Who really pays your insurance costs though? Premiums for a single 25 year old are close to $600 per month, even if your deduction is a small portion of that. Get to be 40 with a family, and you are looking at $1,200-1,500 per month.
For some reason, I was thinking Minitel was the same as Teletext. It seems like the last vesteges of it are being phased out now, but it was an interesting service and quite common in some countries.
Spouse green cards are really a pain, likely because of the level of abuse historically. The probationary green card is really only the first two years though. When my wife came over she got an education visa, then we had a lot of fun when we tried to do a border run to get a tourist visa after that expired. After that, it was a fiancé visa which was a whole other nightmare. It took three years to get a proper SSN.
Which is what pisses me off in the whole discussion of illegal labor. What the hell else do you expect if you make a system that requires surviving two to three years before you can work legally? Even with a sponsor, that is a good bit of money where an extra $10k per year can make a huge difference.
Ok, so the marketing and finance executive positions stay, but everybody else goes. The corporate headquarters is moved to a tax haven. Other corporations and consumers alike are suckers for lower prices, and they reward the behavior without looking at the total cost.
That is actually the same problem as California. We also farm deserts and prairies like the Midwest, which uses far more water than the population centers. USDA indicates that water consumption by farming is 80% nationally and 90% in western states. To make a positive impact on water use, the lowest hanging fruit (heh) is more efficient water use in farming....or we could all become vegetarians.
Sorry, but have to call bullshit on that one. Looking at diesel standby engine generators, the fuel consumption per MWh for a low-emissions unit over a "standard" unit is about a 9% delta. Comparing an engine from (about) 1970, you would see nominally a 30% higher number.
Brent is more easy to transport but has higher sulfur content so it is historically at a discount to WTI. WTI is pipeline constrained by its settlement point in Cushing, Oklahoma.
While other browser-based options have been highlighted, I'll throw my thought in for a Beagleboard and using the built-in node.js environment. If the network is locked down, you would have to do more work-- thinking a transparent firewall if you have no control of the PC as a worst-case. A USB Ethernet adapter might work as well.
I guess you could use a headless Raspberry PI via local ssh instead if you wanted to go for the full LAMP approach, in much the same fashion.
But, if I saw you plugging strange boxes into the network I might be inclined to fire you. You are best off asking permission first... Maybe prefaced with a statement like "I'm a little slow right now, is there anything I can do to help?"
The problem we face in hiring is just that-- the amount of lying people do makes it very hard to screen 50 resumes to conduct 5-10 interviews. We can (and have) switched some positions to Skype screening interviews, but it is quite difficult to do systemically (for us, at least). People have become very good at getting a third party to prep them for interviews as well, so we can't let them know who our company is in advance or even the interviews get scammed.
We also have problems with recruiters sending out fourth-rate candidates, solid candidates fishing rather than being serious about a new job, etc.
The pluses seem to be a better consistency between salary expectation between parties-- but that is of little consolation when half of our postings go unfilled.
We could adopt a different business strategy and slap people in bench seating so we can double our head count and just fire people that don't perform, but it isn't how we want to operate.
Sorry if I was unclear; the *Privacy* issues related to the virtual strip search are assisted with the current technology. The security theater aspect is still alive and present, as is the potential medical aspect.
However, if you were trying to build a better magnetometer walk-through devices, it does a pretty good job ignoring price. The higher security units that indicate where vertically the metal is seem to run in the $5-12k price range. The L3 millimeter-wave devices by comparison are in the $200k range.
I was actually looking at the information provided to the screeners on Monday. I had cargo shorts on, and it did flag my side pocket which had excess fabric. It almost looks reasonable compared to the previous information. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the original images are still being recorded, although there should be a little greater anonymity to it now.
Still doesn't change the fact that the technology can't really work without excessive radiation, nor the fact that it does nothing to enhance security or safety of the flying public.
