Then you should also agree with raising the driving age to 22, and taking away driving privileges of those over 60. Either of these would save many more lives.
No, if we raise the driving age to 22, then 22 year old drivers would be the new most dangerous drivers. What we need to do is not let anyone drive until they've been driving for 5 years. Paradox be damned.
Driving over 60? If they can demonstrate that they are attentive, do not disrupt the flow of traffic, are not losing their sight or hearing, can obey speed limits and traffic signals, stay in their lane, use turn signals, etc, then let them drive.
Heck, I would even let people go for a "can drive drunk" endorsement on their license. Of course, 99.9% of applicants would end up killing themselves in the testing environment I envision, but the others should be safe to drive while intoxicated.
Are you including room and board in that $20,000 figure? Because the original poster claimed his nephew was paying $20k/year excluding "supplies, housing and additional fees". For Oklahoma State I used this estimator to calculate tuition and fees for 30 credit hours (i.e. two semesters) of 100% engineering courses, which carry the highest per-credit-hour fee. Result: $9,229.
It is deceptive if they don't include housing and meal estimations in the price. Of course that was included in the amount that I pay. What I found equally deceptive these days is the extra costs per credit hour. When I went to school, it was about $25 per credit hour plus books and lodging. Now it is over $100 per credit hour plus books, lodging and also the "extra costs" which they interestingly denominate in per credit hour pretty much totals up to the being the same as the per credit hour. In other words, after fees, you are paying $200 per credit hour when they quote online that their costs are $100 per credit hour. These aren't fees that you can just decide not to take advantage of either, like meals on airplanes. You have to pay the base rate and you have to pay all of the extra fees, or you don't take the class, period. So in fairness, they need to indicate that the cost per credit hour is not $100, but $200.
The crash was not caused by a fork. The crash was caused by over-valuation coupled with the largest DDoS MtGox had ever experienced. The trading system slowed to the point that user's sell / buy trades weren't going through and it caused a panic. MtGox was taken down while they upgraded network infrastructure to deal with the shitty DDoS people. When they came back up, other exchange's had already begun the dive. It dove and corrected repeatedly, until it panned out and has been relatively stable since.
The article is bullshit.
AC is correct. The fork was two months ago. When the fork happened, the price on the historical chart is not even perceptible. Heck it may have gone up that day from all I can tell. AFTER the fork, the price climbed to 4 TIMES the value of before the fork, and is currently trading at more than double that price. So the article is just an out and out lie and FUD. We should not consider any more submissions from this submitter.
I'm not sure where they get their statistics. I live in a state with a fairly low cost of living (Oklahoma), and the cost of sending my stepson to Oklahoma State is pushing close to the $20,000 a year mark. I went to University of Oklahoma about 25 years ago, and the cost was less than 1/5th of that amount. I don't think they can argue that inflation has multiplied by 5 in 25 years. Minimum wage has not even doubled in that time.
Both have a point, "in-classroom" spending is the spending that provides most benefit, the total funding is what it costs the taxpayer. Ideally the two should be quite close together but, not only are they very far apart, they are diverging over time.
Yes, since I was a kid, the total amount acquired from taxpayers per student has grotesquely outpaced inflation, while the amount spent in the classroom has stayed flat or decreased. The school district I went to has maybe 20% more students than when I was a kid, but for some reason, has 20 or 30 times the number of administrative staff as when I went there.
As another point of reference, the other day I was on the highway and saw a bus go by for a nearby school district. Not a standard school bus, but a decked out tour bus. One of the ones that cost $250,000+. No wonder they can't afford to educate our students when they spend all this money on busybodies and luxury buses (probably for the football team).
So this drone was taught first aid? Did it stitch up a leg? Reset a broken bone?
I'm in favor of the drones now. They have apparently been taught how to diagnose, administer first aid, presumably CPR as well. Why do all that if they are just going to be used to spy on us. They must have had good intentions all along.
It is in the best interest of a person to keep their skills current. It is also in the best interest of the company for a person to keep their skills current. Therefore, regardless of whether the person takes initiative to keep his/her skills current, the company needs to make training, education, seminars, trade shows and other opportunities available to anyone that they value staying and growing with the company.
