All I"m interested in is them bringing out another Roadster type Tesla....performance 2-seater, hopefully in the price range of a Vette.
THAT is something I'd definitely be in the market for....why won't they do this again as the 'flagship' car to use to see their other more boring/pedestrian looking cars....?
You know, you can just buy the lowers, and then get kits to finish them out in a pretty highly custom way and the kits are only in the $1500 range for some really nice gear.....what are these guys thinking??
No actually people don't. Many people aren't in fact sociopaths and are happy to simply earn a normal living and pay taxes in the normal way without attempting to jump through vast hoops with offshore accounts and etc to avoid contributing to society.
Many people actually understand that civilsation is built on taxes and can think beyond MINE MINE MINE MINE.
While there are always outliers on any list of people or behaviors....I would posit to you that the number of people that are completely altruistic and would never take deductions or anything that could legally reduce their tax burden is very close to nil.
I would also give you, that most likely the majority of folks in the US (if not the rest of the first world) have no real problem paying what they consider to be a reasonable tax, for required governmental services, although the definition of what is truly required by the govt is debatable by those tax payers.....
Taking every legal deduction and every legal means offered to you as a tax payer, to decrease your tax burden is not the sign of a sociopath, but someone who is actually fiscally cognizant, It only make sense to take advantage of any laws available to you, to keep as much of your hard earned money for yourself...unless you 100% agree that the government knows better how to spend your money than you do, which again, I would posit is a very low demographic number.
I think the only way to make things fair...is to actually throw out the old code and make it simpler. It really should NOT take more than a post card, or at most 1-2 pages to fill ones annual tax statement out. It should be as simple for individuals as:
You made $x this year.
You own $y on that amount of $x.
For businesses it should be something like:
You brought in $x.
You subtract $y from $x for cost of business, materials, salaries, investments in new equipment, etc...
You own $z.
Now..if you did this and had no deductions, no loopholes, etc...then I think most would be happy with this to see exactly that everyone is paying a fair level share.
However, this would take a lot of power away from those in governmental power, take away their ability to manipulate the populace, etc. So, I doubt we'll see this type of thing in my lifetime...hence, most everyone will bitch and moan about taxes and how unfair and unequal it is...
NDA's are nice...but I've seen them ignored and nothing much could be done about it, unless your company is a BIG one with some powerful attorney's and deep pockets.
So, I'd say the simplest thing would be to have them work on site. Sounds like with the fast timing requirements, it might actually just be better for them to work and test ON the machines that will be running it, to make sure it runs fast enough....?
...who remember the days when Hollywood made decent family movies without all the shvoogies and the hooers showing their business every second.
But aren't those some of the very parameters that SHOULD be voted on and count highly as movies/performances that rate high...regardless of the race involved?
You know..actual quality entertainment that isn't just there to be crass...with actual talented actors...
I am sure that morally and ethically ad blocking is wrong.
Hmm...so, I guess that you think that watching TV shows recorded on a DVR, that either has auto-commercial skipping, or you doing it manually via the FF buttons is morally and ethically wrong...and would never do such a thing?
Seriously'?
I don't know of any physical or social contract that says I must watch Ads in exchange for content. This isn't any worse that watching regular commercial TV and taking advantage of commercial breaks to go use the restroom or make a sandwich and miss said ads....
I guess trump will build a Great Physical Wall on the boarder of Mexico and a Great Firewall on the boarder of Cuba. Who knew he could make the US look so much like China.
I"m not great Trump fan, but as to this point, I'd not heard him say anything against the opening up of the US and easing of restrictions to Cuba.
I wonder, is it entirely possible, that there was no racial bias...that all the movies selected actually WERE thought to be better than the movies not selected....
Or, is it that today, if you have a group of movies made by minorities and non-minorities, you cannot, by merit alone have only consideration of the non-minority movies and categories.
Do we now have to have a quota of minority movies and actors considered just to have diversity regardless of merit?
what about real independent contractors working directly for multiple clients?
If they're smart...they are getting onto long term Federal contracts, so that they don't HAVE to have multi. clients and constantly looking for new clients.
You can be independent AND do long term contracts with mostly only 1 client if it is the Feds.
If I, as a private citizen do it...it is selective viewing and reading of content.
You know, these people seem to forget that the internet was NOT primarily created for revenue generation, but for free exchange of ideas on a network where every computer connected could be a peer with any other one connected.
Ok, I know if you go back to the DARPA creation...that was mostly just to make a network capable of breaks in parts of it and still survive, but I"m alluding more to the web portion of the internet with my argument.
But seriously, it was quite free before there were ads (and yes, I was on a long time before I saw any ads on the web)...and it continues to be free for ideas, but every individual surely should still have the freedom to view or not view certain content, and also, to block having their information captured.
The internet and the web were NOT created for commerce, maybe someone needs to remind them of that....
Well, not quite...depends on how you negotiate your contract.
You may not get time and a half (unless you write that into the contract), BUT you do still get paid at least your hourly bill rate for EVERY hour worked.
