sex addiction, ALCOHOLISM and gambling are all habitual
Alcoholism is not a habitual addiction; though it can start out as one. Serious alcohol addicts can experience delerium tremors during withdrawal and can sometimes even die if cut off cold turkey.
The fact that you normally need a huge amount of alcohol over a period of time might be a little strange; I guess it could be that we, as humans, have evolved to resist the addictive effects over time. We've been making and drinking it for a [i]long[/i] time.
There are actual physical changes involved with alcohol addiction. In extreme cases sudden withdrawal can even lead to death.
Still, some time in the past we went from requiring these physiological dependencies for a diagnosis of 'addiction' to mere abuse. Mental addictions, if you will.
This is how gambling became to be known as something you could become addicted to. Yes, they can spot changes in brain patterns when a person is gambling, but there's no neurochemicals being introduced or interfered with like with a drug interaction.
These addictions have been found for many things such as gambling, shoes, clothing, porn, soap operas, internet, internet chatting, and now video games.
Given the similarities that I've seen between many of these, I wonder if they're not just different manifestations of the same syndrome. Many people would have it, it's just that intervention is much more necessary when it's otherwise ruining the life of the person and his/her family. Being 'addicted' to gambling is much more hazardous, for example, than being obsessive about the 'days of our lives' soap. One can waste money in pretty much unlimited amounts, causing the loss of a home; the other can be controlled, more or less, simply by the purchase of a VCR or Tivo, or even season DVDs. I'd estimate a few thousand dollars; still far less than many hobbies such as motorcycle riding, boats, hot cars, etc...
The proxy was getting the cert from the certificate authority and repackaging it. The fact that the hostname was embedded doesn't really matter, as the proxy server still intercepted it.
As I understood it, it would intercept the request to initiate the session, then send it's own request to the actual server. The server would respond back, be intercepted by the program, then re-done with the proxy's information to be sent on to the browser. So on and so forth. If you have it able to intercept and do the cert site's credentials, what is your browser going to be able to do?
Why do you say 40%? Fairtax pegs it at 29% (charged as a traditional sales tax), then turns around and sends everybody a check for ~$300(including kids) a month. Rent and used goods aren't charged a sales tax.
taxes should be a higher percentage if your pay is higher. Not enough to remove the incentive to move up in income, but enough so that the tax reflects the benefit you gain from a secure country.
Why should it be, other than liberal/socialist ideas of fairness? I happen to believe that we shouldn't load down our best revenue producers(high salary people) to the point that they decide that it's not worth it working any more when Uncle Sam is going to take 70% of their earnings and turn around and shoot golf for three months out of the year.
It also doesn't cover the fact that the richest portion of our population is quite capable of avoiding most of the taxes through creative interpretations of the tax code as determined by dozens of tax lawyers and accountants.
I also believe that the average family should be able to file their own taxes; I find the fact that there's a whole industry devoted to filing taxes to be abhorrent. It's a non-productive waste.
Cgenman, this happens whenever somebody mentions fairtax. I'd recommend reading the link.
Synopsis though is that all citizens and legal residents would get a prebate for the taxes on poverty level spending. So your single mother, unless she's making a lot more than poverty level, wouldn't be paying more in taxes. Her kids would count in the prebate amounts.
As for making money from investments, sure, that wouldn't be taxed, but neither is income, so it doesn't really matter. The rich guys will pay their taxes when they buy a lexus or BMW, go out to eat in the fru-fru restraunt, etc...
Sorry, but the Saudi example doesn't seem right to me somehow. The marriage restrictions for the area and average financial disparity is large.
Still, how about a different example: US Military member marries German. Member has served three tours in Germany, speaks German, plans to retire to Germany with wife and kids(who attend german schools).
That's my former supervisor. Not everybody emigrates the the USA, some to emigrate away. My example is a former boss of mine. He's not planning on renouncing his US citizenship due to the tax advantages and retirement money which he'd lose if he became a german citizen.
Fact is, from my reading becoming a citizen of the United States is actually one of the easier ones to get. Japan is effectivly impossible, for example. Many/most european system's are actually more farked up than ours, which I find scary.
