The biggest problem I have seen with old programs is data portability. Even several revisions out on the same programs can make it costly. In a lot of situations , more costly than keeping obsolete hardware running.
I was involved in a project to resurrect an old NetWare 3.something system for an accounting program used in a division of a company that was purchased originally as a stand alone company. It was determined years ago that it would be too costly to port the data because it would all need to be input by hand requiring several people and about a year to do so it was never updated to a modern system.
Even after getting it running again, it was still in use in parallel with a dormant version of the company wide system for several years while they had three people pulling and inputting data and validating it before going live.
Once you get out of the update cycle with proprietary software, it can sometimes even become costly to move up. But to switch to another system altogether can be really costly.
Actually, it is called medical malpractice. What I'm talking about is the reports of doctors evoking end of life treatment plans for the elderly in which they stop life saving treatments based on an expectation of death in patient care situations where they could live a lot longer but they want to free up bed space or conseeve limited resources. This is done completely without the patient permission.
Yes, you can kill you dog when it is lame or old. I do think that there is a huge difference between your pet and a human. Maybe that is just a relic from an iron age book that describes my prospects in an afterlife, but you not understanding it seems more frightening than any mental condition you attempt to ascribe to me.
Oh.. look up the fact that nih and other public health systems in Europe denying life saving treatments to the elderly who are obviously wanting treatment and to live. It is not euthanasia I am talking about.
There is nothing wrong with me. There are people who served no obvious purpose or value to society. There are people who piss me off, more trouble than they are worth and if it was livestock, they would have been culled a long time ago.
Your empathy is hollow too. It was empathy that was the driver behind Germany's T4, the modern euthanasia push for terminally ill as well as the old and aging in liberalized European countries. It is empathy that has legally killed. And note the legally part.
If you could rationalize it, empathy has historically allowed and caused the death of others and it would bring you to the same place.
Are your glasses dirty or something? This will be the third time i have mentioned illegality and you seem to have missed or ignored it the other two times.
And yes, The ten commandments are pre Christianity. It was a law of the Jews. What Christianity did was expanded the concept to all people instead of a select few already of a religion.
Yup. That and the illegal part has saved several people's lives. I doubt I'm alone in this restraint to. Isn't there anyone you wished would die but refused to cause the death yourself? If so, what stopped you?
You should be glad for people like him. Thou shalt not murder is likely a good reason you are even still alive. I can think of a few people I wouldn't mind killing off to make my world a better place but haven't because it is a sin and people like him told the rest of the world what to do (illegal ).
What is hilarious is that you somehow gained that insight from what I said.
Innovation in manufacturing seems to be largely automation and outsourcing. Services industries are doing the same with the exception of using software to help in the automation. Do you think that would be true if they were constantly refining processes and finding ways to do the same work more efficiently or effectively?
Not really. You don't see products rising and falling in price all the time because they set price points based on all their expenses including any projected tax liability. You can even see this localized with fast food restaurants where in a small town the prices might be more or less than in another town. This is often due to localized tax burdens. You can even see this within a major metropolitan area consisting of several political divisions.
Dividends is what should be taxed. But that is taxing the owners of the corporation and not the corporation.
Corporations, as well as any properly run business is already considering their tax obligations when budgeting. It only takes from their income when the rate unexpectedly changes before year end. Make no mistake, they already have accounted for their tax obligations before reporting income.
Corporations don't pay taxes, they rely on customers purchasing goods and services to meet their tax burden. That's the problem with taxing corporations- it only makes things cost more to you the consumer. The only time you the consumer benefits from corporate taxation is when they sell outside your governmental location and you essentially import taxes from other jurisdictions.
With T-Mobile service (great in some areas and shit in others ) it is most likely the deal is little more than getting and keeping customers. It probably makes up for when you end up in a shit area while traveling around looking for pokemon to capture.
I don't disagree with you. The reason I brought up the combat vets is because I think their stories about what it was like might be influencing the local cop's sense of security and when their John Wayne syndrome kicks it, they get a lot more scared than they need to be.
