Good grief, reading the article indicates that 45 out of 50 states receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes. Which makes perfect sense since the federal government is spending more than it takes in in taxes. It also means that the metric of a state receiving more federal spending than it pays in federal taxes is meaningless. A more useful metric would be to compare that deficit to the federal deficit on a percentage basis (compare what percentage the federal deficit is of the federal budget to how much federal spending in a state exceeds the taxes paid in that state as a percentage of total federal spending in that state).
Somebody tried that in another state when the sales tax law changed and he found it too confusing to figure out what was taxable and what wasn't. The state fined him so much, even though he passed on all the money thus collected to the state, that he was forced out of business.
How long does it take you to code a NEW tax into software that previously did not calculate ANY tax? This is not a new tax RATE, it is the application of sales tax to a service to which it did not previously apply.
Except you seem to have missed the part where the support companies are claiming that their clients have paid for the license for the update, so they are claiming that they are not pirating the update.
Is Oracle's behavior legal? Yes. Are the support companies in the wrong? Yes.
Your answer to the first question is most likely correct (although not necessarily). The answer to the second question is not so clear cut. At least one of the support companies claims that their clients have legal licenses and credentials to download the updates and that they are merely acting as their clients' agent in doing the download. I have come across several references (including overheard conversations by colleagues responsible for internal support of Oracle products at a previous employer) that suggest that in addition to the license fee for updates Oracle charges customers who need support installing those updates. If that is the case, Oracle may be suing these support companies because, while clients of the support companies have paid for the license to download the updates, Oracle wants them to pay Oracle for the support they need to install those updates without disrupting their ongoing operations. Considering that Oracle's approach seems to be "pay us huge sum of money per hour while our guy figures out how your database is configured (since we can't be bothered to assign the same guy to your account every time you need to update) and installs the update, which will probably take several days since the first couple of times he will break your database," it is no surprise that companies would rather hire a third party to handle this (a third party that carefully documents how the database is used and configures the update on a test server before rolling it out to production).
This is related to why statists love public transportation. Those who use public transportation as their primary means of transportation are used to operating on someone else's schedule and going where they are allowed to go and nowhere else. There are of course exceptions, but most regular users of public transportation are more accepting of government control over their lives.
What they are overlooking is that more and more people are giving up on television all together. Some of them are going with streaming services, but some, like myself, have decided that the entertainment value of television is not worth the price (either the dollars I need to spend on cable, or the effort I need to expend to find an alternative). I am perfectly happy playing computer games, surfing the Internet, reading books, and socializing with other people that I barely miss television.
You need to take a reading comprehension class. They did not say that the structure was thought to be "unique to mammals", they said it was thought to be "unique among mammals." The second wording (which was used in the summary) would indicate that they thought there was only one type of mammal which had this spine structure and have now discovered that there is another type of mammal with that spine structure.
My inclination would be to believe that they have built their email system so that what they are saying is technically correct, but I would bet that is because they don't want to (of course, there is a significant chance that they are just lying). However, even if their email system does not technically allow them to search in the manner that they say it can't, there is almost certainly another way of doing so that would yield essentially the same results.
All literature (and for the purposes of this post, movies are a form of literature) can be broken down into formulas. The book in this article breaks down plot structure, but there is also a formula for the actual plot. As to the plot structure there are only two choices, the three act plot, or the five act plot. The three act plot structure is the beginning, the middle, and the end. In this structure, the beginning introduces the characters and sets the stage for what happens. The middle is where the main conflict of the plot plays out. The end is where the conflict reaches its resolution. The five act plot is a more granular approach to the same way of viewing story-telling (and screen writers would probably do well to adopt the five act approach, at least for a few years).
As to plots, there have been several studies which show that there are only seven plots. Every story falls into one of these seven plots.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up. Thomas Friedman will say something is bad one day and that it is good the next with the only difference being that on the "bad" day it was done by someone he politically opposes and on the "good" day it was done by someone he politically supports.
Except for Jon Corzine who stole the money of people who had invested through his company to attempt to make back the money he had lost because he didn't get out of the market soon enough (I think he stayed in the market for certain European government bonds too long and lost a lot of money after everybody else knew to be out of that market).
