They are not getting Bernie out of his summer house. He knows better.
And if Hillary were to quit the race, it would be a feeding frenzy of wannbe candidates seemingly out of nowhere. Magnificent theatre. Buy extra popcorn.
Neocons *DO* hate Trump. Almost as much as they hate Cruz.
But this is so easily forgotten. Trump should be polling about 12%, but his appeal isn't to Republicans or Democrats. It's to Americans, like cabbies, baristas, janitorial staff, working stiff, the like.
Sure, his glad handing and big smiles to the 'little people' is part corporate charm and part smarm, and calculated to some extent to further his corporate goals, but here's what Trump is that no one but Trumpies want to admit - he's successful, in large part, because he knows what to sell, how to sell, and how to get it done.
In this season, I take the huckster rather than the crook. The huckster, sure, will make sure he gets paid in the end, and I'm likely to get something. The crook will strip me bare and is followed by vultures to pick my bones clean.
All politicians lie, they must, for none of them can accomplish what they claim to want without cooperation somewhere. Politics is all a scratch and dent sale. Give me one that works, and I can forgive the dents.
And yes, Hillary is a crook with a long history of lying, illegal activity, and corruption. The facts are plain. Her tenure on the Watergate Commission was not an aberration, it was a preface to her life. Trump, being a real estate developer, has done some shady things. Who among us is without sin? Who will cast the first stone, and not be a hypocrite?
But vote your conscience. It's all you can honestly do.
First, the penalties are missing two zeros. This is about as criminal as it gets.
Not only front line reps but management, compliance, legal are either involved or were deceived, both of which are grounds for mass terminations.
Other damages?
- Those overdrafts probably impacted credit scoring. $$$ - overdrafts often cause other fees, higher costs for good and services, deposits for utility accounts, lots of impacts. $$$$ - The privacy violations alone are worthy of higher penalties. - This should trigger enhanced oversight and reporting, and that should, by design, cost. $$$$$.
If the company I worked for did this, I would flee. Wow. They got off cheap.
Unless you're the poster, I would ask them what they think which. government expenditures would serve the purpose they believe justifies taxation to stimulate the economy. Public works, you and I actually agree. Subsidizing alternative energy systems, I'm not sure looks government is doing it quite right most of the time.
Thinking that through, I never, NEVER got any single thing that cost more than $75 from my parents. Never. Not even my good fly rod. My first phone bill as an adult was $11.76 for a month. I scored free installation because the Phone Company got caught claiming private lines were not available in the city despite being required by tariff to provide them when requested.
And now I'm coming to grips with giving my 14 year old daughter a smartphone worth $400-$800. For two years tops. And $50/month for service. In two years that's more money than my first PC cost. And the phone line for the modem. And the modem.
Outsourcing your server farm is attractive. Who wants to build and maintain a server room? Cooling, standby power, physical security, connectivity. Hardware refreshes, storage maintenance and repairs, expansion. Patch management, OS and network security. Disaster recovery, hot- and cold-site provisioning, failovers.
Your staff grows from a 'server guy' to add a 'security guy', then you virtualize and need a 'VM guy', then you cross train, and none of them sleep at night waiting for the intrusion alarms to tell you that your system was compromised six months ago and the last miscreant in triggered an alarm. Your backups are all full of malware. Your users data is time bombs driving you crazy. No one can find a clean VM image. Your app images are all out of date, and you need to pay the contractor to deliver a last good image that they actually promised in writing they would not retain, in violation of their contract... And to patch that up to production.
After the third or fourth server instance, you quickly do the math, and start looking at EC2 or any provider that has any sort of positive record.
Because most of those people like living where they are, and don;t like moving form resort to resort for a job.
Having lived in a few resort towns I get this. I loved living there, because I had a full time job and could literally winter over. But when the beach opened up for the season workers came because jobs. From somewhere else. And when the beach closed, they went elsewhere. Many to another country.
I've also lived near farms where workers came to harvest. And went on other crops in other places. Migrant workers have been part of America's agriculture industry for decades, with at least one great novel documenting the system.
