Details definitely vary by state so check with a lawyer, etc., but it's my understanding that in most(?) states anyone can detain anyone else for authorities if they witness a serious crime. In other words, arrest them.
Sort of. The deal is, you're not allowed to be wrong. So if it turns out you are mistaken, and the guy sues in civil court, your ass is so entirely grass you may as well hand over your car and house keys right there. You are done, well done, totally cooked.
That being said, what is preventing a trojan from digging into the MBR (old virus-style), then running in memory upon HDD boot and launching the rest of its code from an "unused" section of the drive?
You're not thinking big enough!
FLASH THE BIOS HA HA. Probe the hardware, call home to a provider, fetch the right evil bios, flash it.
Ironically, free software is one of a few examples of communism successfully at work. There are labors, doing high quality work, with little regard to anything other than how well each of them contributing, from the generous fruits of their labor, to the rest of the world, according to their need.
Capitalism is not antithetical to communism. It's just that communists usually attempt to use force to acquire for themselves things that weren't theirs to start with. Here, the thing that is being communally shared is all theirs. Nothing wrong with that!
Well, my wife and I are in a similar boat to you. We own a $1M home, originally purchased with an interest-only loan. You can imagine the tax deduction for that, I'm sure.:-)
He/didn't/ pay only 10K in taxes. He may have only paid 10K in/federal/ taxes, but he paid a gadawful lot more in various kinds of taxes overall. For certain. If their combined income was $130,000, and no one of them earned more than about $85K, they paid somewhere near to $19,500 in flat (15% SSN) wage taxes alone. Even if you want to "pretend" that the employer's half really isn't your half, that number still racks up to $9,250, not counting federal income tax, state income tax, state sales tax, medicare, phone taxes, sewer taxes, drivers license, registration, yada yada yada.
The fertility rate is a measure of how many people are born to a set of parents. In the 1930s, when SS was created, there were 3.5 children for every 2 parents -- considerably more than the replacement rate of 2.1 children. Throughout most of the 1980s, the fertility rate was around 1.8, meaning there were being born too-few children to replace their parents. Today, the rate is around 2.0-2.1, and has been for the last 5 years or so, having risen slightly from its 1980s levels.
With your precise use of the term "fertility rate," I'm wondering if you're neglecting to account for immigration... which is substantial.
Anyway, if you think we got it bad, you should see the German problem. 1.45, I think. Anyway, it's terrible, and they're socialism collapse will be such a big bang it will make whatever little adjustment pains SS has look like only a small firecracker.
Investing in the stock market is also a zero-sum game.
False. The other poster was correct. You need to learn a little freshman-level economics. Money flows, creates capital, and flows again. The cycle repeats. It's not zero sum.
No, don't call your lawyer. Sue each company in small claims court. $20 filing fee, or some such. There was a guy doing this with SPAM a while back. He collected a great deal of money, apparently.
Caffeine and drugs like Ritalin are known amongst people who study these things as "rate dependent drugs." It means what it sounds like. Which is to say, I'm backing you up on this, and so is science.
It's not just a phenomenon of "AD/HD brains," either. Most people are rate-dependent on caffeine, at certain times of the day, or when certain amounts are consumed.
...and they fire you before the guy they hired last week, they need to be certain they can defend that move in court...
Only insofar as the firing isn't for an/illegal/ reason, such as age discrimination, race, or other such statutory matters. "We felt that a junior programmer, paid half the wage, could do the same job adequately" is a perfectly legal defense in most states. Such as California, where employment is AT WILL.
There's a little mathematical error that people will sometimes make when they "correct" for what's lost.
For example, as a contractor, you may have to pay for your own vacations and holidays. Vacations and holidays, for an ordinary person, may be something like 15% of your year.
The naive decision is to raise your rate by 15%.
That's not correct.
Look at it this way:
85% of 100 is 85.
15% more than 85 is 97.75.
So that math didn't work out.
These are just for the obvious things: The social security, holidays, vacation, sick leave, and so forth that were all included as part of your package before, but aren't now.
