Those foundations are created after becoming wealthy for tax breaks, positive publicity, and to make statements - not to become wealthy.
Not necessarily. Most private foundations have less than $1M in the bank. Depending on your tax situation, it might make sense to start a foundation on the way up than wait until you have it all to give away.
You've got cause and effect completely reversed.
You're obviously need to read more about becoming wealthy.
When Amazon had the ebook version of "Battlefield: Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard for a buck, I finally bought a copy to see if the book was as bad as the movie. Surprisingly, the book was very good. I'm now halfway through the "Mission Earth" decalogy (ten volume) series.
Senior IT guy sounds like a guy who has saved his pennies all of this life and is in a position of FIRE (Financial Independance Retire Early) or has a F U Fund, knows he has mad skills and can get another job easily, and doesn't care what Carnival and India thinks.
I had end users toward me that they could always get me fired. I've always responded that I can get a new job that pays 40% more. That shuts them up.
If you accept shitty conditions and unreasonable demands, you'll probably accept seasonal stints too.
When Alabama ran off the all migrant farmworkers out of the state in 2011, farmers were hardpressed to find anyone to do the work and crops rotted in the field. Poor blacks and poor whites are unwilling to do the backbreaking work that the poor browns from other countries are willing to do all day long for Almighty Dollar.
LOL... how'd the hopey changey thing work for you over the last eight years?
After eights of failed Republican economic policies, I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Now I'm back to where I was prior to the Great Recession. Thanks, Obama!
DOS version of Quake didn't use OpenGL, so it wasn't accelerated.
That's where MiniGL came into play back in the day. When I got a 3Dfx Voodoo Rush video card and played Quake in OpenGL, my roommates ran out and got 3DFX Voodoo 2 video cards.
My employer got slammed with a sexual harassment lawsuit, and I had to attend "Sensitivity Training".
The secretaries would have filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, not your employer, and more likely it would have been a complaint and not a lawsuit. If HR determined that your were guilty of the complaint, then you would have "sensitivity training" class to attend. Of course, it's not the 1990's anymore.
The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products.
Christmas was a Roman pagan holiday back in the day.
Sure, Ebenezer could have bought a Christmas goose for Tiny Tim's family, but that would have just helped one family one time.
The contracting agency I worked for gave everyone an extra five weeks of pay (which is less than a month of pay after taxes) as a Christmas bonus. The author for an essay on Hanukkah goose wrote that it cost him $250 for kosher goose. With my unexpected holiday bonus, I could have bought kosher goose for a dozen families.
But if he had instead kept the money, and reinvested it in his business, he could expand and create jobs, goods, and services that would benefit far more people, and benefit them permanently.
Or bought a yacht. Which is what the CEO of a Fortune 500 company was rumored to have done after getting a 60% raise for having lousy fiscal year and laying off 10% of the workforce. As one of the laid off employees, I had a lousy Christmas in 2013.
The prosperity of the modern world wasn't created by people giving away their money.
That's funny. Every how-to book on becoming wealthy recommends starting a charitable foundation.
According to the most recent statistics, the number of family foundations like the Cordes Foundation has exploded since 2001. There are now over 40,000 family foundations in the United States, making grants totaling more than $21.3 billion a year, up from about 3,200 family foundations doling out $6.8 billion in 2001, according to the Foundation Center in Washington.
When my parents moved from SIlicon Valley to retire in Sacramento in the mid-1990's, my father drove me around the area to see the sights. He pointed out every school that was building a brand new football field but couldn't find money to reduce classroom sizes or provide supplies. Seems like a colossal waste of resources.
For several decades now, the media has been constantly telling people, directly or indirectly, that they are a complete failure if they don't meet some arbitrary, ideal life.
Turn off the television. I've done that 20+ years ago. I selectively watch TV content on Hulu and Netflix.
You aren't good looking enough. You aren't rich enough. Your house isn't nice enough. You clothes aren't nice enough. You don't have enough friends. You don't have the right friends.
