... Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased...
No, Warren Buffet has said that it is illogical that he (making a lot of money) pays a lower tax rate than his secretary (making much less money), and has suggested that the EFFECTIVE TAX RATE on high income needs to be increased. On himself.
I work in embedded systems, with prototype hardware that gets modified. It's hard to work at home for part of the development cycle. OTOH it's stupid that they insist on everyone coming in for spec writing and other paperwork.
All sides of the politics making points. How about just focus on the realities: We're talking a few dozen people, and longitudinal study is of continued value, so how much money can we possibly be talking about?
All of the systems that profess to make something "run on all platforms", all the way back to the original high-level languages like Fortran and Algol, are really trying to go the other way - patch over the underlying hardware to make everything look like a uniform platform. Java doesn't run on all platforms, any more than Pascal did; rather, it runs on all interpreters, with a different one for each system that makes a uniform platform. One could say the same of operating systems too; the "driver" is the shim and flexible glue between the uneven hardware reality and the nice level abstract OS platform.
Not joking: My father was in high school in the 1940s - NYC Bronx High School of Science. One year he came back after summer break, and the chemistry teacher had everyone open the textbook to the page saying the atom was indestructible, and rip it out. The counter-example had blown up Hiroshima a month earlier.
Asking an equal rank colleague about a date, after working together for a while, maybe. Asking about sex on the first day, like trying a pick-up up at a bar, no. Asking a subordinate, abuse of authority, period.
Short-term rentals (less than a month) were defined as being in the "hotel" category a long time ago, and a "hotel" faces licensing and taxing and insurance and legal responsibilities and all sorts of things. You could rent rooms in your own home if you were living there - no different from having visitors - but renting out to people when the owner is NOT living there is a "hotel". This is not news. One could argue that a different category would be nice to have; I have rented apartments in Edinburgh and London, both of which were registered with the appropriate tourist boards, licensed and insured appropriately, and had a hefty deposit to dissuade misbehavior. But the various online services don't seek to change or expand the laws, just claim that everyone can bypass them.
People have been associating the obesity epidemic and various other problems to the rise of corn syrup sweetener; this suggests the influences could be more serious.
I keep being amazed at how many people can't distinguish between the "take" and the "net". I used to know someone who scalped tickets and would say that he "made" whatever he sold something for, completely ignoring what he had paid for them.
So these publicani came into being for one specific government-issued contract, and was disbanded immediately after it's completion... yes that's *just* like a corporation... oh wait, no, it's NOTHING like a corporation
Wrong again. This is exactly how Donald Trump has made money while the projects with his name on them go bankrupt one after another. Same is done for other buildings, condo complexes, shopping malls, and other projects. Each is set up as its own corporation as if it has no connection to anything else that the developer, producer, and constructor has ever done or will ever do, and the project originators are now hired as subcontractors (instead of being the bosses). The project is done to some point of completion, at which the individual units (apartments, town houses, stores) are sold off to end-buyers. Now the originators leave to do other things. Point is, when a problem appears a year or two down the road, and the buyers want to complain to the construction company, THERE ISN'T ONE - the "building construction" corporation has become an empty shell or withered completely.
I know you're thinking of the megacorps that persist and engulf and devour, but the use of incorporating to isolate is even more prevalent.
If you were talking about a business partner or office manager, nobody would assume you were being facetious. Choosing a partner should include such practical considerations along with the emotional ones. If you have chosen wisely, like an athlete choosing a good agent or a band choosing a good manager, then delegating decision authority may well be your best course of action.
A touch of OCD contributes to solving problems that require puzzling over details. A touch of ADD contributes to tracking prey through the underbrush while also noticing the snake to avoid stepping on. Our educational system has standardized on the facets of "civilization" and "technology" in which the OCD side has more potential usefulness, partly because of the self-fulfilling nature that a system tends to reinforce itself and partly because the OCD types are more likely to set up a "system" in the first place.
If the photons travelled from one place to another, and no time passed for them, then their speed=(distance/time) was . . . infinite? But there is a "speed of light". This seems contradictory.
No, being Fred doesn't make it evil; but somehow being Neptune makes it high art. Even more so for female nymphs and goddesses being an excuse to display the female form divine from the Renaissance through Victorian times.
Maybe the artist was laughing all the way to the bank about having gotten porn displayed in public by calling it "Neptune" instead of calling it "My boyfriend Fred".
The funny part is, I avoided Facebook until a group that I participate in, and the band my son was in, exclusively used a Facebook page instead of creating their own web page. I tried convincing both publicity people that they were going backwards, like to the Compuserve walled garden days, and of course they didn't understand the "archaic" reference - after all, isn't everybody on Facebook? So now I know a handful of young people who use Facebook only to read announcements.
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Washing the people would be good too.
... Warren Buffet says income tax needs to be increased ...
No, Warren Buffet has said that it is illogical that he (making a lot of money) pays a lower tax rate than his secretary (making much less money), and has suggested that the EFFECTIVE TAX RATE on high income needs to be increased. On himself.
I work in embedded systems, with prototype hardware that gets modified. It's hard to work at home for part of the development cycle. OTOH it's stupid that they insist on everyone coming in for spec writing and other paperwork.
