The problems with taxes are: First, governments become addicted to them as a revenue source. Second, businesses (particularly utilities) just pass the tax on to their customers. Plus, they make a profit on this pass-through as well. Third, the tax exempt businesses just end up being less efficient. And when they finally drive their non-tax exempt out of business and their tax advantage disappears, often they go out of business as well.
By far, the worst thing about taxes is the government addiction to them. You don't want to drive an electric or hybrid car in the 'progressive' states that first encouraged them. Because now, they are falling over themselves trying to squeeze a 'fair share' of revenue out of cars not paying at the pump. Taxes: GibsMeDat on a government level.
the county is likely within its power to seize the plots
I don't know how Hawaiian law works. But in my state (WA), unclaimed property is protected forever. Counties (and other parties) might be able to file a lien for fees, taxes and other obligations owed. But I don't think they can just 'take it away'.
and sell them to cover the costs
What costs? For unimproved land with no services, the cost to the county is zero. Even then, once the property owner is identified, they have the right (at least in my state) to make good on back taxes and fees.
White-shoe management consulting firms exclusively hire from the elite universities,.... going from being a broke college student to making $250K a year is a big change.
What is this 'broke college student' you speak of? The elites are a bunch of drunken frat boys with daddy's American Express Centurion credit card.
It comes down to value for the hiring organization once you get out of school. Consultancies and investment banks value the networking connections that elite college graduates bring with them. Because these businesses add very little actual value to their product, other than the stamp of approval of their name on otherwise obvious advice. Businesses that are more value added tend not to hire from elite colleges as much. Because the cost of these graduates doesn't make up for the small (if any) increase in their productivity.
They make lids for a reason. Actually, more than one. Ever seen the aerosolized particles that come out of a flushing toilet? That ends the whole "Seat down, lid up" argument.
... for broadband in areas where Verizon and Comcast or Charter co-exist. So I'd say; go ahead and Verizon buy. As long as it sells off it's wireless service business in the overlapping areas.
This team from Britain and Canada found that mutating a single gene to block the phosphodiesterase-4B (PDE4B) enzyme, which is found in many organs including the brain, made mice cleverer and at the same time less fearful.
So we have a pharmaceutical means of making people switch political parties. [I'm not saying which way. I'm not that stupid.]
Except Boeing commercial aircraft don't use that much titanium. So the contamination level from that path would be vanishingly small. Titanium (and some of the other rare elements detected) are used primarily in military programs. Which Cooper might have picked up as an engineer visiting a related shop area.
The idea was put forth that Cooper might have been involved with the SST program, which was going to use a significant amount of titanium. But Boeing never got much further than plywood mockups. Given these constraints, there aren't really that many places even at Boeing where employees would encounter such metals, making the search space pretty small. So this is data that could very easily reduce the number of suspects.
A specific brand. I believe TFA said that they (Ivey and Cheng) had identified an asymmetry in the pattern on the back side. So by rotating certain cards (actually asking the dealer to do so), they could identify them when they were dealt again.
I don't understand exactly how they violated any 'mutual obligation'. Ivey and Cheng made certain requests of the casino about how they would like to play. The casino agreed to their terms. Granted, Ivey and Cheng had some knowledge that the casino was not privy to, specifically the asymmetrical pattern on the cards. But this was something that the casino should have known (casinos provide the cards). Ivey and Cheng made no attempt to conceal anything from the casino.
If I engaged in some game with an opponent and I had a better understanding of the mechanics and probabilities than they did, would I be cheating? Would I be under some obligation to explain a playing or betting system that I had developed to my competition?
Remember when computers were large mainframes sequestered in air conditioned data centers? And they were all run by the high priesthood of IT professionals? And the only hope that the 'common person' had of ever using their services was through a teletype, 3270 terminal or deck of punched cards? Well, the cloud is a lot like that, except that our terminal devices have much better graphics processing capabilities, so as to offload this task onto these clients. And they fit in our pockets, so we are given the illusion that we own them.
PC*s brought a major disruption in the power balance between IT service providers and the user community. One that these providers didn't like at all. And they have been working hard to reverse this little hiccup in their marketplace.
*Also, the Internet, with it's decentralized design. But the IT service industry shut that down pretty quickly by labeling any peer-to-peer protocol that bypassed them as evil (most probably piracy).
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The problems with taxes are: First, governments become addicted to them as a revenue source. Second, businesses (particularly utilities) just pass the tax on to their customers. Plus, they make a profit on this pass-through as well. Third, the tax exempt businesses just end up being less efficient. And when they finally drive their non-tax exempt out of business and their tax advantage disappears, often they go out of business as well.