"Part of the reason we pay taxes is because they are good for the economy, as they keep money flowing in the economy and increases employment in the public sector thus increasing consumption by the working class"
The ONLY legitimate reason to pay taxes is to fund government services necessary to serve the people. In every way paying taxes to stimulate the economy is a failed experiment, and has led us to this state of unsustainable debt and crippled government.
You have come pretty close to claiming the broken window fallacy works for government. No, it does not. Money will flow if you get the heck out of the way.
Corporations rely on innovation and customer service to get 'established'.
Then they rely on the government(s) to sustain that establishment.
You think Apple will pay the EU that tax bill? Not unless the US fails to smack the EU down. And you think you can just make a Lightning cable without involving Apple Inc? Not unless you're in China. And well, China has its own rules.
Not long ago your typical college graduate in India could find work as a call center worker. That changed, and many college students in India were working their last year of school in those call centers. Fast forward to today, and it's not even high school graduates in India that are the hot call center employees - it's high school graduates in the Philippines.
College graduates from India are now sent out as programming leads, project managers, business analysts. High school graduates in India are head-down coders. A full year of experience qualifies you as a lead. Two years later, you've rotated back to India, team lead. Two years later, rotate back to the US, an architect. Your predecessor rotated back to India to lead your team... And you, as architect, have a team of BAs and leads telling them what to code overnight.
Departmental outsources let companies fix costs in a way that they cannot with the incumbent department. VPN the NOC over to Gurgaon, everyone is watching the screens, responding, taking MAC orders and funneling them through the chain leaving your actual workers waiting 72 hours for their login to the ERP to be reset. Or not.
Capitalism doesn't differentiate the external causes of profit. It just rewards profit.
If the federal government stopped subsidizing student loans the education industry would adapt and, perhaps, lower tuition. Or reduce the time needed for specific training (degrees intended to prepare one for a vocation might better be called 'training'). Or change the course offering to reduce institutional costs. They would adapt.
And if the Federal government stopped granting H1-B visas on the flimsiest of claims of no available talent, businesses would find employees to do the work needed, or move where the employees are. Unless, of course, moving was not practical.
Capitalism is distorted by government manipulation, and that's a good reason to limit government. But capitalism isn't nearly so concerned with that. It's not that capitalism is right or wrong, it that capitalism is efficient, even when interfered with. And efficient economics is better than inefficient economics.
Led Zeppelin's first album was pretty weakly recorded. Second was marginally better.
Live At Leeds is a surprisingly clean recording.
Most of that was recorded on Ampex decks, 4 and 8 tracks. Mixdowns to accommodate that limitation caused some problems.
Not much Dolby used in the studio until around the late 60s, and it wasn't universally available.
I owned a Revox A77 modified to run at 15 ips to transcribe from vinyl, then copied to Nakamichi or Tandberg cassette decks. The Revox was such a great deck, the servo motors changed everything.
You will find that this is as much a problem of free space connectivity with Bluetooth.
As an experiment, try walking out to the parking lot. Walking next to parked cars, reception might be good or average.
Now walk in the middle of the lane, away from cars. Or an empty area. Yeah, you'll need your phone in the right place.
If thing work best with the phone on your right arm, that's where the antenna is for the BT set.
My old BackBeat 903s really showed this. My Motorola S705 was the hottest BT thing I've ever had, would go 30 feet through 2 masonry walls and drywall into the back yard.
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They are not getting Bernie out of his summer house. He knows better.
And if Hillary were to quit the race, it would be a feeding frenzy of wannbe candidates seemingly out of nowhere. Magnificent theatre. Buy extra popcorn.
Ok...
"and that there are links between autism and vaccinations"
Woops, that's a Leftie stand. How did that happen?
*whoosh*
Neocons *DO* hate Trump. Almost as much as they hate Cruz.
But this is so easily forgotten. Trump should be polling about 12%, but his appeal isn't to Republicans or Democrats. It's to Americans, like cabbies, baristas, janitorial staff, working stiff, the like.
Sure, his glad handing and big smiles to the 'little people' is part corporate charm and part smarm, and calculated to some extent to further his corporate goals, but here's what Trump is that no one but Trumpies want to admit - he's successful, in large part, because he knows what to sell, how to sell, and how to get it done.
