So because I achieve something in my wealthy part of the world I should pay a subsidy so someone can afford to watch porn in hi def in third world countries. Do I get a tax credit or something for this?
Oh and the fake stem cell guy never had a career to begin with or he would not have had to make shit up. If a programmer can't program no one will employ him it's not a penalty just a declaration of his inability/ stupidity to try a do a job he is unqualified for. What if said programmer was responsible for security software at an American nuke silo and his security programs were fake and communists/ terrorist were able to launch a nuke at Chicago? Would a simple firing be enough?
The fake stem cell guy lost his job but there was no penalty for the fraud he committed.
How do you regulate the unknown? If science is a total crapshoot and the outcome is unknown shouldn't thing be slowed down (regulated) until the outcome is known.
To say that having a central authority monitor fraud would break things is like saying having cops on the road ticketing speeders is a bad thing. (Unless you truly believe scientists are above others and therefore not bound by the same rules/expectations.) Maybe there wouldn't be so many researchers getting six figure salaries to
find something that if found would result in their unemployment.
But scientists like doctors are supposed to be trustworthy. They are experts who's opinions seem to have more weight than the average person. Now what mechanism is in place to check up and verify everything they do? Were is the regulation/punishment for breaking regulations?
Take construction for example. If I build a house there are electrical, plumbing, foundation, insulation and final inspections. Why? Because people cheat and someone has to ensure no one is cheating. If the rules are not followed someone could get hurt (electrical fire), someone could get sick (mold), someone could get screwed out of a lot of money (shady contractor). This is why construction is regulated. Who is regulating scientists?
Scientist can hurt a lot more people than a shady contractor. They play around with deadly diseases, nuclear reactors, decisions that affect the planet. Accidents happen, but what happens when scientists intentionally do something wrong or take money for doing a job they don't do? Who is looking over their shoulder watching what they do? Self regulation doesn't happen which is why most industries are regulated/monitored with penalties for now following the rules. What makes scientists so much better than the average person that they don't have to accountable like everyone else?
Imagine some hot chick in a bikini. Now lets name her Lisa.
Now who is Lisa you might ask. Lisa is that hot chick in a bikini, the one you have a mental image of and that you are drooling all over in your mind. Yuck brain slobber. Well back to Lisa now; Lisa is the mnemonic aide for remembering the composition of standard type 10 Portland cement.
L = Lime
I = Iron oxide
A = Aluminum oxide
S = Silica
Bet you wont forget that one.
"New high speed internet" they said, "faster than anything you seen before". Now I could be wrong but for some reason cell service went to shit. Coincidence? I live 2 miles away from the tower with direct line of sight. And the problem isn't just signal strength but weird noises, echoes and interference.
What if someone buys the Netbook and it is their only computer? It seems kinda weird that a reputable (cough) company would allow employ to walk around with usb drive for updating hardware. Isn't windows on it's own partition and not fully installed till the computer is turned on for the first time by the consumer?
Now if they put speed limiting devices on cars the cops should have them to. Because no one is speeding right? Three weeks ago I had to pull into the ditch doing 140 KPH with a fire truck because a cop decided to pass me on the way to a car crash/explosion. There were two oncoming vehicles and if I had not pull over there would have been a head on collision. (It is illegal for a cop to pass a fire truck. Besides what is the cop going to do, piss on the fire if he gets there before me?) Now three weeks latter the same cop is goofing off and destroyed a brand new honda 1200cc motor bike injuring himself and a girl he was showing off to. And of course he doesn't get a ticket either. Really who needs a speed limiter?
Also are they considering the revenue they will be loosing from speeding tickets? I'm sure that they will figure out another way to get that money out of people.
New used games suck they are used and not much of a savings in dollars. The only good thing about this is if WalMart sells lots of horrible games that suck so much you can't give them away. At least you have a way of disposing of them and recouping a few pennies. Having a place to buy older games like PS1 or SuperNES games is valuable to the gaming community. Places that sell games you can't buy anymore! Our local video store sells these games for $2-$5. Sometimes they are scratched but you don't feel ripped off. And it gives you an opportunity to play these awesome games you forgot even existed. Except the older games are incredibly easy and you end up feeling stupid for taking two weeks to wrap it the first time.
