While "thermal power" would have been a bit better, saying thermal energy is still correct I think--they're specifying what sort of energy will be available. It's like saying "My pump can handle 27 liters/sec of water."
Never happened, idiot--the article (www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3689 look at the labels) was a satire about how weak the dollar has become compared to the Euro (with some antisemitism thrown in). It doesn't even make sense--most (75%) Israeli aid is used to buy American weaponry, WHICH ARE BOUGHT WITH DOLLARS.
Actually, a family earning $40,000 would pay approximately zero (0) in federal income tax (might even be negative!) and a single person might pay around 10% or so.
Add another 7.65% payroll taxes (which the employer matches). The employer also pays for unemployment insurance, and in many jobs, most or all of your health insurance. Of course there is also state and local sales tax on certain purchases (about 5% or so) property taxes (only if you're a homeowner, though renters pay for it indirectly of course) and telecommunications taxes, gas taxes, cigarette taxes, etc. State income taxes are way way lower than 7% for 40,000; I live in New York, which I think is the most expensive, and I don't pay anything near that.
Now those payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare--i.e. pension and retiree health insurance) earn a great return if your average lifetime earnings are (inflation adjusted) $40,000 a year, and you live to 75 or so. They are a poor deal if you die early, or you make a lot more money than that.
Taking a larger perspective, is it easier to get a job in one country or another? Are the pay scales comparable? What is the cost of living? Tax rates and currency conversion (or even looking at "average wages") only tells you so much.
Actually, the signal is 4:2:2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling/, so it's about 125 MB/s for 1080i60, quite doable with 4 generic SATA harddrives. Since the point is to only try to copy one movie at a time, at an average length of 2h15m per movie, that comes to one TB, or about $200 worth of storage (using.5 TB drives in a quad RAID 0, which would probably be the cheapest per bit.) Also, since movies are 24p, that would be a further 20% reduction. Of course you would then convert your uncompressed file to a 50 GB H.264 or whatnot.
Actually, there is the Blackmagic Intensity (URL:http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/int ensity/) for $249, which works fine with any relatively recent CPU and 2 GB RAM with a fast hard drive (although you need a dual or quad RAID 0 setup if you want the bit for bit HDMI signal, otherwise the card converts it to Motion JPEG.) With the card (and no monitor), that means about $1000, maybe a bit more.
Contract Price for two 2GB flash chips is $31.20 http://www.dramexchange.com/ so I don't think the parent poster is that off. Soldering them in with whatever interface they need is probably less than $5.
You're also neglecting a few things--like physical size, weight, reliability, and power. Hard drives are by far the largest cause of laptop returns, so flash keeps the overall price lower. A 2.5" drive would not fit in such a small laptop, so you would need a 1.8" or smaller drive, which would cost more than (your rather optimistic) $30, and be quite a bit slower to boot (no pun intended...) Flash's much lower power consumption means a cheaper, lighter, battery; and makes cooling of the device easier (cheaper!)
oil, which would be $13/gallon or more if we started charging the oil companies for our military services. How do you figure? The U.S uses something like 300 billion gallons of oil a year; at best you can say the oil companies owe a buck a gallon or less.
Well, you can add extra layers of error correction--in fact you can add as much error correction as you mind losing capacity from your medium. http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html will add extra Reed-Solomon encoding for example. Want to be able to destroy 50% of the DVD and still recover the data? No problem, add as much error correction as is worthwhile to you. You can also use PAR/PAR2 files like they do in newsgroups, or look into rateless codes.
Actually, I don't think we disagree, I just wanted to point out that the money is there--it's just not being used. Teacher's salaries should not be so backloaded, the only reason it is, is because unions are not particularly interested in new members, but in enriching its current ones, so pay by seniority is the rule. Another tremendous problem, particularly in urban districts, is that new teachers get the crappiest, most difficult jobs, which tends to burn them out quickly. Shouldn't the best paid, most experienced teachers get the most difficult work? Isn't that why they are paid more, because they are more "capable"?
