Currently gas runs about $2.20 in the Eastern US and was just above $3 earlier this year. So $15 is very pie in the sky. Btw our $3 gas which we all consider crazy would be A$1.03 pver there. 3.90
A fuel for farm equipment doesn't pay road tax, it wouldn't nessesarily need to pay any of this additional tax as well. Though a tax incentive to use biodiesal instead of oil based deisel would be nice.
Because you didn't quote me fully. I stated they should allows exceptions for Semis, and I can see farm equipment as well. Hell farm equipment gasoline probably is already exempted from road taxes, boat gasoline is already,
Realistically roads are being paid for by gas tax of the people who use those roads. So they aren't being subsidized. On the other hand I've actually read several libertarian papers on the actual need for government to tax pollution. It boils down to a basic economic principal of disposal. If you have waste to dispose of you either need to pay someone to dispose of it on their land, or contain the waste on your land. In the case of air pollution you are effectively dumping waste on your neighbors property without permission. So either EVERYONE would need to some of mutual contract. Or the government "taxes" (yea its a dirty word) based upon a reasonable estimate of the actual cost of pollution to the citizens as a whole. The kyoto treaty had the right general idea, but it attempted to set hard limits instead of a more general idea of a flat tax for pollution by industries to pay for their damage.
I think we should eventually get rid of governments entirely, and that with a little work, we can build a society that's perfectly capable of taking care of the environment in an egalitarian, non-coercive way.
Governments are the natural output of groups of people. You have a neighborhood that wants to protect itself so it forms a HOA, thats a government. Any group of people who collectively set up rules to control themselves is a government. And its simply a natural extension of civilization. We won't get rid of them.
On the other topic I think if they built massive public transportation network first they could get away with charging $15/gallon. (Actually thats not realistic as it would just encourage a blackmarket, $5 is probably more realistic) Either way you could possibly provide an exception for large transportation vehicles (like semis) make them pay some extra, but set the charge at the actual pollution levels and road damage estimates instead. Possibly some calculation of weight vs miles driven.
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And how do you suppose we FORCE people to choose a more simplified lifestyle? Trust me, people are greedy and aren't going to do so by choice. You can provide tax incentives, but you simply aren't going to be able to say, HEY YOU! stop consuming. Its just not going to happen. At least not until we hit peak oil or something else that drastically drives up the price of our consumption. But historically we have always figured out a way around resource limitations, and we will continue to do so. Talk of what people "NEED" to do is about as good as talk of the benefits of Communism. It completely ignores the reality of the situation.
Definitely the truth, the system works, why change it. What I envision as a potential workaround is a layer that works above DNS. Keep DNS strictly as it is, but introduce an approved maybe even required in IPv6 system that works above the DNS system. Something akin to a search engine but that requires registration. So that you could register and endless array of weird character names, that all map down to a simple latin based DNS name and future browsers could show you the latin version as well for security verification purposes.
Though I did notice a HUGE (19 closing in the next 30 minutes). number of Wii (system)'s on ebay. Personally I'm hoping these dummies get stuck with extras and start selling them at loss!!!!
I meant to say the people in the Wii line were excited about the smashing of the Wii. They might have been excited about smashing a PS3 as well. Who knows!:)
Strangely enough there may be some legal precedent as well. I'd bet if it came with normal screws you could argue in court that like a computer it was end-user serviceable and that you aren't voiding your warranty by taking it apart.
Actually very few places had unbundled offers for the Wii as well. So you ended up paying $500 or so for it. Now of course that bundle included many games so it wasn't SO bad. Hell walmarts bundle let you pick your own games.
Either way as he is effectivly using Blizzards service without permission (using it under a different ToS) they can kick ban him at any time without a need for explanation.
http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index. html Sony has already posted instructions for putting Linux on the PS3, expect once the inital gameboys die down you will be seeing a lot of people buying the PS3 purely as a computer platform. For the price point of $600 for what is arguable a very high performance computer, its not a bad deal.
It seems they are referring to the interoperability features. Things like NTFS support and even Samba. Of course as we speak the EU is forcing MS to disclose these interoperability secrets and saying they don't belong to MS. A lot of this stuff was also covered in the initial trial here in the US. They got let off, but the political climate is changing. They might be figuring, hey we need to license this stuff quickly before the government forces us to give it away..
Actually talked about this, this afternoon to someone who knows a bit more about this. Either way back to the sound example this is slightly different than I imagined. Imagine two tunning forks both vibrating very close to one other. Tuning forks by nature radiate very little energy, most of it is contained. Apparently if you add or remove energy in small amounts from either tunning fork the two systems will share energy and so energy is drawn from one fork to the other to create an equalibrium. Now imagine doing this with with electromagnetics. In effect you have standing electromanetic waves coming from both sources which comingle. Big problem with this is is still that you really can't have much in between the two, and there is the problem of energy waste. Maybe its been solved but this article doesn't provide much insight.
