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I noticed that you never mentioned the LIBERAL parts of the problem.
1) High Speed Rail (underfunded referendum)
2) Underfunding CALPERS on purpose, by granting huge retirement benefits (in the late 90s) to garner the support of Government (tend towards liberal) workers.
3) Illegal Immigration and social programs that become entitlements that can never be revoked. Oh, and I'm a racist for even mentioning it .
4) it wasn't the internet bubble of the (Liberal) Silicon Valley that got people like Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi elected.,
No, it is always evil (R) that cause problems, but the good and wholesome (D)s never cause problems. I'm (L) and so I can see both sides making big mistakes, the problem is, the (D) party is in control of the Legislature which has most of the power in the state, even during Wilson's era. BTW, Wilson was a Liberal, so that really doesn't help your case.
Paying Dividends also lowers working capital that is useful for growing a company. The issue is more complex than you think. The goal of stock is to grow Wealth, which includes Stock Price and Dividends.
Besides lowering working capital, there is another really good reason to NOT pay dividends, namely TAXES. By holding onto the wealth generated, and not paying the wealth out to shareholders, you reduce the tax liability for your shareholders, often for years and years. Now you may want to pay taxes on your dividends, but me, I'd much rather not pay taxes as my wealth accumulates until such time as I need the income and the wealth is taxed at the lower "capital gains" rate and not at the higher "Marginal Tax" rates.
But hey, if you think you are better off paying your wealth to the government, by all means invest in only dividend paying stocks.
As of this moment, FB shares are trading at 38.58 and falling Open at 42, down to 38... That's twice it has dropped to 38... and I'm wondering if this time there will be no rescue.
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Oh, and don't even get me started on the High Speed Rail system that is, even before it has broken ground, doubled in cost. What a freaking boondogle that is already!
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And Jerry Brown is doing such a fantastic Job as Governor that he's begging people to take less money, raise taxes, so that he doesn't have to cut public safety and school budgets. He's even begging the Libtards in the legislature to help cut spending on their pet project that keep them getting elected (in other words, to cut off their golden vote getting programs)
But rather than deal with the actual causes of government bloat and fiscal rot (unsupportable liberal entitlement programs), they are attacking what government SHOULD be providing (police, fire, education). So, the illegal immigrants get all the free healthcare, welfare and so on they want, the rest of us have to pay more for the basics.
Really, 7.25% sales tax ought to be enough don't you think? But hey, lets raise it to 8.5% and watch more CA businesses leave or go out of business because they can't compete with the likes of Amazon and other online retailers shipping products from out of state.
California is screwed because of Liberals, not doing better because of them. They've been in power in the legislature for so long that all the current fiscal problems can be placed squarely on their laps. They own it.
Here's the problem with buying your phone outright... you don't get the discount from the big Carriers for having brought your own phone. So you end up paying subsidized rates for unsubsidized phones. Sure you're locked into a two year contract, but since I've been with my carrier for 6 years, and I'm not switching unless someone else is paying the bills, two year contract is no big deal.
So, my choices are let my contract expire and go month to month paying $65-$70 month (grandfathered plan) for unlimited data and 480 Talk Minutes... and keep my phone... until it breaks. OR Renew my contract, pay $100-$200 for a phone that is $500-$600 retail, and pay the same amount every month. OR buy a new phone for $500-$600 and go to month to month (still paying the $65-70/mo).... with a phone I can't use on another carrier.
It isn't rocket science to realize that if I'm paying the $65-$70/mo no matter what I do, I might as well get the new phone when it comes out. AND I usually end up selling my old phone on Craigslist to someone that can't afford or doesn't qualify for contract cell service.
What the rest of the world doesn't know about the US, is that the big three don't have compatible frequencies so... your phone is locked to them anyway. The smaller services are just using the towers of the other three.
Hell, it would be better to advertise on Facebook by saying anyone that mentions "GM" or any of the subsidiaries in a post, while having a "like" to the GM page is eligible for a random chance at a car, giving away one car per week for the next year. That would generate ALL sorts of free advertising that could be mined for more data value than anything Facebook is offering. Perhaps even offering a grand prize of "any car, truck or SUV made by GM, of your choice" at the end of the promo period. That would be a hell of a lot less expensive, get a lot more "astroturf" style publicity than anything. Hell, I'm not a GM guy, but I would probably write one GM based post a week just for the off chance of getting a free car.
