I sent a letter to the CIO of my alma mater, a mid-sized liberal arts school which is all-Cisco, but styles itself "pro humanitate". We'll see how much they really care.
Open it up to everyone? So you can log in and complain about how useless it is because none of your friends are there? I think this current strategy has its merits.
It's presumably a lot easier to get some part of the reflected glow of the screen than it is to get a good video feed of the password field. Especially if you're trying to go unnoticed.
California has a big state income tax, and look at the volatility of their budget! Just as a practical matter: when you tax incomes, especially rich peoples' incomes, your tax revenues begin mimic the performance of the stock market to an uncomfortable degree.
A sound property tax system (unlike California under Prop 13) is probably a much better idea for most state governments, housing bubbles notwithstanding.
Yeah. I mean, I can respect both the position that Amazon should pay sales taxes and the position that they shouldn't as belonging to two differing schools of thought and ideology, and just because I don't agree with one of those schools doesn't render the other position "intellectually unsound".
We're mostly pretty intelligent people here. We don't need a line of political reasoning shoved down our throat.
Honestly, it sounds like someone was searching for a sound bite to epitomize the "opposition" to roundabouts (which is really more of a mild fear of the unfamiliar) and came up with a random bozo to supply scare quotes for "balance".
In any event, I'm off to go found Republicans for Roundabouts or something like that. Less infrastructure for the state to maintain means lower taxes, so people can spend it on things that actually grow the economy.
At a guess, he's probably trying to integrate the whole "quantum" thing into consciousness because he either thinks it's what permits free will (or else because he thinks it has some other magical properties resulting from mankind's mystical unity with the universe - but I'll assume he's not that dumb). The thing is, as explained by The Hammock Physicist (who runs a decent blog), "quantum free will" theories are lame and don't actually get you the sufficient conditions for very much free will. Fortunately, he goes on to explain, you don't need them.
Look! Let's buy out another failing company with a somewhat-interesting product to replace the last failing company with a somewhat-interesting product we bought. That'll totally work.
It's like when they bought Colubris to replace their Symbol OEM APs, only to buy 3Com a little while later. I dunno, maybe they can squeeze some money out of it.
The idea behind advertising at kids is to get them to go to their parents and say "Mommy! I want the new Barbie fairy doll with her own movie!" or "Dad! Will you get me the Nerf gun for my birthday?" or "Ooooh, can we get the new Star Wars toys at McDonald's with our happy meal?" It's an appeal to make them desire some mass-market item. That works well when you've got a captive audience paying attention and audio/video to play at them - not so much with please-click-through-and-buy-from-the-website ads (to say nothing of credit card availability or the COPPA implications of collecting names and mailing addresses from a minor).
It surely would be a Nice Thing to make a playground on the Internet for kids, but why should Google bother to do it? Go make it yourself if it's such a good idea. "Oh, I don't have the resources to do that," you say. Well... there you go. Google isn't a charity.
Now, YouTube Kids or something like that, maybe you can see something there. (Think, vetted content from the likes of Nickelodeon and PBS, actually rated as 'G' or 'E' or whatever by a real ratings agency.) It's probably easier to get profitable advertising in videos there as well; kids can't be the best at operating click-through ads.
Most of these alternative-currencies (Bitcoin, e-gold, etc) find themselves on the shady side of things pretty quickly - especially money-laundering and the like. This is not at all surprising, really.
My last United flight (actually Continental), IAH-SFO, had power outlets under the seat. Real, three-prong power outlets.
Of course, given that it's United, it's only a matter of time before they start trying to charge you separately for that, too.
(Each and every seat had a video screen in front of it with a credit card swipe slot for you to pay for the television service. and also so they could advertise to you, naturally. i hate you, United.)
I don't know about the on-flight commerce; I think the GP was suggesting he works for, say, Amazon, and there are some states which say they're entitled to sales tax on all your transactions if you even have someone in your affiliates program in the state (which is why Amazon has cut ties with all affiliates and ended affiliate programs in, e.g., North Carolina). "Nexus" is a term which shows up in the law around there.
Would someone working on a plane flying over the state count as presence in that state for tax purposes? I'm 98% sure it wouldn't hold up in the courts, but I don't think that would keep some states from trying. So quit giving them ideas.;)
The most effective way to incentivize your employees is to have good management which is capable of recognizing not only quantitative contributions to the bottom line, but qualitative contributions, and who consistently rewards such contributions - ideally with a relatively short feedback loop. Companies where the employees can trust management to treat them fairly find the employees pretty well motivated.
Regrettably, many companies don't meet the prerequisite of having good management, so the point may be moot, but when you make something a numbers game, people have a tendency to chase the set of numbers you pick, rather than actually improving the health of the company.
Also of note: stock options work okay, if the company is small enough.