Exactly, firing the professor? What for. It is the responsibility of IT to make sure there is a responsible security policy. If the general policy is to give the professors all this information on a laptop that they carry around its bad IT policy. Yes the professor lost a laptop, and maybe he should have to pay for it, or whatnot, not really your call, and a whole different issue.
This is using frequency resonation, Tesla's system didn't.
Think about it this way.
Lets use sound.. Lets say I make a crystal that vibrates at an exact sound frequency, I can make that frequency sound causing no harm to anyone but that crystal, which will vibrate, and potentially break with intense exposure to the sound. Now of course making a sound intense enough to to shatter the crystal and at the same time cause no harm to ones ears is difficult but its possible.
Now do this with electromagnetic waves. The real trick is figuring out how not to waste energy pumping it out in all directions. But its about as dangerous as me sitting here 1000 feet from a major radio broadcast station.....
Hell if you could prove it the church of scientology wouldn't exist at all. The book of Dianetics talks endlessly about "Scientology" and yet Hubbard wasn't initially a member nor did he belong to the church for a long time. He wrote it as some sorta crossover novel its intention was to be a "self-help" book for some alien species. It was never intended to be factual. But he thought it would be awfully clever to market it as a real book. He stupidly assumed people would understand it wasn't real.
But no I can't find anything to back it up, just what I was told by some people who lived around clearwater, fl (scientology headquarters) who wern't scientologist.
Love their Scientology page, about as accurate description you can possibly give that wouldn't lead to being sued (ie not descriptive at ALL). Hell it didn't even bother to mention that Dianetics was intended to be SciFi.
Of course, though this isn't technically part of "fair use" its a tradeoff of taxation of media and devices for the right to make personal copies. Something that the DCMA gutted as well as the RIAA has time and again tried to marginalize. Which is funny because at the time they celebrated the law.
Electronics and a lot of other cargo you might want to send up would be effected by radiation as well. Just saying passenger compartments wouldn't be enough.
Of course article and Wikipedia all agree that adding complete shielding isn't impossible.
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$15=A$19.51
1 gallon = 3.79 liters
So you talking 5.15 per liter.
Currently gas runs about $2.20 in the Eastern US and was just above $3 earlier this year.
So $15 is very pie in the sky.
Btw our $3 gas which we all consider crazy would be A$1.03 pver there.
3.90
A fuel for farm equipment doesn't pay road tax, it wouldn't nessesarily need to pay any of this additional tax as well. Though a tax incentive to use biodiesal instead of oil based deisel would be nice.
Because you didn't quote me fully. I stated they should allows exceptions for Semis, and I can see farm equipment as well. Hell farm equipment gasoline probably is already exempted from road taxes, boat gasoline is already,
Realistically roads are being paid for by gas tax of the people who use those roads. So they aren't being subsidized. On the other hand I've actually read several libertarian papers on the actual need for government to tax pollution. It boils down to a basic economic principal of disposal. If you have waste to dispose of you either need to pay someone to dispose of it on their land, or contain the waste on your land. In the case of air pollution you are effectively dumping waste on your neighbors property without permission. So either EVERYONE would need to some of mutual contract. Or the government "taxes" (yea its a dirty word) based upon a reasonable estimate of the actual cost of pollution to the citizens as a whole. The kyoto treaty had the right general idea, but it attempted to set hard limits instead of a more general idea of a flat tax for pollution by industries to pay for their damage.
I think we should eventually get rid of governments entirely, and that with a little work, we can build a society that's perfectly capable of taking care of the environment in an egalitarian, non-coercive way.
Governments are the natural output of groups of people. You have a neighborhood that wants to protect itself so it forms a HOA, thats a government. Any group of people who collectively set up rules to control themselves is a government. And its simply a natural extension of civilization. We won't get rid of them.
On the other topic I think if they built massive public transportation network first they could get away with charging $15/gallon. (Actually thats not realistic as it would just encourage a blackmarket, $5 is probably more realistic) Either way you could possibly provide an exception for large transportation vehicles (like semis) make them pay some extra, but set the charge at the actual pollution levels and road damage estimates instead. Possibly some calculation of weight vs miles driven.
And how do you suppose we FORCE people to choose a more simplified lifestyle? Trust me, people are greedy and aren't going to do so by choice. You can provide tax incentives, but you simply aren't going to be able to say, HEY YOU! stop consuming. Its just not going to happen. At least not until we hit peak oil or something else that drastically drives up the price of our consumption. But historically we have always figured out a way around resource limitations, and we will continue to do so. Talk of what people "NEED" to do is about as good as talk of the benefits of Communism. It completely ignores the reality of the situation.
