Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On 13 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<slrng2iusc.f9t.read_the_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jpd wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In a number of cases, this also is against existing laws. At our
national level, taxes collected against airline tickets MUST only be
used on airport/airways improvements. Same is true on motor fuel taxes
only being spendable for road repair/improvement.

Which I'm saying might not be such a great idea after all.

That was what it took to get the tax in place. Recall that the governed
have some say in how their tax money is spent. Here, it was "you can
impose this tax, but the taxes collected can only go to $FOO."

Unspent authorizations hasn't been a significant problem in a while.

Because everybody's adept at tucking it away.

No, because a lot of the excess is siphoned off back to the allocator.
Government spending entities can't salt it away, because that is
against the law.

What _has_ been a problem is in-consistent funding of multi-year
programs.

Which goes to show that politicians can't manage their way out of a wet
paper bag to save their own lives either.

They don't have control over the government income, and that is going to
vary every year.

Example - the Alternative Minimum Tax which was designed to make those
with "creative" deductions to still have to pay some taxes no matter
how they wiggled.

So, first you give them wiggle room, then try to tax that. Sounds
like make-work to me.

So you think that gifts to charitable organizations should be taxable?
Job development credits? Scholarship funds? Taxes themselves?

So we have a system with bugs and source available, but fixing is
not done? Time to fix that, then.

And it goes back to the point of whose ox are you going to gore? No matter
what you do, you are going to screw someone. Who is it going to be?

Silly rules to try to be ``fair''. Why should lawmakers care whether
it's sold as part of a meal and whether you sit while drinking coffee?

They try not to tax necessities - basic foodstuff for example is rarely
taxed. PREPARED foods, is not a necessity,

Then again, I'm not sure VAT is such a good idea overall, seeing how
it has wonderful opportunities for fraud and incurs a significant
administrative overhead.

Whose ox are you going to gore? Remember that tax law wasn't created
overnight, but is the result of (at least) decades of adjustments and
improvements to fix things to (then) current conditions.

I'm not really interested in having to decide what's fair and what
is not. In fact, I'd rather avoid creating situations that give rise
to such a need.

So you let the politicians decide?

I'm not sure that flatrate taxes are more or less fair than staggered
rates to go after the rich. Why should the government encourage specific
things like home ownership? Why stop at homes and not, oh, subsidize
SUV ownership?

Give it a try - again, I don't think it will fly. Home ownership is
"subsidized" by taxing the receiver of interest (it's income) rather
than the payer - or would you tax both? For income tax purposes, the
taxes you pay (to other entities) on the sale or the annual property
tax may be deductible, but you are still paying them.

Are there any states that have only an income tax, nothing else?

Of course not. Taxes on products like motor fuel, sales, property,
booze, tobacco, are pretty wide spread (almost universal), although
the rates are different.

The smaller aircraft are significantly less efficient (fuel, crew)
and each one takes a similar fraction of space in the air - it
doesn't matter if that's a Cessna 150 or an A380-800 on the runway
- the runway is occupied for half a minute or more.

Not a problem if you're not /at capacity/.

Well, you're going to have to make some incentive that it's not at
capacity. Right now, the airlines are screaming at the US FAA because
of slot limitations at several key airports. Never mind that everyone
schedules flights at the hour for competitive reasons even though they
_know_ that 25 aircraft can't take off in the period seven to twelve
minutes after the hour. So you are limited to 90 flights per hour
among several airlines - does it make sense to use 50-100 passenger
aircraft, or 300-600 passenger aircraft in a capacity limit situation?

By its very nature an airport tends to have a geographic position if
not outright monopoly.

That's why there are five airports in Los Angeles with air service.

Until, say, maglev trains finally come along, it doesn't have much of
a competition it needs to keep on innovating against.

I doubt in the extreme that maglev will be here (North America) any
time soon. Cost. Who is going to pay for it? Remember, our rail system
is private companies, not state-run. Amtrak is renting the rights to run
over commercial rail.

Are you going to ban older aircraft because they are less efficient
or are noisier/dirtier? Who is going to pay for that?

I'd make it difficult for old/inefficient/noisy commercial craft on the
small in-the-city airport, much like LCY does, but said nothing about
other airports. Yes, it puts up a barrier for using _that_ airport.

