That's one reason why we should bring back massive (i.e. 90%) inheritance taxes.
You might want to look at what philanthropy accomplished before there were significant death taxes:
The Carnegie Libraries. Standford University. The Rockefeller Foundation and the elimination of parasitical diseases in the American South, the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg....
they are taking cushy well-paid positions with the GF inoculating children against deadly diseases or treating AIDS patients....workers flock to the high-paying positions to fight sexy epidemics.
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There is nothing sexy about an epidemic that claims 1/3 of your population. AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa
If a third of your young women and a third of your young men are desperately ill or dying what does basic health care mean?
They can't care for their own kids, they can't care for their own parents - and there is no one to replace them.
When did vaccination of children against a broad spectrum of diseases suddenly become "extended care?"
That kind of argument is worthy of the soon-to-expire, compassionately conservative, Bush Administration.
It is disturbing that someone can make such a bold statement about something which they have never seen.
Tell us what sort of child pornography has been introduced in a successful felony prosecution in your home town, city or county.
Be clinical about it.
The age and sex of the child - or infant.
The acts performed by the child or upon the child.
The use of bondage props or devices. The use or show of weapons. Unmistakable signs of physical and mental abuse.
Starvation. Rape.
Is it reasonable to believe that the child/these children remain in the sex trade? Is it reasonable to believe they are still alive?
If the conviction was for possession, how many photos or videos were discovered?
If photographs or videos were being produced, were they distributed? It is hard to limit the damage to a child when a video has been posted to the web.
Was the defendant a teacher, a doctor, a priest?
Anyone with frequent, unsupervised, contact with minors? Anyone in a position of authority over minors?
Did he share porn with minors?
Were there unmistakable signs of arrogance, recklessness or self-destruction in his conduct?
A teacher who routed tens of thousands of downloads through his school accounts? Now unemployable. The teacher who lost his pension? The custody of his kids?
Provide a link to a local registry of sex offenders.
How many of those convicted for possession or distribution of child pornography also show convictions for sexual assaults and misdemeanors? Other violent crimes?
Well, some really rich person should really consider setting up a real "free speech" server zone should Sealand be offline.
The really, really, rich person tends to get that way and stay that way by minding his own business. He tends to be comfortable with those in power because his origins and interests are the same.
Online content. Online distribution. The second-hand game game isn't going to be a problem much longer. There won't be a retail box - at least not with a game that is playable out of the box.
I don't know if there are any good kits for steam distillation at home, can anyone point me to one?
Steam Distiller for Countertop $180. 565 watts. 1 gallon every 4 hours. You say you want 20 gallons a day? That will cost you $5000 and draw down 3000 watts 24/7/365. Polar Bear Home Water Distiller For the geek, the micro-brewery might be the better - or at least, more rewarding - investment.
Because digging a well is obviously much more convenient.
How often do you dig a well? The family farm shows signs of only four wells being dug over the past two hundred years. If you were sensible, you built your house upwind and at some distance from the barn - which could and did ignite on a whim.
A better question would start with some research to understand who the Fedora developers are and who pays them if they are paid. Basing a question on the same tired falsehood that open source developers are unpaid geeks living in their parent's basements is rather tired and dated.
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It was disappointing to announce that Wayne Industries will cutting back support for community projects like Fedora. But times are hard and the developer who isn't fully engaged in-house has regrettably become expendable. ---Lucius
Stop using M$ crap, it has been shown to cause brain rot
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I have new system for retirement savings. I toss a coin in a jar for every crap post trashing Microsoft. Three coins for every post that rates a "twitter." When the jar fills, I bank it. When I can no longer lift a full jar, I will know it is time for "assisted living."
Since services like S&P began to define it as an industrial.
The six AAA rated industrial companies are Automatic Data Processing, Exxon Mobil Corporation, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc and Microsoft. In the early 1980s, there were more than 30 industrial companies with 'AAA' ratings.Microsoft joins select industrial club with S&P's AAA rating
S&P doesn't care if Spacely Space Sprockets employs only one visible engineer or technician. It doesn't even care what a sprocket is - or does - beyond a general sense of how it is produced and distributed and the role it plays in the economy.
They employ more lawyers than programmers!
More on a janitorial as well. Big Whoop.
Microsoft employs 94,000 people. It owns or leases 677 sites world-wide, 29 million square feet of real estate. It has subsidiaries in every country from A to Z. The programmer is never going to dominate the headcount in an organization that operates on such a scale. Fast Facts About Microsoft
How much outsourced programming staff could they have when they employ legal to bully 3rd party hardware companies to develop drivers for their new OS's?
