Real programming is when you write code in a space and time constrained execution environment, and you find yourself scouring CS literature for the latest algorithms. And anything worse than O(n) is too damn slow.
Non-real programming is when you are creating input boxes on a screen, and calling stored procedures because the DBA doesn't want you messing with the actual tables. And none of the meetings you are in discuss the order of the algorithms being used.
Jews under Christian rule have generally been treated much worse.
It is only recent radicalization that has caused the problems.
Most of the sites that you reference put forth a point of view that is just as intolerant, radical and ultimately destructive as that of the radical Islamists.
The idea that the US should adopt a set of laws that specifically prohibits Sharia Law is ludicrous. The Constitution of the United States of America and it's provisions based on the principles of the Enlightment is the correct approach. If something needs to be reinforced it should be provisions against ANY radical religious based laws, Christian, Muslim, Confucian and so on.
If a person meets either of the above conditions, then they are allowed to exclude up to $92,900 of their foreign earned income from their US expat taxes. If you are married filing jointly, you would be able to deduct up to $185,800 from your US expat taxes for the 2011 tax year. This amount is also indexed for inflation and increases each year. Additionally, you would qualify for the foreign housing deduction.
Well I'm old enough to remember talk of span of control in the mid '70s. It was 8 then. And the reason given was the military found 8 worked best. So I'm not really sure where 4-5 comes from. It certainly has never been the case over the past 40 years and the fact that it's still 8-10 refutes your argument.
Retail is shrinking, but a lot of that is just because retail had overbuilt, fueled by a credit bubble. There is of course a big increase in online retail, but where that is going who can tell. Amazon is actually building local facilities now to improve service. So what you are observing is not necessarily the effect of automation but rather economic cycles.
As far as business unit size, again military organization pioneered scaleability. Willow Run was rolling a B-24 off it's assembly line every hour. Liberty ships were coming out of shipyards one a day. Very wide supply chains do not require all that much automation.
Max company size was immense prior to automation. Standard Oil. General Motors. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. US Steel.
170,000 USD is a very nice salary. It's roughly 4 times the US median.
Apparently you did not read my posting above very carefully. At that income level it is pretty unlikely you would be paying substantial US taxes as an ex-patriot.
If you happen to be married the $90,000 exclusion is doubled; you would not even begin to owe taxes in the US until you are well beyond $250,000 or so.
The idea that you receive nothing for this is also incorrect. For example there are treaties that make you eligible for Social Security and Medicare even though you are not paying into these programs.
Automation of manufacturing has pretty much already happened. Instead of 40% of the workforce making stuff it's now at 8%.
Farming went through this earlier. Farming jobs are now somewhere around 5% of the total employment base.
As these sectors are already such a small part of the workforce changes aren't going to affect the overall economy that much.
So the question is what segments come next? It's going to be hard to outsource middle managers, as personal interaction is so big a part of their jobs. Engineers are too difficult - part of their jobs may even be beyond what a Turing machine can manage. Health care is obviously very personal.
It's not just a $90,000 exemption. There are housing exemptions, credits on foreign taxes paid as so forth. Then add in the fact that the US tax code for people with less than $45,000 or so in taxable income is pretty progressive, and if you have half a brain in your head you are contributing to an IRA it is very unlikely that you are paying significant US taxes unless your income is $170,000 and up.
The main reason corporation are doing this is that they are hoping for an overseas earnings tax holiday.
Unfortunately it's not a wish upon a star. Such a holiday has been granted before, in 2004. So it is a perfectly logical strategy to hold out as long as possible in hopes of getting another cookie.
There is actual evidence that the last tax holiday led to job cuts as well.
Considering that we are in a liquidity trap now there is certainly no rational expectation that a repatriation tax holiday will benefit anyone except perhaps the stockholders of these corporations.
Such tax holidays are extremely bad policy for a variety of reasons. Which means I guess it's going to happen.
In reality what is needed is an overhaul of the tax system which includes reducing the top rate and elimination of many loopholes. Of course this is beyond the ability of our completely dysfunctional Congress. But the benefits to the economy would be massive.
