I am by no means a nutritionist, but I have heard that frozen vegetables can actually contain more nutritional elements than fresh, as frozen veggies are picked when ripe and frozen immediately, whereas fresh veggies are often picked prematurely as to survive shipping without rotting.
Obviously this is different if you have a local market (with local produce) as shipping times will be minimal, but up here in Canada, much of our winter veggies come from Southern California. (I did work in a produce department for a few years).
Google "CEO salary of $1" and you get tons of hits. Google, Yahoo, Apple, etc, etc.
I would disagree, there are quite a few CEO's that have their compensation in this format.
Basically ties the objectives of management to the performance of the company (and in most cases - the company's stock price) through bonus packages, stock options, etc.
Don't let the salary fool you. They still have access to $100k+ "expense accounts" and other reimbursements, which makes it nothing more than a cheap gesture.
Canada has one of the lowest mobile phone penetration in the 1st world because of this.
Maybe that's our secret as to why we have the fastest growing economy in the G8, because we're exporting the Blackberrys to other countries to slow down their productivity, but not getting hooked on them ourselves..
I have to admit, being a customer of Rogers is like picking the cheapest of three unnattractive, and frustratingly incompetent options. Bell is no better either.
I just learned something I didn't know before, letters to MP's do not require postage in Canada.
Anyone already got a letter already prepared to send to their MP? If so, post it, and I'll print it and send it to mine (despite the fact he's a Liberal). Its worth the cost of an envelope.
Unless you're looking to merge or acquire those businesses. Its a good thing for those looking to tout numbers and market share, and those looking to be bought out. Just look at youtube, photobucket etc.
Reality is not as important as hype in this arena, I'm sure keeping accurate statistics aren't either in terms of potentially hitting it big with a stock-heavy (only) buyout.
Re:Get the number in Bumper Sticker Form
on
Censoring a Number
·
· Score: 1
Someone should slap a few of those on the RIAA headquarters. I could appreciate that.
How many times do I have to say this...you can't just assume a company will continue to make the same margin on every dollar of their revenue.
There are FIXED costs and there are VARIABLE costs. Without a more in-depth analysis, you don't know how much they will profit off a doubling of revenue.
Did the loss come from operations? Was it one-time charges? Were R&D expenses significantly higher during the year?
There is also the fact that AMD, realizing they were in for a bad quarter, nowhere near meeting targets, wanted to take a 'big bath' and make poor performance worse. Lower targets, then exceed them. There's nothing investors like more than a good recovery.
I'm not even going to bother with your suggestion that a high-tech company cut down on its R&D, suggesting that its a good long-term decision. I sincerely hope you're not responsible for any strategic or financial decisions wherever you work.
At least someone made an effort to go look at the actual financials.
One point though, capitalizing vs. expensing R&D costs is income increasing. You are deferring the expense over a long period of time, thus your expenses are reduced (net of any writeoffs) in the current period.
If you were implying that more R&D activities in general could create a loss, then you could be accurate in that sense, but capitalizing R&D vs expensing would be income increasing.
You just made the most incredibly generalized financial analysis I've ever read. 2/3 their costs? Do you have any idea about fixed vs. variable costs?
I can't believe you got modded up, since its clear that you didn't even bother to take a look at their financials. Impressive though, if you can come to any kind of understanding of a business with two lines of information - profit and revenue. I just hope you're only investing your money.
I was already on Rogers' 'unlimited' cable internet plans, when I started receiving usage notices. So I ponied up the extra $4.95 a month to go from their express package to their 'ultimate' package and 40 or 50 more 'unlimited' gigs a month (mainly to avoid hearing from them).
They ditched usenet access a couple years ago without lowering their prices? I was pissed, but still stayed on with them.
They started traffic shaping bittorrent traffic? I downloaded BitComet, enabled packet encryption and happily went on my merry way.
Now this?
F**k Rogers. They want customers, but apparently not customers who use their services to do as they choose.
