The pay for it someone in the industry seems decent at $80,000~. I would take that in a minute. On the other hand, how many hours per week do they work? If they are putting in 80 hour weeks, I would not be so willing to even consider such a position.
I fail to see how a video of government officials doing their job would imply copyright protections to further the 'art or science' which is what copyright was supposed to protect.
Copyright infringement and other IP 'crimes' arguably destroy the incentive to create new works by removing the economic incentive to innovate/create.
There is this association that there NEEDS to an economic incentive in order to create. The fact of the matter is that patents and copyrights are a relatively new concept that have only been around 200-250 years.
Yet, somehow before that time, civilization managed to keep going forward.
Ah yes, the government never makes a mistake and if they do it is ALWAYS easy to fix right?
When I was working in Child Support for a state, my boss had his tax return of a couple thousand dollars withheld by the IRS because... You Guessed it, the State of Florida said he had not paid his child support! Never mind he had never lived in Florida, nor that they did not have the right name, just someone in Florida mistyped a SSN. It took over a year to get his money back and that was only because the evidence was pretty obvious.
The government should have to work to enforce the law, not its citizens.
Becuase People don't know what they want!
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I would say the reason a lot of projects, even small ones take so much time is that requirements cannot be defined.
Compare building a house to software. Before you build a house
Plans are drawn up
A step-by-step schedule to created for the construction.
Contractors are brought it to complete the work as needed
Schedule times can slip but you still know where you are in terms of progression.
If we built this house the way we do software development
Hire all the construction workers
Tell them to build something.
At any point during construction tell them they are not doing it right.
After missing all the deadlines (which were made up by wants/desires of the customer) hire more workers.
Wonder why they cannot get the job done
Cancel the project after everyone realizes they don't want it anymore.
I am sure that as the next Frontier, as Americans we will settle for our tried and true methods of dealing with previous Frontiers.
We shall load up as many psychotic men with guns as possible who shall kill, plunder and rape away all the natural resources in the area and ensure the expansion of our great country.
Obviously NASA is establishing this pattern for Mars. I am sure our next mission should be more successful for the USA and deadly for the natives. The only question we need to ask, is how many gold bars will they be bringing back...
If I own assets, I am going to make money off of them. I am not assuming cars and your own house, that makes a very small percentage of a rich persons assets. We are talking about stocks, bonds, cash and rental properties. All of these can be used to earn incomes that require very little work. In addition these properties are taxed at a lower rate than a person labor.
My salary last year was about $60,000/yr and about 35% of that went to pay, state, local, federal and social security taxes. If I make $60,000/yr on stock dividends I can be taxed at a rate of 10% as long as I had held onto that stock for at least one year. Who got the better deal?
To put it another way; if I work hard for fifty years of my life and in doing so *earn*, by my labour, wealth - why can you come along, take that from me, and give it to someone else?
You mean like the government? You don't pay your taxes they take it away from you, is that stealing?
You assume people need to justify their actions, they don't. Martha Stewart, who was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, got in trouble for insider trading to save $250,000; chump change for her she did because she could.
If enough people decide they don't like they way things are, they will take it, either by overthrowing the government or replacing it. Then they do whatever they want.
They are disproportionately heavily taxed. I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden.
Excuse me for being rude, but this is just a dumb statement. How about this "people who own 40% of total assets only pay 18% of the total tax burden." Life does not seem so rough when you put it that way.
The purpose of tax is not to reduce the wealth of those who have done well
The purpose of taxes "IS TO REDUCE THE WEALTH OF THOSE THAT HAVE DONE WELL!" The government budget may include national defense and law enforcement but it is the social and welfare programs that take up the largest chunks of the budget. They are there to stabilize the system and take money from the haves and give it to the have nots.
The rich can afford to fork up for those taxes( and probably more than they do); they are investing in a government that allows them to keep their stuff. If the poor take on too much the burden, they can go can the way of France, China, Russia, Venezuela, etc... and just take it away. Happened before and will happen again.
While, I have some sympathy for the guy, just because you think your an honest webmaster does not mean that Google should have to vet you and your content. They have a business to run too. At some point a webmaster has to put themselves in a position to recognize and address these sorts of problems BEFORE Google gets involved.
Due to a financial crunch, airlines will sell licenses to hunt their passengers for tagging. The hunting grounds will be limited to the airport terminal and parking lot. Weapons will be limited to non-lethal so they will not be considered "inhumane". Allowed weapons include:
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"There's been a little complication with my complication"
The pay for it someone in the industry seems decent at $80,000~. I would take that in a minute. On the other hand, how many hours per week do they work? If they are putting in 80 hour weeks, I would not be so willing to even consider such a position.
Is it really cheaper to use Page Ranking companies instead of just well, PAYING for an advertisement on Google or MSN or something?
Ah yes, people died so Nuclear energy is dangerous! Talk about FUD, Lets see how safe how great COAL mining is!
Stats are here for coal mining in the US alone. You get around 30 people dying AND 2000+ injuries (or 5% of the work force) is involved in something harmful to their health EVERY YEAR.So WTF is dangerous about Nuclear power plants now?
