"Restrict" means that you have to say where the money you're spending came from. The idea is to stop people funneling money anonymously into ads where then noone knows what the agenda behind the ad is. You can still buy the ads, you just have to say whose money it is. For example, say Amnesty International ran an ad, they would have to disclose whose donations went to pay for the ad. That is more restricted than the current situation, where they can run the ad, and probably don't even have to say it's AI, let alone whose money AI is spending.
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This hypothesis does nothing but make me think of that episode of the West Wing where they're debating whether or not to announce in the State of the Union speech that within 10 years the US will develop a cure for cancer.
There are far better ways of spending bajillions of dollars on research than by funding ways of killing people.
Actually, under the CFR you can run any ads you want, as long as you say where the money came from in the ad. Hollings isn't up again until 2004, but then you could run a long "Hollings is a Disney-funded luddite" commercial, as long as at the end you said "Paid for by JordanH" and filed the appropriate forms with the federal elections commission.
Six degrees of Google Bacon. How many links (and what's the path) to get from any page on the web to Kevin Bacon's personal homepage.
Or more interesting from any page to any other page.
Actually, the one major thing I think Outlook does better than Evolution is exactly this -- allow you to file messages somewhat easily. I have 626 email folders on my IMAP server, going as much as 8 levels deep in a tree. With outlook, I can modify to toolbar to have a "move selected messages" button, then click that -- most recent 10 destinations are in a pull down. If I want some other folder, then just like Pine, I can type the first character of the folder name, then the -> arrow to expand the folder (instead of pine's tab-completion), then type the first character of the next level folder, etc. Easy. And Outlook even seems pretty good about re-collapsing folders. Evolution on the other hand doesn't let you type folder names, so you have to scroll and click with the mouse (slow with 600+ folders), and automatically expands all the folders for you (making it really hard to find what you're looking for). In my experience, Pine and Outlook are both about equally usable, evolution is a little worse, but could easily be improved.
But thousands of American civilians are already dead in this conflict, greater civilian losses than in any war in U.S. history
I suppose you're thinking of overseas wars, and probably just overlooking the lengthy wars fought within the US, like the Revolution, where it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of civilians died as a result of the fighting; or the civil war where diseases bred in the camps of the soldiers spread like wildfire through the general population, again killing tens or hundreds of thousands. While the loss of 6,000+ in the WTC is a lot of american civilians, it's certainly not the most civilian casualties in any american war.
and the society here wasn't centric to drinking oneself sick before 11:00pm (when the pubs close) things wouldn't be so bad
That and the 25% rate of people who are not employed (you can't even use the unemployment figures in the UK anymore they've become so politically doctored -- you have to subtract from 100 the employed percentage)
2000 hits from a single IP is probably something like 200 machines, all infected, sitting behind a NAT box or something similar. Possibly a web farm of 200 odd boxen sharing an ip address... Remember that one IP address does not mean one computer.
I always just stroll right out of Fry's after buying stuff without looking at the pink-X nazi -- seems to work about 100% of the time -- they aren't paid enough to actually demand your receipt from you.
Yes, but what I really care about (which landed me in a 911) is being able to pull onto highway 101 in the bay area without getting creamed by some idiot in an SUV wearing sunglasses and talking on his cellphone while changing CDs with his other hand. Changing lanes while going from 50-80 is the key here. I did manage to find info in their PDF brochure that top speed in the T-zero is 90mph (governor limited), and it mentions it does 35-50 in 1.4 seconds (not bad at all), but no mention of non-straightline acceleration or acceleration at freeway speeds.
But... property taxes are paid disproportionately by people who actually own some real estate. Poorer people who live in the township (and typically rent rather than own) still have access to the library -- for them it's free. Their children have access to the same books that the rich kids have access to. Call me a whining liberal, but I think that's a Good Thing.
Doesn't come from a different domain. Clearly is a web bug though. If a company wants to use web bugs, and is prepared to have someone be inserting them into their HTML, they'll add a DNS entry or two if necessary too.
Yey! Once again I get to have a cool looking cube box running some spinoff version of Unix where all of the command line options are very slightly different. Except now the cube will be fluorescent blue and semi-transparent instead of jet black.
All just a little bit of history repeating.
Who'd have thought that when Apple bought NeXT, NeXT would end up winning??
