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Mighty Amazon
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The rules say that a company must show a profit at least once every "n" years, and when they show a profit, they end up paying taxes on it..
So by your logic it would be better for me to make $0 and not pay taxes on it than to make $100,000 a year and pay $20,000 of it in taxes?
I can understand funnelling profits (ie. any excess money) back into the business. But basically that just means making a profit and writing some of it off, all businesses do that.
Basicaly what I'm saying is its always better to make a profit, because even if you lose 20% of it to taxes, you still keep 80%. Any businessman who plays a game which involves never making a profit isn't going to be in business long.
that I spent $1000 on a 32" T.V. and only 2/3 of it gets used when I watch a movie.
Flame all you want, but after the first month, approximately 100% of people who watch any movie will be watching it on a T.V., so why the hell wouldn't you design the movie to be seen on that medium?
The problem with not using SSN's is the system is already set up for a 9 digit number in most cases. Unfortunately 9 digits is on the upper end of what people can remember. So people forget them:(
Good point, if you use steel studs not only are they termite proof but they're fire resistant as well.
The problem with steel is once it gets too hot it loses all structural integrity very rapidly. IE it's fine at X degrees but at X+1 degrees your house just collapsed. A wood beam on the other hand will char on the outside and degrade slowly over time.
I would suggest avoiding load-bearing interior walls. That way the house can be reconfigured as needed in the years to come. Also, use nice thick (at least 2x6) walls to allow space to run whatever you want in them later.
As for materials, any modern materials will last a long long time if properly maintained. Houses built of wood 100's of years ago are still standing and our wood products now are much stronger/better.
So I should have to pay extra for road maintenance because some guy I don't know overloaded an 18-wheeler and drove up and down the road to my house a few thousand times?
The road analogy is bad as well. Network lines don't break down from repeated use like a road does. I'll buy the bit about having to spend money for more lines if yours are full and you need more bandwidth. But once the fiber is strung to my server I can run data through it until the end of time without a usage related "pothole". A road on the otherhand will go south real fast if I drive back and forth on it with a dump truck all day.
Bad Analogy. The poster says customers dispute INCOMING bandwidth spikes. So the analogy would be more along the lines of someone sending a huge power surge through your lines un-announced and un-requested, then the power company attempting to charge you for it.
I lean towards the consumer not having to pay, considering they didn't request the traffic and are therefore not resonsible for it.
Or a degree. I feel, and have proven, that I was capable of doing exactly what I described above after completing my degree program.
A school degree only tells me that you can tie your shoes and that you'll probably manage to get up in the mornings and come to work.
A CS degree tells me that you have a solid understanding of the concepts of computer science and mathematics, as well as some understanding of the related EE and physics concepts. It also implies that you have some experience writing code in at least one language and probably several. You also understand how languages are designed and supposed to work, as well as where they are likely to go wrong. You have a good idea of many common programming errors because you both committed them yourself and were shown examples by your instructors.
If you regard a college degree as so useless, you either went to a bad school, or you need to get a degree yourself so you can appreciate their usefulness.
I beg to differ. A person with a BSCS should have a good enough understanding of the fundamentals of programming and debugging "in the large" to track down and fix a problem in any sized program. It's all about knowing how to go about it, and thats what you should learn in a BS program.
I also find it rather disturbing that you compare a BSCS to a certification program that takes somewhere between a couple weeks and a couple months to get. I'll hire a BSCS over a any day if thats the only fundamental difference.
It's great for Clear Channel though because they just eliminated 19 paychecks.
Yeah, in exchange for one paycheck 20 times the size. Just for Carson Whatshisname, not to mention the high priced tech talent they have to hire to patch it all together.
Not that I'm a big TRL fan, but I really can't imagine that he'd be much worse than the "local talent" in my town.
Re:Unions are just looking to save their jobs
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Thats pretty common. Each morning a local DJ in my town has a "conversation" with David Letterman just before playing the top 10 list.
I'm reasonably sure that Dave doesn't "go the extra mile" and call the 3rd ranked morning show in my small town every morning.
