Gran Turismo doesn't feel much like a day doing laps at the track anyways. Even with force feedback you are driving a car with an implement that has the same steering ratio as a go kart but trying to model a full steering rack. You don't get the same sensations that tell you when you are about to spin and when you are just backing off enough to throttle steer. Tyre noise still isn't quite right, on the track at least with street tyres you can distinguish by sound hen you will loose adhesion and when you still have grip.
I heard an interview on NPR yesterday detailing some of the rules.
They were able to find him because the wired guy "leaked" info regarding places that Evan had to show up at. At wired, they apparently get the NYT crossword puzzle one week in advance. Anyways, if someone solved part of the puzzle they could make Evan preform the same thing as what was listed as the clue in the crossword puzzle.
In this case, it was go to a book club event. It becomes way easier if you know where the person will be.
the USPTO doesn't just get paid if the patent is approved, they are paid for nearly every document that is filed with the office. For example: an extension of time after a rejection, office gets paid Applicant files an information disclosure statement, office gets paid notice of appeal, office gets paid request for continuation, office gets paid
the administrators down at the administration building, the bus drivers, the bus mechanics etc, the compliance officers, the fund raisers, HR people etc.
My local school district, Fairfax County Public Schools has some interesting stats;
The school board recently wanted to spend 130 million (with 73 million on a spa facility and cafeteria for administrators) on a new administration building when students are studying in trailers. It would have also consolidated a number of school based positions forcing those positions to have to travel to/from the schools.
As an engineer, very few of my compatriots get paid overtime.
I am sure some of the idea of trades making considerable money is the fact that to get one to come to your house is probably 100+ an hour (like a recent plumbing experience), but that perception is a bit off considering its not always steady work for them.
You never played baldur's gate 1 coop? It came that way out of the box, you could control multiple characters and so could a friend, or you could have a party each with their own character.
Strangely perverse as it is, this was the attitude I encountered in china and is in fact shared by my Chinese girlfriend.
I would imagine part of that is due to a society with in excess of one billion member, but also the fact that the poor make up an unbelievable number of people.
It happens all the time in HPDE (high performance driver education). Your instructor might ask you what you did right or wrong after you completed a corner at high speed.
I find it odd that the safety center director made those coments when peope do exactly that while participating in HPDE's. You just press the pedal harder.
What is more scary is not when you loose vaccum assist (turn off your motor while driving and you will be able to brake just fine) but when your brakes are overheated and the pedal goes right to the floor with very little braking due to boiled fluid.
My local school district, Fairfax County Virgina, has a budget in excess of $2.2 billion out of which only $84 million is federal funds (makes you wonder why they care so much about NCLB since its 7% of funding).
The school board recently wanted to spend 130 million (with 73 million on a spa facility and cafeteria for administrators) on a new administration building when students are studying in trailers. It would have also consolidated a number of school based positions focring those positions to have to travel to/from the schools.
a fair portion of eastern seaboard rail lines are owned by freight companies so they don't have plans to upgrade their rails for higher speed. We have higher speed trains, but they can only run at higher speeds from NYC to boston even though they provide "high speed" service to Washington DC as well. The rest of the system is only rated for around 80mph.
Oddly enough we were doing around 100mph on the same corridor 100 years ago or so.
Have to call and pay for an appointment then pay the application fee.
Now if you are traveling under the visa waiver program you just show up, but if you need a visa or aren't from a VWP country its the same thing for Germany and the USA.
There was at least one gun owner who was forced to leave her gun in the car to comply with Texas law back in 1991 during the Luby's mass shooting. She survived but her parents didn't. It was after this that Texas became a shall issue state. Most of the time that we see mass shootings in the US, they tend to be places where one isn't allowed to carry a weapon anyways.
It has happened in Israel a few times, for example Mercaz HaRav.
Anyone can file a re-exam. I am surprised that more people, when someone tries to bring an infringement case against them do not pay the couple thousand dollars to file a re-exam.
In the US in order to sit for the patent bar, you need to have a Bachelor of science (or higher) in science or engineering, or have passed portions of a state professional engineering exam.
Anyone can file for a patent in the US, but only a patent agent or attorney may work on behalf of an inventor in front of the USPTO. The same is true in courts of law here. Examiners will help inventors if they do not have representation, but the inventor may not get everything they are entitled to without representation. That is to say, they might receive a patent, but it may not be worth as much as it should be.
F-visas, J-visas, M-visas, Q-visas. Nonresident alien students, scholars, professors, teachers, trainees, researchers, and other aliens temporarily present in the United States in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 nonimmigrant status are exempt from Social Security / Medicare Taxes on wages paid to them for services performed within the United States as long as such services are allowed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for these nonimmigrant statuses, and such services are performed to carry out the purposes for which they were admitted into the United States.
* Exempt Employment includes:
o On-campus student employment up to 20 hours a week (40 hrs during summer vacations)
o Off-campus student employment allowed by USCIS
o Practical Training student employment on or off campus
o On-campus employment as professor, teacher or researcher
* Limitations on exemption:
o The exemption does not apply to spouses and children in F-2, J-2, M-2, or Q-3 nonimmigrant status.
o The exemption does not apply to employment not allowed by USCIS or to employment not closely connected to the purpose for which they were admitted into the United States.
o The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1,or Q-1/Q-2 status who change nonimmigrant status to a status which is not exempt or to a special protected status.
o The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 status who become resident aliens for tax purposes.
