Started myself? No; but I've been around
it. To reiterate, taxes are pretty low
on the list of worries. Here's a description
from somebody
well known who you might respect. Grepped
the essay for "tax". I wasn't surprised that it didn't appear.
Not once. Not even as a metaphor for trying situations.
I seem to recall having heard that Formula 1
cars have been doing this for a while. Obviously
it's just a short power burst. You can't store much
energy in it without severe weight penalties.
The advantage of this over an ultracapacitor
is that you keep it all mechanical. If the car
were already a gas-electric hybrid, you'd probably
rather use an ultracap.
How do we know it's the first guy in the list?
How do we know there's only one developer responsible?
The version with the abstract "original" function
is more correct, IMHO. Also, it's Lisp not LISP.
(shoot (huntdown (original (developers))))
I've only been studying it a while, but based
on my limited understanding, having several people
pour over a small function before getting it right
is par for the course. Of course, now that it's complete
it should solve all the problems. If it doesn't,
it's the world's fault and not the program.
The cost of living here has been cited as
a concern. The number one cost is housing. It's
still too much. Don't support housing prices.
Let 'em fall. California, from the first strike
of "gold!" to the first rusty ghost town where the
ore ran out, has always been a "boom and bust" economy.
Take away the bust, and you don't have boom and bust.
You have boom and fizzle. It needs to go teh schitz
so that people will say, "Look, Sunshine, worldclass
universities, and affordable housing. Let's start a business
there".
"Blah, blah, blah taxes" from the Republicans; but you don't
pay taxes unless you make money. Startups don't worry about
taxes, they worry about the stuff you need to get off the ground.
You need someplace cheap to crash, cheap to eat, and you need
smart people crashing out in cheap apartments and eating ramen
a few miles from where they're getting the world
class education. JMHO, totally backed up by any real data of
course.
Very well, sir. Here's your 40,000 lines of Perl from
the late 90s. It's mostly regex to parse revisions 30 through 451 of our
in-house provisioning system. Oh, and BTW don't screw
up like the last guy who had this job. He provisioned
32767 customers with tier-1 service, and it was the director's
job to explain why we either had to let them have it for
the remainder of the year, or else deal with the CR issues.
This is just like those "marijuana tax stamp" acts.
Laws like that typicly just end up being used to tack
on extra years when you get convicted, and/or to assist
the prosecutors since the more laws you break the easier
it is to convict. IMHO, it's a waste of time since
any serious act (ie, assault, murder) comitted by such a
group is going to get them life or worse (does SC have the death penalty?)
The stuff I really want on the web
would work fine with Netscape Navigator 3.x and the
correct plugins.
Do us all a favor and get rid of CSS,
XHTML, and all the other alphabeet soup.
Oh, and stop using target _blank. I've
held out quite a while, but I think I'm
finally going to install one of those script/tag-stripping
proxies just so I can get rid of target _blank.
I wanna new window, I'll click right-click
and chose "open in new window". That's what
it's there for. Oh, and how's that back button
compatability thing working out? No? Still
not there? Wankers.
Since you haven't conducted the ENTIRE preceedings with
input from the Public, we don't consider them valid.
Until such time as the ENTIRE AGREEMENT is reviewed PUBLICLY, with
input only from individuals and not fictitious persons, and with equal
weight for the views of all said persons,
we will disobey any and all parts of it which we see fit to disobey,
as an act of civil disobediance.
Did TFA have "Mary had a little lamb" in the middle of it?
Nobody knows, and nobody ever will. Bonus points for unfalsifiable assertions
in the first paragraph.
Really, you expect that because the government is paying, quality of service will magically increase?
It depends. When looking for weather information online, it's the National Weather Service for
me, and that's about it. Anything else is ad-laden, Java/flash crippled, and generally not serious
about the weather, and more serious about generating ad revenue or trying to direct you to some site
that will install spyware. Cable weather? Don't get me started on how when I was living back
east, the slot usually reserved for The Weather Channel was showing a baseball game while
an F4 tornado ripped up close enough for me to see the cloud top. The local ABC affiliate covered
that storm nicely, however.
So. Weather. Government does a good job.
Same deal with the USGS, BTW--can you imagine their earthquake response site,
with its cool maps broken down by ZIP codes, if it were done privately?
These programs are tremendously valuable, yes, life saving, and not running up the national
debt AFAIK. They're probably a drop in the bucket. It's corporations that have
given us the current system, and yes--they actually tried to destroy the National Weather Service
too; but that was so ridiculous that even the politicians couldn't justify caving in.
