so airforce is gonna walk inside school/building or use non-existent iraq forces in areas..
???
No, they look at satellite imagery, known maps of the area, run a drone by the place before deciding that hellfires are a touch small for this target, let's get some JDAMs in here, etc...
The reason we use government funding to incentivize things is because we as a public want people to do/build/invent/fix those things and are willing to pay for that to happen.
The way I look at it, it's much more honest to complain about the government offering subsidies than it is to complain about a company taking them.
Might Tesla Motors fail without the subsidies? Early on, certainly. Today? Perhaps not so much, but removing them will probably delay Musk's efforts to bring out a EV at around the $40k price point. Remember, a $40k EV ends up costing about the same as a $30k gasoline automobile getting 30 mpg*.
*Average 15k miles/year, $4/gallon = $2k/year. Over 5 years = $10k. It's only $7.5k if gas is closer to $3/gallon, or the mileage is better than 30mpg, etc... Then remember avoided maintenance like oil, filter, brake pads, and such.
That's because luxury cars have higher profit margins than economy cars.
Basically, Elon and Tesla are 'hiding' some of the additional expense of the car - IE the battery, low production numbers, new assembly line, in the luxury items. Government subsidies are nice, but don't eliminate ALL of said extra expenses. As a result, a BMW in the same price range probably has a higher profit margin that a Model S.
It's only 'infant' in that automation hasn't reached the level of standard cars, and there's still a lot of economy of scale that can be realized to make large LiIon battery packs cheaper.
Yes. Deployed service people today are cautioned against taking pictures, especially with cell phones, for this reason.
If you really want to, they recommend running it through public affairs(the professional photographer people) to make sure that information that can precisely locate the photo is removed.
Or what's going on is that people tend to not bother testing their well water until they hear fracking is going on, then blame anything found on the fracking, even if it was present years ago.
Natural gas is in the water of wells in some areas naturally, but it's not especially harmful to drink it. After all, it's just a hydrocarbon, and our body knows how to handle them.
When you factor it out, what you're left with is advantage of their divisible by ten units versus the more varied divisions in imperial.
One thing to realize is that Imperial measurements are often simpler to work with, they're in more handy increments than metric.
Unless you're doing scientific stuff you don't often compare inches of something with miles of something else.
I remember reading that chefs and cooks over in Europe are 'rebelling' against metric because it's a pain in the ass when cooking. Imperial - tablespoons, cups, and such are actually more convenient once you've learned it. You can triple or quadruple a recipe, cut it in half or thirds, pretty easily in your head. Not so easily for metric.
Same deal with inches, feet, and yards when constructing a building.
I'm pretty sure the bank where you're depositing your $9,999 a day has advisers on hand to assist you.
First, it doesn't have to be that 'close' to the limit. $5k/day might be enough. $9k once a week might be enough. Etc...
Also, 99% of banks might have somebody that warns you if you might be getting close to being in trouble with the Feds over 'suspicious deposits' that were $5k/week a decade ago and have crept to $9k(ish) twice a week because your insurance only covers under $10k in cash. They haven't met with bankers or tellers individually enough for them to realize that your 'needs' have changed and they need to make that notation.
But we're dealing with an entire country here, you have those 1%ers slipping through.
Also, don't think "no, I will never need an ethernet connection in the roof". Put it in while you can. Trust me, you will regret it:(
Useful for: PTP network sharing, having wifi access in your yard(if the leakage from your house isn't enough), depending on location can even be used pointing 'down' to provide wireless access more evenly throughout your house.
Here's the deal: The form is only required on deposits of $10k or greater. It's a pattern of sub-$10k deposits that gets the IRS seizing your money, however, there's no specific reporting requirement for a single deposit of under $10k.
So unless the bank is on the ball, it might not ask. The IRS certainly doesn't ask, it just seizes(as various news articles have shown).
Okay, you're a god at physics prediction. Can you, with no prior experience in the particular implementation of the game, finish 'Angry Birds' in 2 hours or less?
Remember, if you've played the game before and beaten it, it doesn't really count because you're just replaying it, and have thus already invested time in it.
