Well, they don't need if they're willing to simply kill prisoners.
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The market doesn't work as efficiently as you imagine it does, nor could it since companies do all they can to hide what salaries actually are (i.e. imagine trying to buy fruit when nothing had prices, no one would tell you what they paid, and you had to negotiate in private for what they cost you).
What you're saying here is that people conform to social norms better when they can be "held accountable" for not doing so. Now imagine some of the unhealthy social norms of the past and how people were "held accountable" for violating them.
Anonymity has a cost, but it is a cost that must be paid or we do not have a free society in any sense of the word.
But I'm still curious; even though you can write the disassembler by hand, how can you be sure that you're compiling it with a non-compromised compiler? Or do you mean write it in e.g. ELF format directly (and that's assuming the OS isn't involved in filtering offending code, though it seems extraordinarily unlikely that the OS could be generally modified in such away without detection)?
[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184874/is-ken...
No, JavaScript itself is a ridiculous language. Every time I have to deal with it I grit my teeth. Right now I'm dealing with dates. Luckily JS has a built in Date class! Which, of course, does nearly nothing. If you call "getDay" you get a zero indexed number representing the day of the week. So since there's no formatting functions to print out dates, how do you get the month-day number? Oh, right, you call getDate...
If I didn't know better I would think this abomination were created by someone who thought the secret of PHP's success was being horribly defined.
Actually, if you follow someone around everywhere they go, even in public, unless they've famous and you're a paparazzi you're likely to get charged with stalking.
And health care is most definitely more expensive in Switzerland than France. It's privatized but there are strict regulations on how much money insurance companies can make and all citizens are required by law to have insurance.
> Not for subsidizing movie producers
France makes great movies, but they could never compete against Hollywood financially. I for one am quite glad that France does what they need to to make sure good, original French movies (ok, not all of them, but much better than Hollywood) don't lose out to fast-food garbage the US is pumping out.
Yea, because trickle down economics works fantastic: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html?_r=0
It might have been better if France got someone very conservative like Obama and the US got someone from the true left like Hollande (though he wouldn't get a single thing done in the US, it would be fun to watch people like Rush Limbaugh literally die on air).
Even the Mafia was never so cheeky.
If I live and work completely in a foreign country why would I ever pay US income tax under any circumstances at all? The US is one of two countries on this planet that expect people who's only tie is being a citizen (perhaps never having set foot there and not speaking the language) to file income tax and potentially pay a portion of their income.
Even worse, the US expects you to file with them the way you file in your country of residence. File join in the country you live in? You're expected to file joint with the US then. Which means your foreign spouse who has no ties to the US of any kind (outside of being married to a citizen) will potentially have to pay US tax on their income.
And worst of all, the tax is mostly an annoyance. The true problem is that you have to report every account you have signing power over. That includes pension fund. That includes your companies bank accounts that you manage (which is why an American will never hold such a position in e.g. Switzerland). Lots of banks also won't take Americans on as customers. They don't get enough to warrant dealing with US bureaucracy to report information on these accounts.
>You can always renounce your US citizenship
Which is what many people are doing. The US is one of the few nations on earth that people give up citizenship from.
They are just CV movers but they often know key individuals within different companies and even provide kick backs. As slimy as they can be at times they have connections that a sterile CV in a pile of sterile CVs just can't have.
[1] Consulting would be more like 9/10 billable or even more. Some contractors take the absolute minimum required time off since they're paid by the day (I've heard of guys who haven't had a consistent week off for years), which would put them at 11+/10 relatively.