The difference is that H&R Block is authorized to file tax returns on your behalf and does not actively encourage you to file fraudulent returns by supplying you with misleading information.
Lindows, on the other hand, is not authorized to file settlement claims on your behalf and further misled people while trying to entice them to file claims through them.
I have no problem with a country creating their own economy. What I have a problem with is exporting ours.
There's no such thing. The US economy depends upon exporting goods and services to other countries and importing other goods and services which are produced more efficiently elsewhere. The economies of other countries depend on exporting goods and services to other countries and likewise importing goods and services. The US didn't get where it is by closing off its doors to the rest of the world. Some countries, like India for most of the past 50 years, did and paid for it with ruined economies.
Explain how our companies and their board of directors who enjoy the benefits of being here, and retain all the profits are allowing the poor workers to compete equally! Especially when they don't have to provide health care, retirement or a decent wage to these people.
First, they are competing equally. What that means is you can't just sit on your behind in San Francisco and expect to be paid 10 times what someone who works just as hard as you and is just as skilled as you makes in Bangalore. Secondly, you are really stupid if you think the average worker in Bangalore is not receiving adequate health care, retirement or a decent wage. Those people live very richly there. We are not talking about 10-year-old sweatshop workers in dangerous working conditions - we are talking about highly educated, highly skilled people who earn a salary in the top 10% of their country and are able to live a very good lifestyle.
You are very naive if you think that marginal workers are the only ones being replaced! Whole industries are being replaced, remember when we actually manufactered things in this country? Do you really think you cannot be replaced? Go tell 8% percent of this nation, (the latest unemployment figures) they are marginal.That's 24 million out of the 300 million legal US citizens.
Do you know why Japanese and German cars are much more reliable than US-made cars? Because Japanese and German workers are more highly skilled and parts are manufactured at a much higher tolerance there. American workers, in general, are less skilled and it will cost significantly more to pay a worker in Detroit to manufacture parts to the same tolerances. American workers will need to beef up their skills to compete and that's good for everyone concerned.
If these other nations are so greatful to globalization, why is it they riot at WTO summits?
They don't, in general. Most of the people who riot at WTO summits are stoned teenagers fighting "the man" and European farmers who like their nice subsidies which pay them to not produce food so food prices stay up. Membership to the WTO is entirely voluntary. A nation can choose not to join the WTO and maintain status quo with existing trade agreements if it chooses to. However, almost every country in the world realizes that while the WTO forces it to open up its own markets, it also enables that country to export to other markets which is in its interests.
Globalization is the great equalizer. It provides the opportunity for someone born in India or Africa or Indonesia to compete with people in so-called advanced countries on a more equal footing. Americans who have learned valuable skills have no problem keeping their jobs. Those with marginal skills are being replaced by more dedicated workers.
It's very ironic that the same people who would like to see greater mobility between the classes and hate the idea of the "rich" always being "rich" and the "poor" always being "poor", at the same time have no compunctions about putting rules in place so that those in poor countries stay poor while those in rich countries stay rich.
Umm.. that's part of the point of a Beta, dumbass.
No software company has the resources to test every possible combination and interaction of software and every possible application it is used for. Customers test Beta software in their own situations and report on any issues they see so they can be fixed by release time.
Some drugs are actually sold below cost because of the caps.
It depends upon how you define "cost". There is a very high cost for the 1st unit of a drug - which covers all the research and infrastructure requirements. After that, the incremental cost of producing more units is usually pretty low.
The drug companies are better off selling the drugs at the prescribed prices than they are by not selling them at all since the price is above the incremental cost of production.
Most of the research costs are paid for by the average American consumer.
What a load of crap! How does such uninformed bullshit get modded up as insightful?
Which was the last "war" that the so-called war-mongering India has started?
Hint: The last war India has been involved in ended in 1972. In it's 56-year history, India has initiated military action only once and that was to help Bangladesh gain its independence.
Meanwhile the great benevolent non-imperial nations of UK and France continue to maintain their colonies such as Falkland Islands and the islands in the South Pacific that France likes to blow up with nukes whenever it feels like pissing off the Aussies and Kiwis.
And I won't even begin to dwell into the economic imperialism that Europe is imposing upon Africa. European nations also have a long way to go before they can be excused for the mess their greedy exploitation and subsequent hasty departure has left in large parts of Asia and Africa.
