These services are usually provided by your state or local government. If you find their tax rates, policies, or projects to be poorly thought out, move to another state.
That's what I'm saying. If you don't like seattle taxes, go live in nevada.
To be perfectly blunt, I could give a crap about schools. I went to public schools and they are so focused on teaching the mass of students, that they don't bother with individuals. If I can afford it, my kids will go to private school.
Well, I agree with that in part, but the flip side is that schools are crappy here because they can't get the money they need.
Nothing I learned in school prepared me for the work force in any way
You learned how to deal with morons, right?
Remember that a business is designed for one thing: profit
First, so what? Second, no. A business is designed for profit by offering value for money spent, but it also has a social obligation.
In my humble opinion, the best way to deal with this is have the state tax money spent on goods and services.
What's this got to do with evading licensing taxes? You're talking about what the spend is on.
8.5% is cheap for an UNSECURED loan that doesn't START accumulating interest until AFTER you graduate (actually Govt pays interest till you graduate).
It's not dischargeable, and the overall default rate is low. How is this a risky thing?
Dude- you got $85K with ZERO collateral. The rate is NOT unreasonable. It is the best investment you can make for your future.
It's an investment, but you got the roles reversed - the government is investing in you. It should be subsidised. Increased tax revenue should make up the shortfall later.
Self-taught people rarely ever learn such hoop-jumping - why bother compiling proper bibliographies when you know your work is your own (and no-one else is there to check it anyway)? Why bother learning the latest industry mantras when your current method produces good results?
Properly citing your sources allows people to verify your work; learning buzzwords is of little value so far in my career.
In 1945 we were the economic king of the hill not because we are smarter or more creative (the myth of the non creative asian will be viewed by our children the way we view the idea that woman are tempermentally unsuited to excercise the vote) but because the other guys were down.
Myth? I view it as more a consequence of how most asians are raised - very big on toeing the line and doing things like they've always been done. Sure, you've got freaks like Gainax doing great things, but they're by far the minority.
It's nice that you spent a year or two in SF, but I have to take issue with the concealed carry comment - in SF, you won't find anybody carrying legally anyway and outside SF, those are the people least likely to bother you - lots of penalties if they get in a fight while carrying when they could've been avoiding it. What you have to worry about is the people who carry illegally - they just don't care, and you have plenty of them over there too, though I understand they mostly use swords.
Why is it that when an American says, "Hey, I love my country and I put it before all others" he's called "Ugly" but when an individual of any other nation says the same thing he's called a patriot?
Remember the uproar when France had the temerity to disagree with us over the Iraq war? Remember how people were outraged that another country had the right to tell us off? Yeah, that's why.
So doing a bad job gets you fired, but there's no penalty for a mediocre job (since the company needs to be able to prove at court you've been negligent)?
BTW, are there any advantages to European companies to hire employees, instead of getting in contractors? It seems they'll have to be really good at anticipating future demand with employees.
Sure there is: do a mediocre job and you won't get as many raises and promotions. If your job is mediocre but not bad, why are you getting fired?
English is easier than pretty much any other language if all you need is to communicate - bad english is simple due to the flexibility of the tongue, which good english is hard for the same reason. The only caveat is that two bad english speakers need to speak it badly the same way to communicate.
The other good feature of english is that you can mostly look at a word and pronounce it - not so with mandarin.
The difference is that other people make the effort to learn it, whereas few Americans make an effort to learn Mandarin.
Why should I? French is closer to what I know already and I see no reason to learn a chinese language - I won't ever interact with china if I can help it, largely because they're a brutal dictatorship.
yes, everyone in America (except Native Americans) is descended from immigrants.
Some of us are descended from conquerors (the ones who were here in the 18th century). I'm descended of immigrants myself.
I gather you're trying to be funny, but in reality that attitude (that everyone's a "foreigner" so it doesn't matter who comes into our country, and that citizenship is just a piece of paper) is causing a lot of problems for the U.S. and other countries at the moment. France, for example.
This is true, especially when most other countries see things differently. I can't just pick up and move to amsterdam and get a job - I'd have to apply for a visa, fill out forms, etc.
