Has he converted his home/laptop computer to an SSD? Get him an Intel 160 to 256 gig SSD, with the install kit. It makes a large difference - but, only if he does not have one.
They need to impose an interstate commerce tax. This tax will be made up of three components. One is 33.3% of the tax rate of the ship to state, and the other is 33.3% of the tax rate of the shipped from state and the third is the federal tax, which is set at 3%. All states will have a single number (none of these city extra sales taxes). This interstate tax will mean each state gets tax coming and going. Sales within the state are taxed in the normal state way. The feds will collect this tax and remit each states share quarterly for most and monthly for high volume sellers. States that have no sales taxes, will not get $$ in this plan. States will then get money on all sales into and out of their state. Currently they get only what is sold in the state by in-state vendors, and nothing externally, and they get little for items sold into the state - except for things like cars which get registered.
So it will give money to each state and the feds and will acts as a leveling agent, which is needed.
We knew what we were doing, some teachers are smarter than others. Early in your career, your wages are quite low. Teachers have an incremented scale, with years of service and acquired teaching skills both allowing movement up the grid and across it. Both motions are in the direction of increased salary. Those low on both grids are the keenest - obviously. I almost peaked out on both grids, being an engineer and having a masters - PhD would get more, but the time to get a PhD by taking a leave and returning was a lower, in retrospect, getting the PhD right after the MaSc would have given me a higher present peak, but after being in school for 6 years, I was daunted at 2-3? more for the PhD and I opted for a high start in industry. 10 years later, my industry got lean, there were layoffs in production and shrinkage in engineering staff, and I took the year in teachers college and with industry credits and education credits, I started high on both grids, so I was contented compared to industry. Family etc also change your perspective. Working in a militant union work place made the teachers milieu normal. As time went by, I came to see that the system inputs to teaching, being the tax base, and the costs of salaries and pensions coupled with the lower birth rate had made a toxic spiral. Many have done the math. Many cities are financially ruined as they gave too much in wages and pensions to too many people for their tax base to support. The unions own accountants know this, they want divine rescue (government = liberals and democrats). The mass of the people do not want to save this small elite group with increased taxes and never ending wage demands when they themselves do not have wages as good or pensions as good as the complainers. It is not hard to do the math. Do not blind yourself to reality. Look at the stupid Greeks, rioting in the streets will not work. Change their politicians and tax those who have evaded taxes as well as reform = the only way. The USA is on that same slippery slope, but not as steep as the Greeks and Spaniards, so we have time to change. We need to change.
Read with more care. I am describing changes over my lifetime. When I was young, the teachers did all these things. Then you get automatic cost of living increases called COLA, and add 2-3% annual increase and add benefits and pensions, and restrictive work rules so teachers could not do those tasks. The socialists wanted extra bodies for those, and there was not enough 44. They have broken the system, it now cannot be sustained. There is not now, nor will there ever be enough money to pay all the underfunded pensions of state, federal and civic employees - even if you take 100% of the wages from the other workers it is not enough, just do the math. We are going the way Greece and Spain went - but 10-15 years behind them - unless we change and fire all those workers (Reagan/Thatcher style) or force them to reduce wages and pensions to sustainable levels. Part of this is the lower birth rate boomer problem, but it is real. And guess what - I am a retired teacher, and I recall how we asked for COLA and 2-3% extra plus benefits, and we packed the school boards with supporters who approved these increases and we went after the common man via property taxes. It looked good, but then the reduction in birth rate ruined this scheme. So we need to change it, or all levels of government will go bankrupt and the judges will toss out the high wages and high pensions and force reality upon us.
There has been a change in the degree of supervision in schools from when I was in grade 4 in 1948. At that time we had separate boys and girls playgrounds, each of which had a teacher on duty. There were no hidden corners for bullying. The walk-in and walk-out halls had teachers in them. Bullying was at a low level in school. After school there was bullying, but it was avoidable in the diaspora of kids going home. I then went to high school. Teachers were present in all halls and stairwells at room change and in recess. Recess was co-ed and there were 2 teachers present. Lunch time was also supervised on school, and there were opportunities off-school at lunch and going home for bullying, but the level was low. Fast forward to 2010, ignoring cyber bullying, I see more bullying within high schools due to the lower level of teachers present in stairwells and halls. I can only attribute this to unions changing work rules and salaries so that it became too costly to use these staff that way, and in addition, they gained the right to avoid duty in the halls as a bargaining point, preferring the teachers lounge or outdoors for a short trip by car using the frequent single and double period gaps introduced by the new work rules. Cyber-bullying can only be prevented by an online overseer of all student communications via the internet or by text. All players would be known in full. No pen names or avatars for the school web. The internet would also need parental supervision so that a similar level of known communicants can be enforced there as well. Horrors, what's this? Loss of freedom? Perhaps it could be like a drivers license, learner period until 16, then wide open? This is where new ground needs to be made. None now know the lack of rules that governed drivers and cars back in 1900 when they first came in. The internet is now in that stage where it must progress from the wild west to a better governed society, and that may result in curbs to freedom.
