Companies are stupid. Rather than promote you and pay you what you could get at another shop, they would rather that you go to the other shop, then hire someone else at the salary that you are getting at the other shop (because that is the going rate, by definition), and then have to spend time training the new person how to do your job.
Company sponsored health insurance is usually too expensive anyway. I am no longer tethered to my company by health insurance, and as a result, my take home pay has gone up by $500. Instead of shelling out more than $800 a month for my company's "Health plan" which they tout as a benefit, even though I am the one that has to pay, I now shell out only about $180 a month for private health insurance through Assurant Health. Of course, this is a "high deductible" policy, but even if I hit my deductible limit every year, it still ends up being cheaper than what I was paying for the group health through the company.
Seems to me like a good answer, and one that is used in other games, and arguably, in this game, is to charge separately for the account versus the software. You can sell the game new with "1 Free Account!", and then if someone resells it, the buyer can buy a new account, or buy your account from you if you have amassed interesting tidbits in your account. Used buyers who are not interested in online play do not have to buy an account at all.
If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.
I already pay my use tax, so the internet companies don't need to collect it for me. As a company that has dealt with storefront and internet sales, I would be very much against this legislation. There are over 100,000 taxing districts in my relatively unpopulous state. It would be inconceivable for anybody but the largest internet mail order places to be able to keep track of all of these taxing districts and submit the taxes for them. Add to that the fact that in my state they charge MY BUSINESS for a sales tax permit which gives me the right to do THEIR JOB for them, and I as a business owner will stand up and fight this every step of the way.
I'm sure it won't pass anyway. Word has it the U.S. is pretty opposed to taxation without representation.
I guess alot of this would come down to one question, are humans responisble for why they are an endangered species?
That depends. Is a fox responsible for preserving an endangered species that it has preyed almost into extinction? It could be beneficial to the fox to do so if that is the only thing that it can eat. But I doubt it would consider the long run effects when it is hungry now.
They do responsibly collect sales tax. They collect sales tax for the state that they reside in and states that they have a physical presence in, just as they are supposed to. They do not collect sales tax in states where they have no presence and where the government has no authority to make them collect sales tax. However, despite what some people have said, e-tailers do not have any kind of price advantage over local stores as the buyer is still legally responsible to pay Use Tax on the items purchased. It is not the e-tailers fault if you break the law.
Heck I think it is wrong that states force retailers to collect sales tax for them. In my state, not only do they make me as a retailer do their job for them, but they charge me $50 a year for the privilege of doing their job for them.
Well, considering that the largest container ships can carry over 20,000 containers, apparently that number could be reached by less than 1/2 of one large container ship sinking.
If you're spending hours in your car everyday, and you could avoid that, how much would that be worth?
Well, I will go ahead and go the opposite of where you were going with this...
Yes, how much IS my commute worth. Considering that I will spend at least half of that additional time doing work instead of sitting in a car, how much is that worth to my company? And, how much is it worth to them to have me start work in the morning not being frazzled from multiple flirtations with death from the idiot motorists that commute alongside me? And how much is it worth to them for me to work all day long on projects instead of spending two or three hours a day helping other people with problems that they are supposedly paid to know how to deal with on their own?
I estimate that when I work from home, I am about 40% more efficient than when I go in to the office.
And I can prove that I score better on certain productivity metrics while I work at home
I can identify with that. Luckily my boss is usually sympathetic to my cause. If there is a project that I absolutely HAVE to get done, he will let me work from home because if I go in to work, I won't be able to get it done. Too many interruptions.
One could blame the car. Someone who is really good at driving cars can stop a car faster if the ABS is turned off than when it is turned on. For an AVERAGE driver, who will panic and mash the breaks, the ABS will brake faster than them. However, an experienced driver who has a good feel for the cars tires, weight, suspension, and so forth, will expect a certain thing to happen when he applies the breaks a certain amount, and if the ABS kicks in, then that is introducing an unexpected variable into the equation. It's sort of like with the Prius, when people expected that if they let go of the accelerator, it would stop accelerating, but unfortunately it did not.
I am sure there are plenty of people who have had accidents because their car overrode a decision they made. I'm not saying this is always the case, and on the whole ABS, airbags, and so forth have saved more lives than they cost, but not everybody who blames the car is wrong in doing so.
