Except that if the stock goes down, they'll backdate the options far enough back that they're in the black. "Backdating options" sound so much more pleasant than "stealing from the shareholders."
When the compensation committee, hired by a board stacked with cronies, is stacked with cronies? I think you underestimate the power of the dark side. I think you also overestimate the power of the shareholders.
To Joe MIT, he donates shares in a way that seems like a gift of a company to a university, though to the trained banker, it's clear they're non-voting, non-sellable shares, and are only good for getting free money.
And as such, they're probably the first to disappear in a bankruptcy. I assume that he or his estate will get the tax write-off even though the conversion of voting to unmarketable non-voting shares does represent putting pretty severe conditions on the gift.
It's called a selection effect, and smart people are able to recognize them. Blacks tend to vote for democrats, so the areas where large numbers of them live tend to be democratic. Areas where rich people live tend to have few blacks, but rich people are more likely to vote Republican. So yes, rich black people tend to live in Republican districts. The who runs the local government is not a causative effect on income, but a result of the wealth of the people that live there. It's your type of thinking that would result in the conclusion that living in a cemetery is the leading cause of death in America.
Speak for yourself. I crossed out that section of the contract, initialed and dated the removal, and signed my contract with no objection from the rep selling me the service.
The way the get out of that is to change the contract terms every 6 months. Not canceling your service is taken as agreement to the new contract. That thing you signed is probably long since void.
I am well aware that the Democratic Party exists for the purpose of suppressing blacks.
I'd love to hear your theories of how that works. Let me clear a spot on the floor for rolling and laughing. And I'd better have some ass glue ready for when mine falls off.
Just what corporations needed. License to rip us off. But only for amounts that are too small for an individual to suffer the costs of arbitration. Just think how much fun it will be when every corporation that we do business with regularly screws us out of a couple hundred bucks.
Impeach Roberts and Alito for lying to Congress during their confirmation hearings. And impeach Thomas for accepting bribes. But I forgot, the GOP only impeaches for blow jobs, or possibly presiding while black.
Make that half a century at least. And even then, the people who developed quantum mechanics and the institutes that employed them certainly didn't share in any royalties from semiconductor devices. No company is going to pay for theoretical work that might never pay off, or might take a century to do so. The people who developed the concepts of quantum mechanics weren't trying to develop semiconductor devices. You don't really have a way of knowing what's going to pay off. Heliocentrism prompted Newton to invent calculus and much of physics. It was essential to predicting the behavior of long range artillery shells. We built our first computers to calculate ballistics tables for artillery. Who funded Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton? The government (i.e. Royalty). 300 years is a long time for a payoff. If the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia doesn't pay for Copernicus's research, if the Medici don't fund Galileo, if the Crown approve an unordained man to the Lukasian Chair, we don't get iPads and the internet. At least not yet.
Shoes aren't a science. Neither is irrigation. We're talking about science funding. At any rate, irrigation was probably one of the first reasons for the development of the state. Without a state, someone is going to cut into your irrigation canals, or dam them up, or dam up the river. That person will probably become the owner of all the irrigated lands and the head of the state. Welcome to the libertarian dream.
Refereed online publications not associated with a publishing house are the answer. Or at least they would be the answer if people used them. Unrefereed sites like arxiv.org have too many bad papers. The refereed publications there are fine, but some journals demand the authors give up electronic publication rights.
All of my papers, except the last two are available there. The last two are in copyright limbo for a while.
The GPL license doesn't make it illegal to distribute software unless you comply with the demand you also distribute the source. It's already illegal to distribute software that you don't own the copyright to. The GPL makes it legal to distribute the software iff you also distribute the source. The distinction is important, and you have failed to notice it.
I know, I should avoid answering obvious trolls especially ones who see the world only in terms of a philosophy that, much like communism, doesn't ever work in practice.
(2) is worse than (1) because not all science can produce a profit. Even if it can, it might not be an immediate enough profit. For example, how long did it take for the photoelectric effect to have a profitable application? How about quantum mechanics? General relativity? Heliocentrism? Modeling of stellar interiors? Sequencing genomes of lichen?
If (2) worked the way you think it would, (1) never would have been developed because the rich wouldn't have allowed government to get in the way of their revenue generation.
As was postulated in TFA, it may be that one of the parties didn't have to book and was planning to buy it from the other. So A said I'll buy the book from B if an order comes in and sell it for 25% more, and B was looking at prices for the book at other stores and saying I'll sell for 5% below the lowest price. So every N hours A looks at B's price and sets its price 25% above that. Then B looks at A's price, sees it has gone up, and adjusts its price up accordingly. And so on.
If there were 300 copies of this book at 30 stores, this wouldn't happen. It's only with small numbers. If both had set their price for 5% below the lowest, the price would have gone to zero (or more likely a programmed floor representing the cost of the book to the seller+some margin).
