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$14 for employers with more than 25 employees, $13 for 25 or less.

Where are the kids going to sleep? I suppose we can have coffin homes like Hong Kong. Maybe four beds on one wall with the communal toilet and tub down the hall.

For the idiots down voting me:

The California state minimum wage is $13 for employers with 25 or less employees, $14 for employers with more than 25. A person would make more money working full time at a fast food establishment than running a cleaning service if their are making only $20K annually. You would have to go back several years when the minimum wage was less than $10.

I ran a consulting business for years as a sole proprietor. It is a viable operating entity, especially for one person. I also had a business liability policy, which you will also want as a single member LLC. It is actual quite easy to pierce the liability protection that an LLC offers, especially for single member companies because many people intermingle assets and debts, such as when personally guaranteeing a loan. If you injure somebody while on the job or engage in professional malpractice, the LLC shield won't protect you. And finally, fraud; if you are using the LLC as a buffer to commit illegal acts, a court will find the company is nothing more than your alter ego and hold you personally responsible.

If you are a software developer, run your business as a sole proprietor until you are ready to sell your product or hire employees, then convert the business to an LLC. You will still get the first year waiver.

Can we stop with the hyperbole?

The fee isn't that much for California. I could see it as expensive if it was in a cheaper state. Also, if somebody is only making $20K annually running a cleaning service in California, they need to run it as a sole proprietorship, find another line of work, or move to a different state.

I made $15K in the late 1980s in California while living paycheck to paycheck. I don't see how anybody can live on $20K in 2021. This hypothetical person would make more money working at McDonald's.

All limited liability entities doing business in California must pay the franchise tax. Also, the first year waiver is only for domestic companies, those organized in California.

For a California resident trying to escape the expense, you are going to spend more money by creating your LLC in another state.

...$800 PER YEAR to have an LLC.

This franchise tax is required by any type of business entity offering limited liability. Besides a limited liability company, this includes corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships. You can avoid this fee if you have a sole proprietorship or general partnership. Additionally, non-profit corporations that have a tax-exemption from the IRS are also exempt from this fee.

How did you make it through high school while failing in chemistry and biology?

Organic is a scam for the natural is better crowd that occupies the human experience. A chemical is the same whether it is natural or synthetic. Plenty of natural substances are toxic. There is no difference in taste or nutrition between organic and non-organic, however GMO can be made more nutritious.

...I guess I will allow myself to say, that you can't re-license per se, only newer versions can be re-licensed. a prior release will forever be that license.

Wrong. Why does the GPL crowd continue to believe they can re-license copyrighted works they don't own? Only the copyright owner has the right to re-license. The GPL does NOT give permission to re-license.

The below copyright notice is displayed in ET:Legacy source files and id Software (or a superseding entity) will hold that copyright until it expires a little over a hundred years from now.

  Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory GPL Source Code
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2010 id Software LLC, a ZeniMax Media company.

Wrong again. A project released under the GPL can include permissively licensed code such as BSD, MIT, or ISC. The FSF lists licenses which are compatible with the GPL. What you cannot do is change the license on that permissive code to GPL.

because if its a direct modification, then that should be GPL as well.

It can, but nothing compels it because the original is under the another license. Also, not all modifications meet the standard to be covered by copyright; the modification must be significantly expressive.

Tesla is a success.

At selling carbon credits. The cars are junk. It amazes me that people buy these luxury vehicles and get uneven paneling and mismatched paint, or worse, serious drive train defects, and put up with shoddy customer support including outright lying. Every time I hear one of them say its the best car they have ever owned, I am thinking they must have only owned Fiats or Yugos.

Space X is probably a bigger success.

Thanks to Gwynne Shotwell. Make no mistake, Shotwell runs Space X.

people who have completed the necessary paperwork to put their patches/contributions in the public domain.

In the US, authors cannot put their works in the public domain. This ability doesn't exist in statute, nor have the courts accepted the concept. Past attempts to allow this have failed in Congress. One can refuse to enforce their rights on creative works, but copyright still exists from the moment of creation and works won't enter public domain until the expiration of the copyright.

Furthermore, the US allows authors (except work-for-hire) and their heirs the right of termination for copyright transfers and licenses. This is an inalienable statutory right which cannot be restricted by contracts.

No it doesn't. Only the copyright owner can re-license.

You can put modifications (that enjoy copyright protection) to BSD licensed code under the GPL or put BSD licensed code in a larger GPL code base, but you cannot re-license code covered by the BSD license.

A lot of people use...

I know and they are wrong. Words have meaning and it is difficult to communicate effectively if people use words incorrectly.

while catching pedos is a good thing

Catching them? Pedophilia isn't illegal.

That's unfortunately incorrect.

No it isn't.

