Fair enough, though I still think my original point stands: most people (probably 95+%) would prefer there to be police and laws to discourage murder and other crimes, rather than have to manage all their defense themselves.
That could be true, but in fairness at this point both companies are leveraging past investments and are mostly just sprinkling on a small dev effort for new features.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ADBE+Key+Statistics If 100% of Adobe's 4.2B revenue comes from $700 Photoshop sales, that's 6M units/year, call that 24M units over the lifespan of windows 7 since release in 2009.
So for every unit of Photshop, you have at least 27 units of windows. Factor in the 3.5X price and you still have about 8 equivalent units of windows for every photshop over which to amortize costs.
That's actually the definition of effective tax rate. total taxes paid / total profit. It exists specifically to clarify the actual rate of tax paid after factoring in profit shifting, exemptions, progressive rates, etc.
Almost none of our taxes go to that as it is. The rate is something like 0.7%, and generally that money is targeted at the kids who are relatively innocent victims of those mothers, in the hope that they might turn things around in the next generation.
I assure you Accenture is doing plenty of evil all by itself, I wasn't confusing them with anyone else. For one little example, they are acting as a patent troll, trying to put smaller competitors out of business with completely bogus patent claims.
Simple solution: modify your facebook password to match a section of your DNA. Then asking for any of those things would require you to surrender your facebook password.
I think it would be reasonable to regulate both extremes since there is clear evidence of problems at both ends of the spectrum. But it isn't necessary to regulate the other extreme since there just isn't much in the way of publication there.
Lack of circumcision - Circumcision during infancy or in childhood provides partial protection against penile cancer, but this is not the case when performed in adulthood.[12] It has been suggested that the reduction in risk may be due to reduced risk of phimosis;[12][10] other possible mechanisms include reduction in risk of smegma and HPV infection.[10] Several authors have proposed circumcision as a possible strategy for penile cancer prevention;[13][14][15] however, the American Cancer Society point to the rarity of the disease and note that neither the American Academy of Pediatrics nor the Canadian Academy of Pediatrics recommend routine neonatal circumcision
Sure, if you believe the US is in for a double dip or another major financial catastrophe, we may not be able to maintain 2% over a decade. But unless something like that happens, 2% is a very low bet for our growth rate.
Props to Jimmy, he got 37% right in 8.3% of the time, and even more credit since I assume not everyone could get a 100% in an hour, or what would be the point of the test.
I think this may be coming from the death throes of reddit. A similar phenomenon happened as digg imploded. Desperate to stop the hemorrhaging of users, they started spamming slashdot relentlessly in an effort to drive users back to digg. When digg finally went belly-up, it stopped, and there was a relative peace for quite a while. Now that reddit is going through a period of user flight, we seem to be getting a lot of angry reddit users posting odd stuff.
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The rich have pretty close to 100% control over political office and media access. I don't really see the point in differentiating.
Fair enough, though I still think my original point stands: most people (probably 95+%) would prefer there to be police and laws to discourage murder and other crimes, rather than have to manage all their defense themselves.
That almost all goes to the elderly.
That could be true, but in fairness at this point both companies are leveraging past investments and are mostly just sprinkling on a small dev effort for new features.
1000 / 3.5 ~= 285. Of course, that assumes you believe the OP's billions vs millions claim.
Sources claim 650M for windows 7:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-Approximately-650-Million-Sold-Licenses-by-the-End-of-2011-202026.shtml
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ADBE+Key+Statistics
If 100% of Adobe's 4.2B revenue comes from $700 Photoshop sales, that's 6M units/year, call that 24M units over the lifespan of windows 7 since release in 2009.
So for every unit of Photshop, you have at least 27 units of windows. Factor in the 3.5X price and you still have about 8 equivalent units of windows for every photshop over which to amortize costs.
Well there's a significant criminal element involved there, of course.
I have serious doubts about whether any TEA party members have a HS diploma. Your claim to the contrary is unproven to the best of my knowledge.
That's actually the definition of effective tax rate. total taxes paid / total profit. It exists specifically to clarify the actual rate of tax paid after factoring in profit shifting, exemptions, progressive rates, etc.
Almost none of our taxes go to that as it is. The rate is something like 0.7%, and generally that money is targeted at the kids who are relatively innocent victims of those mothers, in the hope that they might turn things around in the next generation.
I assure you Accenture is doing plenty of evil all by itself, I wasn't confusing them with anyone else. For one little example, they are acting as a patent troll, trying to put smaller competitors out of business with completely bogus patent claims.
I did assume in this scenario that not getting caught by the drug testing is more important than your facebook password.
Not that it really matters, as you have plenty of DNA to hide your password in.
Simple solution: modify your facebook password to match a section of your DNA. Then asking for any of those things would require you to surrender your facebook password.
A philosophy which cannot accept the natural end of a regression at a human being has failed the fundamental test of usefulness.
The fashion designers are who finds it attractive. Because the models don't distort the 'clean lines' of their clothes with any bumps or curves.
They aren't the product, but the implied claim is 'our clothes/makeup will make you look like this person'.
I think it would be reasonable to regulate both extremes since there is clear evidence of problems at both ends of the spectrum. But it isn't necessary to regulate the other extreme since there just isn't much in the way of publication there.
Lack of circumcision - Circumcision during infancy or in childhood provides partial protection against penile cancer, but this is not the case when performed in adulthood.[12] It has been suggested that the reduction in risk may be due to reduced risk of phimosis;[12][10] other possible mechanisms include reduction in risk of smegma and HPV infection.[10] Several authors have proposed circumcision as a possible strategy for penile cancer prevention;[13][14][15] however, the American Cancer Society point to the rarity of the disease and note that neither the American Academy of Pediatrics nor the Canadian Academy of Pediatrics recommend routine neonatal circumcision
I think it will be an OK tradeoff to restrict a handful of female bodybuilders from modeling in order to save a few lives from anorexic starvation.
Salt isn't food. No calories. No fat, sugar, or protein.
It's a non-nutritive flavoring.
Sure, if you believe the US is in for a double dip or another major financial catastrophe, we may not be able to maintain 2% over a decade. But unless something like that happens, 2% is a very low bet for our growth rate.
How about all the lives lost due to lack of progress in computer technology?
Props to Jimmy, he got 37% right in 8.3% of the time, and even more credit since I assume not everyone could get a 100% in an hour, or what would be the point of the test.
I think this may be coming from the death throes of reddit. A similar phenomenon happened as digg imploded. Desperate to stop the hemorrhaging of users, they started spamming slashdot relentlessly in an effort to drive users back to digg. When digg finally went belly-up, it stopped, and there was a relative peace for quite a while. Now that reddit is going through a period of user flight, we seem to be getting a lot of angry reddit users posting odd stuff.
If all you want to be is generous, it is what it is. If you want to be more famous or more effective, pure generosity may not be the best strategy.
Yes, that would indeed make you the most generous.