For a long time I was scraping by on $138.00 AUD/wk (varied a little depending on the USD:AUD exchange rate) - I moved in with my IN-LAWS. I've been lucky that I had two credit-cards which I basically maxed out and used to pay each other off. I was lucky that the inlaws offered to help out.
I went to Centerlink to see what I could do - they looked at my/previous/ years financials and said there was just no way that I could qualify for assistance. Being a self-employed person can really be troubling at times when everyone bases everything on your previous financial year results.
Hey, this is slashdot - I can say what ever I like without backing it up with truth;-)
Just kidding - currently I'm living worse off only because of two things 1) paying out existing large tax debt (accounting stuff up), 2) slide in trading relative to last year, meaning I'm paying a high PAYG rate relative to what I should be (though admittingly I am going to get that back at the end of the financial year... right? right!?)
Incidently, yes, I now hire an accountant - since while I can balance bits and bytes, my money sense is hopeless).
That's fine - we've got over a dozen OpenSource projects that could all do some some work. While the projects are originally copyright by us they are still OpenSource (under the BSD revised licence).
Just because we originally created the projects and periodicaly fund their development should not preclude us from being able to be involved in this Work-for-dole thing... should it?
It's pretty simple ---- in gross income I exceed the dole-handouts by a few factors... in net income they win. However, soon when all the equipment purchases are paid for, tax bills paid for and everything else finally the hard work will pay off...finally.
I forgot to point out, the TAX side of things is one reason I'd LOVE to get my hands on a few of these work-for-the-dole people; that way I'd feel at least that I've gotten some of my extort^Wtax payment back.
The business pulls in a lot per year --- but I get nothing, I don't even have a wage (yet):-\
The trouble is this annoying thing called "expenditure" (oh and tax... damned tax... 47%... it's INSANE!!!). Profits will rise from the ashes in the next few months - until then it's been 5 years of hard work.
I agree - I would like to give people the opportunity to get involved in my business via coding, however it usually carries a high risk factor for me (The amount of useless code generated is incredible even with full specs and requirements laid out). The way this agreement is setup I can take the risk, get some code and possibly afford to take the time to guide the coder to rework it over and over until it comes out/right/.
Incidently, I'm not saying my code is perfect either, usually takes me a couple of iterations to get it working right -and- structured to be usable in the future).
I can definately say that a lot of people on the "dole" are getting more per week in than I am (after tax). The way the system is geared here in Australia there's very little incentive to go out there and "have a go" because all that happens is that you end up with less money in your pocket and you have less time in your life to do the things you like.
As a small business developer, I would love this sort of thing.
Quite often it's very hard to get people to do some work without forking out large amounts of money and you're not always sure about the end results (I've had some really terrible code handed in by contractors - worse than even mine).
I have quite a handful of projects, all openSource which would definately gain from this sort of interaction.
What I'd really love is if the Australian Government would make more grants available to its local software industry.
There's a lot of adverts on TV and in the paper about the government caring about "small businesses" (hahaha, sorry, I'm laughing already) and wanting local "innovation" - I say it's a load of bollocks. I've approached several different government departments about getting grants/loans/funding/support for extending my existing software business (of which over 90% of its income is exports!) and all they ever end up doing is either dissapearing in the night or saying "sorry, you're too small" or "sorry, you're too successful".
"Traditional"... "Citrix".... I must be getting old. To me traditional is more like X terms, VT terms, Teletype terms (ugh, I hated writing assignments on those printers with keyboards). Citrix is a baby.
Actually, I was hoping they'd increase the penalties for the violent crimes. Tired of hearing people getting off light due to concocted "mitigating circumstances" and other amazing stunts.
What scares me here is the absolute disparity (right word?) between the punishment of virtual-space crimes versus violent, sexual and other more "real" crimes.
When you see murderers/rapists/etc walk free 12 months after their committal to jail and yet people can get 3 years for file-sharing... wow, I'm disturbed.
I think it's time more people in congress suffered to violent crime.
Don't forget, China isn't the -only- country with smears on its history. The United States also has a dirty history, as do most countries, communist, marxist, democratic/republic or otherwise.
We could get into a "my list is bigger than your list" debate here but I see little point.
All this really is is simply a useful extention to an existing facility. Trust someone to turn it around and turn it into some sort of fearful conspiracy theory just because it's to do with China.