And before any of you start decrying the United States' immigration policies as racist,
This i never understood: maybe we are racist (I think we're just self centered - preferring similar cultures and people who can contribute to our success), but so what? It's not like you can challenge it legally.
You keep referring to those "foreigners". What does it matter if they become U.S. citizens in the end? They still end up working for your country, and your economy.
He's talking about people who come here for school and some work, then go home. having foreigners view us positively when deciding how to spend some billion dollars of their government's money is certainly in our interest.
never mind that we're so hot to shift jobs to India and China that the companies in question might just backfill the position in india - they're going home (as predicted) and taking a chunk of the market with them.
In addition to the text of the consititution, we have judicial precedent. They SCOTUS has affirmed a right to anonymous speech, especially wrt criticism of entities with the power to squash you like a bug.
Well, not to put too a fine point to it, nobody's entitled to dates. You can't justify asshole behavior by saying that you have to be an asshole to get dates.
I don't demand dates, I suggest them. Everyone's entitled to try.
# Pick-up artists who teach courses on how to "get" women by using a set of fixed techniques or actions that only engage superficially with the targets. "Say X, do Y and don't do Z, and women will sleep with you."
For the most part, it doesn't work too well. Of course, if you're pissed about men being fake, well women are fake too. I currently have a chris rock routine in my head, if you know where I'm going.
Date rape apologists who go into elaborate discussions of hypothetical scenarios that they insist are not rape because of the woman's actions; "it's not rape because the woman did X (or did not do Y)". This way of framing the issues basically boils down to asking when is a man entitled to have sex with a woman, based on a superficial observation of what she says or does (and not on understanding whether she wants to have sex).
Well, we can only interpret actions and words. No insight on feelings. If a woman is participating enthusiastically, it ain't rape. Naturally, the flip side of date rape is 'cold light of morning rape' - the woman decides the next day to revoke consent and cries rape because she did something/someone stupid.
# The present example, where men make advances on women without even thinking how the advance would look from the perspective of the woman who receives it, given that man's previous interactions with that woman (if any!).
Which is boorish, but not illegal. You aren't likely to get a date without some sort of connection, but all that's going to happen is her being offended.
It's a form of magical thinking: ask the girl out on a date and tell her she's pretty, and she will sleep with you; no attempt is made to understand any deeper the relationship between the actions and outcomes.
Shallow relations for shallow people - some women do operate that way. Obviously, men do too, or else they're tired of not understanding the whole dating thing, so they pick up a date kit.
As for me, I am reading a pickup type book - it has advice on seduction and approach, which I need to work on, but most of the advice is variations on
Be interesting - don't rely on women to validate your worth
Don't lie, but don't overshare early on
how to gauge interest
talk to lots of women - it is a numbers game to some extent. You don't have to try and date them all, but a bit of light flirting is fun and keeps you fresh.
The techniques apply to short term physical things as well as long term - it's up to the guy - was anyway. If you as a woman want it to be up to you, read the book in reverse and go pick up someone of your own.
Because load balancers are for situations where each request is independent and transactional. Online games depend on interaction between characters, which basically makes loadbalancers useless where it counts.
ok, girl genius online - I dig mad scientists, I guess. Kimiko is low charisma because she's socially awkward - can't talk to boys, calls people primates, that sort of thing.
So, basically, you agree with me? If there's nothing you can do about it, stop whining?
And BTW, you don't need multimillion dollar loans, you need multimillion dollar *investment* and you'll find that's a lot easier to get if the people you're suggesting you compete with are as incompetent as you claim they are, or maybe you're just whining.
If I did that, I'm pretty sure comcast/verizon would drop prices in your city long enough to choke your cash supply and possibly get laws passed that make it harder to do what you want to do (see muni wireless). They're a monopoly - good luck.
I refuse to call it identity theft -- the identity isn't being stolen and the name seeks to imply that the victim is the person whose numeric identifiers are being used to commit fraud against commercial activities.
Try using your identity after someone else has 3 credit cards and an apartment rental tied to it. Good luck explaining that the cards in collections "aren't yours"
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These services are usually provided by your state or local government. If you find their tax rates, policies, or projects to be poorly thought out, move to another state.