Then there's some non obvious things:
"The cost of doing business". The cost of doing business is an estimate of down time, the unbillable time between contracting, that is part of you being a business man. What this figure is, I really can't say, but it is truly and genuinely expected that you charge it.
My last company charged almost/3/ times what it paid for its software engineers, and they were paid lots (six figures), let me tell you. So a client would pay nearly $300K annually to get a hold of one of our people.
You won't be pulling that kind of rate, but 1.5X your salary isn't entirely unreasonable.
If they want you to take something unreasonable (1.2 times your salary, IMO), I'd say skip it and get a salaried job.
Your other option is to file a schedule C, incorporate, and present yourself to them as a bonafide subcontractor. Go month to month, day to day, but charge double.
You're then not caring very much if you have every other month off, if you get my drift....
100 Years before doesn't really count. If you believe that, you should be worried that I might be combing through my extensive family tree to see if one of your ancestors fucked with one of my ancestors. "kryonD" murdered Friday, left note saying it was justified, film at 11.
...and the second line is padded with spaces to...
You're starting to see the glory of spaces, I see.
Problem here, I've found, is that it's impossible to get a very large group of programmers to understand what constitutes _correct_ intermixture of tabs and spaces. They just hit "tab, tab, tab" and the a few more spaces until it looks right in their editor. That approach isn't correct, and won't work.
I currently work on a projection where about every line of code amongst about 500,000 has been printed at least four times. Most likely more. Why, you wonder? Because we have four reviewers inspect every line of code we write, in writing.
Any other reasons I should be using spaces?
Yes. Some issues of alignment require you to use spaces. For example, if your coding standard requires the following:
void myfunction( int myarg1,
int myarg2 ) {...
Then you won't be able to align correctly using only tabs. You'll have to mix tabs and spaces. Problem is, they'll only be aligned to someone using _your_ tabstop. This is a major no-no.
My wife, who graduated from medicine not long ago, had to sit through a mandatory class in psychiatry where the aged professor talked at length about his theories regarding Freud. Given that this happened recently, in the scheme of things, I would say that the larger discipline of psychology hasn't quite finished unmaking its bed yet.
People like you still have a long ways to go before the sins of yesteryear will allow you to conduct your profession entirely free of popular prejudice. The prejudice of yesteryear was fairly earned. It's not your fault, just understand.
I do know where you are coming from. I originally came out of UCSD's cognitive science program, before moving onto other things (computer science). Thankfully, I learned not a thing about Freud.
The only way "uploading" can be done is an UPGRADE - you have to physically transform the human brain into a superior (and much more robust) one DIRECTLY while insuring continuity between the existing mind and the resulting mind.
Agree. Moreover, I'll make a stronger claim. Since the physical things is the only thing in evidence, you actually cannot be wrong. The brain _IS_ the mind.
Do you realize its not my point to prove to you this, as I never claimed it.
No, what you said was "actually his comment is more realistic than you might think."
This statement isn't true; his comment isn't realistic, you don't need $6 million to not retire in poverty.
As for your other comment, yes you _can_ save up $1 million, I agree. And it's a realistic _objective_. But that's not what he said, and you should learn to be more clear when beginning a corrective comment (viz, "actually).
"You need about $6 million dollars to not be poor as a senior citizen..."
What I said was this:
"... as spoken by someone who has little financial knowledge or sense."
I don't know if you're just confused or what. Do you realize that I am expecting you to prove to me that someone needs $6 million to "not be poor as a senior citizen."???
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Details definitely vary by state so check with a lawyer, etc., but it's my understanding that in most(?) states anyone can detain anyone else for authorities if they witness a serious crime. In other words, arrest them.
Sort of. The deal is, you're not allowed to be wrong. So if it turns out you are mistaken, and the guy sues in civil court, your ass is so entirely grass you may as well hand over your car and house keys right there. You are done, well done, totally cooked.
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- Phisher builds website purporting to be US bank / US company, but is obviously not
This was illegally before the bill. It's has a name. It's called "fraud," as in felony, as in prison, extra large anus time.
The issue is in enforcement, not law.
