You are obviously choosing to ignore the one great difference between men and women - it's the woman that bears the child, the man does not.
They are treating everyone equally - every person that actually delivers a baby gets three months paid maternity leave. Every person that impregnates another person gets two months off. That "tends" to fall along gender lines, but let's consider same-sex couples:
If two men "arrange" for a surrogate to carry their baby, do both men get two months paid leave?
If two women "arrange" for a surrogate to carry their baby, do both women get three months paid leave or two?
If two women draw straws and one of them carries a baby and delivers, do both women get three months paid leave, or does the woman that carried & delivered the baby get three months paid leave and her partner gets two months?
I suspect the answers to the above answers will show the policy to be legal and fair, and by the way, if the whiners are going to have any impact on Yahoo to change their policy, I strongly suspect they will back on the benefit for new mothers 33 1/3% rather than increase the father's paid leave 50%.
So they researched and proved that a delivery route (single vehicle, multiple stops) is more efficient than the least efficient use of a car (a large number of single occupant, single stop "trips") - seriously? That was a "riddle" they needed to solve?
What's next - are fully-utilized light-rail systems more fuel efficient than commuters driving themselves to work in their own cars?
using a grocery delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half when compared with individual household trips to the store. Trucks filled to capacity that deliver to customers clustered in neighborhoods produced the most savings in carbon dioxide emissions
Adoption of grocery delivery services is very, very low in most areas (I am familiar with), so if the truck is to leave the store "filled to capacity" it will be covering a very large area, the customers will not be "clustered in neighborhoods" - this will have an impact on the reduction in carbon dioxide achieved.
Where I live (suburbs) it seems that most people stop at the supermarket on their way to/from somewhere else (not a single trip to the market and back), a delivery service may eliminate the stop, but it won't eliminate the car trip, a trip that will likely involve driving past the market on the way to the dry cleaner, book store, office/work, etc.
Not to defend the number, but to explain it - that is the complete cost for the infrastructure from the head office to the neighborhood to the street to the house. Your sewer hook-up (I assume) entailed laying pipe from your house to an existing sewer pipe that runs down your street - AKA an existing sewage plant.
Imagine if you calculated the price of a new sewage treatment plant, a sewer system AND your personal hook-up, that's what's being priced here.
The real issue isn't the number of "STEM" graduates there are looking for jobs, it's that so many current STEM degree holders are incapable of performing in their field with any real competence.
Heck, kids are graduating from high school INCAPABLE of reading, not just at a lower grade level, not able to read - and this after 12 years of taxpayer-funded education. That they go off and then work towards STEM degrees after spending half of their first two years on remedial writing and math classes may expalin their inability to secure employment.
How many years did they run the current software they have & what did they pay for that? How many years will they run the new software for their $10K investment?
If they are happy with the current software and their systems are not on the internet, there is no real need for security updates (as many others have noted).
They have apparently chosen to not pay for annual support (since that typically has the benefit of allowing the user to run the latest software release), how much have they saved? Is it enough to pay for the current release of the software?
The only thing they are a victim of is their decision to let the software support lapse...
You choose to ignore that you could have bought it the first way you mentioned BUT you felt the need to pay for half the laptop in coins, using a credit the first order process doesn't recognize.
Be fair, I you had chosen to use one o two credit cards this would have been a trivial purchase.
Seriously, TFA is ignoring the fact that we could have simply hit market saturation levels.
Three years ago it wasn't hard to find quad-core desktops that can take 8 gigts of RAM and have terabyte drives for around $500 - had you bought one of them then, is there any pressing need to replace them now? Gamers aside, even the most pedestrian desktop of two or three years ago is more than most users use, so they hardly feel any compulsion to upgrade.
And along with support goes any type of security update... Everr install a windows xp machine and hook it up to the net without a firewall without updates?
Virus in 3..2..1..
That will be every xp machine in the world as soon as the first venerability is found after the support date ends....
really any business that runs a network connected XP box after the support date will have problems.. guaranteed
Why? Because they will all stop running behind firewalls once support runs out? They'll all stop running anti-virus/malware software once support ends?
I don't know anyone ANYONE that runs a desktop OS simply "attached" to the Internet without a firewall...
A Dual-Core Pentium, heck, even a Hyper-threading P4 makes an acceptable Win7 desktop, provided it has 2 Gigs of RAM...
Where I work we tested Win7 Enterprise on Dell GX270s with on-board Intel integrated video, 2 Gigs of PC3200 RAM, and an IDE HD - it ran fine for general purpose computing (office apps, browsing), but we choose to keep most of our GX270s on WinXP rather than go through the process of upgrading them for their last year of service.
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Really, you're blaming it on her hormones?
Brave.
Let me fix that for you:
Nearly every single other country in the world chooses to give themselves more time off when their kids are born because they want it
The FMLA allows you to take time off for almost anything (unpaid).
What about people without cats? Why can't they take up to 12 weeks off (unpaid) for any reason they like?
That's 280 days per delivery, not per child I suspect...
You are obviously choosing to ignore the one great difference between men and women - it's the woman that bears the child, the man does not.
