When you get fifty e-mails from a teacher, most of which are random new educational websites and a spreadsheet full of passwords for them....is that really distance learning? I don't think so, and that's what we encountered March-May with our child. So let's call this what it is; it's not distance, or remote learning. This is home schooling.
This is taxpayer money; anyone who receives a check should deposit it, without shame....irregardless of their opinion of the current president or Congress. Hundreds of millions of people are paying for these checks to go out, hundreds of elected officials approved it, and tens of thousands of civil servants are making it happen.
According to multiple news reports, you are able to check the status of your payment at this IRS webpage. I have tried all day. I tried with my SSN, I tried with my wife's. Each time all that I received was:
According to information that we have on file, we cannot determine your eligibility for a payment at this time.
For more information on the eligibility rules, see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Within that FAQ, it includes the following information:
If you filed your 2018 or 2019 tax return and it has been processed, you can check Get My Payment for the status of your economic impact payment.
Further down, it indicates the following:
In certain cases, the Get My Payment app will be unable to tell you the status of your payment. You may receive this message for one of the following reasons:
If you are not eligible for a payment (see IRS.gov on who is eligible and who is not eligible)
If you are required to file a tax return and have not filed in tax year 2018 or 2019.
If you recently filed your return or provided information through Non-Filers: Enter Your Payment Info on IRS.gov. Your payment status will be updated when processing is completed.
If you are a SSA or RRB Form 1099 recipient, SSI or VA benefit recipient – the IRS is working with your agency to issue your payment; your information is not available in this app yet.
I have not filed a 2019 tax return yet; I did file in 2018 and so it sounds to be like there is a mistake on IRS' end. However, according to the FAQ, You can check the app again to see whether there has been an update to your information. Get My Payment data is updated once per day, so there’s no need to check back more frequently.
So, I won't be checking again until tomorrow. Have others had more luck in operating this system?
It is truely wild how widespread this problem is. I discovered the business card fix on my own after running into a restarting phone. I ended up just putting the business card flat on the back of the battery, not on the far edge and it worked fine. Anyway, complete insanity that these phones made it through quality control.
My Nokia E5 was similarly out of date. Since I use my phone generally for texting, email, twitter I didn't need a big screen but do need a keyboard to be happy. I was not enthused about committing to the BlackBerry platform due to the perceived financial issues, but BBRY has already released a few updates and app support is good enough for me. BlackBerry has taken care of me so far.
And the keyboard is incredible - not just passable, but enjoyable to type on.
Where!?! I'll move! (And I'm only half-kidding.) Right now, to watch GoT when it airs, I'd have to subscribe to my local (monopoly) cable provider at their full rate (or agree to a contract for 2 years to get the service I only want 4 months out of the year)
There is no such thing as a pay TV monopoly. You can watch GoT as it airs on Dish or DirecTV. Just saying...the fact that one company owns the cable franchise in a given town is not the reason that prices for pay tv are exorbitant.
You allude to satellite in your post (Ie. the 2 year contract bit) but I just don't see what your point is.
You obviously haven't taken a look at Comcast's balance sheet if you think that $80/month is going to the studios.
I heard a stat that cable companies pay $6 per month for ESPN/ESPN2. That's just two channels. Most channels are not that expensive, but if you have 100 channels....it is not hard to see how you're going to get a lot of that money going to content providers.
Other note I would make is that it is not exactly new to have "dry" cable internet. There are millions out there with cable internet and no TV -- and the cable companies do it willingly; I don't think they would do it if it really caused significant price pressure on the TV side of the house.
So part of this expansion that I was talking about with 2000 new domain names coming is
Indeed -- for the lay man not briefed into this kind of world, the distinction between an NGO and an NPO is highly irrelevant. I think the addition of the
If you have insurance, no reason not to get a doc's advice. That said, I have been using the workrave app for about 5 years now and I think it has saved me from significant deterioration. It has both 'nix and Windows implementations. Basically reminds you to take a micro break every 5 minutes and a coffee break every ten. I manage to keep working during these breaks. Usually it is a phone call or a convo with the boss or a colleague. And you can always count on a meeting as a good opportunity for a break.
Best piece of nagware out there IMHO.
If it is me - and this guy sounds just like me - he needs to take that time and do anything but be on a computer. Take 5 minutes for longer breaks to grab a coffee or make a phone call you have been putting off. Or if you need a short break, sort out your desk or stare out the window for 30 seconds.
Your wrists will thank you - if you are an information worker, you are at risk of being seriously debilitated in mere years if you don't take steps now.
Yeah, MVNOs are really the best way to get away from such corporate policies.
Rather than a crime, it would be considered their entitlement, a perk of an elite education that's paid for by their alma maters.
The list that is linked to does not include Stanford...but that is where Swartz started college. The suggestion that he did not have access to an elite education is rediculous under the circumstances. So not only is the premise of the idea that people as alums of certain schools would not be prosecuted for pulling every journal off JSTOR and putting it out on the web laughable but the particulars not really compelling. Stanford is a pretty good school.
