So... anybody know the penalty for receiving proceeds from winnings across state lines? This will work with personal information submitted to the casino, including perhaps a routing/transit number, a credit card to buy credits, and other information which leads back to... your home address.
You could commit address fraud of course. Some student with 500 people "living" in his 1-bed dorm room will probably learn the hard way that it's a serious thing.
GLD; but then you blow the anonymous feature. Of course gold is "cash" too, so I don't know what the GP means when he says it's "cashless". If he means, "not requiring government backing to have value", then yeah, sure; but AFAIK the definition of "cash" is tangible money whereas "cashless" to me implies money that is only a ledger entry in electronic form. The ledger entry may be associated with physical hardware; but the hardware itself is not the money, simply a means of proving that there is a unique ledger entry symbolizing money.
This whole topic is silly anyway. The summary implies that a cashless society is "nirvana" which in the west we synonmize with "paradise" or "heaven". For many, myself included, the vsion of cashless is "hell", which for our Hindu and Islamic friends I do not know how to translate. Dystopia. I think we can all understand that.
For me, heaven was when I was a kid and adults still paid for a lot of things with coins because they actually had some purchasing power. We could bring back this bit of heaven by simply striking new coins of the same composition with 10X the value. A "new penny" would carry a value of $0.10, a "new nickle" $0.50, etc. Pocket change would be worth something again, the zinc lobby would be OK with it (only reason we still have the penny is the zinc mining lobby), the vending machine people wouldn't have such a hard time accomodating this, and we would effectively and painlessly introduce dollar coins in the form of dimes instead of bulkier coins that people hate.
Of course there would be some resistance at first; but society ran just fine when a dime had a purchasing power equivalent of $2.00 today!
American Dad doesn't have quite the same problems that FG does. Yeah, it's got some shock too; but it's not quite so gratuitous as FG, and there's some real humor mixed in. "hilarious" is subjective of course.
Under a single-payer system, the government would collect the tax and use it to pay for healthcare. This is already established as Constitutional (medicare, medicaid, etc.). It's conceivable that the government could turn around and pay those taxes to private companies in order to provide those services. Still perfectly OK. Contractors work with the gov all the time.
The mandate just virtualizes the government's typical role as middleman in this equation.
I feel the same way. It started out as regular humor, and quickly went to shock humor in cartoon form. Oddly enough, this seems to make a LOT of money for some people. Maybe executives have an affinity for this type of thing. How else do you explain Howard Stern?
At the end of the day, if you can make the suits laugh, it doesn't matter if viewers laugh. It only matters that viewers watch. Whether they are watching because they like it, or because they are making copius notes for the next PTA meeting is irrelevant. Go one step further, and all that really matters is that the suits think they're watching. If my machine tells your machine that I'm watching, the suits love that. It's like they're actually playing virtual skeeball with taxpayer dollars.
I seemed to remember this happening in California and was able to dig up this story. That may or may not be the one I remember. I don't know if they were violating the law by target shooting, or if they were prosecuted for starting a fre regardless of cause. Regardless, as others have noted, common sense is in short supply. Being pro-gun is one thing. Having a state legislature that refused to ban target shooting on public lands in red-flag conditions is just INSANE.
Let's be generous and say they can cover the car with 5 square meters of cells at 20% efficiency. Let's say it's full sun, 1 KW per square meter. That's 5*0.2*1=1 kW. Let's sit it in the parking lot for 8 hours under that baking sun. That's 8 kW*h.
1 hp = approx 750W. That's about 11 hp*h. 11 horsepower for one hour if you are in Mexico city during the Summer Solstice.
Forget about totally covering the car, and just have the wimpy little panel on the roof with maybe a square meter, and it's even less. Now take it to North America in a non-Summer month. Now it makes sense why these roof panels are being used to keep the car cool in the parking lot, or to power a few accessories; but not much more.
He can drive it a little on weekends, keep it in the garage, and that baby is an INVESTMENT. Real collector value there. I suspect some of the first few off the line will have that aura; but VIN 1 in particular. Wow. I wonder who he knew to get that, or was it a fair game and he just happened to click first on the signup?
I see the Libertarian and Republican view of money as being analagous to Newtonian physics and relativity.
