You're thinking "politician". Libertarians, usually, don't want to do the whole tax evasion thing. Theoretically just prefer low taxes in exchange for less government services. Now, some advocate fees for everything government instead of income or capital gain taxes. It's still taxes of a sort, just more specific.
"Anarchism" is wanting no taxes or fees (or government) whatsoever..
Back at (insert aerospace company), we regularly went around HR to hire good folks in the early days. Eventually, we got a real Help Desk and used that to grow talent. That worked even better. Folks who wanted to excel and move up could. Folks that wanted to hang out and stay at their current level did. Only person unhappy was the Help Desk manager, because we poached his best people.
And yep. Talking to folks was the best way of hiring folks. Blew the interrogation atmosphere out of the window and just talked. We passed on folks we would have hired based on resume alone, and hired folks unqualified on paper. We ended up with an awesome team. Most of the folks that left the team went on to very decent high skilled positions.
Yep. Good code should be readable on its own. Except, there's a lot of bad code in production and it's kinda necessary to be able to understand it.
Granted, last bad code I had to deal with, I replaced the entire convoluted C#.net app with a two PHP pages because it was driving me friggin insane and the functionality needed to be online ASAP.
Buddy of a buddy of mine's wife could answer that. Someone knocked on the door. She didn't answer as she wasn't expecting anyone, and was in the middle of something. So, likely thinking no one was home, kicked in the door. Daylight, nice neighborhood. They ran into the house, four total.
She thankfully got to the safe which was thankfully designed to be quickly opened, and grabbed a revolver. Tagged two of them before running out of ammo. She then scrambled BACK to the safe. Thankfully, there were speed loaders for the revolver sitting there. She fired twice more before the two mobile individuals left the house, one leaking. Lesson learned, she is practicing with a new semiauto pistol.
Cops did find them. That was the most disturbing part. Car had a baseball bat, rope, duct tape and a machete in it. If they caught her unarmed (an empty weapon is basically just a small club)... If she was lucky, and they could have killed her. If she was unlucky... Look up the Wichita Horror.
My buddy is a judge, who worked with the guy. Apparently a bunch of prosecutors and judges have been targeted semi-recently. At the time he told me, they weren't sure if it was the husband's connection to the legal system or random. Last they guessed, it was just random.
Taxes, regulations and liability. Not saying I think there should be zero of any, but that's what illegals offer advantages in. They have few other advantages over legal employees.
What's wrong with said "hinterlands"? It's cheap to do things, and usually get them done a lot quicker. Plenty of the more intelligent businesses are moving everything that can be moved to the middle of nowhere, as long as the infrastructure is good enough to handle it. Just keep a very fashionable 50 ish person office for PR and executives in NYC, DC, etc.
Companies are a legal fiction to limit liability (in a civil law sense) and allow complicated forms of ownership. That's advice on par with recommending your turtle should only operate a forklift using cat6 instead of cat5e.
Decommissioning costs are put aside during the life of a reactor. The formulas are found in 10 CFR 50.75(c). There isn't a similar requirement for a fund dedicated to clean up after a disaster, because it's so rare and the company is liable anyways. It'd probably be a good idea.
Not really. Anything that is very dangerous in a radiological sense has a short half life. Anything with a half life in the millions of years is not highly radioactive. Plus, a lot of nuclear waste could be reprocessed. We just choose not to.
There are valid concerns with the above points. Heavy metal poisoning can kill you as easily as radiation. Reprocessing nuclear waste has its own issues. But nothing is perfect. Solar tends to kill more people from falls during installation than nuclear does overall.
It's a matter of technicality. The company will advertise a LONG list of very specific criteria, with an absurdly low rate. Since no one (serious) will apply, they have an opening that no one wants and thus opens it up to H1B visas. Obviously the H1B will rarely legitimately fill that specific criteria, but "neither does anyone else who applied".
Not that I disagree entirely with your point, DoD spending is to be $673 billion. That's a difference of $327 billion (nearly 50% increase), which is a bit much for a rounding. Regardless, defense spending is 20% of the budget.
Department of Health and Human Services including Medicare and Medicaid 940.9
Social Security Administration 882.7
Department of Defense including Overseas Contingency Operations 672.9
Net interest 246
Department of Agriculture 154.5
Department of Veterans Affairs 139.7
Department of the Treasury 110.3
Department of Labor 101.7
Department of Transportation 98.5
Department of Education 71.9
Department of State and Other International Programs 59.5
Department of Homeland Security 55.4
National Intelligence Program 52.6
Department of Housing and Urban Development 46.3
Department of Justice 36.5
Department of Energy 35.0
Again, even if you seized all assets, income of any variety and gutted the 1%, you'd close the deficit for a year. Deficit as in "not borrow more money this year", not national debt. And judging from Cyprus, they would buy an exit anyways. I'd certain start hiding money in case I was declared a counterrevolutionary or whatnot.