No daisy-chaining: Very much so. I wasn't even thinking it was an option. More than you need: Oh yes. Though I think I'd concentrate more on having pull cables and bigger conduit than more wire where it's not immediately needed.
I'll note that flexible conduit isn't that expensive, you can get 100' of 1" conduit for like $50.
Making sure the electricians run the conduit along certain paths to avoid interfering with future projects like recessed lighting is good to know.
With conduit, adding a new room to the closet shouldn't be too difficult. Pull up the insulation in the attic to the new area, lay the conduit of appropriate size, put the insulation back down.
The pipe for under your driveway is an excellent idea. Might as well have a couple of them. Depending, a pipe running from your house to the road might also be a good idea.
A cash business that does frequent deposits simply reports they have frequent cash receipts. That's not structuring and is almost never considered structuring.
So long as the business owner knows enough, or has a banker/adviser who knows enough, to have them fill out the necessary document to show this.
You know about it because you work in the industry. But for people running small businesses, often for decades, without a banker who advises them what to do to mark themselves as a SBO who frequently makes < $10k deposits? It doesn't hit that many owners a year, but it's still enough to see that the IRS is abusing the law.
A hallway that doubles as a shooting range? I can just imagine someone stepping out of a room off the hallway at the wrong time and getting shot. Please tell me this is a joke stuck in the middle of an otherwise-reasonable post.
More that in my stream of thinking I failed to specify; thus you and I are picturing very different hallways. You're thinking of one on ground floor, most likely, with doors to things like bedrooms and bathrooms off of it.
I was thinking of a hallway in the basement, with the door to the vault and maybe a storeroom or two. Something that you could trivially clear before you start shooting. Thus the 'extend out from under the house', where you'd have a storm entrance or something out in the back yard. Said entry would be alarmed, like I said, with a light & siren. Alarm any other doors while I'm at it.
Hastert is caught in a similar pickle. Meet the reporting requirements; they're designed to trap this, and other kinds of illicit behavior.
They don't just trap illicit behavior. Legitimate businesses have been hit, many times, for structuring. They charge the money in the bank account, not the individual or business, so you have to *prove* it's legitimate. Often they'll let you get half or so of it back in exchange for not involving the legal system. People have been out of tens of thousands of dollars for this. Restaurants A Mexican restaurant: "Critics say the I.R.S. rarely investigates such cases to see if the business owner has legitimate reasons for making small deposits, such as an insurance policy that covers only a limited amount of cash." Multiple small businesses in Michigan
Simply speaking: Many businesses will frequently make deposits under $10k for two reasons: 1. That's simply what they make 2. Insurance policies that only cover 'up to' $10k or so of cash, so business policy is to make a deposit whenever they're close to that amount so they're always covered.
The IRS doesn't care, will look at it as 'structuring', and seize all your bank accounts.
Infrastructure wise, only what would differ from 'standard'. Also, assuming I'm not in a mansion, but still 'decent' sized house.
Proper telecommunications closet. Should be fairly centrally located, but 'out of the way'. Remember to put venting/ac in here. It should have room for at least a small rack holding my patch panel(s), switch, router, and a server or two. Conduit to all the rooms, with at least 2 boxes per wall, even if I end up drywalling over most of them. Right now I'd pull cat6 cable and probably a bit of coax. I don't use cable other than internet, but who knows? The conduit makes repair/replacement 'easy'. Electrical plug-in spots at the top end of standard in number New idea - have a second run of conduit placed fairly high up. Suggested uses: Wall mount speakers, TVs, and such. Basement: Pour a secure vault as part of the foundation, get a good door. Good for storing guns, valuables, and as an emergency shelter. Shooting range: Length ultimately depends on budget and location, but a hallway that doubles as a 10 yard plus* firing range. Maybe even have it extend out from under the house, doubles as a secondary exit. Put the bullet trap on the far side, lock the distant end down *tight*. Probably even hook up a light & siren to that door opening. Safety first! Construction wise I'd want it to be mostly a 'passive house'. IE built such that it doesn't need extensive amounts of heating or cooling. Also, solar panels on new build is cheaper enough that there not real reason at this point to NOT have them. Depending on where the house is being built, a few solar thermal panels for hot water would be a good idea as well. Depending on region, there's even tricks with underground air circulation for cooling and/or heating as well. Geothermal heat pumps. Don't forget heat exchanger air vents - they save energy by conditioning the air while still giving you much better ventilation than a 'tight' modern home without one.
