Long time ago in another era, when the government cut taxes, the companies invested the savings in America, it lead to job growth, economic growth and increased tax revenues down the line. It made sense to cut taxes then. Dem JFK cut capital gains taxes. Rep Reagan cut top marginal rates. But that was then and it is now. Since 1984 FDI Foreign Direct Investment flowing into Taiwan, Korea, China, Phillipines, Singapore etc amounted to trillions of dollars. Now a days if US government cuts taxes, the corporations use the savings to build factories in China. So the old argument tax-will-foster-economic growth does not cut it anymore.
Further there is no down side to moving HQ offshore, to avoid taxes. Becoming a Panama flag flying ship or any such thing. When Somali pirates pirate ships, it is the US Navy that does the rescue even if the ship is registered in Panama. When there is no down side all the corporations will just go where the taxes are low.
Now that we have brain washed most Americans to vicereally hate taxes, whether it makes sense or not, the corporations have no down side at all. And we wonder why there are 40 million Americans without healthcare, why our infrastructure is crumbling and why there is no real wage growth in USA.
Why is FCC doing its press releases in a proprietary vendor lock in format? Haven't they heard of ODF? We should demand FCC and all government agencies to release their documents in a vendor neutral or vendor agnostic format.
I was very much worried when I got Verizon FiOS. The Verizon supplied router is actually a linux box that has a web server and it throws a username/password dialog to the WAN side. I was worried so much I had another old router behind the Verizon router and connected my machines to this second router. But the other router was
old and it maxed out at 10Mbps and FiOS was delivering 20Mbps. So I did some googling. Found that Verizon has been shipping that kind of routers for more than 5 years and so far no hack has been found. So I removed my second line of defense. Looks like it is a prudent idea to buy a more capable modern router and protect
the machines from possible future hacks.
A good rule of thumb could be to divide any of those numbers at least by 2 to get a better picture of realty.
I applied your correction factor to the number 2 you mentioned and that changed the correction factor to 1. Now that means your correction factor is back to 2. Now I am stuck in endless recursion and am going to run out stack and coredump.
There are people who have taken short positions and long positions and they actually need the security to close their positions etc. Since almost everyone else has lost interest in the whole thing, you need to pay the equivalent of "shipping and handling" to the market maker to get share certificates. Mostly no one holds the certs, so it will all end up as making proper entries in the stock registrars like Pershing' computers and data bases. That explains the nonzero value for these shares.
Why would Microsoft submit its extension to Mozilla and follow the standard operating procedures as far as the dot net thingie is concerned? The user base and use cases for Mozilla/Firefox has always been, you get extensions from one authorized source. That is mozilla.org. If Microsoft wants an enabler they should just submit it to mozilla.org. Installing it in stealth mode is not expected from mozilla user base.
Further, why is Mozilla.org is allowing a mode where any Tom Dick or Harry can drop in a bunch of files in the install directory and suddenly all the users get the extension on by default? Since it is in the instal dir, individual users cant even disable them or uninstall them. The existence of such a mode itself is a big security hole.
If IE has a hole and allows a drive by download of a file into Firefox install dir, boom, you get a vulnerability in Firefox. Already there are reports that installing an HP printer gives and unwanted, unasked for and unpermitted extension added to Firefox. Now every software you install is going to want to add a tool bar or an extension to Firefox.
I wish Firefox will just disallow such a way of installing extensions. The cardinal rule, as for as Firefox is concerned, is that the users rule. They control their browser, they decide which extensions are allowed, which scripts are allowed to run, which user agent string is sent out, whether or not to allow java, applet, or javascript or flash or silverlight or whatever. For corporate deployment, the Mozilla team might allow a script based instal on all machines in a corporate network using proper authentication procedures, like Corportate IT dept has local sysadmin privilege, so they come in and install an extension, and even disable its uninstall option, but that is all done outside the browser using the standard corporate deployment procedures. Allowing anyone to dump cruft in a particular folder and suddenly everybody gets the cruft is totally against the expectations of the standard mozilla firefox user.
They why are you not posting as the Anonymous Coward Junior? Eh? Anonymous is for the peasants and plebs right? And Your Exalted Highness would like to be known as Junior J Junior III...
Because Microsoft is willing to pay overtly or under the table to keep linux off the sub notebooks. Who knows what secret deal Acer had with Microsoft to kill off Linux? Now Android is on the block. Another opportunity for it to shake Microsoft down for some more money to keep Android off. Then some more shakedowns to keep Chrome off subnetbooks. At some point even Microsoft will realize the folly and get out, leaving the playing field level for Linux, Android and Chrome.