Voter registration is a non-partisan public service.
Sure would be if they registered both parties equally. But who is more likely to need the services of a voter registration service? People who are more likely to vote democratic, or people who are more likely to vote republican?
No, we would have the first female president instead of the first black one.
Hillary Clinton is to woman what Barack Obama is to black.
The GOP panders to racists and bigots, see the difference here? They run on hate. You can't see how that might be slightly troublesome?
Where as the Democrat party panders to racists and bigots who so desperately want to show how tolerant they are that they would elect a black president just to prove it.
For some reason it's racist to ask for ID to vote.
Not in my state. ID is required. And you can only vote once. They cross your name off. I know several people who were not allowed to vote even though they had ID because someone had shown up earlier than them at the poll and voted using their name.
That makes sense to me.
Customer 1: "Hello, I would like to buy a case of bullets."
Clerk: "Yes, sir. Here you are."
Customer 2: "Hello, I would like to buy a bullet."
Clerk: "Yes, sir. Just stand over here while I call over an ATF agent."
"Nor is it the company' obligation to collect and pay that sales tax."
Do you mean ethically or legally? The whole point of the article is that it is the company's legal obligation to collect the tax.
Of course ethically. Legally, they are supposedly required to if this passes, but ethically, you cannot require an entity that receives no benefit from your state to collect sales tax for your state and submit it. The same can be said for out of state payroll tax, which companies are also legally required to collect, but by all logic and ethics, should not.
Not really. The cloud part here is only about storage - and you have the relatively slow ISP link in between. Mainframes were doing the actual computing work. And in the meantime, data requirements growth have outstipped network speed growth.
We're now thinking of 20 GB as a smallish amount of data. Some 20-25 years ago, 20 MB was a smallish amount. My current download is 8 Mb/s, about 4,000 times the 2.4 kb modem back then. However my upload is a mere 640 kb/s- just 30 times modem speed. So sending data to the cloud takes longer for modern upload speeds, and modern data needs, compared to the mainframe era.
Also most of those mainframes were accessed over LANs, which were much faster of course than modems. Not as fast as modern LAN but again data demand growth has outstripped network speed growth there as well.
Well then it sounds like what we need to do is move to an architecture where the bulk of the processing is on the local machine and that the bulk of the data is on the local machine as well. Sounds good to me.
Socialism is "from each according to his ability and to each according to his work."
Kind of negates your stance, huh?
Yes, funny how changing one single word changes the meaning of a phrase, huh?
Karl Marx: "Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!"
Translation: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)".
So, I am able to build 16 widgets an hour, while the next guy is able to build 8 widgets an hour. However, we both need 3 square meals a day, so we both get 3 square meals a day. Where is the incentive for me to keep producing 16 widgets, when the next guy only has to produce 8 and gets the same benefit?
"nearly 50 times per year", I don't think so. It's probably closer to 200 times per year. I was an independent contractor in NM for a while, and I had to pay the tax quarterly. Even if you didn't have any tax to pay for a quarter, you still needed to file a report, and if you didn't there were penalties.
I had to pay sales tax monthly in my state, and it had to be online. Undoubtedly some states it is annually, and some states it depends on how much sales tax you collect. This is the whole problem. How can anyone expect any business to keep track of 50 different payers with dozens of different payment intervals, some of them being online, some of them being paper based, with hundreds of thousands of taxing districts each of which could have different taxes for different types of products.
All because some people don't pay Use Tax and the state governments want somebody else to foot the bill to collect money for them.
Oh, did I mention that some states charge businesses an annual fee for the privilege of collecting sales tax for them?
Now, some states do allow the company to keep a small percentage of the sales tax (2-3%) for "paperwork". So if you buy something for a dollar, then the company gets to keep about 1/5 of a cent for paperwork costs. If they were willing to increase this amount and make it mandatory, then I think online retailers could handle the additional hassle. If they allowed online retailers to keep, say 5000 to 6000% of the sales tax they collected, then it would probably cover the expense of compliance.
Charge sales tax on the wrong item and get caught and the fine is rather steep even if it's an honest mistake.