Now, these are the good examples. Yes, there is the DMV, public schooling, my own personal
experience with tenants rights in DC (totally broken) the Santa Cruz County permitting process
(OMG, don't get me started on that) etc.
So. It breaks both ways. Plainly though, we are failing and need change--not the complex,
half-hearted change that the current reform is either. Real change. Teddy Roosevelt, trust-busting,
socialism is not a dirty word, CHANGE. Someone who can tell the corporations to piss off.
Insurance companies don't add value here. That's the elephant in the room nobody would tackle.
We needed a TR. Instead we got a GWB with good grammar. There's always 2012.
The Mt. Evans road is paved all the way. I understand
Pike's has some gravel. I've
been on Evan's but not Pike's. It was challenging for me as a human
being from sea level, who hadn't had enough time
to acclimate*. For a robot it doesn't seem like such
a big deal.
*The worst effects of mountain sickness came after
getting back down. The cumulative effects gave
me a wicked headache.
They should have convinced people that they could move
out of the dirty city and into the country. Then, they should
have overbuilt the country to the point where it no longer
had any rural character, thus negating the first part but requiring
them to take long train rides into the cities they moved out of.
Then they should have bought up the trains and closed them down,
forcing them all to drive cars. Then after a while they could
rebuild the trains; but this time at a much greater cost since
the lines would now have to run through valuable "real estate".
A scam like that could run for years. $26 million? Pah! The
real scam made $billions, $trillions even before it's all over.
We are just a few decades from Zefram Cochrane's first warp
flight amidst the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic USA. Conventional
rockets are a waste anyway.
They could have a satellite in orbit that
shined a laser down on the solar cells, temporarily
boosting the power. If a temporary boost
of power is all you need, such a satellite could
rescue multiple robots without visiting the planet.
And of course, such a system could be built as an
add-on to an orbital mission, making it quite cost
effective.
I actually followed your first link, and I have no sympathy
for him. WTF was he thinking? Military project. Non-disclosure
to foreign nationals IN HIS CONTRACT. Taking a laptop to China.
Lying to his bosses.
That's not something you stumble into by accident.
1. Why these laws? Because the export restrictions don't do a proper
job of distinquishing between tangible property and
software.
2. Why obey them? To avoid the government punishing you.
It may be difficult to draft a law against, say, industrial
espionage to hostile nations (which also involves intagilbe property)
without also including information that isn't confidential.
While the current law leads to the aforementioned silliness, real
perpetrators of industrial espionage and/or the aiding of hostile
nations are less likely to get off due to some subtle distinction
regarding the type of intagible property they transferred. IANAL;
it would be interesting to here from one regarding how the law
might be re-written to avoid this silliness. We could expempt
providers of softwares that are generally available... but then
you get bogged down in legal definitions for "generally available"...
see? It's easy to criticize from the armchair... but oh so fun, and
I do it too.
Fond memories of the form that came up for 128-bit
browsers back in the 90s. They always used to ask
you to provide your information, and certify that you
weren't from a bad country. I wish that was a joke;
but no. They really did that. Cuz, you know... somebody
who was up to no good would actually be deterred by that.
Sheesh!
Any 5 year old can tell all you need is 1 guy to come over
and get an ISP account. I'm quite sure that all the countries
on the list not only have state-of-the-art OSS/FS encryption
software, they have pirated closed-source software as well.
At least that's true for long term gains. Short
term gains are ordinary income. So... as we approach
the point where people have been holding a stock for
more than a year (AFAIK, that's the definition the
IRS uses), we get an interesting decision point. This
has interesting implications for stocks having rallied
off their lows, and this past week's drop in the market
may be a manifestation of that since people who bought
low in the late '08 crash can now cash out at the lower
rate.
I see they've kept up with the latest in web design.
When you go to search for
geodata, the search list is constrained
to a tiny rectangle in the middle of the page. You have to
scroll within that tiny rectangle. On my monitor, the page
is about a foot tall, and I'm tediously scrolling in this
inch-high box.
I've learned to recognize state of the art web design
when I see it. I bet it's even CSS compliant. They're not
quite there yet. To be really great web design, it should
be a Flash only site.
(close captioning for the sarcasm impaired: this was sarcasm)
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Started myself? No; but I've been around it. To reiterate, taxes are pretty low on the list of worries. Here's a description from somebody well known who you might respect. Grepped the essay for "tax". I wasn't surprised that it didn't appear. Not once. Not even as a metaphor for trying situations.
