It probably causes more wear and tear to the fridge if you put more food in it instead of keeping it empty, but the prime purpose is to store food.
A fridge will perform better and last longer if it is kept full. When a fridge is full of air, the cold air excapes easily when the door is opened, and new air must be cooled, causing wear. If it is kept full, a much smaller air turnover occurs and less cooling is required. The same logic applies to air leaking out of the fridge, but most fridges these days seal pretty well...
I wonder how you would explain the psychology behind this?
Capitalism gone too far...
That said, I am not sure this article is a bad thing. If a company wants to use linux and comply with the GPL, wonderful. However, if a company is thinking about making a closed derivative of GPLed code, screw them, we are better off without them, and we should thank Forbes for scaring them away...
Maybe they should just tell M$ about the security flaws
That is exactly what most of them do, and they get ignored... After months of letting them know quietly, they realize the only way to get action is put MS under the gun (publish the fault). If MS fixed holes as they got reported to them rather than as they got reported to the public, Ballmer would have his wish...
Don't ask me to quote any texts or articles of the time, but...
The accepted belief of the scientific community was that humans could not go faster than the speed of sound because the shock wave would kill them.
I don't really understand why they thought that, it is pretty clear to me from compressible flow theory that the area behind the shock (behind the front of the aircraft) is just a normal subsonic flow region. But I don't understand why the earth used to be flat either, I guess being born after all the breakthroughs in that area makes it hard for me to approach things from their point of view.
Lamo commited crimes. He broke the law and cost businesses considerable damages. In that light, I have no problem if a journalist turns over his or her personal notes to the FBI if it will help them in their prosecution.
Lamo's guilt or innocence has no bearing on the legality or morality of the tactics being employed by the FBI.
Its putting food on someone's table, and is better than them being on welfare.
I am going to have to question this assertion.
Welfare takes my tax dollars and puts it in the pockets of those who can not afford to feed/house themselves.
Telemarketers waste my time to put money in the pockets of some greedy bastards, and a bunch of people who might otherwise be on welfare.
Well... My time is worth a lot (time is money), and I would rather have them taking my taxes (through welfare) than my time (through calling).
I guess the meat of my assertion is that employing people is only better than having them on welfare if thier jobs are at the very least not destructive (productive wouldbe better...).
The day my ISP does this I sware I'll cancel the service. If no other ISP wants to sell me an unlimited broadband service I'll use cheap dial up or just say screw it all together and get a life. I'm not paying premium prices for unlimited services and then be told it's only unlimited for those who do not use much of it.
I applaud the sentiment, but I doubt that they would miss you too much... If you were one of the capped downloaders, they probably weren't making money on you...
I don't really see your ExploitCorp CEO as a very complicated problem.
The apartments and stocks, bonds... are all investment income, which is a different class of income which would be taxed differently.
Also, WRT the apartments, is he mowing the lawns, and unclogging the toilets...? How much of his time does he spend on all this? Are the share holders and board members of Exploit Corp happy about this?
Even if all that stuff flies and the investment income goes untaxed, he is still under $1000000 which I would call progress in terms of attacking the gross inequities in compensation in corporate America.
The assumption is that those who make more save more (in general this is true). so somebody who pays a x% sales tax on every good they purchase, and lives a hand to mouth existance pays x% of their income in taxes, someone who makes enough money to set 20% away at the end of each month only pays.8*x% of their income in taxes...
If no one person in a company were allowed to make more than (for example) 40x what their lowest-paid employee...
Damn, I was just starting to not like you:)
I have proposed this idea many times... Things like that make progressive taxes less nessisary, it is nice to see that you aren't just another pissed off cheap-labor conservative...
Again, what's wrong with a flat (say, 20%) income tax? Someone who makes $10,000 only pays $2,000, while the rich guy who makes $10 Million pays $2 Million. Explain to me how that isn't a fair system.
Have you ever tried to feed, clothe, and house yourself for $8,000 a year? I would certainly claim that the person making 10K would endure an increadable hardship to pay 2K a year in taxes, where for someone making 10M, 2M is not that hard to come up with.
Is it fair? Maybe not (I think it is, but I can understand thinking that it isn't). Is it right? I think so.
