R
Robert Baer
Guest
John Larkin wrote:
R
Robert Baer
Guest
P E Schoen wrote:
fuss so the same discrimination also applies to them.
Pete and re-pete.
* Why the exception? discriminate WRT one group and others WILL make a
fuss so the same discrimination also applies to them.
Pete and re-pete.
J
Joerg
Guest
On 2015-09-28 6:55 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
I don't believe that for one second.
It makes perfect sense to do that and I am glad that European
universities finally understood it. There are scores of technical
courses held in English only. Which is great because engineers who do
not master English very well will have a hard time to achieve success in
their career.
But this was about students in the US at elementary school and such
where leftists demand that schools accommodate Spanish speakers who
refuse to learn English. I am squarely against that. This country has
only one official language and that is English. So they shall either
learn English or move to a country where Spanish is spoken.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
I don't believe that for one second.
It makes perfect sense to do that and I am glad that European
universities finally understood it. There are scores of technical
courses held in English only. Which is great because engineers who do
not master English very well will have a hard time to achieve success in
their career.
But this was about students in the US at elementary school and such
where leftists demand that schools accommodate Spanish speakers who
refuse to learn English. I am squarely against that. This country has
only one official language and that is English. So they shall either
learn English or move to a country where Spanish is spoken.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
J
Joerg
Guest
On 2015-09-28 5:57 PM, krw wrote:
Exactly. If one would curb H-1B and thereby companies would be forced to
leave some employees overseas then they will eventually move the whole
operations overseas. Because it would make sense, not so much
financially but to facilitate collaboration.
This is something leftists will likely never understand. I have been
part of a few location decisions and it is mindboggling how fast and how
final that process is.
Above you wrote "The salaries range from $75K to somewhere around
$125K". $125k is a princely salary for an engineer, at least outside
Silicon Valley. If that doesn't attract talent then chances are there
aren't enough people available. Plus that salary level indicates a trend
towards a zero-sum game where, inside one country, Peter begins to rob
Paul and vice versa. That is not good for an economy.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Exactly. If one would curb H-1B and thereby companies would be forced to
leave some employees overseas then they will eventually move the whole
operations overseas. Because it would make sense, not so much
financially but to facilitate collaboration.
This is something leftists will likely never understand. I have been
part of a few location decisions and it is mindboggling how fast and how
final that process is.
Above you wrote "The salaries range from $75K to somewhere around
$125K". $125k is a princely salary for an engineer, at least outside
Silicon Valley. If that doesn't attract talent then chances are there
aren't enough people available. Plus that salary level indicates a trend
towards a zero-sum game where, inside one country, Peter begins to rob
Paul and vice versa. That is not good for an economy.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
J
Joerg
Guest
On 2015-09-29 7:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC environment in
Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in some markets. If a
lack of ideological compatibility makes it unlikely that this ever
changes much you can end up with the effects of a brain drain.
Both. But in California the voters revolted and got it stopped. I also
met people in other states such as New York (no ten horses will get me
to live there).
What council? It is enough to see when an old person must leve their
house against their will and for tax reasons. That is flat wrong.
Therefore, I would not live in such an area.
These were people on fixed incomes who were taxed out of their homes. To
me that's communist and evil. Same to the majority of CAlifornia voters
who struck this down.
Fact is, your propaganda about "utter environmental destruction" is wrong.
Has nothing to do with luck, it was methodically planned in the
beginning until self-employment kind of ran by itself.
That is the big mistake. There usually is no meaningful local market for
such engineering skills. But I've told you that before. One must work
country-wide and often worldwide.
Ok, I do have one local client I can reach by bicycle in 21 minutes if I
really step on it. But that's it. Most others are now out of state,
courtesy of a leftist state government that chases companies away. My
highest concentration of clients is in Southern Texas and that does not
surprise me one bit.
So why is it that none of my clients ever asked about my age at the
start? I am not too far from retirement age myself but it simply does
not matter. The only times clients get a hunch about my age is during
online conferencing where the camera catches the facial wrinkles.
Sure they do. However, then it's not so much a dad who hightailed it but
a dad who got killed. Their families rallye around them, family is still
their core value.
I can't follow you there.
Because they usually do.
I live here and my impression is very different.
No, they often provide waiting lists.
After the pre-existing condition exclusion was removed (the only good
thing I ever saw coming out of Obamacare) anyone can buy health
insurance. Even before most people could. For example, I bought ours on
the free market. It's about choice. Some people make poor choices, I
personally know folks who opted to buy a bigger car and forgo health
insurance. One of them will likely lose his house soon because this
backfired when he had a major health event.
Just because you don't understand something that doesn't mean it's not
there.
Don't know what you mean with GFC but under the current administration
the economy will never come back to a roar for the middle class. That's
why we need a change in 2016.
Sure there is. Look again.
[...]
Did they fire the design engineers and managers involved in such gross
negligence? How stupid must a design engineer be to make that mistake?
It has nothing to do with the topic. On a flight you must have two
persons in the cockpit at all times and that's how it has always been at
American carriers. Now Lufthansa learned why, unfortunately the hard way.
Trains are different. A rogue engineer in a locomotive cannot cause
havoc if the system is designed right. Like it is, for example in
Germany and much of Europe. Exceed the sector speed? Locomotive won't
let you. Want to blow past a stop? Locomotive overrides and applies
brakes. Plus there will be an unpleasant "discussion" at the office later.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 00:46:52 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-28 6:31 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 07:42:09 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-26 8:04 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 01:05:57 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-24 9:34 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message
news:d6jig8Fa1dpU1@mid.individual.net...
On 2015-09-24 1:37 PM, rickman wrote:
snip
But she is constrained by a constitution that puts trade
unionists on company boards. And she runs a coalition government
with the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany
which is rather more socialist than her own Christian Democratic
Union, which is - in turn - rather more socialist than US
Democrats.
It is. One of the many reasons I am not there anymore
Engineering opportunity 90% of motivation, ideological compatibility
10%.
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC environment in
Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in some markets. If a
lack of ideological compatibility makes it unlikely that this ever
changes much you can end up with the effects of a brain drain.
Both. But in California the voters revolted and got it stopped. I also
met people in other states such as New York (no ten horses will get me
to live there).
What council? It is enough to see when an old person must leve their
house against their will and for tax reasons. That is flat wrong.
