it's funny that most of the posters don't seem to get the point of the requirement that applicants have a bachelors degree already - the program is for people who did NOT study cs in college.
had this been available two years ago, i would have given it strong consideration (my degrees are in history). a senior professor in the humanities at a research university makes around 60-70k a year - adjuncts and TAs make around 15K a year, so the income a smart, non-cs major would forfeit would be negligible.
The most depressing thing about this episode is not the back door/easter egg per se, but the lameness of the insult.
Here's the thing: if the best you can do is call Netscape engineers "weenies," then how ingenious can you really be in the conceiving and placing the back door itself?
I have not looked forward to a movie in a very long time, but LOTR is very special to me.
I've read it on average once a year, and find that the older I am, the more I find in Tolkien to appreciate. The underlying theme of the books is, like in Genesis, the fall from grace and loss of innocence. I can only hope that the scriptwriters respected the essence of the book and did not eviscerate it in favor of an action film, no matter how great the special effects (remember Star Wars).
Maybe I am missing something here, but the point of internet sales taxes is not whether or not the e-commerce companies themselves are taxed, but whether they should collect sales taxes in states where they have no presence.
e-commernce companies pay income taxes and all other taxes just like brick and mortar companies do. an internet sales tax ban doesn't put any money in the pocket of the e-business, except insofar as the lack of sales tax might entice a purchase. shipping charges often offset lack of sales taxes, by the way. lack of sales taxes are not a subsidy in any way whatsoever! remember, sales taxes are paid by the ultimate purchaser, the company just acts like a miniature tax collector on behalf of the state.
the states are pushing to extend sales taxes because to them the internet is "illegible" (see a great book, james c. scott's _Seeing like a State_, for a greater exposition on state's typical reaction to things they cannot understand) and they wish to make it undestandable, so they can control and tax it -- in the broadest meaning of the word "tax". sales tax is only the beginning.
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Wow! can you imagine a beowuld cluster of these things? that would be COOL!
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they should try using heavy water instead of H2O. That way it could also power the laptop.
it's funny that most of the posters don't seem to get the point of the requirement that applicants have a bachelors degree already - the program is for people who did NOT study cs in college.
had this been available two years ago, i would have given it strong consideration (my degrees are in history). a senior professor in the humanities at a research university makes around 60-70k a year - adjuncts and TAs make around 15K a year, so the income a smart, non-cs major would forfeit would be negligible.
The most depressing thing about this episode is not the back door/easter egg per se, but the lameness of the insult.
Here's the thing: if the best you can do is call Netscape engineers "weenies," then how ingenious can you really be in the conceiving and placing the back door itself?
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I have not looked forward to a movie in a very long time, but LOTR is very special to me.
I've read it on average once a year, and find that the older I am, the more I find in Tolkien to appreciate. The underlying theme of the books is, like in Genesis, the fall from grace and loss of innocence. I can only hope that the scriptwriters respected the essence of the book and did not eviscerate it in favor of an action film, no matter how great the special effects (remember Star Wars).
Maybe I am missing something here, but the point of internet sales taxes is not whether or not the e-commerce companies themselves are taxed, but whether they should collect sales taxes in states where they have no presence.
e-commernce companies pay income taxes and all other taxes just like brick and mortar companies do. an internet sales tax ban doesn't put any money in the pocket of the e-business, except insofar as the lack of sales tax might entice a purchase. shipping charges often offset lack of sales taxes, by the way. lack of sales taxes are not a subsidy in any way whatsoever! remember, sales taxes are paid by the ultimate purchaser, the company just acts like a miniature tax collector on behalf of the state.
the states are pushing to extend sales taxes because to them the internet is "illegible" (see a great book, james c. scott's _Seeing like a State_, for a greater exposition on state's typical reaction to things they cannot understand) and they wish to make it undestandable, so they can control and tax it -- in the broadest meaning of the word "tax". sales tax is only the beginning.
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