[blockquote]Also, possessing a green card has some restrictions, particularly with respect to residency, that may be burdensome to someone with limited ties to the US.[/blockquote]
I'd tend to think that being married to a US citizen as well as working in the USA doesn't qualify as 'limited ties'.
It's been a long time, but I don't remember it installing any certs. From what I remember what it did was intercept all the communications, then respond as though it was the cert authority. It could do that because it was in line for all communications. It'd present itself as the client to the server and as the server to your client. Basically, it'd intercept your request and generate it's own instead.
I used to use an early ad-block software that acted as a proxy server. It could even intercept and modify https connections while still presenting them as secure to the browser, with no warnings.
I'm not convinced that such a box couldn't intercept everything and use that to fake it all.
Sounds like a case for having the RIAA back off a little.
Loosing cases like this would only embolden piraters(according to RIAA thinking). Even massive amounts of having to pay attorney's fees won't slow the RIAA down, that's chump change. Still, being forced to pay the fees is a bad sign for them. Not only do people see them loose, but loose so badly they have to pay the person back, making them more or less whole.
By my understanding of the legislation, my theoretical system wouldn't be a circumvention device. After all, it copies the encryption right along with everything else.
Let's say that I'm making a 'fark the MPAA' disc copier. Wouldn't it be relativly simple at that point to also contract with some chinese country to also make a 'DVD' disc with a writeable CSS area?
Heck, it'd be a continous revenue stream for me to be selling 'unlimited' writeable DVDs.
Actually, there's a LOT to sue over here. According to the fair-use laws (including the DMCA), you can make a backup, but you can't break the encryption to do it. It needs to be an exact backup. Thus the only way to make a legal backup is to use a licensed device like Kaleidescape's. The device complies with both the DMCA and DVD license requirements by backing up the disc with its CSS protection intact.
Why would you need a license to make an exact bit for bit copy? I thought the license gained you access to information and keys to decrypt the information for playback. If you're making a bit for bit copy, who cares? They can stick the copy into their DVD player to play it.
Untrue. If you and me enter an agreement represented by a contract written down on paper and signed by both parties, it hold a heck of a lot of power in a civil court. Even better if it's notarized, witnessed, whatever.
It's a large basis of the whole court system.
Now what tends to get software license contracts in hot water is that they're trying to mess over the consumer, the license contract isn't even presented until after the purchase, frequently when the consumer has already set up the equipment. There's no way for the company to prove that the person who clicked through the agreement was a competent adult, or even read it.
Sometimes 'fine print' or deliberately obtuse writings get thrown out.
The simpler the contract, the more visibly witnessed/signed it is, the more proof that both parties understood what they were getting into, the more enforcable the contract.
Just watch court TV sometime, wait for the people to come in where one person has a copy of the contract, copies of past receipts, etc... You'll find that those tend to be very fast cases.
There are reasons I said that an vehicle engine straight out of the crate/junkyard shouldn't be used for aviation.
Still, there are a number of options for these issues. My general point would be developing an engine control system with increased redundancy and good failover modes but integrating new technology could improve airplane engine performance by quite a bit.
Worried about electronic ignition vs dual dynamos? Why not have two alternators and two ignition modules?
Heck with a computerized engine you'd frequently be able to get warnings about engine failures before it becomes a real problem.
I'd also wonder about the run life of the engine in particular - Many people replace their lawnmowers as freqently as they do their cars, but only run the mower one to two hours a week, frequently for only part of the year.
From what I've read, piston plane engines have seriously, seriously lagged behind car engines. If you look at performance stats today, your average honda car engine has more power per pound, far better fuel economy, and still beats plane engines to death on reliability and longevity between rebuilds. Of course, this is for regular octane unleaded gas.
Now, I will state that you can't just dump a car engine in a plane - the requirements are different, especially if you're going to be going high altitude.
Still, imagine what we could do for efficiency and reliability if we put some of the same computer controls in cars today into small plane engines - allowing far better control of the turbocharging, spark timing, fuel input, etc...
It's not like redundant computer controls can't be done - many commercial planes today are fly by wire.
There are serious plans in the works to reconfigure some of our ICBM stock to conventional munitions. The idea is that we could theoretically hit an extremely high value target* in an area where we don't have more conventional forces very quickly.
