Glad to see they got functionality that WinMo has had since 5.0... Got 5 POPs, an Exchange server, two Hotmail accounts, and Gmail all in a nice little list!
It's not that we hate multitasking. It's that we hate excessive chrome and we hate having our batteries die because some useless crap is running in the background and we forgot about it.
So rather than replace the offending app, or tell the developer to fix a bug in that rogue app, we'll just eliminate an entire, basic category of OS functionality for everyone. Makes sense in a SteveJobsian sort of way...
In addition to Skype running all the time, I also get e-mail (pulled from multiple sources), have IM clients open, listen to music, have my latest eBook open, have WMWiFiRouter running (for my computer connection, and often for serving audio from my laptop to my Squeezebox) and many times have a PowerPoint presentation opened and loaded so it's ready to go when I get to my client's office. Some of us do use actual multitasking...
QUIT HARSHING MY MELLOW, DUDE! I can quit any time I want. Really. I mean it. Thank god I found WiFi here at the Shenzhen airport so I can reply to your post...
They didn't sell 300,000 units in one day, or even one weekend. They sold 300,000 on 4 months of constant hype and reporting, and finally completed those sales in one weekend.
Casinos attract a lot of people full stop. But this is about _internet_ gambling; the desperate, mentally ill, and criminal can stay right where they are.
You would think that if we were concerned about addiction to gambling, we'd outlaw actual casinos, not just online versions. This isn't about caring for addicts or helping people, this is about the State trying to figure out how to control, regulate, and tax this activity. Because if the State isn't getting their "fair share" then no one gets to play...
You know, Internet Addiction Disorder is real. I think we should limit the amount of time you spend on the Internet, because while YOU might not have a problem with it, your neighbor might and if he's on it too much he could lose his job, then his house, and wind up homeless in the emergency room. Or so depressed he blows his house up - and yours too... All the name of the greater good, you know!
No, rather I oppose the Government mandating that certain people MUST earn a wage while interning and that others who intern for the Government are exempted. Make it the same - paid internships are optional, left up to the intern and the company.
Sure you can... But then, are you a resident of the US? If not, then why should the IRS have any right to tax your income? It seems most people here believe that US companies are somehow avoiding all taxation, when in fact they are simply deferring that taxation until it is the best time to repatriate the funds and then pay taxes.
Companies should pay their interns, but at least in the State of Washington teaching students are required to do a year of student teaching which is unpaid/free. I guess the rules for the private world don't apply to the Government entities...
To me, this screams for a simplification of tax law. Here's a thought:
Step 1: Eliminate corporate taxes.
EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD DO! Corporations will move to reduce their costs; people often move or adjust behavior to reduce costs. Taxes are a cost. If you want to keep companies in the US, eliminate the corporate tax. And when you see that in the good market of 2006 corporate taxes were 2.7% of all US Federal tax receipts. Given a current 30% budget deficit, 2.7% is a drop in the bucket.
Eliminate the corporate income tax, and the economy will grow more than enough to cover the slight cut in revenue.
Like anyone can do this (form an overseas company, run your business/consulting income through it) and legally defer your taxes (which is what these companies do). Of course, what the article DIDN'T say is that when those profits are repatriated they are subject to all the taxes normally paid. You can earn it overseas, and keep it there, but when you bring it back you get taxed.
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What good is $10,000,000 overseas when you live in the US? You only benefit when it comes back, and that is when you pay. Just like the corporations.
I'd love to see your breakdown of that $10 trillion; I'd be surprised if it's a third of what you quote (the entire GDP of the world is around $60 trillion; I find it hard to believe that oil companies, automotive companies, and shippers account for 16% of the world's GDP).
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Additionally, the profit margin from those industries tend to run around 5% average (about 8% for oil companies, 3% for automobile manufacturers, and 3% for distribution/transport companies), meaning about $150 billion in profits on a more-realistic $3 trillion in gross revenue.
And funny, that's not much larger than the carbon cap and trade market (estimated to be around $120 billion in 2012). Seems there's a lot of money to be made from a cap-and-trade type scheme. At least as much as people attribute to those unholy trinity you listed...