Why doesn't freetrade work for the consumer? After all my goverment wants to make it illegal/claims it is currently illegal for consumers to import drugs from canada.
The prices of drugs in Canada are lower because of government caps on prices. So in a sense, it is not free trade.
Ignoring the obvious troll, writing left-to-right is easier for right-handed people because of being able to see what's written and the fact that dragging the pen allows much finer motor control than pushing it. Conversely, writing right-to-left is easier if you are left-handed.
The sanctions in question date back to the crisis in 1980. They are, to my knowledge, a US-only affair
Yes, but that matters more than you think.
Iran has a decaying air fleet. It can't get updated parts or new planes from Boeing (obvious) but it can't get the same from Airbus either because Airbus uses some components of US origin in their planes.
I can see countries like the US (surprise, they don't get on well with the Iranians) making it very difficult for the Iranians ever getting into the WTO because so called IP has no value there
Somehow I would see the fact that Islamic law bans interest on loans as being a much more significant barrier.
No. The "natural" order for the numbers is definitely big-endian. The most significant digit is always the most important one. The difference between 5445 and 4445 is much more significant than the difference between 5445 and 5444 so it is pretty clear which is the most important digit here.
It is an artifact of the method you use to add, subtract and multiply numbers that leaves you believing that the natural order is least-to-most-significant.
as people are getting sick of the crap that plagues our airwaves at the moment.
So they pay a bunch of money to listen to crap over satellite?
Satellite radio makes sense if you're living in a rural community, travel long distances or spend a lot of time listening to the radio. However, if you live in a major city and only listen to the radio on your way to and from work, you're paying to listen to pretty much the same stuff you can for free and missing out on a ton of local news and info while you're at it.
Wake up PEOPLE!!! You are being led down the path to ownership. Not YOU owning something, but someone else owning you! It's no surprise to me that I've become more and more of a hermit along with my wife. We isolate ourselves from America's fucked up society and it's "culture" more and more every day. That's why I do nearly everything myself. I can't accept paying people ridiculous amounts of money for goods and services that just aren't worth it. About the only things I can really justify are my water, gas, electric and ISP bills. I wouldn't have a cell phone, but since my company pays for it, I do. In general they just aren't worth it. I can't really justify the $50 a month to DirecTV though. BBC America, with it's few interesting programs (where's the Doctor Who?) isn't worth $50 a month. Neither is VH1 Classic, IFC, Sundance or Turner Classic Movies. But all of those channels are about all I watch. Cartoon Network sucks heavily now. So does SciFi, and the "new" AMC bites choad so hard it's astounding. I mean WHO are they doing marketing research with to determine that we want nothing but crap? TechTV? JESUS! That's about the worst example of info for armchair techies of "technology-lite". They've got nothing on/. and I've even been having my own issue with/. for the past few years.
It sounds like YOU are the one who needs to wake up. Either your $50 subscription to DirectTV is or is not justifiable TO YOU. If it isn't you need to stop being a hypocrite and discontinue it. If it is, you need to quit whining about it.
The rest of us make our own choices. Some of us subscribe to DirectTV because WE feel it is worth it. Others, like me, don't. For me, basic cable is fine. Yet others don't have either and just watch local TV. Yet others have thrown the idiot box away and read a good book instead.
YOU make your own choices. Nothing is forced upon you. Actually, it's because idiots like you will continue to pay the subscription fees regardless of programming quality that the producers have no incentive to maintain or improve programming quality.
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I think his point was that the fact that no one else could maintain and develop based on the code base was not the reason the code was being kept secret.
Among the other reasons you mentioned such as revealing potentially embarassing bugs in the source code, the main reason is the fact that having the source code available would allow competitors to develop software that equalled all the existing features of Windows essentially for free - killing any brand advantage. Software has a virtually zero marginal cost of production and making the source available will allow competitors to get the same production without the initial investments in the development costs, etc.
It's not a comment on your taste in movies - it's a comment on the quality of the director and producer.
You probably haven't watched a Bollywood movie before. If this was your first Bollywood film, you probably saw a lot that you thought was original and interesting. I've watched hundreds of Bollywood movies and every one of the characters in Lagaan played to a formula I've seen many times before.
There are large Indian populations in most parts of Africa and the Middle East. In the Middle East in particular, middle-management and below in almost every company is people from South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
Bollywood movies are very entertaining but you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief even further than you have to do with Hollywood. The acting is usually pretty immature and the characters are usually very cliched. However, the comedy and the music is usually very good.