The problem with your thesis is that it doesn't work. The banks got hit by tens of billions in fines as the result of robosign abuses.
The thing about the mortgages is that it varies depending on the state. NY for example enforces chain of custody of the note. No note no title no foreclosure.
You are conveniently neglecting the fact the Faisal was so incensed by this guy he ordered every copy of his writings destroyed.
He is no more representative of Islam than the nut job that went and assassinated 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin, or the raving loons of the Westboro Baptist Church are representative of Christianity.
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There should be a list of products that are encouraged for sale to our enemies.
Ideas:
Boeing batteries
Ford Pinto
Fen-Phen
Bon Vivant Vichyssoise
Pop Tarts
Twinkies
Intel Pentium (original version)
UML
Microsoft Windows ME
They will regret messing with us!
Real programming is when you write code in a space and time constrained execution environment, and you find yourself scouring CS literature for the latest algorithms. And anything worse than O(n) is too damn slow.
Non-real programming is when you are creating input boxes on a screen, and calling stored procedures because the DBA doesn't want you messing with the actual tables. And none of the meetings you are in discuss the order of the algorithms being used.
Nice rant, but sadly history completely contradicts it.
For example, the Golden Age of Jews in Europe occurred under Muslim rule in Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_the_Iberian_Peninsula
Jews under Christian rule have generally been treated much worse.
It is only recent radicalization that has caused the problems.
Most of the sites that you reference put forth a point of view that is just as intolerant, radical and ultimately destructive as that of the radical Islamists.
The idea that the US should adopt a set of laws that specifically prohibits Sharia Law is ludicrous. The Constitution of the United States of America and it's provisions based on the principles of the Enlightment is the correct approach. If something needs to be reinforced it should be provisions against ANY radical religious based laws, Christian, Muslim, Confucian and so on.
It's quite possible to buy nice a unlocked droid and use it on T-Mobile.
The free market hasn't been completely suppressed.
> right?
No, wrong. Some carriers offer plans for people who buy unlocked phones.
I have a pay as you go plan - don't pay unless I use the phone. Costs me about $100/year.
This only affects unlocking during the contract period.
Personally I buy unlocked phones and use them on a pay as you go plan anyway. All the junk the phone company puts on your phone is unacceptable to me.
Alfonso Cuaron really did a great job... another possibility would have been Guillermo del Toro. Both would be much more interesting.
Many online businesses end up delivering tangible merchandise. Tough to do that without a physical presence in customer's country.
Since the US has the largest economy on the planet there are pretty good reasons to establish a presence there.
And then there are certain skill sets that are necessary to run some kinds of businesses. Some of them happen to be in plentiful supply in California.
So there are at least two reasons.
He will be tried under PRE-EXISTING laws for non-payment of taxes.
This clause applies to criminal penalties only. This was established in the Calder v. Bull (1798) Supreme Court decision.
Ex post facto civil laws have been Constitutional for over 200 years.
Wrong. If you file jointly the total exemption of $180K applies to the total income of the couple.
http://www.greenbacktaxservices.com/blog/expat-taxes-explained-foreign-earned-income-exclusion/
If a person meets either of the above conditions, then they are allowed to exclude up to $92,900 of their foreign earned income from their US expat taxes. If you are married filing jointly, you would be able to deduct up to $185,800 from your US expat taxes for the 2011 tax year. This amount is also indexed for inflation and increases each year. Additionally, you would qualify for the foreign housing deduction.
Well I'm old enough to remember talk of span of control in the mid '70s. It was 8 then. And the reason given was the military found 8 worked best. So I'm not really sure where 4-5 comes from. It certainly has never been the case over the past 40 years and the fact that it's still 8-10 refutes your argument.
Retail is shrinking, but a lot of that is just because retail had overbuilt, fueled by a credit bubble. There is of course a big increase in online retail, but where that is going who can tell. Amazon is actually building local facilities now to improve service. So what you are observing is not necessarily the effect of automation but rather economic cycles.
