Most recreational drug users are ordinary people who hold down jobs. There are those that turn to crime for their fix, but they're relatively rare. Illegal drug use is sufficiently common that we'd notice if more than a very few turned to crime.
What happened to your daughter is terrible, but the fact is we can't stop people from going from non-violent to violent. You said that the attacker's last felony was not violent or serious or sexual. In that case, should it have been a felony? If it had been drug use or minor dealing, it would not have covered up any earlier violent felony.
Define "rich". We're in the 10%, not the 1%, and we put the kid through college. I'm certainly not complaining about our income, and it's really nice to have, but we're basically a couple of experienced software developers making reasonable salaries. I don't think of ourselves as rich.
Sole Proprietor for all sorts of legal reasons is the worst thing to do, you open up your personal assets to be taken by the first person that sues you.
I'd say partnership is more risky. You open up your personal assets to be taken by the first person that sues or scams your partner.
Sure. I can convert assets. However, my employer pays me $X, and I'm limited to Y% that I can put into my 401(k) (which changes rather than eliminates the taxes). Some of my income goes into assets that will create future income that won't be taxed at the same rate, Over time, I can change my income so a smaller proportion is taxed at earned-income rates, but I can't change the dollar amount (except by quitting my job).
Really? Self-employed people pay both the employee and the deceptively named employer portions of Social Security/Medicare/whatever, and that's about 15% right off the top, although half of that is deductible on income taxes. It doesn't take excessive-looking income tax rates on top of that to hit 33%. It will work that way for an S-corp also, although the paperwork's different.
I don't know how Daddy Trump got rich, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't from working at a middle-class job and investing what money he could. Wealth like that comes from entirely different sources, and they're available to everyone in much the same way that a good understanding of General Relativity is available to everyone (heck, it's easy to buy books about everything you need to know, as long as you don't insist on being really up-to-date), or perhaps in the way that becoming a major league sports athlete is available to everyone with a penis.
A human being can make up a reason why they have made a decision. Studies have shown that a decision can take place before there's time for any reasoning, and that the given reason doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the decision.
Also, how many times have you heard "I don't know why I..."?
Or are you ignorant of Critical Theory and Marxism mantra that Western civilization and Capitalism are evil and must be destroyed?
Huh? Where did that come from.
The discussion is about the pay gender gap and the reasons for it, and whether Google pays men more than women without justification. The thread is about assertiveness being seen as more positive for men than women. GP provided a couple of cites, including that hotbed of radical Marxism, the Wall Street Journal. You're the one who brought in a parody of politics (I assume that was a parody).
Right now, I'm being paid for a variety of skills I use in my job for a variety of tasks, none of which need any competence in negotiating with people who aren't already with me. I'm in a position where I could be promoted into management, which would require negotiation skills, but most of us developers (including me) have rejected that possibility, so there's no situation where I'll be in a confrontational negotiation except salary negotiations. It seems to me to be fair to reward me for my skills, ability, and productivity. My salary could reasonably be adjusted for my unwillingness to go into management. However, to the extent that my salary depends on my ability to negotiate a raise, I'm being rewarded for something irrelevant to my job performance.
Personally, I don't think this would be fair (I frankly don't know how much of my current salary depends on my negotiation ability).
Obviously, this doesn't apply to all jobs. Managers, in particular, have to be decent negotiators, and so I suspect the ability is overrated in deciding on salaries.
Casinos are not an example of people just being stupid. There are people who go in there with a fixed limit of money they're willing to lose, and who get a little thrill they enjoy when betting. That's what they're buying.
I refer to it as the 401(l) retirement plan. So far, it looks like I have to stick to my IRA, 401(k), and other assets, and I'll be very comfortable on them.
According to the Wikipedia article, "The Syrian Air Force launched airstrikes against the rebels from the base only hours after the American attack." Assuming that Assad did approve the sarin strike (very probable but not certain last I looked), he hasn't been doing that every week, so the lack of another nerve gas attack in six days means nothing.
Saddam intended to continue to be a good business partner. Exactly who controls which oilfields doesn't matter outside the area as long as everyone in charge is willing to deal with the West.
One of the phrases you called "Bullshit" on was "excessively polluting". There was a parenthetical comment noting how this might be related to user-modified software.
Lots of things that have happened before that are undesirable to happen again. Personally, I've been just as happy to have the right people perform my surgeries.
But in seriousness every news article claiming objectively Trump can't win and wont win are all demonstrably false including several hundred polls with high confidence that Hillary will win by a landslide.
You'd think reporters tended to lack precognition.
For quite a few years, it seemed that, once the COBOL side of the Force you use, forever will it dominate your destiny. Then I got a job using C++, and never looked back.
While you don't have to pay anything for a good COBOL implementation to learn on (not in my house, please), IBM doesn't provide CICS or JCL for free, so you'll need to learn on an IBM mainframe.
Millions and millions of lines in one program? Are you sure? Back when I used COBOL, no program I saw was as much as 10K lines.
The C standard library did not include decimal arithmetic, which is what BCD refers to. In a hex dump, you can read the field because it will be all decimal digits except for the last half-byte, which will be represented by a letter, which depends on whether the number is positive or negative.
It's not just COBOL, though, it's all the other proprietary stuff IBM puts into its mainframes. I can get, for free, any language in halfway widespread use that I can practice with. Do you still need to know JCL and CICS and all the other alphabet soup things? Those you can't get for free.
