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Mark my words. This feature will cook for a while, say three to six months, then huge numbers of people will get their tivo service switched off one day. How? I bet the recordings are watermarked when they transfer. So anything uploaded to a p2p network can be traced back to the original person. And I bet this is the price paid by tivo to allow this service.
The diamond industry works entirely off of the perception in most people that diamonds are rare.
I heard a story about how Russia had been stockpiling large quantities of high grade (natural) diamonds from their own mines. They went to DeBeers and invited them to buy their stock to prevent Russia from dumping them on the diamond market. DeBeers happily bought their entire stock at a excellent (for russia) price. How's that for limiting supply?:-)
Our naturally windy environment is being destroyed by people selfishly extracting wind energy from our atmosphere! Wind is a natural force that moves clouds around and keeps our weather going. Everyone knows that windmills extract this much-needed power from our air. If we extract all the wind energy from our atmosphere, imagine the horrible consequences! Clouds would stop moving causing torrential rain on only one spot while causing severe droughts across the street! Countless yachts would be forced to use fossil fuels instead of sailing! And the multi-million dollar wind surfing and kite flying industries would be devastated! Please, stop harvesting wind energy from our atmosphere!
or it gives you a word that actually is correct, but is so rarely used that when you say it people look at you funny.
I was reading an article about mistranslations into english on signs in european countries. My favorite one was in a swiss ski resort hotel (or was it austrian?) Anyway, what they were trying to say was something like "please don't walk around in the hallways wearing ski boot at night while people are sleeping." What the sign said was, "Please do not perambulate in the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascention."
Now it will even mean that shooter games will be won by the smartest
I don't think "smartest" is the right word. I'm not sure what is the right word. I suspect this ability would have more to do with being able to focus or concentrate. That's very different from intellegence.
you will always have certain portions of the population that will label this the "Mark of the beast" and not partake
I doubt it. The mark of the beast has everything to do with buying and selling. Look for the official government "solution" to identity theft to be the mark of the beast.
Not to mention most contractors are paid on schedule 1099 which is taxed at a rate of your income tax level + 14%. BRUTAL
Actually, most contractors are either corp to corp or w2 and almost all go through a middleman because of the preferred vendor situation. And that 14%? It's really 15% and you're paying half of that right now as a salaried employee. Your employer is paying the other half of it. This is why you should encorporate.
I've been a conpontractor for most of my 14 years in IT.
1. Incorporate yourself into a company
Absolutely, but mostly for tax reasons. If you really get into trouble, it's not hard to pierce your corporation when you're the only employee.
2. Insurance
Many companies require Professional Indemnity & Public Liability insurance. For the young & inexpirienced, this can be very expensive - recent PI insurance for us was more than $6000
For me, this was several hundred dollars a year for $1,000,000 in coverage. It's a trivial.
3. Training
Once you're a contractor, you are generally responsible for paying all your own (re)training costs. In the short term this mightn't be an issue but it is something that should be considered nonetheless
You'll find that you only need more training if you want to head in a new direction. Also, I've been offered paid training as a salaried employee countless times, but never received it. There's always an excuse. And often, the training leaves a lot to be desired. As a consultant, you'll make enough to easily take a month off and pay a 5 digit number for that cool teradata (or whatever) training. Don't hold your breath waiting for an employer to pay for it unless there's a real, immediate, and urgent need, which is unlikely since they can just hire a consultant.
4. Working Harder
You will work harder as a contractor. Seriously. Because contract rates are more expensive and generally because you work on specific tasks (ie write system X), you MUST show a positive return on investment.
I've always had to work harder as a salaried employee. Consultants are respected and treated differently by companies. Salaried employees are there to be abused. For some reason, consultants avoid this. And if you do work longer hours, you're paid for them.
5. No real job security
Everytime you a contract finishes it's like a job interview all over again - sometimes you could go without another contract that suits your skills/needs for extended periods. which leads me to this point...
Job security is an illusion anyway. I've come into work and had my job evaporate on the spot maybe half a dozen times in my career. That is what made me go into consulting in the first place. At least I know when the end is. And you do get real good at interviewing. It's part of the job. I know people who were out of work for 9 months in 2000. If you add up all the time I was out of work over the last four years, it's about six weeks. When the economy is not horrible, it's not hard to get a new contract.
6. CASH FLOW
If you ignore everything else in this message, at least take note of this: You may not have a regular income. Cashflow management is essential.
But that's true with any job.
