While it's relatively pleasant to be writing a story about Domino's that doesn't involve a robbery, this is still not a good news post. Consumerist reader Tim recently attempted to use a coupon while ordering online from Domino's, though apparently no one told Domino's that their coupons should actually work.
Writes Tim:
I went to try out Domino's online ordering system, and saw an online coupon for 3 10" one topping pizzas for $4 each. Getting to checkout though, they show the coupon, yet they still charge $4.99 each instead of $4.
This can't be a delivery surcharge either, as they have that broken out at the bottom..
As you can see from the screengrab below, there's the coupon toward the bottom, but there's no discount given for the purchase.
Instead of trying to deal with hassle of explaining the problem to Domino's customer service, Tim saved himself a headache and went elsewhere.
"I canceled out of the order entirely when I saw that, and ordered Chinese food instead. Singapore Mei Fun is probably a bit better for me anyways."
Want to live a long, healthy life? Listen to science! Get off your ass, stop being sexually abused, and never get angry, or have a headache, or—worst of all—have an angry abusive headache. We're watching science, calmly!
I stopped wearing a wristwatch years ago when I started carrying my mobile phone everywhere. There still lots of people that wear watches wherever they go and many of the geeky types out there like watches that are different. For the group appreciating watches that are different, the Maze of Time watch is perfect.
The watch is designed by Andy Kurovets and is a concept on the Yanko Design website. Each color on the watch face corresponds with a different time element. Yellow and blue mark the hours and red and green mark the minutes.
The watch face looks pretty crazy, but if you look closely, you can make out the time easily enough even if at first it looks like nothing but a jumble of colored lines. I could see Tokyo Flash selling this watch for sure.
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Platogo, the social games platform, has today released its Platogo Wrapper that enables casual games developers to easily integrate their games with Facebook by inserting a few lines of code.
Essentially, it lets any casual game take advantages of the basic social features offered through Facebook, such as the ability for a user to invite and play with friends in their social graph and see how their scores compare, challenge each other, and display their gaming achievements on their Facebook wall.
The idea was to offer a solution that “automatically transforms any casual game into a social gaming experience.” says Florian Landerl, Product Manager at Platogo. That ’social gaming experience’ on Facebook, of course, also means a casual game has the basis to go viral.
Also important from a developer’s point of view, the actual Facebook app created is owned by them and not Platogo. And so is the relationship with users who can become fans so that developers can keep them updated using Facebook’s built-in communication channels.
Platogo says that its solution also removes the headache of keeping up with Facebook’s endless policy changes. If the social network changes its app rules, Platogo will adapt its wrapper leaving developers to concentrate on making games.
As well as a comprehensive API so that, should they wish, develops can add further Platogo-enabled social features, the company offers its own virtual currency for use within games. Called ‘Platogo Coins’ it enables developers to earn money by selling in-game virtual goods and is, presumably, how Platogo will make money too along with a share of ad-revenue.
Were you as impressed with the Pixel Qi display as we were? Good news: There's a DIY kit coming late this year that will allow you to swap out 10-in. laptop screens with a transforming Pixel Qi e-ink/LCD combo screen.
Better news: The folks at Pixel Qi content that switching out the old display with a shiny new one is only "slightly more difficult that changing a lightbulb." Naturally, you'll be voiding whatever semblance of a warranty you may have had on your present laptop by doing this, but for many the sunlight-friendly e-ink/LCD displays Pixel Qi provides might make it worth the headache should things go awry down the road. We just hope you can un0install the screen just as easily as it goes on however, should our concerns about this tech being "one or two generations" from true usability pan out when the kit launches later this year.
Watch for the kit in Q2. No pricing info given , but if you find it updated somewhere be sure to get your citizen journalism on and let us know. [Pixel Qi via Engadget]
Mindflex, the brandwave-detecting game, will probably give you a headache no matter what. But Harcos Labs decided to take it further, with a hacked Mindflex that shocks you when you concentrate too hard. The result: science, and hilarious shock videos.
The original Mindflex headset indicates how hard you're concentrating with a series LEDs. But with a little ingenuity and an electroshock kit, the devilish geniuses at Harcos turned it into something of a torture device:
Harcos hooked up the leads of the LEDs to a transistor/resistor relay network so they'd instead activate an electric-shock kit made by QKit. The end result? Concentrate a little, and you'll get zapped a little. Concentrate hard, and you'll get an electrical pulse that will make you think you've wandered onto the set of Green Mile.
