Plenty of pre-Columbus clods knew the world was round. Erastothanes in 230 BC made a fairly accurate measurement of the circumference, you insensitive clod.
No one I know uses Java Server Feces. Does anyone in here?
JSF has just recently been released. It's an important new technology that brings J2EE UI development up to snuff with many of the ideas MS used in.Net. While it isn't in wide use right now, it will be integrated into frameworks like Struts etc. over the next year or so, making it part of the standard J2EE toolkit.
So if I eat dinner in a restaurant across the state line in a state that doesn't collect sales tax, and drive home, do I owe on the partially digested remains in my stomach? If so, how do I calculate the amount owed since evidently at least part of the food was used out of state?
if we're running a trade deficit and have been for next to forever, the dollar is still so strong compared to other currencies?
The trade deficits that everyone quotes don't include all international financial transactions by a long shot. For example, they do not include corporate profits repatriated into the US, nor do they include investments made back into the US by people who recieve dollars in payment for goods. These other flows of money do a lot to balance the trade deficit's effects on the dollar. There is also a demand for dollars due to their place as a preferred currency for international transactions that tends to keep it's value higher than otherwise would be the case.
Currency strength in the short run is primarily due to monetary policy. Low interest rates (like right now) mean that the dollar is unattractive as an investment compared to say, the Euro whose interest rate is higher. The result is that the dollar is discounted relative to the Euro. In the late 1990's the reverse was true - the Fed had set the US interest rates high, making the dollar more attractive than the Euro. The result was the dollar was very strong vis a vis the Euro. If you are smart you can arbitrage this interest rate cycle and buy foreign stocks when the Fed is lowering interest rates. The result is a double bang - appreciation of the foreign stock value plus increased value of the stock due to currency exchange.
would be to have every employer send (electronically) your W-2 to the IRS.
I believe that already happens - it's how the Social Security Admin gets your salary history for benefit calculations.
Most tax cheating comes from lying about cash income - businesses like bars etc. that do most of their business in cash, or claims for deductions that aren't real.
When the phone companies were truly a regulated monopoly (AT&T) you got *real* quality of service, plus an R&D organization that invented the laser, transistor and was awarded:
6 Nobel Prizes in Physics shared by 11
scientists
9 U.S. Medals of Science
7 U.S. Medals of Technology
1 Draper Prize
6 Marconi International Fellowship Awards
7 C&C Prizes shared by 12 scientists and
engineers
27 IEEE Medal of Honor winners
Now I don't think monopolies are a good idea in the general case, however AT&T's results were at least halfway decent.
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I don't understand why it is such a big deal.
As some have noted, it's because of the engine type - air-breathing - that makes this so significant.
The economics of space travel are dominated by the cost to put something in orbit. Sitting on the launch pad, the payload to weight ratio of the Shuttle system is something like 1:50. Picking up the oxygen just lying around gives you a big increment in payload to weight ratio.
If I take 4 drums of fuel oil and 2,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate I can plant 100 acres of corn with a tractor or build a car bomb. If I choose the latter it's the fault of the oil and fertilizer companies? I don't think so.
But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
Isn't that pretty much true in any tin can moving at supersonic speeds powered by exploding fuel? The Concorde cruises just fine at Mach 2, the SR-71 at Mach 3.3+.
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You don't even need a license to possess a CO2 extinguisher.
t .h tml
Fixed CO2 fire supression systems are highly regulated because of their hazards.
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/snap/fire/co2/co2repor
CO2 fire extinguishers all come with warnings that they can cause asphyxiation if used in confined spaces.
http://www.wilsonfire.com/FIRE_EXT.HTM
CO2 can even cause asphyxiation in low lying areas outdoors. See Cameroon's Lake Nyos in 1986.
IANAL, but it seems to me that a preliminary injunction doesn't mean the GPL is legally binding, but it does mean the court thinks two things:
1. The plaintiff has a very good chance of winning based on evidence supplied.
2. The actions of the defendant are such that the damage fairly severe and possibly irreperable.
Surely this could not have taken more than one monkey working 1/2 hour on a typewriter.
Vapor Pressure 0.404 bar
LC50 is over 10% by volume
Yikes! At room temperature in a closed room this stuff would be present at 40% by volume!
This stuff is quite dangerous.
So much depends on factors that you don't mention here:
- What is your financial position, do you have savings to tide you over if your insecure job goes tits up?
- Does the insecure job offer things like exposure to technologies that would make finding another job easier?
- Could you use the free time you get from the new job to look for an even better job?
You have to weigh all the factors.
you can change your time-to-live (ttl) to 5 minutes.
Unfortunately many large ISPs ignore the TTL field and update on their own schedule. The result will still be up to a week to update the DNS.
