Only for the first few years... then you end up the other way around. The subsidy is built to match the recovery curve on oil investment.
Essentially, you can either do a flat year over year depreciation or you can front load it. Either way, you depreciate the same number of dollars. I am not sure how this ends up being a subsidy rather than a tax break on business cost... the same as my construction business. In fact, I often try to structure my spending to get a similar effect.
I personally have shut down technical consulting groups and call centers in France because we were able to get better customer satisfaction and more work out of their German and English counterparts. The data was trended over a decade (I only had personal touch with 2yrs). I argued to attempt to rectify the issue by interviewing local talent via a very technical French Canadian friend of mine. We conducted interviews for 2wks (similarly to what we did in London and Hamburg) and found the talent pool was also shallow, with salary expectations sorely out of line.
Long story short. We fired the French. We hired more Germans and English.
I understand that different types of companies expect different results, and different behaviors. The talent pool in France was unable to keep up with our expectations.
As a local to one of the crony capitalists that benefited from the Solyndra deal. Kaiser knew what he was doing when he dumped a several wads of cash into the O-B ticket coffers. He was buying access to free money. Solyndra died and Kaiser was paid back before the govt debts were satisfied, which is supposed to be against the law.
I don't use a mouse. I will usually install a plugin that allows browser use without a mouse and the keyboard is my friend.
I really don't use a mouse that often, and I do >10hrs daily of computer based work/study. It takes some adaptation, especially since everybody else pushed the mouse for even simple tasks (like word selection).
I certainly understand that I am in the minority... but I can dream, can't I?
Yes, I would love to be able to buy a laptop without a trackpad or a touchscreen. I disable the trackpad immediately upon boot on ASUS and HP laptops currently, if I could buy them without it would save me space and money. If I want a mouse, I will attach a little portable or use a bluetooth mouse.
Yes. I am paying attention, and yes I work with state-run oil and gas conglomerates. Most of them are shite for safety and environmental controls. CNOOC is an abomination. Petrozuata is horrid (except at their press friendly sites.) Petrobras is another example of hateful most of the time, unless a camera is near. Lukoil? The reason it was sold back to Russia is that the upgrade costs... were going to be monstrous.
I could go on for days...
So yes, please go on in your armchair criticism and ignorance. I agree that the banking and auto industry got a nice bit of crony capitalism going on, but you should spend your anger on fixing that. As a whole, our system works failure well... We just have to figure out (as we have in the past) how to ratchet down hard on the people currently gaming the system.
Huh... it's still standard enough that all of my linux devices can sync to it... along with my Android devices. So your response is a canard.
USB mass storage an anachronism? Definitely showing the lace of your shill bloomers. It's a useful tool, one that should be standard across the board.
The button is a linked to a keyboard action (more or less), and you should be able to change keyboard actions... So, yes I am glad that MS is getting reamed. May the pain continue.
Flaming error. Interesting nick, the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, the amendment you are looking for is often referred to as the 16th.
Or not using nvidia graphics cards or broadcom chipsets. Archlinux handles these nicely, while Ubuntu chunders.
Also the Ubuntu folks are selective about what hardware problems are a priority. That is to be expected from a business. In contrast, Archlinux devs don't really give a lot of crap about your hardware, but there is likely someone who has had the same problem and has provided the fix. This method seems to work long term because Archlinux uses the vanilla builds.
Heh... At my office we account for six. Once I demonstrated that I could dual-boot Linux and Android, so that it would be a very useful at the office, and could still be used by the significant other at home... they started breeding, setting up mated pairs(rsync) and otherwise carrying on.
LOL... I never worked in the main buildings, just in the data centers as a contractor for INS. I don't know about the cubes and whatnot, but the beer grill out parties on Thursday nights were well catered. (The best beer available was Heineken though)
Depends on the family, my great-uncles volunteered. My great grandfather was turned down because he was partially lame for WWI and too old for WWII (meaning they didn't do a physical for WWII, they looked at his age and turned him away).
A great many were voluntold, but that does not lessen their courage in the face of enemy gun fire nor does it lessen their purpose. Some people are conditioned to be helpless and to perceive the world as unchangeable, they are the reason conscription was needed for an easily justified war. Vietnam is a whole different issue... as was the Civil War until Lincoln started recruiting around the slavery issue.
