I was under the impression that you just needed enough credits to be eligible for SS, then be the proper age to draw on it. What you get is tied to your highest earning years I believe. So theoretically, If one worked at a great job in their 40's and those were the highest earning years, they got enough credits to be eligible, they could be unemployed for the next 20 years and still draw the same amount from SS.
Yes, in those situations the business profits are included in the owners personal taxes.
If a business is making profits, and there is enough demand for their product or service, why wouldn't they hire another person? Presumable a new hire will be able to take on enough responsibility to make the company enough new cash flow to pay for themself. If that is not the case, and a new hire would cost money, I don't think they'd have a good chance of being hired even if taxes were at 0%.
What is with all the flippant negative comments in this thread? What do you mean by this statement? Are you thinking this isn't really a luxury segment car, or do you think it just doesn't drive as well as these other ICE luxury cars?
The US DOE estimates a fridge uses 725W source. Lets say they have 1000 ft^2 of roof space that is all solar panels. That would provide ~20,000W with your number of 20W/ft^2 (this is highly variable though). Looks to me like that house could have 27.5 fridges running off of those solar panels. That's definitely better than you suggest.
Well, considering the inductive charging station is a permanent installation at your home, work, or other building. It will not affect an EV's ability to keep you warm at all. That is an electric heat / battery problem which is a different thing entirely from how the battery gets charged.
/. is notorious for dismissing the benefits of convenience and ease of use if the specs are not as good. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I recall a similar idea about a "self-healing" plastic that had microspheres with chemicals that would form some new plastic when they broke. These material advances are cool in that they make materials that are more durable and can last longer before ultimate failure. In normal consumer electronic usage, this material is not very useful like you say. Consumer electronic internals aren't subjected to a lot of physical stress like bending or shear forces and therefore are not a major fail point. In the testing of the material, they most likely happened to find that it heals fast enough to not affect electronic circuits, but I doubt that was their original intention.
I think this sort of material that can heal itself is best used where an object gets physically damaged or worn down over time, not in electronic circuits. Imagine an engine block head that can stop a crack before it gets anywhere. To me, that is a much better use for healing metal alloys.
From the Chinese perspective, he meant Tibet that's directly part of China. We wouldn't be sending carriers to Afghanistan if it was part of the continental US.
That article is about harrier take-offs that point the engines downward for lift as they hit the ski jump. It also states that the flight deck is unusable for other operations while the ski ramp is present.
On jets that can't redirect the engines for lift, lift is generated by air passing across the wings. Better lift in that case would be from increased horizontal speed not vertical speed.
I think video cameras would work fine. The summary states that the cooler "flash" only fires when it senses a camera flash. Those video cameras don't use a flash so I don't think they would set off the cooler. The article might say something entirely different, but I didn't read it. This is/. after all.
I would never actively avoid an opportunity that could make some positive returns, such as holding Nokia in hopes of a buy-out, but I have nightmares about trying to explain my taxes in an IRS audit when I sell stocks that have gone through acquisitions and spin-offs. The cost basis calculations can get interesting, especially if you keep buying shares or reinvest dividends. Just imagine if you purchased shares of AT&T prior to the original break-up, re-invested dividends into all the companies along the way as they slowly re-merged into a few remaining companies. I suppose that's what CPAs live for, but not I.
Most every new car sold today has the speed limited by software. It's usually far above every posted speed limit and above what most drivers will attempt. I don't recall ever seeing a well advertised spec that the cars on the showroom can't go above X mph. The big difference is it is possible to get your car reprogrammed to go above the speed limit, the PS3 can not be modified for OtherOS anymore.
So they have a cluster of 2000 PS3s (I'm pulling that number out of thin air, I think I saw it above). As they start failing, the cluster will get smaller. By the time these boxes reach the point in their lifespan that failure starts becoming a large scale issue, there will be far superior hardware for the USAF to make a new computing cluster with. They can't possibly think they'll get useful computing out of a PS3 cluster in 5, 10, or more years, can they?