The company has always operated as a foreign corporation in California, which means it only pays corporate taxes on income generated in California. The company isn't moving its operations out of the state. Their San Mateo office will continue to pay any fees and taxes to the city and county. Only the CEO and CFO will work from the Montana office. Both were living in Montana prior to the headquarters move, therefore the company had a nexus in that state and paid corporate taxes for income booked in that state. Nothing changes in that regard. Snowflake cannot take advantage of Montana's lower corporate rate because they are not a domestic corporation. Again, they are incorporated in Delaware and operate as a foreign corporation in any state except Delaware.

Nothing changes regarding corporate taxes because the company is incorporated in Delaware.

Perhaps you should read the article before commenting.

There are several conditions that must happen before data loss begins due to cell corruption when the drive is stored (unpowered), with abnormal temperatures being one of them. The primary condition is the drive must have reached its end of life.

Your source doesn't support your statement.

The original poster stated, "They start heavily corrupting data if left unpowered for around a year or two though, in case this gives anyone false confidence in a use case they aren't designed for." A person asked if all SSDs do that and you said, "Yes, all SSD's suffer this effect." This statement is wrong.

The AnandTech article even mentions the falsehoods and states it wants to clear up the confusion. A drive must meet certain conditions before data loss begins. Simply putting a backup or thumb drive in a safe for several years isn't going to cause data loss and the AnandTech article comes to this conclusion.

Here is another article from PCWorld with commentary from the authors of the 2015 JEDEC presentation that started this hysteria.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2925173/debunked-your-ssd-wo...

Yes, all SSD's suffer this effect.

Wrong. Stop repeating nonsense.

No they don't. This myth originated when Alvin Cox (Seagate) gave a JEDEC presentation in 2015 talking about cell corruption when the drive reaches its end of life AND is stored at abnormal temperatures. Simply leaving flash unpowered won't corrupt data, especially consumer drives. This has been debunked by Alvin Cox and all the manufacturers of flash storage.

Where in my reply did I mention forcing lactation on cows? My comments were directed at the statement that all mammals need to give birth to lactate, which is incorrect.

If you are having difficulty ascertaining this point, you definitely need remedial reading comprehension.

Where in my reply did I mention forcing lactation on people? That is right, nowhere.

Perhaps you need some remedial reading comprehension.

...all mammals, need to have given birth to produce milk.

Wrong. Humans don't need to be pregnant or give birth to produce milk. Lactation can happen with medication or stimulation, which becomes easier as women age. If a woman is not inducing lactation with hormones, she must stimulate the breasts several times a day using hand compression or a breast pump. This is how adoptive and foster mothers breastfeed their babies. Lactation can also occur in men because they have milk glands, which is the reason they too can get breast cancer.

Any query with an SSN/ITIN that doesn't exist will create a report for that number. Different names using the same SSN/ITIN are listed as aliases.

Credit reports are queried for many reasons, not only loans.

Anytime you open an account at a financial institution for a savings, checking, or retirement account, they will get a credit report. Employers are increasingly requiring a credit report before handing out job offers. Every landlord is going to require a certain credit score before accepting your application.

You don't need worry about your credit if you use cash and store it in a coffee tin, couch surf, and work under the table.

We have billions of years for that.

Did you not read what I wrote? Never mind, I am not going to waste a lengthy reply for a person that doesn't understand the end of life events coming to this planet.

There won't be an ice sheet, it will melt within the next ten thousand years due to global warming. Sea levels are expected to rise four meters during this period.

Humans need to leave Earth long before the Sun turns into a red giant. We have about 300 million years to leave the planet or it is game over.

Many distinct areas of Earth such as the Grand Canyon will have eroded away in about 2-3 million years. Mountain ranges like the Rockies will be gone in 50 million years. The Hawaiian Islands will disappear into the ocean in 80 millions years as the Pacific Plate recycles its land mass.

In 300 millions years, the Sun will change its luminosity, increasing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will increase the mean solar temperature by 5C degrees.

A little over 300 million years, give or take a few million years, all the continents are going to merge into one super continent. On the plus side, it is expected this will bring a new glacial period: increasing oxygen levels, lowering global temperatures, create new sea ice, and lowering sea levels due to global cooling.

In 500 million years the Sun's luminosity will be so great that it will disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle. The higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop once the oceans evaporate completely. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels fall to the point where photosynthesis is no longer possible.

Good luck in the bunker.

SAG has minimum requirements for having already performed.

Other unions do the same, such as longshoremen. You can work next to unionized longshoremen, doing the same type of job, yet not be part of the union because it strictly controls who can be a member in order to keep membership low and compensation high.

SAG-AFTRA meets the definition of a labor union under federal and state law. It negotiates working conditions, compensation, and benefits with production companies and studios. It is treated in the manner as other labor unions such as IATSE, IBEW, and Teamsters.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is NOT a union, it is a trade association.