That's a lovely thought! However, Solidarity and the like is not the equitable transfer of a risk of a loss from one entity to another in exchange for a premium. (that is to say, insurance). It is, however, some expression of socialism. Whether or not this is a desirable thing is a function of your political philosophy on such matters.
The thing is, piecemeal insurance is the most viable in a world where insurers can cherry-pick the least risky (or most risky) individuals. Insurance, after all, is about mitigating risk, and a fuller knowledge of one's exposure to risk is a good thing.
The thing is, people don't really want health insurance, when you get down to it. Maybe they want a little. But what they really want is some sort of health plan, and often one that other people pay for.
That's ridiculous. Unlike noxious-fume pollution, no one is in the least bit worried about the "local effects" of carbon dioxide. It already makes up billions of tons of atmosphere. It only does "damage" in the aggregate. The aggregate is all that matters.
Dude. No average joe citizen ever gets in trouble for violating the constitution. It's just not the sort of law they prosecute people under. There may or may not exist some law prohibiting this sort of coinage -- I haven't checked, I'm suspicious that there isn't -- but if there is, this isn't it. (furthermore the language the constitution says that Congress shall have the power, and not that other people shan't).
I'm about halfway. I kind of like my job; I do interesting things, talk to interesting people, get to occupy myself for the day, and take home a pretty fair chunk of change. But at the same time, of course I'd rather be home chilling out, playing games, playing music, or even writing code that's doesn't really make business sense by its own merit.
And my advice to the next-youngest generation is this: Do something you like.... but think for a moment before you do something you really love, because having to do it for your job every day is going to make you a little more leery of it, especially if the Thing You Love isn't really good at making money (like many of the creative fields) and you have to work longer and harder and get yourself more stressed. I know that coding for fun isn't half as fun as it used to be anymore, at least for me. Fortunately, I have a strict 40 hour work week (! and in Silicon Valley at that) and I still have adequate time for doing thing that I love.
That, and as far as employability in and around the computer world: internships, internships, internships.:)
I think there are two ways you could go about things.
The first is anti-religion. It's saying that religion is all a sham, there is no God, et cetera. Then there's another one. It is pro-science. I think it's more productive.
I think the greatest tragedy of the whole evolution/creation/ID mess is the confusion of these two stances. It's a tragedy started by the anti-religious types, but the anti-science types did a lot of work dragging the rest of Religion in it themselves. But you can be pro-science without being anti-religion, and there's obviously people who have reconciled religious belief with scientific inquiry, through a variety of means. Yea, even with ultra-literal Sola Scriptura Protestant fundamentalists, something can be argued; you can pull a Luke 20:25 on them and tell them to render unto Science that which belongs to Science, and give to God what is God's. (Those who never insisted the Bible was literal in every letter have it easier.)
Back when they showed us Inherit the Wind in middle school, one of the characters (a journalist, IIRC) had a small piece about how this was about nothing less than the freedom of thought at stake! But he was wrong. The trial itself was never about free thought. No one was under arrest, or fined, for thinking. It was about teaching standards. These are a potent issue, to be true, but free thought was not that which was addressed. And in these days, we have come to see in the great national debate (outside the courthouses and legislatures proper) that freedom of thought is under attack, but now it is the freedom of thought to believe in God, or intelligent design, or even young-earth 7-day Creationism. Oh, they may not be right thoughts, but they are free. And so things have come full circle. While it's easy to support freedom when most people are right, do we as a society really support the freedom of people to be wrong?
Disclaimer. I believe in God and not Intelligent Design (in the sense of any principles espoused by the movement which calls itself by that name) and not literal 7-day Young-Earth Creationism. I happen to like "Let there be light" as ancient analogy for the Big Bang.
They're actually investigating Lake Cheko as a possible impact site for a fragment of the Tunguska body. 8 km away, conical, pointed straight away from the blast center, seems (magnetically) to have a metal rock about a meter wide at the bottom (which the University of Bologna intends to dig up some time this year).
There's another trick for stocks that you can do if you're not in a tax-protected account like an IRA. You sell your stocks when they're down, but then you buy roughly equivalent stocks with the proceeds. You can then claim the loss as a deduction. This is apparently a big driver of stock sales at the end of the year. (Which means the market may be under less pressure by February or so.)
p.s. fyi I am not a tax lawyer / accountant / investment adviser and this is not tax/investment advice.
That's pretty paranoid, considering that there's a lot more overtly political material that's more explicitly about the current administration, and it really hasn't seen this sort of suppression.
