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How about instead of bitching at experts you bitch at the idiots that pump up and propagandize the results of one study that vaguely adheres to their predetermined outcome?
Kind of thought that this site would attract a slightly more intelligent group of people than that.
There's nothing "predatory" about assuring that your business partner actually has enough capital to operate a business. The startup costs may be significantly lower for a freestanding restaurant but you also have to shoulder the burden of marketing and establishing a customer base. A national chain doesn't just sit on its ass and collect money from franchisees. The costs of marketing and R&D are enormous but in the franchise model these things are offloaded from the individual restaurant to the parent company.
The parent company has no interest in that location ever closing. They're not house flippers or day traders. They rely on stable long-term income, not random tiny spikes a few times a year. Franchise fees are barely even a blip on the radar of a company like McDonald's.
That is not money laundering. If you want money laundering go have a look at what goes on with Trump properties. Real estate changing hands with massive variances in value, well out of step with market influence.
The entire concept of money laundering requires the money be illegally obtained. Simply moving money that you legally acquired around is not money laundering. Stop using words you do not know the meaning of.
Yes, that's a problem. Nobody that bought a home on the vague notion that they HAVE to make money off of it when they sell it will ever vote to have a homeless shelter built across the road.
Anyone using Japan as an example of housing prices does not understand Japanese housing.
Zoning in Japan is done at a national level, not local. Once an area is designated for housing, housing goes there. Because of this there is a constant flow of new housing, which drives the price of old houses down.
This is not possible anywhere zoning is done at a local level. Anytime one person has the ability to stop another from building you immediately create NIMBYdom and where the NIMBY exists, more housing does not because the NIMBY cares about nothing but their own property value. But that also feeds into the insane American idea of housing as an investment rather than a place to keep birds from crapping on you.
Until the NIMBY is eliminated, and housing is no longer sold as an investment, housing costs will not go down.
If your salaries can't sustain a workforce they're still not high enough no matter what you say.
Said skeptics are blissfully unaware of the contributions that working on string theory has made to other branches of physics and mathematics. To say it's produced nothing is to admit ignorance.
No, and no.
The mantle is solid. You would have to drill way deep into the mantle before you encountered liquid rock.
Volcanoes don't work like that. Even if you drilled directly into a magma chamber, not much would happen. This has been done inadvertently a handful of times. https://phys.org/news/2009-06-scientists-drill-magma.html Basically volcanoes only happen when there's an extreme amount of pressure from below.
This is a false dichotomy. I want a society that's efficient and utilizes minimal resources for maximum gain.
The simple fact that Amazon shuts down stores that are found to be fraudulent kills any kind of RICO bullshit you want to spew.
Money. Money. Yes. Walk up and hand it to them. Money.
That is not a conflict of interest in any way, shape, or form.
He could also have taken the six month plea deal he was already offered, done the three or fewer months he actually would have, and not killed himself.
That should be your choice, with your knowledge.
We're not talking about 6 year olds here. We're talking about "children" that are at times not even minors, whose parents are trying to control every aspect of their lives well beyond any reasonable limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Learn the difference between a legitimate loan and predatory practices. There is a distinct difference between capitalizing on a market and pure exploitation. The Wall Street/Harvard Business ideal is the latter.
You have a massive misunderstanding of what PM's do, likely because you only ever see one half of their job when you're trying to explain how something works and they're not understanding why it's needed. Trust me, if you had to deal with the OTHER side of a PM's job (dealing with upper management and answering questions about why you're three weeks behind on deliverables without giving technical explanations to people that DEFINITELY have no clue) you'd very quickly decide that it's better to have a meat shield between your team that needs to get shit done and a corporate structure that wants nothing more than to shitcan all of you and outsource you all to India.
They all have methodologies. The pilot's checklist that was already mentioned is just one. For doctors you have different paths of treatment that can be standardized for years, then undergo major changes when new information is discovered. With lawyers it depends on what they do. New approaches to cases, new discovery methods, everything is a process and everything can be improved.
Software development attracts these things because software development isn't as firmly entrenched in tradition as doctors or lawyers are. There are way more people that are open to implementing ways of accomplishing tasks that are more open and efficient than there ever could be in most other realms.