If you own stock in a corporation, the most you are is another creditor to be discarded in bankruptcy and all it takes is a the stroke of a pen to erase any imagined equity you had. You'll never own enough shares to get the board to notice you, and if anyone does get that many shares the board will just change the voting rules to make them irrelevant. A corporation exists to enrich the board and the executive officers. The board exists link to the corporation with others by sharing board members. Like any member of the parasite classes shareholders are just along for the ride.
The rule of thumb is, when you add $X worth of on-line storage, expect to spend $2*X to $3*X annually on do-it-yourself backup as a minimum. And no boss in existence wants to hear that.
So when you buy a midrange server with 32TB of raw disk for $11k? If you need daily incrementals and weekly full backup with a 4 backup rotation, expect to spend $2500 a month on it. That's do it yourself (another server, lots of drives, some shelf space, and someone to do the job part time.) A commercial backup provider will be more ($0.80/GB/month @ 36500GB is too much for only one full backup on line). Internal backup here is only $0.25/GB, and that's too much.
That would have to be a bigger array than any we have on the drawing board. (Assuming you're talking about a broadcast by the most powerful omnidirectional radio station on earth.) Using Arecibo to transmit, then we don't even need an large array on the receiving end. A moderately sized single dish would do. We would need to know where to point Arecibo, though.
CFCs are of little use to a life form. The are too stable to take part in most chemical reactions. I suppose you might see them as a waste product in a very weird metabolism. But in that case you're going to get an atmosphere filled with CFCs because they are so stable. It's hard to imagine a photosynthesis reaction that would have enough energy to pull an atom off of Freon without the Freon molecule immediately bonding with the closest atom.
I suppose it's possible, but I think that planet would be one in a trillion.
Random radio noise and random optical noise are present in a great abundance. All thermal processes are random. Non-random processes are the sign of intelligence.
The problem with that is that the central region of the sun is not convective. If you dump hydrogen into the sun, it'll stay in the outer atmosphere. To get the sun to live longer, you'd need to get hydrogen into the core (which is a temporary solution), or you could pull helium out of the core (which could make the sun last a hubble time or more if you keep doing it.) Either is a feat of engineering that seems pretty difficult without technology indistinguishable from magic.
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Except that if the stock goes down, they'll backdate the options far enough back that they're in the black. "Backdating options" sound so much more pleasant than "stealing from the shareholders."
You might be pretty pissed if you don't have any money, food, or housing to go along with your 100% understanding.
When the compensation committee, hired by a board stacked with cronies, is stacked with cronies? I think you underestimate the power of the dark side. I think you also overestimate the power of the shareholders.
To Joe MIT, he donates shares in a way that seems like a gift of a company to a university, though to the trained banker, it's clear they're non-voting, non-sellable shares, and are only good for getting free money.
And as such, they're probably the first to disappear in a bankruptcy. I assume that he or his estate will get the tax write-off even though the conversion of voting to unmarketable non-voting shares does represent putting pretty severe conditions on the gift.
It's called a selection effect, and smart people are able to recognize them. Blacks tend to vote for democrats, so the areas where large numbers of them live tend to be democratic. Areas where rich people live tend to have few blacks, but rich people are more likely to vote Republican. So yes, rich black people tend to live in Republican districts. The who runs the local government is not a causative effect on income, but a result of the wealth of the people that live there. It's your type of thinking that would result in the conclusion that living in a cemetery is the leading cause of death in America.
The company would never agree to that. The arbitrators find for the 98% of the time. The coin is 50/50.
Speak for yourself. I crossed out that section of the contract, initialed and dated the removal, and signed my contract with no objection from the rep selling me the service.
The way the get out of that is to change the contract terms every 6 months. Not canceling your service is taken as agreement to the new contract. That thing you signed is probably long since void.
That is so funny! Does anything come out of your mouth that hasn't been through Glen Beck's digestive tract?
I am well aware that the Democratic Party exists for the purpose of suppressing blacks.
I'd love to hear your theories of how that works. Let me clear a spot on the floor for rolling and laughing. And I'd better have some ass glue ready for when mine falls off.
Just what corporations needed. License to rip us off. But only for amounts that are too small for an individual to suffer the costs of arbitration. Just think how much fun it will be when every corporation that we do business with regularly screws us out of a couple hundred bucks.
Impeach Roberts and Alito for lying to Congress during their confirmation hearings. And impeach Thomas for accepting bribes. But I forgot, the GOP only impeaches for blow jobs, or possibly presiding while black.
QM led to semiconductors within a couple decades
Make that half a century at least. And even then, the people who developed quantum mechanics and the institutes that employed them certainly didn't share in any royalties from semiconductor devices. No company is going to pay for theoretical work that might never pay off, or might take a century to do so. The people who developed the concepts of quantum mechanics weren't trying to develop semiconductor devices. You don't really have a way of knowing what's going to pay off. Heliocentrism prompted Newton to invent calculus and much of physics. It was essential to predicting the behavior of long range artillery shells. We built our first computers to calculate ballistics tables for artillery. Who funded Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton? The government (i.e. Royalty). 300 years is a long time for a payoff. If the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia doesn't pay for Copernicus's research, if the Medici don't fund Galileo, if the Crown approve an unordained man to the Lukasian Chair, we don't get iPads and the internet. At least not yet.