I seem to recall having heard that Formula 1 cars have been doing this for a while. Obviously it's just a short power burst. You can't store much energy in it without severe weight penalties.
The advantage of this over an ultracapacitor is that you keep it all mechanical. If the car were already a gas-electric hybrid, you'd probably rather use an ultracap.
How do we know it's the first guy in the list? How do we know there's only one developer responsible?
The version with the abstract "original" function is more correct, IMHO. Also, it's Lisp not LISP.
(shoot (huntdown (original (developers))))
I've only been studying it a while, but based on my limited understanding, having several people pour over a small function before getting it right is par for the course. Of course, now that it's complete it should solve all the problems. If it doesn't, it's the world's fault and not the program.
The cost of living here has been cited as a concern. The number one cost is housing. It's still too much. Don't support housing prices. Let 'em fall. California, from the first strike of "gold!" to the first rusty ghost town where the ore ran out, has always been a "boom and bust" economy. Take away the bust, and you don't have boom and bust. You have boom and fizzle. It needs to go teh schitz so that people will say, "Look, Sunshine, worldclass universities, and affordable housing. Let's start a business there".
"Blah, blah, blah taxes" from the Republicans; but you don't pay taxes unless you make money. Startups don't worry about taxes, they worry about the stuff you need to get off the ground. You need someplace cheap to crash, cheap to eat, and you need smart people crashing out in cheap apartments and eating ramen a few miles from where they're getting the world class education. JMHO, totally backed up by any real data of course.
(And then shoot him.)
With Lisp?
Very well, sir. Here's your 40,000 lines of Perl from the late 90s. It's mostly regex to parse revisions 30 through 451 of our in-house provisioning system. Oh, and BTW don't screw up like the last guy who had this job. He provisioned 32767 customers with tier-1 service, and it was the director's job to explain why we either had to let them have it for the remainder of the year, or else deal with the CR issues.
How many generations will it take for the females to become more male-like in appearance?
Then when you start shooting down both sexes, how many more generations for them to start resembling a harmless species?
How many generations for the mosquitos to develop shiny bodies the same color as the laser?
Any other unintended evolutionary consequences? How long?
Oh, and I hope the lasers aren't pointing up into clear air past the target. I'd hate to be a pilot in that case.
This is just like those "marijuana tax stamp" acts. Laws like that typicly just end up being used to tack on extra years when you get convicted, and/or to assist the prosecutors since the more laws you break the easier it is to convict. IMHO, it's a waste of time since any serious act (ie, assault, murder) comitted by such a group is going to get them life or worse (does SC have the death penalty?)
I was going to say, "in Soviet Iran, email service suspends you", but I like yours better.
Also, why did I have to scroll down this far to get a Soviet Iran post? Somebody's asleep at the switch.
The stuff I really want on the web would work fine with Netscape Navigator 3.x and the correct plugins.
Do us all a favor and get rid of CSS, XHTML, and all the other alphabeet soup. Oh, and stop using target _blank. I've held out quite a while, but I think I'm finally going to install one of those script/tag-stripping proxies just so I can get rid of target _blank.
I wanna new window, I'll click right-click and chose "open in new window". That's what it's there for. Oh, and how's that back button compatability thing working out? No? Still not there? Wankers.
Oh, and "get off my lawn".
Since you haven't conducted the ENTIRE preceedings with input from the Public, we don't consider them valid.
Until such time as the ENTIRE AGREEMENT is reviewed PUBLICLY, with input only from individuals and not fictitious persons, and with equal weight for the views of all said persons, we will disobey any and all parts of it which we see fit to disobey, as an act of civil disobediance.
Copy, paste, send.
Did TFA have "Mary had a little lamb" in the middle of it? Nobody knows, and nobody ever will. Bonus points for unfalsifiable assertions in the first paragraph.
Really, you expect that because the government is paying, quality of service will magically increase?
It depends. When looking for weather information online, it's the National Weather Service for me, and that's about it. Anything else is ad-laden, Java/flash crippled, and generally not serious about the weather, and more serious about generating ad revenue or trying to direct you to some site that will install spyware. Cable weather? Don't get me started on how when I was living back east, the slot usually reserved for The Weather Channel was showing a baseball game while an F4 tornado ripped up close enough for me to see the cloud top. The local ABC affiliate covered that storm nicely, however.
So. Weather. Government does a good job.
Same deal with the USGS, BTW--can you imagine their earthquake response site, with its cool maps broken down by ZIP codes, if it were done privately?
