>So if he is worth $50B at death, the government gets ~$25B.
And that would leave ~25B for his family.
> for example, that he ends up giving 80% of his net worth to charity. That's $40B given the assumption above, leaving $5B for the government and $5B for his family.
So he does it one way his family gets ~25B, he does it the other way they get ~5B. How does this justify his foundation?
> especially since he is dictating where his money goes, not the government.
Thats called being smart, its called estate planning and you don't need to give the money away to charity to do this. If you had that much money, it would be irresponsible to just leave it to the government.
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>I have a hardware firewall (GTA GB500), 30 character password, and all remotely personal information stored on a 256bit AES encrypted volume.
Call me ignorant but wouldn't one simple phishing/keylogging software to get your password and its all for nothing?
You would have to get the software on your machine first, but there are loads of way it could be done (even on linux and especially if its hooked up to the Internet) but its well worth the trouble for a person.
>Nothing meaningful will be done until literally hundreds of millions or billions of people are killed.
You know, when I was young, we had nuclear weapons pointed at each other, able to kill millions within 20 minutes, millions more within 24 hours and those would be the lucky ones. And the few people who controlled the weapons had the motive and training/will to "push the button". Lets not even talk about accidential launchings. The effect on Earth, something it has never seen before since it cooled down, was a secondary afterthought.
And did I ever tell you how I walked to school uphill? Both ways?
1. There is a learning curve. When you a programming and solving a problem, why add to the complexity of your task?
2. The developer has to admit he isn't perfect. There are no bugs in his code, no feature that can't be easily turned on/off, nothing he hasn't already thought of or antipated that would require different versions.
3. Administrative overhead. Someone has to set up and maintain the system, with all the responibility and crap that comes with it.
>but what about all the great proprietary apps that are now going to run natively on Linux, thanks to Microsoft's endorsement of the platform?
What great proprietary apps don't run in Linux right now? What non-MS product or something that relies on a MS controlled feature (like DirectX or MediaPlayer) is not on Linux right now? And what is preventing them from End-Of-Line the OS and having them remove the support?
>What about all the IT folks that are now fully versed in supporting Linux, reducing the cost of supporting it?
No, IT people support it because of MS support. Once that support goes away... How many IT people supported DOS, Win 3.x, Win 9x in the past? How many people support it now? How many people will support Linux What about all the end users that now know how great Linux is?
No because of marketting they will know how great MS makes Linux better. End users can find out how good plain Linux is right now. MS will push their flavour of Linux, not Linux. The messages to the end users is that MS = good quality Linux.
>You've just made Linux a tremendously viable OS, one that cannot be owned and controlled by Microsoft.
Congradulations, you've just underestimated your enemy! I believe that you've found step 5.
1. MS Linux is created. Nicely polished. Has lots of marketting to PHB, something like "The best of both worlds!" Some important closed source applications only run in MS Linux. Such as the newly migrated MS Office for Linux. Or DirectX for Linux. 2. MS Linux crushes all other distros. 3. MS releases special features/support for paying customers only. Eg. RedHat support or RedHat Enterprise or Transgaming. 4. MS End-Of-Line its Linux with a simple and easy migration to its closed source OS. 5. ??? 6. Profit! (for MS)
> If they were capable of this and not doing it, they would be held to the fire by their stock holders for not exercising due dilligence with regard to competition.
Sometimes the best move is not to destroy your competition. They already learned that a couple of years ago.
>Are you suggesting that they are NOT actively fighting Linux adoption in forign governments, domestic corporations, and domestic Universities?
They are not fighting hard enough. They have huge resources. Trust me, what you've seen is either lazyness or they are holding back for a reason.
>the stock market historically returned 11% with dividends reinvested.
Realistically, dividends on the SP500 are pretty historically low, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to rise. (Just because it was the medium in the past, doesn't mean that it will be in the future.) So going forward, he might have a good point.
I'm on the side of good luck with the 10% consistantly part. In reality, its pretty rare to get that sort of number.
The freedom you are talking about "physical independence, I can go anywhere I want to, being better than non-car people" will come no matter what, as long as you don't seriously screw up.
The freedom you get from having a huge chunk of net money will last longer and is harder to achieve and for some, worth more.
Life isn't about dying, its about living with a piece of mind. You will get a car in your life. May never get a chunk of money that so you can make that "FU" account someone else mentioned.
Ummm... not exact sure about the tax rules for a Roth (USA) account are but for a RRSP (CDN) account, I wouldn't go too gun-ho on it at an early age.
1. Your main advantage, taxes, are minimized because you are in the lowest tax bracket. Unless you don't intend increase your salary more than the standard increase your company/union gives you. 2. You won't know how the best way to invest in things. There is a good chance you won't make a good choice. 3. You might be better off paying off loans.
30 miles/hour is fast or slow depending on what sort of transportation you are talking about (walking vs. car vs. jet plane). 10 million is sharp vs 1100 million.
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So by the same idea, Linux users should be supporting and patching MS products. Unpatched MS machines affect Linux users also.
>So if he is worth $50B at death, the government gets ~$25B.
And that would leave ~25B for his family.
> for example, that he ends up giving 80% of his net worth to charity. That's $40B given the assumption above, leaving $5B for the government and $5B for his family.
So he does it one way his family gets ~25B, he does it the other way they get ~5B. How does this justify his foundation?
> especially since he is dictating where his money goes, not the government.
Thats called being smart, its called estate planning and you don't need to give the money away to charity to do this. If you had that much money, it would be irresponsible to just leave it to the government.
>Rarely trust the mayority
So we should trust the minority?
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>Parents' tax dollars, parents' decision
But then, using this idea, the parents are the ones who did decide to have a "no violence" policy before this issue.