Volunteer Fire & Rescue I'm on-call 24/7. Our radios have this horrible tone that wakes you from your sleep so well your not even tired. But I'm self employed so in theory I can sleep in but that rarely ever happens.
with land disputes. "Your fence is on my property" etc. We have had problems as it is with surveys in the last couple of years. It was blamed on poorly trained surveyors and some instances issues were settled in court particularly over contradicting reports and who pays for the cost of the surveys. In one instance 1/4 mile of new fence had to be moved at a cost of $10,000 and lawyer/surveyor fees of $25,000 over the fence been 5 feet out. The land in question later was sold for $60,000. What a waste of money over a silly pissing contest.
Reek like crack cocaine. See the hallway in an apartment is designed as a giant cold air duct. Air comes out of the room into the hallway under the door. Then through the stairways. Thats why there is always the breeze when you open the fire door it is air getting sucked out of the building. If you live in an apartment check out the gap under your door it is required to be there by building and fire codes. Feel the draft?
I could probably set up an air monitoring station in a public bathroom or just outside the door. And then be like "Oh no I have detected large amounts of feces in the air. Someone must have farted nearby whatever will we do? Curse you burrito, curse you!"
Intel never had a gun to anyones head and every time I bought an AMD chip because they weren't the big evil Intel I was very displeased. Why is the government trying to force AMD on people? I love Intel chips, never had a problem with a single one. Now do I have to buy AMD chips so my favorite CPU manufacture doesn't get fined by the EU government? Seems like they got a gun to Intel's head (so to speak) and are telling me "buy AMD or Intel gets it".
But then they have to get cooperation from the phone company and that would leave a paper trail. I can see this being abused/ used for personal reasons by police etc. Now if I were to find a GPS unit attached to my vehicle what would happen if I were to remove/destroy it?
and construction, oilfield etc. I was mostly just giving a kind of generic example rather than actual numbers. However with leased vehicles the lease payment itself is tax deductible in my case the lease is $750/month plus $1000 fuel and $500 maintenance even after market parts to a degree (ie. bull bars, step-up-bars, mud flaps, police scanner, CB radio, etc) I work places where you need a big truck to sometimes even get to the job site never mind hauling big trailers with skid steers or supplies. Writing off 63% of $2250 every month is $1417.50 a month. Here follow the clicky. Ever think about sub-contracting? I would encourage anyone to start their own business even if your only sub-contracting out your own labor.
No there is a loophole the truck can be used for personal provided you keep a kilometer log and report to the government how much of your total kilometers was to earn business income. For example 50,000 KM cost me $14,000, 60% of KM were to earn business income so $8,400 is a tax deduction. And I get to drive a truck I couldn't afford otherwise thanks to a loophole for large construction and oil-field companies. Seriously when you see large company fleets they are usually just a way for the company to pay less taxes (some of these companies are writing off thousands of trucks) and hey driving a new truck around feels better than paying taxes.
or coders liable for anything. It will allow the government to say thing like, "Well your small company does not have the financial ability to support your product for "X" amount of years and you need insurance in case there are millions of lawsuits we are sorry but you can't sell your product". Meanwhile the large company (they are to big to fail or follow the rules everyone else is expected to) caries on as usual having eliminated to competition through government assistance and gets to carry on as usual because they are the only company left and we need them.
Don't know about America but in Canada if you made a whack of money spend it on advertising and deduct it from your income and bam you made less money and won't have to give as much income tax to the government. And money you donate to charity is only partially deductible, figures huh? I do something similar with my small business if I make to much money for example $60,000 @ 22% = $13,200 tax. I figure a way to spend it that will benefit me and be deductible from my income (lease a vehicle in my case) so I only make $50,000 @ 15% tax = $7,500 tax. So I get to drive a new truck and pay less taxes. I sure google is doing something similar where advertising cost is saving them money not costing them.
Then I could watch YouTube in fullscreen. Maybe this could be a way of solving legacy code problems. Why make a new OS backward compatible when you can completely scrap old code. Use a virtual OS for backward compatibility.
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Isn't the shipping price equal or greater than the cost of the actual product.
So because I achieve something in my wealthy part of the world I should pay a subsidy so someone can afford to watch porn in hi def in third world countries. Do I get a tax credit or something for this?
