'Rank' works fine, but (for U.S. English anyway) 'position' is probably used more often to describe a person's role and advancement within an organization.
Maybe the author of that article has more recent information, or the difference between reporting individuals and households is significant, but for 2005, the Congressional Budget Office says that the top 10% of households paid about 55% of taxes:
The third side is to ignore Boing Boing. Hell, I bet you could even use something like Yahoo Pipes to ignore the parts of Boing Boing that are annoying.
I don't really see someone controlling the content on a server they own as censorship. They are paying for it, they have a legitimate right to control the content on it. Building a house doesn't give hooligans the right to paint graffiti on it, or something like that. If they found a way to control postings on other sites, it would be a great deal more worrisome.
As far as net neutrality goes, I'm not that worried about it. In the long term, really really bad legislation won't survive(so bad regulation won't be a problem), and all it takes to break up a tiered structure is one good actor(so in theory, if Google owned a bunch of dark fiber and also thought that they made more money in a tier free situation...).
Yes. This laptop uses 60 or 70 watts total. The 22 inch monitor sitting next to it uses about 150 watts, less than half of what the 19 inch monitor it replaced used.
Also, at some point, for graphics cards and everything else, it will make more sense to apply technological innovations to making them more efficient instead of more powerful, as you only need to render so many photo-realistic frames per second for your broad side of a barn sized game screen.
It gets awfully complicated. If there was a directive to put the information online but no funding or process to review the project, everybody involved is partly responsible. If there was funding and process to review the project, the managers are more responsible than the programmers(because they failed to be even a little aware of what got done).
Some people are profoundly uncomfortable with being "the result of complicated chemical and physical reactions in the matter encased in their skull". If you aren't profoundly uncomfortable with a physical basis for the brain(i.e., the possession of a soul isn't what gets you out of bed in the morning), you aren't going to care much.
It's at least an interesting question, if what we think of as our conscious thought processes aren't simply a result of our brain structure, what are we going to need to do to simulate them? Also, in that case, can they even be simulated?
The true beauty of gmane is that it does nntp (at news.gmane.org). The original pick-your-interface forum, rather than any of the thousands of poor reinventions.
Slashdot is only barely, tangentially a group. Mostly, you can't rely on the same people posting to or even reading the same stories. Add as few as 100 yahoo's to that, and you end up with half assed, half baked posts about anything and everything. Like this one.
A stick is a cheap form of entertainment(cause you can poke stuff with it, or see what happens when you hit that big guy with it, etc.). Or a book. Video games might be cheaper than a lot of stuff, but they aren't cheap.
It depends a great deal on how profitable it is "to help and move forward all of humanity", and whether other companies that are more focused on financial gain are competing with you. If there are competitors with a financial focus and the particular business you are in requires a great deal of money to move forward, you may have trouble getting investors to invest in your company(at the moment, the great majority of investment seems to be agnostic to everything but profit). If you are able to earn a profit without taking on outside investment and are able to use that profit to grow the business(so, you are operating in sector with relatively small capital needs), it won't matter so much if you have competitors, it will matter if you have a quality product at a value price.
If you control a company, you get to decide what you value(be it profit or shiny balloons on Friday); if you take other people's money to make your company bigger, they are going to want some control in exchange, and most people with money to give are most interested in giving it to people who can use it to profit(and many would insist that you amend your mission statement before they would invest).
Getting developers to follow suggested policy is the problem being addressed. A solution that requires developers to follow a suggested policy isn't going to get you all that far.
The APIs needed to run as a limited user have been around since at least Windows 2000, developers(including Microsoft) have been ignoring them for that long. All UAC did was make it feasible to change the default user account setup to not be highly privileged, by simplifying temporary escalation of rights. Without UAC, you are stuck in XP land, either running as a limited user and using the convoluted system for running whole programs as a different user, or running with Administrator rights.
You should look into how it is set up. In Michigan, for purchases less than $1000, the use tax is graduated. If your AGI is $50,000, you only have to pay $23 of tax to make up for the sales tax you didn't pay(People making less than that pay even less, the most you have to pay is 0.05% of your income, or you can itemize and pay the 6% on your purchases). For individual purchases over $1,000, the full 6% is due. For someone who spends in the ~$500 range, just paying the tax every year is probably easier and cheaper than dealing with even one audit or round of fines.
For a long time, you could order a house out of the Sears catalog. That was pretty interstatey.
