Really? You can buy debit/prepaid cards at pretty much any major retailer in the United States. I'll submit that a lot of people outside the first world probably have limited access to bank accounts and credit cards.
Yahoo doesn't pay dividends and has 14000 employees...they are't really a small startup, that's my only point about market cap. I would guess they have a legal department they could consult on this.
I think having a market cap of 17.75B isn't really in the "small to medium-sized business" category. So Flickr/Yahoo could do it that way assuming their in-house counsel says that it abides by the law.
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Other then varnish and squid what caching reverse proxy software is there? It looks like Nginx added caching to their core recently, although I'm not exactly sure if its intended to act in the same capacity as squid and varnish or to be more like mod_cache for lighttpd. I guess you could use apache and mod_proxy but that's not exactly high performance. I know my employer looked at the various offerings and we ended up writing our own on top of a webserver called OKWS.
Actually one of the provisions of the federal government taking over passenger rail (aka Amtrak) was that they got priority over freight. This is slowly being enforced more and more so it wouldn't be a factor. One thing I wonder is why the government doesn't just take some of the right of way that they granted the railroads way back when. The Pennsylvania Railroad used to have 4 tracks going clear across the state from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Since then they have ripped out 2 of them, why not have the government replace them with rail that's rated for high speed operation?
I think a large part of the problem is the regulations associated with running trains faster. I mean if I was a shareholder in the railroads and they could perform upgrades to get stuff across the country in 1 week instead of 2 and thereby beat the trucking industry it seems like it would be a worthwhile investment.
The Hershey foundation runs the Milton Hershey school and owns something like 30% or so of the Hershey Company along with various entertainment properties. While they do have a lot of money, they also are expanding the school and the cost of schooling does go up as time goes on. So they could do something else with the money, but then their primary goal would probably suffer, more so since it was organized in 1915 and the organizational papers have been changed for the foundation several times to expand their mission. However since their mission is education of impoverished children, they seem content to use their money to grow in this aspect since I don't think anyone has solved all the issues in just the education field.
Some discount brokerages only charge a flat rate for each trade, regardless of how many shares are traded. I know Etrade is one example and I'm sure there are countless others.
But what do they make? I mean Bell Labs created things in a ton of different fields and studied just about everything. I have seen some of the computer research and development that comes out of Microsoft Labs and its definatly good, but do they do anything else? It doesn't seem like they are producing the same widespread developments that Bell Labs was involved in.
yeah but that only counts traffic from people with the alexa toolbar installed, which I would assume very few people here have. Due to it being (or used to be?) spyware.
Acutally since the change to Check 21 processing very few physical checks are getting sent all over the price, most still have the initial leg to the processing center but from there it is usually totally electronic, probably more so for a company like a credit card company.
Uh, you do realize that John D. Rockefeller Sr. was pretty far out of the loop on that one? His son was the closest involved but his son was sent totally conflicting messages from the on site people at the mine. Its not quite like the Homestead Strike with Frick.
Rockefeller was the first, and his right hand man specifically SAID that their goal was to influence the American political culture. THat is a direct paraphrase of the man who was instrumental in Rockefeller's foundation ploy.
I'm not sure which Rockefeller you are talking about, if it is Sr. then I'm not so sure about that statement. Rockefeller's charities were mainly in the medical field simply because no one can really say that you are manipulating people or influancing things if you are just curing illenesses. Eventually the Rockefeller Foundation has grown to probably do just about everything, but its inital aims were spread amongst many charities, many of which focued on a specific problem (i.e. eliminating hookworm in the south)...While the rich of that time did get their money in ill gotten ways, a few of them (Rockefeller and Carnegie) had idelogical issues with having that much money, so they attempted to better the world...and for the things that they founded, I would say that it has been bettered in many ways...
Not sure where the GP got that statement but Carnegie thought it a shame to die with any money and while his views were quite contrasted to his actual actions sometimes he did belive in trying to help everyone out. I don't think he really cared about his image. Rockefeller is another example of this, his personal belief was that it was God's gift to let him make all his money and it was his duty to do good deeds with it, so he donated massive amounts to medical research and created many charities, however none of them at the time bore any obvious link to Rockefeller. He also required that the charities be self sufficent and have other doners, so if they needed $2M for something, he would require them to come up with $1M from other doners first. (Although I think he regularlly covered the difference if it was required)
While what Gates is doing is definatly notable, it just seems more of a PR move with the whole point as to establishing his legecy. Why not create a foundation and name it after something a bit less pretensious.
