Walmart does not provide health insurance to entry level employees.
(I suppose if they did, it would be a conflict of interest as it would cut into their life insurance profits, thus lowering their bottom line, thus not upholding their responsibility to the stockholders, thus bringing about more of that creeping socialism we keep hearing about...)
A degreed EE should know enough about engineering to realize that not everything that goes into even something as simple as a power transfer system is going to be mentioned in a single paragraph.
Chances are a project that employed an entire team of engineers for months or years came up with a few ideas that aren't even in the article, let alone the summary. I bet some of them had EE degrees, too.
The days of tax free internet orders is coming to an end.
There've never been tax-free internet orders.
What Al Gore successfully blocked, back in the day, over both Congress' and the President's support, was a separate internet tax.
Mail-order retailers have been collecting sales tax to the state they sell in for decades before the internet existed.
What Amazon has been doing, and is trying to keep doing, is avoid having to pay the sales tax that all their major competitor's are paying, and thus have cheaper overall prices without having to cut either their costs or their margins. That is what is coming to an end.
These days, we use computers to aid in our transactions.
The data's not "a ridiculous amount" - it's a few KB of data sent from each state each year.
It's not "impossible to collect sales tax correctly" for every state that requires it. Most mail-order companies are already set up to collect sales tax from every state they have a business presence in. Any decent accounting package will have this information built into it automatically. I'm sure Amazon is already using a very good enterprise-level accounting package capable of keeping track of many billions of numbers, not just the few hundred you envision in your examples.
Amazon, through it's affiliate marketing scheme, thought they had found a loophole in the tax code ("We don't have any presence in California, only our affiliates do"). What California is doing is closing that loophole.
Also, Amazon is bluffing. California is most likely Amazon's biggest market. I can understand why they don't want to pay taxes. But they're not going to just throw away the entire market to avoid paying it.
I'm guessing that's also what he pays after his company, or school, or parents, pay the rest.
Either that, or it's not nearly as comprehensive as he thinks.
Or he lives in a state where there's a good state plan available. (There's a few states doing this now.)
Things are getting better, though. I've been searching to get a plan myself, and have found a couple of decent options in the $300-$400 range. Which is a vast improvement over last time I looked, a few years ago, when the same plans were $1000-$1200 or so. (One of changes with so-called "Obamacare" is they're no longer allowed to reject me because I had malaria five years ago.)
It depends on the state.
Being white has nothing to do with it - it's not a factor. But many (possibly most? Maybe all, I haven't investigated most states) have different programs available for women, including pre-natal, post-natal, and breast cancer funds, much of which can be stretched to cover other things. If you go in for one thing, treatment may, in some circumstances, be extended to everything that could affect it. It's not always easy, and it's not the greatest, but it is, as the original poster mentioned, better than nothing.
Teeth found as least as far back as Neanderthal are almost universally worn flat in anyone who survived to adulthood. Also, abscesses, often wearing away bone all the way up into the sinuses, are very common in pleistocene remains from the Americas. (The individuals must have been in constant pain for years. Ouch.)
We've also found a lot of teeth that were badly decayed, and forcibly extracted. Sometimes in pieces. Ice age dentistry wasn't pretty.
I wouldn't call the Apple II exactly "obscure". And Apple was marketing using the term "Personal Computer" for at least a few years before the IBM PC came out.
The law specifically allows experimental, untested, and unapproved therapies to be used on terminally ill patients who give informed consent. (or whose families give informed consent in cases where the patient is unable to do so.)
They are generally limited, and hard to get into - usually the team doing the research won't approve a patient until several other methods have failed, but if the choice is something that might not work, and might damage the patient, and certain death, then there is no harm (in the Hippocratic sense) in trying it.
A population as dense as NYC throughout the entire state of Texas?
You really think that would be sustainable?
Leaving aside all the other millions of little problems that would cause, how do you expect the sewers would work?
Remember the part where the summary says each recipient will get not only the money, but "...mentorship from the Foundation’s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators."
That mentorship is going to be worth far more in the long run than the $100,000 is.
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Actually, it was a pretty popular thing to do back in the 30's. Which is why many states have laws against it now.
Life insurance is going to be a bit more lumpy because you are not murdering your employees...
We are talking about Wal-Mart...
Walmart does not provide health insurance to entry level employees.
(I suppose if they did, it would be a conflict of interest as it would cut into their life insurance profits, thus lowering their bottom line, thus not upholding their responsibility to the stockholders, thus bringing about more of that creeping socialism we keep hearing about...)
As a brand new organization, the new tabloid won't be tainted with the bad name of the old one. Nor, presumably, will it be subject to their lawsuits.
The fact that it'll be the exact same people doing the exact same thing is mostly meaningless from a business standpoint.
Deosil.
And they currently control the majority in the House, where this bill comes from.
