Yes, waiters should be quite happy with the $2.10/hour they make.
You do realize that many tipped services pay quite a bit lower, because theyre essentially commission-based?
Waitstaff should be paid an amount expected of them for a level of service as defined by the restaurant. A tip should be paid on service above and beyond this level of service. A complaint to management should be made on service less than expected. It should not be up to a customer to pay a tip for "average" service. That is what the waitstaff is supposed to provide and what the restaurant is supposed to pay the employee to do. I am quite sure that they need to pay far more than $2.10 for a typical waiter. Probably more like $8-$10 an hour. Then if the waitstaff performs above expectations, they receive a tip above and beyond that.
Baloney. I have run my own business in the USA for more than twenty years. I have never paid a bribe. Not once. I have never been asked for a bribe either.
Never taken a client to lunch? Never gave or loaned a product to a client? Never paid for hotel rooms for clients for a user convention? All of these are bribes as well, just not direct monetary bribes. And because everybody does it, they are not looked down upon. The reason this story is a story is because China's "everybody does it" is different from our "everybody does it".
that's not how we watch any more. Hulu Check Netflix Check Apple TV, Check Amazon Prime Check Roku Check iTunes Check smartphone Check tablet Check
Very good. They have managed to list almost all of the ways in which I don't watch TV. In fact, there are only two ways in which I watch TV. One is live on my TV, if it is on a commercial free channel, and the other is time shifted by DVR, if it has commercials, so I can fast forward through them. I don't watch TV on any of the other things that are listed in the article. I know there are some people that do, but as usual, they are announcing demise far too early.
The assertion that Austin is 'more concerned about energy use than in the rest of Texas' seems curious to me. If the Texans that crawl onto the national stage are any indication, Texans are obsessively concerned about energy use... they just happen to be in favor of it.
This movement seems to be well in keeping with that theory. I mean, the rickshaws are definitely more environmentally friendly than automobiles, but the use of cell phones, packed full of rare earth metals, non-biodegradable plastics, glass and biohazardous batteries, all of which will be chucked away in 6 months when the newer model with the different font on the model name comes out, ranks right up there with the "to hell with the environment" conservatives that they love to slam.
Ok, I'll pull the first couple of hits on google for fired CEOs.
Scott Thompson, fired from Yahoo. Hired on by Shoprunner.
Léo Apotheker, fired from HP. Hired on as Chairman of the Board for DMK.
Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, went on to work at Matrix Advisors and Legend Securities. He is the #1 ranked worst CEO in history by portfolio.com.
To say nothing of CEOs who have run their companies into the ground and have been rewarded by not getting fired at all and keeping their cushy jobs.
Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4... and here I'm still using the S2 like a sucker. I'm going to run right out and buy an S4...as soon as the S2 dies. Of course by then, there will be an S15 or whatever is the latest model 3 or 4 years from now.
time-honoured tradition of rebooting your Windows boxes as the first step in troubleshooting.
Laws!, how I hate this debugging technique. There are some people that I have worked with who would observe an issue with a program, completely skip reading any of the logging information, and jump straight to rebooting the machine. Fortunately, I try to write my applications to recover gracefully, so when the machine comes back up, the services start up and before long, the application is right back to where it was before, working on the same piece of data and complaining in the log about it.
An uptime of 3737 days rightly suggests that it's very reliable.
Any operating system ought to be able to stay up indefinitely on it's own. The only time an operating system should fall down is due to a hardware error or due to applications running amok on the system itself. Really good operating systems can get around some hardware failures. As for the applications running amok, there are multiple schools of thought. One being that the OS should prevent programs from doing dumb things (Microsoft's approach), and another is that the Operating System should assume that people making low level calls in their applications know what they are doing (Old style Unix approach, but linux et al are gravitating toward the MS approach).
If that comes true, it will be awesome, but I admit to having gotten somewhat skeptical after probably 10 years of "by this time next year" from Audi, BMW, etc.
So then it appears that is not actually ALL you want: you want something else that precludes the Jetta.
Well, yes. I guess I am looking more towards cars like the Audi A6 or some of the BMWs they sell in Europe. I am aware that the Audi TDI engines are the same engine as the VW. It's not so much the engine that is my issue with the Jetta. I just don't like the styling, and I have known several people that had them and were plagued with issues, mostly not engine related. Also, we only have one local choice for VW dealer, and they make other car dealers look like Sunday School teachers.
Another way to cheat is they use diesel, which is more energy dense.
For the sarcasm-impaired, I am very much in favor of diesel and have been complaining for at least a decade that we don't get a good selection of diesels in the U.S. All I want is a diesel sports sedan with manual transmission. My only choice right now is the Jetta. No thanks.
A church will turn their nose up at it. Over the last 5 or so years, Churches have hopped on the Apple bandwagon big time. From the Audio/Video department to the pastors, everybody is using Macs Ipads, and Iphones.
