Carriers are sitting ducks without a battle group when outside land based fighter range. I doubt the Chinese are worried over this at all.
Fixed it for you. But I admit that even Japanese F 15 Eagle would not be able to keep a continuous air cover on the Sea of Japan. Be aware tough, that the Japanese navy already has the basic capability of a carrier group. Kongo Class destroyers are equipped with the SPY-1 phased array radar and the SM2 block 3 missile, the same suite defending American carriers. If anything, given the cold war capabilities of the Japanese navy, their carrier group is a bit skewed towards anti submarine warfare, but who's complaining? given your original post, I must say that China has no reason to complain. Even if Japan builds another three of these (one for each battle group that it has available now), there's no way that it can mount a credible threat to China itself. It can, tough, be a credible threat against China's expansionary policy in the Spratleys, etc., and above all China's wayward province, North Korea.
If Ballmer is able and willing to pull the plug on both win XP AND windows 7, in favour of windows 8, it will be easy to predict a booming interest in Linux on the desktop.
Keeping in mind; temporarily banned. Synopsis from another article by the Guardian:
The University of Birmingham's Flavio Garcia, British computer scientist, cracked the security system by discovering the unique algorithm that allows the car (Porsches, Audis, Bentleys and Lamborghinis — leaves me out) to verify the identity of the ignition key.
Is this meant to be a temporary injunction until these auto companies resolve their problem, which seems to be the right thing to do? However, if it isn't temporary and turns out to be kind of permanent because they think these companies will save a lot of money by not having to deal with the problem, then they're deluding themselves. Someone into stealing cars already knows or now knows a solution exists and will soon know the algorithm in one way or another.
It would be nice if the method used to find the solution was eventually made public. Then someone might be able to create a defense to variations on the discovery and prevent this from being applied to other vehicles; a breach that may already exist, if not now, perhaps at a later time?
It can only be temporary. Cat's out of the bag anyway, and while they are banned to publish the details, any "Yep. still there" six months of now would pit owners and insurance companied vs manufacturers, with manufacturers losing for having known, and not acted upon, a problem with their car.
No doubt opting in for porn will get you on the 'special attention at MI5' list.
No. it will mark you as "normal", but with a less than ignorant approach to technology. Expect a movement to help people opt out of the filter altogether tough. If it happened here, I'd start one myself. Where in the world, except in the book "1984", the government decides what I am allowed to see? it only decides the media, anyhow: child pornography or else will not stop because Joe Soap does not see it by default. And the reasoning by which access to an uncontrolled internet is the fountainhead of social problem is beyond moronic, it's deceitful.
Which is actually STUPID.
Instead, it should go into creating new companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, and even hyperloop.
Had gates done something like Musk and Allen are doing, then he would have made great changes to the world.
Or not. all the project you mentioned are advanced, but not enough to qualify as "changing the world, unless the words Dynasoar and La Jamais Contente mean nothing to you.
This reminds me during WW2 Japenese developed subs that could surface and open a tiny hangar which launched 1-3 small planes. Sometimes scouts, sometimes bombers. The planes could land on water next to the sub, which had a crane to lift the plane back into the hangar.
they were intended to drop incendiary bombs on forests.
Would be nice if our culture just became weary of entertainment cartel offerings, and people could once again take up more productive pastimes: making things, group outings and sports, exercise, hobbies...anything besides sitting on butts and watching brain numbing nonsense (yes, I'm as guilty as anyone)
quit raving. I've had a classical education, and believe you me, if you think kids are hooked on games do not go visiting the greek theater at Siracusa, which inpercent of the population is like having a stadium for 200.000 people today, or try and grab Aristotiles' Poetica, which was written in the IV century B.C. and analysed theater plays. One of the amusing facts is that many of the blockbusters of the past two decades are absolutely classical in their body and structure. This apart from "The lord of the Rings", which was deliberately so, given that Tolkien was a university professor. Having studied Epic, I must confess that Tolkien is the most internally consistent, and so it may seem a bit dry...
