You misunderstand. 40% less for a pension plan is BAD, not good.
I take 20% of my salary now and save it away. It has grown to about $100,000. If I had a job in Canada, that would mean I would only have $60,000 saved up isntead of $100,000.
YEs, moving to Canada after you retire makes a lot of sense, but to anyone that is currently saving to retire, it makes FAR more sense to get the higher paying job.
If I lived in Toronto I could only go tango dancing 5 days a week, not 7. And I would not have choice of Milongas. I would HAVE to own a car, and have to worry about how I am getting home when I am drunk because your public transportation system is not as good as NYC's, especially late at night. You do have some nice plays and museums, but NYC has a slight edge there.
While in New York City, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, seen a gun in the hands of anyone except a NYC cop. NYC is currently one of the safest cities in North America, and like you said , you we have to compare Toronto to NYC, not general Canada to general USA.
Canada is a nice place to retire too, but I wouldn't want to work there.
Wow. Most tech people I know can easily get a crappy tech job if they were willing to take a 30% pay cut.
But if all you think you could get is a food industry job, well, good luck. I personally would get some additional training if I were you. Even someone with a minimal brain should be able to do better than a fast food job in this economy. It just is NOT a real depression.
A lot of objections, some of which are smarter than others:
1) The choice is NOT fast food or another programming job. I am a smart person, as are most of the programmers. I can easily get another tech job in NYC paying 20% less than I make now. It might not be as nice a job, but it is a tech job. The economy in the US is not bad, but not HORRIBLE. If you can't get another tech job if you are willing to take a 30% pay cut, then you are either a well trained moron, or getting WAY over-paid.
2) I am young and put a large percentage of my paycheck into the bank for retirement funds, etc.
40% less pay check with 40% less costs of living, STILL COSTS ME 40% OF MY RETIREMENT FUNDS. If you have enough brains to save money for retirement, you have to be pretty stupid to take the 40% less job even with the cost of living reduction.
3)Living in NYC has it's own advantages. Here, I can go Tango Dancing every day of the week, see the best museums, never have to drive the death machine we call an automobile, can go out drinking without worrying about how I am getting home, can see world class plays, theater, etc. etc. etc. Living in Canada would be a marked decrease in my Life Style. It might be OK for people that don;t care about this kind of stuff, but not for me.
Capturing customer data and forwarding it to Odeon's real site, while his site pretends to be an official Odeon site is the problem that Odeon had.
Do you work for Odeon? No? Then that was not your problem. Sure it is something we should be against, but it was NOT "the problem" for most of the world.
The creation of a web site that illegally violated Disability Discrimination law and was also not usable with any browser except Microsoft was the problem that the entire rest of the world had
There are more people in the world that do not have Microsoft Browsers than work for Odeon. There are more people in the world that have disabilities where they need the proper aids but still go to movies than work for Odeon.
Ignoring the other side of the story is not intelligent.
Or you could realize that the Disabilities act protects people with problems besides total blindness.
People can have bad color blindness, Farsightedness or dislexia and find it difficult to navigate a web site but still go to a movie.
No, but obeying the Disability Discrimation law DOES trump not obeying the law.
Or are you just ignoring the fact that their site was also in violation of the Law?
It sounds like you are willing to let a corporation sue to enforce the copy-right law but not allow programmers to make an effective complaint/statement about the corporation's illegal activities.
You want to shut down the activist's site, fine, but also order the illegal Odeon site shut down.
The problem is there site is not just browser prejudiced.
It was also in violation of the Law.
His site is both browser compliant and legal.
Odeon should have had their site legally shut down until it was compliant with the law, just as the guy should have had his site shut down because it was in violation of Odeon's rights.
But the guy was a programer, not a lawyer, so this is what happened.
I think you are talking about a different service. I live in Manhattan and Time Warner Cable has true video on demand. You start and stop the movie when you want to, can pause, fast forward, and rewind it. Costs 3.95 per movie, vieweable for 24 hours after you purchase it.
First of all I see a lot of people talking about paintball. They are different games, off topic from his request. Yes, some sadistic people enjoy hurting their opponent and don't care about being hit by a mere lazer. But some people are win motivated and do care about their scores, more than a minute amount of pain that you whiny paint ball fans are so motivated to avoid.
More importantly, Lazer tag usually is a dual system: a red light beam used SOLELY for sighting purporses, and a radio wave that goes through things like your shirt, etc. to hit the sensor. even if you try and cheat.