And of course, teacher's pay should depend on the market rate--I suspect there are a heck of a lot more applicants to teach kindergarten for every opening than there are for High School Physics. Looking at NYC (whose school district is larger than most country's) wouldn't, say a beginning $70,000 salary with topping out at $110,000 (keeping in mind this is for nine months, and all the other perks) with bonuses based on performance (or better yet, with principals determining salaries from the get-go) and pay based on the desirability of the district (nobody wants to teach in the Bronx--raise the pay scales there!) be very competitive with the private sector?
Increasing beginner pay would also encourage people to try teaching as a second career.
Top pay in many districts is WAY over $80K. In NYC it tops out at $93,416, with pension benefits of up to 79% of their final (average of last three years) salary (2% per year of work). Oh, they can also retire at 55! And the pension includes health coverage! Did I mention summer and holidays off? Oh wait--tenure too! On Long Island, some districts have teachers' pay that tops out at another $10,000-$20,000. Here is the pay list for all the NY districts. It's a few years old, so add about 5-10% to get current salaries. Obviously there are school districts that pay less, but they have lower costs of living.
It's also hard to dig ditches, what's your point? Teaching more advanced topics is more highly skilled, and draws from a much smaller pool. Pay should be at the market rate, which takes all of this into account, not at the "Teaching third grade is hard too!" rate.
For the US case, you're ignoring the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) which can sometimes double or triple your (net) marginal tax rate on income or Capital Gains if you "trigger" it. There are also tax deductions that get phased out at higher incomes.
You are thinking of the "Core CPI". The regular CPI includes all of the things you would consider to be expenses (at least in the US). Perhaps Canada uses a different System?
Personally, I think the -government- should be required to produce a generic "C" program or web page that calculates your taxes according to the tax code
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Wrong.
http://www.marklogic.com/blog/can-you-pass-the-acid-test/
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While "thermal power" would have been a bit better, saying thermal energy is still correct I think--they're specifying what sort of energy will be available. It's like saying "My pump can handle 27 liters/sec of water."
Never happened, idiot--the article (www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3689 look at the labels) was a satire about how weak the dollar has become compared to the Euro (with some antisemitism thrown in). It doesn't even make sense--most (75%) Israeli aid is used to buy American weaponry, WHICH ARE BOUGHT WITH DOLLARS.
Actually, a family earning $40,000 would pay approximately zero (0) in federal income tax (might even be negative!) and a single person might pay around 10% or so.
Add another 7.65% payroll taxes (which the employer matches). The employer also pays for unemployment insurance, and in many jobs, most or all of your health insurance. Of course there is also state and local sales tax on certain purchases (about 5% or so) property taxes (only if you're a homeowner, though renters pay for it indirectly of course) and telecommunications taxes, gas taxes, cigarette taxes, etc. State income taxes are way way lower than 7% for 40,000; I live in New York, which I think is the most expensive, and I don't pay anything near that.
Now those payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare--i.e. pension and retiree health insurance) earn a great return if your average lifetime earnings are (inflation adjusted) $40,000 a year, and you live to 75 or so. They are a poor deal if you die early, or you make a lot more money than that.
Taking a larger perspective, is it easier to get a job in one country or another? Are the pay scales comparable? What is the cost of living? Tax rates and currency conversion (or even looking at "average wages") only tells you so much.
Yes it does--"with temperatures ranging from 0 to -0.8 C". See that magic negative sign? :-)
Check this out...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Botto m_Water Saline water freezes at about -1.8 C btw.
Well, you can always use the shiny new Windows/Solaris version. Full Unicode support now. Yay!
Are you trolling? Look up "virtual particles", "quantum foam", or the energy-time uncertainty relation for starters.
Actually, the signal is 4:2:2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling/, so it's about 125 MB/s for 1080i60, quite doable with 4 generic SATA harddrives. Since the point is to only try to copy one movie at a time, at an average length of 2h15m per movie, that comes to one TB, or about $200 worth of storage (using .5 TB drives in a quad RAID 0, which would probably be the cheapest per bit.) Also, since movies are 24p, that would be a further 20% reduction. Of course you would then convert your uncompressed file to a 50 GB H.264 or whatnot.
