Thanks for the head's up. I've used it maybe three times so it isn't really critical.
The main reason I use it is to easily replace paragraph end marks with spaces and vice versa. I've been to lazy to master that in Openoffice/Libreoffice.
I know of several small businesses (under 50 employees) who use libreoffice (and open office before that).
Is forrester focusing on large businesses or is there some kind of unintended filtering effect in play?
Or perhaps large businesses grow into office.
You have to understand... Office is some gaudawful expense like $500 a copy BUT, it costs about $large fee + $10 per copy for an enterprise license.
I own the latest office. It cost me $10 since i worked for a large corporation they let me buy a copy and the license is good regardless of employment status.
I use openoffice. I was going to Libreoffice but they have an issue with printing drawings with transparent layers which i use a lot. It's scheduled for a release but I think it's another year or so.
The reaction from the cops is frustration-- sometimes anger-- and then they let the person go.
I feel very uncomfortable watching the videos-- and at times they have 2 or 3 cops over talking to the person. These are at probably illegal cattle call traffic stops.
They ask the person to pull over into a side lane- try to get more than the minimum info out of them, and then lacking any probable cause- they let them go.
And those are fantastic IF you have good insurance or you are wealthy.
Otherwise, you get no benefit as a citizen from those improvements and wait months for access to routine medical care. With insurance, my colon check at age 50 took place in 1 week and I arrived at 9am. A friend of mine who lacked insurance at the same facility had to wait 5 months and had to be there at 8am.
With middle class income flat since 1980, we really can't afford to pay the medical costs of the rest of the world any more. Especially since that allows them to underbid us for jobs.
I understand-- the current system is Awesome for the top 1% (Steve Jobs on a private jet to get his liver transplant that might have actually saved someone else for years longer than it did Jobs). And it's GREAT for the top 20% of americans and decent for the top 40% of americans but it's pretty sucky for well over half of americans and outright denies coverage and bankrupts huge numbers of citizens.
There is a reason why the ACA passed. The current system was no longer working for well over half of the country.
Seemed like a decent guy (nice stuff with that kid Kyle in the 90's).
When they talk about delaying social security to improve your payments, need to keep this in mind. For the most part- taking social security early or late still results in a break even between 82 and 84. If you take it early, you start losing your bet at age 82. If you take it late, you start winning your bet between 82 and 84.
If you think you are likely to die prior to age 82 (when did your parents and grandparents die, what kind of health are you in), then you may want to take social security early.
You are correct. Do you have a link to more recent data. The data I linked is fairly old. We've apparently known for at least 14 years that other countries and medicare provide better outcomes for less cost.
The Supreme court basically gutted our protections in 2009.
And it may be illegal but try to apply at Infosys and you can confirm they require your high school graduation date. I know- I gave them a friend's resume and they bumped it back to me for a the date of graduation from high school.
Likewise, also true on several job sites.
The fact that you HAVE a high school degree matters (tho not much if you have a college degree with a good GPA). There is no legitimate reason to know the year you graduated from high school. It's only value is to pinpoint when you were 18.
Our privately run system is clearly over twice as expensive as government run programs in many other countries with a variety of governmental systems. Our own government run health care plans are much less expensive for the same or better outcome as private insurance.
Government isn't good at everything-- but handling health care is one of those things which government is good at.
If you look at the chart of spending vs outcome, you see the U.S. sucks and many other countries have better or at least equal outcomes with much lower cost.
It's not unreasonable to think if we toss out the current system of "for profit" medical insurance and care and simply emulated some of the other already successful countries that we could lower costs and improve outcomes.
As it is now, if you have a good job or are wealthy (and don't have a pre-condition), then you get insurance. Otherwise, forget it.
Why are we paying $4500 a year to get worse results than 20-30 other countries including many 1st world countries with otherwise similar costs of living?
The Medicare and Medicaid programs are actually comparable to other countries and younger doctors are accepting medicare and medicaid patients (they are profitable- just not AS profitable so long established doctors prefer to focus on the more profitable patients).
Being aware how extensive the anti-aca propaganda has been, I checked the numbers myself and I'll be saving about $2500 on my insurance costs. And the ACA has freed me to retire and start my own small business (more of a hobby really- healing people with chronic pain, migraines, and various overuse syndromes).
(Extreme Right) 5%*, Far Right (15%), Right (25%), Center (15%), Left(35%), Far Left (5%).
