That's basically how it works in New York. You get paid the full salary during the non-compete period but not necessarily bonuses depending on the particular non-compete agreement.
Part of the popularity of WeChat mini-programs is likely due to the fact that you can develop a single program and have it work on anything that WeChat works on, whether it be iPhone, Android, or some other platform. Since pretty much every smart phone in China has WeChat installed, this allows developers to reach all smart phone users without having to develop iPhone and Android specific apps.
Taking Earth as a sphere, its volume is 4/3 pi 3960^3 cubic miles. A 1 foot rise in sea level, assuming 100% of the planet was covered by ocean, would yield a volume of 4/3 pi 3960.75^3 cubic miles.
Why did you increase the radius by 0.75 mile? That's a hell of a lot more than 1 foot (1 foot = 1/5280 mile = 0.00018939393 mile).
Laying fiber is a time and labor intense job. Hence, EXPENSIVE.
And they found out just HOW expensive.
Laying fiber is actually not that time and labor intensive if you can get unfettered access to the utility poles/tunnels. Google was able to lay fiber very quickly in initial pilot areas where the local governments allowed Google such access. However, the phone and cable companies sued to only allow Google to do work on utility poles/tunnels when work crews from the incumbent providers are present. One can guess how helpful the phone and cable companies have been in making their work crews available for Google's fiber laying efforts.
It's not just their manufacturing. Their transport contributes massively as well.
While manufacturing and transport do contribute to air pollution in China, the biggest contributor by far is the use of coal for heating during winter. This is very obvious in northern China, where regulations specify the dates on which heating for buildings start and end. There'll be blue skies and clean air right up to the date when winter heating starts and then heavy smog and air pollution immediately after. This is also why the smog problem is a lot less severe in southern China, even though most of China's manufacturing and economic development over the past two decades were concentrated in the southern regions around Shanghai and Shenzhen.
IIRC, all current human manned space programs (ISS, Russia, and China) use the Russian docking system, making them all compatible with each other. The US space shuttles also used the Russian docking system before they were retired. Are there any significant benefits to the new docking system that makes it worth the design and installation expenses as well as the loss of compatibility?
Just treat all income the same. Wages, dividends and capital gains should all be taxed as regular income.
Yes, absolutely.
Complications in the tax code, such as differences in tax treatment between income types, tax deductions/credits/exemptions, etc. are all essentially tax breaks for the extremely wealthy because the extremely wealthy have the resources to create the legal and financial structures to transform their incomes to whatever has the lowest tax rate and to take maximum advantage of any deductions/credits/exemptions.
Instead of paying themselves in cash, wealthy executives and partners of large companies and firms funnel earnings through private investment vehicles that they "invest" in at ridiculously low prices, transforming their earnings into investment incomes that are taxed at the lower capital gains rate. This has gotten worse with the advent of the backdoor Roth IRA, as such "investments" are increasingly being held in Roth IRAs to make them completely exempt from both income taxes as well as estate taxes when they are passed down as inheritance.
IMHO, these screenshots confirm that both MIUI 5 and 6 "features the same bright color palette and a flat design", which is what Xiaomi is being accused of copying from iOS 7, even though MIUI 5 actually significantly predates iOS 7.
You're right. This video from April 2013 (nearly half a year before the release of iOS 7) shows MIUI V5 using "the same bright color palette and a flat design" that iOS 7 later adopted. They should be suing Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
While the Pentagon said it had received no prior notice of China's missile test, it added that U.S. space-based sensors "detected two geographically separated missile-launch events" leading to an "exo-atmospheric collision."
I've watched both the NBC and BBC broadcasts.
On both, the announcers had explicitly mentioned that the firework footprints video shown was a virtual/simulated version of the actual footprint fireworks happening in Beijing. Something being faked implies it did not happen/exist in reality and also the intent to deceive, both of which are clearly not the case here. The fireworks did happen and it was explicitly announced what was shown was a simulation. Saying the fireworks were faked would be like saying the international space station (ISS) was faked because a TV station showed a computer animation of the ISS flying through space.
But Google doesn't set up a page with links to searches like that for the top 500 tracks (as well as other selections by genre) and link to that page from their homepage. The page that you linked to is a list of the most frequently searched for items on Baidu MP3 Search.
The sentence at the bottom of the page, "æOEæTOP500çsææ®æ¥èç(TM)¾å¦MP3æoeçäæoeçéæoeé500é¦-æOEæï¼OEç"±ççYèåSè®ç®--çYè®", says that "data for the TOP500 list come from the 500 most frequently searched for songs on Baidu MP3 Search and are computed automatically by the system".