You paid social security taxes? My girlfriend was exempted during her practical training, and her stipend did not have SS contributions withheld either. You may be entitled to a refund!
Some employers might not be aware of this and withhold the taxes anyways, but this is improper.
from IRS.GOV
F-visas, J-visas, M-visas, Q-visas. Nonresident alien students, scholars, professors, teachers, trainees, researchers, and other aliens temporarily present in the United States in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 nonimmigrant status are exempt from Social Security / Medicare Taxes on wages paid to them for services performed within the United States as long as such services are allowed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for these nonimmigrant statuses, and such services are performed to carry out the purposes for which they were admitted into the United States. Exempt Employment includes: On-campus student employment up to 20 hours a week (40 hrs during summer vacations) Off-campus student employment allowed by USCIS Practical Training student employment on or off campus On-campus employment as professor, teacher or researcher Limitations on exemption: The exemption does not apply to spouses and children in F-2, J-2, M-2, or Q-3 nonimmigrant status. The exemption does not apply to employment not allowed by USCIS or to employment not closely connected to the purpose for which they were admitted into the United States. The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1,or Q-1/Q-2 status who change nonimmigrant status to a status which is not exempt or to a special protected status. The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 status who become resident aliens for tax purposes.
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You know SAAB's history right? Once upon a time SAAB, the car company, was part of the SAAB aircraft manufacturing company.
Heck BMW's logo, the roundel, symbolizes that they used to make aircraft engines.
I used to rallye SAAB 900's. Great cars, despite their weird shapes. Had one with over 250k on the original turbo.
Not bad for cars with an old triumph derivative motor.
Join a spec series like spec e30, spec miata or the honda challenge. You can build a car for way under 10k and drive it to the series.
Heck join lemons and run a car for only $500.
http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/
Gran Turismo doesn't feel much like a day doing laps at the track anyways. Even with force feedback you are driving a car with an implement that has the same steering ratio as a go kart but trying to model a full steering rack. You don't get the same sensations that tell you when you are about to spin and when you are just backing off enough to throttle steer. Tyre noise still isn't quite right, on the track at least with street tyres you can distinguish by sound hen you will loose adhesion and when you still have grip.
I heard an interview on NPR yesterday detailing some of the rules.
They were able to find him because the wired guy "leaked" info regarding places that Evan had to show up at. At wired, they apparently get the NYT crossword puzzle one week in advance. Anyways, if someone solved part of the puzzle they could make Evan preform the same thing as what was listed as the clue in the crossword puzzle.
In this case, it was go to a book club event. It becomes way easier if you know where the person will be.
the USPTO doesn't just get paid if the patent is approved, they are paid for nearly every document that is filed with the office. For example:
an extension of time after a rejection, office gets paid
Applicant files an information disclosure statement, office gets paid
notice of appeal, office gets paid
request for continuation, office gets paid
and so on and so forth
You never heard of Hilary Rodham Clinton? That's how she wanted to be referred to when Bill Clinton took presidential office.
You still see it in articles referring to her today.
the administrators down at the administration building, the bus drivers, the bus mechanics etc, the compliance officers, the fund raisers, HR people etc.
My local school district, Fairfax County Public Schools has some interesting stats;
see http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/2010/ApprovedBudget10.pdf
there are 13,744 teachers
there are 8,393 NON TEACHING POSITIONS.
likewise
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/BarbaraHollingsworth/Fairfax_School_Boards_Gateway_drug_101909.html
The school board recently wanted to spend 130 million (with 73 million on a spa facility and cafeteria for administrators) on a new administration building when students are studying in trailers. It would have also consolidated a number of school based positions forcing those positions to have to travel to/from the schools.
paid overtime
As an engineer, very few of my compatriots get paid overtime.
I am sure some of the idea of trades making considerable money is the fact that to get one to come to your house is probably 100+ an hour (like a recent plumbing experience), but that perception is a bit off considering its not always steady work for them.
You never played baldur's gate 1 coop? It came that way out of the box, you could control multiple characters and so could a friend, or you could have a party each with their own character.
Strangely perverse as it is, this was the attitude I encountered in china and is in fact shared by my Chinese girlfriend.
I would imagine part of that is due to a society with in excess of one billion member, but also the fact that the poor make up an unbelievable number of people.
It happens all the time in HPDE (high performance driver education). Your instructor might ask you what you did right or wrong after you completed a corner at high speed.
I find it odd that the safety center director made those coments when peope do exactly that while participating in HPDE's. You just press the pedal harder.
What is more scary is not when you loose vaccum assist (turn off your motor while driving and you will be able to brake just fine) but when your brakes are overheated and the pedal goes right to the floor with very little braking due to boiled fluid.
if we do that that might, in the short term, lead to fewer science and engineering jobs.
It might create other science and engineering jobs in other fields, but probably would take a few years.