I agree, I think its interesting how Rockefeller's charities were purposely far apart from the Rockefeller's name...Rockefeller didn't want to seem as if he was buying his public image when he truely did just want to do the best with his money. With Gates and many of the large donators these days it always seems to go to a charity bearing their name, with millions of press releases and such. And it is never a cash donation or an upfront donation of stock, it is always X over Y number of years, allowing that to be modified in the future and the donators to still have total control over the cashflow while it still looks good that they donated X amount of dollars. (Plus they get the tax write off for X amount to start I think)
But if we don't have free will (as you previously stated) and he knows and controls every choice and decision that we make, then making us belive in him seems to be irrelevent since he can just force us all to belive in him and we will think we chose that due to our illusion of free will. Since he knows every choice and can control the decisions and thoughts we have, then we can't really rebel from his authority since he is in charge no matter what. That means that this whole end of world scenerio where millions of people die is totally useless since in order for us all to belive he has to set that in our heads, which he could do to everyone at once and therefore skip all of the horrors and such. Therefore since we don't have free will and are controlled by him, he can avoid the whole destruction of the world thing unless he wants to see his creations die, which would be mighty sadistic.
Erm, you do relize what the term independent state means? It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the socio-political organization of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia was just Arabia until the early 1900s when the Saudi family was instilled as the leaders. It is the same sort of organization. So if the UN would create a city and dictate that no nation would have control over its politics, then that would be an independent state. This doesn't mean that all the people of various religions would be kicked out, just that every one may be treated pretty equally. Heck reading your post literally it seems to indicate that if Jerusalem wasn't part of Israel then we would never have to worry about the end of the world.
He has said that this final time will worse for all humanity than any other period of time, before or afterwards. If HE did not intervene, humanity would be wholly exterminated.
So...if he is going to invervene why make humanity go through such horrors? Seems a might bit sadistic. Like having someone beat an animal until it was near death then "saving" it...when you could have stopped it from the beginning.
This is the city where their ancient kings ruled and it will never be ceded again to any other power, nation or people.
Yes and the Native Americans have stories about where they ruled over and such, should we give them back control of North America since their people ruled over it at one point?
The English ruled over a massive empire at one point, should they put it back together just because they had it?
Why do we follow some ancient prophecies when we ignore others? Why not just make the city an independent state, with a non religious goverment governed by the UN or something. That way everyone has equal access to the city (something that I belive the three religions have fought over for a few thousand years) Sure they wouldn't be ruleing over it but that's true around the world.
So if I want to submit documents to the State I should be able to use any format I want? And its up to them to figure out how to read it? So I should be able to say "I want to submit my tax returns in World Perfect v2 format" they should have to listen?
Microsoft is nuts to not support ODF, but I understand their reasoning. They don't support any creative commons licenses in their product.
Uh, its a standard, there is no license, Microsoft doesn't seem to have a problem supporting things like TCP/IP.
I think the reason most steroids are banned in sports are because it offers an unfair competitive edge, i.e. what if you couldn't take steroids you wouldn't have a chance in the world then. But if this is a natraul substance I have to wonder how they can detect it, much like I don't think they can detect blood doping.
Just had to add, they aren't out of business yet, low profile perhaps. Either way, I think we both agree stupidity costs more then their automotive choices.
Sorry but that's the most expensive new car...If you want to buy a McLaren F1 you have to shell out upwards of $1 million if you can find a seller. Its a used car yes, however for a few extra grand you can send it back to the factory and they will change things around to suit you (fit the seat to you, etc)
If you really want to get exotic you could buy something like a Dauer 962, which is pretty much a street legal Porsche 962 race car. I think once you are done with one of them it can easily run between $1-3M. Also the new Bugatti Veyron or whatever its called (looks like ass imho) retails for a cool $1M even.
And that's not even getting into collector cars...vintage Ferraris such as a Testa Rossa (note two words, not the car from the 80s on Miami Vice) start at $5M and go up.
But that's just me spouting off about cars.
If you look at most lottery winners and a few pro sports flash in the pan types, many end up bankrupt within a few years due to the inablity to manage the money and being taken in scams.
Just wanted to say 993s are awesome. Is it a turbo version? Its funny that the 993 is more expensive in most cases then the newer 996. (On the used market)
For the automatic system restore just setup a cron that does "tar cf `date`.tar/" whenever you want. This would provide a full system backup, and with a bit more work you could make it do incremental backups also.
