It's like people forgot about how in the weeks prior to the battle of Lexington and Concord, the Red Coats were stopping everyone traveling, detaining them without cause and searching all of their possessions, luggage, papers in the hopes of finding documents pertaining to the rebellion or weapons / supplies that could be used to support them.
These days the Red Coats could make up probable cause after they arrest people, conduct terry stops, and use civil assets forfeiture.
8080 machine code and hand assembly programmed into EPROMs via a Prolog programmer. After that it was Z80 macro assembler on a CP/M system with floppy disk drives.
Get your own domain, create an email address, setup your own server (if you're a nerd) or else just redirect it to whatever webmail you're using these days.
I did this for a while but the problems include dealing with your ISP's SMTP server because they block SMTP, dealing with spam, and maintaining control of your domain name. The last is a real problem; lose control of your domain name and someone captures all of your email.
Government doesn't actually have to set the price. They just cap the availability and an auction process sets the price. Cap and trade ends up being more flexible and responsive to market conditions than a flat rate pollution tax.
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And most importantly, cap and trade allows for unlimited opportunities for rent seeking.
The government can manipulate the auction results via supply or reserve tranches of credits, (effectively at cheaper prices) for some nationally important industries or exempt small emitters (like you and your car) while requiring large emitters like an airline or rail conglomerate or a electrical utility to purchase the credits each year.
Exaclty, the advantage of cap and trade to facilitate rent seeking is what makes a Pigloviant tax on fossil carbon politically infeasible. A carbon tax is not corruptible enough.
1) So who sets the prices? Any governmental price controls on any commodity (which carbon credits are) means there is no free market involvement.
1a) If the government sets prices, it is nothing more than a de facto regulatory scheme dressed up as commodity.
But without the complexity of the alternatives, the opportunities for rent seeking are limited although this benefit is the very thing which makes this solution unattractive to politicians; they are all about rent seeking. Pigloviant taxes are a way to account for negative externalities and one of the few places where government can play a constructive role.
2) Enforcement? Good luck with that.
Gasoline taxes? Good luck with that.
3) What's to keep government from requiring individuals (in addition to businesses) to buy these things, as a form of consumption tax?
What prevents the government from doing that now?
A carbon tax is exactly that; a tax on fossil carbon which will become carbon dioxide. It only has to be be taxed once in the production and consumption cycle.
4) I thought we all got out of the business of selling indulgences back when Martin Luther showed up?
Most of our taxes are effectively indulgences. Why would you think otherwise?
What is the difference between a sin tax and any other tax? Nothing, there is no difference. The government taxes productivity, savings, income, profits, and cigarettes because it considers them all to be bad.
The amount of times that I have had food poisoning from Subway, I was not surprised by that CBC report.
You also? The trick I have learned is to look into the bins holding the cold cuts and avoid anything where it is almost empty. Or by preference just avoid Subway entirely.
Why would they do this? This is like hearing they developed a way to make more bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Let's focus science back on making better electric cars, space travel, faster computers, etc...
And cancer immune intelligent super mouse overlords. We must have them at any cost.
Lighten up. It is harmless and funny. The worst that will happen is your device will tell you what a Whopper is. I would go buy a Whopper today if I wasn't a veggie.
If during the last thousand seconds, you have received any protocol packets from “Burger King”, discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of neighborhoods, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.
Go eat something healthy for a change. There's no need for this kind of idiocy. We're more civilized in Europe and would never sink to this level.
Oh yeah? What about FRENCH fries!? They are just as calorie laden as potato chips and not nearly as tasty. Why did the French invent them if they are so civilized?
I'm so glad they we call them FREEDOM FRIES now.
Freedom fries go especially well with coffee from my freedom press.
The entire premise behind copyright is that by granting an artificial temporary monopoly,...
And that temporary monopoly is finite but unbounded according to the court so what is the practical difference between the current statutory time limit and infinite time? Nothing, they are practically the same.
Given the lack of VPN payment bans/comments on the use of VPN products in the US, UK and Australia, law enforcement at a national level does not care about VPN use.
