how much do you think someone might bid to be the first person in 10,000 years to hunt and kill a woolly mammoth? $20M? $50M? That would go a long way in funding further research. Even better: to do so with stone age weapons.
I can't even begin to imagine the liability waiver you'd have to sign.
If the same person had said they attempt to live frugally and therefore don't travel you'd probably say they were a typical Ugly American with no interest in the rest of the world
FYI: The Ugly American was the one who was trying to help the locals in a practical way. It was the pretty Americans who were behaving badly.
Of course labor costs of course are built into the price of goods and services. Furthermore, from the employer's point of view the labor expense is what they're willing to pay for an employee. How much of it goes to the government isn't really the employer's problem. And if you get paid by a corporate operation the actual amount they pay to have you working is a fair amount higher than what you know about because of behind the scenes payroll taxes. Just let that soak in: the company isn't "willing to pay you x and the government y" in order for you to come to work; the company is "willing to pay x+y" to have you come to work. In short, income based taxes suck whether they are corporate or personal. They should be replaced with consumption based taxes. Comsumption based taxes are *really hard* to cheat, don't contain many loopholes, and are much more equitable across the low income vs high income spectrum.
So you've laid out a great moral argument except that it completely ignores the mechanics of tax collection. Corporate taxes are paid exclusively by their customers who get it built into the prices of the products. If Apple (or Samsung or Nokia or...) pays more in taxes then it gets passed on to cell phone owners. It makes some people feel better to think the rich companies are getting soaked by high corporate income taxes but their feeling better about it doesn't make it any better for the consumers. Then loopholes in the tax codes of different countries and layers of international cross ownership make it a game between the companies to lower their tax burden and thus undersell their competitors. It keeps some accountants employed but it's a net loss for the consumer.
Yeah, because the Chinese have bases in countries all over the world... Oh, wait that's us. No, it's the Chinese who are spending themselves into oblivion on weapons of war... Oh, wait, that's us again. We spend more on our military than the next 13 nations combined (but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.) I dunno, perhaps if we moved from offense to defense, these things wouldn't be issues?
Just a thought.
You need to check the ratios on the federal budget to see on what it is the US is spending itself into oblivion. Military spending is not the lion's share. And spending on public education exceeds what the feds spend on the military.
Schools are paid for by local governments, not the federal government. Roads and "infrastructure" are frequently paid by a combination of federal and local governments with local governments paying almost all ongoing maintenance. The navy meanwhile is a 100% federal responsibility.
There's a huge difference between "no pre-set limit" and "unlimited". Their charge approval computer has a total in mind, I assure you, they just don't tell it to you.
Never mind defining porn, define "public". The wireless networks in cafes and shops are not for just anyone; it's for patrons of the business. One could parse that to not mean "public" for several definitions.
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) contains a number of prohibitions, known as prohibited personnel practices, which are designed to promote overall fairness in federal personnel actions. 5 U.S.C. 2302. The CSRA... It also provides that certain personnel actions can not be based on attributes or conduct that do not adversely affect employee performance, such as marital status and political affiliation. ... Note: Many states and municipalities also have enacted protections against discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, status as a parent, marital status and political affiliation. For information, please contact the EEOC District Office nearest you.
Has it occured to this person that he's about to be hit with a class action suit by all the single people who applied and were not hired? How do you even find out if people are married with children during the interview without asking directly, which should be a dead giveaway to all the singles who are turned down? Here's a hint everyone: if asked during an interview "are you married/party member/religious?" just respond with "which do I need to be to be hired here?" Whatever the answer, reply affirmative unless the answer is "doesn't matter" in which case echo back "then it doesn't matter".
Widely publicize that your lab is testing one mouse for exotic and deadly diseases. Then label all the cages only with numbers. Anyone breaking in wouldn't know which was safe to let escape. Notice that no actual disease test needed. Kind of like those signs "Property guarded by armed owner four nights per week: you guess the nights"
OK, since this is/. I feel the need to point out that fibre optics just do a lousy job of carrying mechanically useful power. The little light pulses themselves are a transmission of power. It would be quite inefficient to convert it to power some machine with it but "can't" doesn't apply.