Shoes aren't a science. Neither is irrigation. We're talking about science funding. At any rate, irrigation was probably one of the first reasons for the development of the state. Without a state, someone is going to cut into your irrigation canals, or dam them up, or dam up the river. That person will probably become the owner of all the irrigated lands and the head of the state. Welcome to the libertarian dream.
Refereed online publications not associated with a publishing house are the answer. Or at least they would be the answer if people used them. Unrefereed sites like arxiv.org have too many bad papers. The refereed publications there are fine, but some journals demand the authors give up electronic publication rights.
All of my papers, except the last two are available there. The last two are in copyright limbo for a while.
The GPL license doesn't make it illegal to distribute software unless you comply with the demand you also distribute the source. It's already illegal to distribute software that you don't own the copyright to. The GPL makes it legal to distribute the software iff you also distribute the source. The distinction is important, and you have failed to notice it.
I forgot to add, show we a case where the private option succeeded without building upon the work developed by people using the public option.
I know, I should avoid answering obvious trolls especially ones who see the world only in terms of a philosophy that, much like communism, doesn't ever work in practice.
(2) is worse than (1) because not all science can produce a profit. Even if it can, it might not be an immediate enough profit. For example, how long did it take for the photoelectric effect to have a profitable application? How about quantum mechanics? General relativity? Heliocentrism? Modeling of stellar interiors? Sequencing genomes of lichen?
If (2) worked the way you think it would, (1) never would have been developed because the rich wouldn't have allowed government to get in the way of their revenue generation.
Probably. But maybe we'll be incurable homebodies in 4 billion years.
As was postulated in TFA, it may be that one of the parties didn't have to book and was planning to buy it from the other. So A said I'll buy the book from B if an order comes in and sell it for 25% more, and B was looking at prices for the book at other stores and saying I'll sell for 5% below the lowest price. So every N hours A looks at B's price and sets its price 25% above that. Then B looks at A's price, sees it has gone up, and adjusts its price up accordingly. And so on.
If there were 300 copies of this book at 30 stores, this wouldn't happen. It's only with small numbers. If both had set their price for 5% below the lowest, the price would have gone to zero (or more likely a programmed floor representing the cost of the book to the seller+some margin).
If you own stock in a corporation, the most you are is another creditor to be discarded in bankruptcy and all it takes is a the stroke of a pen to erase any imagined equity you had. You'll never own enough shares to get the board to notice you, and if anyone does get that many shares the board will just change the voting rules to make them irrelevant. A corporation exists to enrich the board and the executive officers. The board exists link to the corporation with others by sharing board members. Like any member of the parasite classes shareholders are just along for the ride.
The rule of thumb is, when you add $X worth of on-line storage, expect to spend $2*X to $3*X annually on do-it-yourself backup as a minimum. And no boss in existence wants to hear that.
So when you buy a midrange server with 32TB of raw disk for $11k? If you need daily incrementals and weekly full backup with a 4 backup rotation, expect to spend $2500 a month on it. That's do it yourself (another server, lots of drives, some shelf space, and someone to do the job part time.) A commercial backup provider will be more ($0.80/GB/month @ 36500GB is too much for only one full backup on line). Internal backup here is only $0.25/GB, and that's too much.
That would have to be a bigger array than any we have on the drawing board. (Assuming you're talking about a broadcast by the most powerful omnidirectional radio station on earth.) Using Arecibo to transmit, then we don't even need an large array on the receiving end. A moderately sized single dish would do. We would need to know where to point Arecibo, though.
CFCs are of little use to a life form. The are too stable to take part in most chemical reactions. I suppose you might see them as a waste product in a very weird metabolism. But in that case you're going to get an atmosphere filled with CFCs because they are so stable. It's hard to imagine a photosynthesis reaction that would have enough energy to pull an atom off of Freon without the Freon molecule immediately bonding with the closest atom.
I suppose it's possible, but I think that planet would be one in a trillion.
Random radio noise and random optical noise are present in a great abundance. All thermal processes are random. Non-random processes are the sign of intelligence.
To extend the life of the sun you need to pull the helium out of the core. Adding a Jupiter worth hydrogen won't do a thing.
The problem with that is that the central region of the sun is not convective. If you dump hydrogen into the sun, it'll stay in the outer atmosphere. To get the sun to live longer, you'd need to get hydrogen into the core (which is a temporary solution), or you could pull helium out of the core (which could make the sun last a hubble time or more if you keep doing it.) Either is a feat of engineering that seems pretty difficult without technology indistinguishable from magic.