So if the radiation, metorites, temperature, subversive crewmembers, psychotic computers, lack of air, fuel, or water doesn't get you... the dirt will.
Now every company can do a simple paper transfer of their head office to Nevada (which has no personal income tax, iirc). Then they can say that they've just given all employees a signifigant pay raise in the form of tax benefits. Employees are happy they get more $ and shareholders are happy that the company does not have to give out raises for years. Alternately transfer telecommuters on paper one at a time to the Nevada offices at the moment they should receive raises. Not as nice, but gets the same effect.
This is just another reason, imho, that sales tax has always been a smarter way to go.
"People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
In other words, "Some say the internet grew because the government did nothing. I say if the government had done something to stop it then there wouldn't be any internet. That's why we should have more government controlling the internet."
...is he actually in favor of the internet, or does he just get off on creating more red tape?
I'm an independent game maker who recently started his own company.
- Nobody pays for linux. Big game companys are afraid no one will pay for linux games, either.
- Up until OSX it was just too much of a PITA to make games for Mac.
- Big game companies, by and large, are playing it safe. Since almost nobody made a fortune with a non-windows game, they don't see the benefit in giving it a try, either.
- Big game companies that make console games, by and large, release PC titles because they did a lot of their testing & debugging on PCs, so it's a freebie for them. A happy coincidence. Porting those games to linux & Mac is not in their budget (for the previously stated reason)
- Many independent game makers (myself included) make games for linux and mac. I myself hope to obtain a mac of some kind in the near future so I can start making OSX ports.
- Independent game makers are usually groups of 1 or 2 people and know their limitations. That's why they don't make games like System Shock or Operation Flashpoint or SimReligion or what have you. They *do* make smaller games full of the innovation that everyone says is so lacking these days.
Of course... these are all just IMHO.
I was making stir fry for me and a friend and accidentally dropped my spatula on the floor. Her dog came over, sniffed it, and walked away. I told her not to pick it up with bare hands because it was cursed.
I swear I'll find that damn amulet one of these days...
(For those of you who haven't figured it out, www.nethack.org)
I choose not to answer that question because I don't want my personal preferences used to second guess my actions and then have more advertising targeted my way.
First point: Why not run whole businesses that way, with open accounting and forcing renewal of corporate charters that have a limited "lifespan"?...sounds a hell of a lot like a socialist plan except that, being based around the internet, it doesn't need the top-down heirarchy. So at least it gets rid of the weakest link.
Second point: if the government were going to be run in a bottom-up, buzzword loaded "open source" system...why elect anyone?
When presented in it's simplest form, the argument skips over one teensy little detail: "outsourcing means cheaper IT products" is based on the delusion that lower overhead translates into lower prices. If you know of a capitalist system that has not succumbed to profiteering, and thus might actually work this way, please let me know. I got my bags all packed.
I'll get on the horn and tell those jackasses to send another crate ASAP. You owe me one sheep!
- Tony
- - - - - - - - - - - - From: Geoff Smiley To: Tony Coolridge Subject: Those Mixom Bastards!
Tony -
Those jerks at Mixom screwed up their shipping orders. *Again*! I still have my receipt for a container full of item #692-B on page twelve of their summer catalogue, "100m (approx) duct tape". What do they send me? 629-B, MartianBuddy Inflatable RealSheep. At least I can sell them to recoup my loss.
In other news, I'm really starting to hate the fact that this base seems to have a total of three women. I'm sure that's from the same brilliant planning committee that decided to decorate everything in industrial gothic. Talk about 150 years out of date! Anyways, I decided to take matters into my own hands (pun not intended), but when I made my way down to EnPron today to see that plain girl all I found was her torso. What turns my stomach isn't that she's dead - It's that somebody on this base is getting a little head even as we speak.
In conclusion, if you could give Mixom a little nudge for me, I'd really appreciate it.
I lived & worked in Israel for 2 years, all up and down the country. The most frightening time I had was the first two weeks, during which every ride on a public bus was an adventure in paranoia. Then I started to relax. After all, you're surrounded by soldiers *who are on your side*. Yes, they could be a little rude. Yes, there is a bit of a culture shock. At the end of the day, if you are the kind of person who can adapt well to new environments and not let your loved ones back home make you stress out then I say go for it. The only thing I feel I should strongly reccomend is get to learn the local language. There's nothing worse than feeling alone in a crowd of friends when they all start speaking the local tongue.
