It's called "progressive tax" and it's used to greater or lesser degrees in basically every country on the planet.
Yeah, I get the whole progressive tax thing, but he writes as if you'll be paying less tax overall as a percentile of total income, whereas under any sane taxation scheme, the only way that would be possible is if the "reduction" would result in you being pushed over or under a taxation rate bracket. In this country, even then it would only affect the amount by which you're over the bracket - taxes are fixed up to a bracket and any amount past that is a higher rate, until the next bracket and so all. I can't think of any fair way except that one to institute progressive tax.
You mean like here in New Zealand, where a component of our Income Tax actually goes to a State Owned health insurance provider? We get injured at all, and the government's public health insurance steps in and pays all the bills. Unless you work for a healthcare provider, then your employer forks out for it.
Huh? What bizarre country decreases your overall tax rate just because you don't earn as much? You'll be paying the exact same percentile in Income Tax whether you earn $10K or $40K, surely?
If you actually looked at Google's entry in the main index, you'd see that the reason they aren't on the pay table is because they refused to disclose that info. Don't believe me? Look here
They'd have to prove that it was done with work equipment and on the clock. I'd refuse to sign (and have in the past crossed out) any clauses in a contract that make claim on designs done on *my* time which aren't directly related to the work which the employer is doing.
Actually, I was talking more about the fact that I doubt that working for Google is a 9-5 or even an 8-6 job. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah. I was referring to any work done on "downtime" at work - I have once had a company attempt to bully me into issuing them ownership of code written on my equipment on my time, but they backed off when I told them where they could shove it.
I don't know what sort of hours Google would have, so I can't comment on that.
20% of time working on personal projects
Fine, but if you're working in a smaller, less demanding company, you might have that time free, so you can work on the projects without the company knowing about it. Far better to market an idea independently than under the auspices of a large employer. At least you have the opportunity for profits far beyond a salary that way.
Well, you can still kinda do that at larger employers too. I work at a place with 9000 staff, and I've got little to do while everyone else is still away on holiday. But then, if you work on a project at work and make money off it, chances are that they invoke that IP ownership clause that's no doubt in your contract, and you lose all the money you just made, as well as the chance to make any further money off it.
Who cares! Apparently Microsoft gives out "Free grocery delivery, valet parking, and a dollar-for-dollar match of employee charitable contributions up to $12,000" (as well as paying for Health insurance, which apparently Google doesn't).
What's more likely is "Google Government" a "wholly owned subsidiary of Google, Inc" located on "a secluded technology haven off the coast of Great Britain"
Followed closely by "Google Hosted Government Beta", a service allowing your country to outsource it's government to Google, but with absolutely no tech support during the beta period, and "free continued service to approved beta customers"
That's great, but the United Nations does not in fact own the oceans. Any object placed far enough out into international (read: neutral) waters could technically get away with it, and get recognised by enough non-member nations to be considered too much effort to quell.
I suspect it's people like you that would be vehemently opposed to, say, Russia stripping all of your rights to privacy, fair trial, reasonable doubt, and other such things "the land of the free" holds dear the instant you move near it?
Draws an interesting parallel to, I don't know, "The Patriot Act" (holding without laying charges? What lunacy is this?!?)
Strangely, every other first world country extends the basic right of it's own people to guests as well (such as right to a fair trial, reasonable doubt, privacy, etc), why is America allowed to be an exception?
Actually, there's no "!" on Xbox Live. It's just "Xbox Live". Not like it makes a difference, this whole "Live" suffix on every new product is just lame (as opposed to the MP3 encoder lame, which is really not lame).
I guess so you can pretend you care that your website works for a massive number of all website visitors. But then, it's utterly worthless for anyone who isn't a developer.
Before you say "If it works in Firefox it probably at least half works in IE7" try using/.'s "New Discussion System" in IE7. Completely sporked, seriously.
Yeah, gotta give CCV (or whatever their name is) credit - their servers are ultra-reliable, ultra-fast, and isn't there only one? I mean, heck, a Blizzard server crashes if 3K people log on
Pretty wrong, huh? Like the guy above you said, it's only used by ASP.NET to run ASP.NET applications as a user other than IUSR (which would not have enough priviledges to do anything useful in the context of a web app) or LocalSystem/NetworkService (which have entirely too much priviledges to allow a web app to run as)
Actually, Antarctica's owned (on political maps you can actually see which parts by which country) and I imagine whoever has most investment in the Antarctic research bases would be right in there with angry soldiers.
Isn't the Grand Theft Auto game series a bit like that? New game costs money, after X years it suddenly becomes a free download on the developer's website, and so on. Quake is similar too - every time a new Quake game comes out, they GPL the one before it.
Yeah, only because the OTHER Bluetooth chipset manufacturer actually pays their ridiculous licensing fees. The one that Sony, Nokia, etc, use is based in the UK and gives UoW the finger everytime they demand royalties.
Do you really think the big anti-spam vendors (IronPort/Cisco, Symantec, Barracuda, etc) will allow any change to the protocol to make spam impossible?
