Isn't part of the reason that one would tax gasoline to get lower milage cars on the road? Especially in polution ridden CA?
They could always raise the gasoline tax more and then allow right offs for business purposes.
Or use incom tax to add. Or do what the insurance industry does and ask what your commute is and tax you based on it, audit enough that people won't lie. It can't cost too much to verify and address and then verify a place of work. With any luck an innitiative such as that would help reverse suburban sprawl and urban decay.
I have a share ActiveJobs with 6 subfolders shared using netatalk.
I have the same files shared out of a folder ACTIVEJOBS with 6 symlinks.
I did this because I was having a problem with newly created folders on the MAC showing up on PCs (I have no idea why) and somehow this fixed it (I don't know why or remember the thinking, but it did).
I guess I could have called it WinCopy, heck I could have even gone with Win\ Copy and Active\ Jobs, but I think having one all caps and one CamelCase does a pretty good job of showing one being real and one being WINDOWS and that they are both the same thing.
I still wish I remember why I did that, and really better solution would have been to npot need to do so.
I Hate the double taxation thinking argument, even reading it being refuted pisses me off.
ALL money is taxed many times, income tax-> sales tax -> income tax etc.
even the collected tax money is taxed again (since the government pays people).
To say that because the lions share of a certain type of payment goes tot he richest few means it shouldn't be taxed makes me so angry I want to punch something.
Income is Income, and it should all be treated the same.
I would just like to say that even though that is true in general sometimes with high margin items that is not the case.
I worked at Office Max and on electronics the warrenties were a rip, but not too bad (10% for 3 years, lots of rules) our margins were in the 10-40% range. On computers the warrenty was a total waste at 20% for 3 years, with most having a 1 year warrenty (margins were 1-10 %)
But on furnature, where the margins are huge (>50%) the warrenty was 10% the cost of the product, took over the manufacturers warrenty for the first year and was real good. It included things like recushening and wear and tear. Short of intentially breaking your chair it would be repaired replaced. I would never get it, but for someone who likes headaches and paper work (plenty of people do, e.g. mail in rebates) it is worth the money.
The point is I guess that they only need to insure against their cost, and if that is half of what your cost is then everyone can win.
Your article does not mention them being convinced at all.
They were asked to do three things though
1. Not use WMD 2. Not use Terrorism 3. Not attack Isreal
They did 2 (failed attampts) and 3 but noit one against the Americans.
Of course they did immediatly aftaowards gas our allies (Kurds) as we left them out to dry. Funny how the Kurds are not so trusting of us now.
And I think the point everyone was trying to make is that it WASN'T to late for Korea, but now it is.
All I can say is Kim currently seams to be paranoid and defensive, but not likly to attack his neighbors unprovoked (a funny look may be provocation though), but he will not live forever and has possible successors he has not killed and we do not know about them.
Iraq would have been over with Sudam's death (well it would have been a mess, but its power would have been reduced).
Cuba is done with Castro (they arn't a threat but just trying to point out that a modern dictatorship with succession is rare).
I don't think NK is as big of a threat as Iraw or Iran would be with Nucular weapons, but that is not to say they wern't the only ones that got there and that they are safe.
This is a nerd site, if you don't know an acronym find out what it means.
This is not a new term and headlines have had Small Form Factor written out for a while.
I would not expect to see DC written as Direct Current or RAM as Random Access Memmory, why should the submitter be required to assume everyone knows nothing about the subject.
In Summary, RTFA (or should that be written out too) or use a Dictionary.
I was just thinking how cool it would be to have a removable format bigger then HD's again (I guess some tapes get there though).
Cd's were so big when they came out. I got a CD-ROM upgrade on my computer and the CD was 6.5 times the size of the HD. It could do things that previously would have been relegated to the movies.
And then when burners became cheap CDs were only 1/20th the size of an HD.
Now that DVD-R is cheap we are at a 40th the Hard drive, and with broadband a lot of that content is stuff that would have to be re-found and downloaded, not just games and software with the CD's sitting next to the computer.