Well if you're really all that (and fries on the side) then the thing to do would be to find a way to take a huge number of classes (or finish extra fast). For example, you could use polyphasic sleep to give you enough time to party and do your studying. Also if you show up for the starts and ends of classes then you're there long enough to hand in/get next assignments. the time you save will enable you to overlap classes, study at your speed (instead of sleeping in class). Of course you can still meet up with ppl at the ends of class, trade notes, help them study, and be social like that. I'm sure others will post ideas on how you could do better than average.
So the solution to the DMCA problem would seem to be to
a) build an XBox that kills people
and/or
b) build an XBox entirely out of car parts, like some giant vegetable-oil & solar powered Difference Engine that runs Unreal Tournament.
When you get the AI sorted out, could you build me a robot doctor? Must be able to perform with >= performance to a human in the categories of:
outpatient
- most accurate diagnosis
- least expensive therapy reccomendation
- (some kind of metric for preventative therapies?)
inpatient:
- greatest patient survival
- least patient recuperation time
- least time to complete operation
- least scarring
Why don't we stop bitchin' and moanin' and get some japanese slashdotters down to this guy's shop. do a little interview, take a little look see......sneak in a keychain sized video camera... and then report back to us about what the real deal is. Then the issue will be settled and we can all go back to compiling kernels while wishing we were out on a date....not that that has ever happened to me.
----- After all is said and done...usually more is said.
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/min/index_e.cfm
is her official homepage, and there is an online comments form. now THAT deserves to be slashdotted. Preferably with links to the reports that CD sales are up despite file trading. If I could have found such a link, I would have posted it here to simplify your (our?) lives.
Keep your WiFi HD in a vent or something. Recharge as necessary, maybe run a power line into that secret spot. If politzei raid your house and steal - i mean, confiscate everything that looks techie, you wait until they are gone and then run to someone you trust with your WiFi HD. let them copy it, and return before the bad guys return to say "ho, wait a minute, we have records here of another drive. hand it over." you gladly and apologetically give them the device knowing that (a) your data is safe and (b) anything incriminating was *totally* removed when you visiited your friend.
Slashdot Mirror
So if the radiation, metorites, temperature, subversive crewmembers, psychotic computers, lack of air, fuel, or water doesn't get you... the dirt will.
...I'd still go.
(strip soft/first post?)
Now every company can do a simple paper transfer of their head office to Nevada (which has no personal income tax, iirc). Then they can say that they've just given all employees a signifigant pay raise in the form of tax benefits. Employees are happy they get more $ and shareholders are happy that the company does not have to give out raises for years. Alternately transfer telecommuters on paper one at a time to the Nevada offices at the moment they should receive raises. Not as nice, but gets the same effect.
This is just another reason, imho, that sales tax has always been a smarter way to go.
"People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
...is he actually in favor of the internet, or does he just get off on creating more red tape?
In other words, "Some say the internet grew because the government did nothing. I say if the government had done something to stop it then there wouldn't be any internet. That's why we should have more government controlling the internet."
Let's not forget the HMS Natalie Portman.
I'm an independent game maker who recently started his own company.
- Nobody pays for linux. Big game companys are afraid no one will pay for linux games, either.
- Up until OSX it was just too much of a PITA to make games for Mac.
- Big game companies, by and large, are playing it safe. Since almost nobody made a fortune with a non-windows game, they don't see the benefit in giving it a try, either.
- Big game companies that make console games, by and large, release PC titles because they did a lot of their testing & debugging on PCs, so it's a freebie for them. A happy coincidence. Porting those games to linux & Mac is not in their budget (for the previously stated reason)
- Many independent game makers (myself included) make games for linux and mac. I myself hope to obtain a mac of some kind in the near future so I can start making OSX ports.
- Independent game makers are usually groups of 1 or 2 people and know their limitations. That's why they don't make games like System Shock or Operation Flashpoint or SimReligion or what have you. They *do* make smaller games full of the innovation that everyone says is so lacking these days. Of course... these are all just IMHO.
I was making stir fry for me and a friend and accidentally dropped my spatula on the floor. Her dog came over, sniffed it, and walked away. I told her not to pick it up with bare hands because it was cursed. I swear I'll find that damn amulet one of these days... (For those of you who haven't figured it out, www.nethack.org)
Wake up, Mr. Freeman!
Wake up...and smell your motherboard melting.
I choose not to answer that question because I don't want my personal preferences used to second guess my actions and then have more advertising targeted my way.
First point: Why not run whole businesses that way, with open accounting and forcing renewal of corporate charters that have a limited "lifespan"? ...sounds a hell of a lot like a socialist plan except that, being based around the internet, it doesn't need the top-down heirarchy. So at least it gets rid of the weakest link.
