I have an aunt who taught in Cincinnati and over the river in KY until she retired last year -- she lives in Hamilton, whch is where my father's family grew up... 'Hamiltucky' as they say.
She often complained of the culture in Cincinnati -- she and her partner were often ostracized for their homosexuality, which is not surprising, given how insular the area is.
However, I spent some time with my wife's aunt and uncle in Louisville. Still shades of the midwestern conservatism, but in all a much more progressive place, while only a bit more expensive than Cincinnati. Some beautiful suburbs, too, if that's your lifestyle. Just a thought, if you want to stick in that area but are unhappy with the Cincinnati culture.
Notice there was no mention of when the pace was bought. I know plenty of people in NJ living in (now) half-million-dollar homes paying under a grand for their mortgage... of course they bought at least a decade ago and refi'd at the lowest interest rate.
The taxes are another story, of course, but only the people who've bought in the past 2-3 years or so are really screwed (like myself).
Also, wages in Cincinnati are quite a bit lower than MA or CA or NY/NJ/CT.
It took me a bit to figure it out -- the tipoff was the low-ish userid for Roscoe, I couldn't figure out why someone with that userID would post such an inane comment.
So, does the MRI interpreting algorithm need to be tailored to each user, or could an 'off-the-shelf' interpreter work for anyone?
While I'm sure that bloodflow signatures for physical movements are similar between individuals, is there too much variability to prevent false recognition of a 'signal'?
Becasue economists and pricing folks don't think about price as what's-on-the-sticker-at-the-store, but rather in relation to pricing models. There is a pricing curve, and the price that you set for sales is a point on that curve.
Well, first, I'm unaware of public corporate law in Norway.
But WRT to public companies in the US legally being required to act in the best interests of shareholders, there can be limitations. Otherwise, any corporation that loses money (and there are plenty) could be sued for not just investing in profitable companies instead.
Provided that the executives act in a manner consistent with the published mission statement and other published corporate goodies, their actions do not necessarily have to maximize profits. Furthermore, a case can be made that in the long run, licensing under the GPL would be more profitable than licensing under a more restrictive license. As with so many other legal issues, plausible deniability goes a long way.
People who live in the city use far more resources than those of us who don't. I don't see how you can think otherwise -- I don't need residential fire or police coverage in NYC, I don't drive in the city, I don't make use of ANY city resources at all, except for the sidewalks and the fire/police coverage at my worksite. I pay out the wazoo for my commute (close to $400/mo)-- and almost $4 of my daily commute goes to PANYNJ (who pays the city a portion of that), not to the company that runs my bus line. To suggest that city residents use public transportation less than Jersey folks -- well, that's quite mistaken. Most people out of state, if they use the subway, use it twice a day, weekdays only. So, if the subway is indeed subsidized by taxes (not sure if it is), NYC residents tend to use it more than out-of-staters -- more often in the evenings, more often on the weekends. I also pay sales tax on my purchases in NY, which more than covers the resources spent on me.
Don't forget that NYC gets quite a bit of cash from NY State (some of which is coming from me), as well as a ton of money from commercial rent tax that employers (like mine) pay.
Bloomberg doesn't want people to leave the city... he just understands that a city like NY can't operate on a deficit for very long, like when the federal government had to step in several decades ago. The city faces rising expenses just like you and I, and since the economy is still slowish in NY, it takes tax hikes and service cuts to make the budget.
As to 1), I can't. I regularly need to work from NYC, so an employment audit would fry my employer -- and they get audited regularly.
As to 2), LLC not gonna happen -- I've tried:)
And as to setting up a NJ Franchise, that's the legal PITA I was referring to. We already do it for CA, CT, and MA. CA is the worst, we pay CA Franchise Tax up the wazoo for only two employees -- let alone what they pay in income tax.
"Tell me about it. Most of the accountants I know write their emails in Excel."
Of course, how else can we maintain metrics of email efficiency? I regularly email directly from Excel when I need to shoot a quick analysis to someone for review. Also, a lot of accountants who have very specific roles tend to use Excel as their calendar tool, as their scheduling tool, basically as their desktop.
In my case, some NY state resources would be consumed by me even if I telecommuted -- from what I understand I'm covered by NYS unemployment, not NJ, should I get shitcanned. Also, things like employment audits and other Buraeu of Labor stuff. I'm also covered by NY employment law, which is a little more restrictive to employers than NJ law (not that it matters one bit in practice).