From the right PoV, money is a measure of hard work, perhaps talent; but no more. In every day life that makes sense. Money looks like a fair measure. Now, how much talent and hard work can you have? How much money can you have? By definition, nobody can have more than 100% of the money. That's like the speed of light. Just as in physics, non-Newtonian things start happening as you approach the speed of light.
The first sign that you have "relativistic money" is that you have un-earned income. For most of us this is a very small thing (interest, maybe some dividends). Faster, faster... you are going fast enough to live on your un-earned income. Faster still... you seek to protect your sources of income by currying favor with local politicians. Faster, FASTER. You seek national laws that work in your favor. FASTER, FASTER, RUN--for high office, or else enter the space-time continuum of those who hold high office. Attend $30k/plate dinners as a matter of routine. Effectively make policy, which feeds back into the hyperdrive of your ever accelerating fortunes.
Close to the monetary speed of light, the Newtonian world of talent and hard work are of minimal impact, whereas for most of us the relativistic impact of unearned income and influence are negligible, or just a dream.
Summary makes more sense if you read it as SNL's Stefon:
New York's hottest club is.. Opa! It's got a JavaScript-like syntax, support for Mongo DB, Node.js, developer contests, and in the far left corner, an old German man covered with fibers.
It's the same reason women are more attracted to a guy who already has a hot girl on his arm. Worse, some are attracted to married men. What is she giving him? I can give him more. Break that non-compete agreement. We'll move to a different state. They can't touch us. We'll run away together!
According to Wiki it beta decays into an electron which can be blocked with "5 mm of perspex". I'm not sure how human tissue compares with the blocking power of perspex. The other particle is an electron anti-neutrino (!) which passes harmlessly through almost everything. No gamma radiation is produced. No neutrons are produced.
If I had to be irradiated with something, Phosphorus 32 doesn't sound that bad.
Yes! And we had to ride miles to the mall. At the very least, it was a mile to the nearest store that had video games. Childhood obesity was virtually unheard of.
Now get off my lawn, which I had to mow in order to earn money to put in the video games.
Loans are arms and the lenders are arms dealers. The people who graduated ahead of you bought the bullets and effectively shot you out of the economy. They effectively pit us against eachother when competing for any big ticket item: house, car, education, etc.
Just as in war, a combatant sometimes wins; but arms dealers always win.
It's a joke. It's an old joke. I would change it, but it's drawn a lot of remarks and that causes problems with the integrity of the archives.
Why? Because AFAIK Slashdot archives a function call to the "sig function" that you define in your preferences. If I change my sig, I change the appearance of the archived pages. It would create too many bizarre non sequiturs regarding the comments about the sig.
Slashdot could fix this by crawling the entire archive, replacing the function call with the current return value, and henceforth archiving the current return value rather than the function call.
I doubt that will happen because it would involve coding effort and server resources for something that from their PoV probably isn't much of a problem.
Hmmm... actually:
1. Archive all current sigs.
2. The function invoked by the archived pages is changed to retreive from the archives sigs.
3. A new function is written that retrieves the current sig, and the new pages call that function instead of the old one.
4. The archiver archives the sigs instead of the function that retrieves the sigs.
That would avoid the crawl; but the archives would be full of redundant sigs. I suspect that's why they did it in the first place--to save disk space. The everliving grammar troll sig is the consequence though, or else a failure of archive integrity.
This, BTW, is part of a larger problem with the web and dynamic content. For example, with print journalism you can go back and look a "period" advertisements. This will not be possible with the web, because the archives contain calls to 3rd party servers that serve current ads.
Give them a political office, and they can accept money from the bank...so the bank can legally rob a country
Rob a country, and the cities fall into ruins, leaving the people with no hope, no education, and driving them to desperate acts such as robbing banks. The cycle is complete.
Right. Helen Keller didn't need an iPad. She had a dedicated human being that helped here get around and interpreted signs for her so she could communicate with those not fluent in sign language.
Model-Ts were "any color you like, as long as it's black". It was General Motors that started coloring things up and I think they also invented model years. The model year is a not so subtle suggestion that you are driving an "old" car even though it still runs fine.