Agreed. In electronics, we go to the manufacturer because the 'local dealer' is a greedy crooked eveil bastard, and at least the manufacturer has a national name to protect, and can spread the cost of 'fixes' around.
With car dealerships... you're basically fucked. Well, you can try to navigate the bureaucracy and get satisfaction, but I've heard it is a beast and doesn't often end well.
This is why people view IT departments with such disdain. The GP is possibly one of the most destructive, demoralizing and immature ways to handle the issue.
You should be ashamed of yourselves. Learn to be professionals and advocate in a constructive positive manner. People like you are why people like me make so much money... I can propose a solution, advocate gently and nurse it through consensus, all while doing the implementation.
On second thought, I could always use more money, please continue to be assholes
Huh... That's funny, cuz I was talking to my wife, who is fairly market savvy, what she thought would be a good way to try to leverage my skills into working from home... and she looked at me, smiled and said, "Besides porn?"
Truth is, it is a low overhead system, that if worked correctly can yield a high income without building your network, and doing something that comes naturally.
I wish I had modpoints... It seems that the Debian peeps think that I have infinite diskspace, so when I want to install something to test it... It MUST come with 80 bajillion other packages... and deinstalling those may traverse back up the tree and break something that I want. Hence my hate for *untu as well.
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Perhaps apt-cache review freeciv?
I am certain there will be a utility to serve this function soon, or there already is one that I've never heard of.... like perlthanks or something.
Only for the first few years... then you end up the other way around. The subsidy is built to match the recovery curve on oil investment.
Essentially, you can either do a flat year over year depreciation or you can front load it. Either way, you depreciate the same number of dollars. I am not sure how this ends up being a subsidy rather than a tax break on business cost... the same as my construction business. In fact, I often try to structure my spending to get a similar effect.
Solyndra is probably a poor example, as the primary shareholder was "THE" Obama fundraiser in the midwest and a powerful corporate force overall.
He's also fervently anti-libertarian, anti-republican in local politics. Thank you Mr Kaiser!
I personally have shut down technical consulting groups and call centers in France because we were able to get better customer satisfaction and more work out of their German and English counterparts. The data was trended over a decade (I only had personal touch with 2yrs). I argued to attempt to rectify the issue by interviewing local talent via a very technical French Canadian friend of mine. We conducted interviews for 2wks (similarly to what we did in London and Hamburg) and found the talent pool was also shallow, with salary expectations sorely out of line.
Long story short. We fired the French. We hired more Germans and English.
I understand that different types of companies expect different results, and different behaviors. The talent pool in France was unable to keep up with our expectations.
As a local to one of the crony capitalists that benefited from the Solyndra deal. Kaiser knew what he was doing when he dumped a several wads of cash into the O-B ticket coffers. He was buying access to free money. Solyndra died and Kaiser was paid back before the govt debts were satisfied, which is supposed to be against the law.
Mostly?
I don't use a mouse. I will usually install a plugin that allows browser use without a mouse and the keyboard is my friend.
I really don't use a mouse that often, and I do >10hrs daily of computer based work/study. It takes some adaptation, especially since everybody else pushed the mouse for even simple tasks (like word selection).
I certainly understand that I am in the minority... but I can dream, can't I?
I think the derision had more to do with the timing... as in, draft dodging.
I don't think I remember anyone who had a beef with accepting recognition and benefit from a foreign education institution.
just sayin'
Yes, I would love to be able to buy a laptop without a trackpad or a touchscreen. I disable the trackpad immediately upon boot on ASUS and HP laptops currently, if I could buy them without it would save me space and money. If I want a mouse, I will attach a little portable or use a bluetooth mouse.
Yes. I am paying attention, and yes I work with state-run oil and gas conglomerates. Most of them are shite for safety and environmental controls. CNOOC is an abomination. Petrozuata is horrid (except at their press friendly sites.) Petrobras is another example of hateful most of the time, unless a camera is near. Lukoil? The reason it was sold back to Russia is that the upgrade costs... were going to be monstrous.
I could go on for days...