So you have irrefutable proof that there is 100% correlation between people who want to drive their own cars and people who believe in God. Or are you just trying to build up fake evidence against religious people even thought it has nothing to do with this story?
That is why I've been telling my regular customers and those wanting new builds to max out on RAM first and then if they still have money to blow after getting the rest of their wish list get an SSD for an OS drive, because frankly if their choice is RAM or SSD I'd always advise the most RAM as it'll get more use.
How does 24 GB of ram help if your system uses 2 GB of it? Windows is not going to cache all of your commonly used files on that RAM. Maybe it does if you use Superfetch. I've not tried it.
I would tell people to buy about twice as much RAM as they are going to regularly use (because their regular use will probably double in three or four years), and if they have money left over, to buy an SSD. The SSD is going to be much cheaper per GB than additional RAM, and the additional RAM is only going to sit there doing nothing, whereas the SSD will be able to store data for them and call it up extremely quickly.
I think they need a group that wears them on their left hip. Or better yet, they should all wear them on both hips, but one or both may not be functioning so that the wearer doesn't consciously or unconsciously affect the study. Oh, and also multiply the number of participants by 100. And diversify them.
Something is wrong with these specs when the GTX 480 shows higher marks than it's next generations (GTX5**) biggest brother (GTX590). But it does still show the 6900 beating the 590. I am not sure where you got the 5990 from. I'm not aware that there is such a card.
I only see reference to one game that runs 1080p. Maybe there are more, but google didn't bring them up in the first couple of pages.
So the ipad can do 30 fps at 1080p on a single screen? Impressive (still won't buy one). Can it do greater than 1080p resolution on three screens at 60 fps? No? Huh.
I was skeptical that you could actually deduct sales taxes, but I went and looked it up, and sure enough you can choose to deduct either sales tax OR state and local income tax. Of course, to make it worthwhile, your sales tax would have to be higher than your state and local income tax paid. I can't afford to buy stuff, so in my case, it is better to deduct the state and local income tax.
Buying from a company that is overseas owned and operated is not appreciably worse than buying from an American company that has moved all of their IT and manufacturing overseas. The only U.S. people making money are the stockholders and the C level executives.
I would not say that we should let nationalistic pride or concern over our domestic economy be our deciding factor when buying products. Instead, it should be quality, because we should still hold Americans liable for good quality. The good trend that I am seeing lately is that consumers are pushing back against the quality of service (especially support) that they are receiving from companies that have offshored some services. If corporate executives can get it through their thick skulls that this is not what consumers want and if consumers can be persuaded to perhaps pay a bi more for better service, than perhaps we will have a chance to turn this thing around.
In the 1970s, almost no technical people were replaced by H1b workers. There were still a good number of H1bs working in the country. However, in order for these people to come over, they had to be practically geniuses, and the companies bringing them had to have a specific pressing need for these people. The results was that the best and the brightest came over, and no American jobs were lost. This is no longer how the system works.
I'm an employer in California desperately searching for skilled programmers. I've been searching for about 3 months now and I haven't found any qualified programmers (java web developers) with a salary requirement less than $100k.
You have come to the conclusion that qualified applicants are not willing to work for the prevailing wage. I have come to the opposite conclusion, which is that your company is not offering the prevailing wage for qualified applicants.
I live and work in a much smaller market (Oklahoma City). I am currently doing development mostly in Java and have only been doing so for a couple of years, so I consider myself probably below your qualifications. What your company is offering for a strong java candidate is not significantly more than I make in my smaller market. I would not be willing (nor could I afford) to work in California in a similar capacity for only $100k.
Don't get me started on the United Way. Their administrative costs are insanely high, and as you say applies to Churches, you completely lose control of the money you send. Although they say you can "earmark" your money, I don't want to give my money at all to an organization that uses part of their money to support causes that I am against. And further, United Way campaigns at workplaces are political disaster if you choose not to participate. Same with March of Dimes. It's like being forced to participate with your free time in an MLM.
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Companies are stupid. Rather than promote you and pay you what you could get at another shop, they would rather that you go to the other shop, then hire someone else at the salary that you are getting at the other shop (because that is the going rate, by definition), and then have to spend time training the new person how to do your job.