As people "acquire" technology like search and programming languages, the people who made their scratch creating these things are left with nothing to do. You might think they'd move on to create something entirely different, or that they'd move into maintenance mode as you suggest. However, they have special expertise in creating not maintaining, and moreover they have special exerptise in creating particular kinds of things. The easiest thing for them to do is fool people into believing that thing A is obsolete so they can create thing B which is fundamentally the same. They maximize their profit that way. It's not so much malice as it is simple laziness. It's economics 101, really.
People want recurring revenue. It's the next best thing to economic rent. Or as I like to say, "everybody wants to be a subsidized farmer".
I was totally dumbfounded. I had no idea what I was doing wrong. If I had a loaf of bread, it would be in a plastic bag and I wouuld hold it by the loose end. This was nothing like carrying a football.
It was phys ed, and the flow of the day didn't allow me to ask for clarification. Years later I learned that "like a loaf of bread" was a common coaches idiom for carrying the ball too far away from the body, too loosely so that it might get sripped by a defender.
Now as an added bonus, you need to understand that this is an American football I'm talking about, and that balls do not wear clothing.
I think it was Winston Churchill who said that the Americans and Britons are "divided by a common tongue". Same goes for any other place in the world where "English" is spoken.
San Francisco Bay is already home to a huge number of non-native species according to a local report. Trade through the port of Oakland is one of many culprits. There has been much talk of requiring different treatment of ship ballast tanks (internal tanks flooded with water to lower and stabilize ships).
A one-time shot of tsunami debris is nothing compared to the steady onslaught of commerce.
Selective breeding and GMO are too entirely different things. Allowing GMO makes about as much sense as letting self-driving, self-replicating motorcycle drones on the road because "we're pretty sure" they won't go Terminator on us.
You may not like this kind of venue shopping, regulatory arbitrage, or whatever you call it. Consider the alternative:
One world government and "harmonizing" laws so that all countries are the same.
You don't have to be a conspiracy nut to oppose that. It's easy to see what's wrong with it directly. If you have only one system it had damned better be the right one otherwise everybody is screwed. Competition is good, and that includes the policies of nation-states.
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So... anybody know the penalty for receiving proceeds from winnings across state lines? This will work with personal information submitted to the casino, including perhaps a routing/transit number, a credit card to buy credits, and other information which leads back to... your home address.
You could commit address fraud of course. Some student with 500 people "living" in his 1-bed dorm room will probably learn the hard way that it's a serious thing.
GLD; but then you blow the anonymous feature. Of course gold is "cash" too, so I don't know what the GP means when he says it's "cashless". If he means, "not requiring government backing to have value", then yeah, sure; but AFAIK the definition of "cash" is tangible money whereas "cashless" to me implies money that is only a ledger entry in electronic form. The ledger entry may be associated with physical hardware; but the hardware itself is not the money, simply a means of proving that there is a unique ledger entry symbolizing money.
This whole topic is silly anyway. The summary implies that a cashless society is "nirvana" which in the west we synonmize with "paradise" or "heaven". For many, myself included, the vsion of cashless is "hell", which for our Hindu and Islamic friends I do not know how to translate. Dystopia. I think we can all understand that.
For me, heaven was when I was a kid and adults still paid for a lot of things with coins because they actually had some purchasing power. We could bring back this bit of heaven by simply striking new coins of the same composition with 10X the value. A "new penny" would carry a value of $0.10, a "new nickle" $0.50, etc. Pocket change would be worth something again, the zinc lobby would be OK with it (only reason we still have the penny is the zinc mining lobby), the vending machine people wouldn't have such a hard time accomodating this, and we would effectively and painlessly introduce dollar coins in the form of dimes instead of bulkier coins that people hate.
Of course there would be some resistance at first; but society ran just fine when a dime had a purchasing power equivalent of $2.00 today!
American Dad doesn't have quite the same problems that FG does. Yeah, it's got some shock too; but it's not quite so gratuitous as FG, and there's some real humor mixed in. "hilarious" is subjective of course.
Under a single-payer system, the government would collect the tax and use it to pay for healthcare. This is already established as Constitutional (medicare, medicaid, etc.). It's conceivable that the government could turn around and pay those taxes to private companies in order to provide those services. Still perfectly OK. Contractors work with the gov all the time.
The mandate just virtualizes the government's typical role as middleman in this equation.
