Comcast subscriber here. I use the IPvFoo extension for both Firefox 57 and Chrome Browser and it shows the IP version and other information for connected websites. Comcast handles IPv6 very well.
Gold might have a similar problem as a currency medium. The desert car repair shop might take a $50 gold coin but it's worth might be somewhat uncertain and so the change offered the customer would be uncertain even if the car technician looked up the current price for gold. He might make out if gold went up after the exchange or lose if gold went down. The same problem might occur if there were an apocalypse and normal currency became worthless. Folks who have a stash of gold coins may have trouble buying a loaf of bread
and getting appropriate change back in the transaction. That loaf of bread might be extremely expensive.
CenturyLink, my former landline connection, bought Level 3, one of the major long line Internet back bone companies. Moved on to a VOIP service and not looking back.
Exactly this. Seems to me I read that the Spanish news print media were on their hands and knees begging for links to their news web sites. Can't remember how it turned out. German sites were also in a similar situation IIRC.
There are also much more efficient refrigerators, TV sets, housing insulation and windows, moves towards more natural gas heating and cooking as well as increase in renewable electricity generation. These changes combined have likely saved more energy than that saved by newer lighting equipment.
I'm not sure, but I don't thing GE is much involved in making the generators on top of electricity generating windmills.
I'm guessing transfer of ownership is a sale, but like you I'm unsure. The only sure way I know of avoiding paying taxes on the transfer of asset title is inheriting them. When a person dies the cost basis of the assets is reset to their value as of the date of death. Of course the estate owner isn't seeing any gain. The value of the estate my result in the estate paying inheritance taxes which might reduce the value of the inheritance. Any income tax due the heir would come from the increase in value of the inheritance during the probate period. If a decedent invested $100 K and at death the value ended up worth $1,000 K, the heir would not pay taxes on the $900 K gain, nor likely would the estate. If during the probate period the $1,000 K gained $10K in value, then the heir would pay federal income taxes on the $10 K. Individual states may have different situations.
Any decent estate lawyer should be able to pass the $1,010 K through to the heirs untaxed with the heir paying federal income taxes only on the $10 K gain. The tax brackets for federal income taxes on gains for estates are not like those for ordinary income taxes and incredibly high. IIRC, the highest bracket is ~40% on income above $12,500.
If you owned one billion dollars in Apple stock and sold all of it all at once, provided there were instant buyers, you might get your one billion. If the stock tanked, it might not hurt you, just everyone else that owned Apple stock. The key is finding buyers all at once.
With five open tabs Firefox 57.0 reached 1.5 GBytes in its multiple processes. FF 56 used about 800 MBytes for the same open tabs. 57 is a memory hog. Oh, and some of my extensions and ad-ons used in 56 aren't loaded in 57 because they aren't available.
Wondering the same thing. There was a recent election in Germany, but don't know if that involved local city councils also under the election. The question is, did Microsoft provide "assistance" to the winners or others already in office?
I've read that the newest iPhones ship with iOS 11 and have some major problems requiring a continuing stream of updates or promised updates Perhaps Apple should have shipped their newest phones with the latest version of iOS 10 with most of the bugs work out since its release. Then again, maybe some of the problems with iOS 11 have to do with hardware problems and the phones would have the same or worse problems if using iOS 10.
How about the import of captured Africans as slaves requiring a major war to free them. There are still folks that believe the descendants of these slaves are less worthy than themselves.
My household makes use of a VOIP system as well as cell phones for telephony. We can pay extra for the VOIP system to block calls from numbers we identify as SCAM and ROBO calls, but that can be pretty useless since the SCAMers have hacked the caller ID system to switch ID at will. The same can occur for mobile callers. Unless technology can identify the bad guys directly and block them at their source, the problem will still exist.
Seems to me I read that the person who wrote Classic Theme Restorer probably won't rewrite the extension because it requires some kind of access to the Firefox code (UI code?) he can't make use of.
No Classic Theme Restorer no Firefox 57 for me. Also Colorful Tabs, Six or Not and Calomel SSL Vlidation are very useful, but not sure they work or not.
Comcast Internet service was bad, slow, and I changed my DNS servers to Google's and things are good. I'm in Colorado Springs, CO., so the problem is probably pretty wide.
