"He was a great leader but Gandhi would not be a CEO today."
But he would still be a great leader. The real question is, do great leaders make great CEOs? If not, then whats wrong with business?
"But modern day people operating on the former usually get laughed at/written off."
You mean principles? Did you know that to maintain accreditation MBA programs have had to introduce a fixed percentage of ethics lecturing for *every* class? Looks like scandal and profound dismal failure in that culture are trying to be addressed.
"business proposal yielding a net gain of karma or helping society without a tax write off"
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Goodwill is a long-term asset categorized as an intangible asset. Goodwill arises when a company acquires another entire business. The amount of goodwill is the cost to purchase the business minus the fair market value of the tangible assets, the intangible assets that can be identified, and the liabilities obtained in the purchase.
I kept 4.0, and then 4.1 around just to log in occasionally and enjoy the beauty. Didn't take long for me to head back to GNOME to get things done, though. If the stability has improved, its going to be a big deal. To the GP, well..., some say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Others suggest (golden ratio, etc...) that our brains are hardwired for certain attractions. Whatever. To me, KDE4's styling is fantastic.
I think you're right about their confusion. RH's net income last year was $403,000,000. This is down from their net income of the year before: $473,000,000. What I think is confusing people, perhaps, is their cash flow statement, which shows a negative value of $1,3B. Where did all that cash go if they have net income? Treasury Stock. A negative $2,6B went to stock repurchase.
If a corporation reacquires some of its stock and does not retire those shares, the shares are called treasury stock. Treasury stock reflects the difference between the number of shares issued and the number of shares outstanding. When a corporation holds treasury stock, a debit balance exists in the general ledger account Treasury Stock (a contra stockholders' equity account).
If the corporation were to sell some of its treasury stock, the cash received is debited to Cash, the cost of the shares sold is credited to the stockholders' equity account Treasury Stock, and the difference goes to another stockholders' equity account. Note that the difference does not go to an income statement account, as there can be no income statement recognition of gains or losses on treasury stock transactions. (This, of course, is reasonable since the corporation operates with total "insider" information.)
The trend looks better, then: Net Tangible Assets (in 1,000s): $1,808,000 $4,032,000 $2,805,000
if we took into account the buyback (as though they had bought IBM instead of themselves)
$1,808,000+2.6B=4.4B $4,032,000 $2,805,000, which is UP not down from the previous year.
Treasury stock causes the Balance sheet and Cash Flow to look negative, since the stock purchased come out of cash flow (as Sale Purchase of Stock (2,587,000)) and also shows up as a negative on the Balance sheet. Since the Income Statement doesn't show Treasury Stock, it looks good.
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OpenLaszlo compiles to either flash or DHTML. Its not a Flash lock-in.
Not so much the desktop, maybe, but we could be approaching the decade of (Free) Software Defined Radio (SDR).
Note that the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) uses CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface, a name RMS coined "in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name"), and while its of military origin (and currently used by the US/UN Joint Tactical Radio System JTRS) its also under commercial evaluation. The Object Management Group (OMG, originators of UML, CORBA, etc...) established the Software Based Communications Domain Task Force (SBC-DTF), which is working with the Software Defined Radio Forum to develop an international commercial standard based on the SCA. Note also that the SCA is extending its coverage to programmable hardware FPGA and digital signal processors.
Therefore, the details of what you need to provide with regard to scripts and installation instructions vary depending on the software details. You must provide all information necessary such that someone generally skilled with computer systems could produce a binary similar to the one provided.
...and...
Most importantly, you must provide some sort of roadmap that allows technically sophisticated users to build your software. This can be complicated in an embedded environment. If your developers use scripts to control the entire compilation and installation procedure, then you can simply provide those scripts to users along with the sources they act upon. Sometimes, however, scripts were never written (e.g., the information on how to build the binaries is locked up in the mind of your âoebuild guruâ). In that case, we recommend that you write out build instructions in a natural language as a detailed, step-by-step readme.
Too many software projects rely on only one or a very few team members who know how to build and assemble the final released product. Such knowledge centralization not only creates engineering redundancy issues, but it also endangers GPL compliance, which requires you to provide build scripts.
As well as needing a permit and having to accept warrentless searches to own quality glassware, it is also *illegal* to have a dildo in Texas. If they find one while crossing the border, they keep it. Wonders: is there a small mountain of Dildos accumulating in TX?
I attributed it (historically) to the Dixie-crats swinging over after the Civil Rights movement of JFK and LBJ.