If my encrypted traffic goes to shit, I'll be leaving Rogers for good and encouraging everyone else I know (who turns to me for tech help) to do the same.
Prior to this it had been CRA's position that it could apply GAAR (General Anti-Avoidance Rules) to funneling profits to offshore locations for the purposes of paying less tax.
The latest ruling is good because it acknowledges that using ratified tax conventions in ways in which they were construed, isn't unlawful or even a 'misuse of the tax act taken as a whole.' Basically, if our federal government signs a tax convention/treaty into law, why would it be unwise/unlawful/avoidance if you utilize those provisions.
Any company who does not fully try to take (fully legal) advantage of these type of things is harming their shareholder by artificially increasing their tax liability. Why would you pay 20% when you can pay 10% and earn a greater return for your shareholders?
I think 'treaty shopping' around environmental laws and other laws (where another country is physically harmed) is heading beyond the grey area and into the ethically wrong. e.g. shipbreaking in India, by getting around hazardous export laws by registering ships as Jamaican etc.
A girl I knew in my hometown OD'ed on caffeine and died. Basically the story that I got was she was taking too many pills, drinking coffee and worked herself to death. Obviously most of the details were kept quiet by her family, but from what I understand, no methamphetamines or harder stuff was involved.
No, that merely changes who the victims are. There is no such thing as "good news for the victims" unless the stolen money is recovered.
I disagree.
That's why the bank likely has insurance for this sort of thing. The insurance company would not be 'victimized,' it would be in the ordinary course of operations for them. It simply becomes an expense to them.
You're right that the buck does get passed, but I would suspect in this case, it gets passed to someone who has agreed to accept the liability, in the hopes of generating a profit.
Amusingly enough, the computer I'm using right now has a popped cap. (bulged out top, with rust coloured material visible), and the machine is still running fine (my everyday machine). I'm not replacing the mobo until it dies as its a Socket A. I'd love to upgrade, and have the cash, just can't justify it when my Athlon 1800+ still does the job just fine.
Anyone else have experience with popped caps not causing a motherboard to fail?
Why not just have the police track down everyone reporting sites, as they have clearly viewed the content and are therefore (through a browser cache, or hard drive file recovery tool) in possession of CP.
This is exactly why the images shouldn't be illegal. Clicking on a link accidently (with no intent) can make anyone an immediate criminal.
So its results are only accurate when looking about 4 hours into the future?
Or that the most accurate prediction is to use the previous day's weather. So in this case, I guess in this case that means that you'd be safe to predict that tumour is still there.
Suppose some individual only shared a file four times. And each of those four downloaders shared it four times. And so on. After only four levels of sharing, there's 256 incidences which could not have happened (theoretically) if that first individual had not shared that content.
Ad infinitum, or bounded by what? The total population of the world? The % of the population estimated to have computers? That have computers connected to the internet?
I mean, you can't argue for second generation damages, you should have to go after the next person who shared the song after you, its their infringement, no longer yours.
Ideally, if you're going to have such ridiculous copyright damages, the onus should be on the plaintiff to prove a specific number of infringements (uploads) multiplied by a reasonable damage claim (which should likely be nowhere near $750).
Actually I believe they ruled that the organization collecting the levy (tax) and paying the music labels, had no legal standing to do so and repealed the levy. Downloading is still legal here, and (AFAIK) there is no more tax.
Note: Uploading is still against copyright law. As a bonus, a few Canadian ISP's have told the **AA, seeking to resolve IP addresses to invididuals, to go to hell.
Slashdot Mirror
You could get low quality frozen.
I am by no means a nutritionist, but I have heard that frozen vegetables can actually contain more nutritional elements than fresh, as frozen veggies are picked when ripe and frozen immediately, whereas fresh veggies are often picked prematurely as to survive shipping without rotting.
Obviously this is different if you have a local market (with local produce) as shipping times will be minimal, but up here in Canada, much of our winter veggies come from Southern California. (I did work in a produce department for a few years).
Not many CEO's behaving that way these days.
