It's not that clear that the rural population in Canada is less dense. Overall it is, but there are big chunks of Canada that are essentially empty. Big chunks of the American West are also empty, but they are not as big or as empty as the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The provinces all have big empty zones to.
Also, ~75% of the Canadian population lives with 100 miles of the US border.
The proper comparison is subscribers per infrastructure dollar(or infrastructure dollars per subscriber). The U.S. and Canada are probably pretty similar along those lines, but Canada probably has more citizen friendly regulation.
The smaller boards generally cost less, and they seem to be strong enough.
It's just the same with hard disks, the per byte price isn't affected a great deal by the base-2 base-10 confusion, and the things do what they are supposed to(well, usually for at least 15 months anyway).
I'd be happy to give up the rather wanton enforcement of drug laws that exists in most states. I don't even use anything illicit, but I can see where taking away people's cars and sticking them in jail for $30 of marijuana(or $300, whatever) is a waste of time, jail spending, and pretty much only serves to push the 'criminal' out of participating in society(because it's hard to keep a job when you gotta sit for 60 days and walk out with no car, that leads to further desperation). I'm not proposing that it is okay that the law is being broken, but that the frequency with which it happens suggests that the law may be broken.
There are good reasons to treat the use of hard drugs as a problem, but the current 'solution' is a joke. It would be cheaper to regulate and sell meth at pharmacies than it is to shut down meth labs, and then there wouldn't be skeavy people setting up meth labs, and there would be a handy list of people to target with social outreach programs. Taxing cocaine would raise revenues, and I'm pretty sure that "it's illegal" isn't the first reason that most people choose not to use it("it's expensive" and "holy shit that shit fucks with people" are probably quite a bit higher; those go double for heroin).
The success of commerce on the internet doesn't prove that taxing the internet would be bad policy. It demonstrates that the internet can do well in the absence of taxation, but it doesn't demonstrate that it would do poorly in the presence of taxes.
That said, I don't really see the point, most states have a use tax that is highly forgiving and barely enforced (mostly, I think it is useful when auditing someone who buys a boat or a jet or something, 6% of $100,000 is worth a lot more of the states time than 6% of $100)
I doubt it. Kindle is about making sure that they are a player in the electronic book field. They probably aren't all that certain about how popular electronic books are going to be, but they don't want to miss the boat.
They are contesting the tax decision because not charging their customers sales tax gives them a pricing advantage over local stores.
Read his comment again. He said "if I don't show up in a day or two, then I'm dead". That's inside the window where acquiring food and water are not a problem(shelter from extreme conditions is a much more important matter).
So he isn't claiming that he is super duper self-reliant, he is pointing out that the search resources are fairly likely to be wasted because the person is reasonably likely to be dead.
Even if he wasn't being entirely literal, the phrasing doesn't imply that he thinks he could walk out of the Sahara with nothing more than a wash cloth and some Tic Tacs.
I'm sure if you built them a redundant building with proper environmental control systems (that is, cooling), that they would be happy to keep everything online while they are putting in the new one.
Yeah, I haven't actually seen it. Neil Gaiman was involved in the script and Zemeckis had done some interesting stuff, so it might not be entirely crappy.
Yeah, they draw the line at pimping their creative works for revenue.
(I don't disagree with you, but if either one of them were less successful, those Calvin stickers might be a little bit more legitimate, or their might be a Harry Potter RPG that no one had ever heard of)
Your business plan has a flaw, a proper foil hat starts with mining the ore to make the foil (this saves time over the foolproof method of creating the reality that you mine the ore from).
utorrent has a wide range of shutdown options. Shutdown when everything complete(I think this waits until the seed ratio hits 1), hibernate when complete, shutdown when downloads complete, etc.
I can imagine a contractor coming clean. I don't have any examples of it happening recently, but you haven't provided any examples that aren't from a dystopian fantasy.
Plenty of people have terrible ethics and plenty of other people are horribly misguided or disinterested, but as sappy as it sounds, there are actually good people everywhere, working to make the world a better place.
I'd rather be lower middle class today than a king in any other period in history, only a megalomaniac would prefer to be a dirty, poorly fed ruler(I'm talking mostly about refrigeration there).
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It's not that clear that the rural population in Canada is less dense. Overall it is, but there are big chunks of Canada that are essentially empty. Big chunks of the American West are also empty, but they are not as big or as empty as the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The provinces all have big empty zones to.
Also, ~75% of the Canadian population lives with 100 miles of the US border.
The proper comparison is subscribers per infrastructure dollar(or infrastructure dollars per subscriber). The U.S. and Canada are probably pretty similar along those lines, but Canada probably has more citizen friendly regulation.
The smaller boards generally cost less, and they seem to be strong enough.