Lagaan is terrible. I have no idea how that movie got nominated for an Oscar - there must have been some serious cash involved.
The storyline is ridiculous, the acting is very high-school-play like. The characters are extremely superficial and cliched. The first time a character was introduced, I knew exactly what that character would do for the rest of the movie because I had seen the exact same character in tons of Bollywood movies before.
The only reason to watch a Bollywood movie is for the songs.
SQL statements are great when you're trying to optimize for query efficency, but they're awful when you're trying to optimize for network latency/bandwidth. This is because SQL is based on the idea that you perform operations over a persistant connection, because establishing that connection and performing the query is usually the bottleneck.
Assuming the steps you stated above are correct and the data itself resides on a server and not the PDA, I don't really see the problem. In the infrastructure you described, the only things being sent over the network are: 1. The query - arguably the query itself is unlikely to be large enough to cause any network issues. 2. The result set - assuming the appropriate compression and representation is used, if your data resides on a server you have to expect a network hit of the size of the result set at least - you should be writing your query correctly to return the minimum size of result set needed by the application.
Paraphrasing from memory: The question was "I have heard the Republicans are foaming at the mouth to take on Dean" The response was: Republicans have contributed to Dean's campaign.
The intent of the statement appeared to be that Republicans know Dean doesn't stand a chance against Bush and therefore are contributing to Dean's campaign so he can win the Democratic nomination.
There are tons of ways to come up with alibis and it is really up to the jury or judge in the relevant case about whether they buy the evidence of the alibi or not.
Any competent prosecutor would be able to make the argument that the EZ Pass was in someone elses possession.
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The difference is that H&R Block is authorized to file tax returns on your behalf and does not actively encourage you to file fraudulent returns by supplying you with misleading information.
Lindows, on the other hand, is not authorized to file settlement claims on your behalf and further misled people while trying to entice them to file claims through them.
Insurance companies sell annuities which are, in essence, financial instruments.
You need to educate yourself on some facts.
I have no problem with a country creating their own economy. What I have a problem with is exporting ours.
There's no such thing. The US economy depends upon exporting goods and services to other countries and importing other goods and services which are produced more efficiently elsewhere. The economies of other countries depend on exporting goods and services to other countries and likewise importing goods and services. The US didn't get where it is by closing off its doors to the rest of the world. Some countries, like India for most of the past 50 years, did and paid for it with ruined economies.
Explain how our companies and their board of directors who enjoy the benefits of being here, and retain all the profits are allowing the poor workers to compete equally! Especially when they don't have to provide health care, retirement or a decent wage to these people.
First, they are competing equally. What that means is you can't just sit on your behind in San Francisco and expect to be paid 10 times what someone who works just as hard as you and is just as skilled as you makes in Bangalore. Secondly, you are really stupid if you think the average worker in Bangalore is not receiving adequate health care, retirement or a decent wage. Those people live very richly there. We are not talking about 10-year-old sweatshop workers in dangerous working conditions - we are talking about highly educated, highly skilled people who earn a salary in the top 10% of their country and are able to live a very good lifestyle.
You are very naive if you think that marginal workers are the only ones being replaced! Whole industries are being replaced, remember when we actually manufactered things in this country? Do you really think you cannot be replaced? Go tell 8% percent of this nation, (the latest unemployment figures) they are marginal.That's 24 million out of the 300 million legal US citizens.
Do you know why Japanese and German cars are much more reliable than US-made cars? Because Japanese and German workers are more highly skilled and parts are manufactured at a much higher tolerance there. American workers, in general, are less skilled and it will cost significantly more to pay a worker in Detroit to manufacture parts to the same tolerances. American workers will need to beef up their skills to compete and that's good for everyone concerned.
If these other nations are so greatful to globalization, why is it they riot at WTO summits?
They don't, in general. Most of the people who riot at WTO summits are stoned teenagers fighting "the man" and European farmers who like their nice subsidies which pay them to not produce food so food prices stay up. Membership to the WTO is entirely voluntary. A nation can choose not to join the WTO and maintain status quo with existing trade agreements if it chooses to. However, almost every country in the world realizes that while the WTO forces it to open up its own markets, it also enables that country to export to other markets which is in its interests.
