Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption.
10% is 10% no matter what the purchase price is, the Proportions are the same.
The only way where they get out of balance is where corporations can purchase larger quantity and get a lower sale price per unit then the smaller consumer for a given item.. So you will not be removing the buying power element, but even then you are capturing the taxes and doing it based on money changing hands.
easiest way is to break the company into shells each making a max of 9,999,999 and not look back. at an added tax rate of 25% as the summary says it would be simple math to show that the added paper work for inter-company billing and accountants would be cheaper than paying the tax (especially if they automate it).
They need to move to a flat consumption tax for products and services, get rid of all theses random income crap and just keep it simple. When money changes hands, tax it.
Drop the income tax, make it a flat tax on consumption (both products and services). You pay tax on raw materials and collect tax when you sell. you can make 100m$ and pay no tax until you spend it. it would make it easier for everyone to understand, it would be easy to track as tax would happen when money changes hands.
but hey, simple logic does not seem to work in this world because everyone wants the rules to apply to everyone but them.
i haven't had that issue. only once in 5 years when the drown seal was worn out and cost 400$ my dad had it done twice in the past 20. so you can tack on ~100 or less a year in maintenance costs...
(disclaimer, we are good friends with a rolex certified watch smith)
To be honest, i didn't justify it. This is a pass-down (i'm the 3rd owner).. at some point my grandfather justified it.
Personally i never would have justified it, but after owning it i could almost justify it. ~6,000$/58 years = ~100$ a year. which is nearly the cost of any decent dive watch. if it lasts another 50+ years then it will easily justify it's self (by being less than 50$ a year for a high quality dive watch).
But you can't even come close to thinking an apple watch will have a lifespan anywhere near what a quality pure mechanical watch will have.. not even a lower end (but still good) Fossil.
You know i had the same impression when i looked at theses. Apple watch while interesting and impressive, seems more like a temp gadget than a lifetime tool.
I was looking at the list saying who in their right mind would pay 1-10k for one of these.. then realized i was wearing my submariner.
The difference is as you said, this watch from Apple will be irrelevant in 2-3 years (new versions, bad batteries, out dated software).
Where a high quality pure mechanical watch will last more than a lifetime (mine is a 62, its more than 20 years older than me, i'm the 3rd owner, and i plan on passing it to my son).
There are people who buy high end things for the "status" there are others that buy them because they understand value. Not all high end has high value, i would count the Apple watch in that group (high end low value) the same way i would compare a diamond encrusted submariner (used for people to show status, no one would ever go diving with it).
And sadly to say, your e-mail most likely went straight to a spam folder, you might even have gotten a nifty auto attendant response expressing concern.
You have a "choice" (i quote it because it is your parents that do it, you can't yet make the decision) on getting an SSN or not. BUT once you have and SSN you can not get rid of it.
If you "chose" not to have an SSN the IRS will issue you a tax-id number to use on all your forms. it functions like an SSN but isn't one (may also conflict with someone else's SSN# as they are different).
You also do not pay into Social Security (your employer still has to withhold, and pay their match, but you get your contributions back). But on that same counter you can never draw from Social Security.
I know several people in this situation. I personally wish i could do it (but again you can never get rid of an SSN once you have it) and i thought long and hard before getting an SSN for my Son. We eventually did it because to function in the US with any type of credit you must have one, so many industries here have zero idea what to do when you don't have one.
Not having an SSN is not illegal, But not paying your taxes is.
Agreed, it should be based on a risk/value assessment.
Sadly right now they are "made up" by people who do not have the ability to preform such an assessment.
Note: i know there are traffic engineers who can do this, and every place has them and every place has "standards". But do recognize that said standards are anything but when you look at the whole nation (along with very rarely getting reviewed/updated), and ultimately what gets turned into laws is what politicians want not what Engineers say it should be.
Not really, take open freeway types of places. a great example of this is the Atlanta Beltway where you have a road built for much higher speeds limited to 55 mph.
a great video to see what happens when someone actually makes people follow that speed limit
And trust me that there are plenty of examples of this. Personally I've driven in many states on the same conditions of roadways with varying speed limits from 55 (GA) -> 75 (TX) and honestly people don't want to go slow so traffic is generally better in on the faster roads.. BUT that being said i fully agree with limiting speeds in residential areas, side streets, school zones, and any place that has potential for pedestrian traffic.