Hell, I bet the founding fathers occasionally had things shipped from overseas. And by occasionally, I mean more often than you or I ever do. The fact that the transactions are initiated electronically, rather than by written letter doesn't really change anything.
Government isn't always more risk averse than the private sector. The private sector generally invests in things that have a positive risk-adjusted return. The government happily spends on things that do not have a positive risk-adjusted return, at least in terms of dollars.
Pretty much any consumer facing OS is going to go into security rot if you don't keep up with patches. The default for Windows XP, since Service Pack 2, has been to automatically install patches. That's about as much as the vendor can do(short of improving the security to start with, go ahead and find some statistics about Vista exploits vs XP exploits if you don't think Microsoft is at least improving along those lines, I don't care enough about what you believe to prove it to you).
Switching doesn't effect which door the car is behind.
If they can move the car between your choices, then it is a 1/2 choice, but if the car is stationary, Monty, taking into account your initial 1/3 choice, takes the 2/3 choices that you did not select and combines them into one door. So you end up with the door labeled with your initial choice, 1/3, and the door that Monty helpfully labeled 2/3. The labels happen to reflect the odds of the car being behind that door.
I figure a lot of spam gets sold as a service to people trying to make a quick buck without actually working. So the spammer isn't getting paid by people clicking the link, he is getting paid by the next low-life internet crap selling sucker who thinks that people actually click on the links in spam.
I predict that despite our best efforts, more than 6 billion people will die in the next 100 years.
Anyway, as more and more economic activity moves onto the internet, security will get better. Look at the last five years. Security has actually gotten better. Even Windows is getting better, as long as you keep up with patches.
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Frink:
http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/
agrees with your calculation of 21 million tons(metric).
(to input metric tons into frink, use tonne or metricton)
'Rank' works fine, but (for U.S. English anyway) 'position' is probably used more often to describe a person's role and advancement within an organization.
Maybe the author of that article has more recent information, or the difference between reporting individuals and households is significant, but for 2005, the Congressional Budget Office says that the top 10% of households paid about 55% of taxes:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8885/EffectiveTaxRates.shtml#1011535
The point stands that the rich pay most of the taxes though.
The third side is to ignore Boing Boing. Hell, I bet you could even use something like Yahoo Pipes to ignore the parts of Boing Boing that are annoying.
I don't really see someone controlling the content on a server they own as censorship. They are paying for it, they have a legitimate right to control the content on it. Building a house doesn't give hooligans the right to paint graffiti on it, or something like that. If they found a way to control postings on other sites, it would be a great deal more worrisome.
As far as net neutrality goes, I'm not that worried about it. In the long term, really really bad legislation won't survive(so bad regulation won't be a problem), and all it takes to break up a tiered structure is one good actor(so in theory, if Google owned a bunch of dark fiber and also thought that they made more money in a tier free situation...).
Fair enough. They appear to disclaim pretty much all responsibility:
http://www.virgin.net/terms/broadband_tc.html
So, short of looking into their obligations under U.K. law, they don't appear to have that obligation.
I doubt you have a contract with Boing Boing agreeing that they will not censor reader comments, and I doubt that you are paying them all that much.
Yes. This laptop uses 60 or 70 watts total. The 22 inch monitor sitting next to it uses about 150 watts, less than half of what the 19 inch monitor it replaced used.
Also, at some point, for graphics cards and everything else, it will make more sense to apply technological innovations to making them more efficient instead of more powerful, as you only need to render so many photo-realistic frames per second for your broad side of a barn sized game screen.
You need to spend a little more time establishing why you think that energy use will continue to grow at historical rates.
Especially in the context of slowing population growth.
It gets awfully complicated. If there was a directive to put the information online but no funding or process to review the project, everybody involved is partly responsible. If there was funding and process to review the project, the managers are more responsible than the programmers(because they failed to be even a little aware of what got done).
No, no, no, as I understand it, all tools are hammers, and all problems are nails.
This is a nice way of looking at things, as the solution to every problem is to hit it with a hammer until it isn't a problem anymore.
Some people are profoundly uncomfortable with being "the result of complicated chemical and physical reactions in the matter encased in their skull". If you aren't profoundly uncomfortable with a physical basis for the brain(i.e., the possession of a soul isn't what gets you out of bed in the morning), you aren't going to care much.
It's at least an interesting question, if what we think of as our conscious thought processes aren't simply a result of our brain structure, what are we going to need to do to simulate them? Also, in that case, can they even be simulated?
