Really? [...] from the numbers I can find, it's been about 40mm in the last decade. Not even a single inch.
40 mm equals 1.57 inches.
IOW, the GP's claim of "a couple of inches" is certainly within bounds, rounded to a single significant digit. And it's certainly more than "not even a single inch".
There's enough emotion and wooly thinking going on without it being exacerbated by this sort of thing.
It actually isn't that easy to combust fuel. For example, pour a bunch of diesel into a tin pan and throw a match in, and... the match goes out. I would imagine doubly-so for bunker oil. And then there's the question of the fuel tanks having inadequate air supply.
> we haven't been monitoring the ozone hole for very long, not even 50 years. maybe it is a totally natural thing that fluctuates in size mostly due to solar output.
Yeah, and maybe smog in the LA basin is a totally natural thing that fluctuates in size mostly due to bear farts interacting with sun spots. It *could* be due to cars, but there's no real evidence for this, and no evidence to prove it's not a natural thing. Yes, we understand how internal combustion engines *can* cause smog, but that doesn't mean they *are* causing smog. Why reduce engine emissions based on flawed reasoning? Anyway, smog is probably good for some lifeforms and we'll all just evolve to be like them.
Err, no. The $80k cannot be used as "income" because it is an unrealized gain. It doesn't exist in a liquid form until you sell the house. Moreover, you can't use the increased equity value (to underwrite the second mortgage) *and* also spend the increased equity value because if you spend it it's not there any more, even in an unrealized form.
You also need to include a sequence number, as the postcards cannot be guaranteed to arrive in the order you sent them. Unless you use the strategy of sending an acknowledging postcard before the next postcard is sent, but that will double your transmission costs and substantially lower your throughput. A sequence number would also allow you to detect missing postcards.
And why would you pay taxes on _OPTIONS_ ?? If you exercised them, and sold the resulting shares, and paid taxes on the gains from THOSE, then you still came out ahead.
Troll.
Because an option has a value. It's the right to indulge in pricing time travel -- to buy something in the future at today's price, but to only do so if it works out to your advantage. That's a pretty handy thing, and clearly has value. Who wouldn't want the right (but not the obligation) to buy oil, wheat or MSFT three years from now at today's price. Nobody's gonna give you any of those rights for free, and that's because the right has a tangible value *now*.
The details will vary by country, but in my country, granting an option can create a tax liability at the time of grant, even if the option is never exercised. When you design the options scheme, you have to do it carefully to ensure that the tax liability is created at the right point. It's one thing to pay tax when you've made some money. It's quite another to be hit with a tax bill when you've received something that ends up amounting to nothing.
The US government spends more than it earns, so for every dollar of tax you pay, the government spends something substantially more than one dollar, with the difference being borrowed and compounded until some future generation pays it back, or the debt (and everyone's savings) are eroded by printing more money and then paid back. To be accurate, the calculator should add to substantially more than 100%.
Many of these tend to float pretty much at surface level for days or even weeks. With surface waves, they are impossible to see from small craft but of course are massive and hard. They are a very well known hazard to cruising folk crossing oceans, and will readily hole and sink a fibreglass yacht, or even knock a keel off. Forward-looking sonar, if you've got it, can't see them because of waves.
There are thousands of people crossing oceans in smallish boats, and every year a few of them go missing due to shipping containers. They very thought of them makes a cruising yachtie's blood run cold.
Tattoo's demonstrate someone's inability to extrapolate.
Whenever I see a beautiful girl with a tatt, I always find myself thinking "wow, she's nice.... oh, what a pity, she's scribbled on herself"
If you really want to get a geek tattooo, get one of those programmable ones featured on thinkgeeks a while ago. They lay a grid of e-ink into your arm, then you can set them to whatever you want with a wand. Really want to impress the chick you met last night? Get her name into your arm and don't tell her its programmable. New girlfriend? Change the name. Going to work? Set all pixels to off.