Maybe you need to become a better teacher. To to the cryptically named "music" app, search for a hidden-in-plain-sight button labeled "store", and then select between such topics as "music," "movies," or some other form of content.
The content will automagically be synced with your iTunes on the computer, as well as any other iDevices under the same account.
I do think iTunes is a an asinine crutch that Apple still clings to without clear logic, but there are fewer and fewer things you must use it for, and in the average user's monthly life it is zero.
Their strategy is likely more on the order of... What can we do to slow iPad adoption in our core markets? If they can delay purchases for a few quarters it might give them enough time to get Win 8 out the door.
They said a 30.4 watt-hour battery; the 2nd generation iPad Is 25 w-hr, and the 3rd generation is 42w-hr. That should put it around 8-10 hours once they have optimized power consumption.
Hell, who needs to worry about the toilets-- how are you goin to let the foundations cure? I have seen "top-down" construction for a high rise, but you still have months of ground preparation to bore through the basement levels to solid rock. The math seems to check out though-- the unimaginitive design should be very efficient to build.
Would be interesting to watch though. Presumably they would lift two-story modules.
From what I have seen, it all comes down to the frequency with which you attempt to do it. There was someone in LA that was hitting a bank or two every week that wasn't caught until their 9th attempt.
No, the cash in an ATM does not come from the bank. It comes from a cash vault at a central depository in secured canisters via an armored car. Nobody at the branch (including the armored car delivery guy) physically touches any of the cash that goes into the ATM. The people at the depository are guarded by guns; robbing a depository would be a bit more difficult than robbing the cash from a drawer at a branch bank.
Hate to jump on this war, but wow... you are so wrong! The historical stifling is hopefully something that no reasonable person can deny-- the attacks that the RIAA made on Mix-Rip-Burn, the adherence to the album model long after it was dead, and killing sites that made it possible for people to discover music and become music consumers again.
Even today, the RIAA doesn't like the model that is out there-- they really want to push a limited catalog of super-hits, and generate ongoing revenue from their back catalog that has been purchased over and over again based solely on the need to media shift. They also are responsible in a large part for the complexity in international music sales, the challenges of internet radio, Pandora, and the like. They serve to promote formulaic music that is most likely to be successful.
While I can't speak for everyone here, the real problem isn't just the RIAA, but the MPAA and whatever the comparable association is for television. Copyright extension to its current level is one of the biggest problems, but their push for additional revenue streams is even worse. All three associations need to regroup (RIAA has come the farthest) and re-align themselves to the brave new world.
(And yes, I realize the RIAA does not do anything, they are simply a trade group for the labels. The transgressions of the labels and RIAA are much more easily lumped under a single umbrella.)
On the other hand, I don't see many people lamenting anymore that TVs no longer have user-serviceable parts.
Get off my lawn. I remember as a kid when I looked at doing one of the Heathkit projection TVs, how soon after hobbyists started to feel like they were being attacked by companies making "throw-away" TVs that would fail after 15-20 years!
I would argue they are another victim of the loss-leader business model. They effectively take a loss on everything in the hopes of making it up on extended warranties and overpriced Monster cables. The only time I shop there is when shipping will be a challenge and my time is more valuable than my money. With that mindset, I willingly pay twice what I think something is worth and try to get on with my life.
While Fry's is at the midpoint in my 3-mile daily commute from home to office, I rarely end up buying stuff there of any value. (Over the past six years I have spent on the order of $4k there (mostly for work), but aside from a few TVs, I doubt many tickets have been over $30. The number of times I have left empty-handed is more dramatic. They really need to work on merchandising, althoughg they have made big progress in organization compared to 4 years ago.
Instead... I have spent a good bit lately at Target! Got a few Sonos components, a Dyson, and a few other toys. Maybe not as much spent there as at Amazon, but a good bit.