However, the mechanisms are perfectly clear. Greenhouse gases make it warmer.
Except that they have recently discovered that increased CO2 in the atmosphere causes the atmosphere to reflect a greater amount of the Sun's energy than previously believed.
That is exactly what I came to post. It turned out that those atomic scientists were as guilty of exaggerating the dire consequences that would result from the arms race as the climate scientists of today are of exaggerating the dire consequences of climate change.
As you said, good comparison (even though the submitter and the article don't even realize that the comparison they are making should cause one to draw the opposite conclusion to the one they want you to draw).
Wacom digitizer and OneNote. I own the Surface Pro but that was one of the reasons I got it.
You said that you got the Surface Pro, this article is about the Surface RT. Which raises the question, does the Wacom digitizer work on the Surface RT? I tried to find the information, but was unable to locate it in a cursory search.
Forget the 4th Amendment, we have no more Constitution. The Constitution says that the President shall "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Note that it does not say, "except when he does not like the law, or thinks that it is politically inconvenient." The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says that the employer mandate goes into effect January 2014 with no qualifiers or conditions that might lead to a delay, yet President Obama, through his subordinates, has announced that it will not be enforced until January 2015. If the President can unilaterally decide to not enforce a law whenever he feels like it, we do not have a Constitution. Please note that this is different than "prosecutorial discretion", which is the decision not to pursue a particular case because of specifics of that case. This was a decision not to enforce a duly enacted law.
I work for a company that would have been in a good place, and better off than they were, if they had gone to the cloud a year or more before they hired me. However, they hired me because they were experiencing rapid growth and part time IT support from brother of one of the owners was not longer adequate. When they hired me their IT infrastructure was about three years overdue for replacement from top to bottom. The owners wanted to go to the cloud as part of that change. As we investigated options it became obvious that we had outgrown where the cloud would have been a good solution for us (it is not just size, it is also the way that we do business). We are at a size where it is cost effective to build out our own server infrastructure, including what is needed to ensure business continuity rather than pay someone else for it. The cloud might be a viable option as the location for our business continuity redundancy, but it is not cost effective as the location for our day to day operations.
Except they didn't go away. At the turn of the 20th Century, self-powered vehicles were a niche market. The market for electrical vehicles was larger than that for ICE vehicles. Early in the 20th Century, ICE vehicles expanded out of the niche and became general purpose vehicles. So far electric vehicles have failed to do the same thing. In the 1970s people began to look for ways to expand electric vehicles out of their niche into the general purpose vehicle market. So far, no one has succeeded.
The reason I think it is important to bring this history up is that people keep telling me that I have to give new technologies time to mature. I happen to think that any technology that is over 100 years old is not a new technology. Electric vehicles have been around for over 100 years and no one has solved the problem of market adoption yet.
What I find hilarious is that they think that electric vehicles are a new thing. They come with all kinds of excuses to overlook the fact that at the turn of the twentieth century electric automobiles were outselling internal combustion automobiles by a significant margin.
Actually, there is one "planned city" that worked as a city without needing the country's government being located there: Philadelphia. Of course a major reason for that is that Philadelphia was built where a city would have grown up anyway, at the juncture of two rivers. Washington, D.C. is also at the juncture of rivers (three rivers in Washington's case). The difference being that Washington, D.C. is naturally a marsh.
That is probably a result of the kernels of corn you scatter behind you every where you go. And is also probably an explanation for your inability to attract women.
How does one provide a citation for the claim that statistics about something don't exist? Your "citation needed" is asking the OP to prove a negative. The OP just stated that there is not documentation of statistics on how often a gun is taken from a gun owner and used against them and you asked them to provide documentation that documentation does not exist.
The wikipedia link you posted suggests that the Trojan War as in the 12th Century BC, which would put it at 3200 years ago, NOT 14,000 years ago and significantly more recent than the above discovery.
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Good grief, reading the article indicates that 45 out of 50 states receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes. Which makes perfect sense since the federal government is spending more than it takes in in taxes. It also means that the metric of a state receiving more federal spending than it pays in federal taxes is meaningless. A more useful metric would be to compare that deficit to the federal deficit on a percentage basis (compare what percentage the federal deficit is of the federal budget to how much federal spending in a state exceeds the taxes paid in that state as a percentage of total federal spending in that state).