You are correct, but only for boats sailing across the wind or to windward. Modern yachts cannot sail faster than the wind *downwind*. Indeed, downwind is their slowest point of sailing, which is why many yachts tack downwind rather than sail dead downwind. Sailing boats cannot do what is claimed here. What is claimed here is substantially cool.
Bases in Germany and Japan for example - countries that were to only have US military presence for as long as necessary (60 years ago). In total more than 700 bases in foreign countries. Typically, once the US establishes a military presence in a country, it is loathe to remove it - the Roman model.
You're also more likely to plunge to a messy death if you take up base jumping. Oddly enough that *is* a logical argument against base jumping.
As a matter of fact, not wishing to be stabbed to death *is* a logical argument against brandishing a knife to resolve a disagreement.
It's always intriguing to non-americans how passionate americans are about guns, and how guns are placed in a category all their own, wrapped in a little bubble and self-referential belief. The argument as presented is equally valid for knives, guns and base jumping.
The difference with knives is that people keep them in the kitchen draw and use them to eat their steak. They tend not to sleep with a big bad motherplucker under their pillow awaiting some feared attack that will probably never come. I don't even *think* of the contents of my kitchen draw as a weapon. But if I slept with a knife in my bedside drawer, I think I'd qualify as a sick puppy. But that's just me.
I have to sleep with my watch on, and gun within 20cm, or type in a pin in groggy half sleep?
Compared to just picking up your gun and pointing it at someone in a groggy state?
You are more likely to be shot if you own a gun, and that's just talking about you, the gun owner. How about your hapless wife or child who happens to be sneaking around trying not to wake you in "your groggy state", in which you want to become instantly fully armed.
Frankly, I think the idea that you have to pass some sort of non-groggy-state test before your gun enables is a damn fine idea.
I find paper phone books an incredibly useful service. I use them whenever I'm using a craft knife and need something to cut on. They work very well for that, they're free, and a new one is delivered to my door every year or something.
They can also be useful for raising monitors a couple of inches, although for that application you don't need a fresh one each year.
But as a source of phone numbers - ya just gotta wonder why they bother. Advertising revenue, perhaps.
Interestingly, this is a slightly distorted echo of how the notion of corporate structures and shared equity originated.
In the 1600's there was a bunch of money to be made in buying ships, equipping them and sending them to the East Indies to buy spices to bring back and sell.
But ships and equipment were so expensive that it was hard for anyone to rake together the capital to put forth an expedition, even though there would be a huge payoff at the end. So the idea of a 'joint stock company' was borne so people could club together to buy the ship and the necessaries. The Dutch East India Trading company effectively became the first public company in the world and paid an 18% dividend for over two centuries. Dutch law was made to allow pieces of the company to be bought and sold on a 'bourse' (house). Other people realised you could use the same idea for purposes other than buying ships. And here we are today, turned full circle albeit with more nefarious intent.
But interesting that modern equity-based capitalism was invented by the Dutch.
FWIW, whenever I'm reading a resume and someone mentions they're "in mensa", from long experience I always interpret that as meaning they're intelligent, but not smart. You have to be intelligent to join mensa, but if you're smart as well, you'll know only stoopid people crow about joining mensa. There's plenty of sufficiently-intelligent people who never joined mensa because they were having too much fun kicking a ball around with their friends, and whose intellectual roundness was far the richer for it.
I also used to tell my guys that whenever anyone's sitting in a meeting thinking they're the smartest one in the room, that automatically means they're not. Because everyone can learn something from someone, anyone, else, and you'd have to be pretty stoopid to lose sight of that.
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Really? [...] from the numbers I can find, it's been about 40mm in the last decade. Not even a single inch.
40 mm equals 1.57 inches.
IOW, the GP's claim of "a couple of inches" is certainly within bounds, rounded to a single significant digit. And it's certainly more than "not even a single inch".
There's enough emotion and wooly thinking going on without it being exacerbated by this sort of thing.
It actually isn't that easy to combust fuel. For example, pour a bunch of diesel into a tin pan and throw a match in, and... the match goes out. I would imagine doubly-so for bunker oil. And then there's the question of the fuel tanks having inadequate air supply.
