...because of the IT department thinking they know better than end users...
Because. That's. Our. JOB. That's why you don't see sales guys in accounting, human resources in the warehouse and CXOs doing real work. That's why doctors don't write up real estate contracts and loan officers don't remove appendices.
If the end users knew better, they would be doing IT.
So, yes, Mr. Sales Guy is the one that gets people to buy our stuff. Good for you. That's your lot in life. You don't see IT going, "You should sell like this!" to the sales team, do you? If there is a legitimate complaint, and you can explicitly demonstrate why it's a problem, we'll listen. Honestly! We will! But if you just want us to look at your new shiny and explain why it will maximize paradigms and make synergy...bugger off.
Yes, because people would have jumped houses as often, property values would have risen just as much, and, in fact, every single other factor other than how much property taxes would have been would have remained exactly. the. same.
That's some precognition right there; why aren't you out buying lottery tickets?
I see your Amendment 10 and raise you Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; ~ To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
Buying something from OH and shipping it to CA looks like interstate commerce to me.
The duo boiled it down to a balance between two ratios: the length of the rope versus the distance between its ends, and the force of drag versus the inertia, or "centrifugal force," of the spinning rope.
Don't you mean centripetal force, Science Magazine?! Hmm? HMM??! ( http://xkcd.com/123/ )
It would be hilarious to see if this gets slammed with injunctions from all over. Then Google can go to Congress and go, "So, what's this 'spurring innovation' crap? See this? Autonomous car. Pretty innovative, huh? Oh well, off to the crusher cause it can't get out of the red flag lap of legalese."
Thing is, all those questions are secondary to the case of "Can this be brought to market or will it be injunctioned against for eternity by the courts as the patent quagmire is traversed?"
If it never goes to market, who gives a toss what current road rules need to be changed?
One who understands that the government cannot afford the level of care we have become accustomed to, but wants the government to pay for everybody's health care anyway.
We cannot afford the level of care we have been accustomed to, period. Medicare OR through private insurance.
Health care premiums doubled between 1996 and 2006. I dare you to blame Obamacare for that.
You can blame this on Obamacare IFF you can prove without a doubt your exact same exact scenario would NOT happen in the era immediately preceding Obamacare (you know, the Golden Age of Private Insurance.)
While it's true Alan Mulally isn't a "car guy," he's not exactly an MBA either. He started out as an engineer making airplanes for Boeing and migrated up to management. He could very easily have been a 'car guy' if he wasn't a 'plane guy.'
Let's put it this way: I'd trust Alan Mulally to work on my car. I wouldn't trust Meg Whitman within a country mile of my PC.
Loaded with 3rd party links as well. Seriously, has no one heard of Google or Wikipedia around here? This has already been done for you. You simply have to bother to look it up...
Parachutes are heavy and weight is already a premium. Without a hull breach (which, if happened high enough, you're unconscious anyway) you are not going to open the door until pressure equalizes, at which point there's Most crashes happen around takeoff or landing. *Crashes that start high enough up to be candidates for parachute jumps are often weather related. (You want to leap into what caused Air France 447 to go down?)
I'm sure people more versed on this have better objections as well. But, honestly, Google is your friend. You are not the first to think of this, so do the stinking research first.
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Just wait until airline tickets start reflecting the real cost of airline travel. You really think you can fly for 5 hours on $99?
...because of the IT department thinking they know better than end users...
Because. That's. Our. JOB.
That's why you don't see sales guys in accounting, human resources in the warehouse and CXOs doing real work. That's why doctors don't write up real estate contracts and loan officers don't remove appendices.
If the end users knew better, they would be doing IT.
So, yes, Mr. Sales Guy is the one that gets people to buy our stuff. Good for you. That's your lot in life. You don't see IT going, "You should sell like this!" to the sales team, do you? If there is a legitimate complaint, and you can explicitly demonstrate why it's a problem, we'll listen. Honestly! We will! But if you just want us to look at your new shiny and explain why it will maximize paradigms and make synergy...bugger off.
If they broke the law, point to the law that was broken then.
(Spoiler alert: it was all legal.)
