Are there equal proportions of men and women in EVERY profession in Seattle? I suspect not, yet the wage disparity cited by the actual article is about the disparity between the two GENDER averages, it does not take into consideration things like similar job, similar education or experience, etc.
It isn't about 'lower pay for women working the same job as men', I quote:
Census reports show that Seattle is the fifth whitest big city and getting whiter. It also says that pay equity has declined as Amazonâ(TM)s grown; says Politico, âoeWomen in Seattleâ¦make just 78 cents for every dollar earned by menâ¦down from 86 cents in 2012.â
'Women' versus 'Men' - no mention of positions held or even I dustry worked in, just gender average vs. gender average...
Can we all just take a deep breath and realize men and women SOMETIMES have different career priorities and make different choices, and that does NOT qualify as gender discrimination, it's simply an easily quantifiable manifestation of their different choices...
... Equal to the retail price of conventionally generated electricity ('economic parity'), then why are utilities being forced to buy excess electricity from customers with solar panels at a premium price (cost plus)?
The gas taxes should cover the cost of required infrastructure, no more.
Think about the taxes on cigarettes that also pay for children's health care... if they worked and everyone stopped smoking, where would the money come from for children healthcare?
The current e-rate system is not needs-based, they lavish funds on every applicant that can navigate the application process - the answer isn't MORE money, it is in targeting the money to districts with real needs.
Additionally, there needs to be comprehensive auditing of current expenditures... wasn't it e-rate that paid for carrier-class routers for a rural school district a couple years ago?
They are treating education like it is a cow you are trying to medicate - to medicate a cow you need to pour a crazy amount of medicine into the cows mouth, because it is not the first, second, or third stomach that absorbs the medicine, it is the fourth or fifth - the massive dose is needed so that adequate medicine makes it to the proper stomach.
I'd rather see wealthy districts be cut off from erate, expenses get a closer review, and then, if needed, increase funding. I'm not aware of the government refusing requests because of a lack of funding, the real question is why aren't 2/3rds of schools requesting the funds in the first place?
School under Education License agreements pay about $34/year per desktop for the current OS, current edition of Office, and CALs to access Exchange & SQL Server (both also current edition)... And all that goes with it (Active Directory). The only 'gotcha' is that the computers need to have some form of current Windows OS (as low as Win 7 Starter if buying new hardware).
the bill would have to make it past Harry Reid's desk for any Senator to be able to stop it - but it is Harry Reid alone that decides what falls off his desk into the Senate.
And no, the other 369 bills are not to repeal Obamacare, some are, the vast majority are not... Like the three bills that attempted to end the Democrat shutdown of the US gov't that Harry Reid wouldn't let be debated in the Senate... But remember, it's the GOP that is the 'do noothing' party, because, well Harry Reid says it is...
Companies can only hire those minorities that apply, and no one thinks companies should hire unqualified applicants, do they? Of course not.
So the datapoint I want to have is this - for every minority critics argue is 'under-represented' in IT I'd like to know what percentage of that minority have graduated with college degrees in the fields they are being 'under-represented' in. While blacks, as an example, may represent 20% of the population, do we know that there are sufficient black college graduates to staff 20% of all existing IT positions?
Republicans are in control because the Democrats in the Senate are afraid to even try passing a bill that MIGHT get filibustered? Sounds to me like the Democrats are letting Republicans be in charge out of fear. Back when I first started following politics one party would sweeten the bills until a few members of the opposition would vote in support of the bill, now the Democrats would have us believe that unless Democrats control the House, the Senate AND the Oval Office they are incapable of doing anything except through executive orders. (Don't argue that Obama has had fewer Executive Orders than Bush, it isn't the number that counts - if FDR only had ONE executive order his entire term in office, but it was the internment order that put Japanese, Italian, and German citizen in detention camps, it still would be an abuse of executive orders)
Reagan NEVER had control of both the House and Senate, yet he was able to accomplish a lot, as was Bush '43 and Clinton also learned to work with the opposing party - this President uses phrases like 'elections have consequences' and then watched as he lost the House in 2010 (and never got it back).
Well, originally the office of Vice President was separately elected - you can, and we often did, have a Vice President that ran against the President in the election.
Imagine if that were the case today, we could have Obama as President and Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney in the VP spot... That would be fun to watch...
The people that fund them don't expect "governance", only compliance.
Of course, that applies not only to 'fat cats' but also the 'millions and millions of individual donors' that helped Obama suck nearly a billion dollars out of a failing economy so HE could get a job that he (arguably) was ill-prepared for...
If the poor paid any taxes, they'd see their taxes cut also...
I would like to see one simple rule implemented at the federal level: no one can collect more from the IRS than they actually paid in - if politicians want to cut checks to low-income families, they should fund that out of the budget, rather than monkey with the tax code.
Many of the 47% that pay no federal income tax (despite having an income that causes them to file a return) actually profit from the tax code, getting refunds in excess of what they paid in during the year.
Simple fact - you have to actually pay income taxes to get any benefit from so-called 'loopholes'.
47% of Americans pay net zero income taxes each year - that's a pretty big 'loop hole' - they pay nothing, and many profit from the tax code, collecting earned income credits for children, etc.