Fortunately, such a fine against a company not located in the state would not be enforceable, just as forcing a company not in the states jurisdiction to collect sales tax is unenforceable (and also unconstitutional).
There is not internet loophole. you still have to pay your use tax. it is probably the exact same as your sales tax rate. It is not the company's fault if you don't pay your tax. Nor is it the company' obligation to collect and pay that sales tax. Not unless your state is going to send the police or fire department over to their warehouse three states over when there is an emergency.
how is this 1 person suposed to handle tax law in over 2000 different locations?
It's not 2,000 different locations. It's much more. My state has over 100,000 different taxing locations. They used to mail me notices of taxing district changes. It was about three per week. But that got to be too expensive, so the state simply stopped sending notices when districts changed taxing rates. Of course, you still had to comply even if you had no way of knowing about the change.
If my STATE has this many taxing districts, then how many are there in the whole U.S.? 5 million?
What do so many Americans have such fear/hatred of Socialism?
Because socialism is a race to the bottom. I like to work hard and do a good job and get paid more than the next slob. However, in socialism, it doesn't matter how hard you work, you get paid the same amount. So therefore, you should work as little as possible.
see them stick to putting a good sound system (with possibly an equalizer) into a car
But if they did that, then 95% of the cars would have all of the faders slid to the max, 4.99% would have them in a bathtub curve, and only.01% would have actually used a frequency analyzer to determine the proper balance.
I am a software developer with no professional experience as a mechanic. I completely tore down the engine and transmission on my '88 Lotus Esprit (no longer have it unfortunately. Inflation skyrocketed and my salary stayed the same). I replaced all the seals, gaskets and rings, cleaned all the parts, put it back together, and it ran. I had SOME help from a mechanic friend, but mostly I did it myself. It was a rewarding experience and helped me to better understand my vehicle and engines in general.
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"Do unto others as you would have them do nought to sixty."
Actually by that metric the electric vehicles are still ahead.
Yeah, but in America we don't USE metric.
Then you should also agree with raising the driving age to 22, and taking away driving privileges of those over 60. Either of these would save many more lives.
No, if we raise the driving age to 22, then 22 year old drivers would be the new most dangerous drivers. What we need to do is not let anyone drive until they've been driving for 5 years. Paradox be damned.
Driving over 60? If they can demonstrate that they are attentive, do not disrupt the flow of traffic, are not losing their sight or hearing, can obey speed limits and traffic signals, stay in their lane, use turn signals, etc, then let them drive.
Heck, I would even let people go for a "can drive drunk" endorsement on their license. Of course, 99.9% of applicants would end up killing themselves in the testing environment I envision, but the others should be safe to drive while intoxicated.
Are you including room and board in that $20,000 figure? Because the original poster claimed his nephew was paying $20k/year excluding "supplies, housing and additional fees". For Oklahoma State I used this estimator to calculate tuition and fees for 30 credit hours (i.e. two semesters) of 100% engineering courses, which carry the highest per-credit-hour fee. Result: $9,229.
It is deceptive if they don't include housing and meal estimations in the price. Of course that was included in the amount that I pay. What I found equally deceptive these days is the extra costs per credit hour. When I went to school, it was about $25 per credit hour plus books and lodging. Now it is over $100 per credit hour plus books, lodging and also the "extra costs" which they interestingly denominate in per credit hour pretty much totals up to the being the same as the per credit hour. In other words, after fees, you are paying $200 per credit hour when they quote online that their costs are $100 per credit hour. These aren't fees that you can just decide not to take advantage of either, like meals on airplanes. You have to pay the base rate and you have to pay all of the extra fees, or you don't take the class, period. So in fairness, they need to indicate that the cost per credit hour is not $100, but $200.
The crash was not caused by a fork. The crash was caused by over-valuation coupled with the largest DDoS MtGox had ever experienced. The trading system slowed to the point that user's sell / buy trades weren't going through and it caused a panic. MtGox was taken down while they upgraded network infrastructure to deal with the shitty DDoS people. When they came back up, other exchange's had already begun the dive. It dove and corrected repeatedly, until it panned out and has been relatively stable since.
The article is bullshit.