What a load of crap!
Globalization is the great equalizer. It provides the opportunity for someone born in India or Africa or Indonesia to compete with people in so-called advanced countries on a more equal footing. Americans who have learned valuable skills have no problem keeping their jobs. Those with marginal skills are being replaced by more dedicated workers.
It's very ironic that the same people who would like to see greater mobility between the classes and hate the idea of the "rich" always being "rich" and the "poor" always being "poor", at the same time have no compunctions about putting rules in place so that those in poor countries stay poor while those in rich countries stay rich.
Umm.. that's part of the point of a Beta, dumbass.
No software company has the resources to test every possible combination and interaction of software and every possible application it is used for. Customers test Beta software in their own situations and report on any issues they see so they can be fixed by release time.
How about you download the Beta and do the same?
Some drugs are actually sold below cost because of the caps.
It depends upon how you define "cost". There is a very high cost for the 1st unit of a drug - which covers all the research and infrastructure requirements. After that, the incremental cost of producing more units is usually pretty low.
The drug companies are better off selling the drugs at the prescribed prices than they are by not selling them at all since the price is above the incremental cost of production.
Most of the research costs are paid for by the average American consumer.
What a load of crap! How does such uninformed bullshit get modded up as insightful?
Which was the last "war" that the so-called war-mongering India has started?
Hint: The last war India has been involved in ended in 1972. In it's 56-year history, India has initiated military action only once and that was to help Bangladesh gain its independence.
Meanwhile the great benevolent non-imperial nations of UK and France continue to maintain their colonies such as Falkland Islands and the islands in the South Pacific that France likes to blow up with nukes whenever it feels like pissing off the Aussies and Kiwis.
And I won't even begin to dwell into the economic imperialism that Europe is imposing upon Africa. European nations also have a long way to go before they can be excused for the mess their greedy exploitation and subsequent hasty departure has left in large parts of Asia and Africa.
Why doesn't freetrade work for the consumer? After all my goverment wants to make it illegal/claims it is currently illegal for consumers to import drugs from canada.
The prices of drugs in Canada are lower because of government caps on prices. So in a sense, it is not free trade.
Besides, writing left-to-right is just wrong
Umm.. English is left-to-right, jackass.
Ignoring the obvious troll, writing left-to-right is easier for right-handed people because of being able to see what's written and the fact that dragging the pen allows much finer motor control than pushing it. Conversely, writing right-to-left is easier if you are left-handed.
The sanctions in question date back to the crisis in 1980. They are, to my knowledge, a US-only affair
Yes, but that matters more than you think.
Iran has a decaying air fleet. It can't get updated parts or new planes from Boeing (obvious) but it can't get the same from Airbus either because Airbus uses some components of US origin in their planes.
I can see countries like the US (surprise, they don't get on well with the Iranians) making it very difficult for the Iranians ever getting into the WTO because so called IP has no value there
Somehow I would see the fact that Islamic law bans interest on loans as being a much more significant barrier.
No. The "natural" order for the numbers is definitely big-endian. The most significant digit is always the most important one. The difference between 5445 and 4445 is much more significant than the difference between 5445 and 5444 so it is pretty clear which is the most important digit here.
It is an artifact of the method you use to add, subtract and multiply numbers that leaves you believing that the natural order is least-to-most-significant.
as people are getting sick of the crap that plagues our airwaves at the moment.
So they pay a bunch of money to listen to crap over satellite?
Satellite radio makes sense if you're living in a rural community, travel long distances or spend a lot of time listening to the radio. However, if you live in a major city and only listen to the radio on your way to and from work, you're paying to listen to pretty much the same stuff you can for free and missing out on a ton of local news and info while you're at it.
The only reason I have DirecTV is...
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/. and I've even been having my own issue with /. for the past few years.