I think your assumptions are way low. I drive by, or is driven by more than 100 cars every day, and my commute is about 3 miles. Heck, just going to the store probably nets me 25 cars/people alone. 100,000 cars on the road with stickers probably nets 100,000,000 views a day. Having the sticker say something like "GM paid me $400 for this sticker" would cause the "greed" factor to kick in. People would actually believe it, investigate it, and end up at a GM dealership when looking to buy a car... just because.
Actually, XML might be the ideal method of encoding. It depends on what you mean by "ideal";) XML makes it much easier for a human to decode than say a bit stream of binary coded data. Just saying, that without further context, your statement may not be entirely accurate, or it could be perfectly accurate.
Which in my estimation makes it not accurate at all.
In the end, you want to eek out as much performance as possible, given the constraints of the law of diminishing returns verses increasing (or decreasing, depending) the limits. That last 0.0001% increase in performance may not be worth the effort needed to achieve it.
Theory is not the same as practice, but people often treat them the same.
The "framing" of photographs is a long standing practice and almost seems to par for the course these days. When you have as many photojournalists as participants in events... and you see it standard practice....
Take a look there, while it captures a dramatic moment in a frame that is designed to cause "outrage" at the treatment of Palestinians at the hand of the "evil" Jews... it doesn't tell the whole story. In the following link is a video of the entire scene and one thing you'll notice, is that these were not "innocent kids playing in the street" being run over, but part of a Photo Op setup to capture just exactly what they ended up capturing. Count the number of people tossing rocks, and the number of photographers (aka Photo Journalists) there to capture the entire event.
It is only by examining the entire scene, up close, and from a distance can one ever get the "whole picture". Mind you, I'm not talking about the plight of the Palestinians vs Israelis nor am I taking sides here, but using this as an example of how by capturing the "truth" might mislead people because it isn't "the whole truth"
Photo Journalists are not journalists. They are Photographers with an agenda (maybe even legitimate agenda) As they say, a photograph is worth a thousand words, the problem is those thousand words are left up to the Photographer and the interpretation of the viewer, and may not reflect the truth.
Easiest solution is to state (via rule or regulation) that no TSA screener can open a bag if the camera's are "out of service" for any reason. This will either cause them to fix the cameras or not screen bags, their choice. This would cause uproar via the public if they halted flights the moment security cameras were offline, causing them to fix the problem or have a black mark on public reputation of the TSA. But that is like shitting on a turd, nobody will notice;)
Name a version/distro that "Just works". And by "Just works" I mean wireless is easy to configure so that My Mother-in-Law can use it without being Root. And have programs that don't look like Crap that "just work". Don't get me wrong, I love and use Linux, but getting Mom, Dad and the kids on Linux. I've tried supporting them on Linux and it is easier to setup Windows 7 so that they can't hurt themselves and let them go than it is to support Linux. It just is.
Ubuntu is close but Drivers still are an issue, and I've not liked the UI changes of late...
I wish I had mod points, but you obviously don't need them. There is the phrase "It takes two to tango" and Woz/Jobs combo danced a nice dance, a beautiful masterpiece called Apple Computers. to me, people who hold Jobs up over Woz or visa versa aren't capable of seeing the whole picture.
Was Jobs a jerk? Probably. Is Woz a nice geek? Probably. Personalities being what they are, it often takes a balanced mix of personalities to get things done. Not everyone can be a General, we need privates too. What Jobs provided was (as a previous poster suggested) was the eye on the details while following KISS principles.
iPods weren't the cheapest, biggest, baddest portable music players, but what it offered is a nice package that followed KISS. In fact, there are still other music players out there that are fantastic and cheaper than iPod, but they don't have the "it" factor. Same goes now of iPads and the rest of the Tablet markets. You have iPads and everything else (Windows 8, Android ICS) with everyone else marketing via "More GBs, Dual Cores, 10 inch screens" that are not marketing the "it" factor of iPads. The difference? iPad marketing tell you what you can do with them, everyone else tells you what they are.
Point being, Apple tells people what they can do, not what the machine is. That is why people complain that they don't understand why Apple can see the same hardware for hundreds more than other competitors. Those complaints don't understand the difference in Marketing. And that is what Jobs is famous for. Woz's problem is that he is just a geek, he can make things do what he wants, and make the things so that he can do what he wants (two different things) Most people are more like Jobs envisions, they just want things to work.
