This is why I don't think we'll ever see tax code simplification: there are too many people making too much money with the exiting overly complex system. They have a lot of money and they want our money so they will spend gobs of greenbacks to prevent any simplification of the tax code.
It was not supposed to be a real watch. It was a joke. A spoof. A representation. It's funny anyone would think that cover was representing a real prediction. Crimminy.
I farm. I use some technology but everything I do I can do without any of the modern tech falling back gracefully to older and older ways. My kids farm with us and they understand these things and the need.
Civilizations rise and fall. There will be another fall. Another dark age. Maybe this decade, this century, this millennia. *shrug* I enjoy technology but I don't let myself be dependent on it. If there is a fall, my pastured pigs will be worth more than gold and bitcoins will be useless.
Before the internet I had no religion. If the internet were to take away my religion I would be anti-religion...? Hmm... Hasn't happened. I also have not become pro-religion either. My views have not changed as a result of the internet.
I am pro-reason. When religion catches up then we can talk.
Nest sounds cool. I like the remote off, with no remote device. Could be voice activated instead and that might solve the problem.
This has the potential for a lot of very interesting things. It is a platform for sensors. Smoke Fire CO CO2 Humidity Temperature Air Pressure Motion Sensor (earthquake) PA/mic Camera WiFi extender...
Put one outside too. Network and log the data.
Then for people who want to participate, send the data to the weather bureau folks for collecting some seriously large aggregates of data on the environment.
Also useful for businesses. e.g., monitoring processing work rooms, refrigerators and freezers.
There is so much potential here. And if they are manufactured in sufficient quantity it will drive the unit cost down which will lower the price which will increase market penetration so we have nests in everyone's nests.
Right now I have too many different devices all serving these functions. I would rather have several nests around. Then, sure, one will fail but I'll just move a less vital one to it's location while I get a replacement (2 days on Amazon Prime). Hmm... Stick them to the ceiling or wall plate with a magnet. I use magnets for things like this all over the place - works great.
The winning device will be agnostic, supporting all content: DVD Blueray iTunesStore AmazonPrime NetFlix etc.
AmazonTV misses out by not supporting all content paths. e.g., iTunesStore AppleTV misses out by not supporting all content paths. e.g., AmazonPrime
Both need to be supporting disks at the very least with an optional plugin drive that they sit on to look like one nice neat device for those billions of existing DVD and Blueray disks.
There is another solution. We don't worry about it. In the morning everyone gets up early. If you stayed up late reading or something you still get up early in the morning for chores and breakfast. We also have rules of respect. Being quiet in the evening is one of those rules because other people are sleeping so they can get up in the morning to work. If kids are raised this way it rather solves the issue.
Back to the smart bulbs - too much technology. Wasteful. Expensive.
I realize you city dudes have a hard time with this idea but there are large swaths of the USA, and world, where there is no cell phone service. POTS is all we have and I had to lay a mile and a half of my own cable to get that. There is something called mountains that make radio, TV, cellular, WiFi and such not work so well.
"In the end it will also not matter, because when these people reach the distant location, there will be no compatible civilization on earth left."
The point isn't to come back. The point is to go out.
"There is no point in deep space travel as long as we are not able to go faster than light or at least close to light speed."
No point that you understand. There is a point for those of us who would like to seed our planet's life and culture out to the stars. Maybe we'll develop faster than light which will over take those ships, or maybe we won't. But if we don't send out seed ships then we won't have and someday when the rock with our name on it hits Earth we'll be wiped out. This is a very big reason for sending out seed ships.
Personally, I think they should be live ships, not just storage of corpsicles.
So: 30% Alcohol related 25% Cellphone related
5% Texting (separate?) ----- 60% of accidents could be eliminated if people would stop using cellphones, texting and driving drunk.
If you send me $30,000 (a pittance compared with $3 million) I'll supply you with pork for life. Real food in the real world which you can really eat. You can also trade your real pork for other real goods with other real people or just serve it up as a delicious meal with real friends in the real world.
Hundreds of real people have send me real money like the above and smaller amounts to get their real pork CSA Pre-Buys. It's real. This money helps us finish building our on-farm USDA/State inspected butcher shop. That's creating real infrastructure in the real world funded by real people at a real farm producing real food.
Be a part of something real and get real benefits.
-Walter Jeffries a Real Pig Farmer on a Real Mountain in the Real State of Vermont http://sugarmtnfarm.com/
"They current generate 7,000 â" 8,000 Bitcoins per month, which, at current rates, would be worth over $4 million."...and at tomorrow's rates will be worth $0. Oops. Virtual evaporation leaving no trace behind, not even a ring around the bathtub.
Not everyone has the high bandwidth connections. Streaming doesn't work in much of the USA and much of the world for that matter. There are many places where a DVD is much more convient to watch than to have the video streamed.