AC is correct. The fork was two months ago. When the fork happened, the price on the historical chart is not even perceptible. Heck it may have gone up that day from all I can tell. AFTER the fork, the price climbed to 4 TIMES the value of before the fork, and is currently trading at more than double that price. So the article is just an out and out lie and FUD. We should not consider any more submissions from this submitter.
I'm not sure where they get their statistics. I live in a state with a fairly low cost of living (Oklahoma), and the cost of sending my stepson to Oklahoma State is pushing close to the $20,000 a year mark. I went to University of Oklahoma about 25 years ago, and the cost was less than 1/5th of that amount. I don't think they can argue that inflation has multiplied by 5 in 25 years. Minimum wage has not even doubled in that time.
Both have a point, "in-classroom" spending is the spending that provides most benefit, the total funding is what it costs the taxpayer. Ideally the two should be quite close together but, not only are they very far apart, they are diverging over time.
Yes, since I was a kid, the total amount acquired from taxpayers per student has grotesquely outpaced inflation, while the amount spent in the classroom has stayed flat or decreased. The school district I went to has maybe 20% more students than when I was a kid, but for some reason, has 20 or 30 times the number of administrative staff as when I went there.
As another point of reference, the other day I was on the highway and saw a bus go by for a nearby school district. Not a standard school bus, but a decked out tour bus. One of the ones that cost $250,000+. No wonder they can't afford to educate our students when they spend all this money on busybodies and luxury buses (probably for the football team).
So this drone was taught first aid? Did it stitch up a leg? Reset a broken bone?
I'm in favor of the drones now. They have apparently been taught how to diagnose, administer first aid, presumably CPR as well. Why do all that if they are just going to be used to spy on us. They must have had good intentions all along.
It is in the best interest of a person to keep their skills current. It is also in the best interest of the company for a person to keep their skills current. Therefore, regardless of whether the person takes initiative to keep his/her skills current, the company needs to make training, education, seminars, trade shows and other opportunities available to anyone that they value staying and growing with the company.
Voter registration is a non-partisan public service.
Sure would be if they registered both parties equally. But who is more likely to need the services of a voter registration service? People who are more likely to vote democratic, or people who are more likely to vote republican?
No, we would have the first female president instead of the first black one.
Hillary Clinton is to woman what Barack Obama is to black.
The GOP panders to racists and bigots, see the difference here? They run on hate. You can't see how that might be slightly troublesome?
Where as the Democrat party panders to racists and bigots who so desperately want to show how tolerant they are that they would elect a black president just to prove it.
How could they have used their name if they required ID?
Presumably, they had sufficient ID (fake, obviously) to convince a poll worker.
And their ID?
Presumably so. Although in some cases, the imposters had apparently voted absentee earlier.
For some reason it's racist to ask for ID to vote.
Not in my state. ID is required. And you can only vote once. They cross your name off. I know several people who were not allowed to vote even though they had ID because someone had shown up earlier than them at the poll and voted using their name.
We should control bullets and not guns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrFVtmRXrw
That makes sense to me.
Customer 1: "Hello, I would like to buy a case of bullets."
Clerk: "Yes, sir. Here you are."
Customer 2: "Hello, I would like to buy a bullet."
Clerk: "Yes, sir. Just stand over here while I call over an ATF agent."
"Nor is it the company' obligation to collect and pay that sales tax."
Do you mean ethically or legally? The whole point of the article is that it is the company's legal obligation to collect the tax.
Of course ethically. Legally, they are supposedly required to if this passes, but ethically, you cannot require an entity that receives no benefit from your state to collect sales tax for your state and submit it. The same can be said for out of state payroll tax, which companies are also legally required to collect, but by all logic and ethics, should not.
positive ROI within 2 years
Great, now revise that so it says 1 quarter, and we're good to go.
Not really. The cloud part here is only about storage - and you have the relatively slow ISP link in between. Mainframes were doing the actual computing work. And in the meantime, data requirements growth have outstipped network speed growth.