How many non-1%ers benefit from the home mortgage interest deduction? That's another big 'loophole' (which, by the way, is capped - only the interest on first million dollars of mortgage is deductible, and it covers not only your primary home, but also a vacation home, a motor home, and/or a boat you can sleep on. How many non-1%ers enjoy the 'loophole' on their boat or RV?
Every 'loop hole' was passed as a way to encourage/stimulate a particular activity - long-term interest income is taxed at a different rate than regular income to encourage investing - increasing the tax will, wait for it, suppress long-term investing.
Bain Capital funded businesses that grew American jobs under Romney's leadership, but the press found those stories uninteresting - they instead focused on former employees of Bain-controlled companies that had developed cancer after they lost their jobs and held Romney responsible
His opponents even found a way to attack him for wanting to hire more women into top positions in his state administration - they made the use of three ring binders to hold women's resumes offensive!
So the Republican majority in the House was able to 'force' the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Democratic President (both of which, in your world opposed extending and/or expanding the Patriot Act) to extend AND expand the Patriot Act... Interesting.
I wonder why the House Republicans haven't used that same Jedi mind control to ram through any of the other 370 bills passed by the House and then left to languish in Harry Reid's desk drawer...
Retail Windows 8 is allowed to be upgraded to 8.1 for free - it slips in as a Windows Update. Volume License installs of Windows 8 need to be re-installed to upgrade to Windows 8.1 - they do not have an automatic upgrade path.
Bought Win8 retail? The Win8.1 update is free. Bought a computer with Win8 pre-installed? The Win8. update is free. Have a corporate/school-issued (volume license) computer with Win8 installed? Your IT folks will have to re-image it for Win8.1.
HP is offering an 11" windows 8 notebook w/ 2 meg RAM and 32 Gig SSD for $199. Oh, and it comes with 12 months of Office 365 AND 12 months of 1 TB OneDrive cloud storage... And it can run any any Windows application... The appeal of the Chromebook is what, exactly?
For $50 more, HP will sell you a similar laptop with a 13" touch screen and a slightly larger form-factor.
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Do you think that phrase had never been uttered before 1986? That the Wizards in the marketing department invented it out of whole cloth?
Perhaps, just perhaps the marketers took an infrequently used phrase and repurposed it...
Are there equal proportions of men and women in EVERY profession in Seattle? I suspect not, yet the wage disparity cited by the actual article is about the disparity between the two GENDER averages, it does not take into consideration things like similar job, similar education or experience, etc.
It isn't about 'lower pay for women working the same job as men', I quote:
'Women' versus 'Men' - no mention of positions held or even I dustry worked in, just gender average vs. gender average...
Can we all just take a deep breath and realize men and women SOMETIMES have different career priorities and make different choices, and that does NOT qualify as gender discrimination, it's simply an easily quantifiable manifestation of their different choices...
And what if EVERYBODY follows Google's travel advice?
... Equal to the retail price of conventionally generated electricity ('economic parity'), then why are utilities being forced to buy excess electricity from customers with solar panels at a premium price (cost plus)?
The gas taxes should cover the cost of required infrastructure, no more.
Think about the taxes on cigarettes that also pay for children's health care... if they worked and everyone stopped smoking, where would the money come from for children healthcare?
The current e-rate system is not needs-based, they lavish funds on every applicant that can navigate the application process - the answer isn't MORE money, it is in targeting the money to districts with real needs.
Additionally, there needs to be comprehensive auditing of current expenditures... wasn't it e-rate that paid for carrier-class routers for a rural school district a couple years ago?
They are treating education like it is a cow you are trying to medicate - to medicate a cow you need to pour a crazy amount of medicine into the cows mouth, because it is not the first, second, or third stomach that absorbs the medicine, it is the fourth or fifth - the massive dose is needed so that adequate medicine makes it to the proper stomach.
I'd rather see wealthy districts be cut off from erate, expenses get a closer review, and then, if needed, increase funding. I'm not aware of the government refusing requests because of a lack of funding, the real question is why aren't 2/3rds of schools requesting the funds in the first place?
A Surface 2 (running Windows RT) costs $449 - I question the quality of a 'good' laptop and 'good' tablet you can get for less than $449...
A Surface Pro 3 starts at $749 - list price, less in qty. - that gets you close to 'good' laptops and tablets.
School under Education License agreements pay about $34/year per desktop for the current OS, current edition of Office, and CALs to access Exchange & SQL Server (both also current edition)... And all that goes with it (Active Directory). The only 'gotcha' is that the computers need to have some form of current Windows OS (as low as Win 7 Starter if buying new hardware).
the bill would have to make it past Harry Reid's desk for any Senator to be able to stop it - but it is Harry Reid alone that decides what falls off his desk into the Senate.
And no, the other 369 bills are not to repeal Obamacare, some are, the vast majority are not... Like the three bills that attempted to end the Democrat shutdown of the US gov't that Harry Reid wouldn't let be debated in the Senate... But remember, it's the GOP that is the 'do noothing' party, because, well Harry Reid says it is...
