Note that the test was for enterprise versions of the products, meant for support of a 150 or so user network. Your mileage may vary if a test is done for single computer home use.
I stopped buying from SONY quite a few years ago because of another incident. In Baltimore, there was a restaurant called "Sony's", which was owned by Sony Florendo (spelling of last name as remembered, may not be correct). SONY corporation sued Sony's for trademark infringement. Apparently they thought that its consumers were too stupid to know the difference between electronics and Fillipino food. The court agreed with SONY corp., and forced her to change the name to "Sony Florendo's" for a year, and then to "Florendo's" after that.
I figured that if SONY corp. was targeting the stupid people, then they weren't targeting me. So, I have not purchased anything made by SONY since.
And you KNOW this how? Further, if you bought stock in a company, would you support a regulation that you could only sell it for 150% of what you bought it for, or that after the dividents had brought in 150% of your purchase price you had to give it away? Corporations exist to make money. This money goes into making new things and providing money to the owners.
Actually, I have several stocks I'd love to sell for 150% of what I bought them for!
That's really too bad. Sword of the Phoenix is where I bought the white box set and some of the first AD&D books I had when I was a student at Georgia Tech in the late 1970's. That was a great games store.
Of course I sold all my D&D books on eBay a couple of years ago for about 3 time what I had paid for them back then. A great deal for me since I had long since gotten married and had kids, thus losing whatever RPG time I might have had. The books were just gathering dust. Just proves that there is hope for the rest of the nerds still playing!
The math assumption in the paper assumes that you are replacing a 1999 Accord with something new. Given the age of the 1999 Accord, you will probably be replacing it soon anyway. So, a more interesting calculation would be the difference in savings say between buying a 2006 Accord, a 2006 Corolla, or a 2006 Prius. In that case you could include the difference in base cost between the new cars, but not the difference between the new car and your old one, since you would be replaing that one anyway.
Sorry, but I don't have time to run those numbers.
I think the best use for this is as a car bomb! Make the Hydrogen while idling in front of the target and then blast it. Anyone remember how explosive Hydrogen is?
Yes, my link to my favourite VoIP carrier is encrypted with a zillion bits encryption key. And what happens after?
And the link from my browser to the webserver of my favorite merchant is encrypted using SSL. Since my merchant uses 3rd party hosting and simply repackages the form information in a plain-text email to get that information from the server back to his store, I guess that solid-lock in my browser is a false sense of security, huh? See "Are Secure Internet Transactions Really Secure?", a paper I wrote in 1999.
Seriously. Look at credit-card fraud. Do banks pay for this? Hell, yeah.
Actually, no, they don't pay for it. The merchants that were defrauded pay for it. The bad charges get reversed and the merchants are stuck losing money. Why do you think the banks haven't done even more to stop credit-card fraud?
Line-Item veto was only supposed to be for appropriations anyway, not for other legislation. The idea was that the President could eliminate pork-barrel spending by vetoing specific items in the appropriations bills. That's all that it could be used for.
Back when I started college at Georgia Tech in 1977, there were some standard definitions in the new student handbook.
Nerd - the guy with the calculator on his belt.
Lizard - the guy that checks his calculator with his slide rule.
I don't understand why calculators are allowed in any basic (Algebra II and below) math class at all. The idea is to learn the concepts. You do that by working out all the problems and remembering the formulas. All a calculator should do for you is speed up the calculations.
By the way, I still have my CRC handbook from High School. My 16 year old daughter can't understand that there was a time before calculators.
How do you know they are NOT getting a sexual kick from this ?
Hey, anyone that wants to get a thrill from looking at my body, more power too them. More likely the screeners will be grossed out more often than they get a thrill....
Only 13 days after Slashdot carried this story, it is picked up by Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddl yEnoughNews&storyID=8194704&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNew s
Bzzzzt! Wrong! The Government doesn't pay taxes, thus doesn't have to do any accounting for depreciation. The Government may not do any work it doesn't want to, but that's not the reason here.
Many Government agencies don't lease. At least the Federal Government agencies I've worked with all tended to purchase equipment rather than lease. I can't speak for local and state government.
The only reason I can figure for leasing for the Government is that their initial budgets are limited, and they can "buy" more equipment sooner, and then pay for the out-years using Operations and Maintenance money rather than Procurement money. You have to remember that Government agency budgets contains lots of different pots of money. Moving money from one pot to another can be quite difficult, so they may need to lease just because of which pot the money came from.
When businesses lease equipment, they write-off the whole amount in that tax year. If they purchase equipment, they have to depreciate it over a number of years. With the large amount of IT equipment, keeping track of what was purchased when, and how much has been depreciated is a CPA's nightmare. Thus, the equipment is leased, even if it ends up costing more money to get lesser capable equipment.
Just think of all the extra "forehead" space that some folks would have for this advertising! two, three, maybe even four ads at a time, with no unsightly hair accidentally covering up the ad.
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I think that engineer is getting coal in his stocking!
Funny, I thought our growing debt would make a good reason to quit spending so damn much money!
Funny, I thought it would lead to Government induced inflation so they could pay off the debt with cheaper dollars.
Note that the test was for enterprise versions of the products, meant for support of a 150 or so user network. Your mileage may vary if a test is done for single computer home use.
