Do you have an alarm system? Do you have a panic room? Do you not own a gun because they cost too much money?
A lot of the proposed fixes for global warming (and the reason it is getting so much push lately) will funnel a lot of your money (hundreds of dollars each and every year) into goldman sachs (via the carbon trading market which will certainly be manipulated) and all of the companies selling new freons, new tires, etc. which are all more expensive because they are "more green" in some fashion.
That's why folks are not acting on *possible* global warming. It's going to be extremely expensive. I'd rather spend my money on cheap wine and wild women than give it to a rich executive on wall street.
Saw a very interesting BBC show where the lady went to Amsterdam for a month.
What I got out of it was
MJ users of high THC, low Cannabinoid pot were high and creeped out, paranoid. MJ users of low/high THC, high Cannabinoid pot were high and really happy.
If I were to use it, I'd want the really happy kind myself. No idea what names that might go for. In the show, they had at least two dozen varieties.
I've heard about K2 lately-- it sounds like it is more of a high THC high without the happy part.
It also pointed out that pot users are more cautious while booze users are overconfident.
Lack of sleep can make you hallucinate after only 30ish hours. I'd prefer to avoid hallucinating doctors. I think the current hospital system is evil to nurses AND doctors.
I don't know... reading the wiki article you linked it seems very similar: The example in the wiki seems to support the #2 above.
An undeniable accession to wealth requires an inflow of cash, noncash property, services, or other satisfaction in excess of the initial capital invested. For example, if David purchases a suitcase for $300 in October and sells it in November for $400, he has gross income of $100 (the $400 received minus his $300 basis).
It gets goofy when labor is involved tho (if you help me build a fence and you are a fence builder and I help you with your taxes and I'm an accountant, the IRS counts that as gross income for both of us at the bottom of the article).
They (thank god) at least do not seem to be saying David had 30 days use of the suitcase so he also profited from that. It calls to mind the old joke "how much did you make... send it in."
What Does Net Income - NI Mean? 1. A company's total earnings (or profit). Net income is calculated by taking revenues and adjusting for the cost of doing business, depreciation, interest, taxes and other expenses. This number is found on a company's income statement and is an important measure of how profitable the company is over a period of time. The measure is also used to calculate earnings per share.
Often referred to as "the bottom line" since net income is listed at the bottom of the income statement. In the U.K., net income is known as "profit attributable to shareholders".
What Does Gross Income Mean? 2. A company's revenue minus cost of goods sold. Also called "gross margin" and "gross profit".
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I find these two definitions a bit confusing. However, it looks like it is :
Gross Sales Less Material Costs = Gross Profits Less all other costs = Net Profits
--- So using my incorrect example above... Gross profits of $100 ($1100 gross sales - $1000 material costs) Gross profits less all other costs (rent? wages? interest, taxes, etc.) = Net profits. (so say $90 of non material costs = $10 net profits)
Here the tax on gross profits of.5% would be 5% of the net profits.
(If there were no costs except material costs, it would be.5%).
Most businesses make a total net profit of about 3% to 7%. So a.5% gross tax would take 1/6th to 1/14th of their profit. I.e. you buy 1,000 dollars worth of wood and build a piano that you sell for 1,100 dollars. You are not getting taxed on the 100 dollars left over after costs- you are getting taxed on the 1,100 dollars. The lower the companies net profits, the more likely a tax like this is to take their entire net profit.
It would be sort of like if the government took.5% of your gross income from your savings account each year (on top of any other income tax or sales taxes).
I'm very sick of the abuses being allowed. I feel we are very close to some kind of major breakdown. Folks tried to vote for change with Obama and all we got was another corporate stooge.
If enough people do not believe the system is fair, it will end violently.
It absolutely depends on belief-- partially belief that was brainwashed into us from the time we were in 1st grade and partially belief from propaganda constantly delivered by all the media sources ( "liberal", "conservative" -- no real difference- all are owned by extremely wealthy individuals and corporations and serve the same brainwashing crap).
I can understand flash, but the no picture is just an artificial attempt to maintain control of the content. Completely against what should be the goals of history and science. If anything, pictures of those texts should be online so he doesn't have to go to UK.
I busted for this by a minister at Westminster Abbey. The rule was "No photos" and all around you, you could see people where were not on the guided tour taking pictures.
For completely arbitrary bonus points, photos WERE allowed on other days of the week -- just not on wednesdays when I was there.
damn it. either include the entire quote or put in ellipsis. It's obvious that you are copying from the constitution (could even call it plagiarizing since you passed it off as your own words.
Here is what the original document says:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I was thinking more the smoke and smell of their own dead.
