In D&D rainy weather doesn't affect spells, and I don't recall anything about rainy weather causing fire elementals to burn any cooler. Typically natural weather doesn't affect the magical or supernatural.
Loopholes are just special interests crying for a subsidy. They should have lobbied for lower taxes for everyone, instead of obscure exceptions. Then their whining about taxes would have some legitimacy. Right now, they sound about as legitimate as bankers.
As if the legislation would actually uniformly cut taxes. Hah, that's a joke. As long as government seeks to be the solution to every problem that will never happen, even if lower taxes raises revenue.
It's a loophole in the same sense that your mortgage tax deduction is a loophole. Every single one of these tax "loopholes" is written into the tax code. The usage of the word loophole is just designed to bring an automatic negative connotation to what the companies are doing. Frankly, I don't care that the companies are using whatever advantages written into the tax code that they can.
Some will say that the companies lobbied for the deductions. So what? The companies don't write the law, the legislature does. These "loopholes" are the result of Congresscritters that lack the moral fortitude to do the job the voters elected them to do. Chances are many of the current critters were in Congress when these "loopholes" were written.
You're right that if copyright infringement is wrong, something like bugs at launch don't suddenly override this. However, if one doesn't believe copyright should even exist, then nitpicks like this have more force.
If one doesn't believe copyright should even exist, then one should not participate within the society that has copyright. To be a part of society, you essentially agree to abide by the laws that society establishes. There is never a legitimate justification for breaking/ignoring laws, until such a time where you're seeking to overthrow your government.
And the article seems to indicate that the treatment was done with adult stem cells.
Dr. Hu - "In 2004, after three years of clinical studies observing more than 100 cases, I decided to build a company to supply and work on safe adult stem cells."
Dr. Hu - "As of February 2009, Beike has treated over 5,087 patients with cord blood stem cell injections"
Dr. Hu - "After all these years of observation and practice, I consider adult stem cell-based therapy to be safe."
Dr. Hu - "We will set the standard and criteria for R&D in developing adult stem cells and iPS."
Dr. Hu - "The adult stem cells we use are safe."
Dr. Hu's only mention of embryonic stem cells is the following....
Dr. Hu - "I think Geron's FDA clearance to begin the world's first human clinical trial of embryonic stem cell-based therapy is great news for the entire stem cell industry. More competition is inevitable."
The significance here is that China doesn't have the same restrictions regarding human testing that the US does. They've jumped into it faster, and Dr. Hu has been using adult stem cells rather than embryonic. According to this article, the only negative side effect to having an embryonic stem cell ban is that it reduces competition.
You can't take a single sound byte of Rush and be able to interpret his meaning from it, but that's what people like to do. They'll take a single statement, ignore the rest of his monologue which either leads up to or follows up on that statement and blow it out of context. Rush's transcripts are available on his website WITHOUT a membership. Go look them up.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; (Note that this is retaining to copyright, not funding research)
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
So basically, what spending breaks down to is.....
Debts, Military Spending, Welfare of the United States (Whatever that means), Post Offices and Post Roads, Money spent towards armies but no more than 2 years at once, the navy, militia, and strategic buildings.
We'll set debts aside. So that leaves 4 of the remaining six topics for spending directly related to military functions. Welfare of the United States I would break down to national infrastructure, like power lines, communications and roads. Even so, all that infrastructure is of use to the military, so I'm going to give 5/6 spending military related.
So pretty much national spending should be military, national infrastructure, and postal. So why don't we start by cutting out all those unconstitutional federal welfare programs?
This is exactly my theory. We recently moved our corporate headquarters and servers. One of the servers had a bad cable. The IT guy there didn't have a cable long enough so he went out to buy one. I understand why he wants to buy one. It looks more professional on a fresh cable farm than using a self made, but he could have gotten the self-made cable in sooner bring the server back on line right away.
Super Mutants are just resistant to radiation. Ghouls are resistant and healed by it.