Benefit the artist directly, as in you buy a song and the artist get a portion? None of the established music publishers, none on itunes - unless it is an artist submitted track - wherein he gets the $$, less the itunes bite. That is not to say the established music publishers do not pay their artists, they usually do, via various mechanisms - just not a direct slice from each download. So find stuff listed by the artist, and buy those. In time the traditional publishers will fade away and all manner of created work, books, music, pictures, will involve direct purchase from the srtist via online purchase. There may be an online portal, like Amazon or itunes, but the artist will get the lion's share of the revenue. Now they get the mouses share - just a nibble.
A well run bluff, one that avoids the regulators, but makes AT&T become more pliable, might be useful - they also hate the regulators, so upper manglement may well listen.
I think there is a chance it could be held to be under the purview of the weights and measures. What about those new WiFi electricity and water meters? I bet they are covered, and here we have a huge ses of people with a monthly measure of their bandwidth being done and for which a fee is charged and we already have evidence of crooked measures. Possibly the Attorney General will sniff an empire builder here?
If AT&T is dispensing a measured quantity of anything, and you feel you are being cheated, make a complaint to the state bureau that deals with this. Look on a gas station pump and you will be able to find them.
I expect they may not be doing this now, but a written complaint and their desire to build their empire may well cause the heavy hand of officialdom to descend on AT&T.
There are studies to do, standards to settle and matters to enforce and little stickers to put on all measuring points. AT&T will quake in their boots, run and hide?
The same tech that jams cellular data, also jams tweets, and the same faraday cage shielding that blocks radio transmission also blocks tweets. Shielding is passive, and can easily be done as they build a covered arena. An open arena can be shielded by the height of the faraday walls, since cellular is line of sight. Jamming is probably illegal, but cheaper, but may be legal in your own closed space (the Arena)
How will people like no cell coverage inside arenas? No tweets? Will people actually welcome the effect? Doctors on call?
It is a high end pedometer, that you can link to friends, total stairs climbed etc, quite good actually. Operates on low power wifi as well as a charging dock, runs for 7-10 days between charges.
Well, they pissed on the judge once, and he was a little pissed-on, now they have pissed on him twice, so I expect him to tell Apple to place a large banner right up front and on top, and to use a visible type face...
Right now we gather about 20% of the suns energy, so if we had large solar banks making electricity that was used to power hydrogen generation, the resultant hydrogen being stored in hydrides or as liquid H2 in super-insulated hydrogen tanks, with which we run turbo-jets with the atmospheric oxygen. The Oxygen from the earlier electrolysis we sell locally. If we had high efficiency fuel cells and high power electric motors we MAY be able to make that work after 20 years of research As it sits, 20% is too low an efficiency. If we could get it up to 40% through various stratagems and research, we would cut the hydrogen cost greatly. The super insulated fuel tanks also need to be lighter as well. They are heavy now, but not as heavy as compressed hydrogen gas tanks would be. Liquid = lots cheaper. This would be indirect solar powered airflight.
With direct solar power = no hope with heavier than air. The fragile demonstrators are almost useless for real cargo or passenger use. Zeppelins can work, but have restrictions on the air they can fly through - they are quite fragile, but even zeppelins are marginal even at 40% solar cells (we are now maxed out at ~~34% on the best cells)
Yes, anyone with any awareness of e-mail addresses knows that if the name you want is taken, you make a variant.
I expect teacherdan was taken, so he used teachrdan. I would not have used that, because too many people would correct it and send to teacherdan, but links work as they should.
The whole hearing aid racket is enabled by FDA approval processes that provide a very high "barrier to entry", by that I mean that if you invented a hearing aid that cost $1 to make you could not sell it until you had gone through the arcane FDA approval process. This process is supposed to protect us all from bad things happening to our ears. It does prevent those bad things. Another barrier to entry is the network of professional audiologists who have no interest in selling you a $1 hearing aid, but are happy to sell you a $1 hearing aid for $1600. The current situation in hearing aid sales is the low cost hearing aid on the market probably cost under $25 to mass produce. You load the compensation curve of gain versus frequency into the built in ROM and sell it for that $1600. The maker might sell it to you for $600. Find another maker?? Good luck the barrier to entry might cost $2 million for all the tests and approvals. So you sell a million, that is only $2 each.