Mirrors bounce the light beam but at most will block the radio wave, not bounce it off of you.
For simple ways to increase your lazer tag fun, you can try the following.
1) Turn up the volume. Make the vest SCREAM in pain when you are hit.
2) Get more sensors. Shoulders, chest and back are fine, but how about a head shot for extra points.
3) Go for mines, as disccussed earlier.
Actually they come with this.
Lazer tag games really use a lazer pointer just to show you where you are aiming at.
The actual hit/miss is done by radiowaves.
While you may be able to do it in more environments, you can do Lazer tag anywhere that has been prepped. It would cost maybe $1,000 per game if you were stupid enough to try and up a Paintball game in the middle of a city. Lazer tag may have more requirements, but the requirements are less than for paintball.
But that is besides the point, your idea is off-topic, not on topic. We want to MOD the Lazertag, not play a different game.
So basically you and your friends care less about accurate scoring and need pain to motivate you.
What a joke.
I want to WIN.
A little pain is not going to motivate me more. Only a a sadistic person that cares more about hurting his opponent then seeing which shooter got the most hits would prefer that silly child-ish game of paintball to a manly game where stats rule.
The people here are rarely checking to see if the email address is real (I personally own an email address with the word "junkmail" in it, so I routinely get crap from morons that think it is "ok" to put that in as a "false" email account.
As a result, I get other people's junkmail in my account.
Why do I own an account with "junkmail" in the name? Because when I sign up for this crap I give a real email address that I own, but almost never check. When I need to check it I do, but usually I ignore it until it is full.
Perhaps you are right, but I think you are severly mistaken about the background as well as the facts.
High end Graphical Interface, has not been around for decades, so what I am talking about is only possible recently.
I love perl, and agree that a lot of what we do is best done in text, but not ALL of it
There are a ton of key words related to keeping scope.
Ideas such as reference, derferencing are all better displayed graphically.
I am not trying to remove text, just not use it for stupid awkward kludges. I am going to continue to use text for the areas appropriate for it.
Example, say we had a Perl Reg Ex.
Instead of a command that looks like this:
( $doc = $dos_location ) =~ s%\\00\d\\?%%;
I could have something that had
$doc-(double box with text in it )-$dos_location
The left box would have nothing in it [as the reg-ex is deleting stuff] and the right box would have a \00(one character symbol obtained by control d meaning any digit)\(one chacter symbol obtained by control ? meaning 0 or 1).
That would be FAR easier to read and understand. You have end result variable, connected by line to the reg ex, then the change made then the thing changed using symbols that are NOT confusable with normal letters/punctuation, then the connection to the starting variable.
This is the exact same arguement used by Nigeria for why they don't persue these cases.
Yes, the "victim" was not a nice person, but he never actually committed any crimes and people did in fact steal from him. Perhaps he would have had a change of heart and not gone through with it (Yes I know it is unlikely, but stranger things have happened.)
The law is for everyone, even the greedy morons. The fact that the victim was a scumbucket is irrelevant/offtopic, not insightful
Possesion taxes which tax you on what you have, even if you are not spending it.
Outgo taxes which tax you on what you spend.
Outgo taxes encourage savings, discourage spending, which runs counter to the consumption based philosophy our society is based on. It is a tax on the poor, as the poor do not have enough cash to save, thereby a larger portion of their money is taxed. The rich simply spend a far less percentage of their money, so they end up being taxed less.
Possesion tax, discourages savings - if you spend what you have instead of saving it, the government never taxes you. Smart people would go on lots of trips when they are young, never letting the government see the 10,000 bonus they earned. Unforunately this seriously hurts people that want to retire and live off of savings. Again this tax affects the poor people the most, preventing them from making the change from poor to rich. While the rich do tend to get taxed the most, they generally have enough money to avoid being seriously harmed while the poor/middle class have a HUGE road block on the way to becoming rich.
Income taxes encourages people to save what they earn, thereyby helping people become rich. While it does not hurt the rich the most, it is the best for poor folk, as they can both get taxed less than the rich folk and do not have a roadblock stopping them from becoming richer themselves.
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I take 20% of my salary now and save it away. It has grown to about $100,000. If I had a job in Canada, that would mean I would only have $60,000 saved up isntead of $100,000.
