If you can suggest a way that they can fund operations without revenue, I'm sure you're eligible for a Nobel. All non-profits take int revenue in some fashion to pay for operating expenses. Non-profits are just limited in how much they can take in and how they handle it. Generally speaking it's limited by the amount of service they're providing and how much it costs to provide the service.
A properly run non-profit is going to turn a profit in some years in order to make up for years when it's running a bit in the black. It's just that the cash ends up going back into the non-profit rather than being distributed to shareholders or on non-related endeavors.
It's not technically true, it's completely true. Don't the Mozilla foundation have tax exempt status?
All non-profits have to make enough money in one way or another to fund operations, after all people can't generally afford to work for free and suppliers expect compensation for their supplies. Google would be in a world of hurt if it clamped down on Mozilla as that would definitely trigger a swift DoJ investigation into anti-trust violations.
It's tagged Republicans because they were the ones that deregulated the markets, filled the SEC with people that they believed would look the other way and were by and large the loudest voices decrying efforts to keep tabs of what they're doing.
Of course he gave most of his money to the Democrats for God's sake, you don't give a lot of money to the people that are on your side regardless. You give money to people who you want to sway in your direction.
Except they weren't unbelievable returns for much of the time frame covered by the scam. He was promising, I think it was 10-12% and there were fairly long periods of time when that was considered underperforming the market.
The stock market as a whole has a historic return of something around 10%. In that context it doesn't really seem that unbelievable to most people.
That probably explains how nearly all hedge funds lag the market and only a relative few actually make enough money to justify the risk.
It's kind of an odd thing that people are willing to buy into a fund that both lowers risk and raises yields. Sure a few firms do deliver, but as a whole one expects that sort of outfit to return roughly what a money market fund does over the long term.
OK, then explain the part where getting caught is bad. Because if you're under house arrest, even if it is a modest dwelling, there's no punishment there. You've had your toys and then you're banished to the middle class.
I'm sorry, but I just don't buy that house arrest, even a strict house arrest, is any sort of actual punishment for this sort of thing.
Of course it doesn't. For the most part sites that are vulnerable aren't made to pay for the damage that their lack security has caused. If we forced sites to pay for their mistakes, that would change things really fast.
The TD Ameritrade settlement for instance was an absolute joke, they ended up losing a lot of personal information and then they ended up with a slap on the wrist. It's not going to be cost effective for organizations to secure their sites as long as they're free to pass on the cost to the end user.
Well, it irritates me to no end that there isn't a mandatory listing of all the sites that serve scripts for them complete with some sort of explanation.
I absolutely hate having to figure out which domain that I've blocked that will allow access to the content and which ones are dodgy. And further whether the site that's serving up the content is safe enough to allow.
I have to admit, that I'm skeptical that coders now are any more cowboyish than they used to be. I mean I've read stories about how Bill Gates and Paul Allen used to handle Micro Soft's products early on before they changed the name and locale. Somebody will have to explain to me how today's coders can be any worse than they were.
And how do you know which is which? The BMI is not meant to be used in the fashion that you're suggesting, percent body fat is. While percent body fat isn't the end all be all, it is a fair measure, and it does a pretty damn fine job of it too.
Unfortunately neither one does a good job of separating visceral fat from subcutaneous fat, and that's more important than being a bit chubby. I do carry a fair bit of fat, but very little of it is visceral, and I'm still within about 5lbs of what's ideal for a person of my build.
The BMI demanded weight of about 170 would definitely be detrimental to my health. BTW, last time I weighed myself I was roughly 189 and 5' 10.5, I don't feel well when I have gotten down under 180.
BMI isn't for that, it's for statistical analysis. And in that context it does a pretty good job, the number of people miscategorized tends to balance out as a whole. The problem is that there's quite a few corner cases that do exist in real life. I'll never weigh what the BMI suggests without an eating disorder, if I get within about 10 lbs., on the high side I start to feel really sick.
And that's assuming that I'm not in a phase where I'm really hitting the weights. I can easily be 40-50lbs., over the recommended weight when I'm doing that without having much fat on me at all.
Body fat percentage, really and truy is the only way to go. And what's nice is that it's not that hard to get a decent measurement. The scales that do it, while largely inaccurate still tend to do a better job than the BMI, and the skindex equip isn't expensive, even if it is a pain to do.
That was my thought, are kids today really that spoiled rotten? I mean when I was a kid we got to choose between cassettes and records then later cassettes and CDs. But, I don't recall any of my friends ever speaking so derisively of the turntables.
Perhaps it's because I'm quite bright, but apart from the metal switch, I never had any of those questions when I first picked up a tape deck.
Because it's in a language that deviates greatly from the Western European character set and it's a small market. I have no doubt that they could do better, I'm just not sure how much time effort they're willing to allocate to the market.