The ones used in China are perfectly good and you can get the ones with the programmed roms for $50 or so, plus the cost of the audiologist making your gain versus frequency curve. US audiologists can probably make you the curve for $50 of test time, but they would prefer to sell the $1600 device, so avoid telling them. Just says you want the curve. Now where to buy the hearing aid? Buy on Ebay and look for high + feedback
The muslims need a reformation and this desensitization is the thin edge of the wedge, more and more desensitization and you get a creeping reformation. This suppression of education is very bad for the muslims, already they can not keep up in science - yer prior to islam the Arabs were leaders in science and mathematics. Algebra - google it. The teachings of Malthus will harvest many muslims if they do not smarten up. They will overpopulate their areas and few other countries will admit millions of illiterate muslims - already there is push-back in Europe.
These cheap routers are charged with an initial stock of electrons, and the processes that use them gradually erode them, wearing them to tiny nubs of their original brilliance. Much like memory leakage, this process can be controlled, but not eliminated. In addition, this process is irreversible and contributes to the soon coming heat death of the Universe...
The online offshore pharmacies are shipping their pills in flat packs that fit into letter-mail and have hand written addresses and mailing them first class mail. Most arrive OK, but it is only suitable for pills with one thin dimension - in time they will be able to get them made very thin. The big drug makers are trying all ways to block the business of selling real viagra, sold in India for 40 cents per pile - in line with wages, and sold for $10-20 in the USA. The actual pills may well cost only 2-3 cents in bulk. These huge cash cows are protected fiercely
What is the name of that strange beast that runs in ever decreasing circles until it runs up it's own backside, from which safe retreat it hurls abuse and calumny upon it's enemies...Is it a French beast?
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Has he converted his home/laptop computer to an SSD? Get him an Intel 160 to 256 gig SSD, with the install kit. It makes a large difference - but, only if he does not have one.
That would lead to a game of musical chairs with continuances.
No the simple tax as I state is both fair and unavoidable.
They need to impose an interstate commerce tax. This tax will be made up of three components. One is 33.3% of the tax rate of the ship to state, and the other is 33.3% of the tax rate of the shipped from state and the third is the federal tax, which is set at 3%. All states will have a single number (none of these city extra sales taxes). This interstate tax will mean each state gets tax coming and going. Sales within the state are taxed in the normal state way. The feds will collect this tax and remit each states share quarterly for most and monthly for high volume sellers.
States that have no sales taxes, will not get $$ in this plan.
States will then get money on all sales into and out of their state. Currently they get only what is sold in the state by in-state vendors, and nothing externally, and they get little for items sold into the state - except for things like cars which get registered.
So it will give money to each state and the feds and will acts as a leveling agent, which is needed.
We knew what we were doing, some teachers are smarter than others. Early in your career, your wages are quite low. Teachers have an incremented scale, with years of service and acquired teaching skills both allowing movement up the grid and across it. Both motions are in the direction of increased salary.
Those low on both grids are the keenest - obviously. I almost peaked out on both grids, being an engineer and having a masters - PhD would get more, but the time to get a PhD by taking a leave and returning was a lower, in retrospect, getting the PhD right after the MaSc would have given me a higher present peak, but after being in school for 6 years, I was daunted at 2-3? more for the PhD and I opted for a high start in industry. 10 years later, my industry got lean, there were layoffs in production and shrinkage in engineering staff, and I took the year in teachers college and with industry credits and education credits, I started high on both grids, so I was contented compared to industry. Family etc also change your perspective. Working in a militant union work place made the teachers milieu normal. As time went by, I came to see that the system inputs to teaching, being the tax base, and the costs of salaries and pensions coupled with the lower birth rate had made a toxic spiral. Many have done the math. Many cities are financially ruined as they gave too much in wages and pensions to too many people for their tax base to support. The unions own accountants know this, they want divine rescue (government = liberals and democrats). The mass of the people do not want to save this small elite group with increased taxes and never ending wage demands when they themselves do not have wages as good or pensions as good as the complainers. It is not hard to do the math. Do not blind yourself to reality. Look at the stupid Greeks, rioting in the streets will not work. Change their politicians and tax those who have evaded taxes as well as reform = the only way. The USA is on that same slippery slope, but not as steep as the Greeks and Spaniards, so we have time to change. We need to change.
