Even if it's the case that cash processing isn't free, the credit card companies are manipulating consumers to keep their margins higher than free market competition would otherwise dictate. Debit cards are generally a cheaper transaction than credit card networks, but stores are prohibited from charging for that marginally higher cost via contract.
It's even worse though: my bank, for example, recognizes this arbitrage and has all sorts of stupid incentives to recruit me in their scheme. Debit charges cost 25 cents, while credit is free (paid for by the store owner). "Sign and Win" sweepstakes to bait me into credit transactions over debit. Scorecard points redeemable for random crap. Anything to keep me from making the optimal decision.
The tax cuts that satisfy Republicans are always income tax, and their favorite is the upper bracket. Recall trickle down economics, where the theory goes that rich people will invest money in the economy, providing jobs and rah rah rah. It just doesn't hold though; investors this year have plenty of write offs to work through before they even care about taxes. Many are sitting in treasury bonds rather than corporate equities or bonds.
In contrast, payroll taxes rarely get touched. In part that's because they fund things like Medicare and Social Security, the golden cows of the AARP. But there's a worry that the working poor won't contribute to the economic recovery either; there's a lot of consumer debt out there and it's unlikely the top tax bracket has most of that. Paying off credit cards might slightly alleviate the banking crisis via balance sheet improvement, but it's not going to directly create new demand. Especially in a downward economy, a lot of them will be saving more and spending less. Can you remember what happened in 2002 with the early Tax Refund insanity?
Everyone, rich or poor, thinks the banks are bankrupt on paper, while Washington is hoping America can spend its way back to higher real estate prices and avoid a severe reckoning with those agents of failure that brought us to the brink. Republicans simply think private investment can restore it, while Democrats argue that the government is the only body that can raise enough capital to take the necessary action (I'll note that it can also do it very cheaply).
It's worth noting that the free market suffered from a widespread principle-agent failure. Management approved risky transactions like Credit Default swaps because they didn't fully understand the risk they exposed shareholders to, but liked the profit they were earning in the short term. Credit rating agencies also failed to solve the information asymmetry problem. Mortgage brokers made loans they'd never consider holding, and quickly fell apart when their market for shitty debtors dried up. What's going to solve this isn't more jobs or more demand for housing, but a significant rewriting of the social contract between management and investors. I wish Republicans had the balls to bring that up instead of asking for tax cuts for the companies and businessmen that fill their campaign coffers. It'd be far more interesting than people demanding executives dispense with their private jets and fly coach.
Well the 2nd amendment guarantees US citizens the arms, even RPGs. Presumably if you acquired enough of them to take out, say a presidential motorcade or three (excepting perhaps the limo itself), a knock on your door would soon follow.
Interesting. Ubuntu already has an ARM project, and much of the FTBFS work is done, because Debian ARM fully supports platforms like the Netwinder, despite your claim. People claim to have run Xubuntu, for example, on a "Qong (i.MX31 CPU Module)."
There's been a lot of improvement in TtS out of university research in the past ten years. I don't think its unfair to say that given a profit motive there'd be even more investment in the field, to improve things like inflection. Check out some of the IBM samples under expressive samples.
Yes, it seems they only offer hosting. One might infer that the group of people I work with, who's main task is running this stuff, would have resisted a contract that largely made the group redundant. I wasn't here when the decision was made, but not considering a local hosting situation clearly took them out of the running.
The only reason to make modifying the source code illegal would be if you were running trials and didn't disclose the modified code, perhaps because you modified it in your favor. (Do drug trials even run like that?) Otherwise, it should just break warranty, so if your modification kills someone, it's your problem not the device manufacturer's. That'd be plenty of incentive right there.
Isn't it stupid that a program can be validated, but the platform on which it runs is not?
Actually, I like Inkscape's UI. It does a smarter job of handling dialogs than a mere window manager can. The only really confusing thing about it is the palette, and yes, the diagram tool is seriously broken. I think the idea of horizontal integration (opening vector artwork in raster programs) is stupid. There's a case to be made for fonts, but well, fontforge is generally crap.
My favorite are the lefties who are used to the old one button macs. Newer apples now have left and right click, and they're now exposed to the problems lefties on PC face. Some of the computers are configured to mimic the old style, others are not. This results in very frustrated and confused lefties.
Oh, I just think that the catalyst was WW2, not American culture leading up to it. Certainly the Manhattan project and Einstein (who only spent winters in Calfornia until Hitler took power) built a national support for intellectuals and research groups. Much of the computer's we're typing on owe a great debt to public and private research labs of that era. But leading up to this was a period of American intellectuals leading lives as expatriates, let alone people coming stateside for the good company.
As I understand it, World War II started without the US, and many of the minds on the Manhattan Project fled to the US to specifically avoid the Nazi regime. Niels Bohr, for example, was nearly arrested and escaped to London. His underling Heisenburg, however, remained and participated in the Nazi nuclear program.