Personally, I think that to be somewhat unlikely because of the whole 'nuclear scare' thing. Any country detecting the launch can only refine where it's going so far, and has no way to tell whether it's a conventional or a nuclear. IE China might get scared if they see one launching towards North Korea. Russia and Iran could become concerned about one heading for the middle east.
Compared to that, this would be a piece of cake.
*My first thought was a confirmed location for Osama Bin Laden.
Ughh... I get swamped when trying to google it with all the global warming stuff.
Still, here's a study of greenhouse heating requirements. Please note that this is old, and for florida. It also only expects R11, but at least it's a start.
3000 square feet(.069 acres), expected building cost of $5/square foot, would take on average 28 million BTUs to maintain 75 degrees. With Propane this would cost ~$540/year. Straight electric would be $821/year, Natural Gas $210. A good heat pump system should be able to drop the electric cost down to $273. Effectivly zero if you were going to cool the area you're getting the heat from anyways. Still, we have to worry about other energy costs, such as any required artificial lighting.
Using the NG example, shipping one acre's product would have to cost more than 3k to exceed heating costs. Per this poster, shipping costs for an entire acre would only be about $1800. Please note that ocean cargo shipping is extremely cheap, often cheaper than the 'last miles' to get products inland.
1 acre is 43,560 square feet, so 1 acre of greenhouse would end up costing $218k. In another post I figured out that it'd have to cost less than $100k per acre to be financially feasable.
Yeah, I'm almost tempted to go in and perform some corrections. For example, it is indeed possbile to exceed the illumination and energy of the sun's power by area at earth's orbit.
It's just too expensive to do unless you have a good reason to, and humans generally like it a little dimmer. Why spend 10X the power to light rooms to incredible levels when all that'll happen is that people's pupils will contract to let less light in?
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sex addiction, ALCOHOLISM and gambling are all habitual
Alcoholism is not a habitual addiction; though it can start out as one. Serious alcohol addicts can experience delerium tremors during withdrawal and can sometimes even die if cut off cold turkey.
The fact that you normally need a huge amount of alcohol over a period of time might be a little strange; I guess it could be that we, as humans, have evolved to resist the addictive effects over time. We've been making and drinking it for a [i]long[/i] time.
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There are actual physical changes involved with alcohol addiction. In extreme cases sudden withdrawal can even lead to death.
Still, some time in the past we went from requiring these physiological dependencies for a diagnosis of 'addiction' to mere abuse. Mental addictions, if you will.
This is how gambling became to be known as something you could become addicted to. Yes, they can spot changes in brain patterns when a person is gambling, but there's no neurochemicals being introduced or interfered with like with a drug interaction.
These addictions have been found for many things such as gambling, shoes, clothing, porn, soap operas, internet, internet chatting, and now video games.
Given the similarities that I've seen between many of these, I wonder if they're not just different manifestations of the same syndrome. Many people would have it, it's just that intervention is much more necessary when it's otherwise ruining the life of the person and his/her family. Being 'addicted' to gambling is much more hazardous, for example, than being obsessive about the 'days of our lives' soap. One can waste money in pretty much unlimited amounts, causing the loss of a home; the other can be controlled, more or less, simply by the purchase of a VCR or Tivo, or even season DVDs. I'd estimate a few thousand dollars; still far less than many hobbies such as motorcycle riding, boats, hot cars, etc...
Yep, that was it, thanks for reminding me.
I had all sorts of filters set up on that thing.
The proxy was getting the cert from the certificate authority and repackaging it. The fact that the hostname was embedded doesn't really matter, as the proxy server still intercepted it.
Good point, I just didn't want to try to duplicate the point.
Remember, income taxes for businesses are only considered another expense; they simply raise their rates to cover.
As I understood it, it would intercept the request to initiate the session, then send it's own request to the actual server. The server would respond back, be intercepted by the program, then re-done with the proxy's information to be sent on to the browser. So on and so forth. If you have it able to intercept and do the cert site's credentials, what is your browser going to be able to do?