Therefore, I would not live in such an area.
These were people on fixed incomes who were taxed out of their homes. To
me that's communist and evil. Same to the majority of CAlifornia voters
who struck this down.
Fact is, your propaganda about "utter environmental destruction" is wrong.
Has nothing to do with luck, it was methodically planned in the
beginning until self-employment kind of ran by itself.
That is the big mistake. There usually is no meaningful local market for
such engineering skills. But I've told you that before. One must work
country-wide and often worldwide.
Ok, I do have one local client I can reach by bicycle in 21 minutes if I
really step on it. But that's it. Most others are now out of state,
courtesy of a leftist state government that chases companies away. My
highest concentration of clients is in Southern Texas and that does not
surprise me one bit.
So why is it that none of my clients ever asked about my age at the
start? I am not too far from retirement age myself but it simply does
not matter. The only times clients get a hunch about my age is during
online conferencing where the camera catches the facial wrinkles.
Sure they do. However, then it's not so much a dad who hightailed it but
a dad who got killed. Their families rallye around them, family is still
their core value.
I can't follow you there.
Because they usually do.
I live here and my impression is very different.
No, they often provide waiting lists.
After the pre-existing condition exclusion was removed (the only good
thing I ever saw coming out of Obamacare) anyone can buy health
insurance. Even before most people could. For example, I bought ours on
the free market. It's about choice. Some people make poor choices, I
personally know folks who opted to buy a bigger car and forgo health
insurance. One of them will likely lose his house soon because this
backfired when he had a major health event.
Just because you don't understand something that doesn't mean it's not
there.
Don't know what you mean with GFC but under the current administration
the economy will never come back to a roar for the middle class. That's
why we need a change in 2016.
Sure there is. Look again.
[...]
Did they fire the design engineers and managers involved in such gross
negligence? How stupid must a design engineer be to make that mistake?
It has nothing to do with the topic. On a flight you must have two
persons in the cockpit at all times and that's how it has always been at
American carriers. Now Lufthansa learned why, unfortunately the hard way.
Trains are different. A rogue engineer in a locomotive cannot cause
havoc if the system is designed right. Like it is, for example in
Germany and much of Europe. Exceed the sector speed? Locomotive won't
let you. Want to blow past a stop? Locomotive overrides and applies
brakes. Plus there will be an unpleasant "discussion" at the office later.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:18:08 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:
Prop 13 is weird and wonderful. I pay 1/4 the property tax of my
neighbor, who has basically the identical house, but he just bought
it.
The best tax is sales tax. If you want a Porsche or a 4K teevee, buy
it and pay the tax.
Right. Granny shouldn't be taxed out of her house.
wrote:
On 2015-09-29 7:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 00:46:52 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-28 6:31 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 07:42:09 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-26 8:04 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 01:05:57 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-24 9:34 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message
news:d6jig8Fa1dpU1@mid.individual.net...
On 2015-09-24 1:37 PM, rickman wrote:
snip
But she is constrained by a constitution that puts trade
unionists on company boards. And she runs a coalition government
with the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany
which is rather more socialist than her own Christian Democratic
Union, which is - in turn - rather more socialist than US
Democrats.
It is. One of the many reasons I am not there anymore
Engineering opportunity 90% of motivation, ideological compatibility
10%.
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC environment in
Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in some markets. If a
lack of ideological compatibility makes it unlikely that this ever
changes much you can end up with the effects of a brain drain.
Scandinavia is a different story where people can get taxed out
of their homes like it used to be in California until the
taxpayers revolted.
Not a story I've heard, but I'm not in the market for right-wing
anti-socialist propaganda. You really need to post a link to an
example of this terrifying behaviour.
That has nothing to do with propaganda. It is based on personal
friends whom I trust and who aren't very political.
In Scandinavia or California? ...
Both. But in California the voters revolted and got it stopped. I also
met people in other states such as New York (no ten horses will get me
to live there).
Prop 13 is weird and wonderful. I pay 1/4 the property tax of my
neighbor, who has basically the identical house, but he just bought
it.
The best tax is sales tax. If you want a Porsche or a 4K teevee, buy
it and pay the tax.
Right. Granny shouldn't be taxed out of her house.
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:08:35 -0700, Robert Baer
<robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
Basic food could be free; that would simplify things and remove some
bad disincentives. Just keep people from nabbing tons of it to feed to
pigs and chickens.
<robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:
Basic food could be free; that would simplify things and remove some
bad disincentives. Just keep people from nabbing tons of it to feed to
pigs and chickens.
B
Bill Sloman
Guest
On Thursday, 1 October 2015 03:18:11 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
The lack of a venture capitalist environment in Germany probably reflects a difference in the society, rather than the system.
The UK definitely has venture capitalists, despite being a lot more socialist than the US (if less socialist than Germany). Innovative new firms do get funded in Germany - they exist - but they don't seem to be funded by venture capitalists. You might know enough people to have some idea of how they do get funded.
You live a country where old people are expected to pay for their food and accommodation. If they get silly - demented - enough not to be able to manage their finances well enough to pay their rates, or to ask for help in paying their rates, they probably should not be be living on their own.
My mother was perfectly capable of looking after her financial affairs when she got forgetful enough to burn out saucepans on top of the oven. The people we had going into the house to help her stay there - which was what she wanted to do - were unanimous that we had to move her into an old peoples home. It was a very good old peoples home, but she didn't much like it
It may be evil, but it's not Communist - their motto is "to each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities".
It's not my phrase, and it isn't one that I'd use. Minamata disease was nasty, and should have been avoided, but it wasn't an "utter environmental disaster".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
You methodically exploited the opportunities you had. That doesn't imply that anybody else is going to have the same kinds of opportunity to exploit. When I got made redundant in Cambridge in 1991 (after having worked there for nine years) I put myself about with some enthusiasm - and would have been perfectly happy to end up self-employed. My wife had a professorial level salary by then and could have supported both of us while I was between jobs. As it was I found temporarily employed in ten days, and got what turned into a full time permanent job after six months. When I lost my job in Venlo in 2003, I looked just as hard, but I was twelve years older, and looking in another area in another country. Somebody even more enthusiastic might have done better, but I doubt it.
That may be, but local employers do advertise for analog skills fairly regularly - the more sophisticated ads may also mentioned mixed-signal processing, which is something else I've done quite a bit of - but they don't want to talk to 72-yer-olds about it.