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Really? You can buy debit/prepaid cards at pretty much any major retailer in the United States. I'll submit that a lot of people outside the first world probably have limited access to bank accounts and credit cards.
Yahoo doesn't pay dividends and has 14000 employees...they are't really a small startup, that's my only point about market cap. I would guess they have a legal department they could consult on this.
I think having a market cap of 17.75B isn't really in the "small to medium-sized business" category. So Flickr/Yahoo could do it that way assuming their in-house counsel says that it abides by the law.
Other then varnish and squid what caching reverse proxy software is there? It looks like Nginx added caching to their core recently, although I'm not exactly sure if its intended to act in the same capacity as squid and varnish or to be more like mod_cache for lighttpd. I guess you could use apache and mod_proxy but that's not exactly high performance. I know my employer looked at the various offerings and we ended up writing our own on top of a webserver called OKWS.
Actually one of the provisions of the federal government taking over passenger rail (aka Amtrak) was that they got priority over freight. This is slowly being enforced more and more so it wouldn't be a factor. One thing I wonder is why the government doesn't just take some of the right of way that they granted the railroads way back when. The Pennsylvania Railroad used to have 4 tracks going clear across the state from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Since then they have ripped out 2 of them, why not have the government replace them with rail that's rated for high speed operation?
I think a large part of the problem is the regulations associated with running trains faster. I mean if I was a shareholder in the railroads and they could perform upgrades to get stuff across the country in 1 week instead of 2 and thereby beat the trucking industry it seems like it would be a worthwhile investment.
The Hershey foundation runs the Milton Hershey school and owns something like 30% or so of the Hershey Company along with various entertainment properties. While they do have a lot of money, they also are expanding the school and the cost of schooling does go up as time goes on. So they could do something else with the money, but then their primary goal would probably suffer, more so since it was organized in 1915 and the organizational papers have been changed for the foundation several times to expand their mission. However since their mission is education of impoverished children, they seem content to use their money to grow in this aspect since I don't think anyone has solved all the issues in just the education field.
Some discount brokerages only charge a flat rate for each trade, regardless of how many shares are traded. I know Etrade is one example and I'm sure there are countless others.
But what do they make? I mean Bell Labs created things in a ton of different fields and studied just about everything. I have seen some of the computer research and development that comes out of Microsoft Labs and its definatly good, but do they do anything else? It doesn't seem like they are producing the same widespread developments that Bell Labs was involved in.
SGI Irix, there is an application that lets you view the filesystem that way.
yeah but that only counts traffic from people with the alexa toolbar installed, which I would assume very few people here have. Due to it being (or used to be?) spyware.
Acutally since the change to Check 21 processing very few physical checks are getting sent all over the price, most still have the initial leg to the processing center but from there it is usually totally electronic, probably more so for a company like a credit card company.
Uh, you do realize that John D. Rockefeller Sr. was pretty far out of the loop on that one? His son was the closest involved but his son was sent totally conflicting messages from the on site people at the mine. Its not quite like the Homestead Strike with Frick.
Rockefeller was the first, and his right hand man specifically SAID that their goal was to influence the American political culture. THat is a direct paraphrase of the man who was instrumental in Rockefeller's foundation ploy.
I'm not sure which Rockefeller you are talking about, if it is Sr. then I'm not so sure about that statement. Rockefeller's charities were mainly in the medical field simply because no one can really say that you are manipulating people or influancing things if you are just curing illenesses. Eventually the Rockefeller Foundation has grown to probably do just about everything, but its inital aims were spread amongst many charities, many of which focued on a specific problem (i.e. eliminating hookworm in the south)...While the rich of that time did get their money in ill gotten ways, a few of them (Rockefeller and Carnegie) had idelogical issues with having that much money, so they attempted to better the world...and for the things that they founded, I would say that it has been bettered in many ways...
Not sure where the GP got that statement but Carnegie thought it a shame to die with any money and while his views were quite contrasted to his actual actions sometimes he did belive in trying to help everyone out. I don't think he really cared about his image. Rockefeller is another example of this, his personal belief was that it was God's gift to let him make all his money and it was his duty to do good deeds with it, so he donated massive amounts to medical research and created many charities, however none of them at the time bore any obvious link to Rockefeller. He also required that the charities be self sufficent and have other doners, so if they needed $2M for something, he would require them to come up with $1M from other doners first. (Although I think he regularlly covered the difference if it was required)
While what Gates is doing is definatly notable, it just seems more of a PR move with the whole point as to establishing his legecy. Why not create a foundation and name it after something a bit less pretensious.