The advantages of VHS (and, for that matter, of audiocasettes) are simple and easy to see. You can give a VHS tape to your toddler. He will not break it. He can probably even throw it across the room a few times, and it'll be fine. Your kids can rifle through the library to find their favorite film. Until you get absurdly violent with them, they're not going to break. You can't say that about CDs and DVDs. You can't even really say that about the average CD case, though DVDs are marginally better.
Your proposal makes sense except for one of the fundamental notions behind it: that the government should be in the business of extracting every penny they can from companies in need of skilled foreign labor. That doesn't help American companies stay competitive, that doesn't help American companies' stockholders make money (ultra-wealthy/or/ retirement investors), and it doesn't help the consumers of products made by American companies. Rather, it is a real, tangible drain on that sector of the economy.
There are ways to fund the government which are less destructive than massive trade barriers (which is essentially what that is).
Intuit wants to get people into the whole "software as a service" mentality (in a way that their current try-to-force-an-upgrade-every-N-years deal doesn't accomplish). This helps make that happen, I guess.
They use Yodlee, a banking platform/service-provider thing that provides connect-to-bank functions. They are also used by a variety of other finance-related things (when I banked with Wachovia, for instance, they had a Yodlee-powered money-management web tool). They have decently-well-established connections within the Industry and hopefully a certain degree of discipline in excess of the Web 2.0 shininess of Mint.
That said, yes, it is a deficiency that's just not acceptable for some people.
Quicken-everything is pretty awful (and that's before business tactics). Alas, their competition is all deficient as well -- though that's changing. Hopefully sites like Mint will give them a run for their money, and they'll have to make a decent product again.
As far as Clive Staples is concerned, though, most people are not aware that he wrote a sci-fi series ("space trilogy"). They have the usual Christian bent, of course. Another poster mentioned The Abolition of Man; this series ultimately presents similar issues in the form of fiction. The middle book (Perelandra) isn't all that great, but That Hideous Strength is rather interesting (though ultimately less action-packed than one might expect.
It works both ways. Clouds can trap heat, but they also reflect it. As such, having more clouds in the atmosphere helps primarily if they're going to be over something that was darker to begin with, like Oceans or Forests, and not so much over deserts or the midwestern US.
Right! We just rely on voluntary emissions reductions from the people of the world to counter global warming! Not an impractical crackpot scheme at all!
On a closely related note, do you want a world where everyone can call themselves a flower arranger?
Because I do. And in the state of Louisiana, for one place, you can't unless you get the union to approve you (a competitor). In fact, many economists believe these sort of organization to be the single largest long-term threat to growth in the American economy.
On the contrary. Even the New York Times, in their 1999 article Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending, recognized that 'If [the subprime market] fail[s], the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.' (The thrift industry episode was back in the 1980s, before my time). Fannie Mae is to entirely to blame. The rest of the world didn't help, but Fannie Mae is entirely the core and the cause of the current crisis, and the destructive policies sending us on the road to Hell originated with a well-intentioned attempt to improve credit access to minorities.
That said, grandparent post does contain a modicum of Bullshit too. Consult with your local Ph.D. economist, not zanies on the Internet.
Postscript. Congress is complicit. That goes for both Republican Congress and Democrat Congress. And the Presidents. Extra for Obama, who is the second-biggest recipient of Fannie Mae campaign contributions ever.
This strikes me as a bad idea, not because it will not be extremely useful if they manage to implement it correctly but because there are always ways around any detection device.
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Other times you can get two gadgets (or five) with one cord.
That's a lovely thought! However, Solidarity and the like is not the equitable transfer of a risk of a loss from one entity to another in exchange for a premium. (that is to say, insurance). It is, however, some expression of socialism. Whether or not this is a desirable thing is a function of your political philosophy on such matters.
The thing is, people don't really want health insurance, when you get down to it. Maybe they want a little. But what they really want is some sort of health plan, and often one that other people pay for.
That's ridiculous. Unlike noxious-fume pollution, no one is in the least bit worried about the "local effects" of carbon dioxide. It already makes up billions of tons of atmosphere. It only does "damage" in the aggregate. The aggregate is all that matters.
Dude. No average joe citizen ever gets in trouble for violating the constitution. It's just not the sort of law they prosecute people under. There may or may not exist some law prohibiting this sort of coinage -- I haven't checked, I'm suspicious that there isn't -- but if there is, this isn't it. (furthermore the language the constitution says that Congress shall have the power, and not that other people shan't).
And my advice to the next-youngest generation is this: Do something you like.... but think for a moment before you do something you really love, because having to do it for your job every day is going to make you a little more leery of it, especially if the Thing You Love isn't really good at making money (like many of the creative fields) and you have to work longer and harder and get yourself more stressed. I know that coding for fun isn't half as fun as it used to be anymore, at least for me. Fortunately, I have a strict 40 hour work week (! and in Silicon Valley at that) and I still have adequate time for doing thing that I love.