Another issue is that the streamed video from Amazon Prime for example does not include the extras like deleted scenes that are on DVDs.
If you want the exact opposite effect, homeschool your kids. This makes you far more involved in their education and lives plus they do far better than public school kids. One of the big benefits of homeschooling is that we don't have to have any arguments about what we're going to teach, no creationism vs evolution. We teach real science. We do real research. Homeschooling has been great, for us.
Unfortunately he has a point though. The Media and Public are not science yet they create madness and hysteria. FUD rules them in an evolving cyclic swirling mess that ignores what might be really going on. This distracts from the real science and real understanding.
Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers both like to cherry pick the data to prove their favorite theory. What they do is choose a span of time that proves their point.
If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing.
This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.
Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers like to cherry pick the data. What they do is pick a span of time that proves their point. If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing. This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.
Free is too expensive since I don't trust Microsoft to continue to offer the product. One of the big problems is we need to continue having access to our legacy data. When Apple, Google, Microsoft or other companies decide a project is no longer worth supporting we lose access to our data going forward. They are not good about providing legacy support or data conversion.
"in the U.S., Crawford laments, 'we focus on steering all extra money and attention toward kids who are struggling academically, or even just to the average student' and 'risk shortchanging the country in a different way.'"
Exactly. The USA is doing it all backwards for political correct reasons. Not only that but when we take our kids out of the public school system so we can better teach them advanced science, history, engineering, arts, etc the liberals try and gilt trip us claiming that we are harming other children by not subjecting our children to the abuses of the public schools where they would pull up the public school sagging scores.
No thanks. I pay my educational taxes to educate everyone else's kids and I put in the effort and time to educate my kids. I take responsibility for them.
I don't live in Burlington or Montpelier. I live out in the woods. We take care of our own crap. Time for you to STFU because you speak from ignorance. But you're so scared you can't even post with your own name, Anonymous Coward. You're the hypocrite.
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This is why I don't think we'll ever see tax code simplification: there are too many people making too much money with the exiting overly complex system. They have a lot of money and they want our money so they will spend gobs of greenbacks to prevent any simplification of the tax code.
Greed rules.
And if it hadn't been brought to so much heat they would have just kept beating up old ladies, and anyone else they could get away with abusing.
Remember: only 10% of the government is evil. That is more than enough.
It was not supposed to be a real watch. It was a joke. A spoof. A representation. It's funny anyone would think that cover was representing a real prediction. Crimminy.
I farm. I use some technology but everything I do I can do without any of the modern tech falling back gracefully to older and older ways. My kids farm with us and they understand these things and the need.
Civilizations rise and fall. There will be another fall. Another dark age. Maybe this decade, this century, this millennia. *shrug* I enjoy technology but I don't let myself be dependent on it. If there is a fall, my pastured pigs will be worth more than gold and bitcoins will be useless.
Before the internet I had no religion. If the internet were to take away my religion I would be anti-religion...? Hmm... Hasn't happened. I also have not become pro-religion either. My views have not changed as a result of the internet.
I am pro-reason. When religion catches up then we can talk.
The other option is chocolate which is even higher in antioxidants! Chocolate BBQ Ribs!
Nest sounds cool. I like the remote off, with no remote device. Could be voice activated instead and that might solve the problem.
This has the potential for a lot of very interesting things. It is a platform for sensors. ...
Smoke
Fire
CO
CO2
Humidity
Temperature
Air Pressure
Motion Sensor (earthquake)
PA/mic
Camera
WiFi extender
Put one outside too. Network and log the data.
Then for people who want to participate, send the data to the weather bureau folks for collecting some seriously large aggregates of data on the environment.
Also useful for businesses. e.g., monitoring processing work rooms, refrigerators and freezers.
There is so much potential here. And if they are manufactured in sufficient quantity it will drive the unit cost down which will lower the price which will increase market penetration so we have nests in everyone's nests.
Right now I have too many different devices all serving these functions. I would rather have several nests around. Then, sure, one will fail but I'll just move a less vital one to it's location while I get a replacement (2 days on Amazon Prime). Hmm... Stick them to the ceiling or wall plate with a magnet. I use magnets for things like this all over the place - works great.
The winning device will be agnostic, supporting all content:
DVD
Blueray
iTunesStore
AmazonPrime
NetFlix
etc.
AmazonTV misses out by not supporting all content paths. e.g., iTunesStore
AppleTV misses out by not supporting all content paths. e.g., AmazonPrime
Both need to be supporting disks at the very least with an optional plugin drive that they sit on to look like one nice neat device for those billions of existing DVD and Blueray disks.
My Vote: no buy yet.
Oh, my, two more things to fail at the most inopportune moments. So is this going to increase the cost of the cars too?
