When people make my entire retirement savings (me+wife working for 30 years) in a weekend, I wonder why I bothered doing science. Clearly, I was in the wrong line of work and the world changed out from under me.
What has changed? Entrepreneurs are have always been the ones getting rich, and science has never been a career choice if you want to be a fat cat.
It's not that you are in the wrong line of work you just didn't have the right combination of smarts, ideas, connections, work ethic, timing and luck to make it big.
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The Zuckerberg Tax
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it its undeniably true that a lot of people and organizations currently make an *income* which is currently not taxed based purely because they benefit from this loophole
I still don't get where the loophole is. So I had a share that was worth $10 a week ago, now it's worth $20. Until I sell it, I don't make any actual income, no money I can spend on something.
TFS talks about borrowing money using that value of $20 as a collateral. Fine, I do that, now I have the cash. But I also have a debt which I will have to repay later - with more cash. So eventually I'll still have to sell my share, and I'll pay the tax then.
Where's the catch?
The catch is that the 'eventually' part happens after you die, so technically you never pay any tax.
Why not? Who are you to decide where he should live? If his parents want to set him up with a paid-off house so he can live rent-free, why is that a problem? You think it's better that he give most of his income to a big apartment complex corporation instead?
If his parents want to set him up , then make sure they got the taxes covered too. Simple. It's not the government's fault that you can't count.
Yep, that's essentially the same thing. The problem with a wealth tax is that it requires you to make more income to pay the tax, or worse to sell off your property because you can't afford the taxes. For example, say some guy working as a barista inherits a nice $500k house from his parents when they die.
So his income immediately increased by $500k right?
He can afford to stay there as long as he keeps the heat and A/C set low, but in someplace with high property taxes like Texas, he can't afford to stay there at all because he can't afford the $20k/year taxes on the place. Why should he be forced to sell out (esp. if the market is bad, like right now), instead of being allowed to stay in the house his parents left him?
He just earnt $500k, he should pay tax on it. What is so hard to understand? Don't get confused by the emotional attachment. What if my employer pays me zero, but "gifts" me $1000 in gold bars each week. Why should I be forced to sell some of my gold bars? It was a gift...
So now he has to go sell the house, give a bunch of money to some no-good idiot realtor for doing nothing, and go buy some much cheaper place (again giving a big chunk to some no-good realtor, and paying a bunch in taxes), just so he can have a place to live (let's say he was living with his parents before, renting a room). That doesn't sound right to me.
He doesn't have to buy a "much cheaper place". His parents estate would be sold, he'd probably walk away from the deal with at least $400k. For Free. He did nothing and is now $400k better off. He is better off, the country is better off, the real estate agent is better off, the lawyers are better off. This is how the economy works.
He isn't trying to rationalize it. He is telling you how the Fahrenheit scale was created. F was create for human comfort. C is created based on the state changes of water.
Of course you are right, a lot has to do with what you were taught. But regardless of what you were taught, and what you are used to, F was still designed based on human comfort.
Really? If that were the case would 0 be cold, 10 be hot and everything else in-between? Or 70 or 80 degrees F, which is about the best temperature comfort wise, wouldn't that be 10 or 100 or some other easy to remember number? The Fahrenheit scale seems about as arbitrary as you can get.
As much as Windows gets ridiculed in here you have to at least admit that they have a fantastic opportunity right now. There's a growing smart phone user base who are sick of Apple, Nokia, RIM and Android who I think would be ready to jump to MS, should they produce a half decent product.
Fahrenheit makes excellent sense for what most people use air temperature to refer to: human comfort.
Don't even try to rationalise it. You use Fahrenheit for the same reason I use Celsius, because that's what we've always done.
The Celcius equivs are harder to remember: 37.777...., -17.77..., -12.22...
That's because they're not the equivalents that a Celsius using person would use.
0 is freezing, 10 is cool, 20 is nice, 30 is hot, 40 is unbearable, 100 is the boiling point of water. Not so hard if you open your mind a little bit...
on the one hand, they can complain about DMV, Post Office, Social Security Services, etc and etc, and then turn around and say "Government Run Health Care is going to be AWESOME Woot!"
Boggles the mind.
By that the logic, the govt shouldn't be responsible for anything.
The govt may be shithouse at certain things, but as far as distributing healthcare to everyone equally, is still the best model available.
What does the hell does NP Hard mean?
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Pac-Man Is NP-Hard
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Yes I RTFA and wiki'd it but that page makes no sense to me either. Can someone give me the NP Hard/PSpace Hard for dummies version? Or maybe give me an analogy using football fields?
I have a proposition to fix this Global Warming thing. Instead of wasting all this energy arguing about and going nowhere, I'd propose we all sign up to our beliefs. ie you believe or you don't, and it goes on record. We then do nothing for 25 years. By that time if there's any catastrophic change in climate that causes a significant change in our way of life, we'll know for sure by then, and all the people who got it wrong, owe all the people who got it right everything they own.
