Same dated arguments against the flat tax, over and over. Most modern flat tax proposals include cost of living exemptions. In most proposed systems, it works something like this: there's a table somewhere. Each row of the table is a zip code or county. Each column is a number of people in the family. You look up where you live and the correct number of people and you get a cost of living value. This amount of your income is sheltered. It represents the part of your income you spend to provide yourself a better-than-impoverished life (i.e. housing, food, utilities, etc). Everything else is disposible income. You are taxed a 'flat' percentage of the disposible income.
The poor are protected in a similar way that they are under a tiered tax system, as are large families.
Well, the problem is that there is an increase in the number of people seeing the article, relative to the number of people who usually maintain it ("the wikipedia community"). Under normal conditions, the incentive to deface an entry are somewhat lower, and vandalism can be reversed by people in the know. In cases of high traffic, hundreds of people who don't know about a topic will see the article before the maintainers check on it. I know, in theory, that anybody could fix an incident of vandalism, but if you are reading an article, trying to learn something, you are unequiped to even recognize a subtle error. Even if you do spot something wrong with the article, if you are unfamiliar with the editing facilities of wikipedia, you'd be unlikely to fix it.
In the case of a lower traffic article, there is low incentive to deface the entry and a high ratio of people with an honest interest in the material maintaining the entry.
Yeah, great. The argument is that some of the diesel might come from Brazil, which means that it might involve cutting down forest. Not will. Might, in some sort of realm of speculation. Or it could come from places that already farm these crops, you know, where the necessary plants already grow.
Of course, since biodiesel can also be made by refining wastes, there aren't really any needs for new crops anywhere at all.
It takes time to see specialists here in America too. Three months would be rare, but it happens. A lot of it just has to do with the supply and demand for people with specialized medical knowledge. Canada is a little bit worse off because lower wages for doctors->lower # of people willing to be doctors.
The one from Kansas goes backward a lot faster than it goes forward.
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While at a first look, this appears like a real innovation in China's ecological policy, it might not be as wonderful as it seems. The reason is economy of scale. A community that is basically self sufficient won't be as efficient at producing anything. It doesn't reap gains from specialization or the specialization of its neighbors. The results are both economically and ecologically nonoptimal. More raw materials will be wasted as smaller scale, less specific machines are used to meet the entire spectrum of community needs. increased wasted inputs = increased pollution output.
Firstly, I second the other poster's comment on China's population "growth"-- their birth rates are below sustainable and therefore also below ours. Secondly, to easily illustrate why PER CAPITA measures are appropriate here, I'll illustrate with a simple example.
I am a nation of one. That is, I am the nation of Bert. I pretty much rule, because I'm the only fellow around. I thoroughly enjoy both dumping oil into the ocean AND eating dolphin steak. I enjoy these activities so much that I indeed match the absolute pollution levels of the US. Clearly, I am a much worse polluter than the average american (who shares his or her polluting mischief with about a quarter billion other people). It is way more reasonable for a nation of a billion people to throw a billion styrofoam containers away, than it is for one person.
iTunes isn't revolutionary, for sure. However, it is very well designed. I've never had a problem with it. It organizes my music. It allows me to play music from anybody else on the campus network. Never once has it crashed. It has every feature I need in a music player and it updates automatically with software update. It might not be the first to do what it does, but it is the only piece of software I've ever seen that does it this well.
The way it usually works is that you make sure there is no way to get to or from the dressing room to a door without crossing through the coverage of cameras, but there would be no actual camera coverage of the room. If you walk out of the dressing room with less items than you walked in with, they know something is up (at the least, there are items to be reshelved laying around back there). without having to watch you in the dressing room.
I actually kind of like the solution a lot of clothing stores in our mall seem to have come up with. They simply have a staff member who minds the dressing rooms and not only keeps an eye out for shop lifting, but can grab a different size for you, if the one you have doesn't work. It ends up giving them extra security and me extra convience and once again, they don't have to watch you dress.
On behalf of the generation you are accusing, let me be the first to greet you with a most uncivil "fuck you." Seriously, this generation, like all others has its bright and its stupid, and to judge us by the entertainment you see on TV would be a serious mistake. Every generation has its celebrities, whether they be rockstars or movie stars or rappers. After the age of twelve or so, most people stop wanting to grow up to be somebody else and start making something of their own. At least that's been my experience.
Oh. What's my opinion of the currently middle-aged generation? You guys didn't do so hot yourselves. A generation that hoped to change the world so much has, in the end, settled for buying much. You are, in full adulthood more viciously miopic in your consumption than our generation is in the peak of its youth. You can't stand each other so you surround yourselves with 6 mpg armored air bubbles while you drive the freeway to a job you hate, but took only because it pays more than the last one. That's not everyone, but if we are going to judge each generation by its worst, then it is only fair.
