Let them be taxed at 90% like in the Eisenhower days
Are you write only? As others have pointed out, the income tax is for "the little people" -- professionals and the middle class. Not the rich.
Let's look at Steve Jobs for a moment. The vast majority of his compensation was stock -- not income. What does that stock represent? Money? No. It represents control of his company. Tax Steve at 90% and he no longer controls Apple, John Sculley does -- or worse -- some government bureaucrat.
Unlike you, I'm not hide bound by anger, envy, and greed. If my standard of living is raised by 10%, I don't care if my neighbors standard of living is raised by 20%. I don't hate them enough to want to cut my standard of living back just because their's increased faster than mine.
While you want to roll back the clock and live in the 50's, I'd rather enjoy the increased standard of living.
First, I believe in a free market. However, the teleco industry is generally a creature of government created and sanctioned monopolies. To claim that the free market has any position in this (either allowing government supported monopolies to extend their influence and power by bidding on the spectrum or by denying them the ability to bid on the spectrum) is wishful thinking at best.
I'm confused. When technology destroys the business model of the RIAA and MPAA we celebrate and point out that those that refuse to adapt should perish. Even though there are real people with real lives invested in the RIAA and MPAA.
When newspapers try to prop up their businesses by suing Google and putting up firewalls, we point to failed business models and the fact that they should adapt or die. Even though there are real people with real lives owning, operating, and working for the newspapers.
Now when it looks like technology is going to disrupt the business model of the UAW, the grocery clerks, the mail men, or countless others we start screaming that it's wrong? Really?
How about some consistency. Either support all buggy whip manufacturers or adapt to a new world where technology replaces more and more jobs -- freeing people up to pursue other interests.
For several years the companies I've worked for combined sick leave with vacation -- too many people were taking "sick leave" when they just wanted a day off. The people who were honest about it got the short end of the stick. So, rather than demand a doctors note that you were sick, the companies combined sick leave with vacation and called it paid time off.
Now Steve Moron thinks he has 3 weeks "vacation" a year when he really has 3 weeks PTO. When's he's sick, he doesn't want to take vacation and comes in and gets everyone else sick.
I would add "reasonable subscription." Our local DVD rental store had a reasonable rate and we were allowed three DVDs out at one time. The movies of course were "two tier" -- older movies and new releases. Our subscription didn't include new releases. When they tripled the cost of the subscription, we cancelled it (and within two months the store was closed).
"If my guy does it, you're just overreacting if you disagree," and "if their guy does it, it's automatically suspect, move along, nothing to see."
Except, you and the guy you are supporting are completely wrong about what's going on here. This really is a Murdock propaganda piece. Look, sometimes a person is reliably and consistently stupid and evil. This means saying "oh, I'm sure Ghengis isn't riding towards those young girls to be nice to them" is not prejudice, just justifiable wisdom. Now your point would be really great if this was an exception. But let's see what I find if I look it up.
Even a blind pig occasionally finds acorns. My oldest made the comment that "children are nothing but a black hole of need." Some PC idiot said "you can't say that, that's racist." The teacher walked by and told her that she wasn't to make such racist comments in the future (and threatened her with explosion).
Universities are no longer liberal institutions where ideas can be freely discussed. Idiocy and censorship do abound. But feel free to shoot the messenger and ignore the problem.
don't think there are laws that could force Google do business with anybody
If Google is declared a monopoly in one area (search) they can have their business practices in other areas restricted. As a nation, France could ban all of Google from all of France. If Google pulls out of France, would France be able to force their hand with regards to all of Europe via the EU?
I think microsoft should beat the shit of nokia and burn them alive. enough with the crap. getting angry for waiting a decent windows phone available on all countries.
Waiting for a decent windows phone? Isn't that a little like waiting for the first openly gay, married, catholic Pope?
I fail to see how destroying competition by undercutting local shops is a good thing for the local economy in the long term. By the time you figure out what is going on, they will own the market, and the small shops will be long gone. You will have no option but to deal with a single merchant. Good luck with that. Be smart. Help the small guys, even if they are a bit more expensive. That will keep things in relative check.
I live in a small town where there was a major push to have everyone "shop local". The loudest advocate was one of the local computer stores. I went in and gave my specs for a high end PC. They quoted $2,600 more than the nearest in-town competitor (and $3,600 more than the lowest price out of town.) Later I wanted another high end part and even though I gave them three chances to quote it,they never even bothered giving me a quote.
Another time my wife and I found another high-end item online. Before purchasing, we went into the local store and said "this is exactly what we want, how much?" They quoted $4,600 more than the online retailer -- and the online retailer included free delivery and set up.