How does that sound?
Is this where International Auto makers come and show Detroit how to make a proper automobile? I can't believe anyone would come from overseas looking for something to buy.
How does an auto industry the size and strength of the US can fail so miserably with the quality of their products?
Pedophilia is natural too, the difference is not whether something is natural or not but whether there is a victim.
Laws are meant to protect, who is being protected by preventing marriage between any two consenting adults?
Hang on, you never knew this guy before he was 45 either yet you are somehow claiming to know better?
I'm pretty sure this decline happens at different stages for different people and that TFA is probably about averages as most of these things are. We have plenty of observable cases that show very little if any decline for some people (Sir David Attenborough comes to mind, as does Joan Rivers). Murray Walker was commentating F1 into his 80's at the same level as he was in his 30's, and my great grandmother was sharp as a tack into her 90's.
The summary is that yes, just like the any muscle, if you don't work at it, the decline starts immediately after its peak. Nature has you on autopilot until your mid 20's, but from then on it's up to you.
there was often verbal abuse from people who just didn't get it
OMGZ call the cops. If you want to see humanity at it's worst, just watch the general over-reaction to someone parking in a disabled spot when they're not supposed to. I've seen otherwise rational people lose their shit for no real reason simply because the disabled parking spot has become the 21st century version of Mother Mary's vagina. You would get less grief if you actually assaulted a disabled person than if you parked in their parking space.
That's the problem??? If there were less people on the planet we'd all be able to take up more food and space... seems like the problem is too many people.
Bingo!
All the major issues we face are because there's too many people.
Famine? too many people, not enough food.
Oil crisis? Too many people, not enough oil.
Global Warming? Too many people, not enough trees
If by some bizarre occurance the planet was restricted to a stablised population of much less than now (let's start with 1Billion people for arguments sake), then pretty much most of the major problems would disappear overnight.
This is why I have a big problem with charity. While it sounds bad to not help other people in need, saving lives is merely fueling the fire by allowing more people to survive and breed. We need less people. For the greater good, let those who are suffering die and give the rest of us a chance at a sustainable future.
It may differ in your local territory, but here when you go into receivership, it is no longer your debt. You lose everything to the receiver who then attempts to salvage some money for the debtors of the company. Mr Hoehn is owed $63 grand. He might be lucky to see 20% of that, so any money raised is his (and any other debtors, not RightHaven's.
... but why would you want to buy righthaven.com? Really, what possible value could it have?
Er.. for the 99.999% of the world that have never heard of Righthaven, it is a cool sounding Fantasy/Sci Fi/Heavy Metal type name, and.com domains made up of real words are quite scarce these days. If I was a publisher I'd look at buying it for a future book/tv/movie/album release. I wouldn't pay much for it, but it'd have fetch a few hundred bucks at least.
That's a big reason why iOS device owners have ALWAYS ranked their satisfaction much higher than Droid users.
Sorry but that's the truth.
Is that the same way that Justin Bieber fans are less critical of music ability than say Tool fans?
Don't get me wrong, Android has a horrific record IMO for product consistency, but the opinions of Apple fans is hardly a good yardstick to use as a benchmark
If you want upgrades don't get a phone with these extras on top. Touchwiz, Sense and Blur all suck and all prevent phones from being updated. Vote with your dollars.
The phone war is turning out like the PC war of the 90's. Apple is too locked down. Linux is too loose and fragmented, MS treads that fine line between both and cleans up the market. Only with phones, MS have failed to show up so far. Give me a phone with a tight, reliable user interface, and some sort of industry standard external interface, storage and battery and I'm in. Until then I'll be keeping my dollars in my pocket.
Again, folks, nothing you post on Facebook is private. Nothing. Seriously, there are simply ***NO*** privacy issues with Facebook, because nothing on Facebook is private.
The rule is simple: If you want to maintain privacy, don't post your "private" material on Facebook or any other "social networking" web site.
While that may be the how it works right now, I think the discussion is about how it *should* work going forward.
Today, privacy is a yes or no question. How hard would it be to have a legal definition for 'relative privacy' ie Just because I do something on a public street shouldn't automatically grant you the right to publish that to a billion people. In the case of TFA, sure I wouldn't expect a Facebook post to be completely private, but there is a huge difference in privacy levels between friends of friends seeing it, or even their friends and friends of friends (or even govt spies or facebook employees), but I should have some expectation that I won't see it on an international network news broadcast.
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When people make my entire retirement savings (me+wife working for 30 years) in a weekend, I wonder why I bothered doing science. Clearly, I was in the wrong line of work and the world changed out from under me.
