They are competing against people renting other peoples apartments. It's a joke. This is just like the Alcohol Distributor bullshit that's all over this country. Regulations are supposed to ensure quality, but they are quickly subverted and used by the industry to lock out competition.
It can be, but that's over simplified. A capital gain is when a capital asset (stocks, bonds, property) is sold or traded for more value than it was initially purchased for.
As far as the "already taxed" thing goes, there are 2 primary arguments that support this.
The first is the easiest to understand. There is a "Corporate tax" on corporations. If you own stock in that corporation you are part owner, and, in effect, paying that corporate tax. The value of your stock is lower because of that tax. Then, when you pay capital gains, you're getting taxed again. You are quite literally paying taxes twice in this case.
The second is a little bit harder to grasp. Basically it goes like this: You earn money in some way, and you are taxed on it. Then you take that money and decide to save it. You start an investment account and invest in stocks. Then you have to pay capital gains tax on what to you is a retirement account. You were taxed when you earned the money and then you were taxed again when you try to withdraw it from your investment account simply because the stock increased in value.
Lastly there is an argument that's not really about "Double taxes" but is a good argument against our 'current' capital gains system. It's that much of capital gains is not, in fact, profit. If your capital assets are your retirement fund for example, and you hold an index for 30 years or more, when you sell that in retirement the increase in value is treated like profit, when in fact a lot of the increase in value is due to inflation. There are ways to tax that would take inflation into account but the United States has never taken action to change it.
If anything I think the most credible argument against capital gains is that it discourages investment. For example, I have an index fund that pays dividends. In most cases people choose to re-invest those dividends into the same stock. So the index pays out $20 a month in dividends and my account just uses that to buy more shares. But I have to pay capital gains on those dividends... the result? I invest less back into the index.
The point of Google search is not to provide the best possible search results, it's point is to make money. If Watson were a search engine and provided great results, that'd be fine, but how would they make money off of that? People would spend less time on their site, they wouldn't be able to insert paid adds into your search, and the hardware for the engine would cost far more than what google needs. It wouldn't be profitable at all.
And since when has our government been constrained by what's legal? I didn't suggest they "Should" just print money. I'm claiming that this entire debate is for show, it's not a real emergency. It's all about the egos of those involved who either don't want us to pay attention to something that's actually important (like the NSA leaks) or just want us in a constant state of panic so we'll agree to which ever insane reduction in our constitutional freedoms they suggest next. A politicians job is never easier than when the people are in fear.
It's affected me about as much as the sequester did. Meaning, not at all. And I work for a heavily federally regulated and subsidized industry. My best friends wife works for the the VA and she was told that she was "Critical" and would have to work without pay until the budget was passed. She suggested she felt the flu coming on and suddenly she was getting a paycheck again.
This is all for show. The government quite literally prints money. They don't need a budget, they don't need dept. All of the money they bailed out the banks with was quite literally created out of thin air. We're once again being distracted from the real news. Enjoy the show.
I think the feds should take advantage of those low prices. At least then, when they default, we can all end up with free T-shirts and a pair of shoes.
and where did the natural gas come from? Dead plants... covered over my erosion caused by weather patterns... all water and sun my friend.
I wasn't denigrating steam. I've a small DIY steam engine myself and take my kid to a steam engine fair every fall. It's a great technology. I plan on building a larger one some day to power a generator as literally any fuel will work to heat it and there-by generate electricity.
The non-metal: Mogwai Guthrie Govan -- hes in a lot of bands, anything he does is amazing Bassnectar Ye Banished Privateers (of course) Beatallica Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
and on and on... There are more metal bands today than there were in the early 90s when metal was at its peak.
