The problem with microwaving clothing would be the shorts I have on right now, for example. They have a metal zipper.
WARNING: Do NOT microwave shorts before removing them from body. Side effects could include actually reading those spams that offer to help you grow larger body parts.
Life's a bitch. I feel your pain. On the other hand, it's the pain of someone who (in this example) has not been able to keep a $3 million property, but had to sell it and only gets to pocket an after-tax $2 million.
Get in line. I'll be sympathetic, but your turn will come after all those other people who don't ever get to pocket $2 million.
I won't be able to afford the $1,000,000 tax on it. I'll have to sell it. Somehow the land costing more is my fault?
No, the land costing more isn't your fault. The question is, what you choose to do with a windfall. If you sell it, assuming a 33% tax rate, you'll have the remaining $2 million in your pocket after taxes, that's not too shabby.
Someone dies, and the government wants money. Sounds like a "Death Tax" to me. Nah. Someone dies, the money comes in to you (who didn't die). Comes in. In come. Sounds like a reasonable tax to me.
So $250k that what anymore? A house, half of a house? Where I live it's two houses. You, by your own voluntary choice, want a house in an area where houses are expensive, whose fault is that?
*It's* *already* *had* *it's* *taxes* *paid* *on* *it* *Everything* has already had taxes paid on it. Many times. It's like oxygen. The O2 you breathe in today, somebody breathed in 2000 years ago. And by dinosaurs before that. The two bucks I spend for a beer, I already paid taxes on, should that mean the bar is tax exempt? Some people don't realize, you gotta pay for things somehow. You want to invade third-world countries, it costs money (you can't always steal it from their oil). You want to lock up people who smoke dope, it costs money. You want to give big subsidies to farmers, defense contractors, shopping mall developers, it costs money. You want star wars missle shields, it costs money. You want to hire border guards, it costs money. You want to build roads, it costs money. Why shouldn't you be taxed? We gotta pay for that crap somehow, we don't have all the kinks out of perpetual motion yet.
1) Some military post offices, as a matter of policy, do NOT put a dated postmark on mail passing through them. Military spokescritters at the time said that policy WAS to have dated postmarks, though they also said sometimes circumstances prevented it from happening.
2) Florida election laws require a postmark date, and mandate discarding the ballot if it is absent. In previous elections, that was true. Near as I can tell in 2000, Florida law required either a postmark date, or a dated signature. That's not to say that some weren't improperly rejected. Some were also rejected for other reasons, such as the voter not being registered.
3) FEDERAL law says that absentee ballots from those in military service must be counted Certainly not from ineligible voters, or mailed (days? weeks?) after election day. But even assuming that, it's not clear that this was true at that time. I did find one quote suggesting there was a requirement that ballots be counted if they were delivered "expeditiously". Cite?
You're forgetting that most of the military ballots were tossed.
That would be the Florida absentee ballots from overseas that were in violation of election laws? (Although some tried to make it a matter of "military", military ballots were handled by the same rules as other absentee ballots.) The ones not properly filled in, the ones not received by the legal deadline? The ones issued in response to ballot applications that were tampered with by Republican election workers?
Actually, they mostly weren't tossed. The Democrats ended up not having the guts to insist that absentee ballots meet the legal standards.
They shred the bills. And sell bales to novelty vendors, who repackage it into smaller bags with clever sayings printed on them (think we can slashdot compuserve?), who sell them to you in exchange for unshredded bills, in a process akin to perpetual motion.
Coins don't wear out very fast. What ones do, probably get melted down. In the old days, before laminated coins, they could just melt them down and make new coins with them.
That may have never come off of their LSD trip and now live in a scary world filled with a conspiracy theory involving some kind of experiment being performed on him. This happened to him roughly 28 years after taking a few hits...
Of course, there are many people with similar problems who have never taken LSD at all. And most of the people who took LSD 30 years ago aren't any wierder than the general population, well, not a lot wierder. So your proposed cause-and-effect relationship is a wee bit tenuous. Perhaps it's a reaction to having lived during the Nixon regime, or he was exposed to Anita Bryant, the Cuban Missle Crisis, or Love Canal, maybe he mixed aspirin and Coke, or took nutmeg. I'm not going to be a staunch defender of LSD, I didn't like it much myself, but the connection is not obvious.
We are talking about an IP-blacklist, not a username blacklist... And I AM looking at making one that is 100% complete.
