Well, it could be because the infrastructure to ship all of those goods people are buying from Amazon and other online retailers is supported by sales tax.
It could be, but it isn't supposed to be. Infrastructure like roads is supposed to be supported by fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees.
I betcha didn't know that there is now a national sales tax. Most people don't know about it because it targets only one very specific industry.. indoor tanning outlets. This was given to us by the helathcare reform shaft.
x86 architecture is filled with crap like this (mainly the legacy stuff, not much present-day)
What makes you think this? There werent any one-offs of reserved absolutely addressed memory on the early PCs. Each peripheral had its own contiguous area of address space at the top of the address space, well above any actual installed ram (very high end systems had 720K, but even as much as 640K was rare) on a typical early PC. The lowest of these addresses was also the last major PC component to be introduced.. the VGA adapter mapped video memory to 0xA0000 (how about that, right at the 640K mark)
The problem with the real mode architecture of the x86 was not where BIOS got mapped to.. it was the 20-bit addressing mode which required faking it with two 16-bit pointer, the segment pointer scaled to 16-byte boundaries, and an index pointer which only extended to 64K beyond the segment pointer.
On the one side, we have VIDEO of a DEMOCRAT.. the CO-SPONSOR OF THE ORIGINAL BILL.. ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.. telling you that THE ADMINISTRATION removed the language that specifically exempted AMERICAN CITIZENS.. (its right there in the video... extremely specific.. no frame cuts to other moments..) and on the other we have a fucking web page with claims liunking to a 10 hour video and no specific citation or quote from the video that supports the claim the web page is making....
(you think that I am a Republican? What a fucking idiot your are, too...)
Levin: "I just have on other question and that has to do with somebody.. an American citizen.. is uh, captured in the United States and the application of the custody pending a presidential waver to such a person.. I am wondering whether the senator is familiar with the fact..".. leading to the clip I originally posted.
Game over, liars. Typical Democrats making claims that arent true, saying one thing while doing another.
I guess it depends on what you look at. How many Dell, HP, Sony, etc. Laptops are there with a 17" 1920x1080 screen with 2.4GHz i7? I haven't seen too many. And the ones that they did have were in the $2k range, just like the 17" MacBook Pro.
That's not what most people who identify as libertarian usually say.
Bullshit. It is what most libertarians say. Its not what most non-libertarians claim that libertarians say... and here you are.. a non-libertarian making incorrect claims (didn't bother quoting) about what libertarians say.
I mean seriously.. it was common knowledge when Obama did his whole "in protest" public relations stunt that he was full of shit.. and now 5 months later you come along, ignorant as fuck, and ask for a citation?
Now just shut the fuck up... you are not qualified to comment on current events because you are completely fucking oblivious to them.
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15 years down the road, if they take the servers down will anyone care? Will anyone even remember this post?
I really dont think that it matters. If you havent gotten $60 worth of entertainment out of the game in 15 years time, then you might care.. but I wont care that you care because obviously something isnt right with you.
All of AMD's A-series processors make a great HTPC platform. Its been over a year now with Intel not offering any real competition at all in this segment once price is factored in. You can trivially get a full 65W A-series HTPC box up and running for under $150 with lots of headroom (thats the price I would quote to friends/coworkers and pocket the difference as labor costs.) The higher end A-series (100W) are only necessary if you are gaming.
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Some might say that Intel Atom solutions are price competitive with the A-series but the Atom solutions, just like AMD's low powered E-series lineup, really only works well for HTPC as long as 100% of your needed video codecs use GPU acceleration. If the Atom is good enough, then an E-series of the same price will be a bit better as well. Its hard to guarantee that all the codecs that you will be using will be GPU accelerated, especially so if you are stacked up on a Linux distro, so the E-series and Atoms are not really a solution that I recommend.
Obama wanted to announce the funding for the plant.. part of his "green jobs" bullshit. Thats why in spite of the DoE/etc already having vetoed the loan under Bush, suddenly found it in their heart to give Solyndra a chance.
Solyndra then ran out of money, the same month they were predicted to run out of money 2 years earlier by the DoE.
Its a lie because you say it is, or because you can't believe its true? I like how you try to distract from reality by yammering on about Fox News... (who brought up Fox News? You did!)
"Even after Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, analysts in the Energy Department and in the Office of Management and Budget were repeatedly questioning the wisdom of the loan. In one exchange, an Energy official wrote of "a major outstanding issue" -- namely, that Solyndra’s numbers showed it would run out of cash in September 2011."
""This deal is NOT ready for prime time," one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.:
This is members of the administration, not Fox News, reported by ABC, not Fox News. The DoE etc said this was a bad deal, and predicted when it would fail. The White House insisted that Solyndra get the money anyways, because Obama was pushing "green jobs" while paying off his campaign contributers at Solyndra.