A lot of species are averse to their own dead.
However, the later poster has an obvious and likely adaption. Those females who are just outside of meeting the criteria would be strongly selected. Those outside the area who sensed the smell and avoided it might not be selected as strongly.
Female mosquitoes that can sense the lasers at range and randomly avoid them come to dominate the species. Unless you have 100% coverage, there will be survivors (for some reason). Insects and Bacteria respond really really quickly to selection pressures.
pick up a particular object out of a container of mixed unsorted objects. put that object in a particular place at a particular alignment.
So... Most "stocker" type jobs are probably at great risk. I can see a little fleet of stocking robots loading the grocery stores every night very soon (next 5 years).
Average life expectancy was low because so many children died (2% on the first day, 12% by the first year, a big number (can't remember but I think it was over half) by 10 years old).
If you made it to 20, you were about as likely to live into your 60's as you are today.
Most of the money we spend on health care only extends the end of life by a year or two. You get more healthy active years from just flossing and brushing your teeth twice daily.
It's not the technobabble. I don't like technobabble either.
It's the character interaction. Which was present in Vader vs Obiwan. Which was present in Luke vs Vader. Which was absent almost entirely from those three movies and in that fight scene.
I saw no emotions by anyone. I guess I'm in the camp that agrees violently with the recent 70 minute review.
>What the very short article DOESN'T mention is what we in the industry have known for years:
>1) A software LICENSE isn't always cheaper than software SUPPORT. And you DO need support for your platform, open source or not.
a) most small businesses do not have software support contracts but your point is valid for a large office however... b) support for excel, word, project, etc. at my company has been near zero for years. Office software just doesn't need support. When you do need support, its usually a corrupt document and support can't help you and it's easier to just recreate the document (or do as I did and load the document into Openoffice, save it in word format, fix the minor cosmetic changes in my now reusable document that no longer crashes Word on open). c) in any case, small businesses and personal use seems to be where the conversion is taking place. large companies and governments are doing it very slowly. Personally, I'm getting tired of gold plated governments in marble clad mansions who think they can infinitely raise taxes to pay for their largess.
>2) Using a well established vendor software (like say windows), means it's easier (cheaper) to educate people in the software they'll be using, and similarly easier to find qualified support (in house and outsourced alike). a) Again...no training any more. Perhaps its different at other companies. We were thrown on 2007 without warning or training. I suffered about 5 months lower productivity and finally recovered. b) Opensource tools are getting much better lately. The ones I've used frequently also require no training. Just read the help files when you want to do something if it isn't obvious. This is probably not true for server administration- but that's 1% of your users. 99% use office and one or two commercial applications (we can't even install anything to our computers any more unless we are a developer).
>3) Open source doesn't mean the software is FREE, it just means it is open source. Many companies supply the source code for review when they sell their software to customers. a) Valid- tho not for Thunderbird, Gmail, Google Docs, Linux, Azureus, Gimp, Audacity, Openoffice, etc., etc., etc.
>4) The lifecycle of "well established" products is well documented (and generally very long lived), and may factor into the choice, as noone wants to scrap the >software again in 3 years (and incur another switchover cost) when there's no longer any support for whatever you chose as your platform. a) 3-4 years is well documented and long lived? XP is out of support, Vista is out of support soon. our VB applications (written at great expense) are going to have to be rewritten-- more likely we'll buy a package and drop the business advantages the custom software gave us. meanwhile applications i wrote in C 15 years ago still run.
>5) Technologically, a lot of software just inst available as open source. You may be unable to find the software you need for your platform, thus again driving >the costs up if you have to develop it yourself. Noone wants to be stuck with a legacy system for the next 15 years (again). a) This is a valid point except that it weighs all software equally. I have gone to an opensource stack on windows and the only commercial software I own is Dragon Dictate. b) In the closed source world, it's getting hard to get some software you want too. As they increasingly lock down things (re the Ipad), I am getting the feeling if I want to OWN my computer and my data, I'm going to have to go opensource. Everything else is headed towards a rental DRM'd rebuy the same data 15 times model.
>So for a long term saving, it's often cheaper to stay with what you've got (or for a new installation, choose the same as everyone else) and pay a lot of >licensefees, than to change to something that's cheaper in licensing and have a shitload of other costs.
>That said, I LOVE linux, open source and free software. But for commercial use, it just isn't always optimal.
a) In the long term, I found that slowly changing one application every 6 months or so allowed me to mitigate the personal time and productivity cost.
