considering that there are people in this country who think that dihydrogen monoxide (http://www.netreach.net/~rjones/no_dhmo.html) is a toxic chemical that needs to be regulated and that carbon dioxide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaDVOd2sRQ) is an all natural substance that is desirable to have around, i think a semester or two of chemistry may be a pretty good idea.
before e-mail and cd-r rendered them obsolete, syqyest's removable hard drives were the standard in the prepress and publishing industry. syquest 44 and 88 megabyte drives were traded around like floppies. especially since floppies couldn't hold a multi-megabyte digital image.
back in the '90s you could hardly find a graphic designer who didn't have a 5.25" syquest drive (attached to their mac) and at least a handful of discs in a drawer. the discs were expensive (about a hundred bucks, i think) and people got annoyed when one wasn't returned by the prepress or print shop. on the other hand, they were so ubiquitous that sending one out with picture files almost always prompted the return of another with a different set of files. with luck, you could always maintain an inventory of a handful of discs.
i want a c-chip and for commercials to have a special broadcast flag of their own. that way, i can program the C-Chip in my teevee to automatically blank the screen when a commercial comes on.
obviously, there are still companies making vacuum tubes (for guitar amps, audiophiles, etc.) but was the crt the last vacuum tube on which serious r & d money was still spent?
when i think of mainstream and state of the art electronics (retro stuff notwithstanding) i can't think of any modern electronic devices that use vacuum tubes except for the crts found in computer monitors and televisions. this announcement seems to be mark the end for the vacuum tube - this is not just the passing of what was once the best video display technology, but also the final passing of the vacuum tube, once used in every electronic device ever made including the first digital computers.
not quite. the post office is not really a great analogy because all the costs associated with sending a letter lie with the sender, not the recipient. on the internet, the costs of transporting content are shared equally by both the sender and recipient. that's why everyone screams about spam.
if we wanted the internet to work more like the postal service, then everyone would have free internet access on the receiving side, and pay a fixed amount per packet in sending costs. packets would come in different types or classes with first class packets being the most expensive to send but also receiving the highest security and priority. lower class packets would be less expensive and receive lower priority but would be used for less critical or non-realtime data. but the real key to the system is that all the costs are borne by the senders, not the recipients of data.
basically, walmart builds a store in some rural or suburban county, usually by promising an increase in sales taxes. however, in a bit of sleight of hand, the physical walmart store is owned by a real estate investment trust (reit) incorporated in delaware and wholly owned by walmart. the final bit is that the walmart store pays a rent that is calculated based on its sales. the result is that the individual walmart store manages not to show any net profit (and pays no income taxes) in the state where the store is located. all the profits show up as rental income in delaware which, wonder of wonders, has no taxes on reits as long as 90% of the profts are paid out to the owners, in this case, walmart based in arkansas.
in short, walmart takes advantage of a loophole present in many state income tax codes to move all it taxable profits from (name the state, north carolina, wisconsin, massachusetts, etc.) to a state where there is little or no corporate income tax.
not too different from how microsoft is moving profits earned by operations in washington to nevada.
and, finally, when taxpayers in the states where walmart pulls this stunt wise up, walmart increases its lobbying budget to prevent state governments from closing up the loophole.
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considering that there are people in this country who think that dihydrogen monoxide (http://www.netreach.net/~rjones/no_dhmo.html) is a toxic chemical that needs to be regulated and that carbon dioxide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaDVOd2sRQ) is an all natural substance that is desirable to have around, i think a semester or two of chemistry may be a pretty good idea.
you can also effectively shield against microwaves with the wire mesh cut out from a screen door.
i liked child of fortune and little heroes. star trek fans ought to note that he also wrote the episode 'wolf in the fold'.
spinrad's novels are generally set in decadent societies and feature lots of drug use.
i'd have thought gold vending machines would've hit japan first
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=japan+vending+machine&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=gZ05Stf8MMaGtgeApsjVDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
they sell everything in vending machines in japan.
