so my food prices are reduced by taxes paid only BY rural folk that are returned TO rural farmers? What is this extra tax that rural folks pay that urban folks don't?
Maybe the rural folk should pay extra property taxes to help us city folk pay for our expensive urban property. Just because land is cheaper in the rural areas, does that mean I should pay more for it here in the city?? It's not fair!
I have always wondered how tax cuts for PERSONAL income help create jobs. Will there suddenly be a huge market for butlers? If the tax cuts reduced costs for EMPLOYERS (i.e. companies), then I could imagine a more direct effect on job creation.
Sure, some rich people might invest their tax savings in some companies (stock market does not count as it does not directly create new jobs), but that seems a very indirect (trickle down) strategy that suspiciously benefits the fat cat cronies of the Bush administration. If these tax cuts went directly to businesses, then I would believe that the Bush administration cared more about job creation than about lining their campaign contributors' pockets.
Maybe the rural folk should pay extra food taxes to help us city folk pay for food transportation costs. Just because (some) food is grown in the rural areas, does that mean I should pay more for it here in the city?? It's not fair!
Where can we find more info about the rules to receive Universal Service Funds? Can a new company even qualify to receive money? Or, like you said, are only "incumbent" telcos allowed to sit at the trough?
And how did Laszlo Systems get nomicated? Their Laszlo Presentation Server is not even a shipping product! Unreleased vaporware does not seem worthy of a technical achievement nomination. Laszlo execs must have some buddies in the Webby Awards office.
And Apache is cool, but is it really worthy of a technical achievement for the year 2002? I know Apache 2.0 was "officially" released in 2002, but the product is not THAT amazing. (I voted for Google)
Who is buying these products that are made faster and more cheaply because of automation? Not the newly created crowds of poor people. To continue making money, companies will need to either lower their prices (so poor people can afford the products) or raise their prices (to increase revenue from the few sales to rich people).
I've read that there are a growing number of US tax preparers/consultants in India. Just because a job is related to US law does not mean the job must be done within US borders.
will someone teach this to the current generation of corporate raider CEOs who don't care about rational behavior, don't care about the survival of the company, don't care about the product, don't care about the employees, don't care about the reputation, and just want to add another million to their paycheck and get the biggest gold parachute possible?
Presumably, if the company makes lousy products and treats its employees unfairly, then the company will have a hard time making money. Disciplined by the market.
Of course, the company will then be bailed out by the politicians who received the company's campaign contributions. Later, the company will declare bankruptcy and the CEO will get his golden parachute and a new job at his buddy's company..
If WINE gets successfull, M$ can destroy it in 10 min. All they have to do is to issue a security warning and a patch to M$ office and win2k3 that would let office use a new undocumented system call. WINE would roll over and die.
Like all those SMB changes to kill Samba? But the Samba team just kept rolling with the punches.
The Wine team (and many curious Windows developers) are quite adept are uncovering Microsoft's "hidden" APIs. Your new undocumented system call would be discovered and reimplemented easily.
Most Microsoft big wigs sell their MSFT stock on a regular scheduled basis. Wouldn't you?
Microsoft likes to keep analysts' expectations low, so they can be "surprised" by Microsoft's unexpectedly great financial results. When was the last time you heard Microsoft say, "We are doing soooo great financially! Raise your quarter estimates cuz we're going blow them out of the water!"
I limited my comments to the local press because they were the only press with which I have witnessed first hand incorrect articles from primary sources. I know this problem affects MUCH of the press.
I agree. I was talking with the PR guy at a startup where I used to work. He had been interviewed a number of times by the local press. He said that every article or TV story misquoted about 50% of what he said. They literally quoted him saying words he never said.. in every article.
So either he is a liar or the (local) press is very, very sloppy.
Plus a gas tax would be paid by visitors driving through Oregon. The GPS mileage tax would not be paid by visitors because their cars won't have the silly GPS trackers. Sounds like they are spending money in order to receive less tax revenue. smart!
Of course, Oregon is the state where it is ILLEGAL to pump your own gas. Their make-work laws require a professional gas station attendant to pump your gas for you.
