What Is Your CloudatCost Project?
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you don't pay, they still list you and try to collect bad reports about you.
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
It's true. I generally assume that things are a scam when I hear that something is a non-profit. Not all are, of course, but for-profits have obvious goals. Non-profits have unclear goals and that leads to some serious devious stuff. Even those intended to be truly altruistic have to hire staff and employees, by definition, are motivated by money or else they would be volunteers. And non-profits don't motivate with money well, leaving the company as an organization in a continuous state of being ripe for other motivations to take over.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
It's true. I generally assume that things are a scam when I hear that something is a non-profit. Not all are, of course, but for-profits have obvious goals. Non-profits have unclear goals and that leads to some serious devious stuff. Even those intended to be truly altruistic have to hire staff and employees, by definition, are motivated by money or else they would be volunteers. And non-profits don't motivate with money well, leaving the company as an organization in a continuous state of being ripe for other motivations to take over.
All our hospitals around here are non-profit. Yet there is nothing cheaper about it. It's just a tax break, nothing more.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
I've got a sweet deal for you, just send us 100's of thousands of dollars and we'll give you an olympic team. Valid only in Canada, limited time opportunity, also appreciate core hardware (servers, switches, AP's, etc).
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
I've got a sweet deal for you, just send us 100's of thousands of dollars and we'll give you an olympic team. Valid only in Canada, limited time opportunity, also appreciate core hardware (servers, switches, AP's, etc).
Monopoly money?
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@thecreativeone91 at close to $0.75/USD that's closer to true than I like.
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 at close to $0.75/USD that's closer to true than I like.
That's how it was all through my childhood. Shopping in Canada was awesome.
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@scottalanmiller Get up here with all your friends and family and spend money, please! - All of Canada
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
The vast majority of non-profits have major money scams. Look at Goodwill CEO's/executive pays. United Way, etc.
It's true. I generally assume that things are a scam when I hear that something is a non-profit. Not all are, of course, but for-profits have obvious goals. Non-profits have unclear goals and that leads to some serious devious stuff. Even those intended to be truly altruistic have to hire staff and employees, by definition, are motivated by money or else they would be volunteers. And non-profits don't motivate with money well, leaving the company as an organization in a continuous state of being ripe for other motivations to take over.
All our hospitals around here are non-profit. Yet there is nothing cheaper about it. It's just a tax break, nothing more.
I've been trying to figure this one out too. Around here most hospitals are also associated with a church (the caolithic church) who is suppose to be the epitome of altruistism, instead they are currently in a battle with Blue Cross Blue Shield over payouts.
Another hospital system here had to build a brand new hospital that we don't need just to spend the millions in excess they had to maintain their non-profit status. That was 10 years ago.. now they've shipped off their data center services to KC to spend even more money...
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Had to reimage both my Linux servers, so I'm going to try CentOS 7 for my new Plex instance.