But who is going to pay for the lost use? Aircraft are not cheap, and
are expected to earn their keep for decades. Are you going to prevent
them from earning the coin to repay the purchase loans? Aircraft don't
exist in one airport. They have to connect the dots in a manner that
keeps them earning money. In the 1970s, "China Air Lines" (Taiwan)
had one Convair 880, and six days a week it was scheduled to fly 14
hours a day from Tokyo to Taipei to Hong Kong to Singapore or Kuala
Lampur one day, and the opposite on the other day. On Sunday, it flew a
round trip to Taipei and the rest of the day was in maintenance. Thai
International had five Caravelles flying similar routes, with the
addition of Seoul. Bali, and three places in India. They were
_scheduled_ from about 8 AM to 9:30 PM every day, but invariably
something would happen, and flights would be delayed. Screw up things in
one place, and watch it ripple through the system.

I said nothing about other airports, as I'm not interested in
restricting them, taking flights away from them, or anything else.

Who is going to pay for the inability of the airline to fly the plane
so that it makes money? How is the airline supposed to repay the
purchase loan or the lease?

because Heathrow and Gatwick are at capacity.

I don't think that's the sole reason. Both are large airports and just
going there starts to be a waste of time.

When Heathrow was opened in 1946, it had six runways. 4 got closed
because they weren't usable that often AND because there wasn't
convenient room to extend them. So now you've got 2 (09L/R and 27L/R)
and they are fully in use. They WANT to add a third parallel runway to
increase the capacity. I don't offer much hope of that, so the solution
is to move the flights to Gatwick (can't, because it's at limits), LCY
(but as you've pointed out, it's to small and restricted), or Stansted
or Luton which both have crap connections. There are other alternatives
- fly into Manchester or Liverpool. Nice and convenient. NOT!

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We have to watch the legal aspects, but passing word to friends and
colleagues who work elsewhere helps.

rate my pimp dot com?

No, it's generally word of mouth.

Or to be web two point oh compliant, pimpr dot com. Oh, that already
exists (says whois). Oh well.

No, word of mouth - it's harder to prove discrimination.

I just looked at the ad again (it had been a while since I last saw it,
for various reasons), and it did include vague threats of cygwin/win32.
So mea culpa. Not that I mind the failure much.

If you are going to use a pimp, lean hard on it that you don't do windoze.

I hate to say it, but certification is looked on as a bad word here.

You're looking for something different, then. :-)

Experience. Knowledge. Symptoms of clue. Does the person know what a
command line is? What's the layout of /etc/passwd? What is the purpose
of /etc/resolv.conf, and what would you expect to find there? What is the
most common symptom of a missing /etc/resolv.conf? What is the most
obvious difference between FreeBSD and Solaris? Why? If you are serious,
you may have a box handy - is the candidate fumbling around or has some
confidence? Actually, if you look in this group, I believe the subject
has been discussed in a lengthly thread in the past 6-8 months.

now use laptop computers as a *major* part of the maintenance tools.

I remember that the people responsible for maintaining the dutch F16s
were happy with the fancy costs savings of replacing the wall-of-paper
with a few CDroms. This was well before laptops were widespread; back
then CDroms tended to have more capacity than desktop computers too.

I take it you've never had to "maintain" those paper manuals. Every
couple of weeks, you'd get a package with anywhere from a few to a few
hundred pages that had to replace existing pages in 3 ring binders.
Every copy. And perhaps once a year, you'd have a manual check, where
you checked every page and page date against a check list. Great fun.

Nothing really wrong with that in principle, of course. The trouble
only starts to pop up when it emerges that the platform is inferior,
unmaintainable, infection-ridden, and so on and so forth. Much like you
don't print manuals on toilet paper with vanishing novelty ink.

The electronic manuals I've seen are tremendously useful because you
have them very close to the job. Some seem to be running a crippled
version of windoze or Linux, but the specialized application is
restricted of what it can do, and with whom. You probably have limited
access to central databases, and limited messaging ("I need this part
for aircraft 98345 - hardstand A43" - username, location, and other
details are semi-hard coded).

Old guy
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