That, and Trump himself has a preference for hiring foreign workers (using H-2B visas) for his country club in Florida, despite the availability of local American workers. Maybe he'll close the loopholes - but I'm not holding my breath.
He ALSO has a preference for marrying H-1B visa holders. His wife was an illegal immigrant (at least working in the US illegally), then got legal using an H-1B visa. Apparently, she was granted an H-1B visa because she is "a model of extraordinary ability". If his own wife came to the US on an H-1B, do you really think Trump will close the loopholes? I'm not holding my breath either, he has shown by his cabinet picks that he intends this to be a government of big business, by big business, for big business.
So I guess I'm one of the guys that you "can't imagine". I find work fulfilling.
People are different.
Exactly. But the title says "If YOU get rich, YOU won't quit working for long" which is bullshit. There are TONS of people who would quit working immediately and never work again. I'm one of them. It sounds like you're not (NTTAWWT). But the article implies that ALL people feel the way you do, which is just wrong.
They talk about a 4% draw down on your investments during retirement in order to not run out of money too early... I plan to retire at 55, but only if I can get closer to 5M in equity investments.
Really, you need $200,000 per year in retirement to be comfortable? That seems like a hell of a lot. I guess it depends on what your current standard of living is but that is around four times the median household income in the US, and people in retirement often have lower expenses than working people (kids have generally grown, house is often paid off, etc.). I am planning on retiring early but with nowhere near that war chest, probably closer to $1M in investments for a $40k annual income. Once Social Security kicks in it will just be extra income on top of the investment income. I am just not willing to exchange further years of my life for extra money at the end of it, I would rather retire when I still have the physical and mental ability to enjoy it.
A better question is "Why does Microsoft need to be involved in this?" I can currently buy a data card from one of the cell carriers or I can tether my computer to my phone. How is having to pay Microsoft going to improve the current state of things? Just make the OS, jackasses, stop trying to use your near monopoly to force your way into other industries -- you are really bad at it.
He already is. He's talking about increasing long term capital gains taxes, which taxes investments like bitcoin.
Don't worry, he will repeal the estate tax so that billionaires can pass on all their money to their children (instead of just most of it) so that the new generation of bosses are the same as the old generation of bosses. Meanwhile, the people who voted for him because they are getting screwed economically will still get screwed. What did you think would happen when you elected a billionaire?
Also, where do you get that he is planning on raising capital gains taxes? His site says:
The Trump Plan will retain the existing capital gains rate structure (maximum rate of 20 percent) with tax brackets shown above.
So his plan is to lower income taxes on the ultra-rich and increase spending. I hope all the Tea Party representatives that shut the government down during the Obama administration will stop his attempt to run up the debt but I doubt that will happen.
I see this morning Trump nominated a medical doctor who thinks dietary supplements can cure cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Good. The quicker Trump fucks up irrecoverably, the quicker he gets replaced. Won't be long now.
LOL, that's the funniest thing I have heard this MONTH. Trump is a reality show buffoon with absolutely no qualifications or experience for this job. Do you really think the people who saw this and voted for him anyway will suddenly realize what a horrible mistake they have made? People tend to rationalize their choices in politics rather than admitting a mistake. That is why Congress always has an abysmal approval rating as a whole but each district tends to rate their own representative highly. Every time Trump opens his mouth and says something stupid there are plenty of people that instantly go to bat for him and try to "explain" what he really meant. Whether it's complete ignorance of diplomatic relationships on his phone calls with Pakistan and Taiwan, telling Duterte that extrajudicial executions to deal with his drug problem is a great idea, or just grabbing women by the pussy, the people who voted for him instantly rationalize it in their brains as "being presidential" or "a tough new diplomatic tack" or "locker room talk". These are the people who shut the government down and prompted a downgrade of the US credit rating because they were throwing a fit about raising the debt ceiling and paying for the shit they already budgeted for. They did demonstrable damage to the finances of the country and their supporters voted them right back in.
