In typical slashdot fashion, my first post was slapped out quickly. I shouldn't have said I don't feel rich. I should have said I can't act rich (given my own priorities, and the tax bite). The main point I was trying to make was that stock options are the "two birds in the bush" whereas cash was the "bird in the hand".
I do realize I am blessed with my wealth (and health and family).
I am quite happy with my lot in life, and appreciate my position relative to others. I have worked hard to get where I am, but I am not accelerating my efforts.
I am not out grubbing for more money. I have enough for my needs.
I have had opportunities for even higher-paying jobs; with suit-wearing, traveling, and a life-sucking commutes. Working from home, being here when my kids come home from school is what I want.
I spend most of my "free cash flow" on things like education for my children, some goes to charity, and a lot goes toward the aforementioned retirement account. The single biggest expenditures in my budget are taxes.
I am a three-time loser in the stock-option arena; 1) early 80's "100,000 shares - at $10/share that's a million". Worthless. 2) Mid-late 80s - "hey you have 5% of the company stock!". Worthless. 3) "Recent" dot-bomb. 'nuff said. Worthless.
You are far better off negotiaing a fair wage, fully funding your IRA, 401K, SEP IRA, what-have-you. Hey, take a flyer once-in-a-while, if you can afford it, but remeber, it's like playing the lottery - "you can't lose if you don't play".
Paying quarterly taxes is a bitch, getting big fat gross checks is what everyone should get to realize how much we pay in taxes, if you pay your taxes without withholding. If you make even a little bit [I pay over 50K USD year in taxes and don't feel "rich", don't drive a BMW, don't vacation in exotic places...] you see how much "the rich" pay in taxes.
The other neat trick [where voter approval is needed] is to ask for a tax for, then when that passes, simply use the other money for whatever semi-socialist spending plan the legislators had in mind.
Combine that with the fact that most people in the USA dont pay very much in taxes and you have the situation we are in now. Eventually you will reach the ideal state where Bill Gates and his buddies pay all the taxes. That is real cool until those folks say [in Cartman fashion] "screw you, I'm going [home/somewhere else...]"
I think that if taxes were spend only on what they were requested for, and ended when done, we would be a lot better off. I think they just recently ended the telco tax that was for the Spanish-American war [Circa-1898].
I haven't had dinner yet, but I will probably just have fast food - since I have been painting (non-artistic) all day and noone feels like cooking.
I always were white socks, like all geeks, and am therefore puzzled about the black stuff I pick from under my toenails, since... well duh.
I am not thinking much right now, since I've knocked back a few - perfect for making slashdot toasts, erm, I mean posts.
Basically "playing nice" means being honest - if you like porn, by all means have it on your computer, but if you think it is "dirty" and do it anyhow, shame on you for being a hypocrite.
If you "play nice" - i.e. are honest with yourself and others, you will never be embarassed by what is on your computer - you might be pissed that someone violated your "privacy", but it won't ruin your political career or bring down your TV evangelist empire or anything like that.
That is all I meant - if you were to breach my computer you might find some financial info that I'd rather not be public, but other than that, I'd not be embarrassed (unless you critiqued some of my coding) by what you found.
Point taken - I won't put anything important on my wireless access, but then again, I am about as likely to have someone out here care about spoofing me as I am to have some gang-bangers drive the 50 miles to my "hood" and rough me up.
Computers are becoming more like regular life - assume someone will someday see what is on your computer, just like your are probably being watched by security/traffic cameras all the time.
heh, "play nice", even when you think no one is watching and you will be ok.
... as I use my "windows" key, like windows-E for another Explorer window or windows-D to toggle the show/hide desktop...
Anyhow, as I use that key I always think "apple"-Explorer or "apple"-desktop as I press it, since I first used such a key on a Mac, which I thought of as the "propeller" key, back then.
You only need to change things the tiniest bit, for example, you are correct that;
A million monkeys, pecking away at a million typewriters, will one day reproduce the entirety of this patent application.
Is surely covered by an SCO patent, but you can still get your own patent - like so:
A million chimpanzees, pecking away at a million typewriters, will one day reproduce the entirety of this patent application.
As a bonus, since most people think of chimpanzees when imagining our simian friends typing you will have better brand recognition and be better able to raise capital to sell the idea to investors!
Backups become obsolete, the wife discovers I have bootleg movies, any number of reasons I take tin-snips to a big pile of discs and toss them.
I just cleaned out a bunch of aged Linux and MSDN discs.
Crap is crap, if you let your discs and magazines pile up, you might not need a new room to store them, but you sure as shootin will spend time stumbling over useless the same crap over and over.
If you have usefull stuff - please give it to someone who can use it. I am always putting stuff out in the various bags charities hang on my door, and I am one of the few in my neighborhood who can actually park both cars in the garage.
I remember when SCC was just a fine purveyor of vi reference cards, and the like. To stoop to blackmail and theft, tsk, tsk.
Oh, wait, I was thinking of SSC, not SCC, never mind.
