Actually, the case for banging young women is made better by the birth defect rate. This rate is at its lowest around 14. Yeap. Jailbait is bait for a biological reason. The theory goes that you're attracted to them because they have the most viable offspring.
Up to 16, its still quite low, above 21 it starts to steepen and between 36-40 it skyrockets.
However modern life is not particularly situated on biological timelines. We really need our population to be educated more than we need them to breed.
Another factor in evolution is that of punctuated equilibrium. That is small populations develop mutations which make them better suited to the environment, so they flurish on top of or spread the genes to other populations. Given that in 12 hours I can be any where in the world, spreading genes, there really can't be a consolidated population where the gene becomes dominant. Due to our mobility, we've turned the gene pool into a soup that you can stir constantly and not ever change the soup. We'll need some massive "selection event" (virus, asteroid) to thin our numbers or provide a specific selection criteria.
While were slashvertising, let's not forget Nanodsolar which also does thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide trick. But it seems that instead of tubes, you can just get a sheet (on what appears to be a Mylar substrate).
I wonder about the cylindrical shape, this would seem to block 50% of the surface area, where the sides and underside would produce less electricity than a flat sheet of the same area.
The company is on a slippery slope. They are paying you to to work on a BSD-licensed project - one you started and have rights to (unless you disclaimed those rights and assigned them to the EFF or something).
It probably just is that the features you're being asked to do are of competitive advantage, and they will be generating business from that competitive advantage.
Here's what I would do. Forget pay-for-time and ask for a chunk of the pie. Reoccurring payments are nice. During this time, you won't put those special features in the product. When they stop paying you, (and thereby signaling that they aren't making any money off those competitive features) put the features in.
It's like they pay you to defer the features. You can of course continue to add features to the main product and their special product, but that set of special features is theirs as long as they keep paying you for them.
Now in negotiating the rate, that has to deal with how much you enable the company. If your contributions to their bottom line are huge, then 10% is standard. But if you're a bit player, then maybe 0.5%, or something along those lines. Of if it is item based, you can say for units 1-10, you get this rate, then for 11-50 you get a lower rate.
Remember, you're dealing with a business, not people. (Though you deal with people in the business...) The "cost of doing business" is just that. If you are/the/ man to do the work, then there is a higher cost of business. I've seen companies bring in specialists each one gets 10% to contribute about 40 hours of time, and then they make $12k off it a year. See they are/the man/ - key personnel that were needed to make a product to succeed. Its the same for you, but you are less famous.
Remember the golden rule: those that have the gold makes the rules.
So where is this mythical population of people who are better off as individuals?
Rate Single Married Filing Jointly 10% Not over $8,025 Not over $16,050 15% $8,025 - $32,550 $16,050 - $65,100 25% $32,550 - $78,850 $65,100 - $131,450 28% $78,850 - $164,550 $131,450 - $200,300 33% $164,550 - $357,700 $200,300 - $357,700 35% Over $357,700 Over $357,700
Now, assume that the person has income in the form of qualifying wages. These wages are subject to an additional 9% tax - 7.5% FICA and 1.65% medicare. Making the table:
Rate Single Married Filing Jointly 19% Not over $8,025 Not over $16,050 24% $8,025 - $32,550 $16,050 - $65,100 34%* $32,550 - $78,850 $65,100 - $131,450 37%* $78,850 - $164,550 $131,450 -
* At this level FICA and medicare contributions max out.
But as you can see, there isn't a scenario where anyone is better off.
The grandparent to this thread did not ask about ethics, only mechanics.
There is no limitation on what businesses can engage in as long as it is lawful. You can actually write on your articles of incorporation "anything a business and legally engage in" and get a corporation.
But yes, you are right in that you can't just create a legal fiction and do nothing with it. Most people can engage in business really easily. There is no reason why you can't take a hobby and turn it into a talent. For most slashdot readers, we all offer consulting services to friends, family and co workers. There is no reason that can't be a business, which easily justifies the tech gadgetry. Even Mary Kay, Amway (Quickstar), and other pseudo pyramid schemes are easy to get into and are viable independent businesses.
