Did he bother to google (heheh) the IRS Publication for this? (warning, PDF). Scroll down and:
The fair market value of meals or lodging furnished to an employee by an employer may be
nontaxable to the employee. IRC Â119 provides an exclusion for meals and lodging under certain
circumstances. Cash provided for meals is not excludable under this Code section; however,
under certain circumstances cash can be excluded as a de minimis fringe benefit. IRC Â119
And a few other paragraphs clarifying this seem to indicate that Google and all the other Valley companies that do this are following the rules just fine. Sheesh! I'm not even a lawyer and certainly not a friggin' professor of such.
It would be funny to settle with the troll and have something in the contract like, "agree not to sue me or my assigns" and then assign rights to all my software patents to everybody.
IANAL and have no idea if such a thing would hold up in court; but it's no more ridiculous than most of what passes for law these days.
Easy fix. Sealed box for the battery, and a hose from each battery into some kind of manifold that vents to the outside. You've probably seen fighter jets that have "WARNING: APU Exhaust" on the side. Just have a similar warning for Burning Lithium-Ion Battery exhaust.
That depends on whether or not they effectively parallelized the algorithm. One Joe can't do it, but if you command a million Joe-bots it might be worth it. Maybe you don't even have to chop up work units. Maybe it's just a question of having enough "tickets" for the odds of one being a winner to go up. Since the tickets cost nothing there's no reason not to play except the possibility of getting caught. Since they're criminals already, "fear of getting caught" is a sunk cost.
Closest thing to this when I was growing up was K-mart. This was in Virginia, but *northern* Virginia DC suburbs, so not really hardcore Southern at all.
Anyway, guns and ammo were right there in the sporting goods section with the fishing poles and stuff. They were in glass cases and behind the counter. I'm pretty sure K-mart sold cigarettes and pipe tobacco back then. The alcohol was probably missing though. Definitely no liquor, since Virginia had that monopolized via ABC. As a boy, I wasn't very curious about alcohol so I don't remember if they had beer but maybe they did.
Passively reading news, or tweeting out the occasional 140-character update on your boring life is not "computing" to me. Watching videos isn't computing. Playing games isn't computing, even if it is computationally intensive for the device.
Call me when people start running spreadsheets on these things, or are using them as their primary development platform.
I think it would be more fair to say that these devices have surpassed the PC as interactive entertainment devices, as opposed to "computing" devices.
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This is why Education should be funded by The People.
We do that. It's called K-12. It sucks. Fix? This is why a baseline education standard should be funded by the people. Why the qualifier? Because this is what socialism does best. Socialism is fantastic at taking people that have absolutely abysmal standards, and pulling them up to a baseline. The rest has to come from your initiative, family wealth, luck, etc. Why? Because when socialism tries to enforce equality of outcome, the only way it can do that is to squash initiative, family wealth, luck, etc. In the worst case, the socialist becomes consumed with suppressing what he feels is unfair, the noble idea of pulling the masses up to a baseline is forgotten, and the country becomes absolutely despotic.
Long story short, equality of opportunity is socially cheap; but equality of outcome is socially expensive.
Or another way of putting it:
Rule 1 is that cream rises to the top. Rule 2 is that your arm will get too tired if you try to change rule no. 1.
Giving everybody college isn't going to solve our problems. Most people don't belong in college. We've just dumbed it down because the K-12 system is broken. When my parents went to school K-12 was still working. My father provided us a comfortable middle-class life with an 8th grade education, a GED from the Navy, and a few college level vocational courses--no BS degree.
It's a shame I can't read that since I block URLs for FaceBook's widget server. I forget exactly what domain, but it's not facebook.com. It's some other domain that serves widgets. The reason I do that is because the JavaScript in there was defective and would sometimes go into an infinite loop. I don't know if they ever fixed that, but my pages run more smoothly without these widgets loading. What's really crazy is that the user-facing aspect of it was simply a button. A button that needs to have active code even when you haven't pushed it? That's all kind of messed up.
