What Are You Doing Right Now
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@tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..
They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..
They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!
One would expect that, being that voting is also compulsory (unless religious grounds or served more than 5 years jail for a single sentence), the AEC should have been able to provide relatively accurate numbers.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tiagom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nothing new. When do governments scale correctly..
They shouldn't need to scale, they know exactly how many users they will have ahead of time!
One would expect that, being that voting is also compulsory (unless religious grounds or served more than 5 years jail for a single sentence), the AEC should have been able to provide relatively accurate numbers.
Isn't it weird that they allow you to get out of a mandatory task if you've done enough jail time? Seems like just allowing people to opt out would be smarter.
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lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.
Nah, the government would just have to tally up the Opt Out requests...
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.
You do, you just have to be violent about it.
I've never understood why making people who don't care vote is a good idea. It's just a way to increase media control. It adds more noise so that those that research and care can't influence the vote.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.
You do, you just have to be violent about it.
Yeah , no thanks. There's already one America in the world.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
lol, if there was an opt out, the entire nation would opt out. That's why we don't have the option.
You do, you just have to be violent about it.
Yeah , no thanks. There's already one America in the world.
Hey, watch it - that kind of talk might result in getting your ass kicked!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
That's so weird. It should just be money... do we spend more or less. Who cares how it happens as long as you spend less money?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm playing with ShareX ... Somebody posted it, and I think I've just found a Greenshot replacement... The irony is that ShareX actually uses the Greenshot Image editor, lol!
I'll have to play with that some.
Step one ... getting it to load automatically.
Yeah... Step 1 for me was getting Greenshot to not load automatically... I just noticed that I don't see any automatic start stuff for it... Guess I gotta look that up.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
That's so weird. It should just be money... do we spend more or less. Who cares how it happens as long as you spend less money?
This is how I look at everything I've been doing, is it more or less money for our spend.
Who honestly cares if you spend for maintenance, so long as that maintenance is cheaper than outright buying the equipment plus maintenance.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.
What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.
What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.
I think Edmunds and another organization did a study, and found that on the basic sedan you would be saving something like $8,000 if you leased the car vs purchased it. Buying used was the least expensive option.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Yes we purchase them outright, run them for a minimum of 7 years, but we do maintain maintenance on them. The maintenance pays for all the toner we want as well labor and parts. Paying time and materials would likely make our costs higher than paying maintenance.
If we leased them, we'd have the interest on the lease plus either the higher lease cost because of a $1 buy-out or zero value at the end of the lease, which means another lease ASAP or the payoff amount, which when added to the lease makes it cost noticably more than just buying the printer outright.
Of course there is the time value of money thing, is the value of paying the money all up front versus paying lease payments (either $1 buyout or large purchase price at end) better?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.
What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.
Run the numbers, it often is. Not always, of course, but often. You pay less per month up front, maintenance is included. The value of your new car at the end of the same period is often worth so little that that value is imaginary.
I know that people who run the numbers generally lease because it costs less.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If we leased them, we'd have the interest on the lease plus either the higher lease cost because of a $1 buy-out or zero value at the end of the lease, which means another lease ASAP or the payoff amount, which when added to the lease makes it cost noticably more than just buying the printer outright.
Leases don't have interest.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
She's rather pay up front once and then never again.
Regardless of total cost?
Well, I'm sure it's not regardless. But she doesn't believe in leasing.. and maintenance agreements boil her blood.
Do you guys buy printer right out? Who does the maintenance on them? That's insane to me at my past company, and this one, we saved money by going to a lease agreement that included maintenance.
Same with cars. Leases are often cheaper.
What what? How are car leases cheaper? My new car required zero maintenance costs for 5 years (other than normal oil/fluid changes/tires/light bulbs). Once a lease is over, you turn the car in and get no value for the money you spent other than the ability to drive the car around while you had it (but that's now gone). The warranty covered all of the vehicle stuff the same for purchase or lease, so no advantage in either case.
I think Edmunds and another organization did a study, and found that on the basic sedan you would be saving something like $8,000 if you leased the car vs purchased it. Buying used was the least expensive option.
How can that be? you lease for 3 years, now you either turn it in, or buy it as a used car. The lease payments are as high or (often) higher, assuming you don't put a down payment on it. In either case you loose the value of "new" car like any new car driving off the lot, instant loss of 10+% of the car price.