I did say that I share some of their ideals, didn't I?
Besides, it is not wealth redistribution, it is paying as your ability to do so dictates. And don't start with the whole welfare thing, the amount of money that goes to welfare is miniscule compaired to the amount of our tax dollars that go into the pockets of executives at defense companies (have you heard about the Boeing tanker leases?). The real wealth redistribution in this country is upwards.
Disclaimers: I work at a defence company... I am all for getting people off of welfare, but I am not for them falling on their face due to our haste to remove them from welfare.
Of course, socialists and Bush-bashers are going to hate this on principal, but I think most of us can see the positive conotations such a law has.
Sorry, but I am most certainly a Bush-basher, and I have been called a socialist before (I don't consider myself to be one, but I do share many of their ideals).
I have nothing against a law forcing consistancy in the application of taxation across diferent sales channels. In fact I think it is a great idea.
A real socialist should be against sales taxes all together anyway, they are inherantly regresive. Instead, things that can be taxed progressively (income, capital gains...) should be taxed at a higher rate, and get rid of these damn sales taxes.
You get duplication of effort now (CNN, FOX, MSNBC), where later we could perhaps have two or three media giants offering a broader spectrum (CNN Politics, CNN Music, CNN Sports).
What you are talking about is what I would call diversity of subject, this is nice. But, having multiple entities providing each subject gives diversity of substance, which is esential for an informed, balanced formation of opinion.
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But what does Microsoft possible have to gain from Sun?
wworkstation marketshare...
It is not as direct as what you are looking for, but the worse sun does the harder it will be for them to compete in the workstation market.
Unfortunatly my employeer is in the middle of switching all of it's engineers (~10000) to win2000 from solaris.
Sorry, the net has been slow here today, and at the time I hit 'reply to this' there were no replies...
It probably causes more wear and tear to the fridge if you put more food in it instead of keeping it empty, but the prime purpose is to store food.
A fridge will perform better and last longer if it is kept full. When a fridge is full of air, the cold air excapes easily when the door is opened, and new air must be cooled, causing wear. If it is kept full, a much smaller air turnover occurs and less cooling is required. The same logic applies to air leaking out of the fridge, but most fridges these days seal pretty well...
I wonder how you would explain the psychology behind this?
Capitalism gone too far...
That said, I am not sure this article is a bad thing. If a company wants to use linux and comply with the GPL, wonderful. However, if a company is thinking about making a closed derivative of GPLed code, screw them, we are better off without them, and we should thank Forbes for scaring them away...
Maybe they should just tell M$ about the security flaws
That is exactly what most of them do, and they get ignored... After months of letting them know quietly, they realize the only way to get action is put MS under the gun (publish the fault). If MS fixed holes as they got reported to them rather than as they got reported to the public, Ballmer would have his wish...
when was the last time the Republicans successfully concealed a conspiracy. . .
If it was successfully concealed none of us would know about it...
Don't ask me to quote any texts or articles of the time, but...
The accepted belief of the scientific community was that humans could not go faster than the speed of sound because the shock wave would kill them.
I don't really understand why they thought that, it is pretty clear to me from compressible flow theory that the area behind the shock (behind the front of the aircraft) is just a normal subsonic flow region. But I don't understand why the earth used to be flat either, I guess being born after all the breakthroughs in that area makes it hard for me to approach things from their point of view.
I am an aerospace engineer
Fnkmaster has it right.
I spend 8+ hours a day on something that was 'scientifically impossible' less than a century ago, supersonic flight...
I don't think faster than light travel is possible, but to say that you know it is impossible is a little short sighted.
Lamo commited crimes. He broke the law and cost businesses considerable damages. In that light, I have no problem if a journalist turns over his or her personal notes to the FBI if it will help them in their prosecution.
Lamo's guilt or innocence has no bearing on the legality or morality of the tactics being employed by the FBI.
Its putting food on someone's table, and is better than them being on welfare.
I am going to have to question this assertion.
Welfare takes my tax dollars and puts it in the pockets of those who can not afford to feed/house themselves.
Telemarketers waste my time to put money in the pockets of some greedy bastards, and a bunch of people who might otherwise be on welfare.