So can you tell me why you think that it is somehow wrong or illegal for a search engine to set up a page of the most frequently searched for items by its users?
There have been a lot of these Chinese "cyber attack" articles recently, but as far as I can tell, all of them are simply attributing attacks from Chinese IP addresses as "attacks by China". China now has surpassed the US in internet usage in absolute numbers, and many (if not most) of the networked computers in China are running unpatched versions of Windows XP, making them the ideal breeding ground for Botnets (just take a look at your router logs). But are these Botnets actually being controlled by people in China? If the SPAM spewed out by these Botnets is any indication, then the answer is a resounding no.
The record industry is too anachronistic to have the foresight...Finally, last night 2005-Sep-29 on Nightly Business Review (NBR) was a four part series on the music industry. It shows how iTMS allowed one relatively unknown electronica artist sell directly to her consumers with the iTMS . Her music was featured on NPR and then people all over the world wanted to download and listen to her music. Stores like iTMS are the great equalizer from years of abuse from the greedy record labels. "The Business of Music,"-Part 4: The Down Low On Download Distribution [nbr.com]
Maybe the music industry does have very good foresight about what this technology will lead. Artists selling directly to consumers without going through the big record labels must be a terrifying prospect for the music industry.
Only PC-to-Phone calls are blocked. PC-to-PC calls are not affected. Phone service is regulated in China with China Telecom and China Netcom being the only 2 companies licensed to provide fixed-line phone service. It's under this pretense that China Telecom is blocking Skype PC-to-Phone calls. This sort of tactics to block potential competitors is not really surprising. A few years ago, China Mobile and China Unicom (the 2 cellular phone service providers in China) tried to prevent China Telecom and China Netcom (the fixed-line phone service providers) from introducing a limited range wireless technology called "Little Smart" using the fact that they were the only officially licensed mobile phone providers.
I can't get a cop when a break-in is happening right then and there, but the city seems to have plenty of money to pay for cops who...bust speeders.
Actually the city doesn't pay for cops to bust speeders. The cops busting speeders generate revenues that not only pay for themselves but help fund other police activities as well. It's not that city governments rather have cops busting speeders than responding to real crime, they have to because police departments are under-funded and traffic violations make a nice revenue stream.
were i in charge of the world, i'd move the UN's China seat back to where it was in 1970
You mean giving it back to Taiwan aka The Republic of China? Taiwan held China's seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power until 1971.
When were the Chinese ever planning a manned mission to the moon? I've been following the Chinese space program quite closely and all the official reports coming out of China concerning a moon mission either explicitly talk about sending an unmanned lunar lander or only vaguely mention a moon landing in general without stating whether or not it's a manned mission or not. I think space enthusiasts in the West have been reading far too much into some of the vaguely translated reports with wishful thinking, with arguments on which verb was used in the report and how that implies a manned landing when in fact reading the original Chinese reports (yes, I do read Chinese), it's pretty clear that it has always been planned as an unmanned mission. The CNN article is spinning this as a major change in policy, but would something like this be announced through a gathering of highschool students?
Wang told a gathering of high school students on Sunday
The United States puts up the majority of the funds for the ISS and would have the biggest say in anything that goes on. Other than the US and Russia, most of the other nations participating in the ISS only makes relatively minor components and all launches are performed by either the US or Russia. Even the Russian effort is largely funded by the US, so don't kid yourself on who is really making all the decisions. After the Shenzhou V launch, both the Russians and the Europeans had suggested bringing in China on the ISS project but it was met with a negative reaction from the US. In fact, Europe and Russia are already cooperating with China on a variety of space projects such as Galileo.
Since the tragic Internet cafe fire in Beijing in 2001, the central Government has been increasingly active in demonising the internet. This is just an extension of that on-going propaganda war.
Demonizing the internet? I guess you haven't spent any time in China in the last couple of years. The internet is being glorified in China even more than the bubble years in the US. It's being build up as basically the coolest thing ever. Everyone in China is rushing to get on the internet, including my 80 year old grandma. What has been demonized is the internet cafes, which are increasingly seen as places where the "bad kids" hang out, leading to the recent ban on children in internet cafes.
Note that this is a ban on kids going to internet cafes, not on kids using the internet. Children can still go online at home or at school. Anyone who's ever been to a Chinese internet cafe before the ban can tell you these kids aren't there to read the NYTimes. The overwhelming majority of them are there to play networked games. With the small remaining percentage there for online chat and porn. BTW, from the Chinese parents that I know, this ban is enormously popular among parents, who are worried that their kids are wasting all of their time getting addicted to games and porn instead of studying for their exams.