KJ Un studied in Europe, he is far from being stupid, he likes life, good food, women... in other words he is definitely not as crazy as his late father...
If he's that smart and sane, why doesn't he take a look at some of the saner monarchies out there? Like a lot of countries that have communist revolutions, it's essentially a dynasty at this point. He should move towards the British, Jordanian, or Saudi model. Much saner. Wow, you start talking about DPRK and Saudi looks sane and smart by comparison! He even makes the Castro dynasty in Cuba look good.
Not Oakland, but the nearby Port Chicago disaster was a 1.8 kt conventional explosion in a port. Casualties: 320 killed, 390 injured. Most of these were right at the port.
The Hiroshima bomb was 16 kt. The Nagasaki bomb was 21 kt. These were airbursts though. A lot has been learned since then. It's hard to say how much the NKs know. At the very least they'd probably use the more powerful implosion design used at Nagasaki. Knowledge on how to build that is out there. It's refining the fissile material that prevents every mad scientist on the block from owning one.
Just to get a rough idea, I looked up the estimated yields for India's and Pakistan's first nuclear tests: 8kt and 40kt respectively. I think the only conclusion you can draw from this is that first-gen nukes are likely to yield at least 10 kt, perhaps 40.
Any Christian who thinks the Bible should be interpreted literally should read the Bible more and realize that even Jesus himself likes to use parables, metaphors and figures of speech.
It is as hard for a literalist to realize that as it is for him to pass through eye of a needle*.
*It was explained to me in my youth that the "eye of a needle" was a small passage in the wall of a city, just for one person to squeeze through so they wouldn't have to open the main gate. Hence, "as hard for a rich man to get into Heaven as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle", would make a different kind of sense to ancient readers. Of course I bet there were some such portals through which a camel could pass, and what about baby camels? This knowledge makes the case for rich men a bit easier too, no? I mean, maybe you really could cajole a camel through the typical "eye" with difficulty. Anyway, yeah, extreme literal interpretation... b0rken.
I was going to point this out also; but you beat me to it. Any discussion of this in English is moot though. The original texts are Aramaic and Hebrew, right?
Stenography is shorthand, not to be confused with steganography, which Wiki even points out. The only reason I know this off the top of my head is because I'm a stegosaurus.
Ubiquitous Internet surveillance under color of national security: Because the Congressional exemption for Insider trading attracted too much attention, and prior knowledge of material information under seal of Top Secret is one helluva moat. Ka-CHING!
The captain is Black, the comm officer is Caucasian... but she's... still... Uhura??? I'm mostly finding this funny. Like WTF is the Enterprise? Is that some kind of book that IRS people would recognize?
There is a chance, however remote, that if we tweet this link enough the IRS will get enough views on YouTube the recoup costs and make a profit to help pay on the order 1*10e-10 percent of the debt. I'll get on it right away captain...
Dude. Nixon was so corrupt he inadvertently participated in the evolution of English by giving us the -gate suffix. If it isn't already there, the OED should describe -gate as a suffix denoting scandal. The suffix is attached to the thing, place, or action around which the scandal revolves. The etymology will include a description of Nixon's corruption. How fitting a punishment is that?
Unless it made a sound, it's no big deal. I've been lucky enough to witness one meteor that made a sound. It was during a Perseid shower 20 years ago. A particularly bright one lit us up enough to cast a shadow. I turned just in time to see the tail end of it, then I heard a sound. It was as if the show put on a finale for us. After that, they were all just tiny streaks and then the shower was over for us.
France is scared of Anonymous Cowards. The jokes just write themselves these days, all over the EU. Don't get me started on Cyprus, really... well, isn't somebody going to get me started?/Crusty.
