6.2 Million Millionaires were the 2003 figures. Forbes estimated that there were 8.2 Million Millionaires in 2005.
When multi-millionaires like Lindsay Lohan (worth ~$7,000,000) are publicly teased and ridiculed for being poor by the likes of Paris Hilton you know being a millionaire just isn't what it used to be.
If I give you a $100,000 interest free loan, you immediately acquire a debt of $100,000 but you inversely acquire an asset of $100,000. The net change in your total wealth is zero. If you put that money in the bank and earn interest on it, you still have a -$100,000 debt and +$100,000 asset (or $0), but now you have +$Interest Earned. The net result of this is a gain in your total net assets not a loss. The only way this shows up as a debt that would help negate your income would be if you spent the $100,000 on things that had no value, or quickly depreciated or were consumables. You would be better off investing that money and profiting from the capitol gains than by trying to use it to hide existing income.
As for corporations leasing buildings to the same people who own the corporation: This is a very common way of protecting assets. It can be used to hide assets to a certain extent, but this is like hiding an elephant behind a small shrubbery with particularly nice laurels.
There are a lot of shell games in logic when you're dealing with the truly stupid.
Image that your password for your primary email address is stolen. The 'bad guys' can now easily get access to all of your web site that have different passwords. When you discover what has happened and hopefully regained control of your email, you now have to begin the task of changing all of your passwords for all of the sites you visit each of which has its own methods of doing so and own rules for password complexity.
All of your existing passwords and their common variations can no longer be used because the 'bad guy' might try again in the future with this existing knowledge. With an OpenID based system you only need to change one password to regain control of your entire identity.
In some games users can set up stores to sell items. Some people use very deceptive tactics to trick others and bilk money from them. Would this now become a crime, punishable in court? Would you need a business license to set up a store in a virtual realm where your store can end up right next to someone form another country?
I think what you would ultimately see is a drop in the number of casual MMO players like myself, and the constant complaining from the hard core MMO crowd.
Based on the information that has been provided it sounds like you should be sending your bill to the company that manufactured your garage door opener.
News should always be neutral. Editorials can contain any amount of opinion the author wants. Neither of them should knowingly contain factually incorrect information.
As I user I would be a little upset that they were charging me for a movie and then using my bandwidth to distribute it to others.
It's like buying a TV and then waking up in the middle of the night to find out they have been using your truck to deliver TVs to other people and thus make money.
To me, it seems like they are taking the wheel we made, making it square and then selling it back to us.
No...what they will realize is this: No one is buying music CDs because they have already downloaded all of the music they want from illegal sources. They will then start fighting to get the sales records of these sites, and begin another round of lawsuits to recover the money they lost from their customers.
I think that even if just one person that speaks the language asked MS to provided software in that language then it should be allowed. They don't control the language. They can't make someone who speaks the language stop using it. It's ridiculous to think that they can control the language and it's use. Obviously MS didn't magically learn how to speak Mapuche. Someone who knows it is assisting them with the translation, or they have documented the language in a publicly available way that MS is able to use.
I know, I know....ignore the off topic trolls...i'm sorry but I had to offer some rebuttal....
Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religious institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church.
Hitler seeking power, wrote in Mein Kampf, "... I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work."
Yea ummm...he sounds like a real secular atheist to me! Dinesh D'Souza is an idiot. He has an amazing gift for writing, but unfortunately no gift thinking.
Typical that a Microsoft body would put out any article like this. They thought it was a great concept when the idea that Windows might be the OS running the machines. After being snubbed in favor of Linux they have come out swinging over and over again.
The mesh networks that can be created will allow poor people in this area to organize themselves in a way they have never been able to before. The purpose of the laptops is to be used as an education tool. The very first thing you need to do when you are attempting to bring a 3rd world nation into modern times is to educate them.
Do they need to be fed first? Sure they do. I seriously doubt that anyone will be providing laptops to people who are starving to death. What they will do is find people who are in need of this technology and provide it to them. Feeding people can only save them from starving not from ignorance. You can feed them forever or you can educate them.