Good things Jar jar creating character conflict as occurred in the first three films (eg. irritated the other wise cipher like Gui kan (sp) "NO!". Palpatine (well written and well acted)
bad things
mitochlorians jedi fighting for hours without any talking at all against pretty backdrops. running out of time to do a decent corruption of Anakin and having him improbably able to kill helpless small children way too soon to make sense. assuming a child killer *could* be the ultimate hero of the series (sorry, but it changes the darth vader of the original 3 considerably). Utter lack of character conflict (except Jar Jar). Too many "just so" scenes to list. Some of the worst acting I've ever seen from a lot of really fine actors (which tells you the problem was Lucas, not the actors).
While I understand why child porn is illegal (exploitation of children, probable rape of children,etc.) it boggles me that an picture of a cartoon child naked is porn.
It also seems incorrect that an artistic picture of a fictional, non-existent child is illegal (since there was no exploitation, rape, etc.).
And you have all those gray lines where the subject looks 13 but is 18 or is 15 and looks 18.
Oh and you also produce a workable output every time block. So UI goes early- gets in front of users early- so the things they didn't think about get flushed out early.
And you can always ship with 93% of your function points done on deadline and then follow up with the other 7%. What you don't want is an unworkable mess with unknown integration time all being delivered with 30 days until shipping date.
You also get to ITQA, develop and execute tests every interation.
Since Big(O) time for debugging is exponential, testing monthly makes it exponentially easier to locate bugs. (we changed these 7 modules and now this bug is here... which of the 7 did it?) vs (We changed these 137 modules. Which one is the source of this bug?)
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You know.. a burgler *could* rob your house.
Do you have an alarm system?
Do you have a panic room?
Do you not own a gun because they cost too much money?
A lot of the proposed fixes for global warming (and the reason it is getting so much push lately) will funnel a lot of your money (hundreds of dollars each and every year) into goldman sachs (via the carbon trading market which will certainly be manipulated) and all of the companies selling new freons, new tires, etc. which are all more expensive because they are "more green" in some fashion.
That's why folks are not acting on *possible* global warming. It's going to be extremely expensive. I'd rather spend my money on cheap wine and wild women than give it to a rich executive on wall street.
Saw a very interesting BBC show where the lady went to Amsterdam for a month.
What I got out of it was
MJ users of high THC, low Cannabinoid pot were high and creeped out, paranoid.
MJ users of low/high THC, high Cannabinoid pot were high and really happy.
If I were to use it, I'd want the really happy kind myself. No idea what names that might go for. In the show, they had at least two dozen varieties.
I've heard about K2 lately-- it sounds like it is more of a high THC high without the happy part.
It also pointed out that pot users are more cautious while booze users are overconfident.
Lack of sleep can make you hallucinate after only 30ish hours. I'd prefer to avoid hallucinating doctors. I think the current hospital system is evil to nurses AND doctors.
To be fair, I probably misled him by using the wrong word (gross tax).
I didn't know it was called a B&O tax but had picked up it was on gross sales (not gross income).
It sounds really heinous. It sounds like it could take all of your profits if your margins were low enough and your gross sales were high enough.
I agree. It used to be but now the wealthy and the corporations have gotten so large and powerful that they have bought both political parties.
However, 15 or so years ago, it was the unholy wedding of corporations + socially right wing (via abortion) that started this ball rolling.
I'm not sure how it ends peacefully at this point. The wealthy and the corporations seem to have lost all patriotism and sense of shame.
I don't know... reading the wiki article you linked it seems very similar:
The example in the wiki seems to support the #2 above.
An undeniable accession to wealth requires an inflow of cash, noncash property, services, or other satisfaction in excess of the initial capital invested. For example, if David purchases a suitcase for $300 in October and sells it in November for $400, he has gross income of $100 (the $400 received minus his $300 basis).
It gets goofy when labor is involved tho (if you help me build a fence and you are a fence builder and I help you with your taxes and I'm an accountant, the IRS counts that as gross income for both of us at the bottom of the article).
They (thank god) at least do not seem to be saying David had 30 days use of the suitcase so he also profited from that. It calls to mind the old joke "how much did you make... send it in."
Okay, so I dug here and got these definitions...
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netincome.asp
What Does Net Income - NI Mean?
1. A company's total earnings (or profit). Net income is calculated by taking revenues and adjusting for the cost of doing business, depreciation, interest, taxes and other expenses. This number is found on a company's income statement and is an important measure of how profitable the company is over a period of time. The measure is also used to calculate earnings per share.
Often referred to as "the bottom line" since net income is listed at the bottom of the income statement. In the U.K., net income is known as "profit attributable to shareholders".
What Does Gross Income Mean?
