If a small mom and pop restaurant or a minor retailer is forced to collect taxes internet companies should be asked to collect taxes too.
You have it exactly backwards my friend. Far better to say, "If internet companies are not forced to collect taxes, a small mom and pop restaurant should not be asked to collect taxes either.
Coordinate with your contractors to standardize the graphical systems and control panels of the various systems. All systems should follow the same basic navigation hierarchy. All systems should use the same neutral colors for basic monitoring. They should all use the same high-contrast colors for warnings and alarms. A critical alarm requiring immediate attention should mute all non-critical alarms.
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You may wish to add animated graphical elements, flashing lights etc. These should only be used for show-and-tell with clients and investors. Normal day-to-day elements should be simple yet maximally informative (trend screens > text; basic line drawings > animations).
...they discovered the "dead ant" smell that would signal the colony that "this one is dead, go put it on the pile." When they put the scent on a live ant, the other ants would carry it off to the pile, ignoring the fact that it was squirming the whole way there...
No, once they are over 30 something clicks and they become more interested in preserving their own wealth than in idealism, so they become conservatives.
What seems radical today will be sound public policy thirty years from now. The only true conservatives died off 10,000 years ago. It's been wave after wave of liberals ever since then.
...30-40 years down the road, the Pirate Party will most likely become obsolete as the other more "mainstream" parties will have taken up the pirate cause and then people will vote based on the economy, etc. because everyone will care about allowing filesharing and increasing privacy.
Just like the Greens went away when we solved that whole environment thing. Or labour went away after all working-class issues were settled.
We are in the midst of shift to an information economy. Face it, intellectual "property" issues are likely to become increasingly important as technology makes the old restrictions more and more obsolete.
Not to belittle the Cold War, but a big factor in the Berlin Wall falling was poor East Germans knowing the West Germans were doing it much better and that the only way to join in the wealth was to liberalise.
Why hasn't this exact same phenomena had any effect in North Korea, which literally shares a border with a much more prosperous neighbor? What about in Cuba -- less than 100 miles away from the US, with plenty of contact via the refugee population? If anything China is much more isolated than either of those two.
... the problem the US has with the "right to live" is that it eliminates the death penalty, not that the government wants to reserve the right to kill, kill, kill.
Astroturfing is apparently done now by hiring a company with shills established where you want to have a say, not by specific companies engaging the forums directly.
No it isn't. Also, be sure to drink your Ovaltine (TM).
Here's what he said. You decide if he was suggesting that monitoring volcanoes is "wasteful spending":
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
I just looked up smackdown in the dictionary and found a copy of this post.
He wants to reduce the US arsenal in conjunction with a reduction of the Russian arsenal. Working to reduce one's nuclear arsenal is not the same as working towards a nuke-free world.
Fewer weapons across the board would primarily decrease the probability of a single one falling into the wrong hands. Despite all the FUD in this discussion, I would gladly trade reducing our ability to destroy the world from 20 times over to 10 in exchange for a proportionate reduction in the likelihood of a rogue element obtaining a nuke.
You say "open borders are more libertarian than the H1-B system", which is true, but a generous H-1B program would mean a more open border than what we have now. The grandparent is correct, that it's hypocritical to oppose a step in what you claim is the "right" direction.
Actually it is not hypocritical. H1B targets a very narrow sector of the economy. It is akin to a hypothetical tax code that exempts attorneys and doubles the taxes on doctors to make up the difference. An unjust law is much worse than no law at all.
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...we really need a viable third party.
No. We really need NO parties.
Spoken like a true geek who just doesn't get the fact that there are people out there that aren't geeks.
Knowing how to drag and drop files qualifies one as a "geek" nowadays?
If a small mom and pop restaurant or a minor retailer is forced to collect taxes internet companies should be asked to collect taxes too.
You have it exactly backwards my friend. Far better to say, "If internet companies are not forced to collect taxes, a small mom and pop restaurant should not be asked to collect taxes either.
America didn't invent taxes...
America didn't invent taxes...
America didn't invent taxes...
...we just perfected them!
