Retail jobs are not a huge factor. Those same people can work customer care at Amazon or delivery or gift wrapping or engraving. Actually there will be a lot of new types of jobs that were not viable when it cost so much just to man the store with bodies.
There's always going to be some service people will be able to do to trade for currency or credit or status.
In Japan you can pay extra to pick out a delivery girl, her clothes, perfume, and personality. She delivers your order to you and takes payment plus gratuity.
Delivery could be done by a robot but there would still be human competition.
Actually they are incredibly efficient natural gas powered delivery trucks (soon to be all electric), but keep imagining Cruella deVille and her V12 spitting out smog left and right.
That whole protect the local was important before online shopping. Now someone can sell from their home office in Anytown USA to Big City or Nowheresville just as easy as the big guys.
What is needed is a niche player to come in and do fulfillment for the little guy, eBay could do it or DHL or???
Your GF should have been promoted to a trainer of other managers, given a raise and been told that she now only meets expectations and is competing with other top retail management trainers. Now she's responsible for creating more copies of herself.
They also need to break that group up. Make it a regional challenge so there are no more than 10 peers in a group at least. 5 is ideal. Then set the bar for top performance at or just above the best in the group the prior year.
My understanding of these systems is that they are simply budgeting protocol.
Company X plans to allocate Y funds to a bonus incentive pool. They have 5,000 employees. How do they distribute the payout?
This is where ranking comes in.
There are a known quantity of employees at various plan levels. There are a known quantity of teams of qualified employees.
Do the math to come up with an annual bonus payout and include that in your budget and your SEC filings as a component of operating costs. Keep a small buffer for surprise superstars.
It's not possible to do the math if you payout soley on merit unless you budget the highest payout for all employees. That is not rational and could hurt the company.
You can't deduct the mortgage principal payment, just the interest. The interest is what renters/leasers don't pay (theoretically), so they can't deduct it.
The intention is to encourage buying property by offsetting the high upfront interest needed to finance the purchase. If you buy a house by paying in full you get no deduction but of course paid no interest.
That would be great except for the part where all those without insurance actually cost us all MORE money.
I would rather it be a direct tax honestly, with direct coverage provided. There is too much time spent on administrating insurance coverage. That all goes into the cost of a procedure. Something that takes 15 min to do ends up being billed out as four hours because of the time spent requesting approval, following up on the claim, all the paperwork and data entry, not to mention the software license needed to make it happen at all.
I'm thinking you are missing the vision. The vision is not mass production. Think "on demand".
How many items are in your house that require no moving parts? Just as an example to keep it simple.
Light switch plates, outlet plates, outlet safety plugs, cabinet fixtures, handles of all sorts, basic chairs, shelving, closet organizers, toilet flow control parts, candles, candle holders, picture frames, utensils, cups, plates, the list goes on.
The point is that as the ability to print objects becomes as standard as a household ink/laser printer, those who have one will no longer need to buy these mass manufactured goods. They will be able to print on demand what they need.
There will of course be a market for hand made luxury goods or hybrid goods but the vast majority will produced at home or in a local shop by request as utilitarian goods.
It's no different than the typical CLI interactive session.
Few people string together complex commands and arguments interactively. Most think about it, then do a few tests interactively, then write a shell script, then make an alias for it.
At this point it you're just passing in an argument : mysearch "some keyword"
Very similar to Google's input.
A better example.
In OS X you type 'open mail.app' in a terminal and pop, mail opens. Many GUI users are amazed by the simplicity when you show them this and instantly want to try more. 'open Microsoft Word' - bam, Word opens. OMG. It's so much faster than pointing and clicking.
Then you show them 'open some file.docx' and when it opens in Word they fall on the floor.
Suddenly they want to know more about this Terminal.
Big users rarely rarely pay the published rates. When a service wants the business they will customize the contract.
The big advantage of the Cloud is that it is a service, hence not capitalized and not subject to the accounting rules for capital expenses.
You are forgetting to include costs on both sides for an enterprise professional services agreement. Also you did not include the SLA details. This typically makes all the difference in pricing; Amazon, Google or Rackspace.
You work a regular job and save your money. That's how. It's not hard to save a few thousand. Skip the car and the car insurance. Live in a crappy apartment for a year. Don't booze up every night. You'll have five thousand saved at least even at $10/hour.
I checked on your claim of entrepreneur and found no reference. The only middleman referred to was one who was an intermediary between capital and labor. That's a good thing.
The last statement is a false positive. Reporting more issues is not the same as having more.
Maybe just maybe the older generation fails to report their issues and continue to have them.
This would fall in line with the older, "wiser" generation being less savvy, so much less that they don't even recognize a security issue that needs reporting.
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With money derp?
Employment is at 92%
Retail jobs are not a huge factor. Those same people can work customer care at Amazon or delivery or gift wrapping or engraving. Actually there will be a lot of new types of jobs that were not viable when it cost so much just to man the store with bodies.
There's always going to be some service people will be able to do to trade for currency or credit or status.
In Japan you can pay extra to pick out a delivery girl, her clothes, perfume, and personality. She delivers your order to you and takes payment plus gratuity.
Delivery could be done by a robot but there would still be human competition.
Actually they are incredibly efficient natural gas powered delivery trucks (soon to be all electric), but keep imagining Cruella deVille and her V12 spitting out smog left and right.
That whole protect the local was important before online shopping. Now someone can sell from their home office in Anytown USA to Big City or Nowheresville just as easy as the big guys.
What is needed is a niche player to come in and do fulfillment for the little guy, eBay could do it or DHL or???
