Seems shareholders are only interested in only doing research that will generate revenue on a quarterly basis.
And rightfully so. With the small modification of s/revenue on a quarterly basis/a positive net present value/ I am very glad as a shareholder and member of society that this is the case. Don't go spending my wealth on what happens to be your favorite blue sky research.
Now don't get me wrong -- we need some blue sky research. Just don't fund it with my 401(k). Form a foundation, endow a university, and/or fund it with (limited) tax dollars.
When roads are built by the gov't they aren't built at or under cost -- your taxes pay for them and their overruns via cost plus contracts. When the health care system is run by the gov't services are rationed, provided at lower quality (if at all), and again, paid for by your (higher) taxes.
I'll take Adam Smith over Uncle Sam for these matters any day.
B-52s flying in round-the-world-trips carpet-bombed them and their entire camp areas into oblivion.
I don't think you meant B-52s. Not many of those fly around the world for a bombing sortie. I suspect you meant B-2s, but I don't think those flew around the world for Al-Qaeda.
Tell your PHB how you feel and that you are willing to forego a paycheck to make the commercial site standards compliant because you are worried about "humanization."
On the other hand, you might consider taking your PHB out to lunch and thanking him for keeping your shit out of the business.
Hopefully this peer to peer model can bypass some of the "consumer protections" that keep high risk customer from finding loans.
Right -- because these people need another loan. These people just don't grok the concept of responsibility. In the past, this forced them to go to a loan shark who, in addition to a high rate loan, was happy to provide a lesson in responsibility directly to the kneecaps.
If you owe a significant amount of money at 29%, and feel you need more, the last thing you need is another loan. What you need is either 1) credit counselling, 2) a budget, and/or 3) a bankruptcy lawyer.
Please. If you call from number A to number B for C minutes that information is public already. Not the conversation itself (unless you are on a public phone), but A, B, and C are. Your call was routed over a public network. Don't like it? String a wire between your house and the rest of your cell.
Email is the same way. It got routed. Over a public network. Don't like it? Go string some fiber or set up a microwave dish.
Why do I care if some credit card company is tracking my spending locations or habits? I already assume they are. If I don't want them to be able to, I simply use cash. This just seems to be a lot of whining over nothing. News flash: no one really cares what your travel habits are -- until you blow up a building.
Most of the human space flight engineers at NASA work in Houston at JSC. A 30-something engineer is at least a Grade 13 (GS-13) Step 6 or so. According to the pay tables that's $97K/year. Enough to support all of New Delhi I suppose...
Like there is any comparison between poverty in the United States and poverty in india... Comparing the poverty in the United States to the poverty in indian is like comparing a pinprick to decapitation.
I suspect you need more Economics education than I do.
How exactly do they "call in our debt." They have T-Bills. They mature on a defined schedule -- probably the 30 year kind.
From a recent book I read: 300 million Chinese will move to cities in the next 15 years. China must build urban infrastructure equivalent to Houston's every month in order to absorb them.
China also has 186 MBA programs. You ought to attend one.
Pointing at the debt the US has to the Chinese is like telling a guy that owns a $1,000,000 house that he owes VISA $200. The capital improvements (roads, bridges, buildings, infrastructure) we have in the US are vast. The debt we have is a drop in the bucket that we we deal with -- probably without blinking. Contrast that to the miserable state of the capital improvements in China. They'll be coming to us to work on that -- when they can afford it.
As you suggested, simply don't by this shit. Why is this even a story? The only way something like this would succeed is if the content was worth the price of being forced to watch the ads.
In the bigger picture, yurpean countries are really about the same as American States. Same populations, same size, etc. So, while it's technically incorrect to say "european citizens," it's pretty close to "citizens of european countries."
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Exactly. What kind of fool puts all their savings in any one stock? Only those that want to get rich quick.
Ken Lay was guilty of incompetence -- hardly worthy of a life sentence. Witch hunt.
And rightfully so. With the small modification of s/revenue on a quarterly basis/a positive net present value/ I am very glad as a shareholder and member of society that this is the case. Don't go spending my wealth on what happens to be your favorite blue sky research.
Now don't get me wrong -- we need some blue sky research. Just don't fund it with my 401(k). Form a foundation, endow a university, and/or fund it with (limited) tax dollars.