Are you smoking crack? The global oil industry is worth orders of magnitude more than climate science. Exxon alone have an income around 300 billion dollars per year, and that's just one company among many. What's the value of anyone who'd benefit from misleading people the other way? Er... solar panel and wind turbine manufacturers? Compared to the oil industry they're nothing.
Exxon has a net profit of about $40 billion a year, not $300 billion. They pay about $120 billion in taxes and fees on that. And in terms of dollars of subsidies for resulting power, solar and wind earn about 23 TIMES the subsidy dollars that "Big Oil" gets.
MBH98 - the source code nor the data have ever been published/released for independent verification. In 2005 Mann released something, but the data and code released do NOT produce his famous hockey stick.
Interesting viewpoint. I never read that part in the scientific method where data was to be released only to pre-screened individuals deemed to be worthy of it.
Yes, we should calibrate our models on historic data; of course, that historic data is also quite problematic to look at when you want to discuss the radical heating we're seeing...
Bottom line? When you build a complex, resource-intensive society of ~7 billion people, and run that society really close to the margins of earth's carrying capacity (as we are today), then arbitrarily messing around with a bunch of climate parameters is a stupid idea. It might work out okay, or it might not.
The problems we have with starvation and dehydration and "overpopulation" are purely political - not scientific or production - in basis. Unfortunately, for much of the world food and water aren't considered basic items for everyone but as tools to be used by the powers-that-be to further subjugate or reward their people, at the whim of the despot. See Zimbabwe for a perfect example, where a once prosperous, thriving nation that was a net exporter of food to the rest of Africa has now become a destitute basket-case that cannot even produce enough food for its own people, let alone export (at the same time as its population has been decreasing).
Where are the numbers wrong? Everything's referenced to back up the claims. What don't you like, other than the facts that show your pre-conceived notions to be wrong?
From the studios? No. I know several people who have never bought a DVD or CD, yet have HDDs full of content. And you don't have to walk very far in most countries outside of North America and Western Europe to find tables on the streets lined with copied movies...
I'm not the parent, but I'm also a supporter of repealing the 17th Amendment. When the US was set up, the voice of the people was the House of Representatives, and the voice of the States was the Senate (Senators were selected by the State legislatures). With the passage of the 17th Amendment, the States lost their voice, and we have crept ever-forward from the Republic of States and limited Federal powers.
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Glad to see they got functionality that WinMo has had since 5.0... Got 5 POPs, an Exchange server, two Hotmail accounts, and Gmail all in a nice little list!
It's not that we hate multitasking. It's that we hate excessive chrome and we hate having our batteries die because some useless crap is running in the background and we forgot about it.
So rather than replace the offending app, or tell the developer to fix a bug in that rogue app, we'll just eliminate an entire, basic category of OS functionality for everyone. Makes sense in a SteveJobsian sort of way...
In addition to Skype running all the time, I also get e-mail (pulled from multiple sources), have IM clients open, listen to music, have my latest eBook open, have WMWiFiRouter running (for my computer connection, and often for serving audio from my laptop to my Squeezebox) and many times have a PowerPoint presentation opened and loaded so it's ready to go when I get to my client's office. Some of us do use actual multitasking...
QUIT HARSHING MY MELLOW, DUDE! I can quit any time I want. Really. I mean it. Thank god I found WiFi here at the Shenzhen airport so I can reply to your post...
They didn't sell 300,000 units in one day, or even one weekend. They sold 300,000 on 4 months of constant hype and reporting, and finally completed those sales in one weekend.
Hey, she's not a /. reader!
Casinos attract a lot of people full stop. But this is about _internet_ gambling; the desperate, mentally ill, and criminal can stay right where they are.
You would think that if we were concerned about addiction to gambling, we'd outlaw actual casinos, not just online versions. This isn't about caring for addicts or helping people, this is about the State trying to figure out how to control, regulate, and tax this activity. Because if the State isn't getting their "fair share" then no one gets to play...
You know, Internet Addiction Disorder is real. I think we should limit the amount of time you spend on the Internet, because while YOU might not have a problem with it, your neighbor might and if he's on it too much he could lose his job, then his house, and wind up homeless in the emergency room. Or so depressed he blows his house up - and yours too... All the name of the greater good, you know!
No, rather I oppose the Government mandating that certain people MUST earn a wage while interning and that others who intern for the Government are exempted. Make it the same - paid internships are optional, left up to the intern and the company.
