Ah, you're confusing the top 1% in the world with the top 1% in the US. Wealth is distributed much more evenly in the rest of the developed nations in the world, but once you compare cost of goods in the US to say, China, India, Honduras or even Greece, you'll see that the lower income in those countries is also easier to live on than that amount of money in the US.
Your reference to $34k/year is a straw man. The Occupy movements are specifically rallying against the upper 1% in the USA or the upper 1% in their own country.
We didn't know that they weren't paying the taxes that they took out until we received the statement from Social Security about how much had been contributed in the past 2 years. She'd found other employment by then, no one stays with a company that writes bad checks for long if they can help it.
Corporate welfare is where corporations receive massive tax incentives for "creating jobs." The bottom line is that they'd be creating jobs regardless of where they place their business, however most states will give up massive amounts of taxes that are normally charged to citizens and small businesses in the hopes of luring large businesses. In many cases it's not cooking the books to be subsidized by the IRS, it's more often the case of lobbying for deductions everywhere they can to come up with a zero balance for the purposes of "Taxable Income" as compared to "Gross Income". This is what GE does.
Do sys admins get bonuses that are multiples of their annual salary for system reliability and security? The problem is exactly how you put it. Most of us have a disincentive to perform our jobs poorly, and our incentives are a small percentage of our income. Bankers and executives should be the same. Instead they get bonuses for taking huge risks with our economies and our employment. Perhaps the rock-star CEOs that demand an exorbitant salary aren't worth hiring in the first place.
Sorry, this is a fundamental property of being a corporation: Limiting liability so that it can just go bankrupt.
My wife worked for an attorney whose check would bounce. Every payday there was a dash to the issuing bank. They never paid Medicare or SS taxes to the fed, by the time our slow, lazy revenue office caught up to them, the'd already gone bankrupt and started a new firm. We didn't figure it out until we got one of those medicare statements in the mail.
In order to have real capitalism there can be no social welfare for the corporation, the executives and board of the companies must be liable for their mistakes. They get paid to take risks, not penalized when risks go bad.
I got a call from a telemarketer on my cell phone at 3AM one day. I called the number back and found that it was a standard voice/prompt setup. I randomly dialed buttons until I got to a dial by extension choice. I then dialed every extension I could think of, leaving voicemails on every line, stating that the next time I get called on my cell phone at 3AM I would sue the company out of existence. Where I live the law is on my side on this, it is illegal to call before 9AM or after 7PM here. It must have gotten through to one of the people I left a voicemail for, because they never called again. Harass them more than they harassed you by wasting their time, and they'll find a way to stay out of contact with you.
And never, ever, ever click unsubscribe from anyone but the most reputable companies. It lets the spammers know that someone at that address actually reads those emails, and they don't mind sharing it with their sister companies.
That's a brilliant point. I didn't have this issue on FroYo on a Motorola Droid. If I had that problem I'd be pestering my carrier to the nth. I dropped Verizon because they had a day of no service near my home, and service was generally in decline. My wife and I started to joke "Can you drop me now? . . . . . . DROID!"
All the wireless carriers offer deals that allow you to upgrade your phone every 2 years. Why would I care if my Android is 3 versions behind just as I'm replacing it? Most of the new things that come out are things that I'll either be looking forward to, or reasons I'll be rooting/upgrading my OS. The people who are just buying phones that they can use to 1) play angry birds, 2) get better updated GPS built in and 3) talk on the phone and send txt messages don't care about getting the updated OS. When I shop for phones for my family, my wife has one single requirement: It needs to have a physical full qwerty keyboard.
Actually, many retailers use your zip code to determine where they need to put new stores and what to put in them. If a lot of people come from a rural area to purchase goods, they'll look into putting a new store closer to that area. Strangely enough many people in marketing believe that the definition of their occupation is finding ways to better serve their customers. I'm not a fan of everything being driven by marketing, but it certainly makes sense when collecting data to make decisions about your retail locations. Don't give them your zip code, or give them a false zip code, if you don't want a Radio Shack near you that carries things you like to buy.
Actually according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, employment is on the second level. I once had a friend who was born independently wealthy. He was often depressed, and often thought about what it is like to survive in "the real world." His mother dedicated over 40 hours a week to a non-profit, and often gave monetary contributions to causes in which she believed. It is possible to have something worthwhile to do that fulfills the need to be "employed". In fact, many would prefer to be doing work that's meaningful rather than working "jobs" that are easily automated. This is why it's imperative to encourage children towards creativity and to continuous learning, so that they can do things that can't possibly be done by machines in the future.