But never mind all that. The real story here is the naming sequence in USB. It's like "Topper" in Dilbert. Soon they really will have to consider "Ludicrious Speed USB".
The stoppage in question was a "ground halt" meaning that once the planes get where they're normally going, they don't leave again. So the passengers are where they're supposed to be; OK, why not take their luggage off? Then shove the plane out of the way and get the next one into place that's otherwise idling full of people wasting their lives waiting. Maybe a handful of people are continuing on to that same plane's next destination but that's a really low percentage of the passengers.
"At American's hub in Miami, The Miami Herald reports that landing AA flights have run out of available gates since none of the airline's departures are taking off. A passenger on one of those flights -- 66-year-old Richard Bell -- tells the Herald he had been stuck on an AA flight arriving from Baltimore. He told the newspaper that the aircraft's engines were running and that the air conditioning was working. But he also said the flight's pilots come over the public address system to warn fliers that some other systems were not functioning. "He mentioned the toilet specifically as a problem,'' Bell tells the Herald."
This is total lack of human compassion that someone can't get in one of those tractors, push the plane at the gate out of the way to a spot off to the side and let the plane with the people unload. What kind of heartless ass is running American's operations at that airport? Oh, gee, that might inconvenience the airline personel because the first plane would then have to be trundled back over since it needs to leave first when things resume.
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how much do you think someone might bid to be the first person in 10,000 years to hunt and kill a woolly mammoth? $20M? $50M? That would go a long way in funding further research. Even better: to do so with stone age weapons.
I can't even begin to imagine the liability waiver you'd have to sign.
If the same person had said they attempt to live frugally and therefore don't travel you'd probably say they were a typical Ugly American with no interest in the rest of the world
FYI: The Ugly American was the one who was trying to help the locals in a practical way. It was the pretty Americans who were behaving badly.
"a rising sense of panic as fortunes have disappeared in an instant"
So now they know how their victims feel?
..The (Spanish?) president cancelled the submarine program, saying "Those funny black ships just sink anyway"
Of course labor costs of course are built into the price of goods and services.
Furthermore, from the employer's point of view the labor expense is what they're willing to pay for an employee. How much of it goes to the government isn't really the employer's problem. And if you get paid by a corporate operation the actual amount they pay to have you working is a fair amount higher than what you know about because of behind the scenes payroll taxes. Just let that soak in: the company isn't "willing to pay you x and the government y" in order for you to come to work; the company is "willing to pay x+y" to have you come to work.
In short, income based taxes suck whether they are corporate or personal. They should be replaced with consumption based taxes. Comsumption based taxes are *really hard* to cheat, don't contain many loopholes, and are much more equitable across the low income vs high income spectrum.
So you've laid out a great moral argument except that it completely ignores the mechanics of tax collection. Corporate taxes are paid exclusively by their customers who get it built into the prices of the products. If Apple (or Samsung or Nokia or ...) pays more in taxes then it gets passed on to cell phone owners. It makes some people feel better to think the rich companies are getting soaked by high corporate income taxes but their feeling better about it doesn't make it any better for the consumers. Then loopholes in the tax codes of different countries and layers of international cross ownership make it a game between the companies to lower their tax burden and thus undersell their competitors. It keeps some accountants employed but it's a net loss for the consumer.
And bits of Hadrian's wall can be found in the stone walls of cottages and farms all over Scotland...
And I bet they regret not leaving it intact to keep out the English.
Stone tablets inscribed with royal decrees being used as washing stones...
If they're anything like typical modern laws then they've finally been recycled to be useful.
Problem for him is nobody is really that interested in Dell, so his machinations aren't going to work this time.
Actually no, the problem is that Mr Dell IS interested in Dell which is why Icahn's mechinations aren't going well.
anthropomorphize computers. It makes them angry.
Yeah, because the Chinese have bases in countries all over the world... Oh, wait that's us. No, it's the Chinese who are spending themselves into oblivion on weapons of war... Oh, wait, that's us again. We spend more on our military than the next 13 nations combined (but we can't afford to educate our children... bright.) I dunno, perhaps if we moved from offense to defense, these things wouldn't be issues?