A lot of porn sites could be gamed this way to. You get the preview and alter the URL and next thing you know your in the directory for all of that model's pics. From there it was just a matter of paying attention and recognizing some patterns and you could easily get into others.
Now granted this may appear different because you could perform "actions" but it is the same or similar because you were using the preview authentication to browse the entire paywalled contents. They wised up and eventually put an end to it though. But there is plenty of quality porn available without resorting to that now.
The lead pipes are still in use though. The soldier joints had lead until more recently. It is the problem with the water in flint and other areas where the infrastructure is a mix of old and new.
However, i agree and don't think lead is the problem or sole problem. Take a look at Germany before Christianity took hold. It was a violent and brutal place and the response to killing someone was often a simple if he didn't want to die, he should have killed whoever tried to kill him. That was a cultural thing. We may be currently seeing a mix of things but people don't seem to value life unless it is their own and even then it gets confused when they think they will be rewarded after death.
That's a possibility but different scenarios with law enforcement verses combat/war.
As shallow as it sounds, I'm willing to accept mistakes in a war setting but not so much in peace time policing. It is sad, I wish it didn't happen, does nothing to bring the innocent back to life or make them whole again, but it is the way I see things.
The U.S. doesn't need rubbish like this either. They need to stop lowering the bar in efforts to be inclusive and demand more training, higher standards, and evaluate officers periodically.
They especially need to take officers who served in combat to the side and reprogram their life and death response because the majority of their encounters will not even get close to this. Of course as far as I know, the cops involved in most of the shootings were not combat vets but they could convey a message that others are incorrectly picking up.
Training and tactics can prevent most police shootings. Trust and professionalism go a long way too.
Yep. I even mentioned as much in the same comment. Although we didn't go as far as killing people due to it.
But racism was scientific back then (the master race and all was born out of eugenics). It was somewhat a conclusion of the classism based around race (africans) put in place in the 1600s to avoid slave rebellion. But eugenics implied/defined a better and lesser race and defects within races (via gene traits).
Well, lets see. The article states there were 22,000 workers. The entire CEOs salary comes to about $2.22 a week per worker. The amount of the raise came to less ($1.57). You didn't give the salaries of the 9 other executives so we can only guess to the increase. But lets assume they were $500,000 and all nine got a 100% raise just for illustration. This still comes out to $3.93 a week per worker. With the CEO, that is around $5.50 a week.
If they were going to pay for it with an 8% cut in worker salary, they would be making about $68.75 per week. Actually less because it was a combination of salaries and benefits being cut.
While it is an asshole move to raise your pay while getting someone else to take less under the threat of closing down, it had very little to do with the bankruptcy or the cut in pay and benefits. It likely wouldn't even equal 1% of the amount they were trying to save in order to become solvent.
It has already been tried to some degree. Nazi Germany based a lot of its policies on the treasure of science from the execution off crippled and mentally ill people who were scientifically shown to be a burden to society presently or in the future with their T4 program or their eventual final solution for those of lesser heritage through the scientific wonders of Eugenics.
And this proud scientific achievement was not alone in just Nazi Germany. Eugenics was prevalent in many areas outside of Germany including the USA with forced sterilization of lesser people and the birth of organizations designed to continue limiting births of lesser people although by convincing them of the neccesity rather than by force. Planned parenthood for instance doesn't have an abortion clinic in any area without a substantial minority population. They go into schools and teach children their life is ruined if they have kids so use protection.
Yes, because being expected to work 30 hours in less than two days (actually a less than a day and a half or a 34 hour time span) is such high class and respectable and refusing to do so is "drama".
You need to get some understanding of the real world and get out of your mom's basement more.
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The biggest problem I have seen with old programs is data portability. Even several revisions out on the same programs can make it costly. In a lot of situations , more costly than keeping obsolete hardware running.
I was involved in a project to resurrect an old NetWare 3.something system for an accounting program used in a division of a company that was purchased originally as a stand alone company. It was determined years ago that it would be too costly to port the data because it would all need to be input by hand requiring several people and about a year to do so it was never updated to a modern system.
