Somebody like Zoe Deschanel would make a great partner but you'd need a strong older actor to balance it and scripts that went for "fantastic" as opposed to "dramatic".
But Wow, I can't see the suits letting have gotten out like it did. Tying something like a webpage support forum TOS to the TOS and ability to play a $79 game (plus expansions) is going to be an instant class-action suit, somebody should be lining up for this one!
but we really are the first many times. I think that the NSA is filled with former DoD contractors that know disruptive technology from small companies that is immature but would make multi-billion dollar contracts obsolete. Many export controls are DOD corporate welfare, because once a small company is discredited, only the "official" contractors can develop it.. of course it will be years late and many times over budget but "capitalism" will be safe.
That's probably the point. VC's like to see that they "own" an interest in everything. Some lawyer probably wanted them to pull the access or not get funding to protect their new "property". Of course the company was only worth while because of the community. That's what the IP lawyer types always miss. The contributed code may or may not be assigned to the site owner so just pulling contributor access is not enough. If they've cut off contributors they have all sorts other problems starting with not being able to change and redistribute under anything less than open source licenses without express permission of ALL the Contributors... which are locked out...
they spend much less on nursing homes than prisons. Nursing homes have less regulation or unions so they're cheaper, and the ones medicare pays for are scary. (note I didn't say BETTER, but that's the point)
back then they did it without megawatts of electricity or computer aided processes, by hand! Considering they did things by hand that wouldn't be seen for hundreds of years and drastic evolution in machines, that's real art. It's not that it's "better" than what we have now... but the people that figured it out had to be hella smart.. or lucky.
in most states after a felon has served ALL their time they go back to being a normal citizen and can vote again. Some this is automatic, some you have to ask for it back. It's only in very recent history that being a felon was being "thrown away".
Of course if a "felony" could prevent you from serving in office forever you'd see guys like Clinton convicted of Sodomy as soon as possible (I'd venture Arkansas takes a hard line on that one too) so he was out forever. Hell, some state would make J-walking a felony to snag whatever politicians they wanted. You can't serve while under punishment, but the people can elect whoever they want.. it took a special act of Congress after the Civil War to stop the South from re-electing the people that lead the succession, that's how much leaway was given.
Bush won't pardon Scooter, because as soon as he does Libby would be compelled to be state's witness... as he would then be 100% free from self incrimination they could treat him as hostile and put him in a darker, deeper hole until he ratted out the administration. They already did that to some of Clinton's aids, had people in jail for "contempt" right up until Clinton left office.
taxes are certainly calculated as part of your compensation. It's not "salary" but accountants most certainly figure all these extra taxes plus office space, lights, software licenses as the cost of "paying" you to work at the company. That's why companies always seem to be so stingy hiring help because the other costs for you to work for them are nearly as much as the cash they pay you.
so a true "flat tax" should be based on net worth not income. That's the game guys like Gates and Jobs play. Very rich people and retirees don't make income, so they don't pay those very high taxes most of the time. They don't pay capital gains until they cash out stocks, property, etc. so that only happens when they need money, otherwise they pay very little compared to how much their value increases each year. When close to 90% of the wealth (and therefore profit and income) is held by a small percentage of people they will by definition pay more taxes. If they have 90% of the wealth and pay 50% of taxes they are actually getting ahead by 40%.
you forget this $700M bailout... I owe the bank, it's not my money being protected!
not to mention all the things government does to keep poor folk from simply taking rich people's property... after all the rich can't watch millions of dollars of property by themselves and the rich don't pay private security nearly enough to defend all their property (recent bank bailout!).
this is how it starts... people with access to records pry where they're not wanted. Then they feel the need to act on things they see as "morally" wrong and keep digging to find something legally wrong.
the crown nor the companies didn't grant that right in the original land grant contract to settlers, the property was the "crown's" there was no reason for them to change the deal just because the employees wanted more compensation after the fact... that's the foundation of American commerce and it will happen again and again. Like labor unions in the 1900's or free speech on the internet in this century.
