The chief advantage to this scheme is to hold on to the coins for one year. They then become long-term capital gains, and if these employees are in the 10 or 15% tax brackets then they won't pay any taxes on the sale of the coins after that.
Of course if they're in the 10 or 15% bracket and this is their only source of income they probably can't afford to wait a year to sell them. C'est la vie...
Complicated explanation: Labor isn't as fungible as product. A DVD sold in China is not necessarily the same sale as a DVD sold in New York. But both of those DVDs are produced in the same factory. Paying the guy who presses the DVDs that are sold in New York more than the guy who presses the DVDs that are sold in China is... inefficient, to say the least. So labor costs get averaged out among all laborers - basically, the disparity of economies is already aggregated in the only figure that matters to a laborer's value, his salary.
These kind of reviews are geared towards a certain niche of computer users.
90 (95? 99?) percent of users will be just fine using the integrated chip on their motherboard. 90% of the remaining 10 percent can probably be served by a $60 card.
The other day my dad (the classic Internet/productivity user) was building himself a new PC via some online shopping cart and asked what kind of video card to get. I explained he didn't need to buy a video card any more, and he was kind of surprised. I don't think the motherboard / integrated graphics people have done their marketing right.
I see it less as antagonistic, and more of "Why even mention Microsoft at all?" The summary comes across as an analysis of Moblin as compared to Windows 7 (and a larger overview of how Windows 7 fits in to the future of netbook OSes) instead of just saying,
"Hey, look, Intel released a new OS for netbooks. Take a look."
It's funny - all of the things you are talking about are, in their own way, just an abstraction. Housing price demands as a function of gas prices is a huge aggregate change - if this or that person's house appreciates or depreciates due to a spike in gas taxes, there are a thousand other mitigating factors that will offset or augment their price as well.
It's hardly surprising to see you trudge out a multi-variable system (housing prices), declare a single factor (the gas tax) as the end-all be-all arbiter of the system, and then in turn use your "evidence" as the single factor why we shouldn't adopt a gas tax (again, a multi-variable system.)
PS If employers want good labor, they'll have to raise wages to account for commuters. Capitalism works on both ends of the pricing system. Allegedly.
Of "love it or leave it" flag-waving Republicans fighting to not pay their fair share of taxes. So what if it all comes back to me the consumer? It's the principle that's being tested.
Define "give you the right." They live in abject poverty with no basic structures of government, commerce, education, health, or anything that would even approach a livable existence. They are a pre-Hobbsian society - there's no such thing as "right" or "wrong" that really applies to them. The reality is it's either be a pirate or die.
Do you realize how much this sounds like "640kb ought to be enough for everybody?"
If there is any single lesson we've ever learned about futurism, it's that you're not dreaming hard enough.
You make so many hilarious assumptions here, I can barely begin to count them.
"The human eye"/ear may be radically different in 20 years. The same goes for "screen sizes", "homes", "people", and our interpretation of the word "realistic."
I've bookmarked this comment on Delicious to see how ridiculous it is in 2030.
Copyright is only a recent innovation because the actual physical ability to copy things is itself a recent innovation. The printing press is barely 500 years old, legal squabbles over author's works emerged less than 50 years after its creation.
The only real response required to this is that it's systemic - everybody does it. Sure, you may be able to fire the very worst offenders and replace them with more productive employees, but when it's systemic, who are you going to replace them with?
That's right, more workers who will use the Internet for personal time.
There's no solution, period. Everybody looks at it from the simple perspective of "should this person be punished / fired", but human resources also has to consider the hiring side of any employee termination, and really ask themselves if they can find a better candidate for that position.
I think in this case, the answer is most likely no.
Also, to dogpile, the rights in the Constitution are "inalienable" - that is, they do not have an external point of origin.
They are not bestowed on you by the government. They are innate. That's why they almost didn't even bother writing up the Bill of Rights. Because they were afraid people would say (incorrectly!) that "oh, these rights listed are the only rights you have", which would evolve into "these rights are granted to you and can be taken away."
But the founders of the Constitution realized that humam beings have a right to free speech by their very virtue of being human. It's not an American citizen thing. It's not a conditional thing. It is an inalienable imperative of your existence.
So, the real and only valid question is: is the general right to privacy truly inalienable? The obvious answer, like your right to life and liberty, is yes.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France.
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I don't want to disagree with your overall point or start a flame war, but really, putting MySQL up against Oracle/MSSQL?
C'mon.
Actually, Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 as a condemnation of television and the death of a literate and curious culture.
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/
Try doing long divison in Roman numerals.
Consistent cardinality and scale of symbolic digits is a major step forward in maths.
The chief advantage to this scheme is to hold on to the coins for one year. They then become long-term capital gains, and if these employees are in the 10 or 15% tax brackets then they won't pay any taxes on the sale of the coins after that.
Of course if they're in the 10 or 15% bracket and this is their only source of income they probably can't afford to wait a year to sell them. C'est la vie ...
The barrier to entry for producing your own bread and beef is much higher than planting a weed in your backyard.
