They don't do it because both the US and the UK (the only states who'd have the balls to consider something like that) have (largely) cut bilateral diplomatic relationships with Iran, and neither operate an embassy in said dictatorship, and Iran does not operate embassies in the US or the UK.
UK DOES have an embassy in Iran: British Embassy 198, Ferdowsi Avenue Tehran 11316-91144
Not all drugs are viable in the market. Under your proposal, those R&D costs are lost, and cannot be recovered by drugs that do well and are more profitable.
That said, the amount of the tax passed on the consumer isn't always equal. It depends on the elasticity of the good. The less elastic entity (producer/consumer) is the one that will absorb the additional cost more. In the case of wireless internet, the consumers demand is relatively ineleastic, and they will bear a majority (but not all of) the increased cost (tax). The exact amount depends on the demand/supply curves, as well as the tax rate.
sales tax when measured against the actual tax base is not regressive and in the US is actually more 'progressive' in that some goods you need to survive have no sales tax.
That greatly depends on the state you're in. Some tax food if sold in a restaurant, but not from a grocer. Some tax rent, others don't. For a poor person that works a lot with little time to cook, they'll pay a much larger (percentage wise) tax amount on food than a moderately better off person with time to cook/shop at a grocery store.
I've used my Linux desktops/laptops here for years without a hitch. It's actually a bit easier. If you login to the dorm network on windows, you're forced to install all windows updates (not a bad thing, of course), then install their anti-virus and let it scan (ALL) drives. Most people with multiple hard drives just disconnect them on the first boot (or perform a clean install on a spare disk), get their OS checked, then swap config around. On Macs, I believe they have a similar procedure (or so I'm told). For me on Linux, I boot up, try to go to google, get redirected. Login with university credentials, and am told to reboot. In reality, a simple 'sudo/etc/init.d/networking/restart' and I'm good to go (1 minute from start to finish, compared to several hours).
For VPN/etc., we're surprisingly agnostic. Only 'real' issue I've had is the online course websites used by a lot of faculty (elearning, similar to moodle/desire2learn/etc.) It's a javascript-whore, and would timeout often under native firefox. Worked fine under Wine, so I used that and reported it to the help desk. They responded that it wasn't a 'supported browser', so I continued using wine when at home. It was eventually cleared up after a month or so, 'unofficially'.
East Texas is the backwoods part of Texas. I was born/raised in Southeast Texas (think 15 minutes from coast and 15 from Louisiana). The 'true' East Texans were always joked about.
TL;DR East Texas is to Texas what backwoods Kentucky is to the rest of the US.
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I've had Wells Fargo for ~4 years, and it's been great.
The only bad experience I had was my checkbook was stolen while I was overseas (the checkbook was at the home I share with several guys, there was a party, strangers show up, college life etc.). I didn't check my balance much while overseas, and the dollar was weak, so didn't think much of it when my balance was low. When I got back to the states I noticed that there was a check written to one of my roommates for $75, which I didn't write. I confronted him about it, he denied it. Long story short, someone had stolen my checkbook and *HIS* debit card. They were then writing checks from my account to his name, depositing it into his account (with the debit card as ID), then withdrawing the money from an ATM (he was moronic and wrote down his PIN by the debit card).
After reporting to Wells Fargo, I was given some affidavits to sign, saying I didn't authorize the checks, under penalty of perjury, etc. I had a new checking account and the $900 that was stolen (plus $70 in overdrafts they had caused) refunded to me in about 3 days, with only about 45 minutes of work on my end.
Depends on the state, but at least in Texas, if you're 16-17 you must take a driving and written test. If you're 18+, you can get a license without either.
Most (all?) states will give you a license if you have a valid license from another state, due to the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.
For what it's worth, at my university, if you connect a computer that's spewing out spam or some other detectable network sin, it cuts off your service and redirects all HTTP requests to a help page explaining the problem, with a download of McAffee available to clean it.
Once you've ran it and cleaned up, you can put in a request to re-enable network traffic.
It's a quick bastard too. I hooked up my cousin's computer to do some diagnostics (behind my router, so I could send some files over the network), and my Linux box had it's access cut off within minutes.
You're argument is flawed. Most economies go through a 3 stage adaption process. Agricultural, manufacturing, and tertiary.
We started as agricultural, this is where most third world countries are today.
We moved to manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, this is where China is today.
We moved to tertiary post World War II. This is where (most of) the G8 is.
Just because you aren't making 'real (manufactured) goods' doesn't mean you aren't producing real value. Producing services is the sign of a much more advanced economy.
That said, depending on intellectual property as a mainstay of your advanced economy is a flawed economic plan.
Agree with parent. While many/.'ers are probably using some version of linux already, it's really a good solution for parents, etc. A few years ago, my mother's PC died after a bunch of virii and finally a hard drive failure. I built a new one and told her I was tired of fixing all those problems, and she was going to try something new. Installed Ubuntu (Dapper or Edgy IIRC), made sure her e-mail/favorite websites worked and gave it to her. Aside from having to explain how to install updates, she hasn't had a problem to date.
