Presumably, then, you don't have a mortgage, trade stocks, own a business, or have significant deductions. Taxes truly are a major PITA for some people
I have all those things and still do my own taxes. It defintely takes more than an hour but it isn't that big of a deal. I was watching The History Channel and doing my taxes at the same time and did it in a bit more than two hours.
After looking at their site, I think they actually do offer one solution: The solution to the problem of having your website load too quickly. They aren't handling the slashdotting very well - the marketing department is defintely in charge over there.
Of course I haven't done the math and you haven't either. What you've done instead, is to cherry-pick some piece of data that suits you and ignore the mountain of information that counters your theory. Local taxes are nearly completely independent of the relative wastefulness of the government in question. Some local taxes are property taxes, some are sales or use taxes. A person in Honolulu might have the most frugal government in the country but it means nothing because their property values are among the highest in the nation and any property taxe will reflect that. Your theory that you are somehow subsidizing the wasteful government in the next town over is worthy of George Bush himself. Like the typical right-wing, dingaling argument, this deserves to be laughed at instead of debated.
So next time you wonder how a city can have high taxes, but still get by economically, remember that they're being subsidized by the rest of us.
That is completely backwards. It's the urban areas that are supporting the rural areas - not vice versa. Do you really think the six of you living out there are paying enough in taxes to build that road?
Who decides what is "too costly"? If the citizens of an urban area decide they want to pay for Wi-Fi, why does a state representative from downstate Hooterville think they can say otherwise?
"I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."
... but hey, at least they have the sense not to actually pass it, right?
No. What they will typically do is go ahead and pass it, knowing full well that it will be tossed out in a judicial challenge. Then, they can rant and moan about "judicial activism" and use that to further erode our system of checks and balances.
I'll be the first to admit I don't have any hard data but I'd be willing to bet that the efficiency of scale more than compensates for the relative inefficient use of energy. Like a public bus that appears to be adding major amounts of pollution, it is actually adding less than if each one of its occupants was driving. Similarly the restaurant (I think) causes a net savings of energy.
I admin a handful of domains and I don't use anything except blocklisting by IP address. I get a handful of spam emails per week that regularly get reported to Spamcop. Since I am in regular contact with many of the people that email me, I can be sure to know if I am falsely blocking innocent domains - hasn't happened yet. For some reason it makes many people crazy that my method works for me - so many people think they have the absolute right to contact me if it suits them. I feel that if you do business with a spam-supporting ISP, you have nothing to say that I need to hear.
Do the employers/clients you've seen place any value in, or even know about, F/OSS?"
It probably depends on the culture of the company. A company that values processes, procedures, reporting and bureacracy probably won't care much for open-source contributions. On the other hand, a company that values creativity and initative will be impressed.
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Sometimes, though, your data can be simple enough that XML is overkill
True enough, however, simple data all too often becomes complex data. That's why it's a good thing to be "extensible".
I think what we need is an RFC on buzzwords to introduce some standards to the whole marketing process. Of course, then the new hyp could be labeled as buzzword-compliant.
I'd put my money on China before I put it on India.
That remains to be seen. China's healthcare system is collapsing and, along with massive pollution, threatening to put a damper on much of the expected growth (this is Morgan-Stanley speaking, not me). China's problems reallly have no precedent so it's too soon to say whether they will be able to become anything more than a massive consumer.
The one area where the USA has excelled over the decades is in cooking up innovative ideas and turning them into profitable businesses. The basic model of education in the USA has been based in large part on creative thinking. As tax-cut mania takes over and US schools do less and less educating, we can expect to see other countries start catching up in the area of innovation. However, since most places, India included, prize rote memorization as the best way to educate, I can't see them ever turning out large numbers of innovators the way the US has.
Laws rarely apply to the government. For example, the USA government is allowed to murder people and spy on them while citizens are not. Humorous if you only knew where to laugh.
Given the threat of 5 years seriously hard labour in prison with no TV, no radio, nothing but basic food water and a cell would he be as likely to break in again? I know I wouldn't.
That's a popular sentiment that gets used very succesfully by politicians to get re-elected. Unfortunately, it has little basis in fact. The strongest deterrent to committing crime is the likelihood of getting caught - not the punishment if you do get caught. Putting more cops on the street is cheaper and more effective than building more prisons for to hold people for longer terms.
