Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
I think that being able to pay to get medically necessary services quicker violates the Canada Health Act. It's legalizing queue-jumping.
If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
The people who are going to pay more are the bad drivers who've been subsidized all these years by good drivers all throughout California.
Imagine graduating and your job is to hang out on college campuses, where people who work for you are getting people excited about music. I said, 'You're going to pay me to do that?' It was the greatest job, never having to grow up.
The study shows that malpractice insurance companies consistently overstate how much they expect to pay in claims and in amounts far beyond the margin of reasonable error. By manipulating their books to misrepresent their 'losses,' the insurers have profited in two ways. First, they have used the inflated numbers to justify rate increases that were unnecessary and excessive. Second, they have invoked their exaggerated loss estimates to promote legislation allowing these insurers to limit how much compensation they have to pay out to victims of medical negligence.
I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday.
California motorists, homeowners and businesses can expect to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars more every year for insurance if the insurance industry is able to trick the voters into passing their initiatives.
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
Doing so gives the rest of the taxpayers confidence that the system has integrity and accountability built in. In an ideal world everyone pays their taxes, pays the right amount and pays on time. But we don't live in an ideal world.
The voters said this is how it should be done. The people who should pay more are bad drivers.
A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it
You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.
It is clear from recent events -- including the program the president is announcing this morning to improve and strengthen the duties of those whose conduct is at the core of our securities markets -- that the SEC critically needs to receive additional money in fiscal 2003 to fully fund pay parity and that we should be authorized to add new staff to address pressing immediate needs,
Here I was, amid 500 tits, and I was principally paying attention to the social aspects of the event. It was neither puritanical nor prurient.