How about the other part of this story. Why did Alcoa hire this mega loser. What is the existing board of Alcoa's plan. Is there some sort of scam going on. Is the Alcoa board seeking to get all bendy with books, bloat up the bonuses while bankrupting the company and blaming all on this guy with the crappy track record. It's not like Alcoa didn't know, for a director they don't bother with a Google search, the get professionals to track down all the pertinent bits of information, they know exactly who this guy is and what his track record is. Seriously, why did Alcoa hire this guy to be a director and why are they now trying to hide who he is!?
What it actually was even though it is not readily apparent because it takes time to manifest, was not the war on drugs, not any pseudo war at all. You can all point your finger at idiot economists and the destruction they have wrought where ever they point their bullshit spreadsheets. 'PERFORMANCE BASED EVALUATION'.
That is what caused all your problems. The improper evaluation of your policing agencies and their staff. Once you allowed idiot economists to tie it to arrest and convictions rather than keeping the peace. So the adjustment over time occurred. Your policing agencies instead became law en'FORCE'ment agencies with a focus on achieving as many arrests and convictions and asset confiscations 'As Fast As Possible' and you have to use a whole lot of force to do it as fast as possible ie a bunch of officers spending 4 hours talking someone down or a couple of officers spending 10 seconds emptying their pistol clips into the victims chest.
Wake up to yourselves fools. Idiot knee jerk right wing thinking driven by fuckwit economists (isn't one great big fucking surprise how many economists are tea baggers) have screwed up pretty much every single government agency they have touched, from schools, to emergency services, to the military and especially the police.
Rush to arrest, rush to convict, innocent or guilty who cares as long as the conviction is gained. Need to keep those numbers rolling, need to justify budgets, need to confiscate stuff, faster, faster, faster. Privacy invasion meh who cares as long as there are more convictions for more crimes achieved faster than ever before, let GOD sort out the innocent and guilty.
Long range projections of what is likely to happen that can not be readily just shoved on into a spreadsheet is what economists routinely and specifically ignore but that doesn't stop those things from turning around and biting you on the arse. Now you get to spend billions repairing the harm caused by saving millions. Not that it will happen overnight, those dick head economists will fight spreadsheet and bullshit to keep their ideas in place and their bonuses coming, fuck the consequences.
Well you see the whole show was technically an illusion. The extrusion process for the material is really neither here nor there. The computer control of a concrete pump and the outlet of a house. The real important information that everyone is ignoring is the concrete mix. What is in it, how are they achieve higher extrudability with low slump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C..., what is the compressive and tensile strength of the concrete, how is it being reinforced, what are it's insulative properties, how is moisture movement being controlled, what happens when ice forms and how does it handle cracking. Exactly how toxic is the mix and how safe is it to use. What happens when you cut and drill into it.
Everyone loves to focus on 3D printing whilst ignoring the material the is used to do the printing and how it actually performs.
Can M$ be trusted with this http://www.computerworld.com/s... . M$ and insurance companies partner to make insurance cheaper? The whole system is sounding way, way to invasive. The internet of things with cameras, microphones, security systems (motion and heat detectors, monitoring all access and egress points), computers, modem and mobile phone. Everything you ever say or do can be monitored, recorded, filtered (make nothing look bad whilst hiding the good) and used against you by anyone with access, both government and corporate.
Uniform standard for connection is a bad idea much smarter would be strong limits on connections with secured protocols for different classes of appliances. Some protocols would be internal only and blocked from reaching out across the internet. Others would be restricted to only specific kinds of encrypted access perhaps even with legislated controls on that access. Very few would have 'open' unencrypted access. So how about a name change. THE ALLSEEN AND SECURED ALLIANCE as a reminder of what you need to be focused on.
PS exactly how much money has the NSA put into this:(.