YEs, moving to Canada after you retire makes a lot of sense, but to anyone that is currently saving to retire, it makes FAR more sense to get the higher paying job.
If I lived in Toronto I could only go tango dancing 5 days a week, not 7. And I would not have choice of Milongas. I would HAVE to own a car, and have to worry about how I am getting home when I am drunk because your public transportation system is not as good as NYC's, especially late at night. You do have some nice plays and museums, but NYC has a slight edge there.
While in New York City, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, seen a gun in the hands of anyone except a NYC cop. NYC is currently one of the safest cities in North America, and like you said , you we have to compare Toronto to NYC, not general Canada to general USA.
Canada is a nice place to retire too, but I wouldn't want to work there.
But if all you think you could get is a food industry job, well, good luck. I personally would get some additional training if I were you. Even someone with a minimal brain should be able to do better than a fast food job in this economy. It just is NOT a real depression.
1) The choice is NOT fast food or another programming job. I am a smart person, as are most of the programmers. I can easily get another tech job in NYC paying 20% less than I make now. It might not be as nice a job, but it is a tech job. The economy in the US is not bad, but not HORRIBLE. If you can't get another tech job if you are willing to take a 30% pay cut, then you are either a well trained moron, or getting WAY over-paid.
2) I am young and put a large percentage of my paycheck into the bank for retirement funds, etc. 40% less pay check with 40% less costs of living, STILL COSTS ME 40% OF MY RETIREMENT FUNDS. If you have enough brains to save money for retirement, you have to be pretty stupid to take the 40% less job even with the cost of living reduction.
3)Living in NYC has it's own advantages. Here, I can go Tango Dancing every day of the week, see the best museums, never have to drive the death machine we call an automobile, can go out drinking without worrying about how I am getting home, can see world class plays, theater, etc. etc. etc. Living in Canada would be a marked decrease in my Life Style. It might be OK for people that don;t care about this kind of stuff, but not for me.
I am not willing to move north to get a job that pays 40% less than what is available here. I'd rather work outside my field.
Capturing customer data and forwarding it to Odeon's real site, while his site pretends to be an official Odeon site is the problem that Odeon had.
Do you work for Odeon? No? Then that was not your problem. Sure it is something we should be against, but it was NOT "the problem" for most of the world.
The creation of a web site that illegally violated Disability Discrimination law and was also not usable with any browser except Microsoft was the problem that the entire rest of the world had
There are more people in the world that do not have Microsoft Browsers than work for Odeon. There are more people in the world that have disabilities where they need the proper aids but still go to movies than work for Odeon.
Ignoring the other side of the story is not intelligent.
Or you could realize that the Disabilities act protects people with problems besides total blindness. People can have bad color blindness, Farsightedness or dislexia and find it difficult to navigate a web site but still go to a movie.
"The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows and was in violation of the Disability Discrimination Act"
Or are you just ignoring the fact that their site was also in violation of the Law?
It sounds like you are willing to let a corporation sue to enforce the copy-right law but not allow programmers to make an effective complaint/statement about the corporation's illegal activities.
You want to shut down the activist's site, fine, but also order the illegal Odeon site shut down.
It was also in violation of the Law.
His site is both browser compliant and legal.
Odeon should have had their site legally shut down until it was compliant with the law, just as the guy should have had his site shut down because it was in violation of Odeon's rights.
But the guy was a programer, not a lawyer, so this is what happened.
I can easily see the thumb drive things dropping in price so it it cheaper to get one of them then a DVD containing the same 8 Meg.
All it really is a USB port, a tiny controller chip and some memory.
Right now it costs $80 for 124 Meg.
At current price trends, that could easily get down to $8 for 8 Gigabyte within 10 years. And they can be made reusable multiple times.
I would rather carry a tiny thumb drive that is more robust and less likely to break/get damaged.
I think you are talking about a different service. I live in Manhattan and Time Warner Cable has true video on demand. You start and stop the movie when you want to, can pause, fast forward, and rewind it. Costs 3.95 per movie, vieweable for 24 hours after you purchase it.
More importantly, Lazer tag usually is a dual system: a red light beam used SOLELY for sighting purporses, and a radio wave that goes through things like your shirt, etc. to hit the sensor. even if you try and cheat.
Mirrors bounce the light beam but at most will block the radio wave, not bounce it off of you.