Market cap is meaningless. It's what you can convince one idiot to pay for a share multiplied by the number of shares. It includes, not just the revenue in, but the value of any assets as well as the incredibly difficult to value cost of any IP they have. If Google were trading at a fair value, it would probably be a little over half that large. People are paying for impossible growth.
Worse still is that you couldn't liquidate the shares of any of those companies for anywhere near that amount of money.
Not really, can you honestly say that you can ditch out of Google's ad service without paying a heavy price? Businesses have had alternatives to MS for longer than MS has been into OSes. Ads on the other hand, if you don't sign on with Google, the number of sites you can get your ads onto is pretty small. And relatively few of them are large sites.
That's a shame I know that the Metro Transit in King County, WA provides the data for free in a couple of forms. You can look up the current position of the buses as they pass sensors.
Additionally a few UW students put together a more useful system that can be access via an automated message system. Also available via an iPhone friendly page or texting. If one doesn't have a smart phone that can handle java or doesn't wish to pay for the bandwidth. One Bus Away
As of now, our transit provider hasn't been put into that sort of problem, but they haven't offered to steal the idea and put it in place officially either.
I think it's a matter of taste. I tend to think that the sort of people that play these games are willing to put up with a fair amount of that sort of thing. Personally, I don't play them and they strike me as being tedious in that aspect.
But, on top of that, I'm not really sure how it's good for the game to either be able to attack somebody that can't fight back or to have people essentially missing from the world for periods of time as their avatar goes somewhere. Plus the people that oppose such things tend to be fairly militant about it, and I can't imagine adding something without annoying most of the players.
But they did get busted engaging in shenanigans during a recent Georgia gubernatorial race. It wasn't ever proven definitively, but we still don't know why they mysteriously patched systems in Democrat leaning counties to fix a bug that wasn't actually fixed with the patch.
Yes, it's possible that it's innocuous, but we'll never really know for sure, and questioning the integrity of an outfit that behaves like that is the only way to preserve democracy as we know it.
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If you can suggest a way that they can fund operations without revenue, I'm sure you're eligible for a Nobel. All non-profits take int revenue in some fashion to pay for operating expenses. Non-profits are just limited in how much they can take in and how they handle it. Generally speaking it's limited by the amount of service they're providing and how much it costs to provide the service.
A properly run non-profit is going to turn a profit in some years in order to make up for years when it's running a bit in the black. It's just that the cash ends up going back into the non-profit rather than being distributed to shareholders or on non-related endeavors.
It's not technically true, it's completely true. Don't the Mozilla foundation have tax exempt status?
All non-profits have to make enough money in one way or another to fund operations, after all people can't generally afford to work for free and suppliers expect compensation for their supplies. Google would be in a world of hurt if it clamped down on Mozilla as that would definitely trigger a swift DoJ investigation into anti-trust violations.
Well, I can't stand playing shooters with a keyboard and mouse, I'm only willing to use a keyboard.
Or in other words, get off my lawn. This new technology of a decade ago both confuses and infuriates me.
It's tagged Republicans because they were the ones that deregulated the markets, filled the SEC with people that they believed would look the other way and were by and large the loudest voices decrying efforts to keep tabs of what they're doing.
Of course he gave most of his money to the Democrats for God's sake, you don't give a lot of money to the people that are on your side regardless. You give money to people who you want to sway in your direction.
Except they weren't unbelievable returns for much of the time frame covered by the scam. He was promising, I think it was 10-12% and there were fairly long periods of time when that was considered underperforming the market.
The stock market as a whole has a historic return of something around 10%. In that context it doesn't really seem that unbelievable to most people.
That probably explains how nearly all hedge funds lag the market and only a relative few actually make enough money to justify the risk.
It's kind of an odd thing that people are willing to buy into a fund that both lowers risk and raises yields. Sure a few firms do deliver, but as a whole one expects that sort of outfit to return roughly what a money market fund does over the long term.
OK, then explain the part where getting caught is bad. Because if you're under house arrest, even if it is a modest dwelling, there's no punishment there. You've had your toys and then you're banished to the middle class.
I'm sorry, but I just don't buy that house arrest, even a strict house arrest, is any sort of actual punishment for this sort of thing.
Indeed, you'd need a hell of a lot of trucks to move that much currency. And laundering that much is nigh impossible.
Of course it doesn't. For the most part sites that are vulnerable aren't made to pay for the damage that their lack security has caused. If we forced sites to pay for their mistakes, that would change things really fast.
The TD Ameritrade settlement for instance was an absolute joke, they ended up losing a lot of personal information and then they ended up with a slap on the wrist. It's not going to be cost effective for organizations to secure their sites as long as they're free to pass on the cost to the end user.
Well, it irritates me to no end that there isn't a mandatory listing of all the sites that serve scripts for them complete with some sort of explanation.
