That CNN report is balderdash and not just because CNN ran it.
I just bought a condo and now have virtually no savings money. But in my mind, every penny I pay into mortgage principal is savings along with everything I dump into my 401K. Why they hell would I save money into a checking account that at best earns 1.5%? This article doesn't detail how this savings rate is calculated, but I'm going to guess it is stupid and doesn't take into account average rates of return on expenditures for non commercial products. Maybe I'm wrong about the saving issue, but this article is extremely unconvicing and another example of dangerously misguided journalism.
I am hoping this ecommerce tax question ends in an extreme simplification of the tax system at large. Adding more to an already overgrown and mind boggling tax law is both inefficient and downright wrong. If government expects people to give it thier hard earned money, they should at least make it easy to do so.
At the same time, federalizing taxes that are currently only state taxes, ie Sales Tax, is a large shift in power toward the Federal government, which is already a lumbering dinosaur out to crush us all.
Best solution, IMHO, is to drop the whole Sales Tax crap and balance out the divide of income tax between state and federal in a fair manor. I think my money given to my state and county does a hell of lot more good for people then it does at the Federal level where I'm certain a massive percentage of it gets squandered away for nothing.
The EU is threatening a manuever that will hurt an existing corporation in hopes of helping other corporations in the long run. This is completely unnecesary. If government must gets its filthy little hands involved, why not support other initiatives to fill the hole in the market instead of attempting to balance it out? Help the little guy help themselves, don't punish the big guy for getting big.
I my opinion, there seems to be a huge market for companies to provide products that manage Interoperability between various platforms. Instead of trying to make Microsoft provide these services, changes that would be what Microsoft wants not what the customer wants, why not support some entrepruerial spirit to provide the desired products and services? Or are the rumors I hear about Europe true that the European worker is a lazy cog in the wheel of the man with no desire or incentive take the risk of running starting ones own business true? I don't know myself, but that is the word on the street in the US and Asia.
What poll is that in? That is such an objective question is makes me cry. I would rather live damn near anywhere that is warm and sunny regardless of the negatives versus somewhere cold and dark half the year.
Since when did American's trust the government? The 50's maybe, but the government is designed as it is because nobody trusts, nor should they, any government. Why anyone would trust a large corporation in the first place is also beyond me.
I apoligize in advance for this post, but I am bored at work with source code on my screen.
Are the dollars I make as a programmer generating the tax dollars that would fund your 'social research', because seriously, that ain't adding to the GDP. I think everyone in the social sciences should be forced to pass at least 1 required engineering course, that will learn'em what real work is.
That post is brought to you from 4.5 years of building hostility towards those who graduated with a 3.8 but still had enough time to go drinkin 5 nights a week and attend half your classes stoned. Damn you Business School and Psychology Department!
The above entries follow my general findings, but it is not only CS that suffers. All the engineering departments were basicly the same scenario. Again, this is from a big ass research University in a big ass tech market (DC).
Last count was in Discrete Math, 80 students registeres, 50 in lecture, 8 girls, 3 spoke english as a primary language, 1 was white. Diversity, I guess.
"From experience, almost all the girls at my college going into CS as a serious career were really hot"
What! That's crazy. Have you accurately defined 'CS Hot', because if you drop those so called 'hot' CS girls into a large Psychology lecture, I believe you will change your mind. Being hot next to the other 4 girls in your 80 student lecture is not enough to qualify.
Or you attend Bizzaro University where all the Playboy College Edition entries are pulled straight out of Discrete Math.
No live data. Most of these cities have fleet management systems. Some, my companies, generate live data on a polling cycle including predicted arrival and departure time. Essentially, the user could see if the bus is early or late giving a decent estimate as too when the bus is going to arrive.
There are advantages and disadvantages for a distro to follow the standard. If you are Suse and want to involved in the general purpose desktop market, then your distro better say "Linux Standard X Compliant" right on the box. If a distro is for some special purpose it may intentionally avoid the standards to set itself apart in some niche market. Getting the standards started is an addition to the linux community and makes good software development sense. Having one point of compliance makes it a lot easier for Joe Shmoe programmer or Huge Development Shop Corp. to make an App that anyone can use. This in no way intefers with the unique advantages of other disto's that choose not to follow the standard.
