The link you provided confirms the GP comment instead of debunking it (although the comment should be that Big 3 labor costs are three times that of similar jobs in other industries).
"The automakers arrived at the $70+ figure by adding up all the costs associated with providing wages and benefits to current and retired workers and dividing the total by the number of hours worked by current employees."
You can't compare base wage to base wage and ignore all the other costs associated with UAW labor. What really hurts is the combination of "30 and out" with full pension and health care for workers who retire in their early fifties. No accountant in the world would let you ignore that as part of a company's labor cost.
The referenced article has impressive looking graphs of how many households currently have broadband. What's missing is how many have broadband available but have chosen not to use it. A hint at the answer is that only 7.58% of internet connections are still dial-up.
So then what is the benefit of this plan? If you like to wear a tinfoil hat it appears that this is just a smoke screen to cover the government's takeover of telecommunications and healthcare. Two of the Free Press recommendations hint at the real goal: E-rate@home program (federal government provides and presumably controls your internet connection at home, obviating the need for land line telephones and broadcast television), and Health Care and Public Service Digital Modernization Program (aka the backbone for socialized medicine).
Personally I don't think it's quite that sinister. Obama's big on promising this kind of non-controversial, populist program. Nobody knows how much will actually be delivered once he's in charge.
Don't equate newspapers with journalism. Think back a couple of generations to the journalists who covered WWII; many of them made the transition to television and combined quality reporting with sound and video.
News organizations need to rethink how they deliver their product. Printed on paper will probably go the way of town criers, but real journalism will survive.
What's interesting is how often the union's improved terms for labor increases labor's productivity.
If some employees want to form a union I'm okay with them doing so, but drop the idea of a union shop. Employers and employees should have the option of going union or not. According to your argument it would be a no-brainer for companies to hire union employees, right?
FTA: "Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies...He was hoping, he says, that Lichtblau and his partner Risen (with whom he also met) would figure out on their own what the program was really all about and break it before the 2004 election."
There proper are ways to report illegal activity. Making a secret phone call to the NYT in hopes of swinging the presidential election is not one of them.
"Right from the beginning, and all through the course, we stress that the programmers task is not just to write down a program, but that his main task is to give a formal proof that the program he proposes meets the equally formal functional specification."
Dijkstra was a genius and made many contributions to Comp. Sci. But his suggestion that a program (really a program design) should be accompanied by a formal proof has problems at both ends of the development cycle: how do you prove that the formal specification is what the customer wanted, and how do you prove that the code actually implements the design?
I've seem automatic testing products that claim to do both, but in order to make them work you have to specify every variable and every line of code as the "requirements", then compare what the tool thinks the result should be to the output of the program. And yes, the vendor suggested that the business analysts write the formal requirements; you can imagine how well that worked.
What you say is true, but same can be said for any other organization that funds research. Everything from global warming to offshore drilling to nuclear energy has scientists on both sides proving their case.
This process simply provides a mechanism to store and transport energy. It is no different than plugging your electric car into an outlet that uses power generated by windmills to charge batteries, except you fill the tank with synthesized hydrocarbon fuel. No laws of thermodynamics are being violated. The only question is whether the process is a cost effective use of energy produced by other sources.
I would prefer throwing out the lowest score then average what's left; anybody can have a bad day at some point in the year. But if the student consistently is below 50% there's still one good reason to hide it: promote them to the next grade until they "graduate" instead of wasting any more tax dollars on them.
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Computers not only work on ships where there's spray, they work on submarines under the water!
FTFA: "Assuming only 1/3 is affected for one to two days, NFLX stands to forfeit nearly $1.8mm to $3.6mm in revenues"
Yea, a company that misses out on that much revenue in one or two days is clearly a total failure. Project out what they earn in the full year and you'll see how bad they're doing.
"The weight of the engines and body of the flier sits lower than the rotors to create a pendulum effect that discourages the contraption from tipping upside down and creating what might be called the lawn dart effect."
Yea, you sure wouldn't want to try inverted flight with a 250lb jet pack and 600lbs of down thrust.
Credibility? You want credibility on an anonymous third-hand account of something that allegedly happened six years ago? Get real. There will be many, many claims of fraud, affairs, and other misdeeds against the Republicans in the next four months. To paraphrase Dan Rather "We're sure the story is true, even if the evidence doesn't support it".
If you want to learn a foreign language, go for it. I'd go with Spanish first. You can have a lifetime of interesting vacations in this hemisphere.
You'll probably never use it professionally. Even if your job involves traveling to another country you won't speak that language better than they will speak English.
I never considered boxing and chess as a reasonable combination. But I would pay to watch figure skating if they put all the competitors on the ice at the same time and allowed body checking.
Are you sure you know Gates' writing style? Because published articles, speeches, even books are edited, proofread, maybe even ghostwritten.
This is an email, banged out in a hurry when he was mad. Comparing it to what you consider the real Gates style is like comparing a picture on cover of Oprah's magazine to an actual photo of her.
I like both ideas, with the addition of some kind of compensation for the target of a baseless suit.
Unfortunately, it seems all of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election want to "fix" the problem by hiring more patent examiners. I know the argument is that with more examiners they can do a better job of researching the applications, but that's not where the system is broken.
Seems like a reasonable use of tax dollars to me. Their options were either build in the US (if power at competitive prices could be assured) or go offshore.
It's also interesting that Google is looking at building a data center in Lithuania, where 78% of the power comes from nuclear power plants. Maybe if the US had more power available from less expensive (non-fossil fuel) sources, the aluminum smelting plants that had been using the power at the Oregon site would still be employing thousands of American workers.