You're delusional if you think Trump supporters will ever acknowledge a fuck-up. As Trump himself said, "I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose voters".
I can just picture someone plugging one of these into one of those public charging kiosks at an airport. Wanna bet how well the ports are well isolated?
It would likely do nothing at all. It dumps the charge down the data lines, a charging port shouldn't have any data lines. Now, maybe the data lines ARE connected to something (so the TSA can search every phone that gets plugged in, "for your safety"), in that case maybe blowing the data lines would be a good thing overall.
Serious question: In Debt of Honor there was a hack directed against the NYSE. They rolled back all transactions for the day. In a bank hack no one took physical cash. If they can show the transactions were fraudulent, why can't they just reverse it?
For some of it they did:
Hackers tried to steal 5 billion rubles, but the central banking authority managed to stop them and redirect the funds, according to central bank security executive Artiom Sychev. "We were lucky to return some of money," said a central bank spokesperson.
That's the transfers they were able to unwind. The other transfers went to non-cooperating banks, or more likely were broken up and bounced from bank to bank and one of the banks in the chain won't play ball.
Operating as a business, iirc, incurs legal record-keeping requirements. The gray area comes from the nature of the business: they convert from one currency (official legal tender) into another (a currency with a different standard of value).
Nope. Bitcoin is not a currency (at least according to the IRS), it is an asset. You are not exchanging currency, you are buying or selling an asset.
Bitcoin barely has legal precedent for or against it, and the services or goods bought with Bitcoin (if from a legit business) are already taxed.
Buying and selling assets has plenty of existing law and legal precedent. Yes, if you "buy" something with Bitcoin (actually a barter transaction) you owe tax on it but that has nothing to do with the IRS, there is no national sales tax or VAT in the US.
In a case like this, I believe the IRS is over-reaching its authority and asking to tax people who have likely already had the BTC taxed by spending it on things.
If you buy BTC then sell it for a higher price you are subject to capital gains tax on the difference. It doesn't matter what happens to the proceeds of the sale -- it is the transaction that is taxed. If you sell stock and buy a car with the proceeds are you exempt from capital gains tax on the sale because you paid sales tax on the car? Of course not. Even if you trade the stock directly for the car, you still have to pay the capital gains tax on any appreciation and the sales tax on the fair market value of the car. These are 2 different taxes levied by 2 different entities.
This doesn't sound like they created a hard drive that automatically backs itself up, they created software that will sync your hard drive to Amazon. This is not new, difficult or news. Thanks for the slashvertisment though!
The building's developer, Millennium Partners, insists the building is safe for occupancy and could withstand an earthquake.
In this context, I would guess "developer" is used similarly to "business development" which means sales. Personally, I would prefer an engineer to make a safety assessment rather than a developer in the assumed context, but I could be wrong about context. I didn't see Millennium Partners engineering firms on the first page of a Google search, though.
Maybe they mean safe in a context similar to "perfectly safe" from Zaphod Plays It Safe.
Real estate developers are impeccably trustworthy, that's why we elected one as President. If the developer says it's safe, then it's safe!
Why not blame Trump for the 1100 jobs he sent to Mexico? Carrier was moving 2100 jobs and they only kept 1000 of them here, so they lost 1100 jobs. We still don't know what incentives Pence gave them for staying, but it's entirely possible that this will be a net loss in revenue for the government. Not that I think this move is necessarily a bad thing, well paying manufacturing jobs are great to have in the country and I'm glad they were able to get them to partially stay but 1000 jobs is really a drop in the bucket for an economy that is adding 180,000 jobs per month. It's a great talking point for the Trump administration but from a practical perspective these one-off efforts aren't going to have a big impact on the economy.
I don't know what the odds are for surviving a 12 story drop, but it's not impossible.
