We had the most incompetent sys admin I had seen when our company was in infancy. Slacked off most of the time. So he convinced the receptionist to step and fix urgent things like printer queue issues and restarting print server etc. How? Below the large monthly planner she had on the front desk, was a whole bunch of post-it notes. Each note started with su password and then some commands. About 10 or 15 of them. Worst. Sysadmin. Ever.
A grad student named Bala Swaminathan in Washington University added one of the strangest extensions to EMACS. Support for Tamil language!. As you can see, those days there were no font support for non Romance language. Our goal was to help people post in Usenet using Tamil. So Bala Swaminathan came up with an ASCII glyph for each Tamil letter. So as you type the phonetic key sequence in an English keyboard, as soon as the Tamil phoneme is recognized, the ASCII glyph will be inserted into the display. If you are on a X terminal and set the font to 2 points, you can actually read Tamil in the EMACS editor! What you see on the screen is not what is saved in the document. It was one hell of a hack.
Found the original release and FAQ and documentation.
I actually wrote an extension that will convert that document into a LaTeX document, with actual post script Tamil font support. You could print in Tamil from the Madurai encoded Tamil document. Fun times, 26 years ago!
Between 1980 and 2013, the share of the total income of the top 5% went up by a factor of 2, and the tax burden rose by roughly the same portion.
But 90% of the people in the top 5% are also getting a raw deal and are shafted. It is the top 0.5% that is reaping all the benefits of the growth. Their share of the income went up by a factor of 10, and their portion of taxes remained the same. That tax burden is borne by the people in the 99.5% to 90% bracket. Below 90% level they have neither the income, nor the tax burden.
Elon spoke frankly and with candor about the technology. Most other manufacturers don't do that. They hide behind bland statements and corporate spokesman. They have learnt it the hard way, being frank and open leads to law suits. So they hide behind these bland useless press releases. That makes them look cagey and shifting, and when something actually comes out, it is seen a lot more harshly it deserves. Let us see what happens in this crash.
"Profits made in Ireland" "profit due to sales in EU" are all really meaningless. Apple A sells something to Apple B. It can price it such that A makes 100% of the profit or vice versa or any percentage it chooses. We do not want governments to enact laws, regulation about these internal details. Enforcement will be difficult, and compliance will be too onerous to the companies.
What USA says is, "don't care who makes the profit where. Your total tax burden can not be below this threshold. Pay this much tax to any jurisdiction you choose, using whatever law/accounting practice you want. If all the taxes paid to all the foreign governments do not add up to this threshold, you owe the
rest to US government".
This is a very logical, clean, simple effort to derail the race to the bottom. But industry spins it as "US government taxes world wide income! Onerous, We don't owe US government for profits made outside USA!" No USA does not really want to tax profits made abroad. USA just wants to make sure you don't play one country against another to reduce your tax burden. We just don't want you to game the system. Pay X% as tax to any government you choose.
What all these companies do is to shift profits. Apple USA sells the right to use Apple brandname and products to Apple UK. At what price? You can sell it at high price, and Apple UK will make a loss, Apple USA will make a profit, Apple pays tax in USA. Or it can sell it at some bargain basement price, make no profit in America, and make ALL its profit in UK. It is completely arbitrary and it is completely at the discretion of Apple.
USA does not want to mess with the internal of the company or how it prices and deals with different divisions internally. All USA is saying is, we will tax you on worldwide income. You declare profits anyway you want, anywhere you want, pay whatever taxes you want to pay to any government you want to pay. If by US law you would have paid X$ as taxes, you pay that much in tax. If all the taxes you have paid to all other governments does not add up to X$, you pay the rest to ?USA. This is completely logical, completely made with one goal. To stop companies from racing to the bottom. Companies shop around for governments to pay the least overall tax. What USA wants to do is to make sure that they can't race to the bottom.
You declare profit anywhere you want, pay any tax due to any government. But overall you can not reduce your tax burden below a certain threshold. That is the stand taken by the US government. It is entirely logical and necessary to prevent the race to the bottom. Only people fooled by the billionaire funded media and the paid shills of them believe USA is taxing too much and the corporations are victims.
