What I'm saying is that historically being gay was kind of like eating strawberries.
But not really. If I told you that Strawberry eating was evil and also illegal, you might get irritated, but it wouldn't really impact your life. Not so with being gay.
Except that from what I've read, there are several blatantly Christian guilds who recruit on the general board based on that, and they haven't been told "you can't do that."
Well, religion is a protected class and sexual preference is not, so there you go.
The dollar has been better than most, but even it has lost something like 95% of its value since 1913, and it is grossly overvalued right now.
Neither gold nor paper have any intrinsic value. They simply happen to be convenient vehicles for trade. That's why, if you don't need them to buy oil, dollars will lose strength rapidly.
If I want my site to get used, I *HAVE* to appease google. Getting blacklisted or low ranked is equivelant to, for example, Orson Wells being blackballed by Hurst and forced into obscurity for many years.
Yep, you're at their mercy. Lucky for you, they play fair. You seem to be suggesting that Google should play nice, which would require them to make a worse product for the benefit of abusers like bmw.de, which you really have no right to ask for.
Google isn't king because they have a better product. They're king because they have better DATA, from 10 years of data mining, something a startup company simply can't compete with.
Nope, they've got better software. Any fool can index the web. The innovation here is the pageranking algorithm and software architecture.
What most people don't realize (as i'm finding out)is that capitol gains tax is a tax place on top the regular income generated from a sale. Your actualy getting taxed twice though.
Better call the IRS on me, because I only pay 15%.
BTW the government thinks you are rich if you have somethign like 125,000 anual income.
That makes no sense. Salary has nothing with being rich.
You mean, just like anyone can start a software company to compete with Microsoft?
No, I mean that anyone can create a search engine. All you need is a working server and advertising. You don't have to worry about people that built their business on google or somebody shipping google on all of Dells PCs or any of that crap. Jumping ship is as simple as changing a bookmark.
Google is driving its competition out of business
By building a better product. This is called competition - learn to compete better.
Make no mistake, google is already dangerously powerful. You just don't see it yet.
Oh, I agree with that, but they aren't a monopoly. Simply put, their star is ascendent.
Could you give me some examples of a 10% taxed long term investment?
My bad, it looks like it's 15%. This is tax on a capital gain from, say, sale of a stock held more than 366 days. For that matter, a random piece of property (primary home exclusion aside) follows similar rules. 10% seems more for lower income levels (before asset sale).
The reason google should be obligated is because of the great power they wield. Much like Microsoft and other Monopolies have to work extra hard to play fair. I don't know if google could yet be classified as a monopoly, but i think they're damn close given that Yahoo has basically thrown in the towel to them.
How are they a monopoly? They've got market share, but anybody can start a search engine. I think you'll be waiting awhile for the monopoly ruling.
Most "dividend income" is added directly to your income and adjusted for your net income then taxed at your normal income tax level wich could be %35 for federal alone.
And long term investment income can be taxed as low as 10%. If you had the choice, which would you take?
Yeah, the IRA is the ones that blow up women for being Catholic (or is it Protestant?). Baiting guys like these can have a serious effect on your life expectancy.
Unfortunately, Google has taken the route that pure text sites that make heavy use of semantic tags get better ranks than, say, a flash based site. While there are technical reasons why this may be so (it's hard to index flash data), it's still a case of Google arbitrarily choosing one method over another.
That is their perogative. I fail to see why they should be obligated to do extra work for someone else's benefit. As an aside, I have a problem with flash sites - you can't bookmark individual pages. Instead, you have to bookmark the front page, then remember the path to whatever you want.
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That's precisely my point. Google is dictating how you must design your site.
No they aren't. They are setting rules for how your site is ranked by their site. Violate the rules and your only penalty is a reset pagerank.
No, you don't have to follow their standards, but if you don't, you get a low page rank and your competitor, who DOES follow googles rules gets ranked above you.
Such is life. google hasn't got any obligation to make bmw's life easy.
It was simply a case of their site not being search engine friendly, and trying to improve their rank because they didn't design their site in such a way as to comply with googles commandments.
So they tweaked their site to improve their pagerank artifically? Sounds like a cut and dried case of google-bombing. If they actually improved their site design, none of this would have happened.
Why should Bono have to perform such a menial task? His time is far better spent criticizing various Western governments for not giving enough financial aide to developing nations, while at the same time he is pulling in millions upon millions of dollars from his music dealings.
Politics aside, you aren't making any sense. What does his millions have to do with him criticizing the foreign aid policy of various governments? It's not like he has enough cash to make a difference.
I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying we should continuously tax money people have save and put ino the bank? Other wise when someoen makes money with money, unless it is shielded in an IRA or some other program it is counted as income.
I'm suggesting that rich people are the ones with a pile of cash, not those with a large paycheck. I said nothing about taxing based on assets, but I will mention that the rich usually have real estate, which is taxed on value. Now, when you make money with money, it is taxed as unearned income, which can be structured into a lower tax rate.
