Wrong on 3 out of 4. I know it's snark but why not - I'll give a guy who delivered 4000 babies a pass for abortion, then again from a moral point of view contraceptives are everywhere and adoptions work (Have 2 adopted in my family). Of course he believes it should be a state issue not a fed issue. Gay - and straight - marriage should not involve the gov at all. The idea that the gov gives us the right to marry is asinine. RP supports gays in the military. He voted for repealing Don't ask don't tell. He thinks everyone should have the liberty to do as they want.
Separation of Church and state isn't spelled out in the constitution. Personally I find it silly that even at a township level when a new board is sworn in they do the 'so help you god'. Then again with hundreds of recognized religions, being able to sign up to be a legal minister over the 'net (Universal Life Church even accepts atheists) I'm fine with that. There are far more interesting things than the 10 commandments to put on buildings.
No, this is CVac from an Australian company. It takes the patients own immune system and tries to train it to attack ovarian cancer. Prima BioMed Info and Dubai PR about this. It sounds like a promising idea and prelim results look hopeful.
HPV is common in the states now. I know my mother's chemo doctor recommends both boys and girls get it.
I wonder if this is giving anonymous any ideas for a social hack, close the hospitals country wide because they can't do billing or check on insurance. This shows hospitals would rather close than treat someone for free.
I'll gladly help as soon as I'm done switching car insurance.... again. I started with a switch to Progressive which saved me hundreds. Then to Geico which saved me hundreds more. Once I switch to All State saving a few hundred and then the general they'll be paying me to have car insurance. Once this works for one car I'll buy another, and keep on buying. Soon I'll be buying enough cars to get the Big 3 back on their feet. Maybe revitalize the Michigan economy. Since every car needs a phone your plan is a nice add-on to profit quicker.
You can currently receive an Ovarian cancer vaccine treatment in Dubai that is only in a very small first trial in the States. Sure it costs over a hundred grand and insurance won't cover it but it's an interesting way to attract more wealth to the country. It won't surprise me to see more of this in the future.
The latest stat from Wikipedia is 71% of firefighters are volunteers. Having just done some community activities with our local volunteer FD I heard a similar number from the chief. Our FDs in my part of Michigan are all tax funded through township or city taxes. If new equipment need is given then they can get very attractive loans but they are still loans. The only grants I know our local ones have received were post 9/11 for chemical and nuclear equipment (Due to being near 2 plants within 50 miles).
I live in a rural area. Local taxes also pay for the local police via a police millage (around 100K for 40 hour police protection a week, plus supplemental emergency coverage from the county dispatch), ambulance (109K for township coverage) and a road millage and a school millage. The local school district built a new middle school a few years ago and a millage had to be passed to pay for it. Schools are also ran off of property taxes. I personally am in favor of removing the Dep of Education since it doesn't make sense to send local taxes to the state, then feds, only for the feds to send the money back to the local school. Cut the bureaucracy! My area is partly on sewer - if you live near one of the lakes - but that was all paid for by hookup fees and monthly fees. Water is supplied all by personal wells. Clean water that tastes good out of the tap is a wonderful thing.
Not surprisingly my rural area is consistently republican. Don't even think of running for the township as a Dem (Not that I think national parties matter on the local level). Realistically most everyone is more libertarian than anything - my land, my right to do anything I damn well please on it if it doesn't hurt you.
I hope that's a +5 insightful for political satire.
The FED most definitely scored political points. Wall street is a huge political donor machine, a lot of favors were called in to let the banks play with free money. Setting aside the fact that the FED is a private bank controlled by the mega banks, created in secret by wall street and the big banks, the FED is not worthy of being cheered for their actions. If they had saved the economy from implosion then perhaps - ignoring everything else the FED is. Instead the decades of screwing over everyone in the name of making money has continued.
The too big to fail are even bigger
The FED will loan money to big banks at 0% Interest. The banks take this money and buy treasury bonds which pay interest. The government is paying banks to loan them its own money
The credit default swaps were a ponzi scheme. Buying insurance against stock recommendations were a ponzi scheme. Years later and where are the charges for malfeasance? Oh right, banks get away with everything and never get in trouble.
The FED handed out money to everyone and their brother if they have connections. Or Wives of bankers with a guarantee to make money, and keep all profits.
