GP said it was the political branch of the Internet. You are not the Internet (this should have been obvious when I quoted the definition of Internet for you). Therefore, the statement cannot be construed to represent anyone. Nor can it be construed to suggest that random people are members of a political party.
Meanwhile, the Pirate Party includes non-commercial sharing as a principle, not copyright infringement. Copyright infringement and non-commercial sharing are in fact no more related than the personal use of social security numbers and identity fraud.
The Pirate Party is a political party in the country of Sweden whose goal is to promote free speech in all forms. The internet is simply one method of distributing such free speech. No one, at any time, has ever seriously made the argument that anything represents the Internet as a whole, mostly due to the definition of Internet (a computer network that links computer networks through a series of communication protocols, such as TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, etc).
By the way, parent claimed that the Pirate Party is a political branch of the internet (which it isn't, it is a Swedish political party), your personal political choices have nothing to do with whether or not that is a true statement. I do not understand why you dislike the methods and motives used by this political party when its motives are to promote free speech and its methods are to follow the Swedish constitution in Sweden. What do you disagree with?
Small merchants file for a business license every year anyway, its not like a federal listing of local taxation policy couldn't/doesn't exist based on zip code.
The real question is not how to get Joe Mechanic to file his taxes (its pretty easy to get done with $20 worth of tax software on a $100 netbook), but rather determining why Jane Doe (who lives in Santa Monica) pays California taxes on a product she buy from Amazon when the product is manufactured in China, assembled in Texas, and shipped to her mother in New York.
And yet this state action simply requires parents to make decisions regarding their child's internet usage (it's China, there is only one kid:)) by holding the parents responsible for inappropriate use. Its not like a parent can't set up an account, link a credit card, and let their kids play on it.
The legislation prohibiting content advocating superstition is a bit absurd considering that China is full of superstition. New Year is entirely based on superstition (firecrackers are set off to scare off the old year and welcome the new one), where all doors and windows must be open at midnight to allow the old year to escape. The number 4 is considered to be the unluckiest number because it is similiar to the chines word for death, whereas the number 8 is lucky because it sounds like prosper. The number of steps in a staircase is supposed to be even-numbered. It is bad luck for a door to directly face a road. The deceased's children and grandchildren should not cut their hair for 49 days. Owning a pet turtle is thought to slow your business. Over 85% of Chinese middle school students have their fortune read.
Yes, if you use taxpayer funded educational internet access for personal use, the school (or overseeing body, say a city council) has the right to decide how you can use the network. They absolutely have the right to read it before, during, or after you post it. If you want to send a private letter, spend 44 cents and mail it.
You're not worried about whether the railroads continue to provide good service to their customers, because that's not part of the game
Actually it is part of the game. If you own all of the railroads, it costs more to "use" them individually than if 4 different players each own one. Same with utilities or any property monopoly.
My ex-employer is self-insured (They use a billing specialist, medical uses get sent to the billing specialist, who gets paid a flat rate per employee plus actual billings, however I do not know what this rate is). I live in the southern US.
Your best method of reducing your health plan costs is to have an enormous install base (>100,000 employees) and get providers to kick in for health initiatives (fill out personal information such as work out history, get a $25 credit, join the company gym and attend a certain number of fitness classes, get the gym membership for free, sign a no smoking pledge, get a credit type deal). Unhealthy employees pay considerably more, however health care is an opt-in (all employees are eligible, but if you do not want the company plan you are not required to receive it...generally the only people who choose not to get it are those who have other plans through spouses).
Healthcare in the US isn't close to 5 times as expensive if you are going to base that on your personal healthcare.
I pay $150 a month, full coverage, $20 copay for most issues, $50 copay for a specialist (x-rays, lab work, etc), full dental coverage (oddly enough x-rays included), $10 prescriptions delivered to my house (no waiting at a drugstore), $300 hospital stay (up to 30 days). This is on COBRA. When I was employed, it was around $55 a month.
Private insurance for someone my age and etc is less than $200 a month (your service level may vary, thats why you shop around and have competition for private insurance).
Of course, the article doesn't address your blatent lie because it isn't about the differences between US and European healthcare, but rather about why quality care is not uniform (the article is inaccurate, the problem is that many doctors are not good doctors and like any profession, the better doctors tend to charge more while actually helping their patients more effectively).
That's like bridging the gap between coffee and coke. It's like bridging the gap between whiskey and wine. You are only going to create some crap that no one likes.
You mean energy drinks and fruit flavored beer? The outcome really depends on the target market. As a whiskey drinker, sometimes I will have a strongbow, but I sure as hell don't want a bud light lime. If you try to appeal to too wide a market, you end up with a shit product that only morons like (those ridiculous stupid malt liquor energy drink combo things). If instead you create something that actually fits in a niche market, you can create something valuable that most of the market will come to occasionally, even if it isn't their first choice.