So let's look at all your companion, Fawkes is a Super Muttie and highly resistant to radiation, Sergeant RL-3 is a robot and unaffected by it. Charon is a ghoul and healed by it. Butch, Star Paladin Cross, and Jericho are all humans and reasonably so would not be willing to die. Clover is also a human and would die, but she has a slave collar so she should listen to your orders. Also, I like dogs too much to try to get Dogmeat to do it.
Fawkes: I'm sorry, my companion, but no. We all have our own destinies, and yours culminates here. I would not rob you of that. Sergeant RL-3: Soldier, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. This is your fight! You gotta finish what your daddy started! Stand strong and get your ass in there! Charon: You and I both know that's not going to happen. I've saved your sorry ass enough. This one's all you. Butch: That chamber? Right there? With all the radiation? Man, no way. I'll end up dead. Or worse. I could be one of them Ghouls! Ain't gonna happen. Star Paladin Cross: My friend... It's been my pleasure accompanying you, but we both know this is your fight to finish. Stay strong, and honor your father's memory. Clover: Honey, you are out of your mind if you think I'm going in there. Find yourself another guinea pig. Jericho: Fuck that. Do your own dirty work.
I equip an advanced radiation suit and pop a Rad-X. Wewt I have 85% rad resist.
I go into the chamber, I'm taking in about 2-3 rads/sec. Cool, that gives me about 5.5 minutes without using any Radaway. I go in, it takes me about 30 seconds to enter the code and start project purity.
Oh no, I'm passing out from radiation. WTF? I have 4.5-5 minutes left before I DIE from radiation poisoning, and I haven't even suffered the first level of radiation poisoning. I'm incapable of taking the 10 seconds to turn around an walk back into the airlock so I can escape the chamber? WTF?
I prefer the parallel to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. There's no little ways to practice civil disobedience of copyright laws.. if you want to stand up and be counted you've gotta get the attention of big media, and that means sweeping acts like the Pirate Bay. These guys are heroes. They're putting their asses on the line for our right to copy - may it be equal to everyone else's - end copyright now.
Except that they didn't get the attention of big media. Aside from online techie sites like/., this news isn't going to reach Joe Q. Public.
Tangible personal property, purchased in Indiana, or elsewhere in a retail transaction, and stored, used, or otherwise consumed in Indiana is subject to Indiana use tax for such property, unless the Indiana state gross retail tax has been collected at the point of purchase.
Currently if I buy a product in Ohio and bring it to Indiana, I'm subject to paying both the Ohio Sales Tax and Indiana Use Tax. If I buy a product online, I'm only subject to pay Indiana Use Tax. This law would only negate the Indiana Use Tax for online purchases if the sales taxes I'm paying are paid to Indiana. Otherwise I would be liable for the Indiana Use Tax and the Online Sales Tax.
The states should just be honest about what they want. They want to force their citizens to pay their Use Taxes. Though, if Obama sticks to his promise about not raising taxes by a single cent for the bottom 95% of income earners, he should veto this bill.
Or, you could make the buyer responsible for local taxes - maybe through reporting all mail order / internet sales to the government along with descriptions of what is bought since some locales don't tax food or prescription items.
It's call the Use Tax, most states have them.
If any Federal Law passes, then the states should repeal their Use Tax laws otherwise citizens in the states could very well end up double taxed for products, by the law.
if Microsoft can command that price and have people pay it, what's wrong with that? It's just economics: things are worth only what people will pay for them.
I am dubious as whether even in an electricity -> heat -> electricity situation they can say they are creating X megawatts. Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to say "save X megawatts"?
You have to keep in mind, I was writing that response specifically to the author's point of view. Of course this wouldn't be/. if people paid attention to context.
When he says "I started getting bored of having to go days waiting for a decent group for an instance." that means he wasn't playing with friends, or he didn't have high level friends to help him out. With the changes Bliz made to xp to level and the amount of xp rewarded by low level quests, the only way running instances is faster experience is when you have a high level person power level you through the instance over and over. It is not fun sitting around looking for an instance group. When you're in that situation, meaning leveling without friends, the only reason to do an instance is to complete a quest for a very nice item, and get some decent loot.