Actually those countries doing the best have specific multicultural zones, blending pots where many people of many cultures come together, not necessarily the whole country but at least specific cities (couple of US examples Seattle and San Francisco). If Russia wants to surge ahead, it needs to think outside of the box and promote a multicultural zone, bring in high value immigrants from many regions to conduct high tech activities. A slick move would be to turn the Crimea into a multi-cultural zone and actively promote high quality migration to that region via the promotion of technology and creativity activities, with far more liberal laws in the zone, even to the point of legalising cannabis. That would throw a real cat amongst the pigeons.
Consider the inherent illogical move of banning words. Everybody has to know the words if you want to ban them. They have to know the banned word in order to not use it, thus someone has to use it, to teach them not to use it !? One assumes Russian will simply use the English words khuy (cock), pizda (cunt), yebat (to fuck) and blyad (whore) instead.
Surely the craziness of teaching people words they are not allowed to use to make sure they can adhere to the law and not use them will dawn on them.
Generally speaking the sharks aren't where the shark netting is. The expensive style, the heavy non catching but barrier style as used in Hong Kong. The buoy makes no sense. You might just as well ban people from using public beaches. The idea is for people to be able to freely use public beaches. The more the buoy goes off the more people will stay away, think about it. In a reduced natural resource environment sharks will endeavour to expand their meal options and rather than catching or scaring the crap out of beach goers upon regular occasions, simply warding the sharks off is the smart option. Perhaps suitable man shaped appropriately scented baits with a substantial electrical deterrent built in could be added near the nets for added benefit ie bite people and it hurts a lot.
For that group it is all in the technological difference between a computer hooked to the internet that is capable of doing a positively huge number of different and varied things to an appliance that hooks to the phone.
Forget selling them a computer and the internet, sell the a touch screen voice activated terminal with a remote tablet. Push button to call, say name, read details on screen to confirm. A terminal that can learn the users pronunciations and enunciations with some really broad fuzzy logic interpretation of instructions to cover a range of commands.
The KISS (keep it simple stupid) range of appliances for the SS range of customers, to be brutally blunt. Not to forget people grow old, through a life of continual changes, they simply only want to deal with the exact same thing today as yesterday or a simple easy change. Voice control will be the bridge to the last 30%, give them a computer that can talk back and that can take a varied range of verbal instructions to carry out a limited range of commands, with some touch screen activity to confirm and clarify.
From the basis of the claim, the judge should have taken a step and said, whoa, this is criminal activity, not a civil matter and needs to be handled by the appropriate authorities. The whole 'malicious software' phrase should have been clarified and how the action the judge allowed impacts evidence of crime.
Still wildly inappropriate for M$ to be doing this. You could argue that the FBI could do this and even contract to M$ to do it under FBI supervision but no way should M$ have been given carte blache vigilante powers.
It should have all been laid out. What access was allowed. What end user data was gathered. What is to be do with end user infected systems. What record will be required to be kept of all activities conducted. What recompense the innocent affected parties. How will evidence be preserved and a proper legal chain from source to court. How about some reasonable professionalism.
It should have gone from M$ to the FBI to the Court, back to the FBI and fully documented and only then under specific guidelines contracted to M$ under FBI supervision and all the data should leave M$ hands as they were only contractors and M$ can apply to the courts and the FBI for the data gathered after it has been vetted by the court and the FBI.
Not that I particularly love the Fucking Bloody Idiots but there is a right and a wrong way for doing things and the FBI should be questioning this and demanding all the data and direct supervision of the evidence obtained.
G+, yep lots and lots of smart techy types certainly are on it, how much they use it, is another question all together. It must be the social app with the greatest number of registered members who never use the social app.
Far more logical is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.... All that hard glass, basically broken bottles ground smooth, many many far finer fragments buried into the sand below. Plastic is a whole lot software than glass so it can get ground up much faster, add in brittling from UV exposure, the shorelines of the world, lots of sun and surf and we end up with a new kind of sand. The plastic that is caught in vegetation off the shore line is far more visible.