The school was correct in what they were doing. I realize that a few parents did permit the event, but what about the majority of parents?
>I have a hardware firewall (GTA GB500), 30 character password, and all remotely personal information stored on a 256bit AES encrypted volume.
Call me ignorant but wouldn't one simple phishing/keylogging software to get your password and its all for nothing?
You would have to get the software on your machine first, but there are loads of way it could be done (even on linux and especially if its hooked up to the Internet) but its well worth the trouble for a person.
Is there going to be some sort of dance rumble for street cred?
>Nothing meaningful will be done until literally hundreds of millions or billions of people are killed.
You know, when I was young, we had nuclear weapons pointed at each other, able to kill millions within 20 minutes, millions more within 24 hours and those would be the lucky ones. And the few people who controlled the weapons had the motive and training/will to "push the button". Lets not even talk about accidential launchings. The effect on Earth, something it has never seen before since it cooled down, was a secondary afterthought.
And did I ever tell you how I walked to school uphill? Both ways?
School's policy, school's decision.
Just have the fundraiser outside of school property.
>You must be using extremely simple documents...
>the figure positions, get screwed up, equations get put everywhere.
Equations? Academic papers?
In general, your documents are complex, not others are simple.
1. There is a learning curve. When you a programming and solving a problem, why add to the complexity of your task?
2. The developer has to admit he isn't perfect. There are no bugs in his code, no feature that can't be easily turned on/off, nothing he hasn't already thought of or antipated that would require different versions.
3. Administrative overhead. Someone has to set up and maintain the system, with all the responibility and crap that comes with it.
>but what about all the great proprietary apps that are now going to run natively on Linux, thanks to Microsoft's endorsement of the platform?
What great proprietary apps don't run in Linux right now? What non-MS product or something that relies on a MS controlled feature (like DirectX or MediaPlayer) is not on Linux right now? And what is preventing them from End-Of-Line the OS and having them remove the support?
>What about all the IT folks that are now fully versed in supporting Linux, reducing the cost of supporting it?
No, IT people support it because of MS support. Once that support goes away... How many IT people supported DOS, Win 3.x, Win 9x in the past? How many people support it now? How many people will support Linux What about all the end users that now know how great Linux is?
No because of marketting they will know how great MS makes Linux better. End users can find out how good plain Linux is right now. MS will push their flavour of Linux, not Linux. The messages to the end users is that MS = good quality Linux.
>You've just made Linux a tremendously viable OS, one that cannot be owned and controlled by Microsoft.
Congradulations, you've just underestimated your enemy! I believe that you've found step 5.
>Can you say "cutting your own throat"?
1. MS Linux is created. Nicely polished. Has lots of marketting to PHB, something like "The best of both worlds!" Some important closed source applications only run in MS Linux. Such as the newly migrated MS Office for Linux. Or DirectX for Linux.
2. MS Linux crushes all other distros.
3. MS releases special features/support for paying customers only. Eg. RedHat support or RedHat Enterprise or Transgaming.
4. MS End-Of-Line its Linux with a simple and easy migration to its closed source OS.
5. ???
6. Profit! (for MS)
> If they were capable of this and not doing it, they would be held to the fire by their stock holders for not exercising due dilligence with regard to competition.
Sometimes the best move is not to destroy your competition. They already learned that a couple of years ago.
>Are you suggesting that they are NOT actively fighting Linux adoption in forign governments, domestic corporations, and domestic Universities?
They are not fighting hard enough. They have huge resources. Trust me, what you've seen is either lazyness or they are holding back for a reason.
>the stock market historically returned 11% with dividends reinvested.
Realistically, dividends on the SP500 are pretty historically low, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to rise. (Just because it was the medium in the past, doesn't mean that it will be in the future.) So going forward, he might have a good point.
I'm on the side of good luck with the 10% consistantly part. In reality, its pretty rare to get that sort of number.
>I would rather not work at all.
What would you do with all your free-time?
The point is that you would do this AND get paid for it AND feel useful.
The best of all worlds, huh?
Someone I knew had said that to me because he heard it from his brother.
Yes, I wold describe them as both "bitter old hags".
The freedom you are talking about "physical independence, I can go anywhere I want to, being better than non-car people" will come no matter what, as long as you don't seriously screw up.
The freedom you get from having a huge chunk of net money will last longer and is harder to achieve and for some, worth more.
Life isn't about dying, its about living with a piece of mind. You will get a car in your life. May never get a chunk of money that so you can make that "FU" account someone else mentioned.
>For a Roth IRA, which is probably the simplest one the the US, you put in after-tax money
Thank you. Now I am now informed better and feel that I have won half the war.*
(*-paraphrased from GI Joe!)
>Second, why have such a volatile GF?
Dude, obviously you've never gone out with a Asian woman.
Ummm... not exact sure about the tax rules for a Roth (USA) account are but for a RRSP (CDN) account, I wouldn't go too gun-ho on it at an early age.
1. Your main advantage, taxes, are minimized because you are in the lowest tax bracket. Unless you don't intend increase your salary more than the standard increase your company/union gives you.
2. You won't know how the best way to invest in things. There is a good chance you won't make a good choice.
3. You might be better off paying off loans.
slashdot -> Voodoo Extreme -> rpg.boomtown.net -> Mainichi Shimbun
And they said the Internet was dead. Ha!
>With a B.S in Earth Science, I know a little about climate change due to increased CO2 concentrations.
A B.S. in something makes you qualified to "know" something?
What about all the Masters, Doctorates and Post-Doctorates that disagree with you?
"Yoda School of Grammar Graduate, I Am!" -- Yoda
Um ... these are in geological terms.
30 miles/hour is fast or slow depending on what sort of transportation you are talking about (walking vs. car vs. jet plane). 10 million is sharp vs 1100 million.