to how taxes were done right after WWII. 39% across the board for all companies. Close the loophole. If you have "a" presence in a given country, you pay taxes in that country.
We could have socialized medicine in the US if we could get this money. Countries should band together and collect what owed. Full stop. Let's also kill right now, the notion that corporations are persons. It's a fallacy designed to be pro-business.
I happened across this before it got on here and listened to the entire thing. Here's a brief summary:
1. This American Life is a great show. My favorite, you should listen to it often. 2. Managers at the fed seem to be terrified of the banks 3. The lady doing the recordings is aggressive and speaks her mind. 4. There are many "Old Guard" people at the fed that have a cozy, friendly relationship with the banks they work with. 5. The banks actively cultivate this relationship because they realize friendly regulators are less likely to press issues. 6. She uncovered the fact that GS had no formal definition for "Conflict of interest" which is a violation of Fed rules. 7. The fed worked for months gathering evidence and there was consensus that they needed to force GS into creating a policy 8. Suddenly one day her management agreed GS did have a policy just not a good one. 9. She was called in and her boss tried to bully her into changing her report to say they did have a policy. 10. Not too long after she was fired. 11. I believe the suggestion is that GS has control over management and who gets hired/fired at the fed.
most people here anyone have known for a long time that the banks and government have a symbiotic relationship. I guess its nice to see some proof for once. I cant say I am shocked in the least however.
So why is it, that when presented with evidence of some horrible thing, people tend to use it as a tool to act arrogant? "I always knew that was going on. You're a fool if you didn't."
You didn't know, you suspected. We all did. This is evidence. Get mad. Apathy is your enemy.
Its not illegal as long as you mention "Hey, my car has video cameras in it." before you hand them the keys.
Whats illegal is taping them without their knowledge. They could potentially make a call to their lawyer or doctor after they park it and you could unintentionally record privileged information. At some point such systems will be so common you wont have to mention it anymore.
You can buy them at Home Deport right now. If you're in an office building, look up... there are probably a few over your head. And yes, they do make ones without the ballasts that are small and round like CFLs are.
The problem is, we are trying to adapt CFLs to Incandescent sockets. Buy new lamps and you wont have this problem anymore. The CFLs you're getting have about the cheapest ballasts that can be made in them and the airflow through them is awful. In an ideal setup you'd have these ballasts elsewhere... where they can remain cool. Each ballast would run multiple bulbs for years without issue.
Take a ballast, shrink it down small enough to fit into an incandescent base and seal it in plastic? Yea... not going to last very long.
the CFL/LEDs last forever... but most don't operate off of 120/240 volts. So there are transformers in the base that ramp the voltage up. The transformers do NOT last 50k hours. That's what burns out.
Its not. (well it could be but the story is possible)
I've dealt extensively with the forest service and the DNR legally. My family does cranberry farming which involves wetlands. They've been a thorn in our side for over 30 years. Throwing a rock into a wetland is illegal. They can take your car and equipment for it to. We had a dike collapse during a heavy rain storm so we re-built it. They took us to court and complained that by rebuilding the dike we'd filled in a wetland. We won in the end thanks to Google maps. Another time they sent a squad of armed guys onto the land because we were having an "uncontrolled burn" and fined us. We went to court over it, and won because the burn was on an ISLAND. That's right, surrounded on all sides by a lake. The island was only about 100ft across with no structures on it. The judge asked how 100ftsq piece of grass in the middle of lake could be uncontrolled. They said we didnt have any way to put out spot fires or some nonsense. Then we pointed out that the purpose of the island was it was where our well/pump was and there was a 20k gallon per hour diesel pump in the photos they'd provided the judge!
They've sued us/taken us to court dozens of times over the years. It's probably cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars by now and they've never won. Not once.
In my job, I work heavily, all day long with large marketing, sales and product management departments. The parallel universe those people live in is rather astonishing. If you diverge from their line of thinking even in internal meetings, you're getting talked to by management. It's to the point that I have meetings even with external engineers and we'll have both of our sales departments on the phone preventing us from solving problems because neither of us are allowed to admit there are problems. lol
What ends up happening is we find time to exchange email and later speak privately. I find it hilarious that engineers from two separate companies have to collude together to trick our respective Sales organizations into believing nothing was ever wrong in the first place.