For me, sustainting real work speed. I didn't want to search for anything, I want to use the GUI without thinking about how I am using it. So customised menus with the tools I use most being most accesible and then sub menuing down from there. So with regard to upgrades copying that menu structure from one version to the next to the next to, wait what, fuck what I want, nah fuck what you want. Switch to alternate software and make it work. That is exactly why I switched from M$ Office to now Libre Office. Likely wouldn't have made the switch if M$ hadn't been a big ole bag o dicks about it and had given me a choice.
So the weather will be raining, with clouds, and clear skies, snowing and dry the maximum temperature will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc degrees C and maximum wind speed will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc. Nuances in your version of English is quite simply bullshit. The definition was quite clear cut. http://www.grammar-monster.com... so five weather forecasts, five historical weather reports, want higher numbers, counting is going fine so far "Make the non-countable noun an adjective to a countable noun. For example:"
Apparently the psychologist involved thought is was OK, because as it is part of normal default policy, âoeFacebook apparently manipulates peopleâ(TM)s News Feeds all of the timeâ. https://theconversation.com/sh....
Weather - The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )
The question then who is the claim of cyber security threat limited too. Can the end users launch a mass claim of cyber security threat by the ISP for throttling and censoring the data from to those affected individuals. "any action that may result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the security, confidentiality and availability of an information system or of information stored on such system.
Countermeasures can be employed against such threats absent risk of liability." So I as the end user can claim that the ISP interfered with my right to access data without specific authorisation (a blanket authorisation would have to be illegal, as the contract would be contradictory, we agree to supply you something except when we supply you nothing, you can write it down but it will fail in court). Forcing the ISP to seek approval each and every time they take any action to throttle or censor data without express authorisation to throttle or censor that data. So you can legally hack the ISP absent the risk of liability, youch, that's a bit strong. Class action law suite time.
Issuing part payment as shares is a tax dodge. You don't pay any taxes until the shares are sold but you can borrow money against them and the dividends can make the payments with you personal loan being tax deducted against those dividends. This means your pay is tax free and after 7 years is disappears as income. So nothing is ever as it seems, especially as companies can sell their stock, buy other better dividend stock and pay you in that, tax deduct it and yet you never pay tax on it.
Well put in the hard yards and you to can be a wikipedia editor. Donate money, promote wikipedia, write well crafted articles including references, ensure accuracy and have sound links and references to other articles. Make sure people look it up and read it, make contributions to other articles, join in discussions and be prepared to make wikipedia your life or at the very least a substantial portion of it. Never forget though "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."(Stephen Colbert). I am sorry but I can't help you with that, and no a conservative lie does not deserve equal time with a truth just because that truth presents a fact that can be interpreted as being liberal. OHH look a religious article on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R..., in fact it lead to a whole portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... all of it's own (with a huge number of articles), it would appear your comment has a disingenuous conservative bias based upon lies, it would be mercilessly deleted from wikipedia.
The proper fiscal calculation is. Work out the total capital cost and calculate the monthly financial payment based upon borrowing all that money and then add in monthly maintenance and administrative costs, deduct that from the value of the average energy generation forecast and associated revenue, what you have left over is profit on the investment. Technically in financial circles the investment starts paying off in the first month or it never really does. In total over the life of the system, you check to make sure it pays itself off before it expires.
Any other arguments are meaningless, extra generators, mass storage etc need to be costed completely separately as they are about recovering energy costs from other sources, so you just really compare them to the wind generators and in the case of batteries storing the energy of wing generators to sell it other times, versus other energy generation methods.
All that advertising, name dropping, media product placements ain't free you know, someone has to pay for it and some customers are willing to pay a whole lot not for the product but for the product branding that goes with it. Just like jewellery, what are you really paying for, nothing except poseur value and ego fulfilment. Tech device's though, tricky, you really don't want to market yourself as sucker as a victim of marketing and Apple is making the slow but inexorable slide down that market and the slide finishes with an avalanche. Buying beats to try market their way out of the problems seems a really silly move, better off to have dumped it out in dividends but the executive team will be after milking Apple for all it is worth reminds me of another company Kodak.