The problem you're experiencing is due to the human eye not being able to focus on blue very well, being at the upper extreme of the visible spectrum, so you divert a fair bit of energy/effort into trying to "see" it clearly. Alternatively, green and red LED's are actually quite easy to focus on.
You can also notice this effect when someone creates an image with red and blue (ie, some badly done websites).
Only on slashdot could that have been marked as "Informative" instead of "FUNNY" as it was intended to be.
Seamonkeys being the delightful critters frequently featured on the pages of many a comic book (Archie/RichieRich/etc/etc) supposedly running around in their castle with crowns on their heads. I was amused years later while being involved with aquariums that my childhood seamonkey families were nothing more than my fish's favorite food - brine shrimp.
On a more technical aspect, Daphni are also a popular fish food (though there have been reports of them causing damage to the fry of various species - must have been from those spined/spikey ones).
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One such mishap has recently occured in Australia, the Mt. Stromlo obsevatory was recently burned to the ground when a bushfire/storm wiped out the area.
I wonder if Brazil is interested in letting other international businesses come along and start up under their wing. With the way Australia is starting to become (or already HAS become) another state of the US, I'm looking for a safer place - especially since I think it'll be a few more years yet before Tasmania becomes part of the Dutch monarchy:-)
Only because I've only got one pack at the moment for the particular plane I'm flying (B2 bomber). The smaller planes I have I've got two packs (used to be 3 until I puffed one from a rather dramatic wing-fold).
Lithium Ion/Poly batteries charge using "constant voltage" charge, so the last 20% often takes as long as the first 80% (because the voltage difference between the charge source and the batter gets smaller and smaller meaning less power is being transferred for a unit of time).
I know with my aircraft, we use LiPoly batteries and it's a real curse to sit there and watch your batteries race to 60~70% charge in 30 minutes only to then sit back for another hour waiting for the rest:-\
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I agree, $436/ftnt isn't enough, utterly agree.
/previous/ years financials and said there was just no way that I could qualify for assistance. Being a self-employed person can really be troubling at times when everyone bases everything on your previous financial year results.
For a long time I was scraping by on $138.00 AUD/wk (varied a little depending on the USD:AUD exchange rate) - I moved in with my IN-LAWS. I've been lucky that I had two credit-cards which I basically maxed out and used to pay each other off. I was lucky that the inlaws offered to help out.
I went to Centerlink to see what I could do - they looked at my
Hey, this is slashdot - I can say what ever I like without backing it up with truth ;-)
Just kidding - currently I'm living worse off only because of two things 1) paying out existing large tax debt (accounting stuff up), 2) slide in trading relative to last year, meaning I'm paying a high PAYG rate relative to what I should be (though admittingly I am going to get that back at the end of the financial year... right? right!?)
Incidently, yes, I now hire an accountant - since while I can balance bits and bytes, my money sense is hopeless).
Paul.
That's fine - we've got over a dozen OpenSource projects that could all do some some work. While the projects are originally copyright by us they are still OpenSource (under the BSD revised licence).
Just because we originally created the projects and periodicaly fund their development should not preclude us from being able to be involved in this Work-for-dole thing... should it?
Hey AC,
It's pretty simple ---- in gross income I exceed the dole-handouts by a few factors... in net income they win. However, soon when all the equipment purchases are paid for, tax bills paid for and everything else finally the hard work will pay off...finally.
I forgot to point out, the TAX side of things is one reason I'd LOVE to get my hands on a few of these work-for-the-dole people; that way I'd feel at least that I've gotten some of my extort^Wtax payment back.
The business pulls in a lot per year --- but I get nothing, I don't even have a wage (yet) :-\
The trouble is this annoying thing called "expenditure" (oh and tax... damned tax... 47%... it's INSANE!!!). Profits will rise from the ashes in the next few months - until then it's been 5 years of hard work.
Paul.
I agree - I would like to give people the opportunity to get involved in my business via coding, however it usually carries a high risk factor for me (The amount of useless code generated is incredible even with full specs and requirements laid out). The way this agreement is setup I can take the risk, get some code and possibly afford to take the time to guide the coder to rework it over and over until it comes out /right/.
Incidently, I'm not saying my code is perfect either, usually takes me a couple of iterations to get it working right -and- structured to be usable in the future).
I can definately say that a lot of people on the "dole" are getting more per week in than I am (after tax). The way the system is geared here in Australia there's very little incentive to go out there and "have a go" because all that happens is that you end up with less money in your pocket and you have less time in your life to do the things you like.