exactly, as soon as the first person loans their gold bars to another to build a bridge and pay workers, then they have just "created" fractional value because they still claim that gold loaned out as their property but somebody else is spending it, hence the problem magnified by millions doing it.
exactly the FMs were caught fixing the books so they were bullied into helping out or being fined into unprofitably... in retrospect they should have been fined into oblivion and send to jail right then. In response for some civility by the feds they used their "penance" to start a new scheme gambling everybodies money even more! Just like drunk drives or petty thieves, rogue accountants need taken out of the game just like any other petty crook.
this has nothing to do with individual home owners at all. I'm sick of hearing about that. These banks process MILLIONS of these loans!!! If the bank didn't want to take the risks, the banks wouldn't have pushed those bad loans so hard.. and banks did push, in the run up to this mess, they stopped making fair but risky loans and pushed very hard to put marginal people in over their heads because they were betting against them. For the ARM mortgage being a "crisis" even though it's an all time high, only about 6-7% of mortgages are failing... why are multi-Billion dollar companies failing over a few percentages unless they put themselves in a position to be WAY over leveraged. When a regular person loses their house because they miss one paycheck we call them irresponsible.. how much more so banks in charge of Trillions of dollars because they lose a few percent business in one of their many industries?
That's why the companies have to fail.. really fail and make people really, really suffer. Then these CxOs and their practices won't be able to find a job anywhere, employees won't want to work for their companies and most importantly, investors won't support them anymore.
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Somebody like Zoe Deschanel would make a great partner but you'd need a strong older actor to balance it and scripts that went for "fantastic" as opposed to "dramatic".
Mos Def?
what happens, when it reigns on reining, grammar nazi, while they rain in the lolcats?...
If a grammar nazi dies on the internet from an aneurysm reading slashdot and doesn't post before he goes, does an lolcat die?
we can now "state the nature of the medial emergency" then he can take the Tardis back in time thru the gate to keep it from happening!
I like Robert Picardo for the part, once you stop type-casting him into artificial, robotic, stiff roles he does pretty well.
They could redo the episode by digitally inserting new actors and an alternate plot into the old footage like that other series did with the tribbles.
absolutely.
But Wow, I can't see the suits letting have gotten out like it did. Tying something like a webpage support forum TOS to the TOS and ability to play a $79 game (plus expansions) is going to be an instant class-action suit, somebody should be lining up for this one!
They have to live on the Isle of Man or South Africa to make the Ubuntu list of names. Besides Iguana was already used by O'Reilly for something.
but we really are the first many times. I think that the NSA is filled with former DoD contractors that know disruptive technology from small companies that is immature but would make multi-billion dollar contracts obsolete. Many export controls are DOD corporate welfare, because once a small company is discredited, only the "official" contractors can develop it.. of course it will be years late and many times over budget but "capitalism" will be safe.
That's probably the point. VC's like to see that they "own" an interest in everything. Some lawyer probably wanted them to pull the access or not get funding to protect their new "property". Of course the company was only worth while because of the community. That's what the IP lawyer types always miss. The contributed code may or may not be assigned to the site owner so just pulling contributor access is not enough. If they've cut off contributors they have all sorts other problems starting with not being able to change and redistribute under anything less than open source licenses without express permission of ALL the Contributors... which are locked out...
they spend much less on nursing homes than prisons. Nursing homes have less regulation or unions so they're cheaper, and the ones medicare pays for are scary. (note I didn't say BETTER, but that's the point)
back then they did it without megawatts of electricity or computer aided processes, by hand! Considering they did things by hand that wouldn't be seen for hundreds of years and drastic evolution in machines, that's real art. It's not that it's "better" than what we have now... but the people that figured it out had to be hella smart.. or lucky.
in most states after a felon has served ALL their time they go back to being a normal citizen and can vote again. Some this is automatic, some you have to ask for it back. It's only in very recent history that being a felon was being "thrown away".