On a similar note, I gave my grandmother an old laptop and stripped out most of the ubuntu install, and filled it with lots of games. Locked down her account so she can't screw anything up, removed all shortcuts except games. She has bad insomnia, and enjoys playing the card games/mahjong at night. Works well for her, aside from her occasionally unplugging it instead of shutting it down properly (I'm going to set it to mount / as read only to prevent this when I go there for holidays).
Long story short, seriously consider using Ubuntu, the learning curve for it is much easier than teaching them to avoid spyware/virii.
Supporting those apps is not as easy as you think. Adobe and Microsoft are both huge companies that can afford many more programmers to tweak their programs in convoluted ways to use as much of the Windows API as possible, in ways no other program does. As a result, Wine has to implement more and more code just to get those apps barely further along.
Photoshop CS3 should work relatively well. CS 2 works flawlessly. A _ton_ of work was put into Wine to get CS 2 to work before 1.0. A similar effort is being done now for CS 3. Dan Kegel has been instrumental in this, filing new bugs almost daily for the CS 3 suite.
Office 2007 should work for many things. The main problem with it is again, that Microsoft has access to their own code, and have used undocumented APIs in these programs. They also ship with a _private_ version of richedit, to get all those ribbons and other features. If you set 'riched20' to native in winecfg, much more of Office 2007 should work.
MSIE 6/7 are again guilty of using a lot of undocumented stuff. The main problem now for those is a patch in kernel32 that hurts IE, but nothing else. It causes 100% cpu use on HTTPS sites. No other app is affected, and Wine doesn't consider those two apps to be all that important. Sucks for you, sure, but there are thousands of other apps that we consider more important. If you need it that badly, revert that patch, recompile, and move on (the Darwine build does this already for OS X).
Lastly, comparing these apps (and Outlook) to World of Warcraft is like comparing a Lamborghini to a Geo Metro. Both are cars, yes, but one is much, much more complicated than the other.
Slashdot Mirror
Songun*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songun
Does it work on Wine?
Yes, actually. It's been in winetricks for a while, I recently committed the new version:
http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/source/detail?r=2297
Sorry guys, most of us hate this shit too.
and that won't happen until there is stuff on the Internet people want that to reach couldn't get hold of an IPv4 address.
You mean like http://freeipv6porn.com/ ?
They don't do it because both the US and the UK (the only states who'd have the balls to consider something like that) have (largely) cut bilateral diplomatic relationships with Iran, and neither operate an embassy in said dictatorship, and Iran does not operate embassies in the US or the UK.
UK DOES have an embassy in Iran:
British Embassy
198, Ferdowsi Avenue
Tehran 11316-91144
http://ukiniran.fco.gov.uk/en/
As does Iran in the UK:
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
16 Princes Gate
London SW7 1PT
http://www.iran-embassy.org.uk/page/?m=vp&i=162
Not all drugs are viable in the market. Under your proposal, those R&D costs are lost, and cannot be recovered by drugs that do well and are more profitable.
That said, the amount of the tax passed on the consumer isn't always equal. It depends on the elasticity of the good. The less elastic entity (producer/consumer) is the one that will absorb the additional cost more. In the case of wireless internet, the consumers demand is relatively ineleastic, and they will bear a majority (but not all of) the increased cost (tax). The exact amount depends on the demand/supply curves, as well as the tax rate.
For a more reputable ranking, see http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009
Freedom house is one of the main sources for such statistics in political science research.
I'll defend my right to lolcats to the death!
sales tax when measured against the actual tax base is not regressive and in the US is actually more 'progressive' in that some goods you need to survive have no sales tax.
That greatly depends on the state you're in. Some tax food if sold in a restaurant, but not from a grocer. Some tax rent, others don't. For a poor person that works a lot with little time to cook, they'll pay a much larger (percentage wise) tax amount on food than a moderately better off person with time to cook/shop at a grocery store.
I've used my Linux desktops/laptops here for years without a hitch. It's actually a bit easier. If you login to the dorm network on windows, you're forced to install all windows updates (not a bad thing, of course), then install their anti-virus and let it scan (ALL) drives. Most people with multiple hard drives just disconnect them on the first boot (or perform a clean install on a spare disk), get their OS checked, then swap config around. On Macs, I believe they have a similar procedure (or so I'm told). For me on Linux, I boot up, try to go to google, get redirected. Login with university credentials, and am told to reboot. In reality, a simple 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking/restart' and I'm good to go (1 minute from start to finish, compared to several hours).
For VPN/etc., we're surprisingly agnostic. Only 'real' issue I've had is the online course websites used by a lot of faculty (elearning, similar to moodle/desire2learn/etc.) It's a javascript-whore, and would timeout often under native firefox. Worked fine under Wine, so I used that and reported it to the help desk. They responded that it wasn't a 'supported browser', so I continued using wine when at home. It was eventually cleared up after a month or so, 'unofficially'.
FYI, us Texans aren't proud of it either.