Total bullshit. Having been a musician for decades and having dealt with music label reps... you get ripped off, at ALL levels. The labels throw you scraps to keep you on the hook but they're taking all the real money. It's only when musicians have the financial savvy and balls to start their own label that they start making any money. But then they drop off the map because the big name labels control what gets on the radio and MTV. The Metal Screen is a great example. Metal is doing great, with almost no radio play at all. You don't see them anywhere and Music awards are given to shit bands like Metallica every year while the real interesting stuff is being recorded in sophisticated home studios and released on Japanese, eastern Europe or even self owned labels. They're touring, making money, doing well... but you'll never hear a damned thing about it because the labels don't want them to steal market share.
You've got bands like Symphony X, Opeth, even Iron Maiden filling soccer stadiums, yet you never hear about it. Iron Maidens last album in 2012 sold more copies than all of their other albums combined, yet you hear nothing about it.
This isn't just happening in metal either, it's every genre. There's been an explosion in music in the past 10 years. The labels don't like it because it's fracturing the industry. They want maybe 5 kinds of music so it's easy to control. What it's turning into is art... and they don't like that.
Ya but all they have to do is ALL YOUR CORN ARE BELONG TO US and then there is no Taco Bell. No Taco Bell means junkies and hipsters will have no-where left to eat, forcing them into the job market so they can afford meals that cost for that 99 cents. The influx of young workers will drive down demand for older more experienced workers causing a deluge of early retirement, social security and medicare claims. That coupled with the recent lack of agreement on government funding will send the country into a death spiral and as The heath and affordable care act continues to be funded the complete inability of anyone to sign up for it means that these elderly will be without insurance as well, forcing them to seek out cheap carb rich diets that no longer exist because of the Monsanto embargo and they'll starve to death in the streets. It's all very simple.
Popular Science quoted some random study that showed divisive argument tended to sway users that already had a per-conceived bias more towards their own bias. Then proceeded to misquote and twist what the study truly said all over the media. There was an interview with them on NPR and NPR strait up called them out on it, but they spent the majority of the interview dodging the question.
This was either a PR stunt, a poor excuse to cut an expense, or both.
Lastly, can I be the first to point out that Popular science has very little to do with science and hasn't in well over 50 years? They are to Science what the Enquirer is to hard news sites.
Everything I've read so far is underestimating Valve imo. Keep in mind what they've done in the past, how they've been basically the single bastion of decent game programing left in the market now... how nearly every game they come out with changes the industry in one way or another. Valve IS innovation when it comes to gaming. If they were a publicly traded company I'd be all over their stock.
I doubt the steambox will be what we expect. None of Valves products ever are. They are releasing hardware requirements for free... the OS is free... do you really think this things a console? Is something so outdated their goal? I seriously doubt it. Within the next few years I expect to see T.V.s come with Steam per-installed. No console what-so-ever. You just pick up your Steam controller and viola, away you go. In the near term, you can get a set-top-box to upgrade your older TV or just install it on your PC. In the long term I expect to see Steam become the primary Media center on most TVs as it pushes out Microsofts offering as it's pricey.
This is going to be just like Android. Valve wants control of the market so they are giving the hardware manufacturers hardware specs, a free OS and promising to maintain it for them in return for access to your living room.
Who said it would boot entirely off the CD? That's just the boot loader, which will then ask to either create a partition on your HDD or maybe just create a single file like PuppyOS does.
Trust me, there are dozens of linux distros out there already doing this, it's crazy simple and you can hardly tell the difference between the live CD and a normal boot.
Well, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy but...
My experience with customs is that they don't exactly "Randomly" select packages on their way through. They X-ray them and look for obvious things... weapons, etc.... a lot of contraband comes in packaging that's easily identifiable via Xray. Then, and here's the key, if they find an address that has something rather innocuous getting sent to it, they'll let it go by or just send a one of their red letters. But then you're on their watch list, and they open everything going to your house for months. I'm guessing this guy ordered some stuff, got himself flagged and then customs waited until they had something good before nailing him. Happens all the time.