Ah, don't we spend over a trillion and a half on Entitlement programs? I was under the impression entitlement spending was 57.4% of total federal outlays in FY2012.
If the first world countries don't control it, they're not signing on. Why would they?
If the second or third world countries don't benefit from it, they're not signing on. Why would they?
And why would tax havens sign onto this regardless?
There's no world government that could just decree it. And you need folks with guns to enforce it. Only way it'd work is if it was used by First World countries to loot third world countries and strangle tax havens, but create dependency in which it provided something they needed. Maybe if you refused any banking transfers to countries not a member of whatever agreement, and added in "loan packages" for compliance.
The solution would probably be worse than the problem.
Oy, my brain hurts. While yes, plenty of rich folks have been unacceptably exploitative... For the most part, folks do work voluntarily and get paid an acceptable amount. I suspect from your comments, you're leaning towards either "rich are evil" or "all wealth should be government controlled". Humanity has tried that too. Plenty of Kings, Party Officials, etc tried to steal all the wealth from the entire country and force the entire population to be equally poor. Involuntary equality at gun point tends not to work out in the long term.
That only works once, by and large. Some countries know they'll make even more in the long term by providing discrete, secure financial services. Switzerland has for a very long time.
The density of uranium compared to coal means you have to mine quite a bit less. And you can also extract it from sea water. It's not as economical, but it's actually fairly "renewable" in that the ocean gets plenty more uranium through normal erosion.
Only time I've been hassled by TSA was when I was on government orders, government paid ticket, using government ID. Go figure. It was fun to explain I'd have the lot of the TSA folks in attendance arrested if they took my laptop. As I didn't think they had clearances, the laptop was clearly marked as classified, and I had supporting documentation proving it was legit.
Had similar issues in Europe, but mostly due to back then I had a crypto carrier card that exempted me from any search or seizure while I was in possession of cryptographic material. Only good in NATO countries, I didn't rate one of the diplomatic passports, but it was fun at the time. I never really abused it to engage in smuggling (some folks did), but it did make life fun.
You're claiming MsSQL is more stable than MySQL? Wow. Uhm. Yea, no.
MSSQL has plenty of useful features, mostly being developer friendly. I've used MySQL in enterprise environments, without significant issues. Oracle I'd only consider if I had more money than sense, and felt like burning it for lack of any better ideas.
Price of the PVs are $0.50 - $0.70, but that's not including the price of the install, accessories, wiring, grid tie in, workers to install the stuff and about a dozen other factors. Plus, you know, BUYING the land to put them on.
All of those are provided at the state and local level, pretty much. Even the military part. Every state in the union has some national guard soldiers, probably enough to hold off any invasion, short of an all out war with China.
I always chuckle when federal spending reduction is 'countered' with local examples. You could argue, and likely will, the federal gives money to the state and local governments. Yes, generally as bribes to implement things the federal government doesn't have the authority otherwise to implement. Or pork. Also, my second favorite retort to spending reduction is cutting essential services first and pork last. This is called the "Washington Monument Defense", in bureaucrat speak. If your department is told to cut nonessential services and trim down, you never do so. You cut the most visible and important thing first, so that the cuts are not implemented. Want to close tiny parks that no one ever goes to? NPS counters with "Ok, Washington Monument fits the bill perfectly!" People scream, politicians back pedal, NPS keeps an inflated budget.
Every time someone says "We should have a VAT here in the US", my response is "Kill it with fire. Then nuke the ashes to be sure."
VAT is additional paperwork, and bloody annoying at that. Sales tax is at least straight forward, and usually fairly easy to audit. I've heard people say "Well, we can replace income tax with a VAT system." Yea, nope. You'll end up with both. Maybe one or two places went to VAT without an income tax, but in the States, it'll be both.
I lived in Europe. There were many parts I liked. VAT is not one of them.
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You're thinking "politician". Libertarians, usually, don't want to do the whole tax evasion thing. Theoretically just prefer low taxes in exchange for less government services. Now, some advocate fees for everything government instead of income or capital gain taxes. It's still taxes of a sort, just more specific.
"Anarchism" is wanting no taxes or fees (or government) whatsoever..
Cruel, but effective.