Financial aid is not a student loan. If Frank loans Bob money, Frank expects Bob to pay back the loan with a profit on the loan. Since Frank may put off the need to pay back the loan for three or four years, Frank is definitely going to require the interest to cover the time no payments were made. The loan will cost a lot more during the payback than it would if the payback is started when the loan is made. This is one of the problems of student loans.
Financial aid and scholarships are more like a gift with no payback required. There can be various sources for these gifts - private foundations, university endowment funds, which come from private donations, and athletic scholarships. Actually, this kind of support should reduce the need for student loans or their size.
The cost of college education has increased dramatically due to the high availability of student loans and the amount of additional income you get from having such a credential is not proportional to the cost.
I think you've got it a bit backwards. The increase in the need for student loans is because of the reduction in state support for public universities and colleges and a concomitant increase in the tuition necessary to pay for the education. Back in the early '70s and before, state government support paid for 70 to 75% of the cost of the education of in-state students with the remaining coming from tuition. Tuition was generally affordable by middle class families and there was not very costly financial aid for qualified students from less wealthy families. Out of state students paid the full cost, though some may have had scholarships to pay some of the tuition. For in-state students the largest cost was probably for housing and food. Things have changed dramatically since then with state government support generally amounting to about 20% of the cost of an education, if not less. Obviously, tuition for both in-state and out-of-state students has increased to make up the balance. Universities have also found a revenue source from international students who pay the full cost of their education who often get complete support from their governments. This source of income is particularly important for graduate programs in the laboratory natural sciences. Private schools have similar situations and students from not wealthy families need to find some kind of financial aid to attend them.
When state governments find that revenue projections can't meet proposed expenditures the first thing that faces cuts is support for higher education. IIRC, this is exactly what happened last year in my home state, Colorado, when the proposed expenditures were something like $300 million short on the revenue side. This was the first thing out of the mouth of our Democratic governor. I guess legislature and governor managed the situation somehow.
Just because you have new hardware or OS, why rewrite the code for an application that already works? Of course, maybe they didn't rewrite the keyboard code and something in the OS is interacting with the keyboard code that's screwed up. In either case, there's a quality control testing problem with code development .
The elements in used batteries won't evaporate to nothing. Of course, as more and more batteries are needed as the number of electric cars increase, some of the supply of the necessary elements can be obtained from recycled batteries. Recycled batteries may never meet demand, but after a long time the supply may meet much of the demand. Look at the recycling of lead acid batteries to provide the necessary lead to make new batteries.
IIRC, Ferris Bueller found the password to the school's server hosting grades on the pull out board of a school secretary's desk. I use the word "server" advisedly as Ferris and the school used dial up connections. Maybe the grades were kept on a Tandy (aka, RadioShack) TRS80, though the movie came out in 1986, and the IBM PC was introduced August 12, 1981.
I agree fully with Kjella's comments and here's some added perspective. In my wife and my cases, we are both children of parents who matured and started out during the Great Depression of the 1930s and were non college grads, working class folks. One thing that was drummed into us was that we needed to save money. Things were to be done on the cheap. Toothpaste cost money and if there wasn't any around, we used baking soda to brush our teeth. Dad did car repairs himself - I remember him grinding the valves in a Chevy and when the VW beetle needed valve repair, he and I took the engine out and did it ourselves. There are many other lessons we learned about how to economize to save for a good future. My folks have had a financially secure retirement because of this and so will my wife and I because of our saving-money-mentality.
Skip to the next generation. It seems a week doesn't go by when I read what these folks have saved. The statistics may not be completely accurate, but something like more than half of those Americans 50 years or older have no more than $50,000 saved for retirement, if that. Social Security will not provide for a financially secure retirement, particularly considering a potential long life. Add to this the economic disruptions that might occur, and there may be a serious problem associated with a large majority of retirees who have an income that can't support them. Move in with the kids? The kids may not be able to afford keeping their elderly parents in the basement because they also live from check-to-check. Add the unemployable grandchildren to the mix who graduated from college and need space at home and we could be in for interesting times.
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Comcast subscriber here. I use the IPvFoo extension for both Firefox 57 and Chrome Browser and it shows the IP version and other information for connected websites. Comcast handles IPv6 very well.