All sides of the politics making points. How about just focus on the realities: We're talking a few dozen people, and longitudinal study is of continued value, so how much money can we possibly be talking about?
Typography would not have helped put the information in a better order.
All of the systems that profess to make something "run on all platforms", all the way back to the original high-level languages like Fortran and Algol, are really trying to go the other way - patch over the underlying hardware to make everything look like a uniform platform. Java doesn't run on all platforms, any more than Pascal did; rather, it runs on all interpreters, with a different one for each system that makes a uniform platform. One could say the same of operating systems too; the "driver" is the shim and flexible glue between the uneven hardware reality and the nice level abstract OS platform.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier, in energy terms, to de-orbit an asteroid from the Belt than to get rocks off the Moon?
Not joking: My father was in high school in the 1940s - NYC Bronx High School of Science. One year he came back after summer break, and the chemistry teacher had everyone open the textbook to the page saying the atom was indestructible, and rip it out. The counter-example had blown up Hiroshima a month earlier.
I learned in school, 40 years ago, a continent is a big plate floating on the earth magma.
What's funny about this is that just a decade earlier, when I was in school, continental drift was still a crazy crackpot theory.
Asking an equal rank colleague about a date, after working together for a while, maybe. Asking about sex on the first day, like trying a pick-up up at a bar, no. Asking a subordinate, abuse of authority, period.
Short-term rentals (less than a month) were defined as being in the "hotel" category a long time ago, and a "hotel" faces licensing and taxing and insurance and legal responsibilities and all sorts of things. You could rent rooms in your own home if you were living there - no different from having visitors - but renting out to people when the owner is NOT living there is a "hotel". This is not news. One could argue that a different category would be nice to have; I have rented apartments in Edinburgh and London, both of which were registered with the appropriate tourist boards, licensed and insured appropriately, and had a hefty deposit to dissuade misbehavior. But the various online services don't seek to change or expand the laws, just claim that everyone can bypass them.
A chainsaw don't know the difference between a log and a leg. But sometimes it's the right tool.
http://web.archive.org/web/200...
People have been associating the obesity epidemic and various other problems to the rise of corn syrup sweetener; this suggests the influences could be more serious.
>>>> he made $1000 in his first month
I keep being amazed at how many people can't distinguish between the "take" and the "net". I used to know someone who scalped tickets and would say that he "made" whatever he sold something for, completely ignoring what he had paid for them.
Real world evidence? Hah! We have alternative facts!
So these publicani came into being for one specific government-issued contract, and was disbanded immediately after it's completion... yes that's *just* like a corporation... oh wait, no, it's NOTHING like a corporation
Wrong again. This is exactly how Donald Trump has made money while the projects with his name on them go bankrupt one after another. Same is done for other buildings, condo complexes, shopping malls, and other projects. Each is set up as its own corporation as if it has no connection to anything else that the developer, producer, and constructor has ever done or will ever do, and the project originators are now hired as subcontractors (instead of being the bosses). The project is done to some point of completion, at which the individual units (apartments, town houses, stores) are sold off to end-buyers. Now the originators leave to do other things. Point is, when a problem appears a year or two down the road, and the buyers want to complain to the construction company, THERE ISN'T ONE - the "building construction" corporation has become an empty shell or withered completely. I know you're thinking of the megacorps that persist and engulf and devour, but the use of incorporating to isolate is even more prevalent.
If you were talking about a business partner or office manager, nobody would assume you were being facetious. Choosing a partner should include such practical considerations along with the emotional ones. If you have chosen wisely, like an athlete choosing a good agent or a band choosing a good manager, then delegating decision authority may well be your best course of action.
A touch of OCD contributes to solving problems that require puzzling over details. A touch of ADD contributes to tracking prey through the underbrush while also noticing the snake to avoid stepping on. Our educational system has standardized on the facets of "civilization" and "technology" in which the OCD side has more potential usefulness, partly because of the self-fulfilling nature that a system tends to reinforce itself and partly because the OCD types are more likely to set up a "system" in the first place.
... but "Scientists announcing that there will be a REALLY COOL LIGHT SHOW!" works.
If the photons travelled from one place to another, and no time passed for them, then their speed=(distance/time) was . . . infinite? But there is a "speed of light". This seems contradictory.
According to the Schroedinger's Cat approach, they were dead from the time they set off. Or is it half-dead?
No, being Fred doesn't make it evil; but somehow being Neptune makes it high art. Even more so for female nymphs and goddesses being an excuse to display the female form divine from the Renaissance through Victorian times.
Maybe the artist was laughing all the way to the bank about having gotten porn displayed in public by calling it "Neptune" instead of calling it "My boyfriend Fred".
The funny part is, I avoided Facebook until a group that I participate in, and the band my son was in, exclusively used a Facebook page instead of creating their own web page. I tried convincing both publicity people that they were going backwards, like to the Compuserve walled garden days, and of course they didn't understand the "archaic" reference - after all, isn't everybody on Facebook? So now I know a handful of young people who use Facebook only to read announcements.
Speaking of "uptight pricks" . . .