I feel the same way. It started out as regular humor, and quickly went to shock humor in cartoon form. Oddly enough, this seems to make a LOT of money for some people. Maybe executives have an affinity for this type of thing. How else do you explain Howard Stern?
At the end of the day, if you can make the suits laugh, it doesn't matter if viewers laugh. It only matters that viewers watch. Whether they are watching because they like it, or because they are making copius notes for the next PTA meeting is irrelevant. Go one step further, and all that really matters is that the suits think they're watching. If my machine tells your machine that I'm watching, the suits love that. It's like they're actually playing virtual skeeball with taxpayer dollars.
I was all set up to sell online sarcasm detection software in RI.
I seemed to remember this happening in California and was able to dig up this story. That may or may not be the one I remember. I don't know if they were violating the law by target shooting, or if they were prosecuted for starting a fre regardless of cause. Regardless, as others have noted, common sense is in short supply. Being pro-gun is one thing. Having a state legislature that refused to ban target shooting on public lands in red-flag conditions is just INSANE.
Let's be generous and say they can cover the car with 5 square meters of cells at 20% efficiency. Let's say it's full sun, 1 KW per square meter. That's 5*0.2*1=1 kW. Let's sit it in the parking lot for 8 hours under that baking sun. That's 8 kW*h.
1 hp = approx 750W. That's about 11 hp*h. 11 horsepower for one hour if you are in Mexico city during the Summer Solstice.
Forget about totally covering the car, and just have the wimpy little panel on the roof with maybe a square meter, and it's even less. Now take it to North America in a non-Summer month. Now it makes sense why these roof panels are being used to keep the car cool in the parking lot, or to power a few accessories; but not much more.
He can drive it a little on weekends, keep it in the garage, and that baby is an INVESTMENT. Real collector value there. I suspect some of the first few off the line will have that aura; but VIN 1 in particular. Wow. I wonder who he knew to get that, or was it a fair game and he just happened to click first on the signup?
I see the Libertarian and Republican view of money as being analagous to Newtonian physics and relativity.
From the right PoV, money is a measure of hard work, perhaps talent; but no more. In every day life that makes sense. Money looks like a fair measure. Now, how much talent and hard work can you have? How much money can you have? By definition, nobody can have more than 100% of the money. That's like the speed of light. Just as in physics, non-Newtonian things start happening as you approach the speed of light.
The first sign that you have "relativistic money" is that you have un-earned income. For most of us this is a very small thing (interest, maybe some dividends). Faster, faster... you are going fast enough to live on your un-earned income. Faster still... you seek to protect your sources of income by currying favor with local politicians. Faster, FASTER. You seek national laws that work in your favor. FASTER, FASTER, RUN--for high office, or else enter the space-time continuum of those who hold high office. Attend $30k/plate dinners as a matter of routine. Effectively make policy, which feeds back into the hyperdrive of your ever accelerating fortunes.
Close to the monetary speed of light, the Newtonian world of talent and hard work are of minimal impact, whereas for most of us the relativistic impact of unearned income and influence are negligible, or just a dream.
Summary makes more sense if you read it as SNL's Stefon:
New York's hottest club is.. Opa! It's got a JavaScript-like syntax, support for Mongo DB, Node.js, developer contests, and in the far left corner, an old German man covered with fibers.
It's the same reason women are more attracted to a guy who already has a hot girl on his arm. Worse, some are attracted to married men. What is she giving him? I can give him more. Break that non-compete agreement. We'll move to a different state. They can't touch us. We'll run away together!
According to Wiki it beta decays into an electron which can be blocked with "5 mm of perspex". I'm not sure how human tissue compares with the blocking power of perspex. The other particle is an electron anti-neutrino (!) which passes harmlessly through almost everything. No gamma radiation is produced. No neutrons are produced.
If I had to be irradiated with something, Phosphorus 32 doesn't sound that bad.
Yes! And we had to ride miles to the mall. At the very least, it was a mile to the nearest store that had video games. Childhood obesity was virtually unheard of.
Now get off my lawn, which I had to mow in order to earn money to put in the video games.
Loans are arms and the lenders are arms dealers. The people who graduated ahead of you bought the bullets and effectively shot you out of the economy. They effectively pit us against eachother when competing for any big ticket item: house, car, education, etc.