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Did he bother to google (heheh) the IRS Publication for this? (warning, PDF). Scroll down and:
The fair market value of meals or lodging furnished to an employee by an employer may be nontaxable to the employee. IRC Â119 provides an exclusion for meals and lodging under certain circumstances. Cash provided for meals is not excludable under this Code section; however, under certain circumstances cash can be excluded as a de minimis fringe benefit. IRC Â119
And a few other paragraphs clarifying this seem to indicate that Google and all the other Valley companies that do this are following the rules just fine. Sheesh! I'm not even a lawyer and certainly not a friggin' professor of such.
It looks like the web has gone from high school to new professional and skipped college.
It would be funny to settle with the troll and have something in the contract like, "agree not to sue me or my assigns" and then assign rights to all my software patents to everybody.
IANAL and have no idea if such a thing would hold up in court; but it's no more ridiculous than most of what passes for law these days.
Easy fix. Sealed box for the battery, and a hose from each battery into some kind of manifold that vents to the outside. You've probably seen fighter jets that have "WARNING: APU Exhaust" on the side. Just have a similar warning for Burning Lithium-Ion Battery exhaust.
I'm joking of course.
That depends on whether or not they effectively parallelized the algorithm. One Joe can't do it, but if you command a million Joe-bots it might be worth it. Maybe you don't even have to chop up work units. Maybe it's just a question of having enough "tickets" for the odds of one being a winner to go up. Since the tickets cost nothing there's no reason not to play except the possibility of getting caught. Since they're criminals already, "fear of getting caught" is a sunk cost.
Closest thing to this when I was growing up was K-mart. This was in Virginia, but *northern* Virginia DC suburbs, so not really hardcore Southern at all.
Anyway, guns and ammo were right there in the sporting goods section with the fishing poles and stuff. They were in glass cases and behind the counter. I'm pretty sure K-mart sold cigarettes and pipe tobacco back then. The alcohol was probably missing though. Definitely no liquor, since Virginia had that monopolized via ABC. As a boy, I wasn't very curious about alcohol so I don't remember if they had beer but maybe they did.
Passively reading news, or tweeting out the occasional 140-character update on your boring life is not "computing" to me. Watching videos isn't computing. Playing games isn't computing, even if it is computationally intensive for the device.
Call me when people start running spreadsheets on these things, or are using them as their primary development platform.
I think it would be more fair to say that these devices have surpassed the PC as interactive entertainment devices, as opposed to "computing" devices.
This is why Education should be funded by The People.
We do that. It's called K-12. It sucks. Fix? This is why a baseline education standard should be funded by the people. Why the qualifier? Because this is what socialism does best. Socialism is fantastic at taking people that have absolutely abysmal standards, and pulling them up to a baseline. The rest has to come from your initiative, family wealth, luck, etc. Why? Because when socialism tries to enforce equality of outcome, the only way it can do that is to squash initiative, family wealth, luck, etc. In the worst case, the socialist becomes consumed with suppressing what he feels is unfair, the noble idea of pulling the masses up to a baseline is forgotten, and the country becomes absolutely despotic.
Long story short, equality of opportunity is socially cheap; but equality of outcome is socially expensive.
Or another way of putting it:
Rule 1 is that cream rises to the top. Rule 2 is that your arm will get too tired if you try to change rule no. 1.
Giving everybody college isn't going to solve our problems. Most people don't belong in college. We've just dumbed it down because the K-12 system is broken. When my parents went to school K-12 was still working. My father provided us a comfortable middle-class life with an 8th grade education, a GED from the Navy, and a few college level vocational courses--no BS degree.
If this had been the only joke today, I think it would have worked.
Thank-you Slashdot, for being so lame on April Fool's that we can just ignore you and get some work done.
It's a shame I can't read that since I block URLs for FaceBook's widget server. I forget exactly what domain, but it's not facebook.com. It's some other domain that serves widgets. The reason I do that is because the JavaScript in there was defective and would sometimes go into an infinite loop. I don't know if they ever fixed that, but my pages run more smoothly without these widgets loading. What's really crazy is that the user-facing aspect of it was simply a button. A button that needs to have active code even when you haven't pushed it? That's all kind of messed up.
That's OK. We have just the weapon for such a war. Our South Korean allies know all about it too, since we designed it and they implemented it.