I already figured it out... Fall asleep on a textbook in Braille then read your face during the test...
Lisa Nowak may be looking for a job that would utilize her astronaut skills...
Sure you can... But then, are you a resident of the US? If not, then why should the IRS have any right to tax your income? It seems most people here believe that US companies are somehow avoiding all taxation, when in fact they are simply deferring that taxation until it is the best time to repatriate the funds and then pay taxes.
Companies should pay their interns, but at least in the State of Washington teaching students are required to do a year of student teaching which is unpaid/free. I guess the rules for the private world don't apply to the Government entities...
To me, this screams for a simplification of tax law. Here's a thought:
Step 1: Eliminate corporate taxes.
EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD DO! Corporations will move to reduce their costs; people often move or adjust behavior to reduce costs. Taxes are a cost. If you want to keep companies in the US, eliminate the corporate tax. And when you see that in the good market of 2006 corporate taxes were 2.7% of all US Federal tax receipts. Given a current 30% budget deficit, 2.7% is a drop in the bucket.
Eliminate the corporate income tax, and the economy will grow more than enough to cover the slight cut in revenue.
What good is $10,000,000 overseas when you live in the US? You only benefit when it comes back, and that is when you pay. Just like the corporations.
Additionally, the profit margin from those industries tend to run around 5% average (about 8% for oil companies, 3% for automobile manufacturers, and 3% for distribution/transport companies), meaning about $150 billion in profits on a more-realistic $3 trillion in gross revenue.
And funny, that's not much larger than the carbon cap and trade market (estimated to be around $120 billion in 2012). Seems there's a lot of money to be made from a cap-and-trade type scheme. At least as much as people attribute to those unholy trinity you listed...
Are you smoking crack? The global oil industry is worth orders of magnitude more than climate science. Exxon alone have an income around 300 billion dollars per year, and that's just one company among many. What's the value of anyone who'd benefit from misleading people the other way? Er... solar panel and wind turbine manufacturers? Compared to the oil industry they're nothing.
Exxon has a net profit of about $40 billion a year, not $300 billion. They pay about $120 billion in taxes and fees on that. And in terms of dollars of subsidies for resulting power, solar and wind earn about 23 TIMES the subsidy dollars that "Big Oil" gets.
MBH98 - the source code nor the data have ever been published/released for independent verification. In 2005 Mann released something, but the data and code released do NOT produce his famous hockey stick.
Interesting viewpoint. I never read that part in the scientific method where data was to be released only to pre-screened individuals deemed to be worthy of it.
Yes, we should calibrate our models on historic data; of course, that historic data is also quite problematic to look at when you want to discuss the radical heating we're seeing...
Bottom line? When you build a complex, resource-intensive society of ~7 billion people, and run that society really close to the margins of earth's carrying capacity (as we are today), then arbitrarily messing around with a bunch of climate parameters is a stupid idea. It might work out okay, or it might not.
We're not even close to Earth's carrying capacity. A little basic research should set your mind at ease, unless of course basic facts and logic don't carry weight with you.
The problems we have with starvation and dehydration and "overpopulation" are purely political - not scientific or production - in basis. Unfortunately, for much of the world food and water aren't considered basic items for everyone but as tools to be used by the powers-that-be to further subjugate or reward their people, at the whim of the despot. See Zimbabwe for a perfect example, where a once prosperous, thriving nation that was a net exporter of food to the rest of Africa has now become a destitute basket-case that cannot even produce enough food for its own people, let alone export (at the same time as its population has been decreasing).
Where are the numbers wrong? Everything's referenced to back up the claims. What don't you like, other than the facts that show your pre-conceived notions to be wrong?
From the studios? No. I know several people who have never bought a DVD or CD, yet have HDDs full of content. And you don't have to walk very far in most countries outside of North America and Western Europe to find tables on the streets lined with copied movies...
I'm not the parent, but I'm also a supporter of repealing the 17th Amendment. When the US was set up, the voice of the people was the House of Representatives, and the voice of the States was the Senate (Senators were selected by the State legislatures). With the passage of the 17th Amendment, the States lost their voice, and we have crept ever-forward from the Republic of States and limited Federal powers.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II