That's what I'm saying. If you don't like seattle taxes, go live in nevada.
To be perfectly blunt, I could give a crap about schools. I went to public schools and they are so focused on teaching the mass of students, that they don't bother with individuals. If I can afford it, my kids will go to private school.
Well, I agree with that in part, but the flip side is that schools are crappy here because they can't get the money they need.
Nothing I learned in school prepared me for the work force in any way
You learned how to deal with morons, right?
Remember that a business is designed for one thing: profit
First, so what? Second, no. A business is designed for profit by offering value for money spent, but it also has a social obligation.
In my humble opinion, the best way to deal with this is have the state tax money spent on goods and services.
What's this got to do with evading licensing taxes? You're talking about what the spend is on.
any third party means anyone
And what powers does the fed need to fund tuition at existing 4 year colleges?
8.5% is cheap for an UNSECURED loan that doesn't START accumulating interest until AFTER you graduate (actually Govt pays interest till you graduate).
It's not dischargeable, and the overall default rate is low. How is this a risky thing?
Dude- you got $85K with ZERO collateral. The rate is NOT unreasonable. It is the best investment you can make for your future.
It's an investment, but you got the roles reversed - the government is investing in you. It should be subsidised. Increased tax revenue should make up the shortfall later.
Self-taught people rarely ever learn such hoop-jumping - why bother compiling proper bibliographies when you know your work is your own (and no-one else is there to check it anyway)? Why bother learning the latest industry mantras when your current method produces good results?
Properly citing your sources allows people to verify your work; learning buzzwords is of little value so far in my career.
The good thing is that education expenses are a tax deduction over here.
They are here too, it's just that student loans aren't education expenses and aren't fully deductible if you make over $55k.
In 1945 we were the economic king of the hill not because we are smarter or more creative (the myth of the non creative asian will be viewed by our children the way we view the idea that woman are tempermentally unsuited to excercise the vote) but because the other guys were down.
Myth? I view it as more a consequence of how most asians are raised - very big on toeing the line and doing things like they've always been done. Sure, you've got freaks like Gainax doing great things, but they're by far the minority.
It's nice that you spent a year or two in SF, but I have to take issue with the concealed carry comment - in SF, you won't find anybody carrying legally anyway and outside SF, those are the people least likely to bother you - lots of penalties if they get in a fight while carrying when they could've been avoiding it. What you have to worry about is the people who carry illegally - they just don't care, and you have plenty of them over there too, though I understand they mostly use swords.
Why is it that when an American says, "Hey, I love my country and I put it before all others" he's called "Ugly" but when an individual of any other nation says the same thing he's called a patriot?
Remember the uproar when France had the temerity to disagree with us over the Iraq war? Remember how people were outraged that another country had the right to tell us off? Yeah, that's why.
So doing a bad job gets you fired, but there's no penalty for a mediocre job (since the company needs to be able to prove at court you've been negligent)?
BTW, are there any advantages to European companies to hire employees, instead of getting in contractors? It seems they'll have to be really good at anticipating future demand with employees.
Sure there is: do a mediocre job and you won't get as many raises and promotions. If your job is mediocre but not bad, why are you getting fired?
English is easier than pretty much any other language if all you need is to communicate - bad english is simple due to the flexibility of the tongue, which good english is hard for the same reason. The only caveat is that two bad english speakers need to speak it badly the same way to communicate.
The other good feature of english is that you can mostly look at a word and pronounce it - not so with mandarin.
This is the part where you say where the company is and what they do - want to fill those jobs, right?
The difference is that other people make the effort to learn it, whereas few Americans make an effort to learn Mandarin.
Why should I? French is closer to what I know already and I see no reason to learn a chinese language - I won't ever interact with china if I can help it, largely because they're a brutal dictatorship.
yes, everyone in America (except Native Americans) is descended from immigrants.
Some of us are descended from conquerors (the ones who were here in the 18th century). I'm descended of immigrants myself.
I gather you're trying to be funny, but in reality that attitude (that everyone's a "foreigner" so it doesn't matter who comes into our country, and that citizenship is just a piece of paper) is causing a lot of problems for the U.S. and other countries at the moment. France, for example.