I don't believe that's the case. it wasn't a case of not believing measles was still a problem, but of aversion to believed risks of the vaccine. Measles isn't fun, but it's 'just' a disease. Autism is a lifelong condition with no cure (obviously various levels). People didn't want to expose their children to that lifelong risk and so avoided the vaccine.
Different than believing the vaccine wasn't needed.
thanks for the example. Risk for the vaccine giving out other kinds of outcomes, and/or not preventing measles, is statistically known. Stats for various bad consequences of measles is known also, and believe you me, my father was the village MD so I know, when measles gets in the community you either have immunity or you get it; it is quite contagious. so, since people perceive an outlier risk of great gravity (autism) and of uncertain probability (later shown as non significant, but that's not needed; it would work equally for proven stats of very low incidence, for example low enough to take it under the chance of being permanently disabled in a car crash), they cause disabilities in their own sons and daughters. That reminds me of what Nassim Taleb told me at a conference; the twin towers killed more than 3.000 people. Wanna know how? people switched from air travel to cars.
Take a look to see if there are any corresponding changes in rate of autism? Here's a nice chance to run a natural experiment--the non-vaccinated become the test group...
There wasn't.
This would have became apparent relatively quickly; this measles outbreak may be 15 years after the fact, but the autism rates would have been affected within the first few years if there was anything in this. They weren't.
The research that linked autism with this vaccination was soundly debunked within a few years of being released. The original paper was fully retracted in 2004, and the researcher found guilty of misconduct and fraud.
The really sad part is that even a decade after the story was retracted, there are still some people who are convinced that they shouldn't immunise their kids.
The trouble is that we live in a world where these diseases don't scare us any more because we don't see them. They ought to. If you want to know what happens to populations without immunity that are exposed to measles, try reading up on what happened when the Conquistadors introduced it to South America.
This is a classic "outlier" or "three sigma" case.... people do not see any more the illness, and they think that vaccination is useless. I was born in 1962, so mine is the last generation to actually have suffered through all the then common children's diseases: mumps, measles etc. The only thing I was vaccinated for was smallpox.
now color me paranoid, but not only my son and daughter have been vaccinated against everything there's a common vaccine for, but if it was at all possible I'd have them vaccinated for smallpox too. I know "it's not there any more", but.... It has been proven, time and again, that human mind is not able on average to ascertain risk/rewards for low occurrence events, or to put them in relation to existing risks. This was a case in point.
Why bother? my standard issue sidearm was a Beretta 92 F, a.k.a M 9 in the USA. It can easily be stripped into three components (grip/lower receiver, Upper receiver, barrel); disperse them, and you are home free. better yet if you detach the spring; no sane person who is able to reassemble a handgun would do without the recoil spring. it's better not to put any part in safes or places which any burglar would look into, or to hide at least a piece in some closet in which it would not look out of place; build a toy that uses the recoil spring!
The idea of having your kids not be able to blow their brains out with your gun seems like quite a good one...
obviously you aren't able to field strip a gun..... anybody who keeps an handgun whole, with a colocated loaded clip in a house with kids has it coming. and you can reassemble an handgun very quickly if the need arises, or not at all if the threat is so sudden that it would not have helped in any case.
when my adolescent son took to softair, I took the opportunity to teach him what he really needed to know. gun safety procedures, even if it is a toy: proper handling. unless you are live, keep the finger out of the trigger guard, and the rifle pointing down. Keep the weapons on safe all the time, until the game begins, and put them on safe immediately after. NEVER, NEVER point a gun at something you are not shooting.
It's like safety belts in cars: train until you cannot behave differently from the proper way, and you'll have an head start.
If you can actually parse the bull, it does have some actual meaning underneath it, and what it says isn't necessarily a good thing.
"We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities. This will enable us to deliver the most capability—and be most efficient in development and operations—with the greatest coherence to all our key customers.”
