I have my own C-Corp with just myself and a handful of other programmers and web designers who only work for me when there's work (maybe a few hours a month) on a 1099 basis.
While it's primarily a web dev business, I created a website that generates profits by selling books, so I get to deduct **before taxes** all computer and book purchases, something I nominally spend thousands and thousands of dollars on, any way, each year.
By deducting my most major personal expenses, I suddenly make more on a net basis charging $45/hour corp-2-corp than I do at $60/hour W2, and the companies that hire me save a crapload, too.
Every question, answer, and comment on the StackExchange websites (StackOverflow, ServerFault, et. al.) is automatically licensed on something very akin to the GPL (the Creative Commons Share Alike License); if you use code from those sites, your entire application's source will legally have to be released.
Yeah, it's called a "hostile fork", and several good projects have **died** because of it.
I remember the first ED2K GUI client for UNIX, xMule. The coder seemed to work on it full-time, because, he said, he believed in creating a secure messaging/sharing mechanism to use in dictatorships and such. Then along came aMule, which started off as a full copy of his GPL code. They even replaced all of the copyright licenses and removed his name from every file except brief mention in a hidden document. Then they proceeded to copy every single change he did. It seemed they were copying quickly while he was slowly developing. Then, all over the Internet (especially the wikipedia page), they would attack him personally and his project.
I still used it until he gave up on it completely (he said it wasn't worth the heartache of being attacked for trying to create something useful for people) after about a year. He would always say he had no alternative under the GPL. That there was nothing he could do except take down the public SVN access and mash up all the source into one gigantic file, but even that didn't stop the copiers.
I forgot to add, that current estimates suggest that somewhere between 2 to 15 percent (no more than 20%) of the American population are completely self-autonomous, soulful entities who have largely superceded biological programming and have become what we idealize as "sovereign humans", living mostly in the noetic sphere of mentalism.
Due to selection and fitness pressures, since noetic individuals trend to fair poorly in high-crime, war-torn areas, the concentration of noetic beings has actually been declining for the last 100 years in most places. Since individuals who are bootstrapped with noetic capabilities at birth almost certainly require certain genetic combinations, and since the least fit (in a noetic sense) breed the fastest and trend to prey on the relatively much more weak noetic individuals, this trend is both deepening and accelerating.
Highly noetic nations of the United States, Europe, Russia, and particularly Japan, are even facing extinction-level reproduction failures, if not of their general population (if buttressed by massive immigration from less noetic societies), then certainly of their noetic populations. This culling process is part of the evolutionary flow:
In the middle-to-long term, the world will once again become mostly bereft of noetic individuals (probably in another 300-500 years, if not hastened by human/natural calamities). This is termed The Grand Supercycle by several branches of theorists (including Elliot Wave theorists). They tend to occur on a scale of ~25,000 years, and we're in the terminal years, accoridng to various ancient calendars scattered around the world.
And look around you. The collapse of societies, everywhere, will be plainly obvious to everyone who is even partially noetic.
This "Quick-Programmable NPC" is what a lot of spiritualists would term "a soul".
There's a particular line of thought (and scientific study! See: Eric Pepin) that hypothesizes that what pratically every awake, Quick-Programmable NPC people generally reference as their "soul" is really an evolutionary epiphenomenon / emergent property that just started emerging in the species in the last 10,000-50,000 years ago, at least in the genius class.
It further states that while it has a very real biological component (certain gene combinations are apparently *required* to be *born* with this "soul state" (or quick-programmable, as you put it), it is mostly a psychological / noetic characteristic, a sort of linguistically-programmable memetic virus.
The more Quick NPCs such as ourselves interact with other animals (especially humans), the more those other entities develop their own "soulness". The effect is that even completely biologically-unique adopted children and pets will seem to develop "soulness" based upon their age (younger the better) and duration and intensity of their enmeshment with "soulful" entities.