If you want to beat Apple, do what apple does, make things that do something, and sell the sizzle, not the steak.
I'm Libertarian, which is about the opposite of socialism in every way. Personal responsibility is key to everything, even knowing you cannot make people responsible. The basis for Socialism is forced responsibility without the rights that go along with that responsibility. Socialism isn't evil, it is just wrong because it can will never work as the socialists think it should. There is no utopia.
Jim Crow laws are just as wrong as Civil Rights reverse discrimination laws... and for the same reason. That's the problem, you cannot fix a wrong by doing wrong.
Actually, during the 50's the black middle class was exploding, and racism was already in decline, which allowed for the "Civil Rights Act" to be passed, with the Republicans and a small number of Democratic people making it happen. The problem is, that by the time it passed, it was already too late for the racists of the south (Democrats), they had lost. The law was largely unneeded except to expedite the end to INSTITUTIONAL racism.
Of course, that doesn't fit the narrative of today's progressives. And indeed, the "war on poverty" has done more to re-enslave blacks to their white task masters than anything else.
We don't need anti discrimination laws, the idiots will lose eventually if and especially when government doesn't institutionalize racism (or reverse racism). We just need to use the existing laws to punish people who act inappropriately towards others.
10 is divisible by 2 and 5. That's it. Convenient for..1/2s and 20% 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6 offering twice as many even divisors as 10. And you think that is less convenient?
I was in a private residence, they had no rights to order me to do anything, because I was not hindering their investigation, nor was I doing or involved in anything illegal. If the cops can go into any residence and order the occupants around and arrest people for not "not following orders"... then I have a HUGE problem with that society. And you don't?
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I noticed that you never mentioned the LIBERAL parts of the problem.
1) High Speed Rail (underfunded referendum)
2) Underfunding CALPERS on purpose, by granting huge retirement benefits (in the late 90s) to garner the support of Government (tend towards liberal) workers.
3) Illegal Immigration and social programs that become entitlements that can never be revoked. Oh, and I'm a racist for even mentioning it .
4) it wasn't the internet bubble of the (Liberal) Silicon Valley that got people like Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi elected.,
No, it is always evil (R) that cause problems, but the good and wholesome (D)s never cause problems. I'm (L) and so I can see both sides making big mistakes, the problem is, the (D) party is in control of the Legislature which has most of the power in the state, even during Wilson's era. BTW, Wilson was a Liberal, so that really doesn't help your case.
I'm sorry for your loss ... ;)
Paying Dividends also lowers working capital that is useful for growing a company. The issue is more complex than you think. The goal of stock is to grow Wealth, which includes Stock Price and Dividends.
Besides lowering working capital, there is another really good reason to NOT pay dividends, namely TAXES. By holding onto the wealth generated, and not paying the wealth out to shareholders, you reduce the tax liability for your shareholders, often for years and years. Now you may want to pay taxes on your dividends, but me, I'd much rather not pay taxes as my wealth accumulates until such time as I need the income and the wealth is taxed at the lower "capital gains" rate and not at the higher "Marginal Tax" rates.
But hey, if you think you are better off paying your wealth to the government, by all means invest in only dividend paying stocks.
As of this moment, FB shares are trading at 38.58 and falling Open at 42, down to 38 ... That's twice it has dropped to 38 ... and I'm wondering if this time there will be no rescue.
Oh, and don't even get me started on the High Speed Rail system that is, even before it has broken ground, doubled in cost. What a freaking boondogle that is already!
And Jerry Brown is doing such a fantastic Job as Governor that he's begging people to take less money, raise taxes, so that he doesn't have to cut public safety and school budgets. He's even begging the Libtards in the legislature to help cut spending on their pet project that keep them getting elected (in other words, to cut off their golden vote getting programs)
But rather than deal with the actual causes of government bloat and fiscal rot (unsupportable liberal entitlement programs), they are attacking what government SHOULD be providing (police, fire, education). So, the illegal immigrants get all the free healthcare, welfare and so on they want, the rest of us have to pay more for the basics.
