Not true. A college credit is awarded based on the amount of work you've done in a given subject area. If they're giving you two credits for one credit of work, that's just as wrong as if I, as a government contractor, bill my time twice because a paper I wrote applies to two projects. Its not me using the work on both projects that's wrong, its having my customer pay me twice for the same work. This is about making it harder to cheapen the degree.
Oh, and now China has decided to quit exporting rare earth minerals used in advanced technologies.
Feel obliged to point out here: Rare earths are not particularly rare. They're perfectly available other places than China, china just used its abominable environmental and labor practices to undercut the rest of the world temporarily.
This varies by state, and mostly has to do with the age of the deed. It also just depends on the deed. The old deeds on the east coast often own the land and everything in it. In the west, the government was much more likely to retain the mineral rights when it created the deeds. Frankly I've always thought there was a certain level of creepiness in the idea that someone could be mining under my house without asking my specific permission....
There is a cap of $.5M (because they're a married couple, $250k each) in gains profit. So they pay no tax on their basis (what they paid + improvements) + 500k. And then they pay the 15%. There isn't a roll-over provision any longer, however, so they have to pay that no matter what (i.e. no incentive to spend it over saving.)
I don't mean to be a Luddite, but if this works out, do you know what it will do to the economy? Tens of millions of jobs are based almost exclusively on driving.
It'll improve the economy by removing a large "tax" on everything that requires transportation (that is, almost everything) and freeing up the labor pool for more productive uses? By your argument we should be making self-service gas stations illegal as a job creation program. And maybe outlawing wireless meter reading systems -- those cost jobs too!
You laugh, but I have never observed a self-serve gas station in New Jersey....
That's a good philosophy, but it only works as long as you prevent the occassional incident from being a catastrophe. A laptop is just expensive, the data on it with no back up might be priceless...
*shrugs* Data on it with no backup WILL be lost eventually -- and most highly volatile or new data can be reconstructed. Shit happens, you deal with it, and that's life. (and yes, I HAVE had my laptop stolen (and felt pretty violated for a while), though not in an airport, and this is still my philosophy.)
Saying he offered to pay "whatever it took" depends entirely on whether he actually COULD. Not to mention that the FD probably doesn't have a convenient way of calculating it. One should also note, perhaps, here, that Ben Franklin originally envisioned fire departments that behaved exactly like this. This is what Fire Insurance used to be....
I remember that some time ago, car talk used to run a recording of a (real) massachussetts politician running for office calling into a talk radio show on his cell phone while driving that ended exactly like that.... can't find a link on google.
So its okay for the NFL, NBA, and MLB to have salary caps, and they pretty much are monopolies, but its not okay for a tiny percentage of the market to agree not start a wage war with each other...
It is perhaps worth noting here that the major sports leagues have various dispensations in the standard anti-trust laws, and are, thus, bad examples.
>>>Fine if less language is better learn French and stop using English.
I'd rather we all go back to the root language, Roman Latin. Or even better - let languages evolve naturally rather than outlaw English in certain jurisdictions and make Anglophones feels like second class shits that should get the hell out of Quebec or France. (Been there; experienced it myself.)
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Just as an important side note: English is not a latin-derived language. We're a germanic-derived language. While latin has certainly influenced the language, the languages roots (as you can tell by our grammar) are clearly elsewhere.
I overall agree that the likelihood that anything that wikileaks is leaking directly puts a soldier in danger is quite low. That type of data has very short lifespans. But indirectly? My biggest concern is that wikileaks will not appropriately redact all the sources. This has two effects 1.) It means that afghanis who have helped us, presumably in the belief that however bad we are we're better than the taliban, are put at risk. And therefore 2.) fewer will be willing to help in the future, because our ability to protect them is put in question. Which means 3.) more bad intel which results in US Soldiers being ambushed.
You can argue that the politicians were the ones who put them in harm's way in the first place. But, frankly, I think that any release of documents that increases their risk WHILE THEY ARE THERE without materially benefiting the cause of democracy is highly questionable. And I absolutely fail to see why a mass dump of these documents materially benefits democracy.
Some of them? Probably yes, referring to specific harmful incidents that may need to be corrected. But releasing entire databases worth of reports? That's just absurd.
but if you are logging in with a named account then you probably already knew that.
Which is an interesting point. As the web has more and more 'big players' how often are people 'logged in' without really paying attention to the fact because they're logged in for a different function and forget that the two functions are connected?
I'm embarassed to admit that I'd forgotten how often I'm logged into gmail in another tab while using google search...
What is in your mind would be analogous to "trade secret" not "patent." Trade secrets are exactly what the name implies -- a secret... of the trade. So, the constitution doesn't protect trade secrets specifically. In order to get patent protection, all the details of the idea must be disclosed.