You can even charge your own corporation rent in your own house provided certain criteria are met. (I've heard that some people that get audited the IRS takes a tape measure to measure the square footage of the room to arrive at a appropriate rent charge)
Yes. The IRS does expect you to show a profit in 5 years. And you can get in trouble if you're found to not be operating a business. But the whole situation is ambiguous enough to be absurd. They can't tell you how to run your company, they can't set performance objectives.
The only issues for people are how to have enough business to pay for the time hassle and up-front costs of operating the business itself.
Finally, I am not conflating withholding with deductions. My point was to let you know that what you get to spend has already had taxes taken out from your GROSS. Maybe you've tuned your W-4 to accurately reflect your annual income. But the business only has to pay estimated quarterly payments on PROFIT, not gross. Given a human and a company, with the same numbers of income and expense, the company will be paying less tax. Period. You pay taxes on GROSS, minus allowed deductions. The company pays taxes on NET PROFIT.
Show me a situation where the company has to may more tax than a person given the same amounts of income and expense.
I guess it is how you define "country" and what is to be done for your country.
See, what I can do best for my country is be industrious and not F it up. In return, expect my country to let me be industrious and not F me up.
Remember republics are instituted among men to protect our rights of life, liberty, and property. Not take them away. We gave the government power so that it could protect our rights, not take them away to build a Utopian society. Government doesn't determine society. Society determines the government.
The market is working, we just don't want it to work like it should.
There is only one factor that has conspired against the free market, and that is all the big players did the same ting in a short period of time. Now what should be happening is the smaller banks buy out the larger ones, with combined powers. (These smaller banks never engaged in these practices.) This would give rise to a new set of major banks. However the owners of the major banks don't want their companies divided up and sold at auction, which is what the market would do. They have convinced us to "bail them out" so they can hold on to their dominant positions, a move against the free market principals.
Unfortunately, what we have is where the actions of a few thousand people now affect 350 million people.
The point is people go where they cab be in harmony. You can pay a high tax and like it, as long as what you get in return is of par value for the taxes paid, people won't move. If they get less than par value, they will eventually move.
Here's the paradox of socialism: If you provide more social services for free or below cost, more people without the ability to pay full cost will move in, further burdening the system. The money comes from some where, and that is the taxpayers. Eventually you face collapse, as the system attracts those that's can't provide for themselves. You raise taxes, and some of those who can over-pay into the system decide to move. because there's better deal else where. Then you really have collapse.
The conservative approach is to say you are responsible for everything yourself. Everyone except the under performers thrive. The under performers move to places where they can get a free ride - to your socialist states. Eventually your socialist states collapse
I firmly believe California would be only a stop on the illegal immigration railroad if they didn't provide such excellent social services.
Your statements are uninformed. And I'm being polite.
When you are a person, you get a W-2. You pay taxes on the income reported on your W-2. If they are wages, then you also pay FICA and medicare, another 7.5 and 1.65%, respectively. That much is withheld from you pay. You THEN take WHAT IS LEFT and buy things. Example: $1000 income taxed at 20%=$800 left. You buy a computer at $500, you have $300 left.
When you are a company, your income comes in, you buy things, THEN you pay your taxes. Example: $1000 income. You buy a computer at $500, you have $500. You pay taxed of 20% (for illustration), you pay $100 in tax. You then have $400 left.
The problem is for individuals, you pay your taxes first.
The company can deduct anything (within reason) as an business expense. Then you get to pay taxes. The realm of what is deducible for corporation far exceeds what is deductible for a person. Can you as in individual write off your cellphone, internet, rent, or utility bills? NO. But the company can.
While you do expose yourself to two levels of tax, how much is being taxed. Your corporation gets to write off your salary as an expense. So that's not a problem. You then pay yourself a smaller amount (the company gets to own your toys.) so you can cover what the corporation does not. What you end up doing is minimizing your taxable income and paying a minimal amount on the justifiable expense. ****
**** This statement is a generalization. There are several type of legal entities to choose from. The simplest is a pass-through like a LLC or S-corp. In this case, ALL the income is assigned to the partners and is only taxed once. The example above is for a C-port. Consult a legal professional for advice.