Sydney is a big city
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydneys-population-to-reach-5-million-in-a-year-20150331-1mbyut.html
and accommodates some 20% of Australia's population and rather more of it's high-tech busiensses
Who'd want to live in South Texas?
Turning 65 does seem to trigger something in Human Factors Departments.
You see feckless people who haven't moved on to something better. If the US were stricken by something that made immigration the best option, it's not an option the feckless would take.
Sure. And there really is a Santa Claus.
The company you keep may have something to do with that. Statisticians work with statistics that cover the whole of the population. Personal impressions are necessarily local.
It happens. Margaret Thatcher slashed the funding for the UK National Health in order to drive people onto private health insurance, and it took Tony Blair's Labour administration some years of substantial spending to get it back into shape. The UK National Health Service is cheap - about 7% of GDP - and the French, Dutch and German services are more expensive at about 10% of GDP, and provide much faster service. They don't perform significantly better, but patients have an easier time.
That's a personal disaster. If he'd got an infectious disease and put off spending the money it cost to visit his doctor, it could have started an epidemic, which could have been a national disaster. Universal health care isn't just about individual cases but also about stopping epidemics early.
Just because you've persuaded yourself something is true, it doesn't follow that more objective observers will share your understanding.
Your crack about "waiting lists" is a standard right-wing objection to all forms of universal health care. There are quite a few universal health care systems that do provide pretty much on-demand treatment - this implies spare capacity in the system, which is an inefficiency. Even the much-maligned UK National Health Service doesn't have waiting lists for emergency treatment, but people waiting - uncomfortably - for elective surgery have been known to have been bumped out of the queue by an emergency case.
Global Financial Crisis - the current name for the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, once it had taken down everybody else's economies as well.
The US middle class has been being shafted by successive administrations since 1980 - more enthusiastically by Republican administrations than Democrats. Obama may be a Demoncrat, but Congress is Republican, and you do need to change them to Democrats in 2016. It may take more than that to reverse the decline of the US middle class, which strikes me as more driven by the defects of the US political system, which is rather too good at serving the short-term interests of the people who own the country, and correspondingly bad at serving the long-term interests of the country as whole, middle classes included.
Rubbish.
They were probably dead by the time it happened.
If the relevant "dead man's handles" are designed right. There's usually a way of lying to a sub-system - or having it fail in the wrong way at the wrong moment - that can kill a lot of people.
There have been fatal accidents on even the German railways in recent years..
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-safe-are-europe-railways
puts the most recent one at the 11th June 2003, but that is a 2013 report, and I think that there's been at least one since then. This isn't the one I thought that I could remember.
http://www.dw.com/en/fatal-german-train-crash-kills-two-near-osnabr%C3%BCck/a-18454071
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
On 2015-09-29 7:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 00:46:52 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-28 6:31 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 07:42:09 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-26 8:04 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 01:05:57 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-24 9:34 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message
news:d6jig8Fa1dpU1@mid.individual.net...
On 2015-09-24 1:37 PM, rickman wrote:
snip
But she is constrained by a constitution that puts trade
unionists on company boards. And she runs a coalition government
with the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany
which is rather more socialist than her own Christian Democratic
Union, which is - in turn - rather more socialist than US
Democrats.
It is. One of the many reasons I am not there anymore
Engineering opportunity 90% of motivation, ideological compatibility
10%.
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC environment in
Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in some markets. If a
lack of ideological compatibility makes it unlikely that this ever
changes much you can end up with the effects of a brain drain.
The lack of a venture capitalist environment in Germany probably reflects a difference in the society, rather than the system.
The UK definitely has venture capitalists, despite being a lot more socialist than the US (if less socialist than Germany). Innovative new firms do get funded in Germany - they exist - but they don't seem to be funded by venture capitalists. You might know enough people to have some idea of how they do get funded.
You live a country where old people are expected to pay for their food and accommodation. If they get silly - demented - enough not to be able to manage their finances well enough to pay their rates, or to ask for help in paying their rates, they probably should not be be living on their own.
My mother was perfectly capable of looking after her financial affairs when she got forgetful enough to burn out saucepans on top of the oven. The people we had going into the house to help her stay there - which was what she wanted to do - were unanimous that we had to move her into an old peoples home. It was a very good old peoples home, but she didn't much like it
It may be evil, but it's not Communist - their motto is "to each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities".
It's not my phrase, and it isn't one that I'd use. Minamata disease was nasty, and should have been avoided, but it wasn't an "utter environmental disaster".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
You methodically exploited the opportunities you had. That doesn't imply that anybody else is going to have the same kinds of opportunity to exploit. When I got made redundant in Cambridge in 1991 (after having worked there for nine years) I put myself about with some enthusiasm - and would have been perfectly happy to end up self-employed. My wife had a professorial level salary by then and could have supported both of us while I was between jobs. As it was I found temporarily employed in ten days, and got what turned into a full time permanent job after six months. When I lost my job in Venlo in 2003, I looked just as hard, but I was twelve years older, and looking in another area in another country. Somebody even more enthusiastic might have done better, but I doubt it.
That may be, but local employers do advertise for analog skills fairly regularly - the more sophisticated ads may also mentioned mixed-signal processing, which is something else I've done quite a bit of - but they don't want to talk to 72-yer-olds about it.
Sydney is a big city
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydneys-population-to-reach-5-million-in-a-year-20150331-1mbyut.html
and accommodates some 20% of Australia's population and rather more of it's high-tech busiensses
Who'd want to live in South Texas?
Turning 65 does seem to trigger something in Human Factors Departments.
You see feckless people who haven't moved on to something better. If the US were stricken by something that made immigration the best option, it's not an option the feckless would take.
Sure. And there really is a Santa Claus.
The company you keep may have something to do with that. Statisticians work with statistics that cover the whole of the population. Personal impressions are necessarily local.
It happens. Margaret Thatcher slashed the funding for the UK National Health in order to drive people onto private health insurance, and it took Tony Blair's Labour administration some years of substantial spending to get it back into shape. The UK National Health Service is cheap - about 7% of GDP - and the French, Dutch and German services are more expensive at about 10% of GDP, and provide much faster service. They don't perform significantly better, but patients have an easier time.