I feel obliged to note that this is part of why we have a patent office. It ENCOURAGES people to disclose trade secrets more often, which overall contributes to knowledge.
This really doesn't obviate the point. Of course you don't need a calculator for 9x13. I rarely used a calculator in college, and I can approximate logarithms in my head well enough to pass a chemistry quiz. This said, when I HAVE a calculator at hand, I'm likely to use it for 9x13, it will be faster. (I can do Start -> Calculator and punch it in in about the same time, and then I have calculator open for the next problem.)
I think he's suggesting that the rules of supply and demand are such that the last drops of fossil fuels will be sufficiently expensive that we're unlikely to expend them. (At least, not by burning them -- I feel obliged to point out that of the many uses for petroleum, burning is by no means the most critical to society.) If so, this is a fairly ridiculous quibble. That is to say that while it is true that likely we never will expend the entire supply, we will certainly expend sufficient quantities of it that the entire remaining supply is insufficient to any sort of large-scale need.
Didn't Tad Williams already do the book subscription thing with Shadowmarch? I remember that, and didn't find it terribly successful.
That said, I think if there's any author out there who can come up with an 'enhanced book' and execute it well, Neal Stephenson is the guy. The FAQ explicitly states that you get to keep all the content you already bought (DRM free, I should add!) so I plunked my $10 down, to support the experiment, and we'll see how it goes.
I actually had an AGT, back when I was a little kid and an Apple was actually an appropriate computer for me. Then I turned 7, and learned to use a PC.
Seriously, though... I don't recall ever really using the AGT for much, except maybe once or twice just to see what it did (my parents probably actually got it for my older brother, but I doubt he did either.) It was really just a high-tech toy without much practical application, so maybe the comparison isn't so bad after all.
I think it was fun to see the comparison, I grant that touch technology has been around even longer, but it was still an interesting experience to be recalled to that old device and think whether I ever would have predicted this new one.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
So first of all, an impost and duty would generally be a customs tax . . . the sort of tax that would give a benefit to in-state businesses over out-of-state businesses. Clearly in this case we're talking about rules that give benefits to out-of-state businesses over in-state businesses. And let me assure all of you, that if anyone had suggested any such thing in 1789, the assembled convention would have shouted it down.
Second, please note that even if there IS a constitutional issue with use tax/sales tax (which given that existing laws in states to recover sales tax from people who buy out-of-state have not been struck down seems unlikely) congress clearly has the authority to allow it.
Third, why is GP post modded funny?? It seems like insightful would be better.
Actual costs assuming I'm paid £20 per hour, so est. £40 per hour employer costs, would be less than £2k for sure. If you assume those costs include all background research and what have you then maybe it would be as much £4k.
The 'actual costs' are probably tied up more in the infrastructure and IT support than in the actual website development.
I think the biggest problem is, as you point out, post-PhD. There are too many PhDs being produced relative to good research jobs, so typically one has to do several postdocs, might have to take a lecturer position somewhere, etc., in hopes of eventually, maybe when you're 40 or something, getting a tenure-track faculty position. Oh, and that's a tenure-track position, which is basically 6-7 years of probation (but at least you're getting paid well at that point).
Not entirely sure how to fix that. Making PhD studies themselves more attractive won't fix the problem, I don't think; if anything, it'll make it worse, by encouraging the production of even more PhDs who there aren't research jobs for. Somehow the post-grad-school part has to be fixed. There have to be more research positions, either in academia, in industry, or at government labs. Or, if we aren't going to open up more of the top-level (tenured-faculty-tier) types of positions, at least there have to be more attractive lower-level ones, something better than a post-doc. Maybe one where you still work in someone else's lab (i.e. you aren't the lab head), but you get paid better and have somewhat more research freedom. But that requires funding, too.
I think you just made the biggest mistake right there. There's still lots of R&D going on in industry, and a surprising amount of it is pretty interesting. The biggest problem today is that the academia doesn't really have a good relationship with industry, so while the PhDs are hugely valuable in industry, this isn't recognized as a career track for people getting them. Worse, in order to successfully GET your PhD you pretty much have to pretend you're planning to stay in academia whether you are or not, because no one will do papers with you if they think you're leaving the field academically. As someone who LEFT grad school because I couldn't see a path to a rational future in a reasonable time frame, and I've job hunted R&D jobs since... the jobs are out there, but you need the PhD. But nobody admitted that this was a viable course of action when I was actually in school to get it.
These guys aren't hackers. They are security advisors. They are the good guys. I suppose the editors didn't bother, you know, clicking a few links?
Here, I've done your homework. Was it that hard?