Actually, there is the Blackmagic Intensity (URL:http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/int ensity/) for $249, which works fine with any relatively recent CPU and 2 GB RAM with a fast hard drive (although you need a dual or quad RAID 0 setup if you want the bit for bit HDMI signal, otherwise the card converts it to Motion JPEG.) With the card (and no monitor), that means about $1000, maybe a bit more.
Contract Price for two 2GB flash chips is $31.20 http://www.dramexchange.com/ so I don't think the parent poster is that off. Soldering them in with whatever interface they need is probably less than $5.
You're also neglecting a few things--like physical size, weight, reliability, and power. Hard drives are by far the largest cause of laptop returns, so flash keeps the overall price lower. A 2.5" drive would not fit in such a small laptop, so you would need a 1.8" or smaller drive, which would cost more than (your rather optimistic) $30, and be quite a bit slower to boot (no pun intended...) Flash's much lower power consumption means a cheaper, lighter, battery; and makes cooling of the device easier (cheaper!)
1 tsp = 5 ml = 5 cc (where did you get 1.5 from?)
so 1 tsp = 6 grams of caffeine
so LD50 is about half a Tbsp.
Well, you can add extra layers of error correction--in fact you can add as much error correction as you mind losing capacity from your medium. http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html will add extra Reed-Solomon encoding for example. Want to be able to destroy 50% of the DVD and still recover the data? No problem, add as much error correction as is worthwhile to you. You can also use PAR/PAR2 files like they do in newsgroups, or look into rateless codes.
Actually, I don't think we disagree, I just wanted to point out that the money is there--it's just not being used. Teacher's salaries should not be so backloaded, the only reason it is, is because unions are not particularly interested in new members, but in enriching its current ones, so pay by seniority is the rule. Another tremendous problem, particularly in urban districts, is that new teachers get the crappiest, most difficult jobs, which tends to burn them out quickly. Shouldn't the best paid, most experienced teachers get the most difficult work? Isn't that why they are paid more, because they are more "capable"?
And of course, teacher's pay should depend on the market rate--I suspect there are a heck of a lot more applicants to teach kindergarten for every opening than there are for High School Physics. Looking at NYC (whose school district is larger than most country's) wouldn't, say a beginning $70,000 salary with topping out at $110,000 (keeping in mind this is for nine months, and all the other perks) with bonuses based on performance (or better yet, with principals determining salaries from the get-go) and pay based on the desirability of the district (nobody wants to teach in the Bronx--raise the pay scales there!) be very competitive with the private sector?
Increasing beginner pay would also encourage people to try teaching as a second career.
Top pay in many districts is WAY over $80K. In NYC it tops out at $93,416, with pension benefits of up to 79% of their final (average of last three years) salary (2% per year of work). Oh, they can also retire at 55! And the pension includes health coverage! Did I mention summer and holidays off? Oh wait--tenure too! On Long Island, some districts have teachers' pay that tops out at another $10,000-$20,000. Here is the pay list for all the NY districts. It's a few years old, so add about 5-10% to get current salaries. Obviously there are school districts that pay less, but they have lower costs of living.
It's also hard to dig ditches, what's your point? Teaching more advanced topics is more highly skilled, and draws from a much smaller pool. Pay should be at the market rate, which takes all of this into account, not at the "Teaching third grade is hard too!" rate.
Well there is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry Barratry...
For the US case, you're ignoring the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) which can sometimes double or triple your (net) marginal tax rate on income or Capital Gains if you "trigger" it. There are also tax deductions that get phased out at higher incomes.
You are thinking of the "Core CPI". The regular CPI includes all of the things you would consider to be expenses (at least in the US). Perhaps Canada uses a different System?
The Geneva Protocol and Chemical Weapons Convention prohibit the use of chemical weapons. Sorry.
I meant why wasn't Faramir the Ring-bearer? Didn't Gandalf know that he existed?
Then why wasn't Faramir the one sent to Mt. Doom with the ring?
Like this? http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.h tml