First off, it would have been only $400M, except they had $120Ms more inventory backlogged
Actually the loss was more than $700M, they played some accounting games by "excluding certain expenses" and booking some revenue differently this quarter to make the numbers look less bad.
Ford is phasing out old design sedans that run on gasoline as they move into producing all electric and pluggable hybrid sedans. And they're making big profits on trucks and SUVs while they transition the cars so no need to rack up billions in expensive debt (same as GM).
The exact types of projects that would be subject to restrictions are unclear, but the measures could clamp down on collaboration in advanced materials, software and other technologies at the heart of Beijing’s plan to dominate cutting-edge technologies like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars, known as Made in China 2025.
Your opposition to using universities for classified research and development is unrelated to controlling access to sensitive information
It would be foolish to ban professors and grad students at universities from doing research work directly or indirectly on classified projects for the government.
No way he could have gotten a security clearance to work on a project that uses something as classified as stealth technology. It makes complete sense to restrict doing research in the US on technologies that are similarly sensitive.
The last thing liberals want is more jobs in the US. They need the stock market to crash and unemployment to go up in order to regain the power they've lost.
You can be in denial for as long as you like, but the fact is: the only country that could put pressure on North Korea is China, and the only country that can put pressure on China is the US. Obama and Hillary as Secretary of State didn't do anything. Trump getting tough on China is what made this happen. The question now is whether China and North Korea will hold up their end of the bargain. I expect they will as long as Trump is in office, they they'll test the next President.
You can't bluff you way through writing software, but many, many people have bluffed their way into a job and then tried to learn it from the people who are already there. In a marginally functional organization those incompetents are let go pretty quickly, but sometimes they stick around for months or years.
Apparently the author of this book is one of those, probably hired and fired several times before deciding to go back to his liberal arts roots and write a book.
The education system is fixated on teaching all students the same curriculum. That will never work; any teacher will tell you that a small percentage of the students are really fast learners, some will get by, and some are just plain dumb. Teachers refer to students among themselves as Track 1, Track 2, and Track 3.
The way to fix education is to pour as much resource as you have into teaching the Track 1 kids, because they'll get the most out of it. Quit forcing the rest of the class to put up with Track 3 students who are disruptive or slow. The idea of paying the most attention to the best students is an anathema to liberal/progressive thinkers who believe everyone is equal and should be given an equal chance.
This comes up over and over and over, especially with software people who have no concept of the complexities and limits of the real world.
It isn't software people. It's people who read science fiction and think it's real. They talk about "getting off this rock" as if there's some place else to go. And they say things like "all you need to do is break the laws of physics and what I'm imagining is possible".
A few years ago somebody got the list of porn tapes a supreme court justice had rented.
Citation needed.
You're probably thinking of the confirmation of Robert Bork when Democrats were pulling out everything they could think of to obstruct the nomination. Thirty years later and they're still at it.
Bork seems to have become the catalyst for legislation designed to prohibit video store owners from divulging lists of customers` video rentals. The issue first surfaced during Bork`s confirmation hearings, when a Washington newspaper published lists of the judge`s video rentals during the last several years. The films were general releases such as ``Ruthless People,`` ``The Man Who Knew Too Much`` and ``A Day at the Races``; there were no X-rated rentals.
Yet, nationwide, three out of 10 high school grads who go to four-year public universities haven't earned degrees within six years
So that means there should be plenty of young people available to go into skilled trades.
The problem is the same reason those trades are "High-paying" - because the supply of trained people is kept artificially low in order to keep the pay up.
It is intentionally lying to (lazy and gullible) media outlets to create a false narrative. Media should know better than to fall for this stuff, but that doesn't make it ok to do it.
It's okay if it advances the left's agenda. If it helps the right it's evil (re. Facebook).
They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants
An effective president works with Congress regardless of which party controls it (e.g. Reagan, Clinton, and Bush all got things they wanted passed even when the other party was in control). Sometimes they needed to compromise to get what they really wanted.
Obama was good at delivering speeches, but he was useless when it came to executive leadership.
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First off, it would have been only $400M, except they had $120Ms more inventory backlogged
Actually the loss was more than $700M, they played some accounting games by "excluding certain expenses" and booking some revenue differently this quarter to make the numbers look less bad.
Ford is phasing out old design sedans that run on gasoline as they move into producing all electric and pluggable hybrid sedans. And they're making big profits on trucks and SUVs while they transition the cars so no need to rack up billions in expensive debt (same as GM).
You: "Alexa - I need an ambulance!"
Alexa: "An ambulance has been added to your shopping cart."