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You may wish to add animated graphical elements, flashing lights etc. These should only be used for show-and-tell with clients and investors. Normal day-to-day elements should be simple yet maximally informative (trend screens > text; basic line drawings > animations).
To mangle an Einstein quote: I know not with what weapons World War IV will be fought, but World War III will be fought with sticks and stones.
...they discovered the "dead ant" smell that would signal the colony that "this one is dead, go put it on the pile." When they put the scent on a live ant, the other ants would carry it off to the pile, ignoring the fact that it was squirming the whole way there...
Later made into a major motion picture.
...what if you go for a job and they recognise you from a site you have nothing to do with called bustedpartysluts.com?
If I recognize an applicant from bustedpartysluts.com, she's almost certainly going to be hired.
No, once they are over 30 something clicks and they become more interested in preserving their own wealth than in idealism, so they become conservatives.
What seems radical today will be sound public policy thirty years from now. The only true conservatives died off 10,000 years ago. It's been wave after wave of liberals ever since then.
...30-40 years down the road, the Pirate Party will most likely become obsolete as the other more "mainstream" parties will have taken up the pirate cause and then people will vote based on the economy, etc. because everyone will care about allowing filesharing and increasing privacy.
Just like the Greens went away when we solved that whole environment thing. Or labour went away after all working-class issues were settled. We are in the midst of shift to an information economy. Face it, intellectual "property" issues are likely to become increasingly important as technology makes the old restrictions more and more obsolete.
The scanners they run on your computer are not there to look at your personal files, track down copyright infringement, or anything else...
...yet.
Not to belittle the Cold War, but a big factor in the Berlin Wall falling was poor East Germans knowing the West Germans were doing it much better and that the only way to join in the wealth was to liberalise.
Why hasn't this exact same phenomena had any effect in North Korea, which literally shares a border with a much more prosperous neighbor? What about in Cuba -- less than 100 miles away from the US, with plenty of contact via the refugee population? If anything China is much more isolated than either of those two.
Believe me, Kindle is enormously popular with paid shills and astroturfers.
Who's going to feed all of these underprivileged lawyers once they stop being hired to sue students, 10 year old girls and dead grandmothers?
Don't worry, they'll all get cushy jobs in the Obama administration.
... the problem the US has with the "right to live" is that it eliminates the death penalty, not that the government wants to reserve the right to kill, kill, kill.
What exactly is the difference?
...because Rudy Giuliani was mayor at the time and handled it well. And never passed up an opportunity to mention that he did so, either.
A noun, a verb, and 300 BCE.
Astroturfing is apparently done now by hiring a company with shills established where you want to have a say, not by specific companies engaging the forums directly.
No it isn't. Also, be sure to drink your Ovaltine (TM).
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Here's what he said. You decide if he was suggesting that monitoring volcanoes is "wasteful spending":
"While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes ... $140 million for something called "volcano monitoring." Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."
I just looked up smackdown in the dictionary and found a copy of this post.
He wants to reduce the US arsenal in conjunction with a reduction of the Russian arsenal. Working to reduce one's nuclear arsenal is not the same as working towards a nuke-free world.
Fewer weapons across the board would primarily decrease the probability of a single one falling into the wrong hands. Despite all the FUD in this discussion, I would gladly trade reducing our ability to destroy the world from 20 times over to 10 in exchange for a proportionate reduction in the likelihood of a rogue element obtaining a nuke.
Mr. Burns: 'Patience Monty. Climb the ladder.'
Posting to cancel moderation applied to the wrong post.
Divide and conquer. Others in the department know very well who is deadwood and who quietly holds the whole thing together.
But what if I find the hidden immunity idol?
In certain cases it probably seems like poetic justice. Not defending it... just sayin'.
You say "open borders are more libertarian than the H1-B system", which is true, but a generous H-1B program would mean a more open border than what we have now. The grandparent is correct, that it's hypocritical to oppose a step in what you claim is the "right" direction.
Actually it is not hypocritical. H1B targets a very narrow sector of the economy. It is akin to a hypothetical tax code that exempts attorneys and doubles the taxes on doctors to make up the difference. An unjust law is much worse than no law at all.