Why? Taxes are paid on profits. Isn't it better that the money end up in the hands of actual people who can feed their families with it, instead of locked up in a bank as retained earnings?
You realize that tax will still be paid, whether by you-the-corporation or you-the-individual. (Ultimately by you-the-individual, unless you keep the corporate profits in the bank forever and never take them as salary to you-the-person.)
Yes, but I think the question is: what's the big deal whether the money is retained as profit, and corporate tax paid on that, vs. the money being disbursed as bonuses, and the individual workers paying tax on it instead? Salaries and bonuses are not profit. But either way the tax gets paid...?
You don't need a mechanical engineering degree to be able to flush a toilet. You don't need to go to the Bondurant school to be able to drive a car. You don't need an electrical engineering degree to plug in an electric appliance. And you don't need to know how to code in order to use a computing device.
There are facts *and* there are theories. Observable, measurable phenomena are facts. Explanations of *how* and *why* those things happen are theories. An apple falling from a tree is a fact. We can verify its change in position, we can measure its speed and acceleration. Meanwhile, there are theories of gravitation that explain *how* and/or *why* the apple falls. Newton had one such theory. Einstein came along with a better one. The changes in theory do not change the fact that the apple still falls.
Ever heard the word "bank switching"?:D -- at least for the C-64 there were memory expansions with 512K and more
Of course I know about bank switching. But in order to run a BASIC program, the BASIC interpreter (and probably the KERNAL) needs to be switched in, so that's 16K you can't use for a BASIC program no matter what.
Well... according to some of the reviews I've skimmed... the Google thing is fairly hefty on the compute side compared to your average router, so maybe that's where the money is going?
There was a 64K RAMpack for the VIC-20, so if you used that, you wouldn't have run out of RAM.;-)
That couldn't possibly have worked for BASIC programs, as the parent was talking about. The total addressable space of the 6502 was only 64K, so you couldn't have 64K of RAM and the BASIC interpreter and the KERNAL (not to mention e.g. video RAM etc.) at the same time.
I certainly would not be in favor of such mandatory registration, but... where does it actually run afoul of the First Amendment? Would this actually be "abridging the freedom of speech or of the press"? Assuming, that is, that there were no restrictions (apart from those that already exist, e.g. incitement to riot) placed on the content published on the registered sites?
Our military isn't in any country that wasn't asked first (OK, except Afghanistan), or that didn't attack us first (or harbor people who attacked us) and then lose (which kind of brings in Afghanistan).
but this is nuts... if the cost is {Y} and the profit per year is {X} then 500 years * {X} = {Y} roughly the cost, including building the roads/ rails to get to the bridge, greatly dwarfs, by many orders of magnitude
Where did the 500 come from? Show your work, please.
It would be cheaper, but it would not achieve the same result. Ferries are slow and can only carry so much. Plus you need to load and unload, which adds cost and slows things down more. A train could ship consumer goods, or oil or coal, directly from Siberia or China (or India, if they play nice) all the way to New York without ever having to touch the product once in between.
Americans seem to have some kind of habit doing that. Often when I go to Amazon to check some reviews, for example for a computer or a portable heater, there's always comments like "great product, have to grab a couple of more". It certainly is not always obvious to me why the reviewer would need the extra units.
I have six or seven computers. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who does. I don't have any portable heaters, but if I did I might possibly have more than one.
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Why? Taxes are paid on profits. Isn't it better that the money end up in the hands of actual people who can feed their families with it, instead of locked up in a bank as retained earnings?
You realize that tax will still be paid, whether by you-the-corporation or you-the-individual. (Ultimately by you-the-individual, unless you keep the corporate profits in the bank forever and never take them as salary to you-the-person.)
Yes, but I think the question is: what's the big deal whether the money is retained as profit, and corporate tax paid on that, vs. the money being disbursed as bonuses, and the individual workers paying tax on it instead? Salaries and bonuses are not profit. But either way the tax gets paid...?