So yes, very shortly before WWII, the US was an attractive place for intellectuals, compared to Hitler.
I don't normally agree with JoelOnSoftware, but today I'm making an exception. The fact that only ten percent can write a Fibanacci function in less than five minutes doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean that you're hiring the top ten percent by rejecting anyone who can't. It means your interview selection system sucks. Maybe your business is boring and nobody wants to work for you. Maybe you published a salary requirement that won't motivate people to leave their current jobs (yes, most of the best people are already employed!). Maybe you just aren't reaching the talented employed people.
So theory goes, everyone sees these same crappy applicant statistics because the perpetually unemployed apply for everything. I don't think it's that hard to find people who can program. Just build a partnership with the local university's CS department targeted at undergrads. Help out with high school programming contests, sponsor and promote their ACM team. Hold a seminar every semester on something your company uses.
All of this conversation leads up to the real point here: combining ideas like git's distributed revision control with Debian's compartmentalization should expand the potential for engineers to deviate where necessary while widely sharing as much as possible. Not everything that's good for the goose is good for the gander (compiling the kernel for optimized size might not be appropriate on the server), but I'm sure there's a few worthwhile modifications to Debian packaging primarily for embedded that won't harm desktop and server, or possibly improve it.
Unfortunately, the role Debian serves as Stone Soup Chef is not always acknowledged.
You know, the Mormon church sponsors like 30 percent the nation's Scout Troops. Scouting was designed to teach kids the basics of soldier life: camping, navigation, and taking and giving orders. It's not a long stretch of the imagination to say that Utah is fine with teaching young boys how to shoot guns (I know my troop did).
Hell, they even make jail CITIES. Leavenworth is half jail, half military base, and half citizen residence. There's no way to jam Cell Block C without tanking nearby businesses and possibly the base itself.
Except that inmate calls are highly monitored. They want to know which inmate is calling who. Inmates aren't allowed to call to cell phones, let alone use them.
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My card doesn't have a grace period. It's automatic debit either way, the only difference is the network and processing charges.
At least your doppleganger is still alive! The top search result for my name is a memorial site for kid who loved driving cars a little to fast.
Even if it's the case that cash processing isn't free, the credit card companies are manipulating consumers to keep their margins higher than free market competition would otherwise dictate. Debit cards are generally a cheaper transaction than credit card networks, but stores are prohibited from charging for that marginally higher cost via contract.
It's even worse though: my bank, for example, recognizes this arbitrage and has all sorts of stupid incentives to recruit me in their scheme. Debit charges cost 25 cents, while credit is free (paid for by the store owner). "Sign and Win" sweepstakes to bait me into credit transactions over debit. Scorecard points redeemable for random crap. Anything to keep me from making the optimal decision.
The tax cuts that satisfy Republicans are always income tax, and their favorite is the upper bracket. Recall trickle down economics, where the theory goes that rich people will invest money in the economy, providing jobs and rah rah rah. It just doesn't hold though; investors this year have plenty of write offs to work through before they even care about taxes. Many are sitting in treasury bonds rather than corporate equities or bonds.
In contrast, payroll taxes rarely get touched. In part that's because they fund things like Medicare and Social Security, the golden cows of the AARP. But there's a worry that the working poor won't contribute to the economic recovery either; there's a lot of consumer debt out there and it's unlikely the top tax bracket has most of that. Paying off credit cards might slightly alleviate the banking crisis via balance sheet improvement, but it's not going to directly create new demand. Especially in a downward economy, a lot of them will be saving more and spending less. Can you remember what happened in 2002 with the early Tax Refund insanity?
Everyone, rich or poor, thinks the banks are bankrupt on paper, while Washington is hoping America can spend its way back to higher real estate prices and avoid a severe reckoning with those agents of failure that brought us to the brink. Republicans simply think private investment can restore it, while Democrats argue that the government is the only body that can raise enough capital to take the necessary action (I'll note that it can also do it very cheaply).
It's worth noting that the free market suffered from a widespread principle-agent failure. Management approved risky transactions like Credit Default swaps because they didn't fully understand the risk they exposed shareholders to, but liked the profit they were earning in the short term. Credit rating agencies also failed to solve the information asymmetry problem. Mortgage brokers made loans they'd never consider holding, and quickly fell apart when their market for shitty debtors dried up. What's going to solve this isn't more jobs or more demand for housing, but a significant rewriting of the social contract between management and investors. I wish Republicans had the balls to bring that up instead of asking for tax cuts for the companies and businessmen that fill their campaign coffers. It'd be far more interesting than people demanding executives dispense with their private jets and fly coach.
The point is there isn't any one network, the way there was a Napster network.
How do you get the RPGs into the country?