Gold might have a similar problem as a currency medium. The desert car repair shop might take a $50 gold coin but it's worth might be somewhat uncertain and so the change offered the customer would be uncertain even if the car technician looked up the current price for gold. He might make out if gold went up after the exchange or lose if gold went down. The same problem might occur if there were an apocalypse and normal currency became worthless. Folks who have a stash of gold coins may have trouble buying a loaf of bread and getting appropriate change back in the transaction. That loaf of bread might be extremely expensive.
CenturyLink, my former landline connection, bought Level 3, one of the major long line Internet back bone companies. Moved on to a VOIP service and not looking back.
Exactly this. Seems to me I read that the Spanish news print media were on their hands and knees begging for links to their news web sites. Can't remember how it turned out. German sites were also in a similar situation IIRC.
There are also much more efficient refrigerators, TV sets, housing insulation and windows, moves towards more natural gas heating and cooking as well as increase in renewable electricity generation. These changes combined have likely saved more energy than that saved by newer lighting equipment.
I'm not sure, but I don't thing GE is much involved in making the generators on top of electricity generating windmills.
I should have mentioned that when a spouse inherits upon the death of a husband or wife, there are nor taxes owed
I'm guessing transfer of ownership is a sale, but like you I'm unsure. The only sure way I know of avoiding paying taxes on the transfer of asset title is inheriting them. When a person dies the cost basis of the assets is reset to their value as of the date of death. Of course the estate owner isn't seeing any gain. The value of the estate my result in the estate paying inheritance taxes which might reduce the value of the inheritance. Any income tax due the heir would come from the increase in value of the inheritance during the probate period. If a decedent invested $100 K and at death the value ended up worth $1,000 K, the heir would not pay taxes on the $900 K gain, nor likely would the estate. If during the probate period the $1,000 K gained $10K in value, then the heir would pay federal income taxes on the $10 K. Individual states may have different situations.
Any decent estate lawyer should be able to pass the $1,010 K through to the heirs untaxed with the heir paying federal income taxes only on the $10 K gain. The tax brackets for federal income taxes on gains for estates are not like those for ordinary income taxes and incredibly high. IIRC, the highest bracket is ~40% on income above $12,500.
If you owned one billion dollars in Apple stock and sold all of it all at once, provided there were instant buyers, you might get your one billion. If the stock tanked, it might not hurt you, just everyone else that owned Apple stock. The key is finding buyers all at once.
With five open tabs Firefox 57.0 reached 1.5 GBytes in its multiple processes. FF 56 used about 800 MBytes for the same open tabs. 57 is a memory hog. Oh, and some of my extensions and ad-ons used in 56 aren't loaded in 57 because they aren't available.
Wondering the same thing. There was a recent election in Germany, but don't know if that involved local city councils also under the election. The question is, did Microsoft provide "assistance" to the winners or others already in office?
âStop fearing death; once past your prime, and your net contributions are negative, accept death.â(TM)
After you.
Not necessarily. For many, they leave an estate that serves society in a positive way. At least that's my intention.
I've read that the newest iPhones ship with iOS 11 and have some major problems requiring a continuing stream of updates or promised updates Perhaps Apple should have shipped their newest phones with the latest version of iOS 10 with most of the bugs work out since its release. Then again, maybe some of the problems with iOS 11 have to do with hardware problems and the phones would have the same or worse problems if using iOS 10.
How about the import of captured Africans as slaves requiring a major war to free them. There are still folks that believe the descendants of these slaves are less worthy than themselves.
My household makes use of a VOIP system as well as cell phones for telephony. We can pay extra for the VOIP system to block calls from numbers we identify as SCAM and ROBO calls, but that can be pretty useless since the SCAMers have hacked the caller ID system to switch ID at will. The same can occur for mobile callers. Unless technology can identify the bad guys directly and block them at their source, the problem will still exist.
Seems to me I read that the person who wrote Classic Theme Restorer probably won't rewrite the extension because it requires some kind of access to the Firefox code (UI code?) he can't make use of.
No Classic Theme Restorer no Firefox 57 for me. Also Colorful Tabs, Six or Not and Calomel SSL Vlidation are very useful, but not sure they work or not.
Comcast Internet service was bad, slow, and I changed my DNS servers to Google's and things are good. I'm in Colorado Springs, CO., so the problem is probably pretty wide.
