They are - they are only allowed to compete with other female-owned companies and they can only work on 5% of any federal government contract - they are, in the eyes of the original poster anyways, special, in a short bus kinda way..
"The Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program requires 5% of all IT jobs to go to female-owned integration companies, but there must be at least 2 female bidders. There are so few female bidders that women-owned IT firms are ineligible for the contracts."
Are remale-owned IT firms PREVENTED from bidding on work the same as a male-owned company?
The quote above would want me to believe that female-owned are olny eligible for 5% of federal gov't contracts, and unless two female-owned companies offer competing bids for that same 5% of work, neither can win any of that 5% of the contract.
And the actors, director, technical crew, editor, scriptwriter, and the special effects people will all bask in the warm glow "communication" with their fans?
That's great, until the rent comes due, or the transmission in thier car needs repair, or they get hungry, their kid needs to go to doctor, etc.
To prove what? Star Trek is formulaic entertainment, change the formula, risk losing the entertainment. If they took a random star trek episode and swapped a female captain for Kirk with all the same lines and directions, do you, for a moment think it stands a chance of being as good as the original? Now, take that same random episode and not only swap a femalecaptain for Kirk but also re-work the Kirk part to be more feminine - how could you even consider calling that Star Trek?
Want an all (or mostly) female crew on the space ship? That has been done to death, but because of the obvious lesbian overtones, those films have been relegated to the porn industry... Or so I've heard.;^)
"Maybe with direct communication, sci-fi fans can rest easy and not have to worry about their favorite shows being cancelled like FireFly."
"(C)ommunication" isn't the issue, it's having demonstrable ratings that appeal to advertisers - TV is not an entertainment medium, it is a mediumm for conveying advertising. They attract you by offering you some entertainment, but until you realize the networks don't really care what they show, they just want an audience to watch the commercials in it.
The best thing a Sci-Fi fan can do is get themselves a nielson box and then set their TV to watch all their favorite shows.
My well water is used in my house and is disposed of in my septic system, which returns the water to my local water table - I'd be hard-pressed to figure out how my water usage was somehow contributing to the cataclysmic (if infinitisimal) receeding shore lines around the world...
If only there were some way for water in the oceans to be reclaimed - perhaps we could find some way to take water from the oceans, form them into big "clouds" and then have some sort of propuslion system (wind currents?) push them over dry patches of land and somehow have that water somehow drop from the sky onto the ground...
Ravi wasn't charges with causing his roommate's death - he was charged with a laundry list of particular offenses.
Most notable is that Ravi repeatedly (twice I know of) rejected plea deals from the prosecutor that would have kept him out of jail, presumably with probation and community service as his penalty, and that Ravi never once during the trial expressed remorse or sorrow for what he had done.
While I don't know all the details, I think Ravi got about what he deserved... What would the punishment be if Ravi had comitted the same crimes against a straight neighbor having sex? A gay neighbor having sex?
I thought the whole point of Twitter was to collect followers? Maybe they could launch a new service for those folks that want to share intimate stories but not have anyone read it - I even have the perfect name for it - "/dev/null"
How many resources can one millionaire or billionaire consume compared with millions of illegals?
Focus on the few with 'boatloads' of money if you like, the millions are having a greater impact IMHO.
Before this Facebook founder pulls his billions out of the IPO, he will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, then he will cease to derive any further benefit from the country he left.
He won't be a drain on the US anymore, and, truth be told, he will likely have paid in taxes 100x times the actuall cost of any and all Gov't service he actually benefited from while he was a tax-paying citizen of the US.
His parents paid taxes to publicly fund DARPA, and as a publicly-funded research entity the results of DARPA's research is PUBLIC DOMAIN - he owes not a cent for using the Internet protocols his parents helped finance in the 60's and 70's.
When he no longer lives in the US? He's paid taxes as he benefited from Gov't services, he's simply moving away - should he keep funding Silicon Valley public schools if he no longer lives in Silicon Valley?
If everything is in 'the cloud' the electronics are just dumb terminals - buy a spare of each, ship the spares to a mail forwarder (like a mailbox etc.) and leave the spare there. With one phone call your electronics will be replaced in 24 hours.
Ever seen a 22 year-old that owes $160,000 dollars in debt, debt which can not be erased by declaring bankruptcy BTW, with a degree in "Theater Management" and no job prospects?
I have, it's not pretty - his college debt is like a nice vacation home he can never visit, yet has to keep paying for, no matter his circumstances...
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They are - they are only allowed to compete with other female-owned companies and they can only work on 5% of any federal government contract - they are, in the eyes of the original poster anyways, special, in a short bus kinda way..
Are remale-owned IT firms PREVENTED from bidding on work the same as a male-owned company?
The quote above would want me to believe that female-owned are olny eligible for 5% of federal gov't contracts, and unless two female-owned companies offer competing bids for that same 5% of work, neither can win any of that 5% of the contract.
