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Seeing Color in the Night

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-green-for-more-green dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Things that show color in the night,' the Boston Globe reports that a company named Tenebraex is helping color blind people to travel. But it's also developing goggles to help soldiers and physicians to see all colors at night, and not only the green color of current night vision systems. These goggles, which should become available this summer, will be sold for about $6,000 to the Army. But as states one of the founders of the company, with monochrome night vision, 'blood is the same color as water.' So these expensive night vision devices might be more targeted to Army physicians than to regular soldiers."

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  1. Re:Depth perception by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This isn't a problem; there's binocular NVG headsets available, usually worn by pilots.

    Yes, not everyone gets the cool binocular headsets, but that's a matter of the Army being too cheap-ass to properly equip troops, not a technical problem. It's the same reason the Army doesn't bother giving troops body armor, armoring vehicles, or providing adequate medical care.

  2. Re:Depth perception by GigG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Insightful my ass. The parent is trolling for karma by attacking the Army. Probably the same Army that he bitches about tax spending going to.

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  3. Re:Depth perception by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope you're not a tax professional, if you are you must either provide shitty service, or dip into what people should be keeping for themselves.
    You are clearly a nut job if you think a tax preparer can "dip into what people should be keeping for themselves."

    As for the definition of an income tax write-off:
    • In income tax calculation, a write-off is the itemized deduction of an item's value from one's taxable income. Thus if a person has a taxable income of $50,000 per year, a $100 telephone for business use would lower the taxable income to $49,900. If that person is in a 25% tax bracket, the tax due would be lowered from $12,500 to $12,475. Thus the net cost of the telephone is $75 instead of $100.

      The phrase "writing off" is sometimes used in a way that suggests the item will be free. The value of the item is only deducted from taxable income, not from the tax itself. The term is also loosely used to refer to an item which is intended for personal use but which will be deducted ("written off") as a business expense. Some individuals attempt to amass large numbers of "write-offs" in order to reach a lower tax bracket and increase the effective size of the deductions.
    What part of "The value of the item is only deducted from taxable income, not from the tax itself" do you fail to understand?
  4. Re:Depth perception by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What part of "The value of the item is only deducted from taxable income, not from the tax itself" do you fail to understand?