This spread of "humanizing characteristics" has been quite dramatically and very frequently observed in most domesticated species of all types, including a wide range of mammals and birds (esp. primates, canines, and felines). The critical point where the process cements in the entity is with their neurolinguistic recognition of their own "name" (or arbitrary identity reference).
There is a serious and ongoing research into this field, mainly by cutting edge linguists and neurologists. Most keep it under wraps for fear of ridicule from the mainstream scientific society, but that's how cutting edge stuff has always gone for millennia now.
About a year and a half ago, I received an offer to store unlimited numbers of MP3s on Amazon Cloud services. I was under the understanding that this would be good for the duration of my account, a perk of being an early adopter of Amazon Cloud Player.
Then last month, I got a nasty email saying that my "trial" was over, that I was 20 GB over the new limit (200 "songs") and that I would have to pay every month for the service to keep the songs.
That's why no one should sign up w/ Boxee assuming their unlimited offer will always be there. One day they're going to wake up and either suffer more money or lose content.
It is **very** bike unfriendly. Most of the city streets do not have sidewalks. There are vast sections next to the highways that do not.
My friend, lilo (founder of Freenode.net), was biking home one night at 11:30 PM just a short distance from the old Freenode headquarters when he was hit and killed by a 2-time-DUI driver and instantly killed.
A coworker of mine used to bike 20 miles every week, just for exercise, until he was hit by an uninsured illegal alien driver. The driver was quickly deported to Mexico where he served no extra time (just a few weeks in total), while my coworker died.
Everyone in Houston pretty much has these stories. ANd then there's teh road rage. There are so few bikers, the ones who try to bike in the streets get cokes thrown all over them, strings of profanities, chain car honking at them, road rage, etc. I once saw a guy in front of me swerve so hard into the biker's lane that the biker fell down. Then the guy rolled down his window and started cackling in laughter.
That's what's it's like to bike in Houston...
OH and did I mention most of the year it's close to 100% humidity, 95-110 F, and there are LEGIONS of mosquitos between early March and late September??? And it rains all the time. Who in their right mine would even ride a motorcycle in those conditions?!
When Obama gets re-elected and nominates one to two more supreme court justices, this will certainly become law-by-judicial-fiat, which is completely unconstitutional.
I'm increasingly convinced that non-spammy trolls like the one you mentioned above are primarily composed of enlightened, non-standard, trend-setting free thinkers.
IT's OK. Darwin, Dawkins, and every atheist, really, just 50 years ago were considered trolls by society, too.
Conversely, I've never witnessed a definitively enlightened, non-standard, free thinker label anyone a troll, either...
If this horrendous piece of judicial fascism becomes law against all that is holy and in the Constitution, then I would see it as a major boon to U.S. manufacturers.
ANd if this passes, I will try my darndest to get my state (Texas) to re-establish its republic and get the fuck out of this forced-by-gunpoint union. And then I'm going to join the new Texas Armed Forces to defend the republic from both Mexico and the U.S.;-/
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Paranoid much???
I'll go with sublime humor. Especially since they have a 6 digit user ID ;-)
Oh look! Another redditard!
Let's see...
On my Mom's computer, I'm constantly having to do virus scans; about every 3 months, she ends up with something bad.
On my Mom's Android, she never runs into anything.
I think in her case (and millions other), the Android fenced park is protecting her from getting "smashed".
OK OK...
Maybe it's not a walled garden with a 24/7 security battalion at every window [Apple's iOS]...
Sounds more like a couple of parks side by side with a 3 foot high fence meant to keep toddlers safe from running into the street and getting smashed.
Just use the personal web page archival service, www.permamarks.net.
I use it as a distributed bookmark replacement. It's awesome for this sort of stuff.
Google **does** sell that information obtained via GMail, even if they aren't exactly forthcoming about it.
That's why I use paid email like my current provider: PolarisMail. It's wayyy better than GMail anyway.
https://www.polarismail.com/
This is so true!
I have my own C-Corp with just myself and a handful of other programmers and web designers who only work for me when there's work (maybe a few hours a month) on a 1099 basis.
