That sounds a lot like MapTool. It's a free, community built (OSS I think) game mapping program. It supports macros written in a JavaScript like language to automate many things (though I don't think it will draw new features on the map for spells and the like). It too is rule-set agnostic, and many people have written Frameworks (large collections of inter-related macros) to enforce rules for various systems.
We use it with Skype to play 3.5e and 4e, and it work like a charm. We don't actually make use of a lot of the functionality, like auto-map reveal based on lighting sources, etc. You can use it bare bones, or if you have the time, really embrace the power of it.
That's an interesting thought. I wonder if any multi-nationals have restricted or change their VPN topology to avoid being subject to some government's data seizure practices.
Evidence collected as a result of a confession, sure,
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure evidence collected as a result of an illegal confession/interrogation is not admissible in the USA.
If you allowed all evidence in, regardless of how the police got the information that leads them to the evidence, you would be creating an incentive for the police to use any tactic they want, including torture, to get information from all suspects. Sure, some innocent people may get tortured, but they may just get the location of a body that they may not otherwise find.
Citation needed. I often hear or see this claim made, but I've never seen any numbers or sources backing it up.
However, assuming it is true, one possible explanation is that the very highest quality medical care is available at the very highest prices in the USA. Of course, this is completely irrelevant to the question of how best to provide health care to the population at large.
meh.. AC.. but oh well. You did threaten me with violence....
No, I'm not willing to pay for other's reckless behavior. What I am willing to do is enter into group insurance coverage that covers everyone, and subject everyone to certain rules, such as, you must wear a seat belt. The tricky part comes when you start talking about other reckless behavior, such as smoking. I'm not sure how to handle that.
In good times when you cut taxes on business they expand and hire more people, that's basic right wing (Republican) mantra and history mostly supports it.
Citation needed. Basic common sense (as well as economics) says that if a company experiences a decrease in cost, they don't automatically increase output. You can only increase output if demand exists for your product. It might be easier to make a sale in "good" economic times, but if you don't make that sale, you're not going to open a new factory (or expand an existing one), even if it costs zero.
Is that per capita or total amount? Since the tax rate is the lowest its has ever been since the IRS was formed, I have my doubts about your statement.
It's neither. Is as a percent of GDP. He's not entirely correct though. According to this graph, it hit it's peak in 2000 at 37.19% and 2007 at 37.01%.
If you declared a law that everything over 200k a person makes would go to the government it would be about 2 trillion dollars or enough to run the country for less then 2 months
OK, there is a lot wrong with this statement. First of all, Federal outlays in the 2011 budget were $3.6 trillion, so the $2 trillion you cite would last 6.6 months.
But the $2 trillion is wrong (the other way). Those earning over $200k made 17.5% of the total US income of $7.723 trillion, or $1.35 trillion. That amount of money would last us 4.5 months.
But the most egregious part of your statement is the implicit assumption that taxing all of the income over $200K would replace every single other source of revenue for the federal government. No one is suggesting reducing the income tax rate for under $200k to 0%. Not only are those suggesting higher marginal rates for the very rich not suggesting lower marginal rates for the rest, they are also not proposing cutting non-income taxes and revenue.
Federal income tax makes up about 45% of total Federal revenue. Payroll taxes make up the second biggest chunk of revenue at about 36% (perhaps lower with the current holiday), while corporate income tax (which some say should be higher) makes up 12%. These other sources would continue if we raised taxes on the rich.
So, not only do you use inaccurate numbers to make your argument, you are arguing against a strawman.
A sensible debate on this issue would reveal that we need to have a comprehensive approach to solve the deficit and debt problems we face. Cutting spending alone, or raising taxes alone, will not solve the issue. The combination of decreased tax revenue (due to the Bush tax cuts and the deregulation of the financial industry which directly led to the bank bailouts [increased spending] and recession [decreased revenue], and the increased spending due to the War on Terror (not only Iraq and Afghanistan, but also DHS) has out us in a fine mess, and we need to reverse course on both those fronts to climb out of the hole we are in.
