I think that is a clearly silly hypothesis. Reactions to politically manipulated test results non-withstanding, the realization that the educational level of American students is not what it should be is and has been essentially universal in the US for some years, and efforts to try to improve it are rampant.
The problem is that the results of these efforts has not been what one would hope.
Well I may not administer as many servers as you, but I am in the process of putting up infrastructure that will have a lifetime past the end of Centos 5. As such not having Centos 6 available is going come back and bite me in a couple of years.
Having backports of security patches to 5.5 and 6.0 would have been a better result than the current situation.
Hauser's law is clearly refuted by the fact that the current revenue rate on GDP is 15%, and the European countries and Canada do collect much more than 20% of their GDP in tax revenues. I don't see how anyone could adhere to something so patently incorrect.
Your second statement is clearly in conflict with Hauser's law as well. Which argument do you wish to make?
Finally, I agree with the idea in the study cited that the tax mix is very important. I don't like the idea of taxing corporations at all for a variety of reasons including the distortions it brings to the political system. Taxes should be applied to individuals and in a much more progressive fashion as is described in the cited report.
That's pretty much poppycock. The US global tax rate is currently something like 15% of GDP right now, which is the lowest it has been since the days of Hoover. Economic measurements generally suggest that revenues increase up to about a 50% tax rate.
The really poor actually pay a disproportionately high percentage of their income in taxes because sales, gas etc. taxes are not indexed to income.
After a certain level of income is reached tax rates start going down until you start becoming liable for federal income tax. This group is not necessarily poor, but is certainly not well off.
At this point your rates start going up.
After you reach a certain level of wealth the rate starts going down again on average because more income tends to come from dividends, tax free bonds, and cap gains which are tax advantaged.
This is why Warren Buffet can go around saying he pays a lower tax rate on his income than his secretary.
Europeans seem to have bought into this precautionary principle twaddle where everything that cannot be proven to be safe must banned.
Of course that is utter rubbish, as there is no possible way to prove anything is safe. All this really means is that anything new is forbidden, a new form of Luddite-ism.
Anyway, if low frequency EM is to be banned in schools, why isn't it banned elsewhere too? After all if we are going to protect children from this danger we must do it correctly. Mobile phones and WiFi are ubiquitous in the modern environment, and children surely spend less than 1/4 of their lives in school over the course of a calendar year.
Therefore to be actually useful Europe must now ban all low frequency EM emttters,
Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of death in most countries and yet we do nothing to restrict distribution of tobacco. Some countries even subsidize it's production.
"There are actually no tools specially designed to check the water level in the containment vessel, but Tepco said it made estimates based on other factors, including the pressure in the containment vessel."
Water level is not particularly important in the containment. However it is in the reactor where:
"According to Tepco, the water-level indicators of the pressure vessel had indicated the water surface was about 1.65 meters below the top of the fuel rods. But as of Thursday morning the reading was more than 5 meters below the top. The fuel rods, if undamaged, are only 4.5 meters in height."
Note that they do have water level indicators where it counts.
Unfortunately the meaning of meltdown seems to have become muddied with time and use in the press. If you mean that fuel has melted and escaped from a hole in the the primary containment vessel, that is clearly not the case here.
If you mean that fuel has melted inside the primary containment, that is pretty likely, although until the reactor can be opened and examined ala TMI, the extent of that is going to remain speculation.
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I think that is a clearly silly hypothesis. Reactions to politically manipulated test results non-withstanding,
the realization that the educational level of American students is not what it should be is and has been essentially universal in the US for some years, and efforts to try to improve it are rampant.
The problem is that the results of these efforts has not been what one would hope.
Well I may not administer as many servers as you, but I am in the process of putting up infrastructure that will have a lifetime past the end of Centos 5. As such not having Centos 6 available is going come back and bite me in a couple of years.
Having backports of security patches to 5.5 and 6.0 would have been a better result than the current situation.
ISOs of Centos 6.0 are worthless at this point because security fixes from RedHat going forward will be based on 6.1.
Centos has big issues. I can't see how anyone would commit to it at this point.
Hauser's law is clearly refuted by the fact that the current revenue rate on GDP is 15%, and the European countries and Canada do collect much more than 20% of their GDP in tax revenues. I don't see how anyone could adhere to something so patently incorrect.
Your second statement is clearly in conflict with Hauser's law as well. Which argument do you wish to make?
Finally, I agree with the idea in the study cited that the tax mix is very important. I don't like the idea of taxing corporations at all for a variety of reasons including the distortions it brings to the political system. Taxes should be applied to individuals and in a much more progressive fashion as is described in the cited report.