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Most recreational drug users are ordinary people who hold down jobs. There are those that turn to crime for their fix, but they're relatively rare. Illegal drug use is sufficiently common that we'd notice if more than a very few turned to crime.
What happened to your daughter is terrible, but the fact is we can't stop people from going from non-violent to violent. You said that the attacker's last felony was not violent or serious or sexual. In that case, should it have been a felony? If it had been drug use or minor dealing, it would not have covered up any earlier violent felony.
Define "rich". We're in the 10%, not the 1%, and we put the kid through college. I'm certainly not complaining about our income, and it's really nice to have, but we're basically a couple of experienced software developers making reasonable salaries. I don't think of ourselves as rich.
I'd say partnership is more risky. You open up your personal assets to be taken by the first person that sues or scams your partner.
You seem to be complaining about what you get for your taxes, which is a political problem, not a tax problem.
Sure. I can convert assets. However, my employer pays me $X, and I'm limited to Y% that I can put into my 401(k) (which changes rather than eliminates the taxes). Some of my income goes into assets that will create future income that won't be taxed at the same rate, Over time, I can change my income so a smaller proportion is taxed at earned-income rates, but I can't change the dollar amount (except by quitting my job).
Really? Self-employed people pay both the employee and the deceptively named employer portions of Social Security/Medicare/whatever, and that's about 15% right off the top, although half of that is deductible on income taxes. It doesn't take excessive-looking income tax rates on top of that to hit 33%. It will work that way for an S-corp also, although the paperwork's different.
Everybody who works for a living pays FICA taxes.
Poor people spend more of their money on consumables than rich people do. Sales taxes are regressive.
I don't know how Daddy Trump got rich, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't from working at a middle-class job and investing what money he could. Wealth like that comes from entirely different sources, and they're available to everyone in much the same way that a good understanding of General Relativity is available to everyone (heck, it's easy to buy books about everything you need to know, as long as you don't insist on being really up-to-date), or perhaps in the way that becoming a major league sports athlete is available to everyone with a penis.
You don't understand the progression.
"If computers can play chess well, they have to be intelligent"
AI researcher writes good chess program
"No, that isn't AI."
If a computer could pass the Turing Test, idiots like Searle would still claim it wasn't AI. The goalposts move.
A human being can make up a reason why they have made a decision. Studies have shown that a decision can take place before there's time for any reasoning, and that the given reason doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the decision.
Also, how many times have you heard "I don't know why I ..."?
Huh? Where did that come from.
The discussion is about the pay gender gap and the reasons for it, and whether Google pays men more than women without justification. The thread is about assertiveness being seen as more positive for men than women. GP provided a couple of cites, including that hotbed of radical Marxism, the Wall Street Journal. You're the one who brought in a parody of politics (I assume that was a parody).
Right now, I'm being paid for a variety of skills I use in my job for a variety of tasks, none of which need any competence in negotiating with people who aren't already with me. I'm in a position where I could be promoted into management, which would require negotiation skills, but most of us developers (including me) have rejected that possibility, so there's no situation where I'll be in a confrontational negotiation except salary negotiations. It seems to me to be fair to reward me for my skills, ability, and productivity. My salary could reasonably be adjusted for my unwillingness to go into management. However, to the extent that my salary depends on my ability to negotiate a raise, I'm being rewarded for something irrelevant to my job performance.
Personally, I don't think this would be fair (I frankly don't know how much of my current salary depends on my negotiation ability).
Obviously, this doesn't apply to all jobs. Managers, in particular, have to be decent negotiators, and so I suspect the ability is overrated in deciding on salaries.
Casinos are not an example of people just being stupid. There are people who go in there with a fixed limit of money they're willing to lose, and who get a little thrill they enjoy when betting. That's what they're buying.
I refer to it as the 401(l) retirement plan. So far, it looks like I have to stick to my IRA, 401(k), and other assets, and I'll be very comfortable on them.
According to the Wikipedia article, "The Syrian Air Force launched airstrikes against the rebels from the base only hours after the American attack." Assuming that Assad did approve the sarin strike (very probable but not certain last I looked), he hasn't been doing that every week, so the lack of another nerve gas attack in six days means nothing.
Saddam intended to continue to be a good business partner. Exactly who controls which oilfields doesn't matter outside the area as long as everyone in charge is willing to deal with the West.
One of the phrases you called "Bullshit" on was "excessively polluting". There was a parenthetical comment noting how this might be related to user-modified software.
Lots of things that have happened before that are undesirable to happen again. Personally, I've been just as happy to have the right people perform my surgeries.
You'd think reporters tended to lack precognition.
I live in flyover country, and I wouldn't be tempted by that.
For quite a few years, it seemed that, once the COBOL side of the Force you use, forever will it dominate your destiny. Then I got a job using C++, and never looked back.
So's C++, really, particularly if you limit it to the sort of applications you'd use COBOL for.
While you don't have to pay anything for a good COBOL implementation to learn on (not in my house, please), IBM doesn't provide CICS or JCL for free, so you'll need to learn on an IBM mainframe.
Millions and millions of lines in one program? Are you sure? Back when I used COBOL, no program I saw was as much as 10K lines.
The C standard library did not include decimal arithmetic, which is what BCD refers to. In a hex dump, you can read the field because it will be all decimal digits except for the last half-byte, which will be represented by a letter, which depends on whether the number is positive or negative.
It's not just COBOL, though, it's all the other proprietary stuff IBM puts into its mainframes. I can get, for free, any language in halfway widespread use that I can practice with. Do you still need to know JCL and CICS and all the other alphabet soup things? Those you can't get for free.