On the other hand, the benefit is a better wind profile so better gas mileage. Should that be kilometerage by now? *sign*
There is another solution. We don't worry about it. In the morning everyone gets up early. If you stayed up late reading or something you still get up early in the morning for chores and breakfast. We also have rules of respect. Being quiet in the evening is one of those rules because other people are sleeping so they can get up in the morning to work. If kids are raised this way it rather solves the issue.
Back to the smart bulbs - too much technology. Wasteful. Expensive.
I realize you city dudes have a hard time with this idea but there are large swaths of the USA, and world, where there is no cell phone service. POTS is all we have and I had to lay a mile and a half of my own cable to get that. There is something called mountains that make radio, TV, cellular, WiFi and such not work so well.
"In the end it will also not matter, because when these people reach the distant location, there will be no compatible civilization on earth left."
The point isn't to come back. The point is to go out.
"There is no point in deep space travel as long as we are not able to go faster than light or at least close to light speed."
No point that you understand. There is a point for those of us who would like to seed our planet's life and culture out to the stars. Maybe we'll develop faster than light which will over take those ships, or maybe we won't. But if we don't send out seed ships then we won't have and someday when the rock with our name on it hits Earth we'll be wiped out. This is a very big reason for sending out seed ships.
Personally, I think they should be live ships, not just storage of corpsicles.
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehicl...
So:
30% Alcohol related
25% Cellphone related
5% Texting (separate?)
-----
60% of accidents could be eliminated if people would stop using cellphones, texting and driving drunk.
That would be really nice.
If you send me $30,000 (a pittance compared with $3 million) I'll supply you with pork for life. Real food in the real world which you can really eat. You can also trade your real pork for other real goods with other real people or just serve it up as a delicious meal with real friends in the real world.
Hundreds of real people have send me real money like the above and smaller amounts to get their real pork CSA Pre-Buys. It's real. This money helps us finish building our on-farm USDA/State inspected butcher shop. That's creating real infrastructure in the real world funded by real people at a real farm producing real food.
Be a part of something real and get real benefits.
-Walter Jeffries
a Real Pig Farmer
on a Real Mountain
in the Real State of Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/
"They current generate 7,000 â" 8,000 Bitcoins per month, which, at current rates, would be worth over $4 million." ...and at tomorrow's rates will be worth $0. Oops. Virtual evaporation leaving no trace behind, not even a ring around the bathtub.
Not everyone has the high bandwidth connections. Streaming doesn't work in much of the USA and much of the world for that matter. There are many places where a DVD is much more convient to watch than to have the video streamed.
Another issue is that the streamed video from Amazon Prime for example does not include the extras like deleted scenes that are on DVDs.
If you want the exact opposite effect, homeschool your kids. This makes you far more involved in their education and lives plus they do far better than public school kids. One of the big benefits of homeschooling is that we don't have to have any arguments about what we're going to teach, no creationism vs evolution. We teach real science. We do real research. Homeschooling has been great, for us.
YMMV so do what you please.
Unfortunately he has a point though. The Media and Public are not science yet they create madness and hysteria. FUD rules them in an evolving cyclic swirling mess that ignores what might be really going on. This distracts from the real science and real understanding.
Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers both like to cherry pick the data to prove their favorite theory. What they do is choose a span of time that proves their point.
If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing.
This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.
Much of the problem is that the Alarmists and the Deniers like to cherry pick the data. What they do is pick a span of time that proves their point. If you look at the last 17 years then you come to one conclusion. If you look at the last 34 years you get another conclusion. That sort of thing. This is classic bad science and both sides are doing it. It's annoying.
Statistically speaking some conspiracies are true.
Free is too expensive since I don't trust Microsoft to continue to offer the product. One of the big problems is we need to continue having access to our legacy data. When Apple, Google, Microsoft or other companies decide a project is no longer worth supporting we lose access to our data going forward. They are not good about providing legacy support or data conversion.
What about delivery vehicles? They normally have one driver so they don't get the three people exemption. Guess you won't be getting your food.
"in the U.S., Crawford laments, 'we focus on steering all extra money and attention toward kids who are struggling academically, or even just to the average student' and 'risk shortchanging the country in a different way.'"
Exactly. The USA is doing it all backwards for political correct reasons. Not only that but when we take our kids out of the public school system so we can better teach them advanced science, history, engineering, arts, etc the liberals try and gilt trip us claiming that we are harming other children by not subjecting our children to the abuses of the public schools where they would pull up the public school sagging scores.
No thanks. I pay my educational taxes to educate everyone else's kids and I put in the effort and time to educate my kids. I take responsibility for them.
I don't live in Burlington or Montpelier. I live out in the woods. We take care of our own crap. Time for you to STFU because you speak from ignorance. But you're so scared you can't even post with your own name, Anonymous Coward. You're the hypocrite.