The world is round you pre-Columbus clod
Plenty of pre-Columbus clods knew the world was round. Erastothanes in 230 BC made a fairly accurate measurement of the circumference, you insensitive clod.
No one I know uses Java Server Feces. Does anyone in here?
.Net. While it isn't in wide use right now, it will be integrated into frameworks like Struts etc. over the next year or so, making it part of the standard J2EE toolkit.
JSF has just recently been released. It's an important new technology that brings J2EE UI development up to snuff with many of the ideas MS used in
So if I eat dinner in a restaurant across the state line in a state that doesn't collect sales tax, and drive home, do I owe on the partially digested remains in my stomach? If so, how do I calculate the amount owed since evidently at least part of the food was used out of state?
I would recommend Plone as well. It's the bee's knees. The technologies it runs on (Python and Zope) are absolutely top-notch as well.
if we're running a trade deficit and have been for next to forever, the dollar is still so strong compared to other currencies?
The trade deficits that everyone quotes don't include all international financial transactions by a long shot. For example, they do not include corporate profits repatriated into the US, nor do they include investments made back into the US by people who recieve dollars in payment for goods. These other flows of money do a lot to balance the trade deficit's effects on the dollar. There is also a demand for dollars due to their place as a preferred currency for international transactions that tends to keep it's value higher than otherwise would be the case.
Currency strength in the short run is primarily due to monetary policy. Low interest rates (like right now) mean that the dollar is unattractive as an investment compared to say, the Euro whose interest rate is higher. The result is that the dollar is discounted relative to the Euro. In the late 1990's the reverse was true - the Fed had set the US interest rates high, making the dollar more attractive than the Euro. The result was the dollar was very strong vis a vis the Euro. If you are smart you can arbitrage this interest rate cycle and buy foreign stocks when the Fed is lowering interest rates. The result is a double bang - appreciation of the foreign stock value plus increased value of the stock due to currency exchange.
would be to have every employer send (electronically) your W-2 to the IRS.
I believe that already happens - it's how the Social Security Admin gets your salary history for benefit calculations.
Most tax cheating comes from lying about cash income - businesses like bars etc. that do most of their business in cash, or claims for deductions that aren't real.
Making seeds that will not germinate unless you have their proprietary chemical
Actually this is considered a safety measure to prevent intermixing of GM and non-GM vareties.
Cross-pollination will destroy heirloom and open-pollinated varieties
That is true of ANY hybridized or selected varieities, not just GM.
Are we all so mesmerized by technology that we can't see the politics?
It seems to me that you are so mesmerized by the politics you can't appreciate the real value of the technology.
they'll email you the web page in the morning ... printed by a line printer on greenbar paper, graphics rendered in ASCII.
There is a plot beyond the treasure hunt. You just didn't get far enough into the game.
Damn, where is the 11 button!
- 6 Nobel Prizes in Physics shared by 11
scientists
- 9 U.S. Medals of Science
- 7 U.S. Medals of Technology
- 1 Draper Prize
- 6 Marconi International Fellowship Awards
- 7 C&C Prizes shared by 12 scientists and
engineers
- 27 IEEE Medal of Honor winners
Now I don't think monopolies are a good idea in the general case, however AT&T's results were at least halfway decent.Toyota announced that they will not be selling *any* vehicles with the scramjet
Yes, but Toyota Racing Division (TRD) is making these available as aftermarket add-ons.
NASA overclockers RULE!!
I don't understand why it is such a big deal.
As some have noted, it's because of the engine type - air-breathing - that makes this so significant.
The economics of space travel are dominated by the cost to put something in orbit. Sitting on the launch pad, the payload to weight ratio of the Shuttle system is something like 1:50. Picking up the oxygen just lying around gives you a big increment in payload to weight ratio.
new speed record
African or European?
you could bring a suit against the one who sold the car if the driver said. "I want to buy a car so I can run over that dirty SOB
You can also get sued because your neighbor doesn't like the color you painted your house. Getting sued doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
That Cisco and the rest are in collusion.
Collusion:
A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.
Now you haven't presented any evidence that such a thing exists.
The problem with the internet is that it supplies an overwhelming set of viewpoints - generally cancelling each other out.
People do not have the time to digest this mass, and thus fall back to other channels.
While I have no doubt that the pen is mightier than the sword, a billion pens all scribbling at once aren't going to result in anything usable.
Blame the router manufacturers.
If I take 4 drums of fuel oil and 2,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate I can plant 100 acres of corn with a tractor or build a car bomb. If I choose the latter it's the fault of the oil and fertilizer companies? I don't think so.
But honestly, travelling that fast, if anything went wrong you're toast.
Isn't that pretty much true in any tin can moving at supersonic speeds powered by exploding fuel? The Concorde cruises just fine at Mach 2, the SR-71 at Mach 3.3+.