That's a personal disaster. If he'd got an infectious disease and put off spending the money it cost to visit his doctor, it could have started an epidemic, which could have been a national disaster. Universal health care isn't just about individual cases but also about stopping epidemics early.
Just because you've persuaded yourself something is true, it doesn't follow that more objective observers will share your understanding.
Your crack about "waiting lists" is a standard right-wing objection to all forms of universal health care. There are quite a few universal health care systems that do provide pretty much on-demand treatment - this implies spare capacity in the system, which is an inefficiency. Even the much-maligned UK National Health Service doesn't have waiting lists for emergency treatment, but people waiting - uncomfortably - for elective surgery have been known to have been bumped out of the queue by an emergency case.
Global Financial Crisis - the current name for the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, once it had taken down everybody else's economies as well.
The US middle class has been being shafted by successive administrations since 1980 - more enthusiastically by Republican administrations than Democrats. Obama may be a Demoncrat, but Congress is Republican, and you do need to change them to Democrats in 2016. It may take more than that to reverse the decline of the US middle class, which strikes me as more driven by the defects of the US political system, which is rather too good at serving the short-term interests of the people who own the country, and correspondingly bad at serving the long-term interests of the country as whole, middle classes included.
Rubbish.
They were probably dead by the time it happened.
If the relevant "dead man's handles" are designed right. There's usually a way of lying to a sub-system - or having it fail in the wrong way at the wrong moment - that can kill a lot of people.
There have been fatal accidents on even the German railways in recent years..
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-safe-are-europe-railways
puts the most recent one at the 11th June 2003, but that is a 2013 report, and I think that there's been at least one since then. This isn't the one I thought that I could remember.
http://www.dw.com/en/fatal-german-train-crash-kills-two-near-osnabr%C3%BCck/a-18454071
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
D
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUn
Guest
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:24:19 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> Gave us:
snip
If one has a product with SMPS in it, for example, and one is planning
on making xM number counts of the product, THEN it is a good idea to
partner up with an existing chinese power supply maker. Someone who has
many years experience with making PC supplies, for instance, and years
of in-house engineering making standards conformal units.
<jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> Gave us:
snip
If one has a product with SMPS in it, for example, and one is planning
on making xM number counts of the product, THEN it is a good idea to
partner up with an existing chinese power supply maker. Someone who has
many years experience with making PC supplies, for instance, and years
of in-house engineering making standards conformal units.
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:37:27 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:
The Brat is working on her MBA at Berkeley. She reports that there is
a lot of discussion of offshoring, with the emphasis that it often
doesn't work very well.
I've seen high-tech companies move manufacturing and engineering
offshore with pretty disastrous results. I guess it does make sense
for Apple to use Chinese child labor at 17 cents an hour to make $600
iPhones.
wrote:
The Brat is working on her MBA at Berkeley. She reports that there is
a lot of discussion of offshoring, with the emphasis that it often
doesn't work very well.
I've seen high-tech companies move manufacturing and engineering
offshore with pretty disastrous results. I guess it does make sense
for Apple to use Chinese child labor at 17 cents an hour to make $600
iPhones.
B
Bill Sloman
Guest
On Friday, 2 October 2015 01:05:17 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
Why? Property taxes have the advantage that the property doesn't move, and everybody can see roughly what it's worth.
Thatcher tried to get rid of them in the UK - by replacing them with a flat per-head council tax, which was manifestly unfair in the other direction.
There's a strong suspicion she was aiming at the predictable side-effect, which was to get the poor Labour-voters off the electoral rolls, in which she did succeed to a useful degree.
The replacement graded property into something like five bands, which the rich appreciated. the top band wasn't all that high compared with what they'd been paying on the real value of their property.
It's a regressive tax. All but the most extravagant of the rich pay out a lower proportion of their income in sales tax than do poorer people. You can fudge what get's sales taxed, but the rich like sales taxes better than the merely well-off.
Difficult to do with property.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Why? Property taxes have the advantage that the property doesn't move, and everybody can see roughly what it's worth.
Thatcher tried to get rid of them in the UK - by replacing them with a flat per-head council tax, which was manifestly unfair in the other direction.
There's a strong suspicion she was aiming at the predictable side-effect, which was to get the poor Labour-voters off the electoral rolls, in which she did succeed to a useful degree.
The replacement graded property into something like five bands, which the rich appreciated. the top band wasn't all that high compared with what they'd been paying on the real value of their property.
It's a regressive tax. All but the most extravagant of the rich pay out a lower proportion of their income in sales tax than do poorer people. You can fudge what get's sales taxed, but the rich like sales taxes better than the merely well-off.
Difficult to do with property.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
Guest
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:13:10 PM UTC-4, Phil Hobbs wrote:
The Fair Tax is a proposal for a nat'l sales tax like John's, that would replace
all other federal taxes (corporate, SS, Medicare, personal income, etc.). The FT
has a 'prebate' provision that sends every citizen a fixed check--everyone gets
the same, regardless of how rich or poor--for the tax on their basic living
expense, then taxes all sales of NEW goods (not used) at XX%, XX ~=22. That's
a simple way of capturing XX percent of GDP to fund the federal government, with
a minimum of hassles.
It has the (transitional) problem you mentioned of taxing post-tax assets like
Roth IRAs, which I brought up in person with one of the plan's authors.
His reply was that they expected politicians to work those things out. My
suggestion was a tax-free debit card you could use, equal to your Roth IRA
assets.
The bigger problem is that progressives want a national sales tax as an *extra*
tax to increase the burden of government, and to keep the existing mess too.
Preventing that requires repealing the 16th Amendment, no small task.
Cheers,
James Arthur
The Fair Tax is a proposal for a nat'l sales tax like John's, that would replace
all other federal taxes (corporate, SS, Medicare, personal income, etc.). The FT
has a 'prebate' provision that sends every citizen a fixed check--everyone gets
the same, regardless of how rich or poor--for the tax on their basic living
expense, then taxes all sales of NEW goods (not used) at XX%, XX ~=22. That's
a simple way of capturing XX percent of GDP to fund the federal government, with
a minimum of hassles.
It has the (transitional) problem you mentioned of taxing post-tax assets like
Roth IRAs, which I brought up in person with one of the plan's authors.
His reply was that they expected politicians to work those things out. My
suggestion was a tax-free debit card you could use, equal to your Roth IRA
assets.