When roads are built by the gov't they aren't built at or under cost -- your taxes pay for them and their overruns via cost plus contracts. When the health care system is run by the gov't services are rationed, provided at lower quality (if at all), and again, paid for by your (higher) taxes.
I'll take Adam Smith over Uncle Sam for these matters any day.
The Shuttle hasn't flown a non-civilian payload or mission in ages.
Give a better alternative that would meet the design constraints that the STS was subject to
I bet you can't.
The Al Qaeda reference was for Tora Bora I believe -- which didn't use B-2 I believe.
I don't think you meant B-52s. Not many of those fly around the world for a bombing sortie. I suspect you meant B-2s, but I don't think those flew around the world for Al-Qaeda.
Pesky facts spoil hyperbole...
Tell your PHB how you feel and that you are willing to forego a paycheck to make the commercial site standards compliant because you are worried about "humanization."
On the other hand, you might consider taking your PHB out to lunch and thanking him for keeping your shit out of the business.
Right -- because these people need another loan. These people just don't grok the concept of responsibility. In the past, this forced them to go to a loan shark who, in addition to a high rate loan, was happy to provide a lesson in responsibility directly to the kneecaps.
If you owe a significant amount of money at 29%, and feel you need more, the last thing you need is another loan. What you need is either 1) credit counselling, 2) a budget, and/or 3) a bankruptcy lawyer.
Please. If you call from number A to number B for C minutes that information is public already. Not the conversation itself (unless you are on a public phone), but A, B, and C are. Your call was routed over a public network. Don't like it? String a wire between your house and the rest of your cell.
Email is the same way. It got routed. Over a public network. Don't like it? Go string some fiber or set up a microwave dish.
Have you, the "EU people," ever organized to do anything (other than a couple of world wars that is...)?
Why do I care if some credit card company is tracking my spending locations or habits? I already assume they are. If I don't want them to be able to, I simply use cash. This just seems to be a lot of whining over nothing. News flash: no one really cares what your travel habits are -- until you blow up a building.
Exactly. The sense of entitlement in the GP is pathetic.
"It's my right to inflict cancer on yours or anyone else's lungs."
or
"Fix my highways!"
Like it is somehow the government's responsibility to keep your friggin' wheels aligned.
...Falcon 9...
KA-BOOM!!!
The lowest bidder thing is an urban myth. Cost is one of many factors. In fact, in most NASA procurements, it's not even the most important.
The ISS was never sold as a staging point for a moon colony. It was sold for a lot of things that it hasn't delivered on, but that isn't one of them.
Most of the human space flight engineers at NASA work in Houston at JSC. A 30-something engineer is at least a Grade 13 (GS-13) Step 6 or so. According to the pay tables that's $97K/year. Enough to support all of New Delhi I suppose...
Like there is any comparison between poverty in the United States and poverty in india... Comparing the poverty in the United States to the poverty in indian is like comparing a pinprick to decapitation.
I suspect you need more Economics education than I do.
How exactly do they "call in our debt." They have T-Bills. They mature on a defined schedule -- probably the 30 year kind.
From a recent book I read: 300 million Chinese will move to cities in the next 15 years. China must build urban infrastructure equivalent to Houston's every month in order to absorb them.
China also has 186 MBA programs. You ought to attend one.
Pointing at the debt the US has to the Chinese is like telling a guy that owns a $1,000,000 house that he owes VISA $200. The capital improvements (roads, bridges, buildings, infrastructure) we have in the US are vast. The debt we have is a drop in the bucket that we we deal with -- probably without blinking. Contrast that to the miserable state of the capital improvements in China. They'll be coming to us to work on that -- when they can afford it.
No, Kerry lost.
Actually, their kids did mutate -- they became peaceful and stopped oppressing their neighbors.
As you suggested, simply don't by this shit. Why is this even a story? The only way something like this would succeed is if the content was worth the price of being forced to watch the ads.
I can't imagine content THAT good...
In the bigger picture, yurpean countries are really about the same as American States. Same populations, same size, etc. So, while it's technically incorrect to say "european citizens," it's pretty close to "citizens of european countries."
All in all, I'm not sure anyone but you cares.