Company sponsored health insurance is usually too expensive anyway. I am no longer tethered to my company by health insurance, and as a result, my take home pay has gone up by $500. Instead of shelling out more than $800 a month for my company's "Health plan" which they tout as a benefit, even though I am the one that has to pay, I now shell out only about $180 a month for private health insurance through Assurant Health. Of course, this is a "high deductible" policy, but even if I hit my deductible limit every year, it still ends up being cheaper than what I was paying for the group health through the company.
Seems to me like a good answer, and one that is used in other games, and arguably, in this game, is to charge separately for the account versus the software. You can sell the game new with "1 Free Account!", and then if someone resells it, the buyer can buy a new account, or buy your account from you if you have amassed interesting tidbits in your account. Used buyers who are not interested in online play do not have to buy an account at all.
If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.
I already pay my use tax, so the internet companies don't need to collect it for me. As a company that has dealt with storefront and internet sales, I would be very much against this legislation. There are over 100,000 taxing districts in my relatively unpopulous state. It would be inconceivable for anybody but the largest internet mail order places to be able to keep track of all of these taxing districts and submit the taxes for them. Add to that the fact that in my state they charge MY BUSINESS for a sales tax permit which gives me the right to do THEIR JOB for them, and I as a business owner will stand up and fight this every step of the way.
I'm sure it won't pass anyway. Word has it the U.S. is pretty opposed to taxation without representation.
I guess alot of this would come down to one question, are humans responisble for why they are an endangered species?
That depends. Is a fox responsible for preserving an endangered species that it has preyed almost into extinction? It could be beneficial to the fox to do so if that is the only thing that it can eat. But I doubt it would consider the long run effects when it is hungry now.
They do responsibly collect sales tax. They collect sales tax for the state that they reside in and states that they have a physical presence in, just as they are supposed to. They do not collect sales tax in states where they have no presence and where the government has no authority to make them collect sales tax. However, despite what some people have said, e-tailers do not have any kind of price advantage over local stores as the buyer is still legally responsible to pay Use Tax on the items purchased. It is not the e-tailers fault if you break the law.
Heck I think it is wrong that states force retailers to collect sales tax for them. In my state, not only do they make me as a retailer do their job for them, but they charge me $50 a year for the privilege of doing their job for them.
Well, considering that the largest container ships can carry over 20,000 containers, apparently that number could be reached by less than 1/2 of one large container ship sinking.
If you're spending hours in your car everyday, and you could avoid that, how much would that be worth?
Well, I will go ahead and go the opposite of where you were going with this...
Yes, how much IS my commute worth. Considering that I will spend at least half of that additional time doing work instead of sitting in a car, how much is that worth to my company? And, how much is it worth to them to have me start work in the morning not being frazzled from multiple flirtations with death from the idiot motorists that commute alongside me? And how much is it worth to them for me to work all day long on projects instead of spending two or three hours a day helping other people with problems that they are supposedly paid to know how to deal with on their own?
I estimate that when I work from home, I am about 40% more efficient than when I go in to the office.
And I can prove that I score better on certain productivity metrics while I work at home
I can identify with that. Luckily my boss is usually sympathetic to my cause. If there is a project that I absolutely HAVE to get done, he will let me work from home because if I go in to work, I won't be able to get it done. Too many interruptions.
Why do we have to do E=MC again if we have already done it ?
Because you did it wrong.
One could blame the car. Someone who is really good at driving cars can stop a car faster if the ABS is turned off than when it is turned on. For an AVERAGE driver, who will panic and mash the breaks, the ABS will brake faster than them. However, an experienced driver who has a good feel for the cars tires, weight, suspension, and so forth, will expect a certain thing to happen when he applies the breaks a certain amount, and if the ABS kicks in, then that is introducing an unexpected variable into the equation. It's sort of like with the Prius, when people expected that if they let go of the accelerator, it would stop accelerating, but unfortunately it did not.
I am sure there are plenty of people who have had accidents because their car overrode a decision they made. I'm not saying this is always the case, and on the whole ABS, airbags, and so forth have saved more lives than they cost, but not everybody who blames the car is wrong in doing so.