Read with more care. I am describing changes over my lifetime. When I was young, the teachers did all these things. Then you get automatic cost of living increases
called COLA, and add 2-3% annual increase and add benefits and pensions, and restrictive work rules so teachers could not do those tasks. The socialists wanted extra bodies for those, and there was not enough 44. They have broken the system, it now cannot be sustained. There is not now, nor will there ever be enough money to pay all the underfunded pensions of state, federal and civic employees - even if you take 100% of the wages from the other workers it is not enough, just do the math. We are going the way Greece and Spain went - but 10-15 years behind them - unless we change and fire all those workers (Reagan/Thatcher style) or force them to reduce wages and pensions to sustainable levels. Part of this is the lower birth rate boomer problem, but it is real. And guess what - I am a retired teacher, and I recall how we asked for COLA and 2-3% extra plus benefits, and we packed the school boards with supporters who approved these increases and we went after the common man via property taxes. It looked good, but then the reduction in birth rate ruined this scheme.
So we need to change it, or all levels of government will go bankrupt and the judges will toss out the high wages and high pensions and force reality upon us.
There has been a change in the degree of supervision in schools from when I was in grade 4 in 1948. At that time we had separate boys and girls playgrounds, each of which had a teacher on duty. There were no hidden corners for bullying. The walk-in and walk-out halls had teachers in them. Bullying was at a low level in school. After school there was bullying, but it was avoidable in the diaspora of kids going home. I then went to high school. Teachers were present in all halls and stairwells at room change and in recess. Recess was co-ed and there were 2 teachers present. Lunch time was also supervised on school, and there were opportunities off-school at lunch and going home for bullying, but the level was low.
Fast forward to 2010, ignoring cyber bullying, I see more bullying within high schools due to the lower level of teachers present in stairwells and halls. I can only attribute this to unions changing work rules and salaries so that it became too costly to use these staff that way, and in addition, they gained the right to avoid duty in the halls as a bargaining point, preferring the teachers lounge or outdoors for a short trip by car using the frequent single and double period gaps introduced by the new work rules.
Cyber-bullying can only be prevented by an online overseer of all student communications via the internet or by text. All players would be known in full. No pen names or avatars for the school web. The internet would also need parental supervision so that a similar level of known communicants can be enforced there as well. Horrors, what's this? Loss of freedom? Perhaps it could be like a drivers license, learner period until 16, then wide open?
This is where new ground needs to be made. None now know the lack of rules that governed drivers and cars back in 1900 when they first came in. The internet is now in that stage where it must progress from the wild west to a better governed society, and that may result in curbs to freedom.
OK, Bytes and nybbles downloaded, micropayment time
Benefit the artist directly, as in you buy a song and the artist get a portion? None of the established music publishers, none on itunes - unless it is an artist submitted track - wherein he gets the $$, less the itunes bite. That is not to say the established music publishers do not pay their artists, they usually do, via various mechanisms - just not a direct slice from each download.
So find stuff listed by the artist, and buy those. In time the traditional publishers will fade away and all manner of created work, books, music, pictures, will involve direct purchase from the srtist via online purchase. There may be an online portal, like Amazon or itunes, but the artist will get the lion's share of the revenue. Now they get the mouses share - just a nibble.
A well run bluff, one that avoids the regulators, but makes AT&T become more pliable, might be useful - they also hate the regulators, so upper manglement may well listen.
I think there is a chance it could be held to be under the purview of the weights and measures. What about those new WiFi electricity and water meters? I bet they are covered, and here we have a huge ses of people with a monthly measure of their bandwidth being done and for which a fee is charged and we already have evidence of crooked measures. Possibly the Attorney General will sniff an empire builder here?
If AT&T is dispensing a measured quantity of anything, and you feel you are being cheated, make a complaint to the state bureau that deals with this. Look on a gas station pump and you will be able to find them.
I expect they may not be doing this now, but a written complaint and their desire to build their empire may well cause the heavy hand of officialdom to descend on AT&T.
There are studies to do, standards to settle and matters to enforce and little stickers to put on all measuring points. AT&T will quake in their boots, run and hide?
The same tech that jams cellular data, also jams tweets, and the same faraday cage shielding that blocks radio transmission also blocks tweets.
Shielding is passive, and can easily be done as they build a covered arena. An open arena can be shielded by the height of the faraday walls, since cellular is line of sight. Jamming is probably illegal, but cheaper, but may be legal in your own closed space (the Arena)
How will people like no cell coverage inside arenas? No tweets? Will people actually welcome the effect? Doctors on call?