Back at (insert aerospace company), we regularly went around HR to hire good folks in the early days. Eventually, we got a real Help Desk and used that to grow talent. That worked even better. Folks who wanted to excel and move up could. Folks that wanted to hang out and stay at their current level did. Only person unhappy was the Help Desk manager, because we poached his best people.
And yep. Talking to folks was the best way of hiring folks. Blew the interrogation atmosphere out of the window and just talked. We passed on folks we would have hired based on resume alone, and hired folks unqualified on paper. We ended up with an awesome team. Most of the folks that left the team went on to very decent high skilled positions.
Yep. Good code should be readable on its own. Except, there's a lot of bad code in production and it's kinda necessary to be able to understand it.
Granted, last bad code I had to deal with, I replaced the entire convoluted C#.net app with a two PHP pages because it was driving me friggin insane and the functionality needed to be online ASAP.
Buddy of a buddy of mine's wife could answer that. Someone knocked on the door. She didn't answer as she wasn't expecting anyone, and was in the middle of something. So, likely thinking no one was home, kicked in the door. Daylight, nice neighborhood. They ran into the house, four total.
She thankfully got to the safe which was thankfully designed to be quickly opened, and grabbed a revolver. Tagged two of them before running out of ammo. She then scrambled BACK to the safe. Thankfully, there were speed loaders for the revolver sitting there. She fired twice more before the two mobile individuals left the house, one leaking. Lesson learned, she is practicing with a new semiauto pistol.
Cops did find them. That was the most disturbing part. Car had a baseball bat, rope, duct tape and a machete in it. If they caught her unarmed (an empty weapon is basically just a small club)... If she was lucky, and they could have killed her. If she was unlucky... Look up the Wichita Horror.
My buddy is a judge, who worked with the guy. Apparently a bunch of prosecutors and judges have been targeted semi-recently. At the time he told me, they weren't sure if it was the husband's connection to the legal system or random. Last they guessed, it was just random.
Taxes, regulations and liability. Not saying I think there should be zero of any, but that's what illegals offer advantages in. They have few other advantages over legal employees.
What's wrong with said "hinterlands"? It's cheap to do things, and usually get them done a lot quicker. Plenty of the more intelligent businesses are moving everything that can be moved to the middle of nowhere, as long as the infrastructure is good enough to handle it. Just keep a very fashionable 50 ish person office for PR and executives in NYC, DC, etc.
Some of us geeks prefer being in the boonies.
Huh, what?
Companies are a legal fiction to limit liability (in a civil law sense) and allow complicated forms of ownership. That's advice on par with recommending your turtle should only operate a forklift using cat6 instead of cat5e.
Yes, it is.
Decommissioning costs are put aside during the life of a reactor. The formulas are found in 10 CFR 50.75(c). There isn't a similar requirement for a fund dedicated to clean up after a disaster, because it's so rare and the company is liable anyways. It'd probably be a good idea.
Not really. Anything that is very dangerous in a radiological sense has a short half life. Anything with a half life in the millions of years is not highly radioactive. Plus, a lot of nuclear waste could be reprocessed. We just choose not to.
There are valid concerns with the above points. Heavy metal poisoning can kill you as easily as radiation. Reprocessing nuclear waste has its own issues. But nothing is perfect. Solar tends to kill more people from falls during installation than nuclear does overall.
It's a matter of technicality. The company will advertise a LONG list of very specific criteria, with an absurdly low rate. Since no one (serious) will apply, they have an opening that no one wants and thus opens it up to H1B visas. Obviously the H1B will rarely legitimately fill that specific criteria, but "neither does anyone else who applied".
That's the trick to scamming H1B visas legally.
Not that I disagree entirely with your point, DoD spending is to be $673 billion. That's a difference of $327 billion (nearly 50% increase), which is a bit much for a rounding. Regardless, defense spending is 20% of the budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budget#Total_revenues_and_spending
Department of Health and Human Services including Medicare and Medicaid 940.9
Social Security Administration 882.7
Department of Defense including Overseas Contingency Operations 672.9
Net interest 246
Department of Agriculture 154.5
Department of Veterans Affairs 139.7
Department of the Treasury 110.3
Department of Labor 101.7
Department of Transportation 98.5
Department of Education 71.9
Department of State and Other International Programs 59.5
Department of Homeland Security 55.4
National Intelligence Program 52.6
Department of Housing and Urban Development 46.3
Department of Justice 36.5
Department of Energy 35.0
Again, even if you seized all assets, income of any variety and gutted the 1%, you'd close the deficit for a year. Deficit as in "not borrow more money this year", not national debt. And judging from Cyprus, they would buy an exit anyways. I'd certain start hiding money in case I was declared a counterrevolutionary or whatnot.