Just the sort of thing the NSA would love. So monitors all elemental emotional state levels much like a lie detector when ever your wear it. Reports you location and incorporates a bug er microphone into the device. Hell the NSA would have wet dreams about making it compulsory. The soft sell would be, but it means you don't have to carry a drivers licence when police wrongly demand ID they just be able to lock onto your watch and get all the information they want 24/7/365. Hmmm, who will be watching whom, will your be watching your watch or will your watch be watching you.
Not all books are the same. There are two major categories non-fiction versus fiction. I would have to be honest and say when it comes to say text books, I want to download them for free and never pay for them. I don't want a text book written by one author that only lasts a couple of years. I want one where hundreds even thousands of people expert in the field have collaborated on and update once a year. A government funded exercise, where it is not about generating a profit but saving money by reducing cost for education for every citizen. So open collaborative text books free of copyright hassles beyond keeping plagiarists under control.
So the problem isn't common core but the lack of unified high quality education across the state. The solution is pretty obvious take funding and management of public education away from local government and place it in state government hands. Straight away a massive saving in administrative costs, with one public education management body for each state rather than hundreds of them one for each local government body. There will also be huge federal government funding savings as they only need to control and manage support for 50 state departments of education rather than thousands of local government departments of education. A huge amount of waste in government spending in the US is driven by management being repeated again and again at local government level, when it should only occur once at state government level. That's where the focus should be, getting more management efficiency back in the system with a review of how public service is managed and taxation revenue generated for it and whether core essential services should be local government or state managed, things like schools, police and fire brigades. A single state resource distributed across the state according to need and local communities able to call upon the entire state resource in times of need. A huge reduction in management costs with either a tax saving or an increase in services.
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How about the other part of this story. Why did Alcoa hire this mega loser. What is the existing board of Alcoa's plan. Is there some sort of scam going on. Is the Alcoa board seeking to get all bendy with books, bloat up the bonuses while bankrupting the company and blaming all on this guy with the crappy track record. It's not like Alcoa didn't know, for a director they don't bother with a Google search, the get professionals to track down all the pertinent bits of information, they know exactly who this guy is and what his track record is. Seriously, why did Alcoa hire this guy to be a director and why are they now trying to hide who he is!?
What it actually was even though it is not readily apparent because it takes time to manifest, was not the war on drugs, not any pseudo war at all. You can all point your finger at idiot economists and the destruction they have wrought where ever they point their bullshit spreadsheets. 'PERFORMANCE BASED EVALUATION'.
That is what caused all your problems. The improper evaluation of your policing agencies and their staff. Once you allowed idiot economists to tie it to arrest and convictions rather than keeping the peace. So the adjustment over time occurred. Your policing agencies instead became law en'FORCE'ment agencies with a focus on achieving as many arrests and convictions and asset confiscations 'As Fast As Possible' and you have to use a whole lot of force to do it as fast as possible ie a bunch of officers spending 4 hours talking someone down or a couple of officers spending 10 seconds emptying their pistol clips into the victims chest.
Wake up to yourselves fools. Idiot knee jerk right wing thinking driven by fuckwit economists (isn't one great big fucking surprise how many economists are tea baggers) have screwed up pretty much every single government agency they have touched, from schools, to emergency services, to the military and especially the police.
Rush to arrest, rush to convict, innocent or guilty who cares as long as the conviction is gained. Need to keep those numbers rolling, need to justify budgets, need to confiscate stuff, faster, faster, faster. Privacy invasion meh who cares as long as there are more convictions for more crimes achieved faster than ever before, let GOD sort out the innocent and guilty.
Long range projections of what is likely to happen that can not be readily just shoved on into a spreadsheet is what economists routinely and specifically ignore but that doesn't stop those things from turning around and biting you on the arse. Now you get to spend billions repairing the harm caused by saving millions. Not that it will happen overnight, those dick head economists will fight spreadsheet and bullshit to keep their ideas in place and their bonuses coming, fuck the consequences.