If the local mom and pop locations want to compete they have to be reasonable in their pricing.
On the flip side, when we bought our refrigerator the local store got within the same ball park as one of the big box stores and offered faster delivery. We willing paid extra for the fast service and to keep our business local.
Just graduated with a math (BS) degree myself. My current only options are to fight for entry level programming jobs (which I have a temporary one) or to continue my education and get a degree that's actually useful... nearly every employer wants a minimum of x years of experience in half a dozen different platforms/languages.
This is true for all recent graduates regardless of degree.
But no matter what, you'll have to learn a lot more: be it in the workplace, on your own time, or in school. No getting around that.:p
Free tip if you want to be a professional -- regardless of what profession that is -- you will always need to be learning. At work you can easily spot the professionals versus those that have "retired on the job." The professionals are constantly learning new things, continuing their education, continuing to make themselves of value. When something new comes along (like multi-threading), the others whine that they need someone to teach them; they ask the boss to pay to have someone come in and teach them on the boss' dime.
I think quite a few of 3-letter agencies would beg to differ.
The 3-letter agencies mostly likely put classification (confidential, secret, top secret) on their code which falls into the same category as the summary's the only exceptions will be software that directly affects state security .
I've know a couple of devs with math degrees, and they were excellent.
Mod parent up. A math degree is excellent background for software development. It sounds like the submitter's wife would have terrific skills to bring to a software development team: the obvious of math; the less obvious, dealing with socially awkward teenagers. If she finds that "coding" isn't her thing, there's still requirements gathering and documentation, testing, and project management.
Then, it escaped, because, allegedly, some unwitting Iranian scientist at the facility inadvertently infected his own laptop, while they were attempting to debug the centrifuges. He then brought the laptop home, as the story goes, and connected the infected laptop to the internet, using his personal residential internet connection.
...
Just goes to show that an air gap isn't going to save you, if your attacker is keen.
And just goes to show that even if you have the best security policies in place, some bozo is going to know better than the retards running the IT department and just do things his way.
I believe the old joke was, "In Russia, you can only choose the communist party. In America, you can choose the capitalist party, or the other capitalist party!"
Yeah, but neither one really cares about freedom, capitalism, or free markets except when thumping their chests and running for office. Both are run by Mrs. Grundy who thinks she knows how to live your life better than you do.
The judge has clearly anticipated the appeal, even devoting an entire section to explaining how utterly trivial the 9 lines of actually copied code are...
It is amusing. The judge probably spent several orders of magnitude longer explaining why the lines were trivial than the time it would take to the write the function in the first place.
So let me get this straight, the government is suggesting that government supported monopolies (teleco & cable) change their behavior (in a way negative for the consumer) in one monopoly area in order to help their business in a different monopoly area?
Maybe it's time that the these monopolies are broken up. There is a reasonably obvious need for local monopolies on who owns and maintains the cable infrastructure. There appears less of a need for a monopoly on content providing over that cable. Since they are obviously leveraging the monopoly status in the first to extend the second, it's time to break 'em up.
Mod grandparent up... I also purchased a System76 laptop 8 months ago or so and absolutely love it. It has the full numeric keypad and has real Fn keys. My only complaint would be the touch pad... I hate all touch pads.
While my laptop came pre-installed with Ubuntu, I eventually migrated to Fedora 16. Everything worked on the default installation; no special drivers were required. I hope to not buy another laptop for another 5 or 6 years, but when I do, I'll be looking at System76 first.
Disclaimer: I do not work for, nor own stock in System76. I'm just a very happy customer.
Excuse me? So the reason pharmaceutical companies need long patent times is because they fail often when developing drugs? Yes, that's a really good way of getting the market to work. How about reducing the protection for them so that only the best companies survive and the bad companies go away?
The capitalistic systems of today are starting to look a lot like the old one from the USSR with one (or a few) huge players planning the development for everyone...
Obviously you're pretty ignorant on the concept of research. Who was it that said "if I knew what I was doing it wouldn't be called research"? Even the best researchers don't know ahead of time which drugs will successfully treat the given problem with acceptable side effects.
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Let them be taxed at 90% like in the Eisenhower days
Are you write only? As others have pointed out, the income tax is for "the little people" -- professionals and the middle class. Not the rich.
Let's look at Steve Jobs for a moment. The vast majority of his compensation was stock -- not income. What does that stock represent? Money? No. It represents control of his company. Tax Steve at 90% and he no longer controls Apple, John Sculley does -- or worse -- some government bureaucrat.
Unlike you, I'm not hide bound by anger, envy, and greed. If my standard of living is raised by 10%, I don't care if my neighbors standard of living is raised by 20%. I don't hate them enough to want to cut my standard of living back just because their's increased faster than mine.