It's just the same with hard disks, the per byte price isn't affected a great deal by the base-2 base-10 confusion, and the things do what they are supposed to(well, usually for at least 15 months anyway).
I'd be happy to give up the rather wanton enforcement of drug laws that exists in most states. I don't even use anything illicit, but I can see where taking away people's cars and sticking them in jail for $30 of marijuana(or $300, whatever) is a waste of time, jail spending, and pretty much only serves to push the 'criminal' out of participating in society(because it's hard to keep a job when you gotta sit for 60 days and walk out with no car, that leads to further desperation). I'm not proposing that it is okay that the law is being broken, but that the frequency with which it happens suggests that the law may be broken.
There are good reasons to treat the use of hard drugs as a problem, but the current 'solution' is a joke. It would be cheaper to regulate and sell meth at pharmacies than it is to shut down meth labs, and then there wouldn't be skeavy people setting up meth labs, and there would be a handy list of people to target with social outreach programs. Taxing cocaine would raise revenues, and I'm pretty sure that "it's illegal" isn't the first reason that most people choose not to use it("it's expensive" and "holy shit that shit fucks with people" are probably quite a bit higher; those go double for heroin).
The success of commerce on the internet doesn't prove that taxing the internet would be bad policy. It demonstrates that the internet can do well in the absence of taxation, but it doesn't demonstrate that it would do poorly in the presence of taxes.
That said, I don't really see the point, most states have a use tax that is highly forgiving and barely enforced (mostly, I think it is useful when auditing someone who buys a boat or a jet or something, 6% of $100,000 is worth a lot more of the states time than 6% of $100)
I doubt it. Kindle is about making sure that they are a player in the electronic book field. They probably aren't all that certain about how popular electronic books are going to be, but they don't want to miss the boat.
They are contesting the tax decision because not charging their customers sales tax gives them a pricing advantage over local stores.
Shipping through customs is going to be a lot worse than most sales taxes.
Calling it a scam is a bit much, it has been well understood by most people for at least 30 years.
Read his comment again. He said "if I don't show up in a day or two, then I'm dead". That's inside the window where acquiring food and water are not a problem(shelter from extreme conditions is a much more important matter).
So he isn't claiming that he is super duper self-reliant, he is pointing out that the search resources are fairly likely to be wasted because the person is reasonably likely to be dead.
Even if he wasn't being entirely literal, the phrasing doesn't imply that he thinks he could walk out of the Sahara with nothing more than a wash cloth and some Tic Tacs.
I'm sure if you built them a redundant building with proper environmental control systems (that is, cooling), that they would be happy to keep everything online while they are putting in the new one.
Most people can easily go a week without food. Not comfortable, but not a problem.
A day or two without water isn't that big a deal either, unless you are in extreme heat.
Yeah, I haven't actually seen it. Neil Gaiman was involved in the script and Zemeckis had done some interesting stuff, so it might not be entirely crappy.
Yeah, they draw the line at pimping their creative works for revenue.
(I don't disagree with you, but if either one of them were less successful, those Calvin stickers might be a little bit more legitimate, or their might be a Harry Potter RPG that no one had ever heard of)
I hate that Opera lady. Damn her.
Spider-man had much more exciting action, and the characters all looked weird in Beowulf.
Your business plan has a flaw, a proper foil hat starts with mining the ore to make the foil (this saves time over the foolproof method of creating the reality that you mine the ore from).
That's pretty cool that it survived the microwaving.
Not that I can remember...
What did Jesus do to deserve that?
Getting offended by what an idiot says is an awful expensive way to live your life, there are just to many idiots.
That's not an argument about video games, that's an argument about who should be parenting kids.
utorrent has a wide range of shutdown options. Shutdown when everything complete(I think this waits until the seed ratio hits 1), hibernate when complete, shutdown when downloads complete, etc.
You just accidentally implied that Congress should make our computers boot faster.
It's worse than that, the only people you can trust are your neighbors.
No wait, it's worse than that, the only people you can trust are your relatives.
No wait, it's worse than that, they only people you can trust are your direct family.
No wait, it's worse than that, the only people you can trust are direct family who haven't betrayed you yet.
No wait, it's worse than that, the only person you can trust is yourself.
Nationalism is a powerful force, but it's just tribalism writ large.
I can imagine a contractor coming clean. I don't have any examples of it happening recently, but you haven't provided any examples that aren't from a dystopian fantasy.
Plenty of people have terrible ethics and plenty of other people are horribly misguided or disinterested, but as sappy as it sounds, there are actually good people everywhere, working to make the world a better place.
I'd rather be lower middle class today than a king in any other period in history, only a megalomaniac would prefer to be a dirty, poorly fed ruler(I'm talking mostly about refrigeration there).
Is an abacus a machine?
Seems to me that it is more a pile of well organized beads.