By that same logic, so are Canadians - assuming everyone is cool with equating nationality to their continent, not their nation of origin...
Guyana - isn't that where Papillion escaped from?
Isn't that where Jim Jones took all his followers when they left San Francisco?
Companies can only hire those minorities that apply, and no one thinks companies should hire unqualified applicants, do they? Of course not.
So the datapoint I want to have is this - for every minority critics argue is 'under-represented' in IT I'd like to know what percentage of that minority have graduated with college degrees in the fields they are being 'under-represented' in. While blacks, as an example, may represent 20% of the population, do we know that there are sufficient black college graduates to staff 20% of all existing IT positions?
"One downside of the A+ is that it still has fewer features than the B+ version."
Republicans are in control because the Democrats in the Senate are afraid to even try passing a bill that MIGHT get filibustered? Sounds to me like the Democrats are letting Republicans be in charge out of fear. Back when I first started following politics one party would sweeten the bills until a few members of the opposition would vote in support of the bill, now the Democrats would have us believe that unless Democrats control the House, the Senate AND the Oval Office they are incapable of doing anything except through executive orders. (Don't argue that Obama has had fewer Executive Orders than Bush, it isn't the number that counts - if FDR only had ONE executive order his entire term in office, but it was the internment order that put Japanese, Italian, and German citizen in detention camps, it still would be an abuse of executive orders)
Reagan NEVER had control of both the House and Senate, yet he was able to accomplish a lot, as was Bush '43 and Clinton also learned to work with the opposing party - this President uses phrases like 'elections have consequences' and then watched as he lost the House in 2010 (and never got it back).
Well, originally the office of Vice President was separately elected - you can, and we often did, have a Vice President that ran against the President in the election.
Imagine if that were the case today, we could have Obama as President and Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney in the VP spot... That would be fun to watch...
Of course, that applies not only to 'fat cats' but also the 'millions and millions of individual donors' that helped Obama suck nearly a billion dollars out of a failing economy so HE could get a job that he (arguably) was ill-prepared for...
If the poor paid any taxes, they'd see their taxes cut also...
I would like to see one simple rule implemented at the federal level: no one can collect more from the IRS than they actually paid in - if politicians want to cut checks to low-income families, they should fund that out of the budget, rather than monkey with the tax code.
Many of the 47% that pay no federal income tax (despite having an income that causes them to file a return) actually profit from the tax code, getting refunds in excess of what they paid in during the year.
Simple fact - you have to actually pay income taxes to get any benefit from so-called 'loopholes'.
47% of Americans pay net zero income taxes each year - that's a pretty big 'loop hole' - they pay nothing, and many profit from the tax code, collecting earned income credits for children, etc.
How many non-1%ers benefit from the home mortgage interest deduction? That's another big 'loophole' (which, by the way, is capped - only the interest on first million dollars of mortgage is deductible, and it covers not only your primary home, but also a vacation home, a motor home, and/or a boat you can sleep on. How many non-1%ers enjoy the 'loophole' on their boat or RV?
Every 'loop hole' was passed as a way to encourage/stimulate a particular activity - long-term interest income is taxed at a different rate than regular income to encourage investing - increasing the tax will, wait for it, suppress long-term investing.
Which republicans want Obama to me harder on whistle-blowers and increase control of the press? On it's face it's a ludicrous claim.
In your world Republicans want this administration to go after whistle-blowers in the IRS scandal, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, etc?
Like bailing out the Salt Lake City Olympics?
Implementing Romney Care in MA?
Bain Capital funded businesses that grew American jobs under Romney's leadership, but the press found those stories uninteresting - they instead focused on former employees of Bain-controlled companies that had developed cancer after they lost their jobs and held Romney responsible
His opponents even found a way to attack him for wanting to hire more women into top positions in his state administration - they made the use of three ring binders to hold women's resumes offensive!
So the Republican majority in the House was able to 'force' the Democrat-controlled Senate and the Democratic President (both of which, in your world opposed extending and/or expanding the Patriot Act) to extend AND expand the Patriot Act... Interesting.
I wonder why the House Republicans haven't used that same Jedi mind control to ram through any of the other 370 bills passed by the House and then left to languish in Harry Reid's desk drawer...
Retail Windows 8 is allowed to be upgraded to 8.1 for free - it slips in as a Windows Update. Volume License installs of Windows 8 need to be re-installed to upgrade to Windows 8.1 - they do not have an automatic upgrade path.
Bought Win8 retail? The Win8.1 update is free.
Bought a computer with Win8 pre-installed? The Win8. update is free.
Have a corporate/school-issued (volume license) computer with Win8 installed? Your IT folks will have to re-image it for Win8.1.
HP is offering an 11" windows 8 notebook w/ 2 meg RAM and 32 Gig SSD for $199. Oh, and it comes with 12 months of Office 365 AND 12 months of 1 TB OneDrive cloud storage... And it can run any any Windows application... The appeal of the Chromebook is what, exactly?
For $50 more, HP will sell you a similar laptop with a 13" touch screen and a slightly larger form-factor.
Windows 7 is still available, just not the Home, Starter, or Ultimate versions - Windows 7 Pro is still available for sale.