Why don't you know this?
Obviously everyone involved knew that it wasn't a good deal, and everyone paying any attention at all knows that what you are calling lies are actually facts reported by the mainstream media, with Fox News nowhere in sight. Facts which apparently got right by you somehow amazingly, even though you profess to being enough of an expert on the subject to declare the deal a good one.
Now we both know that you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, yet here you are acting like an expert and having it handed to you so simply and trivially. The shit you are saying doesnt even pass a simple google search, which would have taken you all of 3 seconds. Anonymous coward must be right, you ARE sucking on the democrat sausage because you couldnt even be bothered to do a simple Google search while you knowingly just made shit up out of nothing to support your beloved party.
Why would you use Gapminder but not graph every country?
Whats in the graph of every country that you are trying to hide? Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know! The United States is not the number one user of CO2 per capita. I don't have to use Gapminder to know that, but you did and when you didn't like it... you removed the facts that you didn't like.
Here is a tip: Don't use Gapminder to be dishonest. Gapminder is all about an honest view of the data. Its only selective when a dishonest fuck uses it.
A FAT USB drive (or Android phone) doesn't need to be 'safely removed'. You can just yank the thing and it's fine (as long as it's finished its r/w operations).
These two statements are mutually exclusive. The translation of your post, once only the facts remain, is "I hate windows." Why didnt you just say that you hate windows?
You should spend more time actually doing low level programming and thinking, instead of trumpeting linux. There is no file system that does what you suggest, nor is this article about a new file system that does what you suggest. Programs and OS services are not file systems.
So no, not "multiple file systems" as you fanclaim. The truth is "no file systems in the past, present, or future." If you dont understand this, then dont comment on threads like this. That tiny bit of fact that you have stored away somewhere doesnt support your statements... because you really have no idea what you are talking about. Tiny little facts does not equal understanding.
Don't forget, the third most populous country is the United States.
Its China and India with their 36.47% of the worlds population, and then the United States with its 4.47%.
Your statement, while correct, is disingenuous in intent. You are using the truth to be dishonest.
This graph spells it out nicely. The United States is on the same line as all less populous countries, while China and India are playing on a completely different field.
The fact that every other country falls on that line says something important about the line, and also says something important about the only two outliers.
You become really cretinous when you say " it landed heads 9 out of the last 10 times that its flipped". Flipped 9 times in a row had no part of the rule that was set.
The only person that said anything about 9 in a row is you. The words you are quoting does not say what you claim that it says. The cretinous idiot is you.
What? Why do you think it matters when the period begins?
Suppose the headline read "Climate scientists find that in the continental U.S. that 137 of the last 138 samples from a rolling 12 month average were cooler than the period Nov 1999 to Oct 2000"
Now, why do you think that it doesnt matter? Seriously... why?
We might declare that a coin is "probably biased towards heads" if in 10 flips it lands heads 9 times. A proper test would consider only 10 flips, and if the coin were actually fair the chance of a false positive would be 1023:1 against. But a data dredger will declare the coin biased if at any point during hundreds or even thousands of flips that it landed heads 9 out of the last 10 times that its flipped. You can clearly see that the dredger will always eventually get the evidence they want, even when the coin is fair or in fact biased in the other opposite direction, that his/her chance of a false positive is 100%.
Not including "contiguous" or "continental" in the summary was an unfortunate oversight on my part
Is it unfortunate that you neglected to be accurate, or that you got caught neglecting to be accurate?
Now I havent read the article (this is slashdot) but just looking at the summary, I find it amazing that two different annual period systems are in use yet nobody seems to even notice it. May to April and then November to October. Thats dredging the data.
With this sort of dredging tactic, there were 138 chances (assuming the authors didnt do rolling 52 week or rolling 365 daily comparisons) to fit the headline since November 1999. The fact that it took 138 sample periods to find 12 contiguous months that break the record, but not 137 or fewer sample periods, suggests something quite the opposite of what the standard AGW crowd will take away from your summary.
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Well, it could be because the infrastructure to ship all of those goods people are buying from Amazon and other online retailers is supported by sales tax.
It could be, but it isn't supposed to be. Infrastructure like roads is supposed to be supported by fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees.
I betcha didn't know that there is now a national sales tax. Most people don't know about it because it targets only one very specific industry.. indoor tanning outlets. This was given to us by the helathcare reform shaft.
How can they differentiate between them?