I've got both:a minolta maxxum 5 for doing black and white work-- no print media currently can touch the density range of a good, quality, black and white photo paper-- and a minolta a200, which is a 8mp camera with integral anti-shake and a bunch of whiz bang features. 90% of my comments on slashdot go this way, but what you need to do is find the right tool for the job. The other thing you need to do is quit complaining about a bad tools as if it were the whole run, and realize that what you have is just busted. If you have a _good_ digital camera, shutter lag ceases to be an issue, as do the issues with it rebooting itself. There are both film and digital cameras with bad control layouts-- there was an ill-fated season not long ago when all the new film slrs had 'function buttons' instead of the user friendly wheels. The result were masses of pissed off photographers. If you have a broken or shitty hammer, please just buy a good hammer and quit regaling us with stories about how you beat nails in with the handle of your screwdriver.
Yes, you are absolutely right. All other majors other than computer science never use computers. Because that's the computer one.
Oh wait... computer engineers? MIS?
What about people in other engineerings and sciences who want access to data stored on remote servers and tools to process the data? Excel, or maybe even matlab? Heck, most of the natural science majors I know write tons of code to help with their coursework-- simulations, automation, data processing. Nope, no one but CS students should have that conviently availible.
I'm a freaking economics major! You know what though, I take notes of my lappy, complete with all the latin and greek notation we use. When I'm done, I dump it to a pdf. All my accounting and finance classes required the assignments to be done in excel-- guess I should've just waited until I got home to do them. My project now? A system for simulating a small scale island-type economy to back up my theory of the evolution of money. Of course, I could write down all the rules on paper and make it into a great board game.
Unnecessary? Yes. Convienent? Yes. Then again, I've never been one to use the worse tool for the job, just because it is tradition.
And solitaire in class? That's their own damn problem. You need to quit getting offended by other people perceived affronts to the system. You'll see a lot in college and many of them will be committed by people with better grades than you. But you know what? It isn't about them, it is about you. Get as much as you can out of the process and quit whining so damn much.
Computer hackers are usually not 'poor'. Poverty is starvation. Poverty is homelessness. Having a computer immediately implies a certain standard of living has been reached-- one that is well above real poverty.
Interesting conundrum for the legal system-- do you let him off easy and give him a job with a home security company, or hit him hard and ruin a promising locksmith (although he got caught stealing my tv)?
I can do you one better on that-- use the tool that is right for the job. If your company relies on server software that runs only on windows, guess what-- your server should probably be running windows. If the software you use runs better on linux than on windows, use linux.
I don't want your crippled phone. No offense, but I figure you to be an old fogey.
Most of my friends use their cell phones as much for text as for voice. We're part of that generation of thumb-dominant mobile users. We like being able to getting instant messenger anywhere. We're flocking to plans like sprint's that give unlimited text and web for a flat rate. We want more at our finger tips, not less.
We'd prefer not to dial information, we'd rather google it. Oh, and we want maps with directions, on the phone. I mean, I guess I could use the dedicated device ("map"), but why? I've already got a perfectly good solution in my pocket that I only have to fold once, instead of like 8 times when I put it away.
But congratulations on scoring 'insightful' for the same post that everyone makes on every story about anything cell phone related.
Well, a lot can be filled out for you. Date. Filetype. Resolution. File size. The account which created the file (which could come in handy on corporate networks). Length of the song, as well as artist, album, writers, people who were sampled, producer, record label, year of album release. Heck, assuming the smart folders can be set up to do full text or keyword search, you could have a folder of every file on your PC that mentions "taxes" or "student loans".
I doubt it'll work on 100% of modern biege boxes after a simple crack. A lot of code that we think of as OSX lives in things like Aqua, above the kernel level. Darwin already runs on a variety of PC hardware, like you said (because of its developmental "roots"), but there is that the other parts will work as well. Furthermore, the version they release may depend on certain chipsets for key functions (Apple specific stuff on the mobo). Then we wouldn't be talking about JMPing around a JNE, we would be talking about rewriting either something like OpenDarwin for compatibility with the service layer, or hacking on the service layer to support software emulation of those chipsets.
Yeah, but you have to make the links, each time you add a file to your archives. We're talking possibly dozens of folders here. With this, you set up your smart folders once (and add one when you get a new client, or every time a new year rolls around, whatever). As long as you fill out the metadata in your files, it will categorize them for you. This is much easier than adding a folder for, say, filings made on tuesdays, and then searching for all filings made on tuesday, and manually creating links to them.
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Same dated arguments against the flat tax, over and over. Most modern flat tax proposals include cost of living exemptions. In most proposed systems, it works something like this: there's a table somewhere. Each row of the table is a zip code or county. Each column is a number of people in the family. You look up where you live and the correct number of people and you get a cost of living value. This amount of your income is sheltered. It represents the part of your income you spend to provide yourself a better-than-impoverished life (i.e. housing, food, utilities, etc). Everything else is disposible income. You are taxed a 'flat' percentage of the disposible income.
