It depends on what's in the contract you signed. I've never looked that closely at mine, but if your phone requests a packet and the provider sends it that doesn't seem like fraud to me.
The wireless provider is resending the packets, same as UPS tries to deliver a package a couple of times before telling you to come to the distribution center and pick it up yourself. Those retries by UPS are built into the shipping price whether they happen or not.
If I understand what you're saying, you could patent an implementation of quicksort written in C++ and compiled in Visual Studio. But I could write quicksort in Python and your patent doesn't apply (because quicksort is an algorithm - recursive partition sort).
Larger tanks could/would make sense for home heating as well as hot water. Some wood fired systems use 1000 gallon tanks that are heated once a day or less, no reason an electric heater couldn't be on a smart meter that kicks on when there's excess capacity (e.g. wind is blowing hard in the afternoon, use it then).
The linked motherboard essay places most of the blame on global warming, but the 2011 paper concludes:
While there have been several suggested origins of the food price increases, we find the dominant
ones to be investor speculation and ethanol production.
I'm more inclined to believe the latter, because there was never a shortage of grain - just high prices. The US wasted millions of tons of grain making ethanol in a misguided attempt to not burn fossil fuel.
It's a weird coincidence that all these stories are coming up now.
Not a coincidence at all. This is an election year in the US and the sitting President is trying to cut space spending and shift the money to social programs.
Because the United States of America is a federation of states ('United States", get it?). The voters in each state decide on their own who gets their vote for President.
The problem with speed limits is they do not take into consideration the vehicle that's being driven, the vehicle's tires, or other various factors that contribute to the safety of those speeds.
Unfortunately, most drivers don't take those factors into consideration either. Especially after a few beers.
In your example you (1) Borrow $1M, (2) Buy stock, (3) Sell stock. There is no tax due on the $1M anywhere because it wasn't income. If the stock goes up by 10% you have a capital gain and owe tax on that $100K, but if the stock goes down by 10% you have a loss of $100K and need to find a way to pay back the loan.
The complaint is that tax laws treat some compensation differently. If you are paid $1M in salary you owe income tax on $1M. But there are ways you could receive something other than salary that might be worth $1M at some time in the future, and when that future date arrives the $1M is treated as investment income instead of salary. This is where the $150K came from, 15% on capital gains rather than whatever the tax rate is on a $1M salary.
Whether the "complaint" applies to Romney or not, the fact is that he paid the taxes that he was required to pay.
Some might scream that he used tax laws to his advantage. But I guarantee you multi-millionaires Obama, Biden, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Emanuel, etc. all play by the same tax laws.
Only the wealthy have enough money to bear the risk of investment. Or did you fail to notice all these retirement funds
Again, mixing unrelated concepts. Retirement plans fall under yet another set of rules intended to encourage the middle class to save for retirement.
Unless you are insolvent you have some savings, and no matter where you keep that money it should be earning capital gains. Being rich has nothing to do with it, other than the amount of money involved.
since that money was already taxed once when me and all of his other customers earned it
Nope, the plumber's earned income falls under a completely different set of rules. The reasoning behind lower taxes for long term capital gains is to encourage investment in activities that create jobs.
It isn't so much about keeping things secret as it is about keeping the other side on the defensive. If Romney releases his tax returns the Democrats will demand something else, and something else, ad nauseum. The more you distract from the other party's message the better so Romney put a hard stop on their first silly request.
If the tax returns are released they won't show anything we don't already know, very much like when Obama finally released his birth certificate. Now if Obama would release his transcripts from college and law school, that would be interesting. He must really be hiding something there...
If you think it will make you better it just might. As long as the treatment doesn't cost much they may as well let the patients cure themselves. Some might even enjoy a good colon cleansing now and then.
Unfortunately PACS are only the tip of the iceberg. Individuals like the Koch brothers and George Soros, and organizations like the Tides Foundation pass hundreds of millions of dollars through to smaller organizations that actually spend the money, hiding the source and amount that the original donors are actually spending.
Tides alone probably gives more to liberal causes than all the PACs listed above give to conservatives.
You obviously don't know what the term Human Capital means:
Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
The term has no degrading or evil connotations, quite the opposite actually. Obama fumbles around mentioning skills and education, he just doesn't know the proper term to describe them, which is "Human Capital".
If NASA is funding development then it's not private.
If private companies want to develop their own space vehicles and offer their service for hire that's fine, but it's in addition to what NASA does (that's the Republican platform). Democrat platform seems to depend on what state the day's speech is delivered in.
1% chance each year of being stolen by someone who's going to exploit the data on it (rather than just reformat it and sell or use it)
A 1% chance of a lost or stolen laptop might not be out of line. This study was about protecting corporate data, not Aunt Minnie's recipe collection. You need to assume the data will be exploited if it can be.That means investigating what was on the drive, changing passwords, possibly informing various government agencies, etc. The cost of lost financial or medical data adds up very quickly even if the machine was wiped and sold on eBay.
A company I worked for about 10 years ago did a full audit of all PCs; they couldn't find somewhere around 25,000 machines. Lost, stolen, misplaced, decommissioned and scrapped with no record, etc.
I worked a couple of summers in Yellowstone when I was in college. About half of the employees were semi-retired couples living in RVs; they worked in northern parks during the summer and headed south for the winter. That lifestyle really means finding a place to park for months at a time and quickly making friends with the people around you. Otherwise you'll be eating dinner alone every night for weeks on end.
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There are thousands of forums on the subjects of education and politics. There is no reason to drag those flamewars into /.
It depends on what's in the contract you signed. I've never looked that closely at mine, but if your phone requests a packet and the provider sends it that doesn't seem like fraud to me.