These programs are tremendously valuable, yes, life saving, and not running up the national debt AFAIK. They're probably a drop in the bucket. It's corporations that have given us the current system, and yes--they actually tried to destroy the National Weather Service too; but that was so ridiculous that even the politicians couldn't justify caving in.
Now, these are the good examples. Yes, there is the DMV, public schooling, my own personal experience with tenants rights in DC (totally broken) the Santa Cruz County permitting process (OMG, don't get me started on that) etc.
So. It breaks both ways. Plainly though, we are failing and need change--not the complex, half-hearted change that the current reform is either. Real change. Teddy Roosevelt, trust-busting, socialism is not a dirty word, CHANGE. Someone who can tell the corporations to piss off. Insurance companies don't add value here. That's the elephant in the room nobody would tackle. We needed a TR. Instead we got a GWB with good grammar. There's always 2012.
The Mt. Evans road is paved all the way. I understand Pike's has some gravel. I've been on Evan's but not Pike's. It was challenging for me as a human being from sea level, who hadn't had enough time to acclimate*. For a robot it doesn't seem like such a big deal.
*The worst effects of mountain sickness came after getting back down. The cumulative effects gave me a wicked headache.
So, that's the plan. The robotic mule will be used to haul basketloads of $1 trillion notes.
LOL. No, really. Not just saying that. Made my day. Keep typing. Slashdot wants more characters... like you!
They should have convinced people that they could move out of the dirty city and into the country. Then, they should have overbuilt the country to the point where it no longer had any rural character, thus negating the first part but requiring them to take long train rides into the cities they moved out of. Then they should have bought up the trains and closed them down, forcing them all to drive cars. Then after a while they could rebuild the trains; but this time at a much greater cost since the lines would now have to run through valuable "real estate".
A scam like that could run for years. $26 million? Pah! The real scam made $billions, $trillions even before it's all over.
We are just a few decades from Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight amidst the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic USA. Conventional rockets are a waste anyway.
They could have a satellite in orbit that shined a laser down on the solar cells, temporarily boosting the power. If a temporary boost of power is all you need, such a satellite could rescue multiple robots without visiting the planet. And of course, such a system could be built as an add-on to an orbital mission, making it quite cost effective.
Don't worry. I'm working on a filter for security puffery. Just wait for my press release. It'll blow you away. Promise.
I actually followed your first link, and I have no sympathy for him. WTF was he thinking? Military project. Non-disclosure to foreign nationals IN HIS CONTRACT. Taking a laptop to China. Lying to his bosses.
That's not something you stumble into by accident.
To play Devil's advocate for a minute:
1. Why these laws? Because the export restrictions don't do a proper job of distinquishing between tangible property and software.
2. Why obey them? To avoid the government punishing you.
It may be difficult to draft a law against, say, industrial espionage to hostile nations (which also involves intagilbe property) without also including information that isn't confidential.
While the current law leads to the aforementioned silliness, real perpetrators of industrial espionage and/or the aiding of hostile nations are less likely to get off due to some subtle distinction regarding the type of intagible property they transferred. IANAL; it would be interesting to here from one regarding how the law might be re-written to avoid this silliness. We could expempt providers of softwares that are generally available... but then you get bogged down in legal definitions for "generally available"... see? It's easy to criticize from the armchair... but oh so fun, and I do it too.
Fond memories of the form that came up for 128-bit browsers back in the 90s. They always used to ask you to provide your information, and certify that you weren't from a bad country. I wish that was a joke; but no. They really did that. Cuz, you know... somebody who was up to no good would actually be deterred by that. Sheesh!
Any 5 year old can tell all you need is 1 guy to come over and get an ISP account. I'm quite sure that all the countries on the list not only have state-of-the-art OSS/FS encryption software, they have pirated closed-source software as well.
At least that's true for long term gains. Short term gains are ordinary income. So... as we approach the point where people have been holding a stock for more than a year (AFAIK, that's the definition the IRS uses), we get an interesting decision point. This has interesting implications for stocks having rallied off their lows, and this past week's drop in the market may be a manifestation of that since people who bought low in the late '08 crash can now cash out at the lower rate.
I see they've kept up with the latest in web design. When you go to search for geodata, the search list is constrained to a tiny rectangle in the middle of the page. You have to scroll within that tiny rectangle. On my monitor, the page is about a foot tall, and I'm tediously scrolling in this inch-high box.
I've learned to recognize state of the art web design when I see it. I bet it's even CSS compliant. They're not quite there yet. To be really great web design, it should be a Flash only site.
(close captioning for the sarcasm impaired: this was sarcasm)