If you want to buy a house for your company, buy it and rent it out. There is no good reason why you cannot be a customer of your own corporation's services.
Well my family arrived here at Ellis Island in 1920. Another part of my family got here from Lithuania, prior to the Russian invasion. It seems the "land of opportunity" isn't #defined as USA, rather it is a variable. It was equal to USA for some time, then recently, it seems to have changed. Why is that? Its people people like you say "we're building something great, just endure for a while". I don't want what you're building, and I shall not be made to suffer you agenda. However, what you are building violates several constitutional principals. Since I'm here for the constitutional principals, I say you take your agenda to a place more amenable to your agenda.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C. S. Lewis
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson
The problem is the left is well meaning and sincere. They want to create this However for me anyone to buy into it, they have to admit that the government knows best. This is a hard pill to swallow, since history has shown that the government doesn't know best. The government has been influenced by special interests, meaning now you have to trust the special interest groups. However the special interest groups only look out for themselves. So now you're leaving "what is best" to people who don't care what is best for you, they only care for themselves. In turn, this leads to you being manipulated by special interests so that they can extract every dollar they can from you.
American Dairy Association, American Dental Association... even AARP, all these "Associations" are special interest groups trying to sell you something.
The only thing you'll get out of trusting the government is how to be a good consumer. Unfortunately, that is neither providing security or true happiness. You have the responsibility to look out for yourself and your loved ones. Because no one other than yourself and your loved ones cares about you. Unless you're part of a statistic they can use.
You can form a corporation, which only pays taxes on PROFIT, whereas people pay taxes on GROSS INCOME (though they might call it "net income" what is deductible for you as a person is far less than what a company can deduct.)
If you read the Rich Dad/Poor Dad books, this is a key point - Your corporation should own everything. You use the corporation as s tool to acquire things and pay for them. You only give yourself a modest amount of income. As owner of the company, you get to call the shots on what is bought and how it is used. (Company cars, etc)
That is step 1, that you can do domestically. A key part of that is WHERE you incorporate. Nevada doesn't have a state income tax, so you only have to pay federal taxes (again, only on profit) and has some very private arrangements in terms of hiding who all is in the company. Very rarely do you ant to incorporate in your own state. (Though you will still be liable for taxes in any state you are registered as operating in - so look a the definition of "operating". Generally it requires an address in that state.)
The next step I think would be going to another country. I have to experience in that. It may or may not be worth the hassle. Maybe having your own domestic company will be 90% of for 10% of the hassle.
In Gregory v. Helvering Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand was quoted as saying:
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935).
The fact is tax avoidance is a key part of keeping taxation in check. If it gets oppressive, you move. In this way, governments compete for taxpayers.
* If your tools are broken by whitespace, your tools are borken. That should be obvious. * Use multiple processes. * static/dynamic tying is a debate for another day * C isn't crossplatform? What platform doesn't have a C compiler? If your platform doesn't have a C compiler, your platform is broken. Shat should be obvious. * I thought choice was good? Having several means you're not locked in. Qt, Tk, GNOME, etc, all have Pyhton bindings. I actually really like PyQt * 2.6 contains the enhancements in a 2.5-compatible way. That's your backwards compatibility. * 'self' is not hard-coded. You can use any variable, like 'me' or 'my' * It's a text file. If your editor can't edit a text file, your tool is broken, not the language. * Adoption? It's better than C#, which had no labor pool until a few years ago and its got a _ton_ of libraries, including platform dependent ones.
* tools like 'sip' ensure you can bridge C++ space and native code.
While I don't believe AIDS was invented, I do have comments.
If it was not invented, was it discovered then leveraged?