Unlike W2 salaried folks who are generally expected to work any hours needed over 40 without extra compensation at all, the contractor gets paid for every hour he's working. The exception being a fixed price contract, but you figure things differently for those.
But the other stuff is true, in negotiating your contractor bill rates, you have to consider how much you'll need to pay for insurance, retirement, etc. It isn't rocket science, you just have to put on your Big Boy pants and take some responsibility for yourself. IN the end, it can be much nicer, you have more freedom (no more having to 'earn' vacation hours, you build your time off into your bill rate), and you can write off a lot on your taxes (mileage travelled/driven can help a lot here)...etc.
And if you do things like set up a S-Corp, you can avoid having to pay employment taxes (FICA, medicare) on all your money billed and paid.
On the rare instance I buy something and would go out of my way to recommend it to a friend.....
I'd more than likely tell them the next time I saw them in person. I might email a link to them later if they were interested, but I can't see when I'd just automatically send email about products unless it was something we talked about while meeting in meatspace....
he difference with a basic income is that you would be paid the income as well. It would not be charity or negated by profits via working.
Ok, so WHERE exactly is this Magic Money, a living income for everyone coming from exactly?
Where and how are these magic inflation dollars created so that a govt check can be written to you based on them that you can then turn into cold hard cash?
Really, now? Because last I checked, it was the Conservatives who go into conniptions over the thought of subsidizing someone else's suboptimal behaviour. It's your side which insists on everyone carrying their own risk and nothing more, and thus needs to track it on an individual basis. The Progressive approach is to tax everyone, give help to whoever needs it, and simply accept that this means some people end up costing more than they pay.
Who said this was some type of liberal vs conservative argument?
Progressive is an insurance company, with "Flo" as their spokeswoman character, hawking this ODB-II (sp?) plug in for your car if you trade your car info for lower rates on insurance....
You know..I've seen these buttons on the completion of sales...and wondered if that many people actually share or notify friends when they BUY something?!?!
Seriouslyl? I mean...why?
I know there are some people out there who like to brag, or show off....but I can't believe that is in the majority out there, is it?
Are there really a significant enough number of people that actually 'share' some if not all of what they buy online??
No. Natural selection would be reducing population to match available resources.
Well, less jobs and money should naturally thin the herd. If they can't get jobs to eat well, or afford the best health care, etc..they naturally don't live and long and the hope would be, they'd not reproduce as much if they knew they'd not be able to support them....this would happen more today, but we interfere with nature by supporting the lower lifestyle artificially.
Beside the sad fact that this seems to be the only thing some people know to do properly, what is your plan to stop automation that leaves less and less to do for human workers? Reducing population to match the remaining jobs?
This almost sounds like Flo is plugging that Progressive tracking chip straight in your head...and charging you based on your risk behaviors and travels for each day.
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Soo.....what's the benefit of having it below water, offshore?
I hear ya.
My first thought was who?
My second thought was "...and I should give a fuck why???"
THAT is something I'd definitely be in the market for....why won't they do this again as the 'flagship' car to use to see their other more boring/pedestrian looking cars....?
You know, you can just buy the lowers, and then get kits to finish them out in a pretty highly custom way and the kits are only in the $1500 range for some really nice gear.....what are these guys thinking??
Sad day..but man, there were a LOT of jokes that came out of this....gallows humor if you wish. I still remember a bunch of them...
Q:What color were Christa McAuliffe eyes?
A: Blue....one blew this way...the other blew that way...
Q: What is the new official drink of NASA?
A: Ocean Spray
Q: What does NASA stand for?
A: Need Another Seven Astronauts
Q: Did you hear they found part of the black guys remains?
A: It was a mistake, turns out they just found a radiator hose from a '57 chevy. (ok a little racist, but this was the 80's)
Q: What do Christa McAuliffe and Donna Rice have in common.
A: They both went down on the challenger.
It was amazing how fast and how many of these came out...and EVERYONE knew them and was repeating them for a long time after....
While there are always outliers on any list of people or behaviors....I would posit to you that the number of people that are completely altruistic and would never take deductions or anything that could legally reduce their tax burden is very close to nil.
I would also give you, that most likely the majority of folks in the US (if not the rest of the first world) have no real problem paying what they consider to be a reasonable tax, for required governmental services, although the definition of what is truly required by the govt is debatable by those tax payers.....
Taking every legal deduction and every legal means offered to you as a tax payer, to decrease your tax burden is not the sign of a sociopath, but someone who is actually fiscally cognizant, It only make sense to take advantage of any laws available to you, to keep as much of your hard earned money for yourself...unless you 100% agree that the government knows better how to spend your money than you do, which again, I would posit is a very low demographic number.
I think the only way to make things fair...is to actually throw out the old code and make it simpler. It really should NOT take more than a post card, or at most 1-2 pages to fill ones annual tax statement out. It should be as simple for individuals as:
For businesses it should be something like:
Now..if you did this and had no deductions, no loopholes, etc...then I think most would be happy with this to see exactly that everyone is paying a fair level share.