Ok, I'll compare it to buying a book then. They're basically the same thing, you're paying for the content. If I buy a book I can go home and read random pages, take a marker and black out every occurence of the work 'and', whatever I want. Why should I DVD be any different? It's mine, I payed for it. Basically as long as I don't copy it and sell it/distribute it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Anybody can change anybodies work/art without the creators permission if they buy it. If I buy a Monet, it would be perfectly legal for me to take it home and spray-paint the whole thing black. Or shoot paintballs at it. I don't care what your work/art is, if you sell it and I buy it, I can do what I want with it.
I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a refund after you sign a release and install a backdoor that allows the RIAA to "audit" your computer for "unauthorized" files and delete whatever it wants.
It's not fair because there are thousands of other legitimate uses for cd-r's. Copying pirated music doesn't account for anywhere near 100% of CD-R use.
This tax is like ben-gay saying they want to tax old people since 90% of the ben-gay that is stolen ends up on old people. Or something like that?
Gee, I didn't realize mozilla was a programming language. I'm going to go now and arrange my tabs into a lexographic sequence and get them to do something new, maybe say hello world.
I hate to say it, but IT people seem like more of a perk to companies so the coders don't have to take on that roll. Unfortunatly having 20 coders arguing over the network setup usually results in a half-assed network that we IT guys end up cleaning up in the end when the company caves in and decides to make a budget for IT again.
Since when are "coders" not IT people?
I agree. People always point to the Japanese and talk about how they always have gadgets there before we do here. Thats not really true. The Japanese don't invent anything, they take our ideas/inventions and perfect them. They may adopt new technologies faster, but theres a good bet those technologies originated in the US (if not in the US then elsewhere in the western world).
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The rules say that a company must show a profit at least once every "n" years, and when they show a profit, they end up paying taxes on it..
So by your logic it would be better for me to make $0 and not pay taxes on it than to make $100,000 a year and pay $20,000 of it in taxes?
I can understand funnelling profits (ie. any excess money) back into the business. But basically that just means making a profit and writing some of it off, all businesses do that.
Basicaly what I'm saying is its always better to make a profit, because even if you lose 20% of it to taxes, you still keep 80%. Any businessman who plays a game which involves never making a profit isn't going to be in business long.
Fortune favors those who help themselves.
So don't sit on "all your C/C++ coding skills" while they become obsolete. Change with the times.
If it was all about luck some farmer from Iowa would be president and Microsoft would be footnote in the history of compiler companies.
that I spent $1000 on a 32" T.V. and only 2/3 of it gets used when I watch a movie.
Flame all you want, but after the first month, approximately 100% of people who watch any movie will be watching it on a T.V., so why the hell wouldn't you design the movie to be seen on that medium?
The problem with not using SSN's is the system is already set up for a 9 digit number in most cases. Unfortunately 9 digits is on the upper end of what people can remember. So people forget them :(
Good point, if you use steel studs not only are they termite proof but they're fire resistant as well.
The problem with steel is once it gets too hot it loses all structural integrity very rapidly. IE it's fine at X degrees but at X+1 degrees your house just collapsed. A wood beam on the other hand will char on the outside and degrade slowly over time.
I would suggest avoiding load-bearing interior walls. That way the house can be reconfigured as needed in the years to come. Also, use nice thick (at least 2x6) walls to allow space to run whatever you want in them later.
As for materials, any modern materials will last a long long time if properly maintained. Houses built of wood 100's of years ago are still standing and our wood products now are much stronger/better.
So I should have to pay extra for road maintenance because some guy I don't know overloaded an 18-wheeler and drove up and down the road to my house a few thousand times?
The road analogy is bad as well. Network lines don't break down from repeated use like a road does. I'll buy the bit about having to spend money for more lines if yours are full and you need more bandwidth. But once the fiber is strung to my server I can run data through it until the end of time without a usage related "pothole". A road on the otherhand will go south real fast if I drive back and forth on it with a dump truck all day.