So yes, please go on in your armchair criticism and ignorance. I agree that the banking and auto industry got a nice bit of crony capitalism going on, but you should spend your anger on fixing that. As a whole, our system works failure well... We just have to figure out (as we have in the past) how to ratchet down hard on the people currently gaming the system.
Huh... it's still standard enough that all of my linux devices can sync to it... along with my Android devices. So your response is a canard.
USB mass storage an anachronism? Definitely showing the lace of your shill bloomers. It's a useful tool, one that should be standard across the board.
The button is a linked to a keyboard action (more or less), and you should be able to change keyboard actions... So, yes I am glad that MS is getting reamed. May the pain continue.
Flaming error. Interesting nick, the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, the amendment you are looking for is often referred to as the 16th.
Or not using nvidia graphics cards or broadcom chipsets. Archlinux handles these nicely, while Ubuntu chunders.
Also the Ubuntu folks are selective about what hardware problems are a priority. That is to be expected from a business. In contrast, Archlinux devs don't really give a lot of crap about your hardware, but there is likely someone who has had the same problem and has provided the fix. This method seems to work long term because Archlinux uses the vanilla builds.
In short, everything will be same as humanity has had it for the majority of our existence. The GP is right, the world won't change a whole lot.
Call me when you get someone to figure out how the NIMBYs will get over thorium breeder reactors...
Heh... At my office we account for six. Once I demonstrated that I could dual-boot Linux and Android, so that it would be a very useful at the office, and could still be used by the significant other at home... they started breeding, setting up mated pairs(rsync) and otherwise carrying on.
ASUS needs a better marketing platform.
Yeah... Me and my Archos 101 were booting Angstrom and Android... 2 yrs ago... I think.
Stupid, stupid headline.
LOL... I never worked in the main buildings, just in the data centers as a contractor for INS. I don't know about the cubes and whatnot, but the beer grill out parties on Thursday nights were well catered. (The best beer available was Heineken though)
Huh... That's weird cuz I have stuff that parses about 150,000 syslog/sec without it being a binary format... So WTF?
When I read about journald I about shit my pants that some asshole was trying to make linux more like windows.
Depends on the family, my great-uncles volunteered. My great grandfather was turned down because he was partially lame for WWI and too old for WWII (meaning they didn't do a physical for WWII, they looked at his age and turned him away).
A great many were voluntold, but that does not lessen their courage in the face of enemy gun fire nor does it lessen their purpose. Some people are conditioned to be helpless and to perceive the world as unchangeable, they are the reason conscription was needed for an easily justified war. Vietnam is a whole different issue... as was the Civil War until Lincoln started recruiting around the slavery issue.
I prefer to call this, "Don't shit where you eat."
Agreed. In electronics, we go to the manufacturer because the 'local dealer' is a greedy crooked eveil bastard, and at least the manufacturer has a national name to protect, and can spread the cost of 'fixes' around.
With car dealerships... you're basically fucked. Well, you can try to navigate the bureaucracy and get satisfaction, but I've heard it is a beast and doesn't often end well.
Interesting how that logic didn't fly when it was the President.
This is why people view IT departments with such disdain. The GP is possibly one of the most destructive, demoralizing and immature ways to handle the issue.
You should be ashamed of yourselves. Learn to be professionals and advocate in a constructive positive manner. People like you are why people like me make so much money... I can propose a solution, advocate gently and nurse it through consensus, all while doing the implementation.
On second thought, I could always use more money, please continue to be assholes
Huh? One of the largest by profit, but still trounced by Exxon... and overall still smaller than the company that I work for.
Now, there are by far the most profitable tech company (AFAICT) but they are only just a little bit larger than IBM.
Huh... That's funny, cuz I was talking to my wife, who is fairly market savvy, what she thought would be a good way to try to leverage my skills into working from home... and she looked at me, smiled and said, "Besides porn?"
Truth is, it is a low overhead system, that if worked correctly can yield a high income without building your network, and doing something that comes naturally.
I wish I had modpoints... It seems that the Debian peeps think that I have infinite diskspace, so when I want to install something to test it... It MUST come with 80 bajillion other packages... and deinstalling those may traverse back up the tree and break something that I want. Hence my hate for *untu as well.