So you have irrefutable proof that there is 100% correlation between people who want to drive their own cars and people who believe in God. Or are you just trying to build up fake evidence against religious people even thought it has nothing to do with this story?
That is why I've been telling my regular customers and those wanting new builds to max out on RAM first and then if they still have money to blow after getting the rest of their wish list get an SSD for an OS drive, because frankly if their choice is RAM or SSD I'd always advise the most RAM as it'll get more use. How does 24 GB of ram help if your system uses 2 GB of it? Windows is not going to cache all of your commonly used files on that RAM. Maybe it does if you use Superfetch. I've not tried it.
I would tell people to buy about twice as much RAM as they are going to regularly use (because their regular use will probably double in three or four years), and if they have money left over, to buy an SSD. The SSD is going to be much cheaper per GB than additional RAM, and the additional RAM is only going to sit there doing nothing, whereas the SSD will be able to store data for them and call it up extremely quickly.
Pfft, I think that Civic is probably high-centered on a blade of grass and can't move from that spot.
I think they need a group that wears them on their left hip. Or better yet, they should all wear them on both hips, but one or both may not be functioning so that the wearer doesn't consciously or unconsciously affect the study. Oh, and also multiply the number of participants by 100. And diversify them.
Something is wrong with these specs when the GTX 480 shows higher marks than it's next generations (GTX5**) biggest brother (GTX590). But it does still show the 6900 beating the 590. I am not sure where you got the 5990 from. I'm not aware that there is such a card.
I only see reference to one game that runs 1080p. Maybe there are more, but google didn't bring them up in the first couple of pages. So the ipad can do 30 fps at 1080p on a single screen? Impressive (still won't buy one). Can it do greater than 1080p resolution on three screens at 60 fps? No? Huh.
I was skeptical that you could actually deduct sales taxes, but I went and looked it up, and sure enough you can choose to deduct either sales tax OR state and local income tax. Of course, to make it worthwhile, your sales tax would have to be higher than your state and local income tax paid. I can't afford to buy stuff, so in my case, it is better to deduct the state and local income tax.
Cool story bro
Could have used a vampire though.
I won't use Netflix service. Their game show type commercials featuring people answering unanswerable questions bothers me in too many ways.
But with no detour we didn't get to see Tom Bombadil and I hear his wife is hot.
Buying from a company that is overseas owned and operated is not appreciably worse than buying from an American company that has moved all of their IT and manufacturing overseas. The only U.S. people making money are the stockholders and the C level executives.
I would not say that we should let nationalistic pride or concern over our domestic economy be our deciding factor when buying products. Instead, it should be quality, because we should still hold Americans liable for good quality. The good trend that I am seeing lately is that consumers are pushing back against the quality of service (especially support) that they are receiving from companies that have offshored some services. If corporate executives can get it through their thick skulls that this is not what consumers want and if consumers can be persuaded to perhaps pay a bi more for better service, than perhaps we will have a chance to turn this thing around.
In the 1970s, almost no technical people were replaced by H1b workers. There were still a good number of H1bs working in the country. However, in order for these people to come over, they had to be practically geniuses, and the companies bringing them had to have a specific pressing need for these people. The results was that the best and the brightest came over, and no American jobs were lost. This is no longer how the system works.
I'm an employer in California desperately searching for skilled programmers. I've been searching for about 3 months now and I haven't found any qualified programmers (java web developers) with a salary requirement less than $100k.
You have come to the conclusion that qualified applicants are not willing to work for the prevailing wage. I have come to the opposite conclusion, which is that your company is not offering the prevailing wage for qualified applicants.
I live and work in a much smaller market (Oklahoma City). I am currently doing development mostly in Java and have only been doing so for a couple of years, so I consider myself probably below your qualifications. What your company is offering for a strong java candidate is not significantly more than I make in my smaller market. I would not be willing (nor could I afford) to work in California in a similar capacity for only $100k.
Don't get me started on the United Way. Their administrative costs are insanely high, and as you say applies to Churches, you completely lose control of the money you send. Although they say you can "earmark" your money, I don't want to give my money at all to an organization that uses part of their money to support causes that I am against. And further, United Way campaigns at workplaces are political disaster if you choose not to participate. Same with March of Dimes. It's like being forced to participate with your free time in an MLM.