Of course, the more worried you are about getting shocked, the higher the voltage. Which is cruel. And unusual. And so much fun to watch. [Wired]
In today's Remainders: headaches. Microsoft's browser ballot is a headache for the little guys; CereProc talks about the painstaking process of rebuilding Ebert's voice; WiMax taxis in Taiwan get me a little steamed; a magical migraine-diminishing wand, and more.
Talk To Me
Since we first read about the Scottish company CereProc and their effort to give Roger Ebert his voice back, we've been eager to get the scoop on the tech behind the scenes. Ebert's computerized voice was debuted on Oprah earlier this week, and while it was far from a perfect recreation, no one could deny that at some points the voice was distinctly his own. Now, CNET has an in-depth talk with CereProc which sheds some light on the process behind their incredible product. It has some interesting bits, like how they usually require 15 hours of recordings to recreate a voice, though they rebuilt Ebert's from only four hours of clips. If you have even a passing interest in Ebert's incredible story, the interview's worth a read. [CNET]
Analysis
Analysts! You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em. Actually, you could almost certainly live without them, but then you wouldn't have little nuggets like this to consider before you toss them into your mental recycling bin: Apple, who already commands 1/3 of the entire supply of NAND flash memory, might eat up even more of that supply with all these iPads of theirs, delaying the greater PC migration to SSD in the process. The thinking is that with iPad grabbing all the NAND memory, their prices could be driven up and those of SSDs would go up along with them. Maybe, maybe not, but for now there are too many unknowns in this equation—iPad demand being a big one—to worry just yet.[DigiTimes]
Glass Windows
Secunia, a security firm, released the results of a new study that might give pause to Windows users. It suggests that if you use Windows and have software from more than 22 different vendors, you need to install a security patch every five days to keep your computer safe from all those nasty viruses. That's pretty often. Here's what gives me pause, though: Secunia, the company issuing this warning, conveniently has a program called Personal Software Inspector that presumably protects you from just these threats. Hmmm. OK, sure, their software is free (for now), but you can't imagine that it'd hurt their business to drive a whole herd of panicked users to their inspector software. In either case, I guess there's something to raise an eyebrow at here. [BoingBoing]
Stuffing the Ballot Box
We recently got our first look at Microsoft's browser ballot, a new system that gives European Windows users the chance to choose their own browser as opposed to being force-fed Internet Explorer from the get go. The system, which arose from an antitrust investigation by the European Commission, was the source of much confusion and consternation throughout the whole process, but we figured that everyone would be happy with the final screen we saw the other day. We were wrong. The ballot offers new installers with 12 choices, but only the five most popular—IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera—are visible on the screen from the start. To take a look at the other seven—AvantBrowser, Flock, K-Meleon, GreenBrowser, Maxthon, Sleipnir, and SlimBrowser—you have to scroll your way to the right. As Ars Technica explains, "The unpopularity of horizontal scrolling is well-known," and "the importance of this ballot to minority browsers is hard to overstate," (I think they just did). The ballot screen will be rolling out in the next 90 days, and in the mean time you can bet that the little guys will be fighting against the clock to save themselves from sideways scrolling obscurity. [Ars Technica]
Hello Geeks
Here we have an Apple-centric parody of Old Spice's wildly popular The Man Your Man Could Smell Like ad. Often times, parodies grow to eclipse the original item they riff on. That will not be the case here. 1. the spoof uses CGI where the original did not. 2. It is less sort of funny where the original was not. The original was extremely funny. So just watch the original. But watch this one too, because it will make you love the original all the more. [The Awesomer]
A Headache
"Neuralieve Headache Management System," Redferret's headline reads for this particular gadget, "is this the beginning of the end for migraines?" No, no it isn't, because even if the Neuralieve does rid people of their headaches, there's no way anyone's going to use this ridiculous, gigantic piece of machinery to alleviate them. The Neuralieve beams a "single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation" into your brain, supposedly halting the headache in its tracks. While it may provide some relief in the short term, I'm not sure that letting some sketchy handheld gizmo pump magnetic pulses directly into your head is necessarily going to pan out so well in the long run. [Red Ferret]
WiMaxi
Starting March 9, 1000 taxis in Taiwan will be equipped with free WiMax. Great. Whatever. Taxi WiMax I can live without. But is it took much to ask to just get it somewhere in my city? Somewhere in the state of New York? [UberGizmo]
Four Point Oooooh
Bluetooth 3.0 is old and busted; Bluetooth 4.0 is the new hotness. The improvements will supposedly let the technology work with devices that consume less power, and today's news is that it could make its way into those types of devices by the end of this year. Well, a Bluetooth-enabled pedometer doesn't seem too cool to me to begin with, so having one by the end of the year doesn't get me all that excited either.