Doesn't matter in this case, because he didn't drop 12 stories. He jumped off a 4 story portion of a 12 story building, landing on an awning about 2 stories from the roof. He fell about 20 feet.
If I recall, they didn't explain what caused this weight memory, if it was our own biology, our gut biology, or what. Basically though, once you're fat, you have to work extra hard not to get fat again for the rest of your life.
And that's exactly what this study found out. They found that if they transplanted the gut bacteria from the one that got fat to the one who stayed skinny the skinny man (mouse) got fat from the diet on which he previously gained no weight.
Another echo of the dubious 99.7. It shouldn't take 2 seconds to realize what nonsense that is. Did you also believe the reports of Fidel's popularity?
Why is the statistic dubious? This poster even gave the source for the statistic, UNESCO. I looked up the literacy rate data on UNESCO's site and found this page with literacy statistics. The rates they publish for Cuba seems to match what both posters posted. Do you have data that contradicts this or does it just "feel" wrong to you? You've been around here for a long time, you should know data plays better with this crowd than emotion. Please present your data refuting the statistic or STFU.
The IRS takes a very dim view (*caugh*Clinton Foundation*caugh*) on using a corporation or foundation to convert personal expenses into untaxable corporate expenses.
What personal expenses is the Clinton foundation paying? I haven't seen any reports of that. The problem that people had with the Clinton foundation was the perceived "pay for access" for big donors when Hillary was SoS. Now the Trump Foundation on the other hand, only seems to pay for personal expenses for Donald Trump. Paying for such things as a Tim Tebow football helmet, defending lawsuits filed against Trump, two paintings of Trump himself and making campaign contributions to the attorney general who was investigating his company for fraud. The Clinton Foundation does a shitload of actual charity work and benefits mankind. In contrast, the Trump foundation does little or no charity work and mostly benefits Trump. Why even include that stupid little jibe in your post? It was a fine, factual post until you had to make it partisan. We get it, you don't like Clinton (for the record, I don't either), but taking a dig at a foundation that does good work after the political reason to do so is mooted is just petty and stupid. If the Clinton Foundation is breaking the law then let the authorities shut them down, like New York did to the Trump Foundation.
Well, Obama failed to provide for displaced workers after forcing coal mines out of business. Now stupid dems can suck fat dick in the company of their saudi terrorist cave-buddies
The best part about all of this is that it's impossible to tell if the above is parody or not.
Exactly, especially since US oil production fell under Bush and rose from 5 million barrels to 9.4 million barrels per year under Obama (source). Seems like it's the conservatives sucking Saudi dick, especially given this picture.
Foxconn uses enormous amounts of robotics in manufacturing but it also requires large numbers of hand laborers. Can all of that be eliminated by automation? Probably not.
Of course those jobs can be eliminated, and they will be when it makes economic sense to do so. Just a few months ago there was a story going around that Foxconn replaced 60,000 jobs with automation and it's only going to accelerate as automation and AI gets better. You're right that not ALL jobs will be eliminated, but enough of them will that it will cause societal problems.
The torque fade is (essentially) linear, but the drag curve is not linear. Here's a graph that compares the Tesla torque curve to a Camaro: http://i.imgur.com/1vkYB.jpg
As you can see, the Tesla torque curve peaks near stall and falls off pretty linearly as speed goes up, because that's how electric motors work. The torque curve for the Camaro is different because gasoline engines generally develop max torque somewhere in the middle of their RPM range rather than at 0 RPM like an electric motor. What this means in the real world is electric motors have great acceleration but fade out at high speeds, because of the low torque at that RPM range and the exponential nature of drag.
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That, and Trump himself has a preference for hiring foreign workers (using H-2B visas) for his country club in Florida, despite the availability of local American workers. Maybe he'll close the loopholes - but I'm not holding my breath.