This says that smart people won't be able to work on small, high functioning teams like they need to. Instead, itsounds like they're going to break up teams and pool their people. This will have the effect of making everyone equally mediocre, which is not what they need.
“Some of these changes will involve putting things together and others will involve repartitioning the work, but in all instances we will be more coherent for our users and developers.”
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." What value does he deliver if everything is the same? This squashes out room for innovation.
This memo is not only gobbledygook, it's hiding some really bad practices.
It is actually a bit worse than that: until now, most of MS change since windows XP has bees either a continuous effort to wring money out of old things (xp/vista/win7/win8, and the various Office versions), or some hideously expensive "hard copy" of established markets (Xbox), or lastly, buying markets outright (Skype).
The quality of strategy no1 has been chancy at best: yes, customers still pay the MS tax, but let's have a spurt of piety and say that corporations simply no longer look forward to the latest and greatest from Redmond. It's always at best a retraining hassle. Ditto for small businesses and private customers.
Hard copying has been also NOT an unqualified success,and given all the brouhaha at the launch limitations of Xbox4, which were quickly taken out of the product in the face of public mockery, it has also been a big managing embarrassment. And guess what? I do not believe for a second that the division producing the Xbox was not aware that the public would fall to the ground in a bout of dry heave seeing what mess it was. Proof positive is that none of the incriminating "features" was hard wired in the console, in the way Explorer was hard wired in the operating system when the government wanted to break the company up. So, the lower managers were right, and the higher ups were wrong. So, when does
"One Strategy, One Microsoft"
start to make sense? Or, "We will see our product line holistically, not as a set of islands"? My hunch would be to become more of a federated company, in a Darwinian sort of way, not less.
Strategy no 3, buying things, is also a mess, but at least I can understand the twisted logic: I buy Skype not for the product, but only for the traction it can give me to make my old and wheezing model relevant again, so I want everyone to find it extremely convenient to register via a @ms.com email address; since that means making it extremely hard to register in any other way ("multiply the hexadecimal value of your present email address for the natural logarithm of your date of birth"), we'll lose some Skype customers, but they were not the reason we bought the company in the first place.
because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
Why should they? They're insured.
So, now it's the insurance company that is lead by fumbling morons, who insure high seas cargo plus ship plus personnel at a 100% of its stated value. By the way, I have a nice insurance to sell you.
Ironically I am thinking about buying an ATI card for Linux due to its more open nature(Not intel open), so long term support is built into it. Perhaps AMD is only partly responsible.
Since ole Ballmer is playing Santa with the shareholders' money (Nokia, wink wink) he might have made an "agreement" with video card producers to encourage the idea that win XP systems will suddenly cease operating at 12 pm on the night MS ends support. And I have no qualms with that, it's a kind of informed consent: if I want to go on with an unsupported operating system I am on my own. Trouble is, there's somebody out there with a sneaky plan.
. The gist of it is, it's time to quit using basically the same methods of work we started using with windows 3.1. Time to change the interface, to have a more robust and yet open system, which can span the range from cell phones to yes, eventually mainframes as well. Well, I saw through your dark plan, Linus. It will not work.
I surmise that, as the Governor in Blazing Saddles, Ballmer might be trying for a "Harumph!!!" moment, i.e. "reorganize to fudge.
I do not see how or why reorganizing should improve MS business model. a good "coming out" about why it was wrong to force win 8 down everybody's throat should be more valuable.
copper hardened thru another element , can't recall what it was maybe nitrite
That might have been an alloy of copper with arsenic. Also, I wonder how much time it took them to build those structures. Given enough people and time, you can do anything. If you're interested in how many new houses you can build for new families with the smallest number of construction workers, chances are that working granite for dry masonry with diorite is not exactly the preferred technique.
AFAIK, they found arsenic on the body of the mummy of the Similaun, because it was used in the process to build copper tools. he had a small copper hatchet.
