As much as I hate to admit this.... the best Stargate SG-1 episodes were from when the show was still on Showtime (Seasons 1-5).
I didn't like the addition of Jonas Quinn in Season 6. Season 7/8 were good. Season 9/10 was Fargate and was them trying to breath life into something that should have ended.
SG-1 should have ended with Season 8 and Atlantis taking on the mantle of Stargate. Instead they ran two productions at once which I feel degraded both of them.
Tax exempt diesel and gasoline is for vehicles that do not use public roads. Basically farm equipment and other off road vehicles. If a trucker pumped tax-exempt diesel into his rig and got caught with it he would be facing a number of fines. Tax-exempt fuel usually contains a bit of dye to differentiate it from the taxed stuff.
You might also be seeing sales-tax exempt diesel.
Remember folks, you are charged a federal and state excise tax along with a state sales tax on gasoline.
If you weren't in Boy Scouts in the US you probably didn't know how to use a map and compass (seriously, orieteering isn't that hard but if you don't know the basics I could give you a compass and map, throw you in the wilderness and you'd still die). Now take a countour map, it's even harder to figure out, in the rain and poor light. How do you adjust for distance when you're going up or down an incline? Some of this stuff requires actual know-how and frankly few people had it even before GPS.
That's where I learned it. The contours on a map aren't really a huge issue for finding your way. While a lot of the exercises I dealt with during orienteering were related to using a map and compass to follow precise directions to move from point to point over similar areas to end up at a proper goal. Exercises such as that rely more on the precise distances however most usages of a map aren't reliant on such precise distance or even going to zig zag you across a map and back over your own tracks. You're most likely going to be going for a long distance towards some landmark which is labeled on the map.
The contour map itself is rather easy to read and by looking at it and your surroundings you can make an educated guess on where you are. Since the contour lines each represent a specific height how densely packed the lines are is directly representative of the incline.
Because the only missions we've ever ran were Space Shuttle missions. No Apollo missions. No Mercury missions. No future missions on a yet to be designed space craft that are heading to Mars.
No only that, why would mimicking a human brain be a good option for an AI? Unless I'm mistaken, transistors fire a lot faster than neurons do. This would appear to be a downgrade for an AI.
But if his brains were eaten. That would make him one of the zombies and so the typewriter would have been thrown at him. So he would have a typewriter.
A significant majority of the German population were members of the Nazi party. This is why the denazification program after Germany's surrender had a lot of problems. You couldn't find enough people who weren't a member of the Nazi party who was competent enough to operate the jobs that were supposed to be denazified. This lead to pretty much every military governor looking the other way on the policy because they knew they couldn't enforce it.
The point is more that arguing that you were going 4 mph slower than you are accused of but still speeding can make worlds of difference.
In my example, if you were accused of doing 16mph over you would have been charged $310. If you were doing just 12mph over the limit you are still speeding, but the fine would only be $180. That's $130 less in fines and reckless speeding charges tend to carry heavier license penalties. 4 points on your license instead of 2 for example.
Also, if an area has reckless speeding charges where the speed is 15 or more above the limit, a cop issuing a regular speeding ticket for 20 mph over would likely raise a flag at the government office where you would be properly charged by government.
I think most greens tend to miss the amount of energy consumed by the industrial sector. Considering that it consumes more energy than residential and commercial combined, it's not surprising that the amount of energy used by a laptop over its lifetime is less than what it takes to manufacture it.
The energy usage by the industrial sector is why energy sources like solar and wind aren't acceptable. It's the industrial sector that drives the majority of the base load for power demands. There's nothing quite like, "Yeah, there's not enough wind today to generate enough power for us to run our industrial machines. We have to send you home today early. Also, you're not getting paid for the time you should have been here if we had power."
That depends on the price before and after the $25 reduction.
Gas stations are a good place to look at it. A penny difference between two stations does not induce people to buy from one station over another except in one situation. That penny difference is $3.99 versus $4.00. The increase of the one's place induces people to go buy gas at $3.99 that otherwise wouldn't care about the price difference. That's why so much stuff is priced at X.99 ($0.99, $9.99, $19.99, $29.99).
It can be surprisingly expensive to do this. My company has nexus in a lot of states even though we only have a brick and mortar building in 6 states. We have field mechanics that cover significant portions of the US which gives us nexus. Pretty much the only states we don't have to collect sales tax for is Hawaii and Alaska (maybe a few others). It's a huge overhead cost to say the least. The bloody brilliant part? You can't determine sales tax rates based on zip code alone. You have to have the full address since sales tax rates do change within zip codes.
What does all this mean? You have to outsource it. You can't calculate it in house unless your software supports it and you're going to pay for annual updates to the software in order to update the sales tax information. Further it relies on completely accurate addresses. This isn't likely as much of a problem for online retailers since they can get accurate address information much more quickly, but for brick and mortar stores it's a little more difficult. Additionally, you could also pay for X number of sales tax inquiries per year. The one service we had looked at was over a $1 for each transaction if you bought fewer than 20,000. You get up to about 60,000 and the price dropped to $0.50.