Sounds like you're a long way from an ozone hole, and a short way from a smog basin.
> we haven't been monitoring the ozone hole for very long, not even 50 years. maybe it is a totally natural thing that fluctuates in size mostly due to solar output.
Yeah, and maybe smog in the LA basin is a totally natural thing that fluctuates in size mostly due to bear farts interacting with sun spots. It *could* be due to cars, but there's no real evidence for this, and no evidence to prove it's not a natural thing. Yes, we understand how internal combustion engines *can* cause smog, but that doesn't mean they *are* causing smog. Why reduce engine emissions based on flawed reasoning? Anyway, smog is probably good for some lifeforms and we'll all just evolve to be like them.
Err, no. The $80k cannot be used as "income" because it is an unrealized gain. It doesn't exist in a liquid form until you sell the house. Moreover, you can't use the increased equity value (to underwrite the second mortgage) *and* also spend the increased equity value because if you spend it it's not there any more, even in an unrealized form.
The US tried to invade Canada and failed.
Ask a Canadian who won.
At least the French never got beaten by the Canadians.
You also need to include a sequence number, as the postcards cannot be guaranteed to arrive in the order you sent them. Unless you use the strategy of sending an acknowledging postcard before the next postcard is sent, but that will double your transmission costs and substantially lower your throughput. A sequence number would also allow you to detect missing postcards.
And why would you pay taxes on _OPTIONS_ ?? If you exercised them, and sold the resulting shares, and paid taxes on the gains from THOSE, then you still came out ahead.
Troll.
Because an option has a value. It's the right to indulge in pricing time travel -- to buy something in the future at today's price, but to only do so if it works out to your advantage. That's a pretty handy thing, and clearly has value. Who wouldn't want the right (but not the obligation) to buy oil, wheat or MSFT three years from now at today's price. Nobody's gonna give you any of those rights for free, and that's because the right has a tangible value *now*.
The details will vary by country, but in my country, granting an option can create a tax liability at the time of grant, even if the option is never exercised. When you design the options scheme, you have to do it carefully to ensure that the tax liability is created at the right point. It's one thing to pay tax when you've made some money. It's quite another to be hit with a tax bill when you've received something that ends up amounting to nothing.
The US government spends more than it earns, so for every dollar of tax you pay, the government spends something substantially more than one dollar, with the difference being borrowed and compounded until some future generation pays it back, or the debt (and everyone's savings) are eroded by printing more money and then paid back. To be accurate, the calculator should add to substantially more than 100%.
Many of these tend to float pretty much at surface level for days or even weeks. With surface waves, they are impossible to see from small craft but of course are massive and hard. They are a very well known hazard to cruising folk crossing oceans, and will readily hole and sink a fibreglass yacht, or even knock a keel off. Forward-looking sonar, if you've got it, can't see them because of waves.
There are thousands of people crossing oceans in smallish boats, and every year a few of them go missing due to shipping containers. They very thought of them makes a cruising yachtie's blood run cold.
Of course, Christopher Columbus never set foot on (what was to be) US soil, but I get your point -- Cuba would never have been settled without him.
Hey, there's an idea: offer Mars to Israel or Palestine! Want land of your own, with no chance of persecution? Get on that rocket-ship!
No, no -- just say it's been given to the Palestinians, and the Israeli's will be there tomorrow.
So all we need now is transparent baggage.
Tattoo's demonstrate someone's inability to extrapolate.
Whenever I see a beautiful girl with a tatt, I always find myself thinking "wow, she's nice .... oh, what a pity, she's scribbled on herself"
If you really want to get a geek tattooo, get one of those programmable ones featured on thinkgeeks a while ago. They lay a grid of e-ink into your arm, then you can set them to whatever you want with a wand. Really want to impress the chick you met last night? Get her name into your arm and don't tell her its programmable. New girlfriend? Change the name. Going to work? Set all pixels to off.