This test was administered to only students living in Shanghai, and as such was not representative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/education/07education.html
The fact is that away from the coastal cities China is still very backward.
Well my congressman is a physicist, neener neener.
I'll take that over somebody who believes that some big invisible guy in the sky is controlling everything.
There is a big problem with that. It's in section 9 of the Constitution.
"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."
That's pretty much poppycock. The US global tax rate is currently something like 15% of GDP right now, which is the lowest it has been since the days of Hoover. Economic measurements generally suggest that revenues increase up to about a 50% tax rate.
The really poor actually pay a disproportionately high percentage of their income in taxes because sales, gas etc. taxes are not indexed to income.
After a certain level of income is reached tax rates start going down until you start becoming liable for federal income tax. This group is not necessarily poor, but is certainly not well off.
At this point your rates start going up.
After you reach a certain level of wealth the rate starts going down again on average because more income tends to come from dividends, tax free bonds, and cap gains which are tax advantaged.
This is why Warren Buffet can go around saying he pays a lower tax rate on his income than his secretary.
Europeans seem to have bought into this precautionary principle twaddle where everything that cannot be proven to be safe must banned.
Of course that is utter rubbish, as there is no possible way to prove anything is safe. All this really means is that anything new is forbidden, a new form of Luddite-ism.
Anyway, if low frequency EM is to be banned in schools, why isn't it banned elsewhere too? After all if we are going to protect children from this danger we must do it correctly. Mobile phones and WiFi are ubiquitous in the modern environment, and children surely spend less than 1/4 of their lives in school over the course of a calendar year.
Therefore to be actually useful Europe must now ban all low frequency EM emttters,
The trouble is if you ban bans, then you can't then ban anything else.
Congratulations, you have rediscovered Russell's paradox.
For extra credit, explain the solution.
Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of death in most countries and yet we do nothing to restrict distribution of tobacco. Some countries even subsidize it's production.
And we get this baloney?
Ban EM radiation, eh? So how are you going to turn off the Sun?
It's about time that Congress started overseeing this program.
And this will help how?
Huge lines, angry passengers, inappropriate touching and civil rights violations all in the vain attempt to make people feel safe.
How is that any different from a visit to the Post Office, Traffic Court, DMV etc?
IMHO the Republicans are on the right track here, but they should be aiming higher. Like defund the TSA. It's completely security theater anyway.
I think it's a way of dumping more of that Maple syrup that they have been trying to foist off on the US for years.
Congratulations, you seem to be an expert on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhk4HcxhZQM
Click on the author's name. You will find yourself on a Pakistani web site.
There is no evidence that the author is American.
Your turn Europe.
The article is posted on a non-American web site.
It is quite amazing how the various Europeans who post on this site manage to embarrass themselves so frequently.
Optical HDMI is available via media converters.
http://www.amazon.com/Gefen-HD-1000-Optical-HDMI-Extension/dp/B0013LVJZA
Compression, yes. DTS-MA and mpeg-4 are indeed compressed formats.
Text channel for close captioning? Maybe net, but what about CEC? Ethernet? etc.
Error-checking/correction: probably not practical given the data rates.
And you didn't mention things like being able to sync multiple data streams like voice and video and needing only one link.
So there are digital advantages
I wonder if you conducted those raids in the US if the percentage of house containing porn would be higher or lower?
My guess would be higher simply because Americans have higher incomes and can afford it more easily.
Wow what? The full quote is this:
"There are actually no tools specially designed to check the water level in the containment vessel, but Tepco said it made estimates based on other factors, including the pressure in the containment vessel."
Water level is not particularly important in the containment. However it is in the reactor where:
"According to Tepco, the water-level indicators of the pressure vessel had indicated the water surface was about 1.65 meters below the top of the fuel rods. But as of Thursday morning the reading was more than 5 meters below the top. The fuel rods, if undamaged, are only 4.5 meters in height."
Note that they do have water level indicators where it counts.
It has already become quite noticeable around where I live.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100316/NEWS/3160306
Unfortunately the meaning of meltdown seems to have become muddied with time and use in the press. If you mean that fuel has melted and escaped from a hole in the the primary containment vessel, that is clearly not the case here.
If you mean that fuel has melted inside the primary containment, that is pretty likely, although until the reactor can be opened and examined ala TMI, the extent of that is going to remain speculation.
Among other things engineers certainly did not enter the containment vessel and see the condition of the nuclear rods.
The Japan Times seems to have been a little more careful to get things correct.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110513a1.html