Really, 7.25% sales tax ought to be enough don't you think? But hey, lets raise it to 8.5% and watch more CA businesses leave or go out of business because they can't compete with the likes of Amazon and other online retailers shipping products from out of state.
California is screwed because of Liberals, not doing better because of them. They've been in power in the legislature for so long that all the current fiscal problems can be placed squarely on their laps. They own it.
Here's the problem with buying your phone outright ... you don't get the discount from the big Carriers for having brought your own phone. So you end up paying subsidized rates for unsubsidized phones. Sure you're locked into a two year contract, but since I've been with my carrier for 6 years, and I'm not switching unless someone else is paying the bills, two year contract is no big deal.
So, my choices are let my contract expire and go month to month paying $65-$70 month (grandfathered plan) for unlimited data and 480 Talk Minutes ... and keep my phone ... until it breaks. OR Renew my contract, pay $100-$200 for a phone that is $500-$600 retail, and pay the same amount every month. OR buy a new phone for $500-$600 and go to month to month (still paying the $65-70/mo) .... with a phone I can't use on another carrier.
It isn't rocket science to realize that if I'm paying the $65-$70/mo no matter what I do, I might as well get the new phone when it comes out. AND I usually end up selling my old phone on Craigslist to someone that can't afford or doesn't qualify for contract cell service.
What the rest of the world doesn't know about the US, is that the big three don't have compatible frequencies so ... your phone is locked to them anyway. The smaller services are just using the towers of the other three.
Hell, it would be better to advertise on Facebook by saying anyone that mentions "GM" or any of the subsidiaries in a post, while having a "like" to the GM page is eligible for a random chance at a car, giving away one car per week for the next year. That would generate ALL sorts of free advertising that could be mined for more data value than anything Facebook is offering. Perhaps even offering a grand prize of "any car, truck or SUV made by GM, of your choice" at the end of the promo period. That would be a hell of a lot less expensive, get a lot more "astroturf" style publicity than anything. Hell, I'm not a GM guy, but I would probably write one GM based post a week just for the off chance of getting a free car.
I think your assumptions are way low. I drive by, or is driven by more than 100 cars every day, and my commute is about 3 miles. Heck, just going to the store probably nets me 25 cars/people alone. 100,000 cars on the road with stickers probably nets 100,000,000 views a day. Having the sticker say something like "GM paid me $400 for this sticker" would cause the "greed" factor to kick in. People would actually believe it, investigate it, and end up at a GM dealership when looking to buy a car ... just because.
Actually, XML might be the ideal method of encoding. It depends on what you mean by "ideal" ;) XML makes it much easier for a human to decode than say a bit stream of binary coded data. Just saying, that without further context, your statement may not be entirely accurate, or it could be perfectly accurate.
Which in my estimation makes it not accurate at all.
In the end, you want to eek out as much performance as possible, given the constraints of the law of diminishing returns verses increasing (or decreasing, depending) the limits. That last 0.0001% increase in performance may not be worth the effort needed to achieve it.
Theory is not the same as practice, but people often treat them the same.
The "framing" of photographs is a long standing practice and almost seems to par for the course these days. When you have as many photojournalists as participants in events ... and you see it standard practice ....
http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/145812.html
Take a look there, while it captures a dramatic moment in a frame that is designed to cause "outrage" at the treatment of Palestinians at the hand of the "evil" Jews ... it doesn't tell the whole story. In the following link is a video of the entire scene and one thing you'll notice, is that these were not "innocent kids playing in the street" being run over, but part of a Photo Op setup to capture just exactly what they ended up capturing. Count the number of people tossing rocks, and the number of photographers (aka Photo Journalists) there to capture the entire event.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3966413,00.html
It is only by examining the entire scene, up close, and from a distance can one ever get the "whole picture". Mind you, I'm not talking about the plight of the Palestinians vs Israelis nor am I taking sides here, but using this as an example of how by capturing the "truth" might mislead people because it isn't "the whole truth"
Photo Journalists are not journalists. They are Photographers with an agenda (maybe even legitimate agenda) As they say, a photograph is worth a thousand words, the problem is those thousand words are left up to the Photographer and the interpretation of the viewer, and may not reflect the truth.
Most people don't trust "Photojournalism" because of how easy it is to "stage" a photo to get the desired "effect" (propaganda)
http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/faking.html
Then vote for one of the OTHER parties that are available. There aren't just "two" parties, however the system is designed for just "two".