I believe part of the law states that insurance companies must spend a minimum of 80% of premiums on actual health care.
How would the IRS, or whatever body is supposed to police that part of the law, verify what is ACTUALLY being spent on that, versus what the insurance companies are CLAIMING they spend?
If seizing medical records en-masse was their solution, perhaps a better method might be needed. Still, that might be what is going on here.
as far as I recall, each state has an Insurance Commission. It's their job. the IRS should check with THEM if that's the question, or sue the state. in any case, if the IRS is remotely similar to the Italian tax authorities, it all boils down to classification of expenses, as in "since demographic pencil can be used to write, they are not medical expenditure", which can safely be done without seeing medical records.
now the issue is, how do we avoid a "microsoft explorer", in which everybody and his uncle "salts" his financial dealings with his medical records to avoid being subpoenaed.....
If your groups is named after the most famous tax revoult in the history of the country I would expect the tax man to pay special interest to it.
except, the one that pays special interest should be fired on the spot and forbidden to join any public service any more. The government should be "for the people", not "for the bureaucracy". I live in such a country and it is pure hell.
I think that most of the problems stem from a number of issues:
1.North Korea resolutely states that what it has with south Korea is an "armistice", a temporary cessation of open hostilities which can be withdrawn on a whim, NOT a peace treaty;
2. as per 1. above, it has liberally sprinkled the south of hostile acts even recently, witness the sinking of a south Korean corvette;
3. It recently tested a long range ballistic missile by sending it flying over Japan, not the most sensible thing to do;
4.Given the UN embargo, and the geography, north Korea can only survive at the whim of two countries, neither of which is south Korea and/or the USA, namely China, and to a lesser extent, Russia.
I think that the pointy heads are not wondering if the present dictator is better or worse than his forefathers, or if he is stark raving mad. Anybody here thinking that the north Korea military is NOT thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese agents? My take is that should kim jong.3 turn mad, his life expectancy could be measured in seconds. Another issue is closely related to point 3 above: why on earth the Chinese should have allowed the north Koreans to be so openly hostile to neighbours and the USA? it will cause trouble for them sooner or later. I am already flabbergasted that the USA, in a quiet sort of way, has not gotten to the Chinese ear that they could be apt to treat North Korea as their "renegade province" [pun intended], refuse any further contact with them, and invite all the ASEAN members to a quiet dinner somewhere. the only possibility of seeing south Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines at the same table should be sufficient to give them enough fits to squeeze north Korea into getting quiet.
not accountant here. You're a jerk for insulting but not even addressing and argument or explaining anything.
You're wrong! I'm X doesn't cut it.
probably what he meant was, depreciation is usually tax deductible, since the very concept was introduced to render a fair representation of the ability of an organization to produce earnings, irrespective of the fact that it needed inputs which lasted more than one period (i.e., machinery, buildings etc.) or not (for example, by renting all of the above). While taxation treats depreciation in different ways depending on country and underlying asset, the concept is that in an ideal world it would render choosing between renting or buying neutral over the life cycle of the underlying asset, i.e. the reported earnings should stay constant over the life of the asset, all else being equal.
and then Adobe will wonder why they ever hired Shantanu as ceo - a man so determined to wreck the company, they might as well have just thrown the towel in, there and then.
his latest brainwave is to move the firm away from creative stuff and onto tools that can analyze the data from digital marketing. wow, what a great idea!!!!! except hasn't he ever heard of google - they've been working on this for a while and are really quite good at it from what i hear.
what this piece of ordure will come up with next is anyone's guess - maybe he will move adobe onto stage shows - and how about a musical version of spiderman - oh dammit someones done that, well how about a musical planet of the apes!
...Well, if they want to improve on that, my money says Ballmer will be on the market within 12 months. since they have less cash to burn it will take him less time to crash the company.
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Carriers are sitting ducks without a battle group when outside land based fighter range. I doubt the Chinese are worried over this at all.