The FED allowed a huge financial crisis to allow a significant transfer of wealth into the banks pockets. Never let a crisis stop you from profiting!
Those actions are the the reason people are complaining about the 1%. It's not about the smart business person, lucky inventor who made it big, or dotcom startup - but the bankers who profited from their connections, and continue to do so, at the expense of everyone else. All allowed by the continued failed policies of the FED.
Too Big to Fail was an interesting look at the collapse. A modern day horror story. Here's a fun quote :
Michele Davis: They almost bring down the US economy as we know but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it!
[the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs upon hearing that the 9 bank CEOs may refuse to take free money from the federal government if they had to be held accountable for how they spent it]
Unfortunately small companies rarely get the tax incentives that big companies get. The small business that is looking to expand and hire 3 more people won't get the perks of a company moving in hiring 50. I wonder what tax structure they got, probably along the lines of 10 years no property taxes, 10 years reduced after, or other very nice terms.
Your list is pretty good. I'd also add self-confidence. If you're not sure you want to gamble it all on your skills then you probably aren't cut out to go it alone. I was raised in a small business environment and I've also done my own thing. I've had some successes, some failures, and am still working hard. I have learned more of what not to do than to do, but here's the biggest thing I have seen...
It's easy to start your own business but hard to keep one going. I owned an ISP for a decade and had contact with many small computer shops. I saw many of those come and go as technical people thought it'd be smart to go into business because they are good with computers. Frequently they would undercharge their clients, take too much on, or would have trouble with sales. It's not just techies, I see the same with the trades. Someone gets a license and heads out on their own. Awhile later they hang it up and go back to working for someone else.
There are just enough success stories to keep the game being played. For every Gates and Jobs there are a bevy of failures. But we celebrates the success to keep entrepreneurs going. Just down the road from me is the Ed Lowe Foundation. He made his millions with Kitty Litter. His endowment for the foundation was around the 100 mil mark if I recall. Being rich from cat shit, who would have thunk. But he was peddling clay bags to the local stores for a long time before it took off.
Now back to the original poster, if he has any prior work to show then that's what you need. Go to a hiring small business and let your work speak for you. If there is a big HR department then look for a smaller shop.
It's the same cost analysis that makes off peak metering beneficial. Everyone should look into that if it's available to you. From my understanding, the energy companies pay their electric rates from the plants based on their peak load of the day. If they can even out the load so there is less of a spike it benefits their bottom line so they offer off peak metering. Around here that means any electricity used from 7pm to 7am, holidays, and weekends electricity is drastically reduced in cost. Peak usage is the same normal rate. It just takes a smart meter upgrade which is free. I've seen monthly costs drop by over 50%. The electric company doesn't advertise this so if it is offered it may take a few repeat calls to get it. Saying you're thinking about installing some electric hog like an electric oven, or electric baseboard heat seems to get them moving faster. I know even a local electric company VP hadn't heard of their own program .
The family plumbing shop used to have a contract with the local electric company to install monster 120 gallon electric water heaters. They were designed to heat at night - off peak - and they were insulated so well they would retain their heat all day. The local power company stopped that after a number of years and went to more smart metered conventional heaters.
I'm all for a social networking program that lets you sit your phone in a cradle on the dash while driving, capturing all plates that are auto-uploaded to an open database. The best part is this would allow the cop location services for speed traps to be reliable, instead of so many false positives. Anyone up for a project? While I've done android dev, I have not done any video processing work.
And here I thought kids could be a retirement plan. Produce a well paid pro and the parents are set. Heck there are even tv commercials about this - family teaching their 5 year old to dunk... so it must be true.
I agree with you, I have an I R Smart membership card too. Many people don't automatically reach any sort of consensus regardless of facts. The bulletin and various SIGs can make slashdot look like tame sometimes. The nation voted in O who I consider to be a pretty smart guy and his hope and change platform just carried on what Bush had done. While I usually want someone smart running things, unfortunately smart AND not in the pocket of outside interests is probably very hard to find.
If a judge orders you to break the law, what happens? The recent case with the judge requiring the divorcing people to swap facebook passwords - if you don't, you're in contempt. If you do, you're breaking the law. So who should one follow?
