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I don't know where I saw it first, but theres a litho of it hanging in Frost's restaurant on Emerald Isle in North Carolina. The interplay of the power of the ocean and the calm confidence of the lighthouse and it's operator is one of the best metaphors for humanity.
Any geek who doesn't know who Tom Lehrer is should turn his/her geek card in. He was (is) pure genius. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I was channel surfing in LA to find him being interviewed on the local NPR station. I'd forgotten about the linked song..it's not on the three discs I have of him, nor in the songbook (I don't think).
Perhaps better metropolitan planning would be a good idea. But that would require zoning regulations with a backbone, rather than an outstreached hand waiting for bribe money^W^W proffers.
That's entirely possible, but the goal isn't to place the tax system out of whack, but to recoup the costs from the industry which caused the problem. You can blame it on whomever you want, but the people who really profited from this are some of the only ones who understood the precarious position it placed them in. Their conscious choice was to take the risk. This is the school principal taking the money back from the three kids on the playground selling magic beans. After a reasonable period of recovery (say three years prior to the next two years, with a legislated prohibition on deferred benefits) a sunset provision would reverse the ruling.
In part, this would financially punish every successful manager and executive in the financial industry over the past 3 years, and that would undoubtedly catch some innocent bystanders. If the limitation is to any firm which receives any buyout proceeds (which should not necessarily be voluntary, imho) to limit the scope and minimize the "innocent bystanders" caught in the tax cap, than that's okay.
Remember, the money you're making above this temporary ceiling either (1) came from risky ventures which caused this problem or (2) will come from the buyout which is being funded by taxpayers.
As an alternative, I'd like to see the cap gain and unearned income rates go back to bracket income rates, and tax rates for every single person doubled until the trillion dollars is paid off. The people at the bottom - these main street people I keep hearing about - will pay very little extra, and will get a small to modreate benefit in market stability. People at the top are gonna take it much harder, but they're more likely to have benefited (both directly and indirectly) from the runup, and they're also going to benefit the most from a stable market.
The worst thing is that this is a horrible abuse of the tax system. I would much rather see a flat gross receipts tax for every single entity (SSN, TIN, etc), personal and corporate. I would suggest a single deduction for each SSN of up to 2087 x federal minimum wage against earnings by _that TIN_ (i.e. children an non-working spouses, of which I have one each are not deducted). I haven't found the numbers, but I suspect the percentage would be around 3-4%. That would be a tax increase on the lower incomes which are currently in a negative bracket, and a tax cut on the very wealthy, but it would also eliminate the tax loopholes - there would be none. Take your gross income and multiply by 0.04. You pay your real estate agent on the gross sales price, you pay your local taxes based on the value of your real estate, why not the federal government who protects it? Sell your home, pay 4% to the feds. Sell your stocks, pay 4%. If you held those stocks over a great deal of appreciation, you come out ahead. If you're a daytrader, you'll probably get screwed (excuse me while I wipe a tear).
This is, indeed, the core of the case. Everyone can claim this is about establishing fair use rights through a new court decision, but it is really aimed directly at the heart of the DMCA. Specifically, if a use is covered under "fair use," then the DMCA provides no prohibition to an end user circumventing any technological measure. However, as a practical matter, to do so is impossible as the DMCA specifically prohibits the sale, transfer, or publication of any circumvention process. In other words, it may be legal to make a copy or format shift, but you have to crack the protection and code it all up by yourself.
IMO, this is utter bullshit and this provision should be overturned by the courts. We don't require you refine your own gasoline for fear that if somebody sells it to you you'll go run down a playground full of children (oh, won't you think of the children!), why should the law restrict distribution of software for an utterly legitimate purpose - format shifting. I have ripped my DVDs (thanks to dvddecrypter, and more recently the nice folks as SlySoft) to a fileserver for (1) convenience and (2) preservation of the significant investment in DVDs I have. It's mighty nice to sift through the titles in MyMovies (.dk, btw) and select the one to play. As a bonus, the several thousand dollars in discs are carefully packed away, protected from scratches and hungry players*.
