No, there's a corporate tax for a good reason: because we treat corporations as separate legal entities. Nice, fair trade-off if you ask me. Without that "corporate veil"... With a simple, privately owned business, the owner can be sued for the actions (or inactions) of their employees. One of the $5-an-hour employees at the locally-owned grocery store doesn't mop a spilled bottle of grape juice up right away, and someone cracks their head open? Guess what, the owner just lost the store AND his house in a lawsuit. He should have been there, making sure his employees did their jobs you say? Ok, fair enough in that setting. But... When the owners are stockholders in a large company... Well, I wouldn't be too enthused about investing if I knew I could be taken to court because an employee of the company I just bought a share in screws up. (Maybe there's been shoddy medical research, or some asshat's kid chokes on the plastic toy that came inside a chocolate egg clearly marked to contain a plastic toy, or someone spills coffee on herself in a drive-thru. Whatever.)
With the number of phones Cingular would be passing around... One assumes they buy directly from the manufacturer. The only reason the middlemen exist is to resell to those who don't buy enough volume to make it worth the manufacturer's time to sell directly to them.
(Answering rhetorical questions since 1978!)
Yeah... Because as we all know, if you're walking that close to the place already, it's entirely too much effort to walk the hell in and ask like a normal person.
Maybe it's just me, but... If, in order to turn my cellphone into a useful mobile computer, I have to either go home to my desk or lug around a sack full of adapters, docks, a keyboard, mouse, and some sort of bigger-than-my-thumbnail display... I think I'd rather stick to an actual laptop, where most of the necessities are already neatly bundled together.
I) The donation info was gleaned from an old linuxgazette article (http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/2582). Now that I look, I don't see anything about donations on the slackware site either. Maybe the paypal account isn't even used anymore. Emailing Pat to ask is left as an exercise for the interested reader.
II) All things equal, receiving money and not sending out boxed software nets more profit than receiving money and sending out boxed software. I know not all slashers have attended business school, but this seemed pretty elementary to me;) Hence, "donations" "would" "be" "better," "even" "if" "the" "recipient" "is" "not" "a" "charity."
And of course, the fact that the insurance companies have been dragged by customers (and accompanying lawyers) into a place where they cover things like routine checkups or surgery people wouldn't exactly have died without has nothing to do with it.
Personally, I don't expect State Farm to cover oil changes... why should Blue Cross cover my physical? Am I the ONLY person who doesn't think of health insurance as some sort of health-care subscription?!?
Meanwhile, in mental-tangent land... As I recall, a large part of the pressure from the insurance industry, as you call it, comes in the form of stratospheric malpractice premiums. Thank "comsumer advocates" like Nader for this phenomenon. "You're hurt? Why, sue the big evil rich man/company/parakeet! They have a responsibilty to you. Even if they didn't actually do anything wrong."
Okay, why not... let's take away the rights of corporations to own "intellectual property" in the same way that, you seem to be saying, individuals should continue to be able to do. Of course, if they shouldn't be allowed to own _intellectual_ property, why should they be allowed to own _physical_ property either? We may as well be consistent in our granting of ownership rights to these legal entities, right?
Hmm... Well, as long as companies can't own property, we may as well toss the notion of them as legal entities out the window, wouldn't you say?
Grand! Now, I've just ignored a wet floor sign at the West Coast branch of your research firm, and broken your leg. Since corporations aren't legal entities anymore, I'll just sue and take your house. Enjoy the street. :-)
2 gigs of on-die cache would be... less than a good thing. Aside from that much cache costing an asinine amount of money, it'd probably reduce performance.
Yup, I said reduce.
Why? It takes time to FIND things in cache. If you have 2 gigs of it, then it may well take so long to locate what you were looking for, that you lose any speed benefit of having it in cache at all.
Check out Patterson & Hennessy's "Computer Organization & Design." Roundabout chapter 7.
Just thought I'd share.
" Loto, a tax on the mathmaticaly challenged, pays for schools (now thats poetic!)."
You know, I keep hearing that, and its continuing inaccuracy annoys me. I'm a math/comp sci major who buys lotto tickets. Do I know the chances of winning? Yes. Do I expect to win? Obviously not. Why do I play anyway?
A) I know that I'm helping to fund schools (as you mentioned), highway maintenance, etc.
B) I know that someone, somewhere, won't ever have to worry about money again (unless they squander their winnings in a Hammeresque way, I suppose).
and C) It provides me with a little bit of entertainment every week.
So, in short, bite me.
(Sense of humor reactivated.)
Depends whom you ask. Most people I know would say it stands for "independent." Since they're... you know... separate. And if one fails in anything but "raid" 0, one can pull it out and replace it without touching the working drive(s). (since there's nothing redundant at all about lvl 0, these same associates typically say it's not really even "raid") Kind of makes more sense than thinking that whoever invented the concept had it in for manufacturers of particularly expensive drives though, doesn't it. If you happen to stop and think about it.;-)
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I don't know... A nice, ripping fart from a pew in the back can fsck up a mass pretty darn well. *ba da bum*
No, there's a corporate tax for a good reason: because we treat corporations as separate legal entities. Nice, fair trade-off if you ask me. Without that "corporate veil"... With a simple, privately owned business, the owner can be sued for the actions (or inactions) of their employees. One of the $5-an-hour employees at the locally-owned grocery store doesn't mop a spilled bottle of grape juice up right away, and someone cracks their head open? Guess what, the owner just lost the store AND his house in a lawsuit. He should have been there, making sure his employees did their jobs you say? Ok, fair enough in that setting. But... When the owners are stockholders in a large company... Well, I wouldn't be too enthused about investing if I knew I could be taken to court because an employee of the company I just bought a share in screws up. (Maybe there's been shoddy medical research, or some asshat's kid chokes on the plastic toy that came inside a chocolate egg clearly marked to contain a plastic toy, or someone spills coffee on herself in a drive-thru. Whatever.)