1. Getting from 1-80 without instances is not hard at all. 2. Blizzard made it easier to get from 1-60 (I think), by reducing the exp required per level. 3. Instances are a boring way to level up, compared to questing. 4. There's more quests in the game than it takes to get leveled up. For example, you could easily hit level 70 in Outlands after doing Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, Terrokar Forest, Nagrand, and a little bit of Blades Edge Mountains. That leaves the rest of Blades Edge Mountains, Shadowmoon Valley, and Netherstorm to get quests where you got more gold rewards for quests. In Northrend you could hit 80 easily by the time you've done Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul'drak, Scholazar Basin, and if you're a bit unlucky a little in Storm Peaks. Either way you'll have most of Storm Peaks and all of Icecrown to get gold from quests. 5. Lv60 and Lv70 raids aren't done frequently. The people that do them frequently either do them with a small elite group of players because they're looking for specific stuff (Elementium Ore from BWL, Bindings from MC), or they do it with high level characters because they don't want to be carrying people. 6. Instances are fine to find, the problem is that some instances are quicker and have better equipment and people generally drift towards those instances. You can almost always find Scarlet Monestary groups horde side, but trying to find a group for Sunken Temple or Blackfathom Depths is near impossible. 7. If you were a low level when BC started there should have been numerous new low level characters, tons of Draenei alliance side and a tons of blood elves horde side. I smell BS there.
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In D&D rainy weather doesn't affect spells, and I don't recall anything about rainy weather causing fire elementals to burn any cooler. Typically natural weather doesn't affect the magical or supernatural.
Loopholes are just special interests crying for a subsidy. They should have lobbied for lower taxes for everyone, instead of obscure exceptions. Then their whining about taxes would have some legitimacy. Right now, they sound about as legitimate as bankers.
As if the legislation would actually uniformly cut taxes. Hah, that's a joke. As long as government seeks to be the solution to every problem that will never happen, even if lower taxes raises revenue.
It's a loophole in the same sense that your mortgage tax deduction is a loophole. Every single one of these tax "loopholes" is written into the tax code. The usage of the word loophole is just designed to bring an automatic negative connotation to what the companies are doing. Frankly, I don't care that the companies are using whatever advantages written into the tax code that they can.
Some will say that the companies lobbied for the deductions. So what? The companies don't write the law, the legislature does. These "loopholes" are the result of Congresscritters that lack the moral fortitude to do the job the voters elected them to do. Chances are many of the current critters were in Congress when these "loopholes" were written.
Well, here in the US (and I would assume in other parts of the world as well), we have a nerd subculture whose members are called "Japanophiles."
I think the proper term is 'Otaku'.
You're right that if copyright infringement is wrong, something like bugs at launch don't suddenly override this. However, if one doesn't believe copyright should even exist, then nitpicks like this have more force.
If one doesn't believe copyright should even exist, then one should not participate within the society that has copyright. To be a part of society, you essentially agree to abide by the laws that society establishes. There is never a legitimate justification for breaking/ignoring laws, until such a time where you're seeking to overthrow your government.
And the article seems to indicate that the treatment was done with adult stem cells.
Dr. Hu - "In 2004, after three years of clinical studies observing more than 100 cases, I decided to build a company to supply and work on safe adult stem cells."
Dr. Hu - "As of February 2009, Beike has treated over 5,087 patients with cord blood stem cell injections"
Dr. Hu - "After all these years of observation and practice, I consider adult stem cell-based therapy to be safe."
Dr. Hu - "We will set the standard and criteria for R&D in developing adult stem cells and iPS."
Dr. Hu - "The adult stem cells we use are safe."
Dr. Hu's only mention of embryonic stem cells is the following....
Dr. Hu - "I think Geron's FDA clearance to begin the world's first human clinical trial of embryonic stem cell-based therapy is great news for the entire stem cell industry. More competition is inevitable."