I hope this is the case that gets this onerous provision of the DMCA overturned.
*Sony jukeboxes are known for destroying CDs and DVDs by carving a groove across the playing face of the disc adjacent to the mechanism. I lost about 4 DVDs to just such a box. Thanks to usenet, I have working backups of those movies now.
I'm afraid that this is a "panic" situation, and about 5-9s of the phone calls and letters are from people who know absolutely nothing about what precipitated the problem, nor how to fix it, and are simply calling to get them to either "stop the market dropping" or "don't socialize it."
Personally, I'd like to see them bail out the firms, and then put a line in the tax code with a 95% tax bracket above 250k with a 3 (or 5) year look back period to recoup some of the costs. I'm not worried about socializing the system; I think they (the government) would rather sell it back and wash their hands asap. Then again, I'd also like to see ridiculously strict controls, such as eliminating all derivatives, short selling, and futures where the buyer does not take physical delivery. In those cases, I think the Nevada Gaming Commission can fill the gaps for those "investors" quite adequately.
I was under the presumption that the greenhouse effect is not due to the amount of solar energy absorbed, but rather the amount of earth albedo absorbed. Since the blackbody temperature of the earth is much lower than the sun, the absorbtion of the radiated energy from the earth is captured by the atmosphere. Since radiation is the only way for earth to cool off, it cools more slowly than without the greenhouse gasses. Radiative gain at the earth from Solar energy, otoh, is not decreased significantly by these gasses, which is why the balance changes.
Naturally, ianac (climatologist), so there are certainly second order effects which may play a big role in our climate which I'm not accounting for.
This is relatively simple - pass the bailout and get the nervous nellies back on a solid ground. Take over assets where necessary, and resell them later.
Now to the executives with golden parachutes. We know exactly what these instruments are which have cased the meltdown and we know the industry which has gotten the multi-billion dollar incomes off of the mess. Add an income tax which is 95% of all income over 250k, and make it retroactive for the last 3 years. The money is coming from the treasury, so to get it back via the tax code puts the money back in the system.
I'm personally no proponent of tax code social engineering, but this looks a lot more like payback than taxes.
If your payload is only 150kg, then a Russian Proton is going to be pretty damned expensive. Not everyone needs to put 21,600kg into space. On the other hand, if your payload is 166kg, you still need another flight vehicle vendor (for now)
Is the google maps that can be downloaded and taken anywhere offline? Most of the places I get lost are places where (surprise) there's no cell service. If I get on the wrong backroad in West Virginia, I sure as hell don't want to be hearing banjos while my gps-phone tells me it can't get a map due to not having a cell signal.
Having the sync for Google to Outlook might work, but again it sucks to have to fire up the gprs/wifi to sync rather than having it happen automagically when I drop it in the dock to charge. Not mentioned above, but still valid, is that I would have to go through google to get my mail.
I suppose the biggest disappointment is that it was supposed to be better/easier than WM (and the iPhone, though imho the iPhone isn't ready for business - and it's not targeted that way). If the interface really does work well - made for fingers instead of styluses - the apps come on line quickly, and the experience is fairly seamless, then they might just have something.
I'll keep watching them, but this isn't quite the splash I expected.
I'm going to be in the market for an upgrade an a couple of months, and this is quite underwhelming. I'm sure there are some good things that weren't in TFA (I sure hope there was a lot left out).
No tetherability? Mmmm, that sucks.
No mention of GPS or an app. Perhaps an extortion-like monthly fee to get the feature will follow?
No desktop sync with calendar? That's going to be quite a hassle, especially since I can't tether to get online to the gFoo apps. Also, I sure hope they have balls-up caching for the gFoo apps like contacts and calendar. Not everyone who uses a pda-phone is in signal range for even GPRS all the time.
As for the Dream... what's with the button bar not moving? Did HTC have too many complaints from Blackberry users that their Hermes and TyTn keyboards were too large? They could have put a whole numeric keypad over there.