If it were not for the abortion issue "glue", I think the Far Right would have broken off by now.
Also, the Far Right isn't wrong when they say we should reduce government spending.
The problem is they have a blind eye when it comes to a really overbloated defense bill (as big as the next 20 to 30 countries COMBINED) inflating at a high rate annual (even a cut back to 2007 levels would be 20%).
In the U.S., extreme left candidates are essentially not elected to state or national offices.
*Actually probably under 3% but I didn't want to research the numbers).
Regulatory documents filed Tuesday revealed that Mayer received a pay package valued at $36.6 million last year. Most of the compensation consisted of stock awards that Mayer got in July when she ended a 13-year stint as a top Google executive to become Yahoo's CEO.
Most of the components of Mayer's pay had been previously disclosed.
It wasn't previously known that Mayer ranked second on Yahoo Inc.'s pay scale last year.
Henrique de Castro, another former Google Inc. executive who became Yahoo's chief operating officer in November, eclipsed Mayer with a compensation package valued at $39.2 million.
Aye, remember one of the sparks that helped the ACA was a request in California to raise premiums-- in one year-- by 39%. While extreme, there plenty of others making double digit % annual increases.
One-- there are basically no one over 67 in the pool to begin with.
Two-- Businesses discriminate against people over 50 (many job sites and Infosys require the exact year you graduated from high school. Even if you have several advanced degrees and years of experience).
Three-- Businesses lay off highly compensated employees in large groups... And on average, highly compensated employees are... over 40.
If you own both the hospital chain AND the insurance company, you can jack up prices at the hospital and still pay 85% of inflated premiums to your other hand.
I think they need to have a restriction on owning an insurance company AND any kind of medical care facilities to prevent this obvious abuse (already used in other ways as a tax avoidance strategy in other kinds of businesses)
Having had a serious illness in the past, I was very aware of the "wage slavery" aspect of an employer insurance model.
So I've suspected for a while that one group of businesses are fighting the ACA very hard because it means their employees will be free to retire or start their own businesses.
Plenty of folks will use chinese IT services without considering the risk is equally great.
Sad to say but I'm all for breaking the internet back into smaller chunks. And that's going to create a lot of risk as people start pulling of terror plots which might have been seen before.
But-- we lose over 10x as many people as we ever did to terrorism. Our fear of terrorist acts are allowing a huge distortion of the 1st world societies.
When you deny a racial group has *any* stupid members; any ability to make mistakes; any opportunity to be evil or just plain wrong you are being more subtle but still just as racist in the other direction.
Jar Jar went through his own version of the heroic arc-- being outcast by his tribe, making terrible mistakes, and finally finding redemption.
In any case-- it's my belief that good art arouses emotion (or explores some aspect of the medium). And Jar Jar certainly arouses emotion.:-)
People remember him-- unlike many of the other characters in those movies.
He was an example of a "Lethal Klutz" or a "Lethally Stupid" and a bit of a "Inspector Oblivious" mixed in. Took "Luck" as his primary stat and used Intelligence and Wisdom as dump stats.
I wonder if in 100 years, people say, "Wow- jar jar binks!"
But probably not...
Perhaps a lot of people feel they have to hate him because of racial reasons or guilt.
Good points tho I'd say "irritation" more than disgust.
He was also a fairly emotional and happy character. Everyone else was so "flat" in the prequels.
I agree on the "push off" tho bob hoskins did a great job over a decade earlier in "Who framed roger Rabbit" and some of the scenes in "The Avengers" that I thought were real turned out to have CGI characters in them which people reacted to credibly.
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And one way humans differ from this is that they often decide the conclusion and then weight the factors in the algorithm to arrive at the conclusion.
It's part of what makes the stock market interesting.
And selling new cars.
Thanks for the head's up. I've used it maybe three times so it isn't really critical.
The main reason I use it is to easily replace paragraph end marks with spaces and vice versa. I've been to lazy to master that in Openoffice/Libreoffice.
^p to " " and " " to ^p.
Also a bit of "^t^t" to "^t".
I know of several small businesses (under 50 employees) who use libreoffice (and open office before that).
Is forrester focusing on large businesses or is there some kind of unintended filtering effect in play?
Or perhaps large businesses grow into office.
You have to understand... Office is some gaudawful expense like $500 a copy BUT, it costs about $large fee + $10 per copy for an enterprise license.