If you have 2 billion dollars sitting in the bank and you recieve 5 million dollars on interest yet have no other source of money flowing into your finacial stats, you will claim 5 million dollars income and pay income taxe on that 5 million dollars just as if you were paid it as a salary.
No you won't. You'll pay 28%. More likely, you'll have a lot of your money in the stock market, where you pay close to half that.
Or you could checkpoint your processing and run a parent process to monitor and restart as needed. Of course, nothing will save you from code bugs - best approach there is good development practices.
Perl -- Had a shot at commercial app dev relevance in the 90s, but the world passed it by, and is used rarely for new projects. Largely relegated to Unix system scripts, which is more of what it was designed for.
Ahh Perl, the glue that binds our software shop together and threatens their sanity.
Big development houses are frequently mired in procedure or run by people who believe industry rags. Meanwhile, some small software houses have seen the light and now talk with a lisp. Mind, they don't often publicize it, as they can consider it a competitive advantage, but the do use it.
Multinationals with internal dev teams are more concerned with getting the job done in a way that they can hire to replace as needed. It's okay to give up on the power of lisp because their needs aren't that great, and they're more concerned about hiring somebody to maintain the code.
Sorry, but *that's* backwards. Take a look at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03in05tr.xls , line 123. It shows that, for 2003, the top 5% of wage earners (those earning $130,080 or more) paid 54% of all income taxes and had an average tax rate of 20.74%.
When I say rich, I mean rich, not top earners. These are the people who already have money and yes, they do pay less money in taxes. Also, if you look at top earners (not the rich), taxation peakes between 120 and 150k, then goes down a bit. Basically, rich people pay proportionally less. Remember: the top 1% of wealthy people pay 50% of all taxes, but own 80% of all property.
Others find it hard to be tolerant of a group they see as violating 'the laws of God'. You're asking *them* to be tolerant, why shouldn't it be expected of *you* as well?
Tough shit. someone else violating God's law doesn't get you dead.
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What I'm saying is that historically being gay was kind of like eating strawberries.
But not really. If I told you that Strawberry eating was evil and also illegal, you might get irritated, but it wouldn't really impact your life. Not so with being gay.
Except that from what I've read, there are several blatantly Christian guilds who recruit on the general board based on that, and they haven't been told "you can't do that."
Well, religion is a protected class and sexual preference is not, so there you go.
The dollar has been better than most, but even it has lost something like 95% of its value since 1913, and it is grossly overvalued right now.
Neither gold nor paper have any intrinsic value. They simply happen to be convenient vehicles for trade. That's why, if you don't need them to buy oil, dollars will lose strength rapidly.
If I want my site to get used, I *HAVE* to appease google. Getting blacklisted or low ranked is equivelant to, for example, Orson Wells being blackballed by Hurst and forced into obscurity for many years.
Yep, you're at their mercy. Lucky for you, they play fair. You seem to be suggesting that Google should play nice, which would require them to make a worse product for the benefit of abusers like bmw.de, which you really have no right to ask for.
Google isn't king because they have a better product. They're king because they have better DATA, from 10 years of data mining, something a startup company simply can't compete with.
Nope, they've got better software. Any fool can index the web. The innovation here is the pageranking algorithm and software architecture.
What most people don't realize (as i'm finding out)is that capitol gains tax is a tax place on top the regular income generated from a sale. Your actualy getting taxed twice though.
Better call the IRS on me, because I only pay 15%.
BTW the government thinks you are rich if you have somethign like 125,000 anual income.
That makes no sense. Salary has nothing with being rich.
You mean, just like anyone can start a software company to compete with Microsoft?
No, I mean that anyone can create a search engine. All you need is a working server and advertising. You don't have to worry about people that built their business on google or somebody shipping google on all of Dells PCs or any of that crap. Jumping ship is as simple as changing a bookmark.
Google is driving its competition out of business
By building a better product. This is called competition - learn to compete better.
Make no mistake, google is already dangerously powerful. You just don't see it yet.
Oh, I agree with that, but they aren't a monopoly. Simply put, their star is ascendent.
Could you give me some examples of a 10% taxed long term investment?
My bad, it looks like it's 15%. This is tax on a capital gain from, say, sale of a stock held more than 366 days. For that matter, a random piece of property (primary home exclusion aside) follows similar rules. 10% seems more for lower income levels (before asset sale).
I am a user that google claims to give the best results to, if flash based sites are not indexed, then google is failing us.
So go start a search engine, or use someone that indexes flash.
The reason google should be obligated is because of the great power they wield. Much like Microsoft and other Monopolies have to work extra hard to play fair. I don't know if google could yet be classified as a monopoly, but i think they're damn close given that Yahoo has basically thrown in the towel to them.
How are they a monopoly? They've got market share, but anybody can start a search engine. I think you'll be waiting awhile for the monopoly ruling.