That, and as far as employability in and around the computer world: internships, internships, internships. :)
I think the greatest tragedy of the whole evolution/creation/ID mess is the confusion of these two stances. It's a tragedy started by the anti-religious types, but the anti-science types did a lot of work dragging the rest of Religion in it themselves. But you can be pro-science without being anti-religion, and there's obviously people who have reconciled religious belief with scientific inquiry, through a variety of means. Yea, even with ultra-literal Sola Scriptura Protestant fundamentalists, something can be argued; you can pull a Luke 20:25 on them and tell them to render unto Science that which belongs to Science, and give to God what is God's. (Those who never insisted the Bible was literal in every letter have it easier.)
Back when they showed us Inherit the Wind in middle school, one of the characters (a journalist, IIRC) had a small piece about how this was about nothing less than the freedom of thought at stake! But he was wrong. The trial itself was never about free thought. No one was under arrest, or fined, for thinking. It was about teaching standards. These are a potent issue, to be true, but free thought was not that which was addressed. And in these days, we have come to see in the great national debate (outside the courthouses and legislatures proper) that freedom of thought is under attack, but now it is the freedom of thought to believe in God, or intelligent design, or even young-earth 7-day Creationism. Oh, they may not be right thoughts, but they are free. And so things have come full circle. While it's easy to support freedom when most people are right, do we as a society really support the freedom of people to be wrong?
Disclaimer. I believe in God and not Intelligent Design (in the sense of any principles espoused by the movement which calls itself by that name) and not literal 7-day Young-Earth Creationism. I happen to like "Let there be light" as ancient analogy for the Big Bang.
They're actually investigating Lake Cheko as a possible impact site for a fragment of the Tunguska body. 8 km away, conical, pointed straight away from the blast center, seems (magnetically) to have a metal rock about a meter wide at the bottom (which the University of Bologna intends to dig up some time this year).
p.s. fyi I am not a tax lawyer / accountant / investment adviser and this is not tax/investment advice.
That's pretty paranoid, considering that there's a lot more overtly political material that's more explicitly about the current administration, and it really hasn't seen this sort of suppression.
DVDs are a scratchfest. It's somewhat sad.
Your proposal makes sense except for one of the fundamental notions behind it: that the government should be in the business of extracting every penny they can from companies in need of skilled foreign labor. That doesn't help American companies stay competitive, that doesn't help American companies' stockholders make money (ultra-wealthy /or/ retirement investors), and it doesn't help the consumers of products made by American companies. Rather, it is a real, tangible drain on that sector of the economy.
There are ways to fund the government which are less destructive than massive trade barriers (which is essentially what that is).
Intuit wants to get people into the whole "software as a service" mentality (in a way that their current try-to-force-an-upgrade-every-N-years deal doesn't accomplish). This helps make that happen, I guess.
That said, yes, it is a deficiency that's just not acceptable for some people.
Quicken-everything is pretty awful (and that's before business tactics). Alas, their competition is all deficient as well -- though that's changing. Hopefully sites like Mint will give them a run for their money, and they'll have to make a decent product again.
As far as Clive Staples is concerned, though, most people are not aware that he wrote a sci-fi series ("space trilogy"). They have the usual Christian bent, of course. Another poster mentioned The Abolition of Man; this series ultimately presents similar issues in the form of fiction. The middle book (Perelandra) isn't all that great, but That Hideous Strength is rather interesting (though ultimately less action-packed than one might expect.
The Game of Life thing is awesome. Now he just needs to use it to simulate a Turing machine. Then the universe can implode.
It works both ways. Clouds can trap heat, but they also reflect it. As such, having more clouds in the atmosphere helps primarily if they're going to be over something that was darker to begin with, like Oceans or Forests, and not so much over deserts or the midwestern US.
Right! We just rely on voluntary emissions reductions from the people of the world to counter global warming! Not an impractical crackpot scheme at all!
That's a mighty big assumption.
Simple solution if you don't have someone to do this to: Head over and shop music the old-fashioned way, in New Jersey.
Because I do. And in the state of Louisiana, for one place, you can't unless you get the union to approve you (a competitor). In fact, many economists believe these sort of organization to be the single largest long-term threat to growth in the American economy.
That said, grandparent post does contain a modicum of Bullshit too. Consult with your local Ph.D. economist, not zanies on the Internet.
Postscript. Congress is complicit. That goes for both Republican Congress and Democrat Congress. And the Presidents. Extra for Obama, who is the second-biggest recipient of Fannie Mae campaign contributions ever.
For instance: does it work with Linux?
Or any term. Unless the forklift fuel is free.