I own the latest office. It cost me $10 since i worked for a large corporation they let me buy a copy and the license is good regardless of employment status.
I use openoffice. I was going to Libreoffice but they have an issue with printing drawings with transparent layers which i use a lot. It's scheduled for a release but I think it's another year or so.
If so, their fortune is made.
Otherwise they'll have to get buy on what they can make off of engineering and gaming products.
seriously- I'd like to see this inside a set of gloves--- or a full suit.
Brings "ready player one" to mind.
There are multiple videos of this on Youtube.
The reaction from the cops is frustration-- sometimes anger-- and then they let the person go.
I feel very uncomfortable watching the videos-- and at times they have 2 or 3 cops over talking to the person. These are at probably illegal cattle call traffic stops.
They ask the person to pull over into a side lane- try to get more than the minimum info out of them, and then lacking any probable cause- they let them go.
I should watch them more.
I'd guess it was being too big which did him in.
Greed and hubris-- always risky when doing illegal activities.
In fact- if I were doing something illegal- when regular articles about the silk road started being posted, I'd shut things down and take my profits.
If nothing else, those articles are embarrassing for law enforcement so they focus on that issue to stop the embarrassment.
And those are fantastic IF you have good insurance or you are wealthy.
Otherwise, you get no benefit as a citizen from those improvements and wait months for access to routine medical care. With insurance, my colon check at age 50 took place in 1 week and I arrived at 9am. A friend of mine who lacked insurance at the same facility had to wait 5 months and had to be there at 8am.
With middle class income flat since 1980, we really can't afford to pay the medical costs of the rest of the world any more. Especially since that allows them to underbid us for jobs.
I understand-- the current system is Awesome for the top 1% (Steve Jobs on a private jet to get his liver transplant that might have actually saved someone else for years longer than it did Jobs). And it's GREAT for the top 20% of americans and decent for the top 40% of americans but it's pretty sucky for well over half of americans and outright denies coverage and bankrupts huge numbers of citizens.
There is a reason why the ACA passed. The current system was no longer working for well over half of the country.
Seemed like a decent guy (nice stuff with that kid Kyle in the 90's).
When they talk about delaying social security to improve your payments, need to keep this in mind. For the most part- taking social security early or late still results in a break even between 82 and 84. If you take it early, you start losing your bet at age 82. If you take it late, you start winning your bet between 82 and 84.
If you think you are likely to die prior to age 82 (when did your parents and grandparents die, what kind of health are you in), then you may want to take social security early.
You are correct. Do you have a link to more recent data.
The data I linked is fairly old.
We've apparently known for at least 14 years that other countries and medicare provide better outcomes for less cost.
The Supreme court basically gutted our protections in 2009.
And it may be illegal but try to apply at Infosys and you can confirm they require your high school graduation date. I know- I gave them a friend's resume and they bumped it back to me for a the date of graduation from high school.
Likewise, also true on several job sites.
The fact that you HAVE a high school degree matters (tho not much if you have a college degree with a good GPA). There is no legitimate reason to know the year you graduated from high school. It's only value is to pinpoint when you were 18.
Our privately run system is clearly over twice as expensive as government run programs in many other countries with a variety of governmental systems. Our own government run health care plans are much less expensive for the same or better outcome as private insurance.
Government isn't good at everything-- but handling health care is one of those things which government is good at.
It's not a bug.. it's a feature. We only move the lines every 10 years based on census results.
2020 census should be interesting.
I wonder how far left the republicans will shift in 2018 and 2019?
Very interesting. Got a source with more detail?
This is the first I've heard of this aspect.
The reasoning is
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php
If you look at the chart of spending vs outcome, you see the U.S. sucks and many other countries have better or at least equal outcomes with much lower cost.
It's not unreasonable to think if we toss out the current system of "for profit" medical insurance and care and simply emulated some of the other already successful countries that we could lower costs and improve outcomes.
As it is now, if you have a good job or are wealthy (and don't have a pre-condition), then you get insurance. Otherwise, forget it.
Why are we paying $4500 a year to get worse results than 20-30 other countries including many 1st world countries with otherwise similar costs of living?
The Medicare and Medicaid programs are actually comparable to other countries and younger doctors are accepting medicare and medicaid patients (they are profitable- just not AS profitable so long established doctors prefer to focus on the more profitable patients).