What makes you think they'll always be using their own IPs? You can probably find all their corporate website/email IPs, but for surveillance they'll be using college students as proxies (paid with free CDs), or those "10,000 free hours on AOL" accounts, or cable/DSL accounts with dynamic IPs, or IPs belonging to HiSpeed Hosting of Hoboken NJ (one spyder lives there), or accounts out of Cogentco or C&W/Exodus spammer heaven.
Anyone know of a list of the netblocks owned by the RIAA/MPAA and any member organizations, contracted companies, etc?
You can always do a WHOIS on such organizations, and maybe traceroutes, and work from there. Overpeer, BayTSP, RangerInc, ProtectedByCovenant, MediaForce, Cyveillance are a few of the known contractors.
There are occasionally lists posted in various p2p user forums (vendor forums, and portals like ZeroPaid, UniteTheCows, Slyck), newsgroups, mailing lists. A Shareaza user produces an xml file called Shareaza_Security_Update that lists such IPs and plugs into that program's built-in firewall. There's a program called Peer Guardian that is a p2p firewall, and has such a blocklist. BearShare has a hostiles.txt file that is used by the program as an IP blacklist. Gnucleus has (or had, I haven't looked lately) an IP blacklist.
Of course, no such list will ever be 100% complete, because the people hired by the price fixers can just log on with accounts that aren't in their own names.
I recall doing a WHOIS on one IP and having it identified as belonging to "Warner (private residence)". A private residence with a block of 64 static IPs of its own. Of course, it may have been all those Internet-ready kitchen appliances.
Typing out stupid paragraphics of legal disclaimers mean nothing when a law enforcement agency is investigating. True. However, the RIAA is not a law enforcement agency.
What's wrong with using a pen to put a mark next to the name of the candidate you're voting for? - "Lost" ballots, plus ballots that are actually lost by mistake Nope. Where I am, the paper ballots are optical scanned by the "ballot box". There is instant feedback that the vote has been accepted and counted. And the paper ballot is retained in the machine as backup.
- Voters who mark more than one candidate The machine rejects the ballot. Fix and try again.
- Voters who don't mark any candidate. While the scanners could probably be programmed to reject ballots that don't have "none of the above" checked, in general this point is correct. But note that many elections have long lists of candidates that no one has ever heard of for obscure positions (vote for one candidate for an at-large seat on the Mosquito Control Board, four candidates for the Library Board), not to speak of judgeships where the incumbant is unopposed. People often do leave these blank intentionally.
- Tallying errors due to the fact the ballots are being counted by humans. Only if the validity of the machine results is in question.
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The US is NOT a Muslim state
Lets just take one point. Neither is Iraq. (It's not particularly "Arab", either.) Iraq is probably the most secular state in the region.
ObDisclaimer: Not that this makes it a paragon of "good government" either.
I'm suprised that TI-83s are still so popular, considering they use ~12 year old technology. They're painfully slow for running simple math programs. Especially with statistics simulations. It takes the calculator several minutes to generate 100 samples of 50 random numbers from 1 to 10, which is something my $70 Athlon XP 2000+ could do in a fraction of a second.
You have an Athlon XP 2000+ pocket calculator? What's the battery life like on one of those?
I have no idea what the expectations were about either paper or movable type, but both independently (you can write on paper without a printing press, or print on other media besides paper) and inextricably (metal type on paper is a huge use of both), they have become irreplacable in our society.
Somebody still uses moveable type? Aside from a few hobbiests and craftsman printers, I don't think actual moveable type has been much used in the western world since the early 1900s.
Paper, though, that's definitely had a good product life. And the clay-tablet people thought it was just going to be a flash in the pan.
1. AFAIK they are superhet receivers like most other receivers. They have a local oscillator, which usually has some leakage. Detect that and you've detected the detector. Just as the UK used to enforce their radio/TV tax with detector vans. Or as the recent slashdot story about interactive billboards that tailor their pitch to what radio station you're listening to.
2. Stand up on the overpass watching traffic go by. Aim your radar gun at the vehicles moving away from you and press the trigger. Note which cars' brake lights suddenly come on. Radio the cop who's waiting up around the next curve.
You seem to think the band makes its money from CDs. Let's hear from a career musician.
From personal experience: in 37 years as a recording artist, I've created 25+ albums for major labels, and I've never once received a royalty check that didn't show I owed them money. So I make the bulk of my living from live touring, playing for 80-1500 people a night, doing my own show.
Does anyone know of any devices that can record AM/FM radio into an MP3?