The authorized widely broadcast requests that anyone that had ever taken photos of that bridge turn them into the civil engineering authorities for their post-mortem.
Interesting. Usually we just arrest people on suspicion of terrorism if they take pictures of bridges.
Meh... we don't disagree. My original point was that the Fire is not positioned as an eReader, but rather as a tablet. The original Kindle is not a tablet - there is a difference. Tablets, like all computers (mobile or not), can be used to read electronic books. But eReaders cannot (generally - there may be exceptions) watch movies, surf the web, run (a wide variety of 3rd party) apps, etc.
Like a said, it was a very minor quibble with the G...GP.
Resupply through Pakistan is not very relevant to this story. The lede is a red herring. Those supply routes are for the huge quantities of oil and other supplies the entire NATO/US army needs. This helicopter is doing small, unit-sized resupply runs to remote outposts.
According to Gary Oldman, John Le Carré told the filmmakers of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that the book is the book and the film is the film. If you make a shitty film, my book will still be good.
I'm a big fan of PK Dick's short stories, though I wouldn't consider myself a Purist. I really enjoyed Total Recall and The Adjustment Bureau. Minority Report was OK to fair. Imposters was bad, and Screamers I never saw, though it's source, Second Variety is one of my favorites (simply because it was the "cover story" of the first volume of his stories I bought - the one with the little girl with the teddy bear on the cover).
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Mentioned elsewhere up above.... MapTool. Free interactive virtual tabletop with scripting, etc.
That sounds a lot like MapTool. It's a free, community built (OSS I think) game mapping program. It supports macros written in a JavaScript like language to automate many things (though I don't think it will draw new features on the map for spells and the like). It too is rule-set agnostic, and many people have written Frameworks (large collections of inter-related macros) to enforce rules for various systems.
We use it with Skype to play 3.5e and 4e, and it work like a charm. We don't actually make use of a lot of the functionality, like auto-map reveal based on lighting sources, etc. You can use it bare bones, or if you have the time, really embrace the power of it.
A law like this can only be pushed through by making it Draconian at first,
I've been playing too much D&D and Skryim the last couple of days, because I completely misinterpreted your post on the first read through.
That's an interesting thought. I wonder if any multi-nationals have restricted or change their VPN topology to avoid being subject to some government's data seizure practices.
You don't sell ERP systems on hipster cool.
That's not what the iERP sales guy told me.
I have photographs of all those guys plus Friedman and Greenspan. I must be a freaking genius economist.
Evidence collected as a result of a confession, sure,
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure evidence collected as a result of an illegal confession/interrogation is not admissible in the USA.
If you allowed all evidence in, regardless of how the police got the information that leads them to the evidence, you would be creating an incentive for the police to use any tactic they want, including torture, to get information from all suspects. Sure, some innocent people may get tortured, but they may just get the location of a body that they may not otherwise find.
Citation needed. I often hear or see this claim made, but I've never seen any numbers or sources backing it up.
However, assuming it is true, one possible explanation is that the very highest quality medical care is available at the very highest prices in the USA. Of course, this is completely irrelevant to the question of how best to provide health care to the population at large.
meh.. AC.. but oh well. You did threaten me with violence....
No, I'm not willing to pay for other's reckless behavior. What I am willing to do is enter into group insurance coverage that covers everyone, and subject everyone to certain rules, such as, you must wear a seat belt. The tricky part comes when you start talking about other reckless behavior, such as smoking. I'm not sure how to handle that.
Straw Man.
(Though, I agree that birth control should be widely and cheaply available.)
Also, some people hold religious convictions about reproduction. I'm not aware of any major religion with a stance on seat belts.
Why should I pay for your reckless behavior?
Not everyone has medical (or car) insurance. If such a person gets in an accident, tax payers end up footing the bill when they go to the ER.
xkcd posters, of course.
Mod points, where are you when I need you?
In good times when you cut taxes on business they expand and hire more people, that's basic right wing (Republican) mantra and history mostly supports it.