That is mostly true, but you are a significant exception. If I have to spend $150 in contact time with you to decide you're worth it, I'm going to service any free domain last.
Besides, you are doing yourself (your employer) a disservice by using an alternate email. Why? I f I don't respond to you, it may be you have just missed out on getting the exact product you need. Sure, you can cobble together the competitors sub-par product and then spend an extra 10-15k in development and testing, but wouldn't it have been better to have purchased the correct product to begin with?
If you walk into a high end jewelry store in ripped jeans and a dirty T-shirt to buy the on-of-a-kind earrings your girlfriend wants and they throw you out, are you still going to get wild porn sex that night because you got the cut glass ones from Kay Jewelers? Of course not. Suck it up and put on some slacks and polo.
You've never had to (legitimately) get into an verified PDF, I presume. ProtectedPDF is a company which make a living on keeping honest users from accessing their content. Luckly, once you've activated, there are ways to convert the data to a more useful format.
HP has a bootable DOS for USB keys. I presume there's support for writing to and from the USB key (duh), but don't know if the drivers can be reused in disk-based DOS system. I use it to make my usb bootable (actually, it's microSD with an adapter the size of the USB contacts). When I got it, HP was giving it away via free download. No, I don't have a link.
Seriously, there are lots of uses for carbon dioxide, and soft drink carbonation is just one use. Others have pointed out paintball, but there's lots of commercial need for CO2 in both gas and solid form. Most efficient manufacturers have found resale opportunities for their "waste," why not bottling the CO2?
Sure there may not be quite as much CO2 demand as there is generation, but we also don't need to get all our energy from coal. Finding a symbiotic manufacturer is a damned good idea.
Well, I haven't the faintest idea how the damn thing is cooled, but helium becomes superfliud at 2.17K (iirc). It effectively loses all of its viscosity and becomes far more thermally conductive. At 2K its a superfluid, at 4.5K its not. Cool stuff, but I don't know if it matters, I don't know squat about the LHC. (see what you get for asking a question on/.?)
Never put in writing anything that you wouldn't say [in public] [to the person's face]. It's an old adage. Oh, sure, if I ran for congress and my history here at/. got printed, I'd have some explaining to do. But, on the whole, I'm a sarcastic, dark humored bastard. If my email were released to the public at large, I doubt there'd be much of interest. Then again, I'm not interesting enough to be running for President/VP.
Of course, if I don't hear much else good from either side I may be writing my own name in this November. Either that or Bill and Opus.
I think inductive is still the way to go, as the transfer efficiency is in the high 90% range, versus about 45 for electric coils, 50-55 for radiant halogen, and somewhere around 30% for gas. Even if you burn coal for electricity, inductive comes out better overall.
Yes, but what, exactly would the punishment guidelines be? What is the case law on breaking into someone's private email account? Is it Federal law or Virginia law (Yahoo account).
It's interesting in an academic way, if only to determine what the "appropriate" response is. Oh, sure, its slimy - no doubt about that. What would the response be if this had been Paris Hilton, or another celebrity? What about if it were your neighbor.
It's sort of an equal-protection-under-the-law case. Since it's not an official account, there's really nothing but possible embarrassment at risk (which generally isn't prosecutable in the US).
So, if she lied in the investigation about using personal email for business purposes (I don't know if she's been deposed, and if she has been what she said), wouldn't she be be guilty of perjury if this exposure is valid?
Since Clinton was impeached for perjury about lying over a sexual liaison, I would think lying about official email usage would qualify.
This could, indeed, get interesting. (and not in a good way - no matter which side you're on, this kind of corruption hurts America no matter which party gets caught at it)
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I don't know where I saw it first, but theres a litho of it hanging in Frost's restaurant on Emerald Isle in North Carolina. The interplay of the power of the ocean and the calm confidence of the lighthouse and it's operator is one of the best metaphors for humanity.
