volak
Demand a refund not a handout
I can only think of video games.. perhaps anime, possibly comics.
All of which are widely mocked.
Its not that girl's interests are taboo - its that when any gender gets too wrapped up in something that it becomes part of their identity society should mock to encourage adoption of other interests.
26 USC §5674(b) & 27 CFR §25.144(a) make it a federal crime for a brewer to remove beer from a brewery in a keg that has the name of more than one brewer on it.
21 USC §§331, 333 & 21 CFR §169.115(a) make it a federal crime to sell French dressing if less than 35% of its weight is vegetable oil.
43 USC §1733 & 43 CFR §6302.20(e) make it a federal crime to pick someone up from a federal wilderness area using a hot air balloon.
7 USC §8303, §8313 & 9 CFR §93.318(b) make it a federal crime to bring an American horse back into the United States after being in a Canadian rodeo without a health certificate.
42 USC §6928 & 40 CFR §257.3–8(b) make it a federal crime to start a dangerous garbage fire.
21 USC §331, 333, 343 & 21 CFR §155.201(a)(2)(v) make it a federal crime to sell canned "random sliced" mushrooms unless they were sliced in a random manner.
Especially if you watched the testimony from that professor explaining how Google shifts search results to push GOTV in certain distinct counties while excluding others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTHgoaVtSw
The only argument for it is a fictional story based on photoshopped ads. Government should not be regulating internet content.
But postmortems in the tech world do trend sometimes
a news cycle postmortem - someone pitch this in an elevator
I remember comments from back then slightly differently.
2 years ago comments of "this will only benefit the lawyers" would be -50 points. Turns out... actually yeah.
But to sum up: if you are a company with $1 million on hand at the end of the year you have to disperse it somehow.
- If you put it in a bank account you'll earn 0.2% interest on your "investment"
- If you pay out dividends your shareholders will earn 1-2% (estimate) on their investments
- If you buy back your own stock your shareholders can see 4-5% (estimate) on their investments + you have shares you can award to employees in the form of options or direct without diluting the market
The number 1 factor in your decision? Taxes. Which option pays the least tax? Option 3
And the minority that is let go get 3-6 months of severance and unemployment benefits until they inevitably find a new job - which btw is far easier to do when you are not an executive of a floundering business.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/united-airlines-details-it...
Grants for employee salaries and benefits like health insurance, low interest loan to be paid back, and a stake in the company in the form of equity. And all with strings attached so they can't hand out bonuses or lobby congress.
Businesses operate on revenue and margin and companies like airlines can't justify using even 1% of its revenue to "save" for rainy days. Their tickets have to be as cheap as possible and they have to market to as many people as possible. Its unreasonable to ask them to lay out millions on the chance an act of god rolls through.
As a company they have plenty of ways to raise capital to weather major events, including selling stock, which is what they are doing - to the government in exchange for favorable loans and a grant.
There is no increased earnings there is in fact very big losses. Which is another thing people tend to forget when discussing exec pay. The execs take a hit when business is bad, but the majority of employees continue getting paid.
Exec pay is high but you can't forget that much of the risk / responsibility should the business do poorly is on their heads not the majority of the workforce.
I am simply reminding him that airline companies who did nothing wrong have people depending on them for their paychecks. Exactly the same as a child depends on their parent.
And in this case the money given to AIRLINES helps a lot of parents feed their children
And I only support money given as loans which must be paid back. Any kind of grant money must be exclusively used for payroll or other qualifying operating expenses.
The current stimulus is not perfect but its pretty good and FAR better than 2008
Banks have thousands if not millions of employees capable of performing basic due diligence before sending out money. A fed task force tasked with processing applications from millions of businesses would be capable of handing out money maybe summer 2021
The best the government could do was send a paltry check to pretty much EVERY american. I'm sure you'd object if they decided to send 1 million dollars to EVERY small business.
That's the best a fed government run program could accomplish with only a couple of weeks.
If you are only talking about 2008 then yes - that bailout was fucking dumb
If you have a dependent - ie a child - whom you are a primary source of care. Should you qualify for a bigger helping hand than say, the 25 year old with no children?
If you agree - then now imagine you have 500 dependents. Or in the case of some corps 500,000.
You have half a million dependents who rely on you every other week for a paycheck.
Do you qualify for a larger helping hand than the 25 year old who lives alone?
In this situation the banks are simply a truck driver and small businesses are your local grocery store.
Im not going to fault the truck driver for asking to be paid to do work.
The 10B they collected was not from the government - it was paid by businesses applying for loans.
They've lost far more even with the fees they collected from this program.
As someone said above - doctors are not working for free, why should bank employees?
This program made them 1/3 of 1 month's normal revenue
Governors are forcing businesses closed or no seating allowed.
Those guidelines are good ones to maintain for perpetuity. Would decrease the thousands of flu deaths we see each year too but today's situation is closer to a nationwide lockdown than a PSA about washing hands
https://www.nber.org/papers/w23192?fbclid=IwAR15UAkVuakNeQrl...
100,000 more drug overdoeses per 1% unemployment
Also https://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20110414/suicides-go-u...
You take temp readings from various wildlife zones around the world, and calculate how many less bears you see for each degree increase in temperature. Then extrapolate that to humans by a simple equation designed to compare bear survivability to humans.
Obviously the models need to be able to understand how temp readings equate to survivability. Population counts from various sites would obviously fit that need