When you exercise options you buy and sell immediately
No you don't.
An option is the right to by a stock at a fixed price. Exercising is the act of BUYING the stock at that fixed price, it has nothing to do with selling the stock. I exercised options 7 years ago and I still own the stock
I was in a similar situation a few years back with a company I had options that had to be exercised prior to my departure, so I bought the shares at the price indicated by the options. That year, I had to pay tax on the value of the stock even though I didn't sell it thanks to the AMT. The grandfather post is right, the IRS finds new ways to take your money. The only saving grace in the whole thing is, when I finally DO go to sell those shares, I won't have to pay tax on the portion of the profits equal to that which I already paid.
Yes, and if you take a individual item out of a bill which contains literally dozens, you can make it look like anything you want. Let's see, we'll include the "save the kittens" provision in the "Gee-whiz-death-satellite" program, so when Kerry votes against it because its overpriced, unproven technology would be wasteful, we can say he voted against kittens.
Most of the flip-flop arguments against Kerry hinge on this little detail - he "voted against" something else, and the chosen item was included somewhere else.
Kerry is a democrat, he is NOT left wing. But then, GW isn't a conservative so it is surprising that, as much as the time-honored boundaries have been blurred, there is so little difference between the two.
The poor will end up shouldering most of the burden of tax increases anyway though
Not sure where this information comes from, but we're talking about income taxes here, federal income taxes to be specific - The top 5% of wage earners pay more than 50% of ALL INCOME TAX PAID. People earning about $28K and less pay about 4% of the total federal income tax bill.
The top 50% of wage earners (those "rich" people making $28,000 or more) pay 96%+ of all of the federal income tax.
They sniff and shoot it, to get high, until their brains melt. Others smoke tobacco like crazy, others eat junk food loaded with chemicals, others drink booze, and so on. People drive cars and motorcycles like they were in a racing track. Others skip nights of sleep to dance all night, leading to deafness and nervous problems.
All of the things you describe have long-term negative effects, but you get an immediate reward from each of them "right now" any time you do them, while being more or less sheilded from those negative effects on any given day.
Why do you think those "be a workaholic" pills wouldn't be used?
Because, just like the long-term Benefit of STOPPING all of the things you described, most people don't quit them because they can't deal with the removal of the short-term reward on which they've come to depend. These "pills" you speak of would have no short-term reward, hence the conclusion.
Yes, but in this sense, "execute" does not mean "end his life."
This is what we on Earth call a "Joke". See, in this instance, it DOES mean "end his life", that's the funny part. Then you're expected to muse for a moment over the cleverness of the double-meaning and ponder how great it is that UNIX can be used to make everyday life just a little bit better through humor.
20 years ago a killer system cost $4000 and you could get entry-level computers for $600 (I know this since that's what I paid for my brand-new TRS-80 model III).
Ten years ago, a killer system cost $4000, and you had the newest 486/33 before anyone on your block. You could still get Commodores and others for around $600.
Today, a killer system costs around $3000, granted you get the best of everything, but at this price-point you always did. You can also get a 90-day warranteed crapo Dell for around $600 that will perform basic requirements for a few years.
Hardware prices don't change much over decades. What you get for the money changes pretty drastically, but the price-points are much as they were in 1980.
In honor of the fact that this thread has yet to descend into a pro/con GPL pissing contest I'd like to suggest that IBM could take SuSE, distribute only binaries, call it IBMux and tell the GPL world to get bent. But of course if they did this they could be stopped by...., um, well, I guess nobody.
This assumes they don't use what may be the most valuable feature of the technology - the ability to put readers in the shelves themselves to track what items are there and do inventory in real-time without human intervention. In this case, not only would the "changing tags" be detected instantly, but the system could literally tell security where in the store you were by using timestamps of the changes.
I read an article about this some time back, and it seemed the plan was that they would also enable the carts with readers which would simultaneously activate the RFID in your loyalty-program-key-fob so they they could track what items you change your mind on and what you take off shelves and put back. It would also allow shoppers to keep a running total of their trip if there was an on-cart display.
No, what he's saying is nothing can be achieved by changing the RFID code because the RFID code cannot be changed - there are tags that are read-only, and there are tags that have both a read-only and a read-write data area. There is absolutely no reason the ID portion of the tag would be in the read-write dataspace, in fact, it probably wouldn't be writable by the retailer AT ALL, just like bar codes aren't now. You wouldn't ever want this to be editable information. A can of coke is a can of coke and you would never want to change what it identifies itself as. Pricing information, promotions, and inventory are all stored in the database and that's where the modifications would need to be made to change anything.