You know, there are only so many TLD's (Three Letter Dohickies) to go around, I suppose... wait, I've just been told it is TLA, Three Letter Acronym, and that TLD is something else, but that they too are running in short supply.
Ok, everyone, obviously we must move to a Four Letter based society - anyone know any good four letter words to start things off?
Please translate that to something I can understand - like elbow bends with a full pint of beer. What kind of unit is a "tennis serve"?
google couldn't handle "1 tennis serve in elbow bends", but it could do "1 mile per gallon in furlongs per pint", yeilding a happy constant I hadn't thought of before: "1 mile per gallon = 1 furlongs per US pint"
If you voted Kerry in Alabama, your voice is not heard.
By the same logic 4.5 Million Bush voters were "not heard" in California, for instance.
However, It would seem to be more fair, and closer to direct popular vote, if all the states had proportional allotment of their electoral votes. (I think a couple do.) Under this scheme the Bush win would probably have been about the same, but with fewer complaints.
I suspect you can use Congress (including the Senate) as a pretty good proxy for what the proportional vote allocations would be, and the Bush/Kerry ratio would be pretty close to 285/245 (with a few of the 535 missing - independents and too close to call) - surprisingly like what the electoral vote will probably look like.
I think far fewer electors from the "red" states would go to Kerry than electors from the "blue" states would go for Bush. A quick look at just CA,OR,WA, NY, and PA show that about 54 of those 125 electoral votes would go to Bush.
At the end of the day, I suspect the entrenched two-party system likes things just the way they are.
Heh, spam is likened to Spam because of the Monty Python song which repeats the word Spam to such a degree that it is annoying, like email spam endlessly filling your inbox.
But there are other relations too!
Spam contains all the nasty bits of farm animals that no one else wanted, spam email contains all kinds of nasty bits.
You don't know the true origin of spam email or Spam meat.
Everybody says they don't like Spam, but the company still makes it - someone must buy it. No one likes spam, but it keeps coming - someone is buying those spam products.
I just made these up, but there must be more, I smell a conspiracy involving spam, Spam, SPAM, spammers and spam!
If the article were written more along these lines;
It is well known that the LM (LanManager password) hashing technique used by older Windows OSes (thru WinMe) is insecure. Now someone has really pointed this out by simply saving all possible password hashed in a database made possible with today's cheap, large disk drives...
But that wouldn't be nearly as much fun - by being vague you get many more posts correcting grammar, explaining what should have been there in the first place, etc.
In short, better writing might promote more useful comment posts, and we wouldn't want that on Slashdot.
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In typical slashdot fashion, my first post was slapped out quickly. I shouldn't have said I don't feel rich. I should have said I can't act rich (given my own priorities, and the tax bite). The main point I was trying to make was that stock options are the "two birds in the bush" whereas cash was the "bird in the hand".
I do realize I am blessed with my wealth (and health and family). I am quite happy with my lot in life, and appreciate my position relative to others. I have worked hard to get where I am, but I am not accelerating my efforts. I am not out grubbing for more money. I have enough for my needs.
I have had opportunities for even higher-paying jobs; with suit-wearing, traveling, and a life-sucking commutes. Working from home, being here when my kids come home from school is what I want.
I spend most of my "free cash flow" on things like education for my children, some goes to charity, and a lot goes toward the aforementioned retirement account. The single biggest expenditures in my budget are taxes.
I am a three-time loser in the stock-option arena; 1) early 80's "100,000 shares - at $10/share that's a million". Worthless. 2) Mid-late 80s - "hey you have 5% of the company stock!". Worthless. 3) "Recent" dot-bomb. 'nuff said. Worthless.
You are far better off negotiaing a fair wage, fully funding your IRA, 401K, SEP IRA, what-have-you. Hey, take a flyer once-in-a-while, if you can afford it, but remeber, it's like playing the lottery - "you can't lose if you don't play".
Paying quarterly taxes is a bitch, getting big fat gross checks is what everyone should get to realize how much we pay in taxes, if you pay your taxes without withholding. If you make even a little bit [I pay over 50K USD year in taxes and don't feel "rich", don't drive a BMW, don't vacation in exotic places...] you see how much "the rich" pay in taxes.
Combine that with the fact that most people in the USA dont pay very much in taxes and you have the situation we are in now. Eventually you will reach the ideal state where Bill Gates and his buddies pay all the taxes. That is real cool until those folks say [in Cartman fashion] "screw you, I'm going [home/somewhere else...]"
I think that if taxes were spend only on what they were requested for, and ended when done, we would be a lot better off. I think they just recently ended the telco tax that was for the Spanish-American war [Circa-1898].
Do away with "the general fund".
Of course that begs the question of why have any people on there at all - one could argue safe cheap space access without humans is a useful goal too.
Also - a cheap reliable unmanned vehicle that could carry human-rated "cargo" containers would be fine too, right?
If you don't like how the professional search engines work, you can always run your own spiders, I guess...
Last time I looked, "Prizes" were fully taxable income.
I haven't had dinner yet, but I will probably just have fast food - since I have been painting (non-artistic) all day and noone feels like cooking.
