When Nintendo brought out their first Mario game for the iPhone, investors bided up the stock price until they found it was a different company partially owned by Nintendo that did the game. Nice run up for those who were ready to sell.
Tell me about it. I work in government IT and get paid significantly less than my private sector counterparts. OTOH, I get a month of time off each year and my contracting agency gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year. Sweet!
There's payouts, COBRA, threats of lawsuits, job placement workshops, etc. It's actually a busy time for them.
When I got laid off from my job in early 2009, I expected to transfer to a different contract. When I went into headquarters, the HR paperwork said I was being separated from the company. When I pointed this out to the HR person, she started hemming and hawing. When I asked about all the contracts that the company picked up and announced in the previous six months, she admitted that those contracts got cancelled and the company was facing a financial crunch from spending $500K on moving into a new building. HR was worried about being laid off as well. I spent the next two years out of work, underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy. That company never rehired me for another contract, which was strange as I have worked for other contracting agencies multiple times.
I work for a small contracting agency. They outsource everything online. Google Mail for email, Intuit QuickBooks for bookkeeping, and an HR provider for benefits and payroll. The 20 or so people at the NYC headquarters is to keep tabs on hundreds of contractors throughout the U.S. and maintain onsite records for government inspectors.
Those are just idiot fees for people who don't manually oversee their own investments in low cost index funds.
Millions of people have no choice but to participate in the Wall Street casino since corporations moved away from pensions to 401Ks. While corporations saved billions in yearly costs, future retirees are losing billions in yearly fees.
We love taking advantage of idiots in this country, cough, ahem.
Mr. Trumpâ(TM)s action on the fiduciary rule, which Democrats and consumer groups immediately denounced as a gift to Wall Street, could have a more concrete impact. His memorandum directs the Labor Department to review whether the rule may "adversely affect" investors' ability to access financial advice — and if it does, it authorizes the agency to rescind and revise the rule.
The fiduciary rule would have saved consumers $17B per year by forcing financial advisers to consider the best interest of their client and not themselves. You're okay with Wall Street ripping you off in your retirement accounts?
Trump's nominations for department heads, and those already confirmed, are as a group the best in the last 190 years. He's a patriot. He's the first President since Reagan who has an understanding of economics and power politics. His picks especially stand in contrast to Obama's p(r)icks, who were explicitly dedicated to destroying America's culture, economy, freedom, and military strength.
As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
You, on the other hand, can't see beyond your ideology.
Yes, yes, of course, since the US government was functioning SO well up until now...[eye-roll]
The Alt-Right had a website that portrayed California as being a racist hell hole where everyone lived in ghettos, armed to the teeth and ready to kill each other at the slightest provocation. If you drilled down into the details of these comments, most observations were made by white people who lived in California during the 1980's, currently live in outside of California and have no clue about social conditions in California today. I thought it was a satire website until several Slashdotters insisted that the website was true and I was lying to cover up for the failed California socialist utopia. What a load of bullshit!
Seriously, do you even read what you type and think about it, other than correcting spelling and grammar, before clicking 'Submit'?
Slashdot exists to keep me amused while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. In short, I don't take it seriously and no one should take my comments seriously.
I shudder to think of what the world might be like today if there had never been a USA.
According to a science fiction story that I've read in an old issue of Analog Magazine, Native Americans would have colonized Europe and wonder what the world be like if the savage Europeans had colonized the Americas first.
The media normalized Donald Trump who wasn't serious about winning the presidency. Now we got a 70-year-old man-child in the White House who is running the government into the ground (that's not a compliment).
I just can't get past the names. My ego is too big for me to carry around a book that says "Java for Dummies", no matter how well written or informative it is.
I never had that problem. People take one look at me and assume the worst. So I play into their low expectations, find the one job that no one else wants to tackle, and do such an exceptional job that people think I'm a miracle worker. The people who should have done the job that I just finished look like dummies.
"[...] But Mr. Krzanich said that the tax cuts and deregulatory policies pushed by Mr. Trump had prompted the company to move forward with its plans."
Tax cuts and deregulatory policies that Trump only talked about. No executive order will change or enact these items. The Republicans are too busy arguing among themselves on how to repeal and replace ObamaCare that they don't have time for anything else. We're overdue for a recession. I look forward to buying stocks on the way down.
The funny thing about the NY Times is that their editorial board endorsed Hillary, but their anti-Hillary reporters kept the email and FBI stories alive for months until the election.
Two "moderate" Republicans voted against Devos that tied the vote (50-50) in the Senate and Vice President Pence cast the tie breaking vote in favor of the Republicans. These "moderates" only announced their opposition after it became obvious that nomination vote would succeed without them. Not a tweet out of Trump.
Slashdot Mirror
Your startup isn't a startup unless it has an unpronounceable and/or incomprehensible name.
I think you mean when Pokemon GO came out.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
And do just as much in due diligence.
When Nintendo brought out their first Mario game for the iPhone, investors bided up the stock price until they found it was a different company partially owned by Nintendo that did the game. Nice run up for those who were ready to sell.
Lunch break is over!
What's that?
Get back to earning your pittance, wage slave!
Tell me about it. I work in government IT and get paid significantly less than my private sector counterparts. OTOH, I get a month of time off each year and my contracting agency gave me an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year. Sweet!
Especially Daily Mail
Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source
Does it really matter in today's fact free political environment?
There's payouts, COBRA, threats of lawsuits, job placement workshops, etc. It's actually a busy time for them.