I play piano at my Church and for awhile they made me use some program on a Mac to play sounds instead of the built-in sounds on the keyboard which was purpose built to play those sounds. The user interface was much more difficult to use on the Mac, and I had to use two hands to change sounds, which I often had to do between songs. Also, after playing for awhile, it would start to not hold notes out even when you were holding the notes down on the keyboard. Only rebooting the Mac would fix it. I have still never in my life had to reboot a keyboard.
I have become a very vocal detractor of using technology for the sake of technology. Old process X works. New process Y works, but not as well, but it uses the latest Technology! No thanks.
I also received interest one year due to a corrective filing worked out between me and my father to make me an independent so I could qualify for student loans, which I otherwise couldn't get because my family made too much money as defined by the student loan organizations, but not enough money to send me to school, as defined by the amount of money it costs to go to school.
Anyway, I ended up getting money back, plus interest. My father ended up having to pay more taxes, plus interest and penalties. Even including the penalties, the interest he had to pay was less than the interest the IRS paid me. And my refund was more than enough to compensate him for what he had to pay extra.
To elaborate on what the rude anonymous coward said, you would have had to pay 25% on the dollars that put you over the bracket, but 15% on all the ones under that bracket. In your case, it sounds like you would have paid 25% on 1 or possibly zero dollars.
But you can adjust your withholdings by setting an artificially high number of dependents so that you get those credits back throughout the year!
You can only withhold up to the point where they take nothing out. In many cases of Child or Earned Income Credit, there is nothing being withheld, and they will still receive a "refund" at the end of the year. But the employer is not about to start paying you advances on EIC.
People just don't get how printing more money is detrimental. I use a pizza analogy. let's say you have a pizza cut into 8 slices and you have 16 people. The pizza economy says "There is not enough pizza to feed all of these people". The government answers "we will issue more slices", then proceeds to cut the pizza into 16 slices instead of 8.
Check Cashing outfits do more to keep the lower class down than any 1%-er ever did. They need to be closed down. Next, we can go for the pawn shops, which exist solely to act as a fence for stolen property and thus to continue the cycle of poverty.
Life as we know it started on Earth. Life as other entities may know it may have started elsewhere. The "as we know it" factor in our universe is so mind-bogglingly big that there may be life that we simply wouldn't be able to recognize as life.
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Yes, waiters should be quite happy with the $2.10 /hour they make.
You do realize that many tipped services pay quite a bit lower, because theyre essentially commission-based?
Waitstaff should be paid an amount expected of them for a level of service as defined by the restaurant. A tip should be paid on service above and beyond this level of service. A complaint to management should be made on service less than expected. It should not be up to a customer to pay a tip for "average" service. That is what the waitstaff is supposed to provide and what the restaurant is supposed to pay the employee to do. I am quite sure that they need to pay far more than $2.10 for a typical waiter. Probably more like $8-$10 an hour. Then if the waitstaff performs above expectations, they receive a tip above and beyond that.
Baloney. I have run my own business in the USA for more than twenty years. I have never paid a bribe. Not once. I have never been asked for a bribe either.
Never taken a client to lunch? Never gave or loaned a product to a client? Never paid for hotel rooms for clients for a user convention? All of these are bribes as well, just not direct monetary bribes. And because everybody does it, they are not looked down upon. The reason this story is a story is because China's "everybody does it" is different from our "everybody does it".
that's not how we watch any more.
Hulu Check
Netflix Check
Apple TV, Check
Amazon Prime Check
Roku Check
iTunes Check
smartphone Check
tablet Check
Very good. They have managed to list almost all of the ways in which I don't watch TV. In fact, there are only two ways in which I watch TV. One is live on my TV, if it is on a commercial free channel, and the other is time shifted by DVR, if it has commercials, so I can fast forward through them. I don't watch TV on any of the other things that are listed in the article. I know there are some people that do, but as usual, they are announcing demise far too early.
The assertion that Austin is 'more concerned about energy use than in the rest of Texas' seems curious to me. If the Texans that crawl onto the national stage are any indication, Texans are obsessively concerned about energy use... they just happen to be in favor of it.
This movement seems to be well in keeping with that theory. I mean, the rickshaws are definitely more environmentally friendly than automobiles, but the use of cell phones, packed full of rare earth metals, non-biodegradable plastics, glass and biohazardous batteries, all of which will be chucked away in 6 months when the newer model with the different font on the model name comes out, ranks right up there with the "to hell with the environment" conservatives that they love to slam.
Ok, I'll pull the first couple of hits on google for fired CEOs.
Scott Thompson, fired from Yahoo. Hired on by Shoprunner.
Léo Apotheker, fired from HP. Hired on as Chairman of the Board for DMK.
Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, went on to work at Matrix Advisors and Legend Securities. He is the #1 ranked worst CEO in history by portfolio.com.
To say nothing of CEOs who have run their companies into the ground and have been rewarded by not getting fired at all and keeping their cushy jobs.
Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4... and here I'm still using the S2 like a sucker. I'm going to run right out and buy an S4...as soon as the S2 dies. Of course by then, there will be an S15 or whatever is the latest model 3 or 4 years from now.
I'm not sure if I could fit any phone in my pocket because a pocket is a horrible place for a phone.
time-honoured tradition of rebooting your Windows boxes as the first step in troubleshooting.