2. A company's revenue minus cost of goods sold. Also called "gross margin" and "gross profit".
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I find these two definitions a bit confusing. However, it looks like it is :
Gross Sales
Less Material Costs =
Gross Profits
Less all other costs =
Net Profits
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So using my incorrect example above...
Gross profits of $100 ($1100 gross sales - $1000 material costs)
Gross profits less all other costs (rent? wages? interest, taxes, etc.) = Net profits. (so say $90 of non material costs = $10 net profits)
Here the tax on gross profits of .5% would be 5% of the net profits.
(If there were no costs except material costs, it would be .5%).
Okay... it sounds like you are saying gross income and net income are the same then?
So what are some ways that gross income and net income differ if not due to costs (as in my simplistic example)?
What other sites have content like You Tube?
Seriously? Where else can I go for similar content?
Most businesses make a total net profit of about 3% to 7%. So a .5% gross tax would take 1/6th to 1/14th of their profit.
I.e. you buy 1,000 dollars worth of wood and build a piano that you sell for 1,100 dollars. You are not getting taxed on the 100 dollars left over after costs- you are getting taxed on the 1,100 dollars. The lower the companies net profits, the more likely a tax like this is to take their entire net profit.
It would be sort of like if the government took .5% of your gross income from your savings account each year (on top of any other income tax or sales taxes).
I'm very sick of the abuses being allowed. I feel we are very close to some kind of major breakdown. Folks tried to vote for change with Obama and all we got was another corporate stooge.
If enough people do not believe the system is fair, it will end violently.
It absolutely depends on belief-- partially belief that was brainwashed into us from the time we were in 1st grade and partially belief from propaganda constantly delivered by all the media sources ( "liberal", "conservative" -- no real difference- all are owned by extremely wealthy individuals and corporations and serve the same brainwashing crap).
the obscene things is that the reason these get passed is that every other member of congress gets the same or better for their wealthy constituents.
I can understand flash, but the no picture is just an artificial attempt to maintain control of the content. Completely against what should be the goals of history and science. If anything, pictures of those texts should be online so he doesn't have to go to UK.
I busted for this by a minister at Westminster Abbey. The rule was "No photos" and all around you, you could see people where were not on the guided tour taking pictures.
For completely arbitrary bonus points, photos WERE allowed on other days of the week -- just not on wednesdays when I was there.
damn it. either include the entire quote or put in ellipsis. It's obvious that you are copying from the constitution (could even call it plagiarizing since you passed it off as your own words.
Here is what the original document says:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
I was thinking more the smoke and smell of their own dead.
A lot of species are averse to their own dead.
However, the later poster has an obvious and likely adaption. Those females who are just outside of meeting the criteria would be strongly selected. Those outside the area who sensed the smell and avoided it might not be selected as strongly.
If you sample a female actress and you are a male singer, it's pretty obvious. (and vice versa)
Or if it is from a very recognizable song.
Past there it gets increasingly muddy.
Plagiarism is bad because it's been ruled to be bad in the past. Why is it bad per se if the result is informative or entertaining?
Most likely course:
Female mosquitoes that can sense the lasers at range and randomly avoid them come to dominate the species.
Unless you have 100% coverage, there will be survivors (for some reason).
Insects and Bacteria respond really really quickly to selection pressures.
We are very close to machines that can...
pick up a particular object out of a container of mixed unsorted objects.
put that object in a particular place at a particular alignment.
So...
Most "stocker" type jobs are probably at great risk.
I can see a little fleet of stocking robots loading the grocery stores every night very soon (next 5 years).
Average life expectancy was low because so many children died (2% on the first day, 12% by the first year, a big number (can't remember but I think it was over half) by 10 years old).
If you made it to 20, you were about as likely to live into your 60's as you are today.
Most of the money we spend on health care only extends the end of life by a year or two. You get more healthy active years from just flossing and brushing your teeth twice daily.
My machine has a hard drive partition with the "recovery" disk.
I think I have automatic patches turned off on the XP box but I have automatic patching on the windows 7 box.
I think I'm going to figure out how to turn it off when I get home.
It's not the technobabble. I don't like technobabble either.
It's the character interaction. Which was present in Vader vs Obiwan. Which was present in Luke vs Vader.
Which was absent almost entirely from those three movies and in that fight scene.
I saw no emotions by anyone. I guess I'm in the camp that agrees violently with the recent 70 minute review.
