Well, there is no savings. The incandescent bulb is cheap, cheap cheap. The LED is not. The power to drive the light comes from the battery, which is charged by the alternator. The alternator doesn't care. You can run over 1KW off the stock alternator. The little current required for the incandescent or bulb doesn't matter. So why put a higher cost part in the car? But wait the LED isn't 12v, it is TTL, so you need to convert from what is a 12v-14v wiring harness to TTL levels. If you use a cheap resistor, you just convert to heat. If you use a charge pump/capacitor you again increase the cost. All for something that won't matter in terms of fuel economy.
But you miss the point. The "market" refers to the wider market. We are not saying that employees can't quit on his own and interview at a competitor. Rather this is about a voluntary, informal truce targeting workers at a specific company and persuading them to leave.
Its the difference between getting a divorce and finding love with someone else vs. having a home-wrecker come in and then getting divorced because of adultery.
We just have companies agreeing not to commit adultery with each other. Like that is a bad thing.
The "interstate commerce clause" was not license for the federal government to interfere with every aspect of private business. Rather, it only gave jurisdiction as to ensure that the commerce was free and unimpeded between the states. Just as interstate commerce cannot be taxed, the commerce clause prevents states from playing favorites with other states. Imagine if the southern states put restrictions (non-tax) on all exports to the north, while leaving other southern states unrestricted.
Is Obama given the authority to regulate businesses - specifically hiring practices. If we allow Obama, et al, to come in and under "anti-trust" provisions penalize these companies for NOT hiring away top talent then our nation has taken a drastic turn towards Marxism. The "hiring truce" is in no way anti-competitive in the sense that it does not affect the marketplace. We still have complete choice between any search engine. Ironically, the one oddly missing from this hiring truce is Microsoft, who is the only one to be convicted of violating anti-trust law! There is no way employments functionally produce a way to maintain market power. If you could put someone else similarly competent, in the position, you'll get a similar result.
I don't want to hear that it "keeps wages down" or that it is a form of "non-compete". Anti-trust laws are not about jobs. They are about markets. I can use any search engine - google, yahoo, bing(wtf?) and I have plenty of hardware choices. Where I don't have enough choice though is in PC OSs. Thank you, Microsoft.
We are embarking down a dark path as a nation. Government interference in hiring practices? I can understand racial discrimination (marginally so) but a hiring truce? Give me a break.
The first point was calculated from from 1913, when the income tax began.
Then in 1942, the federal government passed the unconstitutional Victory Tax Act, and engaged in a public relations campaign to have people pay the tax. Of course, it was a low rate, because people were not about to pay 30% to beat the axis powers in WWII. Then, two years later the VTA was repealed and replaced with a constitutional one which we have to this day. The catch now is that the IRS has names and addresses - a database of taxpayers that it didn't use to have. Then, in the 70s they created the rule that in order to claim dependents they had to have a SSN, which further enlarged the database, and indoctrinated more people into the tax paying system.
Today, illegal immigrants enjoy most of the life beyond taxes.
Throughout the years, the lower limit on who has to file has not been inflation-adjusted.
You should really start your research in 1913, watch it through WWII, then compare it to today because those are its defining moments. Also, August 15, 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard and turned our money into currency. Because after that is when most of the inflation occurred. You can use bls.gov for a decent inflation calculator.
The compass is mostly useless, for those of us that can orient a map (but not everyone was a Boy Scout). Apple doesn't ever have a single-feature addition, as if a compass screen was all you got. No, think Google StreetView integration and maps that automatically rotate.
Looking at all the apps, it seems the hackers have created proof-of-concept cloud computing model. I wouldn't be so upset about haing my machine cracked if I got paid for my computing power. Then, we can all win!
The problem with that assessment is 1) No where near the same percentage of american were filing income tax returns, and 2) the income tax did not hit everyone like it does today. If you back it up to historical standards (correcting for inflation) You'd need to make $250,000 before you paid a penny of income tax.
