Saying you're against depreciation doesn't mean much on its own - let me explain depreciating assets and then why. Say I buy a refrigerator for the office for $2000. The IRS has an enormous multi-volume set of books (and a smaller 2 volume one that covers most cases - and yes, they still print them, but there are software versions) that lists pretty much anything you can buy in its depreciation schedule. For the sake of simplicity, let's say the refrigerator was a 5 year depreciating asset (I think it's actually 7). We need to divide the value of the object by the depreciation schedule and you can take that much off on taxes each year, so in this case $400 for the next 5 years.
Now think about saying you're against depreciating assets - does that mean you shouldn't be able to deduct anything or do you mean the entire asset should be written off the year it is bought? As someone that owns a privately held business, the former I'd be completely against and the latter I'd love. The reason big public companies like it is because purchases result in a big dip in profitability followed by big gains (the depreciation schedule spreads it out). Since I don't answer to shareholders, I don't give a shit.
This is part of the reason I got off of Verizon. First reason: I got 4x the data. Second reason: Mexico and Canada free calling. Third reason: I got an additional line for $80 less than what I was paying. I do miss Verizon's network, which has coverage in areas I sometimes go where nobody else has any coverage (such as my parent's home towns in South Dakota). Aside from that both AT&T and T-Mobile work great (I have one for home provider, one for my work phones - and yes, that's plural).
RSA was tampered with by the NSA to allow for it to be easily cracked. While we'd known there was tampering with it, the extent of that tampering wasn't known until the Snowden leaks. That said, the flaw is only with dual elliptic curve and I don't think anybody uses that anymore. Also the only thing cracked this year was RSA 220, which is 729 bits and the next you'd logically expect to see broken. My secure emails use RSA-1024 (I didn't set that up, all I do is check a checkbox that says "Secure" and the recipient needs to use their key card and PIN to decrypt it - not sure how it works for out of office emails).
Not a surprise that the US government uses RSA for secure emails but AES (designed in Belgium away from NSA tampering) for both military and confidential secret and top secret encoded data. Confidential data needs to be at least AES-128 encrypted and Secret/Top Secret AES-256 if I recall correctly. We're insulated from that stuff (our software backend handles it), all we need to know is the classification.
That isn't to say they don't have product testing - I believe they have product testing in India and Romania, possibly other countries. Everyone I know that worked in Redmond works different jobs now, so I assume they were let go.
That wouldn't surprise me - I had two cousins testing for them for a long time (at least 20 and 16 years) and both got new jobs within the past two years without mentioning why. I also had a release critical defect for one of my company's products that only happens on Windows Anniversary, but that was deferred because we only support Windows Pro and it won't be forced onto Pro for 3 months (I tested it on my home machine that didn't have pro, as well as work machines with it - it is technically supposed to work everywhere, but until the bug moves to pro my company doesn't care).
And to riff off an old tech support joke, they're called foot pedals, not mice.
If you've never heard that one, here it is with a few others. I literally got the "Press Any Key" one working tech support, so yes I believe them. Compaq offered free tech support in the early days and people would call them for all kinds of reasons without actually trying anything, so that doesn't surprise me at all. Note I didn't work for Compaq, I did tech support contracting work for Bell Atlantic and we had a business relationship with Compaq. Specifically what that was is something I signed a form not to disclose.
Yeah, but their beef isn't about the cost, it is about the speed comparisons. Intel never has tried to compete in the GPU performance space - they are happy with being in the low cost space. If you just compare what you get for a certain cost I have no idea, but I'm guessing having so many more Intel chips in your cluster will add significant power and space requirements at the very least. You may actually be better off with the nVidia solution in the long run.