I like swimming, so an indoor pool with automatic cover.
Crazy wise - use one of those 3d concrete printers to make the walls, as they can 'print' the conduit basically right into the walls. Also, the concrete they use is surprisingly insulating and still serves as thermal mass to keep temperatures even.
*IE don't bother if it'd be less than 10 yards/meters, but I'd prefer at least 20. It would start being silly at 100.
How can they not be storing it? Are they shipping it continuously from point to point?
Or is it that they don't have a 'permanent' storage facility yet? Thing is, the density of high level nuclear waste is such that you don't need much storage space for it. Oh, and it gets easier to store as it ages.
Well, Windscale was never used for civilian power production. I think nearly all of the reactors designed for weapons production were far less safe than nearly any civilian design.
Not to mention polluting. When anti-nuclear power nuts start going off, they'll often start listing all sorts of nuclear waste disasters 'waiting to happen'. Thing is, 99% of the time they're not talking about nuclear power waste, but from the government's weapons programs. Which, as you say, were run horribly.
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I'm sorry, when I read your first sentence I was expecting some rant about how we're being lazy about our worship of Musk. Not how far we'd go.
We need more Idols! More sacrifices! Fancier golden alters! ;)
I like the idea of the Model S, would probably have to buy a leaf. I've looked at electric motorcycles.
A $40k EV is roughly equivalent to a $30k traditional gasoline vehicle once you factor in the cost of gasoline, and the extra maintenance it requires.
That's Chevy Impala, Buick Regal, Ford Taurus, BMW 2&3 series, Toyota Avalon range. Call it 'upper middle class' cars.
so airforce is gonna walk inside school/building or use non-existent iraq forces in areas..
???
No, they look at satellite imagery, known maps of the area, run a drone by the place before deciding that hellfires are a touch small for this target, let's get some JDAMs in here, etc...
The reason we use government funding to incentivize things is because we as a public want people to do/build/invent/fix those things and are willing to pay for that to happen.
The way I look at it, it's much more honest to complain about the government offering subsidies than it is to complain about a company taking them.
Might Tesla Motors fail without the subsidies? Early on, certainly. Today? Perhaps not so much, but removing them will probably delay Musk's efforts to bring out a EV at around the $40k price point. Remember, a $40k EV ends up costing about the same as a $30k gasoline automobile getting 30 mpg*.
*Average 15k miles/year, $4/gallon = $2k/year. Over 5 years = $10k. It's only $7.5k if gas is closer to $3/gallon, or the mileage is better than 30mpg, etc... Then remember avoided maintenance like oil, filter, brake pads, and such.
That's because luxury cars have higher profit margins than economy cars.
Basically, Elon and Tesla are 'hiding' some of the additional expense of the car - IE the battery, low production numbers, new assembly line, in the luxury items. Government subsidies are nice, but don't eliminate ALL of said extra expenses. As a result, a BMW in the same price range probably has a higher profit margin that a Model S.
It's only 'infant' in that automation hasn't reached the level of standard cars, and there's still a lot of economy of scale that can be realized to make large LiIon battery packs cheaper.
That's what much of the 22 hour delay was for - verifying the target.
Yes. Deployed service people today are cautioned against taking pictures, especially with cell phones, for this reason.
If you really want to, they recommend running it through public affairs(the professional photographer people) to make sure that information that can precisely locate the photo is removed.
Or what's going on is that people tend to not bother testing their well water until they hear fracking is going on, then blame anything found on the fracking, even if it was present years ago.
Natural gas is in the water of wells in some areas naturally, but it's not especially harmful to drink it. After all, it's just a hydrocarbon, and our body knows how to handle them.