I am surprised more by the fact that Democrats usually "look out for the little guy" or so they claim and they want to "tax the wicked rich folk who steal from the poor".
This legislation isn't going to be raising costs for the rich, who in all honesty probably have an accountant that will track and file the sales taxes for online purchases in order to avoid audits. This is going to screw over the lower and middle class who are more likely to buy online since they gain a much larger benefit from not paying the sales tax from online purchases.
The way I got authorization to upgrade the graphics and install a second monitor on a user's machine was to show that by doing so, the user didn't have to print off a 450 page document about every other week. Saving us $9 a pop an paying for itself after so many weeks.
If people are breaking their machines to get upgrades, that's a sure-sign that the organization is failing to provide a suitable IT environment.
Which most of the time is because the company is unwilling to put forth the money necessary for the IT department to adequately do their job. Whether it's because the cash for more IT employees to handle the load or a lack of money for new equipment and software.
Let us build new ones to replace the old ones we all want to decommission and then we can talk. You don't just decommission any power plant without the ability to support the loss of that plant generation capability until the new plant can be brought online.
If you're going to replace two 400Mw coal plants with a 1Gw nuclear plant you do not shut down and decommission the two coal plants before building the nuclear plant. You run those coal plants, on extensions if necessary, until the nuclear plant up, running, done all of it's shake down, and is officially online. Then you take down the coal plants.
Power plants are not short term infrastructure and I'm not aware of any cost-efficiency energy generation techniques that can fill a gap provided by a base load plant.
Congratulations. You hit on why the INES scale is deeply flawed.
I'm going to point to this news article which explains far more in depth as to why the Level 7 was chosen. After reading it, you should realize that Fukushima is not as bad as Chernobyl. Here's some summary facts.
The Level 7 was chosen solely based on the total cumulative release of radioactive isotopes over the course of a month. Chernobyl's release was mostly due to the radioactive plume that was ejected during a one time event.
The Level 7 covers seven locations. Units 1-4 at Daiichi and three Units at Daiini. Each of these doesn't class over a Level 5 on the INES scale.
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As much as I hate to admit this.... the best Stargate SG-1 episodes were from when the show was still on Showtime (Seasons 1-5).
I didn't like the addition of Jonas Quinn in Season 6.
Season 7/8 were good.
Season 9/10 was Fargate and was them trying to breath life into something that should have ended.
SG-1 should have ended with Season 8 and Atlantis taking on the mantle of Stargate. Instead they ran two productions at once which I feel degraded both of them.
Tax exempt diesel and gasoline is for vehicles that do not use public roads. Basically farm equipment and other off road vehicles. If a trucker pumped tax-exempt diesel into his rig and got caught with it he would be facing a number of fines. Tax-exempt fuel usually contains a bit of dye to differentiate it from the taxed stuff.
You might also be seeing sales-tax exempt diesel.
Remember folks, you are charged a federal and state excise tax along with a state sales tax on gasoline.
If you weren't in Boy Scouts in the US you probably didn't know how to use a map and compass (seriously, orieteering isn't that hard but if you don't know the basics I could give you a compass and map, throw you in the wilderness and you'd still die). Now take a countour map, it's even harder to figure out, in the rain and poor light. How do you adjust for distance when you're going up or down an incline? Some of this stuff requires actual know-how and frankly few people had it even before GPS.
That's where I learned it. The contours on a map aren't really a huge issue for finding your way. While a lot of the exercises I dealt with during orienteering were related to using a map and compass to follow precise directions to move from point to point over similar areas to end up at a proper goal. Exercises such as that rely more on the precise distances however most usages of a map aren't reliant on such precise distance or even going to zig zag you across a map and back over your own tracks. You're most likely going to be going for a long distance towards some landmark which is labeled on the map.
The contour map itself is rather easy to read and by looking at it and your surroundings you can make an educated guess on where you are. Since the contour lines each represent a specific height how densely packed the lines are is directly representative of the incline.
I don't know, but allow me to help the scientists test this. All I need is to be hooked up to some deadly neurotoxin.
They can do it in 10, but only if they get their entire population to sign a no-suicide pact.
GOoGLE saved science?
Because the only missions we've ever ran were Space Shuttle missions. No Apollo missions. No Mercury missions. No future missions on a yet to be designed space craft that are heading to Mars.
No only that, why would mimicking a human brain be a good option for an AI? Unless I'm mistaken, transistors fire a lot faster than neurons do. This would appear to be a downgrade for an AI.
But if his brains were eaten. That would make him one of the zombies and so the typewriter would have been thrown at him. So he would have a typewriter.
That is my favorite level from the game.
Though all the "sniper" levels in Call of Duty games tend to be some of the best.
Don't forget the Replicators.
We already murdered her.
A significant majority of the German population were members of the Nazi party. This is why the denazification program after Germany's surrender had a lot of problems. You couldn't find enough people who weren't a member of the Nazi party who was competent enough to operate the jobs that were supposed to be denazified. This lead to pretty much every military governor looking the other way on the policy because they knew they couldn't enforce it.
The point is more that arguing that you were going 4 mph slower than you are accused of but still speeding can make worlds of difference.