Well you see the whole show was technically an illusion. The extrusion process for the material is really neither here nor there. The computer control of a concrete pump and the outlet of a house. The real important information that everyone is ignoring is the concrete mix. What is in it, how are they achieve higher extrudability with low slump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C..., what is the compressive and tensile strength of the concrete, how is it being reinforced, what are it's insulative properties, how is moisture movement being controlled, what happens when ice forms and how does it handle cracking. Exactly how toxic is the mix and how safe is it to use. What happens when you cut and drill into it.
Everyone loves to focus on 3D printing whilst ignoring the material the is used to do the printing and how it actually performs.
Those reasons of course being the information the NSA was able to gather about the board :O.
Can M$ be trusted with this http://www.computerworld.com/s... . M$ and insurance companies partner to make insurance cheaper? The whole system is sounding way, way to invasive. The internet of things with cameras, microphones, security systems (motion and heat detectors, monitoring all access and egress points), computers, modem and mobile phone. Everything you ever say or do can be monitored, recorded, filtered (make nothing look bad whilst hiding the good) and used against you by anyone with access, both government and corporate.
Uniform standard for connection is a bad idea much smarter would be strong limits on connections with secured protocols for different classes of appliances. Some protocols would be internal only and blocked from reaching out across the internet. Others would be restricted to only specific kinds of encrypted access perhaps even with legislated controls on that access. Very few would have 'open' unencrypted access. So how about a name change. THE ALLSEEN AND SECURED ALLIANCE as a reminder of what you need to be focused on.
PS exactly how much money has the NSA put into this :(.
Actually those countries doing the best have specific multicultural zones, blending pots where many people of many cultures come together, not necessarily the whole country but at least specific cities (couple of US examples Seattle and San Francisco). If Russia wants to surge ahead, it needs to think outside of the box and promote a multicultural zone, bring in high value immigrants from many regions to conduct high tech activities. A slick move would be to turn the Crimea into a multi-cultural zone and actively promote high quality migration to that region via the promotion of technology and creativity activities, with far more liberal laws in the zone, even to the point of legalising cannabis. That would throw a real cat amongst the pigeons.
Consider the inherent illogical move of banning words. Everybody has to know the words if you want to ban them. They have to know the banned word in order to not use it, thus someone has to use it, to teach them not to use it !? One assumes Russian will simply use the English words khuy (cock), pizda (cunt), yebat (to fuck) and blyad (whore) instead.
Surely the craziness of teaching people words they are not allowed to use to make sure they can adhere to the law and not use them will dawn on them.
Generally speaking the sharks aren't where the shark netting is. The expensive style, the heavy non catching but barrier style as used in Hong Kong. The buoy makes no sense. You might just as well ban people from using public beaches. The idea is for people to be able to freely use public beaches. The more the buoy goes off the more people will stay away, think about it. In a reduced natural resource environment sharks will endeavour to expand their meal options and rather than catching or scaring the crap out of beach goers upon regular occasions, simply warding the sharks off is the smart option. Perhaps suitable man shaped appropriately scented baits with a substantial electrical deterrent built in could be added near the nets for added benefit ie bite people and it hurts a lot.
For that group it is all in the technological difference between a computer hooked to the internet that is capable of doing a positively huge number of different and varied things to an appliance that hooks to the phone.
Forget selling them a computer and the internet, sell the a touch screen voice activated terminal with a remote tablet. Push button to call, say name, read details on screen to confirm. A terminal that can learn the users pronunciations and enunciations with some really broad fuzzy logic interpretation of instructions to cover a range of commands.
The KISS (keep it simple stupid) range of appliances for the SS range of customers, to be brutally blunt. Not to forget people grow old, through a life of continual changes, they simply only want to deal with the exact same thing today as yesterday or a simple easy change. Voice control will be the bridge to the last 30%, give them a computer that can talk back and that can take a varied range of verbal instructions to carry out a limited range of commands, with some touch screen activity to confirm and clarify.