Fixed it for you. But I admit that even Japanese F 15 Eagle would not be able to keep a continuous air cover on the Sea of Japan.
Be aware tough, that the Japanese navy already has the basic capability of a carrier group. Kongo Class destroyers are equipped with the SPY-1 phased array radar and the SM2 block 3 missile, the same suite defending American carriers.
If anything, given the cold war capabilities of the Japanese navy, their carrier group is a bit skewed towards anti submarine warfare, but who's complaining?
given your original post, I must say that China has no reason to complain. Even if Japan builds another three of these (one for each battle group that it has available now), there's no way that it can mount a credible threat to China itself. It can, tough, be a credible threat against China's expansionary policy in the Spratleys, etc., and above all China's wayward province, North Korea.
If Ballmer is able and willing to pull the plug on both win XP AND windows 7, in favour of windows 8, it will be easy to predict a booming interest in Linux on the desktop.
Known Child Porn is blocked by all or most UK ISPs anyway. There is no opt-out of this.
Jason.
same in italy.
Keeping in mind; temporarily banned. Synopsis from another article by the Guardian:
Is this meant to be a temporary injunction until these auto companies resolve their problem, which seems to be the right thing to do? However, if it isn't temporary and turns out to be kind of permanent because they think these companies will save a lot of money by not having to deal with the problem, then they're deluding themselves. Someone into stealing cars already knows or now knows a solution exists and will soon know the algorithm in one way or another.
It would be nice if the method used to find the solution was eventually made public. Then someone might be able to create a defense to variations on the discovery and prevent this from being applied to other vehicles; a breach that may already exist, if not now, perhaps at a later time?
It can only be temporary. Cat's out of the bag anyway, and while they are banned to publish the details, any "Yep. still there" six months of now would pit owners and insurance companied vs manufacturers, with manufacturers losing for having known, and not acted upon, a problem with their car.
MY children would not take money to deinstall the censorship. they would ask for a cashier's check.
No doubt opting in for porn will get you on the 'special attention at MI5' list.
No. it will mark you as "normal", but with a less than ignorant approach to technology. Expect a movement to help people opt out of the filter altogether tough. If it happened here, I'd start one myself. Where in the world, except in the book "1984", the government decides what I am allowed to see? it only decides the media, anyhow: child pornography or else will not stop because Joe Soap does not see it by default. And the reasoning by which access to an uncontrolled internet is the fountainhead of social problem is beyond moronic, it's deceitful.
Which is actually STUPID. Instead, it should go into creating new companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City, and even hyperloop. Had gates done something like Musk and Allen are doing, then he would have made great changes to the world.
Or not. all the project you mentioned are advanced, but not enough to qualify as "changing the world, unless the words Dynasoar and La Jamais Contente mean nothing to you.
I love my daily thorium pill.
Amazingly enough, there was Thorium toothpaste. the halflife is so long that exposure would have been negligible anyway.
This reminds me during WW2 Japenese developed subs that could surface and open a tiny hangar which launched 1-3 small planes. Sometimes scouts, sometimes bombers. The planes could land on water next to the sub, which had a crane to lift the plane back into the hangar.
they were intended to drop incendiary bombs on forests.
Would be nice if our culture just became weary of entertainment cartel offerings, and people could once again take up more productive pastimes: making things, group outings and sports, exercise, hobbies...anything besides sitting on butts and watching brain numbing nonsense (yes, I'm as guilty as anyone)
quit raving. I've had a classical education, and believe you me, if you think kids are hooked on games do not go visiting the greek theater at Siracusa, which inpercent of the population is like having a stadium for 200.000 people today, or try and grab Aristotiles' Poetica, which was written in the IV century B.C. and analysed theater plays.
One of the amusing facts is that many of the blockbusters of the past two decades are absolutely classical in their body and structure. This apart from "The lord of the Rings", which was deliberately so, given that Tolkien was a university professor. Having studied Epic, I must confess that Tolkien is the most internally consistent, and so it may seem a bit dry...