An AM/FM tuner with the line out feeding into the line in on your sound card? (Software radios mostly suck, why not use the real thing?) There's lots of software that can figure out what to do from there. If you want standalone, attach tuner to computer with duct tape.
Actually, Shareaza does have a search monitor. Check the "View" menu. (If you're not a hub, you'll only see searches that get passed on to you by your hubs/ultrapeers as being potential matches with files you have, though.)
It keeps stats on hits (by others on your files) in the library window.
I gave it the names of one Italian folk band and 2 klezmer bands.
It suggested Sam Cooke, Patsy Cline, Dwight Yokum, some terrible German singer, and a new-age band. And a few others I'd never heard of and couldn't locate in a fast P2P search.
It didn't even manage to match either of the genres. Sorry, this is not artificial intelligence, it is artificial stupidity.
My question would have to be why Limewire/Bearshare/etc have flat out decided to absolutely not support the new protocol Seems to be two reasons. One is, the new protocol is (at this date) proprietary and not open, though it is being heavily marketed. There are promises that it will be open, some day.
The other reason is that they're seriously annoyed that the new protocol was named "Gnutella2", which implies that it is superior to Gnutella. Maybe it is, but naming it thus was a marketing coup at the expense of personal relations with the other developers. Kind of like calling your linux distribution "ImprovedRedHat" even though it never was RedHat to begin with.
I wonder if it is mis-information, to discredit MP3s in general. Nah. The author wants to discredit not only mp3s, but the sound from video games, digital radio and TV, minidisk players, DVDs, the irritating voice that says "Please take the ticket", everything that involves lossy compression.
fission carries the risk that one of our many reactors will somehow start a terrible chain reaction that will destroy the power plant and some area around it, but that hasn't happened yet. It is my understanding that the few incidents that have occured ( 3 Mile Island ) have been very minor.
One word. "Chernobyl"
Ok, so it was a bad analogy. I'd be squeamish about the cylinders of H2, but the hydride cannisters are probably fairly safe.
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The problem with microwaving clothing would be the shorts I have on right now, for example. They have a metal zipper.
WARNING: Do NOT microwave shorts before removing them from body. Side effects could include actually reading those spams that offer to help you grow larger body parts.
But I don't WANT to sell it.
Life's a bitch. I feel your pain. On the other hand, it's the pain of someone who (in this example) has not been able to keep a $3 million property, but had to sell it and only gets to pocket an after-tax $2 million.
Get in line. I'll be sympathetic, but your turn will come after all those other people who don't ever get to pocket $2 million.
I won't be able to afford the $1,000,000 tax on it. I'll have to sell it. Somehow the land costing more is my fault?
No, the land costing more isn't your fault. The question is, what you choose to do with a windfall. If you sell it, assuming a 33% tax rate, you'll have the remaining $2 million in your pocket after taxes, that's not too shabby.
Someone dies, and the government wants money. Sounds like a "Death Tax" to me.
Nah. Someone dies, the money comes in to you (who didn't die). Comes in. In come. Sounds like a reasonable tax to me.
So $250k that what anymore? A house, half of a house?
Where I live it's two houses. You, by your own voluntary choice, want a house in an area where houses are expensive, whose fault is that?
*It's* *already* *had* *it's* *taxes* *paid* *on* *it*
*Everything* has already had taxes paid on it. Many times. It's like oxygen. The O2 you breathe in today, somebody breathed in 2000 years ago. And by dinosaurs before that. The two bucks I spend for a beer, I already paid taxes on, should that mean the bar is tax exempt? Some people don't realize, you gotta pay for things somehow. You want to invade third-world countries, it costs money (you can't always steal it from their oil). You want to lock up people who smoke dope, it costs money. You want to give big subsidies to farmers, defense contractors, shopping mall developers, it costs money. You want star wars missle shields, it costs money. You want to hire border guards, it costs money. You want to build roads, it costs money. Why shouldn't you be taxed? We gotta pay for that crap somehow, we don't have all the kinks out of perpetual motion yet.
1) Some military post offices, as a matter of policy, do NOT put a dated postmark on mail passing through them.
Military spokescritters at the time said that policy WAS to have dated postmarks, though they also said sometimes circumstances prevented it from happening.
2) Florida election laws require a postmark date, and mandate discarding the ballot if it is absent.
In previous elections, that was true. Near as I can tell in 2000, Florida law required either a postmark date, or a dated signature. That's not to say that some weren't improperly rejected. Some were also rejected for other reasons, such as the voter not being registered.