I stopped buying from SONY quite a few years ago because of another incident. In Baltimore, there was a restaurant called "Sony's", which was owned by Sony Florendo (spelling of last name as remembered, may not be correct). SONY corporation sued Sony's for trademark infringement. Apparently they thought that its consumers were too stupid to know the difference between electronics and Fillipino food. The court agreed with SONY corp., and forced her to change the name to "Sony Florendo's" for a year, and then to "Florendo's" after that.
I figured that if SONY corp. was targeting the stupid people, then they weren't targeting me. So, I have not purchased anything made by SONY since.
Momma told me not to look into the eyes of the sun, but Momma, that's where the fun is....
And you KNOW this how? Further, if you bought stock in a company, would you support a regulation that you could only sell it for 150% of what you bought it for, or that after the dividents had brought in 150% of your purchase price you had to give it away? Corporations exist to make money. This money goes into making new things and providing money to the owners.
Actually, I have several stocks I'd love to sell for 150% of what I bought them for!
That's really too bad. Sword of the Phoenix is where I bought the white box set and some of the first AD&D books I had when I was a student at Georgia Tech in the late 1970's. That was a great games store.
Of course I sold all my D&D books on eBay a couple of years ago for about 3 time what I had paid for them back then. A great deal for me since I had long since gotten married and had kids, thus losing whatever RPG time I might have had. The books were just gathering dust. Just proves that there is hope for the rest of the nerds still playing!
The math assumption in the paper assumes that you are replacing a 1999 Accord with something new. Given the age of the 1999 Accord, you will probably be replacing it soon anyway. So, a more interesting calculation would be the difference in savings say between buying a 2006 Accord, a 2006 Corolla, or a 2006 Prius. In that case you could include the difference in base cost between the new cars, but not the difference between the new car and your old one, since you would be replaing that one anyway.
Sorry, but I don't have time to run those numbers.
I think the best use for this is as a car bomb! Make the Hydrogen while idling in front of the target and then blast it. Anyone remember how explosive Hydrogen is?
Yes, my link to my favourite VoIP carrier is encrypted with a zillion bits encryption key. And what happens after?
And the link from my browser to the webserver of my favorite merchant is encrypted using SSL. Since my merchant uses 3rd party hosting and simply repackages the form information in a plain-text email to get that information from the server back to his store, I guess that solid-lock in my browser is a false sense of security, huh? See "Are Secure Internet Transactions Really Secure?", a paper I wrote in 1999.
Seriously. Look at credit-card fraud. Do banks pay for this? Hell, yeah.
Actually, no, they don't pay for it. The merchants that were defrauded pay for it. The bad charges get reversed and the merchants are stuck losing money. Why do you think the banks haven't done even more to stop credit-card fraud?
Of course going to Aruba is fraught with other perils too.
Line-Item veto was only supposed to be for appropriations anyway, not for other legislation. The idea was that the President could eliminate pork-barrel spending by vetoing specific items in the appropriations bills. That's all that it could be used for.
The cops were just protecting the students from Georgia Tech or Georgia State that were doing their Entrepreneur 101 homework.
Our major web sites, which we run off of our OpenVMS cluster, remain completely secure.
"remain completely secure" = "Hasn't been broken yet (at least that we know of)."
Back when I started college at Georgia Tech in 1977, there were some standard definitions in the new student handbook.
Nerd - the guy with the calculator on his belt.
Lizard - the guy that checks his calculator with his slide rule.
I don't understand why calculators are allowed in any basic (Algebra II and below) math class at all. The idea is to learn the concepts. You do that by working out all the problems and remembering the formulas. All a calculator should do for you is speed up the calculations.
By the way, I still have my CRC handbook from High School. My 16 year old daughter can't understand that there was a time before calculators.
(Note: The member profiles have since been taken down by Yahoo).
I wonder if they were taken down due to the lawsuit or due to too many hits after the Slashdot article was posted?
How do you know they are NOT getting a sexual kick from this ?
Hey, anyone that wants to get a thrill from looking at my body, more power too them. More likely the screeners will be grossed out more often than they get a thrill....
Only 13 days after Slashdot carried this story, it is picked up by Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddl yEnoughNews&storyID=8194704&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNew s
Just bring your American Express card. Never leave home without it!
Depreciation is part of the valuation of a business.
You are assuming that Government both has value and is a business.
Bzzzzt! Wrong! The Government doesn't pay taxes, thus doesn't have to do any accounting for depreciation. The Government may not do any work it doesn't want to, but that's not the reason here.
Many Government agencies don't lease. At least the Federal Government agencies I've worked with all tended to purchase equipment rather than lease. I can't speak for local and state government. The only reason I can figure for leasing for the Government is that their initial budgets are limited, and they can "buy" more equipment sooner, and then pay for the out-years using Operations and Maintenance money rather than Procurement money. You have to remember that Government agency budgets contains lots of different pots of money. Moving money from one pot to another can be quite difficult, so they may need to lease just because of which pot the money came from.
When businesses lease equipment, they write-off the whole amount in that tax year. If they purchase equipment, they have to depreciate it over a number of years. With the large amount of IT equipment, keeping track of what was purchased when, and how much has been depreciated is a CPA's nightmare. Thus, the equipment is leased, even if it ends up costing more money to get lesser capable equipment.
Just think of all the extra "forehead" space that some folks would have for this advertising! two, three, maybe even four ads at a time, with no unsightly hair accidentally covering up the ad.