Has anyone checked to see if there's a gender gap in this field? I suspect there is, since it combines three fields that are traditionally dominated by women: Journalism, Education, and Psychology.
If they could get away with raising prices they already would have
You gloss over the "if they could get away with raising prices" part. The reason they can't get away with it is competition; if Amazon and all of it's competitors have to pay an additional X% of their revenue in taxes there is no competitive pressure to stay at the lower price - prices will go up X%
Of course it depends on when and how the tax is added to what the consumer pays. In most retail you pay a certain price plus the tax. In that case then yes, the price won't change when the tax goes up. On the other hand if the tax is already included in the price that the consumer pays then the price will indeed go up. Ether way the effect is the same, the consumer pays more.
convicts who moved away from their old neighborhood when released from prison had a much smaller recidivism rate.
No kidding. Convicts who decided to change their life - changed their life. Those who went right back to their old neighborhood and fellow ex-cons went right back to their old life. Who woulda thunk it?.
American "justice" is more about getting revenge and punishing criminals Puritan style
Incarceration is an admission that the convicted person is a threat to society and needs to be removed. We don't know how to rehabilitate felons, but we do know how to lock them up so they can't hurt people, at least for a while.
I don't think it's Oracle. But someone has noticed that Java's popularity is in free fall. Some would argue that it can be used for anything; on the other hand - for whatever you are trying to do, there's a better language to do it in than Java. Web app? Node. Statistics? R. Scripting? Python. Etc.
If the only tool you have is a hammer you try to use it on everything, with predictable results
Someone's trying to use Hillary's "What difference does it make?" defense.
The original story was that she influenced the sale in exchange for donations. Now the response from her defenders is "So what? We have plenty of uranium".
Nice attempt at changing the subject; I say "What difference does it make if there's plenty of uranium ore, the deal still looks shady"
Steve Fetter and Erich Schneider demolish the idea that Russian control of uranium stocks is a threat to global security.
No, they don't demolish the idea.
Their argument is that since demand in the past was lower than the global supply of uranium ore, there is no reason to worry that Russia and China are trying to corner the supply. That doesn't make any sense to me based on what we've seen from both countries.
Here in PA the tolls collected used to be used to pay for maintenance. But Gov. Rendell never saw a source of revenue he didn't want to abuse, so now the roads are deteriorating while the money is diverted elsewhere.
Wind is already generating a significant amount of power in windy locations. For whatever reason, this report goes on about what it would take to build more towers in parts of the country where there just isn't much wind. Seems like a lot of wishful thinking.
There's nothing but wild speculation what happened in that crash, but most of it focuses on the severe weather the plane was passing through. And this is the second time in two days you posted the same comment anonymously; what's your point?
Not at all. Consider the case in Ohio where the woman voted six times, all you need is to have the absentee ballots sent to an address where you can grab them.
Obama has signed into law - including during the time when Pelosi was leading the house - bills that Reagan and both Presidents Bush could have only dreamed of
I don't recall Pelosi or Obama advocating anything more than not raising taxes as much as some wanted. What laws are you referring to?
Another assumption it makes is that both parties are frozen in time. In fact, both parties shift left and right depending on what they think the voters want. After the 2008 elections everyone realized the Democrats under Pelosi and Obama were too far left and the balance shifted to the Republicans. Now the Democrats have moderated a bit; meanwhile the Republicans are marginalizing the Tea Party fringe element and trying to claim more of the center.
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The problem with antigravity is one little bug in the software and it's "To the Moon, Alice" for you.
Has anyone checked to see if there's a gender gap in this field? I suspect there is, since it combines three fields that are traditionally dominated by women: Journalism, Education, and Psychology.
If they could get away with raising prices they already would have
You gloss over the "if they could get away with raising prices" part. The reason they can't get away with it is competition; if Amazon and all of it's competitors have to pay an additional X% of their revenue in taxes there is no competitive pressure to stay at the lower price - prices will go up X%
Of course it depends on when and how the tax is added to what the consumer pays. In most retail you pay a certain price plus the tax. In that case then yes, the price won't change when the tax goes up. On the other hand if the tax is already included in the price that the consumer pays then the price will indeed go up. Ether way the effect is the same, the consumer pays more.
convicts who moved away from their old neighborhood when released from prison had a much smaller recidivism rate.
