Customer data should be considered the property of the customer; the decision as to what happens to that data should be accountable to the owner of that data which would be the person who provided that data in the first place. The data should not be transferred to a third party without permission from the owner of that information.
Let me rephrase this: your country's tax system along with mine is broken. It grants hundreds, even thousands of exemptions that only serve to enrich special interests like the COS. They all need to go away. The government should not be in the business of picking who gets special treatment under the law. Not religions, not corporations no one.
The problem with tax exemption of religion is that ultimately the government decides whether or not it's a religion. It's entirely within their power to revoke that status at their whims. To me it looks like a system that can be abused easily by entities like the COS and within the government its self. People should be free to associate with no advantage given to any association through law.
Most religions don't copyright their message and charge large sums to move up the hierarchy. Most religions attempt to spead their message to as many as possible. The COS has gone as far to copyright the message and sue those who infringe. The most famous case of this happened right here on Slashdot.
I can't help but wonder if the COS would even exist without its tax exempt status. Sure the people up top would be doing well like any pyramid scheme but would there be such an incentive for new members to join without the tax exemption?
What is the difference between levying a use tax on stuff you claim on your state tax return and automatically levying an equivalent tax on Amazon's end that the consumer pays anyway?
Contrary to popular belief, it does not exempt sales made on the internet as they will be taxed at the same rate as non-Internet sales just like mail order sales. The Act did not repeal any state sales or use tax.
Emphasis mine. That piece of legislation has nothing to do with this story.
If Amazon wants to use state provided infrastructure and national defense, they should pay their share of the financial burden. If they feel entitled to pay no tax, they shouldn't be allowed to utilize any services provided by that tax. Some things are necessarily funded through a tax such as police, fire and defense, it is only when the government starts tacking on wasteful spending projects that taxes really become a major problem.
Any site that considers it worth the moeny to leave Google isn't worth the ad revenue for MS and poses little threat to Google. It'll serve to slightly flatten out the income curve and distribute wealth from the people who came up with this horrible idea to those who were smart enough to benefit from that idea.
Not really. Our computors are advancing rapidly and from what I've seen in the field, there's significant room for efficiency improvements in the way we do the calculations. Protein folding for one may benefit from some newer algorithms being developed in the field. The mitochrondria are very simple by comparison to the rest of the organism. That doesn't pose much in the way of being an obstacle. Then there's the part where you aren't forced to model every single molecule in the cell at once. Just the atoms in each protein to determine their interactions and properties and fit all of it together like lego blocks to form the whole organism.
synthesize the superconductor coil material in the form of a porous rope like structure that has a lot of surface area and pump superfluid Helium through it. The thermal conductivity of superfluid Helium is over 1,000x that of Copper and it has no measurable viscosity. It boils at its surface by virtue of its ultra high thermal conductivity leaving the rest of it cold enough to cool the superconductor material. combine that with a solar shade on the devide its self, a cryogenic liquification device and radiators and there shouldn't be that much of a problem with heat. As for the magnetic sails, so what? It's been tried in the lab and the physics is pretty well understood, it's just a matter of building it.
Not quite. We do know the rules of chemistry well enough to model proteins, the problem is that the amount of sheer number crunching is enormous. As for water, that's also not quite true. We have the equations for interactions between molecules worked out it's just a matter of doing the math which is a lot... It took weeks to simulate proton jumping using similar equations in superacids for a time period of less than a microsecond. There's a lot of math involved but it's math that we know how to do.
*assignment of codons to specific amino acids (conversion of the genetic code into polypeptides) *energy minimization of protein structure (protein folding and interactions) *capacitor electronics (nervous system) It's all chemistry, physics and math.
I wouldn't doubt it a bit. A sea slug is already defined by known rules and equations, it's just a matter of doing the math. Their genomes aren't terribly extensive compared to other organisms so it should be quite possible to simulate one quite accurately with a few simple equations and basic rules of chemistry and physics.
I think that would be like trying to hit a bullet with another bullet and it's been tried with the US missile defense system with far slower moving objects and it was a complete disaster. Also, you are correct that the target would probably get broken into several pieces and pose a hazard until it burns up.
You may wish to refine your knowledge of inductance which is not dependant on a material being ferromagnetic. Also, the craft is designed to sweep through about 800km^3 of space (10 km diameter bubble) every second and would be capable of cleaning a layer of space covering the whole planet 30 miles thick in a single year. More if the size of the bubble is increased.
As I had previously mentioned, the craft uses a technology otherwise known as Tether propulsion which only uses electrical energy to provide a propulsive force against Earth's magnetic field. It works like an electric motor in a way.
It depends on how much debris you are deorbiting and how large the area you are using for solar power generation. If power is a problem, supplement the power generation with a nuclear battery or two and every time they ae exhausted, swap them out for fresh ones.
A better idea might be to use the concept of induction to our advantage. Create a satellite that creates a several kilometer diameter magnetic field bubble and fly it through the debris at high velocity. THe debris is most likely conductive and would have a current induced in it causing a drag force against the janitorial satellite. The orbits that cause the most drag are ones that run counter to the craft so they'll probably be nudged into a lower orbit by the drag. The janitorial satellite will use solar power and a space tether to stay in its current orbit. Any satellites that need to stay up there and aren't considered debris can be tracked much more easily and you could just shut the EM field down upon close encounter with them. The craft would use very little propellant and would probably work better than a net anyway. Just have a few craft like these flying around and acting like an immune system that kills off targets that are a danger to other craft.
The problem with space junk is that there's thousands of piece of it flying around that can damage spacecraft, re-entry isn't really the problem. That's actually preferable to losing a few of your spacecraft to loose pieces of material in orbit.