It's easy for people in the West to automatically assume anything that happens with regard to the internet in China is about censorship, when in fact banning children from internet cafes is a completely orthogonal issue to that of internet censorship. It's not about denying access of information to children, instead it's about giving parents control over what their kids can and cannot do.
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That's basically how it works in New York. You get paid the full salary during the non-compete period but not necessarily bonuses depending on the particular non-compete agreement.
Part of the popularity of WeChat mini-programs is likely due to the fact that you can develop a single program and have it work on anything that WeChat works on, whether it be iPhone, Android, or some other platform. Since pretty much every smart phone in China has WeChat installed, this allows developers to reach all smart phone users without having to develop iPhone and Android specific apps.
Earth has a radius of about 3960 miles.
Taking Earth as a sphere, its volume is 4/3 pi 3960^3 cubic miles.
A 1 foot rise in sea level, assuming 100% of the planet was covered by ocean, would yield a volume of 4/3 pi 3960.75^3 cubic miles.
Why did you increase the radius by 0.75 mile? That's a hell of a lot more than 1 foot (1 foot = 1/5280 mile = 0.00018939393 mile).
In its three biggest losing years, Amazon suffered losses of $0.7 billion in 1999, $1.1 billion in 2000, and $0.6 billion in 2001.
https://revenuesandprofits.com...
In fact, Amazon's losses in its first 8 years (1995-2002) together totaled $3.0 billion, which is still less than what Uber lost last year alone.
Amazon became profitable in 2003, nine years after its founding. Uber will be nine years old next month.
Laying fiber is a time and labor intense job. Hence, EXPENSIVE. And they found out just HOW expensive.
Laying fiber is actually not that time and labor intensive if you can get unfettered access to the utility poles/tunnels. Google was able to lay fiber very quickly in initial pilot areas where the local governments allowed Google such access. However, the phone and cable companies sued to only allow Google to do work on utility poles/tunnels when work crews from the incumbent providers are present. One can guess how helpful the phone and cable companies have been in making their work crews available for Google's fiber laying efforts.
It's not just their manufacturing. Their transport contributes massively as well.
While manufacturing and transport do contribute to air pollution in China, the biggest contributor by far is the use of coal for heating during winter. This is very obvious in northern China, where regulations specify the dates on which heating for buildings start and end. There'll be blue skies and clean air right up to the date when winter heating starts and then heavy smog and air pollution immediately after. This is also why the smog problem is a lot less severe in southern China, even though most of China's manufacturing and economic development over the past two decades were concentrated in the southern regions around Shanghai and Shenzhen.
IIRC, all current human manned space programs (ISS, Russia, and China) use the Russian docking system, making them all compatible with each other. The US space shuttles also used the Russian docking system before they were retired. Are there any significant benefits to the new docking system that makes it worth the design and installation expenses as well as the loss of compatibility?
Just treat all income the same. Wages, dividends and capital gains should all be taxed as regular income.
Yes, absolutely.
Complications in the tax code, such as differences in tax treatment between income types, tax deductions/credits/exemptions, etc. are all essentially tax breaks for the extremely wealthy because the extremely wealthy have the resources to create the legal and financial structures to transform their incomes to whatever has the lowest tax rate and to take maximum advantage of any deductions/credits/exemptions.
Instead of paying themselves in cash, wealthy executives and partners of large companies and firms funnel earnings through private investment vehicles that they "invest" in at ridiculously low prices, transforming their earnings into investment incomes that are taxed at the lower capital gains rate. This has gotten worse with the advent of the backdoor Roth IRA, as such "investments" are increasingly being held in Roth IRAs to make them completely exempt from both income taxes as well as estate taxes when they are passed down as inheritance.
IMHO, these screenshots confirm that both MIUI 5 and 6 "features the same bright color palette and a flat design", which is what Xiaomi is being accused of copying from iOS 7, even though MIUI 5 actually significantly predates iOS 7.
You're right. This video from April 2013 (nearly half a year before the release of iOS 7) shows MIUI V5 using "the same bright color palette and a flat design" that iOS 7 later adopted. They should be suing Apple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
While the Pentagon said it had received no prior notice of China's missile test, it added that U.S. space-based sensors "detected two geographically separated missile-launch events" leading to an "exo-atmospheric collision."