Along the same lines, grandma may enjoy caffeinated iced tea (its relatively weak but can still do the trick), but only twitchy mcfragerton is going to have redline. This doesn't mean that cappuccino drinks don't have a place in the market.
There are any number of small PCs to choose from if you don't care about "fancy video cards" or "gaming".
Infact, by discounting both of those use cases you've opened the field to competitors that I am sure you will try to claim are inferior (and do massive backpedalling in the process).
The real question is suitability for a particular set of requirements. With more diverse choices in non-Apple gear, you're much more likely to find something that is cheaper while still being perfectly suitable for the purpose. Playing games with tech specs ultimately doesn't matter.
While you can play games to find different specs at different cheaper price points, you can also find the equivalent and better specs at cheaper price points.
As long as you don't care about brand name (since you can put any software on any hardware except OSX, which requires a Mac), not Mac Mini is the correct choice.
And by "we" you mean "us who don't mind being off by a factor of 100 or so"?
Theres no -1 (wrong) moderation, but here, lmgtfy:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=petabyte+to+gigabyte&aq=f&aqi=h1g1g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CVz3Yeu0PTKvkBKX4Mdrq-ecKAAAAqgQFT9Bfe8k&fp=dfdf66882bd03aae
In Canada car ads often use imperial galons, but you may also see an American ad that uses US gallons. You have no way of knowing which the ad intended.
The easiest clue is to check and see if you are the US or Canada.
On the other hand, Canada does not use EPA standards in testing for mileage, so estimates can be way off regardless (the Pontiac wave, for example, is rated 49 highway in the US and 34 highway in Canada). While it is true that you may have no idea what the ad intends, its not because of the use of gallons vs strange Canadian units.
It can't be much simpler than parent wrote it, but I'll put it in 1st grade speak for you (I assume you understand that vehicles require gasoline to travel, and that gasoline is measured in gallons, and that distance traveled is measured in miles...if you don't understand these points, get off the internet).
With a 10 mpg car, you will take 10 gallons to travel 100 miles.
With a 20 mpg car, you will take 5 gallons to travel 100 miles.
With a 33 mpg car, you will take (approximately) 3.03 gallons to travel 100 miles.
Generally, when people drive vehicles, they have a destination in mind. Therefore, regardless of the vehicle chosen, the distance is the same. The higher mpg vehicle will use less gas, or compared to a lower mpg vehicle, it saves gas...
The dumber among us gain access to knowledge and become more ignorant (they previously did not know x, now they have ready access to learn x, yet now still don't know x and have more topics y and z of which they are now also ignorant), not dumberer.
This isn't an issue of breaking rules; it is an issue of creating words to convey meaning instead of using perfectly appropriate words that already are in common use and more appropriately covey such meaning without having to explain their definitions.
No, it just means that you are ignorant of the words ignorant and knowledgeable, which should be used instead of dumberer and cleverality, because they (ignorant and knowledgeable) already exist and are in common usage.
A bar tab identifies one patron with multiple purchases in advance to all be paid at some future period.
One click identifies the information related to a patron so that individual purchases can be made at any time, however those purchases must be paid for when ordered.
The idea of the bar tab has so much prior art it isn't funny. For obvious examples, see farmers, who buy seed, fertilizer, farming equipment, etc, every season and don't have to pay for it until they have earned the money to do so (however, if they can't pay for long enough, they can 'lose the farm'). Something being obvious, in and of itself, is not reason to disallow a patent (at least not according to the patent office).
The BMW 5 series weighs over 5000 lbs, whereas the average motorcycle weighs around 300. Granted, the german style gold wing motorcycle crashes in around 790, but there aren't that many heavy weight motorcycles in China.
Well, to be fair, Sam Adams Utopia (27% alcohol by volume) in 2009 was made by aging liquids in whiskey barrels for 16 years, so you aren't all that far off.
Not in reality. Actually clicking on the links clearly shows that she used google maps walking directions, which were in beta, and clearly warned that pedestrian paths may not exist. Regardless, when you see that the directions are taking you on a highway, you should have the common sense to not walk on it.
If blackberry directions didn't contain the same warning, the case is against, blackberry, not google, yet is still just as unjustified. There is no legal basis for lawsuit, and this case should be thrown out.
The fact that your taxes go to your state instead of federal doesn't make them disappear. The fact that you are selling your car out of state doesn't make sales tax disappear either.
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GP said it was the political branch of the Internet. You are not the Internet (this should have been obvious when I quoted the definition of Internet for you). Therefore, the statement cannot be construed to represent anyone. Nor can it be construed to suggest that random people are members of a political party.