1200 PDF pages does not necessarily mean 1200 pages of useful data. What kind of format is it in? One line for every thing he liked? Are there lines of XML tags around everything? Are his friends posts to him part of 'his' personal data in these files?
Not that I expect Facebook to make it nice and presentable to this guy. He got his data dump and Facebook is now putting the onus on him to sort through it and raise any further requests.
No, backups will eventually get overwritten. Deleting a photo should actually delete it in the live system, not just tag it with some metadata that marks it as deleted so no one sees it. I'm not exactly sure how Facebook marks things deleted, but I am sure they don't delete it.
A simple confirmation prompt for a delete would be enough to prevent most unwanted deletions. If you happen to delete a photo you want back, you should have done your own local backup of that file to re-post.
This really comes down to an issue of data trust with organizations you give your data to. Facebook has shown little reason to trust them with personal data, yet people keep sending it to them. Facebook's entire company value is based on how much information they amass on people. It is therefore not surprising in the least that they don't let people arbitrarily delete data and thus reduce their value.
Some states let anyone that damn well pleases walk around with a loaded gun. If a cop stops you, you better tell him you have it before any other words come out of your mouth though.
You jest, but it's only a matter of time before someone is killed in an accident and the at fault driver was on a phone and manslaughter or homicide charges are brought up.
A quick Google search shows me that this has indeed already occured, but I don't see any results related to guilty verdicts.
Shouldn't proving citizenship occur when an individual registers? If one is registered to vote and was verified to be a citizen, the polling location only needs to verify they are who they say they are. A student ID card and VA card are both weak forms of proof of ID though. People should just go get a state issued ID if voting is that important to them.
I think he's saying its hard to compare countries like China and India that have very high populations which would skew per capita numbers lower. It would be nice to see China and India gross output compared to the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Australia (the reddest countries on that map, but I kind of think of that group, the US is far above the other 3).
Really those four countries just need to have massive immigration and population growth so they can look better on that map, screw reducing emissions.
taiga / boreal forest is some of the weakest forest land around. There's a scrawny spruce tree every 20 feet or so. The lakes and marshes are a much bigger impediment to clearing the land and farming it.
I'm inclined to agree that it would be very difficult for them to "clone" this aircraft, depending on what they define as "cloning". I believe that they could make something the same size and shape, but it would be difficult to reproduce all the materials. Even if you know the final composition of materials, it can be an extremely complicated process to create said materials. Then they would have to get the weight balance proper and then reverse engineer the computerized control systems. Considering the thing didn't stay in the air as it is, it could very likely be flying on the edge of stability and the only thing keeping it up is constant corrections by the flight systems. They may very well obtain some classified knowledge from this thing, but making a perfect copy? I doubt it.
tl;dr; version - I equate the Iranians saying they can clone this thing to them saying that they can make an airplane that looks similar.
I've heard some good music that was created by heroin addicts. It is possible for some people to have a semi-functional life on the stuff, but not at a 9 to 5 job.
Most sane plans to legalize drugs aren't blanket leagalize everything plans. Hard drugs like heroin and cocaine should still be unavailable. Only legalizing soft drugs means we'd still have a war on hard drugs and a black market for them. All the people that want to smoke a joint will no longer be a drain on law enforcement efforts and those efforts can be better targeted to where it's needed. The idea that ANY money at all is obtained from taxing drugs is a net positive.
We really should stop throwing every substance under the blanket category of "drugs" when there is so much variety in effects and safety among the chemicals that are listed as controlled substances. Better defining the differences among drugs would help us determine what ones really are terrible and what ones we should not care so much about.
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I was under the impression that you just needed enough credits to be eligible for SS, then be the proper age to draw on it. What you get is tied to your highest earning years I believe. So theoretically, If one worked at a great job in their 40's and those were the highest earning years, they got enough credits to be eligible, they could be unemployed for the next 20 years and still draw the same amount from SS.