This is basically the kind of system I run. A different application, but I have the same problem.
The problem is you. You're describing it wrong. The Dashboard is the report. It's just a new kind of report.
Explain that emailed PDFs, spreadsheets on network drives, etc... are bad. If they give you a report to write and you do... it gets emailed to them and then they base decisions off that report. Now, a week later someone points out a flaw in the reporting. You had a bad join! Oh no! So you fix it. The data is instantly fixed in the "Dashboard" but the report they have in their email or network drive will be forever wrong. Reports arent wrong, they're just better now.
If they need the raw data for a presentation or something, that's different. You should have an export feature. If not, that's another problem.
Sure you can have these fancy concentrators, but nothing will cost less per kW than plain solar panels arrays or wind power. Why concentrate the suns rays instead of using solar panels, whose costs decrease all the time?
It's a resource allocation problem. There is enough food on earth right now to sustainably feed everyone, the problem lies with the people on the path from the food to the hungry mouths. Increasing food production increases the wealth of the people in the middle, who now have more resources to allocate, but does not necessarily reduce the number of hungry people.
You're clearly not a person that's been to a 3rd world country. I have been, and its a fuck of a lot more complicated than that. How does someone who has no money, no home, and no familly grow food? At all? Why would the farmer down the road that has 2 acres and can barely grow enough to feed his family further impoverish himself by feeding that person? Now increase that farmers yield by 74%...
And you'll say... well we could just give them food! A noble idea... until you drive that farmer into bankruptcy because everyone now gets free food and is livelihood is worthless. Like I said, it's complicated. There is no easy solution that involves some big evil corporate overlord.
This is a no brainer. Add nitrogen and increase production. Good job doing this with bacteria. Maybe then we could cut using anhydrous ammonia and make an ingredient for meth harder to come by.
You dont understand nitrogen fixing bacteria.... The plants uptake is limited, and if you put too much in the soil it's actually poisonous to the plant and you get runoff. These sorts of bacteria help the plant uptake more than it would naturally.
personally, I can think of a half of a dozen ways to solve the problem off hand. That's why I think marketing or someone messed with it after engineering got done with it.
Buttons are external with pinholes through the phone Buttons work via capacitance (Think of the lights that turn on when you touch the base) Internal brace near the buttons External brace... (molded apple logo on the back near them) Different material for the case (Titanium?) No buttons! (didn't apple invent that?)
Please people, before you mod damn_registrars up, take a look at his comments. He's just harassing samzenpus.
This article certainly is about wasting food.
Landfill - a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land.
If you put extra food in a landfill it becomes waste. If you put extra food into a compost bin, it becomes fertilizer. If you are putting extra food into the landfill you get a ticket. Therefor you are getting ticketed for "Wasting" food. It's not hard.
I think the OP's goal was to suggest this was over-reaching hippy nonsense. And it is certainly that.
Unfortunately there are valid, very concerning environmental problems we need to address. But some people use environmentalism as an excuse for elitism and classicism. Notice their primary target are apartments. I suspect their next primary target will be fast food. Make no mistake, environmental laws like this target groups of people that are unpopular in places like Seattle.
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to how taxes were done right after WWII. 39% across the board for all companies. Close the loophole. If you have "a" presence in a given country, you pay taxes in that country.
We could have socialized medicine in the US if we could get this money. Countries should band together and collect what owed. Full stop. Let's also kill right now, the notion that corporations are persons. It's a fallacy designed to be pro-business.
If true... this isn't a loophole. It's fraud.
It would be one directional.
This American Life is as factual as Top Gear, i.e. they are entertainment....
You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a show of taped interviews with people. You can't get any more factual than that.