What Ireland did to Europe is exactly what Europe is doing to America. We should cite this European ruling as a precedent and hit Apple with 2 billion dollars of dodged taxes.
The corporate tax has been shrinking in America and the burden has been foisted on individuals. It is time to reverse the decades old trend.
I am from India. My uncle suddenly lopped off 25 years from his age.
He was working as a village karnam a hereditary village official assisting land tax office and other official government work. A coupld of decades after the independence, the government decided to abolish the heridiatry position and regularize them all as "village officers". Part of the application process was filling documents for age and dates of birth. My dad told him government retiremnet age was 58 and he would be retired in 13 years or so. He did not want to suffer the loss of income. One of the official forms of documentation for date of birth was an affidavit fron the village karnam. So he issued himself an affidavit proclaiming him to be 20 years old!. Only adverse consequence was his traditional Hindu ceremonies he had to do as he turned 60 all had to be done in secret, lest the government becomes aware of his true age!
Was thinking all the birthers could have gone to Kenya. The could find a local dynamic_cast(village karnam) to issue birth certificates for any one for any date.
It had a one year free use, and 1$ a year, 5$ for five year price back when it started. I am a paid user of WhatsApp. It has no right to share my phone number with facebook. I don't even have a face book page, I have taken steps to stay away from Linkedin and Facebook.
FAA did not say no to any of these things. All it said was, "ridesharing is commercial aviation. Pilots must comply with certification, aircraft must be deemed airworthy by FAA standards". Once you meet these criteria, then FAA will not stop ride sharing.
Are you sure they were just lazy? Is it possible to see if any of the arresting officers got any unexplained influx of money or wealth? Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from corruption. Sufficiently advanced corruption is often disguised as incompetence.
What? Desi coders read documentation? I thought the standard operating procedure for desi shops is to mark the project done, when it compiles. It does not run? File defect report!
They have gone a level above, test-driven-development to user filed critical defects driven development. Why pay for QA when the users will do the testing for free?
Penetrating networks airgapped from the internet is difficult, and this novel technique is interesting. But, in the real world, dropping a few thumb drives with malware in the parking lots or getting people to listen/watch music CD/movie DVDs with a malware payload seems to have been very effective. Bribing a janitor to plug in a thumbdrive in an exposed usb port of a computer is a lot easier.
My name is Abooloosaa Qui`d Ubololso, Prince, and Son of a Prince, and Grandson of a Prince,
who called the river bo, the sky so`ck.
I am in possession of a bank account that holds 15.4 million dollars. This money was conned out
of a foolish American businessman. But unfortunately, before we could empty the account, our
ring leader has been arrested. For legal reasons I can not appear in person to collect the money.
Please help me present you as the rightful owner of that money, a foolish man, conned by us. Once
you take possession of the money, I plead with you to be honest and give us our fair share, just
5 million dollars. The rest you can keep for your efforts.
The bludgeon with which Microsoft killed all its competition was a killer feature called WYSIWYG. It integrated formatting with content with ridiculous things like the default printer. Change the printer and suddenly all the fonts not supported by the printer will be replaced by some other supported font. All the managers who are still in Microsoft have been promoted to positions way beyond their competence and they all worship at the altar of WYSISWYG, the God that delivered them de-facto monopoly. They all believe they have offended their God and that is why they are getting thulpped and schlupped and run circles around in the market place. And then continue to do chicken sacrifices and breaking 108 coconuts hoping their God will be pacified and will shower them with bounty once again.
They took HTML designed to from ground up to separate content from formatting, with graceful degradation of performance on less powerful hardware as the design goal. And slapped it, and whipped it into submission to make Word document display exactly as it is in HTML.
The damage Microsoft has done to computing will take decades to reverse.