This week’s guest post comes from Fred, personal finance writer at Credit Card Finder. He helps people to compare credit cards online.
There are smart ways to use your credit card: you can keep your wages earning interest in a savings account while you spend on your credit card and pay it off at the end of the month, you can even accumulate meaningful points or take advantage of cash-back offers. However, there are times when using on your credit card is going to cost you more than the purchase could ever be worth. Here are five situations where you should not use your credit card:
1. Don’t take your credit card for a night on the town
When you have a big date (or just a big night out with friends) planned, it can be easy to burn through your cash as you pay for drinks, dinner, dessert, or entrance fees, drinks, drinks, and drinks. But what happens when your money runs out at the end of dinner or after the second round of drinks and the night is still young – plus you have to be able get home?
It can be tempting to lay down your credit card and start a tab, but you are going to end up with much more than a headache and a woozy stomach in the morning. You’re going to have a credit card hangover too, and those can’t be placated with a few aspirin and a greasy breakfast. Instead, think about the interest you will be paying on all those rounds, and all the rounds you shouted your ‘new friends’ in the excitement of the evening; is a monster hangover really worth a credit card hangover?
2. Don’t use credit to pay bills
If you have lost your job or are just having trouble making ends meet, a credit card is not the answer. A credit card may solve your problems in the short term, but it is really only making things worse for you down the track. If you don’t have enough money coming in to keep your household running, then you need to find another way. A way that isn’t going to add another bill to the list at the end of the month, and one which will not charge you interest, making it harder for you to ever pay off your credit card debt.
Instead, look at where you can cut back on your costs – can you live with just one car, can you cook at home more than eating out, can you cancel gym memberships and walk more? Then you can contact your bank, the electricity and water companies, and anyone else you owe money to and explain the situation. Chances are you can negotiate more time to pay your bills and even a payment plan for the long term to make things more affordable, without accumulating bad debt.
3. Don’t bet on credit
Online gambling sites make it easy – not to mention fun, at the time – to simply enter your credit card details and try your luck. However, you can lose a lot more than just chips when you gamble with your credit card. On top of losing an online game of poker or roulette, you are losing someone else’s money – the bank’s, and they are going to want to be repaid, with interest.
4. Don’t start a marriage on credit
If you are swept up in the romance of a proposal, you may not think twice about putting the perfect engagement ring on your credit card. However, you should be thinking twice (and three times!) about starting a marriage based on debt – just how long is it going to take you to pay off that ring? How much interest is that ring going to have accumulated before you can pay it off? Not to mention the other debts a young couple has to worry about – student loans, a mortgage, car loan…
Instead, find a way to keep your credit card away from the engagement ring. You don’t want to scrimp on the one you love, but consider borrowing the money from your parents or even better, find out whether there is a family engagement ring which was destined for your fiancée’s finger anyway. Otherwise, explain to your girl that you don’t think it makes sense to start your life together in bad debt, and buy a smaller ring. You can upgrade the ring when you can afford it – have the original diamond reset with a larger one, or put in a more expensive setting.
5. Don’t pay for your taxes on credit
It seems like a good way to earn some credit card rewards points for a bill you have to pay anyway! But paying your tax bill on your credit card can cost you more up front, on top of the interest if you don’t pay it off right away. This is because the IRS is prohibited from paying fees to credit card companies to process their transactions. When you use your credit card to pay for anything, the person you are paying is being charged merchant fees from your credit card company to process that transaction. Most businesses will absorb those fees as part of the cost of doing business so you won’t even notice. However, the IRS is prohibited under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 from paying those merchant fees to the credit card companies, so they charge those fees to you. Therefore, on a $4,000 tax bill, you would actually pay $4,099.60 to cover the service charges. Does paying an extra $100 on your bill equate to enough rewards on your credit card scheme?
As well as the service charges you will have to pay, think about the interest that will accumulate on your tax bill if you don’t pay it off within the interest-free days. It’s bad enough paying tax, do you want to keep paying for it month after month in credit card payments?