Second point: if the government were going to be run in a bottom-up, buzzword loaded "open source" system...why elect anyone?
As any mathematician who's ever been on a date might have wondered:
b 4 i root(u) r u / 18 ?
Maybe what they're really looking for is someone who such a fabulous liar that the interviewer will believe the tall tale (s)he tells.
When presented in it's simplest form, the argument skips over one teensy little detail: "outsourcing means cheaper IT products" is based on the delusion that lower overhead translates into lower prices. If you know of a capitalist system that has not succumbed to profiteering, and thus might actually work this way, please let me know. I got my bags all packed.
Now is the time for everyone to attend the bar-mitzvah and quietly slip the young man a cheque or two after the ceremony.
Geoff -
I'll get on the horn and tell those jackasses to send another crate ASAP. You owe me one sheep!
- Tony
- - - - - - - - - - - -
From: Geoff Smiley
To: Tony Coolridge
Subject: Those Mixom Bastards!
Tony -
Those jerks at Mixom screwed up their shipping orders. *Again*! I still have my receipt for a container full of item #692-B on page twelve of their summer catalogue, "100m (approx) duct tape". What do they send me? 629-B, MartianBuddy Inflatable RealSheep. At least I can sell them to recoup my loss.
In other news, I'm really starting to hate the fact that this base seems to have a total of three women. I'm sure that's from the same brilliant planning committee that decided to decorate everything in industrial gothic. Talk about 150 years out of date! Anyways, I decided to take matters into my own hands (pun not intended), but when I made my way down to EnPron today to see that plain girl all I found was her torso. What turns my stomach isn't that she's dead - It's that somebody on this base is getting a little head even as we speak.
In conclusion, if you could give Mixom a little nudge for me, I'd really appreciate it.
Later,
- Geoff
All newsbots are created equal... but some are more equal than others.
I lived & worked in Israel for 2 years, all up and down the country. The most frightening time I had was the first two weeks, during which every ride on a public bus was an adventure in paranoia. Then I started to relax. After all, you're surrounded by soldiers *who are on your side*. Yes, they could be a little rude. Yes, there is a bit of a culture shock. At the end of the day, if you are the kind of person who can adapt well to new environments and not let your loved ones back home make you stress out then I say go for it. The only thing I feel I should strongly reccomend is get to learn the local language. There's nothing worse than feeling alone in a crowd of friends when they all start speaking the local tongue.
Well if you're really all that (and fries on the side) then the thing to do would be to find a way to take a huge number of classes (or finish extra fast). For example, you could use polyphasic sleep to give you enough time to party and do your studying. Also if you show up for the starts and ends of classes then you're there long enough to hand in/get next assignments. the time you save will enable you to overlap classes, study at your speed (instead of sleeping in class). Of course you can still meet up with ppl at the ends of class, trade notes, help them study, and be social like that. I'm sure others will post ideas on how you could do better than average.
So the solution to the DMCA problem would seem to be to a) build an XBox that kills people and/or b) build an XBox entirely out of car parts, like some giant vegetable-oil & solar powered Difference Engine that runs Unreal Tournament.
When you get the AI sorted out, could you build me a robot doctor? Must be able to perform with >= performance to a human in the categories of:
outpatient
- most accurate diagnosis
- least expensive therapy reccomendation
- (some kind of metric for preventative therapies?)
inpatient:
- greatest patient survival
- least patient recuperation time
- least time to complete operation
- least scarring
"Save The Last Human Family." (imho)
Why don't we stop bitchin' and moanin' and get some japanese slashdotters down to this guy's shop. do a little interview, take a little look see... ...sneak in a keychain sized video camera... and then report back to us about what the real deal is. Then the issue will be settled and we can all go back to compiling kernels while wishing we were out on a date. ...not that that has ever happened to me.
-----
After all is said and done...usually more is said.
http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/min/index_e.cfm is her official homepage, and there is an online comments form. now THAT deserves to be slashdotted. Preferably with links to the reports that CD sales are up despite file trading. If I could have found such a link, I would have posted it here to simplify your (our?) lives.
Keep your WiFi HD in a vent or something. Recharge as necessary, maybe run a power line into that secret spot. If politzei raid your house and steal - i mean, confiscate everything that looks techie, you wait until they are gone and then run to someone you trust with your WiFi HD. let them copy it, and return before the bad guys return to say "ho, wait a minute, we have records here of another drive. hand it over." you gladly and apologetically give them the device knowing that (a) your data is safe and (b) anything incriminating was *totally* removed when you visiited your friend.