You further fail to understand the cause of the pending inflation. We don't really print money, but we monetize the debt, which means we sell it. The fed has bought the debt, effectively increasing the dollars in supply. This money has 2 places to go: either it is confiscated with high interest rates, or 2 it is left in the economy and causes inflation. If we choose the first, then we shoot ourselves in the foot of economic recovery. (Raising rates kills lending/spending). If we let it in the economy, we can pay our debts easier, but our savings are destroyed. We also have a drastically weaker dollar that will find its way to obsolescence in international trade, meaning that the US economy is no longer the price setter and we fall by the way side.
The US is going to be the place NOT to be in a few years. Hyper inflation and 60% income tax rates are being talked about on MSNBC tonight. The US will have to make people think twice before a mass exodus to new lands because of the ensuing drop in GDP, which will leave America without an economy...
Even if they start with foreigners today, it'll spread to citizens in 10 years.
No, that's quite unlikely. Planets are hard to move.
Not so fast.:-) We have to look at the orbital decay to figure that one out. If Mars has to much velocity for its orbit, it'll work farther out. If it has too little velocity, it'll fall in.
Combine that with tidal forces of the planets and the asteroid belt, and you might have a measurable affect.
The key to moving mountains (and the planets they are on) is a very small force, over millions or billions of years.
--- *Footnote: The greenhouse effect is well documented in the lab under ideal conditions (in sealed environments). The controversy lies with how much it affects Earth's unsealed atmosphere, its many layers and natural processes of climatic and seasonal variability. And more specifically, how much of that is the fault of human activity. That much is left to science to work out. Where it gets emotional and personal is when we start to engineer human policy. Do we prevent pre-industrialized nations from using fossil fuel, when every nation has needed it to become industrial? Do we make people live in poverty because our energy policy power remains expensive? Whatever we do, I ask that we keep science as science, and not let emotions cloud the science (no pun or global warming intended)
That's a very good question. But the problem is one of sublimation. That is from solid state to gas. It happens in cold dry air. Snowcap-free Mt Kilimanjaro in Al Gore's "Incon. Truth" didn't melt from global warming. It sublimated because farming on the windward side made the air passing over the mountain drier.
The only way to keep the liquid water around is to have a denser, wetter atmosphere.
The problem with storms filling in gullies is that the dust particles are very fine, and have to be since there's not a lot of gas to move them. Without moisture, it is hard to bond to other particles (static charge being the leading cause) so its hard to have some drift that won't be blown away at the next dust storm.
That being said, there is evidence of water percolating. This won't be able to make large new gullies, but it will help maintain the ones that are there. And in fact, we have no idea of the gullies that exist that are filled in by dust. I can only conclude that the gullies we see are stable features left over from a time long ago. The "last of the line" so to say.
Seriously though, attempting to legitimize them as "Graphic Novels" is just spin and makes you look more ridiculous. I will confess privately that I liked the original Hellboy comic (Note: notice no attempt to spin it as a "Graphic Novel"!) Its a comic.
Sorry to disturb the conversation you're having with yourself. But the Windows stuff is pretty good. There is a special windows installer utility that is like a package manager. The Windows stuff can't be 100% because of things like DBUS are lacking, but there may have been some work done to make it close to work. But it's all based on Qt which does a very good job of maintaining compatibility. It's going to be those platform-specifics that get you.
The atmospheric composition of Mars is predominantly CO2 (95%). If you take some eco-nut stance, the warming is linear, if you take a better-modeled stance you'll find it is less than that. (Diminishes logarithmically)
The real question is one of geology. Was Mars' inner core capable of producing a protective magnetic should like the Earth's? Remember Mars is smaller and will therefore cool faster. Our core, as the theory goes is made by counter-rotating spheres of liquid iron. With this, comes a thick, rich and creamy atmosphere shielded from the solar wind by the magnetic field.
The other question is what was the older composition of the thick atmosphere. Mars has too much methane, allegedly. Both methane and water vapor are far better greenhouse gasses than CO2. (Terrestrially we worry about CO2, because it is our biggest byproduct of human activity, and is stable molecule that either needs a plant to make it into sugar, or the ocean to sink it to the bottom).
The surface of Mars can reach 25C from being heated by the Sun. So there is a decent amount of energy.
OPINION: There is enough evidence to suggest that Mars could have been roughly equivalent to tropical - humid and warm. Weather or not its breathable is a whole other story with all that supposed methane...
