USD, which is actually a good thing when you're trying to raise employment and exports (not so good if you're a saver, but there aren't that many of those in the US anyways).
Anyone who thinks that's going to increase efficiency has NEVER dealt with government contractors, their sole goal is to extract as much money as possible from the organization they "support", not to provide any level of service let alone a high level.
Unfortunately they won't let you freeze your file without a police report these days.
Except of course that your employer can fire you for any reason, or no reason at all in Texas so failing to follow company policy can get you fired whether your action is legal or not.
No, HIPPA definitely covers your employer. In fact I as a manager can not discuss the reason that any of my reports are on medical leave with anyone but my direct supervisor and HR. Now, I don't think the fact that you have coverage is covered PHI, but the broader statement that HIPPA doesn't apply to employers is false.
CEO (along with other senior executives) compensation (much more than just pay) has been public for some time, check out your companies 10Q filing (does not apply to private companies).
If you're talking about the CRA (it normally is when people talk about coercing banks into making loans), analysis shows that CRA loans had lower default and delinquency rates than conventional prime loans in the same markets. Lots of people like to blame the CRA for the housing crisis, it really was a non-factor, in fact that only federal program that significantly contributed to the problem was the Fannie/Freddie mortgage backed security program, and that only because the loan quality was opaque and in many cases fraudulent. It will be interesting to see what happens to the McGraw Hill suit announced today, the rating agencies should all probably be shut down and the management that allowed one of the largest frauds in history should be in irons.
Yep, Virgin Mobile is great, though the new best value for most folks is probably Republic Wireless, $19/month for unlimited text, talk, data. The deal is they use VoIP and WiFi for the vast majority of their users traffic, they handoff to Sprint and then Verizon only if you don't have a WiFi network available. The downside of this is that they only offer one phone and it's running Android 2.3 and since it took them 9+ months to get that working reliably it will be a bit before they do a new phone on ICS/JB.
Yeah, it was also happening anywhere that Fios was being installed, unfortunately Verizon has basically halted that project and sold off most of their landline holdings outside the densely packed east coast to Frontier which will never roll out another yard of Fios.
Yep, look at the cost per Mbps for colo bandwidth versus last mile, they were on a roughly parallel trajectory until the media companies bought up the cable companies and decided to increase costs to protect their existing models, they can only do that because in most markets they have a monopoly/duopoly position, give them some real competition and suddenly things get back on track.
Yeah, EVE was one of the first large test cases for SSD backed database servers I read about and the numbers they talked about amazed me because it far exceeded all the business processes for my S&P 500 company.
Yep, former coworker who happened to be a female DBA was bigtime into EVE for a while, she even played with her 16 year old daughter who was 600 miles away at the time living with her ex.
Ditto, I didn't move to Chrome until AdBlock Pro and Flashblock worked properly, which lucky for Google coincided with the Firefox team deciding that breaking the UI and 10-20% of plugins every few weeks was acceptable. I've played with Firefox again since things got back to a normal change of pace but I just haven't felt that I gained anything so I stick with Chrome due to better integration between desktop and mobile.
Don't forget that at .9C there is a time dilation effect of 2.294 which makes 100 ly journeys within a generation possible.
ACDSee Classic is still the fastest all around photo viewer I've tried and its error handling on malformed JPEG's is vastly superior to most (it will partially render the image rather than showing nothing or force closing like many viewers out there). I think I started using ACDSee on my 486, but it might have been the k5.
Why are they using a generator to charge the ipad? A 13W solar panel and battery that can charge the ipad several times over cost me $150 and will supply power virtually forever (the battery will eventually run out of charge cycles, but even then you can use the panel output as long as the sun is shining). My panel even provided a useful level of charge in the middle of Hurricane Sandy, so it's not like a pressure system would leave them without power. Slightly more efficient ways to get stored power to the front lines doesn't seem to be the right way to tackle the problem from my vantage point.
You were very confused, Linksys was a tiny gnat compared to Cisco when Cisco did the acquisition, Linksys cost Cisco $500M which was less than half of their net income for the quarter in which the deal closed. Hell, two years later they swallowed Scientific Atlantic which cost $6.9B.
I wasn't really talking about the routers (though most of them are crap, overheating problems abound, firmware is terrible, the whole cloud management fiasco, etc) but more things like the switches. I hear time and again from colleges that have to deal with clients with unmanaged or web "managed" switches that aren't working for whatever reason and where the consultant can't diagnose anything because the tools aren't there, the clients of course come back with "but I bought a Cisco, I was told they were the best!" Heck, our own telecom guy got suckered into that game, he told the VAR he needed an inexpensive Cisco switch for a midsized branch office, he was sold a Linksys unit with a Cisco badge, five dead ports and no ability to troubleshoot the issues later (probably $10k in lost productivity and IT time) and we finally had a real unit bought and sent to the location and haven't had a problem with it in 3 years.
An ex post facto tax can't be "unfair for the same reason an ex post facto law" is, because the principle invalidating ex post facto laws is intimately tied to the punitive nature of criminal law and the kind of penalties associated with criminal offenses.
Sure they can, let's say you cashed out of your small business investment in the spring of 2008, and reinvested it into the broader market (portfolio diversification, a very sound practice for a small business investor who has realized a gain), well in the fall of 2008 that broader market investment tanked by 30% so you decided to move into bonds so you could preserve your capital and continue to live in retirement. Now four years later you are told you owe taxes that were not applicable at the time, if you don't have the money to pay the tax man you are now a criminal.
What does this mean for the non-IOS/NXOS devices with roots at Linksys, did Chambers and company finally realize that they were diluting and tarnishing their name by slapping the Cisco logo on such utter crap?
Cat6 (there is no e) does nothing to help you futureproof, you need cat6a to do 10Gb as cat6 never made it into any spec (there was a draft version of 10GBaseT that allowed cat6 to 55m without AXT or 37m with AXT but it was not ratified)
Seasonal affective disorder is a serious problem at northern latitudes. Personally I've been much more productive and happy since I had my employer buy some full spectrum bulbs for the lights over my cube. It's probably the best investment they ever made since it was like $20 and they're already 3 years old, 3 winters of increased productivity has to worth over $100k.
US cracking operations are largely operating on natural gas at the moment because it's MUCH cheaper per BTU than crude, in fact natural gas is so cheap that the US in a net exporter of refined petroleum products again, primarily because it's cheaper for Mexico to send crude tankers to the US to be cracked by natural gas and then take tankers of gasoline back home then it is for them to use the equivalent percentage of each barrel to perform the cracking. The only thing keeping natural gas from going cheaper than it is now is insufficient pipeline capacity.
IBM is right behind Dell for open server shipments and Cisco with UCS is fairly big at #5.
For commercial seller Amazon seems to be the vastly superior service. I know I only look at ebay if there's none listed on Amazon or none at what I consider a reasonable price. As far as payment processors for things like donations there's Google Wallet, Isis, and Amazon payments.