Citation needed. Basic common sense (as well as economics) says that if a company experiences a decrease in cost, they don't automatically increase output. You can only increase output if demand exists for your product. It might be easier to make a sale in "good" economic times, but if you don't make that sale, you're not going to open a new factory (or expand an existing one), even if it costs zero.
Is that per capita or total amount? Since the tax rate is the lowest its has ever been since the IRS was formed, I have my doubts about your statement.
It's neither. Is as a percent of GDP. He's not entirely correct though. According to this graph, it hit it's peak in 2000 at 37.19% and 2007 at 37.01%.
A good lawyer could make the connection. True, a better case could be made if the script kiddie contracted a virus while crawling around your system.
If you declared a law that everything over 200k a person makes would go to the government it would be about 2 trillion dollars or enough to run the country for less then 2 months
OK, there is a lot wrong with this statement. First of all, Federal outlays in the 2011 budget were $3.6 trillion, so the $2 trillion you cite would last 6.6 months.
But the $2 trillion is wrong (the other way). Those earning over $200k made 17.5% of the total US income of $7.723 trillion, or $1.35 trillion. That amount of money would last us 4.5 months.
But the most egregious part of your statement is the implicit assumption that taxing all of the income over $200K would replace every single other source of revenue for the federal government. No one is suggesting reducing the income tax rate for under $200k to 0%. Not only are those suggesting higher marginal rates for the very rich not suggesting lower marginal rates for the rest, they are also not proposing cutting non-income taxes and revenue.
Federal income tax makes up about 45% of total Federal revenue. Payroll taxes make up the second biggest chunk of revenue at about 36% (perhaps lower with the current holiday), while corporate income tax (which some say should be higher) makes up 12%. These other sources would continue if we raised taxes on the rich.
So, not only do you use inaccurate numbers to make your argument, you are arguing against a strawman.
A sensible debate on this issue would reveal that we need to have a comprehensive approach to solve the deficit and debt problems we face. Cutting spending alone, or raising taxes alone, will not solve the issue. The combination of decreased tax revenue (due to the Bush tax cuts and the deregulation of the financial industry which directly led to the bank bailouts [increased spending] and recession [decreased revenue], and the increased spending due to the War on Terror (not only Iraq and Afghanistan, but also DHS) has out us in a fine mess, and we need to reverse course on both those fronts to climb out of the hole we are in.
The authorized widely broadcast requests that anyone that had ever taken photos of that bridge turn them into the civil engineering authorities for their post-mortem.
Interesting. Usually we just arrest people on suspicion of terrorism if they take pictures of bridges.
Meh... we don't disagree. My original point was that the Fire is not positioned as an eReader, but rather as a tablet. The original Kindle is not a tablet - there is a difference. Tablets, like all computers (mobile or not), can be used to read electronic books. But eReaders cannot (generally - there may be exceptions) watch movies, surf the web, run (a wide variety of 3rd party) apps, etc.
Like a said, it was a very minor quibble with the G...GP.
Make it the size of a PS3, ship it in molded plastic, pre-install a simple Linux based OS with a fixed menu GUI and call it a console.
The PS3 and XBox360 are, essentially, PCs. Before Sony changed it, you could install OtherOS on the PS3, right?
A rose by any other name....
Resupply through Pakistan is not very relevant to this story. The lede is a red herring. Those supply routes are for the huge quantities of oil and other supplies the entire NATO/US army needs. This helicopter is doing small, unit-sized resupply runs to remote outposts.
3 generation they will barely be recognizable.
Not true. We'll recognize them from the Terminator movies.
According to Gary Oldman, John Le Carré told the filmmakers of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy that the book is the book and the film is the film. If you make a shitty film, my book will still be good.
I'm a big fan of PK Dick's short stories, though I wouldn't consider myself a Purist. I really enjoyed Total Recall and The Adjustment Bureau. Minority Report was OK to fair. Imposters was bad, and Screamers I never saw, though it's source, Second Variety is one of my favorites (simply because it was the "cover story" of the first volume of his stories I bought - the one with the little girl with the teddy bear on the cover).
As long as they include the Leonord Nimoy song, perhaps as accompaniment to a blooper reel during the credits, I'll be happy.