While you want to roll back the clock and live in the 50's, I'd rather enjoy the increased standard of living.
First, I believe in a free market. However, the teleco industry is generally a creature of government created and sanctioned monopolies. To claim that the free market has any position in this (either allowing government supported monopolies to extend their influence and power by bidding on the spectrum or by denying them the ability to bid on the spectrum) is wishful thinking at best.
The DoRD Department of Redundacy Department does not do poetry. Please continue.
Actually they do. But it's Vogon poetry.
I'm confused. When technology destroys the business model of the RIAA and MPAA we celebrate and point out that those that refuse to adapt should perish. Even though there are real people with real lives invested in the RIAA and MPAA.
When newspapers try to prop up their businesses by suing Google and putting up firewalls, we point to failed business models and the fact that they should adapt or die. Even though there are real people with real lives owning, operating, and working for the newspapers.
Now when it looks like technology is going to disrupt the business model of the UAW, the grocery clerks, the mail men, or countless others we start screaming that it's wrong? Really?
How about some consistency. Either support all buggy whip manufacturers or adapt to a new world where technology replaces more and more jobs -- freeing people up to pursue other interests.
For several years the companies I've worked for combined sick leave with vacation -- too many people were taking "sick leave" when they just wanted a day off. The people who were honest about it got the short end of the stick. So, rather than demand a doctors note that you were sick, the companies combined sick leave with vacation and called it paid time off.
Now Steve Moron thinks he has 3 weeks "vacation" a year when he really has 3 weeks PTO. When's he's sick, he doesn't want to take vacation and comes in and gets everyone else sick.
I'm confused, the teacher threatened your child or the PC idiot. One outcome is good, the other not.
The teacher threatened to expel my daughter for making "racist" comments. Who knew that astronomical terms are racist.
I would add "reasonable subscription." Our local DVD rental store had a reasonable rate and we were allowed three DVDs out at one time. The movies of course were "two tier" -- older movies and new releases. Our subscription didn't include new releases. When they tripled the cost of the subscription, we cancelled it (and within two months the store was closed).
"If my guy does it, you're just overreacting if you disagree," and "if their guy does it, it's automatically suspect, move along, nothing to see."
Except, you and the guy you are supporting are completely wrong about what's going on here. This really is a Murdock propaganda piece. Look, sometimes a person is reliably and consistently stupid and evil. This means saying "oh, I'm sure Ghengis isn't riding towards those young girls to be nice to them" is not prejudice, just justifiable wisdom. Now your point would be really great if this was an exception. But let's see what I find if I look it up.
Even a blind pig occasionally finds acorns. My oldest made the comment that "children are nothing but a black hole of need." Some PC idiot said "you can't say that, that's racist." The teacher walked by and told her that she wasn't to make such racist comments in the future (and threatened her with explosion).
Universities are no longer liberal institutions where ideas can be freely discussed. Idiocy and censorship do abound. But feel free to shoot the messenger and ignore the problem.
In the 1980's, Unicorn Software had a program for the Apple ][ that allowed the user to read mythology stories -- complete with animated page turning.
don't think there are laws that could force Google do business with anybody
If Google is declared a monopoly in one area (search) they can have their business practices in other areas restricted. As a nation, France could ban all of Google from all of France. If Google pulls out of France, would France be able to force their hand with regards to all of Europe via the EU?
Screw the french fries, they're Belgian !
I have always wondered how the Belgians felt about our labeling their dish as "French fries"? If I was Belgian I kind of think that would annoy me.
The "French" part comes the type of cut of the potato. French cut: sliced lengthwise into long, thin strips.
Calories are only part of a bad diet.
Correct. I find their oatmeal in the morning quick, easy, and cheap. You can also stick to their salads.
I think microsoft should beat the shit of nokia and burn them alive. enough with the crap. getting angry for waiting a decent windows phone available on all countries.
Waiting for a decent windows phone? Isn't that a little like waiting for the first openly gay, married, catholic Pope?
I fail to see how destroying competition by undercutting local shops is a good thing for the local economy in the long term. By the time you figure out what is going on, they will own the market, and the small shops will be long gone. You will have no option but to deal with a single merchant. Good luck with that. Be smart. Help the small guys, even if they are a bit more expensive. That will keep things in relative check.
I live in a small town where there was a major push to have everyone "shop local". The loudest advocate was one of the local computer stores. I went in and gave my specs for a high end PC. They quoted $2,600 more than the nearest in-town competitor (and $3,600 more than the lowest price out of town.) Later I wanted another high end part and even though I gave them three chances to quote it,they never even bothered giving me a quote.
