Actually, much of the "taxes" on the bills are "regulatory recovery fees."
While this is true, I'm paying 3 times the "recover fee" amount in taxes (pulled my latest bill out to compare). The amount of tax on your bill greatly varies from state to state as well as town to town. When I moved a few years back, I noticed my bill went up. Apparently, the town I moved into has a monthly "Mobile Telecommunications Tax" that I have to pay.
the 911 fee which (surprise) pays for a 911 operator to be standing by waiting to get your emergency call [...] Everyone seems to be down on taxes, but nobody wants reduced services.
I have no problem paying that 75 cent tax, but what about the other seven dollars I'm paying in state and local taxes? As I pointed out above, my town even has a tax on my bill, and they offer zero mobile phone services. It's a cash grab by them on something that's becoming commonplace luxury.
No atheist is part of a community so focused on being a good person and striving for the good life.
Hi. I'm an atheist. I don't need religion to motivate me to be a good person or improve myself. I also don't need to use it to justify donating to charity or contributing to the community. I'm an ethical and moral person because I was raised that way.
Frankly, I find it a little disturbing (and somewhat frightening) there are people out there who require religion to keep themselves moral and ethical. What sort of person refrains from bad activity, not because its obviously evil, but based solely on the fact they are threatened with damnation from an omnipotent super-being?
Microsoft actually has been doing the TV thing over 12 years now. Their second receiver got discontinued in 2003 when they lost their contract with DirectTV (the details). Can't find anything about their original attempt at a Windows TV platform. My Google-fu is failing me.
That's the point - you already have a 3 month training time. If you have to add another month because your new applicant needs to learn the programming language being used, that instantly becomes a 4 month training time. If there is another equally qualified candidate who already knows the language, then why would you hire the guy who doesn't know it?
All it would take is maybe a month of learning the languages they want
That's sort of the point of why they didn't hire you. They're looking to hire someone who can do the job, not hire someone who will require a month of training beyond the normal orientation and training.
Also, it's worth mentioning that no amount of programming in CS classes will be as useful as actual real-world programming experience (I'm not sure how well lab programming equates to this). Once in a while, someone (usually still in college) asks for advice on getting a job after graduating. I tell them to get experience by contributing to a FOSS project.
Actually, we're sort of hybrid of a democracy and republic. We do elect representatives to do our bidding, but we also have votes to pass referendums and propositions (usually happens at the same time as elections). At a federal level, we're a republic. But as you start looking at state, county, and municipal governments in our country, there are democratic processes in place.
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Yep, had most of those same issues. Thought it was NoScript, so I allow the scripts, and the entire petition disappears, resulting in a blank content area of the page. Oh, and one of my catpcha words was the Greek letter omega with a subscript of one (easily fixed by requesting a new captcha, but still...)
You have a point about running server violating terms (which was specifically mentioned by the GP), but there are other reasons I want port 25 opened that don't run servers. For example, my router is dying to send me daily status reports by e-mail, and I would love to send them anywhere but root's local mailbox. However, AT&T refuses to open port 25 (unless I upgrade to a business account) to let the MTA relay the messages to a more practical e-mail address.
Maybe I'm missing something about the kiosk industry (it's been a long time). Booting up can be done via wake-on-LAN, shutting down remotely is built in at the OS level. What BIOS functionality would you need to access that doesn't require you to already be physically in the box?
I assume that was the article about him paying less taxes than his employees (paywall and all). And if you look at last year's income tax brackets/worksheets (pdf warning), it backs up what I'm saying about abusing loopholes to pay less than lower/middle class taxpayers. In terms of percentages, he's *supposed* to be paying more than us. However, through the tricks and loopholes, he's paying less.
Then you're actually in favor of a tax decrease for the wealthy. With our current tiered system, they pay a higher percentage than us.
The problem isn't the percentage paid, it's that the tax code is full of loopholes that allows them to get out of paying their fair share (same goes for corp. taxes). Want to fix the tax code and generate more revenue? Close the existing holes that are being exploited.