Oh and the fake stem cell guy never had a career to begin with or he would not have had to make shit up. If a programmer can't program no one will employ him it's not a penalty just a declaration of his inability/ stupidity to try a do a job he is unqualified for. What if said programmer was responsible for security software at an American nuke silo and his security programs were fake and communists/ terrorist were able to launch a nuke at Chicago? Would a simple firing be enough?
The fake stem cell guy lost his job but there was no penalty for the fraud he committed.
How do you regulate the unknown? If science is a total crapshoot and the outcome is unknown shouldn't thing be slowed down (regulated) until the outcome is known.
To say that having a central authority monitor fraud would break things is like saying having cops on the road ticketing speeders is a bad thing. (Unless you truly believe scientists are above others and therefore not bound by the same rules/expectations.) Maybe there wouldn't be so many researchers getting six figure salaries to find something that if found would result in their unemployment.
If they sell something at a higher price just because you come from a wealthy part of the world are they not ripping you off?
But scientists like doctors are supposed to be trustworthy. They are experts who's opinions seem to have more weight than the average person. Now what mechanism is in place to check up and verify everything they do? Were is the regulation/punishment for breaking regulations?
Take construction for example. If I build a house there are electrical, plumbing, foundation, insulation and final inspections. Why? Because people cheat and someone has to ensure no one is cheating. If the rules are not followed someone could get hurt (electrical fire), someone could get sick (mold), someone could get screwed out of a lot of money (shady contractor). This is why construction is regulated. Who is regulating scientists?
Scientist can hurt a lot more people than a shady contractor. They play around with deadly diseases, nuclear reactors, decisions that affect the planet. Accidents happen, but what happens when scientists intentionally do something wrong or take money for doing a job they don't do? Who is looking over their shoulder watching what they do? Self regulation doesn't happen which is why most industries are regulated/monitored with penalties for now following the rules. What makes scientists so much better than the average person that they don't have to accountable like everyone else?
Imagine some hot chick in a bikini. Now lets name her Lisa.
Now who is Lisa you might ask. Lisa is that hot chick in a bikini, the one you have a mental image of and that you are drooling all over in your mind. Yuck brain slobber. Well back to Lisa now; Lisa is the mnemonic aide for remembering the composition of standard type 10 Portland cement.
L = Lime
I = Iron oxide
A = Aluminum oxide
S = Silica
Bet you wont forget that one.
"New high speed internet" they said, "faster than anything you seen before". Now I could be wrong but for some reason cell service went to shit. Coincidence? I live 2 miles away from the tower with direct line of sight. And the problem isn't just signal strength but weird noises, echoes and interference.
What if someone buys the Netbook and it is their only computer? It seems kinda weird that a reputable (cough) company would allow employ to walk around with usb drive for updating hardware.
Isn't windows on it's own partition and not fully installed till the computer is turned on for the first time by the consumer?
Doesn't seem like an accident.
But its foot bone look similar to a humans so it got to be a missing link. Seems like a bit of a stretch to me.
Now if they put speed limiting devices on cars the cops should have them to. Because no one is speeding right? Three weeks ago I had to pull into the ditch doing 140 KPH with a fire truck because a cop decided to pass me on the way to a car crash/explosion. There were two oncoming vehicles and if I had not pull over there would have been a head on collision. (It is illegal for a cop to pass a fire truck. Besides what is the cop going to do, piss on the fire if he gets there before me?) Now three weeks latter the same cop is goofing off and destroyed a brand new honda 1200cc motor bike injuring himself and a girl he was showing off to. And of course he doesn't get a ticket either. Really who needs a speed limiter?
Also are they considering the revenue they will be loosing from speeding tickets? I'm sure that they will figure out another way to get that money out of people.
New used games suck they are used and not much of a savings in dollars. The only good thing about this is if WalMart sells lots of horrible games that suck so much you can't give them away. At least you have a way of disposing of them and recouping a few pennies.
Having a place to buy older games like PS1 or SuperNES games is valuable to the gaming community. Places that sell games you can't buy anymore! Our local video store sells these games for $2-$5. Sometimes they are scratched but you don't feel ripped off. And it gives you an opportunity to play these awesome games you forgot even existed. Except the older games are incredibly easy and you end up feeling stupid for taking two weeks to wrap it the first time.
