I have nothing to back this up, but I swear I got better results from deja than from google. Generally this is related to searching against API functions for win32 drivers. *shrug* Who knows. But I still miss Deja.
As happy as I would be to see an end to the Bush presidency, I wouldn't expect an end to opposition to the Electoral College among liberals. Neither would I expect republicans to start supporting its abolition (though it would certainly draw some bad press) - regardless of the outcome of one election, the system favors them.
I would see a Kerry victory at this point simply more evidence of the need for a popular vote of the President, regardless of my great despise for the current incumbent. To put it another way, I would easily give up 4 years to the opposition in favor of a lifetime of equity in voting.
I can't understand why an imagined creature (toucan-squirrel) can't have an imagined evolutionary path (teeth form into beak, beak forms into brilliant colors to attract mates).
You mentioned digging up examples of "non-evolutionary species" from science fiction, but all I can come up with in terms of "creatures I can imagine, but can't imagine an evolutionary background" are synthetic beings (such as robots). And then you get into that whole stupid matrix "machines making machines" thing.
I'm just not sure that darwinism is any more "non-falsifiable" than ID is.
On my ballot, there are 5 candidates for president. And MANY, MANY candidates for lower office.
I'm constantly amazed at people who don't vote... I mean, it's not that important to vote for the president (Some guy from Wyoming's vote counts for 5 of me), but your state and local offices will impact you quite a bit- not to mention local millages, or state ballot initiatives.
Usually you can see your ballot ahead of time online from places like publius.org but I think that is state dependent.
It is true that it is used to "absolve the individual", but that doesn't really drive at its correctness.
I think that there is both a humanistic side to it (_I_ want information to be free, therefore I will ignore unenforceable conditions placed upon my dissemination of information), and a social side to it (once public, information cannot be contained because sufficent force cannot be brought to bear against the ease of information transfer).
I think its a kind of useful phrase to describe the low transfer costs of information. But I can understand why this would upset people who think its a straw man to distract us from personal responsibility.
I don't think that Bush's team keeps people home, rather they are probably driving more opponents to the booths than Dole's team did. (I have no idea how they work to their base).
A lessoning of a restriction on trade creates a "benefit" which can be shared those who participate in the trade, however, there is no guarentee of the proportion of that sharing.
I don't have any desire to defend the steel tariffs, but it is possible in the extreme case that we could have lost our steel industry and enjoyed cheap prices. Woo. This is all good until foreign suppliers of steel cartelize or disrupt the market in some other way at which time we are screwed.
Foreign trade is tricky and needs to be approached carefully, especially in critical industries.
But what I MEANT to say is that the original poster had his economic theory correct and your example simply represents one possibility in the original posters event-continuum.
What I really wish was that there were more photographers who would be willing to grant rights for reasonable prices. Or maybe that there would be a better mechanism for finding such photographers. With my wedding, I was unable to find any such solution for less than 5K (looking at a pool of 4 options... and you are getting married, you have enough to do without sifting through tons of photographers).
I'm cool with letting the photographer maintain copyright so that he can use the pictures in any way he wants, but if I want to scan something and put it on my web page, or order a picture on a mug (or something stupid like that) I really should be able to do it without breaking the law. It really seems to me that some balance needs to be there between the photographer and the photographed. These aren't covers of Vanity Fair, they are images of my freaking wedding. Some 10 people in the world care about those photos.
No one is disputing the fact that professionals "do it better", but without a way for people to find cheaper reproduction solutions (I don't care about the quality of the image on my mousepad), jerks like me end up just breaking copyright which degrades the entire system.
Perhaps when no one cares about copyright anymore, we'll have it fixed. I think we are getting closer to that every day.
Also, I think that argument of "the printing quality reflects on the photographer" is incorrect- I certainly don't think that... but I may be a sample of one.
Maybe, but its a little one. If you aren't doing eggregious stuff elsewhere, and you are still making a profit after the 300+$ writeoff, it won't make a lick of difference.
I only know a few people who have filed Sch C's (including myself), and everyone took a fairly wide lattitude in dual-use assets that were cheap (that is, cell phone, computer, printer, etc.). I made sure my laptop would boot up to a "work only" filesystem by default though. A precaution I never had to leverage.
But I'm no CPA and I'm not recommending anything.:)
I just don't know if the manufacturers are in the position to provide the level of technical support you are talking about... When you post a problem to a technical forum, its being read by many people who have specializations in different feilds. The chances are, someone is going to specialize in a field that covers your problem. Contrast that to technical support, where your call is answered by the person who got lucky and picked you up off the queue. Much lower odds of specific knowledge... the best you can hope for is a situation where the support reps share knowledge AND are willing to take the time to search out speicific knowledge in your case.
Remember, the original poster was talking about the "hard" problems... not that your joystick cable was unplugged, but that you have a rogue driver that occaisionally raises its interrupt level too high, or that a program placed a bad shared dll on a system when it installed, and the result is intermittent system failure.