Definitely the truth, the system works, why change it. What I envision as a potential workaround is a layer that works above DNS. Keep DNS strictly as it is, but introduce an approved maybe even required in IPv6 system that works above the DNS system. Something akin to a search engine but that requires registration. So that you could register and endless array of weird character names, that all map down to a simple latin based DNS name and future browsers could show you the latin version as well for security verification purposes.
Though I did notice a HUGE (19 closing in the next 30 minutes).
number of Wii (system)'s on ebay. Personally I'm hoping these dummies get stuck with extras and start selling them at loss!!!!
I meant to say the people in the Wii line were excited about the smashing of the Wii. They might have been excited about smashing a PS3 as well. Who knows! :)
Whats really cool about that is the completly different audience reception.
On Smashmyps3.com video the people in line were horrified, they almost cried. The people in the Wii line were excited and said "Thats awesome!"
Strangely enough there may be some legal precedent as well. I'd bet if it came with normal screws you could argue in court that like a computer it was end-user serviceable and that you aren't voiding your warranty by taking it apart.
Actually very few places had unbundled offers for the Wii as well. So you ended up paying $500 or so for it. Now of course that bundle included many games so it wasn't SO bad.
Hell walmarts bundle let you pick your own games.
Either way as he is effectivly using Blizzards service without permission (using it under a different ToS) they can kick ban him at any time without a need for explanation.
http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index. html
Sony has already posted instructions for putting Linux on the PS3, expect once the inital gameboys die down you will be seeing a lot of people buying the PS3 purely as a computer platform. For the price point of $600 for what is arguable a very high performance computer, its not a bad deal.
Exactly, someone keeps reentering bids because they keep getting beaten so each one shows up.
It seems they are referring to the interoperability features. Things like NTFS support and even Samba. Of course as we speak the EU is forcing MS to disclose these interoperability secrets and saying they don't belong to MS. A lot of this stuff was also covered in the initial trial here in the US. They got let off, but the political climate is changing. They might be figuring, hey we need to license this stuff quickly before the government forces us to give it away..
He stayed alive while the other guy hung up on a cross?
Actually talked about this, this afternoon to someone who knows a bit more about this. Either way back to the sound example this is slightly different than I imagined. Imagine two tunning forks both vibrating very close to one other. Tuning forks by nature radiate very little energy, most of it is contained. Apparently if you add or remove energy in small amounts from either tunning fork the two systems will share energy and so energy is drawn from one fork to the other to create an equalibrium. Now imagine doing this with with electromagnetics. In effect you have standing electromanetic waves coming from both sources which comingle. Big problem with this is is still that you really can't have much in between the two, and there is the problem of energy waste. Maybe its been solved but this article doesn't provide much insight.
Exactly, firing the professor? What for. It is the responsibility of IT to make sure there is a responsible security policy. If the general policy is to give the professors all this information on a laptop that they carry around its bad IT policy. Yes the professor lost a laptop, and maybe he should have to pay for it, or whatnot, not really your call, and a whole different issue.
This is using frequency resonation, Tesla's system didn't.
Think about it this way.
Lets use sound.. Lets say I make a crystal that vibrates at an exact sound frequency, I can make that frequency sound causing no harm to anyone but that crystal, which will vibrate, and potentially break with intense exposure to the sound. Now of course making a sound intense enough to to shatter the crystal and at the same time cause no harm to ones ears is difficult but its possible.
Now do this with electromagnetic waves. The real trick is figuring out how not to waste energy pumping it out in all directions. But its about as dangerous as me sitting here 1000 feet from a major radio broadcast station.....
Hell if you could prove it the church of scientology wouldn't exist at all. The book of Dianetics talks endlessly about "Scientology" and yet Hubbard wasn't initially a member nor did he belong to the church for a long time. He wrote it as some sorta crossover novel its intention was to be a "self-help" book for some alien species. It was never intended to be factual. But he thought it would be awfully clever to market it as a real book. He stupidly assumed people would understand it wasn't real.
But no I can't find anything to back it up, just what I was told by some people who lived around clearwater, fl (scientology headquarters) who wern't scientologist.
Love their Scientology page, about as accurate description you can possibly give that wouldn't lead to being sued (ie not descriptive at ALL). Hell it didn't even bother to mention that Dianetics was intended to be SciFi.
Of course, though this isn't technically part of "fair use" its a tradeoff of taxation of media and devices for the right to make personal copies. Something that the DCMA gutted as well as the RIAA has time and again tried to marginalize. Which is funny because at the time they celebrated the law.
"Its the things that he doesn't say but implies that are the real sneaky bits."
I was in effect quoting what the RIAA guy was trying to imply.
NOT my opinions on the matter.
Electronics and a lot of other cargo you might want to send up would be effected by radiation as well. Just saying passenger compartments wouldn't be enough.
Of course article and Wikipedia all agree that adding complete shielding isn't impossible.