The exact types of projects that would be subject to restrictions are unclear, but the measures could clamp down on collaboration in advanced materials, software and other technologies at the heart of Beijing’s plan to dominate cutting-edge technologies like advanced microchips, artificial intelligence and electric cars, known as Made in China 2025.
Your opposition to using universities for classified research and development is unrelated to controlling access to sensitive information
It would be foolish to ban professors and grad students at universities from doing research work directly or indirectly on classified projects for the government.
No way he could have gotten a security clearance to work on a project that uses something as classified as stealth technology. It makes complete sense to restrict doing research in the US on technologies that are similarly sensitive.
If you want manufacturing jobs...
The last thing liberals want is more jobs in the US. They need the stock market to crash and unemployment to go up in order to regain the power they've lost.
Trump's rhetoric *probably* wasn't it
You can be in denial for as long as you like, but the fact is: the only country that could put pressure on North Korea is China, and the only country that can put pressure on China is the US. Obama and Hillary as Secretary of State didn't do anything. Trump getting tough on China is what made this happen. The question now is whether China and North Korea will hold up their end of the bargain. I expect they will as long as Trump is in office, they they'll test the next President.
You can't bluff you way through writing software, but many, many people have bluffed their way into a job and then tried to learn it from the people who are already there. In a marginally functional organization those incompetents are let go pretty quickly, but sometimes they stick around for months or years.
Apparently the author of this book is one of those, probably hired and fired several times before deciding to go back to his liberal arts roots and write a book.
Polio vaccine for millions of children saved many, many lives. At least give him credit for that.
The education system is fixated on teaching all students the same curriculum. That will never work; any teacher will tell you that a small percentage of the students are really fast learners, some will get by, and some are just plain dumb. Teachers refer to students among themselves as Track 1, Track 2, and Track 3.
The way to fix education is to pour as much resource as you have into teaching the Track 1 kids, because they'll get the most out of it. Quit forcing the rest of the class to put up with Track 3 students who are disruptive or slow. The idea of paying the most attention to the best students is an anathema to liberal/progressive thinkers who believe everyone is equal and should be given an equal chance.
China slapped Kim down because Trump put pressure on China. Money talks, reading from a teleprompter walks.
On the internet, the women are men and the children are FBI agents.
Are we great yet?
GM still makes more cars in Lordstown every month than Tesla makes in a year.
Maybe you should read up on what real science is.
This comes up over and over and over, especially with software people who have no concept of the complexities and limits of the real world.
It isn't software people. It's people who read science fiction and think it's real. They talk about "getting off this rock" as if there's some place else to go. And they say things like "all you need to do is break the laws of physics and what I'm imagining is possible".
RTFA, he's quoted at the end of the article.
A few years ago somebody got the list of porn tapes a supreme court justice had rented.
Citation needed.
You're probably thinking of the confirmation of Robert Bork when Democrats were pulling out everything they could think of to obstruct the nomination. Thirty years later and they're still at it.
Bork seems to have become the catalyst for legislation designed to prohibit video store owners from divulging lists of customers` video rentals. The issue first surfaced during Bork`s confirmation hearings, when a Washington newspaper published lists of the judge`s video rentals during the last several years. The films were general releases such as ``Ruthless People,`` ``The Man Who Knew Too Much`` and ``A Day at the Races``; there were no X-rated rentals.
If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit.
Yet, nationwide, three out of 10 high school grads who go to four-year public universities haven't earned degrees within six years
So that means there should be plenty of young people available to go into skilled trades.
The problem is the same reason those trades are "High-paying" - because the supply of trained people is kept artificially low in order to keep the pay up.
will save about 8 hours of forecaster time a day -- and about $1 million a year at NWS
Okay, I see that this is in Alaska. But a million dollars a year for one FTE? No wonder the union is squawking.
The Republican obstructionist Congress
It wasn't Republicans obstructing; Harry Reed used filibusters to block anything he didn't like.
It is intentionally lying to (lazy and gullible) media outlets to create a false narrative. Media should know better than to fall for this stuff, but that doesn't make it ok to do it.
It's okay if it advances the left's agenda. If it helps the right it's evil (re. Facebook).
They're not supposed to be used as work-arounds when the President can't get a law passed that he wants
An effective president works with Congress regardless of which party controls it (e.g. Reagan, Clinton, and Bush all got things they wanted passed even when the other party was in control). Sometimes they needed to compromise to get what they really wanted.
Obama was good at delivering speeches, but he was useless when it came to executive leadership.
As far as I know it's legal in every state to transport a gun in a locked trunk.