Even though the U.S. dollar is experiencing rampant inflation in 2012
This is a false statement, unless you consider low single digits to be rampant.
The CPI and BPP bear this out. The CPI is done by the government, so if there was enough of a conspiracy, they could conspire to keep the official numbers down. I don't think any alleged conspiracy could reach the BPP.
That is exactly what they do, however instead of calling it a civil union they call it marriage. It's incredibly confusing for most people. Doubly so when the people who do the "state" marriage is performed at the same time as the "religion" marriage.
I agree though. If you want "tax/property benefits" you get "civil unioned". If you want God to sanction you, you get "married".
The difference is very relevant here. Stallman believes that developing closed source software is morally wrong, much the same way that some folks believe abortion is morally wrong. The Open Source "movement" believes that opening the source leads to technically superior software. Linus open-sourced Linux because he thought it would be more useful that way, not because he thought that he was doing something morally right.
The OP here apparently came to an agreement with his partner that they not open source the good parts of the code. His question about it being "wrong" to open source the "good stuff" seems to come from a moral perspective. From a moral perspective, I think he's on fine ground. If he's worrying about making the most money, it depends on what he considers his company to be. Are they are hardware shop first and a software shop second or is it the other way around? If it's the former, open source it all. If it's the latter, he should close everything up if money is the only issue at hand.
In many cases some free software licenses conflict with the terms of app stores. For instance, Pidgin can't be ported to the iPhone for this (and other) reasons.
I don't know of any authors who refused to publish their apps to an app store because of issues not related to licensing. Do you know of any?
If I go on vacation to Ohio, my home state wouldn't be able to collect tax on it.
Correct. That's why I said that they can't.
However if I buy something online from home and the retailer is in Ohio then there would be an argument as to where exactly the sale took place. I suspect that would be at my home as that's ultimately where I take possession of the goods.
That isn't the issue at hand. It's an interstate transaction, and your home state is not allowed to tax that transaction. They can (and often do) tax your use of the item.
As has been said here before, if I, an Ohioan, buy something from Newegg.com in CA, my state of residence has no idea about it. They can't compel Newegg to collect tax on my behalf like they can Best Buy.
Ohio is not allowed to tax purchases I make across state lines per Article I, Section 10. They get around that by taxing the use of the item rather than the sale. So on my Ohio taxes, there's a line where I declare any purchases I made that were not subject to sales tax. They then tax me on the use of the item at the same tax rate as if I'd have bought it locally. It's all entirely voluntary. I can put down $0 and they'd never know the difference. It's tax evasion, but it's really hard for them to prove.
This bill "would allow states to collect sales taxes from remote sellers if they sign on to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), a 12-year-old effort to meet the Supreme Court's requirements to simplify sales tax collection, or if they adopt a so-called alternative tax simplification plan." [quoted from the article]
Deflation is bad because it makes cash an investment unto itself rather than a medium of exchange. Pulling your money out of a bank and keeping it under your mattress becomes a sound investment strategy.
If cash becomes more valuable, people hold onto it because it's appreciating. They don't spend it, meaning less people buy things, meaning prices go down, meaning your cash becomes more valuable, etc., etc. Meanwhile debts are still valued in dollars, so when your wages get cut (because of the deflation, you're making more in real dollars), it becomes harder to pay off those debts.
That's actually not too far from the truth. Copyright infringement is a strict liability crime. That means even if you didn't realize you were infringing and/or took reasonable steps to ensure you weren't infringing, you are still on the hook if you end up doing it anyway. In that case, the minimum penalties are lowered to $200 per work infringed.
There's an idea, send someone a trojan that shares their music folder. I've got about 5,000 songs, give or take. That'd be about $1,000,000 -- minimum. There is nothing in the law that says you have to get the minimum...the jury can still find me liable for the full $150,000, making the damages $750,000,000.
It makes my back feel a little better. It doesn't do much more than that, and my Chiropractor doesn't claim that it does. It doesn't cure cancer or anything.
Oddly enough, those of us who have HSAs/FSAs get a tax break to pay for homeopathy, acupuncture, and yes, faith-healing. You can use tax-exempt money to pay for someone to pray away your ailment so long as they are a licensed Christian Science Practitioner.
As others have said on the subject, if you think that little green pieces of paper are worth less than gold, you are more than welcome to trade the little green pieces of paper for gold to someone who wants the paper more than they want the gold. No one is stopping you.
I trust the paper because there isn't a single entity that I've done business with that hasn't accepted them in exchange for goods and services.
If you're making an oblique reference to a gold standard, I respectfully submit that the Federal Reserve having control of the inflation rate is better than no one having control of it (or rather companies that mine gold having control of it). The fiat money system does have it's failings, but it's better than a federally-fixed price for gold.
Call me when it happens. We've got a moderate President and the 111th Congress was center-left at best.
If you really want a *liberal* supermajority (friendly reminder that Democrat != liberal), we'd need a lot more folks like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders replacing the Heath Shulers and Mark Pryors of the Congress.
And then of course, you'd need this liberal supermajority to actually *do something* instead of sitting around being scared of their own shadows.
