Unfortunately their fallback plan of utilizing students to run the transactions fell through. They simply did not feel comfortable with the students using ink.
That really doesn't address the fact that California doesn't pay those taxes from their treasury. They're just collected from within the state. You could make the argument that if the Federal government did not collect the taxes, the state of California would be free to instead collect them. However, the state of California could still always raise taxes to cover that deficit, barring any sort of Constitutional prohibition. So only if you could conclusively prove that the state of California would have collected all of the taxes the Federal government collected for the state then trying to suggest that the Federal government should bailout California because of how much was collected from the state is a bad argument since the problem would still exist.
Then you have the wrong dog. Our dog, a German Shepherd has an escalating array of "I need the loo" signs. * First he'll just stare at you, and if you say "Show me what you want" he'll lead you to the front door. ('Show me what you want' will also lead you to bread (hungry), a piece of furniture (usually a toy has gotten stuck beneath it), a toy (he wishes to play) or anything that gives The Human a clue as to what he wants)
Yep.
* Then he'll whine and wander between you and the door
Yep.
* After he'll pat you with his paw to get your attention
Yep.
* Then he'll scratch on the door and yip
Yep.
Only after this, and simply not being able to wait any more will he go to the furthest place in the house and 'do' what he has to do.
He also has the decency to look guilty when you next see him after this.
Considering this is exactly what I would do in the same situation, I think he's pretty damn smart.
Zennyboy
Our terrier would go to one of the linoleum floored portions of the house to do her business. Never would she do it on the carpet. The same with vomiting. She would of course, look guilty over doing it, but we always praised her for using the linoleum over the carpet, since it was easier to clean.
It's also worth noting that while that behavior would persist for a lot of desires on the dog, asking "Show me what you want." would always have our terrier bouncing off towards whatever she was interested in.
I never understood why people keep bothering tossing around those numbers. Those dollars aren't paid by the state, but rather are paid by the businesses and individuals within the state. Since those tax rates aren't well linked to standard of living rates (which is significantly higher in New York and California), and people in California and New York tend to earn higher salaries to make up for the higher standard of living, it is only logical that those states would end up sending more money to the Federal government since they are more likely to hit the higher tax brackets.
It's not Utah's fault that people can live on 35k a year when it would require 70k or more a year to have the same lifestyle in New York or California.
~520 annual increase in traffic fatalities was the estimate due to people driving over flying. I believe there was also admittance that the backscatter would cause about 16 additional cancer deaths annually.
Net effect is an estimated 536 increase in annual deaths.
Loss of life due to terrorist attack against westerners from 2006 to 2008 was 12 deaths annually worldwide.
The scanners are estimated to be more deadly than the terrorists have been.
The Prosecutor and Defense both write out long documents outlining their cases, available on an audio file, which gets submitted to Jurors online and they get to view the case without any kind of prejudice (You don't know the sex/race/age of the alleged criminal or victim unless it is important to the crime at hand).
The bickering between the two will be just like any other internet forum, the judge is like a Moderator, and rather than a jury of a dozen peers or so, it can be done by any amount of volunteers from 4chan or by some Amazon Cloud support team or something.
I know I know, there's a lot of things wrong with doing it this way - but is it really any worse than the way its done already?
Einstein got a degree from the Zurich Polytechnic in physics. His attitude just made it very hard for him to get his doctorate or even a position in academia.
Being a scientist means doing original scientific research i.e. something that nobody has done before, otherwise it is called history. This means that you had better know what has been done before so that you can build upon and expand the existing knowledge. Currently the only way to learn this is via studying so, with currently technology, to be a scientist you do need to study.
How about Einstein? When he came up with his theory of relativity, he was working in the patent office and didn't have access to libraries of material to do for research. I believe he even admitted in either an application for a professorship or a journal submission that he didn't have access to a lot of material.
Step 1: Appeal to liberal arts majors. Step 2: Increase visual arts programmers pool. Step 3: Be able to lower initial salaries due to increase in pool of applicable employees. Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit!
I chose arbitrary values for the price of a CD. Something that people have clung to and made points against which has zero bearing to the end result.
It doesn't matter whether the market value is $12, $50, or $0.53.