I think we're largely screwed, in our quest for quality, unless companies become liable for their products, and I'm nervous about that from a public policy perspective (I wouldn't post my code if I was going to open myself up to legal liability because of it).
The status quo isn't _so_ bad for the people willing to sink the time into research... it just sucks for the folks who have lives.
The problem is that things don't always work right, and when they don't work right, getting them fixed is usually much more difficult on Linux than it is on Windows.
I don't know... when I'm diagnosing a friends problem because "things don't work right" in windows, maybe a quarter to a half of the time I end up with "time to reinstall"... The WORST I have in linux is "you compiled your kernel wrong".
I think I'd rather debug a freak linux problem than a freak windows problem any day.
That said, my problems with linux come from when you want to do something relatively simple (printer sharing comes to mind) and it becomes exceedingly difficult because there is no clear, concise documented method to get it done. (Note that I found a document that WASN'T the standard HOWTO that walked me through this recently, so I'm not saying that this particular problem is intractable)
Honestly, if I'm just paying $50/month for Comedy Central (and I am), even if I can't get a price drop, I'd rather pay $50/month for ONLY Comedy Central... at least then they would know how much I appreciate that channel.
I used to think there was a real option value to other channels, but in practice, that hasn't been an issue.
I'm not sure on this yet, but I think I would prefer pay-per-channel even if it doesn't save me an appreciably amount of money.
When I graduated in 96, my biggest complaint was the lack of advanced classes. My brother took CS down at UofM, and I would go to his lectures whenever I had the chance... they had such cool classes.
MTU did hammer in the basics well though. I found myself adaquately prepared for a career in software developement and found myself fast-tracked within the company due to my skill which is largely to MTUs credit.
taxes paid to foreign governments are an 1120 credit. So despite the lie of "double taxation", this doesn't even fit that lie. (we pay many more levels of tax than 2)
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Hey Australia... "Freedom is on the March". :)
Haha! That deserves a Funny mod. :)
Sorry - 1040X. Sometimes my brain is not all it was promised to be.
I have nothing to back this up, but I swear I got better results from deja than from google. Generally this is related to searching against API functions for win32 drivers. *shrug* Who knows. But I still miss Deja.
1040-A. Sometimes, you have to amend prior year tax returns.
The difference between "good guys" and "bad guys" is a warrant. Make it illegal, and make the cops go to a judge for a warrant.
Both parties have a long history of growing the beast, but one party lies about it.
bah.
As happy as I would be to see an end to the Bush presidency, I wouldn't expect an end to opposition to the Electoral College among liberals. Neither would I expect republicans to start supporting its abolition (though it would certainly draw some bad press) - regardless of the outcome of one election, the system favors them.
I would see a Kerry victory at this point simply more evidence of the need for a popular vote of the President, regardless of my great despise for the current incumbent. To put it another way, I would easily give up 4 years to the opposition in favor of a lifetime of equity in voting.
I can't understand why an imagined creature (toucan-squirrel) can't have an imagined evolutionary path (teeth form into beak, beak forms into brilliant colors to attract mates).
You mentioned digging up examples of "non-evolutionary species" from science fiction, but all I can come up with in terms of "creatures I can imagine, but can't imagine an evolutionary background" are synthetic beings (such as robots). And then you get into that whole stupid matrix "machines making machines" thing.
I'm just not sure that darwinism is any more "non-falsifiable" than ID is.
(but I'm ignorant).
"...only other person on the ballot..."?
On my ballot, there are 5 candidates for president. And MANY, MANY candidates for lower office.
I'm constantly amazed at people who don't vote... I mean, it's not that important to vote for the president (Some guy from Wyoming's vote counts for 5 of me), but your state and local offices will impact you quite a bit- not to mention local millages, or state ballot initiatives.
Usually you can see your ballot ahead of time online from places like publius.org but I think that is state dependent.
Good luck.
Its not incorrect, its simply vague...
It is true that it is used to "absolve the individual", but that doesn't really drive at its correctness.
I think that there is both a humanistic side to it (_I_ want information to be free, therefore I will ignore unenforceable conditions placed upon my dissemination of information), and a social side to it (once public, information cannot be contained because sufficent force cannot be brought to bear against the ease of information transfer).
I think its a kind of useful phrase to describe the low transfer costs of information. But I can understand why this would upset people who think its a straw man to distract us from personal responsibility.
Voter turnout was higher in 2000 than in 1996. It was slightly lower than in 1992.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p20-542.pdf
I don't think that Bush's team keeps people home, rather they are probably driving more opponents to the booths than Dole's team did. (I have no idea how they work to their base).
To say that the President isn't responsible for domestic policy just because it isn't part of the constitution is misleading.
He is the head of his party. His party happens to be in control of at least 2/3 of the branches of government.
The man cannot pass the buck on the legislative agenda... it is his to make or break.
A lessoning of a restriction on trade creates a "benefit" which can be shared those who participate in the trade, however, there is no guarentee of the proportion of that sharing.
I don't have any desire to defend the steel tariffs, but it is possible in the extreme case that we could have lost our steel industry and enjoyed cheap prices. Woo. This is all good until foreign suppliers of steel cartelize or disrupt the market in some other way at which time we are screwed.
