Then you'd better offer a lot of free Mountain Dew and Nerf toys.
I never understood the whole cratering to infantile tastes like nurf balls and free drinkable corn syrup candy in the lobbies. The best engineers are not highschool wiz kids, sorry. I'd rather work with adults. If you want to be awesome, look at stuff like Disney washing your car and dropping the keys in your office and delivering your dry cleaning really fast.
This is wrong though. Taxis are inconsistent in most cities. You call a Taxi and they might be there in 30 minutes, an hour or never show up. Ubers are always there within 3-8 minutes.
If you are responsible to the shareholders to be stewards of their investments, you have to take whatever measures you can to avoid heavier than necessary taxes. Hence people park their money off American shores.
Oh pleaseeee. Where is your sense of civics? If they want to live and work and raise kids in Colombia, then let them. But they want to live in the United States with US citizenship, that made it's self powerful with a expensive navy, that provided a stable government, that gave them peace of mind, etc, etc. Then live with American higher taxes. It's not like the shareholders are going to be staving. And sense only the mega corps can afford these tax havens anyways, it's really just another way to be anti-free market, by playing by different rules. It's people like you that will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It's simply an extension of America's weird world view that they should be owed taxes on money not earned in America. No other country has this odd view, instead, money earned abroad is taxed abroad. The US tax system also has weirdnesses like this for anyone who's a dual national or green card holder... Dual US/British citizen and earning money in Britain? Great, you'll be paying both UK and US income tax on that!
That is a very different issue. That is just about you picking loyalty to a country. When you have dual citizenship, who do you vote for? Who do you fight for in a war draft? Which government is responsible for you?
What is going on here is corporations having a token office and token holding company incorporation papers in whatever country has little taxes or little accounting oversite and exploiting
How Apple avoids paying taxes on iTunes revenue Luxembourg served as one of Apple’s overseas tax havens from September 2008 until December of last year, giving the company a 1.2% corporate tax rate. Over two-thirds of Apple’s European revenue from iTunes was routed through its Luxembourg holding company called iTunes Sarl . Apple has since moved the holding company to Ireland where it pays less than one percent tax on iPhone and iPad sales. http://www.cultofmac.com/30265...
THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. Example: We subsidize education with tax dollars so people can get good enough jobs in future to buy iphones and design iphones, then we tax that corporate revenue to pay for the subsidization. This is basically making everyone elses tax burden higher. This isn't a 2 trillion money steal, it is money they would have owed in any rational system anyways,
I've failed interviewees who couldn't perform simple addition in their heads.The fuck am I supposed to do with them when the power goes out and I've got a shop full of paying customers??
It's funny that you won't hire entry level employees to man your front shop that can't do math in the head, when your much higher paid accountants would never ever do math in their head, and are repeatedly taught never to do that, as it is a bad habit. That is how drawers come out short.
Besides, if the power goes out, your customers are leaving without buyng anything anyways.
If the computer crashes, you are going to want solar calculators in your crash kits anyways as the line is going to being going very slow if they are hand writing receipts in any case, they don't need the extra burden of math in their head. Also what about tax calculations? Are they going to do that in their head as well?
Agreed. They should just accelerate the basic math, science and English courses already. There is no reason calculus can't be taught by grade 9, for example. It's been done. Kids can easily learn all the algebra and geometry by 8th grade (really 6th grade) in the right environment. Teaching styles are so outdated. highschool in a well desired world would all be advanced science courses and real world models such as accounting and statistics and maker-fair style building projects.
Yep, they are collaborators with a illegal regime now. And history will see them in that light. If they make any cool new proofs it will always be tainted with "was a known US gestapo collaborator.
not surpiesd thou, I have always found mathematics to have poorly formed political morals and instincts and it has cost them dearly in the past where they have been all too quickly willing to swallow the party line
The NSA doesn't kill people; it intercepts their messages.