Of course, NJ and my municipality make a metric buttload of cash off me from sales tax and real estate tax, respectively -- not to mention the taxes on my additional NJ income.
But in terms of fairness, there is public expenditure both by the state where the employee does the work, and the state where the employer is. Just not sure what the breakdowns would be.
"What if my local employer opens a branch office in NYC. Do I owe NY taxes then, even though I don't work there? What if I do some remote administration for that office? What if they're connected via VPN and I occasionally browse fileservers on their LAN? At what point do I cross the line where they mistakenly think I should pay them something?"
If you never work from the NY office, you're not a NY employee. Remote admin doesn't apply, you have to be phyisically present at NY base of operations for your job (not necessarily your company's base of operations) on a regular basis to be considered a NY employee subject to NY taxes.
Interesting point. Though, in that case, why not have a universal database and just different front-ends for how you manipulate or process the data? Like using Access and Excel, for different purposes, with the same data? EG, Access for data entry and maintenance, Excel for analysis?
I live in NJ, work in NY. NJ only taxes me on income not subject to tax in NY -- not income not earned in NY. Not sure about how other states deal with state taxes paid to another state.
Sucks anyway for me, since NY state tax is approximately 2.5-3 times the NJ tax, and I derive very little benefit from the NY taxes I pay. But, for telecommuters who sometimes have to work in NY -- nice deal. Makes me want to telecommute and pay the NJ tax rate when I'm working from home.
A scenario though -- if an employer has a telecommuting employee in another state, do they need to pay employment taxes in that state? My company has satellite offices in other states, and legally it's a bit of a pain. Would a company have to file also as a NJ employer if their telecommuting employees were treated as working in NJ while telecommuting?
"Spreadsheets really are an intuitive inteface for updating data. Distributed storage of critical data is the dumb thing."
Already happening. Witness newest versions of Best MAS90/200 -- they tout their 'grid entry' for accelerated data entry of source documents.
Form entry is still much better for data entry, though. Really cuts down on mistakes (and their impact!) as users can only affect one record at a time.
I regularly used Crystal Reports to embed data in Excel spreadsheets from our central ODBC database for reports. Ugly, yes. Awkward, yes. Adhering to company policies on application use? Yes.
What did you tell her? Without knowing the specifics of the ss, it's hard to figure out the best solution, but we often classed the records and split the ss according to classes. Kind of a PITA, especially the labeling, but filtering and copy/pasting helped, as did sort and fill.
"Further, FUCK YOU for implying that I am a criminal based on these statements. FUCK YOU, the record companies employing DRM, and anyone else using arguments similar to yours."
You specifically said it to me, so own up to what you said and stop trying to hide behind contextual references that don't make one whit of difference.
"You can't reply to a quote without understanding the context from which the quote originally came...and yet you keep replying to quotes, but as if they have originated in the context in which they were quoted"
So quotes don't originate from their original context? WTF context DO they originate from? I mean, really, now you have a problem with me responding to things that you said in their original context?
Grow up. Stop trolling. Stop posting like an asshat. I get what your point is, but it's just plain wrong. You're saying that facts should be ignored because they don't support your view, or because they support someone else's view. That's bullshit -- the better thing to do would be to address why those facts are immaterial. Pull your head out of the sand.
"except all of a sudden I am a thief, as are you, and everyone else out there"
There's your assumption.
"People such as myself'. What people? Such as what? You generalize about me while knowing absolutely nothing about me, and then proceed to call ME A HYPOCRIT?"
Yep. Supporting the RIAA or other DRM-supporting assholes by purchasing hard copies or downloading their music, legally or illegally, fairly or not fairly, you support the organization that you so hate, which makes you a hypocrite. And other people who talk the talk but don't walk the walk are also hypocrites -- those are the 'people like you.'
Dude, you said 'Fuck you' to me in your first post. That's pretty personal, if you're upset about that. You made tons of generalizations about what I was saying, just thought I'd return the favor.
"by NOT BUYING ANYTHING FROM THEM OR LISTENING TO ANYTHING THEY ARE TRYING TO SELL!"
You are so full of shit. Why would you paranoically believe they've labelled you a criminal if you've done none of the behaviour that they label as such? You even said you purchased a DRM's CD, I'm sure you purchased others.
