Barely perceptible changes in lighting levels or hues aimed at changing your behavior. In response to your activity online. Or whatever the NSA deems appropriate.
Contractors normally have to sign contracts that designate them as contractors. Direct employees normally have paperwork that say they are employees.
And you don't think federal and state revenue departments challenge this status all the time?
When a corporations files their paperwork, they have to list key staff like an owner.
US corporations have to list this somewhere inside the USA. Foreign corporations list wherever they are chartered as required by their laws of incorporation. In some cases, its in a jurisdiction that protects its subjects privacy rights. Good luck finding the names of the board of directors, CEO or shareholders.
Working for such an entity (within the USA) I have to report my revenue. But any other questions the IRS has, I direct to my boss overseas. When he gets inquiries from US government officials, he suffers major bouts of side-splitting laughter.
The IRS is going to shit themselves if this sort of thing becomes widespread. Who is a direct employee? Who is a contractor? Worse yet, why San Francisco? Why not an office in the Cayman Islands? Is that guy just a low level coding grunt or the principle owner of the corporation? The only thing that gets reported is the salary or contracting fee payed back into the USA. All other requests for info from the IRS (or FBI/CIA/NSA) are met with a 'Fuck off. We're out of your jurisdiction.'
I believe Github uses a chatroom as their main communication channel.
Why not e-mail? Its a 'pull' technology that allows me to manage my own time. If people need real time communications, they can set it up (chat, in-person meeting, etc.)
The whole 'meeting' thing is a power game played at many companies (you jump when I tell you to) and needs to be minimized in flatter organizations. Or some PHB wanna-be's will abuse them.
Given the current funding levels for science, our space programs are devolving into something akin to a bunch of hobos fighting over the last off-ramp.
IANAL, but probable cause requires a burden of proof significantly higher than a coin toss. Its not a defined number, but it does require some reliable evidence.
That's because aerospace software is written in a very strictly controlled structured process. You write your object to a detailed spec, following well defined guidelines. A side effect of this is that anyone who can code and follow instructions can do the job. So they can pick you up and drop someone else in. And the development teams tend to be big enough that nobody has the leverage to demand more money.
I was in the aerospace business many years ago and I managed to find a niche inside a company with a product that only needed a few developers. It was an enterprise app that was very valuable (we replaced a failed $250 million s/w project in 6 months with 5 developers). At the time, I worked my way up to a salary well above $200K (in todays dollars).
But in the end, the company took our project and outsourced it for a price of close to $500 million. Because aerospace management has a fear of loss of control. Its worth half a billion dollars to cot a contract rather than risk 5 people walking out the door for more money. And with captive customers who will pay whatever it takes to buy aircraft, why worry about costs?
$200,000 software products come with a lot of configuration, training and support services from the vendor. What IT director* is going to sign off on this kind of expenditure for a piece of software that doesn't even come in its own shiny box?
*The home/small office market for stuff at this price is approximately zero.
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I blame iMaps.
Not any more.
the navy is ceasing its use of all caps as well. what's this world coming to?
That's my dad's job.
Barely perceptible changes in lighting levels or hues aimed at changing your behavior. In response to your activity online. Or whatever the NSA deems appropriate.
Contractors normally have to sign contracts that designate them as contractors. Direct employees normally have paperwork that say they are employees.
And you don't think federal and state revenue departments challenge this status all the time?
When a corporations files their paperwork, they have to list key staff like an owner.
US corporations have to list this somewhere inside the USA. Foreign corporations list wherever they are chartered as required by their laws of incorporation. In some cases, its in a jurisdiction that protects its subjects privacy rights. Good luck finding the names of the board of directors, CEO or shareholders.
Working for such an entity (within the USA) I have to report my revenue. But any other questions the IRS has, I direct to my boss overseas. When he gets inquiries from US government officials, he suffers major bouts of side-splitting laughter.
Face it towards the wall.
yet it happened before Christianity became the official religion of the empire in the fourth century.
You don't have to give them control. Christians can bring down an empire just by getting a foot in the door and instigating internal conflict.
When did they slip "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance?
Make out your royalty checks to "The Pope, Vatican City".
The IRS is going to shit themselves if this sort of thing becomes widespread. Who is a direct employee? Who is a contractor? Worse yet, why San Francisco? Why not an office in the Cayman Islands? Is that guy just a low level coding grunt or the principle owner of the corporation? The only thing that gets reported is the salary or contracting fee payed back into the USA. All other requests for info from the IRS (or FBI/CIA/NSA) are met with a 'Fuck off. We're out of your jurisdiction.'
But people will call you.
Voicemail.
I believe Github uses a chatroom as their main communication channel.
Why not e-mail? Its a 'pull' technology that allows me to manage my own time. If people need real time communications, they can set it up (chat, in-person meeting, etc.)
The whole 'meeting' thing is a power game played at many companies (you jump when I tell you to) and needs to be minimized in flatter organizations. Or some PHB wanna-be's will abuse them.
Given the current funding levels for science, our space programs are devolving into something akin to a bunch of hobos fighting over the last off-ramp.
Or Mike Rogers just blew a cunning NSA misinformation campaign wide open.
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IANAL, but probable cause requires a burden of proof significantly higher than a coin toss. Its not a defined number, but it does require some reliable evidence.
With every possible name inserted into line 3?
Navajo. No, wait. That's domestic, not foreign.
That's because aerospace software is written in a very strictly controlled structured process. You write your object to a detailed spec, following well defined guidelines. A side effect of this is that anyone who can code and follow instructions can do the job. So they can pick you up and drop someone else in. And the development teams tend to be big enough that nobody has the leverage to demand more money.
I was in the aerospace business many years ago and I managed to find a niche inside a company with a product that only needed a few developers. It was an enterprise app that was very valuable (we replaced a failed $250 million s/w project in 6 months with 5 developers). At the time, I worked my way up to a salary well above $200K (in todays dollars).
But in the end, the company took our project and outsourced it for a price of close to $500 million. Because aerospace management has a fear of loss of control. Its worth half a billion dollars to cot a contract rather than risk 5 people walking out the door for more money. And with captive customers who will pay whatever it takes to buy aircraft, why worry about costs?
But you have to factor in the cost of living in Hawaii with a summer home in Hong Kong.
Mmmmmm! Bacon!
$200,000 software products come with a lot of configuration, training and support services from the vendor. What IT director* is going to sign off on this kind of expenditure for a piece of software that doesn't even come in its own shiny box?
*The home/small office market for stuff at this price is approximately zero.