Either way, I don't see how a publicly held corporation can spend any of its money on political activities.
No. There are other reasons for a corporation to contribute to political parties. The corporate officers may want a candidate to win becasue the alternative would be harmful to the company.
For example, if Joe Lefty is running on a platform of nationalizing all corporations, a company would want to support the oppostition without any desire but to see Mr. Lefty lose. There needn't be quid pro quo.
So, while they spend money with the expectation of a return *of some kind*, the return does not have to be in the form of specifc behavior from a politician in response to the contribution. They may simply want the candidate to do what he or she was going to do anyway.
It speaks volumes about our society when we focus so much energy and resources on less important things (eg. stopping a guy going 5 over the speed limit) while neglecting more important things (eg. solving a rape case).
But the two go hand-in-hand. New York City saw a remarkable drop in violent crime because of increased enforcement of "quality of life" crimes.
It may seem trivial to bust kids jumping subway turnstiles, but low-grade collars allow the police to hold someone and run checks for outstanding warrants and desk appearance tickets. Often this leads to an arrest for a more serious charge.
Now, this same technique can be abused, but used correctly it gives the cops an opportunity to get "up close and personal" with people who might otherwise be at liberty to commit more crimes.
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Yes, you did. See, this is a review, not a dictatorial decree, and both the review and the link are provided so that the reader may decide on his or her own whether or not to buy the book.
Observe: you read the review, and even though a link was provided, you were not compelled to buy the book. Amazing. Just like free will.
The only truly effective Campaign Finance Reform is to reduce the power of the federal government.
This is dead on. I do not underastand those who say that the answer to bad ans stupid laws are is more of the same. People will bribe governments so long as governments have the power do something for them.
Don't know of a GUI as nice as, say, VS.net, but here are few in the works that look quite promising. Other than that, Ruby fits your needs quite well.
Sun is a hardware company. Java was developed as an embedded application language. It lucked out with the growth of the web and the development of applets. Sun realized that if all applications were written in applets, then all a worker needed was dumb PC running a browser, with the heavy lifting done by (ta da!) a Sun server. You know, "the network is the computer(tm)." Remember?
This is what lit a fire under Mr. Gates' ass. Navigator + Java = badNews. However, applets turned out to be craplets (even while MS wrote the best JVM); stand-alone Java was too slow for the desktop; Java failed to score any significant headway.
But, Java could still be marketed for *server* development, so Sun decided to retrofit the embedded-language-that-could into a full-blown enterprise development lanaguge. (Hence the evil that is J2EE.)
Of course, using Java on the server means buying big iron, which, by coincidence, Sun happens to sell. It was always about the server.
Wow; you would almost swear they planned it this way.
I do see your point. Saying two languages are essentaily equivalent if they are both Turing complete becomes acdemic if, to have one language emulate the other, you need unreasonable time and resources.
I think this applies to FP on.net; the concern was would would it take to get all of the features of a given a language emulated in CLR.
Sure, it can be done, but if it takes an hour to produce 'Hello, World!', then there is little value (other than prompting discussion on/.).
(I write this as I install Linux under VMWare on Windows 2000. )
Sure it is. Java is converted to byte code, which scripts a virtual machine. Try running 'top'; The application running is the JVM, not your specific program. You see 'java', not 'SunOwnsMyAss.class' or whatever your program is named.
(Yeah, yeah, I know, JIT, compiled to native code, blah blah. That's an optimization on top of the JVM. You could do the same for Perl or Python, but that wouldn't mean they weren't scripting languages.)
No physically implementable computer system is Turing-complete...
Being Turing-complete, in the sense generally used when discussing languages, does not mean it can *literally* implement a Turing machine. It means the language (or system) can compute the same functions as can a Turing machine, with the understanding there are finite resources.
He has the potential to save a lot of money by going this route as he will be able to buy things related to his job with pre-tax money.
That may be true regardless of his incorporation status. Doing consulting work makes you a business in the eys of the IRS, whether you like it or not. The down side is you have to file more than just a 1040; the upside is you get to deduct certain busines expenses pre-tax.
You may also have to file quarterly tax returns, even if you don't incorporate.
The main reasons for incorporation are: limiting liabiity so you don't lose your house/car/stereo in a business-related lawsuit, and arranging your finances to reduce taxes.
Incoporating also helps if you have real employees and want to set up benefits programs. Certain states do not allow one-person businesses to incorporate, so you may need to appoint your spouse/partner/firend as a corporate officer.
I'm glad this question came up, since I'm undecided about forming a corporation or not; it isn't clear to me what the befits are for a single-person consultanting developer.
I think we need a law that forces companies to have a large checkbox in their sign-up forms saying "I don't mind having my personal information sold to other companies".
I think we need a law that says adults are responsible for themselves and must read things before signing/clicking.
I am not proud of having an account with them as it make me one of those statistics showing how popular they are. If it (hotmail) had been run by MS when I signed up I would never have done it.
You don't say if you still have the account, or if you backed up your indignation with concrete action and canceled the account. I hope I'm wrong, but something tells me that convenience trumped principles, and you still have a hotmail account.
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No. There are other reasons for a corporation to contribute to political parties. The corporate officers may want a candidate to win becasue the alternative would be harmful to the company.
For example, if Joe Lefty is running on a platform of nationalizing all corporations, a company would want to support the oppostition without any desire but to see Mr. Lefty lose. There needn't be quid pro quo.