This is true, especially when most other countries see things differently. I can't just pick up and move to amsterdam and get a job - I'd have to apply for a visa, fill out forms, etc.
And before any of you start decrying the United States' immigration policies as racist,
This i never understood: maybe we are racist (I think we're just self centered - preferring similar cultures and people who can contribute to our success), but so what? It's not like you can challenge it legally.
You keep referring to those "foreigners". What does it matter if they become U.S. citizens in the end? They still end up working for your country, and your economy.
He's talking about people who come here for school and some work, then go home. having foreigners view us positively when deciding how to spend some billion dollars of their government's money is certainly in our interest.
never mind that we're so hot to shift jobs to India and China that the companies in question might just backfill the position in india - they're going home (as predicted) and taking a chunk of the market with them.
In addition to the text of the consititution, we have judicial precedent. They SCOTUS has affirmed a right to anonymous speech, especially wrt criticism of entities with the power to squash you like a bug.
Well, not to put too a fine point to it, nobody's entitled to dates. You can't justify asshole behavior by saying that you have to be an asshole to get dates.
I don't demand dates, I suggest them. Everyone's entitled to try.
# Pick-up artists who teach courses on how to "get" women by using a set of fixed techniques or actions that only engage superficially with the targets. "Say X, do Y and don't do Z, and women will sleep with you."
For the most part, it doesn't work too well. Of course, if you're pissed about men being fake, well women are fake too. I currently have a chris rock routine in my head, if you know where I'm going.
Date rape apologists who go into elaborate discussions of hypothetical scenarios that they insist are not rape because of the woman's actions; "it's not rape because the woman did X (or did not do Y)". This way of framing the issues basically boils down to asking when is a man entitled to have sex with a woman, based on a superficial observation of what she says or does (and not on understanding whether she wants to have sex).
Well, we can only interpret actions and words. No insight on feelings. If a woman is participating enthusiastically, it ain't rape. Naturally, the flip side of date rape is 'cold light of morning rape' - the woman decides the next day to revoke consent and cries rape because she did something/someone stupid.
# The present example, where men make advances on women without even thinking how the advance would look from the perspective of the woman who receives it, given that man's previous interactions with that woman (if any!).
Which is boorish, but not illegal. You aren't likely to get a date without some sort of connection, but all that's going to happen is her being offended.
It's a form of magical thinking: ask the girl out on a date and tell her she's pretty, and she will sleep with you; no attempt is made to understand any deeper the relationship between the actions and outcomes.
Shallow relations for shallow people - some women do operate that way. Obviously, men do too, or else they're tired of not understanding the whole dating thing, so they pick up a date kit.
As for me, I am reading a pickup type book - it has advice on seduction and approach, which I need to work on, but most of the advice is variations on
The techniques apply to short term physical things as well as long term - it's up to the guy - was anyway. If you as a woman want it to be up to you, read the book in reverse and go pick up someone of your own.
Funny, I code at work, then go home and work on learning music and dance.
Because load balancers are for situations where each request is independent and transactional. Online games depend on interaction between characters, which basically makes loadbalancers useless where it counts.
ok, girl genius online - I dig mad scientists, I guess. Kimiko is low charisma because she's socially awkward - can't talk to boys, calls people primates, that sort of thing.
Dungeons and Discourse, baby!
So, basically, you agree with me? If there's nothing you can do about it, stop whining?
And BTW, you don't need multimillion dollar loans, you need multimillion dollar *investment* and you'll find that's a lot easier to get if the people you're suggesting you compete with are as incompetent as you claim they are, or maybe you're just whining.
If I did that, I'm pretty sure comcast/verizon would drop prices in your city long enough to choke your cash supply and possibly get laws passed that make it harder to do what you want to do (see muni wireless). They're a monopoly - good luck.
I refuse to call it identity theft -- the identity isn't being stolen and the name seeks to imply that the victim is the person whose numeric identifiers are being used to commit fraud against commercial activities.
Try using your identity after someone else has 3 credit cards and an apartment rental tied to it. Good luck explaining that the cards in collections "aren't yours"
It feels more like an attempt to expand into new markets while leveraging existing tech.