And after JFK signed the civil rights bills, I felt vindicated. But I was especially proud after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law by Johnson. Only later did I understand why LBJ said upon signing that he had just surrendered the South to the GOP for a generation, which was optimistic.
In terms of the current rate of acceleration of this trend, according to the Washington Post:
Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
Since the election of 2000 and especially that of 2004, three pillars have become central: the oil-national security complex, with its pervasive interests; the religious right, with its doctrinal imperatives and massive electorate; and the debt-driven financial sector, which extends far beyond the old symbolism of Wall Street.
President Bush has promoted these alignments, interest groups and their underpinning values. His family, over multiple generations, has been linked to a politics that conjoined finance, national security and oil. In recent decades, the Bushes have added close ties to evangelical and fundamentalist power brokers of many persuasions.
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Over a quarter-century of Bush presidencies and vice presidencies, the Republican Party has slowly become the vehicle of all three interests -- a fusion of petroleum-defined national security; a crusading, simplistic Christianity; and a reckless credit-feeding financial complex. The three are increasingly allied in commitment to Republican politics.
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Unfortunately, more danger lurks in the responsiveness of the new GOP coalition to Christian evangelicals, fundamentalists and Pentecostals, who muster some 40 percent of the party electorate. Many millions believe that the Armageddon described in the Bible is coming soon. Chaos in the explosive Middle East, far from being a threat, actually heralds the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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Besides providing critical support for invading Iraq -- widely anathematized by preachers as a second Babylon -- the Republican coalition has also seeded half a dozen controversies in the realm of science. These include Bible-based disbelief in Darwinian theories of evolution, dismissal of global warming, disagreement with geological explanations of fossil-fuel depletion, religious rejection of global population planning, derogation of women's rights and opposition to stem cell research. This suggests that U.S. society and politics may again be heading for a defining controversy such as the Scopes trial of 1925. That embarrassment chastened fundamentalism for a generation, but the outcome of the eventual 21st century test is hardly assured.
I'd suggest your "destruction of competitive advantage" model is perhaps simplistic. It seems to me that there are advantages to being open that relate to cooperation rather than competition. Sometimes its a good thing if everyone along a supply chain is able to interact. If my supplier craps out, it hurts *me* as well as my supplier.
Except its not enough to merely have the latest stable release. What about someone who receives a 2 year old copy of the binaries. Giving them the source to your current software doesn't allow them to modify the application they are using. There is a bit more work involved if you want to distribute in binary-only mode.
Well that first line *was* funny. But you're serious, so then so will I be. In a country based on the Rule of Law, the Law *always* applies. No one is above the law. Ever. Period.
I still say, if a president is impeached for their crimes, thats one thing. (Like Nixon, who resigned rather than be impeached.) To make it partisan would require starting out saying, "Our side has to win, how can we pin something on this guy?" (Like Clinton.)
Bottom line, if you go out of your way searching and searching for an excuse to pin something on someone, you probably have an agenda (and partisan politics is one such, but not the only such, agenda). When truly heinous crimes occur, its *not* because of an agenda that good people take note. It would have been partisan to say, "We have control now, lets give the bastards a taste of abuse of authority, and see how they like it." Its not partisan to say, "Oh my God! Oh my God!", and then to go to court.
Or at least thats how it looks to me. Think: is the cart before the horse? If so, something else is screwed up too! If not, then whats your problem?
Unless you can afford to pay for an external education. I've met a number of people who, when blocked as you describe, overcome that limitation by educating themselves here in the USA. A good friend of mine had that problem. He is from Hong Kong. He was given the choice of Business or Computer Science, and he choose Business at an early age. The only way for him to back out of his choice was to immigrate.
Modularity is possible, but its not object oriented. Many people seem to be trained these days to believe good code can't be written unless its object oriented.
If someone is speeding and races through a red light, the color of their skin and the color of the arresting officer's skin has no relevancy.
If an officer goes out on patrol, and is recording as broadcasting on his radio, "gonna head over to blank-town, and get me some blank-ies". At that point, his intention shades the rest of his actions. If, not finding anything wrong in blank-town, he arrests some people anyway, now that is a problem.
My point is that when someone gets caught, its not automatically "partisan".
I think you maybe just repeated back the problem. The problem is that if you don't declare and begin your preparation, then you end up being screwed. But this is, I assert, a logistics problem inherent to the subject matters complexity, not a political problem. My point was that even where you have permission to switch, you are still screwed. You are screwed because you screwed yourself by opting to waste time. No amendment is going to make up for the lost time...