Isn't the point of standardizing linux distro's to make sure the apps you write would work perfectly fine no matter what window manager you use so long as the window manager also follows the standards? Its not about GNOME or KDE, its about both of them following the same standard so an app is not a GNOME or a KDE, the app just works on both.
The US is a big place with a ton of small cultures spread throughout. The American culture most of the outside world see's is LA and New York. Guess what, the Soprano's, Sex and the City, and The OC are NOT representative of the majority of American culture. It is unfortunatly the majority of the shared American culture seen across the country and across the world. What can I say, Hollywood is a bastard, and for this I apologize. Like any culture, to make a decent evaluation of it, you have to personally experience it, so come on in and spend some time site seeing, because all american's like your money!
Re:how about we STOP pushing our culture, mkay?
on
Homer Becomes Omar
·
· Score: 1
Actually it is an Arab TV network taking American culture (The Simpsons), making a muck of it, and shoving it down another cultures throat. American's just go along with it because we see it as wrong to stop the dissemination of culture, that and profit, we like the profit.
I had a Vikings class recently and found the most interesting reason for the colony in Greenland was Eirik beig kicked out of Norway, then Iceland, due to "some killings". At least that is how the saga's put it.
Erik the Red started a colony in Greenland back in the AD 900's.
http://www.greenland-guide.gl/leif2000/history.htm
According to archealogical records, at time the colony was warm enough to grow crops and support a decent little town. Now, all ice. The region went through an extremely warm spell for a hundred years or so then froze up again. I wonder what the glacier levels where then? I guess we will never know.
Teaching is like sales, some people can sell anything while others couldn't move water in the desert. All teachers do need the correct background (a major in there discipline) to be effective, but this does not mean they can effectively pass the material on to others. Attending lectures at any major univeristy will show how poor a teacher a genius can be. The goal is to attract the people with background in a field who have the ability to teach. These people often want to be teachers, I know several who would love to give up there 9-5 engineering positions to teach, but who aren't willing to take a %50 pay cut.
In high school even the crap students can learn if a good teacher is there to give them what they need. The only way to get good teachers is to the follow basic economics. The current supply of teachers is low and of low quality because the job pays crap and in many cases it is a fallback career for people who don't know what they want to do. There are good people who want to teach, but you have to make it worth thier while. Make teachers salaries start low, have a strict system of tenure that includes re-evaluations, then pay teachers a good salary once the prove they are in fact GOOD teachers. This weeds out the bad teachers and attracts good people to the profession. The end result is a higher supply of good teachers becuase the system has increased the demand for good teachers. I feel this is key, among other things, but i'm sure nobodies going to pay for it.
If I am not mistaken, it is legal to buy the horseshoe, figure out a different way to make a device that protects the foot of a horse, then sell this new invention as competition for the horseshoe. But, if the horseshoe cost $100 million to develop, but the competitor only spent $20 million becuase they used concepts evident in the original horseshoe they bought, does the inventor of the original horseshoe have any claim to being undercut because his work was stolen? Or was his work even stolen if the concepts were evident just by owning the horseshoe? You can patent to process to make the horseshoe, but you can't patent every little concept involved with the thing. This is the type of case that really muddles the whole process because an endless grey area is created which is then sorted out with over priced lawyers.
Who wins? Lawyers, mostly.
I also have no medical background, but keeping the body cold for a long time may be helpful. I do not believe HIV virus can survive under cold temperatures. But, it may just remain dormant like the rest of the body meaning it will be 'revived' with the rest of the body.
I always hated that the government made ME do all the work in order to give them MY money. Most services you pay for, the company sends you a bill and you only do anything if there is a mistake. This California system is essentially the same thing, except the services provided by the government may or may not be something the buyer actually wants.
It's actually true, the city has more then just crabs, heroin, and hospitals! Not mention syphilis and a yearly contender for US murder capital. Now they are a hot spot for identity theft, yippee! Its still better then moving to Virginia.
Your argument begins as exclusionary and ends as inclusionary. I don't get it, remove ALL religion from schools, what the hell does that mean? What representations of religion would be removed? Does this mean a student can't wear a cross on a necklace and a goth kid can't have a pentagram sticker on a skate board? There is a huge divide between religion in schools and endoctrination. In my experience the least religious people I know went to Catholic high schools.
Slashdot Mirror
That CNN report is balderdash and not just because CNN ran it.