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That being said, what is preventing a trojan from digging into the MBR (old virus-style), then running in memory upon HDD boot and launching the rest of its code from an "unused" section of the drive?
:)
You're not thinking big enough!
FLASH THE BIOS HA HA. Probe the hardware, call home to a provider, fetch the right evil bios, flash it.
Is there a Mod +1 Evil on slashdot?
C//
He's not making anyone do anything. If you don't like the GPL, there are other licenses, and other software.
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Ironically, free software is one of a few examples of communism successfully at work. There are labors, doing high quality work, with little regard to anything other than how well each of them contributing, from the generous fruits of their labor, to the rest of the world, according to their need.
Capitalism is not antithetical to communism. It's just that communists usually attempt to use force to acquire for themselves things that weren't theirs to start with. Here, the thing that is being communally shared is all theirs. Nothing wrong with that!
C//
Well, my wife and I are in a similar boat to you. We own a $1M home, originally purchased with an interest-only loan. You can imagine the tax deduction for that, I'm sure. :-)
C//
He /didn't/ pay only 10K in taxes. He may have only paid 10K in /federal/ taxes, but he paid a gadawful lot more in various kinds of taxes overall. For certain. If their combined income was $130,000, and no one of them earned more than about $85K, they paid somewhere near to $19,500 in flat (15% SSN) wage taxes alone. Even if you want to "pretend" that the employer's half really isn't your half, that number still racks up to $9,250, not counting federal income tax, state income tax, state sales tax, medicare, phone taxes, sewer taxes, drivers license, registration, yada yada yada.
C//
The fertility rate is a measure of how many people are born to a set of parents. In the 1930s, when SS was created, there were 3.5 children for every 2 parents -- considerably more than the replacement rate of 2.1 children. Throughout most of the 1980s, the fertility rate was around 1.8, meaning there were being born too-few children to replace their parents. Today, the rate is around 2.0-2.1, and has been for the last 5 years or so, having risen slightly from its 1980s levels.
With your precise use of the term "fertility rate," I'm wondering if you're neglecting to account for immigration... which is substantial.
Anyway, if you think we got it bad, you should see the German problem. 1.45, I think. Anyway, it's terrible, and they're socialism collapse will be such a big bang it will make whatever little adjustment pains SS has look like only a small firecracker.
C//
Investing in the stock market is also a zero-sum game.
False. The other poster was correct. You need to learn a little freshman-level economics. Money flows, creates capital, and flows again. The cycle repeats. It's not zero sum.
C//
No, don't call your lawyer. Sue each company in small claims court. $20 filing fee, or some such. There was a guy doing this with SPAM a while back. He collected a great deal of money, apparently.
C//
Originally, the Eugenics Wars were set in the late 21st century (around 1996), ...
Um, I'm sure you know you're stuff, but I'm also sure that 1996 was part of the late 20th century....
???
C/
Caffeine and drugs like Ritalin are known amongst people who study these things as "rate dependent drugs." It means what it sounds like. Which is to say, I'm backing you up on this, and so is science.
It's not just a phenomenon of "AD/HD brains," either. Most people are rate-dependent on caffeine, at certain times of the day, or when certain amounts are consumed.
Have a good one.
C
Did anyone see "Fight Club".
When they replaced all the airline safety glossies with pictures of horrified passengers screaming, that was hilarious...
C
...and they fire you before the guy they hired last week, they need to be certain they can defend that move in court...
/illegal/ reason, such as age discrimination, race, or other such statutory matters. "We felt that a junior programmer, paid half the wage, could do the same job adequately" is a perfectly legal defense in most states. Such as California, where employment is AT WILL.
Only insofar as the firing isn't for an
C//
There's a little mathematical error that people will sometimes make when they "correct" for what's lost.
/3/ times what it paid for its software engineers, and they were paid lots (six figures), let me tell you. So a client would pay nearly $300K annually to get a hold of one of our people.
For example, as a contractor, you may have to pay for your own vacations and holidays. Vacations and holidays, for an ordinary person, may be something like 15% of your year.