3) FEDERAL law says that absentee ballots from those in military service must be counted
Certainly not from ineligible voters, or mailed (days? weeks?) after election day. But even assuming that, it's not clear that this was true at that time. I did find one quote suggesting there was a requirement that ballots be counted if they were delivered "expeditiously". Cite?
You're forgetting that most of the military ballots were tossed.
That would be the Florida absentee ballots from overseas that were in violation of election laws? (Although some tried to make it a matter of "military", military ballots were handled by the same rules as other absentee ballots.) The ones not properly filled in, the ones not received by the legal deadline? The ones issued in response to ballot applications that were tampered with by Republican election workers?
Actually, they mostly weren't tossed. The Democrats ended up not having the guts to insist that absentee ballots meet the legal standards.
What do they do with old [US] bills and coinage?
They shred the bills. And sell bales to novelty vendors, who repackage it into smaller bags with clever sayings printed on them (think we can slashdot compuserve?), who sell them to you in exchange for unshredded bills, in a process akin to perpetual motion.
Coins don't wear out very fast. What ones do, probably get melted down. In the old days, before laminated coins, they could just melt them down and make new coins with them.
Having a limited monopoly on a creation encourages people and organization to invest more into R&D
Which is what has made SCO and Unisys the powerhouses of R&D and innovation that they are today.
That may have never come off of their LSD trip and now live in a scary world filled with a conspiracy theory involving some kind of experiment being performed on him. This happened to him roughly 28 years after taking a few hits...
Of course, there are many people with similar problems who have never taken LSD at all. And most of the people who took LSD 30 years ago aren't any wierder than the general population, well, not a lot wierder. So your proposed cause-and-effect relationship is a wee bit tenuous. Perhaps it's a reaction to having lived during the Nixon regime, or he was exposed to Anita Bryant, the Cuban Missle Crisis, or Love Canal, maybe he mixed aspirin and Coke, or took nutmeg. I'm not going to be a staunch defender of LSD, I didn't like it much myself, but the connection is not obvious.
We are talking about an IP-blacklist, not a username blacklist... And I AM looking at making one that is 100% complete.
What makes you think they'll always be using their own IPs? You can probably find all their corporate website/email IPs, but for surveillance they'll be using college students as proxies (paid with free CDs), or those "10,000 free hours on AOL" accounts, or cable/DSL accounts with dynamic IPs, or IPs belonging to HiSpeed Hosting of Hoboken NJ (one spyder lives there), or accounts out of Cogentco or C&W/Exodus spammer heaven.
Anyone know of a list of the netblocks owned by the RIAA/MPAA and any member organizations, contracted companies, etc?
You can always do a WHOIS on such organizations, and maybe traceroutes, and work from there. Overpeer, BayTSP, RangerInc, ProtectedByCovenant, MediaForce, Cyveillance are a few of the known contractors.
There are occasionally lists posted in various p2p user forums (vendor forums, and portals like ZeroPaid, UniteTheCows, Slyck), newsgroups, mailing lists. A Shareaza user produces an xml file called Shareaza_Security_Update that lists such IPs and plugs into that program's built-in firewall. There's a program called Peer Guardian that is a p2p firewall, and has such a blocklist. BearShare has a hostiles.txt file that is used by the program as an IP blacklist. Gnucleus has (or had, I haven't looked lately) an IP blacklist.
Of course, no such list will ever be 100% complete, because the people hired by the price fixers can just log on with accounts that aren't in their own names.
I recall doing a WHOIS on one IP and having it identified as belonging to "Warner (private residence)". A private residence with a block of 64 static IPs of its own. Of course, it may have been all those Internet-ready kitchen appliances.
Typing out stupid paragraphics of legal disclaimers mean nothing when a law enforcement agency is investigating.
True. However, the RIAA is not a law enforcement agency.
What's wrong with using a pen to put a mark next to the name of the candidate you're voting for?
- "Lost" ballots, plus ballots that are actually lost by mistake
Nope. Where I am, the paper ballots are optical scanned by the "ballot box". There is instant feedback that the vote has been accepted and counted. And the paper ballot is retained in the machine as backup.
- Voters who mark more than one candidate
The machine rejects the ballot. Fix and try again.
- Voters who don't mark any candidate.