Being aware how extensive the anti-aca propaganda has been, I checked the numbers myself and I'll be saving about $2500 on my insurance costs. And the ACA has freed me to retire and start my own small business (more of a hobby really- healing people with chronic pain, migraines, and various overuse syndromes).
Good point tho it's really more
(Extreme Right) 5%*, Far Right (15%), Right (25%), Center (15%), Left(35%), Far Left (5%).
If it were not for the abortion issue "glue", I think the Far Right would have broken off by now.
Also, the Far Right isn't wrong when they say we should reduce government spending.
The problem is they have a blind eye when it comes to a really overbloated defense bill (as big as the next 20 to 30 countries COMBINED) inflating at a high rate annual (even a cut back to 2007 levels would be 20%).
In the U.S., extreme left candidates are essentially not elected to state or national offices.
*Actually probably under 3% but I didn't want to research the numbers).
http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ceo-ranked-2nd-companys-2012-pay-scale-001129756.html
Regulatory documents filed Tuesday revealed that Mayer received a pay package valued at $36.6 million last year. Most of the compensation consisted of stock awards that Mayer got in July when she ended a 13-year stint as a top Google executive to become Yahoo's CEO.
Most of the components of Mayer's pay had been previously disclosed.
It wasn't previously known that Mayer ranked second on Yahoo Inc.'s pay scale last year.
Henrique de Castro, another former Google Inc. executive who became Yahoo's chief operating officer in November, eclipsed Mayer with a compensation package valued at $39.2 million.
Aye, remember one of the sparks that helped the ACA was a request in California to raise premiums-- in one year-- by 39%. While extreme, there plenty of others making double digit % annual increases.
Businesses also manage it in several other ways.
One-- there are basically no one over 67 in the pool to begin with.
Two-- Businesses discriminate against people over 50 (many job sites and Infosys require the exact year you graduated from high school. Even if you have several advanced degrees and years of experience).
Three-- Businesses lay off highly compensated employees in large groups... And on average, highly compensated employees are... over 40.
And there is a potential problem.
If you own both the hospital chain AND the insurance company, you can jack up prices at the hospital and still pay 85% of inflated premiums to your other hand.
I think they need to have a restriction on owning an insurance company AND any kind of medical care facilities to prevent this obvious abuse (already used in other ways as a tax avoidance strategy in other kinds of businesses)
Just one reason.
I know there are others.
Having had a serious illness in the past, I was very aware of the "wage slavery" aspect of an employer insurance model.
So I've suspected for a while that one group of businesses are fighting the ACA very hard because it means their employees will be free to retire or start their own businesses.
It's okay for an 11 year old to have sex with an adult male.
It's legit as soon as a girl can bear the weight of a man.
I wonder when the females in these countries will achieve some kind of freedom and equality or just simply leave for elsewhere.
Plenty of folks will use chinese IT services without considering the risk is equally great.
Sad to say but I'm all for breaking the internet back into smaller chunks. And that's going to create a lot of risk as people start pulling of terror plots which might have been seen before.
But-- we lose over 10x as many people as we ever did to terrorism. Our fear of terrorist acts are allowing a huge distortion of the 1st world societies.
True, but watch out for reverse racism as well.
When you deny a racial group has *any* stupid members; any ability to make mistakes; any opportunity to be evil or just plain wrong you are being more subtle but still just as racist in the other direction.
Jar Jar went through his own version of the heroic arc-- being outcast by his tribe, making terrible mistakes, and finally finding redemption.
In any case-- it's my belief that good art arouses emotion (or explores some aspect of the medium). And Jar Jar certainly arouses emotion. :-)
People remember him-- unlike many of the other characters in those movies.
Aye.
He was an example of a "Lethal Klutz" or a "Lethally Stupid" and a bit of a "Inspector Oblivious" mixed in. Took "Luck" as his primary stat and used Intelligence and Wisdom as dump stats.
I wonder if in 100 years, people say, "Wow- jar jar binks!"
But probably not...
Perhaps a lot of people feel they have to hate him because of racial reasons or guilt.
Good points tho I'd say "irritation" more than disgust.
He was also a fairly emotional and happy character. Everyone else was so "flat" in the prequels.
I agree on the "push off" tho bob hoskins did a great job over a decade earlier in "Who framed roger Rabbit" and some of the scenes in "The Avengers" that I thought were real turned out to have CGI characters in them which people reacted to credibly.