I hope this tech comes fast enough that I ca backup my entire HD onto it. Maybe the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD thing will be bad enough that this comes soon.
Because consumers have demonstrated that they are irrisponsible as far as recycling computer parts is concerned, failing to do so is not only damaging to yourself, but to everyone.
I guess you could really tighten down on not recycling computers and then a take back thing could be an optional value added, or you could just figure out how to deal with it yourself when you were done. That would have the added bonus of encouraging donations of not too old stuff, but it would discourage them of really old stuff (which may not be so bad anyway).
My real point was that even as a fan of big government I think a 10 dollor across the board surcharge is stupid.
Require manufacturers of computers to take back any of their stuff to recycle it (also make sure it doesn't end up in China). They can charge as little or as much for this in the purchase cost.
As a further incentive treat the "bad" parts like any other hazmat to make sure people do recycle them.
I am pro big government, but I just don't see them efficiantly using the 10.00 (or even using it for it's intended purpose).
Also a much better cost/use recycling program would be universal curb side federaly funded for all counties with population density greater then X (where X is determined by someoen smarter than me).
FWIW when I cancelled my account recently I sent an email saying I didn't have time to go out on raids that last a while to get into them ans if you are captaining the ship you really need to get somewhere to logoff. So I was paying for what to me was internet spades (I love spades, but wouldn't pay for it). I suggested and hourly fee, or 10 day pass that could work on any 10 24 hour periods over as long a time as wanted. Cleaver emailed me back saying they had something new in the works and to look out for it, so I wonder if this is related, and if the box will have a lower fee or some such.
When a bully sucker puches a little guy isn't it fun to see the little guy get a blow in on the bully?
I don't know about Take 2's games, but the EA football games sucked and they were possibly going to start losing share to Sega with the cheap game plan working out. So we watched a very competitive market with interesting things happening get oblitherated.
Now Take 2 is fighting back, and even if it is dirty fighting it feals good.
Almost as much as buying Doom3 + Half Life + Far Cry
All for Wolfenstein 3d.
Not saying you did that, but many people did.
I have to admit that when I got busy I couldn't justify paying that much either. Especially since there is no real leveling and I lost very little. Not saying no leveling is bad, I prefered it, it just made the game a lot easier to walk away from.
No, my origianal post had the example but it seamed self important to include.
It was GC Legends of Wrestling (the worse gameplay of any game period). The sounds were just too up close and persoanl violent for me.
I actualyl purchased it for my 8 year old brother because of memmories of the Nintendo wrestling. It was a completly innapropriate gift and I ended ip getting him something else after we played half a match together.
I personally found the violence much worse then Mortal Kombat Trilogy and on par with Deadly Alliance. Except I enjoyed Deadly Alliance the same way I enjoy a slasher movie, but Legonds of Wrestling simply disturbed me. I imagine a game like Manhunter would be worse, but I never payed it.
I really think there were cracking sounds when various moves were pulled, and it just sounded like a torture chamber. Before that wrestling games have always been drawn out fighting games with freewalk to me, but this was akin to breaking bones over and over again.
This was a while ago, so my shame of getting it for a child could have added to it, but I really think it had cracking sounds as you chicken winged people ect.
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Yeah, remember when phenox was sued?
It ended the entire project for good.
Or maybe I am typing this on Firefox?
I'm confused.
The trick is to cap your upload so you don't feel guilty on the disconnect.
How could it possibly be construed as over charging?
They sold over a quarter of a million copies in a day. Things are worth what people will pay for them.
The only way the customers are ripped off is if a monopoly is being abused, or they are fooled.
Blizzard doesn't have exclusive MMORPG rights, and they are being upfront about the costs.
It is not like EA selling shitty football or Sony using their past reputation to trick people.
Isn't part of the reason that one would tax gasoline to get lower milage cars on the road? Especially in polution ridden CA?
They could always raise the gasoline tax more and then allow right offs for business purposes.
Or use incom tax to add. Or do what the insurance industry does and ask what your commute is and tax you based on it, audit enough that people won't lie. It can't cost too much to verify and address and then verify a place of work. With any luck an innitiative such as that would help reverse suburban sprawl and urban decay.