The point of the GPL is that the things it doesn't allow you to do, are the things that would cause software not to be free anymore.
This implies that the BSD license allows for things that "would cause software not to be free anymore" which is simply not true. No matter what anyone does with BSD-licensed code, there is absolutely NOTHING they can do to cause the software "not to be free anymore". The BSD-licensed code that they took and used for their own purposes is still there, free as ever, for good or evil forces to take and use as they will. It is only the resulting work, created through their effort, which may or may not be free (by their own decision), and thus, the BSD-license commits the high-crime of allowing programmers the freedom to decide what is done with their code after it's written.
The code itself can not be made a slave and locked away
This is true in both cases. At worst, a copy of BSD code can be made a slave and locked away, but the original is still there, still free for all to use as they please. Its just that including 10 lines of BSD code in a 1,000,000 line project doesn't compel the starving programmer to give away the fruits of his labors as the GPL does. He can compile away, charge what he wants, take his chances in the market, and maybe make a profit (GPL nazis shudder). Even in this case, where someone has committed the very un-GPL sin of makiing a living, the original code that everyone is so concerned about STILL exists, in is still out there, free for the good of society or the public good, or whatever good with which you are so concerned.
Only if you believe that for some reason society as a whole is worse off with a "secret" standard that they can buy and use as they wish. I think society is BETTER off because of it. The example you cite has actually occurred several times over in one form or another (Microsoft, DEC, IBM come to mind) and every time the result has been industry growth, jobs, and profit for the companies that put food on your table and mine.
Be careful man, suggesting you should be allowed to make your own decisions about the fruit of your labor may sound a bit too Ayn-Randish for the socialists that run this place, they'll come get you if you don't look out. Don't say I didnt' warn you........
It was undoubtedly overheard by others who didn't know the source and they just inferred that it meant about everything. Then they started using it and people two degrees of Kevin Bacon away learned it as the majority.
Yes, two wrongs don't make a right. Ten wrongs don't make a right. But somewhere beyond 10,000,000 wrongs, you finally do make a right. What was once a definition becomes subject to opinion and whim, soon freedom is oppression and love is hate as well....
You said "Bangles" right? Not Destiny's Child or even the Spice Girls! Not Trolling, I'm just glad to know someone as old as me is still on Slashdot......
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Why should we care what some hippy folk singer thinks about physics?
No you don't.
An option is the right to by a stock at a fixed price. Exercising is the act of BUYING the stock at that fixed price, it has nothing to do with selling the stock. I exercised options 7 years ago and I still own the stock
I was in a similar situation a few years back with a company I had options that had to be exercised prior to my departure, so I bought the shares at the price indicated by the options. That year, I had to pay tax on the value of the stock even though I didn't sell it thanks to the AMT. The grandfather post is right, the IRS finds new ways to take your money. The only saving grace in the whole thing is, when I finally DO go to sell those shares, I won't have to pay tax on the portion of the profits equal to that which I already paid.
Actually, it looks like its +4 funny right now. Too bad there's not a "-1 GNazi" rating for you.
Yes, and if you take a individual item out of a bill which contains literally dozens, you can make it look like anything you want. Let's see, we'll include the "save the kittens" provision in the "Gee-whiz-death-satellite" program, so when Kerry votes against it because its overpriced, unproven technology would be wasteful, we can say he voted against kittens.
Most of the flip-flop arguments against Kerry hinge on this little detail - he "voted against" something else, and the chosen item was included somewhere else.
Kerry is a democrat, he is NOT left wing. But then, GW isn't a conservative so it is surprising that, as much as the time-honored boundaries have been blurred, there is so little difference between the two.
The one in Demolition Man was pretty nasty too - Be Well!
Not sure where this information comes from, but we're talking about income taxes here, federal income taxes to be specific - The top 5% of wage earners pay more than 50% of ALL INCOME TAX PAID. People earning about $28K and less pay about 4% of the total federal income tax bill. The top 50% of wage earners (those "rich" people making $28,000 or more) pay 96%+ of all of the federal income tax.
All of the things you describe have long-term negative effects, but you get an immediate reward from each of them "right now" any time you do them, while being more or less sheilded from those negative effects on any given day.
Why do you think those "be a workaholic" pills wouldn't be used?