You are speaking in general terms. I neither agree nor disagree, at this point, but instead I would rather point out that we are looking at the tip of a very specific iceberg here. The election fraud crimes being laid at the feet of the GOP are historic in terms of organization and reach. This isn't "general platitude" time, this is very specific charges and cases time. Its also a problem in that if you steal an election, and courts find (as they have) that illegal actions occurred, in what manner can the scales be balanced?
"you'll just live in your fantasy world where election fraud is a Republican problem"
Voter Fraud Charges Out West
GOP Group Under Investigation In Oregon; Similar Charges In Nevada:
'Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide'
Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax Republican manipulation of the polls long predates the U.S. attorneys plot:'At least part of the U.S. attorneys plot seems to derive from the "election fraud" hoax that Republicans are trying to perpetrate in order to gain control of the country's voter lists.' '...leaflets in African-American neighborhoods warning that voters must pay outstanding traffic tickets before voting; the calls in Virginia in 2006 from the mythical "Virginia Election Commission" warning voters they would be arrested if they showed up at the polls...'
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted:
'something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast.(10)'
For those who would say, "But that was way back then, we got away with that crime (hehehe)", in recent news this is only now coming to a head:
lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the case of King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell, announced that he is filing a motion to "lift the stay in the case [and] proceed with targeted discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008 election." This is only beginning to surface.
So, in terms of your "fantasy" comment, please wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't your standard, small scale "oops" sort of behavior. This is historically unprecedented, and apparently federally orchestrated. This has the potential to make Watergate look as mild as Watergate made Blowjob-gate look.
So you believe that making a law eliminated behavior? I would suggest you are overlooking enforcement. Oh wait, I forgot, we eliminated recreational drug use by making that illegal too.
"Land of the Free, Home of the Brave", but it took a move to centralized government to eliminate slavery, exactly the cusp you refer to as America's loss of Freedom. Do you also believe Black is White, as well as that Freedom is Slavery? Does it hurt, thinking like that?
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But he would still be a great leader. The real question is, do great leaders make great CEOs? If not, then whats wrong with business?
"But modern day people operating on the former usually get laughed at/written off."
You mean principles? Did you know that to maintain accreditation MBA programs have had to introduce a fixed percentage of ethics lecturing for *every* class? Looks like scandal and profound dismal failure in that culture are trying to be addressed.
"business proposal yielding a net gain of karma or helping society without a tax write off"
Goodwill has recognized value. Get over it.
I kept 4.0, and then 4.1 around just to log in occasionally and enjoy the beauty. Didn't take long for me to head back to GNOME to get things done, though. If the stability has improved, its going to be a big deal. To the GP, well..., some say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Others suggest (golden ratio, etc...) that our brains are hardwired for certain attractions. Whatever. To me, KDE4's styling is fantastic.
The trend looks better, then: Net Tangible Assets (in 1,000s): $1,808,000 $4,032,000 $2,805,000
if we took into account the buyback (as though they had bought IBM instead of themselves)
$1,808,000+2.6B=4.4B $4,032,000 $2,805,000, which is UP not down from the previous year.
Treasury stock causes the Balance sheet and Cash Flow to look negative, since the stock purchased come out of cash flow (as Sale Purchase of Stock (2,587,000)) and also shows up as a negative on the Balance sheet. Since the Income Statement doesn't show Treasury Stock, it looks good.
OpenLaszlo compiles to either flash or DHTML. Its not a Flash lock-in.
Insightful if and only if watching TV allowed your habits and other information to be tracked. Otherwise, way off topic.
Not so much the desktop, maybe, but we could be approaching the decade of (Free) Software Defined Radio (SDR).
Note that the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) uses CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface, a name RMS coined "in response to an IEEE request for a memorable name" ), and while its of military origin (and currently used by the US/UN Joint Tactical Radio System JTRS) its also under commercial evaluation. The Object Management Group (OMG, originators of UML, CORBA, etc... ) established the Software Based Communications Domain Task Force (SBC-DTF), which is working with the Software Defined Radio Forum to develop an international commercial standard based on the SCA. Note also that the SCA is extending its coverage to programmable hardware FPGA and digital signal processors.
Cool. I hadn't realized Unix had 10% of the desktop market.
As well as needing a permit and having to accept warrentless searches to own quality glassware, it is also *illegal* to have a dildo in Texas. If they find one while crossing the border, they keep it. Wonders: is there a small mountain of Dildos accumulating in TX?
In terms of the current rate of acceleration of this trend, according to the Washington Post:
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I'd suggest your "destruction of competitive advantage" model is perhaps simplistic. It seems to me that there are advantages to being open that relate to cooperation rather than competition. Sometimes its a good thing if everyone along a supply chain is able to interact. If my supplier craps out, it hurts *me* as well as my supplier.