The bigger problem is that progressives want a national sales tax as an *extra*
tax to increase the burden of government, and to keep the existing mess too.
Preventing that requires repealing the 16th Amendment, no small task.
Cheers,
James Arthur
G
George Herold
Guest
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:57:40 PM UTC-4, dagmarg...@yahoo.com wrote:
It sounds OK.. but I see a lot of details that are tricky.
Do I pay tax when I buy a new home? (but not a used house?)
What makes a house used? (Say I build my own home and then
sell it.. in ten years, in one year, in one week?)
If I have a plumber come in and do some work, I pay no tax.(?)
What about if I hire someone to make furniture for me?
I use it for one year and then sell it. tax or no tax?
And then the whole business/ OEM thing. As a business
I buy some stuff to put in a product. Do I pay tax on the stuff?
Then I sell it. How much tax... do we get the whole VAT type
thing in Europe?
What about taxes on assets, stocks, bonds, companies, rental property?
It seems to me I can spin all sorts of "deals" where by I add value
but pay no tax. I just fear that those with lots of money
will be able to "game" the system, where us poor slobs in the
middle class carry the load.
Mind you I have no problem changing our current tax structure.
(First thing (as I've said before) is get rid of the payroll tax that
employer's pay on the behave of their employee's... Everyone* gets a
~7% raise and then see's their SS, medicare etc taxes go up by 7%...
But at least they see the money on their W2.)
George H.
*Oh everyone but Phil H, and Joerg and Tim W and all the other
self employed... They already get to see their "full bill" :^)
It sounds OK.. but I see a lot of details that are tricky.
Do I pay tax when I buy a new home? (but not a used house?)
What makes a house used? (Say I build my own home and then
sell it.. in ten years, in one year, in one week?)
If I have a plumber come in and do some work, I pay no tax.(?)
What about if I hire someone to make furniture for me?
I use it for one year and then sell it. tax or no tax?
And then the whole business/ OEM thing. As a business
I buy some stuff to put in a product. Do I pay tax on the stuff?
Then I sell it. How much tax... do we get the whole VAT type
thing in Europe?
What about taxes on assets, stocks, bonds, companies, rental property?
It seems to me I can spin all sorts of "deals" where by I add value
but pay no tax. I just fear that those with lots of money
will be able to "game" the system, where us poor slobs in the
middle class carry the load.
Mind you I have no problem changing our current tax structure.
(First thing (as I've said before) is get rid of the payroll tax that
employer's pay on the behave of their employee's... Everyone* gets a
~7% raise and then see's their SS, medicare etc taxes go up by 7%...
But at least they see the money on their W2.)
George H.
*Oh everyone but Phil H, and Joerg and Tim W and all the other
self employed... They already get to see their "full bill" :^)
J
Joerg
Guest
On 2015-09-30 8:01 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
A lot of things were and probably some are still not legal. Aside from
banks not being allowed to have VC branches we also were not allowed to
have stock option accounts. So in order to make it legit all of us had
to have accounts in the US. That was really strange.
I have tried, in Germany, no dice.
It is _not_ the government who shall make that decision purely by
financial extortion. Because that is exactly what excessive property
taxes are.
Sure, when something dangerous happens the move becomes necessary. Has
nothing to do with taxing grandma out of her home.
No, their motto is "everything to the state and state worker, crumbs to
everyone else".
Don't distract, you used it. See above.
Sure they did. But many of my mates decided to take the easier route,
putting them in a field where there is lots of competition or at the
mercy of some large employer.
You probably didn't try hard enough. Yes, you do have to make cold calls
and such. I don't like those so I mainly used proposals and that sure
did the trick, some of them resulting in many years of fruitful
assignments. Proposals require a ton of unpaid work but at least
initially it needs to be done.
As I've said before that is the wrong approach. They will hire at that
age if they see a skill that nobody else has ever offered them. If you
don't have that to offer then your only option is self-employment.
That isn't the tech hot bed. Hot tech areas are Silicon Valley, Houston,
Taipei, and so on. If you are sincere about finding work you need to
look beyond the fence. Way beyond.
I sure don't. Yet I work for them. In this day and age of Internet,
online conferencing and all that one does not have to live where the
company is. In fact, that was already the case over 20 years ago except
then communications costs were quite high. Today it's $39 a month for
GoToMeeting plus broadband Internet.
Again, you have to take HR out of the whole process. I never deal with
HR. I deal with the CEO or the VP of R&D, and for the rest with
accounting. In large companies that insist on purchase orders also with
the purchasing department but that's rare these days.
The only times I've had much to do with HR was when they asked me to
conduct interviews for them because they trusted my instincts to spot a
good future engineer.
I don't see what that's got to do with family values. A good family
nucleus is what gives young folks the tools to succeed in life and not
just for their career.
[...]
I know you've got your head in the sand about it.
When you do volunteering you get around. Statistics only go so far. Like
weather forcasts that are hit and miss.
[...]
And now they have waiting lists just like Canadians do. This is why many
Canadians quietly carry Mayo Cards so they can get better health care in
the US.
Don't veer off again. This is about being able to obtain health care and
he could have gotten health care pre-Obamacare. Just like I could, and did.
Nonsense. Even a _Canadian_ judge has ruled and literally said that
"Access to a waiting list isn't access to good health care". I've worked
long enough in med devices to know what and how much is lacking up north.
[...]
It wasn' until the tea party movement and that Dem era before was where
major damage has been done. Some of it permanent.
[...]
Ah yes, head in sand again.
No. For example, the team that designed the dead-man circuitry in the
light rail train that bolted off driverless here in Sacramento sure is
still alive. Yet nothing is likely going to happen to them. Instead teh
state instuituted a nonsensical licensing law that protects ... nothing.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/article36953934.html
Quote "He jammed a screwdriver under the vehicle's "deadman" switch,
disabling that mechanism". That is engineering incompetence par excellence.
It has been known since decades how to do that right.
Have you never designed a watchdog circuit? Or safety-critical stuff
where override had to be prevented?
Caused by a truck illegally crossing tracks. No surprise.