The siren call of the American Dream. Give it up and left a modest lifestyle. If you try to keep up with the Joneses, you will never win. Ignore the Joneses, enjoy life.
The game is like a prostitute offering a free hand job but stops after three short jerks and demands money to continue on. And no opportunity to get laid once the money is forked over and the jerking is done. Hence, two star reviews.
An Amazon hoodie doesn't even make sense in an ironic joke...
My friend also works for the Sprint Store in the same mall. Whenever he walks around in his Sprint shirts, no one ever comes up and ask him questions. Go figure.
They reinvest pretty much all profits back into growing the company.
I've always thought Amazon's strategy was: "Let's buy another company to distract the shareholders from the fact that we don't have any profits to our name."
Sorry, that was me. I ordered an Amazon Locker and accidentally had it delivered to an Amazon Locker.
That's funny. I have a friend wears an Amazon hoodie that he got from the Amazon brick-and-mortar store at the shopping mall. Whenever he walks around the mall in that hoodie, people think he works for Amazon and asks him questions. Now he is looking for a different hoodie to wear.
I tried to order something from Amazon to deliver to a local Amazon Locker. No can do. It's full. As are the half-dozen Amazon Lockers in the surrounding area. No space, no delivery. Oh, well. I'll my business elsewhere.
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The 1990's called and want their dial-up modems back.
Those foundations are created after becoming wealthy for tax breaks, positive publicity, and to make statements - not to become wealthy.
Not necessarily. Most private foundations have less than $1M in the bank. Depending on your tax situation, it might make sense to start a foundation on the way up than wait until you have it all to give away.
You've got cause and effect completely reversed.
You're obviously need to read more about becoming wealthy.
When Amazon had the ebook version of "Battlefield: Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard for a buck, I finally bought a copy to see if the book was as bad as the movie. Surprisingly, the book was very good. I'm now halfway through the "Mission Earth" decalogy (ten volume) series.
Senior IT guy sounds like a guy who has saved his pennies all of this life and is in a position of FIRE (Financial Independance Retire Early) or has a F U Fund, knows he has mad skills and can get another job easily, and doesn't care what Carnival and India thinks.
I had end users toward me that they could always get me fired. I've always responded that I can get a new job that pays 40% more. That shuts them up.
If you accept shitty conditions and unreasonable demands, you'll probably accept seasonal stints too.
When Alabama ran off the all migrant farmworkers out of the state in 2011, farmers were hardpressed to find anyone to do the work and crops rotted in the field. Poor blacks and poor whites are unwilling to do the backbreaking work that the poor browns from other countries are willing to do all day long for Almighty Dollar.
Elections have consequences, as Obama himself said. And he mostly acted in accordance with this belief.
Obama is the first president since Eisenhower to win consecutive elections with 51% of the vote.
LOL... how'd the hopey changey thing work for you over the last eight years?
After eights of failed Republican economic policies, I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Now I'm back to where I was prior to the Great Recession. Thanks, Obama!
which was a Windows executable
Windows was a DOS executable back then.
No.
That's a French company's response. An American response would probably be like this Sear's commercial, "The Boot."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpiz_gR9P00
DOS version of Quake didn't use OpenGL, so it wasn't accelerated.
That's where MiniGL came into play back in the day. When I got a 3Dfx Voodoo Rush video card and played Quake in OpenGL, my roommates ran out and got 3DFX Voodoo 2 video cards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGL
My best setup back then was an AMD K3-400 processor, a Nvidia TNT 2 video card (desktop/OpenGL) and a pair of Voodoo 2 boards in SLI mode (OpenGL).
The last I booted up FreeDOS, I ran Quake on an Radeon 3870 video card and got 500FPS. I wonder what the Nvidia 740 would get in FPS.
Everyone replying about the origins of Xmas, please read his first god damn sentence.
And you're surprised that everyone else is pointing to the true origin of Christmas, which has nothing to do with a baby being born in a manger?
My employer got slammed with a sexual harassment lawsuit, and I had to attend "Sensitivity Training".