Google "CEO salary of $1" and you get tons of hits. Google, Yahoo, Apple, etc, etc.
I would disagree, there are quite a few CEO's that have their compensation in this format. Basically ties the objectives of management to the performance of the company (and in most cases - the company's stock price) through bonus packages, stock options, etc.
Don't let the salary fool you. They still have access to $100k+ "expense accounts" and other reimbursements, which makes it nothing more than a cheap gesture.
Canada has one of the lowest mobile phone penetration in the 1st world because of this.
Maybe that's our secret as to why we have the fastest growing economy in the G8, because we're exporting the Blackberrys to other countries to slow down their productivity, but not getting hooked on them ourselves..
I have to admit, being a customer of Rogers is like picking the cheapest of three unnattractive, and frustratingly incompetent options. Bell is no better either.
I just learned something I didn't know before, letters to MP's do not require postage in Canada.
Anyone already got a letter already prepared to send to their MP? If so, post it, and I'll print it and send it to mine (despite the fact he's a Liberal). Its worth the cost of an envelope.
Thanks
..are great at forgetting! 5 million emails, that's amazing!
Unless you're looking to merge or acquire those businesses. Its a good thing for those looking to tout numbers and market share, and those looking to be bought out. Just look at youtube, photobucket etc.
Reality is not as important as hype in this arena, I'm sure keeping accurate statistics aren't either in terms of potentially hitting it big with a stock-heavy (only) buyout.
Someone should slap a few of those on the RIAA headquarters. I could appreciate that.
How many times do I have to say this...you can't just assume a company will continue to make the same margin on every dollar of their revenue.
There are FIXED costs and there are VARIABLE costs. Without a more in-depth analysis, you don't know how much they will profit off a doubling of revenue.
Did the loss come from operations? Was it one-time charges? Were R&D expenses significantly higher during the year?
There is also the fact that AMD, realizing they were in for a bad quarter, nowhere near meeting targets, wanted to take a 'big bath' and make poor performance worse. Lower targets, then exceed them. There's nothing investors like more than a good recovery.
I'm not even going to bother with your suggestion that a high-tech company cut down on its R&D, suggesting that its a good long-term decision. I sincerely hope you're not responsible for any strategic or financial decisions wherever you work.
At least someone made an effort to go look at the actual financials.
One point though, capitalizing vs. expensing R&D costs is income increasing. You are deferring the expense over a long period of time, thus your expenses are reduced (net of any writeoffs) in the current period.
If you were implying that more R&D activities in general could create a loss, then you could be accurate in that sense, but capitalizing R&D vs expensing would be income increasing.
You just made the most incredibly generalized financial analysis I've ever read. 2/3 their costs? Do you have any idea about fixed vs. variable costs?
I can't believe you got modded up, since its clear that you didn't even bother to take a look at their financials. Impressive though, if you can come to any kind of understanding of a business with two lines of information - profit and revenue. I just hope you're only investing your money.
I was already on Rogers' 'unlimited' cable internet plans, when I started receiving usage notices. So I ponied up the extra $4.95 a month to go from their express package to their 'ultimate' package and 40 or 50 more 'unlimited' gigs a month (mainly to avoid hearing from them).
They ditched usenet access a couple years ago without lowering their prices? I was pissed, but still stayed on with them.
They started traffic shaping bittorrent traffic? I downloaded BitComet, enabled packet encryption and happily went on my merry way.
Now this?
F**k Rogers. They want customers, but apparently not customers who use their services to do as they choose.
If my encrypted traffic goes to shit, I'll be leaving Rogers for good and encouraging everyone else I know (who turns to me for tech help) to do the same.
In terms of Canadian tax law, 'treaty shopping' has recently had a favourable ruling in the Tax Court of Canada.o ssbordertaxsept2006/favourable.asp
see here:
http://www.blakes.com/english/publications/tax/cr
Prior to this it had been CRA's position that it could apply GAAR (General Anti-Avoidance Rules) to funneling profits to offshore locations for the purposes of paying less tax.