Just a thought.
You need to check the ratios on the federal budget to see on what it is the US is spending itself into oblivion. Military spending is not the lion's share. And spending on public education exceeds what the feds spend on the military.
Sure, it was rather poor form to have started on this project, even as a joke, but it seems they've fessed up and handled it well.
3.5M mirrors that are already in space don't exactly grow on trees
Ah, and even if 3.5M mirrors did grow on trees, there aren't any trees in space.
Schools are paid for by local governments, not the federal government. Roads and "infrastructure" are frequently paid by a combination of federal and local governments with local governments paying almost all ongoing maintenance.
The navy meanwhile is a 100% federal responsibility.
There's a huge difference between "no pre-set limit" and "unlimited". Their charge approval computer has a total in mind, I assure you, they just don't tell it to you.
Never mind defining porn, define "public". The wireless networks in cafes and shops are not for just anyone; it's for patrons of the business. One could parse that to not mean "public" for several definitions.
Sure, this works out great for the robot for a while, but one day it will have to tell the human to fix itself....
"Amazon could also use the set-top box to promote its online store"
"could"
lol
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html :
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) contains a number of prohibitions, known as prohibited personnel practices, which are designed to promote overall fairness in federal personnel actions. 5 U.S.C. 2302. The CSRA ... It also provides that certain personnel actions can not be based on attributes or conduct that do not adversely affect employee performance, such as marital status and political affiliation.
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Note: Many states and municipalities also have enacted protections against discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, status as a parent, marital status and political affiliation. For information, please contact the EEOC District Office nearest you.
Has it occured to this person that he's about to be hit with a class action suit by all the single people who applied and were not hired? How do you even find out if people are married with children during the interview without asking directly, which should be a dead giveaway to all the singles who are turned down? Here's a hint everyone: if asked during an interview "are you married/party member/religious?" just respond with "which do I need to be to be hired here?" Whatever the answer, reply affirmative unless the answer is "doesn't matter" in which case echo back "then it doesn't matter".
Widely publicize that your lab is testing one mouse for exotic and deadly diseases. Then label all the cages only with numbers. Anyone breaking in wouldn't know which was safe to let escape. Notice that no actual disease test needed. Kind of like those signs "Property guarded by armed owner four nights per week: you guess the nights"
because fibre optics can't carry power?
OK, since this is /. I feel the need to point out that fibre optics just do a lousy job of carrying mechanically useful power. The little light pulses themselves are a transmission of power. It would be quite inefficient to convert it to power some machine with it but "can't" doesn't apply.
But never mind all that. The real story here is the naming sequence in USB. It's like "Topper" in Dilbert. Soon they really will have to consider "Ludicrious Speed USB".
The stoppage in question was a "ground halt" meaning that once the planes get where they're normally going, they don't leave again. So the passengers are where they're supposed to be; OK, why not take their luggage off? Then shove the plane out of the way and get the next one into place that's otherwise idling full of people wasting their lives waiting. Maybe a handful of people are continuing on to that same plane's next destination but that's a really low percentage of the passengers.
"At American's hub in Miami, The Miami Herald reports that landing AA flights have run out of available gates since none of the airline's departures are taking off. A passenger on one of those flights -- 66-year-old Richard Bell -- tells the Herald he had been stuck on an AA flight arriving from Baltimore. He told the newspaper that the aircraft's engines were running and that the air conditioning was working. But he also said the flight's pilots come over the public address system to warn fliers that some other systems were not functioning. "He mentioned the toilet specifically as a problem,'' Bell tells the Herald."
This is total lack of human compassion that someone can't get in one of those tractors, push the plane at the gate out of the way to a spot off to the side and let the plane with the people unload. What kind of heartless ass is running American's operations at that airport? Oh, gee, that might inconvenience the airline personel because the first plane would then have to be trundled back over since it needs to leave first when things resume.
Is it worth throwing a minimum of 5-8 years of your life away for money?
Most people trade ~40 hours per week of their life for money. That adds up to 5-8 years after a while.