I just bought a condo and now have virtually no savings money. But in my mind, every penny I pay into mortgage principal is savings along with everything I dump into my 401K. Why they hell would I save money into a checking account that at best earns 1.5%? This article doesn't detail how this savings rate is calculated, but I'm going to guess it is stupid and doesn't take into account average rates of return on expenditures for non commercial products. Maybe I'm wrong about the saving issue, but this article is extremely unconvicing and another example of dangerously misguided journalism.
Holla' at the parent post!
I am hoping this ecommerce tax question ends in an extreme simplification of the tax system at large. Adding more to an already overgrown and mind boggling tax law is both inefficient and downright wrong. If government expects people to give it thier hard earned money, they should at least make it easy to do so.
At the same time, federalizing taxes that are currently only state taxes, ie Sales Tax, is a large shift in power toward the Federal government, which is already a lumbering dinosaur out to crush us all.
Best solution, IMHO, is to drop the whole Sales Tax crap and balance out the divide of income tax between state and federal in a fair manor. I think my money given to my state and county does a hell of lot more good for people then it does at the Federal level where I'm certain a massive percentage of it gets squandered away for nothing.
The EU is threatening a manuever that will hurt an existing corporation in hopes of helping other corporations in the long run. This is completely unnecesary. If government must gets its filthy little hands involved, why not support other initiatives to fill the hole in the market instead of attempting to balance it out? Help the little guy help themselves, don't punish the big guy for getting big.
I my opinion, there seems to be a huge market for companies to provide products that manage Interoperability between various platforms. Instead of trying to make Microsoft provide these services, changes that would be what Microsoft wants not what the customer wants, why not support some entrepruerial spirit to provide the desired products and services? Or are the rumors I hear about Europe true that the European worker is a lazy cog in the wheel of the man with no desire or incentive take the risk of running starting ones own business true? I don't know myself, but that is the word on the street in the US and Asia.
What poll is that in? That is such an objective question is makes me cry. I would rather live damn near anywhere that is warm and sunny regardless of the negatives versus somewhere cold and dark half the year.
Since when did American's trust the government? The 50's maybe, but the government is designed as it is because nobody trusts, nor should they, any government. Why anyone would trust a large corporation in the first place is also beyond me.
Agreed, which is why they can all go to hell.
On the upside, those degrees almost always require graduate work which I hope is gruelling and painfull. At least I gets paid now.
I apoligize in advance for this post, but I am bored at work with source code on my screen.
Are the dollars I make as a programmer generating the tax dollars that would fund your 'social research', because seriously, that ain't adding to the GDP. I think everyone in the social sciences should be forced to pass at least 1 required engineering course, that will learn'em what real work is.
That post is brought to you from 4.5 years of building hostility towards those who graduated with a 3.8 but still had enough time to go drinkin 5 nights a week and attend half your classes stoned. Damn you Business School and Psychology Department!
The above entries follow my general findings, but it is not only CS that suffers. All the engineering departments were basicly the same scenario. Again, this is from a big ass research University in a big ass tech market (DC).
Last count was in Discrete Math, 80 students registeres, 50 in lecture, 8 girls, 3 spoke english as a primary language, 1 was white. Diversity, I guess.
GO TERPS!
"From experience, almost all the girls at my college going into CS as a serious career were really hot"
What! That's crazy. Have you accurately defined 'CS Hot', because if you drop those so called 'hot' CS girls into a large Psychology lecture, I believe you will change your mind. Being hot next to the other 4 girls in your 80 student lecture is not enough to qualify.
Or you attend Bizzaro University where all the Playboy College Edition entries are pulled straight out of Discrete Math.
No live data. Most of these cities have fleet management systems. Some, my companies, generate live data on a polling cycle including predicted arrival and departure time. Essentially, the user could see if the bus is early or late giving a decent estimate as too when the bus is going to arrive.
There are advantages and disadvantages for a distro to follow the standard. If you are Suse and want to involved in the general purpose desktop market, then your distro better say "Linux Standard X Compliant" right on the box. If a distro is for some special purpose it may intentionally avoid the standards to set itself apart in some niche market. Getting the standards started is an addition to the linux community and makes good software development sense. Having one point of compliance makes it a lot easier for Joe Shmoe programmer or Huge Development Shop Corp. to make an App that anyone can use. This in no way intefers with the unique advantages of other disto's that choose not to follow the standard.