If I remember the GI Joe Comics made Cobra island through bombs being dropped at strategic places. And then they did something truly evil - they used lawyers to make it their sovereign nation.
I know there was a lot of research done about methane and greenhouse gases released by cows. As America is also #1 in Body Mass Index maybe it's not our consumption, maybe we just are releasing a lot of gas into the air ourselves.
The family owns a Plumbing/HVAC company so I'll say you're kind of right. I have worked in it frequently before jumping into the IT world. The main reasoning was my father has always said he didn't want his kids getting into the industry. He's 3rd generation master plumber and I took his advice. Skilled trades are often overlooked at being just that, highly skilled. But the job can be physically demanding and if you're in a cold climate and furnaces go down it can be a time sensitive job. Hernias, back surgeries, and other physical problems can be par for the course. It can be a good career just know what you're getting into.
Further competition is growing in new ways. The box stores (Home Depot, Lowes, Sears) are already into the service offering. The contracts with those stores give laughably small margins. But those stores can find people willing to work for that. If you're in an area and have loyal customers it can be profitable, yes. But it's not a guarantee of constant work and profit.
But fear mongering is a tried and tried method to get people to accept changes. Think of the children! Besides this is all security theater. What happens when some idiot shoe bomber tries to blow up the waiting line of people going through security.. some sort of x-ray screening before you get to the x-ray screening? Or perhaps we could try the Israeli approach of highly trained people to spot terrorists. That'd just be too.. logical!
Actually recent polls show the GOP is close to Obama http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html. Not to say a few more months of bickering won't sink the GOP ship entirely. Also other polls show that over 50% of Americans support legalizing pot, and a recent GOP debate had Ron Paul bring up legalizing heroin which got cheers from the South Carolina crowd taking the moderator by surprise. I doubt the issue has the legs to go anywhere right now but I wouldn't be totally shocked if things change in the future.
that matters on the ebook and the date. If you have a copy of the necronomicon on Halloween it's going to be really heavy. Christmas? It's light reading.
Don't forget the 220 million the FED gave to 2 wives of morgan stanley bankers, who had no business experience, to purchase student loans. The agreement also covered them for any losses, while they kept the profit. Sweet! Where can I get a deal like that, free money and no chance of loss.
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Wrong on 3 out of 4. I know it's snark but why not - I'll give a guy who delivered 4000 babies a pass for abortion, then again from a moral point of view contraceptives are everywhere and adoptions work (Have 2 adopted in my family). Of course he believes it should be a state issue not a fed issue. Gay - and straight - marriage should not involve the gov at all. The idea that the gov gives us the right to marry is asinine. RP supports gays in the military. He voted for repealing Don't ask don't tell. He thinks everyone should have the liberty to do as they want.
Separation of Church and state isn't spelled out in the constitution. Personally I find it silly that even at a township level when a new board is sworn in they do the 'so help you god'. Then again with hundreds of recognized religions, being able to sign up to be a legal minister over the 'net (Universal Life Church even accepts atheists) I'm fine with that. There are far more interesting things than the 10 commandments to put on buildings.
I doubt the few people who complain don't nearly equate to how much nascar, amazaon, and others are paying Sprint for this.
No, this is CVac from an Australian company. It takes the patients own immune system and tries to train it to attack ovarian cancer. Prima BioMed Info and Dubai PR about this. It sounds like a promising idea and prelim results look hopeful.
HPV is common in the states now. I know my mother's chemo doctor recommends both boys and girls get it.
I wonder if this is giving anonymous any ideas for a social hack, close the hospitals country wide because they can't do billing or check on insurance. This shows hospitals would rather close than treat someone for free.
I'll gladly help as soon as I'm done switching car insurance.... again. I started with a switch to Progressive which saved me hundreds. Then to Geico which saved me hundreds more. Once I switch to All State saving a few hundred and then the general they'll be paying me to have car insurance. Once this works for one car I'll buy another, and keep on buying. Soon I'll be buying enough cars to get the Big 3 back on their feet. Maybe revitalize the Michigan economy. Since every car needs a phone your plan is a nice add-on to profit quicker.
You can currently receive an Ovarian cancer vaccine treatment in Dubai that is only in a very small first trial in the States. Sure it costs over a hundred grand and insurance won't cover it but it's an interesting way to attract more wealth to the country. It won't surprise me to see more of this in the future.