Even Sanders realizes that the bias of DNC is not the reason he lost. If he thinks the election was stolen from him, he would not have endorsed HRC as strongly as he did. The email shows the normal palace intrigue, backstabbing and gossip. It is not even as embarrassing as the Sony leak. No ethnic jokes, no racist jokes being forwarded.
If you put a secret microphone near the watercooler of any American company and release raw audio and transcript of all the talk, you would find lot more sleazy things than what you find in the DNC email dump.
First all the viewers must sit quite still and not move outside a narrow band in their seats. Even after that each seat gets a slice projected to it. Though the projected image fills your field of vision, it is a narrow slice and the brightness perceived will be less. Anyway the effect will be more like the 3D image on printed magazine covers like Nat Geo. With color bleeding fringing and 3D in some small central area and quite blurry in the periphery.
I have traveled in India extensively in trains. My mom has actually dissolved baby formula in the condensed steam from the locomotives to feed me. (Indian loco drivers are kind to mothers traveling with infants). No, 99% of the land is not being left untouched. Even while traveling through the Western ghats and all the tunnels, or through the Chambal valley in Madya Pradesh, through the Vindhyas ranges, or Aravalli ranges... The signs of human habitation are ubiquitous.
Farming every tiny itsy bitsy pieces of flat ground, herding goats and cows in the slopes strewn with rock, making one wonder what do these goats eat? rocks? There are no untouched pieces of virgin forests left in India. Not in significant quantities.
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We had the most incompetent sys admin I had seen when our company was in infancy. Slacked off most of the time. So he convinced the receptionist to step and fix urgent things like printer queue issues and restarting print server etc. How? Below the large monthly planner she had on the front desk, was a whole bunch of post-it notes. Each note started with su password and then some commands. About 10 or 15 of them. Worst. Sysadmin. Ever.
Found the original release and FAQ and documentation. I actually wrote an extension that will convert that document into a LaTeX document, with actual post script Tamil font support. You could print in Tamil from the Madurai encoded Tamil document. Fun times, 26 years ago!
This emacs is such wonderful operating system. It is hampered by not having a good text editor. Has someone ported vi to emacs, yet?
But 90% of the people in the top 5% are also getting a raw deal and are shafted. It is the top 0.5% that is reaping all the benefits of the growth. Their share of the income went up by a factor of 10, and their portion of taxes remained the same. That tax burden is borne by the people in the 99.5% to 90% bracket. Below 90% level they have neither the income, nor the tax burden.
Elon spoke frankly and with candor about the technology. Most other manufacturers don't do that. They hide behind bland statements and corporate spokesman. They have learnt it the hard way, being frank and open leads to law suits. So they hide behind these bland useless press releases. That makes them look cagey and shifting, and when something actually comes out, it is seen a lot more harshly it deserves. Let us see what happens in this crash.
Why do you assume they are smarter than us? When are you going to accept Earth Exceptionalism as the universal phenomena?
Rapid Unplanned Disassembly is the term they use.
What USA says is, "don't care who makes the profit where. Your total tax burden can not be below this threshold. Pay this much tax to any jurisdiction you choose, using whatever law/accounting practice you want. If all the taxes paid to all the foreign governments do not add up to this threshold, you owe the rest to US government".
This is a very logical, clean, simple effort to derail the race to the bottom. But industry spins it as "US government taxes world wide income! Onerous, We don't owe US government for profits made outside USA!" No USA does not really want to tax profits made abroad. USA just wants to make sure you don't play one country against another to reduce your tax burden. We just don't want you to game the system. Pay X% as tax to any government you choose.
USA does not want to mess with the internal of the company or how it prices and deals with different divisions internally. All USA is saying is, we will tax you on worldwide income. You declare profits anyway you want, anywhere you want, pay whatever taxes you want to pay to any government you want to pay. If by US law you would have paid X$ as taxes, you pay that much in tax. If all the taxes you have paid to all other governments does not add up to X$, you pay the rest to ?USA. This is completely logical, completely made with one goal. To stop companies from racing to the bottom. Companies shop around for governments to pay the least overall tax. What USA wants to do is to make sure that they can't race to the bottom.