In this season, I take the huckster rather than the crook. The huckster, sure, will make sure he gets paid in the end, and I'm likely to get something. The crook will strip me bare and is followed by vultures to pick my bones clean.
All politicians lie, they must, for none of them can accomplish what they claim to want without cooperation somewhere. Politics is all a scratch and dent sale. Give me one that works, and I can forgive the dents.
And yes, Hillary is a crook with a long history of lying, illegal activity, and corruption. The facts are plain. Her tenure on the Watergate Commission was not an aberration, it was a preface to her life. Trump, being a real estate developer, has done some shady things. Who among us is without sin? Who will cast the first stone, and not be a hypocrite?
But vote your conscience. It's all you can honestly do.
First, the penalties are missing two zeros. This is about as criminal as it gets.
Not only front line reps but management, compliance, legal are either involved or were deceived, both of which are grounds for mass terminations.
Other damages?
- Those overdrafts probably impacted credit scoring. $$$
- overdrafts often cause other fees, higher costs for good and services, deposits for utility accounts, lots of impacts. $$$$
- The privacy violations alone are worthy of higher penalties.
- This should trigger enhanced oversight and reporting, and that should, by design, cost. $$$$$.
If the company I worked for did this, I would flee. Wow. They got off cheap.
All politics is local.
And all crime is personal.
Unless you're the poster, I would ask them what they think which. government expenditures would serve the purpose they believe justifies taxation to stimulate the economy. Public works, you and I actually agree. Subsidizing alternative energy systems, I'm not sure looks government is doing it quite right most of the time.
Specifics.
"I can listen to Radio stations from virtually any part of the globe."
Like Clayton Lake, Maine?
Or much of the Sahara?
Yeah, I know. Those are places no one goes. And you did say 'virtual'. And you didn't tackle the problem of incompatible radio bands.
Not so simple. The FM Chip in your phone might not serve you well in Germany. And you may not be streaming your fave indi station there either.
I have a Square EMV reader. Bluetooth.
You will get the NFC version, of course.
Thinking that through, I never, NEVER got any single thing that cost more than $75 from my parents. Never. Not even my good fly rod. My first phone bill as an adult was $11.76 for a month. I scored free installation because the Phone Company got caught claiming private lines were not available in the city despite being required by tariff to provide them when requested.
And now I'm coming to grips with giving my 14 year old daughter a smartphone worth $400-$800. For two years tops. And $50/month for service. In two years that's more money than my first PC cost. And the phone line for the modem. And the modem.
Some of our pain is self-inflicted.
Outsourcing your server farm is attractive. Who wants to build and maintain a server room? Cooling, standby power, physical security, connectivity. Hardware refreshes, storage maintenance and repairs, expansion. Patch management, OS and network security. Disaster recovery, hot- and cold-site provisioning, failovers.
Your staff grows from a 'server guy' to add a 'security guy', then you virtualize and need a 'VM guy', then you cross train, and none of them sleep at night waiting for the intrusion alarms to tell you that your system was compromised six months ago and the last miscreant in triggered an alarm. Your backups are all full of malware. Your users data is time bombs driving you crazy. No one can find a clean VM image. Your app images are all out of date, and you need to pay the contractor to deliver a last good image that they actually promised in writing they would not retain, in violation of their contract... And to patch that up to production.
After the third or fourth server instance, you quickly do the math, and start looking at EC2 or any provider that has any sort of positive record.
God, I'm glad I'm not doing SMB work any more.
That's about right. Figure 50% of salary for benefits, costs, and regulatory expenses.
Sort of $84k salary/yr. Pretty good work. But that's the average. Your CCIT/blah network architect and senior admins get more, the net admins less.
Because most of those people like living where they are, and don;t like moving form resort to resort for a job.
Having lived in a few resort towns I get this. I loved living there, because I had a full time job and could literally winter over. But when the beach opened up for the season workers came because jobs. From somewhere else. And when the beach closed, they went elsewhere. Many to another country.