I agree, I think its interesting how Rockefeller's charities were purposely far apart from the Rockefeller's name...Rockefeller didn't want to seem as if he was buying his public image when he truely did just want to do the best with his money. With Gates and many of the large donators these days it always seems to go to a charity bearing their name, with millions of press releases and such. And it is never a cash donation or an upfront donation of stock, it is always X over Y number of years, allowing that to be modified in the future and the donators to still have total control over the cashflow while it still looks good that they donated X amount of dollars. (Plus they get the tax write off for X amount to start I think)
Sounds like State College, PA...I know that is another example of a college town that has good bus service.
But if we don't have free will (as you previously stated) and he knows and controls every choice and decision that we make, then making us belive in him seems to be irrelevent since he can just force us all to belive in him and we will think we chose that due to our illusion of free will.
Since he knows every choice and can control the decisions and thoughts we have, then we can't really rebel from his authority since he is in charge no matter what. That means that this whole end of world scenerio where millions of people die is totally useless since in order for us all to belive he has to set that in our heads, which he could do to everyone at once and therefore skip all of the horrors and such. Therefore since we don't have free will and are controlled by him, he can avoid the whole destruction of the world thing unless he wants to see his creations die, which would be mighty sadistic.
Erm, you do relize what the term independent state means? It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the socio-political organization of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia was just Arabia until the early 1900s when the Saudi family was instilled as the leaders. It is the same sort of organization. So if the UN would create a city and dictate that no nation would have control over its politics, then that would be an independent state. This doesn't mean that all the people of various religions would be kicked out, just that every one may be treated pretty equally. Heck reading your post literally it seems to indicate that if Jerusalem wasn't part of Israel then we would never have to worry about the end of the world.
He has said that this final time will worse for all humanity than any other period of time, before or afterwards. If HE did not intervene, humanity would be wholly exterminated.
So...if he is going to invervene why make humanity go through such horrors? Seems a might bit sadistic. Like having someone beat an animal until it was near death then "saving" it...when you could have stopped it from the beginning.
This is the city where their ancient kings ruled and it will never be ceded again to any other power, nation or people.
Yes and the Native Americans have stories about where they ruled over and such, should we give them back control of North America since their people ruled over it at one point?
The English ruled over a massive empire at one point, should they put it back together just because they had it?
Why do we follow some ancient prophecies when we ignore others? Why not just make the city an independent state, with a non religious goverment governed by the UN or something. That way everyone has equal access to the city (something that I belive the three religions have fought over for a few thousand years) Sure they wouldn't be ruleing over it but that's true around the world.
So if I want to submit documents to the State I should be able to use any format I want? And its up to them to figure out how to read it? So I should be able to say "I want to submit my tax returns in World Perfect v2 format" they should have to listen?
Microsoft is nuts to not support ODF, but I understand their reasoning. They don't support any creative commons licenses in their product.
Uh, its a standard, there is no license, Microsoft doesn't seem to have a problem supporting things like TCP/IP.
I think the reason most steroids are banned in sports are because it offers an unfair competitive edge, i.e. what if you couldn't take steroids you wouldn't have a chance in the world then. But if this is a natraul substance I have to wonder how they can detect it, much like I don't think they can detect blood doping.
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Just had to add, they aren't out of business yet, low profile perhaps. Either way, I think we both agree stupidity costs more then their automotive choices.
Sorry but that's the most expensive new car...If you want to buy a McLaren F1 you have to shell out upwards of $1 million if you can find a seller. Its a used car yes, however for a few extra grand you can send it back to the factory and they will change things around to suit you (fit the seat to you, etc)
If you really want to get exotic you could buy something like a Dauer 962, which is pretty much a street legal Porsche 962 race car. I think once you are done with one of them it can easily run between $1-3M. Also the new Bugatti Veyron or whatever its called (looks like ass imho) retails for a cool $1M even.
And that's not even getting into collector cars...vintage Ferraris such as a Testa Rossa (note two words, not the car from the 80s on Miami Vice) start at $5M and go up.
But that's just me spouting off about cars.
If you look at most lottery winners and a few pro sports flash in the pan types, many end up bankrupt within a few years due to the inablity to manage the money and being taken in scams.
Just wanted to say 993s are awesome. Is it a turbo version? Its funny that the 993 is more expensive in most cases then the newer 996. (On the used market)
For the automatic system restore just setup a cron that does "tar cf `date`.tar /" whenever you want. This would provide a full system backup, and with a bit more work you could make it do incremental backups also.