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Obviously, this is the pessimistic take on the “What happens to Apple post-Jobs?” question:
Palm is basically Apple, Jr. And if a bunch of Apple geniuses can’t kick butt on their own at Palm, how are they going to kick butt without Steve at Apple?
He has a point, insofar as that Palm is staffed with many former Apple employees, and, in terms of design and feel and concept, WebOS is the most Apple-like, by far, of any other software platform in the world. But Frommer’s logical presumption that Palm’s former Apple employees are interchangeable with those who are at Apple today is headache-inducing.
Um. Yeah, exactly like that, except way fewer people, way fewer established products, way less valued brand, way less consumer momentum and way less than $34 billion in the bank. But other than that, exactly the same. Totally. Apple's so screwed.
- felix
There are a number of details required to start a new website and in many cases you’ll find yourself solving the same problems over again on the next project. A new class of extremely useful APIs is arising to fix those recurring pains. One such platform is provided by Prefinery, a system to outsource your beta invite process.
Most sites now have some sort pre-launch testing process, a chance for early adopters to poke around and find bugs. Often special codes are sent to these testers that let them join the site. In some cases, especially those involving social software, members are also allowed to invite some friends. This can become a mess of additional code. Justin Britten explained in an email how he decided to build a service to take the headache out of this process:
“In early 2009 I was launching another web application and needed to launch a beta. I quickly realized that no off-the-shelf solution existed. Not to mention, with the future of software lying in the cloud as software-as-a-service applications, this was a natural direction to take Prefinery.”
The result is the Prefinery API and its dashboard for getting a view of your beta’s use. Rather than writing the invitation logic yourself, simply send an invitation code to Prefinery for verification. If the code is for a single use, Prefinery will mark it as used. If the code instead has a limited number of uses, or is only available for a certain amount of time, Prefinery takes care of that, too. And if someone tries to use an invalid code? Yes, Prefinery will let you know via a response from its API. Another feature of the API, called check-ins, lets you track a tester’s return visits. More details at our Prefinery API profile.
Prefinery comes with a fee, $49 per month for up to 500 testers. There are account levels beyond that, shown in the graphic above, as well as a free version for up to 50 testers. Britten estimates his software saves new companies $2,000 and up to two weeks of time to reproduce just Prefinery’s bare-bones feature-set.
These sorts of services, which allow sites to forgo building a common set of operations, are sure to be a story when solo developers are able to use them to quickly release new projects. Analagous APIs from the past are Paypal (our Paypal API profile) and similar payment services that take the complication out of charging customers money. A more recent example is Chargify, which we covered in November.
Nothing in the world of internet is secret anymore, that includes celebs. More than ever, celebrities are being photographed and written about as they try to lead a normal life. From the demise of Lindsay Lohan to Brad and Angelina’s latest breakup rumors; all is exposed. Below are the “best” celebrity gossip blogs on the net. I promise reading these daily will surely give you a headache.
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Our big poll last month of self-identified Republicans had a presidential trial heat (MoE 2%):
Palin 16
Romney 11
Cheney 10
Gingrich 7
Huckabee 7
Pawlenty 3
Paul 2
Thune 2
Undecided 42
Sure, Palin led the bunch, but at 16 percent, it's not particularly dominant territory for a Republican that dominates the media narratives.
CPAC confirmed Palin's poor 2012 standing, with 2,395 attendees voting in a straw poll (a conference record):
Paul 31
Romney 22
Palin 7
Pawlenty 6
Pence 5
Huckabee 4
Paul clearly has the support of his hyper-engaged, but tiny, corps of supporters. Yet his strong support at CPAC doesn't translate to the broader Republican electorate, getting just 2 percent in our poll. He's going to be a real headache for the GOP heading into 2012. As of the rest, only Romney showed a pulse in both polls. Palin? Not a lot of starbursts at CPAC.
So Palin clearly has something else in common with John McCain, aside from sharing a presidential ticket in 2008 -- they both have far larger constituencies in the media, than they do in real life.
Any busy executive or entrepreneur knows the headache of e-mail overload. No matter how fast you reply, it just keeps coming. Inevitably, you lose touch with people you never meant to ignore.
A Y Combinator company called Etacts is offering one solution. It keeps track of who you’ve e-mailed or called and then sends you occasional reminders to stay in touch.
It works by importing the recipients and titles (but not the body) of all the e-mail you’ve ever sent and ranks them by importance or the number of times you’ve communicated with that person. Then you can set reminders, so Etacts can send you a note once a week, month, quarter or year to keep up the relationship. Right now, you have to log-in to Etacts to get the reminder but the startup will launch a weekly digest that will be e-mailed later this week.