I'm still waiting for 4G, so I'm not sure what they're comparing to. Current "4G LTE" is actually 3G technology with some 4G stuff bolted on and doesn't actually meet the requirements for 4G. When LTE advanced is formally implemented, it will be marketed as "True 4G" (it may be in some areas, I know I don't have that option). If it is 100x faster than True 4G, a stationary modem would send and receive at up to 100Gbits/second and a mobile one I think 10Gbits (fairly sure the 4G spec says 1Gbit for stationary and 100Mbit for mobile - LTE fails this miserably). If it is 100x faster than 4G LTE, it could be barely faster than True 4G.
This is why the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States actually exists. The government was supposed to have no standing army and depend on a militia so that the government would fear the people. The Constitution literally restricts having a standing army to 2 years for this reason. Having a standing army for more than 2 years is Unconstitutional.
To be fair, in 1991 there was no commercial web. Some commercial entities were allowed to connect to the internet as early as 1989, but full commercial internet didn't start until 1995.
I remember using the WWW in 1991 or 1992 before dropping out of school for a while and thinking how inferior the technology was to gopher (everything was text like in the example page). The browser I used was something cobbled together by some students and was more like a shitty version of lynx (all text based because the entire university was terminal based UNIX and some non-UNIX VAX computing back then). I had some internet access while out of school through the library dial up (certainly not legal - some friends hacked it), so I discovered Mosiac in 1993 and really liked it - a huge improvement over my first experience. That server was newer and running an XServer, so connecting to it through Slackware I could see graphics, but it was very slow (my modem was shit - 14.4 probably). When I returned to school in 1994 they even gave me space to create a web page. Netscape changed everything not long after that (which I beta tested and may have gotten an alpha release).
The current government only prosecutes peons and gives themselves exception, so they will never face trial. Hell when the White House itself committed treason a few years back for violating the same law as Snowden (the Espionage Act of 1917) by releasing a CIA agent's name and it was pretty much laughed off as a mistake. Pretty much the same thing happened in Plamegate.
Um, not even close to 60%, even at the peak in the 1970s.
The divorce rate by all measurements is actually down. Also the divorce trend is down, so even the projected numbers that say 40-50% are probably bad. This is based on a measurement called a Cohort rate, which determines a trend by the current group being studied (so basically a statistical guess over the lifetime of the marriage). Baby boomers had a hideously high divorce rate, which is why that number is so high, but later generations are getting divorced far less, so even 40% is probably a pessimistic number. By another statistic, about 2% of marriages end in divorce every year (the short game measurement - keep in mind that includes remarriage and divorce, or you'd have 40% in 20 years).
I wish that were true. I know several people that will vote for Trump because they perceive "Shillary" or "Crooked Hillary" as the worse option. They say with Trump you may get a misogynist bigot, but at least you know what you're getting. With Shillary you get a two-faced weasel that will stab you in the back the second she gets elected.
And yes, that is what they honestly believe. Telling them Trump is the biggest lying weasel in politics won't sway their opinion (going by Polifact). In any case, I won't vote for either of them. Two sides of the same coin bought and owned by Corporate America(TM). Whatever it takes to keep the oligarchy strong, right?
There still are scientist superstars - Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall are pretty much household names. You could throw in a few that AFAIK don't have any major discoveries but are well known celebrity scientists like Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson, as well.
That said, I think what you mean is that people worship celebrity more than intellect these days, and that I completely agree with. Reagan was an early example of that, and turned out to be a decent leader, despite some flawed principles (trickle down economics being the one I like to skewer). I certainly wouldn't ever have picked Reagan for my Quiz Bowl team, though.
I believe the correct answer is not only do you not change the money, you are obliged to contact the police and report the person. Knowingly changing the money could make you an accessory to a crime (I believe they have to tell you the crime they intend to commit).
Incidentally, Bitcoin probably can't be considered legal tender - it would violate the Constitution, which allows only Congress to print money and denies states the right to have their own currency. It does fall into a category not thought of by the founding fathers, though, which is non-printed money (so Bitcoin basically is a loophole).