Also on a random note, bike lanes do not belong on freeways/interstates.. That is just asking for someone to be killed.
Agree, the surface pro (especially the 3) are wonderful devices. Use it at work with a docking station and end up with 3 usable monitors (2x external + device). and when your on the road it just works great. one of the few devices that i can actually use on a plane.
I will say also for such a thin keyboard which is used as a cover, the keys have more travel than expected and works quite well providing plenty of tactile feedback.
You have a very valid point. For their light sensor method to work they are having to implement shadow boarding (laying out everything in a predefined pace). If a shadow board is done correctly then a quick glance at it will tell you exactly what is missing (high contrast colors between the background/foreground/tool in place)
While i see the value in having a "smart" toolbox, i for one would want it to be able to give me the inventory along with helping me find the tool as you say. "digitizing" the same visual information i get from shadow-boarding just doesn't justify it for me.
So to chime in on the whole Tech owning their own tools. I hate to say this but that works fine for Auto Mechanics because they are working on random people's cars. If the Tech doesn't have the right size wrench he'll jsut use pliers or an adjustable wrench, face and corners be damned, won't matter not their problem. Same with a torque wrench, let them just tap it a few times, or use the air gun.
Move over to the industrial world and a real manufacturing/process plant where over torquing something can stop production, or damaging the bolt can cause delays in repair (lost of production) and we have a real problem. Most plants do not allow Techs to bring in their own tools. I know Plants that have banned adjustable wrenches (if you don't' have the right tool for the job don't' do it mentality)..
All that being said in real industrial settings, tool control is a big deal. The more sterile and regulated the environment the more important it can be. See the link below where it was a contractor failing to do a tool count that did some real damage.
Tool counting is a basic thing, and should always happen. Things like this tool box can be used for good and bad, it all depends on the culture of the company and people using it. Sure they could use it to bash people over the head for loosing tools, but they could also use it as a safe guard/helper/checker to help the tech out in doing a tool count to make the work go quicker. I know places where this would be seen as yet another big brother in the plant, and places where they would love to have this because it would make their job easier and quicker. Its all about culture.
Personally i love the simplicity of it, although i will say that you have to have a solid 5S/Shadow boarding in place to use in place light sensors like this. It would work very well for specialized tool sets, but not your run of the mill mechanics toolbox. For that cheap RFID tags/single box reader might be more appropriate. (and could also be used for locating the tools if lost in the equipment).
Trust me that the cost of something like this is a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of real specialty tools, and the impact to production/operations when a tool is lost.
My dad plugged his coax straight into his tv (which does not have or support a card) and he gets about 100 channels. So, I say try plugging the coax in and find out what is really what.
If he is getting 100 channels then it is digital cable. His TV just supports it (most non CRT's do, and all New TVs support Digital TV signal). The difference is he is using a provider who didn't require encryption on all the channels like some are doing. If the digital signal is encrypted then you need a box or a cable card to de-crypt it and that is what they charge you for.
while not a complete data center, we do have a few racks.
The mentality you have to have when dealing with the "cloud" is how can i utilize it to make things better. Not "lets just shove it all up there" just like having that one box in the back-office that is the only one that can do something, you have to treat the cloud as a point of failure. When you design IT systems, you to the best of your budget try to mitigate single points of failure. Your budget is what limits the bounds in which you can do that, and the impact to the business should justify the budget.
For dropbox what we did was setup a synology san unit with with Cloud Sync attached to a single admin account. We then implemented a business process for creation of dropbox folders for use with clients (we are a consulting firm). When a folder needs to be created, it is created on that account, and then shared out. This ensures that it gets a local copy of all dropbox folders used for clients. We then back the synology unit to our normal in-house back.
We didn't go to dropbox because we wanted to replace our san or our local file storage abilities (honestly having everyone sync over the net connection vs local lan would be horrid). But rather wanted the convenience of their service, and the ease of use for the end users. But having that be the only centralized place anything existed would cause a single point of failure and should not be acceptable. It's the difference between leveraging something and relying on something.