Why is it that people believe that AIs can outlive humans? How many electronic/mechanical devices do you know of that can even last 10 years? I know you can piecewise replace parts that fail, but even with that strategy, how many devices do you know that experience regular use that continue to function after 25 years?
Check out their financial statements. Certain select bits are reproduced here:
(Formerly Galveston Oil & Gas, Inc)
The statement is unaudited
Something like $2MM seems to have shown up on the balance sheet along with around 11 million shares, but there's no mention of a sale of securities.
The company came into existence after a somewhat shady reverse merger with a holding company that typically is a sign of someone trying to conceal the actual ownership of a company, especially since the holding company used to be in the Oil&Gas business
The most fun part though is that this reverse merger seems to have already generated a lawsuit.
No mention of how they plan to actually generate revenues either.
Don't know how long I give the company in terms of survival. Maybe Google can buy them up cheap when they go chapter 11, or whatever a delaware corporation whose head office is canada fileswhen it goes out of business. Though maybe Google'd want to stear clear of the lawsuits that might follow. Anyone else have a perspective on this aspect of the company?
For some reason, possibly lack of substantial understanding, option grants seem to today be equated largely with their purely financial significance. People view them like lottery tickets, but they are in fact more than that. The difference is that unlike lottery tickets, you can affect the value of the options, or at least the underlying equity. Being granted options in a company should really be thought of as separate from the compensation package. It's about ownership as much as about money. I wouldn't work at a company that didn't offer me some amount of ownership; call me an evil capitalist but I like to be involved with the direction of the company, whoever small that part may be. Once your options vest though, if you exercise even 1 of them, you become a stockholder in the company, which grants you a number of rights that you wouldn't otherwise have. Exactly what rights vary from stock plan to stock plan, and from state to state (the state where the company is incorporated typically, not where it is physically), but they will always include a right to access to financial details not available to non-owners, review of details of board meetings, and *advance* notification of major company decisions that require a vote of the existing shareholders (this includes things like subsequent investments, acquisitions, IPOs, etc, etc). I also would never hire an employee who wasn't willing to take stock options. Taking an options package shows an interest in the growth of the company beyond simply trying to maintain the existence of your job. Employees that I hire *really fast* are the ones who ask me if they can take less cash in exchange for more options. Whether the company succeeds or fails in the long run is not simply a matter of the performance of the management team. The whole company has to pull together, through thick and thin, and all be focussed on the same target, which is the growth of the equity of the company. Curiously, this is also the goal of just about 100% of investors out there too. Capitalism is about competition, but to be truly successful in a capitalist world, you have to cooperate too.
"Liquidation Preferences" as described in this are the rights attributed to a type of stock called "Participating Prefered" stock. It is quite unusual to see this these days, with an oversupply of VCs and cash, and a relative shortage of good ideas looking for money. If the company-side lawyers are halfway decent, and the company isn't super desperate, you'll be unlikely to see participating prefered; if you *do* see it, call the VCs on it, and they'll more than likely scale back to straight prefered. If they won't, then shop around and find someone who will give you better terms. On acceleration, this is also atypical for all but the most senior employees, and even then not a given. Acceleration causes trouble in the event of an acquisition if it's not properly structured. This is because of the technical details of how an acquisition happens. If there is a change in the equity positions in the company shortly prior to an acquisition, it makes it hard to account for the acquisition as a Pooling Of Interests, which makes it less attractive to the buyer. It means that any "goodwill" in the acquisition price (that is, the difference between the book value of the acquired company and the price paid for it) shows up on the expense side of the acquirer's balance sheet. Ever heard those "Earnings were $x or $x+nnot including a one time charge associated with the acquisition of company Y" things? That's goodwill showing up on the wrong side of the balance sheet. Companies typically don't care about individual engineers enough to grant them acceleration, and even if they do, it might have to be waived if the company negotiates an acquisition. IANAL, nor an accountant, but IAA entrepreneur.
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"Restrict" means that you have to say where the money you're spending came from. The idea is to stop people funneling money anonymously into ads where then noone knows what the agenda behind the ad is. You can still buy the ads, you just have to say whose money it is. For example, say Amnesty International ran an ad, they would have to disclose whose donations went to pay for the ad. That is more restricted than the current situation, where they can run the ad, and probably don't even have to say it's AI, let alone whose money AI is spending.
