$150,000 per person that we owe the rest of the world? The US debt currently stands at about $8 trillion. Of that about $3.4 trillion is intragovernmental holdings (look it up and learn). Out of the remaining $4.6 trillion, only about $2 trillion is actually held abroad. So per American, we only owe roughly $667 per person to the rest of the world.
Want to start counting European unpaid debts from the Marshall Plan and factor in inflation and interest?
Well, I know that Alliance Capital is completely down. They have no generators for redundant power. Instead their phone systems and computer systems are connected to UPS's. As of 10:00pm ET they are in the dark. Even their www.alliancecapital.com website is unreachable.
Chargebacks man... chargebacks. It's the only way to keep business department demands in check. If they don't have to pay for something (new hardware or new software), then they will make unreasonable demands, which hurt the IT department.
If the IT department is eating the cost for everything, then it would look like a huge black hole to upper management. If the business units are forced to pay for what they demand, then two things happen. They will better evaluate their wants to see if they are really needs and are worth the price. Secondly, they will pick up the tab which greatly helps the IT department budget.
Where I work this policy was implemented recently. Business units must pay a fee for the switch port for any new network connection, they also are billed for support of workstations and printers based on the number of each devices.
Any new software, whether it's off the shelf or in-house, they pay for. And any new requests that require additional server hardware, they eat some of the cost.
So instead of being a yearly black hole of roughly $280 million, the IT department on paper comes much closer to breaking even. In fact, where I work (a large financial firm), the IT department has actually been spun off as a subsidiary of the parent corporation.
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Bad math skills on my part. I lost a zero. Regardless, we don't owe the rest of the world anywhere near $150,000 per person as originally suggested.
$150,000 per person that we owe the rest of the world? The US debt currently stands at about $8 trillion. Of that about $3.4 trillion is intragovernmental holdings (look it up and learn). Out of the remaining $4.6 trillion, only about $2 trillion is actually held abroad. So per American, we only owe roughly $667 per person to the rest of the world.
Want to start counting European unpaid debts from the Marshall Plan and factor in inflation and interest?
Ever heard of Nortel? They own Netgear. I think it's safe to call Nortel a "real router company".
books like the Jehovah's Witnesses Creation book.
Well, I know that Alliance Capital is completely down. They have no generators for redundant power. Instead their phone systems and computer systems are connected to UPS's. As of 10:00pm ET they are in the dark. Even their www.alliancecapital.com website is unreachable.
Chargebacks man... chargebacks. It's the only way to keep business department demands in check. If they don't have to pay for something (new hardware or new software), then they will make unreasonable demands, which hurt the IT department.
If the IT department is eating the cost for everything, then it would look like a huge black hole to upper management. If the business units are forced to pay for what they demand, then two things happen. They will better evaluate their wants to see if they are really needs and are worth the price. Secondly, they will pick up the tab which greatly helps the IT department budget.
Where I work this policy was implemented recently. Business units must pay a fee for the switch port for any new network connection, they also are billed for support of workstations and printers based on the number of each devices.
Any new software, whether it's off the shelf or in-house, they pay for. And any new requests that require additional server hardware, they eat some of the cost.
So instead of being a yearly black hole of roughly $280 million, the IT department on paper comes much closer to breaking even. In fact, where I work (a large financial firm), the IT department has actually been spun off as a subsidiary of the parent corporation.