There is plenty of 2nd hand equipment on ebay that has similar or better performance for same or less cost.
Any time you pay to have something manufactured (a Pruis?), you increase you carbon footprint. Studies have conclusively shown that repurposing used hardware you save CO2, energy, etc.
It is novel size though, but space is not at a premium. There is always room under the desk or bed, basement or closet where you can stash a larger-form factor computer.
In the US, our government has no rights. It only has powers delegated to it by We the People. It has no rights, not prerogative to reserve them.
There are some special constructs like "sovereign immunity" but those are not right, they are juris prudence constructs. The FCC can't just say "we're reserving the right to rape your children". Congress has to vote to give them that power. And with congress voting, due process is upheld.
I'm still inconvenienced. The speed of light isn't constant, it is only constant in vacuum. If you're in the center of a soap bubble, the photons transiting the bubble will be slowed. This shifts everything to the red, meaning that everything looks like it is moving away.
But you bring up a good point about the speed varying on the megaparsec scale. The problem I have, is that it is "distance from us" and not the galactic/universal center. This to me is an anthropic property. There is no reason why things should be speeding away from "us" instead of the galactic/universal center. To me, "from us" means that we have the same observer bias that we had when the heavens were supposedly orbiting "us".
The only thing that I can think of is if we are in a bubble which creates a red shift, so we see everything. If we back out the red shift to no shift, we get an expanding universe still using kinetic energy from the big bang. And that is consistent with early big bang theories. At the same time the "dark force" is no longer needed to explain the "increasing" rate of expansion.
For example, somewhere, recently, I read that the universe is expanding at 71km/s. This measurement could be an artifact from photons crossing the terminal shock and being slowed by 71km/s, with the speed of light being 299,792km/s, its an itty-bitty amount of slowing (0.0004%)
Depending on the size and nature of the effect, all of our earth observations could be tainted. While observing simple things like galaxies with Hubble are barely affected, it could possibly upset the belief that the universe is expanding. If photons are being slowed as they cross the terminal shock boundary, it would make it look like the universe was expanding in all directions, which is a belief we currently hold. If the effect is strong enough, it could even tell us its expanding when it is contracting. Though in theory, you'd be able to tell along the axis on contraction that things were a bit off. However if the universe is static or near static, it would not be discernible.
I am sorry, but that is a BS argument. The wives have a legally binding contract enforceable in the courts, the girlfriends have a social contract. Just like it isn't the governments job that every time you buy a hammer, they make sure you don't mean to kill anyone with it (Oblig Simpsons Quote: "Aww, but I'm mad NOW!") the matter is a private one. There are no records on how often I train at the gun range, or by alcohol, why should there be records when I satisfy my biological programming?
As a completely single male, with no girlfriend to speak of, I am not in any contract expressed or implied that I won't get my freak on with someone. There are those of us who are terribly shy, or just incapable of conforming to a relationship that would lead to intimacy. To let us scratch our itch will do you no harm. But I don't want my name on any list, because 1) it discloses how high my sex drive is, 2) my ability to pay and 3) hint to any freaky-deeky that I like. How would you like to have to disclose all of your sex acts?
In fact, what we have is a religious-based prohibition. The people that are capable of impressing the ladies and having relationships who are against prostitution are also oppressing us who do not want a relationship. Considering the number of unhappy people in relationships I know, it seems that if t hey can't be happy then they don't want anyone else to be happy. Never mind those who are just in [abusive] relationships so they don't have to be alone.
I feel that I am being penalized for being independent, emotionally secure, yet a human with needs.
I assume that part of the debate is that women are afraid that if men can pay to have causal sex that no one will get married? Or that if you stop putting out, that they'll turn to prostitutes. I really think that if you are holding sex over someone's head like that you and your relationship are in sad shape. The sanctity of marriage is up held from mutual respect and love. Not because his[or her] booty options are limited to the spouse.
