We live in a world of property, and much of the role of government is in protecting property rights. Most properties are subject to taxation, but it seems that Intellectual Property has been neglected. The budget short falls of governments could be reduced or eliminated by simply taxing all Intellectual Properties. I would suggest a time progressive scheme - say $100 the second year and doubling for each subsiquent year until the property is abandoned to the public domain.
The best outsourcing is to a computer running an approiate algorithm. That's how computer related industries have managed their growth for the last 50 years. My guess is some of us in the SlashDot community can and will write those algorithms over the next few years - open source or proprietary. Let the lowest bidder compete with that. There will still be a few loosers: we'll have more out of work / `underemployed' neighbors, investors will have to cope with several destabalized markets, goverment at all levels will have to rely more heavily on corporate taxes and probably `downsize'. and corporate executives and insiders may not be so highly valued. Looks to me like `interesting times' Bring 'em on.
There's enough collective/. experience to whip up the Data and Code to perform the audit (and corrective deletes) for all the proprietary stuff out there. What say ye, lads / lassies...?
There's a part of the POS world that been a bother. There are lots of thingies hung off most POS machines - cash drawers, bar code and mag-stripe readers, time-clocks,...
Any pointers or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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We live in a world of property, and much of the role of government is in protecting property rights. Most properties are subject to taxation, but it seems that Intellectual Property has been neglected. The budget short falls of governments could be reduced or eliminated by simply taxing all Intellectual Properties.
I would suggest a time progressive scheme - say $100 the second year and doubling for each subsiquent year until the property is abandoned to the public domain.
How do the major distributors - Red Hat, SuSE. ... manage their compiles?
The best outsourcing is to a computer running an approiate algorithm. That's how computer related industries have managed their growth for the last 50 years.
My guess is some of us in the SlashDot community can and will write those algorithms over the next few years - open source or proprietary. Let the lowest bidder compete with that.
There will still be a few loosers: we'll have more out of work / `underemployed' neighbors, investors will have to cope with several destabalized markets, goverment at all levels will have to rely more heavily on corporate taxes and probably `downsize'. and corporate executives and insiders may not be so highly valued.
Looks to me like `interesting times' Bring 'em on.
There's enough collective /. experience to whip up the Data and Code to perform the audit (and corrective deletes) for all the proprietary stuff out there. ...?
What say ye, lads / lassies
There's a part of the POS world that been a bother. There are lots of thingies hung off most POS machines - cash drawers, bar code and mag-stripe readers, time-clocks, ...
Any pointers or suggestions would be much appreciated.