KJ Un studied in Europe, he is far from being stupid, he likes life, good food, women ... in other words he is definitely not as crazy as his late father...
If he's that smart and sane, why doesn't he take a look at some of the saner monarchies out there? Like a lot of countries that have communist revolutions, it's essentially a dynasty at this point. He should move towards the British, Jordanian, or Saudi model. Much saner. Wow, you start talking about DPRK and Saudi looks sane and smart by comparison! He even makes the Castro dynasty in Cuba look good.
Not Oakland, but the nearby Port Chicago disaster was a 1.8 kt conventional explosion in a port. Casualties: 320 killed, 390 injured. Most of these were right at the port.
The Hiroshima bomb was 16 kt. The Nagasaki bomb was 21 kt. These were airbursts though. A lot has been learned since then. It's hard to say how much the NKs know. At the very least they'd probably use the more powerful implosion design used at Nagasaki. Knowledge on how to build that is out there. It's refining the fissile material that prevents every mad scientist on the block from owning one.
Just to get a rough idea, I looked up the estimated yields for India's and Pakistan's first nuclear tests: 8kt and 40kt respectively. I think the only conclusion you can draw from this is that first-gen nukes are likely to yield at least 10 kt, perhaps 40.
Any Christian who thinks the Bible should be interpreted literally should read the Bible more and realize that even Jesus himself likes to use parables, metaphors and figures of speech.
It is as hard for a literalist to realize that as it is for him to pass through eye of a needle*.
*It was explained to me in my youth that the "eye of a needle" was a small passage in the wall of a city, just for one person to squeeze through so they wouldn't have to open the main gate. Hence, "as hard for a rich man to get into Heaven as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle", would make a different kind of sense to ancient readers. Of course I bet there were some such portals through which a camel could pass, and what about baby camels? This knowledge makes the case for rich men a bit easier too, no? I mean, maybe you really could cajole a camel through the typical "eye" with difficulty. Anyway, yeah, extreme literal interpretation... b0rken.
I was going to point this out also; but you beat me to it. Any discussion of this in English is moot though. The original texts are Aramaic and Hebrew, right?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a peasant hurled over the walls via catapult.
they could just use stenography
Stenography is shorthand, not to be confused with steganography, which Wiki even points out. The only reason I know this off the top of my head is because I'm a stegosaurus.
Ubiquitous Internet surveillance under color of national security: Because the Congressional exemption for Insider trading attracted too much attention, and prior knowledge of material information under seal of Top Secret is one helluva moat. Ka-CHING!
The captain is Black, the comm officer is Caucasian... but she's... still... Uhura??? I'm mostly finding this funny. Like WTF is the Enterprise? Is that some kind of book that IRS people would recognize?
There is a chance, however remote, that if we tweet this link enough the IRS will get enough views on YouTube the recoup costs and make a profit to help pay on the order 1*10e-10 percent of the debt. I'll get on it right away captain...
Let's just cut to the chase and fire everybody. Then we can start over. Fair enough?
it was appropriate exactly once in history
Dude. Nixon was so corrupt he inadvertently participated in the evolution of English by giving us the -gate suffix. If it isn't already there, the OED should describe -gate as a suffix denoting scandal. The suffix is attached to the thing, place, or action around which the scandal revolves. The etymology will include a description of Nixon's corruption. How fitting a punishment is that?
Unless it made a sound, it's no big deal. I've been lucky enough to witness one meteor that made a sound. It was during a Perseid shower 20 years ago. A particularly bright one lit us up enough to cast a shadow. I turned just in time to see the tail end of it, then I heard a sound. It was as if the show put on a finale for us. After that, they were all just tiny streaks and then the shower was over for us.
France is scared of Anonymous Cowards. The jokes just write themselves these days, all over the EU. Don't get me started on Cyprus, really... well, isn't somebody going to get me started? /Crusty.
1GB Internet AND legal weed!
If you're lucky, the download will complete before you forget why you started it.