No, that's dumb. A million hits isn't shit. I've had sites with larger spikes than that and I had them hosted on sites like 1and1 (horrible host) and still didn't have a problem. This is 100% the feds doing a totally shit job preparing for the obvious. They didn't even get very much traffic considering the size of the program. If people were really jumping at the chance to sign up for this I'd expect tens of millions of people trying to get in. What would have they done then?
Well over a million users and their site couldn't handle it? Mr President, call up Yahoo or Go-daddy... they could have your site up and running in a few minutes.
You haven't used many live CDs have you? Yes you can run purely from the CD, and yes, then you can't save anything. But most allow you to save to hard disk just like any other OS. You can save your updates there, as well as your games. And the idea that "Messing around with the boot loader is not very easy" is just silly. every modern Linux distro out there offers to install a bootloader for you if you already have windows. It rarely causes problems and people who have no idea what they are doing successfully complete installs all the time.
How much do you want to bet SteamOS can be launched via live CD? Who says that Live CD can't be the HL3 disc? Seems rather logical to me. If you get a digital download they could just put a "burn me a live CD" right in the steam client... or offer to install a boot loader for you. All very easy.
It's awful. The right 1/3 of my screen is filled with polls and ads I don't care about Scroll down past all those polls and adds and now that 1/3rd of my screen is just blank. wtf? The headlines are in 30pt font and take up huge amounts of space like I had set windows to "I'm f#$@# blind!" mode. Lots of white space (have you ever taken a webdesign course?) Pop-up notifications that cover up the content until you are forced to make a choice? Really? Am I on yahoo or something here? Under my account... again with 1/3rd of my screen taken up my nonsense. Now I have tokens? What?
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder why he did that?
http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/apple-inc/6fba97b1038744ad8ab27d5fac99bfd7
http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/samsung-group/803d3e5b892545db9b30ea9236d67c2a
Oh, that's why.
They are competing against people renting other peoples apartments. It's a joke. This is just like the Alcohol Distributor bullshit that's all over this country. Regulations are supposed to ensure quality, but they are quickly subverted and used by the industry to lock out competition.
It can be, but that's over simplified. A capital gain is when a capital asset (stocks, bonds, property) is sold or traded for more value than it was initially purchased for.
As far as the "already taxed" thing goes, there are 2 primary arguments that support this.
The first is the easiest to understand. There is a "Corporate tax" on corporations. If you own stock in that corporation you are part owner, and, in effect, paying that corporate tax. The value of your stock is lower because of that tax. Then, when you pay capital gains, you're getting taxed again. You are quite literally paying taxes twice in this case.
The second is a little bit harder to grasp. Basically it goes like this: You earn money in some way, and you are taxed on it. Then you take that money and decide to save it. You start an investment account and invest in stocks. Then you have to pay capital gains tax on what to you is a retirement account. You were taxed when you earned the money and then you were taxed again when you try to withdraw it from your investment account simply because the stock increased in value.
Lastly there is an argument that's not really about "Double taxes" but is a good argument against our 'current' capital gains system. It's that much of capital gains is not, in fact, profit. If your capital assets are your retirement fund for example, and you hold an index for 30 years or more, when you sell that in retirement the increase in value is treated like profit, when in fact a lot of the increase in value is due to inflation. There are ways to tax that would take inflation into account but the United States has never taken action to change it.
If anything I think the most credible argument against capital gains is that it discourages investment. For example, I have an index fund that pays dividends. In most cases people choose to re-invest those dividends into the same stock. So the index pays out $20 a month in dividends and my account just uses that to buy more shares. But I have to pay capital gains on those dividends... the result? I invest less back into the index.
I pay capital gains and I sure as fuck am not rich.
The point of Google search is not to provide the best possible search results, it's point is to make money. If Watson were a search engine and provided great results, that'd be fine, but how would they make money off of that? People would spend less time on their site, they wouldn't be able to insert paid adds into your search, and the hardware for the engine would cost far more than what google needs. It wouldn't be profitable at all.