This hypothesis does nothing but make me think of that episode of the West Wing where they're debating whether or not to announce in the State of the Union speech that within 10 years the US will develop a cure for cancer.
There are far better ways of spending bajillions of dollars on research than by funding ways of killing people.
Actually, under the CFR you can run any ads you want, as long as you say where the money came from in the ad. Hollings isn't up again until 2004, but then you could run a long "Hollings is a Disney-funded luddite" commercial, as long as at the end you said "Paid for by JordanH" and filed the appropriate forms with the federal elections commission.
Whoever created that calculator clearly never tried to buy a house in Menlo Park.
I vote for siting the 30x30 mile hole in Washington, DC
That's a common misperception. Take a closer look at the ninth amendment.
Six degrees of Google Bacon. How many links (and what's the path) to get from any page on the web to Kevin Bacon's personal homepage. Or more interesting from any page to any other page.
Actually, the one major thing I think Outlook does better than Evolution is exactly this -- allow you to file messages somewhat easily. I have 626 email folders on my IMAP server, going as much as 8 levels deep in a tree. With outlook, I can modify to toolbar to have a "move selected messages" button, then click that -- most recent 10 destinations are in a pull down. If I want some other folder, then just like Pine, I can type the first character of the folder name, then the -> arrow to expand the folder (instead of pine's tab-completion), then type the first character of the next level folder, etc. Easy. And Outlook even seems pretty good about re-collapsing folders. Evolution on the other hand doesn't let you type folder names, so you have to scroll and click with the mouse (slow with 600+ folders), and automatically expands all the folders for you (making it really hard to find what you're looking for). In my experience, Pine and Outlook are both about equally usable, evolution is a little worse, but could easily be improved.
Surely 100GB of RAM will still be the cheaper way to go.
But thousands of American civilians are already dead in this conflict, greater civilian losses than in any war in U.S. history
I suppose you're thinking of overseas wars, and probably just overlooking the lengthy wars fought within the US, like the Revolution, where it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of civilians died as a result of the fighting; or the civil war where diseases bred in the camps of the soldiers spread like wildfire through the general population, again killing tens or hundreds of thousands. While the loss of 6,000+ in the WTC is a lot of american civilians, it's certainly not the most civilian casualties in any american war.
and the society here wasn't centric to drinking oneself sick before 11:00pm (when the pubs close) things wouldn't be so bad
That and the 25% rate of people who are not employed (you can't even use the unemployment figures in the UK anymore they've become so politically doctored -- you have to subtract from 100 the employed percentage)
2000 hits from a single IP is probably something like 200 machines, all infected, sitting behind a NAT box or something similar. Possibly a web farm of 200 odd boxen sharing an ip address... Remember that one IP address does not mean one computer.
Thank goodness Disney is still independent. I'm sure they'll save us from the whole MS/NAWCAT duopoly.
I always just stroll right out of Fry's after buying stuff without looking at the pink-X nazi -- seems to work about 100% of the time -- they aren't paid enough to actually demand your receipt from you.
Next time, I hope we elect a president who is smart enough to run the country, and not just sell it to the highest bidder.
Uh... we did.
Yes, but what I really care about (which landed me in a 911) is being able to pull onto highway 101 in the bay area without getting creamed by some idiot in an SUV wearing sunglasses and talking on his cellphone while changing CDs with his other hand. Changing lanes while going from 50-80 is the key here. I did manage to find info in their PDF brochure that top speed in the T-zero is 90mph (governor limited), and it mentions it does 35-50 in 1.4 seconds (not bad at all), but no mention of non-straightline acceleration or acceleration at freeway speeds.
But... property taxes are paid disproportionately by people who actually own some real estate. Poorer people who live in the township (and typically rent rather than own) still have access to the library -- for them it's free. Their children have access to the same books that the rich kids have access to. Call me a whining liberal, but I think that's a Good Thing.
Doesn't come from a different domain. Clearly is a web bug though. If a company wants to use web bugs, and is prepared to have someone be inserting them into their HTML, they'll add a DNS entry or two if necessary too.
Yey! Once again I get to have a cool looking cube box running some spinoff version of Unix where all of the command line options are very slightly different. Except now the cube will be fluorescent blue and semi-transparent instead of jet black.
