Really? Now we're surprised that part of a college Comp Sci degree at a military academy includes training in military applications of coding?
I've got a hot tip for you: they also teach them to shoot guns in college. I know - fucking insane, isn't it? It's like there's a whole secret government department that does nothing but think up ways to kill and disable people and infrastructure! Except, you know, it's not really secret.
I read the article as well. I also happen to run a business I started ten years ago from scratch. I'm not a business person, and even I knew that taxes mattered. This really is business 101. There are all types of businesses, and 2 hours with an accountant prior to starting any business, much less one in which you know is going to see 5-6 figures of cash flow in a very short period of time, is the first thing you should do. Mine gave me insight into basically everything in the article.
Yeah, I was an asshole about it in my gp post. I'm an asshole about a lot of things - you need look no further than my sig for proof.;-)
...this has nothing to do with the government. Nobody here is "the government" - it's just three private parties arguing over who's shit got posted to youtube.
WTF - you know, every other small business person thinks of this shit BEFORE they start. It's not hard, really. Quit pretending you're running a lemonade stand in your parents driveway.
Go look at the actual 3D data map on the site, you'll find that the US is nearly indistinguishable from basically every other 1st world Western Eurpoean-Centric nation. When you see the difference between the "top plateau" and "everyone else" it becomes pretty clear that there really is nothing to see here.
And yet most moons are tidally locked. If you believe wikipedia (as I'm too lazy to confirm it), mercury is in a 3:2 lock due to its eccentricity, not some inherent stability of 3:2 ratio.
Adam Corrolla and Jimmy Kimmel (and many, many other pranksters) have proven that people really don't know the language, but will gladly treat a misconception with confidence when given just a little nudge.
Oh, the rabbit hole is very deep indeed.
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Your $50 - every single cent - came from people spending money. Maybe it was some of the taxes you paid, maybe it's some of the taxes your neighboring business paid, maybe some of it even came from your rival business.
The difference is that the baseline consumer has $50 to spend. Because you're not a baseline consumer, you have $100 to spend.
You don't shut down because you have the desire for creature comforts or to be better than the unwashed masses - you would hate life living on $50. You'd hate it even more because you would know people living on $100.
This isn't really sustainable, imho. Humans are very, very lazy creatures on the whole. That laziness is reinforced by their perception that wages do not represent the value they provide (yeah, that's arguable in the abstract, but not for them personally). The flip side is that the equivalent output (in goods/services) of a single human really has vastly outstripped wages, but workers don't see this as it is managements view that increases in efficiency due to technology and capital plant should solely benefit those providing guidance and capital. The reason we don't have a 10 hour workweek is that a human will trade 40 hours a week for a sum of money. An employer would no more pay $40 for a $10 barrel of raw material that could be made to produce 4x the goods due to new machinery, than pay a worker 40 hours of wage for 10 hours of performance, even if the output resulted in 40 hours of "production" based on old benchmark.
There is no common good in capitalism. If there was, the top would take only a small multiple of the bottom in compensation, we'd hire more people and have them work less, leveraging efficiency gains to benefit everyone. But because we don't, the government (who, in Europe, is more likely to speak for the people) is taking the ham-handed approach of just taking that extra from the top and sprinkling it about.
Silly peasant. Time is purchased with MONEY. Can't spend a day getting to your destination - hire a plane. Can't be bothered worrying that the a plane won't be available - buy one and have crews on standby 24/7! Why spend time when you can hire people to do almost everything for you! You just go from place to place, with everything prepared to meet your every whim - and even when you don't have a whim, you can hire people to know you well enough to have your whim available even when you don't know what it is.
And even without enough time, desire can easily outstrip the life of a human. Look at all the rich people building entire estates they may only live in for weeks out of their entire lives. Larry Elliston bought an island. A FUCKING ISLAND. Yachts you don't have time to sail, so many cars you could never drive them, jewels and jewelry and one-of-a-kind clothing you will only wear for a single evening is commonplace.
No - you're confusing radio bands with the actual EM radiation spectrum. That's low frequency for EMR - in the 10^4 um range on this chart: http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/~r... which is pretty far in the low end. Considering these are medical studies, they would look at the bands of EMR across the whole spectrum. Consider that calling these "Ultra High" seems a misnomer given that medical radiation often concerns x ray wavelengths.
Yes, please do stick me into a 2W incinerator. In fact, you might need to turn up the heat a couple of orders of magnitude just to keep my warm. See, I have a 1200W incinerator below my desk. It keeps my feet warm when the 14kW incinerator that blows radiated air into my office can't quite keep up with the temps outside and the poor building insulation.
The story here is that every slashdot reader would have (a) looked for porn on the device (b) downloaded any personal information and then put it up on the internet just to be an asshole and point out how "insecure" the device is and then (c) sold it on ebay.
As it was, a real human found her device and got it back to her. The sad part - everyone posting here pretty much confirms that they would have done the above three instead of being a good human and giving it back.