Ah, don't we spend over a trillion and a half on Entitlement programs? I was under the impression entitlement spending was 57.4% of total federal outlays in FY2012.
If the first world countries don't control it, they're not signing on. Why would they?
If the second or third world countries don't benefit from it, they're not signing on. Why would they?
And why would tax havens sign onto this regardless?
There's no world government that could just decree it. And you need folks with guns to enforce it. Only way it'd work is if it was used by First World countries to loot third world countries and strangle tax havens, but create dependency in which it provided something they needed. Maybe if you refused any banking transfers to countries not a member of whatever agreement, and added in "loan packages" for compliance.
The solution would probably be worse than the problem.
Oy, my brain hurts. While yes, plenty of rich folks have been unacceptably exploitative... For the most part, folks do work voluntarily and get paid an acceptable amount. I suspect from your comments, you're leaning towards either "rich are evil" or "all wealth should be government controlled". Humanity has tried that too. Plenty of Kings, Party Officials, etc tried to steal all the wealth from the entire country and force the entire population to be equally poor. Involuntary equality at gun point tends not to work out in the long term.
That only works once, by and large. Some countries know they'll make even more in the long term by providing discrete, secure financial services. Switzerland has for a very long time.
I have a supernatural power. Wish I didn't. Fairly often, a user complains X is not working. I get there, and magically, it is working just fine.
This power is called "Murphy's Law - Tech Edition". Applies to mechanics as well, and anyone else that does diagnostics.
The density of uranium compared to coal means you have to mine quite a bit less. And you can also extract it from sea water. It's not as economical, but it's actually fairly "renewable" in that the ocean gets plenty more uranium through normal erosion.
Only time I've been hassled by TSA was when I was on government orders, government paid ticket, using government ID. Go figure. It was fun to explain I'd have the lot of the TSA folks in attendance arrested if they took my laptop. As I didn't think they had clearances, the laptop was clearly marked as classified, and I had supporting documentation proving it was legit.
Had similar issues in Europe, but mostly due to back then I had a crypto carrier card that exempted me from any search or seizure while I was in possession of cryptographic material. Only good in NATO countries, I didn't rate one of the diplomatic passports, but it was fun at the time. I never really abused it to engage in smuggling (some folks did), but it did make life fun.
I've heard rumors of folks doing that. But I never did and never met any Americans that admitted doing so.
You're claiming MsSQL is more stable than MySQL? Wow. Uhm. Yea, no. MSSQL has plenty of useful features, mostly being developer friendly. I've used MySQL in enterprise environments, without significant issues. Oracle I'd only consider if I had more money than sense, and felt like burning it for lack of any better ideas.
I do weekly backups of my web servers to Amazon S3. I'm not overly concerned because I encrypt (AES-256) the tar files before upload.
While I admit, folks have their own priorities and needs... I only tend to trust "the cloud" for things that are public or well encrypted.
Price of the PVs are $0.50 - $0.70, but that's not including the price of the install, accessories, wiring, grid tie in, workers to install the stuff and about a dozen other factors. Plus, you know, BUYING the land to put them on.
All of those are provided at the state and local level, pretty much. Even the military part. Every state in the union has some national guard soldiers, probably enough to hold off any invasion, short of an all out war with China.
I always chuckle when federal spending reduction is 'countered' with local examples. You could argue, and likely will, the federal gives money to the state and local governments. Yes, generally as bribes to implement things the federal government doesn't have the authority otherwise to implement. Or pork. Also, my second favorite retort to spending reduction is cutting essential services first and pork last. This is called the "Washington Monument Defense", in bureaucrat speak. If your department is told to cut nonessential services and trim down, you never do so. You cut the most visible and important thing first, so that the cuts are not implemented. Want to close tiny parks that no one ever goes to? NPS counters with "Ok, Washington Monument fits the bill perfectly!" People scream, politicians back pedal, NPS keeps an inflated budget.
Every time someone says "We should have a VAT here in the US", my response is "Kill it with fire. Then nuke the ashes to be sure."
VAT is additional paperwork, and bloody annoying at that. Sales tax is at least straight forward, and usually fairly easy to audit. I've heard people say "Well, we can replace income tax with a VAT system." Yea, nope. You'll end up with both. Maybe one or two places went to VAT without an income tax, but in the States, it'll be both.
I lived in Europe. There were many parts I liked. VAT is not one of them.