A lot of your "not evil" points can be offset by the "is evil" point: "Google only does things that are in their business' best interest."
The whole China thing was a hot mess for Google. They caught a lot of heat because they actually complied with the censorship laws of China when opening up shop over there. If I recall, they didn't start being vocal about the censorship until the whole "Chinese government hacked our e-mails" thing. They are still in China, just not their search.
Google didn't make Android. It was a project that they acquired when it was near completion.
And, as someone else pointed out (which goes along with my first point) - Google's entire business model is based around gathering as much information about you and using it for marketing. Some view this as an enormous privacy concern. This is how the cheap/free internet, doing things at a loss, offering free services, etc, is all justified. If you read your EULAs, they spell out that Google is collecting your data and using it for their marketing purposes.
Off the top of my head, I would say because it's got some language flaws (goofy typing, pseudo object design patterns). However, the primary reason JavaScript makes me cringe is because the majority of web designers I come across throw usability as far out the window as they can because they do something mind-blowingly stupid. Stuff like this:
Another one I see is not using method="get" on a form, and instead having a link that runs JavaScript that literally builds a url of name=value pairs of the form fields. Bonus points when they forget to properly encode the values.
Granted, most of my gripes come from bad designers, and aren't actual shortcomings of JavaScript itself.
The Department of Justice does the prosecuting, which is under the executive branch. They bring their cases before the judicial branch who renders the decisions on the cases.
Based on the comments from that article, it sounded like the video itself was also pretty suspicious (which the Chinese are hiding behind). Either way, the mantra has always been deny, deny, deny.
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AFIK, there is no expectation in statutory or common law that requires an establishment to retain abandoned items
Actually, the law is pretty clear about what to do when finding property that is not yours.
Obama is pro gun restriction and control. However, he's not as extremist about it as Republicans would lead you to believe.
Actually, much of the "taxes" on the bills are "regulatory recovery fees."
While this is true, I'm paying 3 times the "recover fee" amount in taxes (pulled my latest bill out to compare). The amount of tax on your bill greatly varies from state to state as well as town to town. When I moved a few years back, I noticed my bill went up. Apparently, the town I moved into has a monthly "Mobile Telecommunications Tax" that I have to pay.
the 911 fee which (surprise) pays for a 911 operator to be standing by waiting to get your emergency call [...] Everyone seems to be down on taxes, but nobody wants reduced services.
I have no problem paying that 75 cent tax, but what about the other seven dollars I'm paying in state and local taxes? As I pointed out above, my town even has a tax on my bill, and they offer zero mobile phone services. It's a cash grab by them on something that's becoming commonplace luxury.
No atheist is part of a community so focused on being a good person and striving for the good life.
Hi. I'm an atheist. I don't need religion to motivate me to be a good person or improve myself. I also don't need to use it to justify donating to charity or contributing to the community. I'm an ethical and moral person because I was raised that way.
Frankly, I find it a little disturbing (and somewhat frightening) there are people out there who require religion to keep themselves moral and ethical. What sort of person refrains from bad activity, not because its obviously evil, but based solely on the fact they are threatened with damnation from an omnipotent super-being?
And as I finish submitting that, there it is. So MS has been doing this for 15 years, starting with MSN TV.
Microsoft actually has been doing the TV thing over 12 years now. Their second receiver got discontinued in 2003 when they lost their contract with DirectTV (the details). Can't find anything about their original attempt at a Windows TV platform. My Google-fu is failing me.
I suggest you read the message I was replying to - the OP was complaining that programming in CS classes is not considered experience by HR.
That's the point - you already have a 3 month training time. If you have to add another month because your new applicant needs to learn the programming language being used, that instantly becomes a 4 month training time. If there is another equally qualified candidate who already knows the language, then why would you hire the guy who doesn't know it?
All it would take is maybe a month of learning the languages they want
That's sort of the point of why they didn't hire you. They're looking to hire someone who can do the job, not hire someone who will require a month of training beyond the normal orientation and training.