You're forgetting folks who log in to a particular program to get paid. We've got a custom CRM program that tracks clock-in and clock-out times. If I shut down my PC every evening, I'd be sitting there for 3 minutes every morning waiting for my computer to boot before I'm officially on the clock. 3 minutes x 5 days x 52 weeks x my wage in minutes is a few hundred dollars a year.
In fact that's exactly what Nebraska does. The parties are not shown on the ballots. They even have a unicamerial legislature. They've got it figured out.
As others have said, I fail to see how this is a troll. The general consensus in Washington right now is that we're going to have to make some hard choices in how we spend our money, seeing as the current debt is getting rather high in both nominal terms and as a percentage of GDP. Government-funded scientific research will likely be determined to be something we can't afford given that the Democrats will hold the line on entitlement spending and Republicans will hold the line on keeping taxes at current rates.
If there is one thing that all Republicans are united against, it is the raising of taxes on those subject to the highest marginal rate (I'll forgo the loaded term "rich"). You might think that's a virtue, and you might think that's a vice, and I'm not here to argue either, but it is the truth. The same goes with the Democrats and keeping Medicare a government-run single-payer health care program for people over the age of 65.
Are you trying to tell me you don't know the name of the clerk who makes sure that our friend's grandmother gets her Social Security check is not popular? I follow her on Twitter.
It pays to note that OSU unilaterally decided to vacate their wins from last year. The NCAA had nothing to do with that.
It also pays to note that the players involved in the rule-breaking were simply selling their own possessions. Sure that's against the rules, but it's a pretty shitty rule. A friend of mine pointed out that they must have this rule or else schools could simply buy each player a $100,000 trophy that they could sell...which would get around the ban on paying the students. Fair enough, but this only lends more credence to the idea that college football (and to a lesser extent, basketball) programs should not be the de-facto minor league for the pros.
I don't particularly know why the NCAA would need to be able to do stuff like this. I do know that if the NFL and NBA had developmental leagues (like MLB and the NHL), there would be no reason for it. If you're a good high school football player, you have to play college football for 3 years until you can be drafted (well technically you just have to be 3 years removed from high school). There'd be no reason for players to violate NCAA policy if they didn't have to go through the NCAA. They could just go to the AA football team and play for money until they were ready for the NFL.
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This is a false statement, unless you consider low single digits to be rampant.
The CPI and BPP bear this out. The CPI is done by the government, so if there was enough of a conspiracy, they could conspire to keep the official numbers down. I don't think any alleged conspiracy could reach the BPP.
That is exactly what they do, however instead of calling it a civil union they call it marriage. It's incredibly confusing for most people. Doubly so when the people who do the "state" marriage is performed at the same time as the "religion" marriage.
I agree though. If you want "tax/property benefits" you get "civil unioned". If you want God to sanction you, you get "married".
Agreed.
It'd be like saying you're going to boycott the federal government. The only way you can do it is to move to a different country.
The difference is very relevant here. Stallman believes that developing closed source software is morally wrong, much the same way that some folks believe abortion is morally wrong. The Open Source "movement" believes that opening the source leads to technically superior software. Linus open-sourced Linux because he thought it would be more useful that way, not because he thought that he was doing something morally right.
The OP here apparently came to an agreement with his partner that they not open source the good parts of the code. His question about it being "wrong" to open source the "good stuff" seems to come from a moral perspective. From a moral perspective, I think he's on fine ground. If he's worrying about making the most money, it depends on what he considers his company to be. Are they are hardware shop first and a software shop second or is it the other way around? If it's the former, open source it all. If it's the latter, he should close everything up if money is the only issue at hand.
You must not know the joke.
A Libertarian is a Republican with a conviction for possession of weed.
In many cases some free software licenses conflict with the terms of app stores. For instance, Pidgin can't be ported to the iPhone for this (and other) reasons.
I don't know of any authors who refused to publish their apps to an app store because of issues not related to licensing. Do you know of any?
Correct. That's why I said that they can't.
That isn't the issue at hand. It's an interstate transaction, and your home state is not allowed to tax that transaction. They can (and often do) tax your use of the item.
As has been said here before, if I, an Ohioan, buy something from Newegg.com in CA, my state of residence has no idea about it. They can't compel Newegg to collect tax on my behalf like they can Best Buy.
Ohio is not allowed to tax purchases I make across state lines per Article I, Section 10. They get around that by taxing the use of the item rather than the sale. So on my Ohio taxes, there's a line where I declare any purchases I made that were not subject to sales tax. They then tax me on the use of the item at the same tax rate as if I'd have bought it locally. It's all entirely voluntary. I can put down $0 and they'd never know the difference. It's tax evasion, but it's really hard for them to prove.
This bill "would allow states to collect sales taxes from remote sellers if they sign on to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), a 12-year-old effort to meet the Supreme Court's requirements to simplify sales tax collection, or if they adopt a so-called alternative tax simplification plan." [quoted from the article]
So that's why we have the bill.
He pulled them out of his rear.
Deflation is bad because it makes cash an investment unto itself rather than a medium of exchange. Pulling your money out of a bank and keeping it under your mattress becomes a sound investment strategy.