VHS has been dead for at least 5 years. I distinctly remember having to explain the totally foreign concept of rewinding a tape so you could watch it again to my oldest daughter when she was almost 6 (5 years ago). After she finally understood why the tape retained it's state she simply replied "That's dumb!". I heard the VCR gasp, then it reached for its chest, and collapsed to the ground clinching its heart in its hand. It's clock flashed twelve faster. I leaned closer to hear what the VCR was mouthing to me. "B be be kind, rewind..." And then it's clock flashed no more...
And by a better life you mean being arrested for reading books? She is probably thinking she was better off in her native country where at least she knew what she wasn't allowed to do. Not in a country that claims she is free to read what ever she want then arrest her for it. Besides how is reading or being in the possession of those books showing ingratitude to the country she is in. Maybe she simply wants to educate herself about terrorist tactic so that she can more readily identify and report them to the police?
I myself have downloaded and partially read some of these books and similar books out of sheer interest.
I'm sure there is more to this story than we are getting, and that the official that arrested her probably have a half way decent reason for arresting her. If they were in the habit of arresting anyone who had downloaded or shared those books via a peer to peer network then they would seriously have their hands full arresting thousands of people.
I couldn't agree more. Women are much more likely to ask for help. A guy will more often than not go a week without a working computer rather than ask for help. The same is true for going to doctors, and asking for directions, or completing any task in general.
A proper survey would determine not who ask for help, but who needs help...
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OMFG!!! A casserole topped with tatter tots!?!? That's awesome...how come I'm only just now learning about this tasty tatter tot topped treat?
Yes, it is a dead cat.
6.2 Million Millionaires were the 2003 figures. Forbes estimated that there were 8.2 Million Millionaires in 2005.
When multi-millionaires like Lindsay Lohan (worth ~$7,000,000) are publicly teased and ridiculed for being poor by the likes of Paris Hilton you know being a millionaire just isn't what it used to be.
If I give you a $100,000 interest free loan, you immediately acquire a debt of $100,000 but you inversely acquire an asset of $100,000. The net change in your total wealth is zero. If you put that money in the bank and earn interest on it, you still have a -$100,000 debt and +$100,000 asset (or $0), but now you have +$Interest Earned. The net result of this is a gain in your total net assets not a loss. The only way this shows up as a debt that would help negate your income would be if you spent the $100,000 on things that had no value, or quickly depreciated or were consumables. You would be better off investing that money and profiting from the capitol gains than by trying to use it to hide existing income.
As for corporations leasing buildings to the same people who own the corporation: This is a very common way of protecting assets. It can be used to hide assets to a certain extent, but this is like hiding an elephant behind a small shrubbery with particularly nice laurels.
There are a lot of shell games in logic when you're dealing with the truly stupid.
Image that your password for your primary email address is stolen. The 'bad guys' can now easily get access to all of your web site that have different passwords. When you discover what has happened and hopefully regained control of your email, you now have to begin the task of changing all of your passwords for all of the sites you visit each of which has its own methods of doing so and own rules for password complexity.
All of your existing passwords and their common variations can no longer be used because the 'bad guy' might try again in the future with this existing knowledge. With an OpenID based system you only need to change one password to regain control of your entire identity.
In some games users can set up stores to sell items. Some people use very deceptive tactics to trick others and bilk money from them. Would this now become a crime, punishable in court? Would you need a business license to set up a store in a virtual realm where your store can end up right next to someone form another country?
I think what you would ultimately see is a drop in the number of casual MMO players like myself, and the constant complaining from the hard core MMO crowd.
MMO money is more like play money chips from any one of the many online, free-to-play poker sites.
No, it's Mark. Get it right. I'm sorry...you have the wrong number...
Based on the information that has been provided it sounds like you should be sending your bill to the company that manufactured your garage door opener.
News that isn't neutral is called editorial.