The latest stat from Wikipedia is 71% of firefighters are volunteers. Having just done some community activities with our local volunteer FD I heard a similar number from the chief. Our FDs in my part of Michigan are all tax funded through township or city taxes. If new equipment need is given then they can get very attractive loans but they are still loans. The only grants I know our local ones have received were post 9/11 for chemical and nuclear equipment (Due to being near 2 plants within 50 miles).
I live in a rural area. Local taxes also pay for the local police via a police millage (around 100K for 40 hour police protection a week, plus supplemental emergency coverage from the county dispatch), ambulance (109K for township coverage) and a road millage and a school millage. The local school district built a new middle school a few years ago and a millage had to be passed to pay for it. Schools are also ran off of property taxes. I personally am in favor of removing the Dep of Education since it doesn't make sense to send local taxes to the state, then feds, only for the feds to send the money back to the local school. Cut the bureaucracy! My area is partly on sewer - if you live near one of the lakes - but that was all paid for by hookup fees and monthly fees. Water is supplied all by personal wells. Clean water that tastes good out of the tap is a wonderful thing.
Not surprisingly my rural area is consistently republican. Don't even think of running for the township as a Dem (Not that I think national parties matter on the local level). Realistically most everyone is more libertarian than anything - my land, my right to do anything I damn well please on it if it doesn't hurt you.
I hope that's a +5 insightful for political satire.
The FED most definitely scored political points. Wall street is a huge political donor machine, a lot of favors were called in to let the banks play with free money. Setting aside the fact that the FED is a private bank controlled by the mega banks, created in secret by wall street and the big banks, the FED is not worthy of being cheered for their actions. If they had saved the economy from implosion then perhaps - ignoring everything else the FED is. Instead the decades of screwing over everyone in the name of making money has continued.
Those actions are the the reason people are complaining about the 1%. It's not about the smart business person, lucky inventor who made it big, or dotcom startup - but the bankers who profited from their connections, and continue to do so, at the expense of everyone else. All allowed by the continued failed policies of the FED.
Too Big to Fail was an interesting look at the collapse. A modern day horror story. Here's a fun quote :
Michele Davis: They almost bring down the US economy as we know but we can't put restrictions on how they spend the $125 billion we're giving them because... they might not take it!
[the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs upon hearing that the 9 bank CEOs may refuse to take free money from the federal government if they had to be held accountable for how they spent it]
Unfortunately small companies rarely get the tax incentives that big companies get. The small business that is looking to expand and hire 3 more people won't get the perks of a company moving in hiring 50. I wonder what tax structure they got, probably along the lines of 10 years no property taxes, 10 years reduced after, or other very nice terms.
Hey, I have had a telnet window open to a MUD for communications for the past 15 years. ICQ was just some 400 million dollar fad.
Your list is pretty good. I'd also add self-confidence. If you're not sure you want to gamble it all on your skills then you probably aren't cut out to go it alone. I was raised in a small business environment and I've also done my own thing. I've had some successes, some failures, and am still working hard. I have learned more of what not to do than to do, but here's the biggest thing I have seen...
It's easy to start your own business but hard to keep one going. I owned an ISP for a decade and had contact with many small computer shops. I saw many of those come and go as technical people thought it'd be smart to go into business because they are good with computers. Frequently they would undercharge their clients, take too much on, or would have trouble with sales. It's not just techies, I see the same with the trades. Someone gets a license and heads out on their own. Awhile later they hang it up and go back to working for someone else.
There are just enough success stories to keep the game being played. For every Gates and Jobs there are a bevy of failures. But we celebrates the success to keep entrepreneurs going. Just down the road from me is the Ed Lowe Foundation. He made his millions with Kitty Litter. His endowment for the foundation was around the 100 mil mark if I recall. Being rich from cat shit, who would have thunk. But he was peddling clay bags to the local stores for a long time before it took off.
Now back to the original poster, if he has any prior work to show then that's what you need. Go to a hiring small business and let your work speak for you. If there is a big HR department then look for a smaller shop.