However, this would take a lot of power away from those in governmental power, take away their ability to manipulate the populace, etc. So, I doubt we'll see this type of thing in my lifetime...hence, most everyone will bitch and moan about taxes and how unfair and unequal it is...
NDA's are nice...but I've seen them ignored and nothing much could be done about it, unless your company is a BIG one with some powerful attorney's and deep pockets.
So, I'd say the simplest thing would be to have them work on site. Sounds like with the fast timing requirements, it might actually just be better for them to work and test ON the machines that will be running it, to make sure it runs fast enough....?
Oh man, I'd totally forgotten about the C-Rap genre, which includes pretty much every thing today.
Last rap song that was any good was pretty much Bust a Move. But that was out back in "the day" when the earth was still round.
The fact that the terms "Rap" and "Music" are mutually exclusive?
But aren't those some of the very parameters that SHOULD be voted on and count highly as movies/performances that rate high...regardless of the race involved?
You know..actual quality entertainment that isn't just there to be crass...with actual talented actors...
SSSSssshhhhhh!!
Remember, the first rule of USENET, is not to talk about USENET.
Hmm...so, I guess that you think that watching TV shows recorded on a DVR, that either has auto-commercial skipping, or you doing it manually via the FF buttons is morally and ethically wrong...and would never do such a thing?
Seriously'?
I don't know of any physical or social contract that says I must watch Ads in exchange for content. This isn't any worse that watching regular commercial TV and taking advantage of commercial breaks to go use the restroom or make a sandwich and miss said ads....
I"m not great Trump fan, but as to this point, I'd not heard him say anything against the opening up of the US and easing of restrictions to Cuba.
I wonder, is it entirely possible, that there was no racial bias...that all the movies selected actually WERE thought to be better than the movies not selected....
Or, is it that today, if you have a group of movies made by minorities and non-minorities, you cannot, by merit alone have only consideration of the non-minority movies and categories.
Do we now have to have a quota of minority movies and actors considered just to have diversity regardless of merit?
If they're smart...they are getting onto long term Federal contracts, so that they don't HAVE to have multi. clients and constantly looking for new clients.
You can be independent AND do long term contracts with mostly only 1 client if it is the Feds.
If I, as a private citizen do it...it is selective viewing and reading of content.
You know, these people seem to forget that the internet was NOT primarily created for revenue generation, but for free exchange of ideas on a network where every computer connected could be a peer with any other one connected.
Ok, I know if you go back to the DARPA creation...that was mostly just to make a network capable of breaks in parts of it and still survive, but I"m alluding more to the web portion of the internet with my argument.
But seriously, it was quite free before there were ads (and yes, I was on a long time before I saw any ads on the web)...and it continues to be free for ideas, but every individual surely should still have the freedom to view or not view certain content, and also, to block having their information captured.
The internet and the web were NOT created for commerce, maybe someone needs to remind them of that....
Well, not quite...depends on how you negotiate your contract.
You may not get time and a half (unless you write that into the contract), BUT you do still get paid at least your hourly bill rate for EVERY hour worked.
Unlike W2 salaried folks who are generally expected to work any hours needed over 40 without extra compensation at all, the contractor gets paid for every hour he's working. The exception being a fixed price contract, but you figure things differently for those.
But the other stuff is true, in negotiating your contractor bill rates, you have to consider how much you'll need to pay for insurance, retirement, etc. It isn't rocket science, you just have to put on your Big Boy pants and take some responsibility for yourself. IN the end, it can be much nicer, you have more freedom (no more having to 'earn' vacation hours, you build your time off into your bill rate), and you can write off a lot on your taxes (mileage travelled/driven can help a lot here)...etc.
And if you do things like set up a S-Corp, you can avoid having to pay employment taxes (FICA, medicare) on all your money billed and paid.
I'd more than likely tell them the next time I saw them in person. I might email a link to them later if they were interested, but I can't see when I'd just automatically send email about products unless it was something we talked about while meeting in meatspace....
At which point, you and everyone else need to learn a new skill that will make them marketable again.
Who said anyone had a *right* to the same profession all their lives.....?
Ok, so WHERE exactly is this Magic Money, a living income for everyone coming from exactly?
Where and how are these magic inflation dollars created so that a govt check can be written to you based on them that you can then turn into cold hard cash?
Who said this was some type of liberal vs conservative argument?
Progressive is an insurance company, with "Flo" as their spokeswoman character, hawking this ODB-II (sp?) plug in for your car if you trade your car info for lower rates on insurance....
Seriouslyl? I mean...why?
I know there are some people out there who like to brag, or show off....but I can't believe that is in the majority out there, is it?
Are there really a significant enough number of people that actually 'share' some if not all of what they buy online??
Well, less jobs and money should naturally thin the herd. If they can't get jobs to eat well, or afford the best health care, etc..they naturally don't live and long and the hope would be, they'd not reproduce as much if they knew they'd not be able to support them....this would happen more today, but we interfere with nature by supporting the lower lifestyle artificially.
Isn't that what Natural Selection is all about?
Fsck that.....