So your logic is:
These thing over here kill birds; therefore it doesn't matter that this other thing kills birds.
Existing Facility Type A Kills X birds. Proposed Facility Type B kills Y birds where Y < X. Facility Type B is proposed to replace Facility Type A.
Facility Type B is sh*tcanned because it kills greater than 0 birds. Existing Facility Type B continues normal operation, killing X birds.
Similar to this is when touring caves or something and they will point out people who signed the cave wall back in the 1800s, but you can't do that today. Somehow it is celebrated that present day people did that in the 1800s, but it is wrong for today's present day people to do that.
I think there is a line drawing game going on and at some point people step over the line. For instance, if you go in to city council with a rezoning request, they are not going to just say "Yes, that makes sense for it to be rezoned to X" and grant it. No, they are going to say at the very least "What improvements will you be making to this property to entice us to make this change?" and right on up to "Give me some money".
How does one know when a person on vacation will be back? Is it my responsibility to keep track of when everyone I have dealings with will be in or out of the office? That sounds like a full time job in itself. Perhaps e-mails to a person who is out of the office should be autoforwarded to the person's boss.
That's the theory. In practice, people seem to treat it like instant messaging.
In my company, we have e-mails going out to customers with attachments that they use in order to post balances to medical claims. Because it is e-mail, the delivery is not guaranteed. Yet if they don't get one, it screws them all up. We have had to jump through fiery hoops checking the server logs and everything else to prove that it got out of the office, yet I keep saying that e-mail is not a guaranteed delivery mechanism. Just because it happens to be very reliable does not mean that it is 100% reliable. I can't seem to convince them to take delivery of these files by something geared for file transfer, like say File Transfer Protocol or something.
If you're going to make an omelet, you are going to have to break some eggs.
Ultimately, the deal is that comcast sucks and you want them to die as a company. So the service rep will be out of a job anyway. So we should be afraid to hurt their wittle feelings now? If we continue to come up with excuses to live with bad service, raising prices, unfair EULAs, unfair cell phone contracts,etc just because we think one or a few people can't make a difference, then the companies have won. They have cowed us as a people into believing that it is better to go along with the unfairness rather than stand up as consumers and fight for our rights. We are the customer and we determine what fair is.
Even if you live in a one party state and record a call in a two party state without consent, what are they going to do? The secondary state has no authority over you. The worst they can do is put out a warrant for your arrest which would only be an issue if you travel in their state and they happen to catch you. It is highly unlikely that a state with one party consent is going to extend reciprocity laws to a state with two party consent, and also unlikely that they would honor extradition when they find the other state's laws to be contrary to their own.
It seems obvious to me that if they say "the call may be recorded" that they are saying that I may record the call. I would not expect that to mean that they would be recording. Otherwise, I would expect them to say "We may" or "we might" or "the call might".
That really makes no sense. Most of the jobs H1Bs are hired for are already exempt under FLSA and thus are not legally required to be paid overtime anyway.
Most of the are hired for jobs that the company SAYS are exempt under FLSA, but most of them are hired for jobs that are NOT exempt under FLSA, just like the rest of us.
I have never had an advertising campaign work out, and I am not convinced that anyone else has either. Especially on the internet. Unless the advertising is free, it is not worth it. I wondered out of the $7.9 billion in revenue that Facebook made in ad revenue, how many dollars worth of product that ended up putting in the hands of their advertisers. Facebook IS huge, and their are a lot of click happy people, so maybe it resulted in a a few hundred million in sales. Maybe even a billion. More than $7.9 billion? I would not believe it.
In my experience Marketing is not very good at marketing your product to your target audience. Instead, they are good at marketing themselves to you to make you believe that they are good at marketing to your target audience.
CS when I was in school was teaching kids how to program computers. It was in BASIC, but it was something. CS now is teaching kids how to browse the internet and how to illegally obtain music and videos. My stepson came out of high school CS class knowing how to burn DVDs, but had to ask me what program one might use if one wanted to write an essay.
It works out to $4,000 per school in the United States. I would say that is a pretty good bargain. I know we have spent about $1 million outfitting our small (about 40 people) company's IT infrastructure. The fact that the U.S. government can do it for on average about 10 times that number of users for 1/250th the cost is pretty impressive.
If a business does not act in its own interest, who is going to act in their best interest for them. In fact, everyone acts in their own best interest. When people act in others best interest, it is because they believe it is in their best interest to do so.