Sorry, my point is that HPV isn't scaring kids away from sexual activity, so the vaccine (and being protected from HPV) doesn't exactly encourage it. It's a head in the sand attitude to decide that people shouldn't be vaccinated against an STD just because they think people will be less likely to abstain. People who are likely to abstain do so for reasons other than disease. You may as well vaccinate them in case they get married to someone who didn't abstain so much.
Wow! I've never once thought people between the ages of 11 and 21 would say "Uh oh, I don't want to get HPV, so I'm abstaining." I had a girlfriend or two who said they were waiting for marriage, then I swore off Christian girls. My generation had the specter of HIV looming, and it didn't change much of our behavior. Society is completely blind if they think HPV, HIV or any other STD actually stops people from having pre-marital sex.
The year of the Linux Desktop will have to officially begin on December 21, 2012. It comes immediately following the removal of the "Start Menu" from in Windows 9 and the ubiquity of Bluetooth monitors, TVs, keyboards and mice that transform our phones into full size computers.
Remove all of your money from banks, stop wasting money on 401k or IRA's. Tax Deferred savings only goes to the wealthy when the middle class has (35.7% income tax + SS tax + medicare tax) incentives to save and investment bankers and stock brokers have (15% Capital Gains Tax) incentives to withdraw the money. The best investment is a direct investment or stable commodities (NOT gold).
The Iron Law of Oligarchy would suggest that regardless of democracy or autocracy, any organization of significant size trends to oligarchy. It very difficult to design a system in which the wealth of the many is not funneled to the hands of the few. Even most unions fall into this trend, with the example that was typically cited as an exception now defunct.
Are you using a virtual keyboard? I think Apple and Palm both claim the patents to that one, although I don't know about Swype. Licensing typos may get a little hairy.
This is why using a document synching or cloud storage service which uses a network protocol instead of a physical connection is so important. You don't need an ext4 driver to download an mpeg file from a Linux server over http or ftp.
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Ah, you're confusing the top 1% in the world with the top 1% in the US. Wealth is distributed much more evenly in the rest of the developed nations in the world, but once you compare cost of goods in the US to say, China, India, Honduras or even Greece, you'll see that the lower income in those countries is also easier to live on than that amount of money in the US.
Your reference to $34k/year is a straw man. The Occupy movements are specifically rallying against the upper 1% in the USA or the upper 1% in their own country.
We didn't know that they weren't paying the taxes that they took out until we received the statement from Social Security about how much had been contributed in the past 2 years. She'd found other employment by then, no one stays with a company that writes bad checks for long if they can help it.
Sorry, $250k/year is the top 1.5% according to 2005 census data as posted on wikipedia.
He's still practicing law for goodness sake!
Corporate welfare is where corporations receive massive tax incentives for "creating jobs." The bottom line is that they'd be creating jobs regardless of where they place their business, however most states will give up massive amounts of taxes that are normally charged to citizens and small businesses in the hopes of luring large businesses. In many cases it's not cooking the books to be subsidized by the IRS, it's more often the case of lobbying for deductions everywhere they can to come up with a zero balance for the purposes of "Taxable Income" as compared to "Gross Income". This is what GE does.
Nope, this is along the lines of "stuff that matters"
Do sys admins get bonuses that are multiples of their annual salary for system reliability and security? The problem is exactly how you put it. Most of us have a disincentive to perform our jobs poorly, and our incentives are a small percentage of our income. Bankers and executives should be the same. Instead they get bonuses for taking huge risks with our economies and our employment. Perhaps the rock-star CEOs that demand an exorbitant salary aren't worth hiring in the first place.
After the corporation is already dissolved, the IRS will trackdown the LLC partners and make them pay the back SS and medicare payments?
Sorry, this is a fundamental property of being a corporation: Limiting liability so that it can just go bankrupt.
My wife worked for an attorney whose check would bounce. Every payday there was a dash to the issuing bank. They never paid Medicare or SS taxes to the fed, by the time our slow, lazy revenue office caught up to them, the'd already gone bankrupt and started a new firm. We didn't figure it out until we got one of those medicare statements in the mail.
In order to have real capitalism there can be no social welfare for the corporation, the executives and board of the companies must be liable for their mistakes. They get paid to take risks, not penalized when risks go bad.
I got a call from a telemarketer on my cell phone at 3AM one day. I called the number back and found that it was a standard voice/prompt setup. I randomly dialed buttons until I got to a dial by extension choice. I then dialed every extension I could think of, leaving voicemails on every line, stating that the next time I get called on my cell phone at 3AM I would sue the company out of existence. Where I live the law is on my side on this, it is illegal to call before 9AM or after 7PM here. It must have gotten through to one of the people I left a voicemail for, because they never called again. Harass them more than they harassed you by wasting their time, and they'll find a way to stay out of contact with you.