Actually, that need further refinement - socialism is only state ownership in the communist form of government. Socialism as its own doctrine refers to the economic system where the workers own the factory and not a factory owner (the proletariat owning vs the bourgeoisie owning in Marxist theory). In Marx's version of communism (which is good enough for this argument), the socialist workers give excess production to the state for distribution and eliminate money. This means socialism inextricable from communism but communism is not inextricable from socialism. Put another way, a raven is a bird, but not all birds are ravens.
You're referring to anarchy the state (as in no government), not anarchy as a form of government focusing on the economic system. There are actually anarchy forms of government such as anarcho-syndicalism, individualist anarchism, and platformism. Anarchism in this sense refers to the government, but the economic system runs by other rules. Think of it this way - if you and your neighbors all agree to where each one lives and what laws to live by and even who polices those laws, do you need a government? The people are the government. It is really extreme Libertarianism. A true democracy could run in an anarchic state. Furthermore, a true "individualist anarchy" may not give a shit if you shoot your neighbor, but a platformist would, so anarchy in this sense does not necessarily mean society without any rules.
I like to use the Monty Python and the Holy Grail example of the "anarcho-syndicalist commune." That one has the workers organized into syndicates (unions, basically) by industry and the "government" exists to ensure private ownership of land. They reject the "worker-state" (government-economic) idea of communism, saying that tying those two together leads to corruption (and frankly, I agree with them on that point). Put another way, if the farm syndicate ruled the government, would not the farm syndicate try to make everything as favorable to farmers as possible? They would be fools not to, but in doing so prove that power corrupts.
Seems endemic. Right after 9/11 my US company did exactly the same thing - fire half the workforce and gave upper management massive bonuses and raises. They then hired massive amounts of replacement workers in India with no idea what the fired people actually did. That anchor actually dragged down the ship as far as the main business went, but they managed to spin us off so their stock wouldn't go junk so my division actually survived and rehired some of the critical engineers those idiots fired. The same events probably would have played out in the 2008 recession if a German company hadn't snapped us up in 2007.
Yeah, the Espionage Act of 1917 pretty much says that accessing classified data that you are not supposed to have is espionage, even if you are an ally. Kind of funny that sharing a password violates the CFAA, which used the Espionage Act as a template, and accessing that data likely violates the Espionage Act itself (for sure if any of it is classified).
Did you ask for permission to visit Slashdot? I posit that you don't have authorization to be here, and since Slashdot is owned by a for profit company (BIZX media) and since you are using a false identity (an alias), I accuse you of committing wire fraud under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
I'm not trying to get you indicted (I'm committing the same crime), just saying the CFAA is a terribly written law that used another terrible law as a template (the Espionage Act of 1917). The Authorization section was specifically included to protect ATMs at a time when networking was alien to congresspeople. I think WarGames the movie terrified them into action and they took one of the countries most loosely worded laws and applied it to computing..
A doctor cutting off pain medicine is actually why someone I know died of a heroin overdose. He'd been prescribed opioid pain medicine after a severe car accident and when over the counter drugs didn't cut it, turned to the illegal stuff. His wife found him unresponsive and the first responder didn't have Narcan or anything similar,and by the time an ambulance arrived it was too late, so she now runs a charity to provide narcotics overdose medicine to first responders.
Free calls in Mexico is the primary reason my wife switched us to T-Mobile, but that said, T-Mobile has zero coverage in rural Nebraska and South Dakota,which is where I was over the weekend. Zero bars for the lot of it, whereas Verizon at least had some coverage. In the past my brother (who flip-flops carriers all the time) used to get analog service, but on modern phones, it literally is Verizon or nothing.
The assumption also is that they didn't do this, say 2 1/2 million years ago and gave up 5 years later. A lot of factors led to intelligent life on earth and expecting it all to happen at the exact same time somewhere else is ridiculous. I expect when we do find life on other planets, we'll find a lot more dumb life before we find intelligent life.
