Thanks... That fixed it. However maybe you should detect if the mute switch is on and display a message. I'm guessing a lot of others would not think of that.
> Thanks... That fixed it. However maybe you should detect if the mute switch is on and display a message. I'm guessing a lot of others would not think of that.
All of your compensation is in stock and worth the stock price.
1) It looks good to investors: you've got to believe in it if your worth is in the stock, for instance most of Bill Gates net worth is in Microsoft stock and it would look bad if he sold it all,
2) You pay lower taxes: capital gains vs income, not to mention
3) it sounds good in the press and when people say it
I had it explained to me that they have to take a salary to be eligible to receive company perks, such as a company car, travel expenses, etc. Therefore they take a nominal salary of $1 so that they are officially on the payroll and are receiving a salary, and hence can receive all the other perks and benefits through the company.
Probably to receive stock options in compensation. Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have also done the same. They seem to be exempt from payroll taxes in the United Sates.
Sometimes the explanation is more optimistic than that--sometimes the CEO is rich enough it makes little difference. E.g. John Mackey (Whole Foods CEO) switched to a $1 salary because he felt he no longer needed to work for money [1].
I mean, think about it: Mark owns over $10 billion in Facebook stock--he makes over a billion dollars by pushing the stock price up 10% (or loses over a billion if the stock drops 10%). Either way, a $15 million salary would be fairly insignificant...
Well, they're still taking a large salary, it's just in different currency. If you pay someone 1m dollars, 750k euros, or $1m worth of stock, it's still essentially salary...
To enable "legitimate tethering" on AT&T, I have to give up my grandfathered unlimited data plan, be charged $45 per month and be limited to max 4gb or $10 for every GB I go over. Sounds like the jailbreak will still come in handy.
It is pretty easy to meet US citizens in the US, however. If you're looking for a girlfriend / wife anyway, then the odds are high that she will be a citizen. Two birds with one stone.
If you're looking for a girlfriend / wife anyway, then the odds are high that she will be a citizen.
Not necessarily true. If he comes from a country with a significantly different culture (i.e., somewhere other than Europe), he would probably be more comfortable marrying someone of his own nationality who is also a recent immigrant, and thus is more likely to also be a non-citizen.
Huh? I think you and the upmodders do not realize that once the spouse gets the marriage-based green card, it doesn't get revoked in a divorce. AFAIK and IANAL.
Unless there is some other point to this comment that is going WAY above my head.
Well, your knowledge is surely lacking. To prevent immigration fraud, the rule is that when you marry a citizen, you get a temporary green card which is valid for 2 years. You must go back to USCIS after 2 years to get a permanent green card. Also, it's quite possible that USCIS will ask for proof that your marriage was legit (wedding pictures/honeymoon pictures/joint bank accounts). If you get divorced before 2 years, it becomes kind of tricky to get permanent green card. [Read http://www.shusterman.com/greencardsthroughmarriage.html, scroll to 'REMOVING CONDITIONAL RESIDENCE' section]
Also, if you get divorce after getting green card and if USCIS finds out that you married citizen only to get green card, they can revoke it.
But the unqualified "no leverage" of the OP seemed to imply at least to me that they thought that the green card would be taken away in a divorce irrespective of number of years of marriage (it doesn't after two years unless you got into a fraudulent marriage).
And I do not think the GP suggested getting a sham marriage. Yes, if you really enter into a sham marriage then the "wife" will have lots of leverage over you.
But the first marriage based green card is temporary; it expires in 3 years. That doesn't mean that even if you get a divorce you'll get thrown out, but it certainly increases the risk.
Background: I'm a citizen, and my wife when through the process when we got married six years ago. She became a citizen a couple of years ago.
The only thing that's kept me coming back is 'user interface' design or just working with a designer on a really tough web problem. This is why I've focused on another web startup that falls into this area, as it definitely takes all of the 'favorite' pieces I have. We built a super quick prototype, fell into a lull for a month or two, and are now iterating and improving it. Unfortunately the iterations are taking longer than I had hoped, but it's still moving forward.
The problem I'm running into on this one is having 3-4 GREAT ideas to improve the software, but being stuck waiting for idea #1 from last month to be implemented. This may be a big piece of my motivation issue. Figuring out how to release things faster is key for me at the moment, I've even turned to coding to try to speed it up.
To clarify, I'm definitely motivated to implement it. I just want it to move faster ;) I'm not really a developer so every time I start coding I feel like a swimmer who thrashes in the water and moves about 3 feet while the other guys are gliding :)
I don't think the current one looks bad. I would even say the design is great. Maybe not aesthetically, but its very functional and is consistent with the purpose of the site.
The proposed redesign has too much transitional volatility associated with it. Although functional, subtracting from the current width makes the site look weird. Theres also too much text on the front page which is a departure from the way forums typically work with just the thread title (submission) and other essential info (comments, etc.).
The SMS payment option is twice as expensive as the paypal or credit card option. Interested in seeing conversion rates on the various payment options.
I agree that this release provides some much-needed missing features, but I fear that the culture of php, when presented with these new features, will use them to build even more crufty, difficult-to-read code. As a coder and debugger of much php code, I hope I'm wrong about that.