Even after getting it running again, it was still in use in parallel with a dormant version of the company wide system for several years while they had three people pulling and inputting data and validating it before going live.
Once you get out of the update cycle with proprietary software, it can sometimes even become costly to move up. But to switch to another system altogether can be really costly.
Actually, it is called medical malpractice. What I'm talking about is the reports of doctors evoking end of life treatment plans for the elderly in which they stop life saving treatments based on an expectation of death in patient care situations where they could live a lot longer but they want to free up bed space or conseeve limited resources. This is done completely without the patient permission.
Yes, you can kill you dog when it is lame or old. I do think that there is a huge difference between your pet and a human. Maybe that is just a relic from an iron age book that describes my prospects in an afterlife, but you not understanding it seems more frightening than any mental condition you attempt to ascribe to me.
Oh.. look up the fact that nih and other public health systems in Europe denying life saving treatments to the elderly who are obviously wanting treatment and to live. It is not euthanasia I am talking about.
There is nothing wrong with me. There are people who served no obvious purpose or value to society. There are people who piss me off, more trouble than they are worth and if it was livestock, they would have been culled a long time ago.
Your empathy is hollow too. It was empathy that was the driver behind Germany's T4, the modern euthanasia push for terminally ill as well as the old and aging in liberalized European countries. It is empathy that has legally killed. And note the legally part.
If you could rationalize it, empathy has historically allowed and caused the death of others and it would bring you to the same place.
Are your glasses dirty or something? This will be the third time i have mentioned illegality and you seem to have missed or ignored it the other two times.
And yes, The ten commandments are pre Christianity. It was a law of the Jews. What Christianity did was expanded the concept to all people instead of a select few already of a religion.
Yup. That and the illegal part has saved several people's lives. I doubt I'm alone in this restraint to. Isn't there anyone you wished would die but refused to cause the death yourself? If so, what stopped you?
Yup. I wasn't brought up Christian. What is your point? Did you also miss the illegal part too? Or can you not address the entirety of a statement?
You should be glad for people like him. Thou shalt not murder is likely a good reason you are even still alive. I can think of a few people I wouldn't mind killing off to make my world a better place but haven't because it is a sin and people like him told the rest of the world what to do (illegal ).
What is hilarious is that you somehow gained that insight from what I said.
Innovation in manufacturing seems to be largely automation and outsourcing. Services industries are doing the same with the exception of using software to help in the automation. Do you think that would be true if they were constantly refining processes and finding ways to do the same work more efficiently or effectively?
More than likely the more efficient process will be tax dodging or outsourcing and importing.
There are few breakthroughs that can make processes better or more efficient. Materials and processes are largely understood
Not really. You don't see products rising and falling in price all the time because they set price points based on all their expenses including any projected tax liability. You can even see this localized with fast food restaurants where in a small town the prices might be more or less than in another town. This is often due to localized tax burdens. You can even see this within a major metropolitan area consisting of several political divisions.
Dividends is what should be taxed. But that is taxing the owners of the corporation and not the corporation.
Corporations, as well as any properly run business is already considering their tax obligations when budgeting. It only takes from their income when the rate unexpectedly changes before year end. Make no mistake, they already have accounted for their tax obligations before reporting income.
Corporations don't pay taxes, they rely on customers purchasing goods and services to meet their tax burden. That's the problem with taxing corporations- it only makes things cost more to you the consumer. The only time you the consumer benefits from corporate taxation is when they sell outside your governmental location and you essentially import taxes from other jurisdictions.
With T-Mobile service (great in some areas and shit in others ) it is most likely the deal is little more than getting and keeping customers. It probably makes up for when you end up in a shit area while traveling around looking for pokemon to capture.
I don't disagree with you. The reason I brought up the combat vets is because I think their stories about what it was like might be influencing the local cop's sense of security and when their John Wayne syndrome kicks it, they get a lot more scared than they need to be.
Perhaps I worded it wrong.
About as far as they have already gotten.