I'm sorry, but googling 'goatse' was not on the list of activities I had planned for the night. I mean, seriously? This said, you have my admiration for your fortitude and thanks for the sacrifices for the cause.
Also, really, with a name like 'goatse' most people aren't going to automatically leap to the idea of it being a white-hat group.
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Not true. A college credit is awarded based on the amount of work you've done in a given subject area. If they're giving you two credits for one credit of work, that's just as wrong as if I, as a government contractor, bill my time twice because a paper I wrote applies to two projects. Its not me using the work on both projects that's wrong, its having my customer pay me twice for the same work. This is about making it harder to cheapen the degree.
Oh, and now China has decided to quit exporting rare earth minerals used in advanced technologies.
Feel obliged to point out here: Rare earths are not particularly rare. They're perfectly available other places than China, china just used its abominable environmental and labor practices to undercut the rest of the world temporarily.
This varies by state, and mostly has to do with the age of the deed. It also just depends on the deed. The old deeds on the east coast often own the land and everything in it. In the west, the government was much more likely to retain the mineral rights when it created the deeds. Frankly I've always thought there was a certain level of creepiness in the idea that someone could be mining under my house without asking my specific permission....
There is a cap of $.5M (because they're a married couple, $250k each) in gains profit. So they pay no tax on their basis (what they paid + improvements) + 500k. And then they pay the 15%. There isn't a roll-over provision any longer, however, so they have to pay that no matter what (i.e. no incentive to spend it over saving.)
It'll improve the economy by removing a large "tax" on everything that requires transportation (that is, almost everything) and freeing up the labor pool for more productive uses? By your argument we should be making self-service gas stations illegal as a job creation program. And maybe outlawing wireless meter reading systems -- those cost jobs too!
You laugh, but I have never observed a self-serve gas station in New Jersey....
That's a good philosophy, but it only works as long as you prevent the occassional incident from being a catastrophe. A laptop is just expensive, the data on it with no back up might be priceless...
*shrugs* Data on it with no backup WILL be lost eventually -- and most highly volatile or new data can be reconstructed. Shit happens, you deal with it, and that's life. (and yes, I HAVE had my laptop stolen (and felt pretty violated for a while), though not in an airport, and this is still my philosophy.)
Saying he offered to pay "whatever it took" depends entirely on whether he actually COULD. Not to mention that the FD probably doesn't have a convenient way of calculating it. One should also note, perhaps, here, that Ben Franklin originally envisioned fire departments that behaved exactly like this. This is what Fire Insurance used to be....
I remember that some time ago, car talk used to run a recording of a (real) massachussetts politician running for office calling into a talk radio show on his cell phone while driving that ended exactly like that.... can't find a link on google.
So its okay for the NFL, NBA, and MLB to have salary caps, and they pretty much are monopolies, but its not okay for a tiny percentage of the market to agree not start a wage war with each other ...
It is perhaps worth noting here that the major sports leagues have various dispensations in the standard anti-trust laws, and are, thus, bad examples.
>>>Fine if less language is better learn French and stop using English.
I'd rather we all go back to the root language, Roman Latin. Or even better - let languages evolve naturally rather than outlaw English in certain jurisdictions and make Anglophones feels like second class shits that should get the hell out of Quebec or France. (Been there; experienced it myself.)
.
Just as an important side note: English is not a latin-derived language. We're a germanic-derived language. While latin has certainly influenced the language, the languages roots (as you can tell by our grammar) are clearly elsewhere.
That's just not why phones have a 'vibrate' mode.
You can argue that the politicians were the ones who put them in harm's way in the first place. But, frankly, I think that any release of documents that increases their risk WHILE THEY ARE THERE without materially benefiting the cause of democracy is highly questionable. And I absolutely fail to see why a mass dump of these documents materially benefits democracy.
Some of them? Probably yes, referring to specific harmful incidents that may need to be corrected. But releasing entire databases worth of reports? That's just absurd.
but if you are logging in with a named account then you probably already knew that.
Which is an interesting point. As the web has more and more 'big players' how often are people 'logged in' without really paying attention to the fact because they're logged in for a different function and forget that the two functions are connected?
I'm embarassed to admit that I'd forgotten how often I'm logged into gmail in another tab while using google search...
What is in your mind would be analogous to "trade secret" not "patent." Trade secrets are exactly what the name implies -- a secret... of the trade. So, the constitution doesn't protect trade secrets specifically. In order to get patent protection, all the details of the idea must be disclosed.
I feel obliged to note that this is part of why we have a patent office. It ENCOURAGES people to disclose trade secrets more often, which overall contributes to knowledge.
This really doesn't obviate the point. Of course you don't need a calculator for 9x13. I rarely used a calculator in college, and I can approximate logarithms in my head well enough to pass a chemistry quiz. This said, when I HAVE a calculator at hand, I'm likely to use it for 9x13, it will be faster. (I can do Start -> Calculator and punch it in in about the same time, and then I have calculator open for the next problem.)