I fail to see how a video of government officials doing their job would imply copyright protections to further the 'art or science' which is what copyright was supposed to protect.
I would have thought it would have taken longer for Microsoft to get to this point but,
"Now I need a freaking Battleship with a Nuclear reactor to run Windows!"
There is a flaw in your argument,
Copyright infringement and other IP 'crimes' arguably destroy the incentive to create new works by removing the economic incentive to innovate/create.
There is this association that there NEEDS to an economic incentive in order to create. The fact of the matter is that patents and copyrights are a relatively new concept that have only been around 200-250 years.
Yet, somehow before that time, civilization managed to keep going forward.
It would certainly bring new meaning to the expression, "Shut your corn hole!"
Ah yes, the government never makes a mistake and if they do it is ALWAYS easy to fix right?
When I was working in Child Support for a state, my boss had his tax return of a couple thousand dollars withheld by the IRS because... You Guessed it, the State of Florida said he had not paid his child support! Never mind he had never lived in Florida, nor that they did not have the right name, just someone in Florida mistyped a SSN. It took over a year to get his money back and that was only because the evidence was pretty obvious.
The government should have to work to enforce the law, not its citizens.
I would say the reason a lot of projects, even small ones take so much time is that requirements cannot be defined.
Compare building a house to software. Before you build a house
Schedule times can slip but you still know where you are in terms of progression.
If we built this house the way we do software development
A Slashdot poster, who became a gigolo for Hollywood's leading ladies!
Well at least the Anthem has been done, what is the next step?
I am sure that as the next Frontier, as Americans we will settle for our tried and true methods of dealing with previous Frontiers.
We shall load up as many psychotic men with guns as possible who shall kill, plunder and rape away all the natural resources in the area and ensure the expansion of our great country.
Obviously NASA is establishing this pattern for Mars. I am sure our next mission should be more successful for the USA and deadly for the natives. The only question we need to ask, is how many gold bars will they be bringing back...
God Bless America!
Yeah, but you know, if you don't expose their lies for what they are they will keep telling the same lie over and over.
it would certainly make those Canadians think twice before invading us
Yeah, but we can still give them the Baldwin brothers
If I own assets, I am going to make money off of them. I am not assuming cars and your own house, that makes a very small percentage of a rich persons assets. We are talking about stocks, bonds, cash and rental properties. All of these can be used to earn incomes that require very little work. In addition these properties are taxed at a lower rate than a person labor.
My salary last year was about $60,000/yr and about 35% of that went to pay, state, local, federal and social security taxes. If I make $60,000/yr on stock dividends I can be taxed at a rate of 10% as long as I had held onto that stock for at least one year. Who got the better deal?
To put it another way; if I work hard for fifty years of my life and in doing so *earn*, by my labour, wealth - why can you come along, take that from me, and give it to someone else?
You mean like the government? You don't pay your taxes they take it away from you, is that stealing?
You assume people need to justify their actions, they don't. Martha Stewart, who was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, got in trouble for insider trading to save $250,000; chump change for her she did because she could.
If enough people decide they don't like they way things are, they will take it, either by overthrowing the government or replacing it. Then they do whatever they want.
They are disproportionately heavily taxed. I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden.
Excuse me for being rude, but this is just a dumb statement. How about this "people who own 40% of total assets only pay 18% of the total tax burden." Life does not seem so rough when you put it that way.
The purpose of tax is not to reduce the wealth of those who have done well
The purpose of taxes "IS TO REDUCE THE WEALTH OF THOSE THAT HAVE DONE WELL!" The government budget may include national defense and law enforcement but it is the social and welfare programs that take up the largest chunks of the budget. They are there to stabilize the system and take money from the haves and give it to the have nots.
The rich can afford to fork up for those taxes( and probably more than they do); they are investing in a government that allows them to keep their stuff. If the poor take on too much the burden, they can go can the way of France, China, Russia, Venezuela, etc... and just take it away. Happened before and will happen again.
While, I have some sympathy for the guy, just because you think your an honest webmaster does not mean that Google should have to vet you and your content. They have a business to run too. At some point a webmaster has to put themselves in a position to recognize and address these sorts of problems BEFORE Google gets involved.
I think you meant to say that this is "hard evidence" or maybe "evidence that puts this hypothesis over the top".
He recommends that other departments and individuals should be kicked out as excessive, not himself 'The great visionary...'
Using their argument, I guess that if the publisher sends me a free book I can make copies. I put my name on as the author and sell too.
IT'S FREE!
ANYTHING GOES!
Well, crap, why the hell am I wearing this thing then?
You need to wear the wizard robe too.
Oops! Sorry, that is before you have online sex!
"Deanna Asks A Ninja: What is the circumference of a moose?!"
"It's michael pailum with his face in a pie times douglas adams squared."
This answer makes as much sense as the article.
Except "Ask A Ninja" made more sense. And was more accurate. And more entertaining.
Can I just get a Ninja hit out on this guy something so these articles will not make it slashdot anymore?
Real programmers don't change their clothes until the job's done!
You have other clothes to change into? Freak!