Of course if a "felony" could prevent you from serving in office forever you'd see guys like Clinton convicted of Sodomy as soon as possible (I'd venture Arkansas takes a hard line on that one too) so he was out forever. Hell, some state would make J-walking a felony to snag whatever politicians they wanted. You can't serve while under punishment, but the people can elect whoever they want.. it took a special act of Congress after the Civil War to stop the South from re-electing the people that lead the succession, that's how much leaway was given.
Bush won't pardon Scooter, because as soon as he does Libby would be compelled to be state's witness... as he would then be 100% free from self incrimination they could treat him as hostile and put him in a darker, deeper hole until he ratted out the administration. They already did that to some of Clinton's aids, had people in jail for "contempt" right up until Clinton left office.
of course they can just make him broke and have to live out his final days in a state-funded nursing home... that's much WORSE than prison!
taxes are certainly calculated as part of your compensation. It's not "salary" but accountants most certainly figure all these extra taxes plus office space, lights, software licenses as the cost of "paying" you to work at the company. That's why companies always seem to be so stingy hiring help because the other costs for you to work for them are nearly as much as the cash they pay you.
so a true "flat tax" should be based on net worth not income. That's the game guys like Gates and Jobs play. Very rich people and retirees don't make income, so they don't pay those very high taxes most of the time. They don't pay capital gains until they cash out stocks, property, etc. so that only happens when they need money, otherwise they pay very little compared to how much their value increases each year. When close to 90% of the wealth (and therefore profit and income) is held by a small percentage of people they will by definition pay more taxes. If they have 90% of the wealth and pay 50% of taxes they are actually getting ahead by 40%.
you forget this $700M bailout... I owe the bank, it's not my money being protected!
not to mention all the things government does to keep poor folk from simply taking rich people's property... after all the rich can't watch millions of dollars of property by themselves and the rich don't pay private security nearly enough to defend all their property (recent bank bailout!).
this is how it starts... people with access to records pry where they're not wanted. Then they feel the need to act on things they see as "morally" wrong and keep digging to find something legally wrong.
it's illegal when that information is leaked to the media so they can storm the guy's house.
the crown nor the companies didn't grant that right in the original land grant contract to settlers, the property was the "crown's" there was no reason for them to change the deal just because the employees wanted more compensation after the fact... that's the foundation of American commerce and it will happen again and again. Like labor unions in the 1900's or free speech on the internet in this century.
exactly, as soon as the first person loans their gold bars to another to build a bridge and pay workers, then they have just "created" fractional value because they still claim that gold loaned out as their property but somebody else is spending it, hence the problem magnified by millions doing it.
exactly the FMs were caught fixing the books so they were bullied into helping out or being fined into unprofitably... in retrospect they should have been fined into oblivion and send to jail right then. In response for some civility by the feds they used their "penance" to start a new scheme gambling everybodies money even more! Just like drunk drives or petty thieves, rogue accountants need taken out of the game just like any other petty crook.
this has nothing to do with individual home owners at all. I'm sick of hearing about that. These banks process MILLIONS of these loans!!! If the bank didn't want to take the risks, the banks wouldn't have pushed those bad loans so hard.. and banks did push, in the run up to this mess, they stopped making fair but risky loans and pushed very hard to put marginal people in over their heads because they were betting against them. For the ARM mortgage being a "crisis" even though it's an all time high, only about 6-7% of mortgages are failing... why are multi-Billion dollar companies failing over a few percentages unless they put themselves in a position to be WAY over leveraged. When a regular person loses their house because they miss one paycheck we call them irresponsible.. how much more so banks in charge of Trillions of dollars because they lose a few percent business in one of their many industries?
That's why the companies have to fail.. really fail and make people really, really suffer. Then these CxOs and their practices won't be able to find a job anywhere, employees won't want to work for their companies and most importantly, investors won't support them anymore.