I don't see much of a value add over Concur (https://www.concur.com/).

Using it on my iPhone combined with a corporate Amex account I can import my credit card transactions and tie them to expenses, snap photos of receipts, etc. I can easily add receipts as non-Amex expenses and it tracks it in the report.

At the end of my trip my manager approves the report and I get two disbursements - one a direct deposit to me for personal expenses and one an automatic corporate payment to Amex to balance the corporate card.

Last time the roundtrip from trip end to payment was 48 hours.

Just to be clear - you advocate fining UCSF for a decade of back-fines as well, right? Since their shuttles do the same thing.

Or are we only ok with bullying the tech companies back?

They also give you a pretty large amount of storage for life.

Likewise in Pittsburgh, where the paramedics have been given protocols for hypothermia, ROSC outcomes for arrests are much higher than the national average.

That's not at all true - at least, not for diabetics that will go into shock or experience acute symptoms.

Diabetics experience a "honeymoon" period where they will experience some symptoms - almost always enough to trigger a trip to their PCP, urgent care, ED, etc. where they will be diagnosed and put on a treatment plan.

At most they will experience one event of being "very sick" if they don't get checked out at all during the months-long honeymoon before its found.

If most diabetics didn't know they were diabetic, most diabetics would be dead.

I'm not sure I agree, for many reasons.

1 - a lot of grads have loans to pay off, and that $100k/yr job sure helps get it done quickly so you can focus on anything you want without that on your back.

2 - That $100k/yr job can help you meet a lot of great people to work on projects with at a later time. A lot of SCS grads come out having done nothing but stare at code for 4 years (I'm one, and I was saddened by the number of my classmates who made no connections on campus outside of SCS, connections that would be vitally useful in a startup). Working at a great company in the valley can help get you into the startup scene in a way that Pittsburgh might not.

3 - Nothing says you can't work on a startup outside of the 40-50hrs/wk you put in at your 100k/yr job. SCS grads are used to loooong work weeks; a normal work week seems short in comparison, especially right after graduation when you aren't (probably) supporting a family or anything else. That leaves time to make money AND try out some projects.

4 - Not being part of a startup =/= slaving your life away. There's a lot of great, rewarding work to be done in the valley and in the tech industry, it isn't an all or nothing thing with the all being becoming a startup founder. Being part of a company growing quickly and doing cool things can be just as rewarding as being a founder.

You are spot on with most of that, but #3 is not exactly true. When you sign on for $100k/yr you are almost guaranteed to have signed a non-compete clause, as well as a clause generally surrendering rights to novel work.

It's somewhat of a blurry, contentious line I don't well understand, but if you are working for Google chances are you can't incubate a software startup by moonlight.

I agree - but I'd say Google is a bit of an outlier. Many software companies have non-competes with more limited scope by virtue of their product being related to one specific industry that you can't compete with.

So maybe its more of a "maybe you can" thing.

I am not a lawyer, but it might be worth talking to one especially if you are in California and interested in moonlighting.

Number 1 is also a big one. Stanford is a much more finically generous school. I go to CMU currently, and I have a friend in the same income range as me that goes to stanford, and I pay almost double what he does.

Most if not all TSA officers are not sworn officers, I believe. If you notice at airport security checkpoints, no TSA agents have weapons, a few actual police officers stationed there do.

Right, TSA agents aren't law enforcement.

Point taken.

Give it a few years, they will be.

I've never smoked weed, yet I can identify it instantly. I've been around people who smoked it enough to know exactly what it smells like.

My iPods (1G and Video) never had sample songs on them. Just saying.

Yes because he clearly knew they would be such a success at the time he was negotiating contracts. He made the standard contracts, which is what you have to do, because you can't just change the terms later based on how successful something is or isn't.

This isn't a case of Lucas being exceptionally greedy. Maybe its a case proving how 1-sided Hollywood contracts are, though.

While I agree with you, the article is about Return of the Jedi which was released in 1983 - six years after the first Star Wars movie came out.

So by the time these contracts were being negotiated with David Prowse, the producers of the project knew that the movie was likely to be highly successful.