What has changed? Entrepreneurs are have always been the ones getting rich, and science has never been a career choice if you want to be a fat cat. It's not that you are in the wrong line of work you just didn't have the right combination of smarts, ideas, connections, work ethic, timing and luck to make it big.
it its undeniably true that a lot of people and organizations currently make an *income* which is currently not taxed based purely because they benefit from this loophole
I still don't get where the loophole is. So I had a share that was worth $10 a week ago, now it's worth $20. Until I sell it, I don't make any actual income, no money I can spend on something.
TFS talks about borrowing money using that value of $20 as a collateral. Fine, I do that, now I have the cash. But I also have a debt which I will have to repay later - with more cash. So eventually I'll still have to sell my share, and I'll pay the tax then.
Where's the catch?
The catch is that the 'eventually' part happens after you die, so technically you never pay any tax.
Why not? Who are you to decide where he should live? If his parents want to set him up with a paid-off house so he can live rent-free, why is that a problem? You think it's better that he give most of his income to a big apartment complex corporation instead?
If his parents want to set him up , then make sure they got the taxes covered too. Simple. It's not the government's fault that you can't count.
Yep, that's essentially the same thing. The problem with a wealth tax is that it requires you to make more income to pay the tax, or worse to sell off your property because you can't afford the taxes. For example, say some guy working as a barista inherits a nice $500k house from his parents when they die.
So his income immediately increased by $500k right?
He can afford to stay there as long as he keeps the heat and A/C set low, but in someplace with high property taxes like Texas, he can't afford to stay there at all because he can't afford the $20k/year taxes on the place. Why should he be forced to sell out (esp. if the market is bad, like right now), instead of being allowed to stay in the house his parents left him?
He just earnt $500k, he should pay tax on it. What is so hard to understand? Don't get confused by the emotional attachment. What if my employer pays me zero, but "gifts" me $1000 in gold bars each week. Why should I be forced to sell some of my gold bars? It was a gift...
So now he has to go sell the house, give a bunch of money to some no-good idiot realtor for doing nothing, and go buy some much cheaper place (again giving a big chunk to some no-good realtor, and paying a bunch in taxes), just so he can have a place to live (let's say he was living with his parents before, renting a room). That doesn't sound right to me.
He doesn't have to buy a "much cheaper place". His parents estate would be sold, he'd probably walk away from the deal with at least $400k. For Free. He did nothing and is now $400k better off. He is better off, the country is better off, the real estate agent is better off, the lawyers are better off. This is how the economy works.
He isn't trying to rationalize it. He is telling you how the Fahrenheit scale was created. F was create for human comfort. C is created based on the state changes of water.
Of course you are right, a lot has to do with what you were taught. But regardless of what you were taught, and what you are used to, F was still designed based on human comfort.
Really? If that were the case would 0 be cold, 10 be hot and everything else in-between? Or 70 or 80 degrees F, which is about the best temperature comfort wise, wouldn't that be 10 or 100 or some other easy to remember number? The Fahrenheit scale seems about as arbitrary as you can get.
"distributing healthcare to everyone equally"
Impossible. Pure and simple. It is a limited resource and therefore cannot be given to everyone equally. Nothing like overly simplistic thinking.
Nothing like piss poor comprehension you mean. I didn't claim it was a perfect model, just the best on offer.
So, that said, what's left? Win phone? Omg no.
As much as Windows gets ridiculed in here you have to at least admit that they have a fantastic opportunity right now. There's a growing smart phone user base who are sick of Apple, Nokia, RIM and Android who I think would be ready to jump to MS, should they produce a half decent product.
Fahrenheit makes excellent sense for what most people use air temperature to refer to: human comfort.
Don't even try to rationalise it. You use Fahrenheit for the same reason I use Celsius, because that's what we've always done.
The Celcius equivs are harder to remember: 37.777...., -17.77..., -12.22...
That's because they're not the equivalents that a Celsius using person would use. 0 is freezing, 10 is cool, 20 is nice, 30 is hot, 40 is unbearable, 100 is the boiling point of water. Not so hard if you open your mind a little bit...
on the one hand, they can complain about DMV, Post Office, Social Security Services, etc and etc, and then turn around and say "Government Run Health Care is going to be AWESOME Woot!"
Boggles the mind.
By that the logic, the govt shouldn't be responsible for anything. The govt may be shithouse at certain things, but as far as distributing healthcare to everyone equally, is still the best model available.
Yes I RTFA and wiki'd it but that page makes no sense to me either. Can someone give me the NP Hard/PSpace Hard for dummies version? Or maybe give me an analogy using football fields?
I have a proposition to fix this Global Warming thing. Instead of wasting all this energy arguing about and going nowhere, I'd propose we all sign up to our beliefs. ie you believe or you don't, and it goes on record. We then do nothing for 25 years. By that time if there's any catastrophic change in climate that causes a significant change in our way of life, we'll know for sure by then, and all the people who got it wrong, owe all the people who got it right everything they own. How does that sound?