The secretaries would have filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, not your employer, and more likely it would have been a complaint and not a lawsuit. If HR determined that your were guilty of the complaint, then you would have "sensitivity training" class to attend. Of course, it's not the 1990's anymore.
The Christmas we knows today - with the garish fat man dressed in red and gaudy lights that waste gigawatt hours of energy for nothing every year - is a pure invention of the Coca Cola company, designed solely to sell Coca Cola products.
Christmas was a Roman pagan holiday back in the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
Sure, Ebenezer could have bought a Christmas goose for Tiny Tim's family, but that would have just helped one family one time.
The contracting agency I worked for gave everyone an extra five weeks of pay (which is less than a month of pay after taxes) as a Christmas bonus. The author for an essay on Hanukkah goose wrote that it cost him $250 for kosher goose. With my unexpected holiday bonus, I could have bought kosher goose for a dozen families.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/opinion/goose-a-hanukkah-tradition.html
But if he had instead kept the money, and reinvested it in his business, he could expand and create jobs, goods, and services that would benefit far more people, and benefit them permanently.
Or bought a yacht. Which is what the CEO of a Fortune 500 company was rumored to have done after getting a 60% raise for having lousy fiscal year and laying off 10% of the workforce. As one of the laid off employees, I had a lousy Christmas in 2013.
The prosperity of the modern world wasn't created by people giving away their money.
That's funny. Every how-to book on becoming wealthy recommends starting a charitable foundation.
According to the most recent statistics, the number of family foundations like the Cordes Foundation has exploded since 2001. There are now over 40,000 family foundations in the United States, making grants totaling more than $21.3 billion a year, up from about 3,200 family foundations doling out $6.8 billion in 2001, according to the Foundation Center in Washington.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/your-money/family-foundations-let-affluent-leave-a-legacy.html
[...] or absurdly expensive sports programs.
When my parents moved from SIlicon Valley to retire in Sacramento in the mid-1990's, my father drove me around the area to see the sights. He pointed out every school that was building a brand new football field but couldn't find money to reduce classroom sizes or provide supplies. Seems like a colossal waste of resources.
For several decades now, the media has been constantly telling people, directly or indirectly, that they are a complete failure if they don't meet some arbitrary, ideal life.
Turn off the television. I've done that 20+ years ago. I selectively watch TV content on Hulu and Netflix.
You aren't good looking enough. You aren't rich enough. Your house isn't nice enough. You clothes aren't nice enough. You don't have enough friends. You don't have the right friends.
The siren call of the American Dream. Give it up and left a modest lifestyle. If you try to keep up with the Joneses, you will never win. Ignore the Joneses, enjoy life.
The game is like a prostitute offering a free hand job but stops after three short jerks and demands money to continue on. And no opportunity to get laid once the money is forked over and the jerking is done. Hence, two star reviews.
I think you deliberately a word.
FTFY
An Amazon hoodie doesn't even make sense in an ironic joke...
My friend also works for the Sprint Store in the same mall. Whenever he walks around in his Sprint shirts, no one ever comes up and ask him questions. Go figure.
They reinvest pretty much all profits back into growing the company.
I've always thought Amazon's strategy was: "Let's buy another company to distract the shareholders from the fact that we don't have any profits to our name."
Sorry, that was me. I ordered an Amazon Locker and accidentally had it delivered to an Amazon Locker.
That's funny. I have a friend wears an Amazon hoodie that he got from the Amazon brick-and-mortar store at the shopping mall. Whenever he walks around the mall in that hoodie, people think he works for Amazon and asks him questions. Now he is looking for a different hoodie to wear.
They just need to keep their share price afloat.
Amazon is still pretending to be a tech stock when they should be a dividend-paying blue chip stock?
I tried to order something from Amazon to deliver to a local Amazon Locker. No can do. It's full. As are the half-dozen Amazon Lockers in the surrounding area. No space, no delivery. Oh, well. I'll my business elsewhere.
You might want to read the article or summary, this isnt about drivers its about developers.
Not sure why developers being thrown under a driver-less car is news. Must be a slow day.