By far, the worst thing about taxes is the government addiction to them. You don't want to drive an electric or hybrid car in the 'progressive' states that first encouraged them. Because now, they are falling over themselves trying to squeeze a 'fair share' of revenue out of cars not paying at the pump. Taxes: GibsMeDat on a government level.
the county is likely within its power to seize the plots
I don't know how Hawaiian law works. But in my state (WA), unclaimed property is protected forever. Counties (and other parties) might be able to file a lien for fees, taxes and other obligations owed. But I don't think they can just 'take it away'.
and sell them to cover the costs
What costs? For unimproved land with no services, the cost to the county is zero. Even then, once the property owner is identified, they have the right (at least in my state) to make good on back taxes and fees.
White-shoe management consulting firms exclusively hire from the elite universities, .... going from being a broke college student to making $250K a year is a big change.
What is this 'broke college student' you speak of? The elites are a bunch of drunken frat boys with daddy's American Express Centurion credit card.
It comes down to value for the hiring organization once you get out of school. Consultancies and investment banks value the networking connections that elite college graduates bring with them. Because these businesses add very little actual value to their product, other than the stamp of approval of their name on otherwise obvious advice. Businesses that are more value added tend not to hire from elite colleges as much. Because the cost of these graduates doesn't make up for the small (if any) increase in their productivity.
I fear where this might go. (NSFW?)
They make lids for a reason. Actually, more than one. Ever seen the aerosolized particles that come out of a flushing toilet? That ends the whole "Seat down, lid up" argument.
We took on the WTO and we won.
Yeah! Down with globalization! Make America great again!
Er .... Um .... Wait a minute.
Now, when I Google "back door pirates" all I get is references to this damned story.
Why would you scream bloody murder
Might interfere with the rhythm of my super eurobeat.
Also, I think there's different levels of tolerance people have for disturbing stuff.
Could be a bunch of H-1B workers freaked out over images of women without hijabs.
Read my data.
Enjoy your PTSD.
From TFA:
This team from Britain and Canada found that mutating a single gene to block the phosphodiesterase-4B (PDE4B) enzyme, which is found in many organs including the brain, made mice cleverer and at the same time less fearful.
So we have a pharmaceutical means of making people switch political parties. [I'm not saying which way. I'm not that stupid.]
tie was left on a boeing aircraft
Except Boeing commercial aircraft don't use that much titanium. So the contamination level from that path would be vanishingly small. Titanium (and some of the other rare elements detected) are used primarily in military programs. Which Cooper might have picked up as an engineer visiting a related shop area.
The idea was put forth that Cooper might have been involved with the SST program, which was going to use a significant amount of titanium. But Boeing never got much further than plywood mockups. Given these constraints, there aren't really that many places even at Boeing where employees would encounter such metals, making the search space pretty small. So this is data that could very easily reduce the number of suspects.
Microsoft believes that our PCs belong to them
What's a PC?
Sent from my Android phone.
I've caught my phone referring to me as a meatbag on several occasions. And I could swear my PC whispered "Kill all humans" just the other day.
it was a specific set ?
A specific brand. I believe TFA said that they (Ivey and Cheng) had identified an asymmetry in the pattern on the back side. So by rotating certain cards (actually asking the dealer to do so), they could identify them when they were dealt again.
I don't understand exactly how they violated any 'mutual obligation'. Ivey and Cheng made certain requests of the casino about how they would like to play. The casino agreed to their terms. Granted, Ivey and Cheng had some knowledge that the casino was not privy to, specifically the asymmetrical pattern on the cards. But this was something that the casino should have known (casinos provide the cards). Ivey and Cheng made no attempt to conceal anything from the casino.
If I engaged in some game with an opponent and I had a better understanding of the mechanics and probabilities than they did, would I be cheating? Would I be under some obligation to explain a playing or betting system that I had developed to my competition?
Ripping off stoners since 1964.
Dude! Where's my shift key?
Remember when computers were large mainframes sequestered in air conditioned data centers? And they were all run by the high priesthood of IT professionals? And the only hope that the 'common person' had of ever using their services was through a teletype, 3270 terminal or deck of punched cards? Well, the cloud is a lot like that, except that our terminal devices have much better graphics processing capabilities, so as to offload this task onto these clients. And they fit in our pockets, so we are given the illusion that we own them.
PC*s brought a major disruption in the power balance between IT service providers and the user community. One that these providers didn't like at all. And they have been working hard to reverse this little hiccup in their marketplace.
*Also, the Internet, with it's decentralized design. But the IT service industry shut that down pretty quickly by labeling any peer-to-peer protocol that bypassed them as evil (most probably piracy).
Welcome to the club.
Yeah. Go ahead and squeeze a bigger battery in there while you are at it. If it doesn't fit, just man up and push harder.
pay CEO more money
First job to go. Replaced by a small Perl script.