Dear lord, spare me this.
You do not have to bully anyone to produce drivers for the OS that has 90% of your potential market - and Apple has a lock on damn near 10% of what remains.
The trend lines for the web browsers are as flat as the Kansas prairies: Top Browser Share Trend, Top Browser Share Trend "Chrome" is right up there with "The Gimp" as a masterpiece in marketing. It suggests nothing so much as an ugly, over-weight, tail finned Edsel. Microsoft has "Internet Explorer" and Apple has "Safari," both brand names which capture something of the excitement, the fun and play to be found on the web.
Of the 17 netbooks being offered at Walmart.com this holiday season, at least 12 run XP or Vista. Most priced at $350 with an Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB HDD. Is it necessary to add that not one Linux netbook "is available in stores?"
This seems to fit with both the Google and the yahoo business model. Take your pick.
The successful RPG has to give a player a significant and entertaining role to play in a world that invites and rewards deep exploration. Tech isn't as important as art and story. That is a very different universe than the one inhabited by Yahoo and Google.
Who wants to be the first to suggest to open source the leftovers?
Who wants to donate endless hours in development and management of the game? Who wants to pay for the servers? Who wants to contribute assets to the game: art, animation, story, dialog, etc?
Take rights away from corporations. Take them all away till corporations are hardly anything. But don't take away personal freedoms from individuals.
Individuals form associations to achieve goals that cannot be accomplished in any other way.
One such goal, of course, is to set limits to risks that would otherwise be impossible for any one to bear.
There is a price, there is always a price.
But the only alternative to the power of the private association is to cede all attempts at collective effort and security to the coercive power of the church and state.
With a change in the political winds and a new adminstration, it's entirely plausible that Google is gunning to restart anti-trust litigation.
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For Google, anti-trust is playing with fire ---
--- and heading into what could be a very deep recession, I don't expect to see the new administration all gung-ho and ready to move against one of the bare handful of US industrials that is actually showing a pulse, paying dividends, a company with strong export sales and a AAA credit rating.
Microsoft development tools are in the category "If this helps you, you are not qualified for this job to begin with". An equivalent would be multiplication table on mathematician's desk or marathon runner on crutches.
The market for Windows HPC is in the world where programmers are expected to be productive - not hand coding the re-invention of the wheel and the abacus. Languages, IDEs, APIs, frameworks like.Net. Microsoft has been in the tool-making business for over thirty years now, and it has not been an insignificant part of its success
Science fiction, on the other hand, is likely to give them some trouble. It involves science, a subject utterly opaque to journalism majors.
Since 1945 the AAAS has honored the best reporting on science.
In 2008 the winners are {the envelope, please]:
Large newspaper
Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, "Chasing Memory," "[An] ambitious, meticulously reported series on memory and the brain."
Small Newspaper
Kara Platoni, East Bay Express, "In Search of Life," "Introducing her readers to the work of local scientists searching for answers to perhaps the biggest scientific question of all: Are we alone in the universe?"
Magazine
John Carey, Business Week, "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?"
Television
Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, WGBH/NOVA and Vulcan Productions, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," "A very careful, methodical and sensitive presentation of a vital scientific question, with enormous social and political import. The filmmakers managed to be both clear and accurate with the science, and fair and sensitive to the beliefs of the ID proponents."
Radio
Daniel Grossman, WBUR Boston, "Meltdown: Inside Out," The science.of global warming in ice sheets, mountain glaciers and sea ice."
Online
Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic News, "Megafishes," "The images of the giant ray and the cannibalistic fish hook you, and the narrative reels you in, an entry that introduces an interesting topic in an innovative way. Good content and fine visuals of fish that must be seen to be believed."
Children's Science News
Yoon Shin-Young, Children's Science Donga, [South Korea,] Roadkill, Horror on Roads, The impact of highway roadkills on native species in South Korea...an unusual subject made interesting and educational for young readers."
Is what do these all these "expert" witnesses contribute to the case before the court?
In the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," the issue before the trial court wasn't evolution, it was the teaching of evolution in the public schools in violation of Tennessee state law.
Which meant that all the intellectual firepower Darrow had assembled to defend evolution had no platform. They had nothing useful to say. Nothing admissible as evidence.
The place to make that argument was before the Tennessee legislature.