Also, it's worth mentioning that no amount of programming in CS classes will be as useful as actual real-world programming experience (I'm not sure how well lab programming equates to this). Once in a while, someone (usually still in college) asks for advice on getting a job after graduating. I tell them to get experience by contributing to a FOSS project.
(what's a "H.264-compliant browser" anyway?).
HTML5 hasn't decided on an official standardized codec yet, and that's one of the contenders.
And here I thought they were just trying to start a fad by starting numbering at 3. Next you'll tell me there was a Fallout 1 and 2...
Actually, we're sort of hybrid of a democracy and republic. We do elect representatives to do our bidding, but we also have votes to pass referendums and propositions (usually happens at the same time as elections). At a federal level, we're a republic. But as you start looking at state, county, and municipal governments in our country, there are democratic processes in place.
I've always loves those defenses. When they start using those, you follow them up with this:
"Of course God isn't literally real, he's a metaphor for the human conscience."
They tend to not like that one.
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Yep, had most of those same issues. Thought it was NoScript, so I allow the scripts, and the entire petition disappears, resulting in a blank content area of the page. Oh, and one of my catpcha words was the Greek letter omega with a subscript of one (easily fixed by requesting a new captcha, but still...)
You have a point about running server violating terms (which was specifically mentioned by the GP), but there are other reasons I want port 25 opened that don't run servers. For example, my router is dying to send me daily status reports by e-mail, and I would love to send them anywhere but root's local mailbox. However, AT&T refuses to open port 25 (unless I upgrade to a business account) to let the MTA relay the messages to a more practical e-mail address.
Maybe I'm missing something about the kiosk industry (it's been a long time). Booting up can be done via wake-on-LAN, shutting down remotely is built in at the OS level. What BIOS functionality would you need to access that doesn't require you to already be physically in the box?
I assume that was the article about him paying less taxes than his employees (paywall and all). And if you look at last year's income tax brackets/worksheets (pdf warning), it backs up what I'm saying about abusing loopholes to pay less than lower/middle class taxpayers. In terms of percentages, he's *supposed* to be paying more than us. However, through the tricks and loopholes, he's paying less.
I'll settle for same percentage.
Then you're actually in favor of a tax decrease for the wealthy. With our current tiered system, they pay a higher percentage than us.
The problem isn't the percentage paid, it's that the tax code is full of loopholes that allows them to get out of paying their fair share (same goes for corp. taxes). Want to fix the tax code and generate more revenue? Close the existing holes that are being exploited.
A lot of your "not evil" points can be offset by the "is evil" point: "Google only does things that are in their business' best interest."
The whole China thing was a hot mess for Google. They caught a lot of heat because they actually complied with the censorship laws of China when opening up shop over there. If I recall, they didn't start being vocal about the censorship until the whole "Chinese government hacked our e-mails" thing. They are still in China, just not their search.
Google didn't make Android. It was a project that they acquired when it was near completion.
And, as someone else pointed out (which goes along with my first point) - Google's entire business model is based around gathering as much information about you and using it for marketing. Some view this as an enormous privacy concern. This is how the cheap/free internet, doing things at a loss, offering free services, etc, is all justified. If you read your EULAs, they spell out that Google is collecting your data and using it for their marketing purposes.
If only there were some law specifically created for going after corrupt organizations...
Another one I see is not using method="get" on a form, and instead having a link that runs JavaScript that literally builds a url of name=value pairs of the form fields. Bonus points when they forget to properly encode the values.
Granted, most of my gripes come from bad designers, and aren't actual shortcomings of JavaScript itself.
The Department of Justice does the prosecuting, which is under the executive branch. They bring their cases before the judicial branch who renders the decisions on the cases.
Since you missed it above, the word you're looking for is steganography.
Based on the comments from that article, it sounded like the video itself was also pretty suspicious (which the Chinese are hiding behind). Either way, the mantra has always been deny, deny, deny.