Better than the folks around here* who specifically seek out unpasteurized "raw milk" like it's some sort of magic formula and feed it to infants. (This is why there are liability concerns and why various state legislatures feel a need to prohibit the sale of raw milk.)
Don't you love pseudo-religious "environmentalism"?**
(*people near San Francisco, and especially Marin County to the north.)(** a brand of new-age spirituality also associated with the likes of homeopathy. as opposed to, you know, real environmentalism, which is a movement/philosophy/idea/thingy with some actual merit)
Gentlemen, I believe what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Possibly my fault. A few minutes before 5am a car up the street started honking for minutes on end. There was also a fire and some small explosions. I'll go back to sleep soon.
"The Netherlands has a dual-level system. All primary and curative care (i.e. the family doctor service and hospitals and clinics) is financed from private compulsory insurance. Long term care for the elderly, the dying, the long term mentally ill etc. is covered by social insurance funded from taxation. According to the WHO, the health care system in the Netherlands was 62% government funded and 38% privately funded as of 2004."
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
2. and 1. Google search for "netherlands euthanasia cards" is a fun start. I'd point out more but it's like 6am on a Saturday and I'm only awake because of a car catching on fire and exploding a few hundred feet up the street.
I mean, if you think there are compelling reasons to permit assisted suicide anyway, please, let's have a discussion about that and how you intend to address matters like this, but stop pretending they're not real problems.
Oh, you mean like in the Netherlands where they've dismantled the bulk of their palliative care system and old people are afraid to go to the doctors' and carry cards saying "Please don't euthanize me" in case they have to be taken to the hospital while incapacitated? It really helps cut the cost of their socialized medicine, though!
Besides the obvious political angles, releases like these are probably a boon to academics doing work with text mining and the like. Public releases of email data sets have been hard to come by, something about "privacy". Of course, they're probably unlikely to all be in English, so your mileage may vary...
It's true that the company owes the guy nothing. But the company must continue to pay him in the future if they want his work, and there's no reason that equity can't be part of that. Of course, there's no reason it has to, either, but crying "greedy bastard" is perhaps a little much.
You don't think there's some vindictive asshole out there who wants to damage a professional rival's reputation and ability to conduct professional networking? Steal someone's login and send some quick messages to contacts and you could get them in *some* sort of uncomfortable situation, surely.
I was actually just on a United jet that had 3-prong power cords under the seats (2 plugs per 3 seat unit). That was nice. On the other hand, I'm modestly surprised that they didn't try to charge me for the electricity. (They already have a credit-card swipe slot in each seat-back so you can pay $8 to watch DirecTV on your flight. Nickel-and-diming you is the United way.)
The dollar may be eroding, but it's still a stretch to call gold and silver "real money". They're commodities too - like oil - and subject to their own somewhat violent ups and downs and bubbles. Did you not notice silver falling 30% off its most recent peak? The dollar is a shockingly well-behaved store of value in comparison.
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I sent a letter to the CIO of my alma mater, a mid-sized liberal arts school which is all-Cisco, but styles itself "pro humanitate". We'll see how much they really care.
Open it up to everyone? So you can log in and complain about how useless it is because none of your friends are there? I think this current strategy has its merits.
It's presumably a lot easier to get some part of the reflected glow of the screen than it is to get a good video feed of the password field. Especially if you're trying to go unnoticed.
A sound property tax system (unlike California under Prop 13) is probably a much better idea for most state governments, housing bubbles notwithstanding.
We're mostly pretty intelligent people here. We don't need a line of political reasoning shoved down our throat.
Just saying - if that's the only reason for skepticism, you can mitigate it.
Honestly, it sounds like someone was searching for a sound bite to epitomize the "opposition" to roundabouts (which is really more of a mild fear of the unfamiliar) and came up with a random bozo to supply scare quotes for "balance".
In any event, I'm off to go found Republicans for Roundabouts or something like that. Less infrastructure for the state to maintain means lower taxes, so people can spend it on things that actually grow the economy.
At a guess, he's probably trying to integrate the whole "quantum" thing into consciousness because he either thinks it's what permits free will (or else because he thinks it has some other magical properties resulting from mankind's mystical unity with the universe - but I'll assume he's not that dumb). The thing is, as explained by The Hammock Physicist (who runs a decent blog), "quantum free will" theories are lame and don't actually get you the sufficient conditions for very much free will. Fortunately, he goes on to explain, you don't need them.
Look! Let's buy out another failing company with a somewhat-interesting product to replace the last failing company with a somewhat-interesting product we bought. That'll totally work.
It's like when they bought Colubris to replace their Symbol OEM APs, only to buy 3Com a little while later. I dunno, maybe they can squeeze some money out of it.