When I got laid off from my job in early 2009, I expected to transfer to a different contract. When I went into headquarters, the HR paperwork said I was being separated from the company. When I pointed this out to the HR person, she started hemming and hawing. When I asked about all the contracts that the company picked up and announced in the previous six months, she admitted that those contracts got cancelled and the company was facing a financial crunch from spending $500K on moving into a new building. HR was worried about being laid off as well. I spent the next two years out of work, underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for chapter seven bankruptcy. That company never rehired me for another contract, which was strange as I have worked for other contracting agencies multiple times.
Small companies contract out their HR.
I work for a small contracting agency. They outsource everything online. Google Mail for email, Intuit QuickBooks for bookkeeping, and an HR provider for benefits and payroll. The 20 or so people at the NYC headquarters is to keep tabs on hundreds of contractors throughout the U.S. and maintain onsite records for government inspectors.
Those are just idiot fees for people who don't manually oversee their own investments in low cost index funds.
Millions of people have no choice but to participate in the Wall Street casino since corporations moved away from pensions to 401Ks. While corporations saved billions in yearly costs, future retirees are losing billions in yearly fees.
We love taking advantage of idiots in this country, cough, ahem.
Which is why government regulations are needed.
Mr. Trumpâ(TM)s action on the fiduciary rule, which Democrats and consumer groups immediately denounced as a gift to Wall Street, could have a more concrete impact. His memorandum directs the Labor Department to review whether the rule may "adversely affect" investors' ability to access financial advice — and if it does, it authorizes the agency to rescind and revise the rule.
The fiduciary rule would have saved consumers $17B per year by forcing financial advisers to consider the best interest of their client and not themselves. You're okay with Wall Street ripping you off in your retirement accounts?
Trump's nominations for department heads, and those already confirmed, are as a group the best in the last 190 years. He's a patriot. He's the first President since Reagan who has an understanding of economics and power politics. His picks especially stand in contrast to Obama's p(r)icks, who were explicitly dedicated to destroying America's culture, economy, freedom, and military strength.
As we say in California, "What are you smoking and where can I get some?"
You, on the other hand, can't see beyond your ideology.
What ideology would that be?
Yes, yes, of course, since the US government was functioning SO well up until now...[eye-roll]
The Alt-Right had a website that portrayed California as being a racist hell hole where everyone lived in ghettos, armed to the teeth and ready to kill each other at the slightest provocation. If you drilled down into the details of these comments, most observations were made by white people who lived in California during the 1980's, currently live in outside of California and have no clue about social conditions in California today. I thought it was a satire website until several Slashdotters insisted that the website was true and I was lying to cover up for the failed California socialist utopia. What a load of bullshit!
Seriously, do you even read what you type and think about it, other than correcting spelling and grammar, before clicking 'Submit'?
Slashdot exists to keep me amused while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. In short, I don't take it seriously and no one should take my comments seriously.
I shudder to think of what the world might be like today if there had never been a USA.
According to a science fiction story that I've read in an old issue of Analog Magazine, Native Americans would have colonized Europe and wonder what the world be like if the savage Europeans had colonized the Americas first.
You obviously don't have all of the alternative facts.
I just make it up as I go along. If it works for Trump, it should work for me.
Trump voters believe that the US government is a massive clusterfuck. People who deal with the real world knows that's very true.
Will be once Trump gets done running the government into the ground.
then libs hold the record for consistently using the world's largest paintbrush.
I'm a moderate conservative. I don't need a broad paintbrush.
Still better than the alternative was.
Hillary was safe and predictable. Trump is not. OTOH, I'm going to do quite well when the stock market corrects and/or crashes in the near future.
Of course you have no proof of your accusations.
Sure I do. Just read the news. Something new comes out of everyday to support my accusations.
The media normalized Donald Trump who wasn't serious about winning the presidency. Now we got a 70-year-old man-child in the White House who is running the government into the ground (that's not a compliment).
I just can't get past the names. My ego is too big for me to carry around a book that says "Java for Dummies", no matter how well written or informative it is.
I never had that problem. People take one look at me and assume the worst. So I play into their low expectations, find the one job that no one else wants to tackle, and do such an exceptional job that people think I'm a miracle worker. The people who should have done the job that I just finished look like dummies.
Keep the muslims out! Except for the ones that the Trump Organization does business with.
FTFY — What Trump doesn't say is more important than what he does say.
The rest of the country can go BOOM! like Texas a few years ago.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/27/article-2315751-1981B3C1000005DC-728_634x450.jpg
Trump voters believe that the USA is a massive clusterfuck. People who deal with the real world knows that's not true.
"[...] But Mr. Krzanich said that the tax cuts and deregulatory policies pushed by Mr. Trump had prompted the company to move forward with its plans."
Tax cuts and deregulatory policies that Trump only talked about. No executive order will change or enact these items. The Republicans are too busy arguing among themselves on how to repeal and replace ObamaCare that they don't have time for anything else. We're overdue for a recession. I look forward to buying stocks on the way down.
The funny thing about the NY Times is that their editorial board endorsed Hillary, but their anti-Hillary reporters kept the email and FBI stories alive for months until the election.
Two "moderate" Republicans voted against Devos that tied the vote (50-50) in the Senate and Vice President Pence cast the tie breaking vote in favor of the Republicans. These "moderates" only announced their opposition after it became obvious that nomination vote would succeed without them. Not a tweet out of Trump.