It is also moronic to try to kill off "the poor". Poor is a valuation tied to someone by how large of a number they have tied to themselves. Usually as a result fr working in an economy. It is at best, a transient description. J. K. Rowling was poor, now she is rich. And circumstances in life can take you the other way. There is no way for a disease to target people. Given that we're all 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, that's not that many partners to spread it over the entire population. Also, if you attack by geography planes and automobiles completely ensure that propagation continues outside the community.
Not when you've just made a trip from the kuiper belt. Distance is relative. Perhaps it was not off the actual comet itself, but part of the comets tail which followed. And that does seem to make some sense, becuse the congo is west of siberia, the planet rotates east, so there would be a few minutes of lag needed to get to the congo west of the impact.
The virus would not be viable at the near-impact site. It would have to be spread by the ejecta from the explosion, or a chunk that broke off and fell into the congo on its way to Russia. Given that it exploded before impact it is likely that internal pressures were causing debris to fall off all through the descent.
Arriving in the Congo, which is home to Bonobos, the most human-like ape, it infected them, then moved out from there.
LISP is a great language, and it has its place, but we're comparing OOP to OOP. LISP is hard-core functional, and I'd definitely cite that as a reason not to do F#. But I stand by my comment that Python is the best OOP, and its made even better with functional programming constructs. It is, IMHO, the best blend of OOP+functonal, which makes it very flexible.
You got me on that one. I was thinking of C++/CLI, which is absolutely horrible. Unfortunately, I've had to interface legacy C++ and C# code.
Still, when I read about C#, feature after feature was in the right direction, but it did not improve on Python. (Granted it is better than Java) So I have to give a wag of my finger for coming up with yet another language.
But damn, that F# language is ugly. I have no idea why they are inventing yet another language when python already supports functional programming.
Why do we have to keep fracturing the developer space by segregating people into what languages they know? Before.Net everyone had moved towards a POSIX compatible system, then.Net comes out and does away with all that cross platform work. I think having a variety of languages is a good thing, but why is Microsoft inventing new languages that don't improve on anything?
I have to think it is about control. As long as they keep inventing these new libraries and langauages, they can keep people locked into using their products. Even IronPython has the side effect of tying you to.Net libraries, a Microsoft product. Given the rise of Linux and OSX, that is becoming a bigger and bigger stumbling block.
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I try and try to use it as a photoshop replacement, I really do, but I am lost without it looking a lot more like Photoshop. And what's with all those top-level windows anyway? I use a multitasking OS because I multi-task. I don't want to have to minimize 7 windows when I want to minimize gimp.
I'm a smart guy. I can use image editors, but the layout and thinking of Gimp is just left of center, far enough to make me uncomfortable in it. Am I alone in this? Is Gimp not getting users because of it? Is this in turn slowing Linux adoption?
I gotta say it - Python (and Ruby) is the best language to date. I don't see why you'd ever invent another language that scores lower on the benchmarks of what makes a language good.
Those are:
Readability - anyone should be able to sit down and start hacking, since 90% of software development is on code that already exists.
Maintainability - The code should not devolve into an unmaintainable mess. While eningerring practices are dominant, the language should exert some pressure to keep it maintanable
DRY - (Don't repeat Yourself) - C# still has headers to be maintained.
Platform Independence - You should not be locked into a hardware or software platform. (.Net is not 100% cross platform, even with Mono)
Industry acceptance - the language should not put you in a corner in terms of your possible labor pool.
Those are just off the top of my head. Speed isn't a concern because it is often cheaper to buy faster hardware than it is to use an unproductive language. When you think about it, one day of developer time can justify a CPU upgrade that is 2x as fast. How many hours a year do you spend updating headers, tracking down bad pointers, missing memory de-allocations?
Just give them VMPlayer and a XP/SP3 image that is only like 5 gigs and they can install whatever they want.
Then lock down the the company machine.
If something goes wrong with the VM, just give them a new one. Sorry, but there is no support other than that. If they lose stuff in the VM, then that's not your problem.
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The thing you have to realise(sic) is that most women just want a "listener"
Every single word after that was redundant.