Well... My time is worth a lot (time is money), and I would rather have them taking my taxes (through welfare) than my time (through calling).
I guess the meat of my assertion is that employing people is only better than having them on welfare if thier jobs are at the very least not destructive (productive wouldbe better...).
That way they pay for it, and you don't get called...
The day my ISP does this I sware I'll cancel the service. If no other ISP wants to sell me an unlimited broadband service I'll use cheap dial up or just say screw it all together and get a life. I'm not paying premium prices for unlimited services and then be told it's only unlimited for those who do not use much of it.
I applaud the sentiment, but I doubt that they would miss you too much... If you were one of the capped downloaders, they probably weren't making money on you...
And what's the definition of a progressive tax? It taxes the rich and poor "equally" in terms of percentage of income?
That would be a flat tax, a progressive tax (like what we have in the states for income) taxes the rich at a higher rate than the poor.
I don't really see your ExploitCorp CEO as a very complicated problem.
The apartments and stocks, bonds... are all investment income, which is a different class of income which would be taxed differently.
Also, WRT the apartments, is he mowing the lawns, and unclogging the toilets...? How much of his time does he spend on all this? Are the share holders and board members of Exploit Corp happy about this?
Even if all that stuff flies and the investment income goes untaxed, he is still under $1000000 which I would call progress in terms of attacking the gross inequities in compensation in corporate America.
I guess inherantly is a little strong...
.8*x% of their income in taxes...
The assumption is that those who make more save more (in general this is true). so somebody who pays a x% sales tax on every good they purchase, and lives a hand to mouth existance pays x% of their income in taxes, someone who makes enough money to set 20% away at the end of each month only pays
If no one person in a company were allowed to make more than (for example) 40x what their lowest-paid employee...
:)
Damn, I was just starting to not like you
I have proposed this idea many times... Things like that make progressive taxes less nessisary, it is nice to see that you aren't just another pissed off cheap-labor conservative...
It isn't a "Bush" deficit because we already had an increasing deficit before he moved into office!
Does anyone else remember Bush using enormous budget surplus predictions as justification for a tax cut?
Again, what's wrong with a flat (say, 20%) income tax? Someone who makes $10,000 only pays $2,000, while the rich guy who makes $10 Million pays $2 Million. Explain to me how that isn't a fair system.
Have you ever tried to feed, clothe, and house yourself for $8,000 a year? I would certainly claim that the person making 10K would endure an increadable hardship to pay 2K a year in taxes, where for someone making 10M, 2M is not that hard to come up with.
Is it fair? Maybe not (I think it is, but I can understand thinking that it isn't). Is it right? I think so.
I did say that I share some of their ideals, didn't I?
Besides, it is not wealth redistribution, it is paying as your ability to do so dictates. And don't start with the whole welfare thing, the amount of money that goes to welfare is miniscule compaired to the amount of our tax dollars that go into the pockets of executives at defense companies (have you heard about the Boeing tanker leases?). The real wealth redistribution in this country is upwards.
Disclaimers:
I work at a defence company...
I am all for getting people off of welfare, but I am not for them falling on their face due to our haste to remove them from welfare.
Of course, socialists and Bush-bashers are going to hate this on principal, but I think most of us can see the positive conotations such a law has.
Sorry, but I am most certainly a Bush-basher, and I have been called a socialist before (I don't consider myself to be one, but I do share many of their ideals).
I have nothing against a law forcing consistancy in the application of taxation across diferent sales channels. In fact I think it is a great idea.
A real socialist should be against sales taxes all together anyway, they are inherantly regresive. Instead, things that can be taxed progressively (income, capital gains...) should be taxed at a higher rate, and get rid of these damn sales taxes.
You get duplication of effort now (CNN, FOX, MSNBC), where later we could perhaps have two or three media giants offering a broader spectrum (CNN Politics, CNN Music, CNN Sports).
What you are talking about is what I would call diversity of subject, this is nice. But, having multiple entities providing each subject gives diversity of substance, which is esential for an informed, balanced formation of opinion.
I know it is a nitpick, but it always bugs me that there are so many countrys in American and the USA is implied by the word America...
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Cna't beileve I was the frist to say it...
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