IE Proxy Server
Why do you say 40%? Fairtax pegs it at 29% (charged as a traditional sales tax), then turns around and sends everybody a check for ~$300(including kids) a month. Rent and used goods aren't charged a sales tax.
taxes should be a higher percentage if your pay is higher. Not enough to remove the incentive to move up in income, but enough so that the tax reflects the benefit you gain from a secure country.
Why should it be, other than liberal/socialist ideas of fairness? I happen to believe that we shouldn't load down our best revenue producers(high salary people) to the point that they decide that it's not worth it working any more when Uncle Sam is going to take 70% of their earnings and turn around and shoot golf for three months out of the year.
It also doesn't cover the fact that the richest portion of our population is quite capable of avoiding most of the taxes through creative interpretations of the tax code as determined by dozens of tax lawyers and accountants.
I also believe that the average family should be able to file their own taxes; I find the fact that there's a whole industry devoted to filing taxes to be abhorrent. It's a non-productive waste.
Cgenman, this happens whenever somebody mentions fairtax. I'd recommend reading the link.
Synopsis though is that all citizens and legal residents would get a prebate for the taxes on poverty level spending. So your single mother, unless she's making a lot more than poverty level, wouldn't be paying more in taxes. Her kids would count in the prebate amounts.
As for making money from investments, sure, that wouldn't be taxed, but neither is income, so it doesn't really matter. The rich guys will pay their taxes when they buy a lexus or BMW, go out to eat in the fru-fru restraunt, etc...
Sorry, but the Saudi example doesn't seem right to me somehow. The marriage restrictions for the area and average financial disparity is large.
Still, how about a different example: US Military member marries German. Member has served three tours in Germany, speaks German, plans to retire to Germany with wife and kids(who attend german schools).
That's my former supervisor. Not everybody emigrates the the USA, some to emigrate away. My example is a former boss of mine. He's not planning on renouncing his US citizenship due to the tax advantages and retirement money which he'd lose if he became a german citizen.
Fact is, from my reading becoming a citizen of the United States is actually one of the easier ones to get. Japan is effectivly impossible, for example. Many/most european system's are actually more farked up than ours, which I find scary.
[blockquote]Also, possessing a green card has some restrictions, particularly with respect to residency, that may be burdensome to someone with limited ties to the US.[/blockquote]
I'd tend to think that being married to a US citizen as well as working in the USA doesn't qualify as 'limited ties'.
It's been a long time, but I don't remember it installing any certs. From what I remember what it did was intercept all the communications, then respond as though it was the cert authority. It could do that because it was in line for all communications. It'd present itself as the client to the server and as the server to your client. Basically, it'd intercept your request and generate it's own instead.
Bill O'Reilly isn't so bad. The Oprah marathon, interspersed with tele-tubbies and the purple monster on the other hand...
I used to use an early ad-block software that acted as a proxy server. It could even intercept and modify https connections while still presenting them as secure to the browser, with no warnings.
I'm not convinced that such a box couldn't intercept everything and use that to fake it all.
Sounds like a case for having the RIAA back off a little.
Loosing cases like this would only embolden piraters(according to RIAA thinking). Even massive amounts of having to pay attorney's fees won't slow the RIAA down, that's chump change. Still, being forced to pay the fees is a bad sign for them. Not only do people see them loose, but loose so badly they have to pay the person back, making them more or less whole.
By my understanding of the legislation, my theoretical system wouldn't be a circumvention device. After all, it copies the encryption right along with everything else.
Let's say that I'm making a 'fark the MPAA' disc copier. Wouldn't it be relativly simple at that point to also contract with some chinese country to also make a 'DVD' disc with a writeable CSS area?
Heck, it'd be a continous revenue stream for me to be selling 'unlimited' writeable DVDs.
Hmm... Maybe I wasn't clear. What I was talking about was a device that makes the copies, but doesn't play them.
Actually, there's a LOT to sue over here. According to the fair-use laws (including the DMCA), you can make a backup, but you can't break the encryption to do it. It needs to be an exact backup. Thus the only way to make a legal backup is to use a licensed device like Kaleidescape's. The device complies with both the DMCA and DVD license requirements by backing up the disc with its CSS protection intact.