I've watched both the NBC and BBC broadcasts. On both, the announcers had explicitly mentioned that the firework footprints video shown was a virtual/simulated version of the actual footprint fireworks happening in Beijing. Something being faked implies it did not happen/exist in reality and also the intent to deceive, both of which are clearly not the case here. The fireworks did happen and it was explicitly announced what was shown was a simulation. Saying the fireworks were faked would be like saying the international space station (ISS) was faked because a TV station showed a computer animation of the ISS flying through space.
There have been a lot of these Chinese "cyber attack" articles recently, but as far as I can tell, all of them are simply attributing attacks from Chinese IP addresses as "attacks by China". China now has surpassed the US in internet usage in absolute numbers, and many (if not most) of the networked computers in China are running unpatched versions of Windows XP, making them the ideal breeding ground for Botnets (just take a look at your router logs). But are these Botnets actually being controlled by people in China? If the SPAM spewed out by these Botnets is any indication, then the answer is a resounding no.
17 kHz is audible to humans and most animals. I wonder how loud the sound was in order to achieve levitation.
The record industry is too anachronistic to have the foresight... Finally, last night 2005-Sep-29 on Nightly Business Review (NBR) was a four part series on the music industry. It shows how iTMS allowed one relatively unknown electronica artist sell directly to her consumers with the iTMS . Her music was featured on NPR and then people all over the world wanted to download and listen to her music. Stores like iTMS are the great equalizer from years of abuse from the greedy record labels. "The Business of Music,"-Part 4: The Down Low On Download Distribution [nbr.com] Maybe the music industry does have very good foresight about what this technology will lead. Artists selling directly to consumers without going through the big record labels must be a terrifying prospect for the music industry.
Very informative!
Only PC-to-Phone calls are blocked. PC-to-PC calls are not affected. Phone service is regulated in China with China Telecom and China Netcom being the only 2 companies licensed to provide fixed-line phone service. It's under this pretense that China Telecom is blocking Skype PC-to-Phone calls. This sort of tactics to block potential competitors is not really surprising. A few years ago, China Mobile and China Unicom (the 2 cellular phone service providers in China) tried to prevent China Telecom and China Netcom (the fixed-line phone service providers) from introducing a limited range wireless technology called "Little Smart" using the fact that they were the only officially licensed mobile phone providers.
I can't get a cop when a break-in is happening right then and there, but the city seems to have plenty of money to pay for cops who...bust speeders.
Actually the city doesn't pay for cops to bust speeders. The cops busting speeders generate revenues that not only pay for themselves but help fund other police activities as well. It's not that city governments rather have cops busting speeders than responding to real crime, they have to because police departments are under-funded and traffic violations make a nice revenue stream.
were i in charge of the world, i'd move the UN's China seat back to where it was in 1970
You mean giving it back to Taiwan aka The Republic of China? Taiwan held China's seat as a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power until 1971.
MOD PARENT UP!
Wang told a gathering of high school students on Sunday
The United States puts up the majority of the funds for the ISS and would have the biggest say in anything that goes on. Other than the US and Russia, most of the other nations participating in the ISS only makes relatively minor components and all launches are performed by either the US or Russia. Even the Russian effort is largely funded by the US, so don't kid yourself on who is really making all the decisions. After the Shenzhou V launch, both the Russians and the Europeans had suggested bringing in China on the ISS project but it was met with a negative reaction from the US. In fact, Europe and Russia are already cooperating with China on a variety of space projects such as Galileo.
I'm not disputing that Xinhua is not a reliable news source. What I was disputing is your statement that the internet is being demonized in China.
Demonizing the internet? I guess you haven't spent any time in China in the last couple of years. The internet is being glorified in China even more than the bubble years in the US. It's being build up as basically the coolest thing ever. Everyone in China is rushing to get on the internet, including my 80 year old grandma. What has been demonized is the internet cafes, which are increasingly seen as places where the "bad kids" hang out, leading to the recent ban on children in internet cafes.
Note that this is a ban on kids going to internet cafes, not on kids using the internet. Children can still go online at home or at school. Anyone who's ever been to a Chinese internet cafe before the ban can tell you these kids aren't there to read the NYTimes. The overwhelming majority of them are there to play networked games. With the small remaining percentage there for online chat and porn. BTW, from the Chinese parents that I know, this ban is enormously popular among parents, who are worried that their kids are wasting all of their time getting addicted to games and porn instead of studying for their exams.
It's easy for people in the West to automatically assume anything that happens with regard to the internet in China is about censorship, when in fact banning children from internet cafes is a completely orthogonal issue to that of internet censorship. It's not about denying access of information to children, instead it's about giving parents control over what their kids can and cannot do.