However, I would like to note that both researchers seem very well educated, especially in computer security.
Honestly, I'd give more weight to a sysadmin who has had experience configuring, securing and managing a wide variety of machines and OSes. Well-educated, yes. Relevant experience? Lots of managerial and consulting experience but I don't see that there has ever been any real-world, hands-on experience. Richard Ford's profile shows no sysadmin experience at all (plus he wears a suit-and-tie): http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profile s/profile.html?v alue=228
Richard Ford
Research Professor, Computer Sciences
1986-1992 D.Phil. in Semiconductor Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England M.A. in Semiconductor Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England B.A. Hons. in Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England
Professional Experience
Research Professor, Center for Information Assurance, Florida Tech (08/2003-present)
The rules that lead to being delisted are pretty cut-and-dried. However, a company with a solid business plan to rescue themselves will more often than not be given a break and allowed to remain listed while they work things out. Failing to file your 10-K is almost never an "accident". Add to that the fact that SCO really has no business plan beyond lawsuits and I think we'll likely be seeing them de-listed fairly rapidly.
Thank God for you, sir! I was afraid for a minute that there might be an actual conversation about public policy where nobody mentioned pedophiles. It's a good thing we have people like you continually remind us to, "think of the children".
The article says 93% listed it as a "primary language." Not, as a "primary programming language."
The article is addmittedly poorly written, however, they do use the phrase, "primary programming language". From the 4th paragraph:
"For example, with the ability to list three primary programming languages, only 18% of respondents named Java. It was named a primary programming language, on average, 18 times out of 300 possible chances. "
No, I don't know what the 'L' stands for. Please tell me.
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Presumably, then, you don't have a mortgage, trade stocks, own a business, or have significant deductions. Taxes truly are a major PITA for some people
I have all those things and still do my own taxes. It defintely takes more than an hour but it isn't that big of a deal. I was watching The History Channel and doing my taxes at the same time and did it in a bit more than two hours.
They offer "Solutions"..ohh!
After looking at their site, I think they actually do offer one solution: The solution to the problem of having your website load too quickly. They aren't handling the slashdotting very well - the marketing department is defintely in charge over there.
Of course I haven't done the math and you haven't either. What you've done instead, is to cherry-pick some piece of data that suits you and ignore the mountain of information that counters your theory. Local taxes are nearly completely independent of the relative wastefulness of the government in question. Some local taxes are property taxes, some are sales or use taxes. A person in Honolulu might have the most frugal government in the country but it means nothing because their property values are among the highest in the nation and any property taxe will reflect that. Your theory that you are somehow subsidizing the wasteful government in the next town over is worthy of George Bush himself.
Like the typical right-wing, dingaling argument, this deserves to be laughed at instead of debated.
And it is still ridiculous if you'd bother doing the actual math instead of listening to Fox News.
So next time you wonder how a city can have high taxes, but still get by economically, remember that they're being subsidized by the rest of us.
That is completely backwards. It's the urban areas that are supporting the rural areas - not vice versa. Do you really think the six of you living out there are paying enough in taxes to build that road?
Who decides what is "too costly"?
If the citizens of an urban area decide they want to pay for Wi-Fi, why does a state representative from downstate Hooterville think they can say otherwise?
"I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."
... but hey, at least they have the sense not to actually pass it, right?
No. What they will typically do is go ahead and pass it, knowing full well that it will be tossed out in a judicial challenge. Then, they can rant and moan about "judicial activism" and use that to further erode our system of checks and balances.
I'll be the first to admit I don't have any hard data but I'd be willing to bet that the efficiency of scale more than compensates for the relative inefficient use of energy. Like a public bus that appears to be adding major amounts of pollution, it is actually adding less than if each one of its occupants was driving. Similarly the restaurant (I think) causes a net savings of energy.
I admin a handful of domains and I don't use anything except blocklisting by IP address. I get a handful of spam emails per week that regularly get reported to Spamcop. Since I am in regular contact with many of the people that email me, I can be sure to know if I am falsely blocking innocent domains - hasn't happened yet. For some reason it makes many people crazy that my method works for me - so many people think they have the absolute right to contact me if it suits them. I feel that if you do business with a spam-supporting ISP, you have nothing to say that I need to hear.
Do the employers/clients you've seen place any value in, or even know about, F/OSS?"