The significance here is that China doesn't have the same restrictions regarding human testing that the US does. They've jumped into it faster, and Dr. Hu has been using adult stem cells rather than embryonic. According to this article, the only negative side effect to having an embryonic stem cell ban is that it reduces competition.
You can't take a single sound byte of Rush and be able to interpret his meaning from it, but that's what people like to do. They'll take a single statement, ignore the rest of his monologue which either leads up to or follows up on that statement and blow it out of context. Rush's transcripts are available on his website WITHOUT a membership. Go look them up.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011609/content/01125113.guest.html
So spending related powers of Congress....
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; (Note that this is retaining to copyright, not funding research)
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
So basically, what spending breaks down to is.....
Debts, Military Spending, Welfare of the United States (Whatever that means), Post Offices and Post Roads, Money spent towards armies but no more than 2 years at once, the navy, militia, and strategic buildings.
We'll set debts aside. So that leaves 4 of the remaining six topics for spending directly related to military functions. Welfare of the United States I would break down to national infrastructure, like power lines, communications and roads. Even so, all that infrastructure is of use to the military, so I'm going to give 5/6 spending military related.
So pretty much national spending should be military, national infrastructure, and postal. So why don't we start by cutting out all those unconstitutional federal welfare programs?
This is exactly my theory. We recently moved our corporate headquarters and servers. One of the servers had a bad cable. The IT guy there didn't have a cable long enough so he went out to buy one. I understand why he wants to buy one. It looks more professional on a fresh cable farm than using a self made, but he could have gotten the self-made cable in sooner bring the server back on line right away.
When will you 360 owners realize that MGS4 is not coming out for the 360?
No, Star Paladin Cross does not go in. You're thinking of Sentinel Lyons, who is not one of your companions.
You mean like the microwave hallway ending to MGS4? I don't think you can die in there. I should play through the game again to see if you can.
Super Mutants are just resistant to radiation. Ghouls are resistant and healed by it.
So let's look at all your companion, Fawkes is a Super Muttie and highly resistant to radiation, Sergeant RL-3 is a robot and unaffected by it. Charon is a ghoul and healed by it. Butch, Star Paladin Cross, and Jericho are all humans and reasonably so would not be willing to die. Clover is also a human and would die, but she has a slave collar so she should listen to your orders. Also, I like dogs too much to try to get Dogmeat to do it.
Fawkes: I'm sorry, my companion, but no. We all have our own destinies, and yours culminates here. I would not rob you of that.
Sergeant RL-3: Soldier, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. This is your fight! You gotta finish what your daddy started! Stand strong and get your ass in there!
Charon: You and I both know that's not going to happen. I've saved your sorry ass enough. This one's all you.
Butch: That chamber? Right there? With all the radiation? Man, no way. I'll end up dead. Or worse. I could be one of them Ghouls! Ain't gonna happen.
Star Paladin Cross: My friend... It's been my pleasure accompanying you, but we both know this is your fight to finish. Stay strong, and honor your father's memory.
Clover: Honey, you are out of your mind if you think I'm going in there. Find yourself another guinea pig.
Jericho: Fuck that. Do your own dirty work.
Fallout 2 much?
This was my take on the ending....
The chamber is filled with radiation, oh noes!
I equip an advanced radiation suit and pop a Rad-X. Wewt I have 85% rad resist.
I go into the chamber, I'm taking in about 2-3 rads/sec. Cool, that gives me about 5.5 minutes without using any Radaway. I go in, it takes me about 30 seconds to enter the code and start project purity.
Oh no, I'm passing out from radiation. WTF? I have 4.5-5 minutes left before I DIE from radiation poisoning, and I haven't even suffered the first level of radiation poisoning. I'm incapable of taking the 10 seconds to turn around an walk back into the airlock so I can escape the chamber? WTF?
Obama has been insistent that those making less than 250K will pay less taxes.
Already lied about that one with the raise in the tobacco tax.