You need to make sure that you've got at least 1 months salary set asside in the bank for times between projects, times when your payments are late because you submitted timesheet too late/nobody authorized your payment, etc. IT HAPPENS. Don't get caught short.
1 month is nowhere near enough. In 2000, I worked my finances so that I could take a 50% pay cut and still pay my bills. I went from $125/hr to $45/hr almost overnight. I survived, but only because I had $20,000 in the bank. Again, this is true whether you're a contractor or a salaried employee. And billing problems will only hurt you if you're paycheck to paycheck.
I can honestly say that being a FTE provides the greatest of securities... it is easier to let contractors go than FTE's.
You're dreaming. Aside from maybe government jobs, job security is an illusion. And since most states are right-to-work states, you can be out on the street before the end of today with no explanation. At least with consulting, you make the money you're really worth and can afford to have some cash in the bank.
I think it also interesting to note that all the people surveyed were japanese. (I read the article somewhere else, not from the link above so I'm not sure if that detail is in there.) There are all sorts of diseases that are race related. (interracial ancestry aside) Only blacks get sickle-cell anemia. Only jews get Tay-Sachs (sp?) Only whites get psoriasis. And IIRC, there's a very rare form of stomach cancer that the japanese are far more likely to get. To really be accurate, they should do a much larger study covering many ethnic groups, geographical regions, and types of work.
I missed my chance at ever getting a Lego train set.
You mean like these? Lego trains are in sort of a revival at the moment. If I were you, I'd get a metroliner (or three) and some club cars before they go away. Also, check out the other legend sets. They're re-releasing some of the best lego sets from before the dark times, before juniorization.
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Raghu Raman
With a name like that, I can't tell if he's italian or japanese.
do you need to feed this thing?
No, but when you get a virus, not only does it email phishing scams to everyone in your address book, it also sneezes on your keyboard.
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Mark my words. This feature will cook for a while, say three to six months, then huge numbers of people will get their tivo service switched off one day. How? I bet the recordings are watermarked when they transfer. So anything uploaded to a p2p network can be traced back to the original person. And I bet this is the price paid by tivo to allow this service.
Arthur C Clarke was there researching the possibility.
You make it sound like he was on some sort of research expedition to sri lanka. He lives there.
struggling? well, y = mx + b of course!
You can put all your pr0n on DNA instead of putting your DNA on your pr0n!
you were taking much more advantage of it than they are.
What? My parent's property taxes?
The diamond industry works entirely off of the perception in most people that diamonds are rare.
:-)
I heard a story about how Russia had been stockpiling large quantities of high grade (natural) diamonds from their own mines. They went to DeBeers and invited them to buy their stock to prevent Russia from dumping them on the diamond market. DeBeers happily bought their entire stock at a excellent (for russia) price. How's that for limiting supply?
With wifi, the battery life is variable
If you were doing your job, she wouldn't need battery operated toys in the first place.
Our naturally windy environment is being destroyed by people selfishly extracting wind energy from our atmosphere! Wind is a natural force that moves clouds around and keeps our weather going. Everyone knows that windmills extract this much-needed power from our air. If we extract all the wind energy from our atmosphere, imagine the horrible consequences! Clouds would stop moving causing torrential rain on only one spot while causing severe droughts across the street! Countless yachts would be forced to use fossil fuels instead of sailing! And the multi-million dollar wind surfing and kite flying industries would be devastated! Please, stop harvesting wind energy from our atmosphere!
Nobody in America would spend $400 for a portable Walkman type device
I know what you mean! Just look at how much the ipod has flopped!
or it gives you a word that actually is correct, but is so rarely used that when you say it people look at you funny.
I was reading an article about mistranslations into english on signs in european countries. My favorite one was in a swiss ski resort hotel (or was it austrian?) Anyway, what they were trying to say was something like "please don't walk around in the hallways wearing ski boot at night while people are sleeping." What the sign said was, "Please do not perambulate in the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascention."
Now it will even mean that shooter games will be won by the smartest
I don't think "smartest" is the right word. I'm not sure what is the right word. I suspect this ability would have more to do with being able to focus or concentrate. That's very different from intellegence.
Because invasive would be that long spike jammed into the back of your cranium in the Matrix.
Yeah, that would feel... a little weird.
I haven't found out where the "Meeesta Jones" Jackie-Chan-esque kid fits into the plot yet...
oh god, for a minute I thought you were talking about jar jar.
you will always have certain portions of the population that will label this the "Mark of the beast" and not partake
I doubt it. The mark of the beast has everything to do with buying and selling. Look for the official government "solution" to identity theft to be the mark of the beast.