Volunteer Fire & Rescue I'm on-call 24/7. Our radios have this horrible tone that wakes you from your sleep so well your not even tired. But I'm self employed so in theory I can sleep in but that rarely ever happens.
with land disputes. "Your fence is on my property" etc. We have had problems as it is with surveys in the last couple of years. It was blamed on poorly trained surveyors and some instances issues were settled in court particularly over contradicting reports and who pays for the cost of the surveys. In one instance 1/4 mile of new fence had to be moved at a cost of $10,000 and lawyer/surveyor fees of $25,000 over the fence been 5 feet out. The land in question later was sold for $60,000. What a waste of money over a silly pissing contest.
Reek like crack cocaine. See the hallway in an apartment is designed as a giant cold air duct. Air comes out of the room into the hallway under the door. Then through the stairways. Thats why there is always the breeze when you open the fire door it is air getting sucked out of the building. If you live in an apartment check out the gap under your door it is required to be there by building and fire codes. Feel the draft?
I could probably set up an air monitoring station in a public bathroom or just outside the door. And then be like "Oh no I have detected large amounts of feces in the air. Someone must have farted nearby whatever will we do? Curse you burrito, curse you!"
Intel never had a gun to anyones head and every time I bought an AMD chip because they weren't the big evil Intel I was very displeased. Why is the government trying to force AMD on people? I love Intel chips, never had a problem with a single one. Now do I have to buy AMD chips so my favorite CPU manufacture doesn't get fined by the EU government? Seems like they got a gun to Intel's head (so to speak) and are telling me "buy AMD or Intel gets it".
And hey one size fits all.
But then they have to get cooperation from the phone company and that would leave a paper trail. I can see this being abused/ used for personal reasons by police etc.
Now if I were to find a GPS unit attached to my vehicle what would happen if I were to remove/destroy it?
and construction, oilfield etc. I was mostly just giving a kind of generic example rather than actual numbers. However with leased vehicles the lease payment itself is tax deductible in my case the lease is $750/month plus $1000 fuel and $500 maintenance even after market parts to a degree (ie. bull bars, step-up-bars, mud flaps, police scanner, CB radio, etc) I work places where you need a big truck to sometimes even get to the job site never mind hauling big trailers with skid steers or supplies. Writing off 63% of $2250 every month is $1417.50 a month. Here follow the clicky. Ever think about sub-contracting? I would encourage anyone to start their own business even if your only sub-contracting out your own labor.
No there is a loophole the truck can be used for personal provided you keep a kilometer log and report to the government how much of your total kilometers was to earn business income. For example 50,000 KM cost me $14,000, 60% of KM were to earn business income so $8,400 is a tax deduction. And I get to drive a truck I couldn't afford otherwise thanks to a loophole for large construction and oil-field companies. Seriously when you see large company fleets they are usually just a way for the company to pay less taxes (some of these companies are writing off thousands of trucks) and hey driving a new truck around feels better than paying taxes.
or coders liable for anything. It will allow the government to say thing like, "Well your small company does not have the financial ability to support your product for "X" amount of years and you need insurance in case there are millions of lawsuits we are sorry but you can't sell your product". Meanwhile the large company (they are to big to fail or follow the rules everyone else is expected to) caries on as usual having eliminated to competition through government assistance and gets to carry on as usual because they are the only company left and we need them.
Don't know about America but in Canada if you made a whack of money spend it on advertising and deduct it from your income and bam you made less money and won't have to give as much income tax to the government. And money you donate to charity is only partially deductible, figures huh? I do something similar with my small business if I make to much money for example $60,000 @ 22% = $13,200 tax. I figure a way to spend it that will benefit me and be deductible from my income (lease a vehicle in my case) so I only make $50,000 @ 15% tax = $7,500 tax. So I get to drive a new truck and pay less taxes. I sure google is doing something similar where advertising cost is saving them money not costing them.
Then I could watch YouTube in fullscreen. Maybe this could be a way of solving legacy code problems. Why make a new OS backward compatible when you can completely scrap old code. Use a virtual OS for backward compatibility.