Somebody tried that in another state when the sales tax law changed and he found it too confusing to figure out what was taxable and what wasn't. The state fined him so much, even though he passed on all the money thus collected to the state, that he was forced out of business.
How long does it take you to code a NEW tax into software that previously did not calculate ANY tax? This is not a new tax RATE, it is the application of sales tax to a service to which it did not previously apply.
If both parties have too much to lose there won't be another war. That's a fortunate consequence of globalization.
The problem with that is there is no way to calculate what priorities the other side will use to calculate when they have "too much to lose."
Except you seem to have missed the part where the support companies are claiming that their clients have paid for the license for the update, so they are claiming that they are not pirating the update.
Is Oracle's behavior legal? Yes. Are the support companies in the wrong? Yes.
Your answer to the first question is most likely correct (although not necessarily). The answer to the second question is not so clear cut. At least one of the support companies claims that their clients have legal licenses and credentials to download the updates and that they are merely acting as their clients' agent in doing the download. I have come across several references (including overheard conversations by colleagues responsible for internal support of Oracle products at a previous employer) that suggest that in addition to the license fee for updates Oracle charges customers who need support installing those updates. If that is the case, Oracle may be suing these support companies because, while clients of the support companies have paid for the license to download the updates, Oracle wants them to pay Oracle for the support they need to install those updates without disrupting their ongoing operations. Considering that Oracle's approach seems to be "pay us huge sum of money per hour while our guy figures out how your database is configured (since we can't be bothered to assign the same guy to your account every time you need to update) and installs the update, which will probably take several days since the first couple of times he will break your database," it is no surprise that companies would rather hire a third party to handle this (a third party that carefully documents how the database is used and configures the update on a test server before rolling it out to production).
This is related to why statists love public transportation. Those who use public transportation as their primary means of transportation are used to operating on someone else's schedule and going where they are allowed to go and nowhere else. There are of course exceptions, but most regular users of public transportation are more accepting of government control over their lives.
What they are overlooking is that more and more people are giving up on television all together. Some of them are going with streaming services, but some, like myself, have decided that the entertainment value of television is not worth the price (either the dollars I need to spend on cable, or the effort I need to expend to find an alternative). I am perfectly happy playing computer games, surfing the Internet, reading books, and socializing with other people that I barely miss television.
You need to take a reading comprehension class. They did not say that the structure was thought to be "unique to mammals", they said it was thought to be "unique among mammals." The second wording (which was used in the summary) would indicate that they thought there was only one type of mammal which had this spine structure and have now discovered that there is another type of mammal with that spine structure.
My inclination would be to believe that they have built their email system so that what they are saying is technically correct, but I would bet that is because they don't want to (of course, there is a significant chance that they are just lying). However, even if their email system does not technically allow them to search in the manner that they say it can't, there is almost certainly another way of doing so that would yield essentially the same results.
All literature (and for the purposes of this post, movies are a form of literature) can be broken down into formulas. The book in this article breaks down plot structure, but there is also a formula for the actual plot. As to the plot structure there are only two choices, the three act plot, or the five act plot. The three act plot structure is the beginning, the middle, and the end. In this structure, the beginning introduces the characters and sets the stage for what happens. The middle is where the main conflict of the plot plays out. The end is where the conflict reaches its resolution. The five act plot is a more granular approach to the same way of viewing story-telling (and screen writers would probably do well to adopt the five act approach, at least for a few years).
As to plots, there have been several studies which show that there are only seven plots. Every story falls into one of these seven plots.
I wish I had mod points to mod you up. Thomas Friedman will say something is bad one day and that it is good the next with the only difference being that on the "bad" day it was done by someone he politically opposes and on the "good" day it was done by someone he politically supports.
Except for Jon Corzine who stole the money of people who had invested through his company to attempt to make back the money he had lost because he didn't get out of the market soon enough (I think he stayed in the market for certain European government bonds too long and lost a lot of money after everybody else knew to be out of that market).
However, the mechanisms are perfectly clear. Greenhouse gases make it warmer.