If a CD has a price tag of $12 then the resale value + intrinsic value to you will be worth $12 or you won't buy it (unless you are a moron). If the CD has $0 resale and $12 intrinsic value, you are still $12 richer than you were when you download instead of buying because you preserve the $12 cash while still gaining the intrinsic value.
To look at it in another way. If the price of music you download would cost $12 you gain $12 in opportunity costs for downloading all while spending $0 on the action. It's not necessarily liquid assets, which is something people are confusingly assuming it must be for you to profit.
If there is no intrinsic value to you in the music, why are you wasting time downloading it in the first place?
It's fairly obvious that the $1,000,000 is mostly punitive damages for the illegal act rather than the actual value of what. What I've never understood is why it wasn't a flat rate (modified by the scope of the infringing activity) plus all the revenues you gained from the infringing activity.
In this individual's case she made no revenue but she is responsible for others profiting from her illegal action.
Economically speaking, you have profited from the copying.
Let's say a CD is set at a market value of $12 and you have $50.
Instead of buying that CD you instead download the songs from that CD.
You now have $50 cash and $12 worth of music for a total of $62 of value. You are now effectively $12 richer than you were since you have the music and you retained the $12.
If you bought the CD you would have $12 worth of music and $38 in cash for a total of $50 of value.
Farscape dealt with technobabble in a good manner as well, usually with lampshading it then subverting it.
*after some alien goes on explaining how some drive works with a bunch of technobabble* Aeryn: Did you understand any of those words? John: Well, yeah, I watched all kinds of Star trek, It's just the order I didn't get.
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They got a wee bit excited over the thought that Ubuntu may be doing rolling updates for their computer systems. That's why they banned pencils.
Unfortunately their fallback plan of utilizing students to run the transactions fell through. They simply did not feel comfortable with the students using ink.
That really doesn't address the fact that California doesn't pay those taxes from their treasury. They're just collected from within the state. You could make the argument that if the Federal government did not collect the taxes, the state of California would be free to instead collect them. However, the state of California could still always raise taxes to cover that deficit, barring any sort of Constitutional prohibition. So only if you could conclusively prove that the state of California would have collected all of the taxes the Federal government collected for the state then trying to suggest that the Federal government should bailout California because of how much was collected from the state is a bad argument since the problem would still exist.
We used to have a jackrussell terrier....
Then you have the wrong dog. Our dog, a German Shepherd has an escalating array of "I need the loo" signs.
* First he'll just stare at you, and if you say "Show me what you want" he'll lead you to the front door. ('Show me what you want' will also lead you to bread (hungry), a piece of furniture (usually a toy has gotten stuck beneath it), a toy (he wishes to play) or anything that gives The Human a clue as to what he wants)
Yep.
* Then he'll whine and wander between you and the door
Yep.
* After he'll pat you with his paw to get your attention
Yep.
* Then he'll scratch on the door and yip
Yep.
Only after this, and simply not being able to wait any more will he go to the furthest place in the house and 'do' what he has to do.
He also has the decency to look guilty when you next see him after this.
Considering this is exactly what I would do in the same situation, I think he's pretty damn smart.
Zennyboy
Our terrier would go to one of the linoleum floored portions of the house to do her business. Never would she do it on the carpet. The same with vomiting. She would of course, look guilty over doing it, but we always praised her for using the linoleum over the carpet, since it was easier to clean.
It's also worth noting that while that behavior would persist for a lot of desires on the dog, asking "Show me what you want." would always have our terrier bouncing off towards whatever she was interested in.
I would speculate that this is why you see a lot less abandoned cats at shelters than dogs
I would speculate this is because shelters don't get dogs as often as cats so they keep dogs longer and euthanize cats more frequently.
The corgi is great.
Well, of course. Corgis are among the most intelligent dog breeds.
When I can have you euthanized, you better damn well believe obedience is a better trait than independence.
I never understood why people keep bothering tossing around those numbers. Those dollars aren't paid by the state, but rather are paid by the businesses and individuals within the state. Since those tax rates aren't well linked to standard of living rates (which is significantly higher in New York and California), and people in California and New York tend to earn higher salaries to make up for the higher standard of living, it is only logical that those states would end up sending more money to the Federal government since they are more likely to hit the higher tax brackets.
It's not Utah's fault that people can live on 35k a year when it would require 70k or more a year to have the same lifestyle in New York or California.