Yes, in those situations the business profits are included in the owners personal taxes.
If a business is making profits, and there is enough demand for their product or service, why wouldn't they hire another person? Presumable a new hire will be able to take on enough responsibility to make the company enough new cash flow to pay for themself. If that is not the case, and a new hire would cost money, I don't think they'd have a good chance of being hired even if taxes were at 0%.
What is with all the flippant negative comments in this thread? What do you mean by this statement? Are you thinking this isn't really a luxury segment car, or do you think it just doesn't drive as well as these other ICE luxury cars?
The US DOE estimates a fridge uses 725W source. Lets say they have 1000 ft^2 of roof space that is all solar panels. That would provide ~20,000W with your number of 20W/ft^2 (this is highly variable though). Looks to me like that house could have 27.5 fridges running off of those solar panels. That's definitely better than you suggest.
Well, considering the inductive charging station is a permanent installation at your home, work, or other building. It will not affect an EV's ability to keep you warm at all. That is an electric heat / battery problem which is a different thing entirely from how the battery gets charged.
/. is notorious for dismissing the benefits of convenience and ease of use if the specs are not as good. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
How about they just start with bad solder joints that can fix the craptastic job done by the original manufacturers.
I recall a similar idea about a "self-healing" plastic that had microspheres with chemicals that would form some new plastic when they broke. These material advances are cool in that they make materials that are more durable and can last longer before ultimate failure. In normal consumer electronic usage, this material is not very useful like you say. Consumer electronic internals aren't subjected to a lot of physical stress like bending or shear forces and therefore are not a major fail point. In the testing of the material, they most likely happened to find that it heals fast enough to not affect electronic circuits, but I doubt that was their original intention.
I think this sort of material that can heal itself is best used where an object gets physically damaged or worn down over time, not in electronic circuits. Imagine an engine block head that can stop a crack before it gets anywhere. To me, that is a much better use for healing metal alloys.
From the Chinese perspective, he meant Tibet that's directly part of China. We wouldn't be sending carriers to Afghanistan if it was part of the continental US.
That article is about harrier take-offs that point the engines downward for lift as they hit the ski jump. It also states that the flight deck is unusable for other operations while the ski ramp is present.
On jets that can't redirect the engines for lift, lift is generated by air passing across the wings. Better lift in that case would be from increased horizontal speed not vertical speed.
I think video cameras would work fine. The summary states that the cooler "flash" only fires when it senses a camera flash. Those video cameras don't use a flash so I don't think they would set off the cooler. The article might say something entirely different, but I didn't read it. This is /. after all.
I would never actively avoid an opportunity that could make some positive returns, such as holding Nokia in hopes of a buy-out, but I have nightmares about trying to explain my taxes in an IRS audit when I sell stocks that have gone through acquisitions and spin-offs. The cost basis calculations can get interesting, especially if you keep buying shares or reinvest dividends. Just imagine if you purchased shares of AT&T prior to the original break-up, re-invested dividends into all the companies along the way as they slowly re-merged into a few remaining companies. I suppose that's what CPAs live for, but not I.
Most every new car sold today has the speed limited by software. It's usually far above every posted speed limit and above what most drivers will attempt. I don't recall ever seeing a well advertised spec that the cars on the showroom can't go above X mph. The big difference is it is possible to get your car reprogrammed to go above the speed limit, the PS3 can not be modified for OtherOS anymore.
So they have a cluster of 2000 PS3s (I'm pulling that number out of thin air, I think I saw it above). As they start failing, the cluster will get smaller. By the time these boxes reach the point in their lifespan that failure starts becoming a large scale issue, there will be far superior hardware for the USAF to make a new computing cluster with. They can't possibly think they'll get useful computing out of a PS3 cluster in 5, 10, or more years, can they?