Most "dividend income" is added directly to your income and adjusted for your net income then taxed at your normal income tax level wich could be %35 for federal alone.
And long term investment income can be taxed as low as 10%. If you had the choice, which would you take?
Yeah, the IRA is the ones that blow up women for being Catholic (or is it Protestant?). Baiting guys like these can have a serious effect on your life expectancy.
Unfortunately, Google has taken the route that pure text sites that make heavy use of semantic tags get better ranks than, say, a flash based site. While there are technical reasons why this may be so (it's hard to index flash data), it's still a case of Google arbitrarily choosing one method over another.
That is their perogative. I fail to see why they should be obligated to do extra work for someone else's benefit. As an aside, I have a problem with flash sites - you can't bookmark individual pages. Instead, you have to bookmark the front page, then remember the path to whatever you want.
That's precisely my point. Google is dictating how you must design your site.
No they aren't. They are setting rules for how your site is ranked by their site. Violate the rules and your only penalty is a reset pagerank.
No, you don't have to follow their standards, but if you don't, you get a low page rank and your competitor, who DOES follow googles rules gets ranked above you.
Such is life. google hasn't got any obligation to make bmw's life easy.
It was simply a case of their site not being search engine friendly, and trying to improve their rank because they didn't design their site in such a way as to comply with googles commandments.
So they tweaked their site to improve their pagerank artifically? Sounds like a cut and dried case of google-bombing. If they actually improved their site design, none of this would have happened.
Why should a tech monkey aspire to developer status?
Because you've got to have goals.
Why should Bono have to perform such a menial task? His time is far better spent criticizing various Western governments for not giving enough financial aide to developing nations, while at the same time he is pulling in millions upon millions of dollars from his music dealings.
Politics aside, you aren't making any sense. What does his millions have to do with him criticizing the foreign aid policy of various governments? It's not like he has enough cash to make a difference.
I'm not sure I follow you here. Are you saying we should continuously tax money people have save and put ino the bank? Other wise when someoen makes money with money, unless it is shielded in an IRA or some other program it is counted as income.
I'm suggesting that rich people are the ones with a pile of cash, not those with a large paycheck. I said nothing about taxing based on assets, but I will mention that the rich usually have real estate, which is taxed on value. Now, when you make money with money, it is taxed as unearned income, which can be structured into a lower tax rate.
If you have 2 billion dollars sitting in the bank and you recieve 5 million dollars on interest yet have no other source of money flowing into your finacial stats, you will claim 5 million dollars income and pay income taxe on that 5 million dollars just as if you were paid it as a salary.
No you won't. You'll pay 28%. More likely, you'll have a lot of your money in the stock market, where you pay close to half that.
Or you could checkpoint your processing and run a parent process to monitor and restart as needed. Of course, nothing will save you from code bugs - best approach there is good development practices.
Perl -- Had a shot at commercial app dev relevance in the 90s, but the world passed it by, and is used rarely for new projects. Largely relegated to Unix system scripts, which is more of what it was designed for.
Ahh Perl, the glue that binds our software shop together and threatens their sanity.
Big development houses are frequently mired in procedure or run by people who believe industry rags. Meanwhile, some small software houses have seen the light and now talk with a lisp. Mind, they don't often publicize it, as they can consider it a competitive advantage, but the do use it.
Multinationals with internal dev teams are more concerned with getting the job done in a way that they can hire to replace as needed. It's okay to give up on the power of lisp because their needs aren't that great, and they're more concerned about hiring somebody to maintain the code.
`Back then, Bill was on roughly the same scale; a hobbyist.
He still owned a company. The fact that he was small time is more a consequence of its youth.
Compare the tone of Bill's letter to 99% of the comments posted on Slashdot and it looks pretty tame.
Most slashdotters don't own companies. Just sayin'.
Sorry, but *that's* backwards. Take a look at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03in05tr.xls , line 123. It shows that, for 2003, the top 5% of wage earners (those earning $130,080 or more) paid 54% of all income taxes and had an average tax rate of 20.74%.
When I say rich, I mean rich, not top earners. These are the people who already have money and yes, they do pay less money in taxes. Also, if you look at top earners (not the rich), taxation peakes between 120 and 150k, then goes down a bit. Basically, rich people pay proportionally less. Remember: the top 1% of wealthy people pay 50% of all taxes, but own 80% of all property.
Others find it hard to be tolerant of a group they see as violating 'the laws of God'. You're asking *them* to be tolerant, why shouldn't it be expected of *you* as well?
Tough shit. someone else violating God's law doesn't get you dead.
Or maybe they won't ban them. Maybe they will relocate all those characters to a camp or two in the Kharanos.
Nah, they only do that with Palestinians.
And, moreover, since rich people are taxed much more than poor
Sorry, but that's backwards. Rich people get most of their money from dividends and long-term investments, which are taxed at a lower rate.