Financial aid is not a student loan. If Frank loans Bob money, Frank expects Bob to pay back the loan with a profit on the loan. Since Frank may put off the need to pay back the loan for three or four years, Frank is definitely going to require the interest to cover the time no payments were made. The loan will cost a lot more during the payback than it would if the payback is started when the loan is made. This is one of the problems of student loans.
Financial aid and scholarships are more like a gift with no payback required. There can be various sources for these gifts - private foundations, university endowment funds, which come from private donations, and athletic scholarships. Actually, this kind of support should reduce the need for student loans or their size.
The cost of college education has increased dramatically due to the high availability of student loans and the amount of additional income you get from having such a credential is not proportional to the cost.
I think you've got it a bit backwards. The increase in the need for student loans is because of the reduction in state support for public universities and colleges and a concomitant increase in the tuition necessary to pay for the education. Back in the early '70s and before, state government support paid for 70 to 75% of the cost of the education of in-state students with the remaining coming from tuition. Tuition was generally affordable by middle class families and there was not very costly financial aid for qualified students from less wealthy families. Out of state students paid the full cost, though some may have had scholarships to pay some of the tuition. For in-state students the largest cost was probably for housing and food. Things have changed dramatically since then with state government support generally amounting to about 20% of the cost of an education, if not less. Obviously, tuition for both in-state and out-of-state students has increased to make up the balance. Universities have also found a revenue source from international students who pay the full cost of their education who often get complete support from their governments. This source of income is particularly important for graduate programs in the laboratory natural sciences. Private schools have similar situations and students from not wealthy families need to find some kind of financial aid to attend them.
When state governments find that revenue projections can't meet proposed expenditures the first thing that faces cuts is support for higher education. IIRC, this is exactly what happened last year in my home state, Colorado, when the proposed expenditures were something like $300 million short on the revenue side. This was the first thing out of the mouth of our Democratic governor. I guess legislature and governor managed the situation somehow.
Just because you have new hardware or OS, why rewrite the code for an application that already works? Of course, maybe they didn't rewrite the keyboard code and something in the OS is interacting with the keyboard code that's screwed up. In either case, there's a quality control testing problem with code development .
For those who can't activate, find the best way to hold your phone. This may take significant acrobatic ability.
The elements in used batteries won't evaporate to nothing. Of course, as more and more batteries are needed as the number of electric cars increase, some of the supply of the necessary elements can be obtained from recycled batteries. Recycled batteries may never meet demand, but after a long time the supply may meet much of the demand. Look at the recycling of lead acid batteries to provide the necessary lead to make new batteries.
Google's answer is basically. "You are not holding it right."
https://i.imgur.com/cqBAsNR.pn...
Apparently, the new Pixel 2 XL screens made by LG have a blue tint. No comments from Google about that problem.
IIRC, Ferris Bueller found the password to the school's server hosting grades on the pull out board of a school secretary's desk. I use the word "server" advisedly as Ferris and the school used dial up connections. Maybe the grades were kept on a Tandy (aka, RadioShack) TRS80, though the movie came out in 1986, and the IBM PC was introduced August 12, 1981.
I agree fully with Kjella's comments and here's some added perspective. In my wife and my cases, we are both children of parents who matured and started out during the Great Depression of the 1930s and were non college grads, working class folks. One thing that was drummed into us was that we needed to save money. Things were to be done on the cheap. Toothpaste cost money and if there wasn't any around, we used baking soda to brush our teeth. Dad did car repairs himself - I remember him grinding the valves in a Chevy and when the VW beetle needed valve repair, he and I took the engine out and did it ourselves. There are many other lessons we learned about how to economize to save for a good future. My folks have had a financially secure retirement because of this and so will my wife and I because of our saving-money-mentality.
Skip to the next generation. It seems a week doesn't go by when I read what these folks have saved. The statistics may not be completely accurate, but something like more than half of those Americans 50 years or older have no more than $50,000 saved for retirement, if that. Social Security will not provide for a financially secure retirement, particularly considering a potential long life. Add to this the economic disruptions that might occur, and there may be a serious problem associated with a large majority of retirees who have an income that can't support them. Move in with the kids? The kids may not be able to afford keeping their elderly parents in the basement because they also live from check-to-check. Add the unemployable grandchildren to the mix who graduated from college and need space at home and we could be in for interesting times.