There is always something technical that can go wrong, particularly at
high speed. And there are areas where technical barriers to wrongful
behavior of the train engineer are not implemented or when other
vehicles collide with trains. Fact is, safety technology such as Indusi
is there and can easily be implemented. My grandpa explained it to me
when I was a kid. Because he was a train engineer and the technology
exists since the days of steam locomotives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punktf%C3%B6rmige_Zugbeeinflussung
What this part of the discussion was about though was unions insisting
on keeping jobs that became obsolete. Like firemen on electric
locomotives. That's just plain wrong.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
On Thursday, 1 October 2015 03:18:11 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-29 7:45 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 00:46:52 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-28 6:31 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 07:42:09 UTC+10, Joerg wrote:
On 2015-09-26 8:04 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 01:05:57 UTC+10, Joerg
wrote:
On 2015-09-24 9:34 PM, P E Schoen wrote:
"Joerg" wrote in message
news:d6jig8Fa1dpU1@mid.individual.net...
On 2015-09-24 1:37 PM, rickman wrote:
snip
But she is constrained by a constitution that puts trade
unionists on company boards. And she runs a coalition
government with the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany
which is rather more socialist than her own Christian Democratic
Union, which is - in turn - rather more socialist than US
Democrats.
It is. One of the many reasons I am not there anymore
Engineering opportunity 90% of motivation, ideological
compatibility 10%.
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC
environment in Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in
some markets. If a lack of ideological compatibility makes it
unlikely that this ever changes much you can end up with the
effects of a brain drain.
The lack of a venture capitalist environment in Germany probably
reflects a difference in the society, rather than the system.
A lot of things were and probably some are still not legal. Aside from
banks not being allowed to have VC branches we also were not allowed to
have stock option accounts. So in order to make it legit all of us had
to have accounts in the US. That was really strange.
I have tried, in Germany, no dice.
It is _not_ the government who shall make that decision purely by
financial extortion. Because that is exactly what excessive property
taxes are.
Sure, when something dangerous happens the move becomes necessary. Has
nothing to do with taxing grandma out of her home.
No, their motto is "everything to the state and state worker, crumbs to
everyone else".
Don't distract, you used it. See above.
Sure they did. But many of my mates decided to take the easier route,
putting them in a field where there is lots of competition or at the
mercy of some large employer.
You probably didn't try hard enough. Yes, you do have to make cold calls
and such. I don't like those so I mainly used proposals and that sure
did the trick, some of them resulting in many years of fruitful
assignments. Proposals require a ton of unpaid work but at least
initially it needs to be done.
As I've said before that is the wrong approach. They will hire at that
age if they see a skill that nobody else has ever offered them. If you
don't have that to offer then your only option is self-employment.
That isn't the tech hot bed. Hot tech areas are Silicon Valley, Houston,
Taipei, and so on. If you are sincere about finding work you need to
look beyond the fence. Way beyond.
I sure don't. Yet I work for them. In this day and age of Internet,
online conferencing and all that one does not have to live where the
company is. In fact, that was already the case over 20 years ago except
then communications costs were quite high. Today it's $39 a month for
GoToMeeting plus broadband Internet.
Again, you have to take HR out of the whole process. I never deal with
HR. I deal with the CEO or the VP of R&D, and for the rest with
accounting. In large companies that insist on purchase orders also with
the purchasing department but that's rare these days.
The only times I've had much to do with HR was when they asked me to
conduct interviews for them because they trusted my instincts to spot a
good future engineer.
I don't see what that's got to do with family values. A good family
nucleus is what gives young folks the tools to succeed in life and not
just for their career.
[...]
I know you've got your head in the sand about it.
When you do volunteering you get around. Statistics only go so far. Like
weather forcasts that are hit and miss.
[...]
And now they have waiting lists just like Canadians do. This is why many
Canadians quietly carry Mayo Cards so they can get better health care in
the US.
Don't veer off again. This is about being able to obtain health care and
he could have gotten health care pre-Obamacare. Just like I could, and did.
Nonsense. Even a _Canadian_ judge has ruled and literally said that
"Access to a waiting list isn't access to good health care". I've worked
long enough in med devices to know what and how much is lacking up north.
[...]
It wasn' until the tea party movement and that Dem era before was where
major damage has been done. Some of it permanent.
[...]
Ah yes, head in sand again.
No. For example, the team that designed the dead-man circuitry in the
light rail train that bolted off driverless here in Sacramento sure is
still alive. Yet nothing is likely going to happen to them. Instead teh
state instuituted a nonsensical licensing law that protects ... nothing.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/transportation/article36953934.html
Quote "He jammed a screwdriver under the vehicle's "deadman" switch,
disabling that mechanism". That is engineering incompetence par excellence.
It has been known since decades how to do that right.
Have you never designed a watchdog circuit? Or safety-critical stuff
where override had to be prevented?
Caused by a truck illegally crossing tracks. No surprise.
There is always something technical that can go wrong, particularly at
high speed. And there are areas where technical barriers to wrongful
behavior of the train engineer are not implemented or when other
vehicles collide with trains. Fact is, safety technology such as Indusi
is there and can easily be implemented. My grandpa explained it to me
when I was a kid. Because he was a train engineer and the technology
exists since the days of steam locomotives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punktf%C3%B6rmige_Zugbeeinflussung
What this part of the discussion was about though was unions insisting
on keeping jobs that became obsolete. Like firemen on electric
locomotives. That's just plain wrong.
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
J
Joerg
Guest
On 2015-09-30 12:26 PM, John Larkin wrote:
[...]
Property taxes are un-American. IMHO they should at least be based on
square footage and acreage (not on sales price) _and_ capped at 2%
yearly increase max or inflation, whichever is lower. Then it's fair to
everyone including the person who has to move.
And then when you sell the Porsche the next guy must pay sales tax
again. A double-dipping grab at its finest.
The rich folks would buy the Porsche in Oregon, pay no tax and
"officially" keep it there for a while.
[...]
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
[...]
Property taxes are un-American. IMHO they should at least be based on
square footage and acreage (not on sales price) _and_ capped at 2%
yearly increase max or inflation, whichever is lower. Then it's fair to
everyone including the person who has to move.
And then when you sell the Porsche the next guy must pay sales tax
again. A double-dipping grab at its finest.
The rich folks would buy the Porsche in Oregon, pay no tax and
"officially" keep it there for a while.
[...]
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
J
John Larkin
Guest
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:05:20 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:
There is an argument that used stuff should not be taxed. That lets
poor people buy used things cheaper.