I happened across this before it got on here and listened to the entire thing. Here's a brief summary:
1. This American Life is a great show. My favorite, you should listen to it often.
2. Managers at the fed seem to be terrified of the banks
3. The lady doing the recordings is aggressive and speaks her mind.
4. There are many "Old Guard" people at the fed that have a cozy, friendly relationship with the banks they work with.
5. The banks actively cultivate this relationship because they realize friendly regulators are less likely to press issues.
6. She uncovered the fact that GS had no formal definition for "Conflict of interest" which is a violation of Fed rules.
7. The fed worked for months gathering evidence and there was consensus that they needed to force GS into creating a policy
8. Suddenly one day her management agreed GS did have a policy just not a good one.
9. She was called in and her boss tried to bully her into changing her report to say they did have a policy.
10. Not too long after she was fired.
11. I believe the suggestion is that GS has control over management and who gets hired/fired at the fed.
most people here anyone have known for a long time that the banks and government have a symbiotic relationship. I guess its nice to see some proof for once. I cant say I am shocked in the least however.
So why is it, that when presented with evidence of some horrible thing, people tend to use it as a tool to act arrogant? "I always knew that was going on. You're a fool if you didn't."
You didn't know, you suspected. We all did. This is evidence. Get mad. Apathy is your enemy.
So... the federal government can hold patents? No one has a problem with this?
Walmart, Target and all the other department stores love this idea.
Its not illegal as long as you mention "Hey, my car has video cameras in it." before you hand them the keys.
Whats illegal is taping them without their knowledge. They could potentially make a call to their lawyer or doctor after they park it and you could unintentionally record privileged information. At some point such systems will be so common you wont have to mention it anymore.
CFL have electrodes at the end of the tube, which will fail over time. You can tell by the fact that the ends of the tube start to get black.
No, its not the electrodes. It's the ballast/transformer that gets too hot and fries them. The failed electrodes are a symptom, not the cause.
You can buy them at Home Deport right now. If you're in an office building, look up... there are probably a few over your head. And yes, they do make ones without the ballasts that are small and round like CFLs are.
I don't care which part of "the light bulb" fails. When it doesn't light up, the entire thing needs to be replaced.
BUT... you can get CFLs that don't have the transformer/ballast built in.
Here's what a ballast looks like:
https://www.google.com/search?...
The problem is, we are trying to adapt CFLs to Incandescent sockets. Buy new lamps and you wont have this problem anymore. The CFLs you're getting have about the cheapest ballasts that can be made in them and the airflow through them is awful. In an ideal setup you'd have these ballasts elsewhere... where they can remain cool. Each ballast would run multiple bulbs for years without issue.
Take a ballast, shrink it down small enough to fit into an incandescent base and seal it in plastic? Yea... not going to last very long.
the CFL/LEDs last forever... but most don't operate off of 120/240 volts. So there are transformers in the base that ramp the voltage up. The transformers do NOT last 50k hours. That's what burns out.
Its not. (well it could be but the story is possible)
I've dealt extensively with the forest service and the DNR legally. My family does cranberry farming which involves wetlands. They've been a thorn in our side for over 30 years. Throwing a rock into a wetland is illegal. They can take your car and equipment for it to. We had a dike collapse during a heavy rain storm so we re-built it. They took us to court and complained that by rebuilding the dike we'd filled in a wetland. We won in the end thanks to Google maps. Another time they sent a squad of armed guys onto the land because we were having an "uncontrolled burn" and fined us. We went to court over it, and won because the burn was on an ISLAND. That's right, surrounded on all sides by a lake. The island was only about 100ft across with no structures on it. The judge asked how 100ftsq piece of grass in the middle of lake could be uncontrolled. They said we didnt have any way to put out spot fires or some nonsense. Then we pointed out that the purpose of the island was it was where our well/pump was and there was a 20k gallon per hour diesel pump in the photos they'd provided the judge!
They've sued us/taken us to court dozens of times over the years. It's probably cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars by now and they've never won. Not once.