It probably depends on the culture of the company. A company that values processes, procedures, reporting and bureacracy probably won't care much for open-source contributions. On the other hand, a company that values creativity and initative will be impressed.
Sometimes, though, your data can be simple enough that XML is overkill
True enough, however, simple data all too often becomes complex data. That's why it's a good thing to be "extensible".
It's trite but it bears repeating:
Steal $20 and you go to prison. Steal $20 million and you go to a mansion on a hill.
I think what we need is an RFC on buzzwords to introduce some standards to the whole marketing process. Of course, then the new hyp could be labeled as buzzword-compliant.
I'd put my money on China before I put it on India.
That remains to be seen. China's healthcare system is collapsing and, along with massive pollution, threatening to put a damper on much of the expected growth (this is Morgan-Stanley speaking, not me). China's problems reallly have no precedent so it's too soon to say whether they will be able to become anything more than a massive consumer.
The one area where the USA has excelled over the decades is in cooking up innovative ideas and turning them into profitable businesses. The basic model of education in the USA has been based in large part on creative thinking. As tax-cut mania takes over and US schools do less and less educating, we can expect to see other countries start catching up in the area of innovation. However, since most places, India included, prize rote memorization as the best way to educate, I can't see them ever turning out large numbers of innovators the way the US has.
Are you kidding me? What sensitive information is on the CIA's website?
http://www.techcomedy.com/www.redswinglinestapler. com/
Laws rarely apply to the government. For example, the USA government is allowed to murder people and spy on them while citizens are not. Humorous if you only knew where to laugh.
Given the threat of 5 years seriously hard labour in prison with no TV, no radio, nothing but basic food water and a cell would he be as likely to break in again? I know I wouldn't.
That's a popular sentiment that gets used very succesfully by politicians to get re-elected. Unfortunately, it has little basis in fact. The strongest deterrent to committing crime is the likelihood of getting caught - not the punishment if you do get caught. Putting more cops on the street is cheaper and more effective than building more prisons for to hold people for longer terms.
However, I would like to note that both researchers seem very well educated, especially in computer security.
e s/profile.html?v alue=228
Honestly, I'd give more weight to a sysadmin who has had experience configuring, securing and managing a wide variety of machines and OSes.
Well-educated, yes. Relevant experience? Lots of managerial and consulting experience but I don't see that there has ever been any real-world, hands-on experience. Richard Ford's profile shows no sysadmin experience at all (plus he wears a suit-and-tie):
http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profil
Richard Ford
Research Professor, Computer Sciences
1986-1992
D.Phil. in Semiconductor Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England
M.A. in Semiconductor Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England
B.A. Hons. in Physics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford-England
Professional Experience
Research Professor, Center for Information Assurance, Florida Tech (08/2003-present)
Consultant, The Rock Ventures (06/2002-present)
Chief Technology Officer, Cenetec LLC (03/2000-05/2002)
Director of Engineering for Hiway Technologies/Verio (04/1998-02/2000)
Researcher, IBM Research T.J. Watson Laboratories (1997-1998)
Director of Technology, Command Software Systems (1995-1997)
Director of Research, National Computer Security Association (1994-1995)
Editor, Virus Bulletin and co-author "The Survivor's Guide to
Computer Viruses" (1992-1994)
The rules that lead to being delisted are pretty cut-and-dried. However, a company with a solid business plan to rescue themselves will more often than not be given a break and allowed to remain listed while they work things out. Failing to file your 10-K is almost never an "accident". Add to that the fact that SCO really has no business plan beyond lawsuits and I think we'll likely be seeing them de-listed fairly rapidly.
Thank God for you, sir! I was afraid for a minute that there might be an actual conversation about public policy where nobody mentioned pedophiles. It's a good thing we have people like you continually remind us to, "think of the children".
The article says 93% listed it as a "primary language." Not, as a "primary programming language."
The article is addmittedly poorly written, however, they do use the phrase, "primary programming language". From the 4th paragraph:
"For example, with the ability to list three primary programming languages, only 18% of respondents named Java. It was named a primary programming language, on average, 18 times out of 300 possible chances. "
No, I don't know what the 'L' stands for. Please tell me.
In the Zend survey, 93% of respondents listed PHP as a primary language and 69% listed HTML.
People who think HTML is a programming language really have no business setting the direction of PHP.