While the scanners could probably be programmed to reject ballots that don't have "none of the above" checked, in general this point is correct. But note that many elections have long lists of candidates that no one has ever heard of for obscure positions (vote for one candidate for an at-large seat on the Mosquito Control Board, four candidates for the Library Board), not to speak of judgeships where the incumbant is unopposed. People often do leave these blank intentionally.
- Tallying errors due to the fact the ballots are being counted by humans.
Only if the validity of the machine results is in question.
The US is NOT a Muslim state
Lets just take one point. Neither is Iraq. (It's not particularly "Arab", either.) Iraq is probably the most secular state in the region.
ObDisclaimer: Not that this makes it a paragon of "good government" either.
Axman is more fun, but ABC Electronics in Minneapolis for component-level electronics, test equipment, hydraulics, and the like.
I'm suprised that TI-83s are still so popular, considering they use ~12 year old technology. They're painfully slow for running simple math programs. Especially with statistics simulations. It takes the calculator several minutes to generate 100 samples of 50 random numbers from 1 to 10, which is something my $70 Athlon XP 2000+ could do in a fraction of a second.
You have an Athlon XP 2000+ pocket calculator? What's the battery life like on one of those?
I have no idea what the expectations were about either paper or movable type, but both independently (you can write on paper without a printing press, or print on other media besides paper) and inextricably (metal type on paper is a huge use of both), they have become irreplacable in our society.
Somebody still uses moveable type? Aside from a few hobbiests and craftsman printers, I don't think actual moveable type has been much used in the western world since the early 1900s.
Paper, though, that's definitely had a good product life. And the clay-tablet people thought it was just going to be a flash in the pan.
Q: How do you detect a radar detector?
1. AFAIK they are superhet receivers like most other receivers. They have a local oscillator, which usually has some leakage. Detect that and you've detected the detector. Just as the UK used to enforce their radio/TV tax with detector vans. Or as the recent slashdot story about interactive billboards that tailor their pitch to what radio station you're listening to.
2. Stand up on the overpass watching traffic go by. Aim your radar gun at the vehicles moving away from you and press the trigger. Note which cars' brake lights suddenly come on. Radio the cop who's waiting up around the next curve.
You seem to think the band makes its money from CDs. Let's hear from a career musician.
From personal experience: in 37 years as a recording artist, I've created 25+ albums for major labels, and I've never once received a royalty check that didn't show I owed them money. So I make the bulk of my living from live touring, playing for 80-1500 people a night, doing my own show.
-Janis Ian
Does anyone know of any devices that can record AM/FM radio into an MP3?
An AM/FM tuner with the line out feeding into the line in on your sound card? (Software radios mostly suck, why not use the real thing?) There's lots of software that can figure out what to do from there. If you want standalone, attach tuner to computer with duct tape.
Actually, Shareaza does have a search monitor. Check the "View" menu. (If you're not a hub, you'll only see searches that get passed on to you by your hubs/ultrapeers as being potential matches with files you have, though.)
It keeps stats on hits (by others on your files) in the library window.
I gave it the names of one Italian folk band and 2 klezmer bands.
It suggested Sam Cooke, Patsy Cline, Dwight Yokum, some terrible German singer, and a new-age band. And a few others I'd never heard of and couldn't locate in a fast P2P search.
It didn't even manage to match either of the genres. Sorry, this is not artificial intelligence, it is artificial stupidity.
My question would have to be why Limewire/Bearshare/etc have flat out decided to absolutely not support the new protocol
Seems to be two reasons. One is, the new protocol is (at this date) proprietary and not open, though it is being heavily marketed. There are promises that it will be open, some day.
The other reason is that they're seriously annoyed that the new protocol was named "Gnutella2", which implies that it is superior to Gnutella. Maybe it is, but naming it thus was a marketing coup at the expense of personal relations with the other developers. Kind of like calling your linux distribution "ImprovedRedHat" even though it never was RedHat to begin with.
I wonder if it is mis-information, to discredit MP3s in general.
Nah. The author wants to discredit not only mp3s, but the sound from video games, digital radio and TV, minidisk players, DVDs, the irritating voice that says "Please take the ticket", everything that involves lossy compression.
Not having read the link, I am an idiot.
fission carries the risk that one of our many reactors will somehow start a terrible chain reaction that will destroy the power plant and some area around it, but that hasn't happened yet. It is my understanding that the few incidents that have occured ( 3 Mile Island ) have been very minor.
One word. "Chernobyl"
Ok, so it was a bad analogy. I'd be squeamish about the cylinders of H2, but the hydride cannisters are probably fairly safe.