So, speaking of fuck off, you instigated this bullshit, and if you can't deal with the repercussions of your moronic little troll posts, maybe you should just stop posting. I pointed out a FACT and you had to go on a tirade that was both misinformed and misdirected. So, sir, if anyone should F off, that would be you.
"WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database."
It's not the IT guys you have to worry about, it's the beancounters.
/recovering accountant here.
And yes, we had several databases that started as an useable Excel spreadsheet and blossomed into ridiculous rowcounts. And no, management wouldn't let us convert to a real database, Excel was the only approved file format in accounting.
"except all of a sudden I am a thief, as are you, and everyone else out there."
First off, don't make blanket assumptions. I have never downloaded a song, or made a copy of one illegally. I refuse to support the industry because I don't like their policies; people such as yourself who talk smack but then can't live without the music are hypocrites. If you had any balls, you'd stand up for your beliefs and refuse to listen to artists that support this DRM crap.
Second, you're way off base on the subject of this sub-thread. Just because you have some asshat point to make about DRM in general doesn't mean it has anything to do with my post which was in reply to a small part of a previous post. Again, you think that pointing out that, yes, there is a difference between tapes and mp3s means I'm labeling you a thief? It has nothing to do with you or anyone else. It has to do with the absolute fact that as a copyable media, tapes and digital formats differ with regards to the technology ease of making good copies.
To this point, I've never labeled you a thief, though I am labelling you a troll, a nitwit, and a hypocrite.
With more video and audio being delivered, you can bet that 384/128 is too slow. Hi-def streaming video (eg, pr0n, the driver of internet technology) needs bandwidth.
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I have an aunt who taught in Cincinnati and over the river in KY until she retired last year -- she lives in Hamilton, whch is where my father's family grew up... 'Hamiltucky' as they say.
She often complained of the culture in Cincinnati -- she and her partner were often ostracized for their homosexuality, which is not surprising, given how insular the area is.
However, I spent some time with my wife's aunt and uncle in Louisville. Still shades of the midwestern conservatism, but in all a much more progressive place, while only a bit more expensive than Cincinnati. Some beautiful suburbs, too, if that's your lifestyle. Just a thought, if you want to stick in that area but are unhappy with the Cincinnati culture.
As you say, can't have everything...
Notice there was no mention of when the pace was bought. I know plenty of people in NJ living in (now) half-million-dollar homes paying under a grand for their mortgage... of course they bought at least a decade ago and refi'd at the lowest interest rate.
The taxes are another story, of course, but only the people who've bought in the past 2-3 years or so are really screwed (like myself).
Also, wages in Cincinnati are quite a bit lower than MA or CA or NY/NJ/CT.
It took me a bit to figure it out -- the tipoff was the low-ish userid for Roscoe, I couldn't figure out why someone with that userID would post such an inane comment.
:)
It explains the redundant mod, too
So, does the MRI interpreting algorithm need to be tailored to each user, or could an 'off-the-shelf' interpreter work for anyone?
While I'm sure that bloodflow signatures for physical movements are similar between individuals, is there too much variability to prevent false recognition of a 'signal'?
Any neurobiologists out there care to help out?
HINT: Take a look at the usernames. Do Roscoe P. Coltrane and Don Johnson ring any bells for you?
If that doesn't help, then it's probably a good thing that you're unfamiliar with those two shows.
" We are confident that our lawsuit against them will be successful because the law is on our side."
I'm confused. I thought the law was supposed to be on the side of the public?
Oh well, I suppose when you pay for a law, you should expect it to be on your side.
Becasue economists and pricing folks don't think about price as what's-on-the-sticker-at-the-store, but rather in relation to pricing models. There is a pricing curve, and the price that you set for sales is a point on that curve.
What, are groups 13 and 14 out to lunch?
Well, first, I'm unaware of public corporate law in Norway.
But WRT to public companies in the US legally being required to act in the best interests of shareholders, there can be limitations. Otherwise, any corporation that loses money (and there are plenty) could be sued for not just investing in profitable companies instead.
Provided that the executives act in a manner consistent with the published mission statement and other published corporate goodies, their actions do not necessarily have to maximize profits. Furthermore, a case can be made that in the long run, licensing under the GPL would be more profitable than licensing under a more restrictive license. As with so many other legal issues, plausible deniability goes a long way.