Because, just like the long-term Benefit of STOPPING all of the things you described, most people don't quit them because they can't deal with the removal of the short-term reward on which they've come to depend. These "pills" you speak of would have no short-term reward, hence the conclusion.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
-- George Washington
This is what we on Earth call a "Joke". See, in this instance, it DOES mean "end his life", that's the funny part. Then you're expected to muse for a moment over the cleverness of the double-meaning and ponder how great it is that UNIX can be used to make everyday life just a little bit better through humor.
Actually, they don't.
20 years ago a killer system cost $4000 and you could get entry-level computers for $600 (I know this since that's what I paid for my brand-new TRS-80 model III).
Ten years ago, a killer system cost $4000, and you had the newest 486/33 before anyone on your block. You could still get Commodores and others for around $600.
Today, a killer system costs around $3000, granted you get the best of everything, but at this price-point you always did. You can also get a 90-day warranteed crapo Dell for around $600 that will perform basic requirements for a few years.
Hardware prices don't change much over decades. What you get for the money changes pretty drastically, but the price-points are much as they were in 1980.
In honor of the fact that this thread has yet to descend into a pro/con GPL pissing contest I'd like to suggest that IBM could take SuSE, distribute only binaries, call it IBMux and tell the GPL world to get bent. But of course if they did this they could be stopped by...., um, well, I guess nobody.
This assumes they don't use what may be the most valuable feature of the technology - the ability to put readers in the shelves themselves to track what items are there and do inventory in real-time without human intervention. In this case, not only would the "changing tags" be detected instantly, but the system could literally tell security where in the store you were by using timestamps of the changes. I read an article about this some time back, and it seemed the plan was that they would also enable the carts with readers which would simultaneously activate the RFID in your loyalty-program-key-fob so they they could track what items you change your mind on and what you take off shelves and put back. It would also allow shoppers to keep a running total of their trip if there was an on-cart display.
No, what he's saying is nothing can be achieved by changing the RFID code because the RFID code cannot be changed - there are tags that are read-only, and there are tags that have both a read-only and a read-write data area. There is absolutely no reason the ID portion of the tag would be in the read-write dataspace, in fact, it probably wouldn't be writable by the retailer AT ALL, just like bar codes aren't now. You wouldn't ever want this to be editable information. A can of coke is a can of coke and you would never want to change what it identifies itself as. Pricing information, promotions, and inventory are all stored in the database and that's where the modifications would need to be made to change anything.
This implies that the BSD license allows for things that "would cause software not to be free anymore" which is simply not true. No matter what anyone does with BSD-licensed code, there is absolutely NOTHING they can do to cause the software "not to be free anymore". The BSD-licensed code that they took and used for their own purposes is still there, free as ever, for good or evil forces to take and use as they will. It is only the resulting work, created through their effort, which may or may not be free (by their own decision), and thus, the BSD-license commits the high-crime of allowing programmers the freedom to decide what is done with their code after it's written.
Which do you think is more scary: the list of criteria used, or the definition of usability?
This is true in both cases. At worst, a copy of BSD code can be made a slave and locked away, but the original is still there, still free for all to use as they please. Its just that including 10 lines of BSD code in a 1,000,000 line project doesn't compel the starving programmer to give away the fruits of his labors as the GPL does. He can compile away, charge what he wants, take his chances in the market, and maybe make a profit (GPL nazis shudder). Even in this case, where someone has committed the very un-GPL sin of makiing a living, the original code that everyone is so concerned about STILL exists, in is still out there, free for the good of society or the public good, or whatever good with which you are so concerned.
Only if you believe that for some reason society as a whole is worse off with a "secret" standard that they can buy and use as they wish. I think society is BETTER off because of it. The example you cite has actually occurred several times over in one form or another (Microsoft, DEC, IBM come to mind) and every time the result has been industry growth, jobs, and profit for the companies that put food on your table and mine.
Be careful man, suggesting you should be allowed to make your own decisions about the fruit of your labor may sound a bit too Ayn-Randish for the socialists that run this place, they'll come get you if you don't look out. Don't say I didnt' warn you........
I have just finished Atlas Shrugged, and I want to puke.
In Soviet Russia....you'd feel right at home.
threw up their arms
Why did they eat their own arms?
OS/2? Is that like half of an operating system?
Yes, two wrongs don't make a right. Ten wrongs don't make a right. But somewhere beyond 10,000,000 wrongs, you finally do make a right. What was once a definition becomes subject to opinion and whim, soon freedom is oppression and love is hate as well....
You said "Bangles" right? Not Destiny's Child or even the Spice Girls! Not Trolling, I'm just glad to know someone as old as me is still on Slashdot......
That sounds FEasible to me!
And I was afraid Simon Phoenix wouldn't be a reality in my lifetime........