Not to mention most contractors are paid on schedule 1099 which is taxed at a rate of your income tax level + 14%. BRUTAL
Actually, most contractors are either corp to corp or w2 and almost all go through a middleman because of the preferred vendor situation. And that 14%? It's really 15% and you're paying half of that right now as a salaried employee. Your employer is paying the other half of it. This is why you should encorporate.
I've been a conpontractor for most of my 14 years in IT.
1. Incorporate yourself into a company
Absolutely, but mostly for tax reasons. If you really get into trouble, it's not hard to pierce your corporation when you're the only employee.
2. Insurance
Many companies require Professional Indemnity & Public Liability insurance. For the young & inexpirienced, this can be very expensive - recent PI insurance for us was more than $6000
For me, this was several hundred dollars a year for $1,000,000 in coverage. It's a trivial.
3. Training
Once you're a contractor, you are generally responsible for paying all your own (re)training costs. In the short term this mightn't be an issue but it is something that should be considered nonetheless
You'll find that you only need more training if you want to head in a new direction. Also, I've been offered paid training as a salaried employee countless times, but never received it. There's always an excuse. And often, the training leaves a lot to be desired. As a consultant, you'll make enough to easily take a month off and pay a 5 digit number for that cool teradata (or whatever) training. Don't hold your breath waiting for an employer to pay for it unless there's a real, immediate, and urgent need, which is unlikely since they can just hire a consultant.
4. Working Harder
You will work harder as a contractor. Seriously. Because contract rates are more expensive and generally because you work on specific tasks (ie write system X), you MUST show a positive return on investment.
I've always had to work harder as a salaried employee. Consultants are respected and treated differently by companies. Salaried employees are there to be abused. For some reason, consultants avoid this. And if you do work longer hours, you're paid for them.
5. No real job security
Everytime you a contract finishes it's like a job interview all over again - sometimes you could go without another contract that suits your skills/needs for extended periods. which leads me to this point...
Job security is an illusion anyway. I've come into work and had my job evaporate on the spot maybe half a dozen times in my career. That is what made me go into consulting in the first place. At least I know when the end is. And you do get real good at interviewing. It's part of the job. I know people who were out of work for 9 months in 2000. If you add up all the time I was out of work over the last four years, it's about six weeks. When the economy is not horrible, it's not hard to get a new contract.
6. CASH FLOW
If you ignore everything else in this message, at least take note of this: You may not have a regular income. Cashflow management is essential.
But that's true with any job.
You need to make sure that you've got at least 1 months salary set asside in the bank for times between projects, times when your payments are late because you submitted timesheet too late/nobody authorized your payment, etc. IT HAPPENS. Don't get caught short.
1 month is nowhere near enough. In 2000, I worked my finances so that I could take a 50% pay cut and still pay my bills. I went from $125/hr to $45/hr almost overnight. I survived, but only because I had $20,000 in the bank. Again, this is true whether you're a contractor or a salaried employee. And billing problems will only hurt you if you're paycheck to paycheck.
I can honestly say that being a FTE provides the greatest of securities... it is easier to let contractors go than FTE's.
You're dreaming. Aside from maybe government jobs, job security is an illusion. And since most states are right-to-work states, you can be out on the street before the end of today with no explanation. At least with consulting, you make the money you're really worth and can afford to have some cash in the bank.
And the Sonny Bono ski challenge?
114 million people voted FOR this sort of government on Nov 2nd.
And Kerry would have changed this how?
I think it also interesting to note that all the people surveyed were japanese. (I read the article somewhere else, not from the link above so I'm not sure if that detail is in there.) There are all sorts of diseases that are race related. (interracial ancestry aside) Only blacks get sickle-cell anemia. Only jews get Tay-Sachs (sp?) Only whites get psoriasis. And IIRC, there's a very rare form of stomach cancer that the japanese are far more likely to get. To really be accurate, they should do a much larger study covering many ethnic groups, geographical regions, and types of work.
I'm sorry, but that just puts all sorts of naughty ideas into my head!
I've seen those pictures here.
I missed my chance at ever getting a Lego train set.
You mean like these? Lego trains are in sort of a revival at the moment. If I were you, I'd get a metroliner (or three) and some club cars before they go away. Also, check out the other legend sets. They're re-releasing some of the best lego sets from before the dark times, before juniorization.
who gets that? Anyone?
I'm a consultant. I'm paid for every hour I work.
cd lasers are red...
dvd lasers are blue...
all your discs have degraded...
no more pr0n collection for you!