Martians pay for drinks. Venetians don't.
x86 architecture is filled with crap like this (mainly the legacy stuff, not much present-day)
What makes you think this? There werent any one-offs of reserved absolutely addressed memory on the early PCs. Each peripheral had its own contiguous area of address space at the top of the address space, well above any actual installed ram (very high end systems had 720K, but even as much as 640K was rare) on a typical early PC. The lowest of these addresses was also the last major PC component to be introduced.. the VGA adapter mapped video memory to 0xA0000 (how about that, right at the 640K mark)
The problem with the real mode architecture of the x86 was not where BIOS got mapped to.. it was the 20-bit addressing mode which required faking it with two 16-bit pointer, the segment pointer scaled to 16-byte boundaries, and an index pointer which only extended to 64K beyond the segment pointer.
At equal component level Apple fanboys claim that a PC is not less expensive than an the equivalent Apple.
FTFY.
Apple fanboys have been claiming that Apple is pretty price competitive for many years now
FTFY.
His citation is crap.
Full context asshole.
On the one side, we have VIDEO of a DEMOCRAT.. the CO-SPONSOR OF THE ORIGINAL BILL.. ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.. telling you that THE ADMINISTRATION removed the language that specifically exempted AMERICAN CITIZENS.. (its right there in the video... extremely specific.. no frame cuts to other moments..) and on the other we have a fucking web page with claims liunking to a 10 hour video and no specific citation or quote from the video that supports the claim the web page is making....
(you think that I am a Republican? What a fucking idiot your are, too...)
The article claims that its out of context, but the article is just making the claim.
.. leading to the clip I originally posted.
Here is the full context
Levin: "I just have on other question and that has to do with somebody.. an American citizen.. is uh, captured in the United States and the application of the custody pending a presidential waver to such a person.. I am wondering whether the senator is familiar with the fact.."
Game over, liars. Typical Democrats making claims that arent true, saying one thing while doing another.
I guess it depends on what you look at. How many Dell, HP, Sony, etc. Laptops are there with a 17" 1920x1080 screen with 2.4GHz i7? I haven't seen too many. And the ones that they did have were in the $2k range, just like the 17" MacBook Pro.
The 17" Macbook Pro is $2400 off of NewEgg ($2500 if you go through Apple) 2.4GHz i7, 4GB DDR3, 1GB GDDR5, 750GB HD, 17" 1920x1200
A 17.3" MSI G-Series is $1200 off of NewEgg 2.3GHz i7, 8GB DDR3, 2GB GDDR5, 750GB HD, 17.3" 1920x1080
While the specs are not exactly the same, come on.. The Macbook is *double* the fucking price... $1200 more!
Jesus Christ. All I did was ask for a cite.
Bullshit.
This is you: 'Why would he have previously "asked" for them?'
This is me: STFU ignorant democrat douche
That's not what most people who identify as libertarian usually say.
Bullshit. It is what most libertarians say. Its not what most non-libertarians claim that libertarians say... and here you are.. a non-libertarian making incorrect claims (didn't bother quoting) about what libertarians say.
You are the fucking problem.
Here is a fucking democrat on the floor of the House, FUCKING TELEVISED, telling you exactly why the NDAA applies to U.S. citizens.
I mean seriously.. it was common knowledge when Obama did his whole "in protest" public relations stunt that he was full of shit.. and now 5 months later you come along, ignorant as fuck, and ask for a citation?
Now just shut the fuck up... you are not qualified to comment on current events because you are completely fucking oblivious to them.
15 years down the road, if they take the servers down will anyone care? Will anyone even remember this post?
I really dont think that it matters. If you havent gotten $60 worth of entertainment out of the game in 15 years time, then you might care.. but I wont care that you care because obviously something isnt right with you.
All of AMD's A-series processors make a great HTPC platform. Its been over a year now with Intel not offering any real competition at all in this segment once price is factored in. You can trivially get a full 65W A-series HTPC box up and running for under $150 with lots of headroom (thats the price I would quote to friends/coworkers and pocket the difference as labor costs.) The higher end A-series (100W) are only necessary if you are gaming.
' Some might say that Intel Atom solutions are price competitive with the A-series but the Atom solutions, just like AMD's low powered E-series lineup, really only works well for HTPC as long as 100% of your needed video codecs use GPU acceleration. If the Atom is good enough, then an E-series of the same price will be a bit better as well. Its hard to guarantee that all the codecs that you will be using will be GPU accelerated, especially so if you are stacked up on a Linux distro, so the E-series and Atoms are not really a solution that I recommend.
Obama wanted to announce the funding for the plant.. part of his "green jobs" bullshit. Thats why in spite of the DoE/etc already having vetoed the loan under Bush, suddenly found it in their heart to give Solyndra a chance.
Solyndra then ran out of money, the same month they were predicted to run out of money 2 years earlier by the DoE.
The debit holders in this case is the American tax payer. Nobody is going to be representing them at any auction for this property.
Its a lie because you say it is, or because you can't believe its true? I like how you try to distract from reality by yammering on about Fox News... (who brought up Fox News? You did!)
