Pre-IPO shareholders can also usually get in on the sale, at the IPO price. Say 5 people get together and start a company, they each own 20% of the shares. Time goes on and they want to raise capital for expansion. "The Company" creates more shares to sell as part of the IPO, but the existing stock holders also can offer they shares they own for sale.
Depends on whether or not you sold shares in the IPO or held all your shares in hopes of it going up. Certainly all the sellers in the IPO want it priced as high as they will sell. But if you are holding shares for later sale, you may be better off if they were priced lower at the IPO and that caused a 'feeding frenzy' which pushed shares up even higher than the "right price". As a pre-IPO owner, you would likely be 'locked up', and unable to take advantage of the frenzy, but such a frenzy may contribute to long-term positive outlook on the stock as worth buying and allow you to sell for more at a later date.
Well, I think the illegality is more clear in the citizen case. I didn't follow the case that closely, but I don't understand why he wasn't tried in absentia, and then killed.
Being taxed at 3 or 4 or even 10 percent higher marginal tax rates with no tax loopholes by being paid in stock or other instruments isn't going to be the end of the world. That's crazy! Instead, we should go back to the halcyon 1950's! You know, that time the Republicans like to talk about as being so great? That time with a 91% marginal tax bracket on the highest earners!
So I went to his website and realized i couldn't vote for him. He doesn't understand the economy: "Stop spending on the fiscal stimulus, transportation, energy, housing, and all other special interests. The U.S. must restrain spending across the board." and he has wacky ideas: "Abolish the Internal Revenue Service."
If you believe the government should levy taxes (which he apparently does, as he supports the "fair tax"), then something (a department, or an agency) has to exist to make sure people pay those taxes. The idea that we should "abolish the IRS" and then create a new agency to manage the "fair tax" is nothing more than pandering or insanity.
He may speak what he believes is the truth, but seeing that he believes that humans didn't evolve from a common ancestor with the great apes, I have to believe that he is wrong, at least about that.
He has also been demonstrably wrong about his predictions of inflation due to the "printing of money" in response to the financial crisis of 2007-present.
If "reality" means "god did it" like Ron Paul believes, I'll stick with my testable, materialistic fantasy, thanks.
Well, it's been years and years since I wrote Objective-C (I worked for AppSoft, doing NeXTStep Productivity Apps), and have never touched ruby, but to me, the Obj-C code is clearer. A hell of a lot more to type, but I know it's stripping the whitespace characters from 'stringToTrim' and creating a new string.
my_string.strip looks like a call to a non-standard (project specific, locally developed) bit of code that could do anything. If I knew Ruby, I might totally know it _was_ standard and what it did. But if you can get past the Smalltalk syntax (which I think is a benefit, allowing/forcing documentation inline of the code), Obj-C is much more readable, and thereby more maintainable.
OTOH, as a juror who's getting $5/day (or whatever minimal amount they pay today), I'd be kinda pissed if my efforts were wasted due to the Judge [who gets paid a living wage] deciding after the fact that the findings of fact we did were not needed.
Yeah, and C# benefits from a large standard library, but I'm arguing that the _language_ C# isn't better than C for the reason he specifies. It may be a much better language, and it may be great that it's got a large standard library, but IMHO, those are independent variables.
Given the Berkeley-BSD/AT&T case, and the Thread-X/Green-Hills case, I think there's already precedent on the copyrightability of API's. And if we're going to change things now, that's going to have seriously wide-ranging effects. If we're going to send the message that we might change our minds going forward, that's going to have wide-ranging effects. OTOH, it might make non-open software systems even less attractive.
In C-style languages, the && operator is short-circuited, so you put the easier/less-computation bit first. Now, it may be that the jury bit will take 9 people 2 weeks (18 person-weeks), where it will take the judge longer than 18 weeks to figure it out (numbers totally made up, of course). In which case, fine I'll withdraw my assertion.
That's a bit silly. You're including tons of "library" (may be part of the C# language spec, I'm not familiar) on the C# side, but writing the C program as bare metal. You could easily do the C program as 3 'system()' calls [cp...; cat...; cat...;].
Seems a bit non-sensical to me: "You, spend the next several weeks doing a bunch of work based on an assumption that I may invalidate, but only after you are done."
"our government" Huh? AFAICT, "our government" didn't own the world trade center. If you happen to live in NY/NJ and you think of the Port Authority as "your government" I guess you could fault it for not rebuilding. But I'm still unclear why the hell a Port Authority would be in real estate to begin with...
Back then the comments were better, which is why Slashdot was still useful. Now the signal to noise ratio on the comments is much lower. At least in my estimation. Of course, this comment is "off topic":-)
Reading "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" leads me to believe that we who care need to make things much worse for those who don't, so they _will_ care. Only then will change happen.
Heh, a recent FB status of mine was "I'd like some Tree of Life Root about now." Of course I'm probably too old at this point and it would kill me, but I'm definitely feeling like evolution is done with me and I'm supposed to die off soon to make room for the younger and faster.
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Pre-IPO shareholders can also usually get in on the sale, at the IPO price. Say 5 people get together and start a company, they each own 20% of the shares. Time goes on and they want to raise capital for expansion. "The Company" creates more shares to sell as part of the IPO, but the existing stock holders also can offer they shares they own for sale.