Kind of takes away most of the utility of modern smartphones, though. Not everybody is an asshole like all the posters on/. - some of return things that aren't ours.
You mean you never reuse the same code, or use a pattern of progress to build code? It's completely chaotic? No, of course not.
Interestingly, when you build a bridge of a skyscraper, and your part fails (for some reason - nail pops in drywall, paint doesn't adhere tot he steel, the road surface is too rough) you redo the work for free. Now, that's the corporate "you" not the personal you. The person making the bid covers it (subcontractor, contractor, consultant, whatever), not the employee generally. And, if the architect or engineer designs it wrong and the plans don't meet code - they generally are required to redesign it for free. There are even some contracts which are price dependent - if the estimated cost of the project exceeds the budget the architect has to redesign it for free (analogy: you write code and it takes too many compute cycles/doesn't run of reference hardware).
As for payment, cost overruns which are the result of poor or incomplete workmanship (bugs) are nearly always born by the person doing the shoddy work, never the client (unless the client decides they want to pay for some reason, or are too removed from the work to realize they've been double charged).
Although I've known contractors to make employees fix screw ups on their own time, it's generally the company that bears the burden of the repair costs - so the OP should have said that, had he been contracted for a fixed fee to complete the job, yes - up to a limited warranty period; as an employee his contract is to perform services at an hourly (or weekly or yearly) rate. The corporation pays the employee a far lower wage than the equivalent hourly rate they receive for the product, because they take those risks.
It's not about how you set the evaluations or set the scores. It's not even about what your GPA is. No matter how you attempt to fix the system, it will be gamed to maximize personal outcomes by individuals - be they teachers or students.
And, lets face it, in the end it really doesn't matter whether you got a 4.0 or a 3.5 or a 3.0. The real question is did you learn and remember the material. But there are relatively few standardized tests for that in each discipline, and even if there were it would miss all the little side specialties. And personalized testing and grading is both expensive and still subject to personal bias.
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If there was ever a good reason FOR making them common carriers, I'm going to say that content divestiture is it!
Really? Now we're surprised that part of a college Comp Sci degree at a military academy includes training in military applications of coding?
I've got a hot tip for you: they also teach them to shoot guns in college. I know - fucking insane, isn't it? It's like there's a whole secret government department that does nothing but think up ways to kill and disable people and infrastructure! Except, you know, it's not really secret.
I read the article as well. I also happen to run a business I started ten years ago from scratch. I'm not a business person, and even I knew that taxes mattered. This really is business 101. There are all types of businesses, and 2 hours with an accountant prior to starting any business, much less one in which you know is going to see 5-6 figures of cash flow in a very short period of time, is the first thing you should do. Mine gave me insight into basically everything in the article.
Yeah, I was an asshole about it in my gp post. I'm an asshole about a lot of things - you need look no further than my sig for proof. ;-)
...this has nothing to do with the government. Nobody here is "the government" - it's just three private parties arguing over who's shit got posted to youtube.
WTF - you know, every other small business person thinks of this shit BEFORE they start. It's not hard, really. Quit pretending you're running a lemonade stand in your parents driveway.
Go look at the actual 3D data map on the site, you'll find that the US is nearly indistinguishable from basically every other 1st world Western Eurpoean-Centric nation. When you see the difference between the "top plateau" and "everyone else" it becomes pretty clear that there really is nothing to see here.
...since unrestricted garnishing doesn't seem to be particularly fair.
I'd tune in if it were without suits
Yeah- right ;-) Better to cover those bets and keep a tight fist on the workers, keeping the extra cash for a second boat.
And yet most moons are tidally locked. If you believe wikipedia (as I'm too lazy to confirm it), mercury is in a 3:2 lock due to its eccentricity, not some inherent stability of 3:2 ratio.
Adam Corrolla and Jimmy Kimmel (and many, many other pranksters) have proven that people really don't know the language, but will gladly treat a misconception with confidence when given just a little nudge.
Your $50 - every single cent - came from people spending money. Maybe it was some of the taxes you paid, maybe it's some of the taxes your neighboring business paid, maybe some of it even came from your rival business.
The difference is that the baseline consumer has $50 to spend. Because you're not a baseline consumer, you have $100 to spend.
You don't shut down because you have the desire for creature comforts or to be better than the unwashed masses - you would hate life living on $50. You'd hate it even more because you would know people living on $100.
This isn't really sustainable, imho. Humans are very, very lazy creatures on the whole. That laziness is reinforced by their perception that wages do not represent the value they provide (yeah, that's arguable in the abstract, but not for them personally). The flip side is that the equivalent output (in goods/services) of a single human really has vastly outstripped wages, but workers don't see this as it is managements view that increases in efficiency due to technology and capital plant should solely benefit those providing guidance and capital. The reason we don't have a 10 hour workweek is that a human will trade 40 hours a week for a sum of money. An employer would no more pay $40 for a $10 barrel of raw material that could be made to produce 4x the goods due to new machinery, than pay a worker 40 hours of wage for 10 hours of performance, even if the output resulted in 40 hours of "production" based on old benchmark.