I objected to five items on the list, but that's better than most.
When you factor it out, what you're left with is advantage of their divisible by ten units versus the more varied divisions in imperial.
One thing to realize is that Imperial measurements are often simpler to work with, they're in more handy increments than metric.
Unless you're doing scientific stuff you don't often compare inches of something with miles of something else.
I remember reading that chefs and cooks over in Europe are 'rebelling' against metric because it's a pain in the ass when cooking. Imperial - tablespoons, cups, and such are actually more convenient once you've learned it. You can triple or quadruple a recipe, cut it in half or thirds, pretty easily in your head. Not so easily for metric.
Same deal with inches, feet, and yards when constructing a building.
I'm pretty sure the bank where you're depositing your $9,999 a day has advisers on hand to assist you.
First, it doesn't have to be that 'close' to the limit. $5k/day might be enough. $9k once a week might be enough. Etc...
Also, 99% of banks might have somebody that warns you if you might be getting close to being in trouble with the Feds over 'suspicious deposits' that were $5k/week a decade ago and have crept to $9k(ish) twice a week because your insurance only covers under $10k in cash. They haven't met with bankers or tellers individually enough for them to realize that your 'needs' have changed and they need to make that notation.
But we're dealing with an entire country here, you have those 1%ers slipping through.
Also, don't think "no, I will never need an ethernet connection in the roof". Put it in while you can. Trust me, you will regret it :(
Useful for: PTP network sharing, having wifi access in your yard(if the leakage from your house isn't enough), depending on location can even be used pointing 'down' to provide wireless access more evenly throughout your house.
Here's the deal: The form is only required on deposits of $10k or greater. It's a pattern of sub-$10k deposits that gets the IRS seizing your money, however, there's no specific reporting requirement for a single deposit of under $10k.
So unless the bank is on the ball, it might not ask. The IRS certainly doesn't ask, it just seizes(as various news articles have shown).
Okay, you're a god at physics prediction. Can you, with no prior experience in the particular implementation of the game, finish 'Angry Birds' in 2 hours or less?
Remember, if you've played the game before and beaten it, it doesn't really count because you're just replaying it, and have thus already invested time in it.
Thanks for your reply.
No daisy-chaining: Very much so. I wasn't even thinking it was an option.
More than you need: Oh yes. Though I think I'd concentrate more on having pull cables and bigger conduit than more wire where it's not immediately needed.
I'll note that flexible conduit isn't that expensive, you can get 100' of 1" conduit for like $50.
Making sure the electricians run the conduit along certain paths to avoid interfering with future projects like recessed lighting is good to know.
With conduit, adding a new room to the closet shouldn't be too difficult. Pull up the insulation in the attic to the new area, lay the conduit of appropriate size, put the insulation back down.
The pipe for under your driveway is an excellent idea. Might as well have a couple of them. Depending, a pipe running from your house to the road might also be a good idea.
I'm not VAC banned, and I have all sorts of developer stuff on my computer - Visual studio specifically, as well as some debugger stuff.
On the other hand, I'm also not running that stuff on VAC enabled games either, or cheating otherwise(my lousy record in such games speaks to that).
Even Angry Birds has more than 2 hours of gameplay if you're not some sort of physics sandbox god and/or aren't abusing some sort of guide.
Oh, I do. It was the topic of my monthly letter to my representatives in congress 3 months ago.
A cash business that does frequent deposits simply reports they have frequent cash receipts. That's not structuring and is almost never considered structuring.
So long as the business owner knows enough, or has a banker/adviser who knows enough, to have them fill out the necessary document to show this.
You know about it because you work in the industry. But for people running small businesses, often for decades, without a banker who advises them what to do to mark themselves as a SBO who frequently makes < $10k deposits? It doesn't hit that many owners a year, but it's still enough to see that the IRS is abusing the law.
A hallway that doubles as a shooting range? I can just imagine someone stepping out of a room off the hallway at the wrong time and getting shot. Please tell me this is a joke stuck in the middle of an otherwise-reasonable post.