I always were white socks, like all geeks, and am therefore puzzled about the black stuff I pick from under my toenails, since... well duh.
I am not thinking much right now, since I've knocked back a few - perfect for making slashdot toasts, erm, I mean posts.
Basically "playing nice" means being honest - if you like porn, by all means have it on your computer, but if you think it is "dirty" and do it anyhow, shame on you for being a hypocrite.
If you "play nice" - i.e. are honest with yourself and others, you will never be embarassed by what is on your computer - you might be pissed that someone violated your "privacy", but it won't ruin your political career or bring down your TV evangelist empire or anything like that.
That is all I meant - if you were to breach my computer you might find some financial info that I'd rather not be public, but other than that, I'd not be embarrassed (unless you critiqued some of my coding) by what you found.
Point taken - I won't put anything important on my wireless access, but then again, I am about as likely to have someone out here care about spoofing me as I am to have some gang-bangers drive the 50 miles to my "hood" and rough me up.
Computers are becoming more like regular life - assume someone will someday see what is on your computer, just like your are probably being watched by security/traffic cameras all the time.
heh, "play nice", even when you think no one is watching and you will be ok.
Anyhow, as I use that key I always think "apple"-Explorer or "apple"-desktop as I press it, since I first used such a key on a Mac, which I thought of as the "propeller" key, back then.
How many home networks really need to allow random MAC addresses access?
A million monkeys, pecking away at a million typewriters, will one day reproduce the entirety of this patent application.
Is surely covered by an SCO patent, but you can still get your own patent - like so:
A million chimpanzees, pecking away at a million typewriters, will one day reproduce the entirety of this patent application.
As a bonus, since most people think of chimpanzees when imagining our simian friends typing you will have better brand recognition and be better able to raise capital to sell the idea to investors!
Backups become obsolete, the wife discovers I have bootleg movies, any number of reasons I take tin-snips to a big pile of discs and toss them.
I just cleaned out a bunch of aged Linux and MSDN discs.
Crap is crap, if you let your discs and magazines pile up, you might not need a new room to store them, but you sure as shootin will spend time stumbling over useless the same crap over and over.
If you have usefull stuff - please give it to someone who can use it. I am always putting stuff out in the various bags charities hang on my door, and I am one of the few in my neighborhood who can actually park both cars in the garage.
If you have useless stuff - throw it away.
Oh, wait, I was thinking of SSC , not SCC, never mind.
You know, there are only so many TLD's (Three Letter Dohickies) to go around, I suppose... wait, I've just been told it is TLA, Three Letter Acronym, and that TLD is something else, but that they too are running in short supply.
Ok, everyone, obviously we must move to a Four Letter based society - anyone know any good four letter words to start things off?
Um, wait, that was obvious, right?
Logially, this must follow from your complaint, right?
Yes, everyone knows, Democrats Don't like corporations and would never stand still to uphold any laws. Sheesh.
Um, I think the point is that they are NOT paying customers...
Please translate that to something I can understand - like elbow bends with a full pint of beer. What kind of unit is a "tennis serve"?
google couldn't handle "1 tennis serve in elbow bends", but it could do "1 mile per gallon in furlongs per pint", yeilding a happy constant I hadn't thought of before: "1 mile per gallon = 1 furlongs per US pint"
Now that I have mentioned it, I trust Slashdotters will elaborate on the porn possibilities.
By the same logic 4.5 Million Bush voters were "not heard" in California, for instance.
However, It would seem to be more fair, and closer to direct popular vote, if all the states had proportional allotment of their electoral votes. (I think a couple do.) Under this scheme the Bush win would probably have been about the same, but with fewer complaints.
I suspect you can use Congress (including the Senate) as a pretty good proxy for what the proportional vote allocations would be, and the Bush/Kerry ratio would be pretty close to 285/245 (with a few of the 535 missing - independents and too close to call) - surprisingly like what the electoral vote will probably look like.
I think far fewer electors from the "red" states would go to Kerry than electors from the "blue" states would go for Bush. A quick look at just CA,OR,WA, NY, and PA show that about 54 of those 125 electoral votes would go to Bush.
At the end of the day, I suspect the entrenched two-party system likes things just the way they are.
Election returns.
... how many Libraries of Congress is that?
But there are other relations too!
Spam contains all the nasty bits of farm animals that no one else wanted, spam email contains all kinds of nasty bits.
You don't know the true origin of spam email or Spam meat.
Everybody says they don't like Spam, but the company still makes it - someone must buy it. No one likes spam, but it keeps coming - someone is buying those spam products.
I just made these up, but there must be more, I smell a conspiracy involving spam, Spam, SPAM, spammers and spam!
It is well known that the LM (LanManager password) hashing technique used by older Windows OSes (thru WinMe) is insecure. Now someone has really pointed this out by simply saving all possible password hashed in a database made possible with today's cheap, large disk drives...
But that wouldn't be nearly as much fun - by being vague you get many more posts correcting grammar, explaining what should have been there in the first place, etc.
In short, better writing might promote more useful comment posts, and we wouldn't want that on Slashdot.
There are enough idiots voting already.