The poor are protected in a similar way that they are under a tiered tax system, as are large families.
Second that. My 14" happily reports 4:32 remaining, with my usage > 90%. Compiling in one term window, emulating in the other.
Seriously, I think you're dealing with either a troll or a seriously uninformed person.
Well, the problem is that there is an increase in the number of people seeing the article, relative to the number of people who usually maintain it ("the wikipedia community"). Under normal conditions, the incentive to deface an entry are somewhat lower, and vandalism can be reversed by people in the know. In cases of high traffic, hundreds of people who don't know about a topic will see the article before the maintainers check on it. I know, in theory, that anybody could fix an incident of vandalism, but if you are reading an article, trying to learn something, you are unequiped to even recognize a subtle error. Even if you do spot something wrong with the article, if you are unfamiliar with the editing facilities of wikipedia, you'd be unlikely to fix it.
In the case of a lower traffic article, there is low incentive to deface the entry and a high ratio of people with an honest interest in the material maintaining the entry.
Yeah, great. The argument is that some of the diesel might come from Brazil, which means that it might involve cutting down forest. Not will. Might, in some sort of realm of speculation. Or it could come from places that already farm these crops, you know, where the necessary plants already grow.
Of course, since biodiesel can also be made by refining wastes, there aren't really any needs for new crops anywhere at all.
The fundemental law of human sociodynamics? i.e. everybody has a different angle.
That's right! Not everybody has the same priorities.
It takes time to see specialists here in America too. Three months would be rare, but it happens. A lot of it just has to do with the supply and demand for people with specialized medical knowledge. Canada is a little bit worse off because lower wages for doctors->lower # of people willing to be doctors.
apart from one made anywhere else?
The one from Kansas goes backward a lot faster than it goes forward.
While at a first look, this appears like a real innovation in China's ecological policy, it might not be as wonderful as it seems. The reason is economy of scale. A community that is basically self sufficient won't be as efficient at producing anything. It doesn't reap gains from specialization or the specialization of its neighbors. The results are both economically and ecologically nonoptimal. More raw materials will be wasted as smaller scale, less specific machines are used to meet the entire spectrum of community needs. increased wasted inputs = increased pollution output.
Firstly, I second the other poster's comment on China's population "growth"-- their birth rates are below sustainable and therefore also below ours. Secondly, to easily illustrate why PER CAPITA measures are appropriate here, I'll illustrate with a simple example.
I am a nation of one. That is, I am the nation of Bert. I pretty much rule, because I'm the only fellow around. I thoroughly enjoy both dumping oil into the ocean AND eating dolphin steak. I enjoy these activities so much that I indeed match the absolute pollution levels of the US. Clearly, I am a much worse polluter than the average american (who shares his or her polluting mischief with about a quarter billion other people). It is way more reasonable for a nation of a billion people to throw a billion styrofoam containers away, than it is for one person.
The real action isn't necessarily happening on the desktop. Can you say terminal?
iTunes isn't revolutionary, for sure. However, it is very well designed. I've never had a problem with it. It organizes my music. It allows me to play music from anybody else on the campus network. Never once has it crashed. It has every feature I need in a music player and it updates automatically with software update. It might not be the first to do what it does, but it is the only piece of software I've ever seen that does it this well.
The way it usually works is that you make sure there is no way to get to or from the dressing room to a door without crossing through the coverage of cameras, but there would be no actual camera coverage of the room. If you walk out of the dressing room with less items than you walked in with, they know something is up (at the least, there are items to be reshelved laying around back there). without having to watch you in the dressing room.
I actually kind of like the solution a lot of clothing stores in our mall seem to have come up with. They simply have a staff member who minds the dressing rooms and not only keeps an eye out for shop lifting, but can grab a different size for you, if the one you have doesn't work. It ends up giving them extra security and me extra convience and once again, they don't have to watch you dress.
On behalf of the generation you are accusing, let me be the first to greet you with a most uncivil "fuck you." Seriously, this generation, like all others has its bright and its stupid, and to judge us by the entertainment you see on TV would be a serious mistake. Every generation has its celebrities, whether they be rockstars or movie stars or rappers. After the age of twelve or so, most people stop wanting to grow up to be somebody else and start making something of their own. At least that's been my experience.
Oh. What's my opinion of the currently middle-aged generation? You guys didn't do so hot yourselves. A generation that hoped to change the world so much has, in the end, settled for buying much. You are, in full adulthood more viciously miopic in your consumption than our generation is in the peak of its youth. You can't stand each other so you surround yourselves with 6 mpg armored air bubbles while you drive the freeway to a job you hate, but took only because it pays more than the last one. That's not everyone, but if we are going to judge each generation by its worst, then it is only fair.
