Why should a mom-and-pop internet business be exempt from taxes that the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar store has to pay?
Let's have a level playing field. After all, that mom-and-pop internet business benefits from the services collected by the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortor.
And the same goes for large internet vendors vs. large brick-and-mortar vendors. Don't tell me that Amazon or Google can't figure out the tax rates for every jurisdiction they serve - they can just google for it.
Remember the days of spraying WD-40 on old ribbons to get extra life out of them? Now when the printer says "low toner" or "low ink" it won't print even when it's not true, because you've printed n number of pages.
I prefer the sequence in Blade Runner - even though at one point he repeats the same coordinates twice when telling it where to move to (at least in the director's cut)..
If countries want tax revenue to stay in their countries, lower the tax rates to be come more competitive. After all, 17% of something is much better than 30% of nothing.
Mis-reporting income and expenses is fraud last time I looked. This goes for businesses where one division over-charges another to shift profits from one country to another. These practices are coming under increasing scrutiny globally.
Want to straighten the ad problem out fast? Sales tax in the country/state/county of purchase.
Most programmers are either moved up to management or gone by 40. The people here on slashdot are a self-selected group that is mostly still in the business, so those anecdotes are NOT evidence of the overall market. To the contrary, they mask the real problem in a fog of denial.
Stats show that after 50, you can expect a 20% pay cut every time you change jobs. You'll be the last hired, the first fired, and spend longer looking for a new gig.
For every exception to this, there are also people in their 40s who are now finding out that they're now "too old."
The stats show that programmers in their 50s are the exception, not the rule.
That sounds like a good argument on the surface, but it fails to look at the context. Technologies change, languages change, language implementations have their own quirks, and if you're not doing something different once in a while, you're in a rut. The turbo pascal or basic or dbase coder 30 years ago has either moved on to something else or is obsolete.
If they've "moved on", chances are that they've done so multiple times, so there's no reason to believe they wouldn't be on stack overflow any less than anyone else.
Not really viable. At a certain point, you want to devote your energies to scratching your own itch, not wasting your time solving other people's problems over and over again.
Once you get rid of the drivers, then you're not providing a taxi service, but a car rental service.
If you are splitting hairs, both terms have baggage that does not convey the intended nuance. "Johnny Cab" is perfectly clear to anyone familiar with the cultural reference. "Robotaxi/robocab" would also work.
You missed my point - car rentals are not regulated like taxi rentals, so a huge legal problem for Uber disappears.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
So, I guess transsexuals have been a protected class for decades because you can't discriminate on the basis of a person's sex:-) Ditto Intersex.
(actually, the Canadian courts have long held this position, that discrimination based on birth sex is illegal because it's discrimination against someone based on sex.)
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No, the point is that if such obvious problems exist, the whole product is likely brain-damaged junk not worth repairing.
Why should a mom-and-pop internet business be exempt from taxes that the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortar store has to pay?
Let's have a level playing field. After all, that mom-and-pop internet business benefits from the services collected by the mom-and-pop brick-and-mortor.
And the same goes for large internet vendors vs. large brick-and-mortar vendors. Don't tell me that Amazon or Google can't figure out the tax rates for every jurisdiction they serve - they can just google for it.
Still doesn't explain why most people quit the field by 40.
Remember the days of spraying WD-40 on old ribbons to get extra life out of them? Now when the printer says "low toner" or "low ink" it won't print even when it's not true, because you've printed n number of pages.
I prefer the sequence in Blade Runner - even though at one point he repeats the same coordinates twice when telling it where to move to (at least in the director's cut)..
If countries want tax revenue to stay in their countries, lower the tax rates to be come more competitive. After all, 17% of something is much better than 30% of nothing.
All that does is encourage a race to the bottom.
Mis-reporting income and expenses is fraud last time I looked. This goes for businesses where one division over-charges another to shift profits from one country to another. These practices are coming under increasing scrutiny globally.
Want to straighten the ad problem out fast? Sales tax in the country/state/county of purchase.
Most programmers are either moved up to management or gone by 40. The people here on slashdot are a self-selected group that is mostly still in the business, so those anecdotes are NOT evidence of the overall market. To the contrary, they mask the real problem in a fog of denial.
Stats show that after 50, you can expect a 20% pay cut every time you change jobs. You'll be the last hired, the first fired, and spend longer looking for a new gig.
For every exception to this, there are also people in their 40s who are now finding out that they're now "too old."
The stats show that programmers in their 50s are the exception, not the rule.
The problem isn't how you think - it's how you're perceived. And unfortunately, the trend is - over 40? You're too expensive / too old - bye-bye.
The stats are entirely consistent with the real world, where most programmers are "up or out" by 40.
That sounds like a good argument on the surface, but it fails to look at the context. Technologies change, languages change, language implementations have their own quirks, and if you're not doing something different once in a while, you're in a rut. The turbo pascal or basic or dbase coder 30 years ago has either moved on to something else or is obsolete.
If they've "moved on", chances are that they've done so multiple times, so there's no reason to believe they wouldn't be on stack overflow any less than anyone else.
Not really viable. At a certain point, you want to devote your energies to scratching your own itch, not wasting your time solving other people's problems over and over again.
What wimps. I code with punch cards, and I make the holes by hand, with an awl
Seriously, you guys still have your typewriters? How do you compile?
Take the ribbon out and run it through a tape reader, of course :-)
If it happens, the big winners will be lawyers - the quantity of possible trademark and patent violations is huge.
Anecdotes aren't proof. The stats, on the other hand, don't lie.
Business idea: bunch of old fart programmers get together, found own company, laugh at young punks.
Great idea, but how to go about it?
Manual Underwood. It will build up your finger muscles to the point that you can do push-ups on your finger-tips. And no RSI to boot :-)
It gives a false view of what's possible, what's plausible, how things work, etc. In other words, it sucks.
That's no better than kids saying they want to be Superman or a Ninja Turtle because they saw it on TV.
And the acting ... god-awful.
But what can you expect from scripts that were written by former employees of the National Enquirer.
I read the stats
It's in plain view
If you're over 50
No job for YOU!
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Spaces are 1 space. Tabs are a random number of spaces.
Get an old typewriter. Unless you've manually set the tabstops to something custom (eg. for making tables or columns), tabstops are every 8 spaces.
Once you get rid of the drivers, then you're not providing a taxi service, but a car rental service.
If you are splitting hairs, both terms have baggage that does not convey the intended nuance. "Johnny Cab" is perfectly clear to anyone familiar with the cultural reference. "Robotaxi/robocab" would also work.
You missed my point - car rentals are not regulated like taxi rentals, so a huge legal problem for Uber disappears.
Once you get rid of the drivers, then you're not providing a taxi service, but a car rental service.
I never had it crash.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
So, I guess transsexuals have been a protected class for decades because you can't discriminate on the basis of a person's sex :-) Ditto Intersex.
(actually, the Canadian courts have long held this position, that discrimination based on birth sex is illegal because it's discrimination against someone based on sex.)
A cake with anti-black slogans would, by its' very nature, be discriminatory against blacks, so in this case the baker can refuse.