I would assume that if the debt forgiveness is intended as a gift, then it's subject to gift tax. (Assuming it's over the applicable limit, of course.)
because may also be right in this case. If several of the companies were willing to place code in escrow, the board probably would have certified only those companies. Because none of the companies were willing to do this, the board felt they needed these new machines enough to override state law.
Personally, I feel they should have kept the old machines until someone was able to comply with the law (at least escrowing their old code). No, they don't need to escrow Microsoft Windows, which was part of Diebold's claim why they couldn't comply.
So far, the market seems to think Adobe is paying too much. They were paying a 33% premium when the deal was announced. ADBE is down over 11% so far today. MACR is up slightly.
*Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks. *This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Suggesting a poll idea to them probably won't do much, though.
Some sites have micro-limit games, as small as 4 cents maximum bet. One of them is PokerStars, I'm not sure which others offer that low. The quality certainly isn't as good as the "real" games, but it's signifcantly better than the free games. And if you're beating the game by a ridiculous margin, you can save up the money you get from winning and have a bankroll for a slightly higher limit.
FUD generally implies deliberate disinformation. All I see here is a clueless reporter. To anyone who knows enough about Linux to make major decisions, Linus Torvalds will fork off Version 2.7 to accommodate the changes should make it clear what's going on, then the rest of the article makes much more sense.
According to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Stabl e , emacs is on version 21.3. I don't see any reference to 0.21 on the web page or in the ftp file names. And C-h v emacs-version reports version 21.3.1.
Incidentally, does anyone know how high-quality version 1.0 of emacs was?
Yes, but even the State Department, on the web page you just cited, informally refers to it as Macedonia. I suspect Greece doesn't want the country to adopt the short form name of "Macedonia".
The submitter claims IANAL, but current copyright guidelines seem to permit fair use of "Up to 10% of a body of sound recording, but no more than 30 seconds".
The submitter is missing the context of the part of the document he referenced. The 10%/30 seconds guideline is meant to clarify what portions of referenced works means in the top of the document. There is no fair use when the only purpose is your own enjoyment.
Whether owning the CD gives you the right to use this is a seperate question, but there the 10%/30 seconds rule doesn't apply.
Actually, there is enough SCOX out there to sell short, I'm short 250 shares. The number of shares sold short has gone up significantly in the last few months, and there are now almost almost a million shares short. The stock is very volatile though, you need to be able to ride out the swings.
This is not an offer to buy or sell shares. IANACFA (I am not a Chartered Financial Analyst). YMMV.
The only issue I see is the fact that they bought out a number of other publishers. If these publishers were competitors to them, it could be considered restraint of trade. (I'd look up the rulings, but it would cost too much money to do so.;-)).
On the fact that they charge high prices for this, I agree with everyone else, the info costs money to put together.
One point no one has mentioned yet is that issuing stock options is often a good deal for both the company and the employee, because the stock options are worth more to the employee than the value the company gave up. There are a couple of reasons for this.
1) Companies are not required to show an options grant in their income statement, but can show it in a footnote in their annual report. This makes the company appear to be more profitable than it really is. Motley Fool article, and part two 2) Deferred taxation. No one has to pay taxes when the option is issued, but they would if an equivalent amount of salary was paid. Business Week article, look a couple of paragraphs in. 3) Risk dilution. If a startup succeeds, the founders are going to be extremely wealthy. They'd much rather give up some of their potential gains in that situation, in exchange for a greater chance of the company succeeding. (Since their paying less salary up front.)
4) Tying the employee to the company. It's expensive to train someone to take over a position when someone leaves. It takes them a while to get familiar with what the previous person was doing.
For these reasons, issuing options can be a win-win, for both the employer and the employee. So even if employees are valuing the options appropriately, companies may still want to pay a greater value of options than they would of salary.