Perhaps he would like to use it as a phone, I dunno, outside of the house.
I've got both:a minolta maxxum 5 for doing black and white work-- no print media currently can touch the density range of a good, quality, black and white photo paper-- and a minolta a200, which is a 8mp camera with integral anti-shake and a bunch of whiz bang features. 90% of my comments on slashdot go this way, but what you need to do is find the right tool for the job. The other thing you need to do is quit complaining about a bad tools as if it were the whole run, and realize that what you have is just busted. If you have a _good_ digital camera, shutter lag ceases to be an issue, as do the issues with it rebooting itself. There are both film and digital cameras with bad control layouts-- there was an ill-fated season not long ago when all the new film slrs had 'function buttons' instead of the user friendly wheels. The result were masses of pissed off photographers. If you have a broken or shitty hammer, please just buy a good hammer and quit regaling us with stories about how you beat nails in with the handle of your screwdriver.
Yes, you are absolutely right. All other majors other than computer science never use computers. Because that's the computer one.
Oh wait... computer engineers? MIS?
What about people in other engineerings and sciences who want access to data stored on remote servers and tools to process the data? Excel, or maybe even matlab? Heck, most of the natural science majors I know write tons of code to help with their coursework-- simulations, automation, data processing. Nope, no one but CS students should have that conviently availible.
I'm a freaking economics major! You know what though, I take notes of my lappy, complete with all the latin and greek notation we use. When I'm done, I dump it to a pdf. All my accounting and finance classes required the assignments to be done in excel-- guess I should've just waited until I got home to do them. My project now? A system for simulating a small scale island-type economy to back up my theory of the evolution of money. Of course, I could write down all the rules on paper and make it into a great board game.
Unnecessary? Yes. Convienent? Yes. Then again, I've never been one to use the worse tool for the job, just because it is tradition.
And solitaire in class? That's their own damn problem. You need to quit getting offended by other people perceived affronts to the system. You'll see a lot in college and many of them will be committed by people with better grades than you. But you know what? It isn't about them, it is about you. Get as much as you can out of the process and quit whining so damn much.
Umm, hello?
Computer hackers are usually not 'poor'. Poverty is starvation. Poverty is homelessness. Having a computer immediately implies a certain standard of living has been reached-- one that is well above real poverty.
Interesting conundrum for the legal system-- do you let him off easy and give him a job with a home security company, or hit him hard and ruin a promising locksmith (although he got caught stealing my tv)?
I can do you one better on that-- use the tool that is right for the job. If your company relies on server software that runs only on windows, guess what-- your server should probably be running windows. If the software you use runs better on linux than on windows, use linux.
I don't want your crippled phone. No offense, but I figure you to be an old fogey.
Most of my friends use their cell phones as much for text as for voice. We're part of that generation of thumb-dominant mobile users. We like being able to getting instant messenger anywhere. We're flocking to plans like sprint's that give unlimited text and web for a flat rate. We want more at our finger tips, not less.
We'd prefer not to dial information, we'd rather google it. Oh, and we want maps with directions, on the phone. I mean, I guess I could use the dedicated device ("map"), but why? I've already got a perfectly good solution in my pocket that I only have to fold once, instead of like 8 times when I put it away.
But congratulations on scoring 'insightful' for the same post that everyone makes on every story about anything cell phone related.
That would be true in a kernel design, as opposed to a microkernel design, which OSX is.
Well, a lot can be filled out for you. Date. Filetype. Resolution. File size. The account which created the file (which could come in handy on corporate networks). Length of the song, as well as artist, album, writers, people who were sampled, producer, record label, year of album release. Heck, assuming the smart folders can be set up to do full text or keyword search, you could have a folder of every file on your PC that mentions "taxes" or "student loans".
I doubt it'll work on 100% of modern biege boxes after a simple crack. A lot of code that we think of as OSX lives in things like Aqua, above the kernel level. Darwin already runs on a variety of PC hardware, like you said (because of its developmental "roots"), but there is that the other parts will work as well. Furthermore, the version they release may depend on certain chipsets for key functions (Apple specific stuff on the mobo). Then we wouldn't be talking about JMPing around a JNE, we would be talking about rewriting either something like OpenDarwin for compatibility with the service layer, or hacking on the service layer to support software emulation of those chipsets.
Yeah, but you have to make the links, each time you add a file to your archives. We're talking possibly dozens of folders here. With this, you set up your smart folders once (and add one when you get a new client, or every time a new year rolls around, whatever). As long as you fill out the metadata in your files, it will categorize them for you. This is much easier than adding a folder for, say, filings made on tuesdays, and then searching for all filings made on tuesday, and manually creating links to them.