Before you all get worked up realize that 8 times the intended dose does not mean it was over the exposure limit or dangerous levels. That too just 200 people. Come on get some perspectives ok? It was not long ago we were permitting shoe salesmen to Xray the foot to check the fit of shoes on people. And it was not even pulsed. Continuous, high level radiation.
For comparison remember more people are killed by vending machines and by falling off the roof putting up the christmas lights.
The main reason is to be incompatible with everyone else. Microsofties knew backslash was an escape character in most unix shells. So they must use it to add as much pain to those people using Command line interface. Also when Win98 came out they added spaces in file names specifically because that will have to be escaped in any shell. But forward slashes work fine in the api. From any code, you could use fopen("c:/foo.txt","r") and it will work just like fopen("C:\foo.txt","r") in Windows.
He might still do it.
He could very easily say, "I was in shock I did not even know what was happening. Now that the effect is sinking in to me, I declare, I have not done anything to deserve it. "
He was nominated for the prize two weeks after inauguration. Upto that point his only accomplishments were announcing his intention to close Gitmo, and promising to shovel a trillion dollars to the failing financial instituitions.
It is a deliberate underhanded attempt by NASA to deny the livelihoods of thousands of Americans who survive by peddling the NASA moon landing conspiracy theories. NASA tries to prove beyond doubt, and create thousands of eye witnesses of NASA's ability to actually send a rocket all the way to the moon. This must be stopped.
Wait. I am getting a late feed from Conspiracy Central.
...
Looks like NASA has launched a large white glass plate and placed it in near earth orbit. It is sitting exactly in the line of sight from Earth to moon. People normally see through this the real Moon. But at the appointed time, NASA will project an image using lasers and create an illusion of a spacecraft crashing into moon, and then turn off the projection. Ha, haa, NASA, we got you. We got you all figured it out. Your jig is up. We will not be denied our meal ticket no matter what you do.
OK. Me first. Got dibs on Andromeda. Poor chaps what will they do when they discover that we had filed the plans to build a highway through them and taped it to the underside of a sink in an unused bath room in a dark basement guarded by leopards?
There was a time, when Microsoft was praised to high heavens and no IT guy ever got fired for buying Microsoft. Among the hatebois, fanbois and shills, the saner voices got lost.
Now the pendulum is swinging far more on the opposite side, and as usual the balance has shifted from fanbois to hatebois and shills continue their shillings and as usual the saner voices will be drowned.
If Microsofties think it is unfair critique playing to the galleries, just remember it is just regression to the mean and correction for the undeserved praise they bought earlier
What about the shills in the media? What about whole companies, think tanks, consultancies whose sole purpose is get paid to talk highly about those who paid them money? You think Gartner would survive without the constantly milking Microsoft to produce dubious "Total Cost of Ownership" and such rot? What about the politicians who blatantly act on the interest of their campaign donors while piously touting the insane, ridiculous, irrelevant nonsense sanctimoniously?
I really want the conflicts of interest disclosed. By bloggers too. But far more importantly the conflicts of interest by media shills, credit rating agencies, politicians, think tanks and policy institutes and lobbyists must also be disclosed, with lot more stringent requirements.
It definitely did not take 100 years. I saw the satellite footage of earth after being struck by the asterioid/comet in the Discovery Channel. It took less than 5 minutes. In fact mammals that survived evolved into full fledged humans by the end of the program, less than 25 minutes later. It would have been sooner, but the evolution took many breaks and went into statis to accommodate the advertisers. It was really kind of Stephen Jay Gould to have provided for punctuated equilibrium, otherwise the Discovery Channel would not have been able to insert these commercials.
Why should your bank have a right to your SSN? Only your employer and the SSA have an actual need for the number, to remit the required payments
To report the interest income you have earned ostensibly. But also to reduce money laundering and white collar crime, all transactions above some limit, 5K I think (Imagine, if only Elliot Spitzer was hooked on hookers costing less than 5K per charge he might not have been caught).
Before you fly off the handle about the unnecessary government intrusion, this watch is one of the main reasons why the developed economies do so well, and the corruption is rampant in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.
Think about it, one dollar in your wallet has the same value as one dollar in your name in the bank. One million dollars in a suitcase does not have the same value as one million dollars in your name in the bank/stock market. That is why crime that generates huge cash flow like drugs and prostitution are not able to subvert our law enforcement with huge bribes. I have lived in India. I know how corrupting suitcases stuffed with money can be. So, yes, it is a good thing, bank knows your SSN and reports all transactions above a value to the feds.