Guess again. besides it also does something far worse, it goes on step up the latter to a disutopian future. We are one stock market crash away from a SS style take over of the government tools.
I really REALLY wish gmail had this. Or at least 10 aliases if not unlimtied. yeah, you can create multiple accounts, but their integration on Google is terrible. I would pay for this.
This. It's not a phone. Anyways the only reason we change those so often is marketing restrictions. My old HTC is very powerful. It just doesn't run the latest android. It's more like a real computer in terms of how long you can make it last. I still use my ipad 1 I got on release. It works great.
Yep. People don't realize the AMA functions as a guild to artificially limit the total supply of doctors to keep salaries artificially high. It's also a class system net to keep 99% of doctors to people born into the class. I remember when in the 80s they miss projected the doctor counts and had huge problems in the 90s. This also has weird distorting effects on things like the ratios of plastic surgeons to general practice doctors.
This. It's actually more effective too. Unlike mass data collection which has only stopped one, count it one real thing so far. And that one real thing was money being sent to Africa, not a bomb or anything. They had data from the Boston bombers and such. Did it help them? nope. Because they have 500+ million peoples data from here and abroad. Plus over a million people on a watch list. The Boston bombers were on a watch list, and had been interviewed and such.
I'm so glad a major part of a major government department has time to argue over definitions of a service for advertising proposes. Everyone who had time to go to those meetings should be fired. If the regulations have to exist, why not just make them advertise the speed offered? Not "we offer broadband" but "we offer 15Mbps" with real fines for lying.
Disneyland is nextdoor to anti-vac Central. Just for those that don't know California geography. Disneyland is within 15 minutes of several groups of snotty / new money / no class / neighborhood enclaves of southern California. Newly affluent jerks with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the whole country. They all buy their kids annual passes.
Fines big enough to cause a shareholder revolt will have a lasting effect
Um no. Most of these companies voting stocks are controlled by company insiders these days. OR the company is so huge, even 8 figure fines don't put a dent the companies earnings to bother anyone rich enough to own enough shares to start a shareholder revolt. The modern "public" stock market is broken.
It would be much better to put the "interchangeable" people in a real jail for a meaningful amount of time. To put the fear of god into their replacements. Do it enough times....
I actually kind of like the idea of synthesized sounds. Think of it as being like haptic feedback.
Hmm, got me thinking. Could I get synthesized sounds for the bedroom or backseat so if I am dating a quiet female, I get the feedback of porn star moaning? Making me feel like a rockstar?
Also why ever leave the the house at all, you can fake everything and pretend you have a good life.
Isn't that just because of obscurity? Early adapters tend to be more techy for various reasons. Take the web back in the early 90s. Or usenet before the September that never ended. There of plenty of maillist type groups that are much better for technical stuff. If they, say, bought facebook, wait for the hoards to come in and bring everything down to the lowest common demonstrator. Or the advertisers, that will work will google so they can sell to the unthinking people that share the easiest and most understandable ideas.
Movie financing is a weird game. It is easy to get hosed for a lot of money if you don't hedge your bets. Also you are dealing with a lot of different unions. I know it seems easy, find a good project, fund it. But tripleAAA titles are hard to come by, then you have to secure a director that is free, sign actors with a free schedule. That's the easy parts. Plus the exhibitors have close relations with the distributors who might not want AMC releasing other products. They can and will hold back the number of screens you can show say X-men on if you don't play ball. Costing the exhibitors a lot of their profits. Everyone worth getting has part of the profits in their contracts. Don't forget cost overruns, city funds, agent lawyers. And that is still the easy parts. The movie has to be advertised, and compete with over movies in theaters. Also see Hollywood Accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...https://www.techdirt.com/artic...http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... I predict this will end very badly
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Then you'd better offer a lot of free Mountain Dew and Nerf toys.