Isn't the point of standardizing linux distro's to make sure the apps you write would work perfectly fine no matter what window manager you use so long as the window manager also follows the standards? Its not about GNOME or KDE, its about both of them following the same standard so an app is not a GNOME or a KDE, the app just works on both.
The US is a big place with a ton of small cultures spread throughout. The American culture most of the outside world see's is LA and New York. Guess what, the Soprano's, Sex and the City, and The OC are NOT representative of the majority of American culture. It is unfortunatly the majority of the shared American culture seen across the country and across the world. What can I say, Hollywood is a bastard, and for this I apologize. Like any culture, to make a decent evaluation of it, you have to personally experience it, so come on in and spend some time site seeing, because all american's like your money!
Actually it is an Arab TV network taking American culture (The Simpsons), making a muck of it, and shoving it down another cultures throat. American's just go along with it because we see it as wrong to stop the dissemination of culture, that and profit, we like the profit.
America, Fuck Yeah!
"To Jihad, the cause of and solution to, all of life's problems."
It's only mildy offensive...I think...maybe.
" he's worried that Google's plans to create digital copies of books obtained directly from libraries could hurt his industry's long-term revenues."
His industry can go suck an egg.
I had a Vikings class recently and found the most interesting reason for the colony in Greenland was Eirik beig kicked out of Norway, then Iceland, due to "some killings". At least that is how the saga's put it.
Erik the Red started a colony in Greenland back in the AD 900's. http://www.greenland-guide.gl/leif2000/history.htm
According to archealogical records, at time the colony was warm enough to grow crops and support a decent little town. Now, all ice. The region went through an extremely warm spell for a hundred years or so then froze up again. I wonder what the glacier levels where then? I guess we will never know.
Teaching is like sales, some people can sell anything while others couldn't move water in the desert. All teachers do need the correct background (a major in there discipline) to be effective, but this does not mean they can effectively pass the material on to others. Attending lectures at any major univeristy will show how poor a teacher a genius can be. The goal is to attract the people with background in a field who have the ability to teach. These people often want to be teachers, I know several who would love to give up there 9-5 engineering positions to teach, but who aren't willing to take a %50 pay cut.
In high school even the crap students can learn if a good teacher is there to give them what they need. The only way to get good teachers is to the follow basic economics. The current supply of teachers is low and of low quality because the job pays crap and in many cases it is a fallback career for people who don't know what they want to do. There are good people who want to teach, but you have to make it worth thier while. Make teachers salaries start low, have a strict system of tenure that includes re-evaluations, then pay teachers a good salary once the prove they are in fact GOOD teachers. This weeds out the bad teachers and attracts good people to the profession. The end result is a higher supply of good teachers becuase the system has increased the demand for good teachers. I feel this is key, among other things, but i'm sure nobodies going to pay for it.
If I am not mistaken, it is legal to buy the horseshoe, figure out a different way to make a device that protects the foot of a horse, then sell this new invention as competition for the horseshoe. But, if the horseshoe cost $100 million to develop, but the competitor only spent $20 million becuase they used concepts evident in the original horseshoe they bought, does the inventor of the original horseshoe have any claim to being undercut because his work was stolen? Or was his work even stolen if the concepts were evident just by owning the horseshoe? You can patent to process to make the horseshoe, but you can't patent every little concept involved with the thing. This is the type of case that really muddles the whole process because an endless grey area is created which is then sorted out with over priced lawyers. Who wins? Lawyers, mostly.
I also have no medical background, but keeping the body cold for a long time may be helpful. I do not believe HIV virus can survive under cold temperatures. But, it may just remain dormant like the rest of the body meaning it will be 'revived' with the rest of the body.
I always hated that the government made ME do all the work in order to give them MY money. Most services you pay for, the company sends you a bill and you only do anything if there is a mistake. This California system is essentially the same thing, except the services provided by the government may or may not be something the buyer actually wants.
It's actually true, the city has more then just crabs, heroin, and hospitals! Not mention syphilis and a yearly contender for US murder capital. Now they are a hot spot for identity theft, yippee! Its still better then moving to Virginia.
Your argument begins as exclusionary and ends as inclusionary. I don't get it, remove ALL religion from schools, what the hell does that mean? What representations of religion would be removed? Does this mean a student can't wear a cross on a necklace and a goth kid can't have a pentagram sticker on a skate board? There is a huge divide between religion in schools and endoctrination. In my experience the least religious people I know went to Catholic high schools.