I could see this being one of those new killer features to brings linux to more desktops. Integrating this into a package manager could really help new users see the (perceived) quality of some of the software projects available to them -- most people only see GUIs. Integrate a user comment/review section for individual programs, and it becomes even more accessible.
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You might want to look at what philanthropy accomplished before there were significant death taxes:
The Carnegie Libraries. Standford University. The Rockefeller Foundation and the elimination of parasitical diseases in the American South, the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg....
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There is nothing sexy about an epidemic that claims 1/3 of your population. AIDS in Sub-Sahara Africa
If a third of your young women and a third of your young men are desperately ill or dying what does basic health care mean?
They can't care for their own kids, they can't care for their own parents - and there is no one to replace them.
When did vaccination of children against a broad spectrum of diseases suddenly become "extended care?"
That kind of argument is worthy of the soon-to-expire, compassionately conservative, Bush Administration.
That will be nice to know the next time I need to manually rip 25 Blu-Ray discs to a laptop in a single half-hour session.
Rather than set up an automated download from a home media server.
...and how long will it last? Now and again even a troll can strike patent gold.
It makes a nice press release. But I like to see a story with a little more meat on the bones.
Tell us what sort of child pornography has been introduced in a successful felony prosecution in your home town, city or county.
Be clinical about it.
The age and sex of the child - or infant.
The acts performed by the child or upon the child.
The use of bondage props or devices. The use or show of weapons. Unmistakable signs of physical and mental abuse.
Starvation. Rape.
Is it reasonable to believe that the child/these children remain in the sex trade? Is it reasonable to believe they are still alive?
If the conviction was for possession, how many photos or videos were discovered?
If photographs or videos were being produced, were they distributed? It is hard to limit the damage to a child when a video has been posted to the web.
Was the defendant a teacher, a doctor, a priest?
Anyone with frequent, unsupervised, contact with minors? Anyone in a position of authority over minors?
Did he share porn with minors?
Were there unmistakable signs of arrogance, recklessness or self-destruction in his conduct?
A teacher who routed tens of thousands of downloads through his school accounts? Now unemployable. The teacher who lost his pension? The custody of his kids?
Provide a link to a local registry of sex offenders.
How many of those convicted for possession or distribution of child pornography also show convictions for sexual assaults and misdemeanors? Other violent crimes?
How many are repeat offenders?
The really, really, rich person tends to get that way and stay that way by minding his own business. He tends to be comfortable with those in power because his origins and interests are the same.
Online content. Online distribution.
The second-hand game game isn't going to be a problem much longer. There won't be a retail box - at least not with a game that is playable out of the box.
Steam Distiller for Countertop $180. 565 watts. 1 gallon every 4 hours. You say you want 20 gallons a day? That will cost you $5000 and draw down 3000 watts 24/7/365. Polar Bear Home Water Distiller For the geek, the micro-brewery might be the better - or at least, more rewarding - investment.
How often do you dig a well? The family farm shows signs of only four wells being dug over the past two hundred years.
If you were sensible, you built your house upwind and at some distance from the barn - which could and did ignite on a whim.
.
It was disappointing to announce that Wayne Industries will cutting back support for community projects like Fedora. But times are hard and the developer who isn't fully engaged in-house has regrettably become expendable. ---Lucius
.
I have new system for retirement savings. I toss a coin in a jar for every crap post trashing Microsoft. Three coins for every post that rates a "twitter." When the jar fills, I bank it. When I can no longer lift a full jar, I will know it is time for "assisted living."
.
The better question for Red Hat might be "How many developers can continue to work for free in the present economic climate?"
Expecting volunteers to carry 2/3 of the load for Fedora seems a bit much.
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Since services like S&P began to define it as an industrial.
The six AAA rated industrial companies are Automatic Data Processing, Exxon Mobil Corporation, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc and Microsoft. In the early 1980s, there were more than 30 industrial companies with 'AAA' ratings. Microsoft joins select industrial club with S&P's AAA rating
S&P defines and tracks the performance of dozens of sub-sectors in the economy: Standard & Poors (S&P) Sector Indexes
S&P doesn't care if Spacely Space Sprockets employs only one visible engineer or technician. It doesn't even care what a sprocket is - or does - beyond a general sense of how it is produced and distributed and the role it plays in the economy.
They employ more lawyers than programmers!
More on a janitorial as well. Big Whoop.
