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Income tax is only part of the tax burden that people have, and is the most progressive towards higher incomes. All the other taxes which are very important to most, namely Social Security/FICA (recall the tax you see on a W2 is only HALF the actual tax), sales taxes, etc are regressive. The...

A note about that. So Indian IT grads are not sufficiently trained on hands-on practical skills. That isn't surprising, the same is true from graduates in any other university, as university is about life-long cognitive discipline and ideas, not business-specific practical skills. The...

A note about that. So Indian IT grads are not sufficiently trained on hands-on practical skills. That isn't surprising, the same is true from graduates in any other university, as university is about life-long cognitive discipline and ideas, not business-specific practical skills.

It took less than 24 hours for that to be euthanized. Was it Exxon's CEO who called, or was it Saudi Aramco's? What other parts of the SOTU were """misstatements"""? Posted on Wed, Feb. 01, 2006 Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil imports By Kevin G. Hall...

I know, I know. Since taxing the rich obviously is bad, why don't we eliminate their taxes, and get all the necessary money for government functions by a flat tax on everybody else---we don't call them poor, they are the 'pre-rich'. Make them pay $100k per year. Those who are unable and...

prt_systems: have you used Fortran 95, and I mean real 95 and not 77? Of course the libraries have been ported---the issue becomes when you write your own code, and debug. From C++ to F95 is a move up in most areas, except objects. It's usually a win, I've found. I don't know about...

In my experience, what happens is usually that the first version gets run only a few times and there is a long cycle of iterative improvement. Here, an interpreted/easily programmed environment like python is great. But then there comes a point when you want to do more sophisticated...

Surveillance is not "force", otherwise the FISA act could be construed as authorization to assassinate anybody who is the subject of a search warrant by the FISA court.

Yes, he does, until and only if the law is declared un-Constitutional. Legislative power---defining laws---is vested exclusively with Congress. The President must petition Congress to change a law he does not want. Define the inherent powers and procedure for cirvumenting Article I. I...

Facts about FISA act: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00001809----000-.html § 1809. Criminal sanctions Release date: 2005-03-17 (a) Prohibited activities A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally— (1) engages in electronic surveillance...

Holy Grails: 0) There is no holy grail. 1) Don't believe somebody else's propaganda. 2) Don't disbelieve somebody else's propaganda. 3) Don't believe your own propaganda.

When I talked "more sane president comes to Iran, but all would be anti-Israel" I am talking about the president of Iran, and all Iranian candidates, whether theocratic or secular, would be anti-Israel.

I think the likely response would be an Iranian missile attack on Israel's reactor. In the end, everybody's pissed but a 75% chance nothing catastrophic happens---at least right away. The processing buildings near the Israeli reactor would likely be destroyed but the containment dome (and...

I would imagine that the person with the greatest capacity for honest self-evaluation and least ego would have the best prior odds for success. I base this analysis on my opinon that personality type would not be particularly correlated to odds of large success---but personality type could be...

Why would that make a difference? Surely CCJ and the Toronto based listing would be arb'ed out based on USD/CAD rates. I think what really matters is what currencies Cameco's customers will be using to pay for uranium, in effect. Not the currency they use for the transaction, of course...

What is not Greenspan's fault: 1% interest rates. There were significant deflationary forces, and low rates (short term) were a good idea. China's peg of USD to the Yuan and Japan's soft peg (to compete) resulting in massive dollar reserve increases and economically irrational low...

A weaker currency is good if, and only if, you are a powerful and dominant exporter. The US is losing its exportability. Already, the VC's in Silicon Valley are funding startups which---from the very start---have all their technical production capability overseas. This is simply a...

Upper-class twit.

I'm INTP. Theoretical physicist. Not surprising, really.

The people in China have no choice in the matter: foreign investment is strongly regulated and difficult. As for the Japanese, 4% is better than 0.1%.