East Texas is the backwoods part of Texas. I was born/raised in Southeast Texas (think 15 minutes from coast and 15 from Louisiana). The 'true' East Texans were always joked about.
TL;DR East Texas is to Texas what backwoods Kentucky is to the rest of the US.
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I've had Wells Fargo for ~4 years, and it's been great.
The only bad experience I had was my checkbook was stolen while I was overseas (the checkbook was at the home I share with several guys, there was a party, strangers show up, college life etc.). I didn't check my balance much while overseas, and the dollar was weak, so didn't think much of it when my balance was low. When I got back to the states I noticed that there was a check written to one of my roommates for $75, which I didn't write. I confronted him about it, he denied it. Long story short, someone had stolen my checkbook and *HIS* debit card. They were then writing checks from my account to his name, depositing it into his account (with the debit card as ID), then withdrawing the money from an ATM (he was moronic and wrote down his PIN by the debit card).
After reporting to Wells Fargo, I was given some affidavits to sign, saying I didn't authorize the checks, under penalty of perjury, etc. I had a new checking account and the $900 that was stolen (plus $70 in overdrafts they had caused) refunded to me in about 3 days, with only about 45 minutes of work on my end.
Handled very professionally, I'd say.
South Africa did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Good for them! Thank the FSM there's some sanity left in at least one state.
Depends on the state, but at least in Texas, if you're 16-17 you must take a driving and written test. If you're 18+, you can get a license without either.
Most (all?) states will give you a license if you have a valid license from another state, due to the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.
For what it's worth, at my university, if you connect a computer that's spewing out spam or some other detectable network sin, it cuts off your service and redirects all HTTP requests to a help page explaining the problem, with a download of McAffee available to clean it.
Once you've ran it and cleaned up, you can put in a request to re-enable network traffic.
It's a quick bastard too. I hooked up my cousin's computer to do some diagnostics (behind my router, so I could send some files over the network), and my Linux box had it's access cut off within minutes.
Your new to the concept of "laws", aren't you?
You're new to the concept of English, aren't you?
That depends on the meaning of the word 'is'.
Texas doesn't have the right to secede. We have the right to split into 5 states without Congressional approval, however.
You're argument is flawed. Most economies go through a 3 stage adaption process. Agricultural, manufacturing, and tertiary.
We started as agricultural, this is where most third world countries are today.
We moved to manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution, this is where China is today.
We moved to tertiary post World War II. This is where (most of) the G8 is.
Just because you aren't making 'real (manufactured) goods' doesn't mean you aren't producing real value. Producing services is the sign of a much more advanced economy.
That said, depending on intellectual property as a mainstay of your advanced economy is a flawed economic plan.
Agree with parent. While many /.'ers are probably using some version of linux already, it's really a good solution for parents, etc. A few years ago, my mother's PC died after a bunch of virii and finally a hard drive failure. I built a new one and told her I was tired of fixing all those problems, and she was going to try something new. Installed Ubuntu (Dapper or Edgy IIRC), made sure her e-mail/favorite websites worked and gave it to her. Aside from having to explain how to install updates, she hasn't had a problem to date.
On a similar note, I gave my grandmother an old laptop and stripped out most of the ubuntu install, and filled it with lots of games. Locked down her account so she can't screw anything up, removed all shortcuts except games. She has bad insomnia, and enjoys playing the card games/mahjong at night. Works well for her, aside from her occasionally unplugging it instead of shutting it down properly (I'm going to set it to mount / as read only to prevent this when I go there for holidays).
Long story short, seriously consider using Ubuntu, the learning curve for it is much easier than teaching them to avoid spyware/virii.
Supporting those apps is not as easy as you think. Adobe and Microsoft are both huge companies that can afford many more programmers to tweak their programs in convoluted ways to use as much of the Windows API as possible, in ways no other program does. As a result, Wine has to implement more and more code just to get those apps barely further along.
Photoshop CS3 should work relatively well. CS 2 works flawlessly. A _ton_ of work was put into Wine to get CS 2 to work before 1.0. A similar effort is being done now for CS 3. Dan Kegel has been instrumental in this, filing new bugs almost daily for the CS 3 suite.
Office 2007 should work for many things. The main problem with it is again, that Microsoft has access to their own code, and have used undocumented APIs in these programs. They also ship with a _private_ version of richedit, to get all those ribbons and other features. If you set 'riched20' to native in winecfg, much more of Office 2007 should work.
MSIE 6/7 are again guilty of using a lot of undocumented stuff. The main problem now for those is a patch in kernel32 that hurts IE, but nothing else. It causes 100% cpu use on HTTPS sites. No other app is affected, and Wine doesn't consider those two apps to be all that important. Sucks for you, sure, but there are thousands of other apps that we consider more important. If you need it that badly, revert that patch, recompile, and move on (the Darwine build does this already for OS X).
Lastly, comparing these apps (and Outlook) to World of Warcraft is like comparing a Lamborghini to a Geo Metro. Both are cars, yes, but one is much, much more complicated than the other.
Surprisingly, no. But it's a proposed bill for the next legislative session.
Yes