We also use AWS for outward facing web services, But we have our own IP Block with addresses reserved for fallback, anything we push to out is first pushed to a local production system for final QA then to AWS production. If AWS would disappear, we would just update DNS settings and be back on-line within a MAX of 24 hours. Now our local pipe and production system couldn't handle the same load that AWS would in the same manner but would be functional (stress test shows page loads going from ~.1 to 4-5 sec), but that is ok as the risk is low and the impact is only moderate so ultimately it's a risk we are willing to accept.
Too many places now days don't do proper risk analysis and mitigation, and very few companies have real DR strategies. DR doesn't have to be expensive or complex, but it must be planned for and maintained, else you will be bitten when the disaster happens.
This should be part of any companies DR strategy. If they don't have the provider going down, the same way they assume a DC goes down, then they aren't doing their job.
We use DropBox, and we keep a local mirror sync'ed within our own servers. We use the service for the efficiency, but if they went belly up, we already have all our own data and would just be looking for a way to fill the efficiency gap.
I accidentally did it by switching from Coffee to Tea due to stomach issues... (yes i know Tea has caffeine, keep reading)
After i switched to Tea i went and tried many different types till i found ones i liked, and sat well with my stomach after drinking it all day. An that Tea was Rooibos Tea also known as Red Tea. After more than a year of switching i found out Rooibos Tea had zero Caffeine.
I don't drink sodas and haven't for many years, and again i made the witch to find something that fit my stomach better. Honestly i never understood people and their Caffeine cravings because i never found coffee or a soda to give me any type of perk up (i drank coffee because i like the taste).
But anyways, that is how i "accidentally" quit caffeine, i switched what i was drinking and cut it out without even realizing it.
Slashdot Mirror
http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-...
it's only devolution in action :)
SGI monitors where the absolute best. I did the same as you for many many years. still have the VGA to 5 component cable as a memento.
It's consumption tax. I can have all the income i want and not pay taxes on it. I pay taxes only when i want to use the wealth I've accumulated.
If i want to pay less taxes then i spend less. If i want to live in luxuries then i pay more.
Those with smaller incomes must use a larger proportion of it on consumption.
10% is 10% no matter what the purchase price is, the Proportions are the same.
The only way where they get out of balance is where corporations can purchase larger quantity and get a lower sale price per unit then the smaller consumer for a given item.. So you will not be removing the buying power element, but even then you are capturing the taxes and doing it based on money changing hands.
easiest way is to break the company into shells each making a max of 9,999,999 and not look back. at an added tax rate of 25% as the summary says it would be simple math to show that the added paper work for inter-company billing and accountants would be cheaper than paying the tax (especially if they automate it).
They need to move to a flat consumption tax for products and services, get rid of all theses random income crap and just keep it simple. When money changes hands, tax it.
Drop the income tax, make it a flat tax on consumption (both products and services). You pay tax on raw materials and collect tax when you sell. you can make 100m$ and pay no tax until you spend it. it would make it easier for everyone to understand, it would be easy to track as tax would happen when money changes hands.
but hey, simple logic does not seem to work in this world because everyone wants the rules to apply to everyone but them.
i haven't had that issue. only once in 5 years when the drown seal was worn out and cost 400$ my dad had it done twice in the past 20. so you can tack on ~100 or less a year in maintenance costs...
(disclaimer, we are good friends with a rolex certified watch smith)
To be honest, i didn't justify it. This is a pass-down (i'm the 3rd owner).. at some point my grandfather justified it.
Personally i never would have justified it, but after owning it i could almost justify it. ~6,000$/58 years = ~100$ a year. which is nearly the cost of any decent dive watch. if it lasts another 50+ years then it will easily justify it's self (by being less than 50$ a year for a high quality dive watch).
But you can't even come close to thinking an apple watch will have a lifespan anywhere near what a quality pure mechanical watch will have.. not even a lower end (but still good) Fossil.
You know i had the same impression when i looked at theses. Apple watch while interesting and impressive, seems more like a temp gadget than a lifetime tool.
I was looking at the list saying who in their right mind would pay 1-10k for one of these.. then realized i was wearing my submariner.
The difference is as you said, this watch from Apple will be irrelevant in 2-3 years (new versions, bad batteries, out dated software).