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Well, there is no savings. The incandescent bulb is cheap, cheap cheap. The LED is not. The power to drive the light comes from the battery, which is charged by the alternator. The alternator doesn't care. You can run over 1KW off the stock alternator. The little current required for the incandescent or bulb doesn't matter. So why put a higher cost part in the car? But wait the LED isn't 12v, it is TTL, so you need to convert from what is a 12v-14v wiring harness to TTL levels. If you use a cheap resistor, you just convert to heat. If you use a charge pump/capacitor you again increase the cost. All for something that won't matter in terms of fuel economy.
Maybe we should have someone make a plaster cast?
That sir, is just part of the Nevada desert.
But you miss the point. The "market" refers to the wider market. We are not saying that employees can't quit on his own and interview at a competitor. Rather this is about a voluntary, informal truce targeting workers at a specific company and persuading them to leave.
Its the difference between getting a divorce and finding love with someone else vs. having a home-wrecker come in and then getting divorced because of adultery.
We just have companies agreeing not to commit adultery with each other. Like that is a bad thing.
The "interstate commerce clause" was not license for the federal government to interfere with every aspect of private business. Rather, it only gave jurisdiction as to ensure that the commerce was free and unimpeded between the states. Just as interstate commerce cannot be taxed, the commerce clause prevents states from playing favorites with other states. Imagine if the southern states put restrictions (non-tax) on all exports to the north, while leaving other southern states unrestricted.
Is Obama given the authority to regulate businesses - specifically hiring practices. If we allow Obama, et al, to come in and under "anti-trust" provisions penalize these companies for NOT hiring away top talent then our nation has taken a drastic turn towards Marxism. The "hiring truce" is in no way anti-competitive in the sense that it does not affect the marketplace. We still have complete choice between any search engine. Ironically, the one oddly missing from this hiring truce is Microsoft, who is the only one to be convicted of violating anti-trust law! There is no way employments functionally produce a way to maintain market power. If you could put someone else similarly competent, in the position, you'll get a similar result.
The Russians were amazed when Obama "fired" the CEO of GM!
I don't want to hear that it "keeps wages down" or that it is a form of "non-compete". Anti-trust laws are not about jobs. They are about markets. I can use any search engine - google, yahoo, bing(wtf?) and I have plenty of hardware choices. Where I don't have enough choice though is in PC OSs. Thank you, Microsoft.
We are embarking down a dark path as a nation. Government interference in hiring practices? I can understand racial discrimination (marginally so) but a hiring truce? Give me a break.
The first point was calculated from from 1913, when the income tax began.
Then in 1942, the federal government passed the unconstitutional Victory Tax Act, and engaged in a public relations campaign to have people pay the tax. Of course, it was a low rate, because people were not about to pay 30% to beat the axis powers in WWII. Then, two years later the VTA was repealed and replaced with a constitutional one which we have to this day. The catch now is that the IRS has names and addresses - a database of taxpayers that it didn't use to have. Then, in the 70s they created the rule that in order to claim dependents they had to have a SSN, which further enlarged the database, and indoctrinated more people into the tax paying system.
Today, illegal immigrants enjoy most of the life beyond taxes.
Throughout the years, the lower limit on who has to file has not been inflation-adjusted.
You should really start your research in 1913, watch it through WWII, then compare it to today because those are its defining moments. Also, August 15, 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard and turned our money into currency. Because after that is when most of the inflation occurred. You can use bls.gov for a decent inflation calculator.
The compass is mostly useless, for those of us that can orient a map (but not everyone was a Boy Scout). Apple doesn't ever have a single-feature addition, as if a compass screen was all you got. No, think Google StreetView integration and maps that automatically rotate.
Looking at all the apps, it seems the hackers have created proof-of-concept cloud computing model. I wouldn't be so upset about haing my machine cracked if I got paid for my computing power. Then, we can all win!
The problem with that assessment is 1) No where near the same percentage of american were filing income tax returns, and 2) the income tax did not hit everyone like it does today. If you back it up to historical standards (correcting for inflation) You'd need to make $250,000 before you paid a penny of income tax.
