And just to be clear, there is no passive-aggressive, conditional, manipulative nonsense behind my statement.
When a portfolio manager for an index fund performs additional management services, the fund is no longer passive.
People played no armor passive only amazons (meaning defense only, essentially) with hand axes and cleared Hell, because their defense was that good.
We are no longer passive with social media, we are active.
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In conclusion, this is no time for a passive, reactive or paralyzed American foreign policy.
To the contrary, if the rental activity does not rise to the level of a trade or business, the fact that it is no longer treated as passive courtesy of the real estate professional rules will not change the fact that the rental income is considered net investment income.
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Unlike the lifestyle designer types, they have no illusions about living off passive income streams on a beach somewhere, sipping Pina Coladas and working four hours a week.
Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, thinks the strides made in technology means that by the 2020 Games there will be no such thing as a passive armchair fan.
Zwan is a "passive investor who has no involvement in Forge's management, " says his lawyer.
The simple truth these brands have leveraged is that your audience is no longer made up just of passive customers, but active influencers.
It will turn them into essentially passive middlemen, who no longer appraise and control risk, but who merely perform the administrative function of doling out health care benefits.
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With the significance of patents in the online turf wars exploding, no one can afford to be too passive in asserting rights.
The public is sitting in passive index ETFs now, no need to trade or to have a broker or mutual fund manager buying and selling things on their behalf.
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Because the original deployments of IDS were just passive data collectors there was no impact on network performance from adding new signatures so the data base grew and grew and the logs IDS generated grew and grew to the point where even a mid-size organization would receive millions of alerts a day.
As a passionate proponent of passive investing, I'd say no.
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It may appear that ramping up your hours to materially participate in an activity is a no-brainer, because by converting the activity from passive to nonpassive, you can pull the resulting income out of the computation of net investment income and save an extra 3.8% in tax.
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It does trump passive tech in one area though, as there's no drop in the screen's brightness that normally happens when you don specs.
The new Generation III reactors such as the AP1000 have a simplified "passive" cooling system where the water circulates by natural convection with no pumping required.
Being passive in the face of the burgeoning Media-NGO-Class Action Bar Complex is simply no longer an option.
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No one would doubt anymore that some executives and audit firms had been self-serving and active, rather than passive, actors in this economic tragedy.
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