That would be nice added functionality to Excel, but if you're doing a lot of that stuff, it's easy enough to export into a DB.
People who live in the city use far more resources than those of us who don't. I don't see how you can think otherwise -- I don't need residential fire or police coverage in NYC, I don't drive in the city, I don't make use of ANY city resources at all, except for the sidewalks and the fire/police coverage at my worksite. I pay out the wazoo for my commute (close to $400/mo)-- and almost $4 of my daily commute goes to PANYNJ (who pays the city a portion of that), not to the company that runs my bus line. To suggest that city residents use public transportation less than Jersey folks -- well, that's quite mistaken. Most people out of state, if they use the subway, use it twice a day, weekdays only. So, if the subway is indeed subsidized by taxes (not sure if it is), NYC residents tend to use it more than out-of-staters -- more often in the evenings, more often on the weekends. I also pay sales tax on my purchases in NY, which more than covers the resources spent on me.
Don't forget that NYC gets quite a bit of cash from NY State (some of which is coming from me), as well as a ton of money from commercial rent tax that employers (like mine) pay.
Bloomberg doesn't want people to leave the city... he just understands that a city like NY can't operate on a deficit for very long, like when the federal government had to step in several decades ago. The city faces rising expenses just like you and I, and since the economy is still slowish in NY, it takes tax hikes and service cuts to make the budget.
City tax for Yonkers and Manhattan doesn't apply to out-of-state workers anyway. Lucky for me.
As to 1), I can't. I regularly need to work from NYC, so an employment audit would fry my employer -- and they get audited regularly.
:)
As to 2), LLC not gonna happen -- I've tried
And as to setting up a NJ Franchise, that's the legal PITA I was referring to. We already do it for CA, CT, and MA. CA is the worst, we pay CA Franchise Tax up the wazoo for only two employees -- let alone what they pay in income tax.
"Tell me about it. Most of the accountants I know write their emails in Excel."
Of course, how else can we maintain metrics of email efficiency? I regularly email directly from Excel when I need to shoot a quick analysis to someone for review. Also, a lot of accountants who have very specific roles tend to use Excel as their calendar tool, as their scheduling tool, basically as their desktop.
In my case, some NY state resources would be consumed by me even if I telecommuted -- from what I understand I'm covered by NYS unemployment, not NJ, should I get shitcanned. Also, things like employment audits and other Buraeu of Labor stuff. I'm also covered by NY employment law, which is a little more restrictive to employers than NJ law (not that it matters one bit in practice).
Of course, NJ and my municipality make a metric buttload of cash off me from sales tax and real estate tax, respectively -- not to mention the taxes on my additional NJ income.
But in terms of fairness, there is public expenditure both by the state where the employee does the work, and the state where the employer is. Just not sure what the breakdowns would be.
"What if my local employer opens a branch office in NYC. Do I owe NY taxes then, even though I don't work there? What if I do some remote administration for that office? What if they're connected via VPN and I occasionally browse fileservers on their LAN? At what point do I cross the line where they mistakenly think I should pay them something?"
If you never work from the NY office, you're not a NY employee. Remote admin doesn't apply, you have to be phyisically present at NY base of operations for your job (not necessarily your company's base of operations) on a regular basis to be considered a NY employee subject to NY taxes.
Interesting point. Though, in that case, why not have a universal database and just different front-ends for how you manipulate or process the data? Like using Access and Excel, for different purposes, with the same data? EG, Access for data entry and maintenance, Excel for analysis?
I live in NJ, work in NY. NJ only taxes me on income not subject to tax in NY -- not income not earned in NY. Not sure about how other states deal with state taxes paid to another state.
Sucks anyway for me, since NY state tax is approximately 2.5-3 times the NJ tax, and I derive very little benefit from the NY taxes I pay. But, for telecommuters who sometimes have to work in NY -- nice deal. Makes me want to telecommute and pay the NJ tax rate when I'm working from home.
A scenario though -- if an employer has a telecommuting employee in another state, do they need to pay employment taxes in that state? My company has satellite offices in other states, and legally it's a bit of a pain. Would a company have to file also as a NJ employer if their telecommuting employees were treated as working in NJ while telecommuting?