I have a share ActiveJobs with 6 subfolders shared using netatalk.
I have the same files shared out of a folder ACTIVEJOBS with 6 symlinks.
I did this because I was having a problem with newly created folders on the MAC showing up on PCs (I have no idea why) and somehow this fixed it (I don't know why or remember the thinking, but it did).
I guess I could have called it WinCopy, heck I could have even gone with Win\ Copy and Active\ Jobs, but I think having one all caps and one CamelCase does a pretty good job of showing one being real and one being WINDOWS and that they are both the same thing.
I still wish I remember why I did that, and really better solution would have been to npot need to do so.
lets see...
foot --> Amusements
nope those games are definatly included.
But they want you to brows and see a lw fair and sign up. They don't want to hassle you in advance.
I Hate the double taxation thinking argument, even reading it being refuted pisses me off.
ALL money is taxed many times, income tax-> sales tax -> income tax etc.
even the collected tax money is taxed again (since the government pays people).
To say that because the lions share of a certain type of payment goes tot he richest few means it shouldn't be taxed makes me so angry I want to punch something.
Income is Income, and it should all be treated the same.
I browsed to a page last year, I am still waiting for it to render the CSS.
Does Dillo no longer exist?
It can't be more obscure then iCab or Opera 6.x, and it was fricken awsome.
I would just like to say that even though that is true in general sometimes with high margin items that is not the case.
I worked at Office Max and on electronics the warrenties were a rip, but not too bad (10% for 3 years, lots of rules) our margins were in the 10-40% range. On computers the warrenty was a total waste at 20% for 3 years, with most having a 1 year warrenty (margins were 1-10 %)
But on furnature, where the margins are huge (>50%) the warrenty was 10% the cost of the product, took over the manufacturers warrenty for the first year and was real good. It included things like recushening and wear and tear. Short of intentially breaking your chair it would be repaired replaced. I would never get it, but for someone who likes headaches and paper work (plenty of people do, e.g. mail in rebates) it is worth the money.
The point is I guess that they only need to insure against their cost, and if that is half of what your cost is then everyone can win.
Things may have changed though.
Pretend this post was proof read and higher then a 5th grade level.
THNX
Your article does not mention them being convinced at all.
They were asked to do three things though
1. Not use WMD
2. Not use Terrorism
3. Not attack Isreal
They did 2 (failed attampts) and 3 but noit one against the Americans.
Of course they did immediatly aftaowards gas our allies (Kurds) as we left them out to dry. Funny how the Kurds are not so trusting of us now.
And I think the point everyone was trying to make is that it WASN'T to late for Korea, but now it is.
All I can say is Kim currently seams to be paranoid and defensive, but not likly to attack his neighbors unprovoked (a funny look may be provocation though), but he will not live forever and has possible successors he has not killed and we do not know about them.
Iraq would have been over with Sudam's death (well it would have been a mess, but its power would have been reduced).
Cuba is done with Castro (they arn't a threat but just trying to point out that a modern dictatorship with succession is rare).
I don't think NK is as big of a threat as Iraw or Iran would be with Nucular weapons, but that is not to say they wern't the only ones that got there and that they are safe.
I could misunderstand what power consumption means.
But this is where I got my numbers (from memmory and it was actually 40 watts)
here
If I am mistaken I would like to be corrected.
New AMD chips run around 20-30 watt at full load anyway.
They actually have very small difference between idle and loaded.
This is the newer socket 939.
Wow,
Considering that I have never seen it used I am amazed to see such an elegant solution to a problem.
I want to start a website heavely sprinkled with abbreviations just to use it.
This is a nerd site, if you don't know an acronym find out what it means.
This is not a new term and headlines have had Small Form Factor written out for a while.
I would not expect to see DC written as Direct Current or RAM as Random Access Memmory, why should the submitter be required to assume everyone knows nothing about the subject.
In Summary, RTFA (or should that be written out too) or use a Dictionary.