We're now thinking of 20 GB as a smallish amount of data. Some 20-25 years ago, 20 MB was a smallish amount. My current download is 8 Mb/s, about 4,000 times the 2.4 kb modem back then. However my upload is a mere 640 kb/s- just 30 times modem speed. So sending data to the cloud takes longer for modern upload speeds, and modern data needs, compared to the mainframe era.
Also most of those mainframes were accessed over LANs, which were much faster of course than modems. Not as fast as modern LAN but again data demand growth has outstripped network speed growth there as well.
Well then it sounds like what we need to do is move to an architecture where the bulk of the processing is on the local machine and that the bulk of the data is on the local machine as well. Sounds good to me.
Socialism is "from each according to his ability and to each according to his work." Kind of negates your stance, huh?
Yes, funny how changing one single word changes the meaning of a phrase, huh?
Karl Marx: "Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!"
Translation: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs)".
So, I am able to build 16 widgets an hour, while the next guy is able to build 8 widgets an hour. However, we both need 3 square meals a day, so we both get 3 square meals a day. Where is the incentive for me to keep producing 16 widgets, when the next guy only has to produce 8 and gets the same benefit?
"nearly 50 times per year", I don't think so. It's probably closer to 200 times per year. I was an independent contractor in NM for a while, and I had to pay the tax quarterly. Even if you didn't have any tax to pay for a quarter, you still needed to file a report, and if you didn't there were penalties.
I had to pay sales tax monthly in my state, and it had to be online. Undoubtedly some states it is annually, and some states it depends on how much sales tax you collect. This is the whole problem. How can anyone expect any business to keep track of 50 different payers with dozens of different payment intervals, some of them being online, some of them being paper based, with hundreds of thousands of taxing districts each of which could have different taxes for different types of products.
All because some people don't pay Use Tax and the state governments want somebody else to foot the bill to collect money for them.
Oh, did I mention that some states charge businesses an annual fee for the privilege of collecting sales tax for them?
Now, some states do allow the company to keep a small percentage of the sales tax (2-3%) for "paperwork". So if you buy something for a dollar, then the company gets to keep about 1/5 of a cent for paperwork costs. If they were willing to increase this amount and make it mandatory, then I think online retailers could handle the additional hassle. If they allowed online retailers to keep, say 5000 to 6000% of the sales tax they collected, then it would probably cover the expense of compliance.
Charge sales tax on the wrong item and get caught and the fine is rather steep even if it's an honest mistake.
Fortunately, such a fine against a company not located in the state would not be enforceable, just as forcing a company not in the states jurisdiction to collect sales tax is unenforceable (and also unconstitutional).
There is not internet loophole. you still have to pay your use tax. it is probably the exact same as your sales tax rate. It is not the company's fault if you don't pay your tax. Nor is it the company' obligation to collect and pay that sales tax. Not unless your state is going to send the police or fire department over to their warehouse three states over when there is an emergency.
how is this 1 person suposed to handle tax law in over 2000 different locations?
It's not 2,000 different locations. It's much more. My state has over 100,000 different taxing locations. They used to mail me notices of taxing district changes. It was about three per week. But that got to be too expensive, so the state simply stopped sending notices when districts changed taxing rates. Of course, you still had to comply even if you had no way of knowing about the change.
If my STATE has this many taxing districts, then how many are there in the whole U.S.? 5 million?
What do so many Americans have such fear/hatred of Socialism?
Because socialism is a race to the bottom. I like to work hard and do a good job and get paid more than the next slob. However, in socialism, it doesn't matter how hard you work, you get paid the same amount. So therefore, you should work as little as possible.
see them stick to putting a good sound system (with possibly an equalizer) into a car .01% would have actually used a frequency analyzer to determine the proper balance.
But if they did that, then 95% of the cars would have all of the faders slid to the max, 4.99% would have them in a bathtub curve, and only
I am a software developer with no professional experience as a mechanic. I completely tore down the engine and transmission on my '88 Lotus Esprit (no longer have it unfortunately. Inflation skyrocketed and my salary stayed the same). I replaced all the seals, gaskets and rings, cleaned all the parts, put it back together, and it ran. I had SOME help from a mechanic friend, but mostly I did it myself. It was a rewarding experience and helped me to better understand my vehicle and engines in general.