From the basis of the claim, the judge should have taken a step and said, whoa, this is criminal activity, not a civil matter and needs to be handled by the appropriate authorities. The whole 'malicious software' phrase should have been clarified and how the action the judge allowed impacts evidence of crime.
Still wildly inappropriate for M$ to be doing this. You could argue that the FBI could do this and even contract to M$ to do it under FBI supervision but no way should M$ have been given carte blache vigilante powers.
It should have all been laid out. What access was allowed. What end user data was gathered. What is to be do with end user infected systems. What record will be required to be kept of all activities conducted. What recompense the innocent affected parties. How will evidence be preserved and a proper legal chain from source to court. How about some reasonable professionalism.
It should have gone from M$ to the FBI to the Court, back to the FBI and fully documented and only then under specific guidelines contracted to M$ under FBI supervision and all the data should leave M$ hands as they were only contractors and M$ can apply to the courts and the FBI for the data gathered after it has been vetted by the court and the FBI.
Not that I particularly love the Fucking Bloody Idiots but there is a right and a wrong way for doing things and the FBI should be questioning this and demanding all the data and direct supervision of the evidence obtained.
G+, yep lots and lots of smart techy types certainly are on it, how much they use it, is another question all together. It must be the social app with the greatest number of registered members who never use the social app.
Far more logical is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.... All that hard glass, basically broken bottles ground smooth, many many far finer fragments buried into the sand below. Plastic is a whole lot software than glass so it can get ground up much faster, add in brittling from UV exposure, the shorelines of the world, lots of sun and surf and we end up with a new kind of sand. The plastic that is caught in vegetation off the shore line is far more visible.
For me, sustainting real work speed. I didn't want to search for anything, I want to use the GUI without thinking about how I am using it. So customised menus with the tools I use most being most accesible and then sub menuing down from there. So with regard to upgrades copying that menu structure from one version to the next to the next to, wait what, fuck what I want, nah fuck what you want. Switch to alternate software and make it work. That is exactly why I switched from M$ Office to now Libre Office. Likely wouldn't have made the switch if M$ hadn't been a big ole bag o dicks about it and had given me a choice.
So the weather will be raining, with clouds, and clear skies, snowing and dry the maximum temperature will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc degrees C and maximum wind speed will be 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 etc. Nuances in your version of English is quite simply bullshit. The definition was quite clear cut. http://www.grammar-monster.com... so five weather forecasts, five historical weather reports, want higher numbers, counting is going fine so far "Make the non-countable noun an adjective to a countable noun. For example:"
Apparently the psychologist involved thought is was OK, because as it is part of normal default policy, âoeFacebook apparently manipulates peopleâ(TM)s News Feeds all of the timeâ. https://theconversation.com/sh....
SHIT THAT'S A REAL SHOCKER deserving of capitals.
Weather - The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )
Climate - The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )
In exactly what way? I gather that shrug has to do with your general state of confusion.
Lets be blunt the Swedish farmer argument is the "I'm Alright Jack" argument http://www.urbandictionary.com...! with just a bit of dressing up.
The question then who is the claim of cyber security threat limited too. Can the end users launch a mass claim of cyber security threat by the ISP for throttling and censoring the data from to those affected individuals. "any action that may result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the security, confidentiality and availability of an information system or of information stored on such system. Countermeasures can be employed against such threats absent risk of liability." So I as the end user can claim that the ISP interfered with my right to access data without specific authorisation (a blanket authorisation would have to be illegal, as the contract would be contradictory, we agree to supply you something except when we supply you nothing, you can write it down but it will fail in court). Forcing the ISP to seek approval each and every time they take any action to throttle or censor data without express authorisation to throttle or censor that data. So you can legally hack the ISP absent the risk of liability, youch, that's a bit strong. Class action law suite time.