Well the 2nd amendment guarantees US citizens the arms, even RPGs. Presumably if you acquired enough of them to take out, say a presidential motorcade or three (excepting perhaps the limo itself), a knock on your door would soon follow.
Christ. Ever heard of the IRA? They're a recognized terror group residing within the UK.
Interesting. Ubuntu already has an ARM project, and much of the FTBFS work is done, because Debian ARM fully supports platforms like the Netwinder, despite your claim. People claim to have run Xubuntu, for example, on a "Qong (i.MX31 CPU Module)."
There's been a lot of improvement in TtS out of university research in the past ten years. I don't think its unfair to say that given a profit motive there'd be even more investment in the field, to improve things like inflection. Check out some of the IBM samples under expressive samples.
You keep saying this, but just what the hell is so hard about Debian ARM?
How many Pandoras do you have in your pocket right now? Is it more than "none?" If not, stop pumping vaporware with no firm release date!
Yes, it seems they only offer hosting. One might infer that the group of people I work with, who's main task is running this stuff, would have resisted a contract that largely made the group redundant. I wasn't here when the decision was made, but not considering a local hosting situation clearly took them out of the running.
The only reason to make modifying the source code illegal would be if you were running trials and didn't disclose the modified code, perhaps because you modified it in your favor. (Do drug trials even run like that?) Otherwise, it should just break warranty, so if your modification kills someone, it's your problem not the device manufacturer's. That'd be plenty of incentive right there.
Isn't it stupid that a program can be validated, but the platform on which it runs is not?
Interestingly, Moodle filed a bid for our institution, and was dramatically higher than the rest.
Actually, I like Inkscape's UI. It does a smarter job of handling dialogs than a mere window manager can. The only really confusing thing about it is the palette, and yes, the diagram tool is seriously broken. I think the idea of horizontal integration (opening vector artwork in raster programs) is stupid. There's a case to be made for fonts, but well, fontforge is generally crap.
My favorite are the lefties who are used to the old one button macs. Newer apples now have left and right click, and they're now exposed to the problems lefties on PC face. Some of the computers are configured to mimic the old style, others are not. This results in very frustrated and confused lefties.
Oh, I just think that the catalyst was WW2, not American culture leading up to it. Certainly the Manhattan project and Einstein (who only spent winters in Calfornia until Hitler took power) built a national support for intellectuals and research groups. Much of the computer's we're typing on owe a great debt to public and private research labs of that era. But leading up to this was a period of American intellectuals leading lives as expatriates, let alone people coming stateside for the good company.
As I understand it, World War II started without the US, and many of the minds on the Manhattan Project fled to the US to specifically avoid the Nazi regime. Niels Bohr, for example, was nearly arrested and escaped to London. His underling Heisenburg, however, remained and participated in the Nazi nuclear program.
So yes, very shortly before WWII, the US was an attractive place for intellectuals, compared to Hitler.
You're supposed to also replace the bottom ten percent. Not just keep cutting until you reach an asymptotic zero.
I don't normally agree with JoelOnSoftware, but today I'm making an exception. The fact that only ten percent can write a Fibanacci function in less than five minutes doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean that you're hiring the top ten percent by rejecting anyone who can't. It means your interview selection system sucks. Maybe your business is boring and nobody wants to work for you. Maybe you published a salary requirement that won't motivate people to leave their current jobs (yes, most of the best people are already employed!). Maybe you just aren't reaching the talented employed people.
So theory goes, everyone sees these same crappy applicant statistics because the perpetually unemployed apply for everything. I don't think it's that hard to find people who can program. Just build a partnership with the local university's CS department targeted at undergrads. Help out with high school programming contests, sponsor and promote their ACM team. Hold a seminar every semester on something your company uses.
All of this conversation leads up to the real point here: combining ideas like git's distributed revision control with Debian's compartmentalization should expand the potential for engineers to deviate where necessary while widely sharing as much as possible. Not everything that's good for the goose is good for the gander (compiling the kernel for optimized size might not be appropriate on the server), but I'm sure there's a few worthwhile modifications to Debian packaging primarily for embedded that won't harm desktop and server, or possibly improve it.
Unfortunately, the role Debian serves as Stone Soup Chef is not always acknowledged.
You know, the Mormon church sponsors like 30 percent the nation's Scout Troops. Scouting was designed to teach kids the basics of soldier life: camping, navigation, and taking and giving orders. It's not a long stretch of the imagination to say that Utah is fine with teaching young boys how to shoot guns (I know my troop did).
It's a very crowded place.
Hell, they even make jail CITIES. Leavenworth is half jail, half military base, and half citizen residence. There's no way to jam Cell Block C without tanking nearby businesses and possibly the base itself.
Except that inmate calls are highly monitored. They want to know which inmate is calling who. Inmates aren't allowed to call to cell phones, let alone use them.