My local school district, Fairfax County Virgina, has a budget in excess of $2.2 billion out of which only $84 million is federal funds (makes you wonder why they care so much about NCLB since its 7% of funding).
see http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/2010/ApprovedBudget10.pdf
there are 13,744 teachers
there are 8,393 NON TEACHING POSITIONS.
likewise
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/BarbaraHollingsworth/Fairfax_School_Boards_Gateway_drug_101909.html
The school board recently wanted to spend 130 million (with 73 million on a spa facility and cafeteria for administrators) on a new administration building when students are studying in trailers. It would have also consolidated a number of school based positions focring those positions to have to travel to/from the schools.
a fair portion of eastern seaboard rail lines are owned by freight companies so they don't have plans to upgrade their rails for higher speed. We have higher speed trains, but they can only run at higher speeds from NYC to boston even though they provide "high speed" service to Washington DC as well. The rest of the system is only rated for around 80mph.
Oddly enough we were doing around 100mph on the same corridor 100 years ago or so.
Have to call and pay for an appointment then pay the application fee.
Now if you are traveling under the visa waiver program you just show up, but if you need a visa or aren't from a VWP country its the same thing for Germany and the USA.
There was at least one gun owner who was forced to leave her gun in the car to comply with Texas law back in 1991 during the Luby's mass shooting. She survived but her parents didn't. It was after this that Texas became a shall issue state. Most of the time that we see mass shootings in the US, they tend to be places where one isn't allowed to carry a weapon anyways.
It has happened in Israel a few times, for example Mercaz HaRav.
Anyone can file a re-exam. I am surprised that more people, when someone tries to bring an infringement case against them do not pay the couple thousand dollars to file a re-exam.
I am a patent examiner.
In the US in order to sit for the patent bar, you need to have a Bachelor of science (or higher) in science or engineering, or have passed portions of a state professional engineering exam.
Anyone can file for a patent in the US, but only a patent agent or attorney may work on behalf of an inventor in front of the USPTO. The same is true in courts of law here. Examiners will help inventors if they do not have representation, but the inventor may not get everything they are entitled to without representation. That is to say, they might receive a patent, but it may not be worth as much as it should be.
certainly not as good as the new batman movies, but pretty good for a comic book movie.
better than replaytv?
I understand your point of view, but the US has entered into social security agreements with other countrires.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/international/agreement_descriptions.html
If one is a resident of a non listed country then that person is indeed screwed.
both F-1 and J-1 are exempt.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=131635,00.html
F-visas, J-visas, M-visas, Q-visas. Nonresident alien students, scholars, professors, teachers, trainees, researchers, and other aliens temporarily present in the United States in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 nonimmigrant status are exempt from Social Security / Medicare Taxes on wages paid to them for services performed within the United States as long as such services are allowed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for these nonimmigrant statuses, and such services are performed to carry out the purposes for which they were admitted into the United States.
* Exempt Employment includes:
o On-campus student employment up to 20 hours a week (40 hrs during summer vacations)
o Off-campus student employment allowed by USCIS
o Practical Training student employment on or off campus
o On-campus employment as professor, teacher or researcher
* Limitations on exemption:
o The exemption does not apply to spouses and children in F-2, J-2, M-2, or Q-3 nonimmigrant status.
o The exemption does not apply to employment not allowed by USCIS or to employment not closely connected to the purpose for which they were admitted into the United States.
o The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1,or Q-1/Q-2 status who change nonimmigrant status to a status which is not exempt or to a special protected status.
o The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 status who become resident aliens for tax purposes.
You paid social security taxes? My girlfriend was exempted during her practical training, and her stipend did not have SS contributions withheld either. You may be entitled to a refund!
Some employers might not be aware of this and withhold the taxes anyways, but this is improper.
from IRS.GOV
F-visas, J-visas, M-visas, Q-visas. Nonresident alien students, scholars, professors, teachers, trainees, researchers, and other aliens temporarily present in the United States in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 nonimmigrant status are exempt from Social Security / Medicare Taxes on wages paid to them for services performed within the United States as long as such services are allowed by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for these nonimmigrant statuses, and such services are performed to carry out the purposes for which they were admitted into the United States.
Exempt Employment includes:
On-campus student employment up to 20 hours a week (40 hrs during summer vacations)
Off-campus student employment allowed by USCIS
Practical Training student employment on or off campus
On-campus employment as professor, teacher or researcher
Limitations on exemption:
The exemption does not apply to spouses and children in F-2, J-2, M-2, or Q-3 nonimmigrant status.
The exemption does not apply to employment not allowed by USCIS or to employment not closely connected to the purpose for which they were admitted into the United States.
The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1,or Q-1/Q-2 status who change nonimmigrant status to a status which is not exempt or to a special protected status.
The exemption does not apply to nonimmigrants in F-1,J-1,M-1, or Q-1/Q-2 status who become resident aliens for tax purposes.
New York Hall of Science
http://www.nyscience.org/exhibitions/explore_exhibitions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Hall_of_Science
its on the old world's fair grounds seen in Men in Black. It is one of the few remaining structures from the worlds fair that is still in good repair.