More that in my stream of thinking I failed to specify; thus you and I are picturing very different hallways. You're thinking of one on ground floor, most likely, with doors to things like bedrooms and bathrooms off of it.
I was thinking of a hallway in the basement, with the door to the vault and maybe a storeroom or two. Something that you could trivially clear before you start shooting. Thus the 'extend out from under the house', where you'd have a storm entrance or something out in the back yard. Said entry would be alarmed, like I said, with a light & siren. Alarm any other doors while I'm at it.
Hastert is caught in a similar pickle. Meet the reporting requirements; they're designed to trap this, and other kinds of illicit behavior.
They don't just trap illicit behavior. Legitimate businesses have been hit, many times, for structuring. They charge the money in the bank account, not the individual or business, so you have to *prove* it's legitimate. Often they'll let you get half or so of it back in exchange for not involving the legal system. People have been out of tens of thousands of dollars for this.
Restaurants
A Mexican restaurant: "Critics say the I.R.S. rarely investigates such cases to see if the business owner has legitimate reasons for making small deposits, such as an insurance policy that covers only a limited amount of cash."
Multiple small businesses in Michigan
Simply speaking: Many businesses will frequently make deposits under $10k for two reasons:
1. That's simply what they make
2. Insurance policies that only cover 'up to' $10k or so of cash, so business policy is to make a deposit whenever they're close to that amount so they're always covered.
The IRS doesn't care, will look at it as 'structuring', and seize all your bank accounts.
Infrastructure wise, only what would differ from 'standard'. Also, assuming I'm not in a mansion, but still 'decent' sized house.
Proper telecommunications closet. Should be fairly centrally located, but 'out of the way'. Remember to put venting/ac in here.
It should have room for at least a small rack holding my patch panel(s), switch, router, and a server or two.
Conduit to all the rooms, with at least 2 boxes per wall, even if I end up drywalling over most of them.
Right now I'd pull cat6 cable and probably a bit of coax. I don't use cable other than internet, but who knows?
The conduit makes repair/replacement 'easy'.
Electrical plug-in spots at the top end of standard in number
New idea - have a second run of conduit placed fairly high up. Suggested uses: Wall mount speakers, TVs, and such.
Basement: Pour a secure vault as part of the foundation, get a good door. Good for storing guns, valuables, and as an emergency shelter.
Shooting range: Length ultimately depends on budget and location, but a hallway that doubles as a 10 yard plus* firing range. Maybe even have it extend out from under the house, doubles as a secondary exit. Put the bullet trap on the far side, lock the distant end down *tight*. Probably even hook up a light & siren to that door opening. Safety first!
Construction wise I'd want it to be mostly a 'passive house'. IE built such that it doesn't need extensive amounts of heating or cooling.
Also, solar panels on new build is cheaper enough that there not real reason at this point to NOT have them. Depending on where the house is being built, a few solar thermal panels for hot water would be a good idea as well. Depending on region, there's even tricks with underground air circulation for cooling and/or heating as well. Geothermal heat pumps. Don't forget heat exchanger air vents - they save energy by conditioning the air while still giving you much better ventilation than a 'tight' modern home without one.
I like swimming, so an indoor pool with automatic cover.
Crazy wise - use one of those 3d concrete printers to make the walls, as they can 'print' the conduit basically right into the walls. Also, the concrete they use is surprisingly insulating and still serves as thermal mass to keep temperatures even.
*IE don't bother if it'd be less than 10 yards/meters, but I'd prefer at least 20. It would start being silly at 100.
How can they not be storing it? Are they shipping it continuously from point to point?
Or is it that they don't have a 'permanent' storage facility yet? Thing is, the density of high level nuclear waste is such that you don't need much storage space for it. Oh, and it gets easier to store as it ages.
Well, Windscale was never used for civilian power production. I think nearly all of the reactors designed for weapons production were far less safe than nearly any civilian design.
Not to mention polluting. When anti-nuclear power nuts start going off, they'll often start listing all sorts of nuclear waste disasters 'waiting to happen'. Thing is, 99% of the time they're not talking about nuclear power waste, but from the government's weapons programs. Which, as you say, were run horribly.