How could any geek not want a battery like that?
Any geek who doesn't know who Tom Lehrer is should turn his/her geek card in. He was (is) pure genius. Imagine my surprise a few years ago when I was channel surfing in LA to find him being interviewed on the local NPR station. I'd forgotten about the linked song..it's not on the three discs I have of him, nor in the songbook (I don't think).
Perhaps better metropolitan planning would be a good idea. But that would require zoning regulations with a backbone, rather than an outstreached hand waiting for bribe money^W^W proffers.
That's entirely possible, but the goal isn't to place the tax system out of whack, but to recoup the costs from the industry which caused the problem. You can blame it on whomever you want, but the people who really profited from this are some of the only ones who understood the precarious position it placed them in. Their conscious choice was to take the risk. This is the school principal taking the money back from the three kids on the playground selling magic beans. After a reasonable period of recovery (say three years prior to the next two years, with a legislated prohibition on deferred benefits) a sunset provision would reverse the ruling.
In part, this would financially punish every successful manager and executive in the financial industry over the past 3 years, and that would undoubtedly catch some innocent bystanders. If the limitation is to any firm which receives any buyout proceeds (which should not necessarily be voluntary, imho) to limit the scope and minimize the "innocent bystanders" caught in the tax cap, than that's okay.
Remember, the money you're making above this temporary ceiling either (1) came from risky ventures which caused this problem or (2) will come from the buyout which is being funded by taxpayers.
As an alternative, I'd like to see the cap gain and unearned income rates go back to bracket income rates, and tax rates for every single person doubled until the trillion dollars is paid off. The people at the bottom - these main street people I keep hearing about - will pay very little extra, and will get a small to modreate benefit in market stability. People at the top are gonna take it much harder, but they're more likely to have benefited (both directly and indirectly) from the runup, and they're also going to benefit the most from a stable market.
The worst thing is that this is a horrible abuse of the tax system. I would much rather see a flat gross receipts tax for every single entity (SSN, TIN, etc), personal and corporate. I would suggest a single deduction for each SSN of up to 2087 x federal minimum wage against earnings by _that TIN_ (i.e. children an non-working spouses, of which I have one each are not deducted). I haven't found the numbers, but I suspect the percentage would be around 3-4%. That would be a tax increase on the lower incomes which are currently in a negative bracket, and a tax cut on the very wealthy, but it would also eliminate the tax loopholes - there would be none. Take your gross income and multiply by 0.04. You pay your real estate agent on the gross sales price, you pay your local taxes based on the value of your real estate, why not the federal government who protects it? Sell your home, pay 4% to the feds. Sell your stocks, pay 4%. If you held those stocks over a great deal of appreciation, you come out ahead. If you're a daytrader, you'll probably get screwed (excuse me while I wipe a tear).
Man, I really ought to be working :-)
This is, indeed, the core of the case. Everyone can claim this is about establishing fair use rights through a new court decision, but it is really aimed directly at the heart of the DMCA. Specifically, if a use is covered under "fair use," then the DMCA provides no prohibition to an end user circumventing any technological measure. However, as a practical matter, to do so is impossible as the DMCA specifically prohibits the sale, transfer, or publication of any circumvention process. In other words, it may be legal to make a copy or format shift, but you have to crack the protection and code it all up by yourself.
IMO, this is utter bullshit and this provision should be overturned by the courts. We don't require you refine your own gasoline for fear that if somebody sells it to you you'll go run down a playground full of children (oh, won't you think of the children!), why should the law restrict distribution of software for an utterly legitimate purpose - format shifting. I have ripped my DVDs (thanks to dvddecrypter, and more recently the nice folks as SlySoft) to a fileserver for (1) convenience and (2) preservation of the significant investment in DVDs I have. It's mighty nice to sift through the titles in MyMovies (.dk, btw) and select the one to play. As a bonus, the several thousand dollars in discs are carefully packed away, protected from scratches and hungry players*.
I hope this is the case that gets this onerous provision of the DMCA overturned.