So, while they spend money with the expectation of a return *of some kind*, the return does not have to be in the form of specifc behavior from a politician in response to the contribution. They may simply want the candidate to do what he or she was going to do anyway.
But the two go hand-in-hand. New York City saw a remarkable drop in violent crime because of increased enforcement of "quality of life" crimes.
It may seem trivial to bust kids jumping subway turnstiles, but low-grade collars allow the police to hold someone and run checks for outstanding warrants and desk appearance tickets. Often this leads to an arrest for a more serious charge.
Now, this same technique can be abused, but used correctly it gives the cops an opportunity to get "up close and personal" with people who might otherwise be at liberty to commit more crimes.
Yes, you did. See, this is a review, not a dictatorial decree, and both the review and the link are provided so that the reader may decide on his or her own whether or not to buy the book.
Observe: you read the review, and even though a link was provided, you were not compelled to buy the book. Amazing. Just like free will.
So, just what does a company have to make in order to be allowed to make political contributions?
This is dead on. I do not underastand those who say that the answer to bad ans stupid laws are is more of the same. People will bribe governments so long as governments have the power do something for them.
Illegal like what? The contributions and lobbying, while of dubious morality, are still legal.
Any numbers available for Sun's lobbying and contributions?
I sure as hell hope they're not learning to mangle English, either. "Keyboard" is a noun, not a verb, except in Jargonville.
Exactly. I gather none of these people ever heard of Futurism. Or gone to the movies, for that matter.
Oh well, I suppose, in the Age of the New Economy, we have to have the New Culture as well, even if it's really not new.
Don't know of a GUI as nice as, say, VS.net, but here are few in the works that look quite promising. Other than that, Ruby fits your needs quite well.
Yeah, sort of like that "Gates of Heaven" group some years ago.
This is what lit a fire under Mr. Gates' ass. Navigator + Java = badNews. However, applets turned out to be craplets (even while MS wrote the best JVM); stand-alone Java was too slow for the desktop; Java failed to score any significant headway.
But, Java could still be marketed for *server* development, so Sun decided to retrofit the embedded-language-that-could into a full-blown enterprise development lanaguge. (Hence the evil that is J2EE.)
Of course, using Java on the server means buying big iron, which, by coincidence, Sun happens to sell. It was always about the server.
Wow; you would almost swear they planned it this way.
I'm pretty sure he uses the word the way, say, Sun refers to the Java(tm) "standard", or the J2EE(tm) "standard".
I think this applies to FP on .net; the concern was would would it take to get all of the features of a given a language emulated in CLR.
Sure, it can be done, but if it takes an hour to produce 'Hello, World!', then there is little value (other than prompting discussion on /.).
(I write this as I install Linux under VMWare on Windows 2000. )
Sure it is. Java is converted to byte code, which scripts a virtual machine. Try running 'top'; The application running is the JVM, not your specific program. You see 'java', not 'SunOwnsMyAss.class' or whatever your program is named.
(Yeah, yeah, I know, JIT, compiled to native code, blah blah. That's an optimization on top of the JVM. You could do the same for Perl or Python, but that wouldn't mean they weren't scripting languages.)
Being Turing-complete, in the sense generally used when discussing languages, does not mean it can *literally* implement a Turing machine. It means the language (or system) can compute the same functions as can a Turing machine, with the understanding there are finite resources.
The question has to do with getting the language to run well, and correctly, on a stack-based VM.
As opposed, say, to a new cliche?
What about Programming Pearls , by Jon Louis Bentley?
Yes, but it's so much easier to wish for something on /. than to do a bit of research.
That may be true regardless of his incorporation status. Doing consulting work makes you a business in the eys of the IRS, whether you like it or not. The down side is you have to file more than just a 1040; the upside is you get to deduct certain busines expenses pre-tax.
You may also have to file quarterly tax returns, even if you don't incorporate.
The main reasons for incorporation are: limiting liabiity so you don't lose your house/car/stereo in a business-related lawsuit, and arranging your finances to reduce taxes.
Incoporating also helps if you have real employees and want to set up benefits programs. Certain states do not allow one-person businesses to incorporate, so you may need to appoint your spouse/partner/firend as a corporate officer.
I'm glad this question came up, since I'm undecided about forming a corporation or not; it isn't clear to me what the befits are for a single-person consultanting developer.
Unlike Canada, right?
I think we need a law that says adults are responsible for themselves and must read things before signing/clicking.
I am not proud of having an account with them as it make me one of those statistics showing how popular they are. If it (hotmail) had been run by MS when I signed up I would never have done it.
You don't say if you still have the account, or if you backed up your indignation with concrete action and canceled the account. I hope I'm wrong, but something tells me that convenience trumped principles, and you still have a hotmail account.
It can explain
- Choosing a career path
- Why Microsoft sucks
- Selecting an OS for music applications
- Why Microsoft is the evil empire
- Why we don't need any more programming langauges when Perl/Pyhton/Java/etc are perfectly OK
- Why Microsoft is evil
- Which open-source license is the One True License
- Why Bill Gates is the devil
- Where to find goat sex
- ... and all those other things that appear on
/. every month.
Sounds like a bestseller, at least on fatbrain.comYeah, I used to tell people I liked mathematics; it's the math that I can't stand.
Try replacing "cyber" with, say "really-big-network-I-don't-quite-understand", and the B.S. might just tone down.