I think he's suggesting that the rules of supply and demand are such that the last drops of fossil fuels will be sufficiently expensive that we're unlikely to expend them. (At least, not by burning them -- I feel obliged to point out that of the many uses for petroleum, burning is by no means the most critical to society.) If so, this is a fairly ridiculous quibble. That is to say that while it is true that likely we never will expend the entire supply, we will certainly expend sufficient quantities of it that the entire remaining supply is insufficient to any sort of large-scale need.
Didn't Tad Williams already do the book subscription thing with Shadowmarch? I remember that, and didn't find it terribly successful. That said, I think if there's any author out there who can come up with an 'enhanced book' and execute it well, Neal Stephenson is the guy. The FAQ explicitly states that you get to keep all the content you already bought (DRM free, I should add!) so I plunked my $10 down, to support the experiment, and we'll see how it goes.
Seriously, though... I don't recall ever really using the AGT for much, except maybe once or twice just to see what it did (my parents probably actually got it for my older brother, but I doubt he did either.) It was really just a high-tech toy without much practical application, so maybe the comparison isn't so bad after all.
I think it was fun to see the comparison, I grant that touch technology has been around even longer, but it was still an interesting experience to be recalled to that old device and think whether I ever would have predicted this new one.
where are my mod points when I need them? Thanks, I LOLed this, and needed that. Not to mention its true in a sick way...
And congress could then easily order the US treasury to give it back.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
So first of all, an impost and duty would generally be a customs tax . . . the sort of tax that would give a benefit to in-state businesses over out-of-state businesses. Clearly in this case we're talking about rules that give benefits to out-of-state businesses over in-state businesses. And let me assure all of you, that if anyone had suggested any such thing in 1789, the assembled convention would have shouted it down.
Second, please note that even if there IS a constitutional issue with use tax/sales tax (which given that existing laws in states to recover sales tax from people who buy out-of-state have not been struck down seems unlikely) congress clearly has the authority to allow it.
Third, why is GP post modded funny?? It seems like insightful would be better.
Actual costs assuming I'm paid £20 per hour, so est. £40 per hour employer costs, would be less than £2k for sure. If you assume those costs include all background research and what have you then maybe it would be as much £4k.
The 'actual costs' are probably tied up more in the infrastructure and IT support than in the actual website development.
I think the biggest problem is, as you point out, post-PhD. There are too many PhDs being produced relative to good research jobs, so typically one has to do several postdocs, might have to take a lecturer position somewhere, etc., in hopes of eventually, maybe when you're 40 or something, getting a tenure-track faculty position. Oh, and that's a tenure-track position, which is basically 6-7 years of probation (but at least you're getting paid well at that point).
Not entirely sure how to fix that. Making PhD studies themselves more attractive won't fix the problem, I don't think; if anything, it'll make it worse, by encouraging the production of even more PhDs who there aren't research jobs for. Somehow the post-grad-school part has to be fixed. There have to be more research positions, either in academia, in industry, or at government labs. Or, if we aren't going to open up more of the top-level (tenured-faculty-tier) types of positions, at least there have to be more attractive lower-level ones, something better than a post-doc. Maybe one where you still work in someone else's lab (i.e. you aren't the lab head), but you get paid better and have somewhat more research freedom. But that requires funding, too.
I think you just made the biggest mistake right there. There's still lots of R&D going on in industry, and a surprising amount of it is pretty interesting. The biggest problem today is that the academia doesn't really have a good relationship with industry, so while the PhDs are hugely valuable in industry, this isn't recognized as a career track for people getting them. Worse, in order to successfully GET your PhD you pretty much have to pretend you're planning to stay in academia whether you are or not, because no one will do papers with you if they think you're leaving the field academically. As someone who LEFT grad school because I couldn't see a path to a rational future in a reasonable time frame, and I've job hunted R&D jobs since... the jobs are out there, but you need the PhD. But nobody admitted that this was a viable course of action when I was actually in school to get it.
These guys aren't hackers. They are security advisors. They are the good guys. I suppose the editors didn't bother, you know, clicking a few links? Here, I've done your homework. Was it that hard?
I'm sorry, but googling 'goatse' was not on the list of activities I had planned for the night. I mean, seriously? This said, you have my admiration for your fortitude and thanks for the sacrifices for the cause.
Also, really, with a name like 'goatse' most people aren't going to automatically leap to the idea of it being a white-hat group.
My heart goes out to the poor journalists heading out to the great google in order to get their big scoop on goatse.
I'm just trying to imagine what the first story to try to describe the origin of the name will say...