Bad Analogy. The poster says customers dispute INCOMING bandwidth spikes. So the analogy would be more along the lines of someone sending a huge power surge through your lines un-announced and un-requested, then the power company attempting to charge you for it.
I lean towards the consumer not having to pay, considering they didn't request the traffic and are therefore not resonsible for it.
Thats what, 1/2 a line per person? Doesn't sound that bad...
Ahh, I always set hash on before command line ftping. Then I get to see the pretty #'s fly by...
Tell that to Columbus.
I wasn't aware that peroxide was a controlled substance...
Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
I find it easier to get my "facts" accepted when they're written on the memo line of $100,000 checks.
Nope, sorry. That comes with experience.
Or a degree. I feel, and have proven, that I was capable of doing exactly what I described above after completing my degree program.
A school degree only tells me that you can tie your shoes and that you'll probably manage to get up in the mornings and come to work.
A CS degree tells me that you have a solid understanding of the concepts of computer science and mathematics, as well as some understanding of the related EE and physics concepts. It also implies that you have some experience writing code in at least one language and probably several. You also understand how languages are designed and supposed to work, as well as where they are likely to go wrong. You have a good idea of many common programming errors because you both committed them yourself and were shown examples by your instructors.
If you regard a college degree as so useless, you either went to a bad school, or you need to get a degree yourself so you can appreciate their usefulness.
I beg to differ. A person with a BSCS should have a good enough understanding of the fundamentals of programming and debugging "in the large" to track down and fix a problem in any sized program. It's all about knowing how to go about it, and thats what you should learn in a BS program.
I also find it rather disturbing that you compare a BSCS to a certification program that takes somewhere between a couple weeks and a couple months to get. I'll hire a BSCS over a any day if thats the only fundamental difference.
It's great for Clear Channel though because they just eliminated 19 paychecks.
Yeah, in exchange for one paycheck 20 times the size. Just for Carson Whatshisname, not to mention the high priced tech talent they have to hire to patch it all together.
Not that I'm a big TRL fan, but I really can't imagine that he'd be much worse than the "local talent" in my town.
Thats pretty common. Each morning a local DJ in my town has a "conversation" with David Letterman just before playing the top 10 list.
I'm reasonably sure that Dave doesn't "go the extra mile" and call the 3rd ranked morning show in my small town every morning.
Ok, I'll compare it to buying a book then. They're basically the same thing, you're paying for the content. If I buy a book I can go home and read random pages, take a marker and black out every occurence of the work 'and', whatever I want. Why should I DVD be any different? It's mine, I payed for it. Basically as long as I don't copy it and sell it/distribute it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Anybody can change anybodies work/art without the creators permission if they buy it. If I buy a Monet, it would be perfectly legal for me to take it home and spray-paint the whole thing black. Or shoot paintballs at it. I don't care what your work/art is, if you sell it and I buy it, I can do what I want with it.
I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a refund after you sign a release and install a backdoor that allows the RIAA to "audit" your computer for "unauthorized" files and delete whatever it wants.
It's not fair because there are thousands of other legitimate uses for cd-r's. Copying pirated music doesn't account for anywhere near 100% of CD-R use.
This tax is like ben-gay saying they want to tax old people since 90% of the ben-gay that is stolen ends up on old people. Or something like that?
$10.99 my ass. The last time I saw a new release for $10.99 the year was 1989 and I was buying a casette.
Unless I totally missed the point and that was a joke?
Gee, I didn't realize mozilla was a programming language. I'm going to go now and arrange my tabs into a lexographic sequence and get them to do something new, maybe say hello world.
I hate to say it, but IT people seem like more of a perk to companies so the coders don't have to take on that roll. Unfortunatly having 20 coders arguing over the network setup usually results in a half-assed network that we IT guys end up cleaning up in the end when the company caves in and decides to make a budget for IT again. Since when are "coders" not IT people?
I agree. People always point to the Japanese and talk about how they always have gadgets there before we do here. Thats not really true. The Japanese don't invent anything, they take our ideas/inventions and perfect them. They may adopt new technologies faster, but theres a good bet those technologies originated in the US (if not in the US then elsewhere in the western world).