I don't believe that's the case. it wasn't a case of not believing measles was still a problem, but of aversion to believed risks of the vaccine. Measles isn't fun, but it's 'just' a disease. Autism is a lifelong condition with no cure (obviously various levels). People didn't want to expose their children to that lifelong risk and so avoided the vaccine. Different than believing the vaccine wasn't needed.
thanks for the example. Risk for the vaccine giving out other kinds of outcomes, and/or not preventing measles, is statistically known. Stats for various bad consequences of measles is known also, and believe you me, my father was the village MD so I know, when measles gets in the community you either have immunity or you get it; it is quite contagious.
so, since people perceive an outlier risk of great gravity (autism) and of uncertain probability (later shown as non significant, but that's not needed; it would work equally for proven stats of very low incidence, for example low enough to take it under the chance of being permanently disabled in a car crash), they cause disabilities in their own sons and daughters.
That reminds me of what Nassim Taleb told me at a conference; the twin towers killed more than 3.000 people. Wanna know how? people switched from air travel to cars.
Take a look to see if there are any corresponding changes in rate of autism? Here's a nice chance to run a natural experiment--the non-vaccinated become the test group...
There wasn't.
This would have became apparent relatively quickly; this measles outbreak may be 15 years after the fact, but the autism rates would have been affected within the first few years if there was anything in this. They weren't.
The research that linked autism with this vaccination was soundly debunked within a few years of being released. The original paper was fully retracted in 2004, and the researcher found guilty of misconduct and fraud.
The full sorry story is documented on Wikipedia and many other places.
The really sad part is that even a decade after the story was retracted, there are still some people who are convinced that they shouldn't immunise their kids.
The trouble is that we live in a world where these diseases don't scare us any more because we don't see them. They ought to. If you want to know what happens to populations without immunity that are exposed to measles, try reading up on what happened when the Conquistadors introduced it to South America.
This is a classic "outlier" or "three sigma" case.... people do not see any more the illness, and they think that vaccination is useless. I was born in 1962, so mine is the last generation to actually have suffered through all the then common children's diseases: mumps, measles etc. The only thing I was vaccinated for was smallpox.
now color me paranoid, but not only my son and daughter have been vaccinated against everything there's a common vaccine for, but if it was at all possible I'd have them vaccinated for smallpox too. I know "it's not there any more", but....
It has been proven, time and again, that human mind is not able on average to ascertain risk/rewards for low occurrence events, or to put them in relation to existing risks. This was a case in point.
Why bother? my standard issue sidearm was a Beretta 92 F, a.k.a M 9 in the USA. It can easily be stripped into three components (grip/lower receiver, Upper receiver, barrel); disperse them, and you are home free. better yet if you detach the spring; no sane person who is able to reassemble a handgun would do without the recoil spring.
it's better not to put any part in safes or places which any burglar would look into, or to hide at least a piece in some closet in which it would not look out of place; build a toy that uses the recoil spring!
The idea of having your kids not be able to blow their brains out with your gun seems like quite a good one...
obviously you aren't able to field strip a gun..... anybody who keeps an handgun whole, with a colocated loaded clip in a house with kids has it coming. and you can reassemble an handgun very quickly if the need arises, or not at all if the threat is so sudden that it would not have helped in any case.
when my adolescent son took to softair, I took the opportunity to teach him what he really needed to know. gun safety procedures, even if it is a toy: proper handling. unless you are live, keep the finger out of the trigger guard, and the rifle pointing down. Keep the weapons on safe all the time, until the game begins, and put them on safe immediately after. NEVER, NEVER point a gun at something you are not shooting.
It's like safety belts in cars: train until you cannot behave differently from the proper way, and you'll have an head start.
If you can actually parse the bull, it does have some actual meaning underneath it, and what it says isn't necessarily a good thing.