I never understood the whole cratering to infantile tastes like nurf balls and free drinkable corn syrup candy in the lobbies. The best engineers are not highschool wiz kids, sorry. I'd rather work with adults. If you want to be awesome, look at stuff like Disney washing your car and dropping the keys in your office and delivering your dry cleaning really fast.
This is wrong though. Taxis are inconsistent in most cities. You call a Taxi and they might be there in 30 minutes, an hour or never show up. Ubers are always there within 3-8 minutes.
but girls don't want to take CS
If you are responsible to the shareholders to be stewards of their investments, you have to take whatever measures you can to avoid heavier than necessary taxes. Hence people park their money off American shores.
Oh pleaseeee. Where is your sense of civics? If they want to live and work and raise kids in Colombia, then let them. But they want to live in the United States with US citizenship, that made it's self powerful with a expensive navy, that provided a stable government, that gave them peace of mind, etc, etc. Then live with American higher taxes. It's not like the shareholders are going to be staving. And sense only the mega corps can afford these tax havens anyways, it's really just another way to be anti-free market, by playing by different rules. It's people like you that will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
It's simply an extension of America's weird world view that they should be owed taxes on money not earned in America. No other country has this odd view, instead, money earned abroad is taxed abroad. The US tax system also has weirdnesses like this for anyone who's a dual national or green card holder... Dual US/British citizen and earning money in Britain? Great, you'll be paying both UK and US income tax on that!
That is a very different issue. That is just about you picking loyalty to a country. When you have dual citizenship, who do you vote for? Who do you fight for in a war draft? Which government is responsible for you?
What is going on here is corporations having a token office and token holding company incorporation papers in whatever country has little taxes or little accounting oversite and exploiting
How Apple avoids paying taxes on iTunes revenue Luxembourg served as one of Apple’s overseas tax havens from September 2008 until December of last year, giving the company a 1.2% corporate tax rate. Over two-thirds of Apple’s European revenue from iTunes was routed through its Luxembourg holding company called iTunes Sarl . Apple has since moved the holding company to Ireland where it pays less than one percent tax on iPhone and iPad sales. http://www.cultofmac.com/30265...
THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM. Example: We subsidize education with tax dollars so people can get good enough jobs in future to buy iphones and design iphones, then we tax that corporate revenue to pay for the subsidization. This is basically making everyone elses tax burden higher. This isn't a 2 trillion money steal, it is money they would have owed in any rational system anyways,
No one ever got an eduction from technology, the powers that be have been selling you snake oil to keep their kids the smarter ones.
I've failed interviewees who couldn't perform simple addition in their heads.The fuck am I supposed to do with them when the power goes out and I've got a shop full of paying customers??
It's funny that you won't hire entry level employees to man your front shop that can't do math in the head, when your much higher paid accountants would never ever do math in their head, and are repeatedly taught never to do that, as it is a bad habit. That is how drawers come out short.
Besides, if the power goes out, your customers are leaving without buyng anything anyways.
If the computer crashes, you are going to want solar calculators in your crash kits anyways as the line is going to being going very slow if they are hand writing receipts in any case, they don't need the extra burden of math in their head. Also what about tax calculations? Are they going to do that in their head as well?
We should NOT be teaching programming in school
Agreed. They should just accelerate the basic math, science and English courses already. There is no reason calculus can't be taught by grade 9, for example. It's been done. Kids can easily learn all the algebra and geometry by 8th grade (really 6th grade) in the right environment. Teaching styles are so outdated. highschool in a well desired world would all be advanced science courses and real world models such as accounting and statistics and maker-fair style building projects.
not surpiesd thou, I have always found mathematics to have poorly formed political morals and instincts and it has cost them dearly in the past where they have been all too quickly willing to swallow the party line
The NSA doesn't kill people; it intercepts their messages.
Guess again. besides it also does something far worse, it goes on step up the latter to a disutopian future. We are one stock market crash away from a SS style take over of the government tools.
