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walshemj
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That's because men wok in high risk industries.
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cough ever heard of "phossy jaw" which effected match girls in the 19th century And plenty of kids and women worked in cotton mills with horrendous accident rates when compared to today. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is a
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But all those rich news paper /media moguls get a pass then
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You normally discount your primary residence when you defining what a millionaire is.
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Or farmers that inherited land.
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A Classic 911 is an investment and houses don't automatically lose money like cash does.
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I could see some one who learnt formal English in a school setting in another country might struggle with Geordie, a strong scots English or full "Yam Yam"
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Realy nice link - I have just put together a korg nts1 kit monphonic synth. I remember looing at the early acorn computers that where in eurorack modules - this is the one before the Acorn Atom
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to play devils advocate How much is this Amazon or its just the way all warehouse US workers are treated? I have heard far worse things about non amazon warehouse workers in the UK Sports Direct for example.
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And force them into it - even when they don't want to do it or have no aptitude. The only time in a fairly long career I have seen some one really unsuited to working in tech was case of this.
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Original its terror for terrors' sake to disrupt society not for individual aims is my understanding.
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Ripping of the average middle America Jack and Hortense is one thing - start impinging on CNI and your playing big boy and girl games.
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Tax efficiency, leverage and more $$ - they wont pay you real $ in replacement for options. Though the UK's a bit better I never paid any income tax, dividend tax or cgt. Even my top of the line EMI I am only paying 10% CGT if it pays
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Some board member resignations might be in order and being banned from being directors for 10-20 years
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Yet another one :-)
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The opposite side is two of my ex employers (one from 20 years ago) shares are still paying tax fee dividends in my ISA and increasing in value.
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Its the same in finance
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If Fred wanted to compensate employee shares he should be lobbying for banning some of the abuses dilution etc and for taxation only on a real gain
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I've already seen some of that various agencies sharing work on numerous different "sharing platforms" and this is not internes this is supposedly big name agencies working for major brands.
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Which is a problem when you get to to work in the real world in some cases I have seen a lot of basic knowledge. Of course its muggings here how has to perform the task of putting it all back together - the emotional labor to use a modern t
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Its always struck me how badly "contractors" are treated in the US. I would be paying about £25 weekly or £100 a month for an umbarella company if I went contract in the UK at a £800 day rate. And for experienced professionals lik
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Ignoring the fact that in the many countries HR would quite rightly avoid asking for a picture in an aplication (apart from modeling / acting gigs oh and SC/DV jobs) to avoid potential legal blowback.
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Its pre loading. And just outlook teams and slack does have quite an over head.
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Depends what you using it for I regularly get thrashing on my works 16gb dell and that's without any vms running and not using the full office suite. If your a journalist tapping out a column and only using one application at a time ye
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It and wine also killed bacteria in water so allowed larger communities to form.
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Well the US has a very non standard view on banks compared to other developed countries. Look how the US lags in Chip & Pin. Having a lot of local monopolies is worse than larger regulated ones in my opinion.
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Oddly the Vatican has a high crime rate because of this
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Possibly for older networks - the remining one in the UK does encrypt. I used to have a basic pager in the 80's when I was on call for BT / Dialcom
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Interesting mention of Ferranti back when I was young we had a state of the art A0 Ferranti digitizer delivered (serial no 7) My boss said “interesting project for you – hook this up to the PDP 11 make it work and then go and talk to Dave
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Not so sure the average high skilled worker had that much of a portfolio to get to the point that they would need to put investments into fringe investments. And if you did things like proper art collectables or vintage rolex's. I did
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