Just as in war, a combatant sometimes wins; but arms dealers always win.
Frozen Spam in a can!
It's a joke. It's an old joke. I would change it, but it's drawn a lot of remarks and that causes problems with the integrity of the archives.
Why? Because AFAIK Slashdot archives a function call to the "sig function" that you define in your preferences. If I change my sig, I change the appearance of the archived pages. It would create too many bizarre non sequiturs regarding the comments about the sig.
Slashdot could fix this by crawling the entire archive, replacing the function call with the current return value, and henceforth archiving the current return value rather than the function call.
I doubt that will happen because it would involve coding effort and server resources for something that from their PoV probably isn't much of a problem.
Hmmm... actually:
1. Archive all current sigs.
2. The function invoked by the archived pages is changed to retreive from the archives sigs.
3. A new function is written that retrieves the current sig, and the new pages call that function instead of the old one.
4. The archiver archives the sigs instead of the function that retrieves the sigs.
That would avoid the crawl; but the archives would be full of redundant sigs. I suspect that's why they did it in the first place--to save disk space. The everliving grammar troll sig is the consequence though, or else a failure of archive integrity.
This, BTW, is part of a larger problem with the web and dynamic content. For example, with print journalism you can go back and look a "period" advertisements. This will not be possible with the web, because the archives contain calls to 3rd party servers that serve current ads.
Give them a political office, and they can accept money from the bank ...so the bank can legally rob a country
Rob a country, and the cities fall into ruins, leaving the people with no hope, no education, and driving them to desperate acts such as robbing banks. The cycle is complete.
Right. Helen Keller didn't need an iPad. She had a dedicated human being that helped here get around and interpreted signs for her so she could communicate with those not fluent in sign language.
Model-Ts were "any color you like, as long as it's black". It was General Motors that started coloring things up and I think they also invented model years. The model year is a not so subtle suggestion that you are driving an "old" car even though it still runs fine.
As people "acquire" technology like search and programming languages, the people who made their scratch creating these things are left with nothing to do. You might think they'd move on to create something entirely different, or that they'd move into maintenance mode as you suggest. However, they have special expertise in creating not maintaining, and moreover they have special exerptise in creating particular kinds of things. The easiest thing for them to do is fool people into believing that thing A is obsolete so they can create thing B which is fundamentally the same. They maximize their profit that way. It's not so much malice as it is simple laziness. It's economics 101, really.
People want recurring revenue. It's the next best thing to economic rent. Or as I like to say, "everybody wants to be a subsidized farmer".
They cut the current awards to fund a comedy prize. Sorry none of you guys joking about getting the other prizes made the cut. It's all mine, baby.
"Don't carry the ball like a loaf of bread".
I was totally dumbfounded. I had no idea what I was doing wrong. If I had a loaf of bread, it would be in a plastic bag and I wouuld hold it by the loose end. This was nothing like carrying a football.
It was phys ed, and the flow of the day didn't allow me to ask for clarification. Years later I learned that "like a loaf of bread" was a common coaches idiom for carrying the ball too far away from the body, too loosely so that it might get sripped by a defender.
Now as an added bonus, you need to understand that this is an American football I'm talking about, and that balls do not wear clothing.
I think it was Winston Churchill who said that the Americans and Britons are "divided by a common tongue". Same goes for any other place in the world where "English" is spoken.
San Francisco Bay is already home to a huge number of non-native species according to a local report. Trade through the port of Oakland is one of many culprits. There has been much talk of requiring different treatment of ship ballast tanks (internal tanks flooded with water to lower and stabilize ships).
A one-time shot of tsunami debris is nothing compared to the steady onslaught of commerce.
Selective breeding and GMO are too entirely different things. Allowing GMO makes about as much sense as letting self-driving, self-replicating motorcycle drones on the road because "we're pretty sure" they won't go Terminator on us.
You may not like this kind of venue shopping, regulatory arbitrage, or whatever you call it. Consider the alternative:
One world government and "harmonizing" laws so that all countries are the same.
You don't have to be a conspiracy nut to oppose that. It's easy to see what's wrong with it directly. If you have only one system it had damned better be the right one otherwise everybody is screwed. Competition is good, and that includes the policies of nation-states.