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Wake up PEOPLE!!! You are being led down the path to ownership. Not YOU owning something, but someone else owning you! It's no surprise to me that I've become more and more of a hermit along with my wife. We isolate ourselves from America's fucked up society and it's "culture" more and more every day. That's why I do nearly everything myself. I can't accept paying people ridiculous amounts of money for goods and services that just aren't worth it. About the only things I can really justify are my water, gas, electric and ISP bills. I wouldn't have a cell phone, but since my company pays for it, I do. In general they just aren't worth it. I can't really justify the $50 a month to DirecTV though. BBC America, with it's few interesting programs (where's the Doctor Who?) isn't worth $50 a month. Neither is VH1 Classic, IFC, Sundance or Turner Classic Movies. But all of those channels are about all I watch. Cartoon Network sucks heavily now. So does SciFi, and the "new" AMC bites choad so hard it's astounding. I mean WHO are they doing marketing research with to determine that we want nothing but crap? TechTV? JESUS! That's about the worst example of info for armchair techies of "technology-lite". They've got nothing on
It sounds like YOU are the one who needs to wake up. Either your $50 subscription to DirectTV is or is not justifiable TO YOU. If it isn't you need to stop being a hypocrite and discontinue it. If it is, you need to quit whining about it.
The rest of us make our own choices. Some of us subscribe to DirectTV because WE feel it is worth it. Others, like me, don't. For me, basic cable is fine. Yet others don't have either and just watch local TV. Yet others have thrown the idiot box away and read a good book instead.
YOU make your own choices. Nothing is forced upon you. Actually, it's because idiots like you will continue to pay the subscription fees regardless of programming quality that the producers have no incentive to maintain or improve programming quality.
I think his point was that the fact that no one else could maintain and develop based on the code base was not the reason the code was being kept secret.
Among the other reasons you mentioned such as revealing potentially embarassing bugs in the source code, the main reason is the fact that having the source code available would allow competitors to develop software that equalled all the existing features of Windows essentially for free - killing any brand advantage. Software has a virtually zero marginal cost of production and making the source available will allow competitors to get the same production without the initial investments in the development costs, etc.
Personally, I got toothpaste, tic-tacs, deodorant, and a McDonalds coupon book in the same package.
Sounds like it's from someone who had a really bad date with you.
It's not a comment on your taste in movies - it's a comment on the quality of the director and producer.
You probably haven't watched a Bollywood movie before. If this was your first Bollywood film, you probably saw a lot that you thought was original and interesting. I've watched hundreds of Bollywood movies and every one of the characters in Lagaan played to a formula I've seen many times before.
Satyajit Ray is NOT Bollywood.
Amol Palekar did most of his acting roles in Bollywood movies but his directorial work has usually been off-Bollywood.
There are large Indian populations in most parts of Africa and the Middle East. In the Middle East in particular, middle-management and below in almost every company is people from South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
Bollywood movies are very entertaining but you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief even further than you have to do with Hollywood. The acting is usually pretty immature and the characters are usually very cliched. However, the comedy and the music is usually very good.
Lagaan is terrible. I have no idea how that movie got nominated for an Oscar - there must have been some serious cash involved.
The storyline is ridiculous, the acting is very high-school-play like. The characters are extremely superficial and cliched. The first time a character was introduced, I knew exactly what that character would do for the rest of the movie because I had seen the exact same character in tons of Bollywood movies before.
The only reason to watch a Bollywood movie is for the songs.
SQL statements are great when you're trying to optimize for query efficency, but they're awful when you're trying to optimize for network latency/bandwidth. This is because SQL is based on the idea that you perform operations over a persistant connection, because establishing that connection and performing the query is usually the bottleneck.
Assuming the steps you stated above are correct and the data itself resides on a server and not the PDA, I don't really see the problem. In the infrastructure you described, the only things being sent over the network are:
1. The query - arguably the query itself is unlikely to be large enough to cause any network issues.
2. The result set - assuming the appropriate compression and representation is used, if your data resides on a server you have to expect a network hit of the size of the result set at least - you should be writing your query correctly to return the minimum size of result set needed by the application.
Did you read the article the parent pointed to?
Paraphrasing from memory:
The question was "I have heard the Republicans are foaming at the mouth to take on Dean"
The response was: Republicans have contributed to Dean's campaign.
The intent of the statement appeared to be that Republicans know Dean doesn't stand a chance against Bush and therefore are contributing to Dean's campaign so he can win the Democratic nomination.
There are tons of ways to come up with alibis and it is really up to the jury or judge in the relevant case about whether they buy the evidence of the alibi or not.
Any competent prosecutor would be able to make the argument that the EZ Pass was in someone elses possession.
The parent did say most
Last time I checked, France, Great Brittain and Germany did not constitute most of the UN.
Why should it be so? Why California, why not Peru or Japan or Spain?
Why should the sky be Blue? Why not Red, why not Green?