You further fail to understand the cause of the pending inflation. We don't really print money, but we monetize the debt, which means we sell it. The fed has bought the debt, effectively increasing the dollars in supply. This money has 2 places to go: either it is confiscated with high interest rates, or 2 it is left in the economy and causes inflation. If we choose the first, then we shoot ourselves in the foot of economic recovery. (Raising rates kills lending/spending). If we let it in the economy, we can pay our debts easier, but our savings are destroyed. We also have a drastically weaker dollar that will find its way to obsolescence in international trade, meaning that the US economy is no longer the price setter and we fall by the way side.
The US is going to be the place NOT to be in a few years. Hyper inflation and 60% income tax rates are being talked about on MSNBC tonight. The US will have to make people think twice before a mass exodus to new lands because of the ensuing drop in GDP, which will leave America without an economy...
Even if they start with foreigners today, it'll spread to citizens in 10 years.
Worst. Description. Ever.
j/k
No, that's quite unlikely. Planets are hard to move.
Not so fast. :-) We have to look at the orbital decay to figure that one out. If Mars has to much velocity for its orbit, it'll work farther out. If it has too little velocity, it'll fall in.
Combine that with tidal forces of the planets and the asteroid belt, and you might have a measurable affect.
The key to moving mountains (and the planets they are on) is a very small force, over millions or billions of years.
---
*Footnote: The greenhouse effect is well documented in the lab under ideal conditions (in sealed environments). The controversy lies with how much it affects Earth's unsealed atmosphere, its many layers and natural processes of climatic and seasonal variability. And more specifically, how much of that is the fault of human activity. That much is left to science to work out. Where it gets emotional and personal is when we start to engineer human policy. Do we prevent pre-industrialized nations from using fossil fuel, when every nation has needed it to become industrial? Do we make people live in poverty because our energy policy power remains expensive? Whatever we do, I ask that we keep science as science, and not let emotions cloud the science (no pun or global warming intended)
That's a very good question. But the problem is one of sublimation. That is from solid state to gas. It happens in cold dry air. Snowcap-free Mt Kilimanjaro in Al Gore's "Incon. Truth" didn't melt from global warming. It sublimated because farming on the windward side made the air passing over the mountain drier.
The only way to keep the liquid water around is to have a denser, wetter atmosphere.
The problem with storms filling in gullies is that the dust particles are very fine, and have to be since there's not a lot of gas to move them. Without moisture, it is hard to bond to other particles (static charge being the leading cause) so its hard to have some drift that won't be blown away at the next dust storm.
That being said, there is evidence of water percolating. This won't be able to make large new gullies, but it will help maintain the ones that are there. And in fact, we have no idea of the gullies that exist that are filled in by dust. I can only conclude that the gullies we see are stable features left over from a time long ago. The "last of the line" so to say.
You insensitive clod!
Seriously though, attempting to legitimize them as "Graphic Novels" is just spin and makes you look more ridiculous. I will confess privately that I liked the original Hellboy comic (Note: notice no attempt to spin it as a "Graphic Novel"!) Its a comic.
Sorry to disturb the conversation you're having with yourself. But the Windows stuff is pretty good. There is a special windows installer utility that is like a package manager. The Windows stuff can't be 100% because of things like DBUS are lacking, but there may have been some work done to make it close to work. But it's all based on Qt which does a very good job of maintaining compatibility. It's going to be those platform-specifics that get you.
OpenOffice is from StarOffice, owned by Sun.
Gnome Office is for Gnome
KOffice is for KDE.
All are different code bases. KOffice is based off KDE4 libraries, which are now ported to Windows.
What, no windows packages??
Or is this available via the KDE for Windows installer?
Congrats to the KOffice team! I refuse t use OO (too much Java) so I'll finally have a decent free office suite!
The atmospheric composition of Mars is predominantly CO2 (95%). If you take some eco-nut stance, the warming is linear, if you take a better-modeled stance you'll find it is less than that. (Diminishes logarithmically)
The real question is one of geology. Was Mars' inner core capable of producing a protective magnetic should like the Earth's? Remember Mars is smaller and will therefore cool faster. Our core, as the theory goes is made by counter-rotating spheres of liquid iron. With this, comes a thick, rich and creamy atmosphere shielded from the solar wind by the magnetic field.