The irony is the big Barracuda banner ad on this very page.
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Yeah, I get the whole progressive tax thing, but he writes as if you'll be paying less tax overall as a percentile of total income, whereas under any sane taxation scheme, the only way that would be possible is if the "reduction" would result in you being pushed over or under a taxation rate bracket. In this country, even then it would only affect the amount by which you're over the bracket - taxes are fixed up to a bracket and any amount past that is a higher rate, until the next bracket and so all. I can't think of any fair way except that one to institute progressive tax.
You mean like here in New Zealand, where a component of our Income Tax actually goes to a State Owned health insurance provider? We get injured at all, and the government's public health insurance steps in and pays all the bills. Unless you work for a healthcare provider, then your employer forks out for it.
Huh? What bizarre country decreases your overall tax rate just because you don't earn as much? You'll be paying the exact same percentile in Income Tax whether you earn $10K or $40K, surely?
I'm personally surprised you didn't comment on the "caught my eye" bit. Too easy?
If you actually looked at Google's entry in the main index, you'd see that the reason they aren't on the pay table is because they refused to disclose that info. Don't believe me? Look here
Ah. I was referring to any work done on "downtime" at work - I have once had a company attempt to bully me into issuing them ownership of code written on my equipment on my time, but they backed off when I told them where they could shove it.
I don't know what sort of hours Google would have, so I can't comment on that.
Well, you can still kinda do that at larger employers too. I work at a place with 9000 staff, and I've got little to do while everyone else is still away on holiday. But then, if you work on a project at work and make money off it, chances are that they invoke that IP ownership clause that's no doubt in your contract, and you lose all the money you just made, as well as the chance to make any further money off it.
Who cares! Apparently Microsoft gives out "Free grocery delivery, valet parking, and a dollar-for-dollar match of employee charitable contributions up to $12,000" (as well as paying for Health insurance, which apparently Google doesn't).
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Well, since the recruitment process is a machine, just write your resume like a robot. GoogleBot's sure to pick you then!
What's more likely is "Google Government" a "wholly owned subsidiary of Google, Inc" located on "a secluded technology haven off the coast of Great Britain"
Followed closely by "Google Hosted Government Beta", a service allowing your country to outsource it's government to Google, but with absolutely no tech support during the beta period, and "free continued service to approved beta customers"
That's great, but the United Nations does not in fact own the oceans. Any object placed far enough out into international (read: neutral) waters could technically get away with it, and get recognised by enough non-member nations to be considered too much effort to quell.
I suspect it's people like you that would be vehemently opposed to, say, Russia stripping all of your rights to privacy, fair trial, reasonable doubt, and other such things "the land of the free" holds dear the instant you move near it?
Draws an interesting parallel to, I don't know, "The Patriot Act" (holding without laying charges? What lunacy is this?!?)
Strangely, every other first world country extends the basic right of it's own people to guests as well (such as right to a fair trial, reasonable doubt, privacy, etc), why is America allowed to be an exception?
I especially liked how they barely mentioned the 360 releases. Everyone knows that Sony is god.
Until I see a Secunia advisory, it didn't happen.
Actually, there's no "!" on Xbox Live. It's just "Xbox Live". Not like it makes a difference, this whole "Live" suffix on every new product is just lame (as opposed to the MP3 encoder lame, which is really not lame).
I guess so you can pretend you care that your website works for a massive number of all website visitors. But then, it's utterly worthless for anyone who isn't a developer. Before you say "If it works in Firefox it probably at least half works in IE7" try using /.'s "New Discussion System" in IE7. Completely sporked, seriously.
Yeah, gotta give CCV (or whatever their name is) credit - their servers are ultra-reliable, ultra-fast, and isn't there only one? I mean, heck, a Blizzard server crashes if 3K people log on
No. You instead pay HOURLY.
Pretty wrong, huh? Like the guy above you said, it's only used by ASP.NET to run ASP.NET applications as a user other than IUSR (which would not have enough priviledges to do anything useful in the context of a web app) or LocalSystem/NetworkService (which have entirely too much priviledges to allow a web app to run as)
Actually, Antarctica's owned (on political maps you can actually see which parts by which country) and I imagine whoever has most investment in the Antarctic research bases would be right in there with angry soldiers.
And this, folks, is why us international citizens don't like America.
Isn't the Grand Theft Auto game series a bit like that? New game costs money, after X years it suddenly becomes a free download on the developer's website, and so on. Quake is similar too - every time a new Quake game comes out, they GPL the one before it.
Yeah, only because the OTHER Bluetooth chipset manufacturer actually pays their ridiculous licensing fees. The one that Sony, Nokia, etc, use is based in the UK and gives UoW the finger everytime they demand royalties.
So, how much does ICM Registry pay you?
Do you really think the big anti-spam vendors (IronPort/Cisco, Symantec, Barracuda, etc) will allow any change to the protocol to make spam impossible? The irony is the big Barracuda banner ad on this very page.