~520 annual increase in traffic fatalities was the estimate due to people driving over flying. I believe there was also admittance that the backscatter would cause about 16 additional cancer deaths annually.
Net effect is an estimated 536 increase in annual deaths.
Loss of life due to terrorist attack against westerners from 2006 to 2008 was 12 deaths annually worldwide.
The scanners are estimated to be more deadly than the terrorists have been.
Our trade offs are brilliant.
The Prosecutor and Defense both write out long documents outlining their cases, available on an audio file, which gets submitted to Jurors online and they get to view the case without any kind of prejudice (You don't know the sex/race/age of the alleged criminal or victim unless it is important to the crime at hand).
The bickering between the two will be just like any other internet forum, the judge is like a Moderator, and rather than a jury of a dozen peers or so, it can be done by any amount of volunteers from 4chan or by some Amazon Cloud support team or something.
I know I know, there's a lot of things wrong with doing it this way - but is it really any worse than the way its done already?
Oh god. A legal system ran by 4chan?
Pretty much. I'm assuming Tesla is the vague link used in order to promote this Slashvertisement.
Why do I get a feeling this submission only made it because it mentions Tesla?
Einstein got a degree from the Zurich Polytechnic in physics. His attitude just made it very hard for him to get his doctorate or even a position in academia.
Being a scientist means doing original scientific research i.e. something that nobody has done before, otherwise it is called history. This means that you had better know what has been done before so that you can build upon and expand the existing knowledge. Currently the only way to learn this is via studying so, with currently technology, to be a scientist you do need to study.
How about Einstein? When he came up with his theory of relativity, he was working in the patent office and didn't have access to libraries of material to do for research. I believe he even admitted in either an application for a professorship or a journal submission that he didn't have access to a lot of material.
Step 1: Appeal to liberal arts majors.
Step 2: Increase visual arts programmers pool.
Step 3: Be able to lower initial salaries due to increase in pool of applicable employees.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
God bless you Slashdot. You don't fail to disappoint.
Come on people. Give Halliburton some props here.
It involves Steve who everybody hates, who is the CEO of a company that everybody hates.
Thus the entire purpose of the article being posted is to foment Microsoft/Windows/Steve hatred.
I chose arbitrary values for the price of a CD. Something that people have clung to and made points against which has zero bearing to the end result.
It doesn't matter whether the market value is $12, $50, or $0.53.
If a CD has a price tag of $12 then the resale value + intrinsic value to you will be worth $12 or you won't buy it (unless you are a moron). If the CD has $0 resale and $12 intrinsic value, you are still $12 richer than you were when you download instead of buying because you preserve the $12 cash while still gaining the intrinsic value.
To look at it in another way. If the price of music you download would cost $12 you gain $12 in opportunity costs for downloading all while spending $0 on the action. It's not necessarily liquid assets, which is something people are confusingly assuming it must be for you to profit.
If there is no intrinsic value to you in the music, why are you wasting time downloading it in the first place?
It's fairly obvious that the $1,000,000 is mostly punitive damages for the illegal act rather than the actual value of what. What I've never understood is why it wasn't a flat rate (modified by the scope of the infringing activity) plus all the revenues you gained from the infringing activity.
In this individual's case she made no revenue but she is responsible for others profiting from her illegal action.
Economically speaking, you have profited from the copying.
Let's say a CD is set at a market value of $12 and you have $50.
Instead of buying that CD you instead download the songs from that CD.
You now have $50 cash and $12 worth of music for a total of $62 of value. You are now effectively $12 richer than you were since you have the music and you retained the $12.
If you bought the CD you would have $12 worth of music and $38 in cash for a total of $50 of value.
Farscape dealt with technobabble in a good manner as well, usually with lampshading it then subverting it.
*after some alien goes on explaining how some drive works with a bunch of technobabble*
Aeryn: Did you understand any of those words?
John: Well, yeah, I watched all kinds of Star trek, It's just the order I didn't get.
It's powered over ethernet and supports wireless connectivity!
I can't be the only person that realized the pointlessness of the wireless connection.
Bizarre behavior like this can only be explained by the installation of Windows on the planets.
That's a very impressive nuke. That seems a bit outside of it's standard operation. I'm not sure why the robot needs guarding.