Meanwhile, the Pirate Party includes non-commercial sharing as a principle, not copyright infringement. Copyright infringement and non-commercial sharing are in fact no more related than the personal use of social security numbers and identity fraud.
Since I can't mod you 'wtf,'
The Pirate Party is a political party in the country of Sweden whose goal is to promote free speech in all forms. The internet is simply one method of distributing such free speech. No one, at any time, has ever seriously made the argument that anything represents the Internet as a whole, mostly due to the definition of Internet (a computer network that links computer networks through a series of communication protocols, such as TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, etc).
By the way, parent claimed that the Pirate Party is a political branch of the internet (which it isn't, it is a Swedish political party), your personal political choices have nothing to do with whether or not that is a true statement. I do not understand why you dislike the methods and motives used by this political party when its motives are to promote free speech and its methods are to follow the Swedish constitution in Sweden. What do you disagree with?
Small merchants file for a business license every year anyway, its not like a federal listing of local taxation policy couldn't/doesn't exist based on zip code.
The real question is not how to get Joe Mechanic to file his taxes (its pretty easy to get done with $20 worth of tax software on a $100 netbook), but rather determining why Jane Doe (who lives in Santa Monica) pays California taxes on a product she buy from Amazon when the product is manufactured in China, assembled in Texas, and shipped to her mother in New York.
And yet this state action simply requires parents to make decisions regarding their child's internet usage (it's China, there is only one kid :)) by holding the parents responsible for inappropriate use. Its not like a parent can't set up an account, link a credit card, and let their kids play on it.
The legislation prohibiting content advocating superstition is a bit absurd considering that China is full of superstition. New Year is entirely based on superstition (firecrackers are set off to scare off the old year and welcome the new one), where all doors and windows must be open at midnight to allow the old year to escape. The number 4 is considered to be the unluckiest number because it is similiar to the chines word for death, whereas the number 8 is lucky because it sounds like prosper. The number of steps in a staircase is supposed to be even-numbered. It is bad luck for a door to directly face a road. The deceased's children and grandchildren should not cut their hair for 49 days. Owning a pet turtle is thought to slow your business. Over 85% of Chinese middle school students have their fortune read.
Yes, if you use taxpayer funded educational internet access for personal use, the school (or overseeing body, say a city council) has the right to decide how you can use the network. They absolutely have the right to read it before, during, or after you post it. If you want to send a private letter, spend 44 cents and mail it.
You're not worried about whether the railroads continue to provide good service to their customers, because that's not part of the game
Actually it is part of the game. If you own all of the railroads, it costs more to "use" them individually than if 4 different players each own one. Same with utilities or any property monopoly.
My ex-employer is self-insured (They use a billing specialist, medical uses get sent to the billing specialist, who gets paid a flat rate per employee plus actual billings, however I do not know what this rate is). I live in the southern US.
Your best method of reducing your health plan costs is to have an enormous install base (>100,000 employees) and get providers to kick in for health initiatives (fill out personal information such as work out history, get a $25 credit, join the company gym and attend a certain number of fitness classes, get the gym membership for free, sign a no smoking pledge, get a credit type deal). Unhealthy employees pay considerably more, however health care is an opt-in (all employees are eligible, but if you do not want the company plan you are not required to receive it...generally the only people who choose not to get it are those who have other plans through spouses).
Healthcare in the US isn't close to 5 times as expensive if you are going to base that on your personal healthcare.
I pay $150 a month, full coverage, $20 copay for most issues, $50 copay for a specialist (x-rays, lab work, etc), full dental coverage (oddly enough x-rays included), $10 prescriptions delivered to my house (no waiting at a drugstore), $300 hospital stay (up to 30 days). This is on COBRA. When I was employed, it was around $55 a month.
Private insurance for someone my age and etc is less than $200 a month (your service level may vary, thats why you shop around and have competition for private insurance).
Of course, the article doesn't address your blatent lie because it isn't about the differences between US and European healthcare, but rather about why quality care is not uniform (the article is inaccurate, the problem is that many doctors are not good doctors and like any profession, the better doctors tend to charge more while actually helping their patients more effectively).
That's like bridging the gap between coffee and coke. It's like bridging the gap between whiskey and wine. You are only going to create some crap that no one likes.
You mean energy drinks and fruit flavored beer? The outcome really depends on the target market. As a whiskey drinker, sometimes I will have a strongbow, but I sure as hell don't want a bud light lime. If you try to appeal to too wide a market, you end up with a shit product that only morons like (those ridiculous stupid malt liquor energy drink combo things). If instead you create something that actually fits in a niche market, you can create something valuable that most of the market will come to occasionally, even if it isn't their first choice.
Along the same lines, grandma may enjoy caffeinated iced tea (its relatively weak but can still do the trick), but only twitchy mcfragerton is going to have redline. This doesn't mean that cappuccino drinks don't have a place in the market.