I prefer the parallel to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. There's no little ways to practice civil disobedience of copyright laws.. if you want to stand up and be counted you've gotta get the attention of big media, and that means sweeping acts like the Pirate Bay. These guys are heroes. They're putting their asses on the line for our right to copy - may it be equal to everyone else's - end copyright now.
Except that they didn't get the attention of big media. Aside from online techie sites like /., this news isn't going to reach Joe Q. Public.
According to Indiana's Use Tax.
Tangible personal property, purchased in Indiana, or elsewhere in a retail transaction, and stored, used, or otherwise
consumed in Indiana is subject to Indiana use tax for such property, unless the Indiana state gross retail tax has been collected at the point of purchase.
Currently if I buy a product in Ohio and bring it to Indiana, I'm subject to paying both the Ohio Sales Tax and Indiana Use Tax. If I buy a product online, I'm only subject to pay Indiana Use Tax. This law would only negate the Indiana Use Tax for online purchases if the sales taxes I'm paying are paid to Indiana. Otherwise I would be liable for the Indiana Use Tax and the Online Sales Tax.
The states should just be honest about what they want. They want to force their citizens to pay their Use Taxes. Though, if Obama sticks to his promise about not raising taxes by a single cent for the bottom 95% of income earners, he should veto this bill.
Or, you could make the buyer responsible for local taxes - maybe through reporting all mail order / internet sales to the government along with descriptions of what is bought since some locales don't tax food or prescription items.
It's call the Use Tax, most states have them.
If any Federal Law passes, then the states should repeal their Use Tax laws otherwise citizens in the states could very well end up double taxed for products, by the law.
if Microsoft can command that price and have people pay it, what's wrong with that? It's just economics: things are worth only what people will pay for them.
Look what I did there.
I am dubious as whether even in an electricity -> heat -> electricity situation they can say they are creating X megawatts. Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to say "save X megawatts"?
You have to keep in mind, I was writing that response specifically to the author's point of view. Of course this wouldn't be /. if people paid attention to context.
When he says "I started getting bored of having to go days waiting for a decent group for an instance." that means he wasn't playing with friends, or he didn't have high level friends to help him out. With the changes Bliz made to xp to level and the amount of xp rewarded by low level quests, the only way running instances is faster experience is when you have a high level person power level you through the instance over and over. It is not fun sitting around looking for an instance group. When you're in that situation, meaning leveling without friends, the only reason to do an instance is to complete a quest for a very nice item, and get some decent loot.
I will never let you onto B.O.M.B. 001.
I'm pretty sure Tiamat lives on the 1st level of Baator.
1. Getting from 1-80 without instances is not hard at all.
2. Blizzard made it easier to get from 1-60 (I think), by reducing the exp required per level.
3. Instances are a boring way to level up, compared to questing.
4. There's more quests in the game than it takes to get leveled up. For example, you could easily hit level 70 in Outlands after doing Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, Terrokar Forest, Nagrand, and a little bit of Blades Edge Mountains. That leaves the rest of Blades Edge Mountains, Shadowmoon Valley, and Netherstorm to get quests where you got more gold rewards for quests. In Northrend you could hit 80 easily by the time you've done Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Zul'drak, Scholazar Basin, and if you're a bit unlucky a little in Storm Peaks. Either way you'll have most of Storm Peaks and all of Icecrown to get gold from quests.
5. Lv60 and Lv70 raids aren't done frequently. The people that do them frequently either do them with a small elite group of players because they're looking for specific stuff (Elementium Ore from BWL, Bindings from MC), or they do it with high level characters because they don't want to be carrying people.
6. Instances are fine to find, the problem is that some instances are quicker and have better equipment and people generally drift towards those instances. You can almost always find Scarlet Monestary groups horde side, but trying to find a group for Sunken Temple or Blackfathom Depths is near impossible.
7. If you were a low level when BC started there should have been numerous new low level characters, tons of Draenei alliance side and a tons of blood elves horde side. I smell BS there.