While it's primarily a web dev business, I created a website that generates profits by selling books, so I get to deduct **before taxes** all computer and book purchases, something I nominally spend thousands and thousands of dollars on, any way, each year.
By deducting my most major personal expenses, I suddenly make more on a net basis charging $45/hour corp-2-corp than I do at $60/hour W2, and the companies that hire me save a crapload, too.
And you don't even tell us the vendor?!
At $510, it's ~70 billion away from being supplanted by Exxon Mobile (XOM). I've seen it do those moves in a single day two times in the last month.
Every question, answer, and comment on the StackExchange websites (StackOverflow, ServerFault, et. al.) is automatically licensed on something very akin to the GPL (the Creative Commons Share Alike License); if you use code from those sites, your entire application's source will legally have to be released.
Just because no one is talking about that doesn't mean it isn't legit. Check it out: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25956/what-is-up-with-the-source-code-license-on-stack-overflow
You're such an idiot!
The guy is **clearly** stating that just becuase you can hostily fork doesn't mean you should.
ONLY FREETARDS ARGUE THAT YOU SHOULD, so you failed it, hard.
Yeah, it's called a "hostile fork", and several good projects have **died** because of it.
I remember the first ED2K GUI client for UNIX, xMule. The coder seemed to work on it full-time, because, he said, he believed in creating a secure messaging/sharing mechanism to use in dictatorships and such. Then along came aMule, which started off as a full copy of his GPL code. They even replaced all of the copyright licenses and removed his name from every file except brief mention in a hidden document. Then they proceeded to copy every single change he did. It seemed they were copying quickly while he was slowly developing. Then, all over the Internet (especially the wikipedia page), they would attack him personally and his project.
I still used it until he gave up on it completely (he said it wasn't worth the heartache of being attacked for trying to create something useful for people) after about a year. He would always say he had no alternative under the GPL. That there was nothing he could do except take down the public SVN access and mash up all the source into one gigantic file, but even that didn't stop the copiers.
I forgot to add, that current estimates suggest that somewhere between 2 to 15 percent (no more than 20%) of the American population are completely self-autonomous, soulful entities who have largely superceded biological programming and have become what we idealize as "sovereign humans", living mostly in the noetic sphere of mentalism.
Due to selection and fitness pressures, since noetic individuals trend to fair poorly in high-crime, war-torn areas, the concentration of noetic beings has actually been declining for the last 100 years in most places. Since individuals who are bootstrapped with noetic capabilities at birth almost certainly require certain genetic combinations, and since the least fit (in a noetic sense) breed the fastest and trend to prey on the relatively much more weak noetic individuals, this trend is both deepening and accelerating.
Highly noetic nations of the United States, Europe, Russia, and particularly Japan, are even facing extinction-level reproduction failures, if not of their general population (if buttressed by massive immigration from less noetic societies), then certainly of their noetic populations. This culling process is part of the evolutionary flow:
In the middle-to-long term, the world will once again become mostly bereft of noetic individuals (probably in another 300-500 years, if not hastened by human/natural calamities). This is termed The Grand Supercycle by several branches of theorists (including Elliot Wave theorists). They tend to occur on a scale of ~25,000 years, and we're in the terminal years, accoridng to various ancient calendars scattered around the world.
And look around you. The collapse of societies, everywhere, will be plainly obvious to everyone who is even partially noetic.
This "Quick-Programmable NPC" is what a lot of spiritualists would term "a soul".
There's a particular line of thought (and scientific study! See: Eric Pepin) that hypothesizes that what pratically every awake, Quick-Programmable NPC people generally reference as their "soul" is really an evolutionary epiphenomenon / emergent property that just started emerging in the species in the last 10,000-50,000 years ago, at least in the genius class.
It further states that while it has a very real biological component (certain gene combinations are apparently *required* to be *born* with this "soul state" (or quick-programmable, as you put it), it is mostly a psychological / noetic characteristic, a sort of linguistically-programmable memetic virus.