>What the very short article DOESN'T mention is what we in the industry have known for years:
>1) A software LICENSE isn't always cheaper than software SUPPORT. And you DO need support for your platform, open source or not.
a) most small businesses do not have software support contracts but your point is valid for a large office however...
b) support for excel, word, project, etc. at my company has been near zero for years. Office software just doesn't need support. When you do need support, its usually a corrupt document and support can't help you and it's easier to just recreate the document (or do as I did and load the document into Openoffice, save it in word format, fix the minor cosmetic changes in my now reusable document that no longer crashes Word on open).
c) in any case, small businesses and personal use seems to be where the conversion is taking place. large companies and governments are doing it very slowly. Personally, I'm getting tired of gold plated governments in marble clad mansions who think they can infinitely raise taxes to pay for their largess.
>2) Using a well established vendor software (like say windows), means it's easier (cheaper) to educate people in the software they'll be using, and similarly easier to find qualified support (in house and outsourced alike).
a) Again...no training any more. Perhaps its different at other companies. We were thrown on 2007 without warning or training. I suffered about 5 months lower productivity and finally recovered.
b) Opensource tools are getting much better lately. The ones I've used frequently also require no training. Just read the help files when you want to do something if it isn't obvious. This is probably not true for server administration- but that's 1% of your users. 99% use office and one or two commercial applications (we can't even install anything to our computers any more unless we are a developer).
>3) Open source doesn't mean the software is FREE, it just means it is open source. Many companies supply the source code for review when they sell their software to customers.
a) Valid- tho not for Thunderbird, Gmail, Google Docs, Linux, Azureus, Gimp, Audacity, Openoffice, etc., etc., etc.
>4) The lifecycle of "well established" products is well documented (and generally very long lived), and may factor into the choice, as noone wants to scrap the >software again in 3 years (and incur another switchover cost) when there's no longer any support for whatever you chose as your platform.
a) 3-4 years is well documented and long lived? XP is out of support, Vista is out of support soon. our VB applications (written at great expense) are going to have to be rewritten-- more likely we'll buy a package and drop the business advantages the custom software gave us. meanwhile applications i wrote in C 15 years ago still run.
>5) Technologically, a lot of software just inst available as open source. You may be unable to find the software you need for your platform, thus again driving >the costs up if you have to develop it yourself. Noone wants to be stuck with a legacy system for the next 15 years (again).
a) This is a valid point except that it weighs all software equally. I have gone to an opensource stack on windows and the only commercial software I own is Dragon Dictate.
b) In the closed source world, it's getting hard to get some software you want too. As they increasingly lock down things (re the Ipad), I am getting the feeling if I want to OWN my computer and my data, I'm going to have to go opensource. Everything else is headed towards a rental DRM'd rebuy the same data 15 times model.
>So for a long term saving, it's often cheaper to stay with what you've got (or for a new installation, choose the same as everyone else) and pay a lot of >licensefees, than to change to something that's cheaper in licensing and have a shitload of other costs.
>That said, I LOVE linux, open source and free software. But for commercial use, it just isn't always optimal.
a) In the long term, I found that slowly changing one application every 6 months or so allowed me to mitigate the personal time and productivity cost.
Good things
Jar jar creating character conflict as occurred in the first three films (eg. irritated the other wise cipher like Gui kan (sp) "NO!".
Palpatine (well written and well acted)
bad things
mitochlorians
jedi fighting for hours without any talking at all against pretty backdrops.
running out of time to do a decent corruption of Anakin and having him improbably able to kill helpless small children way too soon to make sense.
assuming a child killer *could* be the ultimate hero of the series (sorry, but it changes the darth vader of the original 3 considerably).
Utter lack of character conflict (except Jar Jar).
Too many "just so" scenes to list.
Some of the worst acting I've ever seen from a lot of really fine actors (which tells you the problem was Lucas, not the actors).
But... a real old man would not being doing anything to a real child.
It's practically a thought crime.
While I understand why child porn is illegal (exploitation of children, probable rape of children,etc.) it boggles me that an picture of a cartoon child naked is porn.
It also seems incorrect that an artistic picture of a fictional, non-existent child is illegal (since there was no exploitation, rape, etc.).
And you have all those gray lines where the subject looks 13 but is 18 or is 15 and looks 18.
Oh and you also produce a workable output every time block. So UI goes early- gets in front of users early- so the things they didn't think about get flushed out early.
And you can always ship with 93% of your function points done on deadline and then follow up with the other 7%.
What you don't want is an unworkable mess with unknown integration time all being delivered with 30 days until shipping date.
You also get to ITQA, develop and execute tests every interation.
Since Big(O) time for debugging is exponential, testing monthly makes it exponentially easier to locate bugs. (we changed these 7 modules and now this bug is here... which of the 7 did it?) vs (We changed these 137 modules. Which one is the source of this bug?)