I tend to agree but you'd better get legal advice. I set up an LLC some years ago and the whole thing cost around $600 -- lawyer fees etc. On the other hand, the annual fee to the state to maintain this is $10.00. Although I'm currently salaried I do pay this just to keep it going.
The "bad" things about being self-employed,in my opinion,are:
Extra Social Security.
Hideously expensive medical insurance.
The fact that Uncle Sam doesn't let you deduct all of the medical premium (but if you're salaried your medical insurance is a benefit). My accountant referred to it as "BOHICA" - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
No work, no pay (now I get 20 vacation + public holidays + sick time)
You only get hired for what you know but if you're salaried there's always a chance of employer-paid education.
I fly almost every week. How could these terroists do it? Have you seen the quality of personnel manning the security checkpoints? If there are 3 of them, then there you have a combined IQ of 3 - plus or minus 5. Most of these people couldn't get a job in your states Motor Vehicle Dept. And, lest anyone forget, how many times has some local TV news person reported on how easy it was for him/her to get into an empty plane on the ground at some large airport? The sad truth is, security is mostly directed at the honest individuals. Others will find the flaws and exploit them. Facial recognition systems are not likely to remedy that.
It's often called "The Morris Minor Syndrome". Back in the early 50's (and, boy, do I date myself) there was a British car called the Morris Minor which looked quite a bit like the post-war Volkswagens. Whereas the Germans gradually and incrementally improved the VW, the Morris was never updated and became so outdated it was finally euthanized by the public. (for instance, by the early 60's it still had semaphore flags to indicate an intention to turn rather than flashing indicators). British motorcycles suffered much the same fate. I don't believe it had anything to do with monopoly but, unfortunately, blinkered and incompetent management.
I'm in no way qualified to comment on the law but the posting that urges you to get your own lawyer is absolutely right! I hope you're either Incorporated or an LLC and have decent Liability insurance. If not, your rear could be way more exposed than you'd like.
I find it interesting, if not amusing, that the Slashdot crowd always seem to overlook one powerful OS. I refer, of course, to IBM's MVS. I've been working (and fighting) this and its antecedents for almost the Unix lifetime. Don't forget that OS/360 dates back to 1966 or thereabouts. True, it doesn't have the file system elegance of Unix and its Job Control Language is a horror designed by assembler programmers but nonetheless, as a secure, robust, transaction processing OS I suspect it can out-perform Unix. I would be interested to see if Linux/390 (if that's what IBM will call it) can out-perform MVS but I doubt that that will happen any time soon.
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I tend to agree but you'd better get legal advice. I set up an LLC some years ago and the whole thing cost around $600 -- lawyer fees etc. On the other hand, the annual fee to the state to maintain this is $10.00. Although I'm currently salaried I do pay this just to keep it going.
The "bad" things about being self-employed,in my opinion,are:
Extra Social Security.
Hideously expensive medical insurance.
The fact that Uncle Sam doesn't let you deduct all of the medical premium (but if you're salaried your medical insurance is a benefit). My accountant referred to it as "BOHICA" - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
No work, no pay (now I get 20 vacation + public holidays + sick time)
You only get hired for what you know but if you're salaried there's always a chance of employer-paid education.
But, whatever, good luck.
I fly almost every week. How could these terroists do it? Have you seen the quality of personnel manning the security checkpoints? If there are 3 of them, then there you have a combined IQ of 3 - plus or minus 5. Most of these people couldn't get a job in your states Motor Vehicle Dept. And, lest anyone forget, how many times has some local TV news person reported on how easy it was for him/her to get into an empty plane on the ground at some large airport? The sad truth is, security is mostly directed at the honest individuals. Others will find the flaws and exploit them. Facial recognition systems are not likely to remedy that.
It's often called "The Morris Minor Syndrome". Back in the early 50's (and, boy, do I date myself) there was a British car called the Morris Minor which looked quite a bit like the post-war Volkswagens. Whereas the Germans gradually and incrementally improved the VW, the Morris was never updated and became so outdated it was finally euthanized by the public. (for instance, by the early 60's it still had semaphore flags to indicate an intention to turn rather than flashing indicators). British motorcycles suffered much the same fate. I don't believe it had anything to do with monopoly but, unfortunately, blinkered and incompetent management.
I'm in no way qualified to comment on the law but the posting that urges you to get your own lawyer is absolutely right! I hope you're either Incorporated or an LLC and have decent Liability insurance. If not, your rear could be way more exposed than you'd like.
I find it interesting, if not amusing, that the Slashdot crowd always seem to overlook one powerful OS. I refer, of course, to IBM's MVS. I've been working (and fighting) this and its antecedents for almost the Unix lifetime. Don't forget that OS/360 dates back to 1966 or thereabouts.
True, it doesn't have the file system elegance of Unix and its Job Control Language is a horror designed by assembler programmers but nonetheless, as a secure, robust, transaction processing OS I suspect it can out-perform Unix.
I would be interested to see if Linux/390 (if that's what IBM will call it) can out-perform MVS but I doubt that that will happen any time soon.