Where a high quality pure mechanical watch will last more than a lifetime (mine is a 62, its more than 20 years older than me, i'm the 3rd owner, and i plan on passing it to my son).
There are people who buy high end things for the "status" there are others that buy them because they understand value. Not all high end has high value, i would count the Apple watch in that group (high end low value) the same way i would compare a diamond encrusted submariner (used for people to show status, no one would ever go diving with it).
give him a call, if not then pass the info to me, i wouldn't pass up the opportunity.
Awesome! (Sorry, but that is just a new level of ignorance)
And sadly to say, your e-mail most likely went straight to a spam folder, you might even have gotten a nifty auto attendant response expressing concern.
Actually this isn't true.
You have a "choice" (i quote it because it is your parents that do it, you can't yet make the decision) on getting an SSN or not. BUT once you have and SSN you can not get rid of it.
If you "chose" not to have an SSN the IRS will issue you a tax-id number to use on all your forms. it functions like an SSN but isn't one (may also conflict with someone else's SSN# as they are different).
You also do not pay into Social Security (your employer still has to withhold, and pay their match, but you get your contributions back). But on that same counter you can never draw from Social Security.
I know several people in this situation. I personally wish i could do it (but again you can never get rid of an SSN once you have it) and i thought long and hard before getting an SSN for my Son. We eventually did it because to function in the US with any type of credit you must have one, so many industries here have zero idea what to do when you don't have one.
Not having an SSN is not illegal, But not paying your taxes is.
Agreed, it should be based on a risk/value assessment.
Sadly right now they are "made up" by people who do not have the ability to preform such an assessment.
Note: i know there are traffic engineers who can do this, and every place has them and every place has "standards". But do recognize that said standards are anything but when you look at the whole nation (along with very rarely getting reviewed/updated), and ultimately what gets turned into laws is what politicians want not what Engineers say it should be.
Not really, take open freeway types of places. a great example of this is the Atlanta Beltway where you have a road built for much higher speeds limited to 55 mph.
a great video to see what happens when someone actually makes people follow that speed limit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And trust me that there are plenty of examples of this. Personally I've driven in many states on the same conditions of roadways with varying speed limits from 55 (GA) -> 75 (TX) and honestly people don't want to go slow so traffic is generally better in on the faster roads.. BUT that being said i fully agree with limiting speeds in residential areas, side streets, school zones, and any place that has potential for pedestrian traffic.
Also on a random note, bike lanes do not belong on freeways/interstates.. That is just asking for someone to be killed.
Agree, the surface pro (especially the 3) are wonderful devices. Use it at work with a docking station and end up with 3 usable monitors (2x external + device). and when your on the road it just works great. one of the few devices that i can actually use on a plane.
I will say also for such a thin keyboard which is used as a cover, the keys have more travel than expected and works quite well providing plenty of tactile feedback.
Yea kinda sucks when your language dies....
But the medium lives on :)
You have a very valid point. For their light sensor method to work they are having to implement shadow boarding (laying out everything in a predefined pace). If a shadow board is done correctly then a quick glance at it will tell you exactly what is missing (high contrast colors between the background/foreground/tool in place)
While i see the value in having a "smart" toolbox, i for one would want it to be able to give me the inventory along with helping me find the tool as you say. "digitizing" the same visual information i get from shadow-boarding just doesn't justify it for me.
So to chime in on the whole Tech owning their own tools. I hate to say this but that works fine for Auto Mechanics because they are working on random people's cars. If the Tech doesn't have the right size wrench he'll jsut use pliers or an adjustable wrench, face and corners be damned, won't matter not their problem. Same with a torque wrench, let them just tap it a few times, or use the air gun.
Move over to the industrial world and a real manufacturing/process plant where over torquing something can stop production, or damaging the bolt can cause delays in repair (lost of production) and we have a real problem. Most plants do not allow Techs to bring in their own tools. I know Plants that have banned adjustable wrenches (if you don't' have the right tool for the job don't' do it mentality)..
All that being said in real industrial settings, tool control is a big deal. The more sterile and regulated the environment the more important it can be. See the link below where it was a contractor failing to do a tool count that did some real damage.
http://defensetech.org/2012/01...