News should always be neutral. Editorials can contain any amount of opinion the author wants. Neither of them should knowingly contain factually incorrect information.
You've been watching Pretty Woman again havn't you?
You can take the hooker out of the streets but you can't take the street out of the hooker.
As I user I would be a little upset that they were charging me for a movie and then using my bandwidth to distribute it to others.
It's like buying a TV and then waking up in the middle of the night to find out they have been using your truck to deliver TVs to other people and thus make money.
To me, it seems like they are taking the wheel we made, making it square and then selling it back to us.
No...what they will realize is this:
No one is buying music CDs because they have already downloaded all of the music they want from illegal sources. They will then start fighting to get the sales records of these sites, and begin another round of lawsuits to recover the money they lost from their customers.
That make much more sense now...thanks for clearing that up!
I think that even if just one person that speaks the language asked MS to provided software in that language then it should be allowed. They don't control the language. They can't make someone who speaks the language stop using it. It's ridiculous to think that they can control the language and it's use. Obviously MS didn't magically learn how to speak Mapuche. Someone who knows it is assisting them with the translation, or they have documented the language in a publicly available way that MS is able to use.
I know, I know....ignore the off topic trolls...i'm sorry but I had to offer some rebuttal....
Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religious institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church.
Hitler seeking power, wrote in Mein Kampf, "... I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work."
Yea ummm...he sounds like a real secular atheist to me! Dinesh D'Souza is an idiot. He has an amazing gift for writing, but unfortunately no gift thinking.
Typical that a Microsoft body would put out any article like this. They thought it was a great concept when the idea that Windows might be the OS running the machines. After being snubbed in favor of Linux they have come out swinging over and over again.
The mesh networks that can be created will allow poor people in this area to organize themselves in a way they have never been able to before. The purpose of the laptops is to be used as an education tool. The very first thing you need to do when you are attempting to bring a 3rd world nation into modern times is to educate them.
Do they need to be fed first? Sure they do. I seriously doubt that anyone will be providing laptops to people who are starving to death. What they will do is find people who are in need of this technology and provide it to them. Feeding people can only save them from starving not from ignorance. You can feed them forever or you can educate them.
VHS has been dead for at least 5 years. I distinctly remember having to explain the totally foreign concept of rewinding a tape so you could watch it again to my oldest daughter when she was almost 6 (5 years ago). After she finally understood why the tape retained it's state she simply replied "That's dumb!". I heard the VCR gasp, then it reached for its chest, and collapsed to the ground clinching its heart in its hand. It's clock flashed twelve faster. I leaned closer to hear what the VCR was mouthing to me. "B be be kind, rewind..." And then it's clock flashed no more...
Can I shoot myself now?
It definitely has nothing to do with the article. Must be an automated post, but what is the motive? Hmmmm.....?
And by a better life you mean being arrested for reading books? She is probably thinking she was better off in her native country where at least she knew what she wasn't allowed to do. Not in a country that claims she is free to read what ever she want then arrest her for it. Besides how is reading or being in the possession of those books showing ingratitude to the country she is in. Maybe she simply wants to educate herself about terrorist tactic so that she can more readily identify and report them to the police?
I myself have downloaded and partially read some of these books and similar books out of sheer interest.
I'm sure there is more to this story than we are getting, and that the official that arrested her probably have a half way decent reason for arresting her. If they were in the habit of arresting anyone who had downloaded or shared those books via a peer to peer network then they would seriously have their hands full arresting thousands of people.
Dirka dirk? Dirka dirka dirk dirka!!
But people are already paying $150 a pop for Windows XP (which will eventually get riddled with ad/spyware), so why should they give it away for free?
nah just the 5,000 customer service reps that refuse to allow you to cancel your service...
I couldn't agree more. Women are much more likely to ask for help. A guy will more often than not go a week without a working computer rather than ask for help. The same is true for going to doctors, and asking for directions, or completing any task in general.
A proper survey would determine not who ask for help, but who needs help...