You do understand that the interviewed current and ex-employees of Nokia had to speak generally and under the condition of anonymity because they are subject to very strict NDAs? Talking about anything specific could make it possible to identify the individual.
So you're saying you agree that it is a surface-level write-up. Okay. Thanks!
In other words, this article is crap. It's not even an article -- it's a write-up. You see a multi-page write-up and expect some actual information and facts; instead, you get nothing but what could only honestly be called whining:
From TFA
Products were mostly made by subcontracting without a top organization or support from certain sector’s professionals. No one intervened with the process and it resulted in quality problems in finished products. Considering the small resources and the subcontracting, lowest price was always the first priority in choosing components, space requirement was second and poor hardware performance was patched up with software optimizations as well as possible. Cutting expenses from the software developers didn’t particularly motivate anyone, considering the fact that savings were made in material expenses by using poor components, which then meant stress for the next couple of weeks in performance optimization.
Most of the people we interviewed from Nokia said that Nokia used too much subcontracting. Building specific knowledge from scratch inside the company is expensive and time consuming, and the OSSO team’s resources were limited.
There were a lot of problems, it was difficult to keep hold of the quality of the subcontractors’ work and the contracts weren’t supervised properly. The subcontractors could cheat in the contracts by changing the best experts, who were there in the beginning, to less qualified people. Examples given included bad code written in India and the communication problems with the Chinese and the Japanese because of their poor English skills. All this resulted in more additional work and delays for the project managers in Finland, when they had to take measures to repair the errors and poor quality.
Okay, so the development contractors were chosen based on low price. That is one fact.
Okay, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian coders were used. That is another fact.
But beyond that...no other facts. The article alludes to "bad code written in India and the communication problems with the Chinese and the Japanese because of their poor English skills." But what bad code?
It alludes to "project managers in Finland, [taking] measures to repair the errors and poor quality."
Examples of errors? No where to be found.
No, we end up with sprawl because living the American dream includes a home with a yard and not high density housing. And even when planners are forced to create HDH to reduce or slow sprawl, Americans would rather continue to spread out to get their piece of the dream than live in a 'Pass the Sugar' neighborhood or HDH communities.
My wife and I have lived for years in a apartment in the middle of the city. It's not high-rises block after block -- but it's dense enough to have some of the most frequent bus service in the region outside of downtown proper and everything is walking distance. (Light-rail exists here, but for whatever reason does not flow through the core of the city. Makes no damn sense since the entire neighborhood was built in the 1910s as a Streetcar suburb, but whatever. On-street light rail would probably conflict with parking, which is all the business interests that run the show in this neighborhood here care about.)
Where we live now, we walk to any restaurant we want and have a $10 cab ride to downtown to catch baseball game or whatever else. There is a small market walking distance and the grocery store is a 10 minute bike ride through a very comfortable grid-patterned streets with 25 MPH speed limits. It is basically paradise for the carless.
Unfortunately in the United States, people do not know how to live in apartments in a civilized manner. Growing up, I assumed I'd be living in dense developments forever -- never was a fan of long drives and I've had an environmental streak. I enjoy being able to walk to grab a latte and running into people randomly in the streets, etc. But to do that, I have to deal with noisy neighbors constantly. The place where I live is not cheap -- the people that I live with are mature adults who are wholly normal people. But they have no respect for the impact of what they do on people that live 5 feet above/below their head. My upstairs neighbor loves having friends over to play Xbox connect on their wood floors with shoes on. They also love to run laundry at 11 at night.
Neighbors downstairs a few nights ago started BBQ with friends with the pit 10 feet below my bedroom window. This -- in a town going through a heat wave where no one has A/C. So I'm having to close the window and keep the house at 80 degrees because he wants to BBQ.
None of these things are anti-social behaviors. These are thoroughly normal people and if I asked them to cut off the BBQ'ing and the X-Box Connect because I want some peace and quiet, they would probably do it -- but it's awkward to walk down and ask. People in the US just don't know how to live dense.
So...we are now ditching the apartment life in this great neighborhood a 10 minute walk to anything to move to the other side of the city where buying a single family home is affordable. We can walk to exactly 0 restauraunts, our only option for a stroll for coffee is 7-11 brewed black coffee a half-mile away, and the closest grocery store 2 miles away. The bus theoretically runs through the neighborhood, but we'd be looking at four connections to get me to work. However, I will have some peace and quiet.
We are just back from short trip through Europe -- staying in a hotel for half the trip and with a friend in another. The guy we stayed with lived in one of the major "brand name" cities in a 10-story apartment building that your average 20-something with a job lives in. I swear -- we didn't hear a peep from others that lived there unless we were on the elevator with them. Later, we were on the train running through Germany and everyone whispered to each other, even on phone calls. Some cultures know to be polite with the understanding that someone is always within earshot -- we just don't have that sensitivity in the US yet.
High gas prices will probably fix that.
One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.