Microsoft employs 94,000 people. It owns or leases 677 sites world-wide, 29 million square feet of real estate. It has subsidiaries in every country from A to Z. The programmer is never going to dominate the headcount in an organization that operates on such a scale. Fast Facts About Microsoft
How much outsourced programming staff could they have when they employ legal to bully 3rd party hardware companies to develop drivers for their new OS's?
Dear lord, spare me this.
You do not have to bully anyone to produce drivers for the OS that has 90% of your potential market - and Apple has a lock on damn near 10% of what remains.
"Chrome" is right up there with "The Gimp" as a masterpiece in marketing.
It suggests nothing so much as an ugly, over-weight, tail finned Edsel. Microsoft has "Internet Explorer" and Apple has "Safari," both brand names which capture something of the excitement, the fun and play to be found on the web.
Of the 17 netbooks being offered at Walmart.com this holiday season, at least 12 run XP or Vista. Most priced at $350 with an Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM and a 120 GB HDD. Is it necessary to add that not one Linux netbook "is available in stores?"
The successful RPG has to give a player a significant and entertaining role to play in a world that invites and rewards deep exploration. Tech isn't as important as art and story. That is a very different universe than the one inhabited by Yahoo and Google.
Who wants to donate endless hours in development and management of the game? Who wants to pay for the servers? Who wants to contribute assets to the game: art, animation, story, dialog, etc?
Individuals form associations to achieve goals that cannot be accomplished in any other way.
One such goal, of course, is to set limits to risks that would otherwise be impossible for any one to bear.
There is a price, there is always a price.
But the only alternative to the power of the private association is to cede all attempts at collective effort and security to the coercive power of the church and state.
.
For Google, anti-trust is playing with fire ---
--- and heading into what could be a very deep recession, I don't expect to see the new administration all gung-ho and ready to move against one of the bare handful of US industrials that is actually showing a pulse, paying dividends, a company with strong export sales and a AAA credit rating.
The market for Windows HPC is in the world where programmers are expected to be productive - not hand coding the re-invention of the wheel and the abacus. Languages, IDEs, APIs, frameworks like .Net. Microsoft has been in the tool-making business for over thirty years now, and it has not been an insignificant part of its success
Since 1945 the AAAS has honored the best reporting on science.
In 2008 the winners are {the envelope, please]:
Large newspaper
Terry McDermott, Los Angeles Times, "Chasing Memory," "[An] ambitious, meticulously reported series on memory and the brain."
Small Newspaper
Kara Platoni, East Bay Express, "In Search of Life," "Introducing her readers to the work of local scientists searching for answers to perhaps the biggest scientific question of all: Are we alone in the universe?"
Magazine
John Carey, Business Week, "Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?"
Television
Joseph McMaster, Gary Johnstone, WGBH/NOVA and Vulcan Productions, "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," "A very careful, methodical and sensitive presentation of a vital scientific question, with enormous social and political import. The filmmakers managed to be both clear and accurate with the science, and fair and sensitive to the beliefs of the ID proponents."
Radio
Daniel Grossman, WBUR Boston, "Meltdown: Inside Out," The science .of global warming in ice sheets, mountain glaciers and sea ice."
Online
Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic News, "Megafishes," "The images of the giant ray and the cannibalistic fish hook you, and the narrative reels you in, an entry that introduces an interesting topic in an innovative way. Good content and fine visuals of fish that must be seen to be believed."
Children's Science News
Yoon Shin-Young, Children's Science Donga, [South Korea,] Roadkill, Horror on Roads, The impact of highway roadkills on native species in South Korea...an unusual subject made interesting and educational for young readers."
AAAS Announces Winners of the 2008 AAAS Science Journalism Awards [November 12, 2008]
Washington Post - Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award
In the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," the issue before the trial court wasn't evolution, it was the teaching of evolution in the public schools in violation of Tennessee state law.
Which meant that all the intellectual firepower Darrow had assembled to defend evolution had no platform. They had nothing useful to say. Nothing admissible as evidence.
The place to make that argument was before the Tennessee legislature.
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Google's revenues are almost entirely consumer add based.
Which implies that the foundation could be badly hurt in a recession.
2011 isn't that far off. If the recession cuts deep enough Google will have to retrench - and Firefox may not be off limits.
The trend lines for the web browsers are looking rather flat: Top Browser Share Trend
IE 6/7/8 75% FFX 2/3 20% Safari 5%.
There probably aren't any big gains to be made here.
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More like tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. Netbooks are perhaps 10% of the laptop market with 10 million sold this year.
Everything old is new again. CNR.com