You declare profit anywhere you want, pay any tax due to any government. But overall you can not reduce your tax burden below a certain threshold. That is the stand taken by the US government. It is entirely logical and necessary to prevent the race to the bottom. Only people fooled by the billionaire funded media and the paid shills of them believe USA is taxing too much and the corporations are victims.
The corporate tax has been shrinking in America and the burden has been foisted on individuals. It is time to reverse the decades old trend.
He was working as a village karnam a hereditary village official assisting land tax office and other official government work. A coupld of decades after the independence, the government decided to abolish the heridiatry position and regularize them all as "village officers". Part of the application process was filling documents for age and dates of birth. My dad told him government retiremnet age was 58 and he would be retired in 13 years or so. He did not want to suffer the loss of income. One of the official forms of documentation for date of birth was an affidavit fron the village karnam. So he issued himself an affidavit proclaiming him to be 20 years old!. Only adverse consequence was his traditional Hindu ceremonies he had to do as he turned 60 all had to be done in secret, lest the government becomes aware of his true age!
Was thinking all the birthers could have gone to Kenya. The could find a local dynamic_cast(village karnam) to issue birth certificates for any one for any date.
[*] I am using the formula dleta_t=(sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2) + poetic_license(liberal_dose)).
Hope a paid alternative to WhatsApp emerges.
Windows is not done, till Kindle won't run.
FAA did not say no to any of these things. All it said was, "ridesharing is commercial aviation. Pilots must comply with certification, aircraft must be deemed airworthy by FAA standards". Once you meet these criteria, then FAA will not stop ride sharing.
Are you sure they were just lazy? Is it possible to see if any of the arresting officers got any unexplained influx of money or wealth? Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from corruption. Sufficiently advanced corruption is often disguised as incompetence.
They have gone a level above, test-driven-development to user filed critical defects driven development. Why pay for QA when the users will do the testing for free?
Penetrating networks airgapped from the internet is difficult, and this novel technique is interesting. But, in the real world, dropping a few thumb drives with malware in the parking lots or getting people to listen/watch music CD/movie DVDs with a malware payload seems to have been very effective. Bribing a janitor to plug in a thumbdrive in an exposed usb port of a computer is a lot easier.
My name is Abooloosaa Qui`d Ubololso, Prince, and Son of a Prince, and Grandson of a Prince, who called the river bo, the sky so`ck.
I am in possession of a bank account that holds 15.4 million dollars. This money was conned out of a foolish American businessman. But unfortunately, before we could empty the account, our ring leader has been arrested. For legal reasons I can not appear in person to collect the money.
Please help me present you as the rightful owner of that money, a foolish man, conned by us. Once you take possession of the money, I plead with you to be honest and give us our fair share, just 5 million dollars. The rest you can keep for your efforts.
Please contact me ...
They took HTML designed to from ground up to separate content from formatting, with graceful degradation of performance on less powerful hardware as the design goal. And slapped it, and whipped it into submission to make Word document display exactly as it is in HTML.
The damage Microsoft has done to computing will take decades to reverse.
If you put a secret microphone near the watercooler of any American company and release raw audio and transcript of all the talk, you would find lot more sleazy things than what you find in the DNC email dump.
True 737 is not amphibious, but an airbus of similar size successfully landed in the Hudson. Piloted by Salty Cheeseburger or someone named like that.
You sold all the crude oil to the world. Now suffer the consequences of global warming.
First all the viewers must sit quite still and not move outside a narrow band in their seats. Even after that each seat gets a slice projected to it. Though the projected image fills your field of vision, it is a narrow slice and the brightness perceived will be less. Anyway the effect will be more like the 3D image on printed magazine covers like Nat Geo. With color bleeding fringing and 3D in some small central area and quite blurry in the periphery.
Farming every tiny itsy bitsy pieces of flat ground, herding goats and cows in the slopes strewn with rock, making one wonder what do these goats eat? rocks? There are no untouched pieces of virgin forests left in India. Not in significant quantities.