He ALSO has a preference for marrying H-1B visa holders. His wife was an illegal immigrant (at least working in the US illegally), then got legal using an H-1B visa. Apparently, she was granted an H-1B visa because she is "a model of extraordinary ability". If his own wife came to the US on an H-1B, do you really think Trump will close the loopholes? I'm not holding my breath either, he has shown by his cabinet picks that he intends this to be a government of big business, by big business, for big business.
So I guess I'm one of the guys that you "can't imagine". I find work fulfilling.
People are different.
Exactly. But the title says "If YOU get rich, YOU won't quit working for long" which is bullshit. There are TONS of people who would quit working immediately and never work again. I'm one of them. It sounds like you're not (NTTAWWT). But the article implies that ALL people feel the way you do, which is just wrong.
They talk about a 4% draw down on your investments during retirement in order to not run out of money too early ...
I plan to retire at 55, but only if I can get closer to 5M in equity investments.
Really, you need $200,000 per year in retirement to be comfortable? That seems like a hell of a lot. I guess it depends on what your current standard of living is but that is around four times the median household income in the US, and people in retirement often have lower expenses than working people (kids have generally grown, house is often paid off, etc.). I am planning on retiring early but with nowhere near that war chest, probably closer to $1M in investments for a $40k annual income. Once Social Security kicks in it will just be extra income on top of the investment income. I am just not willing to exchange further years of my life for extra money at the end of it, I would rather retire when I still have the physical and mental ability to enjoy it.
What could possibly go wrong???
A better question is "Why does Microsoft need to be involved in this?" I can currently buy a data card from one of the cell carriers or I can tether my computer to my phone. How is having to pay Microsoft going to improve the current state of things? Just make the OS, jackasses, stop trying to use your near monopoly to force your way into other industries -- you are really bad at it.
He already is. He's talking about increasing long term capital gains taxes, which taxes investments like bitcoin.
Don't worry, he will repeal the estate tax so that billionaires can pass on all their money to their children (instead of just most of it) so that the new generation of bosses are the same as the old generation of bosses. Meanwhile, the people who voted for him because they are getting screwed economically will still get screwed. What did you think would happen when you elected a billionaire?
Also, where do you get that he is planning on raising capital gains taxes? His site says:
So his plan is to lower income taxes on the ultra-rich and increase spending. I hope all the Tea Party representatives that shut the government down during the Obama administration will stop his attempt to run up the debt but I doubt that will happen.
This will not end.
FTFY
I see this morning Trump nominated a medical doctor who thinks dietary supplements can cure cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis to be the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Good. The quicker Trump fucks up irrecoverably, the quicker he gets replaced. Won't be long now.
LOL, that's the funniest thing I have heard this MONTH. Trump is a reality show buffoon with absolutely no qualifications or experience for this job. Do you really think the people who saw this and voted for him anyway will suddenly realize what a horrible mistake they have made? People tend to rationalize their choices in politics rather than admitting a mistake. That is why Congress always has an abysmal approval rating as a whole but each district tends to rate their own representative highly. Every time Trump opens his mouth and says something stupid there are plenty of people that instantly go to bat for him and try to "explain" what he really meant. Whether it's complete ignorance of diplomatic relationships on his phone calls with Pakistan and Taiwan, telling Duterte that extrajudicial executions to deal with his drug problem is a great idea, or just grabbing women by the pussy, the people who voted for him instantly rationalize it in their brains as "being presidential" or "a tough new diplomatic tack" or "locker room talk". These are the people who shut the government down and prompted a downgrade of the US credit rating because they were throwing a fit about raising the debt ceiling and paying for the shit they already budgeted for. They did demonstrable damage to the finances of the country and their supporters voted them right back in.
You're delusional if you think Trump supporters will ever acknowledge a fuck-up. As Trump himself said, "I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose voters".
I can just picture someone plugging one of these into one of those public charging kiosks at an airport. Wanna bet how well the ports are well isolated?