It can be very hard, unless you have enough cash to start a significant business. I think $5MM is the number that I have seen for a few countries. I looked in Thailand and Australia about 10 years ago: Australia wasn't too hard as long as you were young and upwardly mobile, but Thailand was the opposite. They didn't want to let people in that would become the new elite. They set it up to milk 90% of the people that come in-- between lawyers fees and accountants, you would be spending at least $10k per year just to have a business without any revenue.
I don't think any country can handle immigration policies that can have a significant impact on demographics. You see it in Sweden with middle-eastern immigrants just as much as you see it in a US software company with Indians. It is no different in rural Thailand with "rich" farang. Malaysia tried to open their doors back around 2005, and that had a huge backlash as well.
In practical terms, if you want to migrate somewhere, you have to find a way to make it work. It is hard and sometimes you have to break the law... but it sure as hell can be personally rewarding. (When it ceases to be so... leave. You have to maintain that flexibility.) If everything goes well, it should work out in the end.
Having wondered a similar thing, a little input can go a long way to determine if the project would make sense. If it wouldn't, you won't find vendors that will tell you so for free.
So, I will share what I do know about it: -If the building owns the telephone cable plant, the cheapest solution is to go to ADSL at the main point of entry for distribution to the units. This will limit capacity, but is easiest to implement. Your handoff between an upstream supplier will likely be Ethernet. -If you have concrete shear walls between units, don't consider wireless. -Most importantly, it requires nearly 100% buy-in from the owners all wanting the service you can provide for it to be economically viable. If you can get 100Mbit for $1400/month (recent quote I got elsewhere), your MRC is $17.50 per unit. So, if you amortize over 36 months, you can only spend $7k and keep the monthly cost at $20 without any profit.
There should be full-service companies that will give you triple-play packages, but it is going to be hard to justify on cost.
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Who really pays your insurance costs though? Premiums for a single 25 year old are close to $600 per month, even if your deduction is a small portion of that. Get to be 40 with a family, and you are looking at $1,200-1,500 per month.
For some reason, I was thinking Minitel was the same as Teletext. It seems like the last vesteges of it are being phased out now, but it was an interesting service and quite common in some countries.
Spouse green cards are really a pain, likely because of the level of abuse historically. The probationary green card is really only the first two years though. When my wife came over she got an education visa, then we had a lot of fun when we tried to do a border run to get a tourist visa after that expired. After that, it was a fiancé visa which was a whole other nightmare. It took three years to get a proper SSN.
Which is what pisses me off in the whole discussion of illegal labor. What the hell else do you expect if you make a system that requires surviving two to three years before you can work legally? Even with a sponsor, that is a good bit of money where an extra $10k per year can make a huge difference.
Ok, so the marketing and finance executive positions stay, but everybody else goes. The corporate headquarters is moved to a tax haven. Other corporations and consumers alike are suckers for lower prices, and they reward the behavior without looking at the total cost.
That is actually the same problem as California. We also farm deserts and prairies like the Midwest, which uses far more water than the population centers. USDA indicates that water consumption by farming is 80% nationally and 90% in western states. To make a positive impact on water use, the lowest hanging fruit (heh) is more efficient water use in farming. ...or we could all become vegetarians.
Sorry, but have to call bullshit on that one. Looking at diesel standby engine generators, the fuel consumption per MWh for a low-emissions unit over a "standard" unit is about a 9% delta. Comparing an engine from (about) 1970, you would see nominally a 30% higher number.
1970 - ~90-100gal/MWh
2012 Tier 2 - 73 gal/MWh
2012 non-tiered - 65 gal/MWh
The improved performance is mainly from tighter manufacturing tolerances and higher compression ratios and EFI.
GST wouldn't be included in those numbers as it is a percentage of the total, not on a per-gallon basis. Ref. http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/tax_rates_stfd.htm#9f.
That puts the total tax on gasoline at about $0.84 in California, and the delta to Alaska would be close to $0.50.
Relative to national averages though, I agree it is less than a $0.25-30 difference.
Not that I really give a shit... I ride my bike.