Davis didn't have a choice!
Here are your options:
a) Pay the jacked up fees from the extortionist.
b) Have more blackouts during one of the biggest heat waves in recent history.
What's your brilliant option c?
I've had a similar thought about unemployment. 50% tax rate above $250,000 if unemployment is higher than 5%. 30% if 5% or lower.
We wouldn't have an unemployment problem ever again.
Yes, because people would have jumped houses as often, property values would have risen just as much, and, in fact, every single other factor other than how much property taxes would have been would have remained exactly. the. same.
That's some precognition right there; why aren't you out buying lottery tickets?
Don't forget Pete Wilson's deregulation of power companies that directly led to the Enron fiasco and the Governator.
Well, when CA screws up, we go for the gusto, damnit!
Everyone knows that if you want less of something you tax it.
Tax poverty! Tax drugs!
My god, if we taxed stupidity, the internet as we know it would cease to exist!!
oop, missed the sarcasm in the 2nd line. Still, now I want to write my Congresscritters and propose a tax on stupidity...
I see your Amendment 10 and raise you Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
~
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
Buying something from OH and shipping it to CA looks like interstate commerce to me.
Good ol' Prop 13...yeah, I'm sure THAT hasn't caused any negative consequences in CA, no sirree...
That's always how it starts.
That's never how it ends unless you can drop a really heavy cluebat on their head.
departments who see no middle ground between "100% supported" and "not on my network ever".
Because there is no middle ground.
If we help you out of the kindness of our hearts once, you will never. ever. let us forget that.
The duo boiled it down to a balance between two ratios: the length of the rope versus the distance between its ends, and the force of drag versus the inertia, or "centrifugal force," of the spinning rope.
Don't you mean centripetal force, Science Magazine?! Hmm? HMM??!
( http://xkcd.com/123/ )
It would be hilarious to see if this gets slammed with injunctions from all over. Then Google can go to Congress and go, "So, what's this 'spurring innovation' crap? See this? Autonomous car. Pretty innovative, huh? Oh well, off to the crusher cause it can't get out of the red flag lap of legalese."
Wouldn't happen, but I can dream...
Thing is, all those questions are secondary to the case of "Can this be brought to market or will it be injunctioned against for eternity by the courts as the patent quagmire is traversed?"
If it never goes to market, who gives a toss what current road rules need to be changed?
And if you don't speed, they don't get revenue.
Funny how that works...
One who understands that the government cannot afford the level of care we have become accustomed to, but wants the government to pay for everybody's health care anyway.
We cannot afford the level of care we have been accustomed to, period. Medicare OR through private insurance.
Health care premiums doubled between 1996 and 2006. I dare you to blame Obamacare for that.
You can blame this on Obamacare IFF you can prove without a doubt your exact same exact scenario would NOT happen in the era immediately preceding Obamacare (you know, the Golden Age of Private Insurance.)
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While it's true Alan Mulally isn't a "car guy," he's not exactly an MBA either. He started out as an engineer making airplanes for Boeing and migrated up to management. He could very easily have been a 'car guy' if he wasn't a 'plane guy.'
Let's put it this way: I'd trust Alan Mulally to work on my car. I wouldn't trust Meg Whitman within a country mile of my PC.
I noticed that too; once I had the page loaded proper I just smacked ESC a few times and it interrupted whatever was doing the forwarding.
As opposed to all the change and innovation that's come out of Detroit...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brace_position
Loaded with 3rd party links as well.
Seriously, has no one heard of Google or Wikipedia around here? This has already been done for you. You simply have to bother to look it up...
Ok, a few things.
Parachutes are heavy and weight is already a premium.
Without a hull breach (which, if happened high enough, you're unconscious anyway) you are not going to open the door until pressure equalizes, at which point there's
Most crashes happen around takeoff or landing.
*Crashes that start high enough up to be candidates for parachute jumps are often weather related. (You want to leap into what caused Air France 447 to go down?)
I'm sure people more versed on this have better objections as well. But, honestly, Google is your friend. You are not the first to think of this, so do the stinking research first.
Jokes on B&N, they already HAVE my email address!!