It would likely do nothing at all. It dumps the charge down the data lines, a charging port shouldn't have any data lines. Now, maybe the data lines ARE connected to something (so the TSA can search every phone that gets plugged in, "for your safety"), in that case maybe blowing the data lines would be a good thing overall.
Serious question: In Debt of Honor there was a hack directed against the NYSE. They rolled back all transactions for the day. In a bank hack no one took physical cash. If they can show the transactions were fraudulent, why can't they just reverse it?
For some of it they did:
That's the transfers they were able to unwind. The other transfers went to non-cooperating banks, or more likely were broken up and bounced from bank to bank and one of the banks in the chain won't play ball.
Operating as a business, iirc, incurs legal record-keeping requirements. The gray area comes from the nature of the business: they convert from one currency (official legal tender) into another (a currency with a different standard of value).
Nope. Bitcoin is not a currency (at least according to the IRS), it is an asset. You are not exchanging currency, you are buying or selling an asset.
Bitcoin barely has legal precedent for or against it, and the services or goods bought with Bitcoin (if from a legit business) are already taxed.
Buying and selling assets has plenty of existing law and legal precedent. Yes, if you "buy" something with Bitcoin (actually a barter transaction) you owe tax on it but that has nothing to do with the IRS, there is no national sales tax or VAT in the US.
In a case like this, I believe the IRS is over-reaching its authority and asking to tax people who have likely already had the BTC taxed by spending it on things.
If you buy BTC then sell it for a higher price you are subject to capital gains tax on the difference. It doesn't matter what happens to the proceeds of the sale -- it is the transaction that is taxed. If you sell stock and buy a car with the proceeds are you exempt from capital gains tax on the sale because you paid sales tax on the car? Of course not. Even if you trade the stock directly for the car, you still have to pay the capital gains tax on any appreciation and the sales tax on the fair market value of the car. These are 2 different taxes levied by 2 different entities.
I am not a lawyer.
No shit.
Agreed, he's not killing elephants like the fucking ex-king of spain or killing liions like that bastard california dentist.
Minor nitpick, I think you mean Minnesota dentist, not California dentist.
Source: http://www.startribune.com/zim...
How about them removing posts because the Scientologists DMCAed them?
https://slashdot.org/story/01/...
This doesn't sound like they created a hard drive that automatically backs itself up, they created software that will sync your hard drive to Amazon. This is not new, difficult or news. Thanks for the slashvertisment though!
The building's developer, Millennium Partners, insists the building is safe for occupancy and could withstand an earthquake.
In this context, I would guess "developer" is used similarly to "business development" which means sales. Personally, I would prefer an engineer to make a safety assessment rather than a developer in the assumed context, but I could be wrong about context. I didn't see Millennium Partners engineering firms on the first page of a Google search, though.
Maybe they mean safe in a context similar to "perfectly safe" from Zaphod Plays It Safe.
Real estate developers are impeccably trustworthy, that's why we elected one as President. If the developer says it's safe, then it's safe!
Why not blame Trump for the 1100 jobs he sent to Mexico? Carrier was moving 2100 jobs and they only kept 1000 of them here, so they lost 1100 jobs. We still don't know what incentives Pence gave them for staying, but it's entirely possible that this will be a net loss in revenue for the government. Not that I think this move is necessarily a bad thing, well paying manufacturing jobs are great to have in the country and I'm glad they were able to get them to partially stay but 1000 jobs is really a drop in the bucket for an economy that is adding 180,000 jobs per month. It's a great talking point for the Trump administration but from a practical perspective these one-off efforts aren't going to have a big impact on the economy.
Ban alcohol before you talk about the disadvantages of marijuana legalisation with a straight face.
No, please don't. We tried that and it was a horrible failure, just like the drug war.
I don't know what the odds are for surviving a 12 story drop, but it's not impossible.
Doesn't matter in this case, because he didn't drop 12 stories. He jumped off a 4 story portion of a 12 story building, landing on an awning about 2 stories from the roof. He fell about 20 feet.