*Sony jukeboxes are known for destroying CDs and DVDs by carving a groove across the playing face of the disc adjacent to the mechanism. I lost about 4 DVDs to just such a box. Thanks to usenet, I have working backups of those movies now.
I'm afraid that this is a "panic" situation, and about 5-9s of the phone calls and letters are from people who know absolutely nothing about what precipitated the problem, nor how to fix it, and are simply calling to get them to either "stop the market dropping" or "don't socialize it."
Personally, I'd like to see them bail out the firms, and then put a line in the tax code with a 95% tax bracket above 250k with a 3 (or 5) year look back period to recoup some of the costs. I'm not worried about socializing the system; I think they (the government) would rather sell it back and wash their hands asap. Then again, I'd also like to see ridiculously strict controls, such as eliminating all derivatives, short selling, and futures where the buyer does not take physical delivery. In those cases, I think the Nevada Gaming Commission can fill the gaps for those "investors" quite adequately.
I was under the presumption that the greenhouse effect is not due to the amount of solar energy absorbed, but rather the amount of earth albedo absorbed. Since the blackbody temperature of the earth is much lower than the sun, the absorbtion of the radiated energy from the earth is captured by the atmosphere. Since radiation is the only way for earth to cool off, it cools more slowly than without the greenhouse gasses. Radiative gain at the earth from Solar energy, otoh, is not decreased significantly by these gasses, which is why the balance changes.
Naturally, ianac (climatologist), so there are certainly second order effects which may play a big role in our climate which I'm not accounting for.
This is relatively simple - pass the bailout and get the nervous nellies back on a solid ground. Take over assets where necessary, and resell them later.
Now to the executives with golden parachutes. We know exactly what these instruments are which have cased the meltdown and we know the industry which has gotten the multi-billion dollar incomes off of the mess. Add an income tax which is 95% of all income over 250k, and make it retroactive for the last 3 years. The money is coming from the treasury, so to get it back via the tax code puts the money back in the system.
I'm personally no proponent of tax code social engineering, but this looks a lot more like payback than taxes.
If your payload is only 150kg, then a Russian Proton is going to be pretty damned expensive. Not everyone needs to put 21,600kg into space. On the other hand, if your payload is 166kg, you still need another flight vehicle vendor (for now)
Is the google maps that can be downloaded and taken anywhere offline? Most of the places I get lost are places where (surprise) there's no cell service. If I get on the wrong backroad in West Virginia, I sure as hell don't want to be hearing banjos while my gps-phone tells me it can't get a map due to not having a cell signal.
Having the sync for Google to Outlook might work, but again it sucks to have to fire up the gprs/wifi to sync rather than having it happen automagically when I drop it in the dock to charge. Not mentioned above, but still valid, is that I would have to go through google to get my mail.
I suppose the biggest disappointment is that it was supposed to be better/easier than WM (and the iPhone, though imho the iPhone isn't ready for business - and it's not targeted that way). If the interface really does work well - made for fingers instead of styluses - the apps come on line quickly, and the experience is fairly seamless, then they might just have something.
I'll keep watching them, but this isn't quite the splash I expected.
I'm going to be in the market for an upgrade an a couple of months, and this is quite underwhelming. I'm sure there are some good things that weren't in TFA (I sure hope there was a lot left out).
No tetherability? Mmmm, that sucks.
No mention of GPS or an app. Perhaps an extortion-like monthly fee to get the feature will follow?
No desktop sync with calendar? That's going to be quite a hassle, especially since I can't tether to get online to the gFoo apps. Also, I sure hope they have balls-up caching for the gFoo apps like contacts and calendar. Not everyone who uses a pda-phone is in signal range for even GPRS all the time.
As for the Dream... what's with the button bar not moving? Did HTC have too many complaints from Blackberry users that their Hermes and TyTn keyboards were too large? They could have put a whole numeric keypad over there.