Chances are a project that employed an entire team of engineers for months or years came up with a few ideas that aren't even in the article, let alone the summary. I bet some of them had EE degrees, too.
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The days of tax free internet orders is coming to an end.
There've never been tax-free internet orders.
What Al Gore successfully blocked, back in the day, over both Congress' and the President's support, was a separate internet tax.
Mail-order retailers have been collecting sales tax to the state they sell in for decades before the internet existed.
What Amazon has been doing, and is trying to keep doing, is avoid having to pay the sales tax that all their major competitor's are paying, and thus have cheaper overall prices without having to cut either their costs or their margins. That is what is coming to an end.
It drives me nuts when Democrats say "tax only the richest 2%" (as Obama and Minnesota Gov Dayton say)
"Tax the richest 2%" < > "Tax only the richest 2%"
These days, we use computers to aid in our transactions.
The data's not "a ridiculous amount" - it's a few KB of data sent from each state each year.
It's not "impossible to collect sales tax correctly" for every state that requires it. Most mail-order companies are already set up to collect sales tax from every state they have a business presence in. Any decent accounting package will have this information built into it automatically. I'm sure Amazon is already using a very good enterprise-level accounting package capable of keeping track of many billions of numbers, not just the few hundred you envision in your examples.
Amazon, through it's affiliate marketing scheme, thought they had found a loophole in the tax code ("We don't have any presence in California, only our affiliates do"). What California is doing is closing that loophole.
Also, Amazon is bluffing. California is most likely Amazon's biggest market. I can understand why they don't want to pay taxes. But they're not going to just throw away the entire market to avoid paying it.
Well, they still do it sometimes, but I've been led to believe that these days they use more anesthetic and less rocks...
The best plan I've been able to find for myself (44, non-smoking, healthy male) is about $300/month, and includes both deductible and co-pay.
And this is after vast improvements were made starting with the Obama administration. It used to be even worse.
Either that, or it's not nearly as comprehensive as he thinks.
Or he lives in a state where there's a good state plan available. (There's a few states doing this now.)
Things are getting better, though. I've been searching to get a plan myself, and have found a couple of decent options in the $300-$400 range. Which is a vast improvement over last time I looked, a few years ago, when the same plans were $1000-$1200 or so. (One of changes with so-called "Obamacare" is they're no longer allowed to reject me because I had malaria five years ago.)
It depends on the state. Being white has nothing to do with it - it's not a factor. But many (possibly most? Maybe all, I haven't investigated most states) have different programs available for women, including pre-natal, post-natal, and breast cancer funds, much of which can be stretched to cover other things. If you go in for one thing, treatment may, in some circumstances, be extended to everything that could affect it. It's not always easy, and it's not the greatest, but it is, as the original poster mentioned, better than nothing.
Teeth found as least as far back as Neanderthal are almost universally worn flat in anyone who survived to adulthood. Also, abscesses, often wearing away bone all the way up into the sinuses, are very common in pleistocene remains from the Americas. (The individuals must have been in constant pain for years. Ouch.)
We've also found a lot of teeth that were badly decayed, and forcibly extracted. Sometimes in pieces. Ice age dentistry wasn't pretty.
I wouldn't call the Apple II exactly "obscure". And Apple was marketing using the term "Personal Computer" for at least a few years before the IBM PC came out.
The law specifically allows experimental, untested, and unapproved therapies to be used on terminally ill patients who give informed consent. (or whose families give informed consent in cases where the patient is unable to do so.)
They are generally limited, and hard to get into - usually the team doing the research won't approve a patient until several other methods have failed, but if the choice is something that might not work, and might damage the patient, and certain death, then there is no harm (in the Hippocratic sense) in trying it.
A population as dense as NYC throughout the entire state of Texas? You really think that would be sustainable? Leaving aside all the other millions of little problems that would cause, how do you expect the sewers would work?
The verdict is going to be the same. The jurors are chosen before the media reports the trial.
It may be distasteful to be watching a man's life hang in the balance and using that to sell advertising, but so what?
If you don't like it, don't watch it. I didn't.
Until they start creating trials purely for their entertainment value, who cares if there are circuses around some of them.
I'd much rather have an occasional media feeding frenzy than secret trials where the media are forbidden from any reporting until it's all over.
If the person who was supposed to get it cares, they'll call the company and ask why they're not getting it, and fix the address then.
If they don't care, then it doesn't matter.
We all get email we don't want or care about. Dump it.
Or if everyone outlawed all payments from this company to government officials who have the authority to purchase it...
Remember the part where the summary says each recipient will get not only the money, but "...mentorship from the Foundation’s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators."
That mentorship is going to be worth far more in the long run than the $100,000 is.
I'm in. I'll drive if you cover gas.
At some point in your childhood somebody, possibly a parent, should have informed you that you are not everyone.