As far as business unit size, again military organization pioneered scaleability. Willow Run was rolling a B-24 off it's assembly line every hour. Liberty ships were coming out of shipyards one a day. Very wide supply chains do not require all that much automation.
Max company size was immense prior to automation. Standard Oil. General Motors. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. US Steel.
It looked to me from the article that P=0.24.
That is really not a reasonable basis to draw all these conclusions from.
Well, in Canada a woman is almost as likely to murder her spouse as a man is.
So it must be cleaning the maple syrup off the plates drives women nuts.
170,000 USD is a very nice salary. It's roughly 4 times the US median.
Apparently you did not read my posting above very carefully. At that income level it is pretty unlikely you would be paying substantial US taxes as an ex-patriot.
If you happen to be married the $90,000 exclusion is doubled; you would not even begin to owe taxes in the US until you are well beyond $250,000 or so.
The idea that you receive nothing for this is also incorrect. For example there are treaties that make you eligible for Social Security and Medicare even though you are not paying into these programs.
Automation of manufacturing has pretty much already happened. Instead of 40% of the workforce making stuff it's now at 8%.
Farming went through this earlier. Farming jobs are now somewhere around 5% of the total employment base.
As these sectors are already such a small part of the workforce changes aren't going to affect the overall economy that much.
So the question is what segments come next? It's going to be hard to outsource middle managers, as personal interaction is so big a part of their jobs. Engineers are too difficult - part of their jobs may even be beyond what a Turing machine can manage. Health care is obviously very personal.
Obviously you have never owned an Italian car. Speed in some models, but never reliability. Ever.
It's not just a $90,000 exemption. There are housing exemptions, credits on foreign taxes paid as so forth. Then add in the fact that the US tax code for people with less than $45,000 or so in taxable income is pretty progressive, and if you have half a brain in your head you are contributing to an IRA it is very unlikely that you are paying significant US taxes unless your income is $170,000 and up.
> Centos 6.3 still has Gnome by default and I've found it to be quicker than Ubuntu
I like Centos. I use it on servers. The reason I don't use it on a desktop is the diversity of packages for Ubuntu is far superior.
The main reason corporation are doing this is that they are hoping for an overseas earnings tax holiday.
Unfortunately it's not a wish upon a star. Such a holiday has been granted before, in 2004. So it is a perfectly logical strategy to hold out as long as possible in hopes of getting another cookie.
There is actual evidence that the last tax holiday led to job cuts as well.
Considering that we are in a liquidity trap now there is certainly no rational expectation that a repatriation tax holiday will benefit anyone except perhaps the stockholders of these corporations.
Such tax holidays are extremely bad policy for a variety of reasons. Which means I guess it's going to happen.
In reality what is needed is an overhaul of the tax system which includes reducing the top rate and elimination of many loopholes. Of course this is beyond the ability of our completely dysfunctional Congress. But the benefits to the economy would be massive.
You know how dumb the average person is?
50% are worse.
The problem is the laws. What Aaron did should have never been a felony.
Take away the felony charges and the AG loses interest in a hurry.
The US has more people in prison than any place else in the world for a reason. The penalties for minor crimes are over the top.
The problem with your thesis is that it doesn't work. The banks got hit by tens of billions in fines as the result of robosign abuses.
The thing about the mortgages is that it varies depending on the state. NY for example enforces chain of custody of the note. No note no title no foreclosure.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/02/mers-decision-in-re-ferrel-l-agard-case-no-810-77338-reg/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/23/948986/--Show-Me-The-Note-Foreclosure-Defense-Works
Citing the Daily Mail?
You have got to be kidding. That rag has NO credibility.
You are conveniently neglecting the fact the Faisal was so incensed by this guy he ordered every copy of his writings destroyed.
He is no more representative of Islam than the nut job that went and assassinated 6 Sikhs in Wisconsin, or the raving loons of the Westboro Baptist Church are representative of Christianity.