No kidding. Convicts who decided to change their life - changed their life. Those who went right back to their old neighborhood and fellow ex-cons went right back to their old life. Who woulda thunk it?.
American "justice" is more about getting revenge and punishing criminals Puritan style
Incarceration is an admission that the convicted person is a threat to society and needs to be removed. We don't know how to rehabilitate felons, but we do know how to lock them up so they can't hurt people, at least for a while.
I don't think it's Oracle. But someone has noticed that Java's popularity is in free fall. Some would argue that it can be used for anything; on the other hand - for whatever you are trying to do, there's a better language to do it in than Java. Web app? Node. Statistics? R. Scripting? Python. Etc.
If the only tool you have is a hammer you try to use it on everything, with predictable results
That's because these generation of coders are too busy actually writing applications
Exactly. They're busy writing Java code. Meanwhile the rest of us used productive languages, completed the project, and enjoyed the weekend.
Someone's trying to use Hillary's "What difference does it make?" defense.
The original story was that she influenced the sale in exchange for donations. Now the response from her defenders is "So what? We have plenty of uranium".
Nice attempt at changing the subject; I say "What difference does it make if there's plenty of uranium ore, the deal still looks shady"
Steve Fetter and Erich Schneider demolish the idea that Russian control of uranium stocks is a threat to global security.
No, they don't demolish the idea.
Their argument is that since demand in the past was lower than the global supply of uranium ore, there is no reason to worry that Russia and China are trying to corner the supply. That doesn't make any sense to me based on what we've seen from both countries.
Sounds like something Google would be interested in.
Here in PA the tolls collected used to be used to pay for maintenance. But Gov. Rendell never saw a source of revenue he didn't want to abuse, so now the roads are deteriorating while the money is diverted elsewhere.
Wind is already generating a significant amount of power in windy locations. For whatever reason, this report goes on about what it would take to build more towers in parts of the country where there just isn't much wind. Seems like a lot of wishful thinking.
The push is to industrialize coding so that we have good little workers
That's like saying Little League baseball is...I don't know. Your comment makes no sense.
The push is to enlighten the next generation that you can control a computer, not just depend on "an app for that" which someone else wrote.
Powder Puff Girls kicked her butt.
the "interesting" part is that they're a highschool student and 17 years old, with a published scientific paper to their name
I'm pretty sure all the authors of papers presented as the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair are high school students.
just plain old snake oil
There's nothing but wild speculation what happened in that crash, but most of it focuses on the severe weather the plane was passing through. And this is the second time in two days you posted the same comment anonymously; what's your point?
Not at all. Consider the case in Ohio where the woman voted six times, all you need is to have the absentee ballots sent to an address where you can grab them.
Obama has signed into law - including during the time when Pelosi was leading the house - bills that Reagan and both Presidents Bush could have only dreamed of
I don't recall Pelosi or Obama advocating anything more than not raising taxes as much as some wanted. What laws are you referring to?
Both parties gerrymander whenever and wherever they can.
Complaints about gerrymandering are really complaints that people in big cities have no control over how people in rural districts vote.
Another assumption it makes is that both parties are frozen in time. In fact, both parties shift left and right depending on what they think the voters want. After the 2008 elections everyone realized the Democrats under Pelosi and Obama were too far left and the balance shifted to the Republicans. Now the Democrats have moderated a bit; meanwhile the Republicans are marginalizing the Tea Party fringe element and trying to claim more of the center.
Leadership should tell them what it wants. If the people running the data centers can't get that done they will be replaced.
mistaken belief that all our data has to be near us and somewhere where I can do and hug the server
He wants to "do" the server. So you may be right.
More like an attention whore tried a little too hard to get attention.
Most successful stock analyst of all time.