Depends on whether or not you sold shares in the IPO or held all your shares in hopes of it going up. Certainly all the sellers in the IPO want it priced as high as they will sell. But if you are holding shares for later sale, you may be better off if they were priced lower at the IPO and that caused a 'feeding frenzy' which pushed shares up even higher than the "right price". As a pre-IPO owner, you would likely be 'locked up', and unable to take advantage of the frenzy, but such a frenzy may contribute to long-term positive outlook on the stock as worth buying and allow you to sell for more at a later date.
There are advertisements on the internet? Really? Oh right, I have an adblocker installed.
Sorry, never mind.
Well, I think the illegality is more clear in the citizen case. I didn't follow the case that closely, but I don't understand why he wasn't tried in absentia, and then killed.
Being taxed at 3 or 4 or even 10 percent higher marginal tax rates with no tax loopholes by being paid in stock or other instruments isn't going to be the end of the world.
That's crazy! Instead, we should go back to the halcyon 1950's! You know, that time the Republicans like to talk about as being so great? That time with a 91% marginal tax bracket on the highest earners!
Well, there was that whole "assassinate a citizen without due process" thing...
I've read good things about Gary Johnson.
So I went to his website and realized i couldn't vote for him. He doesn't understand the economy: "Stop spending on the fiscal stimulus, transportation, energy, housing, and all other special interests. The U.S. must restrain spending across the board." and he has wacky ideas: "Abolish the Internal Revenue Service."
If you believe the government should levy taxes (which he apparently does, as he supports the "fair tax"), then something (a department, or an agency) has to exist to make sure people pay those taxes. The idea that we should "abolish the IRS" and then create a new agency to manage the "fair tax" is nothing more than pandering or insanity.
I have to agree with your take on Paul's brain. I'm at a loss how a doctor could no believe in evolution. After all, nothing in biology makes sense...
He may speak what he believes is the truth, but seeing that he believes that humans didn't evolve from a common ancestor with the great apes, I have to believe that he is wrong, at least about that.
He has also been demonstrably wrong about his predictions of inflation due to the "printing of money" in response to the financial crisis of 2007-present.
If "reality" means "god did it" like Ron Paul believes, I'll stick with my testable, materialistic fantasy, thanks.
Well, different county, different city, different locals...
Well, it's been years and years since I wrote Objective-C (I worked for AppSoft, doing NeXTStep Productivity Apps), and have never touched ruby, but to me, the Obj-C code is clearer. A hell of a lot more to type, but I know it's stripping the whitespace characters from 'stringToTrim' and creating a new string.
my_string.strip looks like a call to a non-standard (project specific, locally developed) bit of code that could do anything. If I knew Ruby, I might totally know it _was_ standard and what it did. But if you can get past the Smalltalk syntax (which I think is a benefit, allowing/forcing documentation inline of the code), Obj-C is much more readable, and thereby more maintainable.
As a developer, I'd prefer 1080x1920 myself.
Not the same. I can say I wish someone would kill Rand Paul, but that's not the same as threatening to do it myself.
Hell, didn't the CIA have an assassination market under the guise of payment for predictions on the date of death of people?
OTOH, as a juror who's getting $5/day (or whatever minimal amount they pay today), I'd be kinda pissed if my efforts were wasted due to the Judge [who gets paid a living wage] deciding after the fact that the findings of fact we did were not needed.
Yeah, and C# benefits from a large standard library, but I'm arguing that the _language_ C# isn't better than C for the reason he specifies. It may be a much better language, and it may be great that it's got a large standard library, but IMHO, those are independent variables.
Given the Berkeley-BSD/AT&T case, and the Thread-X/Green-Hills case, I think there's already precedent on the copyrightability of API's. And if we're going to change things now, that's going to have seriously wide-ranging effects. If we're going to send the message that we might change our minds going forward, that's going to have wide-ranging effects. OTOH, it might make non-open software systems even less attractive.
In C-style languages, the && operator is short-circuited, so you put the easier/less-computation bit first. Now, it may be that the jury bit will take 9 people 2 weeks (18 person-weeks), where it will take the judge longer than 18 weeks to figure it out (numbers totally made up, of course). In which case, fine I'll withdraw my assertion.
That's a bit silly. You're including tons of "library" (may be part of the C# language spec, I'm not familiar) on the C# side, but writing the C program as bare metal. You could easily do the C program as 3 'system()' calls [cp ...; cat...; cat...;].
Seems a bit non-sensical to me: "You, spend the next several weeks doing a bunch of work based on an assumption that I may invalidate, but only after you are done."
"our government" Huh? AFAICT, "our government" didn't own the world trade center. If you happen to live in NY/NJ and you think of the Port Authority as "your government" I guess you could fault it for not rebuilding. But I'm still unclear why the hell a Port Authority would be in real estate to begin with...
Well, since we can't get low-level docs on the GPU from Broadcom, not very.
Back then the comments were better, which is why Slashdot was still useful. Now the signal to noise ratio on the comments is much lower. At least in my estimation. Of course, this comment is "off topic" :-)
Citation please?
Reading "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" leads me to believe that we who care need to make things much worse for those who don't, so they _will_ care. Only then will change happen.
Heh, a recent FB status of mine was "I'd like some Tree of Life Root about now." Of course I'm probably too old at this point and it would kill me, but I'm definitely feeling like evolution is done with me and I'm supposed to die off soon to make room for the younger and faster.
And I'm 44.