The more Quick NPCs such as ourselves interact with other animals (especially humans), the more those other entities develop their own "soulness". The effect is that even completely biologically-unique adopted children and pets will seem to develop "soulness" based upon their age (younger the better) and duration and intensity of their enmeshment with "soulful" entities.
This spread of "humanizing characteristics" has been quite dramatically and very frequently observed in most domesticated species of all types, including a wide range of mammals and birds (esp. primates, canines, and felines). The critical point where the process cements in the entity is with their neurolinguistic recognition of their own "name" (or arbitrary identity reference).
There is a serious and ongoing research into this field, mainly by cutting edge linguists and neurologists. Most keep it under wraps for fear of ridicule from the mainstream scientific society, but that's how cutting edge stuff has always gone for millennia now.
What town? or I call bullshit.
I watched all four debates on XBox Live.
Every single time a question came up like
Have you already decided who you want to vote for?
Definitely [ 80% ] No [ 15% ] Not Really [ 5% ]
Will you vote for Obama or Romney?
Obama [ 72% ] Romney [ 23%] Not Sure [ 5%]
It was like that on every question, every debate. SO that's the audience we're talking about.
Yes, it is.
That was a separate promotion.
The promo for unlimited MP3 storage was for being one of the first users of Amazon Cloud player...
OK,
About a year and a half ago, I received an offer to store unlimited numbers of MP3s on Amazon Cloud services. I was under the understanding that this would be good for the duration of my account, a perk of being an early adopter of Amazon Cloud Player.
Then last month, I got a nasty email saying that my "trial" was over, that I was 20 GB over the new limit (200 "songs") and that I would have to pay every month for the service to keep the songs.
That's why no one should sign up w/ Boxee assuming their unlimited offer will always be there. One day they're going to wake up and either suffer more money or lose content.
I live in Houston.
It is **very** bike unfriendly. Most of the city streets do not have sidewalks. There are vast sections next to the highways that do not.
My friend, lilo (founder of Freenode.net), was biking home one night at 11:30 PM just a short distance from the old Freenode headquarters when he was hit and killed by a 2-time-DUI driver and instantly killed.
A coworker of mine used to bike 20 miles every week, just for exercise, until he was hit by an uninsured illegal alien driver. The driver was quickly deported to Mexico where he served no extra time (just a few weeks in total), while my coworker died.
Everyone in Houston pretty much has these stories. ANd then there's teh road rage. There are so few bikers, the ones who try to bike in the streets get cokes thrown all over them, strings of profanities, chain car honking at them, road rage, etc. I once saw a guy in front of me swerve so hard into the biker's lane that the biker fell down. Then the guy rolled down his window and started cackling in laughter.
That's what's it's like to bike in Houston...
OH and did I mention most of the year it's close to 100% humidity, 95-110 F, and there are LEGIONS of mosquitos between early March and late September??? And it rains all the time. Who in their right mine would even ride a motorcycle in those conditions?!
Justice Thomas was only a judge for SIXTEEN MONTHS before he was put on the Supreme Court.
That's just ludicrous to me!
When Obama gets re-elected and nominates one to two more supreme court justices, this will certainly become law-by-judicial-fiat, which is completely unconstitutional.
Fucking judges.
Check out Men In Black: How The Supreme Court is Destroying America.
I'm increasingly convinced that non-spammy trolls like the one you mentioned above are primarily composed of enlightened, non-standard, trend-setting free thinkers.
IT's OK. Darwin, Dawkins, and every atheist, really, just 50 years ago were considered trolls by society, too.
Conversely, I've never witnessed a definitively enlightened, non-standard, free thinker label anyone a troll, either...
What's your reasoning?
If this horrendous piece of judicial fascism becomes law against all that is holy and in the Constitution, then I would see it as a major boon to U.S. manufacturers.
ANd if this passes, I will try my darndest to get my state (Texas) to re-establish its republic and get the fuck out of this forced-by-gunpoint union. And then I'm going to join the new Texas Armed Forces to defend the republic from both Mexico and the U.S. ;-/