You are correct, but only for boats sailing across the wind or to windward. Modern yachts cannot sail faster than the wind *downwind*. Indeed, downwind is their slowest point of sailing, which is why many yachts tack downwind rather than sail dead downwind. Sailing boats cannot do what is claimed here. What is claimed here is substantially cool.
Libraries? Schools? A police force to catch your mugger?
"Coding errors" are not the problem-- those are easy to fix, because they're mostly typos.
10 PRINT "HELLO WIRLD"
Is that the sort of thing you're talking about ?
Or
"Hey, peon, that was supposed to be an Accounts Receivable program, not a global greeting unit !"
"Sorry Boss. Typo."
And what "empire" is that exactly?
Bases in Germany and Japan for example - countries that were to only have US military presence for as long as necessary (60 years ago). In total more than 700 bases in foreign countries. Typically, once the US establishes a military presence in a country, it is loathe to remove it - the Roman model.
You're also more likely to plunge to a messy death if you take up base jumping. Oddly enough that *is* a logical argument against base jumping.
As a matter of fact, not wishing to be stabbed to death *is* a logical argument against brandishing a knife to resolve a disagreement.
It's always intriguing to non-americans how passionate americans are about guns, and how guns are placed in a category all their own, wrapped in a little bubble and self-referential belief. The argument as presented is equally valid for knives, guns and base jumping.
The difference with knives is that people keep them in the kitchen draw and use them to eat their steak. They tend not to sleep with a big bad motherplucker under their pillow awaiting some feared attack that will probably never come. I don't even *think* of the contents of my kitchen draw as a weapon. But if I slept with a knife in my bedside drawer, I think I'd qualify as a sick puppy. But that's just me.
I have to sleep with my watch on, and gun within 20cm, or type in a pin in groggy half sleep?
Compared to just picking up your gun and pointing it at someone in a groggy state?
You are more likely to be shot if you own a gun, and that's just talking about you, the gun owner. How about your hapless wife or child who happens to be sneaking around trying not to wake you in "your groggy state", in which you want to become instantly fully armed.
Frankly, I think the idea that you have to pass some sort of non-groggy-state test before your gun enables is a damn fine idea.
I find paper phone books an incredibly useful service. I use them whenever I'm using a craft knife and need something to cut on. They work very well for that, they're free, and a new one is delivered to my door every year or something.
They can also be useful for raising monitors a couple of inches, although for that application you don't need a fresh one each year.
But as a source of phone numbers - ya just gotta wonder why they bother. Advertising revenue, perhaps.
Interestingly, this is a slightly distorted echo of how the notion of corporate structures and shared equity originated.
In the 1600's there was a bunch of money to be made in buying ships, equipping them and sending them to the East Indies to buy spices to bring back and sell.
But ships and equipment were so expensive that it was hard for anyone to rake together the capital to put forth an expedition, even though there would be a huge payoff at the end. So the idea of a 'joint stock company' was borne so people could club together to buy the ship and the necessaries. The Dutch East India Trading company effectively became the first public company in the world and paid an 18% dividend for over two centuries. Dutch law was made to allow pieces of the company to be bought and sold on a 'bourse' (house). Other people realised you could use the same idea for purposes other than buying ships. And here we are today, turned full circle albeit with more nefarious intent.
But interesting that modern equity-based capitalism was invented by the Dutch.
FWIW, whenever I'm reading a resume and someone mentions they're "in mensa", from long experience I always interpret that as meaning they're intelligent, but not smart. You have to be intelligent to join mensa, but if you're smart as well, you'll know only stoopid people crow about joining mensa. There's plenty of sufficiently-intelligent people who never joined mensa because they were having too much fun kicking a ball around with their friends, and whose intellectual roundness was far the richer for it.
I also used to tell my guys that whenever anyone's sitting in a meeting thinking they're the smartest one in the room, that automatically means they're not. Because everyone can learn something from someone, anyone, else, and you'd have to be pretty stoopid to lose sight of that.