Actually, the case for banging young women is made better by the birth defect rate. This rate is at its lowest around 14. Yeap. Jailbait is bait for a biological reason. The theory goes that you're attracted to them because they have the most viable offspring.
Up to 16, its still quite low, above 21 it starts to steepen and between 36-40 it skyrockets.
However modern life is not particularly situated on biological timelines. We really need our population to be educated more than we need them to breed.
Another factor in evolution is that of punctuated equilibrium. That is small populations develop mutations which make them better suited to the environment, so they flurish on top of or spread the genes to other populations. Given that in 12 hours I can be any where in the world, spreading genes, there really can't be a consolidated population where the gene becomes dominant. Due to our mobility, we've turned the gene pool into a soup that you can stir constantly and not ever change the soup. We'll need some massive "selection event" (virus, asteroid) to thin our numbers or provide a specific selection criteria.
While were slashvertising, let's not forget Nanodsolar which also does thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide trick. But it seems that instead of tubes, you can just get a sheet (on what appears to be a Mylar substrate).
I wonder about the cylindrical shape, this would seem to block 50% of the surface area, where the sides and underside would produce less electricity than a flat sheet of the same area.
The company is on a slippery slope. They are paying you to to work on a BSD-licensed project - one you started and have rights to (unless you disclaimed those rights and assigned them to the EFF or something).
It probably just is that the features you're being asked to do are of competitive advantage, and they will be generating business from that competitive advantage.
Here's what I would do. Forget pay-for-time and ask for a chunk of the pie. Reoccurring payments are nice. During this time, you won't put those special features in the product. When they stop paying you, (and thereby signaling that they aren't making any money off those competitive features) put the features in.
It's like they pay you to defer the features.
You can of course continue to add features to the main product and their special product, but that set of special features is theirs as long as they keep paying you for them.
Now in negotiating the rate, that has to deal with how much you enable the company. If your contributions to their bottom line are huge, then 10% is standard. But if you're a bit player, then maybe 0.5%, or something along those lines. Of if it is item based, you can say for units 1-10, you get this rate, then for 11-50 you get a lower rate.
Remember, you're dealing with a business, not people. (Though you deal with people in the business...) The "cost of doing business" is just that. If you are /the/ man to do the work, then there is a higher cost of business. I've seen companies bring in specialists each one gets 10% to contribute about 40 hours of time, and then they make $12k off it a year. See they are /the man/ - key personnel that were needed to make a product to succeed. Its the same for you, but you are less famous.
HAH : Check this out w.r.t. backwards compatibility
Oh, really?
Corporate Income Tax Rates--2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Taxable income over Not over Tax rate
$ 0 $ 50,000 15%
50,000 75,000 25%
75,000 100,000 34%
100,000 335,000 39%
335,000 10,000,000 34%
10,000,000 15,000,000 35%
15,000,000 18,333,333 38%
18,333,333 .......... 35%
Remember the golden rule: those that have the gold makes the rules.
So where is this mythical population of people who are better off as individuals?
Rate Single Married Filing Jointly
10% Not over $8,025 Not over $16,050
15% $8,025 - $32,550 $16,050 - $65,100
25% $32,550 - $78,850 $65,100 - $131,450
28% $78,850 - $164,550 $131,450 - $200,300
33% $164,550 - $357,700 $200,300 - $357,700
35% Over $357,700 Over $357,700
Now, assume that the person has income in the form of qualifying wages. These wages are subject to an additional 9% tax - 7.5% FICA and 1.65% medicare. Making the table:
Rate Single Married Filing Jointly
19% Not over $8,025 Not over $16,050
24% $8,025 - $32,550 $16,050 - $65,100
34%* $32,550 - $78,850 $65,100 - $131,450
37%* $78,850 - $164,550 $131,450 -
* At this level FICA and medicare contributions max out.
But as you can see, there isn't a scenario where anyone is better off.
It depends on what the definition of "is" is. :-)
The grandparent to this thread did not ask about ethics, only mechanics.
There is no limitation on what businesses can engage in as long as it is lawful. You can actually write on your articles of incorporation "anything a business and legally engage in" and get a corporation.