Paul.
As a small business developer, I would love this sort of thing.
Quite often it's very hard to get people to do some work without forking out large amounts of money and you're not always sure about the end results (I've had some really terrible code handed in by contractors - worse than even mine).
I have quite a handful of projects, all openSource which would definately gain from this sort of interaction.
Paul.
What I'd really love is if the Australian Government would make more grants available to its local software industry.
There's a lot of adverts on TV and in the paper about the government caring about "small businesses" (hahaha, sorry, I'm laughing already) and wanting local "innovation" - I say it's a load of bollocks. I've approached several different government departments about getting grants/loans/funding/support for extending my existing software business (of which over 90% of its income is exports!) and all they ever end up doing is either dissapearing in the night or saying "sorry, you're too small" or "sorry, you're too successful".
Paul.
Is it just me, or does the last couple of paragraphs where they talk about patents going to the "first to claim" put a chill down your spine?
With that alteration in the system that'll close the door on the ability to turn over a patent based on prior art.
PLD.
"Traditional" ... "Citrix" .... I must be getting old. To me traditional is more like X terms, VT terms, Teletype terms (ugh, I hated writing assignments on those printers with keyboards). Citrix is a baby.
Actually, it's usually 'eve' that's the middle "man".
Sadly rather true.
Actually, I was hoping they'd increase the penalties for the violent crimes. Tired of hearing people getting off light due to concocted "mitigating circumstances" and other amazing stunts.
Disclaimer - I own all my music.
What scares me here is the absolute disparity (right word?) between the punishment of virtual-space crimes versus violent, sexual and other more "real" crimes.
When you see murderers/rapists/etc walk free 12 months after their committal to jail and yet people can get 3 years for file-sharing... wow, I'm disturbed.
I think it's time more people in congress suffered to violent crime.
Don't forget, China isn't the -only- country with smears on its history. The United States also has a dirty history, as do most countries, communist, marxist, democratic/republic or otherwise.
We could get into a "my list is bigger than your list" debate here but I see little point.
They want their paranoia back.
All this really is is simply a useful extention to an existing facility. Trust someone to turn it around and turn it into some sort of fearful conspiracy theory just because it's to do with China.
Solaris is not meant to be a used in the same vein as Linux.
/realistically/ scale in the same fasion as Solaris does on things like the E25K's and other large iron systems.
I'd like to see linux
No doubt solaris scores as "badly" in some areas relative to linux as linux does relative to solaris in others.
Nothing to see here, usual hippie fanatics at work.
The problem you're experiencing is due to the human eye not being able to focus on blue very well, being at the upper extreme of the visible spectrum, so you divert a fair bit of energy/effort into trying to "see" it clearly. Alternatively, green and red LED's are actually quite easy to focus on.
You can also notice this effect when someone creates an image with red and blue (ie, some badly done websites).
Only on slashdot could that have been marked as "Informative" instead of "FUNNY" as it was intended to be.
Seamonkeys being the delightful critters frequently featured on the pages of many a comic book (Archie/RichieRich/etc/etc) supposedly running around in their castle with crowns on their heads. I was amused years later while being involved with aquariums that my childhood seamonkey families were nothing more than my fish's favorite food - brine shrimp.
On a more technical aspect, Daphni are also a popular fish food (though there have been reports of them causing damage to the fry of various species - must have been from those spined/spikey ones).
One such mishap has recently occured in Australia, the Mt. Stromlo obsevatory was recently burned to the ground when a bushfire/storm wiped out the area.
I wonder if Brazil is interested in letting other international businesses come along and start up under their wing. With the way Australia is starting to become (or already HAS become) another state of the US, I'm looking for a safer place - especially since I think it'll be a few more years yet before Tasmania becomes part of the Dutch monarchy :-)
Only because I've only got one pack at the moment for the particular plane I'm flying (B2 bomber). The smaller planes I have I've got two packs (used to be 3 until I puffed one from a rather dramatic wing-fold).
Paul.
Lithium Ion/Poly batteries charge using "constant voltage" charge, so the last 20% often takes as long as the first 80% (because the voltage difference between the charge source and the batter gets smaller and smaller meaning less power is being transferred for a unit of time).
:-\
I know with my aircraft, we use LiPoly batteries and it's a real curse to sit there and watch your batteries race to 60~70% charge in 30 minutes only to then sit back for another hour waiting for the rest
Paul.