And the actors, director, technical crew, editor, scriptwriter, and the special effects people will all bask in the warm glow "communication" with their fans?
That's great, until the rent comes due, or the transmission in thier car needs repair, or they get hungry, their kid needs to go to doctor, etc.
To prove what? Star Trek is formulaic entertainment, change the formula, risk losing the entertainment. If they took a random star trek episode and swapped a female captain for Kirk with all the same lines and directions, do you, for a moment think it stands a chance of being as good as the original? Now, take that same random episode and not only swap a femalecaptain for Kirk but also re-work the Kirk part to be more feminine - how could you even consider calling that Star Trek?
Want an all (or mostly) female crew on the space ship? That has been done to death, but because of the obvious lesbian overtones, those films have been relegated to the porn industry... Or so I've heard. ;^)
Well, Missle Command was already taken...
"(C)ommunication" isn't the issue, it's having demonstrable ratings that appeal to advertisers - TV is not an entertainment medium, it is a mediumm for conveying advertising. They attract you by offering you some entertainment, but until you realize the networks don't really care what they show, they just want an audience to watch the commercials in it.
The best thing a Sci-Fi fan can do is get themselves a nielson box and then set their TV to watch all their favorite shows.
My well water is used in my house and is disposed of in my septic system, which returns the water to my local water table - I'd be hard-pressed to figure out how my water usage was somehow contributing to the cataclysmic (if infinitisimal) receeding shore lines around the world...
If only there were some way for water in the oceans to be reclaimed - perhaps we could find some way to take water from the oceans, form them into big "clouds" and then have some sort of propuslion system (wind currents?) push them over dry patches of land and somehow have that water somehow drop from the sky onto the ground...
Oh wait, this might take care of it.
Ravi wasn't charges with causing his roommate's death - he was charged with a laundry list of particular offenses.
Most notable is that Ravi repeatedly (twice I know of) rejected plea deals from the prosecutor that would have kept him out of jail, presumably with probation and community service as his penalty, and that Ravi never once during the trial expressed remorse or sorrow for what he had done.
While I don't know all the details, I think Ravi got about what he deserved... What would the punishment be if Ravi had comitted the same crimes against a straight neighbor having sex? A gay neighbor having sex?
I thought the whole point of Twitter was to collect followers? Maybe they could launch a new service for those folks that want to share intimate stories but not have anyone read it - I even have the perfect name for it - "/dev/null"
I said nothing about 'stealing our jobs'.
How many resources can one millionaire or billionaire consume compared with millions of illegals?
Focus on the few with 'boatloads' of money if you like, the millions are having a greater impact IMHO.
Before this Facebook founder pulls his billions out of the IPO, he will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, then he will cease to derive any further benefit from the country he left.
He won't be a drain on the US anymore, and, truth be told, he will likely have paid in taxes 100x times the actuall cost of any and all Gov't service he actually benefited from while he was a tax-paying citizen of the US.
And countless illegals in the US who are paid under the table and consume Gov't services but pay no income taxes...
Reverse anchor babies?
His parents paid taxes to publicly fund DARPA, and as a publicly-funded research entity the results of DARPA's research is PUBLIC DOMAIN - he owes not a cent for using the Internet protocols his parents helped finance in the 60's and 70's.
When he no longer lives in the US? He's paid taxes as he benefited from Gov't services, he's simply moving away - should he keep funding Silicon Valley public schools if he no longer lives in Silicon Valley?
Because he never paid any taxes while he was 'enjoying' those benefits you listed...
Are you under the impression he won't be paying ANY taxes? He'll be paying millions in taxes before his money leaves the US.
Investment income is generated y accepting some risk, the lower tax rate encourages risk-taking.
Welfare recipients are not asked to pay back for prior benefits received.
Welfare is not a debt, it is a gift...
Yes.
Commercial grade Access Points are similarly priced for Same-capacity wired switches (don't forget wireless has a wired backbone)
The kind that invested in a wired gigabit infrastructure, no doubt.
But the real question is: "What kind of shitty company do you work at that uses Macs?" ;^)
You are making an assumption about the size of his briefcase, and whether or not his 'special someone' is collapsible/inflatable...
If everything is in 'the cloud' the electronics are just dumb terminals - buy a spare of each, ship the spares to a mail forwarder (like a mailbox etc.) and leave the spare there. With one phone call your electronics will be replaced in 24 hours.
What about saving for college? Attending community colleges? State schools? Working while in college? Look for a job with tuition assistance?
Ever seen a 22 year-old that owes $160,000 dollars in debt, debt which can not be erased by declaring bankruptcy BTW, with a degree in "Theater Management" and no job prospects?
I have, it's not pretty - his college debt is like a nice vacation home he can never visit, yet has to keep paying for, no matter his circumstances...
Property taxes are paid to suppor the local government. K-12 education is a responsibility of the local government to the members of the community,