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Saying you're against depreciation doesn't mean much on its own - let me explain depreciating assets and then why. Say I buy a refrigerator for the office for $2000. The IRS has an enormous multi-volume set of books (and a smaller 2 volume one that covers most cases - and yes, they still print them, but there are software versions) that lists pretty much anything you can buy in its depreciation schedule. For the sake of simplicity, let's say the refrigerator was a 5 year depreciating asset (I think it's actually 7). We need to divide the value of the object by the depreciation schedule and you can take that much off on taxes each year, so in this case $400 for the next 5 years.
Now think about saying you're against depreciating assets - does that mean you shouldn't be able to deduct anything or do you mean the entire asset should be written off the year it is bought? As someone that owns a privately held business, the former I'd be completely against and the latter I'd love. The reason big public companies like it is because purchases result in a big dip in profitability followed by big gains (the depreciation schedule spreads it out). Since I don't answer to shareholders, I don't give a shit.
This is part of the reason I got off of Verizon. First reason: I got 4x the data. Second reason: Mexico and Canada free calling. Third reason: I got an additional line for $80 less than what I was paying. I do miss Verizon's network, which has coverage in areas I sometimes go where nobody else has any coverage (such as my parent's home towns in South Dakota). Aside from that both AT&T and T-Mobile work great (I have one for home provider, one for my work phones - and yes, that's plural).
RSA was tampered with by the NSA to allow for it to be easily cracked. While we'd known there was tampering with it, the extent of that tampering wasn't known until the Snowden leaks. That said, the flaw is only with dual elliptic curve and I don't think anybody uses that anymore. Also the only thing cracked this year was RSA 220, which is 729 bits and the next you'd logically expect to see broken. My secure emails use RSA-1024 (I didn't set that up, all I do is check a checkbox that says "Secure" and the recipient needs to use their key card and PIN to decrypt it - not sure how it works for out of office emails).
Not a surprise that the US government uses RSA for secure emails but AES (designed in Belgium away from NSA tampering) for both military and confidential secret and top secret encoded data. Confidential data needs to be at least AES-128 encrypted and Secret/Top Secret AES-256 if I recall correctly. We're insulated from that stuff (our software backend handles it), all we need to know is the classification.
That isn't to say they don't have product testing - I believe they have product testing in India and Romania, possibly other countries. Everyone I know that worked in Redmond works different jobs now, so I assume they were let go.
That wouldn't surprise me - I had two cousins testing for them for a long time (at least 20 and 16 years) and both got new jobs within the past two years without mentioning why. I also had a release critical defect for one of my company's products that only happens on Windows Anniversary, but that was deferred because we only support Windows Pro and it won't be forced onto Pro for 3 months (I tested it on my home machine that didn't have pro, as well as work machines with it - it is technically supposed to work everywhere, but until the bug moves to pro my company doesn't care).
Freddy Mercury's real name is Farrokh Bulsara. Brian May didn't have a stage name.
And to riff off an old tech support joke, they're called foot pedals, not mice.
If you've never heard that one, here it is with a few others. I literally got the "Press Any Key" one working tech support, so yes I believe them. Compaq offered free tech support in the early days and people would call them for all kinds of reasons without actually trying anything, so that doesn't surprise me at all. Note I didn't work for Compaq, I did tech support contracting work for Bell Atlantic and we had a business relationship with Compaq. Specifically what that was is something I signed a form not to disclose.
Yeah, but their beef isn't about the cost, it is about the speed comparisons. Intel never has tried to compete in the GPU performance space - they are happy with being in the low cost space. If you just compare what you get for a certain cost I have no idea, but I'm guessing having so many more Intel chips in your cluster will add significant power and space requirements at the very least. You may actually be better off with the nVidia solution in the long run.