The wireless provider is resending the packets, same as UPS tries to deliver a package a couple of times before telling you to come to the distribution center and pick it up yourself. Those retries by UPS are built into the shipping price whether they happen or not.
If I understand what you're saying, you could patent an implementation of quicksort written in C++ and compiled in Visual Studio. But I could write quicksort in Python and your patent doesn't apply (because quicksort is an algorithm - recursive partition sort).
Larger tanks could/would make sense for home heating as well as hot water. Some wood fired systems use 1000 gallon tanks that are heated once a day or less, no reason an electric heater couldn't be on a smart meter that kicks on when there's excess capacity (e.g. wind is blowing hard in the afternoon, use it then).
They're waiting for OS 30.0, a.k.a. OS XXX Pussy
One could make the same comment about people unfamiliar with copyright law deciding on their own what should be legal.
Google would probably top some benchmarks with their data centers. But they don't do number crunching like the Top 500.
While there have been several suggested origins of the food price increases, we find the dominant ones to be investor speculation and ethanol production.
I'm more inclined to believe the latter, because there was never a shortage of grain - just high prices. The US wasted millions of tons of grain making ethanol in a misguided attempt to not burn fossil fuel.
It's a weird coincidence that all these stories are coming up now.
Not a coincidence at all. This is an election year in the US and the sitting President is trying to cut space spending and shift the money to social programs.
Because the United States of America is a federation of states ('United States", get it?). The voters in each state decide on their own who gets their vote for President.
The problem with speed limits is they do not take into consideration the vehicle that's being driven, the vehicle's tires, or other various factors that contribute to the safety of those speeds.
Unfortunately, most drivers don't take those factors into consideration either. Especially after a few beers.
In your example you (1) Borrow $1M, (2) Buy stock, (3) Sell stock. There is no tax due on the $1M anywhere because it wasn't income. If the stock goes up by 10% you have a capital gain and owe tax on that $100K, but if the stock goes down by 10% you have a loss of $100K and need to find a way to pay back the loan.
The complaint is that tax laws treat some compensation differently. If you are paid $1M in salary you owe income tax on $1M. But there are ways you could receive something other than salary that might be worth $1M at some time in the future, and when that future date arrives the $1M is treated as investment income instead of salary. This is where the $150K came from, 15% on capital gains rather than whatever the tax rate is on a $1M salary.
By the way, this loophole is why Al Gore is worth $100M today
Whether the "complaint" applies to Romney or not, the fact is that he paid the taxes that he was required to pay.
Some might scream that he used tax laws to his advantage. But I guarantee you multi-millionaires Obama, Biden, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Emanuel, etc. all play by the same tax laws.
Only the wealthy have enough money to bear the risk of investment. Or did you fail to notice all these retirement funds
Again, mixing unrelated concepts. Retirement plans fall under yet another set of rules intended to encourage the middle class to save for retirement.
Unless you are insolvent you have some savings, and no matter where you keep that money it should be earning capital gains. Being rich has nothing to do with it, other than the amount of money involved.
since that money was already taxed once when me and all of his other customers earned it
Nope, the plumber's earned income falls under a completely different set of rules. The reasoning behind lower taxes for long term capital gains is to encourage investment in activities that create jobs.
It isn't so much about keeping things secret as it is about keeping the other side on the defensive. If Romney releases his tax returns the Democrats will demand something else, and something else, ad nauseum. The more you distract from the other party's message the better so Romney put a hard stop on their first silly request.
If the tax returns are released they won't show anything we don't already know, very much like when Obama finally released his birth certificate. Now if Obama would release his transcripts from college and law school, that would be interesting. He must really be hiding something there...
If you think it will make you better it just might. As long as the treatment doesn't cost much they may as well let the patients cure themselves. Some might even enjoy a good colon cleansing now and then.
Unfortunately PACS are only the tip of the iceberg. Individuals like the Koch brothers and George Soros, and organizations like the Tides Foundation pass hundreds of millions of dollars through to smaller organizations that actually spend the money, hiding the source and amount that the original donors are actually spending.
Tides alone probably gives more to liberal causes than all the PACs listed above give to conservatives.
Human capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
The term has no degrading or evil connotations, quite the opposite actually. Obama fumbles around mentioning skills and education, he just doesn't know the proper term to describe them, which is "Human Capital".
Right turn signal, right doors, etc. It has lefts too (left as an exercise for the reader).
If NASA is funding development then it's not private.
If private companies want to develop their own space vehicles and offer their service for hire that's fine, but it's in addition to what NASA does (that's the Republican platform). Democrat platform seems to depend on what state the day's speech is delivered in.
VPN doesn't work with a satellite.
1% chance each year of being stolen by someone who's going to exploit the data on it (rather than just reformat it and sell or use it)
A 1% chance of a lost or stolen laptop might not be out of line. This study was about protecting corporate data, not Aunt Minnie's recipe collection. You need to assume the data will be exploited if it can be.That means investigating what was on the drive, changing passwords, possibly informing various government agencies, etc. The cost of lost financial or medical data adds up very quickly even if the machine was wiped and sold on eBay.
A company I worked for about 10 years ago did a full audit of all PCs; they couldn't find somewhere around 25,000 machines. Lost, stolen, misplaced, decommissioned and scrapped with no record, etc.
I worked a couple of summers in Yellowstone when I was in college. About half of the employees were semi-retired couples living in RVs; they worked in northern parks during the summer and headed south for the winter. That lifestyle really means finding a place to park for months at a time and quickly making friends with the people around you. Otherwise you'll be eating dinner alone every night for weeks on end.