Except that they have recently discovered that increased CO2 in the atmosphere causes the atmosphere to reflect a greater amount of the Sun's energy than previously believed.
That is exactly what I came to post. It turned out that those atomic scientists were as guilty of exaggerating the dire consequences that would result from the arms race as the climate scientists of today are of exaggerating the dire consequences of climate change.
As you said, good comparison (even though the submitter and the article don't even realize that the comparison they are making should cause one to draw the opposite conclusion to the one they want you to draw).
Wacom digitizer and OneNote. I own the Surface Pro but that was one of the reasons I got it.
You said that you got the Surface Pro, this article is about the Surface RT. Which raises the question, does the Wacom digitizer work on the Surface RT? I tried to find the information, but was unable to locate it in a cursory search.
Forget the 4th Amendment, we have no more Constitution. The Constitution says that the President shall "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Note that it does not say, "except when he does not like the law, or thinks that it is politically inconvenient." The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says that the employer mandate goes into effect January 2014 with no qualifiers or conditions that might lead to a delay, yet President Obama, through his subordinates, has announced that it will not be enforced until January 2015. If the President can unilaterally decide to not enforce a law whenever he feels like it, we do not have a Constitution. Please note that this is different than "prosecutorial discretion", which is the decision not to pursue a particular case because of specifics of that case. This was a decision not to enforce a duly enacted law.
I work for a company that would have been in a good place, and better off than they were, if they had gone to the cloud a year or more before they hired me. However, they hired me because they were experiencing rapid growth and part time IT support from brother of one of the owners was not longer adequate. When they hired me their IT infrastructure was about three years overdue for replacement from top to bottom. The owners wanted to go to the cloud as part of that change. As we investigated options it became obvious that we had outgrown where the cloud would have been a good solution for us (it is not just size, it is also the way that we do business). We are at a size where it is cost effective to build out our own server infrastructure, including what is needed to ensure business continuity rather than pay someone else for it. The cloud might be a viable option as the location for our business continuity redundancy, but it is not cost effective as the location for our day to day operations.
Except they didn't go away. At the turn of the 20th Century, self-powered vehicles were a niche market. The market for electrical vehicles was larger than that for ICE vehicles. Early in the 20th Century, ICE vehicles expanded out of the niche and became general purpose vehicles. So far electric vehicles have failed to do the same thing. In the 1970s people began to look for ways to expand electric vehicles out of their niche into the general purpose vehicle market. So far, no one has succeeded.
The reason I think it is important to bring this history up is that people keep telling me that I have to give new technologies time to mature. I happen to think that any technology that is over 100 years old is not a new technology. Electric vehicles have been around for over 100 years and no one has solved the problem of market adoption yet.
What I find hilarious is that they think that electric vehicles are a new thing. They come with all kinds of excuses to overlook the fact that at the turn of the twentieth century electric automobiles were outselling internal combustion automobiles by a significant margin.
Because Tesla is supposedly becoming successful.
If the iPhone is like Tesla, then the new Windows smartphones would be like a Yugo.
Well, that would work, except for the fact that more Yugos were sold each year in the 1980s than Tesla has yet to sell in its history.
The idea of comparing Tesla to the Iphone at this point is ridiculous. Mostly because it is an apples to hamburgers comparison.
Actually, there is one "planned city" that worked as a city without needing the country's government being located there: Philadelphia. Of course a major reason for that is that Philadelphia was built where a city would have grown up anyway, at the juncture of two rivers. Washington, D.C. is also at the juncture of rivers (three rivers in Washington's case). The difference being that Washington, D.C. is naturally a marsh.
I have the same problem with chicks.
That is probably a result of the kernels of corn you scatter behind you every where you go. And is also probably an explanation for your inability to attract women.
How does one provide a citation for the claim that statistics about something don't exist? Your "citation needed" is asking the OP to prove a negative. The OP just stated that there is not documentation of statistics on how often a gun is taken from a gun owner and used against them and you asked them to provide documentation that documentation does not exist.
The wikipedia link you posted suggests that the Trojan War as in the 12th Century BC, which would put it at 3200 years ago, NOT 14,000 years ago and significantly more recent than the above discovery.