The naive decision is to raise your rate by 15%.
That's not correct.
Look at it this way:
85% of 100 is 85.
15% more than 85 is 97.75.
So that math didn't work out.
These are just for the obvious things: The social security, holidays, vacation, sick leave, and so forth that were all included as part of your package before, but aren't now.
Then there's some non obvious things:
"The cost of doing business". The cost of doing business is an estimate of down time, the unbillable time between contracting, that is part of you being a business man. What this figure is, I really can't say, but it is truly and genuinely expected that you charge it.
My last company charged almost
You won't be pulling that kind of rate, but 1.5X your salary isn't entirely unreasonable.
If they want you to take something unreasonable (1.2 times your salary, IMO), I'd say skip it and get a salaried job.
Your other option is to file a schedule C, incorporate, and present yourself to them as a bonafide subcontractor. Go month to month, day to day, but charge double.
You're then not caring very much if you have every other month off, if you get my drift....
C//
100 Years before doesn't really count. If you believe that, you should be worried that I might be combing through my extensive family tree to see if one of your ancestors fucked with one of my ancestors. "kryonD" murdered Friday, left note saying it was justified, film at 11.
C//
You're starting to see the glory of spaces, I see.
Problem here, I've found, is that it's impossible to get a very large group of programmers to understand what constitutes _correct_ intermixture of tabs and spaces. They just hit "tab, tab, tab" and the a few more spaces until it looks right in their editor. That approach isn't correct, and won't work.
C//
You print out code lots?
...
I currently work on a projection where about every line of code amongst about 500,000 has been printed at least four times. Most likely more. Why, you wonder? Because we have four reviewers inspect every line of code we write, in writing.
Any other reasons I should be using spaces?
Yes. Some issues of alignment require you to use spaces. For example, if your coding standard requires the following:
void myfunction( int myarg1,
int myarg2 )
{
Then you won't be able to align correctly using only tabs. You'll have to mix tabs and spaces. Problem is, they'll only be aligned to someone using _your_ tabstop. This is a major no-no.
C//
Unless you do backflips, those tabs are going to print as eight on the printer. Here's the right thing: :set et :set sts=4
That's a bad idea. Even Guido doesn't like tabs. Really, you're supposed to use all spaces.
C//
My wife, who graduated from medicine not long ago, had to sit through a mandatory class in psychiatry where the aged professor talked at length about his theories regarding Freud. Given that this happened recently, in the scheme of things, I would say that the larger discipline of psychology hasn't quite finished unmaking its bed yet.
People like you still have a long ways to go before the sins of yesteryear will allow you to conduct your profession entirely free of popular prejudice. The prejudice of yesteryear was fairly earned. It's not your fault, just understand.
I do know where you are coming from. I originally came out of UCSD's cognitive science program, before moving onto other things (computer science). Thankfully, I learned not a thing about Freud.
C//
Most geniuses arise by chance.
:)
And don't exactly get the girls, either, suggesting that maybe genius is an evolutionary dead end.
C//
The only way "uploading" can be done is an UPGRADE - you have to physically transform the human brain into a superior (and much more robust) one DIRECTLY while insuring continuity between the existing mind and the resulting mind.
Agree. Moreover, I'll make a stronger claim. Since the physical things is the only thing in evidence, you actually cannot be wrong. The brain _IS_ the mind.
C//
Do you realize its not my point to prove to you this, as I never claimed it.
No, what you said was "actually his comment is more realistic than you might think."
This statement isn't true; his comment isn't realistic, you don't need $6 million to not retire in poverty.
As for your other comment, yes you _can_ save up $1 million, I agree. And it's a realistic _objective_. But that's not what he said, and you should learn to be more clear when beginning a corrective comment (viz, "actually).
C//
GB,
The statement I responded to was this:
"You need about $6 million dollars to not be poor as a senior citizen..."
What I said was this:
"... as spoken by someone who has little financial knowledge or sense."
I don't know if you're just confused or what. Do you realize that I am expecting you to prove to me that someone needs $6 million to "not be poor as a senior citizen."???
It's not at all true.
C//