They do not care *yet*. They will if VPN use becomes ubiquitous.
The NSA spent considerable effort to make sure IPSEC did not become ubiquitous.
If a user is found on an interesting site using a VPN, police will get a court order in that VPN's nation and log the next log in of that site by the same VPN.
The VPN product would just connect the next day and have the origin ip, isp logged by the local police in the VPN servers nation.
There are ways for the VPN provider to make this more difficult starting with not including the capability to log this data. With some effort, I think it could be made impossible.
A user would have to totally change their VPN use every session to stay away from simple court ordered police logging efforts waiting days and hours later.
Oddly enough, if a user routinely uses a VPN, then this is possible to do by accessing the VPN anonymously like through a public hot spot.
Did the interesting person pay for the VPN every year out of a main bank account and CC? No funds for a good lawyer with all accounts frozen given the wider international connections.
This will create a demand for anonymous payment methods. Won't that be fun for the authorities.
As a non-american, could someone explain why you guys seem to go through the hassle of overpaying your tax during the year, then applying for and receiving a refund?
Rather than just, like, paying the correct amount to begin with? Like any sane tax collection regime would attempt?
WTF? The energy storage mass density of materials is a hard physical barrier. You can compute it from the of a given molecule or crystaline structure from first principles using quantum mechanics and fundamental constants of the universe.
There is some improvement to be had through physical construction of the battery but not a factor of 40.
The future will not be powered by fossil fuels but that does not mean synthetic or biological fuels will not be produced for the applications which require them like aircraft.
My position was always that anthropomorphic caused global warming is real but politics and rent seeking will prevent significant amelioration even within single countries. This quote from Quatermass and the Pit sums it up nicely:
Professor Bernard Quatermass - The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it? Dr. Mathew Roney - Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.
Even the developers had only hexadecimal printouts of main memory as a debugging tool. And you knew exactly what was in "core" too, because you had coded in Assembler.
I started out using preprinted sheets on a pad for hand assembling and then entering the object code in hexadecimal manually into an EPROM programmer.
Interstate commerce is only preempted by federal law when there is a specific federal law. And the Utah laws are not violations of interstate commerce if they apply equally to in-state and out-of-state businesses.
Interesting. But let's not forget that Moore's law is about exponential growth of transistor density, not NOT exponential improvement in performance. The transistors are (I believe) being fruitful and multiplying as they have been for four decades. What, if anything, useful is done with them is another issue.
Moore's law is actually about the price per transistor. Cost for a die is proportional to area so denser transistors means cheaper transistors but if your transistor density is limited by thermal density, then power per transistor becomes more important than density neatly explaining the recent push for lower power over higher density.
If the cost per transistor does not decrease allowing increased integration, then the fab has nothing to sell.
Alright, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night and it would be a waste of time to mug somebody, unless he rips someones hand off, so lets hope he doesn't figure that one out.
Is the acronym "DDR" really still applicable? I remember back when it came out thinking we were going to see QDR and ODR come out next and next. I guess the naming convention folks just got lazy and started tacking on revision numbers.
DDR means that it transfers data on two clock edges. Clocks only have two edges (up and down).
The number refers to other things about the protocol, such as voltage levels and allowable clock speeds.
Plus there is a QDR (quad data rate) type of RAM which reads and writes on every clock edge so 4 bits per line are transferred on every clock cycle.
What's your source for most of the parts on the srb's needing to be replaced? The srb's were made of aluminum and titanium, sea water is hardly corrosive to them. And they've been reusused for nearly 40 years.
Feynman's report discusses one aspect of the SRB building which he found disturbing. The separate sections get bent out of shape and have to be pressed to make them circular again. In the original design specifications, if the force to bend them back into shape was too great, they were suppose to be discarded but at some point (after NASA changed the launch timing by extended the hold-down time) too many were failing so they started ignoring that.
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You left out the part about the US sending CIA doctors to provide the vaccinations.
http://news.nationalgeographic...