And never, ever, ever click unsubscribe from anyone but the most reputable companies. It lets the spammers know that someone at that address actually reads those emails, and they don't mind sharing it with their sister companies.
Light a fire for a man and he's warm for a day, light him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. --Terry Pratchett
That's a brilliant point. I didn't have this issue on FroYo on a Motorola Droid. If I had that problem I'd be pestering my carrier to the nth. I dropped Verizon because they had a day of no service near my home, and service was generally in decline. My wife and I started to joke "Can you drop me now? . . . . . . DROID!"
All the wireless carriers offer deals that allow you to upgrade your phone every 2 years. Why would I care if my Android is 3 versions behind just as I'm replacing it? Most of the new things that come out are things that I'll either be looking forward to, or reasons I'll be rooting/upgrading my OS. The people who are just buying phones that they can use to 1) play angry birds, 2) get better updated GPS built in and 3) talk on the phone and send txt messages don't care about getting the updated OS. When I shop for phones for my family, my wife has one single requirement: It needs to have a physical full qwerty keyboard.
I know the cover is to keep the molten rock and ashes from falling on you, but are you really thinking about cooking dinner when the volcano erupts?
Actually, many retailers use your zip code to determine where they need to put new stores and what to put in them. If a lot of people come from a rural area to purchase goods, they'll look into putting a new store closer to that area. Strangely enough many people in marketing believe that the definition of their occupation is finding ways to better serve their customers. I'm not a fan of everything being driven by marketing, but it certainly makes sense when collecting data to make decisions about your retail locations. Don't give them your zip code, or give them a false zip code, if you don't want a Radio Shack near you that carries things you like to buy.
Actually according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, employment is on the second level. I once had a friend who was born independently wealthy. He was often depressed, and often thought about what it is like to survive in "the real world." His mother dedicated over 40 hours a week to a non-profit, and often gave monetary contributions to causes in which she believed. It is possible to have something worthwhile to do that fulfills the need to be "employed". In fact, many would prefer to be doing work that's meaningful rather than working "jobs" that are easily automated. This is why it's imperative to encourage children towards creativity and to continuous learning, so that they can do things that can't possibly be done by machines in the future.
Sorry, my point is that HPV isn't scaring kids away from sexual activity, so the vaccine (and being protected from HPV) doesn't exactly encourage it. It's a head in the sand attitude to decide that people shouldn't be vaccinated against an STD just because they think people will be less likely to abstain. People who are likely to abstain do so for reasons other than disease. You may as well vaccinate them in case they get married to someone who didn't abstain so much.
Wow! I've never once thought people between the ages of 11 and 21 would say "Uh oh, I don't want to get HPV, so I'm abstaining." I had a girlfriend or two who said they were waiting for marriage, then I swore off Christian girls. My generation had the specter of HIV looming, and it didn't change much of our behavior. Society is completely blind if they think HPV, HIV or any other STD actually stops people from having pre-marital sex.
The year of the Linux Desktop will have to officially begin on December 21, 2012. It comes immediately following the removal of the "Start Menu" from in Windows 9 and the ubiquity of Bluetooth monitors, TVs, keyboards and mice that transform our phones into full size computers.
Remove all of your money from banks, stop wasting money on 401k or IRA's. Tax Deferred savings only goes to the wealthy when the middle class has (35.7% income tax + SS tax + medicare tax) incentives to save and investment bankers and stock brokers have (15% Capital Gains Tax) incentives to withdraw the money. The best investment is a direct investment or stable commodities (NOT gold).
Too big to fail implies anti-trust and should be divided upon receipt of taxpayer dollars.
The Iron Law of Oligarchy would suggest that regardless of democracy or autocracy, any organization of significant size trends to oligarchy. It very difficult to design a system in which the wealth of the many is not funneled to the hands of the few. Even most unions fall into this trend, with the example that was typically cited as an exception now defunct.
Sorry, I just saw it as an opportunity to make a pun. I don't mean to pick on you.
Stubble difference.
Are you using a virtual keyboard? I think Apple and Palm both claim the patents to that one, although I don't know about Swype. Licensing typos may get a little hairy.
This is why using a document synching or cloud storage service which uses a network protocol instead of a physical connection is so important. You don't need an ext4 driver to download an mpeg file from a Linux server over http or ftp.