Unfortunately, the national do-not-call list will be run by AT&T, who placed the lowest bid for the FTC project. AT&T has also been #1 on the FCC's list of telemarketing complaints for the past three years. Maybe the FTC and FCC should get together and talk sometime..
before wasting time and money developing a product that no one wants to buy, I think a better business plan is:
1. Sell it 2. Build it 3. Profit!
Once you have potential customers who like the product (idea) then you can build it. You can even have the potential customers give you (some) money up front to cover dev costs. If you can't find any customers, then you are trying to sell the wrong product and should work with viable customers to adapt your idea.
Wow, I didn't realize the FCC just banned anyone from owning a radio station except those five evil corporations.
There are a limited number of radio stations on the dial in a given market (because of FCC regulations, not limitations of radio technology). So on which radio frequencies are new, indepedent radio stations supposed to broadcast? They must buy out a radio frequency from the Big Boys or go home.
The internet crosses all national boundaries. Try tuning into BBC or Guardian UK. I read that during the the US/Iraq war, CNN.com traffic went down, but Guardian.co.uk traffic went up. I think about HALF of Guarian.co.uk readers are from the US! US Citizens are voting with their eyeballs and they are saying that US news is untrustworthy.
Don't forget the other network connections available to homes: wireless and satellite. With no infrastructure buried under concrete, many wireless ISPs could compete in the same city. Of course, this extra competition is good for the customer, not the ISPs..:-)
they could start that process over again, and be finished in 5 years, just in time to see their stock make the final dive into the subbasements.
Microsoft has already been doing this for the past five years. You just have not been paying attention..NET/CLR is the new Microsoft OS.
With Java and the browser wars, there was just too much userspace competition above the Windows OS. Microsoft needed to usurp them all with a higher-level, more encompassing "operating system". The line between programming languages and the OS has always been fuzzy.
Look at, for example, the Be Operating System. Written from scratch, from the ground up, and it shows just how much a computer can really accomplish if you start with a clean slate.
You mean like how BeOS supported very few hardware devices? Or how BeOS had totally new APIs and few applications?
MS could EASILY afford a new team to start Windows from scratch, leaving the existing team in place to continue to enhance / maintain the existing code base.
You mean like when Microsoft brought in Dave Cutler and friends to create Windows NT while the Windows group continued to extend Windows 3.1 and 9x?
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so my food prices are reduced by taxes paid only BY rural folk that are returned TO rural farmers? What is this extra tax that rural folks pay that urban folks don't?
btw, cow's milk is for baby cows, not humans.
thanks, very informative!
Maybe the rural folk should pay extra property taxes to help us city folk pay for our expensive urban property. Just because land is cheaper in the rural areas, does that mean I should pay more for it here in the city?? It's not fair!
I have always wondered how tax cuts for PERSONAL income help create jobs. Will there suddenly be a huge market for butlers? If the tax cuts reduced costs for EMPLOYERS (i.e. companies), then I could imagine a more direct effect on job creation.
Sure, some rich people might invest their tax savings in some companies (stock market does not count as it does not directly create new jobs), but that seems a very indirect (trickle down) strategy that suspiciously benefits the fat cat cronies of the Bush administration. If these tax cuts went directly to businesses, then I would believe that the Bush administration cared more about job creation than about lining their campaign contributors' pockets.
Maybe the rural folk should pay extra food taxes to help us city folk pay for food transportation costs. Just because (some) food is grown in the rural areas, does that mean I should pay more for it here in the city?? It's not fair!
Where can we find more info about the rules to receive Universal Service Funds? Can a new company even qualify to receive money? Or, like you said, are only "incumbent" telcos allowed to sit at the trough?
And how did Laszlo Systems get nomicated? Their Laszlo Presentation Server is not even a shipping product! Unreleased vaporware does not seem worthy of a technical achievement nomination. Laszlo execs must have some buddies in the Webby Awards office.
And Apache is cool, but is it really worthy of a technical achievement for the year 2002? I know Apache 2.0 was "officially" released in 2002, but the product is not THAT amazing. (I voted for Google)
Who is buying these products that are made faster and more cheaply because of automation? Not the newly created crowds of poor people. To continue making money, companies will need to either lower their prices (so poor people can afford the products) or raise their prices (to increase revenue from the few sales to rich people).
yeah, I was confused about why he was in Nordstrom's until I read that part, too.
I've read that there are a growing number of US tax preparers/consultants in India. Just because a job is related to US law does not mean the job must be done within US borders.
will someone teach this to the current generation of corporate raider CEOs who don't care about rational behavior, don't care about the survival of the company, don't care about the product, don't care about the employees, don't care about the reputation, and just want to add another million to their paycheck and get the biggest gold parachute possible?