Etacts also operates with phone records if you want to share your calling history. (Etacts has a deal with AT&T at the moment, but not the other carriers, to import call records.) There are also Etacts browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome that let you mark e-mails you wanted to be reminded about, so you can keep track of whether the recipient actually responded. There’s even a mail merge-style function that lets you create templates for networking e-mails you might send out repeatedly.
The plan is to operate on a freemium model, with extra features like LinkedIn and Facebook integrations along with an option to manage multiple accounts. Etacts’ model obviously has more of an opportunity in the professional networking space, and could work alongside tools from companies like LinkedIn or Salesforce.
“The customer relationship management industry is really ripe for disruption,” said co-founder Howie Liu. “All the CRM apps out there are fairly dated and old, not intuitive, and they’re not designed for the end user.”
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We so have the tuner for you. Prior Design's bodykit for the Audi R8 replaces the contrasting sideblades with body color fills. The effect, in their own words is, "harmonic." The colored carbon engine bay is less so.
Prior also claim their new rear diffuser increases downforce and that there's a power dome on the hood. We've been squinting long enough to give ourselves a headache, but still can't see it. [via Prior Design]
There are a lot of married British ladies over 35 out there who never have sex—and it's their husbands' fault. But it's not just married British ladies with this problem. Women everywhere have a fucking problem.
The widespread, but apparently mistaken, notion is that women are the ones who are "too tired" or "have a headache." But according to this study quoted in the Daily News, it's the dudes who aren't in the mood.
This was borne out in conversations with several ladyfriends of mine. "Our sex life was great for the first year," says a 29-year-old editor I'll call Liane. "Then we started doing it less and less, and I was always the one initiating." Liane and her boyfriend have been living together for a year and a half, and co-habitation has just made things worse. "Now it's like we're roommates, not lovers. He's really affectionate, but we hardly ever have actual penis-in-vagina sex. I'm dying here."
One wonders, of course, why Liane and her boyfriend do not simply break up. "That would seem to be the logical thing to do, wouldn't it?" she says. "I do love him, though. I don't really know what to do. If I suspected he was cheating, it would be easier to break up with him."
And indeed, cheating is often the cause of the loss of interest! (Or a weird gain in interest.) A 30-year-old blogger I'll call Jill had been dating her boyfriend for almost a year and a half when he lost nearly all interest in sex. "And this was after he used to BEG ME to have sex all the time," she says. "He had effectively emotionally 'pulled out' of the relationship and so was no longer interested in doing it."
Jill tried to talk to him about it, she says, but he would brush her off, saying he was "too stressed out." But in reality, he had moved to a new city "and realized he could have terrible sex with dozens of girls instead of just me," she says. And she cautions: "Don't ever believe them when they say they're too stressed out for sex. He just doesn't want to do it with you anymore."
A 32-year-old woman I'll call Katherine, who lives in Park Slope, says she realized early on in her relationship with her now-ex-husband that she had a higher sex drive than he did—but it wasn't an issue until a couple years into their relationship, when it went way down. "When we talked about it, it felt so weird and Twilight Zone-y," Katherine says. "I am a woman! You are a man! How come i want it and you don't? But he maintained throughout that he doesn't have that high a drive."
The Daily News blamed a number of factors: the rise in Internet pornography, the recession, performance anxiety. Is this what happens in life, to everyone? It's all too depressing to even contemplate.
[Photo via Flickr/peterkellystudios]
Wait. You read that headline and still chose – of your own volition – to read this article? Either you really love us or your fun radar needs a good tune-up, but either way, we like you more than we like all of our other readers.
With that said, the StarCraft II Beta is live. That is, playable. Right now. Here’s your complimentary link to the Battle.net site where you can download the full 1.64 GB beta client and jump right into the action. Well, ok, the file’s pretty big, so you might not be jumping right into the action so much as you’ll be queuing up the action so you can maybe dive into it tomorrow after work.
Aw, who are we kidding? You're skipping work tomorrow. In fact, something tells us a large portion of the world is about to come down with "a headache... er, a cough... and I think I might have a fever too."
But IFPI didn't target pirate websites here. Among the sites it took down was I Rock Cleveland, a site whose author, Bill Lipold, painstakingly sought and received explicit permission to post every single track and excerpt he put up (though in many cases, he could have relied on fair use rather than going to the effort).