Issuing part payment as shares is a tax dodge. You don't pay any taxes until the shares are sold but you can borrow money against them and the dividends can make the payments with you personal loan being tax deducted against those dividends. This means your pay is tax free and after 7 years is disappears as income. So nothing is ever as it seems, especially as companies can sell their stock, buy other better dividend stock and pay you in that, tax deduct it and yet you never pay tax on it.
Well put in the hard yards and you to can be a wikipedia editor. Donate money, promote wikipedia, write well crafted articles including references, ensure accuracy and have sound links and references to other articles. Make sure people look it up and read it, make contributions to other articles, join in discussions and be prepared to make wikipedia your life or at the very least a substantial portion of it. Never forget though "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."(Stephen Colbert). I am sorry but I can't help you with that, and no a conservative lie does not deserve equal time with a truth just because that truth presents a fact that can be interpreted as being liberal. OHH look a religious article on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R..., in fact it lead to a whole portal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... all of it's own (with a huge number of articles), it would appear your comment has a disingenuous conservative bias based upon lies, it would be mercilessly deleted from wikipedia.
The proper fiscal calculation is. Work out the total capital cost and calculate the monthly financial payment based upon borrowing all that money and then add in monthly maintenance and administrative costs, deduct that from the value of the average energy generation forecast and associated revenue, what you have left over is profit on the investment. Technically in financial circles the investment starts paying off in the first month or it never really does. In total over the life of the system, you check to make sure it pays itself off before it expires.
Any other arguments are meaningless, extra generators, mass storage etc need to be costed completely separately as they are about recovering energy costs from other sources, so you just really compare them to the wind generators and in the case of batteries storing the energy of wing generators to sell it other times, versus other energy generation methods.
All that advertising, name dropping, media product placements ain't free you know, someone has to pay for it and some customers are willing to pay a whole lot not for the product but for the product branding that goes with it. Just like jewellery, what are you really paying for, nothing except poseur value and ego fulfilment. Tech device's though, tricky, you really don't want to market yourself as sucker as a victim of marketing and Apple is making the slow but inexorable slide down that market and the slide finishes with an avalanche. Buying beats to try market their way out of the problems seems a really silly move, better off to have dumped it out in dividends but the executive team will be after milking Apple for all it is worth reminds me of another company Kodak.
Just the sort of thing the NSA would love. So monitors all elemental emotional state levels much like a lie detector when ever your wear it. Reports you location and incorporates a bug er microphone into the device. Hell the NSA would have wet dreams about making it compulsory. The soft sell would be, but it means you don't have to carry a drivers licence when police wrongly demand ID they just be able to lock onto your watch and get all the information they want 24/7/365. Hmmm, who will be watching whom, will your be watching your watch or will your watch be watching you.
Not all books are the same. There are two major categories non-fiction versus fiction. I would have to be honest and say when it comes to say text books, I want to download them for free and never pay for them. I don't want a text book written by one author that only lasts a couple of years. I want one where hundreds even thousands of people expert in the field have collaborated on and update once a year. A government funded exercise, where it is not about generating a profit but saving money by reducing cost for education for every citizen. So open collaborative text books free of copyright hassles beyond keeping plagiarists under control.
So the problem isn't common core but the lack of unified high quality education across the state. The solution is pretty obvious take funding and management of public education away from local government and place it in state government hands. Straight away a massive saving in administrative costs, with one public education management body for each state rather than hundreds of them one for each local government body. There will also be huge federal government funding savings as they only need to control and manage support for 50 state departments of education rather than thousands of local government departments of education. A huge amount of waste in government spending in the US is driven by management being repeated again and again at local government level, when it should only occur once at state government level. That's where the focus should be, getting more management efficiency back in the system with a review of how public service is managed and taxation revenue generated for it and whether core essential services should be local government or state managed, things like schools, police and fire brigades. A single state resource distributed across the state according to need and local communities able to call upon the entire state resource in times of need. A huge reduction in management costs with either a tax saving or an increase in services.