Why can't local farmers use Amazon to sell their produce online, picked that morning, delivered that afternoon?
Your GF should have been promoted to a trainer of other managers, given a raise and been told that she now only meets expectations and is competing with other top retail management trainers. Now she's responsible for creating more copies of herself.
They also need to break that group up. Make it a regional challenge so there are no more than 10 peers in a group at least. 5 is ideal. Then set the bar for top performance at or just above the best in the group the prior year.
My understanding of these systems is that they are simply budgeting protocol.
Company X plans to allocate Y funds to a bonus incentive pool. They have 5,000 employees. How do they distribute the payout?
This is where ranking comes in.
There are a known quantity of employees at various plan levels. There are a known quantity of teams of qualified employees.
Do the math to come up with an annual bonus payout and include that in your budget and your SEC filings as a component of operating costs. Keep a small buffer for surprise superstars.
It's not possible to do the math if you payout soley on merit unless you budget the highest payout for all employees. That is not rational and could hurt the company.
So ranking it is.
You can't deduct the mortgage principal payment, just the interest. The interest is what renters/leasers don't pay (theoretically), so they can't deduct it.
The intention is to encourage buying property by offsetting the high upfront interest needed to finance the purchase. If you buy a house by paying in full you get no deduction but of course paid no interest.
This is a common misunderstanding.
Uh I'm pretty sure we have those programs in place already.
Food, food stamps
Housing, Section 8 and HUD aka subsidized housing.
Transportation, "public transportation" buses and vouchers if you qualify.
Clothing is covered by welfare programs as well but we could do better.
Entertainment, hmm. You got me there. Can't think of, oh wait - National Parks. Close enough.
That would be great except for the part where all those without insurance actually cost us all MORE money.
I would rather it be a direct tax honestly, with direct coverage provided. There is too much time spent on administrating insurance coverage. That all goes into the cost of a procedure. Something that takes 15 min to do ends up being billed out as four hours because of the time spent requesting approval, following up on the claim, all the paperwork and data entry, not to mention the software license needed to make it happen at all.
Cheap power was the watershed for each and allowed the other efficiencies to take hold as more labor could specialize and machines could be employed.
I'm thinking you are missing the vision. The vision is not mass production. Think "on demand".
How many items are in your house that require no moving parts? Just as an example to keep it simple.
Light switch plates, outlet plates, outlet safety plugs, cabinet fixtures, handles of all sorts, basic chairs, shelving, closet organizers, toilet flow control parts, candles, candle holders, picture frames, utensils, cups, plates, the list goes on.
The point is that as the ability to print objects becomes as standard as a household ink/laser printer, those who have one will no longer need to buy these mass manufactured goods. They will be able to print on demand what they need.
There will of course be a market for hand made luxury goods or hybrid goods but the vast majority will produced at home or in a local shop by request as utilitarian goods.
http://www.tgaw.com/images/SpeakEasy/ThreeStooges.JPG
"Here's what happens when all the [cancers] try to get in the door all at once"
It's no different than the typical CLI interactive session.
Few people string together complex commands and arguments interactively. Most think about it, then do a few tests interactively, then write a shell script, then make an alias for it.
At this point it you're just passing in an argument : mysearch "some keyword"
Very similar to Google's input.
A better example.
In OS X you type 'open mail.app' in a terminal and pop, mail opens. Many GUI users are amazed by the simplicity when you show them this and instantly want to try more. 'open Microsoft Word' - bam, Word opens. OMG. It's so much faster than pointing and clicking.
Then you show them 'open some file.docx' and when it opens in Word they fall on the floor.
Suddenly they want to know more about this Terminal.
And yet text expanders, text based app launch shortcuts, etc are all the rage with GUI users these days.
CLI is the defacto interface for Google searches. People use it everyday and all day long. Nobody complains that it isn't intuitive.
The right tool is the one that works the best got the job at hand.
Big users rarely rarely pay the published rates. When a service wants the business they will customize the contract.
The big advantage of the Cloud is that it is a service, hence not capitalized and not subject to the accounting rules for capital expenses.
You are forgetting to include costs on both sides for an enterprise professional services agreement. Also you did not include the SLA details. This typically makes all the difference in pricing; Amazon, Google or Rackspace.
http://www.wateronline.com/doc.mvc/nanoporous-graphene-could-outperform-best-commercial-water-desalination-techniques-0001
Article linked from summary links to the above article as a source.
You work a regular job and save your money. That's how. It's not hard to save a few thousand. Skip the car and the car insurance. Live in a crappy apartment for a year. Don't booze up every night. You'll have five thousand saved at least even at $10/hour.
How much does all of that cost? A webserver is cheap.
Would you want to download and install every web based app you use to your desktop? How about every commerce site?
Just asking. Actually want to know.
I checked on your claim of entrepreneur and found no reference. The only middleman referred to was one who was an intermediary between capital and labor. That's a good thing.
Citation needed for your negative version.
So how do you explain the fact that we've had low cost PC desktops for a decade but no revolution in teaching or in learning.
Students learn plenty on their own with a desktop or any PC, but that does not translate to the classroom.
The last statement is a false positive. Reporting more issues is not the same as having more.
Maybe just maybe the older generation fails to report their issues and continue to have them.
This would fall in line with the older, "wiser" generation being less savvy, so much less that they don't even recognize a security issue that needs reporting.
I still don't think he got it.
They measured the depth "into" the material, as in it's surface, regardless of its position or location.
Congress does control the purse however. They can and do decide if they will support military campaigns with funding.