It's like people forgot about how in the weeks prior to the battle of Lexington and Concord, the Red Coats were stopping everyone traveling, detaining them without cause and searching all of their possessions, luggage, papers in the hopes of finding documents pertaining to the rebellion or weapons / supplies that could be used to support them.
These days the Red Coats could make up probable cause after they arrest people, conduct terry stops, and use civil assets forfeiture.
"Stop resisting!"
8080 machine code and hand assembly programmed into EPROMs via a Prolog programmer. After that it was Z80 macro assembler on a CP/M system with floppy disk drives.
Get your own domain, create an email address, setup your own server (if you're a nerd) or else just redirect it to whatever webmail you're using these days.
I did this for a while but the problems include dealing with your ISP's SMTP server because they block SMTP, dealing with spam, and maintaining control of your domain name. The last is a real problem; lose control of your domain name and someone captures all of your email.
Government doesn't actually have to set the price. They just cap the availability and an auction process sets the price. Cap and trade ends up being more flexible and responsive to market conditions than a flat rate pollution tax.
\
And most importantly, cap and trade allows for unlimited opportunities for rent seeking.
The government can manipulate the auction results via supply or reserve tranches of credits, (effectively at cheaper prices) for some nationally important industries or exempt small emitters (like you and your car) while requiring large emitters like an airline or rail conglomerate or a electrical utility to purchase the credits each year.
Exaclty, the advantage of cap and trade to facilitate rent seeking is what makes a Pigloviant tax on fossil carbon politically infeasible. A carbon tax is not corruptible enough.
1) So who sets the prices? Any governmental price controls on any commodity (which carbon credits are) means there is no free market involvement.
1a) If the government sets prices, it is nothing more than a de facto regulatory scheme dressed up as commodity.
But without the complexity of the alternatives, the opportunities for rent seeking are limited although this benefit is the very thing which makes this solution unattractive to politicians; they are all about rent seeking. Pigloviant taxes are a way to account for negative externalities and one of the few places where government can play a constructive role.
2) Enforcement? Good luck with that.
Gasoline taxes? Good luck with that.
3) What's to keep government from requiring individuals (in addition to businesses) to buy these things, as a form of consumption tax?
What prevents the government from doing that now?
A carbon tax is exactly that; a tax on fossil carbon which will become carbon dioxide. It only has to be be taxed once in the production and consumption cycle.
4) I thought we all got out of the business of selling indulgences back when Martin Luther showed up?
Most of our taxes are effectively indulgences. Why would you think otherwise?
What is the difference between a sin tax and any other tax? Nothing, there is no difference. The government taxes productivity, savings, income, profits, and cigarettes because it considers them all to be bad.
The amount of times that I have had food poisoning from Subway, I was not surprised by that CBC report.
You also? The trick I have learned is to look into the bins holding the cold cuts and avoid anything where it is almost empty. Or by preference just avoid Subway entirely.
Only because the machines could not remember what chicken tastes like.
Dude, you are harshing my outrage.
Why would they do this? This is like hearing they developed a way to make more bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Let's focus science back on making better electric cars, space travel, faster computers, etc...
And cancer immune intelligent super mouse overlords. We must have them at any cost.
I tried installing it twice after following the recommendations on the forums and all I get is:
"This application encountered an unexpected error" with a mysterious error code.
Reading through the mysterious failures to work and the various things that patch 1.18 breaks on the forum is depressing.
Lighten up. It is harmless and funny. The worst that will happen is your device will tell you what a Whopper is. I would go buy a Whopper today if I wasn't a veggie.
If during the last thousand seconds, you have received any protocol packets from “Burger King”, discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of neighborhoods, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.
Go eat something healthy for a change. There's no need for this kind of idiocy. We're more civilized in Europe and would never sink to this level.
Oh yeah? What about FRENCH fries!? They are just as calorie laden as potato chips and not nearly as tasty. Why did the French invent them if they are so civilized?
I'm so glad they we call them FREEDOM FRIES now.
Freedom fries go especially well with coffee from my freedom press.
The entire premise behind copyright is that by granting an artificial temporary monopoly, ...