I was thinking about a national sales tax to replace the income tax,
and especially replace multiple business taxes. Imports now have a
huge advantage over USA products, and a sales tax on both would
equalize things and create US jobs.
But politicians don't use logic, or work for the greater good, so it
won't happen.
wrote:
There is an argument that used stuff should not be taxed. That lets
poor people buy used things cheaper.
I was thinking about a national sales tax to replace the income tax,
and especially replace multiple business taxes. Imports now have a
huge advantage over USA products, and a sales tax on both would
equalize things and create US jobs.
But politicians don't use logic, or work for the greater good, so it
won't happen.
P
Phil Hobbs
Guest
On 10/01/2015 12:05 PM, John Larkin wrote:
The main problem is the double taxation of accumulated assets due to the
change. It wouldn't be such a problem with houses, say, since
everybody's income would effectively go up to match the tax. Normal
IRAs and 401(k)s would be okay too, since they're pre-tax. With
after-tax financial assets (including Roth IRAs) it would be a real
blow. It would also hurt LLCs as well (such as mine), since I can
expense everything I buy for the business.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
The main problem is the double taxation of accumulated assets due to the
change. It wouldn't be such a problem with houses, say, since
everybody's income would effectively go up to match the tax. Normal
IRAs and 401(k)s would be okay too, since they're pre-tax. With
after-tax financial assets (including Roth IRAs) it would be a real
blow. It would also hurt LLCs as well (such as mine), since I can
expense everything I buy for the business.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net
Guest
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 2:23:19 PM UTC-4, George Herold wrote:
Yes.
Dunno. Would have to set by reasonable rules.
> If I have a plumber come in and do some work, I pay no tax.(?)
Taxed, I think.
Taxed, IIRC.
No. Only retail sales. Businesses wouldn't pay taxes at all.
No tax, IIRC, except rentals, where I'm not sure.
I like that a lot. I like for things to be honest, out in the open.
Currently they're not.
I do not like the Fair Tax for two reasons, first, because I don't like the idea
of every single American coming to expect a regular check from the government
(for the "prebate"). I think that's bad psychology.
Second, it's unlikely to happen because the 16th has to be repealed first, and
there's an enormous danger that doesn't happen and we wind up with just a new
tax.
An easy compromise that's doable would be a flat income tax with no
fancy gimmicks (ideally not even the popular deductions--they're all handouts
for special interests, even us). Or, if need be, two tiers based on income
and one fixed large deduction. Even that's a lot better.
That would be an easy way to save, oh, <breaks out envelope> 130 million
returns filed, times two hours' labor to fill out, hire the tax guy, drive it in, etc. ... ~230 million man-hours' of labor a year.
A friend showed me his dad's return from the '50's. The front had a line for
his income, some lines to multiply by his rate, then a line for the amount he
owed. IT WAS A POSTCARD--not kidding--and that was his official IRS return.
The economy would soar, and it's free.
Cheers,
James Arthur
Yes.
Dunno. Would have to set by reasonable rules.
> If I have a plumber come in and do some work, I pay no tax.(?)
Taxed, I think.
Taxed, IIRC.
No. Only retail sales. Businesses wouldn't pay taxes at all.
No tax, IIRC, except rentals, where I'm not sure.
I like that a lot. I like for things to be honest, out in the open.
Currently they're not.
I do not like the Fair Tax for two reasons, first, because I don't like the idea
of every single American coming to expect a regular check from the government
(for the "prebate"). I think that's bad psychology.
Second, it's unlikely to happen because the 16th has to be repealed first, and
there's an enormous danger that doesn't happen and we wind up with just a new
tax.
An easy compromise that's doable would be a flat income tax with no
fancy gimmicks (ideally not even the popular deductions--they're all handouts
for special interests, even us). Or, if need be, two tiers based on income
and one fixed large deduction. Even that's a lot better.
That would be an easy way to save, oh, <breaks out envelope> 130 million
returns filed, times two hours' labor to fill out, hire the tax guy, drive it in, etc. ... ~230 million man-hours' of labor a year.
A friend showed me his dad's return from the '50's. The front had a line for
his income, some lines to multiply by his rate, then a line for the amount he
owed. IT WAS A POSTCARD--not kidding--and that was his official IRS return.
The economy would soar, and it's free.
Cheers,
James Arthur
B
Bill Sloman
Guest
On 2/10/2015 1:00 AM, Joerg wrote:
<snip>
In other words, you couldn't have equity in the way that you could have
had equity if the firm had been in the US. Better lawyers would probably
have been able to work out something much the same thing with less
conflict with German law.
Other people seem to have been able to work something out.
Property taxes pay for local services. You definition of "excessive"
doesn't seem to include any evidence that the council was spending too
much money, or trying to get itl all from a narrow band of property owners.
If grandma has lost her grip on her finances, she'll get taxed out of
her home, if she hasn't had it stolen out from under her first.
Wrong. That's what James Arthur wants everybody to think. When they
aren't living up to Karl Marx's original formulation - which was an
ideal - they become crooks in government, and their nominal ideology
becomes irrelevant.
I quoted it within the thread. I didn't originate in this thread, and
I don't think that it is a good formulation of what can - and too
often has - gone wrong.
Probably. But my guess is that I couldn't have tried hard enough to
succeed, and I didn't put much effort into prospects that didn't look
particularly promising.
They won't see a skill that nobody else has ever offered them. They
won't be looking for it, and they won't understand that it is being
exercised. Employers tend have a very crude idea of what they are
buying.
It's a tech hot bed for a lot of stuff. WiFi got invented in Melbourne,
and one of the local universities is doing leading edge stuff on quantum
computation. Silicon Valley has been a tech hot-bed for quite a while,
but the ARM processor was developed in Cambridge UK, and AMSL makes
photolithography machines in Eindhoven. There are more active areas than
you think.
That would be better HR than any I've dealt with, from either side of
the fence. Most them don't have clue how little they know.
<snip>
One of those tools is the enterprise to move to someplace where it's
easier to succeed in life.
I know where James Arthur's head is, and there usually isn't much sand
up there.
Not exactly. Statistics encapsulate what has happened. Weather forecasts
are predictions. A record of how much rain has fallen isn't
"hit and miss".