Is this where International Auto makers come and show Detroit how to make a proper automobile? I can't believe anyone would come from overseas looking for something to buy. How does an auto industry the size and strength of the US can fail so miserably with the quality of their products?
Pedophilia is natural too, the difference is not whether something is natural or not but whether there is a victim. Laws are meant to protect, who is being protected by preventing marriage between any two consenting adults?
Hang on, you never knew this guy before he was 45 either yet you are somehow claiming to know better? I'm pretty sure this decline happens at different stages for different people and that TFA is probably about averages as most of these things are. We have plenty of observable cases that show very little if any decline for some people (Sir David Attenborough comes to mind, as does Joan Rivers). Murray Walker was commentating F1 into his 80's at the same level as he was in his 30's, and my great grandmother was sharp as a tack into her 90's. The summary is that yes, just like the any muscle, if you don't work at it, the decline starts immediately after its peak. Nature has you on autopilot until your mid 20's, but from then on it's up to you.
Flynn Effect (Link didn't work the first time)
Maybe he doesn't support with links what he claims, but he is nevertheless right. We are all dumbed down by the entertainment industry.
Perhaps if you watched Discovery instead of MTV, you'd be aware of the Flynn Effect
there was often verbal abuse from people who just didn't get it
OMGZ call the cops. If you want to see humanity at it's worst, just watch the general over-reaction to someone parking in a disabled spot when they're not supposed to. I've seen otherwise rational people lose their shit for no real reason simply because the disabled parking spot has become the 21st century version of Mother Mary's vagina. You would get less grief if you actually assaulted a disabled person than if you parked in their parking space.
That's the problem??? If there were less people on the planet we'd all be able to take up more food and space... seems like the problem is too many people.
Bingo! All the major issues we face are because there's too many people. Famine? too many people, not enough food. Oil crisis? Too many people, not enough oil. Global Warming? Too many people, not enough trees If by some bizarre occurance the planet was restricted to a stablised population of much less than now (let's start with 1Billion people for arguments sake), then pretty much most of the major problems would disappear overnight. This is why I have a big problem with charity. While it sounds bad to not help other people in need, saving lives is merely fueling the fire by allowing more people to survive and breed. We need less people. For the greater good, let those who are suffering die and give the rest of us a chance at a sustainable future.
It may differ in your local territory, but here when you go into receivership, it is no longer your debt. You lose everything to the receiver who then attempts to salvage some money for the debtors of the company. Mr Hoehn is owed $63 grand. He might be lucky to see 20% of that, so any money raised is his (and any other debtors, not RightHaven's.
... but why would you want to buy righthaven.com? Really, what possible value could it have?
Er.. for the 99.999% of the world that have never heard of Righthaven, it is a cool sounding Fantasy/Sci Fi/Heavy Metal type name, and .com domains made up of real words are quite scarce these days. If I was a publisher I'd look at buying it for a future book/tv/movie/album release. I wouldn't pay much for it, but it'd have fetch a few hundred bucks at least.
That's a big reason why iOS device owners have ALWAYS ranked their satisfaction much higher than Droid users.
Sorry but that's the truth.
Is that the same way that Justin Bieber fans are less critical of music ability than say Tool fans? Don't get me wrong, Android has a horrific record IMO for product consistency, but the opinions of Apple fans is hardly a good yardstick to use as a benchmark
If you want upgrades don't get a phone with these extras on top. Touchwiz, Sense and Blur all suck and all prevent phones from being updated. Vote with your dollars.
The phone war is turning out like the PC war of the 90's. Apple is too locked down. Linux is too loose and fragmented, MS treads that fine line between both and cleans up the market. Only with phones, MS have failed to show up so far. Give me a phone with a tight, reliable user interface, and some sort of industry standard external interface, storage and battery and I'm in. Until then I'll be keeping my dollars in my pocket.
your definately fighting a loosing battle their.
Again, folks, nothing you post on Facebook is private. Nothing. Seriously, there are simply ***NO*** privacy issues with Facebook, because nothing on Facebook is private.
The rule is simple: If you want to maintain privacy, don't post your "private" material on Facebook or any other "social networking" web site.
While that may be the how it works right now, I think the discussion is about how it *should* work going forward. Today, privacy is a yes or no question. How hard would it be to have a legal definition for 'relative privacy' ie Just because I do something on a public street shouldn't automatically grant you the right to publish that to a billion people. In the case of TFA, sure I wouldn't expect a Facebook post to be completely private, but there is a huge difference in privacy levels between friends of friends seeing it, or even their friends and friends of friends (or even govt spies or facebook employees), but I should have some expectation that I won't see it on an international network news broadcast.
Now we're going mobile and Microsoft isn't coming with us because they forgot to let us pretend we get to choose.
Unlike say Apple eh?