By using the law to annihilate labors of love like I Rock Cleveland, sites that obeyed all the rules and sought permission from the copyright holders at every turn, IFPI's message is simple: "Don't bother getting permission. Just take stuff. You're wasting your time trying to obey the law. It all comes out the same in the end -- we don't care whether you obey our rules or not."
IFPI will argue that it was just trying to help artists, that everyone makes mistakes, that copyright is complicated. But these are exactly the same arguments that the musicbloggers whose sites were vanished by IFPI's abusive lawyering would have made, if they'd been given a chance.
And the artists, the human shields in whose name IFPI is doing all of this? They don't want it, don't need it, and don't understand it. As one band's publicist wrote, "Just so you know, this is none of our doing...apparently, DMCA operate on their own set of odd rules, as they even requested that the (band's) official blog remove the song....What a headache..."
Targeted bloggers need to know these details, not only so that they can remove the file if it's indeed infringing, but so that they can file a DMCA counter-notice in the event that the file is not infringing.Music Journalism is the New PiracyOrdinarily, the party issueing the takedown notice would be required by US copyright law to specify which content is being accused. But, as an international organization headquartered in London, IFPI is arguing that it doesn't even need to play by the USA's rules. "We neither admit nor accept," they write, "...that Google is entitled to be served a notice in compliance with the DMCA." Translation: IFPI is essentially threatening to sue Google under some unspecified foreign law -- presumably one which lacks even the modest safe-harbor provisions available in the USA. It's no wonder Google felt the need to take drastic action to avoid liability, even at the expense of the resulting headaches and bad press.
Music industry to musicbloggers: there's no point in obeying the law
- Antoine BertierFrom what I can tell, the Senate will vote on two tax credits, one that goes to employers for hiring workers that have been unemployed for two months, and another when they keep a new employee for 52 weeks. I think both these ideas may make some political sense, but they are not good economics.
As I have posted in October, just hiring more people is not the answer to lowering unemployment. Every month five million workers more or less join the workforce. That is every month. At the same time an equal, or for the last several months a few thousand more, leave the ranks of workforce. To increase the number employed we need to reverse these two -- that is have more people going into the workforce than out. A very important point is of -- that five million, less than half were officially unemployed the previous month; more of them were coming from "not in the labor force".
Employers want to hire the best person for the job. When a group of perspective employees show up to interview, those that have been unemployed more that two months may not be the most productive. The most qualified person may have been out of the work force for a year, but they will not qualify, as they were not "officially" unemployed. The two-month rule will be a headache for employers and will reduce the chance that the best person gets the job. If a firm needs a new truck, we would not want to tell them they could only buy trucks that have been on the lot for at least two months. That is sort of what this bill is asking they do for new employees.
Subsidizing the wage of new employees kept a year with a $1,000 income-tax credit does make a bit more sense in that new workers are learning the job at first and after a year are probably worth more to the employer. I cannot tell if the proposal is for the credit to go only to those hired who were unemployed for at least two month or any new hire. If it is the first, then I see it as a waste. If it is the later, then it might be justified as a subsidy for training costs.
There is a better and simpler credit to increase employment. As I suggested a week ago, Congress should pass a bill that gives employers a credit on a percent of the increase in their FUTA wage base. That base is the first $7,000 paid each employee. The credit could be progressive so as to reward employers who add many workers. For example, $500 credit for the first 10% increase, $1,000 for the next 10%. A firm that has 10 workers earning more that $7,000 each would have a base of $70,000. If the next reporting period it had 11 employees, it would be worth a $500 credit. If they had 12 workers, they would receive a $1,500 credit.
Before someone suggests I give up my job for someone unemployed, I want to say I am retired and do not have a salary. And I want to add that I have sympathy for those who have been unemployed for a long time, but I have a friend who is about to declare bankruptcy and is desperate to get a job. She has not been "unemployed" because she has been caring for her dying husband. It is hard to know how to pick the most deserving.
We have all seen them and most use them daily. The old office cooler. The place where office rumors are spread and the big game or reality show is discussed. There is something about that cool clean water that makes the day seem to go by faster. What about having on in your home? Some people might, but the main reason for not having one is that they are not exactly attractive. For those who agree with this, Primo has released a new era of water coolers for the home. The unit Primo allowed me to review has a stylish design with stainless steel front panels and bottom loading concealed bottle placement. Primo has provided a great option that adds style and class to any room in the home or office.
Review after the break…
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