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The link you provided confirms the GP comment instead of debunking it (although the comment should be that Big 3 labor costs are three times that of similar jobs in other industries).
"The automakers arrived at the $70+ figure by adding up all the costs associated with providing wages and benefits to current and retired workers and dividing the total by the number of hours worked by current employees."
You can't compare base wage to base wage and ignore all the other costs associated with UAW labor. What really hurts is the combination of "30 and out" with full pension and health care for workers who retire in their early fifties. No accountant in the world would let you ignore that as part of a company's labor cost.
So then what is the benefit of this plan? If you like to wear a tinfoil hat it appears that this is just a smoke screen to cover the government's takeover of telecommunications and healthcare. Two of the Free Press recommendations hint at the real goal: E-rate@home program (federal government provides and presumably controls your internet connection at home, obviating the need for land line telephones and broadcast television), and Health Care and Public Service Digital Modernization Program (aka the backbone for socialized medicine).
Personally I don't think it's quite that sinister. Obama's big on promising this kind of non-controversial, populist program. Nobody knows how much will actually be delivered once he's in charge.
Don't equate newspapers with journalism. Think back a couple of generations to the journalists who covered WWII; many of them made the transition to television and combined quality reporting with sound and video. News organizations need to rethink how they deliver their product. Printed on paper will probably go the way of town criers, but real journalism will survive.
What's interesting is how often the union's improved terms for labor increases labor's productivity.
If some employees want to form a union I'm okay with them doing so, but drop the idea of a union shop. Employers and employees should have the option of going union or not. According to your argument it would be a no-brainer for companies to hire union employees, right?
FTA: "Tamm concedes he was also motivated in part by his anger at other Bush-administration policies...He was hoping, he says, that Lichtblau and his partner Risen (with whom he also met) would figure out on their own what the program was really all about and break it before the 2004 election." There proper are ways to report illegal activity. Making a secret phone call to the NYT in hopes of swinging the presidential election is not one of them.
There are several initiatives that will a bigger impact
Dijkstra was a genius and made many contributions to Comp. Sci. But his suggestion that a program (really a program design) should be accompanied by a formal proof has problems at both ends of the development cycle: how do you prove that the formal specification is what the customer wanted, and how do you prove that the code actually implements the design?
I've seem automatic testing products that claim to do both, but in order to make them work you have to specify every variable and every line of code as the "requirements", then compare what the tool thinks the result should be to the output of the program. And yes, the vendor suggested that the business analysts write the formal requirements; you can imagine how well that worked.
I occasionally toss little jokes in for QA to find. Keeps them honest.
What you say is true, but same can be said for any other organization that funds research. Everything from global warming to offshore drilling to nuclear energy has scientists on both sides proving their case.
This process simply provides a mechanism to store and transport energy. It is no different than plugging your electric car into an outlet that uses power generated by windmills to charge batteries, except you fill the tank with synthesized hydrocarbon fuel. No laws of thermodynamics are being violated. The only question is whether the process is a cost effective use of energy produced by other sources.
I would prefer throwing out the lowest score then average what's left; anybody can have a bad day at some point in the year. But if the student consistently is below 50% there's still one good reason to hide it: promote them to the next grade until they "graduate" instead of wasting any more tax dollars on them.
Computers not only work on ships where there's spray, they work on submarines under the water!
Yea, a company that misses out on that much revenue in one or two days is clearly a total failure. Project out what they earn in the full year and you'll see how bad they're doing.
Being a (Democrat|Republican) and claiming to be (liberal|conservative) is not the same as being open minded.
Yea, you sure wouldn't want to try inverted flight with a 250lb jet pack and 600lbs of down thrust.
In a couple of hundred years, space launches will be safe enough to launch what can't be recycled into the Sun.
Credibility? You want credibility on an anonymous third-hand account of something that allegedly happened six years ago? Get real. There will be many, many claims of fraud, affairs, and other misdeeds against the Republicans in the next four months. To paraphrase Dan Rather "We're sure the story is true, even if the evidence doesn't support it".
If you want to learn a foreign language, go for it. I'd go with Spanish first. You can have a lifetime of interesting vacations in this hemisphere. You'll probably never use it professionally. Even if your job involves traveling to another country you won't speak that language better than they will speak English.
I never considered boxing and chess as a reasonable combination. But I would pay to watch figure skating if they put all the competitors on the ice at the same time and allowed body checking.
Yea, they didn't mention Obama even once !!! If it had been a CNN report he would've been in the headline and cockpit.
Are you sure you know Gates' writing style? Because published articles, speeches, even books are edited, proofread, maybe even ghostwritten. This is an email, banged out in a hurry when he was mad. Comparing it to what you consider the real Gates style is like comparing a picture on cover of Oprah's magazine to an actual photo of her.
A private lane is required to have a name for 911.
In Pennsylvania if the lane didn't have a No Trespassing sign the Google driver did nothing wrong. It's open to the public unless posted.
Yea, Fiorina was a train wreck at HP. But Huffington Post informative? You should automatically discount pretty much anything from that site.
I like both ideas, with the addition of some kind of compensation for the target of a baseless suit.
Unfortunately, it seems all of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election want to "fix" the problem by hiring more patent examiners. I know the argument is that with more examiners they can do a better job of researching the applications, but that's not where the system is broken.
Seems like a reasonable use of tax dollars to me. Their options were either build in the US (if power at competitive prices could be assured) or go offshore.
It's also interesting that Google is looking at building a data center in Lithuania, where 78% of the power comes from nuclear power plants. Maybe if the US had more power available from less expensive (non-fossil fuel) sources, the aluminum smelting plants that had been using the power at the Oregon site would still be employing thousands of American workers.