Brent is more easy to transport but has higher sulfur content so it is historically at a discount to WTI. WTI is pipeline constrained by its settlement point in Cushing, Oklahoma.
While other browser-based options have been highlighted, I'll throw my thought in for a Beagleboard and using the built-in node.js environment. If the network is locked down, you would have to do more work-- thinking a transparent firewall if you have no control of the PC as a worst-case. A USB Ethernet adapter might work as well.
I guess you could use a headless Raspberry PI via local ssh instead if you wanted to go for the full LAMP approach, in much the same fashion.
But, if I saw you plugging strange boxes into the network I might be inclined to fire you. You are best off asking permission first... Maybe prefaced with a statement like "I'm a little slow right now, is there anything I can do to help?"
And that is the surest way to make it hard for yourself to find a job after 10-15 years, at any wage.
The problem we face in hiring is just that-- the amount of lying people do makes it very hard to screen 50 resumes to conduct 5-10 interviews. We can (and have) switched some positions to Skype screening interviews, but it is quite difficult to do systemically (for us, at least). People have become very good at getting a third party to prep them for interviews as well, so we can't let them know who our company is in advance or even the interviews get scammed.
We also have problems with recruiters sending out fourth-rate candidates, solid candidates fishing rather than being serious about a new job, etc.
The pluses seem to be a better consistency between salary expectation between parties-- but that is of little consolation when half of our postings go unfilled.
We could adopt a different business strategy and slap people in bench seating so we can double our head count and just fire people that don't perform, but it isn't how we want to operate.
Sorry if I was unclear; the *Privacy* issues related to the virtual strip search are assisted with the current technology. The security theater aspect is still alive and present, as is the potential medical aspect.
However, if you were trying to build a better magnetometer walk-through devices, it does a pretty good job ignoring price. The higher security units that indicate where vertically the metal is seem to run in the $5-12k price range. The L3 millimeter-wave devices by comparison are in the $200k range.
I was actually looking at the information provided to the screeners on Monday. I had cargo shorts on, and it did flag my side pocket which had excess fabric. It almost looks reasonable compared to the previous information. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the original images are still being recorded, although there should be a little greater anonymity to it now.
Still doesn't change the fact that the technology can't really work without excessive radiation, nor the fact that it does nothing to enhance security or safety of the flying public.
Maybe you need to become a better teacher. To to the cryptically named "music" app, search for a hidden-in-plain-sight button labeled "store", and then select between such topics as "music," "movies," or some other form of content.
The content will automagically be synced with your iTunes on the computer, as well as any other iDevices under the same account.
I do think iTunes is a an asinine crutch that Apple still clings to without clear logic, but there are fewer and fewer things you must use it for, and in the average user's monthly life it is zero.
Their strategy is likely more on the order of... What can we do to slow iPad adoption in our core markets? If they can delay purchases for a few quarters it might give them enough time to get Win 8 out the door.
They said a 30.4 watt-hour battery; the 2nd generation iPad Is 25 w-hr, and the 3rd generation is 42w-hr. That should put it around 8-10 hours once they have optimized power consumption.
Hell, who needs to worry about the toilets-- how are you goin to let the foundations cure? I have seen "top-down" construction for a high rise, but you still have months of ground preparation to bore through the basement levels to solid rock. The math seems to check out though-- the unimaginitive design should be very efficient to build.
Would be interesting to watch though. Presumably they would lift two-story modules.
From what I have seen, it all comes down to the frequency with which you attempt to do it. There was someone in LA that was hitting a bank or two every week that wasn't caught until their 9th attempt.
No, the cash in an ATM does not come from the bank. It comes from a cash vault at a central depository in secured canisters via an armored car. Nobody at the branch (including the armored car delivery guy) physically touches any of the cash that goes into the ATM. The people at the depository are guarded by guns; robbing a depository would be a bit more difficult than robbing the cash from a drawer at a branch bank.