It is a high end pedometer, that you can link to friends, total stairs climbed etc, quite good actually. Operates on low power wifi as well as a charging dock, runs for 7-10 days between charges.
Best you read about it here. http://www.fitbit.com/home
Well, they pissed on the judge once, and he was a little pissed-on, now they have pissed on him twice, so I expect him to tell Apple to place a large banner right up front and on top, and to use a visible type face...
Right now we gather about 20% of the suns energy, so if we had large solar banks making electricity that was used to power hydrogen generation, the resultant hydrogen being stored in hydrides or as liquid H2 in super-insulated hydrogen tanks, with which we run turbo-jets with the atmospheric oxygen. The Oxygen from the earlier electrolysis we sell locally. If we had high efficiency fuel cells and high power electric motors we MAY be able to make that work after 20 years of research
As it sits, 20% is too low an efficiency. If we could get it up to 40% through various stratagems and research, we would cut the hydrogen cost greatly.
The super insulated fuel tanks also need to be lighter as well. They are heavy now, but not as heavy as compressed hydrogen gas tanks would be. Liquid = lots cheaper.
This would be indirect solar powered airflight.
With direct solar power = no hope with heavier than air. The fragile demonstrators are almost useless for real cargo or passenger use. Zeppelins can work, but have restrictions on the air they can fly through - they are quite fragile, but even zeppelins are marginal even at 40% solar cells (we are now maxed out at ~~34% on the best cells)
Will amazo cede you any right to determine the end price?
and Amazon also wants a huge cut
Yes, anyone with any awareness of e-mail addresses knows that if the name you want is taken, you make a variant.
I expect teacherdan was taken, so he used teachrdan.
I would not have used that, because too many people would correct it and send to teacherdan, but links work as they should.
The shape of the ear allows for directionality.
You can buy bifocals for $200 or so online.
The whole hearing aid racket is enabled by FDA approval processes that provide a very high "barrier to entry", by that I mean that if you invented a hearing aid that cost $1 to make you could not sell it until you had gone through the arcane FDA approval process. This process is supposed to protect us all from bad things happening to our ears. It does prevent those bad things. Another barrier to entry is the network of professional audiologists who have no interest in selling you a $1 hearing aid, but are happy to sell you a $1 hearing aid for $1600.
The current situation in hearing aid sales is the low cost hearing aid on the market probably cost under $25 to mass produce. You load the compensation curve of gain versus frequency into the built in ROM and sell it for that $1600. The maker might sell it to you for $600. Find another maker?? Good luck the barrier to entry might cost $2 million for all the tests and approvals. So you sell a million, that is only $2 each.
The ones used in China are perfectly good and you can get the ones with the programmed roms for $50 or so, plus the cost of the audiologist making your gain versus frequency curve. US audiologists can probably make you the curve for $50 of test time, but they would prefer to sell the $1600 device, so avoid telling them. Just says you want the curve. Now where to buy the hearing aid? Buy on Ebay and look for high + feedback
The muslims need a reformation and this desensitization is the thin edge of the wedge, more and more desensitization and you get a creeping reformation. This suppression of education is very bad for the muslims, already they can not keep up in science - yer prior to islam the Arabs were leaders in science and mathematics. Algebra - google it.
The teachings of Malthus will harvest many muslims if they do not smarten up. They will overpopulate their areas and few other countries will admit millions of illiterate muslims - already there is push-back in Europe.
These cheap routers are charged with an initial stock of electrons, and the processes that use them gradually erode them, wearing them to tiny nubs of their original brilliance. Much like memory leakage, this process can be controlled, but not eliminated. In addition, this process is irreversible and contributes to the soon coming heat death of the Universe...
The online offshore pharmacies are shipping their pills in flat packs that fit into letter-mail and have hand written addresses and mailing them first class mail. Most arrive OK, but it is only suitable for pills with one thin dimension - in time they will be able to get them made very thin.
The big drug makers are trying all ways to block the business of selling real viagra, sold in India for 40 cents per pile - in line with wages, and sold for $10-20 in the USA. The actual pills may well cost only 2-3 cents in bulk. These huge cash cows are protected fiercely
These guys are shooting their own feet off
First the left and then the right, some do it the other way around.
Google should remove them ASAP and charge them a fee to re-index them...
What is the name of that strange beast that runs in ever decreasing circles until it runs up it's own backside, from which safe retreat it hurls abuse and calumny upon it's enemies...Is it a French beast?
Yes, true, steady improvements until totally worthless