All just a little bit of history repeating.
Who'd have thought that when Apple bought NeXT, NeXT would end up winning??
Tax deductions count against earnings. So TCO for linux is still lower amongst dotcoms.
Why is it that people believe that AIs can outlive humans? How many electronic/mechanical devices do you know of that can even last 10 years? I know you can piecewise replace parts that fail, but even with that strategy, how many devices do you know that experience regular use that continue to function after 25 years?
- (Formerly Galveston Oil & Gas, Inc)
- The statement is unaudited
- Something like $2MM seems to have shown up on the balance sheet along with around 11 million shares, but there's no mention of a sale of securities.
- The company came into existence after a somewhat shady reverse merger with a holding company that typically is a sign of someone trying to conceal the actual ownership of a company, especially since the holding company used to be in the Oil&Gas business
- The most fun part though is that this reverse merger seems to have already generated a lawsuit.
- No mention of how they plan to actually generate revenues either.
Don't know how long I give the company in terms of survival. Maybe Google can buy them up cheap when they go chapter 11, or whatever a delaware corporation whose head office is canada fileswhen it goes out of business. Though maybe Google'd want to stear clear of the lawsuits that might follow. Anyone else have a perspective on this aspect of the company?...plus you'd have to buy your own coasters for the two year period where AOL owns you and they don't send you the "free minutes" CDs.
For some reason, possibly lack of substantial understanding, option grants seem to today be equated largely with their purely financial significance. People view them like lottery tickets, but they are in fact more than that. The difference is that unlike lottery tickets, you can affect the value of the options, or at least the underlying equity.
Being granted options in a company should really be thought of as separate from the compensation package. It's about ownership as much as about money. I wouldn't work at a company that didn't offer me some amount of ownership; call me an evil capitalist but I like to be involved with the direction of the company, whoever small that part may be. Once your options vest though, if you exercise even 1 of them, you become a stockholder in the company, which grants you a number of rights that you wouldn't otherwise have. Exactly what rights vary from stock plan to stock plan, and from state to state (the state where the company is incorporated typically, not where it is physically), but they will always include a right to access to financial details not available to non-owners, review of details of board meetings, and *advance* notification of major company decisions that require a vote of the existing shareholders (this includes things like subsequent investments, acquisitions, IPOs, etc, etc).
I also would never hire an employee who wasn't willing to take stock options. Taking an options package shows an interest in the growth of the company beyond simply trying to maintain the existence of your job. Employees that I hire *really fast* are the ones who ask me if they can take less cash in exchange for more options. Whether the company succeeds or fails in the long run is not simply a matter of the performance of the management team. The whole company has to pull together, through thick and thin, and all be focussed on the same target, which is the growth of the equity of the company. Curiously, this is also the goal of just about 100% of investors out there too. Capitalism is about competition, but to be truly successful in a capitalist world, you have to cooperate too.
"Liquidation Preferences" as described in this are the rights attributed to a type of stock called "Participating Prefered" stock. It is quite unusual to see this these days, with an oversupply of VCs and cash, and a relative shortage of good ideas looking for money. If the company-side lawyers are halfway decent, and the company isn't super desperate, you'll be unlikely to see participating prefered; if you *do* see it, call the VCs on it, and they'll more than likely scale back to straight prefered. If they won't, then shop around and find someone who will give you better terms.
On acceleration, this is also atypical for all but the most senior employees, and even then not a given. Acceleration causes trouble in the event of an acquisition if it's not properly structured. This is because of the technical details of how an acquisition happens. If there is a change in the equity positions in the company shortly prior to an acquisition, it makes it hard to account for the acquisition as a Pooling Of Interests, which makes it less attractive to the buyer. It means that any "goodwill" in the acquisition price (that is, the difference between the book value of the acquired company and the price paid for it) shows up on the expense side of the acquirer's balance sheet. Ever heard those "Earnings were $x or $x+nnot including a one time charge associated with the acquisition of company Y" things? That's goodwill showing up on the wrong side of the balance sheet. Companies typically don't care about individual engineers enough to grant them acceleration, and even if they do, it might have to be waived if the company negotiates an acquisition.
IANAL, nor an accountant, but IAA entrepreneur.