The latest ruling is good because it acknowledges that using ratified tax conventions in ways in which they were construed, isn't unlawful or even a 'misuse of the tax act taken as a whole.' Basically, if our federal government signs a tax convention/treaty into law, why would it be unwise/unlawful/avoidance if you utilize those provisions.
Any company who does not fully try to take (fully legal) advantage of these type of things is harming their shareholder by artificially increasing their tax liability. Why would you pay 20% when you can pay 10% and earn a greater return for your shareholders?
I think 'treaty shopping' around environmental laws and other laws (where another country is physically harmed) is heading beyond the grey area and into the ethically wrong. e.g. shipbreaking in India, by getting around hazardous export laws by registering ships as Jamaican etc.
A girl I knew in my hometown OD'ed on caffeine and died. Basically the story that I got was she was taking too many pills, drinking coffee and worked herself to death. Obviously most of the details were kept quiet by her family, but from what I understand, no methamphetamines or harder stuff was involved.
No, that merely changes who the victims are. There is no such thing as "good news for the victims" unless the stolen money is recovered.
I disagree.
That's why the bank likely has insurance for this sort of thing. The insurance company would not be 'victimized,' it would be in the ordinary course of operations for them. It simply becomes an expense to them.
You're right that the buck does get passed, but I would suspect in this case, it gets passed to someone who has agreed to accept the liability, in the hopes of generating a profit.
Amusingly enough, the computer I'm using right now has a popped cap. (bulged out top, with rust coloured material visible), and the machine is still running fine (my everyday machine). I'm not replacing the mobo until it dies as its a Socket A. I'd love to upgrade, and have the cash, just can't justify it when my Athlon 1800+ still does the job just fine.
Anyone else have experience with popped caps not causing a motherboard to fail?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad probably should have been the MoTY this year, but same deal as 2001.
In terms of actions, I would have given my vote to Kim Jong Il.
Why not just have the police track down everyone reporting sites, as they have clearly viewed the content and are therefore (through a browser cache, or hard drive file recovery tool) in possession of CP.
This is exactly why the images shouldn't be illegal. Clicking on a link accidently (with no intent) can make anyone an immediate criminal.
So its results are only accurate when looking about 4 hours into the future?
Or that the most accurate prediction is to use the previous day's weather. So in this case, I guess in this case that means that you'd be safe to predict that tumour is still there.
Suppose some individual only shared a file four times. And each of those four downloaders shared it four times. And so on. After only four levels of sharing, there's 256 incidences which could not have happened (theoretically) if that first individual had not shared that content.
Ad infinitum, or bounded by what? The total population of the world? The % of the population estimated to have computers? That have computers connected to the internet?
I mean, you can't argue for second generation damages, you should have to go after the next person who shared the song after you, its their infringement, no longer yours.
Ideally, if you're going to have such ridiculous copyright damages, the onus should be on the plaintiff to prove a specific number of infringements (uploads) multiplied by a reasonable damage claim (which should likely be nowhere near $750).
Well according to this study:8 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061004-790
The daily show is just as good a source of news as some major networks.
Sad? Maybe, but it makes ya think (about your comparison).
Sounds like you're referring to Steganography, of which the program Truecrypt is one example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Apologize for the two-post reply, had to look busy at work for few minutes.
5 0728.html
Court overtuns levy:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/07/28/ipodlevy0
Court refuses to require ISP's to turn over names:
http://www.out-law.com/page-5742
Actually I believe they ruled that the organization collecting the levy (tax) and paying the music labels, had no legal standing to do so and repealed the levy. Downloading is still legal here, and (AFAIK) there is no more tax.
Note: Uploading is still against copyright law.
As a bonus, a few Canadian ISP's have told the **AA, seeking to resolve IP addresses to invididuals, to go to hell.
Ok, that was a bit of a false dichotomy or begging the question there, but it just feels like governments' priorities are f*^$ed up sometimes.
Someone writing a violent, but unlikely to be fulfilled internet post, or allowing the genocide in Darfur to continue without intervention?