Rant..
Invoices are generated by a computer and then get typed into the receivers computer by a human. Super inefficient and prone to error. Invoices need to be electronic and this needed to happen years ago. Iâ(TM)m not talking about special cases for big business. This is a small business problem and needs to happen in atime ftware such as quickbooks without vendor lock-in.
Exactly. More than 30 years after the usage of computers in most businesses it is shocking to see 100 pages invoices being sent as PDF files and then some other company either typing them into their accounting system or attempt to OCR, push into Excel and then process. Why can't the business analysts, IT people and accounting department sit around a table? The generation of the initial PDF should surely come from an accounting system isn't it?
Oh yes we are getting ready by not popping out future jobless people. After all the only reason people were asked to reproduce is to feed the production engine so let's show the middle finger to the masters.
So live below your means and invest everything you can, so that once you hit that limit you will be financially independent.
Also, don't have kids. They cost a fortune.
And also, don't get married, because divorces tend to wipe out 50-70 percent of your net worth.
Exactly, best advice ever. If only people could have more common sense we would get out of the master/slave relationship. The 1% who own the world encourage the 99% to reproduce so that they remain enslaved to them. To hell with mankind, it can disappear as far as I'm concerned. As Mr Smith says, "Humans are a virus..."
That's just fine - you carry on believing that.
The rest of us will keep on breeding. As you are removing yourself from the gene pool, your beliefs will die out with you.
Strange, I see idiots breeding like rabbits and expecting government/god to take care of the children as if they had a mission to carry on the human race while intelligent people choose to not breed because they have something between their two ears. Having children because we need them to pay for your pension is nothing short of Ponzi scheme, having above 25% unemployment among the young as in Spain, Italy just screws up these "we need more children to work and pay for retirement pensions".
I have been discriminated against a few times because I choose to be childless.
Completely agree with you. A male choosing to be childless is too often equated with being irresponsible which based on current cost of living and depleting resources should i fact be considered as very responsible.
"such government schemes are premised on a large number of workers contributing some fraction of their pay to support a smaller number of retirees.". Spain has a 25% unemployent rate among youngsters. How does that help contribution?
How can China have a demographic when they were aleady too many? How do you think they would have fed the zillions of children that they would have produced.
Thank you for writing the same thing I wanted to write but you beat me to it. Waking up people from dormitories to do some work sounds slavery to me and if companies consider this as a plus point for flexibility then I'm afraid we're going back hundreds of years.
Social Security (and the European equivalents) are based on the assumption that we have a lot of young workers for every elderly person so supported.
Population decline due to lower birthrates (which is what we expect to be seeing later this century) rather turns that on its head, as the number of new workers to support the elderly drops faster than the elderly do.
Isn't that called a Madoff effect i.e. you borrow more money to pay pack a loan. We're already too many on this planet, stop this stupidity about having more young workers to support old people when countries like Spain have 30% of youngsters below 30 without work.
I have been using The beta since it started and I was wondering where the status bar went. it's only two weeks ago that I noticed the url in the address bar.
Anybody who's felt the chill when listening to the guitar riffs on Confortably numb (Pink Floyd) or Voodoo Child (Jimmy Hendrix) would agree that no machine will ever ever be able to create that emotion.
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Rant.. Invoices are generated by a computer and then get typed into the receivers computer by a human. Super inefficient and prone to error. Invoices need to be electronic and this needed to happen years ago. Iâ(TM)m not talking about special cases for big business. This is a small business problem and needs to happen in atime ftware such as quickbooks without vendor lock-in.
Exactly. More than 30 years after the usage of computers in most businesses it is shocking to see 100 pages invoices being sent as PDF files and then some other company either typing them into their accounting system or attempt to OCR, push into Excel and then process. Why can't the business analysts, IT people and accounting department sit around a table? The generation of the initial PDF should surely come from an accounting system isn't it?
Oh yes we are getting ready by not popping out future jobless people. After all the only reason people were asked to reproduce is to feed the production engine so let's show the middle finger to the masters.
How about letting idiots disappear?
So live below your means and invest everything you can, so that once you hit that limit you will be financially independent.
Also, don't have kids. They cost a fortune.
And also, don't get married, because divorces tend to wipe out 50-70 percent of your net worth.
Exactly, best advice ever. If only people could have more common sense we would get out of the master/slave relationship. The 1% who own the world encourage the 99% to reproduce so that they remain enslaved to them. To hell with mankind, it can disappear as far as I'm concerned. As Mr Smith says, "Humans are a virus ..."
That's just fine - you carry on believing that. The rest of us will keep on breeding. As you are removing yourself from the gene pool, your beliefs will die out with you.
Strange, I see idiots breeding like rabbits and expecting government/god to take care of the children as if they had a mission to carry on the human race while intelligent people choose to not breed because they have something between their two ears. Having children because we need them to pay for your pension is nothing short of Ponzi scheme, having above 25% unemployment among the young as in Spain, Italy just screws up these "we need more children to work and pay for retirement pensions".
I have been discriminated against a few times because I choose to be childless.
Completely agree with you. A male choosing to be childless is too often equated with being irresponsible which based on current cost of living and depleting resources should i fact be considered as very responsible.
"Mother did it need to be so high?" - Roger Waters.
"Mother do you think they'll break my balls?" - Roger Waters
"such government schemes are premised on a large number of workers contributing some fraction of their pay to support a smaller number of retirees.". Spain has a 25% unemployent rate among youngsters. How does that help contribution?
How can China have a demographic when they were aleady too many? How do you think they would have fed the zillions of children that they would have produced.
Thank you for writing the same thing I wanted to write but you beat me to it. Waking up people from dormitories to do some work sounds slavery to me and if companies consider this as a plus point for flexibility then I'm afraid we're going back hundreds of years.
The first thing we did to strategize mission-critical web-readiness to expedite wireless users ....
Superb.
You should.
Social Security (and the European equivalents) are based on the assumption that we have a lot of young workers for every elderly person so supported.
Population decline due to lower birthrates (which is what we expect to be seeing later this century) rather turns that on its head, as the number of new workers to support the elderly drops faster than the elderly do.
Isn't that called a Madoff effect i.e. you borrow more money to pay pack a loan. We're already too many on this planet, stop this stupidity about having more young workers to support old people when countries like Spain have 30% of youngsters below 30 without work.
Just remember, of all those 7 billion people, you're unique. Just like everyone else.
So what?
I have been using The beta since it started and I was wondering where the status bar went. it's only two weeks ago that I noticed the url in the address bar.
Nice one :-).
Why waste so much time and money to come to such obvious conclusion which everybody knows?
snif snif :-), and I'm typing this on a 56k dial up line .....
Anybody who's felt the chill when listening to the guitar riffs on Confortably numb (Pink Floyd) or Voodoo Child (Jimmy Hendrix) would agree that no machine will ever ever be able to create that emotion.