Another time my wife and I found another high-end item online. Before purchasing, we went into the local store and said "this is exactly what we want, how much?" They quoted $4,600 more than the online retailer -- and the online retailer included free delivery and set up.
If the local mom and pop locations want to compete they have to be reasonable in their pricing.
On the flip side, when we bought our refrigerator the local store got within the same ball park as one of the big box stores and offered faster delivery. We willing paid extra for the fast service and to keep our business local.
"dealing with socially awkward teenagers"
There are teenagers on software development teams?
There are socially awkward people functioning at the social level of teenagers. But you knew that (or are one).
Just graduated with a math (BS) degree myself. My current only options are to fight for entry level programming jobs (which I have a temporary one) or to continue my education and get a degree that's actually useful ... nearly every employer wants a minimum of x years of experience in half a dozen different platforms/languages.
This is true for all recent graduates regardless of degree.
But no matter what, you'll have to learn a lot more: be it in the workplace, on your own time, or in school. No getting around that. :p
Free tip if you want to be a professional -- regardless of what profession that is -- you will always need to be learning. At work you can easily spot the professionals versus those that have "retired on the job." The professionals are constantly learning new things, continuing their education, continuing to make themselves of value. When something new comes along (like multi-threading), the others whine that they need someone to teach them; they ask the boss to pay to have someone come in and teach them on the boss' dime.
I think quite a few of 3-letter agencies would beg to differ.
The 3-letter agencies mostly likely put classification (confidential, secret, top secret) on their code which falls into the same category as the summary's the only exceptions will be software that directly affects state security .
I've know a couple of devs with math degrees, and they were excellent.
Mod parent up. A math degree is excellent background for software development. It sounds like the submitter's wife would have terrific skills to bring to a software development team: the obvious of math; the less obvious, dealing with socially awkward teenagers. If she finds that "coding" isn't her thing, there's still requirements gathering and documentation, testing, and project management.
Then, it escaped, because, allegedly, some unwitting Iranian scientist at the facility inadvertently infected his own laptop, while they were attempting to debug the centrifuges. He then brought the laptop home, as the story goes, and connected the infected laptop to the internet, using his personal residential internet connection.
...
Just goes to show that an air gap isn't going to save you, if your attacker is keen.
And just goes to show that even if you have the best security policies in place, some bozo is going to know better than the retards running the IT department and just do things his way.
I believe the old joke was, "In Russia, you can only choose the communist party. In America, you can choose the capitalist party, or the other capitalist party!"
Yeah, but neither one really cares about freedom, capitalism, or free markets except when thumping their chests and running for office. Both are run by Mrs. Grundy who thinks she knows how to live your life better than you do.
I can see a campaign commercial now.
Obama single handily Killed Osama, wrote stuxnet AND snuck it into Iran on a USB key.
USB key? I thought it was a Mac Book Pro ....
The judge has clearly anticipated the appeal, even devoting an entire section to explaining how utterly trivial the 9 lines of actually copied code are...
It is amusing. The judge probably spent several orders of magnitude longer explaining why the lines were trivial than the time it would take to the write the function in the first place.
So let me get this straight, the government is suggesting that government supported monopolies (teleco & cable) change their behavior (in a way negative for the consumer) in one monopoly area in order to help their business in a different monopoly area?
Maybe it's time that the these monopolies are broken up. There is a reasonably obvious need for local monopolies on who owns and maintains the cable infrastructure. There appears less of a need for a monopoly on content providing over that cable. Since they are obviously leveraging the monopoly status in the first to extend the second, it's time to break 'em up.
Mod grandparent up ... I also purchased a System76 laptop 8 months ago or so and absolutely love it. It has the full numeric keypad and has real Fn keys. My only complaint would be the touch pad ... I hate all touch pads.
While my laptop came pre-installed with Ubuntu, I eventually migrated to Fedora 16. Everything worked on the default installation; no special drivers were required. I hope to not buy another laptop for another 5 or 6 years, but when I do, I'll be looking at System76 first.
Disclaimer: I do not work for, nor own stock in System76. I'm just a very happy customer.
Excuse me? So the reason pharmaceutical companies need long patent times is because they fail often when developing drugs? Yes, that's a really good way of getting the market to work. How about reducing the protection for them so that only the best companies survive and the bad companies go away?
The capitalistic systems of today are starting to look a lot like the old one from the USSR with one (or a few) huge players planning the development for everyone...
Obviously you're pretty ignorant on the concept of research. Who was it that said "if I knew what I was doing it wouldn't be called research"? Even the best researchers don't know ahead of time which drugs will successfully treat the given problem with acceptable side effects.