Easiest solution is to state (via rule or regulation) that no TSA screener can open a bag if the camera's are "out of service" for any reason. This will either cause them to fix the cameras or not screen bags, their choice. This would cause uproar via the public if they halted flights the moment security cameras were offline, causing them to fix the problem or have a black mark on public reputation of the TSA. But that is like shitting on a turd, nobody will notice ;)
Name a version/distro that "Just works". And by "Just works" I mean wireless is easy to configure so that My Mother-in-Law can use it without being Root. And have programs that don't look like Crap that "just work". Don't get me wrong, I love and use Linux, but getting Mom, Dad and the kids on Linux. I've tried supporting them on Linux and it is easier to setup Windows 7 so that they can't hurt themselves and let them go than it is to support Linux. It just is.
Ubuntu is close but Drivers still are an issue, and I've not liked the UI changes of late ...
I wish I had mod points, but you obviously don't need them. There is the phrase "It takes two to tango" and Woz/Jobs combo danced a nice dance, a beautiful masterpiece called Apple Computers. to me, people who hold Jobs up over Woz or visa versa aren't capable of seeing the whole picture.
Was Jobs a jerk? Probably. Is Woz a nice geek? Probably. Personalities being what they are, it often takes a balanced mix of personalities to get things done. Not everyone can be a General, we need privates too. What Jobs provided was (as a previous poster suggested) was the eye on the details while following KISS principles.
iPods weren't the cheapest, biggest, baddest portable music players, but what it offered is a nice package that followed KISS. In fact, there are still other music players out there that are fantastic and cheaper than iPod, but they don't have the "it" factor. Same goes now of iPads and the rest of the Tablet markets. You have iPads and everything else (Windows 8, Android ICS) with everyone else marketing via "More GBs, Dual Cores, 10 inch screens" that are not marketing the "it" factor of iPads. The difference? iPad marketing tell you what you can do with them, everyone else tells you what they are.
Point being, Apple tells people what they can do, not what the machine is. That is why people complain that they don't understand why Apple can see the same hardware for hundreds more than other competitors. Those complaints don't understand the difference in Marketing. And that is what Jobs is famous for. Woz's problem is that he is just a geek, he can make things do what he wants, and make the things so that he can do what he wants (two different things) Most people are more like Jobs envisions, they just want things to work.
If you want to beat Apple, do what apple does, make things that do something, and sell the sizzle, not the steak.
I'm Libertarian, which is about the opposite of socialism in every way. Personal responsibility is key to everything, even knowing you cannot make people responsible. The basis for Socialism is forced responsibility without the rights that go along with that responsibility. Socialism isn't evil, it is just wrong because it can will never work as the socialists think it should. There is no utopia.
"funeral parade of personal responsibility;"
How do you feel about welfare state, nationalized health care laws ....
If Health Care is a right, where is the government offering to buy guns for those that cannot afford them?
Your two statements are not mutually exclusive. Right?
Jim Crow laws are just as wrong as Civil Rights reverse discrimination laws ... and for the same reason. That's the problem, you cannot fix a wrong by doing wrong.
Actually, during the 50's the black middle class was exploding, and racism was already in decline, which allowed for the "Civil Rights Act" to be passed, with the Republicans and a small number of Democratic people making it happen. The problem is, that by the time it passed, it was already too late for the racists of the south (Democrats), they had lost. The law was largely unneeded except to expedite the end to INSTITUTIONAL racism.
Of course, that doesn't fit the narrative of today's progressives. And indeed, the "war on poverty" has done more to re-enslave blacks to their white task masters than anything else.
We don't need anti discrimination laws, the idiots will lose eventually if and especially when government doesn't institutionalize racism (or reverse racism). We just need to use the existing laws to punish people who act inappropriately towards others.
Dude, please don't let the facts or reason get in the way of a good troll against religion.
10 is divisible by 2 and 5. That's it. Convenient for ..1/2s and 20%
12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6 offering twice as many even divisors as 10. And you think that is less convenient?
I was in a private residence, they had no rights to order me to do anything, because I was not hindering their investigation, nor was I doing or involved in anything illegal. If the cops can go into any residence and order the occupants around and arrest people for not "not following orders" ... then I have a HUGE problem with that society. And you don't?