"We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities. This will enable us to deliver the most capability—and be most efficient in development and operations—with the greatest coherence to all our key customers.”
This says that smart people won't be able to work on small, high functioning teams like they need to. Instead, itsounds like they're going to break up teams and pool their people. This will have the effect of making everyone equally mediocre, which is not what they need.
“Some of these changes will involve putting things together and others will involve repartitioning the work, but in all instances we will be more coherent for our users and developers.”
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." What value does he deliver if everything is the same? This squashes out room for innovation.
This memo is not only gobbledygook, it's hiding some really bad practices.
It is actually a bit worse than that: until now, most of MS change since windows XP has bees either a continuous effort to wring money out of old things (xp/vista/win7/win8, and the various Office versions), or some hideously expensive "hard copy" of established markets (Xbox), or lastly, buying markets outright (Skype).
The quality of strategy no1 has been chancy at best: yes, customers still pay the MS tax, but let's have a spurt of piety and say that corporations simply no longer look forward to the latest and greatest from Redmond. It's always at best a retraining hassle. Ditto for small businesses and private customers.
Hard copying has been also NOT an unqualified success,and given all the brouhaha at the launch limitations of Xbox4, which were quickly taken out of the product in the face of public mockery, it has also been a big managing embarrassment. And guess what? I do not believe for a second that the division producing the Xbox was not aware that the public would fall to the ground in a bout of dry heave seeing what mess it was. Proof positive is that none of the incriminating "features" was hard wired in the console, in the way Explorer was hard wired in the operating system when the government wanted to break the company up. So, the lower managers were right, and the higher ups were wrong. So, when does
"One Strategy, One Microsoft"
start to make sense? Or, "We will see our product line holistically, not as a set of islands"? My hunch would be to become more of a federated company, in a Darwinian sort of way, not less.
Strategy no 3, buying things, is also a mess, but at least I can understand the twisted logic: I buy Skype not for the product, but only for the traction it can give me to make my old and wheezing model relevant again, so I want everyone to find it extremely convenient to register via a @ms.com email address; since that means making it extremely hard to register in any other way ("multiply the hexadecimal value of your present email address for the natural logarithm of your date of birth"), we'll lose some Skype customers, but they were not the reason we bought the company in the first place.
because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
Why should they? They're insured.
So, now it's the insurance company that is lead by fumbling morons, who insure high seas cargo plus ship plus personnel at a 100% of its stated value. By the way, I have a nice insurance to sell you.
Is getting more attractive by the day...
Ironically I am thinking about buying an ATI card for Linux due to its more open nature(Not intel open), so long term support is built into it. Perhaps AMD is only partly responsible.
Since ole Ballmer is playing Santa with the shareholders' money (Nokia, wink wink) he might have made an "agreement" with video card producers to encourage the idea that win XP systems will suddenly cease operating at 12 pm on the night MS ends support. And I have no qualms with that, it's a kind of informed consent: if I want to go on with an unsupported operating system I am on my own. Trouble is, there's somebody out there with a sneaky plan.
. The gist of it is, it's time to quit using basically the same methods of work we started using with windows 3.1. Time to change the interface, to have a more robust and yet open system, which can span the range from cell phones to yes, eventually mainframes as well.
Well, I saw through your dark plan, Linus. It will not work.
they could sell the heat to domestic premises.
I surmise that, as the Governor in Blazing Saddles, Ballmer might be trying for a "Harumph!!!" moment, i.e. "reorganize to fudge.
I do not see how or why reorganizing should improve MS business model. a good "coming out" about why it was wrong to force win 8 down everybody's throat should be more valuable.
copper hardened thru another element , can't recall what it was maybe nitrite
That might have been an alloy of copper with arsenic. Also, I wonder how much time it took them to build those structures. Given enough people and time, you can do anything. If you're interested in how many new houses you can build for new families with the smallest number of construction workers, chances are that working granite for dry masonry with diorite is not exactly the preferred technique.