And since when has our government been constrained by what's legal? I didn't suggest they "Should" just print money. I'm claiming that this entire debate is for show, it's not a real emergency. It's all about the egos of those involved who either don't want us to pay attention to something that's actually important (like the NSA leaks) or just want us in a constant state of panic so we'll agree to which ever insane reduction in our constitutional freedoms they suggest next. A politicians job is never easier than when the people are in fear.
It's affected me about as much as the sequester did. Meaning, not at all. And I work for a heavily federally regulated and subsidized industry. My best friends wife works for the the VA and she was told that she was "Critical" and would have to work without pay until the budget was passed. She suggested she felt the flu coming on and suddenly she was getting a paycheck again.
This is all for show. The government quite literally prints money. They don't need a budget, they don't need dept. All of the money they bailed out the banks with was quite literally created out of thin air. We're once again being distracted from the real news. Enjoy the show.
I think the feds should take advantage of those low prices. At least then, when they default, we can all end up with free T-shirts and a pair of shoes.
and where did the natural gas come from? Dead plants... covered over my erosion caused by weather patterns... all water and sun my friend.
I wasn't denigrating steam. I've a small DIY steam engine myself and take my kid to a steam engine fair every fall. It's a great technology. I plan on building a larger one some day to power a generator as literally any fuel will work to heat it and there-by generate electricity.
Ok, well I'm into metal so:
Buckethead
Xerath
Cybreed
Angra
Sonata Arctica
Devin Townsend
Opeth
Symphony X
Zonaria
Chthonic
Psycroptic
Hacride
Darkage
Meshuggah
Mastodon
The non-metal:
Mogwai
Guthrie Govan -- hes in a lot of bands, anything he does is amazing
Bassnectar
Ye Banished Privateers (of course)
Beatallica
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
and on and on...
There are more metal bands today than there were in the early 90s when metal was at its peak.
Yes, after all these years we're still running on steam. Everything we are and do is based on the interaction between the water and the sun.
Total bullshit. Having been a musician for decades and having dealt with music label reps... you get ripped off, at ALL levels. The labels throw you scraps to keep you on the hook but they're taking all the real money. It's only when musicians have the financial savvy and balls to start their own label that they start making any money. But then they drop off the map because the big name labels control what gets on the radio and MTV. The Metal Screen is a great example. Metal is doing great, with almost no radio play at all. You don't see them anywhere and Music awards are given to shit bands like Metallica every year while the real interesting stuff is being recorded in sophisticated home studios and released on Japanese, eastern Europe or even self owned labels. They're touring, making money, doing well... but you'll never hear a damned thing about it because the labels don't want them to steal market share.
You've got bands like Symphony X, Opeth, even Iron Maiden filling soccer stadiums, yet you never hear about it. Iron Maidens last album in 2012 sold more copies than all of their other albums combined, yet you hear nothing about it.
This isn't just happening in metal either, it's every genre. There's been an explosion in music in the past 10 years. The labels don't like it because it's fracturing the industry. They want maybe 5 kinds of music so it's easy to control. What it's turning into is art... and they don't like that.
you're assuming the benchmark authors aren't working directly with the hardware manufacturers.
I think the distro to watch is PuppyOS. Talk about easy to use... and it can run on just about anything.
Ya but all they have to do is ALL YOUR CORN ARE BELONG TO US and then there is no Taco Bell. No Taco Bell means junkies and hipsters will have no-where left to eat, forcing them into the job market so they can afford meals that cost for that 99 cents. The influx of young workers will drive down demand for older more experienced workers causing a deluge of early retirement, social security and medicare claims. That coupled with the recent lack of agreement on government funding will send the country into a death spiral and as The heath and affordable care act continues to be funded the complete inability of anyone to sign up for it means that these elderly will be without insurance as well, forcing them to seek out cheap carb rich diets that no longer exist because of the Monsanto embargo and they'll starve to death in the streets. It's all very simple.