But yes, you are right in that you can't just create a legal fiction and do nothing with it. Most people can engage in business really easily. There is no reason why you can't take a hobby and turn it into a talent. For most slashdot readers, we all offer consulting services to friends, family and co workers. There is no reason that can't be a business, which easily justifies the tech gadgetry. Even Mary Kay, Amway (Quickstar), and other pseudo pyramid schemes are easy to get into and are viable independent businesses.
You can even charge your own corporation rent in your own house provided certain criteria are met. (I've heard that some people that get audited the IRS takes a tape measure to measure the square footage of the room to arrive at a appropriate rent charge)
Yes. The IRS does expect you to show a profit in 5 years. And you can get in trouble if you're found to not be operating a business. But the whole situation is ambiguous enough to be absurd. They can't tell you how to run your company, they can't set performance objectives.
The only issues for people are how to have enough business to pay for the time hassle and up-front costs of operating the business itself.
Finally, I am not conflating withholding with deductions. My point was to let you know that what you get to spend has already had taxes taken out from your GROSS. Maybe you've tuned your W-4 to accurately reflect your annual income. But the business only has to pay estimated quarterly payments on PROFIT, not gross. Given a human and a company, with the same numbers of income and expense, the company will be paying less tax. Period. You pay taxes on GROSS, minus allowed deductions. The company pays taxes on NET PROFIT.
Show me a situation where the company has to may more tax than a person given the same amounts of income and expense.
I guess it is how you define "country" and what is to be done for your country.
See, what I can do best for my country is be industrious and not F it up. In return, expect my country to let me be industrious and not F me up.
Remember republics are instituted among men to protect our rights of life, liberty, and property. Not take them away. We gave the government power so that it could protect our rights, not take them away to build a Utopian society. Government doesn't determine society. Society determines the government.
The market is working, we just don't want it to work like it should.
There is only one factor that has conspired against the free market, and that is all the big players did the same ting in a short period of time. Now what should be happening is the smaller banks buy out the larger ones, with combined powers. (These smaller banks never engaged in these practices.) This would give rise to a new set of major banks. However the owners of the major banks don't want their companies divided up and sold at auction, which is what the market would do. They have convinced us to "bail them out" so they can hold on to their dominant positions, a move against the free market principals.
Unfortunately, what we have is where the actions of a few thousand people now affect 350 million people.
The point is people go where they cab be in harmony. You can pay a high tax and like it, as long as what you get in return is of par value for the taxes paid, people won't move. If they get less than par value, they will eventually move.
Here's the paradox of socialism: If you provide more social services for free or below cost, more people without the ability to pay full cost will move in, further burdening the system. The money comes from some where, and that is the taxpayers. Eventually you face collapse, as the system attracts those that's can't provide for themselves. You raise taxes, and some of those who can over-pay into the system decide to move. because there's better deal else where. Then you really have collapse.
The conservative approach is to say you are responsible for everything yourself. Everyone except the under performers thrive. The under performers move to places where they can get a free ride - to your socialist states. Eventually your socialist states collapse
I firmly believe California would be only a stop on the illegal immigration railroad if they didn't provide such excellent social services.
Lithuania is still not Russia.
Your statements are uninformed. And I'm being polite.
When you are a person, you get a W-2. You pay taxes on the income reported on your W-2. If they are wages, then you also pay FICA and medicare, another 7.5 and 1.65%, respectively. That much is withheld from you pay. You THEN take WHAT IS LEFT and buy things. Example: $1000 income taxed at 20%=$800 left. You buy a computer at $500, you have $300 left.
When you are a company, your income comes in, you buy things, THEN you pay your taxes. Example: $1000 income. You buy a computer at $500, you have $500. You pay taxed of 20% (for illustration), you pay $100 in tax. You then have $400 left.
The problem is for individuals, you pay your taxes first.
The company can deduct anything (within reason) as an business expense. Then you get to pay taxes. The realm of what is deducible for corporation far exceeds what is deductible for a person. Can you as in individual write off your cellphone, internet, rent, or utility bills? NO. But the company can.