In my example, if you were accused of doing 16mph over you would have been charged $310. If you were doing just 12mph over the limit you are still speeding, but the fine would only be $180. That's $130 less in fines and reckless speeding charges tend to carry heavier license penalties. 4 points on your license instead of 2 for example.
Also, if an area has reckless speeding charges where the speed is 15 or more above the limit, a cop issuing a regular speeding ticket for 20 mph over would likely raise a flag at the government office where you would be properly charged by government.
$x + ($y * Miles Over Limit) for speeding. For the reckless speeding the charge is $a + ($b * Miles Over Limit).
$x is almost always less than $a.
$y is almost always less than $b.
$120 for speeding plus $5 for every mile over.
$150 for reckless speeding plus $10 for every mile over.
15 over is reckless.
If you do 14 over you get hit with $190. If you do 15 over you get hit with $300.
Maybe you should read his question.
It wasn't whether App revenue was added but what portion of the 50% was app revenue.
12.3B was iPhone revenue.
Was 50% of that from apps (6.15B)? 25% (3.07B)? 75% (9.25B)?
I think most greens tend to miss the amount of energy consumed by the industrial sector. Considering that it consumes more energy than residential and commercial combined, it's not surprising that the amount of energy used by a laptop over its lifetime is less than what it takes to manufacture it.
The energy usage by the industrial sector is why energy sources like solar and wind aren't acceptable. It's the industrial sector that drives the majority of the base load for power demands. There's nothing quite like, "Yeah, there's not enough wind today to generate enough power for us to run our industrial machines. We have to send you home today early. Also, you're not getting paid for the time you should have been here if we had power."
That depends on the price before and after the $25 reduction.
Gas stations are a good place to look at it. A penny difference between two stations does not induce people to buy from one station over another except in one situation. That penny difference is $3.99 versus $4.00. The increase of the one's place induces people to go buy gas at $3.99 that otherwise wouldn't care about the price difference. That's why so much stuff is priced at X.99 ($0.99, $9.99, $19.99, $29.99).
It can be surprisingly expensive to do this. My company has nexus in a lot of states even though we only have a brick and mortar building in 6 states. We have field mechanics that cover significant portions of the US which gives us nexus. Pretty much the only states we don't have to collect sales tax for is Hawaii and Alaska (maybe a few others). It's a huge overhead cost to say the least. The bloody brilliant part? You can't determine sales tax rates based on zip code alone. You have to have the full address since sales tax rates do change within zip codes.
What does all this mean? You have to outsource it. You can't calculate it in house unless your software supports it and you're going to pay for annual updates to the software in order to update the sales tax information. Further it relies on completely accurate addresses. This isn't likely as much of a problem for online retailers since they can get accurate address information much more quickly, but for brick and mortar stores it's a little more difficult. Additionally, you could also pay for X number of sales tax inquiries per year. The one service we had looked at was over a $1 for each transaction if you bought fewer than 20,000. You get up to about 60,000 and the price dropped to $0.50.
I am surprised more by the fact that Democrats usually "look out for the little guy" or so they claim and they want to "tax the wicked rich folk who steal from the poor".
This legislation isn't going to be raising costs for the rich, who in all honesty probably have an accountant that will track and file the sales taxes for online purchases in order to avoid audits. This is going to screw over the lower and middle class who are more likely to buy online since they gain a much larger benefit from not paying the sales tax from online purchases.
The way I got authorization to upgrade the graphics and install a second monitor on a user's machine was to show that by doing so, the user didn't have to print off a 450 page document about every other week. Saving us $9 a pop an paying for itself after so many weeks.
If people are breaking their machines to get upgrades, that's a sure-sign that the organization is failing to provide a suitable IT environment.
Which most of the time is because the company is unwilling to put forth the money necessary for the IT department to adequately do their job. Whether it's because the cash for more IT employees to handle the load or a lack of money for new equipment and software.
Let us build new ones to replace the old ones we all want to decommission and then we can talk. You don't just decommission any power plant without the ability to support the loss of that plant generation capability until the new plant can be brought online.
If you're going to replace two 400Mw coal plants with a 1Gw nuclear plant you do not shut down and decommission the two coal plants before building the nuclear plant. You run those coal plants, on extensions if necessary, until the nuclear plant up, running, done all of it's shake down, and is officially online. Then you take down the coal plants.
Power plants are not short term infrastructure and I'm not aware of any cost-efficiency energy generation techniques that can fill a gap provided by a base load plant.
It's not just cooling. It's also about controlling humidity levels. It's called climate control and not temperature control for a reason.
Congratulations. You hit on why the INES scale is deeply flawed.
I'm going to point to this news article which explains far more in depth as to why the Level 7 was chosen. After reading it, you should realize that Fukushima is not as bad as Chernobyl. Here's some summary facts.
The Level 7 was chosen solely based on the total cumulative release of radioactive isotopes over the course of a month. Chernobyl's release was mostly due to the radioactive plume that was ejected during a one time event.
The Level 7 covers seven locations. Units 1-4 at Daiichi and three Units at Daiini. Each of these doesn't class over a Level 5 on the INES scale.