The insurance company corporate HQ is all gloom and doom today. Cure for cancer found, people are going to live longer, it will definitely cut into the company profits. The CEOs bonus may even decline by as much as 0.5 Billion dollars (from 2B$). Something must be done.
Our intrepid CEO comes up with a plan. "Let us hire some PR firms to funnel money to our usual shills in the media. Project finding cure for cancer as the major motivation for so many young people to choose medical career and be a general do goody nobody etc etc. So let us paint this cure for cancer in the blackest possible terms. Let us get some astro turfers and scare the politicians that we have not (yet) bought. On the double. I want the cure for cancer canceled by the end of this week. Let us pull it together. We need to save our way of life. OK executive flunkies? Now Scram. My tee time is in 20 minutes. Where is my helicopter?"
Technically so did zebras, catfish, and conservatives.
Though technically true, conservatives must have branched off much much earlier than zebras and catfish. Both zebras and catfish have brains and hearts.
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Further there is no down side to moving HQ offshore, to avoid taxes. Becoming a Panama flag flying ship or any such thing. When Somali pirates pirate ships, it is the US Navy that does the rescue even if the ship is registered in Panama. When there is no down side all the corporations will just go where the taxes are low.
Now that we have brain washed most Americans to vicereally hate taxes, whether it makes sense or not, the corporations have no down side at all. And we wonder why there are 40 million Americans without healthcare, why our infrastructure is crumbling and why there is no real wage growth in USA.
Why is FCC doing its press releases in a proprietary vendor lock in format? Haven't they heard of ODF? We should demand FCC and all government agencies to release their documents in a vendor neutral or vendor agnostic format.
I was very much worried when I got Verizon FiOS. The Verizon supplied router is actually a linux box that has a web server and it throws a username/password dialog to the WAN side. I was worried so much I had another old router behind the Verizon router and connected my machines to this second router. But the other router was old and it maxed out at 10Mbps and FiOS was delivering 20Mbps. So I did some googling. Found that Verizon has been shipping that kind of routers for more than 5 years and so far no hack has been found. So I removed my second line of defense. Looks like it is a prudent idea to buy a more capable modern router and protect the machines from possible future hacks.
... There it is considered positively old fashioned and prudish to stop with just lap dances. The competition is sure to be offering a lot more.
You are a shill. Honest advice? First disclose your ties and vested interests. Do you get a cut of share point sales too? Gregory Bullard?
A good rule of thumb could be to divide any of those numbers at least by 2 to get a better picture of realty.
I applied your correction factor to the number 2 you mentioned and that changed the correction factor to 1. Now that means your correction factor is back to 2. Now I am stuck in endless recursion and am going to run out stack and coredump.
There are people who have taken short positions and long positions and they actually need the security to close their positions etc. Since almost everyone else has lost interest in the whole thing, you need to pay the equivalent of "shipping and handling" to the market maker to get share certificates. Mostly no one holds the certs, so it will all end up as making proper entries in the stock registrars like Pershing' computers and data bases. That explains the nonzero value for these shares.
Further, why is Mozilla.org is allowing a mode where any Tom Dick or Harry can drop in a bunch of files in the install directory and suddenly all the users get the extension on by default? Since it is in the instal dir, individual users cant even disable them or uninstall them. The existence of such a mode itself is a big security hole. If IE has a hole and allows a drive by download of a file into Firefox install dir, boom, you get a vulnerability in Firefox. Already there are reports that installing an HP printer gives and unwanted, unasked for and unpermitted extension added to Firefox. Now every software you install is going to want to add a tool bar or an extension to Firefox.
I wish Firefox will just disallow such a way of installing extensions. The cardinal rule, as for as Firefox is concerned, is that the users rule. They control their browser, they decide which extensions are allowed, which scripts are allowed to run, which user agent string is sent out, whether or not to allow java, applet, or javascript or flash or silverlight or whatever. For corporate deployment, the Mozilla team might allow a script based instal on all machines in a corporate network using proper authentication procedures, like Corportate IT dept has local sysadmin privilege, so they come in and install an extension, and even disable its uninstall option, but that is all done outside the browser using the standard corporate deployment procedures. Allowing anyone to dump cruft in a particular folder and suddenly everybody gets the cruft is totally against the expectations of the standard mozilla firefox user.
They why are you not posting as the Anonymous Coward Junior? Eh? Anonymous is for the peasants and plebs right? And Your Exalted Highness would like to be known as Junior J Junior III...