I've also lived near farms where workers came to harvest. And went on other crops in other places. Migrant workers have been part of America's agriculture industry for decades, with at least one great novel documenting the system.
Resorts do this all over the world.
"Part of the reason we pay taxes is because they are good for the economy, as they keep money flowing in the economy and increases employment in the public sector thus increasing consumption by the working class"
The ONLY legitimate reason to pay taxes is to fund government services necessary to serve the people. In every way paying taxes to stimulate the economy is a failed experiment, and has led us to this state of unsustainable debt and crippled government.
You have come pretty close to claiming the broken window fallacy works for government. No, it does not. Money will flow if you get the heck out of the way.
Corporations rely on innovation and customer service to get 'established'.
Then they rely on the government(s) to sustain that establishment.
You think Apple will pay the EU that tax bill? Not unless the US fails to smack the EU down. And you think you can just make a Lightning cable without involving Apple Inc? Not unless you're in China. And well, China has its own rules.
They're corporations. They're all corporations. You missed this?
True this.
Not long ago your typical college graduate in India could find work as a call center worker. That changed, and many college students in India were working their last year of school in those call centers. Fast forward to today, and it's not even high school graduates in India that are the hot call center employees - it's high school graduates in the Philippines.
College graduates from India are now sent out as programming leads, project managers, business analysts. High school graduates in India are head-down coders. A full year of experience qualifies you as a lead. Two years later, you've rotated back to India, team lead. Two years later, rotate back to the US, an architect. Your predecessor rotated back to India to lead your team... And you, as architect, have a team of BAs and leads telling them what to code overnight.
Departmental outsources let companies fix costs in a way that they cannot with the incumbent department. VPN the NOC over to Gurgaon, everyone is watching the screens, responding, taking MAC orders and funneling them through the chain leaving your actual workers waiting 72 hours for their login to the ERP to be reset. Or not.
It's a real time Dilbert strip.
Capitalism doesn't differentiate the external causes of profit. It just rewards profit.
If the federal government stopped subsidizing student loans the education industry would adapt and, perhaps, lower tuition. Or reduce the time needed for specific training (degrees intended to prepare one for a vocation might better be called 'training'). Or change the course offering to reduce institutional costs. They would adapt.
And if the Federal government stopped granting H1-B visas on the flimsiest of claims of no available talent, businesses would find employees to do the work needed, or move where the employees are. Unless, of course, moving was not practical.
Capitalism is distorted by government manipulation, and that's a good reason to limit government. But capitalism isn't nearly so concerned with that. It's not that capitalism is right or wrong, it that capitalism is efficient, even when interfered with. And efficient economics is better than inefficient economics.
Led Zeppelin's first album was pretty weakly recorded. Second was marginally better.
Live At Leeds is a surprisingly clean recording.
Most of that was recorded on Ampex decks, 4 and 8 tracks. Mixdowns to accommodate that limitation caused some problems.
Not much Dolby used in the studio until around the late 60s, and it wasn't universally available.
I owned a Revox A77 modified to run at 15 ips to transcribe from vinyl, then copied to Nakamichi or Tandberg cassette decks. The Revox was such a great deck, the servo motors changed everything.
But MP3 doesn't improve any of those recordings.
Lightning is industry - wide?
Nothing here for me to see.
Here
And some generic laptops here
Seriously. Did you even try?
My first Android phone (and THE FIRST Android phone), the G1, didn't have a headphone jack. We survived.
And I had to wait for an OS update to activate and make BT usable. Agony.
We used a USB audio adapter plug. It was indeed misery, but hey, cool. Android. Cool.
You will find that this is as much a problem of free space connectivity with Bluetooth.
As an experiment, try walking out to the parking lot. Walking next to parked cars, reception might be good or average.
Now walk in the middle of the lane, away from cars. Or an empty area. Yeah, you'll need your phone in the right place.
If thing work best with the phone on your right arm, that's where the antenna is for the BT set.
My old BackBeat 903s really showed this. My Motorola S705 was the hottest BT thing I've ever had, would go 30 feet through 2 masonry walls and drywall into the back yard.