You don't need a mechanical engineering degree to be able to flush a toilet. You don't need to go to the Bondurant school to be able to drive a car. You don't need an electrical engineering degree to plug in an electric appliance. And you don't need to know how to code in order to use a computing device.
Right, 'cause US ski resorts are so well known for their mass transit connections.
Sure, soon as you hand us all a hundred grand each.
There are facts *and* there are theories. Observable, measurable phenomena are facts. Explanations of *how* and *why* those things happen are theories. An apple falling from a tree is a fact. We can verify its change in position, we can measure its speed and acceleration. Meanwhile, there are theories of gravitation that explain *how* and/or *why* the apple falls. Newton had one such theory. Einstein came along with a better one. The changes in theory do not change the fact that the apple still falls.
...SNAP.
Even if you do get a bad one, they swap you a whole new tablet for free.
Ever heard the word "bank switching"? :D -- at least for the C-64 there were memory expansions with 512K and more
Of course I know about bank switching. But in order to run a BASIC program, the BASIC interpreter (and probably the KERNAL) needs to be switched in, so that's 16K you can't use for a BASIC program no matter what.
The facility was discovered to have been shipping live anthrax specimens — instead of dead ones — to other labs.
#whatcouldpossiblygowrong ...
Well... according to some of the reviews I've skimmed... the Google thing is fairly hefty on the compute side compared to your average router, so maybe that's where the money is going?
Also pretty much all major cities in Europe that doesn't have super easy names have different names in every single neighbouring language.
Even the ones with easy names. I mean, how hard is "Wien" really? Or "Milano", how lazy do we have to be to knock off an "o"??
Actually it was named when the mountain was explored in 1896, when McKinley was being elected.
I'd imagine it was named before that, by the people who actually lived there.
no for $200 you get exactly what you should get, a router with a built in access point.
Considering I can get a router with a WAP and multiple LAN ports for well under $200, I'd say you're wrong.
There was a 64K RAMpack for the VIC-20, so if you used that, you wouldn't have run out of RAM. ;-)
That couldn't possibly have worked for BASIC programs, as the parent was talking about. The total addressable space of the 6502 was only 64K, so you couldn't have 64K of RAM and the BASIC interpreter and the KERNAL (not to mention e.g. video RAM etc.) at the same time.
I certainly would not be in favor of such mandatory registration, but... where does it actually run afoul of the First Amendment? Would this actually be "abridging the freedom of speech or of the press"? Assuming, that is, that there were no restrictions (apart from those that already exist, e.g. incitement to riot) placed on the content published on the registered sites?
Our military isn't in any country that wasn't asked first (OK, except Afghanistan), or that didn't attack us first (or harbor people who attacked us) and then lose (which kind of brings in Afghanistan).
Trains can run in both directions, you know.
but this is nuts... if the cost is {Y} and the profit per year is {X} then 500 years * {X} = {Y} roughly the cost, including building the roads/ rails to get to the bridge, greatly dwarfs, by many orders of magnitude
Where did the 500 come from? Show your work, please.
The product will not be shipped by truck, but by rail. Which is the cheapest way to move almost anything.
It would be cheaper, but it would not achieve the same result. Ferries are slow and can only carry so much. Plus you need to load and unload, which adds cost and slows things down more. A train could ship consumer goods, or oil or coal, directly from Siberia or China (or India, if they play nice) all the way to New York without ever having to touch the product once in between.
Americans seem to have some kind of habit doing that. Often when I go to Amazon to check some reviews, for example for a computer or a portable heater, there's always comments like "great product, have to grab a couple of more". It certainly is not always obvious to me why the reviewer would need the extra units.
I have six or seven computers. I'm sure I'm not the only person here who does. I don't have any portable heaters, but if I did I might possibly have more than one.
Although I'm not sure what good a second Russia-to-America bridge would be if it were built off of Hokkaido...
Not even Pykrete can stop a nuclear-tipped cruise missile. Or a thermobaric device. Or "rods from God".