"Spreadsheets really are an intuitive inteface for updating data. Distributed storage of critical data is the dumb thing."
Already happening. Witness newest versions of Best MAS90/200 -- they tout their 'grid entry' for accelerated data entry of source documents.
Form entry is still much better for data entry, though. Really cuts down on mistakes (and their impact!) as users can only affect one record at a time.
I regularly used Crystal Reports to embed data in Excel spreadsheets from our central ODBC database for reports. Ugly, yes. Awkward, yes. Adhering to company policies on application use? Yes.
What did you tell her? Without knowing the specifics of the ss, it's hard to figure out the best solution, but we often classed the records and split the ss according to classes. Kind of a PITA, especially the labeling, but filtering and copy/pasting helped, as did sort and fill.
Your OP:
"Further, FUCK YOU for implying that I am a criminal based on these statements. FUCK YOU, the record companies employing DRM, and anyone else using arguments similar to yours."
You specifically said it to me, so own up to what you said and stop trying to hide behind contextual references that don't make one whit of difference.
"You can't reply to a quote without understanding the context from which the quote originally came...and yet you keep replying to quotes, but as if they have originated in the context in which they were quoted"
So quotes don't originate from their original context? WTF context DO they originate from? I mean, really, now you have a problem with me responding to things that you said in their original context?
Grow up. Stop trolling. Stop posting like an asshat. I get what your point is, but it's just plain wrong. You're saying that facts should be ignored because they don't support your view, or because they support someone else's view. That's bullshit -- the better thing to do would be to address why those facts are immaterial. Pull your head out of the sand.
I quote:
"except all of a sudden I am a thief, as are you, and everyone else out there"
There's your assumption.
"People such as myself'. What people? Such as what? You generalize about me while knowing absolutely nothing about me, and then proceed to call ME A HYPOCRIT?"
Yep. Supporting the RIAA or other DRM-supporting assholes by purchasing hard copies or downloading their music, legally or illegally, fairly or not fairly, you support the organization that you so hate, which makes you a hypocrite. And other people who talk the talk but don't walk the walk are also hypocrites -- those are the 'people like you.'
Dude, you said 'Fuck you' to me in your first post. That's pretty personal, if you're upset about that. You made tons of generalizations about what I was saying, just thought I'd return the favor.
"by NOT BUYING ANYTHING FROM THEM OR LISTENING TO ANYTHING THEY ARE TRYING TO SELL!"
You are so full of shit. Why would you paranoically believe they've labelled you a criminal if you've done none of the behaviour that they label as such? You even said you purchased a DRM's CD, I'm sure you purchased others.
So, speaking of fuck off, you instigated this bullshit, and if you can't deal with the repercussions of your moronic little troll posts, maybe you should just stop posting. I pointed out a FACT and you had to go on a tirade that was both misinformed and misdirected. So, sir, if anyone should F off, that would be you.
"WTF? If I've got anyone in IT putting 1,000,000 rows in a spreadsheet, I'm seriously considering demoting them. If you're going to have a million rows, get a database."
/recovering accountant here.
It's not the IT guys you have to worry about, it's the beancounters.
And yes, we had several databases that started as an useable Excel spreadsheet and blossomed into ridiculous rowcounts. And no, management wouldn't let us convert to a real database, Excel was the only approved file format in accounting.
"except all of a sudden I am a thief, as are you, and everyone else out there."
First off, don't make blanket assumptions. I have never downloaded a song, or made a copy of one illegally. I refuse to support the industry because I don't like their policies; people such as yourself who talk smack but then can't live without the music are hypocrites. If you had any balls, you'd stand up for your beliefs and refuse to listen to artists that support this DRM crap.
Second, you're way off base on the subject of this sub-thread. Just because you have some asshat point to make about DRM in general doesn't mean it has anything to do with my post which was in reply to a small part of a previous post. Again, you think that pointing out that, yes, there is a difference between tapes and mp3s means I'm labeling you a thief? It has nothing to do with you or anyone else. It has to do with the absolute fact that as a copyable media, tapes and digital formats differ with regards to the technology ease of making good copies.
To this point, I've never labeled you a thief, though I am labelling you a troll, a nitwit, and a hypocrite.
With more video and audio being delivered, you can bet that 384/128 is too slow. Hi-def streaming video (eg, pr0n, the driver of internet technology) needs bandwidth.