There are any number of small PCs to choose from if you don't care about "fancy video cards" or "gaming".
Infact, by discounting both of those use cases you've opened the field to competitors that I am sure you will try to claim are inferior (and do massive backpedalling in the process).
The real question is suitability for a particular set of requirements. With more diverse choices in non-Apple gear, you're much more likely to find something that is cheaper while still being perfectly suitable for the purpose. Playing games with tech specs ultimately doesn't matter.
While you can play games to find different specs at different cheaper price points, you can also find the equivalent and better specs at cheaper price points.
As long as you don't care about brand name (since you can put any software on any hardware except OSX, which requires a Mac), not Mac Mini is the correct choice.
Or, to be accurate instead of spinning the data, 99.9% of users are not using their network to its potential.
83 MB (which is 84992 kb) / hr is 23.6 kb / sec, not 230.
Thats more like checking your email once per minute.
A million gigabytes is what we call a petabyte.
And by "we" you mean "us who don't mind being off by a factor of 100 or so"?
Theres no -1 (wrong) moderation, but here, lmgtfy:http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=petabyte+to+gigabyte&aq=f&aqi=h1g1g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CVz3Yeu0PTKvkBKX4Mdrq-ecKAAAAqgQFT9Bfe8k&fp=dfdf66882bd03aae
In Canada car ads often use imperial galons, but you may also see an American ad that uses US gallons. You have no way of knowing which the ad intended.
The easiest clue is to check and see if you are the US or Canada.
On the other hand, Canada does not use EPA standards in testing for mileage, so estimates can be way off regardless (the Pontiac wave, for example, is rated 49 highway in the US and 34 highway in Canada). While it is true that you may have no idea what the ad intends, its not because of the use of gallons vs strange Canadian units.
It can't be much simpler than parent wrote it, but I'll put it in 1st grade speak for you (I assume you understand that vehicles require gasoline to travel, and that gasoline is measured in gallons, and that distance traveled is measured in miles...if you don't understand these points, get off the internet).
With a 10 mpg car, you will take 10 gallons to travel 100 miles.
With a 20 mpg car, you will take 5 gallons to travel 100 miles.
With a 33 mpg car, you will take (approximately) 3.03 gallons to travel 100 miles.
Generally, when people drive vehicles, they have a destination in mind. Therefore, regardless of the vehicle chosen, the distance is the same. The higher mpg vehicle will use less gas, or compared to a lower mpg vehicle, it saves gas...
...but how is it at phone calls?
I can't believe I used to be willing to make an appointment to watch a TV show.
I assume you don't watch live sports then.
But not in context.
The dumber among us gain access to knowledge and become more ignorant (they previously did not know x, now they have ready access to learn x, yet now still don't know x and have more topics y and z of which they are now also ignorant), not dumberer.
This isn't an issue of breaking rules; it is an issue of creating words to convey meaning instead of using perfectly appropriate words that already are in common use and more appropriately covey such meaning without having to explain their definitions.
No, it just means that you are ignorant of the words ignorant and knowledgeable, which should be used instead of dumberer and cleverality, because they (ignorant and knowledgeable) already exist and are in common usage.
Of course, you couldn't possibly turn off 1-smile purchasing :)
See, I don't have it on, so I didn't just buy anything.
One click and a bar tab are very different.
A bar tab identifies one patron with multiple purchases in advance to all be paid at some future period.
One click identifies the information related to a patron so that individual purchases can be made at any time, however those purchases must be paid for when ordered.
The idea of the bar tab has so much prior art it isn't funny. For obvious examples, see farmers, who buy seed, fertilizer, farming equipment, etc, every season and don't have to pay for it until they have earned the money to do so (however, if they can't pay for long enough, they can 'lose the farm'). Something being obvious, in and of itself, is not reason to disallow a patent (at least not according to the patent office).
Also by tonnage.
The BMW 5 series weighs over 5000 lbs, whereas the average motorcycle weighs around 300. Granted, the german style gold wing motorcycle crashes in around 790, but there aren't that many heavy weight motorcycles in China.
Well, to be fair, Sam Adams Utopia (27% alcohol by volume) in 2009 was made by aging liquids in whiskey barrels for 16 years, so you aren't all that far off.
Not in reality. Actually clicking on the links clearly shows that she used google maps walking directions, which were in beta, and clearly warned that pedestrian paths may not exist. Regardless, when you see that the directions are taking you on a highway, you should have the common sense to not walk on it.
If blackberry directions didn't contain the same warning, the case is against, blackberry, not google, yet is still just as unjustified. There is no legal basis for lawsuit, and this case should be thrown out.
And?
The fact that your taxes go to your state instead of federal doesn't make them disappear. The fact that you are selling your car out of state doesn't make sales tax disappear either.