With the number of phones Cingular would be passing around... One assumes they buy directly from the manufacturer. The only reason the middlemen exist is to resell to those who don't buy enough volume to make it worth the manufacturer's time to sell directly to them. (Answering rhetorical questions since 1978!)
Yeah... Because as we all know, if you're walking that close to the place already, it's entirely too much effort to walk the hell in and ask like a normal person.
Maybe it's just me, but... If, in order to turn my cellphone into a useful mobile computer, I have to either go home to my desk or lug around a sack full of adapters, docks, a keyboard, mouse, and some sort of bigger-than-my-thumbnail display... I think I'd rather stick to an actual laptop, where most of the necessities are already neatly bundled together.
On a similar note... If, eventually, all the stars will go out... What, exactly, is the point in putting on pants and/or leaving the house?
Bah, forget that guy. I'll give ya $50 for it. (w00t! I love slashbay!)
Didn't the wheel require the hammer and the chisel?
Aww nuts... my mod points dried up this morning. This is actually insightful, someone give the guy a bump :)
I) The donation info was gleaned from an old linuxgazette article (http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/2582). Now that I look, I don't see anything about donations on the slackware site either. Maybe the paypal account isn't even used anymore. Emailing Pat to ask is left as an exercise for the interested reader. II) All things equal, receiving money and not sending out boxed software nets more profit than receiving money and sending out boxed software. I know not all slashers have attended business school, but this seemed pretty elementary to me ;) Hence, "donations" "would" "be" "better," "even" "if" "the" "recipient" "is" "not" "a" "charity."
Even better would be if people donated, while using bittorrent... IIRC, donations should go to paypal at slackware dot com.
Ahh, but here's the rub... It's made FOR slackers. Hence the simplicity ;-)
And of course, the fact that the insurance companies have been dragged by customers (and accompanying lawyers) into a place where they cover things like routine checkups or surgery people wouldn't exactly have died without has nothing to do with it. Personally, I don't expect State Farm to cover oil changes... why should Blue Cross cover my physical? Am I the ONLY person who doesn't think of health insurance as some sort of health-care subscription?!?
Meanwhile, in mental-tangent land... As I recall, a large part of the pressure from the insurance industry, as you call it, comes in the form of stratospheric malpractice premiums. Thank "comsumer advocates" like Nader for this phenomenon. "You're hurt? Why, sue the big evil rich man/company/parakeet! They have a responsibilty to you. Even if they didn't actually do anything wrong."
I've also ignored the preview button, breaking your leg instead of mine. What luck.
Okay, why not... let's take away the rights of corporations to own "intellectual property" in the same way that, you seem to be saying, individuals should continue to be able to do. Of course, if they shouldn't be allowed to own _intellectual_ property, why should they be allowed to own _physical_ property either? We may as well be consistent in our granting of ownership rights to these legal entities, right?
:-)
Hmm... Well, as long as companies can't own property, we may as well toss the notion of them as legal entities out the window, wouldn't you say?
Grand! Now, I've just ignored a wet floor sign at the West Coast branch of your research firm, and broken your leg. Since corporations aren't legal entities anymore, I'll just sue and take your house. Enjoy the street.
2 gigs of on-die cache would be... less than a good thing. Aside from that much cache costing an asinine amount of money, it'd probably reduce performance. Yup, I said reduce. Why? It takes time to FIND things in cache. If you have 2 gigs of it, then it may well take so long to locate what you were looking for, that you lose any speed benefit of having it in cache at all. Check out Patterson & Hennessy's "Computer Organization & Design." Roundabout chapter 7. Just thought I'd share.
Yeah... Actually, most of their machines are down only about an hour, tops. It's that one that's been down since 1982 which skews the numbers!
" Loto, a tax on the mathmaticaly challenged, pays for schools (now thats poetic!)." You know, I keep hearing that, and its continuing inaccuracy annoys me. I'm a math/comp sci major who buys lotto tickets. Do I know the chances of winning? Yes. Do I expect to win? Obviously not. Why do I play anyway? A) I know that I'm helping to fund schools (as you mentioned), highway maintenance, etc. B) I know that someone, somewhere, won't ever have to worry about money again (unless they squander their winnings in a Hammeresque way, I suppose). and C) It provides me with a little bit of entertainment every week. So, in short, bite me. (Sense of humor reactivated.)
FYI... The word is spelled "hypocrisy." Have a nice day.
In the vein of being helpful... The expression is "makes sense to me" :-)
Ever heard of a "work for hire"?
Because, if you're a programmer, you've surely done a lot of them.
Dude... you just learned a valuable lesson. If your data matters AT ALL to you, back it up before any upgrade. Oh, also... Neener.
"You do know that the I stands for inexpensive?"
;-)
Depends whom you ask. Most people I know would say it stands for "independent." Since they're... you know... separate. And if one fails in anything but "raid" 0, one can pull it out and replace it without touching the working drive(s). (since there's nothing redundant at all about lvl 0, these same associates typically say it's not really even "raid")
Kind of makes more sense than thinking that whoever invented the concept had it in for manufacturers of particularly expensive drives though, doesn't it. If you happen to stop and think about it.
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Yeah, Australia's always got things wrong. I hear your toilet water doesn't even swirl the right way.