I absolutely hate having to figure out which domain that I've blocked that will allow access to the content and which ones are dodgy. And further whether the site that's serving up the content is safe enough to allow.
No, the program to fix the mess of poorly formated jumbled code, is what makes us unfireable.
I have to admit, that I'm skeptical that coders now are any more cowboyish than they used to be. I mean I've read stories about how Bill Gates and Paul Allen used to handle Micro Soft's products early on before they changed the name and locale. Somebody will have to explain to me how today's coders can be any worse than they were.
And how do you know which is which? The BMI is not meant to be used in the fashion that you're suggesting, percent body fat is. While percent body fat isn't the end all be all, it is a fair measure, and it does a pretty damn fine job of it too.
Unfortunately neither one does a good job of separating visceral fat from subcutaneous fat, and that's more important than being a bit chubby. I do carry a fair bit of fat, but very little of it is visceral, and I'm still within about 5lbs of what's ideal for a person of my build.
The BMI demanded weight of about 170 would definitely be detrimental to my health. BTW, last time I weighed myself I was roughly 189 and 5' 10.5, I don't feel well when I have gotten down under 180.
BMI isn't for that, it's for statistical analysis. And in that context it does a pretty good job, the number of people miscategorized tends to balance out as a whole. The problem is that there's quite a few corner cases that do exist in real life. I'll never weigh what the BMI suggests without an eating disorder, if I get within about 10 lbs., on the high side I start to feel really sick.
And that's assuming that I'm not in a phase where I'm really hitting the weights. I can easily be 40-50lbs., over the recommended weight when I'm doing that without having much fat on me at all.
Body fat percentage, really and truy is the only way to go. And what's nice is that it's not that hard to get a decent measurement. The scales that do it, while largely inaccurate still tend to do a better job than the BMI, and the skindex equip isn't expensive, even if it is a pain to do.
That was my thought, are kids today really that spoiled rotten? I mean when I was a kid we got to choose between cassettes and records then later cassettes and CDs. But, I don't recall any of my friends ever speaking so derisively of the turntables.
Perhaps it's because I'm quite bright, but apart from the metal switch, I never had any of those questions when I first picked up a tape deck.
Heh, apparently, I was really into Janis Joplin as a baby. I ate not one, but two of her 8 tracks.
Because it's in a language that deviates greatly from the Western European character set and it's a small market. I have no doubt that they could do better, I'm just not sure how much time effort they're willing to allocate to the market.
Market cap is meaningless. It's what you can convince one idiot to pay for a share multiplied by the number of shares. It includes, not just the revenue in, but the value of any assets as well as the incredibly difficult to value cost of any IP they have. If Google were trading at a fair value, it would probably be a little over half that large. People are paying for impossible growth.
Worse still is that you couldn't liquidate the shares of any of those companies for anywhere near that amount of money.
Not really, can you honestly say that you can ditch out of Google's ad service without paying a heavy price? Businesses have had alternatives to MS for longer than MS has been into OSes. Ads on the other hand, if you don't sign on with Google, the number of sites you can get your ads onto is pretty small. And relatively few of them are large sites.
They stripped out the ftp client? When did that happen. Heads will roll.
Not really, the good news is that vegans are no longer going to be allowed to drive or use any other non-human powered transport.
That's a shame I know that the Metro Transit in King County, WA provides the data for free in a couple of forms. You can look up the current position of the buses as they pass sensors.
Additionally a few UW students put together a more useful system that can be access via an automated message system. Also available via an iPhone friendly page or texting. If one doesn't have a smart phone that can handle java or doesn't wish to pay for the bandwidth. One Bus Away
As of now, our transit provider hasn't been put into that sort of problem, but they haven't offered to steal the idea and put it in place officially either.
I think it's a matter of taste. I tend to think that the sort of people that play these games are willing to put up with a fair amount of that sort of thing. Personally, I don't play them and they strike me as being tedious in that aspect.
But, on top of that, I'm not really sure how it's good for the game to either be able to attack somebody that can't fight back or to have people essentially missing from the world for periods of time as their avatar goes somewhere. Plus the people that oppose such things tend to be fairly militant about it, and I can't imagine adding something without annoying most of the players.
But they did get busted engaging in shenanigans during a recent Georgia gubernatorial race. It wasn't ever proven definitively, but we still don't know why they mysteriously patched systems in Democrat leaning counties to fix a bug that wasn't actually fixed with the patch.
Yes, it's possible that it's innocuous, but we'll never really know for sure, and questioning the integrity of an outfit that behaves like that is the only way to preserve democracy as we know it.
Actually, all counties in Washington state use all mail voting. I do believe that there is a vote in person option for disabilities, but that's it.
We just switched over completely a while back, I think the next election might be the first all mail vote here.