The idea behind advertising at kids is to get them to go to their parents and say "Mommy! I want the new Barbie fairy doll with her own movie!" or "Dad! Will you get me the Nerf gun for my birthday?" or "Ooooh, can we get the new Star Wars toys at McDonald's with our happy meal?" It's an appeal to make them desire some mass-market item. That works well when you've got a captive audience paying attention and audio/video to play at them - not so much with please-click-through-and-buy-from-the-website ads (to say nothing of credit card availability or the COPPA implications of collecting names and mailing addresses from a minor).
It surely would be a Nice Thing to make a playground on the Internet for kids, but why should Google bother to do it? Go make it yourself if it's such a good idea. "Oh, I don't have the resources to do that," you say. Well... there you go. Google isn't a charity.
Now, YouTube Kids or something like that, maybe you can see something there. (Think, vetted content from the likes of Nickelodeon and PBS, actually rated as 'G' or 'E' or whatever by a real ratings agency.) It's probably easier to get profitable advertising in videos there as well; kids can't be the best at operating click-through ads.
Most of these alternative-currencies (Bitcoin, e-gold, etc) find themselves on the shady side of things pretty quickly - especially money-laundering and the like. This is not at all surprising, really.
My last United flight (actually Continental), IAH-SFO, had power outlets under the seat. Real, three-prong power outlets. Of course, given that it's United, it's only a matter of time before they start trying to charge you separately for that, too.
(Each and every seat had a video screen in front of it with a credit card swipe slot for you to pay for the television service. and also so they could advertise to you, naturally. i hate you, United.)
Would someone working on a plane flying over the state count as presence in that state for tax purposes? I'm 98% sure it wouldn't hold up in the courts, but I don't think that would keep some states from trying. So quit giving them ideas. ;)
Wait until they start building bigger bombs with it. ;)
The most effective way to incentivize your employees is to have good management which is capable of recognizing not only quantitative contributions to the bottom line, but qualitative contributions, and who consistently rewards such contributions - ideally with a relatively short feedback loop. Companies where the employees can trust management to treat them fairly find the employees pretty well motivated.
Regrettably, many companies don't meet the prerequisite of having good management, so the point may be moot, but when you make something a numbers game, people have a tendency to chase the set of numbers you pick, rather than actually improving the health of the company.
Also of note: stock options work okay, if the company is small enough.
Better than the folks around here* who specifically seek out unpasteurized "raw milk" like it's some sort of magic formula and feed it to infants. (This is why there are liability concerns and why various state legislatures feel a need to prohibit the sale of raw milk.)
Don't you love pseudo-religious "environmentalism"?**
(*people near San Francisco, and especially Marin County to the north.)(** a brand of new-age spirituality also associated with the likes of homeopathy. as opposed to, you know, real environmentalism, which is a movement/philosophy/idea/thingy with some actual merit)
Gentlemen, I believe what we have here is a failure to communicate.
Possibly my fault. A few minutes before 5am a car up the street started honking for minutes on end. There was also a fire and some small explosions. I'll go back to sleep soon.
YOUR FACE alert.
3. According to Wikipedia (which is never wrong)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
2. and 1. Google search for "netherlands euthanasia cards" is a fun start. I'd point out more but it's like 6am on a Saturday and I'm only awake because of a car catching on fire and exploding a few hundred feet up the street.
I mean, if you think there are compelling reasons to permit assisted suicide anyway, please, let's have a discussion about that and how you intend to address matters like this, but stop pretending they're not real problems.
Oh, wait, that's not what you meant at all.
Besides the obvious political angles, releases like these are probably a boon to academics doing work with text mining and the like. Public releases of email data sets have been hard to come by, something about "privacy". Of course, they're probably unlikely to all be in English, so your mileage may vary...
It's true that the company owes the guy nothing. But the company must continue to pay him in the future if they want his work, and there's no reason that equity can't be part of that. Of course, there's no reason it has to, either, but crying "greedy bastard" is perhaps a little much.
You don't think there's some vindictive asshole out there who wants to damage a professional rival's reputation and ability to conduct professional networking? Steal someone's login and send some quick messages to contacts and you could get them in *some* sort of uncomfortable situation, surely.
I was actually just on a United jet that had 3-prong power cords under the seats (2 plugs per 3 seat unit). That was nice. On the other hand, I'm modestly surprised that they didn't try to charge me for the electricity. (They already have a credit-card swipe slot in each seat-back so you can pay $8 to watch DirecTV on your flight. Nickel-and-diming you is the United way.)
The dollar may be eroding, but it's still a stretch to call gold and silver "real money". They're commodities too - like oil - and subject to their own somewhat violent ups and downs and bubbles. Did you not notice silver falling 30% off its most recent peak? The dollar is a shockingly well-behaved store of value in comparison.