I take it you're looking for Taste-o-vision(tm), then? Just about all of their potential customers have tried the product. There's not much more they can do than keep the name fresh in people's minds. When you think of cola, they want you to think "Pepsi".
> He was adament that if potential programmers had to download the pre-alpha source code...
It sounds like we don't have the full context here. If the code is in a pre-alpha state, I'm not sure anything is gained from releasing binaries. If you're looking for feedback from average users, then you may want to compile it for some chosen users, who you know about.
When the project is more mature, the issue is much different
They could, but the elector candidates each part nominated were nominated based on the sole qualification of being faithful to the party, so that they would vote for the appropriate person. They've been party stalwarts for years, active in the party at the state and local level. There's about as much of a chance of an elector voting for a different candidate when it matters, as there is of Bush being elected and implementing Gore's complete agenda.
A slight correction to this. If there's no majority, the vice-president elect becomes temporary president. The VP is decided by the senate, with only the top TWO vote getters eligible. Thus, some candidate will probably get a majority in the senate, barring the improbable 50-50 split.
This does mean that the president could be from one party, and the vice president from another. Gore-Cheney for 4 years?
There is a similar mechanism for politics, though, the Iowa Electronic Markets, which are a real money futures market depending on the outcome of certain events (mainly elections). It provides an interesting consensus on who people think is going to win an election.
It's run by the University of Iowa as an experiment, and they say it's legal.
But many principles are culture-independent. Killing an innocent person, for example, is not morally acceptable, regardless of your culture.
This is far from absolute. Killing an insane person in self defense is generally morally acceptable, even though the insane person is innocent. Killing an enemy soldier during wartime is also generally not considered immoral. Many feel that euthenasia should be legal.
Also, ...do not send tanks, troops and aviation to invade your neighboring country
If the neighboring country is committing atrocities against its own people, many would considered an invasion justified.
One point this illustrates is that there are very few moral absolutes. This calls into question the rest of the article, since it uses the idea of moral absolutes as part of the foundation for the rest of the article. Also, it's just plain worrisome when an article "The Ethics of Free Software" can't even define half of its subject matter. (It can't define the other half either, but that's covered in other threads.)
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And would it be +1 or -1?
I would assume that if the debt forgiveness is intended as a gift, then it's subject to gift tax. (Assuming it's over the applicable limit, of course.)
Personally, I feel they should have kept the old machines until someone was able to comply with the law (at least escrowing their old code). No, they don't need to escrow Microsoft Windows, which was part of Diebold's claim why they couldn't comply.
To quote Jamie in the linked post:
Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys.
So far, the market seems to think Adobe is paying too much. They were paying a 33% premium when the deal was announced. ADBE is down over 11% so far today. MACR is up slightly.
*This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Suggesting a poll idea to them probably won't do much, though.
Some sites have micro-limit games, as small as 4 cents maximum bet. One of them is PokerStars, I'm not sure which others offer that low. The quality certainly isn't as good as the "real" games, but it's signifcantly better than the free games. And if you're beating the game by a ridiculous margin, you can save up the money you get from winning and have a bankroll for a slightly higher limit.
FUD generally implies deliberate disinformation. All I see here is a clueless reporter. To anyone who knows enough about Linux to make major decisions, Linus Torvalds will fork off Version 2.7 to accommodate the changes should make it clear what's going on, then the rest of the article makes much more sense.
According to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Stabl e , emacs is on version 21.3. I don't see any reference to 0.21 on the web page or in the ftp file names. And C-h v emacs-version reports version 21.3.1.
Incidentally, does anyone know how high-quality version 1.0 of emacs was?
Yes, but even the State Department, on the web page you just cited, informally refers to it as Macedonia. I suspect Greece doesn't want the country to adopt the short form name of "Macedonia".
I find it humorous that in showing how to not have a caps lock key, you made a post that could have used the caps lock key.
The submitter claims IANAL, but current copyright guidelines seem to permit fair use of "Up to 10% of a body of sound recording, but no more than 30 seconds".