Does it still download if you never install flash?
support for unlimited aliases
I really REALLY wish gmail had this. Or at least 10 aliases if not unlimtied. yeah, you can create multiple accounts, but their integration on Google is terrible. I would pay for this.
Just because minecraft uses grid blocks does not mean it is a simple graphics program
This. It's not a phone. Anyways the only reason we change those so often is marketing restrictions. My old HTC is very powerful. It just doesn't run the latest android. It's more like a real computer in terms of how long you can make it last. I still use my ipad 1 I got on release. It works great.
This more correct than incorrect
fuck you. Snowden was like jesus to the jews. He didn't betray any values, only the crooks
Yep. People don't realize the AMA functions as a guild to artificially limit the total supply of doctors to keep salaries artificially high. It's also a class system net to keep 99% of doctors to people born into the class. I remember when in the 80s they miss projected the doctor counts and had huge problems in the 90s. This also has weird distorting effects on things like the ratios of plastic surgeons to general practice doctors.
This. It's actually more effective too. Unlike mass data collection which has only stopped one, count it one real thing so far. And that one real thing was money being sent to Africa, not a bomb or anything. They had data from the Boston bombers and such. Did it help them? nope. Because they have 500+ million peoples data from here and abroad. Plus over a million people on a watch list. The Boston bombers were on a watch list, and had been interviewed and such.
I'm so glad a major part of a major government department has time to argue over definitions of a service for advertising proposes. Everyone who had time to go to those meetings should be fired. If the regulations have to exist, why not just make them advertise the speed offered? Not "we offer broadband" but "we offer 15Mbps" with real fines for lying.
Disneyland is nextdoor to anti-vac Central. Just for those that don't know California geography. Disneyland is within 15 minutes of several groups of snotty / new money / no class / neighborhood enclaves of southern California. Newly affluent jerks with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the whole country. They all buy their kids annual passes.
Fines big enough to cause a shareholder revolt will have a lasting effect
Um no. Most of these companies voting stocks are controlled by company insiders these days. OR the company is so huge, even 8 figure fines don't put a dent the companies earnings to bother anyone rich enough to own enough shares to start a shareholder revolt. The modern "public" stock market is broken.
It would be much better to put the "interchangeable" people in a real jail for a meaningful amount of time. To put the fear of god into their replacements. Do it enough times....
I actually kind of like the idea of synthesized sounds. Think of it as being like haptic feedback.
Hmm, got me thinking. Could I get synthesized sounds for the bedroom or backseat so if I am dating a quiet female, I get the feedback of porn star moaning? Making me feel like a rockstar?
Also why ever leave the the house at all, you can fake everything and pretend you have a good life.
Isn't that just because of obscurity? Early adapters tend to be more techy for various reasons. Take the web back in the early 90s. Or usenet before the September that never ended. There of plenty of maillist type groups that are much better for technical stuff. If they, say, bought facebook, wait for the hoards to come in and bring everything down to the lowest common demonstrator. Or the advertisers, that will work will google so they can sell to the unthinking people that share the easiest and most understandable ideas.
...it's actually less convenient. Unless there is a chance the caller will be getting nude, non-video chat phones are better in almost every way.
Movie financing is a weird game. It is easy to get hosed for a lot of money if you don't hedge your bets. Also you are dealing with a lot of different unions. I know it seems easy, find a good project, fund it. But tripleAAA titles are hard to come by, then you have to secure a director that is free, sign actors with a free schedule. That's the easy parts. Plus the exhibitors have close relations with the distributors who might not want AMC releasing other products. They can and will hold back the number of screens you can show say X-men on if you don't play ball. Costing the exhibitors a lot of their profits. Everyone worth getting has part of the profits in their contracts. Don't forget cost overruns, city funds, agent lawyers. And that is still the easy parts. The movie has to be advertised, and compete with over movies in theaters. Also see Hollywood Accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... https://www.techdirt.com/artic... http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... I predict this will end very badly