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Yes, when I see a new hardcover book, I make a mental note to check back in 6 months when it has gone to paperback. I just don't need to spend 50% more for the same content just because it is hardbound. In my experience, paperback books last at least as long as hardbound. Which is to say, I have yet to have a paperback book fail on me, and I have some that are over 50 years old. I've had a few hardbound ones fail, because they are generally heavier and less likely to be able to stand up to their own weight.
This is how we manage to increase inflation while keeping the CPI from growing out of control. A "case" of soda still only costs $7 (didn't it used to cost $5), but now there is only 20 cans in a case in stead of 24. But, no, the price didn't go up, so no inflation. A box of crackers is now 8 ounces instead of 12, but it's the same price, so no inflation. On the other side of the coin, you have added features that you don't really want or care about, but can't get the product without. A new car costs twice as much as it did 8 years ago, but it has so many nifty new features and safety mechanisms that you don't really need or want and that make the car weigh more and use more gas. So that is not considered inflation either.
It's all a big lie. In real terms, the price of everything is going up 10 to 15% or more per year, but salaries are remaining stagnant. This can't go on forever.
Streaming IS a dead end, because the cable companies, which happen to provide much of the internet service in the United States, have begun instituting caps on what was sold as unlimited service. With my girls watching netflix while out of school this summer, they reach the bandwidth cap in about a week. The cable company wants me to buy an upgraded plan, but the highest plan they offer is a little less than double the current bandwidth cap, which means that we will hit the cap in a week and a half. Also, why should I upgrade my plan when I was sold an unlimited plan? Besides, with all of their extra fees, my $99 a month plan is costing about $240. Since I am paying 2.5 times what I agreed to, I should be able to consume 2.5 times what they agreed to (which was unlimited).
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So your logic is: These thing over here kill birds; therefore it doesn't matter that this other thing kills birds.
Existing Facility Type A Kills X birds. Proposed Facility Type B kills Y birds where Y < X. Facility Type B is proposed to replace Facility Type A.
Facility Type B is sh*tcanned because it kills greater than 0 birds. Existing Facility Type B continues normal operation, killing X birds.
easily solved....audible chirps, clicks, etc to scare the birds away? Or maybe a little metal eagle or hawk statue on the roof..
How about an almost blindingly intense light with increasingly uncomfortable hot temperatures the closer you get to it?
Introducing another species to weed out an undesirable species always backfires, especially when the introduced species is homo sapiens.
Never underestimate the evolutionary advantage of being tasty to a species of higher animal.
People complain about humans causing extinction. Never doubt that a lion would eat the last zebra in the world without a second thought.
Similar to this is when touring caves or something and they will point out people who signed the cave wall back in the 1800s, but you can't do that today. Somehow it is celebrated that present day people did that in the 1800s, but it is wrong for today's present day people to do that.
So really all we have to do is convince people they are good eating and then make no efforts to protect the invasive fish
Oh, I'm sure the treehuggers will come out of the woodwork to protect the poor Northern SnakeHead and the Zebra mussel.
I think there is a line drawing game going on and at some point people step over the line. For instance, if you go in to city council with a rezoning request, they are not going to just say "Yes, that makes sense for it to be rezoned to X" and grant it. No, they are going to say at the very least "What improvements will you be making to this property to entice us to make this change?" and right on up to "Give me some money".
How does one know when a person on vacation will be back? Is it my responsibility to keep track of when everyone I have dealings with will be in or out of the office? That sounds like a full time job in itself. Perhaps e-mails to a person who is out of the office should be autoforwarded to the person's boss.
That's the theory. In practice, people seem to treat it like instant messaging.
In my company, we have e-mails going out to customers with attachments that they use in order to post balances to medical claims. Because it is e-mail, the delivery is not guaranteed. Yet if they don't get one, it screws them all up. We have had to jump through fiery hoops checking the server logs and everything else to prove that it got out of the office, yet I keep saying that e-mail is not a guaranteed delivery mechanism. Just because it happens to be very reliable does not mean that it is 100% reliable. I can't seem to convince them to take delivery of these files by something geared for file transfer, like say File Transfer Protocol or something.
The internet is supported by public and private companies and also by tax dollars. We already pay to have a troll-free internet.
If you're going to make an omelet, you are going to have to break some eggs.
Ultimately, the deal is that comcast sucks and you want them to die as a company. So the service rep will be out of a job anyway. So we should be afraid to hurt their wittle feelings now? If we continue to come up with excuses to live with bad service, raising prices, unfair EULAs, unfair cell phone contracts,etc just because we think one or a few people can't make a difference, then the companies have won. They have cowed us as a people into believing that it is better to go along with the unfairness rather than stand up as consumers and fight for our rights. We are the customer and we determine what fair is.