1200 PDF pages does not necessarily mean 1200 pages of useful data. What kind of format is it in? One line for every thing he liked? Are there lines of XML tags around everything? Are his friends posts to him part of 'his' personal data in these files?
Not that I expect Facebook to make it nice and presentable to this guy. He got his data dump and Facebook is now putting the onus on him to sort through it and raise any further requests.
No, backups will eventually get overwritten. Deleting a photo should actually delete it in the live system, not just tag it with some metadata that marks it as deleted so no one sees it. I'm not exactly sure how Facebook marks things deleted, but I am sure they don't delete it.
A simple confirmation prompt for a delete would be enough to prevent most unwanted deletions. If you happen to delete a photo you want back, you should have done your own local backup of that file to re-post.
This really comes down to an issue of data trust with organizations you give your data to. Facebook has shown little reason to trust them with personal data, yet people keep sending it to them. Facebook's entire company value is based on how much information they amass on people. It is therefore not surprising in the least that they don't let people arbitrarily delete data and thus reduce their value.
Some states let anyone that damn well pleases walk around with a loaded gun. If a cop stops you, you better tell him you have it before any other words come out of your mouth though.
You jest, but it's only a matter of time before someone is killed in an accident and the at fault driver was on a phone and manslaughter or homicide charges are brought up.
A quick Google search shows me that this has indeed already occured, but I don't see any results related to guilty verdicts.
Shouldn't proving citizenship occur when an individual registers? If one is registered to vote and was verified to be a citizen, the polling location only needs to verify they are who they say they are. A student ID card and VA card are both weak forms of proof of ID though. People should just go get a state issued ID if voting is that important to them.
The moral fibers are weak without a reinforcing matrix to hold them together. I assume they are chopped strands randomly oriented within his flesh.
I think he's saying its hard to compare countries like China and India that have very high populations which would skew per capita numbers lower. It would be nice to see China and India gross output compared to the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Australia (the reddest countries on that map, but I kind of think of that group, the US is far above the other 3).
Really those four countries just need to have massive immigration and population growth so they can look better on that map, screw reducing emissions.
taiga / boreal forest is some of the weakest forest land around. There's a scrawny spruce tree every 20 feet or so. The lakes and marshes are a much bigger impediment to clearing the land and farming it.
I'm inclined to agree that it would be very difficult for them to "clone" this aircraft, depending on what they define as "cloning". I believe that they could make something the same size and shape, but it would be difficult to reproduce all the materials. Even if you know the final composition of materials, it can be an extremely complicated process to create said materials. Then they would have to get the weight balance proper and then reverse engineer the computerized control systems. Considering the thing didn't stay in the air as it is, it could very likely be flying on the edge of stability and the only thing keeping it up is constant corrections by the flight systems. They may very well obtain some classified knowledge from this thing, but making a perfect copy? I doubt it.
tl;dr; version - I equate the Iranians saying they can clone this thing to them saying that they can make an airplane that looks similar.
Ideas are nice, and math is beautiful, but clear language is necessary to convey information.
It doesn't have to be English, but it's probably safe to assume that posters on an English web site would prefer, if not require, English.
I've heard some good music that was created by heroin addicts. It is possible for some people to have a semi-functional life on the stuff, but not at a 9 to 5 job.
Most sane plans to legalize drugs aren't blanket leagalize everything plans. Hard drugs like heroin and cocaine should still be unavailable. Only legalizing soft drugs means we'd still have a war on hard drugs and a black market for them. All the people that want to smoke a joint will no longer be a drain on law enforcement efforts and those efforts can be better targeted to where it's needed. The idea that ANY money at all is obtained from taxing drugs is a net positive.
We really should stop throwing every substance under the blanket category of "drugs" when there is so much variety in effects and safety among the chemicals that are listed as controlled substances. Better defining the differences among drugs would help us determine what ones really are terrible and what ones we should not care so much about.
There could be some people that get scared and stop downloading. I think it will just cause most downloaders to get better at hiding their tracks.