While you do expose yourself to two levels of tax, how much is being taxed. Your corporation gets to write off your salary as an expense. So that's not a problem. You then pay yourself a smaller amount (the company gets to own your toys.) so you can cover what the corporation does not. What you end up doing is minimizing your taxable income and paying a minimal amount on the justifiable expense. ****
**** This statement is a generalization. There are several type of legal entities to choose from. The simplest is a pass-through like a LLC or S-corp. In this case, ALL the income is assigned to the partners and is only taxed once. The example above is for a C-port. Consult a legal professional for advice.
If you want to buy a house for your company, buy it and rent it out. There is no good reason why you cannot be a customer of your own corporation's services.
*Consult a legal professional for advice.
Well my family arrived here at Ellis Island in 1920. Another part of my family got here from Lithuania, prior to the Russian invasion. It seems the "land of opportunity" isn't #defined as USA, rather it is a variable. It was equal to USA for some time, then recently, it seems to have changed. Why is that? Its people people like you say "we're building something great, just endure for a while". I don't want what you're building, and I shall not be made to suffer you agenda. However, what you are building violates several constitutional principals. Since I'm here for the constitutional principals, I say you take your agenda to a place more amenable to your agenda.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-C. S. Lewis
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
-Thomas Jefferson
The problem is the left is well meaning and sincere. They want to create this However for me anyone to buy into it, they have to admit that the government knows best. This is a hard pill to swallow, since history has shown that the government doesn't know best. The government has been influenced by special interests, meaning now you have to trust the special interest groups. However the special interest groups only look out for themselves. So now you're leaving "what is best" to people who don't care what is best for you, they only care for themselves. In turn, this leads to you being manipulated by special interests so that they can extract every dollar they can from you.
American Dairy Association, American Dental Association... even AARP, all these "Associations" are special interest groups trying to sell you something.
The only thing you'll get out of trusting the government is how to be a good consumer. Unfortunately, that is neither providing security or true happiness. You have the responsibility to look out for yourself and your loved ones. Because no one other than yourself and your loved ones cares about you. Unless you're part of a statistic they can use.
You can form a corporation, which only pays taxes on PROFIT, whereas people pay taxes on GROSS INCOME (though they might call it "net income" what is deductible for you as a person is far less than what a company can deduct.)
If you read the Rich Dad/Poor Dad books, this is a key point - Your corporation should own everything. You use the corporation as s tool to acquire things and pay for them. You only give yourself a modest amount of income. As owner of the company, you get to call the shots on what is bought and how it is used. (Company cars, etc)
That is step 1, that you can do domestically. A key part of that is WHERE you incorporate. Nevada doesn't have a state income tax, so you only have to pay federal taxes (again, only on profit) and has some very private arrangements in terms of hiding who all is in the company. Very rarely do you ant to incorporate in your own state. (Though you will still be liable for taxes in any state you are registered as operating in - so look a the definition of "operating". Generally it requires an address in that state.)
The next step I think would be going to another country. I have to experience in that. It may or may not be worth the hassle. Maybe having your own domestic company will be 90% of for 10% of the hassle.
In Gregory v. Helvering Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand was quoted as saying:
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."
Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935).
The fact is tax avoidance is a key part of keeping taxation in check. If it gets oppressive, you move. In this way, governments compete for taxpayers.
* If your tools are broken by whitespace, your tools are borken. That should be obvious.
* Use multiple processes.
* static/dynamic tying is a debate for another day
* C isn't crossplatform? What platform doesn't have a C compiler? If your platform doesn't have a C compiler, your platform is broken. Shat should be obvious.
* I thought choice was good? Having several means you're not locked in. Qt, Tk, GNOME, etc, all have Pyhton bindings. I actually really like PyQt
* 2.6 contains the enhancements in a 2.5-compatible way. That's your backwards compatibility.
* 'self' is not hard-coded. You can use any variable, like 'me' or 'my'
* It's a text file. If your editor can't edit a text file, your tool is broken, not the language.