Presumably, if the company makes lousy products and treats its employees unfairly, then the company will have a hard time making money. Disciplined by the market.
Of course, the company will then be bailed out by the politicians who received the company's campaign contributions. Later, the company will declare bankruptcy and the CEO will get his golden parachute and a new job at his buddy's company..
If WINE gets successfull, M$ can destroy it in 10 min. All they have to do is to issue a security warning and a patch to M$ office and win2k3 that would let office use a new undocumented system call. WINE would roll over and die.
Like all those SMB changes to kill Samba? But the Samba team just kept rolling with the punches.
The Wine team (and many curious Windows developers) are quite adept are uncovering Microsoft's "hidden" APIs. Your new undocumented system call would be discovered and reimplemented easily.
Most Microsoft big wigs sell their MSFT stock on a regular scheduled basis. Wouldn't you?
Microsoft likes to keep analysts' expectations low, so they can be "surprised" by Microsoft's unexpectedly great financial results. When was the last time you heard Microsoft say, "We are doing soooo great financially! Raise your quarter estimates cuz we're going blow them out of the water!"
I limited my comments to the local press because they were the only press with which I have witnessed first hand incorrect articles from primary sources. I know this problem affects MUCH of the press.
I agree. I was talking with the PR guy at a startup where I used to work. He had been interviewed a number of times by the local press. He said that every article or TV story misquoted about 50% of what he said. They literally quoted him saying words he never said.. in every article.
So either he is a liar or the (local) press is very, very sloppy.
Plus a gas tax would be paid by visitors driving through Oregon. The GPS mileage tax would not be paid by visitors because their cars won't have the silly GPS trackers. Sounds like they are spending money in order to receive less tax revenue. smart!
Of course, Oregon is the state where it is ILLEGAL to pump your own gas. Their make-work laws require a professional gas station attendant to pump your gas for you.
Unfortunately, the national do-not-call list will be run by AT&T, who placed the lowest bid for the FTC project. AT&T has also been #1 on the FCC's list of telemarketing complaints for the past three years. Maybe the FTC and FCC should get together and talk sometime..
AT&T Will Run Do-Not-Call List: Fox Again Wins Henhouse Contract
before wasting time and money developing a product that no one wants to buy, I think a better business plan is:
1. Sell it
2. Build it
3. Profit!
Once you have potential customers who like the product (idea) then you can build it. You can even have the potential customers give you (some) money up front to cover dev costs. If you can't find any customers, then you are trying to sell the wrong product and should work with viable customers to adapt your idea.
Wow, I didn't realize the FCC just banned anyone from owning a radio station except those five evil corporations.
There are a limited number of radio stations on the dial in a given market (because of FCC regulations, not limitations of radio technology). So on which radio frequencies are new, indepedent radio stations supposed to broadcast? They must buy out a radio frequency from the Big Boys or go home.
The internet crosses all national boundaries. Try tuning into BBC or Guardian UK. I read that during the the US/Iraq war, CNN.com traffic went down, but Guardian.co.uk traffic went up. I think about HALF of Guarian.co.uk readers are from the US! US Citizens are voting with their eyeballs and they are saying that US news is untrustworthy.
Don't forget the other network connections available to homes: wireless and satellite. With no infrastructure buried under concrete, many wireless ISPs could compete in the same city. Of course, this extra competition is good for the customer, not the ISPs..
Ooh, that's going to fix the IIS security holes for sure. Tee hee.
If IIS was written in managed
they could start that process over again, and be finished in 5 years, just in time to see their stock make the final dive into the subbasements.
Microsoft has already been doing this for the past five years. You just have not been paying attention.
With Java and the browser wars, there was just too much userspace competition above the Windows OS. Microsoft needed to usurp them all with a higher-level, more encompassing "operating system". The line between programming languages and the OS has always been fuzzy.
Look at, for example, the Be Operating System. Written from scratch, from the ground up, and it shows just how much a computer can really accomplish if you start with a clean slate.
You mean like how BeOS supported very few hardware devices? Or how BeOS had totally new APIs and few applications?
MS could EASILY afford a new team to start Windows from scratch, leaving the existing team in place to continue to enhance / maintain the existing code base.
You mean like when Microsoft brought in Dave Cutler and friends to create Windows NT while the Windows group continued to extend Windows 3.1 and 9x?