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Customer data should be considered the property of the customer; the decision as to what happens to that data should be accountable to the owner of that data which would be the person who provided that data in the first place. The data should not be transferred to a third party without permission from the owner of that information.
Let me rephrase this: your country's tax system along with mine is broken. It grants hundreds, even thousands of exemptions that only serve to enrich special interests like the COS. They all need to go away. The government should not be in the business of picking who gets special treatment under the law. Not religions, not corporations no one.
The problem with tax exemption of religion is that ultimately the government decides whether or not it's a religion. It's entirely within their power to revoke that status at their whims. To me it looks like a system that can be abused easily by entities like the COS and within the government its self. People should be free to associate with no advantage given to any association through law.
Most religions don't copyright their message and charge large sums to move up the hierarchy. Most religions attempt to spead their message to as many as possible. The COS has gone as far to copyright the message and sue those who infringe. The most famous case of this happened right here on Slashdot.
I can't help but wonder if the COS would even exist without its tax exempt status. Sure the people up top would be doing well like any pyramid scheme but would there be such an incentive for new members to join without the tax exemption?
What is the difference between levying a use tax on stuff you claim on your state tax return and automatically levying an equivalent tax on Amazon's end that the consumer pays anyway?
From your link:
Emphasis mine. That piece of legislation has nothing to do with this story.
If Amazon wants to use state provided infrastructure and national defense, they should pay their share of the financial burden. If they feel entitled to pay no tax, they shouldn't be allowed to utilize any services provided by that tax. Some things are necessarily funded through a tax such as police, fire and defense, it is only when the government starts tacking on wasteful spending projects that taxes really become a major problem.
Any site that considers it worth the moeny to leave Google isn't worth the ad revenue for MS and poses little threat to Google. It'll serve to slightly flatten out the income curve and distribute wealth from the people who came up with this horrible idea to those who were smart enough to benefit from that idea.
Not really. Our computors are advancing rapidly and from what I've seen in the field, there's significant room for efficiency improvements in the way we do the calculations. Protein folding for one may benefit from some newer algorithms being developed in the field. The mitochrondria are very simple by comparison to the rest of the organism. That doesn't pose much in the way of being an obstacle. Then there's the part where you aren't forced to model every single molecule in the cell at once. Just the atoms in each protein to determine their interactions and properties and fit all of it together like lego blocks to form the whole organism.
synthesize the superconductor coil material in the form of a porous rope like structure that has a lot of surface area and pump superfluid Helium through it. The thermal conductivity of superfluid Helium is over 1,000x that of Copper and it has no measurable viscosity. It boils at its surface by virtue of its ultra high thermal conductivity leaving the rest of it cold enough to cool the superconductor material. combine that with a solar shade on the devide its self, a cryogenic liquification device and radiators and there shouldn't be that much of a problem with heat.
As for the magnetic sails, so what? It's been tried in the lab and the physics is pretty well understood, it's just a matter of building it.
Not quite. We do know the rules of chemistry well enough to model proteins, the problem is that the amount of sheer number crunching is enormous. As for water, that's also not quite true. We have the equations for interactions between molecules worked out it's just a matter of doing the math which is a lot... It took weeks to simulate proton jumping using similar equations in superacids for a time period of less than a microsecond. There's a lot of math involved but it's math that we know how to do.
*assignment of codons to specific amino acids (conversion of the genetic code into polypeptides)
*energy minimization of protein structure (protein folding and interactions)
*capacitor electronics (nervous system)
It's all chemistry, physics and math.
I wouldn't doubt it a bit. A sea slug is already defined by known rules and equations, it's just a matter of doing the math. Their genomes aren't terribly extensive compared to other organisms so it should be quite possible to simulate one quite accurately with a few simple equations and basic rules of chemistry and physics.
Let's hope it stays that way.
Magnetic sails use magnetic fields this large.
A Space tether can be used to boots satellites acting like a dynamo circuit if a voltage potential is applied to the tether.
I think that would be like trying to hit a bullet with another bullet and it's been tried with the US missile defense system with far slower moving objects and it was a complete disaster. Also, you are correct that the target would probably get broken into several pieces and pose a hazard until it burns up.
You may wish to refine your knowledge of inductance which is not dependant on a material being ferromagnetic. Also, the craft is designed to sweep through about 800km^3 of space (10 km diameter bubble) every second and would be capable of cleaning a layer of space covering the whole planet 30 miles thick in a single year. More if the size of the bubble is increased.
As I had previously mentioned, the craft uses a technology otherwise known as Tether propulsion which only uses electrical energy to provide a propulsive force against Earth's magnetic field. It works like an electric motor in a way.
It depends on how much debris you are deorbiting and how large the area you are using for solar power generation. If power is a problem, supplement the power generation with a nuclear battery or two and every time they ae exhausted, swap them out for fresh ones.
A better idea might be to use the concept of induction to our advantage. Create a satellite that creates a several kilometer diameter magnetic field bubble and fly it through the debris at high velocity. THe debris is most likely conductive and would have a current induced in it causing a drag force against the janitorial satellite. The orbits that cause the most drag are ones that run counter to the craft so they'll probably be nudged into a lower orbit by the drag. The janitorial satellite will use solar power and a space tether to stay in its current orbit. Any satellites that need to stay up there and aren't considered debris can be tracked much more easily and you could just shut the EM field down upon close encounter with them.
The craft would use very little propellant and would probably work better than a net anyway. Just have a few craft like these flying around and acting like an immune system that kills off targets that are a danger to other craft.
The problem with space junk is that there's thousands of piece of it flying around that can damage spacecraft, re-entry isn't really the problem. That's actually preferable to losing a few of your spacecraft to loose pieces of material in orbit.
Problematicalic is not a word.
Yes. Bernard Madoff being a fantastic example of this.