Or do you think everyone is a neo nazi? The reality is that they are a tiny minority in a large population.
A lot of porn sites could be gamed this way to. You get the preview and alter the URL and next thing you know your in the directory for all of that model's pics. From there it was just a matter of paying attention and recognizing some patterns and you could easily get into others.
Now granted this may appear different because you could perform "actions" but it is the same or similar because you were using the preview authentication to browse the entire paywalled contents. They wised up and eventually put an end to it though. But there is plenty of quality porn available without resorting to that now.
The lead pipes are still in use though. The soldier joints had lead until more recently. It is the problem with the water in flint and other areas where the infrastructure is a mix of old and new.
However, i agree and don't think lead is the problem or sole problem. Take a look at Germany before Christianity took hold. It was a violent and brutal place and the response to killing someone was often a simple if he didn't want to die, he should have killed whoever tried to kill him. That was a cultural thing. We may be currently seeing a mix of things but people don't seem to value life unless it is their own and even then it gets confused when they think they will be rewarded after death.
That's a possibility but different scenarios with law enforcement verses combat/war.
As shallow as it sounds, I'm willing to accept mistakes in a war setting but not so much in peace time policing. It is sad, I wish it didn't happen, does nothing to bring the innocent back to life or make them whole again, but it is the way I see things.
The U.S. doesn't need rubbish like this either. They need to stop lowering the bar in efforts to be inclusive and demand more training, higher standards, and evaluate officers periodically.
They especially need to take officers who served in combat to the side and reprogram their life and death response because the majority of their encounters will not even get close to this. Of course as far as I know, the cops involved in most of the shootings were not combat vets but they could convey a message that others are incorrectly picking up.
Training and tactics can prevent most police shootings. Trust and professionalism go a long way too.
So the tpp somehow helps you in Canada? Or is it that they did something without mentioning Canada?
What is it that makes a statement seemingly so moronic somehow justifiably insightful?
Yep. I even mentioned as much in the same comment. Although we didn't go as far as killing people due to it.
But racism was scientific back then (the master race and all was born out of eugenics). It was somewhat a conclusion of the classism based around race (africans) put in place in the 1600s to avoid slave rebellion. But eugenics implied/defined a better and lesser race and defects within races (via gene traits).
Well, lets see. The article states there were 22,000 workers. The entire CEOs salary comes to about $2.22 a week per worker. The amount of the raise came to less ($1.57). You didn't give the salaries of the 9 other executives so we can only guess to the increase. But lets assume they were $500,000 and all nine got a 100% raise just for illustration. This still comes out to $3.93 a week per worker. With the CEO, that is around $5.50 a week.
If they were going to pay for it with an 8% cut in worker salary, they would be making about $68.75 per week. Actually less because it was a combination of salaries and benefits being cut.
While it is an asshole move to raise your pay while getting someone else to take less under the threat of closing down, it had very little to do with the bankruptcy or the cut in pay and benefits. It likely wouldn't even equal 1% of the amount they were trying to save in order to become solvent.
It has already been tried to some degree. Nazi Germany based a lot of its policies on the treasure of science from the execution off crippled and mentally ill people who were scientifically shown to be a burden to society presently or in the future with their T4 program or their eventual final solution for those of lesser heritage through the scientific wonders of Eugenics.
And this proud scientific achievement was not alone in just Nazi Germany. Eugenics was prevalent in many areas outside of Germany including the USA with forced sterilization of lesser people and the birth of organizations designed to continue limiting births of lesser people although by convincing them of the neccesity rather than by force. Planned parenthood for instance doesn't have an abortion clinic in any area without a substantial minority population. They go into schools and teach children their life is ruined if they have kids so use protection.
Yes, because being expected to work 30 hours in less than two days (actually a less than a day and a half or a 34 hour time span) is such high class and respectable and refusing to do so is "drama".
You need to get some understanding of the real world and get out of your mom's basement more.
A really good phone sex session?
I'm surprised that still happens with the internet and all. I would like to know the ring tone used.