I'm still waiting for 4G, so I'm not sure what they're comparing to. Current "4G LTE" is actually 3G technology with some 4G stuff bolted on and doesn't actually meet the requirements for 4G. When LTE advanced is formally implemented, it will be marketed as "True 4G" (it may be in some areas, I know I don't have that option). If it is 100x faster than True 4G, a stationary modem would send and receive at up to 100Gbits/second and a mobile one I think 10Gbits (fairly sure the 4G spec says 1Gbit for stationary and 100Mbit for mobile - LTE fails this miserably). If it is 100x faster than 4G LTE, it could be barely faster than True 4G.
This is why the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States actually exists. The government was supposed to have no standing army and depend on a militia so that the government would fear the people. The Constitution literally restricts having a standing army to 2 years for this reason. Having a standing army for more than 2 years is Unconstitutional.
To be fair, in 1991 there was no commercial web. Some commercial entities were allowed to connect to the internet as early as 1989, but full commercial internet didn't start until 1995.
I remember using the WWW in 1991 or 1992 before dropping out of school for a while and thinking how inferior the technology was to gopher (everything was text like in the example page). The browser I used was something cobbled together by some students and was more like a shitty version of lynx (all text based because the entire university was terminal based UNIX and some non-UNIX VAX computing back then). I had some internet access while out of school through the library dial up (certainly not legal - some friends hacked it), so I discovered Mosiac in 1993 and really liked it - a huge improvement over my first experience. That server was newer and running an XServer, so connecting to it through Slackware I could see graphics, but it was very slow (my modem was shit - 14.4 probably). When I returned to school in 1994 they even gave me space to create a web page. Netscape changed everything not long after that (which I beta tested and may have gotten an alpha release).
The current government only prosecutes peons and gives themselves exception, so they will never face trial. Hell when the White House itself committed treason a few years back for violating the same law as Snowden (the Espionage Act of 1917) by releasing a CIA agent's name and it was pretty much laughed off as a mistake. Pretty much the same thing happened in Plamegate.
Um, not even close to 60%, even at the peak in the 1970s.
The divorce rate by all measurements is actually down. Also the divorce trend is down, so even the projected numbers that say 40-50% are probably bad. This is based on a measurement called a Cohort rate, which determines a trend by the current group being studied (so basically a statistical guess over the lifetime of the marriage). Baby boomers had a hideously high divorce rate, which is why that number is so high, but later generations are getting divorced far less, so even 40% is probably a pessimistic number. By another statistic, about 2% of marriages end in divorce every year (the short game measurement - keep in mind that includes remarriage and divorce, or you'd have 40% in 20 years).
Have you looked at Trump's track record for truthiness (and thanks Colbert)? Clinton actually lies a lot less, which is terrifying.
I wish that were true. I know several people that will vote for Trump because they perceive "Shillary" or "Crooked Hillary" as the worse option. They say with Trump you may get a misogynist bigot, but at least you know what you're getting. With Shillary you get a two-faced weasel that will stab you in the back the second she gets elected.
And yes, that is what they honestly believe. Telling them Trump is the biggest lying weasel in politics won't sway their opinion (going by Polifact). In any case, I won't vote for either of them. Two sides of the same coin bought and owned by Corporate America(TM). Whatever it takes to keep the oligarchy strong, right?
There still are scientist superstars - Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall are pretty much household names. You could throw in a few that AFAIK don't have any major discoveries but are well known celebrity scientists like Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson, as well.
That said, I think what you mean is that people worship celebrity more than intellect these days, and that I completely agree with. Reagan was an early example of that, and turned out to be a decent leader, despite some flawed principles (trickle down economics being the one I like to skewer). I certainly wouldn't ever have picked Reagan for my Quiz Bowl team, though.
I believe the correct answer is not only do you not change the money, you are obliged to contact the police and report the person. Knowingly changing the money could make you an accessory to a crime (I believe they have to tell you the crime they intend to commit).
Incidentally, Bitcoin probably can't be considered legal tender - it would violate the Constitution, which allows only Congress to print money and denies states the right to have their own currency. It does fall into a category not thought of by the founding fathers, though, which is non-printed money (so Bitcoin basically is a loophole).