In my job, I work heavily, all day long with large marketing, sales and product management departments. The parallel universe those people live in is rather astonishing. If you diverge from their line of thinking even in internal meetings, you're getting talked to by management. It's to the point that I have meetings even with external engineers and we'll have both of our sales departments on the phone preventing us from solving problems because neither of us are allowed to admit there are problems. lol
What ends up happening is we find time to exchange email and later speak privately. I find it hilarious that engineers from two separate companies have to collude together to trick our respective Sales organizations into believing nothing was ever wrong in the first place.
Even the nausea I get every time I lift a Samsung product?
This is basically the kind of system I run. A different application, but I have the same problem.
The problem is you. You're describing it wrong. The Dashboard is the report. It's just a new kind of report.
Explain that emailed PDFs, spreadsheets on network drives, etc... are bad. If they give you a report to write and you do... it gets emailed to them and then they base decisions off that report. Now, a week later someone points out a flaw in the reporting. You had a bad join! Oh no! So you fix it. The data is instantly fixed in the "Dashboard" but the report they have in their email or network drive will be forever wrong.
Reports arent wrong, they're just better now.
If they need the raw data for a presentation or something, that's different. You should have an export feature. If not, that's another problem.
Sure you can have these fancy concentrators, but nothing will cost less per kW than plain solar panels arrays or wind power. Why concentrate the suns rays instead of using solar panels, whose costs decrease all the time?
Because making solar panels is horrific for the environment.
http://www.scientificamerican....
yea no... Pot
It's a resource allocation problem. There is enough food on earth right now to sustainably feed everyone, the problem lies with the people on the path from the food to the hungry mouths. Increasing food production increases the wealth of the people in the middle, who now have more resources to allocate, but does not necessarily reduce the number of hungry people.
You're clearly not a person that's been to a 3rd world country. I have been, and its a fuck of a lot more complicated than that.
How does someone who has no money, no home, and no familly grow food? At all? Why would the farmer down the road that has 2 acres and can barely grow enough to feed his family further impoverish himself by feeding that person? Now increase that farmers yield by 74%...
And you'll say... well we could just give them food! A noble idea... until you drive that farmer into bankruptcy because everyone now gets free food and is livelihood is worthless. Like I said, it's complicated. There is no easy solution that involves some big evil corporate overlord.
This is a no brainer. Add nitrogen and increase production. Good job doing this with bacteria. Maybe then we could cut using anhydrous ammonia and make an ingredient for meth harder to come by.
You dont understand nitrogen fixing bacteria....
The plants uptake is limited, and if you put too much in the soil it's actually poisonous to the plant and you get runoff. These sorts of bacteria help the plant uptake more than it would naturally.
lol, so we have a far leftwing nut job yelling at a far rightwing nutjob and you're telling me you're helping? Get of the cross.
personally, I can think of a half of a dozen ways to solve the problem off hand. That's why I think marketing or someone messed with it after engineering got done with it.
Buttons are external with pinholes through the phone
Buttons work via capacitance (Think of the lights that turn on when you touch the base)
Internal brace near the buttons
External brace... (molded apple logo on the back near them)
Different material for the case (Titanium?)
No buttons! (didn't apple invent that?)
Please people, before you mod damn_registrars up, take a look at his comments. He's just harassing samzenpus.
This article certainly is about wasting food.
Landfill - a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land.
If you put extra food in a landfill it becomes waste.
If you put extra food into a compost bin, it becomes fertilizer.
If you are putting extra food into the landfill you get a ticket.
Therefor you are getting ticketed for "Wasting" food.
It's not hard.
Yes it does.
Trash = waste
Compost = not waste
I think the OP's goal was to suggest this was over-reaching hippy nonsense. And it is certainly that.
Unfortunately there are valid, very concerning environmental problems we need to address. But some people use environmentalism as an excuse for elitism and classicism. Notice their primary target are apartments. I suspect their next primary target will be fast food. Make no mistake, environmental laws like this target groups of people that are unpopular in places like Seattle.
Typo correction... sorry (Slashdot should allow edits!)
Because of this alone, physicists pretty much already knew singularities probably were real
should be
Because of this alone, physicists pretty much already knew singularities probably weren't real