Laws!, how I hate this debugging technique. There are some people that I have worked with who would observe an issue with a program, completely skip reading any of the logging information, and jump straight to rebooting the machine. Fortunately, I try to write my applications to recover gracefully, so when the machine comes back up, the services start up and before long, the application is right back to where it was before, working on the same piece of data and complaining in the log about it.
An uptime of 3737 days rightly suggests that it's very reliable.
Any operating system ought to be able to stay up indefinitely on it's own. The only time an operating system should fall down is due to a hardware error or due to applications running amok on the system itself. Really good operating systems can get around some hardware failures. As for the applications running amok, there are multiple schools of thought. One being that the OS should prevent programs from doing dumb things (Microsoft's approach), and another is that the Operating System should assume that people making low level calls in their applications know what they are doing (Old style Unix approach, but linux et al are gravitating toward the MS approach).
All I want is a diesel sports sedan with manual transmission. My only choice right now is the Jetta.
Ask and ye shall receive.
If that comes true, it will be awesome, but I admit to having gotten somewhat skeptical after probably 10 years of "by this time next year" from Audi, BMW, etc.
I meant sealed in terms of wind resistance, not sealed as in unable to open. They are not mutually exclusive.
So then it appears that is not actually ALL you want: you want something else that precludes the Jetta.
Well, yes. I guess I am looking more towards cars like the Audi A6 or some of the BMWs they sell in Europe. I am aware that the Audi TDI engines are the same engine as the VW. It's not so much the engine that is my issue with the Jetta. I just don't like the styling, and I have known several people that had them and were plagued with issues, mostly not engine related. Also, we only have one local choice for VW dealer, and they make other car dealers look like Sunday School teachers.
Over inflating tires maybe not, but taping over panel gaps for -10% in fuel would interest a lot of people.
Then why don't they just seal the panel gaps when they build the car?
Another way to cheat is they use diesel, which is more energy dense.
For the sarcasm-impaired, I am very much in favor of diesel and have been complaining for at least a decade that we don't get a good selection of diesels in the U.S. All I want is a diesel sports sedan with manual transmission. My only choice right now is the Jetta. No thanks.
A church will turn their nose up at it. Over the last 5 or so years, Churches have hopped on the Apple bandwagon big time. From the Audio/Video department to the pastors, everybody is using Macs Ipads, and Iphones.
I play piano at my Church and for awhile they made me use some program on a Mac to play sounds instead of the built-in sounds on the keyboard which was purpose built to play those sounds. The user interface was much more difficult to use on the Mac, and I had to use two hands to change sounds, which I often had to do between songs. Also, after playing for awhile, it would start to not hold notes out even when you were holding the notes down on the keyboard. Only rebooting the Mac would fix it. I have still never in my life had to reboot a keyboard.
I have become a very vocal detractor of using technology for the sake of technology. Old process X works. New process Y works, but not as well, but it uses the latest Technology! No thanks.
If you block ads, you're an asshole. There's nothing more to it.
If you write ads into your application, you're an asshole. There's nothing more to it.
I also received interest one year due to a corrective filing worked out between me and my father to make me an independent so I could qualify for student loans, which I otherwise couldn't get because my family made too much money as defined by the student loan organizations, but not enough money to send me to school, as defined by the amount of money it costs to go to school.
Anyway, I ended up getting money back, plus interest. My father ended up having to pay more taxes, plus interest and penalties. Even including the penalties, the interest he had to pay was less than the interest the IRS paid me. And my refund was more than enough to compensate him for what he had to pay extra.
To elaborate on what the rude anonymous coward said, you would have had to pay 25% on the dollars that put you over the bracket, but 15% on all the ones under that bracket. In your case, it sounds like you would have paid 25% on 1 or possibly zero dollars.
But you can adjust your withholdings by setting an artificially high number of dependents so that you get those credits back throughout the year!
You can only withhold up to the point where they take nothing out. In many cases of Child or Earned Income Credit, there is nothing being withheld, and they will still receive a "refund" at the end of the year. But the employer is not about to start paying you advances on EIC.
What sort of moron thinks that cashing check always requires paying a fee to cash a check?
People just don't get how printing more money is detrimental. I use a pizza analogy. let's say you have a pizza cut into 8 slices and you have 16 people. The pizza economy says "There is not enough pizza to feed all of these people". The government answers "we will issue more slices", then proceeds to cut the pizza into 16 slices instead of 8.
Check Cashing outfits do more to keep the lower class down than any 1%-er ever did. They need to be closed down. Next, we can go for the pawn shops, which exist solely to act as a fence for stolen property and thus to continue the cycle of poverty.
Congratulations and may I be the first to say "Et patrem nolite vocare vobis super terram: unus est enim Pater vester, qui in cælis est.".
He did say "drunk". I think pretty much anybody that is drunk has only themselves to blame.
Life as we know it started on Earth. Life as other entities may know it may have started elsewhere. The "as we know it" factor in our universe is so mind-bogglingly big that there may be life that we simply wouldn't be able to recognize as life.