Why would you need a license to make an exact bit for bit copy? I thought the license gained you access to information and keys to decrypt the information for playback. If you're making a bit for bit copy, who cares? They can stick the copy into their DVD player to play it.
Untrue. If you and me enter an agreement represented by a contract written down on paper and signed by both parties, it hold a heck of a lot of power in a civil court. Even better if it's notarized, witnessed, whatever.
It's a large basis of the whole court system.
Now what tends to get software license contracts in hot water is that they're trying to mess over the consumer, the license contract isn't even presented until after the purchase, frequently when the consumer has already set up the equipment. There's no way for the company to prove that the person who clicked through the agreement was a competent adult, or even read it.
Sometimes 'fine print' or deliberately obtuse writings get thrown out.
The simpler the contract, the more visibly witnessed/signed it is, the more proof that both parties understood what they were getting into, the more enforcable the contract.
Just watch court TV sometime, wait for the people to come in where one person has a copy of the contract, copies of past receipts, etc... You'll find that those tend to be very fast cases.
There are reasons I said that an vehicle engine straight out of the crate/junkyard shouldn't be used for aviation.
Still, there are a number of options for these issues. My general point would be developing an engine control system with increased redundancy and good failover modes but integrating new technology could improve airplane engine performance by quite a bit.
Worried about electronic ignition vs dual dynamos? Why not have two alternators and two ignition modules?
Heck with a computerized engine you'd frequently be able to get warnings about engine failures before it becomes a real problem.
I'd also wonder about the run life of the engine in particular - Many people replace their lawnmowers as freqently as they do their cars, but only run the mower one to two hours a week, frequently for only part of the year.
From what I've read, piston plane engines have seriously, seriously lagged behind car engines. If you look at performance stats today, your average honda car engine has more power per pound, far better fuel economy, and still beats plane engines to death on reliability and longevity between rebuilds. Of course, this is for regular octane unleaded gas.
Now, I will state that you can't just dump a car engine in a plane - the requirements are different, especially if you're going to be going high altitude.
Still, imagine what we could do for efficiency and reliability if we put some of the same computer controls in cars today into small plane engines - allowing far better control of the turbocharging, spark timing, fuel input, etc...
It's not like redundant computer controls can't be done - many commercial planes today are fly by wire.
There are serious plans in the works to reconfigure some of our ICBM stock to conventional munitions. The idea is that we could theoretically hit an extremely high value target* in an area where we don't have more conventional forces very quickly.
Personally, I think that to be somewhat unlikely because of the whole 'nuclear scare' thing. Any country detecting the launch can only refine where it's going so far, and has no way to tell whether it's a conventional or a nuclear. IE China might get scared if they see one launching towards North Korea. Russia and Iran could become concerned about one heading for the middle east.
Compared to that, this would be a piece of cake.
*My first thought was a confirmed location for Osama Bin Laden.
Ughh... I get swamped when trying to google it with all the global warming stuff.
Still, here's a study of greenhouse heating requirements. Please note that this is old, and for florida. It also only expects R11, but at least it's a start.
3000 square feet(.069 acres), expected building cost of $5/square foot, would take on average 28 million BTUs to maintain 75 degrees. With Propane this would cost ~$540/year. Straight electric would be $821/year, Natural Gas $210. A good heat pump system should be able to drop the electric cost down to $273. Effectivly zero if you were going to cool the area you're getting the heat from anyways. Still, we have to worry about other energy costs, such as any required artificial lighting.
Using the NG example, shipping one acre's product would have to cost more than 3k to exceed heating costs. Per this poster, shipping costs for an entire acre would only be about $1800. Please note that ocean cargo shipping is extremely cheap, often cheaper than the 'last miles' to get products inland.
1 acre is 43,560 square feet, so 1 acre of greenhouse would end up costing $218k. In another post I figured out that it'd have to cost less than $100k per acre to be financially feasable.
Yeah, I'm almost tempted to go in and perform some corrections. For example, it is indeed possbile to exceed the illumination and energy of the sun's power by area at earth's orbit.
It's just too expensive to do unless you have a good reason to, and humans generally like it a little dimmer. Why spend 10X the power to light rooms to incredible levels when all that'll happen is that people's pupils will contract to let less light in?