Even if you live in a one party state and record a call in a two party state without consent, what are they going to do? The secondary state has no authority over you. The worst they can do is put out a warrant for your arrest which would only be an issue if you travel in their state and they happen to catch you. It is highly unlikely that a state with one party consent is going to extend reciprocity laws to a state with two party consent, and also unlikely that they would honor extradition when they find the other state's laws to be contrary to their own.
It seems obvious to me that if they say "the call may be recorded" that they are saying that I may record the call. I would not expect that to mean that they would be recording. Otherwise, I would expect them to say "We may" or "we might" or "the call might".
That really makes no sense. Most of the jobs H1Bs are hired for are already exempt under FLSA and thus are not legally required to be paid overtime anyway.
Most of the are hired for jobs that the company SAYS are exempt under FLSA, but most of them are hired for jobs that are NOT exempt under FLSA, just like the rest of us.
The receiver should be arrested only if he requested the picture.The sender should be arrested only if he intentionally sent the picture.
I have never had an advertising campaign work out, and I am not convinced that anyone else has either. Especially on the internet. Unless the advertising is free, it is not worth it. I wondered out of the $7.9 billion in revenue that Facebook made in ad revenue, how many dollars worth of product that ended up putting in the hands of their advertisers. Facebook IS huge, and their are a lot of click happy people, so maybe it resulted in a a few hundred million in sales. Maybe even a billion. More than $7.9 billion? I would not believe it.
In my experience Marketing is not very good at marketing your product to your target audience. Instead, they are good at marketing themselves to you to make you believe that they are good at marketing to your target audience.
CS when I was in school was teaching kids how to program computers. It was in BASIC, but it was something. CS now is teaching kids how to browse the internet and how to illegally obtain music and videos. My stepson came out of high school CS class knowing how to burn DVDs, but had to ask me what program one might use if one wanted to write an essay.
It works out to $4,000 per school in the United States. I would say that is a pretty good bargain. I know we have spent about $1 million outfitting our small (about 40 people) company's IT infrastructure. The fact that the U.S. government can do it for on average about 10 times that number of users for 1/250th the cost is pretty impressive.
Why would anyone SELL bitcoin mining rigs instead of simply building them and getting rich themselves?
one might ask the same question of companies that sell industrial mining equipment.
If a business does not act in its own interest, who is going to act in their best interest for them. In fact, everyone acts in their own best interest. When people act in others best interest, it is because they believe it is in their best interest to do so.
Yes, when I see a new hardcover book, I make a mental note to check back in 6 months when it has gone to paperback. I just don't need to spend 50% more for the same content just because it is hardbound. In my experience, paperback books last at least as long as hardbound. Which is to say, I have yet to have a paperback book fail on me, and I have some that are over 50 years old. I've had a few hardbound ones fail, because they are generally heavier and less likely to be able to stand up to their own weight.
So in other words, better not to sell the book at all than sell the edition of the book which has a lower profit margin?
Yup. Someone at Amazon went to Econ 101. I'm kind of surprised that everyone is treating this as some sort of business epiphany.
This is how we manage to increase inflation while keeping the CPI from growing out of control. A "case" of soda still only costs $7 (didn't it used to cost $5), but now there is only 20 cans in a case in stead of 24. But, no, the price didn't go up, so no inflation. A box of crackers is now 8 ounces instead of 12, but it's the same price, so no inflation. On the other side of the coin, you have added features that you don't really want or care about, but can't get the product without. A new car costs twice as much as it did 8 years ago, but it has so many nifty new features and safety mechanisms that you don't really need or want and that make the car weigh more and use more gas. So that is not considered inflation either.
It's all a big lie. In real terms, the price of everything is going up 10 to 15% or more per year, but salaries are remaining stagnant. This can't go on forever.
Streaming IS a dead end, because the cable companies, which happen to provide much of the internet service in the United States, have begun instituting caps on what was sold as unlimited service. With my girls watching netflix while out of school this summer, they reach the bandwidth cap in about a week. The cable company wants me to buy an upgraded plan, but the highest plan they offer is a little less than double the current bandwidth cap, which means that we will hit the cap in a week and a half. Also, why should I upgrade my plan when I was sold an unlimited plan? Besides, with all of their extra fees, my $99 a month plan is costing about $240. Since I am paying 2.5 times what I agreed to, I should be able to consume 2.5 times what they agreed to (which was unlimited).