I'd guess they wanted to hold the stock for 1 year after exercise to qualify for long term capital gains, but this would likely trigger AMT. Not sure if this has been the case back in the day though.
Vendor qualification isn’t easy but it’s also not especially difficult as long as you’re an American citizen with no criminal history. Figuring out the paperwork is half the battle.
Past that, the hoops you'll need to jump through depend a lot on which department is handling procurement. If you look at defense-related contracts, you'll also have to go through personal clearance (which can be difficult by itself at higher levels).
What's fascinating to me is the amount of knowledge and teaching experience that has to go into designing those exercises. How long and how many teachers and students did it take to come up with a good set of exercises to develop towards a certain skillset?
On the one hand I thing such lessons can be so effective because they are generally one-on-one. That already goes a long way to disseminating knowledge, especially when compared to the "knowledge dissemination theater" that is the large lecture hall.
On the other, musicians construct these insane pedagogical family trees. So-and-so's teacher was a student of so-and-so, who was a student of so-and-so, and now we're already back in the 19th century. My personal opinion is that a lot of that is more inspirational than practical. But it certainly has an effect.
There's also the easter egg that teaching can accelerate one's own mastery. It's basically forcing one to do rubber-duck debugging as a full-time job. Add to that an ever-expanding knowledge about the physical aspect of playing instruments (how to avoid injury, how to maximize practice time), and I think that's where a lot of the knowledge comes from.
Google: No results found for "If you have a stash of masks, we'll be knocking on your door." The query without quotes also doesn’t show any relevant hits on the first two pages.
Also: the Facebook story is from Sunday. It’s not very likely that it is a reaction to a press conference on Monday, is it?
You and all the other Trump supporters should stop making stuff up and/or learn to link to sources at least after being asked repeatedly to provide them.
I feel already damaged listening to Trump for over one hour. Watch the update yourself and you will hear it 1:1. I do not want to go thru that torture again! All his "update" could be compressed in one short paragraph.
Maybe one day I will propose a Trump compression algorithm as his vocabulary is very limited and he keeps repeating the same nonsense a million times hoping on inducing some hypnotonic effect in his low-IQ fans...
Low-IQ is not a choice. Mocking people for having a lower IQ is the same as mocking someone born without an arm or a leg or any other sort of genetic or birth defect that one has no control over. Those who suffer from mental retardation have low IQ. Should they not be spoken to in a way they can understand? Trump recognizes that everyone in the country has vastly different levels of intelligence, and speaks in a way that everyone can understand. I'm not sure why that's a point of criticism other than someone who thinks their natural intelligence somehow makes them better than others.
You clearly understand I was not referring to people with medical conditions. He doesn't say anything meaningful and definitely does not do it so that people with disabilities can get him. If that was his strategy, he would speak slowly, and not go in circles and confuse everybody, and force his people to publish clarifications after all the confusion he brings us with his TV appearances!