Nested view user here.
The true beauty of gmane is that it does nntp (at news.gmane.org). The original pick-your-interface forum, rather than any of the thousands of poor reinventions.
Slashdot is only barely, tangentially a group. Mostly, you can't rely on the same people posting to or even reading the same stories. Add as few as 100 yahoo's to that, and you end up with half assed, half baked posts about anything and everything. Like this one.
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A stick is a cheap form of entertainment(cause you can poke stuff with it, or see what happens when you hit that big guy with it, etc.). Or a book. Video games might be cheaper than a lot of stuff, but they aren't cheap.
It depends a great deal on how profitable it is "to help and move forward all of humanity", and whether other companies that are more focused on financial gain are competing with you. If there are competitors with a financial focus and the particular business you are in requires a great deal of money to move forward, you may have trouble getting investors to invest in your company(at the moment, the great majority of investment seems to be agnostic to everything but profit). If you are able to earn a profit without taking on outside investment and are able to use that profit to grow the business(so, you are operating in sector with relatively small capital needs), it won't matter so much if you have competitors, it will matter if you have a quality product at a value price.
If you control a company, you get to decide what you value(be it profit or shiny balloons on Friday); if you take other people's money to make your company bigger, they are going to want some control in exchange, and most people with money to give are most interested in giving it to people who can use it to profit(and many would insist that you amend your mission statement before they would invest).
It happened in Canada, I'm not in Canada, I don't think it would have affected me at all if it had ended badly, I don't count that as being lucky.
Getting developers to follow suggested policy is the problem being addressed. A solution that requires developers to follow a suggested policy isn't going to get you all that far.
The APIs needed to run as a limited user have been around since at least Windows 2000, developers(including Microsoft) have been ignoring them for that long. All UAC did was make it feasible to change the default user account setup to not be highly privileged, by simplifying temporary escalation of rights. Without UAC, you are stuck in XP land, either running as a limited user and using the convoluted system for running whole programs as a different user, or running with Administrator rights.
You should look into how it is set up. In Michigan, for purchases less than $1000, the use tax is graduated. If your AGI is $50,000, you only have to pay $23 of tax to make up for the sales tax you didn't pay(People making less than that pay even less, the most you have to pay is 0.05% of your income, or you can itemize and pay the 6% on your purchases). For individual purchases over $1,000, the full 6% is due. For someone who spends in the ~$500 range, just paying the tax every year is probably easier and cheaper than dealing with even one audit or round of fines.
For a long time, you could order a house out of the Sears catalog. That was pretty interstatey.
Hell, I bet the founding fathers occasionally had things shipped from overseas. And by occasionally, I mean more often than you or I ever do. The fact that the transactions are initiated electronically, rather than by written letter doesn't really change anything.
Government isn't always more risk averse than the private sector. The private sector generally invests in things that have a positive risk-adjusted return. The government happily spends on things that do not have a positive risk-adjusted return, at least in terms of dollars.
Many of the people who have children they can't be bothered to raise were children that no one bothered to raise.
Also, these sorts of federal programs aren't really targeted at people who can afford nannies.
Pretty much any consumer facing OS is going to go into security rot if you don't keep up with patches. The default for Windows XP, since Service Pack 2, has been to automatically install patches. That's about as much as the vendor can do(short of improving the security to start with, go ahead and find some statistics about Vista exploits vs XP exploits if you don't think Microsoft is at least improving along those lines, I don't care enough about what you believe to prove it to you).
Switching doesn't effect which door the car is behind.
If they can move the car between your choices, then it is a 1/2 choice, but if the car is stationary, Monty, taking into account your initial 1/3 choice, takes the 2/3 choices that you did not select and combines them into one door. So you end up with the door labeled with your initial choice, 1/3, and the door that Monty helpfully labeled 2/3. The labels happen to reflect the odds of the car being behind that door.
I figure a lot of spam gets sold as a service to people trying to make a quick buck without actually working. So the spammer isn't getting paid by people clicking the link, he is getting paid by the next low-life internet crap selling sucker who thinks that people actually click on the links in spam.
I predict that despite our best efforts, more than 6 billion people will die in the next 100 years.
Anyway, as more and more economic activity moves onto the internet, security will get better. Look at the last five years. Security has actually gotten better. Even Windows is getting better, as long as you keep up with patches.