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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---Why is that funny, or are you just trolling? I can make alcohol from ingredients I already have in my kitchen cupboard.
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And how did you find out how to make alcohol?someone told you,or you read it somewhere, you've researched the theory.You decide to grow weed,you research ,once youve the seeds it can be as simple as chuck em in the ground and wait,much easier than brewing even the most basic rotgut hooch.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 04, 2020, 09:48:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: themadhippy on July 04, 2020, 09:45:35 pm ---
--- Quote ---Cannabis is more more tricky to produce
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:-DD
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Why is that funny, or are you just trolling? I can make alcohol from ingredients I already have in my kitchen cupboard. If I want to grow cannabis I have to get hold of the seeds first and I wouldn't know where to start.
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Google... :palm: Or in my case the girl in front of me when I was in school over 30 years ago :-DD
james_s:
--- Quote from: maginnovision on July 04, 2020, 11:20:55 pm ---Apparently taxes for 2019 were 25.74 billion so it's even smaller a percentage(https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Docs/Reports/2019/Tax_Statistics_2019/Tax_Statistics_2019.pdf). So 1.5% of total tax revenue... No I don't think that's a windfall. It's fine to disagree. I'm not for or against marijuana(unless it's in my house). That goes for cigarettes and tobacco too. Alcohol was just barely beat out by marijuana and cigarettes and tobacco beat out both. All 3 together only made up 4.6% of tax revenue.
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1.5% of the *total* tax revenue collected by the state from *everything* from just *one* niche industry? That's big! It's almost as much as is collected on alcohol and that's available in every grocery store, corner shop, bar, most restaurants, etc.
I mean personally I could take it or leave it, but I think it's ridiculous to classify it the same as hard drugs. Pot can absolutely ruin a person's life, ironically from the legal consequences of being caught with a bit of the stuff in some parts of the country. Sure overuse can lead to a person being a lazy burnout stoner and I've known a few of those however I've known a LOT more hardcore alcoholics, including a few who literally drank themselves to death.
VK3DRB:
Getting back on track (and off the illegal drugs crap), it is possible working from home will become the norm.
Companies in Australia are now realising it is much cheaper for employees to work from home. The energy bills are all paid for by the employee and over here it is an attractive tax deduction of 80 cents per hour worked from home. Even so, most electronics professionals lack decent test equipment of their own, so they have to go into the lab on site at the company. Software programmers can work form home.
The advantages are many in working from home: less road traffic, less air pollution, no travel time, less change of a burglary on your home because it is occupied, more time with the wife and kids, less time having to work physically with people you might not like, more profits for the company. And for many electronics engineers, isolation is nothing new as they lack people skills and have no friends :D.
So it seems the pros outweigh the cons.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on July 05, 2020, 04:04:40 am ---Getting back on track (and off the illegal drugs crap), it is possible working from home will become the norm.
Companies in Australia are now realising it is much cheaper for employees to work from home. The energy bills are all paid for by the employee and over here it is an attractive tax deduction of 80 cents per hour worked from home. Even so, most electronics professionals lack decent test equipment of their own, so they have to go into the lab on site at the company. Software programmers can work form home.
The advantages are many in working from home: less road traffic, less air pollution, no travel time, less change of a burglary on your home because it is occupied, more time with the wife and kids, less time having to work physically with people you might not like, more profits for the company. And for many electronics engineers, isolation is nothing new as they lack people skills and have no friends :D.
So it seems the pros outweigh the cons.
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It would be good to have a mix of office and home working - that sounds like the ideal solution, where you have some of the benefits of both.
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