Because Microsoft is willing to pay overtly or under the table to keep linux off the sub notebooks. Who knows what secret deal Acer had with Microsoft to kill off Linux? Now Android is on the block. Another opportunity for it to shake Microsoft down for some more money to keep Android off. Then some more shakedowns to keep Chrome off subnetbooks. At some point even Microsoft will realize the folly and get out, leaving the playing field level for Linux, Android and Chrome.
For comparison remember more people are killed by vending machines and by falling off the roof putting up the christmas lights.
The main reason is to be incompatible with everyone else. Microsofties knew backslash was an escape character in most unix shells. So they must use it to add as much pain to those people using Command line interface. Also when Win98 came out they added spaces in file names specifically because that will have to be escaped in any shell. But forward slashes work fine in the api. From any code, you could use fopen("c:/foo.txt","r") and it will work just like fopen("C:\foo.txt","r") in Windows.
He might still do it. He could very easily say, "I was in shock I did not even know what was happening. Now that the effect is sinking in to me, I declare, I have not done anything to deserve it. "
He was nominated for the prize two weeks after inauguration. Upto that point his only accomplishments were announcing his intention to close Gitmo, and promising to shovel a trillion dollars to the failing financial instituitions.
Looks like NASA has launched a large white glass plate and placed it in near earth orbit. It is sitting exactly in the line of sight from Earth to moon. People normally see through this the real Moon. But at the appointed time, NASA will project an image using lasers and create an illusion of a spacecraft crashing into moon, and then turn off the projection. Ha, haa, NASA, we got you. We got you all figured it out. Your jig is up. We will not be denied our meal ticket no matter what you do.
OK. Me first. Got dibs on Andromeda. Poor chaps what will they do when they discover that we had filed the plans to build a highway through them and taped it to the underside of a sink in an unused bath room in a dark basement guarded by leopards?
There! Corrected it for you.
nah. Karl Rove is very much knowable.
Now the pendulum is swinging far more on the opposite side, and as usual the balance has shifted from fanbois to hatebois and shills continue their shillings and as usual the saner voices will be drowned.
If Microsofties think it is unfair critique playing to the galleries, just remember it is just regression to the mean and correction for the undeserved praise they bought earlier
I really want the conflicts of interest disclosed. By bloggers too. But far more importantly the conflicts of interest by media shills, credit rating agencies, politicians, think tanks and policy institutes and lobbyists must also be disclosed, with lot more stringent requirements.
It definitely did not take 100 years. I saw the satellite footage of earth after being struck by the asterioid/comet in the Discovery Channel. It took less than 5 minutes. In fact mammals that survived evolved into full fledged humans by the end of the program, less than 25 minutes later. It would have been sooner, but the evolution took many breaks and went into statis to accommodate the advertisers. It was really kind of Stephen Jay Gould to have provided for punctuated equilibrium, otherwise the Discovery Channel would not have been able to insert these commercials.
To report the interest income you have earned ostensibly. But also to reduce money laundering and white collar crime, all transactions above some limit, 5K I think (Imagine, if only Elliot Spitzer was hooked on hookers costing less than 5K per charge he might not have been caught). Before you fly off the handle about the unnecessary government intrusion, this watch is one of the main reasons why the developed economies do so well, and the corruption is rampant in India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.
Think about it, one dollar in your wallet has the same value as one dollar in your name in the bank. One million dollars in a suitcase does not have the same value as one million dollars in your name in the bank/stock market. That is why crime that generates huge cash flow like drugs and prostitution are not able to subvert our law enforcement with huge bribes. I have lived in India. I know how corrupting suitcases stuffed with money can be. So, yes, it is a good thing, bank knows your SSN and reports all transactions above a value to the feds.
"No particular group has a monopoly on the skills needed to be a capable identity thief who gets got and has left enough trail to be sent to jail."
There! corrected it for you.
Our intrepid CEO comes up with a plan. "Let us hire some PR firms to funnel money to our usual shills in the media. Project finding cure for cancer as the major motivation for so many young people to choose medical career and be a general do goody nobody etc etc. So let us paint this cure for cancer in the blackest possible terms. Let us get some astro turfers and scare the politicians that we have not (yet) bought. On the double. I want the cure for cancer canceled by the end of this week. Let us pull it together. We need to save our way of life. OK executive flunkies? Now Scram. My tee time is in 20 minutes. Where is my helicopter?"
Though technically true, conservatives must have branched off much much earlier than zebras and catfish. Both zebras and catfish have brains and hearts.