And that temporary monopoly is finite but unbounded according to the court so what is the practical difference between the current statutory time limit and infinite time? Nothing, they are practically the same.
Given the lack of VPN payment bans/comments on the use of VPN products in the US, UK and Australia, law enforcement at a national level does not care about VPN use.
They do not care *yet*. They will if VPN use becomes ubiquitous.
The NSA spent considerable effort to make sure IPSEC did not become ubiquitous.
If a user is found on an interesting site using a VPN, police will get a court order in that VPN's nation and log the next log in of that site by the same VPN.
The VPN product would just connect the next day and have the origin ip, isp logged by the local police in the VPN servers nation.
There are ways for the VPN provider to make this more difficult starting with not including the capability to log this data. With some effort, I think it could be made impossible.
A user would have to totally change their VPN use every session to stay away from simple court ordered police logging efforts waiting days and hours later.
Oddly enough, if a user routinely uses a VPN, then this is possible to do by accessing the VPN anonymously like through a public hot spot.
Did the interesting person pay for the VPN every year out of a main bank account and CC? No funds for a good lawyer with all accounts frozen given the wider international connections.
This will create a demand for anonymous payment methods. Won't that be fun for the authorities.
As a non-american, could someone explain why you guys seem to go through the hassle of overpaying your tax during the year, then applying for and receiving a refund?
Rather than just, like, paying the correct amount to begin with? Like any sane tax collection regime would attempt?
Because we are guilty until proven innocent.
WTF? The energy storage mass density of materials is a hard physical barrier. You can compute it from the of a given molecule or crystaline structure from first principles using quantum mechanics and fundamental constants of the universe.
There is some improvement to be had through physical construction of the battery but not a factor of 40.
The future will not be powered by fossil fuels but that does not mean synthetic or biological fuels will not be produced for the applications which require them like aircraft.
My position was always that anthropomorphic caused global warming is real but politics and rent seeking will prevent significant amelioration even within single countries. This quote from Quatermass and the Pit sums it up nicely:
Professor Bernard Quatermass - The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney - Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.
Even the developers had only hexadecimal printouts of main memory as a debugging tool. And you knew exactly what was in "core" too, because you had coded in Assembler.
I started out using preprinted sheets on a pad for hand assembling and then entering the object code in hexadecimal manually into an EPROM programmer.
Interstate commerce is only preempted by federal law when there is a specific federal law. And the Utah laws are not violations of interstate commerce if they apply equally to in-state and out-of-state businesses.
Interesting. But let's not forget that Moore's law is about exponential growth of transistor density, not NOT exponential improvement in performance. The transistors are (I believe) being fruitful and multiplying as they have been for four decades. What, if anything, useful is done with them is another issue.
Moore's law is actually about the price per transistor. Cost for a die is proportional to area so denser transistors means cheaper transistors but if your transistor density is limited by thermal density, then power per transistor becomes more important than density neatly explaining the recent push for lower power over higher density.
If the cost per transistor does not decrease allowing increased integration, then the fab has nothing to sell.
Alright, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night and it would be a waste of time to mug somebody, unless he rips someones hand off, so lets hope he doesn't figure that one out.
Is the acronym "DDR" really still applicable? I remember back when it came out thinking we were going to see QDR and ODR come out next and next. I guess the naming convention folks just got lazy and started tacking on revision numbers.
DDR means that it transfers data on two clock edges. Clocks only have two edges (up and down).
The number refers to other things about the protocol, such as voltage levels and allowable clock speeds.
Plus there is a QDR (quad data rate) type of RAM which reads and writes on every clock edge so 4 bits per line are transferred on every clock cycle.
What's your source for most of the parts on the srb's needing to be replaced? The srb's were made of aluminum and titanium, sea water is hardly corrosive to them. And they've been reusused for nearly 40 years.
Feynman's report discusses one aspect of the SRB building which he found disturbing. The separate sections get bent out of shape and have to be pressed to make them circular again. In the original design specifications, if the force to bend them back into shape was too great, they were suppose to be discarded but at some point (after NASA changed the launch timing by extended the hold-down time) too many were failing so they started ignoring that.