If I recall, they didn't explain what caused this weight memory, if it was our own biology, our gut biology, or what. Basically though, once you're fat, you have to work extra hard not to get fat again for the rest of your life.
And that's exactly what this study found out. They found that if they transplanted the gut bacteria from the one that got fat to the one who stayed skinny the skinny man (mouse) got fat from the diet on which he previously gained no weight.
Another echo of the dubious 99.7. It shouldn't take 2 seconds to realize what nonsense that is. Did you also believe the reports of Fidel's popularity?
Why is the statistic dubious? This poster even gave the source for the statistic, UNESCO. I looked up the literacy rate data on UNESCO's site and found this page with literacy statistics. The rates they publish for Cuba seems to match what both posters posted. Do you have data that contradicts this or does it just "feel" wrong to you? You've been around here for a long time, you should know data plays better with this crowd than emotion. Please present your data refuting the statistic or STFU.
The IRS takes a very dim view (*caugh*Clinton Foundation*caugh*) on using a corporation or foundation to convert personal expenses into untaxable corporate expenses.
What personal expenses is the Clinton foundation paying? I haven't seen any reports of that. The problem that people had with the Clinton foundation was the perceived "pay for access" for big donors when Hillary was SoS. Now the Trump Foundation on the other hand, only seems to pay for personal expenses for Donald Trump. Paying for such things as a Tim Tebow football helmet, defending lawsuits filed against Trump, two paintings of Trump himself and making campaign contributions to the attorney general who was investigating his company for fraud. The Clinton Foundation does a shitload of actual charity work and benefits mankind. In contrast, the Trump foundation does little or no charity work and mostly benefits Trump. Why even include that stupid little jibe in your post? It was a fine, factual post until you had to make it partisan. We get it, you don't like Clinton (for the record, I don't either), but taking a dig at a foundation that does good work after the political reason to do so is mooted is just petty and stupid. If the Clinton Foundation is breaking the law then let the authorities shut them down, like New York did to the Trump Foundation.
That's the way the laws are written, the President literally has the power of the pardon. Whatever he decides is permissible, is permissible.
Except he can't pardon himself, so if he orders someone to do something unlawful (and then pardons them for it) he can still be impeached.
with a maximum cargo capacity of around 8,000 lbs, or about 4200 gallons of diesel, or enough for 2 weeks of power generation.
Actually, diesel weighs about 7.1 lbs/gallon so you can only carry ~1100 gallons.
Well, Obama failed to provide for displaced workers after forcing coal mines out of business. Now stupid dems can suck fat dick in the company of their saudi terrorist cave-buddies
The best part about all of this is that it's impossible to tell if the above is parody or not.
Exactly, especially since US oil production fell under Bush and rose from 5 million barrels to 9.4 million barrels per year under Obama (source). Seems like it's the conservatives sucking Saudi dick, especially given this picture.
Foxconn uses enormous amounts of robotics in manufacturing but it also requires large numbers of hand laborers. Can all of that be eliminated by automation? Probably not.
Of course those jobs can be eliminated, and they will be when it makes economic sense to do so. Just a few months ago there was a story going around that Foxconn replaced 60,000 jobs with automation and it's only going to accelerate as automation and AI gets better. You're right that not ALL jobs will be eliminated, but enough of them will that it will cause societal problems.
The torque fade is (essentially) linear, but the drag curve is not linear. Here's a graph that compares the Tesla torque curve to a Camaro:
http://i.imgur.com/1vkYB.jpg
As you can see, the Tesla torque curve peaks near stall and falls off pretty linearly as speed goes up, because that's how electric motors work. The torque curve for the Camaro is different because gasoline engines generally develop max torque somewhere in the middle of their RPM range rather than at 0 RPM like an electric motor. What this means in the real world is electric motors have great acceleration but fade out at high speeds, because of the low torque at that RPM range and the exponential nature of drag.