CitizenVectron

18 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Let's unpack this.

It is only a victory for consumers and retailers if both accept that paying taxes are a good thing. But we know that people don't like paying taxes, and retailers don't either since by not collecting it gives them an advantage over physical stores. So the only way this is a victory is if Trump thinks that taxes in general are a good idea. Which he does not. Which means this tweet is actually just him being happy that Amazon now has less of an advantage, as he hates Jeff Bezos. Except that Amazon has been collecting sales tax for a while now, and Trump remains ignorant of this.

So he's going to put tariffs on cars built in Europe and in Canada? That's a huge chunk of cars entering the US. Have fun with sticker prices going up by 25% on consumer cars. People might brush it off when ketchup goes up by $.37, but not when a car goes up by $5,000 or $10,000.

The best scenario is for Disney to just buy the Marvel rights from them, and for Fox to use that cash to sustain themselves as an independent studio with other projects. But this will not happen.

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Melanie is visiting one right now at the border. She will probably tell the children to be best.

37 minutes ago, outsida said:

The opposite ruling back in the nineties was the impetus for the start of Amazon. I expect amazon shares to get hit today. 

Amazon already collects tax in all states, so this shouldn't be an issue for them. I know in Canada the government was having a really hard time collecting from them, though.

Good luck enforcing that. The big ones like Amazon will comply (if they already aren't), but small stores?

I am just wrapping up a systems project as I graduate and finish school, and it has only re-affirmed my hatred of teamwork in a school setting.

Our project was to design and build a real-world inventory database and website for our school's asset management department. Basically something to track all of the monitors, computers, equipment, etc. They have around 5,000 items on this campus and they use a paper-based system at the moment. We had four months to do it (plenty of time), but barely put it together in time.

Basically our project manager (assigned by an instructor) was the worst at everything and made a guy with aspergers our programmer. Nothing against people with aspergers or similar conditions, but in his particular case he is completely unable to deal with people, timelines, and scope of a project. He also failed the pre-requisite courses for this (C#/ASP.NET, Javascript, etc), but the instructors mercy-passed him because they are idiots and want to keep collecting tuition. This guy literally can't write a single "Hello World" page in Visual Studio without copying someone else's code. Knowing this, the BA and myself (DBA position on the team) did all of the work ourselves. We carried a 5-member team for the entire semester, logging double the hours and writing all of the code and SQL scripts. I just finished writing up my peer review, and it was pretty scathing, including telling off the instructors (and entire program...in polite words) for passing this kid even though they know he is failing and will continue to fail, as they are doing an injustice to him as well.

Fortunately our finished product is great, but only because the two competent members went rogue and did everything ourselves regardless of what the manager wanted us to work on. Obviously in the real world you can't do that, but in the real world you can also just let your boss know that someone else isn't doing anything, and then they can deal with it. 

The only group work that should ever be mandatory is the kind where you get to choose your own teams.

Just now, SilentWorld said:

But it’s already made 

shh!

Thought I'd remake this thread considering Jason stole the Trump & Co Bullshit one!