They are treating everyone equally - every person that actually delivers a baby gets three months paid maternity leave. Every person that impregnates another person gets two months off. That "tends" to fall along gender lines, but let's consider same-sex couples:
I suspect the answers to the above answers will show the policy to be legal and fair, and by the way, if the whiners are going to have any impact on Yahoo to change their policy, I strongly suspect they will back on the benefit for new mothers 33 1/3% rather than increase the father's paid leave 50%.
Amazon is still selling them new for $50/each
So they researched and proved that a delivery route (single vehicle, multiple stops) is more efficient than the least efficient use of a car (a large number of single occupant, single stop "trips") - seriously? That was a "riddle" they needed to solve?
What's next - are fully-utilized light-rail systems more fuel efficient than commuters driving themselves to work in their own cars?
This qualifies as research?
They build the supermarkets near major arteries because that's where the people are...
Or modern college/university campus...
Adoption of grocery delivery services is very, very low in most areas (I am familiar with), so if the truck is to leave the store "filled to capacity" it will be covering a very large area, the customers will not be "clustered in neighborhoods" - this will have an impact on the reduction in carbon dioxide achieved.
Where I live (suburbs) it seems that most people stop at the supermarket on their way to/from somewhere else (not a single trip to the market and back), a delivery service may eliminate the stop, but it won't eliminate the car trip, a trip that will likely involve driving past the market on the way to the dry cleaner, book store, office/work, etc.
Not to defend the number, but to explain it - that is the complete cost for the infrastructure from the head office to the neighborhood to the street to the house. Your sewer hook-up (I assume) entailed laying pipe from your house to an existing sewer pipe that runs down your street - AKA an existing sewage plant.
Imagine if you calculated the price of a new sewage treatment plant, a sewer system AND your personal hook-up, that's what's being priced here.
Why not toss more federal money at Detroit and off absolutely free gigabit Ethernet to every taxpayer in the city.
Think that might help turn Detroit around?
600 people out of 17,500 recognize the 'need' - that's not many...
$8,500 per house is NUTS, plain and simple - and no, you won't make it up on volume.
The real issue isn't the number of "STEM" graduates there are looking for jobs, it's that so many current STEM degree holders are incapable of performing in their field with any real competence.
Heck, kids are graduating from high school INCAPABLE of reading, not just at a lower grade level, not able to read - and this after 12 years of taxpayer-funded education. That they go off and then work towards STEM degrees after spending half of their first two years on remedial writing and math classes may expalin their inability to secure employment.
Users of older software have three choices:
Live with limitations of older software
Pay for upgraded/up-to-date software
Replace computer system with manual process
How many years did they run the current software they have & what did they pay for that? How many years will they run the new software for their $10K investment?
If they are happy with the current software and their systems are not on the internet, there is no real need for security updates (as many others have noted).
They have apparently chosen to not pay for annual support (since that typically has the benefit of allowing the user to run the latest software release), how much have they saved? Is it enough to pay for the current release of the software?
The only thing they are a victim of is their decision to let the software support lapse...
And a couple mainframes...
It also, you may want to note, isn't exactly hillbilly country - Monster has 16 high-tech jobs in Ft. Myers area right now, much more if you expand your search area...
It's no Silicon Valley, but then again neither is about 99.99% of the country...
You choose to ignore that you could have bought it the first way you mentioned BUT you felt the need to pay for half the laptop in coins, using a credit the first order process doesn't recognize.
Be fair, I you had chosen to use one o two credit cards this would have been a trivial purchase.
Seems to me the import fees on a completed unit is higher than the total import fees on the individual components.
I'd like to buy one made in USA (or US/Mexico duty-free region along the border), but I probably won't wait...
Long-range climate predictions are nearly always wrong, despite their insistence to the contrary, I suspect they may be wrong again.
Or not...
Seriously, TFA is ignoring the fact that we could have simply hit market saturation levels.
Three years ago it wasn't hard to find quad-core desktops that can take 8 gigts of RAM and have terabyte drives for around $500 - had you bought one of them then, is there any pressing need to replace them now? Gamers aside, even the most pedestrian desktop of two or three years ago is more than most users use, so they hardly feel any compulsion to upgrade.
Why? Because they will all stop running behind firewalls once support runs out? They'll all stop running anti-virus/malware software once support ends?
I don't know anyone ANYONE that runs a desktop OS simply "attached" to the Internet without a firewall...
For many in corporate America, the need to run the latest version of Internet Explorer is a pretty compelling reason.
A Dual-Core Pentium, heck, even a Hyper-threading P4 makes an acceptable Win7 desktop, provided it has 2 Gigs of RAM...
Where I work we tested Win7 Enterprise on Dell GX270s with on-board Intel integrated video, 2 Gigs of PC3200 RAM, and an IDE HD - it ran fine for general purpose computing (office apps, browsing), but we choose to keep most of our GX270s on WinXP rather than go through the process of upgrading them for their last year of service.
Maybe, just maybe, the MS user base (at around 94%) is a bit more appealing to malware/virus writers than OS X (at around 5%) or Linux (at 1%)...