They don't get better health care in the US. They get much the same
health care, closer to when they want it. Sometimes they get worse
health care because US doctors will give them what they want if they pay
for it, even if the patient shouldn't have wanted what they ask for, and
it's a waste of resources to give it to them
Because you were rich - or at least gainfully employed.
Pointing out that universal health is better health care because some
diseases are infectious isn't "veering off". You don't like to think
about epidemics and avoiding them because it's a strong argument for
"socialised medicine"
It's nice to get treatment as soon as you realise that you need it, but
if you condition isn't life-threatening or rapidly progressive, it's
cheaper to have just enough treatment capacity to keep the queue under
control, with the doctors busy most of the time.
Spare capacity is expensive, and part of the reason that US health care
is half again dearer than anybody else's - even the French and the
Germans, who do pay for a quite a lot of spare capacity.
Ask any Tea Party propagandist.
I've been looking at trend lines most of my adult life, and there's
no "precipitous drop" in the 1990's.
Spell out the ranges before and after the "precipitous drop" and the
exact years involved.
There's no safety device that a sufficiently ingenious technician (or
terrorist) can't disable. That's why two-man crews make sense on stuff
heavy enough to do real damage.
Obviously not right enough.
Sure. But the expectation was single-point defects, and it wouldn't have
taken much ingenuity to beat it.
Part of the job was obsolete. Having two men in the cab wasn't.
It makes a great sound-bite, but it's a dishonest argument.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
<snip>
It is. One of the many reasons I am not there anymore
Engineering opportunity 90% of motivation, ideological
compatibility 10%.
If a system is too restrictive (for example, lack of a VC
environment in Germany) then opportunity begins to shrivel up in
some markets. If a lack of ideological compatibility makes it
unlikely that this ever changes much you can end up with the
effects of a brain drain.
The lack of a venture capitalist environment in Germany probably
reflects a difference in the society, rather than the system.
A lot of things were and probably some are still not legal. Aside from
banks not being allowed to have VC branches we also were not allowed to
have stock option accounts. So in order to make it legit all of us had
to have accounts in the US. That was really strange.
In other words, you couldn't have equity in the way that you could have
had equity if the firm had been in the US. Better lawyers would probably
have been able to work out something much the same thing with less
conflict with German law.
Other people seem to have been able to work something out.
Property taxes pay for local services. You definition of "excessive"
doesn't seem to include any evidence that the council was spending too
much money, or trying to get itl all from a narrow band of property owners.
If grandma has lost her grip on her finances, she'll get taxed out of
her home, if she hasn't had it stolen out from under her first.
Wrong. That's what James Arthur wants everybody to think. When they
aren't living up to Karl Marx's original formulation - which was an
ideal - they become crooks in government, and their nominal ideology
becomes irrelevant.
I quoted it within the thread. I didn't originate in this thread, and
I don't think that it is a good formulation of what can - and too
often has - gone wrong.
Probably. But my guess is that I couldn't have tried hard enough to
succeed, and I didn't put much effort into prospects that didn't look
particularly promising.
They won't see a skill that nobody else has ever offered them. They
won't be looking for it, and they won't understand that it is being
exercised. Employers tend have a very crude idea of what they are
buying.
It's a tech hot bed for a lot of stuff. WiFi got invented in Melbourne,
and one of the local universities is doing leading edge stuff on quantum
computation. Silicon Valley has been a tech hot-bed for quite a while,
but the ARM processor was developed in Cambridge UK, and AMSL makes
photolithography machines in Eindhoven. There are more active areas than
you think.
That would be better HR than any I've dealt with, from either side of
the fence. Most them don't have clue how little they know.
<snip>
One of those tools is the enterprise to move to someplace where it's
easier to succeed in life.
I know where James Arthur's head is, and there usually isn't much sand
up there.
Not exactly. Statistics encapsulate what has happened. Weather forecasts
are predictions. A record of how much rain has fallen isn't
"hit and miss".
They don't get better health care in the US. They get much the same
health care, closer to when they want it. Sometimes they get worse
health care because US doctors will give them what they want if they pay
for it, even if the patient shouldn't have wanted what they ask for, and
it's a waste of resources to give it to them
Because you were rich - or at least gainfully employed.
Pointing out that universal health is better health care because some
diseases are infectious isn't "veering off". You don't like to think
about epidemics and avoiding them because it's a strong argument for
"socialised medicine"
It's nice to get treatment as soon as you realise that you need it, but
if you condition isn't life-threatening or rapidly progressive, it's
cheaper to have just enough treatment capacity to keep the queue under
control, with the doctors busy most of the time.
Spare capacity is expensive, and part of the reason that US health care
is half again dearer than anybody else's - even the French and the
Germans, who do pay for a quite a lot of spare capacity.
Ask any Tea Party propagandist.
I've been looking at trend lines most of my adult life, and there's
no "precipitous drop" in the 1990's.
Spell out the ranges before and after the "precipitous drop" and the
exact years involved.
There's no safety device that a sufficiently ingenious technician (or
terrorist) can't disable. That's why two-man crews make sense on stuff
heavy enough to do real damage.
Obviously not right enough.
Sure. But the expectation was single-point defects, and it wouldn't have
taken much ingenuity to beat it.
Part of the job was obsolete. Having two men in the cab wasn't.
It makes a great sound-bite, but it's a dishonest argument.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Joerg
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On 2015-10-01 9:13 AM, Phil Hobbs wrote:
In part it's already happening in the gray zone. People by a used car
for one price but then another much lower one gets reported. That is an
inevitable consequence of excessive taxation.
Simplifying the income tax code alone would do wonders, reducing tax
rates and at the same time taking away many of those complicated
deductions. The only one who dared to say that was again ... Donald
Trump. Of course he is generally short on the details.
That is the key problem, making it a non-starter. It would punish
everyone for having saved for old age and would casue people to make
their retirement home Curacao or somewhere, taking all their spending
money with them.
[...]
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Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
In part it's already happening in the gray zone. People by a used car
for one price but then another much lower one gets reported. That is an
inevitable consequence of excessive taxation.
Simplifying the income tax code alone would do wonders, reducing tax
rates and at the same time taking away many of those complicated
deductions. The only one who dared to say that was again ... Donald
Trump. Of course he is generally short on the details.
That is the key problem, making it a non-starter. It would punish
everyone for having saved for old age and would casue people to make
their retirement home Curacao or somewhere, taking all their spending
money with them.
[...]
--
Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/