Randgalt

Most likely Bearer Shares: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bearer_share.asp

So, complying with the law means you have no sense of community?

Morality is not hard at all. It just requires thinking objectively.

Yes. Also, there is nothing wrong (legally or morally) with avoiding taxation.

Wealth is not the number of pieces of green paper in your pocket. It's the things you have and what you can do with those things. I would much rather be a lower middle class person in America today than King Henry hundreds of years ago.

The money could have come from a gold deposit 150 years ago. Who knows. It doesn't have to come from debt. The number of units of currency I have is also irrelevant. The only relevant thing is how valuable those units are to someone else. The value of the units is directly correlated to the amount of work required to get the units.

If you work in Silicon Valley you almost certainly are subject to the AMT and, therefore, cannot deduct state income taxes.

Facebook wouldn't exist without Zuckerberg. He deserves every penny of it.

When I buy a stock or invest in some company, I'm taking a risk. That risk is a type of production - it requires me to think and make decisions. Obviously, I can lose in an investment. So, yes, it is a productive activity.

I got it by trading with someone else. You seem fixated on the money supply, which is (mostly) irrelevant in a discussion of wealth and income.

Money changes hands in exchange for something of value. I give Apple $300 and I get an iPhone. Apple takes that $300 and gives it to someone else in exchange for something they value. Money is merely a medium of exchange. The wealth is the products we produce and trade for.

The better analogy is you have 10 people in a room and only a few of them are producing anything yet they are forced to give a portion of their production to everyone else in the room.

"earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state" - it's not as if the money is just sitting there and 1% are taking most of it. Wealth is _created_. The top 1% _create_ most of the wealth in California. How is it just that they are required to pay so much in taxes? Before I left California, my marginal tax rate (including Federal) was over 52%. Super-high earners in California have marginal rates over 60%. How is that just?

So does Soros. Moveon.org for example.

B.S. I've never worked for a place that cared. I'm self taught. Req's always say degree or _equivalent_.

Another person's gain is not my loss. We should not care about inequality. Steve Jobs was 1000s of times more "unequal" than me. Wonderful. I'm thankful that he existed. It didn't cost me anything. I'd like to recommend this book to this thread: "Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality" http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Is-Unfair-Misguided-Inequality-e...

I should mention that the reason this was such a huge problem was that our dependency system at the time gave each group the option of using the "latest" version of the platform library instead of fixed version. Everyone used it. If, instead, people had locked to a known version of the library it would've been so much easier to upgrade.

Guava is what happens when the owner of a widely used technology is inept. Java is in much better shape today.

It wasn't practical. But that's what we had at the time.

I was the guy at Netflix that had the task of moving the Company from Guava 10 to Guava 11. Guava 11 was backward-incompatible with Guava 10. On the Platform team (produced libraries the entire company consumed) we could only move to Guava 11 if EVERYONE moved to Guava 11. The only alternative would have been to shade Guava 11 into the platform library which wasn't pleasant.

Yes, of course nothing of worth has been created with English. What bollocks.

BTW - I wrote a Curator Tech Note about this a while ago: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CURATOR/TN10

If you assume that your distributed lock gives you transactional guarantees that you are the only lock holder then you are making a mistake. If, however, you can tolerate small overlaps in lock holders you are fine and this helps with numerous distributed algorithms. Further, using other facilities such as fences can make it even more secure. Another feature of ZooKeeper is write-with-version. You could obtain a lock (using Apache Curator - note I wrote this), then do a write-with-version to achieve 100% certainty that you are the only writer.

Why such small thinking? Why not a $100 a barrel tax. Hell, we could pay off the national debt with a $1000 a barrel tax, right?

There's nothing horrific about Donald Rumsfeld. He was Secretary of Defense. Was he more horrific than any other Secretary of Defense? War is horrific. So is Leftist bias.

I'm on my computer, essentially, every waking hour. I've been this way since I was a boy. I have two passions in life: programming and playing the drums. If I'm not drumming, I'm programming and vice versa. This is what I enjoy and thus I contribute to many OSS projects, manage an Apache project, consult to two startups and have a full time job.

I do all these things because it's what I'm driven to do. I would go crazy without it. There's no shame in not being like me. Do what you enjoy.

Cue the Java haters in 3, 2, 1

Under stress I sometimes have trouble with calculators. I'm not kidding. It's happened to me in restaurants.

I side (mostly) with the expert here. I'm now in my 50s and my memory is not what it used to be. Under hostile questioning I can forget my own name sometimes. That said, you'd think an expert witness would keep his cool as he might be in a court room situation with similar questioning.