Foreign trade is tricky and needs to be approached carefully, especially in critical industries.
But what I MEANT to say is that the original poster had his economic theory correct and your example simply represents one possibility in the original posters event-continuum.
Corps paid 194B in taxes in 2003, 1040's paid 1.6T. (I believe the "corporation" column includes 1120's and 1065's).
We have a system that generally pushes the direct tax burden onto individuals, but many corps shoulder a portion of the tax burden.
source
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/03db06co.xls (xls document)
You probably mean "avalon"...
a lon/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Av
I think this is coming with Whidbey... But I haven't played with it yet - not sure.
What I really wish was that there were more photographers who would be willing to grant rights for reasonable prices. Or maybe that there would be a better mechanism for finding such photographers. With my wedding, I was unable to find any such solution for less than 5K (looking at a pool of 4 options... and you are getting married, you have enough to do without sifting through tons of photographers).
I'm cool with letting the photographer maintain copyright so that he can use the pictures in any way he wants, but if I want to scan something and put it on my web page, or order a picture on a mug (or something stupid like that) I really should be able to do it without breaking the law. It really seems to me that some balance needs to be there between the photographer and the photographed. These aren't covers of Vanity Fair, they are images of my freaking wedding. Some 10 people in the world care about those photos.
No one is disputing the fact that professionals "do it better", but without a way for people to find cheaper reproduction solutions (I don't care about the quality of the image on my mousepad), jerks like me end up just breaking copyright which degrades the entire system.
Perhaps when no one cares about copyright anymore, we'll have it fixed. I think we are getting closer to that every day.
Also, I think that argument of "the printing quality reflects on the photographer" is incorrect- I certainly don't think that... but I may be a sample of one.
Maybe, but its a little one. If you aren't doing eggregious stuff elsewhere, and you are still making a profit after the 300+$ writeoff, it won't make a lick of difference.
:)
I only know a few people who have filed Sch C's (including myself), and everyone took a fairly wide lattitude in dual-use assets that were cheap (that is, cell phone, computer, printer, etc.). I made sure my laptop would boot up to a "work only" filesystem by default though. A precaution I never had to leverage.
But I'm no CPA and I'm not recommending anything.
*shrug* Its just what I see, not my opinion.
I just don't know if the manufacturers are in the position to provide the level of technical support you are talking about... When you post a problem to a technical forum, its being read by many people who have specializations in different feilds. The chances are, someone is going to specialize in a field that covers your problem. Contrast that to technical support, where your call is answered by the person who got lucky and picked you up off the queue. Much lower odds of specific knowledge... the best you can hope for is a situation where the support reps share knowledge AND are willing to take the time to search out speicific knowledge in your case.
Remember, the original poster was talking about the "hard" problems... not that your joystick cable was unplugged, but that you have a rogue driver that occaisionally raises its interrupt level too high, or that a program placed a bad shared dll on a system when it installed, and the result is intermittent system failure.
I think we're largely screwed, in our quest for quality, unless companies become liable for their products, and I'm nervous about that from a public policy perspective (I wouldn't post my code if I was going to open myself up to legal liability because of it).
The status quo isn't _so_ bad for the people willing to sink the time into research... it just sucks for the folks who have lives.
I think this is the one that ended up being the most help (I had problems getting the steps in the general printing howto to payoff for me)...
debian windows shared printing
Make sure to force the CUPS sharing into RAW mode...
The problem is that things don't always work right, and when they don't work right, getting them fixed is usually much more difficult on Linux than it is on Windows.
I don't know... when I'm diagnosing a friends problem because "things don't work right" in windows, maybe a quarter to a half of the time I end up with "time to reinstall"... The WORST I have in linux is "you compiled your kernel wrong".
I think I'd rather debug a freak linux problem than a freak windows problem any day.
That said, my problems with linux come from when you want to do something relatively simple (printer sharing comes to mind) and it becomes exceedingly difficult because there is no clear, concise documented method to get it done. (Note that I found a document that WASN'T the standard HOWTO that walked me through this recently, so I'm not saying that this particular problem is intractable)
Honestly, if I'm just paying $50/month for Comedy Central (and I am), even if I can't get a price drop, I'd rather pay $50/month for ONLY Comedy Central... at least then they would know how much I appreciate that channel.
I used to think there was a real option value to other channels, but in practice, that hasn't been an issue.
I'm not sure on this yet, but I think I would prefer pay-per-channel even if it doesn't save me an appreciably amount of money.
When I graduated in 96, my biggest complaint was the lack of advanced classes. My brother took CS down at UofM, and I would go to his lectures whenever I had the chance... they had such cool classes.
MTU did hammer in the basics well though. I found myself adaquately prepared for a career in software developement and found myself fast-tracked within the company due to my skill which is largely to MTUs credit.
taxes paid to foreign governments are an 1120 credit. So despite the lie of "double taxation", this doesn't even fit that lie. (we pay many more levels of tax than 2)
Go Wings! :)