When you are very rich, you can go to $100,000 a plate political dinner parties. Whether you are passionate about politics or not, its really about 1) spending $100,000 on a party because you can, and 2) buying your way into a social circle.
Donating to the right charities is the same thing. It's what gets you to the right parties, get's your name printed in the right periodicals, and so on. It may seem like a waste of money to you and me, but when you have millions (or billions) sitting around, why not spend a few to satisfy a whim.
If I had 2 billion dollars, I would think nothing of spending a million or two to satisfy a trivial desire.
So you're saying he didn't have to pay taxes on 23 billion dollars, but he only actually had to give away 5 billion? That sounds dishonest to me. It's not particularly clever. Most people know how to cheat on their taxes, it isn't hard to figure out. But even if you can't you can pay an accountant to do it for you.
He gives money to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. He donates money to himself. Some of it gets spent, some of it doesn't. He gets to spend it on what he wants, which sounds to me less like donating, and more like buying things you want and earning interest on your own tax write offs!
At first I thought you were responding to this post:
" Plus it is a great teacher of military tactics. Probably better and more efficient than any history teacher could. Plus kids actually learn themselves from experience."
That's about the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
Playing video games is, in fact, a waste of time. That's not to say kids don't have a right to enjoy themselves once in a while. It's no worse than, say, watching TV, which gives most kids something like 20 hours a week to play video games. The difference between playing a video game and say, soccer or wrestling should be apparent. And no, video games do not improve hand-eye coordination.
Open source mostly obsoletes these methodologies. The idea behind them is to hide your code, which is fine for APIs, but especially in scripting languages (except perl) -- it's quicker and more concise to do your configuration in the code. Even with a C program, with the source (and a good makefile), its eaiser to grep (or sed!) for a string you want to replace, and then recompile, than to figure out how to set the right config to the right abstract interface.
The difference is that you don't want to do his job. That's why you'd suck at it. You could be a 'bad manager', which is to say, slightly above average. Most managers can not be techs if they wanted too.
Ask yourself why you don't want to be a manager? You don't want to waste your time? You don't want to deal with politics or BS or insubordinate subordinates? These are all things you could do if you have to, like cleaning toilets. You'd probably do a bad job as a janitor, too, but its not for lack of ability.
Isn't Europe the place that went into a panic and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of animals when symptoms of a benign disease was "detected" that they hadn't bothered to check for before the panic. Several times in the past few years.
I'm not saying common sense and a rudimentary understanding of biology are directly tied to environmental awareness, but there could be at least some correlation, couldn't there?
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Why is the typical evolutionary arguement, "Man descended from lower creatures through natural selection, but man is completely different than all other creatures, by some divine mandate or whatever"
It's one or the other. you can't have it both ways.
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When you are very rich, you can go to $100,000 a plate political dinner parties. Whether you are passionate about politics or not, its really about 1) spending $100,000 on a party because you can, and 2) buying your way into a social circle.
Donating to the right charities is the same thing. It's what gets you to the right parties, get's your name printed in the right periodicals, and so on. It may seem like a waste of money to you and me, but when you have millions (or billions) sitting around, why not spend a few to satisfy a whim.
If I had 2 billion dollars, I would think nothing of spending a million or two to satisfy a trivial desire.
So you're saying he didn't have to pay taxes on 23 billion dollars, but he only actually had to give away 5 billion? That sounds dishonest to me. It's not particularly clever. Most people know how to cheat on their taxes, it isn't hard to figure out. But even if you can't you can pay an accountant to do it for you.
He gives money to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. He donates money to himself. Some of it gets spent, some of it doesn't. He gets to spend it on what he wants, which sounds to me less like donating, and more like buying things you want and earning interest on your own tax write offs!
Dollar-wise he has given less than nothing. It's all tax deductible.
At first I thought you were responding to this post:
" Plus it is a great teacher of military tactics. Probably better and more efficient than any history teacher could. Plus kids actually learn themselves from experience."
That's about the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
Playing video games is, in fact, a waste of time. That's not to say kids don't have a right to enjoy themselves once in a while. It's no worse than, say, watching TV, which gives most kids something like 20 hours a week to play video games. The difference between playing a video game and say, soccer or wrestling should be apparent. And no, video games do not improve hand-eye coordination.
I thought conservatives were pro gun (anti-gun regulation)?
instead of homocidal individuals?
Open source mostly obsoletes these methodologies. The idea behind them is to hide your code, which is fine for APIs, but especially in scripting languages (except perl) -- it's quicker and more concise to do your configuration in the code. Even with a C program, with the source (and a good makefile), its eaiser to grep (or sed!) for a string you want to replace, and then recompile, than to figure out how to set the right config to the right abstract interface.
simple flowchart design:
steps are squares. decisions are diamonds. Use arrows for flow.
write objects as two lists:
methods/interfaces/functions/etc.
variables
start general and move to specifics.
The difference is that you don't want to do his job. That's why you'd suck at it. You could be a 'bad manager', which is to say, slightly above average. Most managers can not be techs if they wanted too.
Ask yourself why you don't want to be a manager? You don't want to waste your time? You don't want to deal with politics or BS or insubordinate subordinates? These are all things you could do if you have to, like cleaning toilets. You'd probably do a bad job as a janitor, too, but its not for lack of ability.
that's what managers tell themselves to make themselves feel better. And they look for the exception to justify their rule.
You're saying nature is a benevolent dictatorship with a single ultimate authority that allows individual choice, but has final say in all things?
What a freaking flawed study
I don't think you can tell anything from his "statistics." Even if they had any relevance.
There are some things that don't require Admin access, but I'd say installing hardware drivers should.
Actually, he was from Connecticut, but he worked in LA or SF
A successful tyranny requires laws that are easily broken. How else would you tyrannize your populace legally?
zen seems to be doing pretty well, monetarily speaking, these days.
Isn't Europe the place that went into a panic and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of animals when symptoms of a benign disease was "detected" that they hadn't bothered to check for before the panic. Several times in the past few years.
I'm not saying common sense and a rudimentary understanding of biology are directly tied to environmental awareness, but there could be at least some correlation, couldn't there?
Why is the typical evolutionary arguement, "Man descended from lower creatures through natural selection, but man is completely different than all other creatures, by some divine mandate or whatever"
It's one or the other. you can't have it both ways.
That's what insurance companies (like Counterpane) tell you. Maybe you should ask someone else what insurance does, in their opinion.
Internet Explorer is not Windows
I thought the funniest part was "institution."
Q. What's the shortest path to build a bridge from Alaska to Australia.
A. Don't build a bridge. Build a boat (or plane)
I think this is a job for the old floppy disk.
typedef struct
{
char CCType[16];
double CCNumber;
unsigned short CCExpDate;
char MD5HashID[128];
} CCData;
1.44 MB / sizeof (CCData) is a lot of records