I was just thinking how cool it would be to have a removable format bigger then HD's again (I guess some tapes get there though).
Cd's were so big when they came out. I got a CD-ROM upgrade on my computer and the CD was 6.5 times the size of the HD. It could do things that previously would have been relegated to the movies.
And then when burners became cheap CDs were only 1/20th the size of an HD.
Now that DVD-R is cheap we are at a 40th the Hard drive, and with broadband a lot of that content is stuff that would have to be re-found and downloaded, not just games and software with the CD's sitting next to the computer.
I hope this tech comes fast enough that I ca backup my entire HD onto it. Maybe the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD thing will be bad enough that this comes soon.
That means the stores buy them from Sony for somewhere inbetween $125 and $200 most likley.
With retail markup ranging from 25-100 % in most cases.
I would say Oracle.
With IBM having OS/2 and DB2 they would be able to push them together like MS does with SQL Server for Windows.
To fight this Oracle could commit to Linux (which they have done) and had a platfor that they had control of on both sides.
Because consumers have demonstrated that they are irrisponsible as far as recycling computer parts is concerned, failing to do so is not only damaging to yourself, but to everyone.
I guess you could really tighten down on not recycling computers and then a take back thing could be an optional value added, or you could just figure out how to deal with it yourself when you were done. That would have the added bonus of encouraging donations of not too old stuff, but it would discourage them of really old stuff (which may not be so bad anyway).
My real point was that even as a fan of big government I think a 10 dollor across the board surcharge is stupid.
Much better idea.
Require manufacturers of computers to take back any of their stuff to recycle it (also make sure it doesn't end up in China). They can charge as little or as much for this in the purchase cost.
As a further incentive treat the "bad" parts like any other hazmat to make sure people do recycle them.
I am pro big government, but I just don't see them efficiantly using the 10.00 (or even using it for it's intended purpose).
Also a much better cost/use recycling program would be universal curb side federaly funded for all counties with population density greater then X (where X is determined by someoen smarter than me).
FWIW
when I cancelled my account recently I sent an email saying I didn't have time to go out on raids that last a while to get into them ans if you are captaining the ship you really need to get somewhere to logoff. So I was paying for what to me was internet spades (I love spades, but wouldn't pay for it). I suggested and hourly fee, or 10 day pass that could work on any 10 24 hour periods over as long a time as wanted. Cleaver emailed me back saying they had something new in the works and to look out for it, so I wonder if this is related, and if the box will have a lower fee or some such.
When a bully sucker puches a little guy isn't it fun to see the little guy get a blow in on the bully?
I don't know about Take 2's games, but the EA football games sucked and they were possibly going to start losing share to Sega with the cheap game plan working out. So we watched a very competitive market with interesting things happening get oblitherated.
Now Take 2 is fighting back, and even if it is dirty fighting it feals good.
Almost as much as buying Doom3 + Half Life + Far Cry
All for Wolfenstein 3d.
Not saying you did that, but many people did.
I have to admit that when I got busy I couldn't justify paying that much either. Especially since there is no real leveling and I lost very little. Not saying no leveling is bad, I prefered it, it just made the game a lot easier to walk away from.
No, my origianal post had the example but it seamed self important to include.
It was GC Legends of Wrestling (the worse gameplay of any game period). The sounds were just too up close and persoanl violent for me.
I actualyl purchased it for my 8 year old brother because of memmories of the Nintendo wrestling. It was a completly innapropriate gift and I ended ip getting him something else after we played half a match together.
I personally found the violence much worse then Mortal Kombat Trilogy and on par with Deadly Alliance. Except I enjoyed Deadly Alliance the same way I enjoy a slasher movie, but Legonds of Wrestling simply disturbed me. I imagine a game like Manhunter would be worse, but I never payed it.
I really think there were cracking sounds when various moves were pulled, and it just sounded like a torture chamber. Before that wrestling games have always been drawn out fighting games with freewalk to me, but this was akin to breaking bones over and over again.
This was a while ago, so my shame of getting it for a child could have added to it, but I really think it had cracking sounds as you chicken winged people ect.