The submitter is missing the context of the part of the document he referenced. The 10%/30 seconds guideline is meant to clarify what portions of referenced works means in the top of the document. There is no fair use when the only purpose is your own enjoyment.
Whether owning the CD gives you the right to use this is a seperate question, but there the 10%/30 seconds rule doesn't apply.
Actually, there is enough SCOX out there to sell short, I'm short 250 shares. The number of shares sold short has gone up significantly in the last few months, and there are now almost almost a million shares short. The stock is very volatile though, you need to be able to ride out the swings.
This is not an offer to buy or sell shares. IANACFA (I am not a Chartered Financial Analyst). YMMV.
The only issue I see is the fact that they bought out a number of other publishers. If these publishers were competitors to them, it could be considered restraint of trade. (I'd look up the rulings, but it would cost too much money to do so. ;-)).
On the fact that they charge high prices for this, I agree with everyone else, the info costs money to put together.
Objection! Your honor, that is a leading question.
1) Companies are not required to show an options grant in their income statement, but can show it in a footnote in their annual report. This makes the company appear to be more profitable than it really is. Motley Fool article, and part two
2) Deferred taxation. No one has to pay taxes when the option is issued, but they would if an equivalent amount of salary was paid. Business Week article, look a couple of paragraphs in.
3) Risk dilution. If a startup succeeds, the founders are going to be extremely wealthy. They'd much rather give up some of their potential gains in that situation, in exchange for a greater chance of the company succeeding. (Since their paying less salary up front.)
4) Tying the employee to the company. It's expensive to train someone to take over a position when someone leaves. It takes them a while to get familiar with what the previous person was doing.
For these reasons, issuing options can be a win-win, for both the employer and the employee. So even if employees are valuing the options appropriately, companies may still want to pay a greater value of options than they would of salary.
I take it you're looking for Taste-o-vision(tm), then? Just about all of their potential customers have tried the product. There's not much more they can do than keep the name fresh in people's minds. When you think of cola, they want you to think "Pepsi".
It sounds like we don't have the full context here. If the code is in a pre-alpha state, I'm not sure anything is gained from releasing binaries. If you're looking for feedback from average users, then you may want to compile it for some chosen users, who you know about. When the project is more mature, the issue is much different
They could, but the elector candidates each part nominated were nominated based on the sole qualification of being faithful to the party, so that they would vote for the appropriate person. They've been party stalwarts for years, active in the party at the state and local level. There's about as much of a chance of an elector voting for a different candidate when it matters, as there is of Bush being elected and implementing Gore's complete agenda.
This does mean that the president could be from one party, and the vice president from another. Gore-Cheney for 4 years?
I wasn't aware there was such a thing as an invalid write-in. What does it take to become a valid write-in, and why isn't Nader one in those states?
What makes you so sure? They could be innovative in different ways, for instance. Some of the tradeoffs made could even be found not to work.
It's run by the University of Iowa as an experiment, and they say it's legal.
But many principles are culture-independent. Killing an innocent person, for example, is not morally acceptable, regardless of your culture.
This is far from absolute. Killing an insane person in self defense is generally morally acceptable, even though the insane person is innocent. Killing an enemy soldier during wartime is also generally not considered immoral. Many feel that euthenasia should be legal.
Also, ...do not send tanks, troops and aviation to invade your neighboring country
If the neighboring country is committing atrocities against its own people, many would considered an invasion justified.
One point this illustrates is that there are very few moral absolutes. This calls into question the rest of the article, since it uses the idea of moral absolutes as part of the foundation for the rest of the article. Also, it's just plain worrisome when an article "The Ethics of Free Software" can't even define half of its subject matter. (It can't define the other half either, but that's covered in other threads.)
Black's fifth move is Nxh1#, not Nxh1#. Other than that, it seems to me to be right, and WinBoard agrees. Impressive!