Hate to jump on this war, but wow... you are so wrong! The historical stifling is hopefully something that no reasonable person can deny-- the attacks that the RIAA made on Mix-Rip-Burn, the adherence to the album model long after it was dead, and killing sites that made it possible for people to discover music and become music consumers again.
Even today, the RIAA doesn't like the model that is out there-- they really want to push a limited catalog of super-hits, and generate ongoing revenue from their back catalog that has been purchased over and over again based solely on the need to media shift. They also are responsible in a large part for the complexity in international music sales, the challenges of internet radio, Pandora, and the like. They serve to promote formulaic music that is most likely to be successful.
While I can't speak for everyone here, the real problem isn't just the RIAA, but the MPAA and whatever the comparable association is for television. Copyright extension to its current level is one of the biggest problems, but their push for additional revenue streams is even worse. All three associations need to regroup (RIAA has come the farthest) and re-align themselves to the brave new world.
(And yes, I realize the RIAA does not do anything, they are simply a trade group for the labels. The transgressions of the labels and RIAA are much more easily lumped under a single umbrella.)
Get off my lawn. I remember as a kid when I looked at doing one of the Heathkit projection TVs, how soon after hobbyists started to feel like they were being attacked by companies making "throw-away" TVs that would fail after 15-20 years!
My... how expectations have changed.
Banks have multiple codes typically though, so you really have closer to 10^8 possibilities.
I would argue they are another victim of the loss-leader business model. They effectively take a loss on everything in the hopes of making it up on extended warranties and overpriced Monster cables. The only time I shop there is when shipping will be a challenge and my time is more valuable than my money. With that mindset, I willingly pay twice what I think something is worth and try to get on with my life.
While Fry's is at the midpoint in my 3-mile daily commute from home to office, I rarely end up buying stuff there of any value. (Over the past six years I have spent on the order of $4k there (mostly for work), but aside from a few TVs, I doubt many tickets have been over $30. The number of times I have left empty-handed is more dramatic. They really need to work on merchandising, althoughg they have made big progress in organization compared to 4 years ago.
Instead... I have spent a good bit lately at Target! Got a few Sonos components, a Dyson, and a few other toys. Maybe not as much spent there as at Amazon, but a good bit.
It can be very hard, unless you have enough cash to start a significant business. I think $5MM is the number that I have seen for a few countries. I looked in Thailand and Australia about 10 years ago: Australia wasn't too hard as long as you were young and upwardly mobile, but Thailand was the opposite. They didn't want to let people in that would become the new elite. They set it up to milk 90% of the people that come in-- between lawyers fees and accountants, you would be spending at least $10k per year just to have a business without any revenue.
I don't think any country can handle immigration policies that can have a significant impact on demographics. You see it in Sweden with middle-eastern immigrants just as much as you see it in a US software company with Indians. It is no different in rural Thailand with "rich" farang. Malaysia tried to open their doors back around 2005, and that had a huge backlash as well.
In practical terms, if you want to migrate somewhere, you have to find a way to make it work. It is hard and sometimes you have to break the law... but it sure as hell can be personally rewarding. (When it ceases to be so... leave. You have to maintain that flexibility.) If everything goes well, it should work out in the end.
Having wondered a similar thing, a little input can go a long way to determine if the project would make sense. If it wouldn't, you won't find vendors that will tell you so for free.
So, I will share what I do know about it:
-If the building owns the telephone cable plant, the cheapest solution is to go to ADSL at the main point of entry for distribution to the units. This will limit capacity, but is easiest to implement. Your handoff between an upstream supplier will likely be Ethernet.
-If you have concrete shear walls between units, don't consider wireless.
-Most importantly, it requires nearly 100% buy-in from the owners all wanting the service you can provide for it to be economically viable. If you can get 100Mbit for $1400/month (recent quote I got elsewhere), your MRC is $17.50 per unit. So, if you amortize over 36 months, you can only spend $7k and keep the monthly cost at $20 without any profit.
There should be full-service companies that will give you triple-play packages, but it is going to be hard to justify on cost.