Actually, that need further refinement - socialism is only state ownership in the communist form of government. Socialism as its own doctrine refers to the economic system where the workers own the factory and not a factory owner (the proletariat owning vs the bourgeoisie owning in Marxist theory). In Marx's version of communism (which is good enough for this argument), the socialist workers give excess production to the state for distribution and eliminate money. This means socialism inextricable from communism but communism is not inextricable from socialism. Put another way, a raven is a bird, but not all birds are ravens.
You're referring to anarchy the state (as in no government), not anarchy as a form of government focusing on the economic system. There are actually anarchy forms of government such as anarcho-syndicalism, individualist anarchism, and platformism. Anarchism in this sense refers to the government, but the economic system runs by other rules. Think of it this way - if you and your neighbors all agree to where each one lives and what laws to live by and even who polices those laws, do you need a government? The people are the government. It is really extreme Libertarianism. A true democracy could run in an anarchic state. Furthermore, a true "individualist anarchy" may not give a shit if you shoot your neighbor, but a platformist would, so anarchy in this sense does not necessarily mean society without any rules.
I like to use the Monty Python and the Holy Grail example of the "anarcho-syndicalist commune." That one has the workers organized into syndicates (unions, basically) by industry and the "government" exists to ensure private ownership of land. They reject the "worker-state" (government-economic) idea of communism, saying that tying those two together leads to corruption (and frankly, I agree with them on that point). Put another way, if the farm syndicate ruled the government, would not the farm syndicate try to make everything as favorable to farmers as possible? They would be fools not to, but in doing so prove that power corrupts.
Seems endemic. Right after 9/11 my US company did exactly the same thing - fire half the workforce and gave upper management massive bonuses and raises. They then hired massive amounts of replacement workers in India with no idea what the fired people actually did. That anchor actually dragged down the ship as far as the main business went, but they managed to spin us off so their stock wouldn't go junk so my division actually survived and rehired some of the critical engineers those idiots fired. The same events probably would have played out in the 2008 recession if a German company hadn't snapped us up in 2007.
Yeah, the Espionage Act of 1917 pretty much says that accessing classified data that you are not supposed to have is espionage, even if you are an ally. Kind of funny that sharing a password violates the CFAA, which used the Espionage Act as a template, and accessing that data likely violates the Espionage Act itself (for sure if any of it is classified).
Did you ask for permission to visit Slashdot? I posit that you don't have authorization to be here, and since Slashdot is owned by a for profit company (BIZX media) and since you are using a false identity (an alias), I accuse you of committing wire fraud under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
I'm not trying to get you indicted (I'm committing the same crime), just saying the CFAA is a terribly written law that used another terrible law as a template (the Espionage Act of 1917). The Authorization section was specifically included to protect ATMs at a time when networking was alien to congresspeople. I think WarGames the movie terrified them into action and they took one of the countries most loosely worded laws and applied it to computing..
A doctor cutting off pain medicine is actually why someone I know died of a heroin overdose. He'd been prescribed opioid pain medicine after a severe car accident and when over the counter drugs didn't cut it, turned to the illegal stuff. His wife found him unresponsive and the first responder didn't have Narcan or anything similar,and by the time an ambulance arrived it was too late, so she now runs a charity to provide narcotics overdose medicine to first responders.
Free calls in Mexico is the primary reason my wife switched us to T-Mobile, but that said, T-Mobile has zero coverage in rural Nebraska and South Dakota,which is where I was over the weekend. Zero bars for the lot of it, whereas Verizon at least had some coverage. In the past my brother (who flip-flops carriers all the time) used to get analog service, but on modern phones, it literally is Verizon or nothing.
The assumption also is that they didn't do this, say 2 1/2 million years ago and gave up 5 years later. A lot of factors led to intelligent life on earth and expecting it all to happen at the exact same time somewhere else is ridiculous. I expect when we do find life on other planets, we'll find a lot more dumb life before we find intelligent life.