Except its not enough to merely have the latest stable release. What about someone who receives a 2 year old copy of the binaries. Giving them the source to your current software doesn't allow them to modify the application they are using. There is a bit more work involved if you want to distribute in binary-only mode.
LOL...
Well that first line *was* funny. But you're serious, so then so will I be. In a country based on the Rule of Law, the Law *always* applies. No one is above the law. Ever. Period.
I still say, if a president is impeached for their crimes, thats one thing. (Like Nixon, who resigned rather than be impeached.) To make it partisan would require starting out saying, "Our side has to win, how can we pin something on this guy?" (Like Clinton.)
Bottom line, if you go out of your way searching and searching for an excuse to pin something on someone, you probably have an agenda (and partisan politics is one such, but not the only such, agenda). When truly heinous crimes occur, its *not* because of an agenda that good people take note. It would have been partisan to say, "We have control now, lets give the bastards a taste of abuse of authority, and see how they like it." Its not partisan to say, "Oh my God! Oh my God!", and then to go to court.
Or at least thats how it looks to me. Think: is the cart before the horse? If so, something else is screwed up too! If not, then whats your problem?
Unless you can afford to pay for an external education. I've met a number of people who, when blocked as you describe, overcome that limitation by educating themselves here in the USA. A good friend of mine had that problem. He is from Hong Kong. He was given the choice of Business or Computer Science, and he choose Business at an early age. The only way for him to back out of his choice was to immigrate.
Modularity is possible, but its not object oriented. Many people seem to be trained these days to believe good code can't be written unless its object oriented.
Well but...
If someone is speeding and races through a red light, the color of their skin and the color of the arresting officer's skin has no relevancy.
If an officer goes out on patrol, and is recording as broadcasting on his radio, "gonna head over to blank-town, and get me some blank-ies". At that point, his intention shades the rest of his actions. If, not finding anything wrong in blank-town, he arrests some people anyway, now that is a problem.
My point is that when someone gets caught, its not automatically "partisan".
I was never gifted at spelling...
I think you maybe just repeated back the problem. The problem is that if you don't declare and begin your preparation, then you end up being screwed. But this is, I assert, a logistics problem inherent to the subject matters complexity, not a political problem. My point was that even where you have permission to switch, you are still screwed. You are screwed because you screwed yourself by opting to waste time. No amendment is going to make up for the lost time...
You are speaking in general terms. I neither agree nor disagree, at this point, but instead I would rather point out that we are looking at the tip of a very specific iceberg here. The election fraud crimes being laid at the feet of the GOP are historic in terms of organization and reach. This isn't "general platitude" time, this is very specific charges and cases time. Its also a problem in that if you steal an election, and courts find (as they have) that illegal actions occurred, in what manner can the scales be balanced?
Voter Fraud Charges Out West GOP Group Under Investigation In Oregon; Similar Charges In Nevada: 'Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide'
Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax Republican manipulation of the polls long predates the U.S. attorneys plot:'At least part of the U.S. attorneys plot seems to derive from the "election fraud" hoax that Republicans are trying to perpetrate in order to gain control of the country's voter lists.' '...leaflets in African-American neighborhoods warning that voters must pay outstanding traffic tickets before voting; the calls in Virginia in 2006 from the mythical "Virginia Election Commission" warning voters they would be arrested if they showed up at the polls...'
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted:
For those who would say, "But that was way back then, we got away with that crime (hehehe)", in recent news this is only now coming to a head:
lead attorney for the plaintiffs in the case of King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell, announced that he is filing a motion to "lift the stay in the case [and] proceed with targeted discovery in order to help protect the integrity of the 2008 election." This is only beginning to surface.
So, in terms of your "fantasy" comment, please wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't your standard, small scale "oops" sort of behavior. This is historically unprecedented, and apparently federally orchestrated. This has the potential to make Watergate look as mild as Watergate made Blowjob-gate look.
It is not partisan to go after the crooks, even if the crime leads to the GOP leadership.
So you believe that making a law eliminated behavior? I would suggest you are overlooking enforcement. Oh wait, I forgot, we eliminated recreational drug use by making that illegal too.
In my analogy, P2P was like unto a type of person. Email is like unto another type of person. It is the service which is being discriminated against.
"Land of the Free, Home of the Brave", but it took a move to centralized government to eliminate slavery, exactly the cusp you refer to as America's loss of Freedom. Do you also believe Black is White, as well as that Freedom is Slavery? Does it hurt, thinking like that?