Popular Science quoted some random study that showed divisive argument tended to sway users that already had a per-conceived bias more towards their own bias. Then proceeded to misquote and twist what the study truly said all over the media. There was an interview with them on NPR and NPR strait up called them out on it, but they spent the majority of the interview dodging the question.
This was either a PR stunt, a poor excuse to cut an expense, or both.
Lastly, can I be the first to point out that Popular science has very little to do with science and hasn't in well over 50 years? They are to Science what the Enquirer is to hard news sites.
Everything I've read so far is underestimating Valve imo. Keep in mind what they've done in the past, how they've been basically the single bastion of decent game programing left in the market now... how nearly every game they come out with changes the industry in one way or another. Valve IS innovation when it comes to gaming. If they were a publicly traded company I'd be all over their stock.
I doubt the steambox will be what we expect. None of Valves products ever are. They are releasing hardware requirements for free... the OS is free... do you really think this things a console? Is something so outdated their goal? I seriously doubt it. Within the next few years I expect to see T.V.s come with Steam per-installed. No console what-so-ever. You just pick up your Steam controller and viola, away you go. In the near term, you can get a set-top-box to upgrade your older TV or just install it on your PC. In the long term I expect to see Steam become the primary Media center on most TVs as it pushes out Microsofts offering as it's pricey.
This is going to be just like Android. Valve wants control of the market so they are giving the hardware manufacturers hardware specs, a free OS and promising to maintain it for them in return for access to your living room.
Who said it would boot entirely off the CD? That's just the boot loader, which will then ask to either create a partition on your HDD or maybe just create a single file like PuppyOS does.
Trust me, there are dozens of linux distros out there already doing this, it's crazy simple and you can hardly tell the difference between the live CD and a normal boot.
Well, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy but...
My experience with customs is that they don't exactly "Randomly" select packages on their way through. They X-ray them and look for obvious things... weapons, etc.... a lot of contraband comes in packaging that's easily identifiable via Xray. Then, and here's the key, if they find an address that has something rather innocuous getting sent to it, they'll let it go by or just send a one of their red letters. But then you're on their watch list, and they open everything going to your house for months. I'm guessing this guy ordered some stuff, got himself flagged and then customs waited until they had something good before nailing him. Happens all the time.
No, that's dumb. A million hits isn't shit. I've had sites with larger spikes than that and I had them hosted on sites like 1and1 (horrible host) and still didn't have a problem. This is 100% the feds doing a totally shit job preparing for the obvious. They didn't even get very much traffic considering the size of the program. If people were really jumping at the chance to sign up for this I'd expect tens of millions of people trying to get in. What would have they done then?
Well over a million users and their site couldn't handle it? Mr President, call up Yahoo or Go-daddy... they could have your site up and running in a few minutes.
You haven't used many live CDs have you? Yes you can run purely from the CD, and yes, then you can't save anything. But most allow you to save to hard disk just like any other OS. You can save your updates there, as well as your games. And the idea that "Messing around with the boot loader is not very easy" is just silly. every modern Linux distro out there offers to install a bootloader for you if you already have windows. It rarely causes problems and people who have no idea what they are doing successfully complete installs all the time.
You don't need one. It's just an option. You can run it on windows, you can run it on linux, you can boot to the CD. Whatever you want.
How much do you want to bet SteamOS can be launched via live CD? Who says that Live CD can't be the HL3 disc? Seems rather logical to me. If you get a digital download they could just put a "burn me a live CD" right in the steam client... or offer to install a boot loader for you. All very easy.
It's awful.
The right 1/3 of my screen is filled with polls and ads I don't care about
Scroll down past all those polls and adds and now that 1/3rd of my screen is just blank. wtf?
The headlines are in 30pt font and take up huge amounts of space like I had set windows to "I'm f#$@# blind!" mode.
Lots of white space (have you ever taken a webdesign course?)
Pop-up notifications that cover up the content until you are forced to make a choice? Really? Am I on yahoo or something here?
Under my account... again with 1/3rd of my screen taken up my nonsense. Now I have tokens? What?