I can simply refer you to Wikipedia, where it states that he accessed
Accessed a controlled access server room to attach his computer to so he could download from the JSTOR repositories. Learn to read.
Incorrect and inflammatory; again, a simple check of Wikipedia suggests that you don't have your facts right.
Again, learn to read. "Cumulative maximum" means that if every single crime, which he admitted to committing I remind you, was given the maximum sentence he would have spent 35 years in jail.
Except he was never going to get 35 years or anything even close to it. Its just disingenuous jackoffs such as yourself that propagate this number because you can't fucking read and can't be bothered to learn facts.
Swartz was offered six months. He killed himself instead. Swartz was a fucking privileged pussy that likely never had a hard day in his life and bailed the moment reality hit him.
93% with 3 false positives, all of which were literally me being a dumbass and hitting the wrong button because my hands REALLY wanted yes to be on F.
Which means nothing except that I've seen a lot of words and remember them.
This is what's known as "overthinking a shitty online test."
Your willful ignorance is astounding. Then again I don't expect any better from Trumpettes.
Swartz was never going to get anywhere remotely near 35 years and people need to stop spouting this nonsense as it makes them look completely ignorant of every single fact in the case. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is designed to prosecute all computer crime from minor mischief to advanced terrorism. As such its maximum sentences are extremely high and the press just loves to throw around maximum sentences with no regard to the actual cases.
Swartz accessed a system he did not have permission to access. He did so by entering a restricted area he did not have permission to access. While I agree with his general ideal, what he did was an act of civil disobedience.
The single most basic tenet of civil disobedience is that you are willing to go to jail.
Swartz was apparently unable to think beyond the immediate and to the inevitable, obvious, end result of him being charged with a crime that he blatantly and admittedly committed.
Six months house arrest, which given that he had no criminal record, would likely have been halved or reduced even further. This is absolutely in line with the crime that he, again, admitted to committing.
Mitnick's sentence shows exactly what these maximums mean in regards to real-world sentencing.
Do you believe a first line help-desk is going to provide better support than a guy whose livelihood depends on it and you can call to your desk?
I can guarantee you there are no top-level VFX houses or game developers that ever speak to first-line support.
If you're not top level you have no need to waste money on a programmer that will likely be sitting on his ass 23/7. No, that isn't a typo. The vast majority of the time these systems work as intended. When they don't, who do you think is going to respond better? The multitude of professionals that are paid to work on this code day in and day out... or Steve, who spends most of his time pretending he isn't shopping for waifu pillows? WE KNOW IT'S YOU, STEVE. CLEAR YOUR BROWSER HISTORY.
If those people ever actually put in the effort they'd find all the same tools just under different names. While it may take a while to get the nuances down at the end of the day they all do the same things. It's simply a matter of adapting your existing skill to a new workflow.
Just like a programming language.
That's a little bit different. A LOT of CAD software is built on decades-old legacy ways of doing things because old people won't retire and can't be bothered to learn new and better ways of operating. It's much less focused on artistic creation and more on engineering. As a result CAD software wants you to work in a specific way with it. Order of operations is extremely important and can be different from one package to another.
Keeping it in a programming paradigm, CAD is more like assembly. It's different from platform to platform and even if you know one there's no guarantee you can make another work. Contrast that with 3d modeling packages which mostly use the same concepts, and order of operations rarely matters.
Well shit I guess my 20+ years of professional experience means I'm not a "real" 3d modeller because some twat on the internet has never actually used a 3d modeling application in their life and has no clue how they actually function.
I'm sorry you're so shit at your job that switching IDEs screws you up. Not all of us are so incompetent.
Your competitive advantage is your staff, not your software. A company like Pixar only has so many proprietary tools because they've been around so damn long that rolling their own was the only way to go to get the results they wanted.
Even then, Pixar's advantage was the people they hired and allowed to thrive... not Renderman.
It is not a viable model.
How many people are actually paid by the Blender Foundation for their contributions to the software? How many fewer employees do they have than a company like Autodesk or Maxon?
The simple fact is that FLOSS is the outsourcing of large swathes of development cost to those stupid or interested enough to make something happen for free on their own time.
What do you do when that interest wanes?
You're fucked.
Spoken like someone that doesn't own a business. You do not throw money at promises. You throw money at solutions.