AFAIK, they found arsenic on the body of the mummy of the Similaun, because it was used in the process to build copper tools. he had a small copper hatchet.
I believe part of the law states that insurance companies must spend a minimum of 80% of premiums on actual health care. How would the IRS, or whatever body is supposed to police that part of the law, verify what is ACTUALLY being spent on that, versus what the insurance companies are CLAIMING they spend? If seizing medical records en-masse was their solution, perhaps a better method might be needed. Still, that might be what is going on here.
as far as I recall, each state has an Insurance Commission. It's their job. the IRS should check with THEM if that's the question, or sue the state. in any case, if the IRS is remotely similar to the Italian tax authorities, it all boils down to classification of expenses, as in "since demographic pencil can be used to write, they are not medical expenditure", which can safely be done without seeing medical records.
now the issue is, how do we avoid a "microsoft explorer", in which everybody and his uncle "salts" his financial dealings with his medical records to avoid being subpoenaed.....
If your groups is named after the most famous tax revoult in the history of the country I would expect the tax man to pay special interest to it.
except, the one that pays special interest should be fired on the spot and forbidden to join any public service any more. The government should be "for the people", not "for the bureaucracy". I live in such a country and it is pure hell.
I think that most of the problems stem from a number of issues:
.3 turn mad, his life expectancy could be measured in seconds.
1.North Korea resolutely states that what it has with south Korea is an "armistice", a temporary cessation of open hostilities which can be withdrawn on a whim, NOT a peace treaty;
2. as per 1. above, it has liberally sprinkled the south of hostile acts even recently, witness the sinking of a south Korean corvette;
3. It recently tested a long range ballistic missile by sending it flying over Japan, not the most sensible thing to do;
4.Given the UN embargo, and the geography, north Korea can only survive at the whim of two countries, neither of which is south Korea and/or the USA, namely China, and to a lesser extent, Russia.
I think that the pointy heads are not wondering if the present dictator is better or worse than his forefathers, or if he is stark raving mad. Anybody here thinking that the north Korea military is NOT thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese agents? My take is that should kim jong
Another issue is closely related to point 3 above: why on earth the Chinese should have allowed the north Koreans to be so openly hostile to neighbours and the USA? it will cause trouble for them sooner or later. I am already flabbergasted that the USA, in a quiet sort of way, has not gotten to the Chinese ear that they could be apt to treat North Korea as their "renegade province" [pun intended], refuse any further contact with them, and invite all the ASEAN members to a quiet dinner somewhere. the only possibility of seeing south Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines at the same table should be sufficient to give them enough fits to squeeze north Korea into getting quiet.
not accountant here. You're a jerk for insulting but not even addressing and argument or explaining anything.
You're wrong! I'm X doesn't cut it.
probably what he meant was, depreciation is usually tax deductible, since the very concept was introduced to render a fair representation of the ability of an organization to produce earnings, irrespective of the fact that it needed inputs which lasted more than one period (i.e., machinery, buildings etc.) or not (for example, by renting all of the above).
While taxation treats depreciation in different ways depending on country and underlying asset, the concept is that in an ideal world it would render choosing between renting or buying neutral over the life cycle of the underlying asset, i.e. the reported earnings should stay constant over the life of the asset, all else being equal.
and then Adobe will wonder why they ever hired Shantanu as ceo - a man so determined to wreck the company, they might as well have just thrown the towel in, there and then.
his latest brainwave is to move the firm away from creative stuff and onto tools that can analyze the data from digital marketing. wow, what a great idea!!!!! except hasn't he ever heard of google - they've been working on this for a while and are really quite good at it from what i hear.
what this piece of ordure will come up with next is anyone's guess - maybe he will move adobe onto stage shows - and how about a musical version of spiderman - oh dammit someones done that, well how about a musical planet of the apes!
...Well, if they want to improve on that, my money says Ballmer will be on the market within 12 months. since they have less cash to burn it will take him less time to crash the company.