That is mostly true, but you are a significant exception. If I have to spend $150 in contact time with you to decide you're worth it, I'm going to service any free domain last.
Besides, you are doing yourself (your employer) a disservice by using an alternate email. Why? I f I don't respond to you, it may be you have just missed out on getting the exact product you need. Sure, you can cobble together the competitors sub-par product and then spend an extra 10-15k in development and testing, but wouldn't it have been better to have purchased the correct product to begin with?
If you walk into a high end jewelry store in ripped jeans and a dirty T-shirt to buy the on-of-a-kind earrings your girlfriend wants and they throw you out, are you still going to get wild porn sex that night because you got the cut glass ones from Kay Jewelers? Of course not. Suck it up and put on some slacks and polo.
You've never had to (legitimately) get into an verified PDF, I presume. ProtectedPDF is a company which make a living on keeping honest users from accessing their content. Luckly, once you've activated, there are ways to convert the data to a more useful format.
HP has a bootable DOS for USB keys. I presume there's support for writing to and from the USB key (duh), but don't know if the drivers can be reused in disk-based DOS system. I use it to make my usb bootable (actually, it's microSD with an adapter the size of the USB contacts). When I got it, HP was giving it away via free download. No, I don't have a link.
Awesome! Where can I download a legal copy of OSX to put on my machine?
Seriously, there are lots of uses for carbon dioxide, and soft drink carbonation is just one use. Others have pointed out paintball, but there's lots of commercial need for CO2 in both gas and solid form. Most efficient manufacturers have found resale opportunities for their "waste," why not bottling the CO2?
Sure there may not be quite as much CO2 demand as there is generation, but we also don't need to get all our energy from coal. Finding a symbiotic manufacturer is a damned good idea.
Well, I haven't the faintest idea how the damn thing is cooled, but helium becomes superfliud at 2.17K (iirc). It effectively loses all of its viscosity and becomes far more thermally conductive. At 2K its a superfluid, at 4.5K its not. Cool stuff, but I don't know if it matters, I don't know squat about the LHC. (see what you get for asking a question on /.?)
..he just assumed that something which might be involved with cooling must be rated in the amount of ice it can create in a day.
That's the number I remember from high school. We had a discussion about how old Reagan would really be when he finished up.
Never put in writing anything that you wouldn't say [in public] [to the person's face]. It's an old adage. Oh, sure, if I ran for congress and my history here at /. got printed, I'd have some explaining to do. But, on the whole, I'm a sarcastic, dark humored bastard. If my email were released to the public at large, I doubt there'd be much of interest. Then again, I'm not interesting enough to be running for President/VP.
Of course, if I don't hear much else good from either side I may be writing my own name in this November. Either that or Bill and Opus.
I think inductive is still the way to go, as the transfer efficiency is in the high 90% range, versus about 45 for electric coils, 50-55 for radiant halogen, and somewhere around 30% for gas. Even if you burn coal for electricity, inductive comes out better overall.
I still don't care. I like cooking on gas. :-)
Yes, but what, exactly would the punishment guidelines be? What is the case law on breaking into someone's private email account? Is it Federal law or Virginia law (Yahoo account).
It's interesting in an academic way, if only to determine what the "appropriate" response is. Oh, sure, its slimy - no doubt about that. What would the response be if this had been Paris Hilton, or another celebrity? What about if it were your neighbor.
It's sort of an equal-protection-under-the-law case. Since it's not an official account, there's really nothing but possible embarrassment at risk (which generally isn't prosecutable in the US).
So, if she lied in the investigation about using personal email for business purposes (I don't know if she's been deposed, and if she has been what she said), wouldn't she be be guilty of perjury if this exposure is valid?
Since Clinton was impeached for perjury about lying over a sexual liaison, I would think lying about official email usage would qualify.
This could, indeed, get interesting. (and not in a good way - no matter which side you're on, this kind of corruption hurts America no matter which party gets caught at it)
So, you're admitting that you saw it, and that you were so astonished that you had to look one more time.
Sounds very familiar.