http://www.techfresh.net/japanese-vending-machine/
i had a slice of chocolate cream pie.
a little while ago you could have said the same about circuit city. and now, oh...
the article completely ignores the syquest drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology
before e-mail and cd-r rendered them obsolete, syqyest's removable hard drives were the standard in the prepress and publishing industry. syquest 44 and 88 megabyte drives were traded around like floppies. especially since floppies couldn't hold a multi-megabyte digital image.
back in the '90s you could hardly find a graphic designer who didn't have a 5.25" syquest drive (attached to their mac) and at least a handful of discs in a drawer. the discs were expensive (about a hundred bucks, i think) and people got annoyed when one wasn't returned by the prepress or print shop. on the other hand, they were so ubiquitous that sending one out with picture files almost always prompted the return of another with a different set of files. with luck, you could always maintain an inventory of a handful of discs.
have you installed linux on it yet?
wife 1.0 (upgraded from girlfriend 3.6)
heh heh - you called them actors.
and duct tape - don't forget the duct tape.
it's your plastic pal who's fun to be with!
even bette - get a whole bunch of old antennas together to make an array a la the Very Large Array
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/
you can call it the Very Small Array
gee whiz, it looked like an explosion to me.
cool! it's like getting ten games in one!
the philosophy students demand that there may, or may not, be an xbox server.
ron paul should also get an extra modifier for being crazy.
i want a c-chip and for commercials to have a special broadcast flag of their own. that way, i can program the C-Chip in my teevee to automatically blank the screen when a commercial comes on.
fascinating, isn't it? there're more drugs in the water used to dilute homeopathic preparations than the homeopaths are using.
obviously, there are still companies making vacuum tubes (for guitar amps, audiophiles, etc.) but was the crt the last vacuum tube on which serious r & d money was still spent?
when i think of mainstream and state of the art electronics (retro stuff notwithstanding) i can't think of any modern electronic devices that use vacuum tubes except for the crts found in computer monitors and televisions. this announcement seems to be mark the end for the vacuum tube - this is not just the passing of what was once the best video display technology, but also the final passing of the vacuum tube, once used in every electronic device ever made including the first digital computers.
even better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFGrQMD6Uqc
sounds like someone high up in e-bay's hierarchy is a scientologist.
only because we've learned humans aren't as smart as we thought.
not quite. the post office is not really a great analogy because all the costs associated with sending a letter lie with the sender, not the recipient. on the internet, the costs of transporting content are shared equally by both the sender and recipient. that's why everyone screams about spam.
if we wanted the internet to work more like the postal service, then everyone would have free internet access on the receiving side, and pay a fixed amount per packet in sending costs. packets would come in different types or classes with first class packets being the most expensive to send but also receiving the highest security and priority. lower class packets would be less expensive and receive lower priority but would be used for less critical or non-realtime data. but the real key to the system is that all the costs are borne by the senders, not the recipients of data.
lobbying indeed.
walmart has been pulling a similar stunt like this for years. there's been a number of articles on the huffington post about this lately.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/walmart-pays-208678-fo_b_84601.html
basically, walmart builds a store in some rural or suburban county, usually by promising an increase in sales taxes. however, in a bit of sleight of hand, the physical walmart store is owned by a real estate investment trust (reit) incorporated in delaware and wholly owned by walmart. the final bit is that the walmart store pays a rent that is calculated based on its sales. the result is that the individual walmart store manages not to show any net profit (and pays no income taxes) in the state where the store is located. all the profits show up as rental income in delaware which, wonder of wonders, has no taxes on reits as long as 90% of the profts are paid out to the owners, in this case, walmart based in arkansas.
in short, walmart takes advantage of a loophole present in many state income tax codes to move all it taxable profits from (name the state, north carolina, wisconsin, massachusetts, etc.) to a state where there is little or no corporate income tax.
not too different from how microsoft is moving profits earned by operations in washington to nevada.
and, finally, when taxpayers in the states where walmart pulls this stunt wise up, walmart increases its lobbying budget to prevent state governments from closing up the loophole.