How is it every kid in the universe knew that trick without the Internet?
Simple explanation: You can't mass-produce a job.
Complicated explanation: Labor isn't as fungible as product. A DVD sold in China is not necessarily the same sale as a DVD sold in New York. But both of those DVDs are produced in the same factory. Paying the guy who presses the DVDs that are sold in New York more than the guy who presses the DVDs that are sold in China is ... inefficient, to say the least. So labor costs get averaged out among all laborers - basically, the disparity of economies is already aggregated in the only figure that matters to a laborer's value, his salary.
These kind of reviews are geared towards a certain niche of computer users.
90 (95? 99?) percent of users will be just fine using the integrated chip on their motherboard. 90% of the remaining 10 percent can probably be served by a $60 card.
The other day my dad (the classic Internet/productivity user) was building himself a new PC via some online shopping cart and asked what kind of video card to get. I explained he didn't need to buy a video card any more, and he was kind of surprised. I don't think the motherboard / integrated graphics people have done their marketing right.
Actually, reality shows have been in overall decline in ratings numbers as of late.
Find another straw man.
I see it less as antagonistic, and more of "Why even mention Microsoft at all?" The summary comes across as an analysis of Moblin as compared to Windows 7 (and a larger overview of how Windows 7 fits in to the future of netbook OSes) instead of just saying,
"Hey, look, Intel released a new OS for netbooks. Take a look."
Which would've been much more to the point.
I trick them by using my father's maiden name.
time-wasting crap like sports
Ahh, Slashdot. Your nerdiness is a ray of sunshine peeking into the dark heart of my smelling faintly of Cheetos and solder basement.
It's funny - all of the things you are talking about are, in their own way, just an abstraction. Housing price demands as a function of gas prices is a huge aggregate change - if this or that person's house appreciates or depreciates due to a spike in gas taxes, there are a thousand other mitigating factors that will offset or augment their price as well.
It's hardly surprising to see you trudge out a multi-variable system (housing prices), declare a single factor (the gas tax) as the end-all be-all arbiter of the system, and then in turn use your "evidence" as the single factor why we shouldn't adopt a gas tax (again, a multi-variable system.)
PS If employers want good labor, they'll have to raise wages to account for commuters. Capitalism works on both ends of the pricing system. Allegedly.
virtualbox' seamless mode will make it virtually... well.. seamless
That seams like the only feature a quilting program shouldn't have.
</yes, that's a pun, not a typo>
That's all ad-supported. IE Not Free. Try again.
Dentist's X-ray != code-driven. Except for the part where the image is transferred over to the NAS. All the rest of it is pure physics.
The problem there is actually the term 'estoppel', which is just a fancy way of saying "no takesies-backsies."
If all legalese were converted into playground slang, we'd all be a lot better off.
Of "love it or leave it" flag-waving Republicans fighting to not pay their fair share of taxes. So what if it all comes back to me the consumer? It's the principle that's being tested.
Define "give you the right." They live in abject poverty with no basic structures of government, commerce, education, health, or anything that would even approach a livable existence. They are a pre-Hobbsian society - there's no such thing as "right" or "wrong" that really applies to them. The reality is it's either be a pirate or die.
Do you realize how much this sounds like "640kb ought to be enough for everybody?" If there is any single lesson we've ever learned about futurism, it's that you're not dreaming hard enough. You make so many hilarious assumptions here, I can barely begin to count them. "The human eye"/ear may be radically different in 20 years. The same goes for "screen sizes", "homes", "people", and our interpretation of the word "realistic." I've bookmarked this comment on Delicious to see how ridiculous it is in 2030.
Copyright is only a recent innovation because the actual physical ability to copy things is itself a recent innovation. The printing press is barely 500 years old, legal squabbles over author's works emerged less than 50 years after its creation.
The only real response required to this is that it's systemic - everybody does it. Sure, you may be able to fire the very worst offenders and replace them with more productive employees, but when it's systemic, who are you going to replace them with?
That's right, more workers who will use the Internet for personal time.
There's no solution, period. Everybody looks at it from the simple perspective of "should this person be punished / fired", but human resources also has to consider the hiring side of any employee termination, and really ask themselves if they can find a better candidate for that position.
I think in this case, the answer is most likely no.
Complaining about PHP function-naming is the cliche response from "I don't know what I'm talking about" people.
It makes me take you less seriously, not more.
Also, to dogpile, the rights in the Constitution are "inalienable" - that is, they do not have an external point of origin.
They are not bestowed on you by the government. They are innate. That's why they almost didn't even bother writing up the Bill of Rights. Because they were afraid people would say (incorrectly!) that "oh, these rights listed are the only rights you have", which would evolve into "these rights are granted to you and can be taken away."
But the founders of the Constitution realized that humam beings have a right to free speech by their very virtue of being human. It's not an American citizen thing. It's not a conditional thing. It is an inalienable imperative of your existence.
So, the real and only valid question is: is the general right to privacy truly inalienable? The obvious answer, like your right to life and liberty, is yes.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France.