Try ABC news, jackass.
"Even after Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, analysts in the Energy Department and in the Office of Management and Budget were repeatedly questioning the wisdom of the loan. In one exchange, an Energy official wrote of "a major outstanding issue" -- namely, that Solyndra’s numbers showed it would run out of cash in September 2011."
""This deal is NOT ready for prime time," one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.:
This is members of the administration, not Fox News, reported by ABC, not Fox News. The DoE etc said this was a bad deal, and predicted when it would fail. The White House insisted that Solyndra get the money anyways, because Obama was pushing "green jobs" while paying off his campaign contributers at Solyndra.
Why don't you know this?
Obviously everyone involved knew that it wasn't a good deal, and everyone paying any attention at all knows that what you are calling lies are actually facts reported by the mainstream media, with Fox News nowhere in sight. Facts which apparently got right by you somehow amazingly, even though you profess to being enough of an expert on the subject to declare the deal a good one.
Now we both know that you have no fucking idea what you are talking about, yet here you are acting like an expert and having it handed to you so simply and trivially. The shit you are saying doesnt even pass a simple google search, which would have taken you all of 3 seconds. Anonymous coward must be right, you ARE sucking on the democrat sausage because you couldnt even be bothered to do a simple Google search while you knowingly just made shit up out of nothing to support your beloved party.
Why would you use Gapminder but not graph every country?
Whats in the graph of every country that you are trying to hide? Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know! The United States is not the number one user of CO2 per capita. I don't have to use Gapminder to know that, but you did and when you didn't like it... you removed the facts that you didn't like.
Here is a tip: Don't use Gapminder to be dishonest. Gapminder is all about an honest view of the data. Its only selective when a dishonest fuck uses it.
A FAT USB drive (or Android phone) doesn't need to be 'safely removed'. You can just yank the thing and it's fine (as long as it's finished its r/w operations).
These two statements are mutually exclusive. The translation of your post, once only the facts remain, is "I hate windows." Why didnt you just say that you hate windows?
You should spend more time actually doing low level programming and thinking, instead of trumpeting linux. There is no file system that does what you suggest, nor is this article about a new file system that does what you suggest. Programs and OS services are not file systems.
So no, not "multiple file systems" as you fanclaim. The truth is "no file systems in the past, present, or future." If you dont understand this, then dont comment on threads like this. That tiny bit of fact that you have stored away somewhere doesnt support your statements... because you really have no idea what you are talking about. Tiny little facts does not equal understanding.
Don't forget, the third most populous country is the United States.
Its China and India with their 36.47% of the worlds population, and then the United States with its 4.47%.
Your statement, while correct, is disingenuous in intent. You are using the truth to be dishonest.
This graph spells it out nicely. The United States is on the same line as all less populous countries, while China and India are playing on a completely different field.
The fact that every other country falls on that line says something important about the line, and also says something important about the only two outliers.
You become really cretinous when you say " it landed heads 9 out of the last 10 times that its flipped". Flipped 9 times in a row had no part of the rule that was set.
The only person that said anything about 9 in a row is you. The words you are quoting does not say what you claim that it says. The cretinous idiot is you.
What? Why do you think it matters when the period begins?
Suppose the headline read "Climate scientists find that in the continental U.S. that 137 of the last 138 samples from a rolling 12 month average were cooler than the period Nov 1999 to Oct 2000"
Now, why do you think that it doesnt matter? Seriously... why?
To explain this clearly.
We might declare that a coin is "probably biased towards heads" if in 10 flips it lands heads 9 times. A proper test would consider only 10 flips, and if the coin were actually fair the chance of a false positive would be 1023:1 against. But a data dredger will declare the coin biased if at any point during hundreds or even thousands of flips that it landed heads 9 out of the last 10 times that its flipped. You can clearly see that the dredger will always eventually get the evidence they want, even when the coin is fair or in fact biased in the other opposite direction, that his/her chance of a false positive is 100%.
Not including "contiguous" or "continental" in the summary was an unfortunate oversight on my part
Is it unfortunate that you neglected to be accurate, or that you got caught neglecting to be accurate?
Now I havent read the article (this is slashdot) but just looking at the summary, I find it amazing that two different annual period systems are in use yet nobody seems to even notice it. May to April and then November to October. Thats dredging the data.
With this sort of dredging tactic, there were 138 chances (assuming the authors didnt do rolling 52 week or rolling 365 daily comparisons) to fit the headline since November 1999. The fact that it took 138 sample periods to find 12 contiguous months that break the record, but not 137 or fewer sample periods, suggests something quite the opposite of what the standard AGW crowd will take away from your summary.
Typical liberal caught in a lie.. calls the person who caught him a racist.