* Adoption? It's better than C#, which had no labor pool until a few years ago and its got a _ton_ of libraries, including platform dependent ones.
* tools like 'sip' ensure you can bridge C++ space and native code.
OOh they do make cameras worse thatn the iphones!
At 0.3, that's like 640x480...
While I don't believe AIDS was invented, I do have comments.
If it was not invented, was it discovered then leveraged?
It is also moronic to try to kill off "the poor". Poor is a valuation tied to someone by how large of a number they have tied to themselves. Usually as a result fr working in an economy. It is at best, a transient description. J. K. Rowling was poor, now she is rich. And circumstances in life can take you the other way. There is no way for a disease to target people. Given that we're all 6 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, that's not that many partners to spread it over the entire population. Also, if you attack by geography planes and automobiles completely ensure that propagation continues outside the community.
Not when you've just made a trip from the kuiper belt. Distance is relative. Perhaps it was not off the actual comet itself, but part of the comets tail which followed. And that does seem to make some sense, becuse the congo is west of siberia, the planet rotates east, so there would be a few minutes of lag needed to get to the congo west of the impact.
Clearly, not a likely scenario, but indulging...
The virus would not be viable at the near-impact site. It would have to be spread by the ejecta from the explosion, or a chunk that broke off and fell into the congo on its way to Russia. Given that it exploded before impact it is likely that internal pressures were causing debris to fall off all through the descent.
Arriving in the Congo, which is home to Bonobos, the most human-like ape, it infected them, then moved out from there.
LISP is a great language, and it has its place, but we're comparing OOP to OOP. LISP is hard-core functional, and I'd definitely cite that as a reason not to do F#. But I stand by my comment that Python is the best OOP, and its made even better with functional programming constructs. It is, IMHO, the best blend of OOP+functonal, which makes it very flexible.
You got me on that one. I was thinking of C++/CLI, which is absolutely horrible. Unfortunately, I've had to interface legacy C++ and C# code.
Still, when I read about C#, feature after feature was in the right direction, but it did not improve on Python. (Granted it is better than Java) So I have to give a wag of my finger for coming up with yet another language.
But damn, that F# language is ugly. I have no idea why they are inventing yet another language when python already supports functional programming.
Why do we have to keep fracturing the developer space by segregating people into what languages they know? Before .Net everyone had moved towards a POSIX compatible system, then .Net comes out and does away with all that cross platform work. I think having a variety of languages is a good thing, but why is Microsoft inventing new languages that don't improve on anything?
I have to think it is about control. As long as they keep inventing these new libraries and langauages, they can keep people locked into using their products. Even IronPython has the side effect of tying you to .Net libraries, a Microsoft product. Given the rise of Linux and OSX, that is becoming a bigger and bigger stumbling block.
I try and try to use it as a photoshop replacement, I really do, but I am lost without it looking a lot more like Photoshop. And what's with all those top-level windows anyway? I use a multitasking OS because I multi-task. I don't want to have to minimize 7 windows when I want to minimize gimp.
I'm a smart guy. I can use image editors, but the layout and thinking of Gimp is just left of center, far enough to make me uncomfortable in it. Am I alone in this? Is Gimp not getting users because of it? Is this in turn slowing Linux adoption?
I gotta say it - Python (and Ruby) is the best language to date. I don't see why you'd ever invent another language that scores lower on the benchmarks of what makes a language good.
Those are:
Those are just off the top of my head.
Speed isn't a concern because it is often cheaper to buy faster hardware than it is to use an unproductive language. When you think about it, one day of developer time can justify a CPU upgrade that is 2x as fast. How many hours a year do you spend updating headers, tracking down bad pointers, missing memory de-allocations?
Just give them VMPlayer and a XP/SP3 image that is only like 5 gigs and they can install whatever they want.
Then lock down the the company machine.
If something goes wrong with the VM, just give them a new one. Sorry, but there is no support other than that. If they lose stuff in the VM, then that's not your problem.