If cash becomes more valuable, people hold onto it because it's appreciating. They don't spend it, meaning less people buy things, meaning prices go down, meaning your cash becomes more valuable, etc., etc. Meanwhile debts are still valued in dollars, so when your wages get cut (because of the deflation, you're making more in real dollars), it becomes harder to pay off those debts.
Oh, chill, dude. Someone who saw the sarcasm tags rated it a +1, Funny.
Best of luck to you on your presentation.
He's jumping to the datastore because he can't cunningly fit in a link to his presentation about NoSQL database software if he doesn't.
That's actually not too far from the truth. Copyright infringement is a strict liability crime. That means even if you didn't realize you were infringing and/or took reasonable steps to ensure you weren't infringing, you are still on the hook if you end up doing it anyway. In that case, the minimum penalties are lowered to $200 per work infringed.
There's an idea, send someone a trojan that shares their music folder. I've got about 5,000 songs, give or take. That'd be about $1,000,000 -- minimum. There is nothing in the law that says you have to get the minimum...the jury can still find me liable for the full $150,000, making the damages $750,000,000.
It makes my back feel a little better. It doesn't do much more than that, and my Chiropractor doesn't claim that it does. It doesn't cure cancer or anything.
Oddly enough, those of us who have HSAs/FSAs get a tax break to pay for homeopathy, acupuncture, and yes, faith-healing. You can use tax-exempt money to pay for someone to pray away your ailment so long as they are a licensed Christian Science Practitioner.
As others have said on the subject, if you think that little green pieces of paper are worth less than gold, you are more than welcome to trade the little green pieces of paper for gold to someone who wants the paper more than they want the gold. No one is stopping you.
I trust the paper because there isn't a single entity that I've done business with that hasn't accepted them in exchange for goods and services.
If you're making an oblique reference to a gold standard, I respectfully submit that the Federal Reserve having control of the inflation rate is better than no one having control of it (or rather companies that mine gold having control of it). The fiat money system does have it's failings, but it's better than a federally-fixed price for gold.
Call me when it happens. We've got a moderate President and the 111th Congress was center-left at best.
If you really want a *liberal* supermajority (friendly reminder that Democrat != liberal), we'd need a lot more folks like Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders replacing the Heath Shulers and Mark Pryors of the Congress.
And then of course, you'd need this liberal supermajority to actually *do something* instead of sitting around being scared of their own shadows.
It also is common if your codebase is so old and full of spaghetti that you're afraid to refactor anything.
You're forgetting folks who log in to a particular program to get paid. We've got a custom CRM program that tracks clock-in and clock-out times. If I shut down my PC every evening, I'd be sitting there for 3 minutes every morning waiting for my computer to boot before I'm officially on the clock. 3 minutes x 5 days x 52 weeks x my wage in minutes is a few hundred dollars a year.
I'll keep the PC on, TYVM.
And as always happens in this case, someone has to bring up the 14th Amendment:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
In fact that's exactly what Nebraska does. The parties are not shown on the ballots. They even have a unicamerial legislature. They've got it figured out.
You're a smart guy. I agree with almost nothing you have to say, but you're still a smart guy. We'd love to have you over at The Forvm (see my sig).
As others have said, I fail to see how this is a troll. The general consensus in Washington right now is that we're going to have to make some hard choices in how we spend our money, seeing as the current debt is getting rather high in both nominal terms and as a percentage of GDP. Government-funded scientific research will likely be determined to be something we can't afford given that the Democrats will hold the line on entitlement spending and Republicans will hold the line on keeping taxes at current rates.
If there is one thing that all Republicans are united against, it is the raising of taxes on those subject to the highest marginal rate (I'll forgo the loaded term "rich"). You might think that's a virtue, and you might think that's a vice, and I'm not here to argue either, but it is the truth. The same goes with the Democrats and keeping Medicare a government-run single-payer health care program for people over the age of 65.
Are you trying to tell me you don't know the name of the clerk who makes sure that our friend's grandmother gets her Social Security check is not popular? I follow her on Twitter.
Die-hard OSU football fan here.
It pays to note that OSU unilaterally decided to vacate their wins from last year. The NCAA had nothing to do with that.
It also pays to note that the players involved in the rule-breaking were simply selling their own possessions. Sure that's against the rules, but it's a pretty shitty rule. A friend of mine pointed out that they must have this rule or else schools could simply buy each player a $100,000 trophy that they could sell...which would get around the ban on paying the students. Fair enough, but this only lends more credence to the idea that college football (and to a lesser extent, basketball) programs should not be the de-facto minor league for the pros.
I don't particularly know why the NCAA would need to be able to do stuff like this. I do know that if the NFL and NBA had developmental leagues (like MLB and the NHL), there would be no reason for it. If you're a good high school football player, you have to play college football for 3 years until you can be drafted (well technically you just have to be 3 years removed from high school). There'd be no reason for players to violate NCAA policy if they didn't have to go through the NCAA. They could just go to the AA football team and play for money until they were ready for the NFL.
I wouldn't loose too much sleep if N. Korea was no longer in the UN.