But multiple errors across multiple periods? That too should have made a few people suspicious.
Costs of health insurance and other items that are incurred for each employee don't extend to working more hours. Such costs run at least 25 percent and can be as much as 40 percent. And as just one more example, consider the costs of finding and hiring that next employee.
Before you start extrapolating how to spread work across more employees, consider the added costs of hiring that next person. This is why companies are reluctant to incur those costs until they are sure those costs will be recovered over the long term.
The author can then negotiate two separate publication deals, one for the ebook version and one for the paper version.
Most likely, a third person will be required, who will be paid to shill the book and get the book tour going.
Maybe we can get a judgment to decide the issue once and for all. It's merely icing on the cake to watch the RIAA take both positions simultaneously.
My posted argument was that Mr. Lacy suspects that someone in his department did the calculations and he wants hang that guy by his feet.
I believe Mr. Lacy; that his real motive is that he suspects someone in his department assisted with the calculations, and he wants to shut him up by requiring that whatever engineer did the calculations reveal themselves so they can be fired.
I wrote them off when I was choosing some small accounting software back in the mid 80s and the damned software couldn't even display decimals, all the money had to input in pennies. When we decided to go with other software, that was the salesman's last ditch plea.
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