It's the same cost analysis that makes off peak metering beneficial. Everyone should look into that if it's available to you. From my understanding, the energy companies pay their electric rates from the plants based on their peak load of the day. If they can even out the load so there is less of a spike it benefits their bottom line so they offer off peak metering. Around here that means any electricity used from 7pm to 7am, holidays, and weekends electricity is drastically reduced in cost. Peak usage is the same normal rate. It just takes a smart meter upgrade which is free. I've seen monthly costs drop by over 50%. The electric company doesn't advertise this so if it is offered it may take a few repeat calls to get it. Saying you're thinking about installing some electric hog like an electric oven, or electric baseboard heat seems to get them moving faster. I know even a local electric company VP hadn't heard of their own program . The family plumbing shop used to have a contract with the local electric company to install monster 120 gallon electric water heaters. They were designed to heat at night - off peak - and they were insulated so well they would retain their heat all day. The local power company stopped that after a number of years and went to more smart metered conventional heaters.
One of them is in Michigan. It's a big civil engineering project. A very simple concept and it must be very cost effective because they're dumping another 800 mil into it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_Plant
I'm all for a social networking program that lets you sit your phone in a cradle on the dash while driving, capturing all plates that are auto-uploaded to an open database. The best part is this would allow the cop location services for speed traps to be reliable, instead of so many false positives. Anyone up for a project? While I've done android dev, I have not done any video processing work.
And here I thought kids could be a retirement plan. Produce a well paid pro and the parents are set. Heck there are even tv commercials about this - family teaching their 5 year old to dunk... so it must be true.
I agree with you, I have an I R Smart membership card too. Many people don't automatically reach any sort of consensus regardless of facts. The bulletin and various SIGs can make slashdot look like tame sometimes. The nation voted in O who I consider to be a pretty smart guy and his hope and change platform just carried on what Bush had done. While I usually want someone smart running things, unfortunately smart AND not in the pocket of outside interests is probably very hard to find.
If a judge orders you to break the law, what happens? The recent case with the judge requiring the divorcing people to swap facebook passwords - if you don't, you're in contempt. If you do, you're breaking the law. So who should one follow?
If I remember the GI Joe Comics made Cobra island through bombs being dropped at strategic places. And then they did something truly evil - they used lawyers to make it their sovereign nation.
I know there was a lot of research done about methane and greenhouse gases released by cows. As America is also #1 in Body Mass Index maybe it's not our consumption, maybe we just are releasing a lot of gas into the air ourselves.
The family owns a Plumbing/HVAC company so I'll say you're kind of right. I have worked in it frequently before jumping into the IT world. The main reasoning was my father has always said he didn't want his kids getting into the industry. He's 3rd generation master plumber and I took his advice. Skilled trades are often overlooked at being just that, highly skilled. But the job can be physically demanding and if you're in a cold climate and furnaces go down it can be a time sensitive job. Hernias, back surgeries, and other physical problems can be par for the course. It can be a good career just know what you're getting into.
Further competition is growing in new ways. The box stores (Home Depot, Lowes, Sears) are already into the service offering. The contracts with those stores give laughably small margins. But those stores can find people willing to work for that. If you're in an area and have loyal customers it can be profitable, yes. But it's not a guarantee of constant work and profit.
Siri went down.
I had no idea Siri could do that. Talk about the single greatest reason for every guy on the planet to switch phones.
But fear mongering is a tried and tried method to get people to accept changes. Think of the children! Besides this is all security theater. What happens when some idiot shoe bomber tries to blow up the waiting line of people going through security.. some sort of x-ray screening before you get to the x-ray screening? Or perhaps we could try the Israeli approach of highly trained people to spot terrorists. That'd just be too.. logical!
Actually recent polls show the GOP is close to Obama http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html. Not to say a few more months of bickering won't sink the GOP ship entirely. Also other polls show that over 50% of Americans support legalizing pot, and a recent GOP debate had Ron Paul bring up legalizing heroin which got cheers from the South Carolina crowd taking the moderator by surprise. I doubt the issue has the legs to go anywhere right now but I wouldn't be totally shocked if things change in the future.
that matters on the ebook and the date. If you have a copy of the necronomicon on Halloween it's going to be really heavy. Christmas? It's light reading.
Don't forget the 220 million the FED gave to 2 wives of morgan stanley bankers, who had no business experience, to purchase student loans. The agreement also covered them for any losses, while they kept the profit. Sweet! Where can I get a deal like that, free money and no chance of loss.