For simple ways to increase your lazer tag fun, you can try the following. 1) Turn up the volume. Make the vest SCREAM in pain when you are hit. 2) Get more sensors. Shoulders, chest and back are fine, but how about a head shot for extra points. 3) Go for mines, as disccussed earlier.
Actually they come with this. Lazer tag games really use a lazer pointer just to show you where you are aiming at. The actual hit/miss is done by radiowaves.
But that is besides the point, your idea is off-topic, not on topic. We want to MOD the Lazertag, not play a different game.
You want to catch cheaters? Put a couple more sensors on.
I am a smart, win motivated person, not some idiot that won't try my hardests unless I get punished.
Yes there are advantages to both games, but stop denegrating the game being discussed and get back on topic.
What a joke.
I want to WIN.
A little pain is not going to motivate me more. Only a a sadistic person that cares more about hurting his opponent then seeing which shooter got the most hits would prefer that silly child-ish game of paintball to a manly game where stats rule.
Because there IS fraud involved.
The people here are rarely checking to see if the email address is real (I personally own an email address with the word "junkmail" in it, so I routinely get crap from morons that think it is "ok" to put that in as a "false" email account.
As a result, I get other people's junkmail in my account.
Why do I own an account with "junkmail" in the name? Because when I sign up for this crap I give a real email address that I own, but almost never check. When I need to check it I do, but usually I ignore it until it is full.
High end Graphical Interface, has not been around for decades, so what I am talking about is only possible recently.
I love perl, and agree that a lot of what we do is best done in text, but not ALL of it There are a ton of key words related to keeping scope. Ideas such as reference, derferencing are all better displayed graphically.
I am not trying to remove text, just not use it for stupid awkward kludges. I am going to continue to use text for the areas appropriate for it.
Example, say we had a Perl Reg Ex. Instead of a command that looks like this:
( $doc = $dos_location ) =~ s%\\00\d\\?%%;
I could have something that had
$doc-(double box with text in it )-$dos_location The left box would have nothing in it [as the reg-ex is deleting stuff] and the right box would have a \00(one character symbol obtained by control d meaning any digit)\(one chacter symbol obtained by control ? meaning 0 or 1).
That would be FAR easier to read and understand. You have end result variable, connected by line to the reg ex, then the change made then the thing changed using symbols that are NOT confusable with normal letters/punctuation, then the connection to the starting variable.
Capital Gains is an income tax. Yes there are minor possesion tax effects, but basically it charges you when you make a profit, no
I've sold stuff on Ebay. It takes at least a 1/2 hour worth of my time to do it.
And that is considering the fact that I already have an Ebay account and paypal account and know how to use them.
I would estimate that for someone with little computer experience we are talking at least an hour's worth of effort.
How old was the donor?
That is why most companies give them to charity - it is easier to do that then to sell them.
If you go to a computer reseller instead of an end-user, chances are he won't offer you more than $200 for a two year old computer.
Be funny to have a naked picture of someone of the same/opposite sex portrayed on me.
Probably only be allowed to wear it at sex-related businesses, but be funny.
Yes, the "victim" was not a nice person, but he never actually committed any crimes and people did in fact steal from him. Perhaps he would have had a change of heart and not gone through with it (Yes I know it is unlikely, but stranger things have happened.)
The law is for everyone, even the greedy morons. The fact that the victim was a scumbucket is irrelevant/offtopic, not insightful
Income taxe, that taxes you as you get the money.
Possesion taxes which tax you on what you have, even if you are not spending it.
Outgo taxes which tax you on what you spend.
Outgo taxes encourage savings, discourage spending, which runs counter to the consumption based philosophy our society is based on. It is a tax on the poor, as the poor do not have enough cash to save, thereby a larger portion of their money is taxed. The rich simply spend a far less percentage of their money, so they end up being taxed less.
Possesion tax, discourages savings - if you spend what you have instead of saving it, the government never taxes you. Smart people would go on lots of trips when they are young, never letting the government see the 10,000 bonus they earned. Unforunately this seriously hurts people that want to retire and live off of savings. Again this tax affects the poor people the most, preventing them from making the change from poor to rich. While the rich do tend to get taxed the most, they generally have enough money to avoid being seriously harmed while the poor/middle class have a HUGE road block on the way to becoming rich.
Income taxes encourages people to save what they earn, thereyby helping people become rich. While it does not hurt the rich the most, it is the best for poor folk, as they can both get taxed less than the rich folk and do not have a roadblock stopping them from becoming richer themselves.