There is no common good in capitalism. If there was, the top would take only a small multiple of the bottom in compensation, we'd hire more people and have them work less, leveraging efficiency gains to benefit everyone. But because we don't, the government (who, in Europe, is more likely to speak for the people) is taking the ham-handed approach of just taking that extra from the top and sprinkling it about.
Silly peasant. Time is purchased with MONEY. Can't spend a day getting to your destination - hire a plane. Can't be bothered worrying that the a plane won't be available - buy one and have crews on standby 24/7! Why spend time when you can hire people to do almost everything for you! You just go from place to place, with everything prepared to meet your every whim - and even when you don't have a whim, you can hire people to know you well enough to have your whim available even when you don't know what it is.
And even without enough time, desire can easily outstrip the life of a human. Look at all the rich people building entire estates they may only live in for weeks out of their entire lives. Larry Elliston bought an island. A FUCKING ISLAND. Yachts you don't have time to sail, so many cars you could never drive them, jewels and jewelry and one-of-a-kind clothing you will only wear for a single evening is commonplace.
No - you're confusing radio bands with the actual EM radiation spectrum. That's low frequency for EMR - in the 10^4 um range on this chart: http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/~r... which is pretty far in the low end. Considering these are medical studies, they would look at the bands of EMR across the whole spectrum. Consider that calling these "Ultra High" seems a misnomer given that medical radiation often concerns x ray wavelengths.
And, yes, they're low power too.
Yes, please do stick me into a 2W incinerator. In fact, you might need to turn up the heat a couple of orders of magnitude just to keep my warm. See, I have a 1200W incinerator below my desk. It keeps my feet warm when the 14kW incinerator that blows radiated air into my office can't quite keep up with the temps outside and the poor building insulation.
The story here is that every slashdot reader would have (a) looked for porn on the device (b) downloaded any personal information and then put it up on the internet just to be an asshole and point out how "insecure" the device is and then (c) sold it on ebay.
As it was, a real human found her device and got it back to her. The sad part - everyone posting here pretty much confirms that they would have done the above three instead of being a good human and giving it back.
Kind of takes away most of the utility of modern smartphones, though. Not everybody is an asshole like all the posters on /. - some of return things that aren't ours.
Don't forget the heated seats that make it feel like you just peed in your pants.
You mean you never reuse the same code, or use a pattern of progress to build code? It's completely chaotic? No, of course not.
Interestingly, when you build a bridge of a skyscraper, and your part fails (for some reason - nail pops in drywall, paint doesn't adhere tot he steel, the road surface is too rough) you redo the work for free. Now, that's the corporate "you" not the personal you. The person making the bid covers it
(subcontractor, contractor, consultant, whatever), not the employee generally. And, if the architect or engineer designs it wrong and the plans don't meet code - they generally are required to redesign it for free. There are even some contracts which are price dependent - if the estimated cost of the project exceeds the budget the architect has to redesign it for free (analogy: you write code and it takes too many compute cycles/doesn't run of reference hardware).
As for payment, cost overruns which are the result of poor or incomplete workmanship (bugs) are nearly always born by the person doing the shoddy work, never the client (unless the client decides they want to pay for some reason, or are too removed from the work to realize they've been double charged).
Although I've known contractors to make employees fix screw ups on their own time, it's generally the company that bears the burden of the repair costs - so the OP should have said that, had he been contracted for a fixed fee to complete the job, yes - up to a limited warranty period; as an employee his contract is to perform services at an hourly (or weekly or yearly) rate. The corporation pays the employee a far lower wage than the equivalent hourly rate they receive for the product, because they take those risks.
It's not about how you set the evaluations or set the scores. It's not even about what your GPA is. No matter how you attempt to fix the system, it will be gamed to maximize personal outcomes by individuals - be they teachers or students.
And, lets face it, in the end it really doesn't matter whether you got a 4.0 or a 3.5 or a 3.0. The real question is did you learn and remember the material. But there are relatively few standardized tests for that in each discipline, and even if there were it would miss all the little side specialties. And personalized testing and grading is both expensive and still subject to personal bias.
Oh, I wish I had mod points for you.
For those who feel that their right wing or libertarian God would not allow such things, I give you the words of Ronald Reagan, "Trust, but verify."
Making predictions not verifiable until after their retirement?
Maybe they are actually smarter than they look. ;-)
Only for you losers who like the new system.
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Keep Classic/Fix Beta, or we walk.
If you hate Beta, DO NOT VISIT Slashdot on 2/7!!
How you you show them Beta sucks? You drop their ad impressions!
Keep Classic/Fix Beta, or we walk.