Tool counting is a basic thing, and should always happen. Things like this tool box can be used for good and bad, it all depends on the culture of the company and people using it. Sure they could use it to bash people over the head for loosing tools, but they could also use it as a safe guard/helper/checker to help the tech out in doing a tool count to make the work go quicker. I know places where this would be seen as yet another big brother in the plant, and places where they would love to have this because it would make their job easier and quicker. Its all about culture.
Personally i love the simplicity of it, although i will say that you have to have a solid 5S/Shadow boarding in place to use in place light sensors like this. It would work very well for specialized tool sets, but not your run of the mill mechanics toolbox. For that cheap RFID tags/single box reader might be more appropriate. (and could also be used for locating the tools if lost in the equipment).
Trust me that the cost of something like this is a drop in the bucket compared to the costs of real specialty tools, and the impact to production/operations when a tool is lost.
My dad plugged his coax straight into his tv (which does not have or support a card) and he gets about 100 channels. So, I say try plugging the coax in and find out what is really what.
If he is getting 100 channels then it is digital cable. His TV just supports it (most non CRT's do, and all New TVs support Digital TV signal). The difference is he is using a provider who didn't require encryption on all the channels like some are doing. If the digital signal is encrypted then you need a box or a cable card to de-crypt it and that is what they charge you for.
read my other post. local SAN unit is sync'ed with dropbox and then incorporated into our local backups so we have point in time.
while not a complete data center, we do have a few racks.
The mentality you have to have when dealing with the "cloud" is how can i utilize it to make things better. Not "lets just shove it all up there" just like having that one box in the back-office that is the only one that can do something, you have to treat the cloud as a point of failure. When you design IT systems, you to the best of your budget try to mitigate single points of failure. Your budget is what limits the bounds in which you can do that, and the impact to the business should justify the budget.
For dropbox what we did was setup a synology san unit with with Cloud Sync attached to a single admin account. We then implemented a business process for creation of dropbox folders for use with clients (we are a consulting firm). When a folder needs to be created, it is created on that account, and then shared out. This ensures that it gets a local copy of all dropbox folders used for clients. We then back the synology unit to our normal in-house back.
We didn't go to dropbox because we wanted to replace our san or our local file storage abilities (honestly having everyone sync over the net connection vs local lan would be horrid). But rather wanted the convenience of their service, and the ease of use for the end users. But having that be the only centralized place anything existed would cause a single point of failure and should not be acceptable. It's the difference between leveraging something and relying on something.
We also use AWS for outward facing web services, But we have our own IP Block with addresses reserved for fallback, anything we push to out is first pushed to a local production system for final QA then to AWS production. If AWS would disappear, we would just update DNS settings and be back on-line within a MAX of 24 hours. Now our local pipe and production system couldn't handle the same load that AWS would in the same manner but would be functional (stress test shows page loads going from ~.1 to 4-5 sec), but that is ok as the risk is low and the impact is only moderate so ultimately it's a risk we are willing to accept.
Too many places now days don't do proper risk analysis and mitigation, and very few companies have real DR strategies. DR doesn't have to be expensive or complex, but it must be planned for and maintained, else you will be bitten when the disaster happens.
should be auto fail over, and at the first signs of this issue you should force the fail and shift. If not then your sysadmin's asleep at the wheel.
This should be part of any companies DR strategy. If they don't have the provider going down, the same way they assume a DC goes down, then they aren't doing their job.
We use DropBox, and we keep a local mirror sync'ed within our own servers. We use the service for the efficiency, but if they went belly up, we already have all our own data and would just be looking for a way to fill the efficiency gap.
I accidentally did it by switching from Coffee to Tea due to stomach issues... (yes i know Tea has caffeine, keep reading)
After i switched to Tea i went and tried many different types till i found ones i liked, and sat well with my stomach after drinking it all day. An that Tea was Rooibos Tea also known as Red Tea. After more than a year of switching i found out Rooibos Tea had zero Caffeine.
I don't drink sodas and haven't for many years, and again i made the witch to find something that fit my stomach better. Honestly i never understood people and their Caffeine cravings because i never found coffee or a soda to give me any type of perk up (i drank coffee because i like the taste).
But anyways, that is how i "accidentally" quit caffeine, i switched what i was drinking and cut it out without even realizing it.