The other question is what was the older composition of the thick atmosphere. Mars has too much methane, allegedly. Both methane and water vapor are far better greenhouse gasses than CO2. (Terrestrially we worry about CO2, because it is our biggest byproduct of human activity, and is stable molecule that either needs a plant to make it into sugar, or the ocean to sink it to the bottom).
The surface of Mars can reach 25C from being heated by the Sun. So there is a decent amount of energy.
OPINION: There is enough evidence to suggest that Mars could have been roughly equivalent to tropical - humid and warm. Weather or not its breathable is a whole other story with all that supposed methane...
Beavis and Butthead creator has a new show airing on ABC. It should be funny.
There is plenty of 2nd hand equipment on ebay that has similar or better performance for same or less cost.
Any time you pay to have something manufactured (a Pruis?), you increase you carbon footprint. Studies have conclusively shown that repurposing used hardware you save CO2, energy, etc.
It is novel size though, but space is not at a premium. There is always room under the desk or bed, basement or closet where you can stash a larger-form factor computer.
In the US, our government has no rights. It only has powers delegated to it by We the People. It has no rights, not prerogative to reserve them.
There are some special constructs like "sovereign immunity" but those are not right, they are juris prudence constructs. The FCC can't just say "we're reserving the right to rape your children". Congress has to vote to give them that power. And with congress voting, due process is upheld.
I'm still inconvenienced. The speed of light isn't constant, it is only constant in vacuum. If you're in the center of a soap bubble, the photons transiting the bubble will be slowed. This shifts everything to the red, meaning that everything looks like it is moving away.
But you bring up a good point about the speed varying on the megaparsec scale. The problem I have, is that it is "distance from us" and not the galactic/universal center. This to me is an anthropic property. There is no reason why things should be speeding away from "us" instead of the galactic/universal center. To me, "from us" means that we have the same observer bias that we had when the heavens were supposedly orbiting "us".
The only thing that I can think of is if we are in a bubble which creates a red shift, so we see everything. If we back out the red shift to no shift, we get an expanding universe still using kinetic energy from the big bang. And that is consistent with early big bang theories. At the same time the "dark force" is no longer needed to explain the "increasing" rate of expansion.
For example, somewhere, recently, I read that the universe is expanding at 71km/s. This measurement could be an artifact from photons crossing the terminal shock and being slowed by 71km/s, with the speed of light being 299,792km/s, its an itty-bitty amount of slowing (0.0004%)
Depending on the size and nature of the effect, all of our earth observations could be tainted. While observing simple things like galaxies with Hubble are barely affected, it could possibly upset the belief that the universe is expanding. If photons are being slowed as they cross the terminal shock boundary, it would make it look like the universe was expanding in all directions, which is a belief we currently hold. If the effect is strong enough, it could even tell us its expanding when it is contracting. Though in theory, you'd be able to tell along the axis on contraction that things were a bit off. However if the universe is static or near static, it would not be discernible.
I am sorry, but that is a BS argument. The wives have a legally binding contract enforceable in the courts, the girlfriends have a social contract. Just like it isn't the governments job that every time you buy a hammer, they make sure you don't mean to kill anyone with it (Oblig Simpsons Quote: "Aww, but I'm mad NOW!") the matter is a private one. There are no records on how often I train at the gun range, or by alcohol, why should there be records when I satisfy my biological programming?
As a completely single male, with no girlfriend to speak of, I am not in any contract expressed or implied that I won't get my freak on with someone. There are those of us who are terribly shy, or just incapable of conforming to a relationship that would lead to intimacy. To let us scratch our itch will do you no harm. But I don't want my name on any list, because 1) it discloses how high my sex drive is, 2) my ability to pay and 3) hint to any freaky-deeky that I like. How would you like to have to disclose all of your sex acts?
In fact, what we have is a religious-based prohibition. The people that are capable of impressing the ladies and having relationships who are against prostitution are also oppressing us who do not want a relationship. Considering the number of unhappy people in relationships I know, it seems that if t hey can't be happy then they don't want anyone else to be happy. Never mind those who are just in [abusive] relationships so they don't have to be alone.
I feel that I am being penalized for being independent, emotionally secure, yet a human with needs.
I assume that part of the debate is that women are afraid that if men can pay to have causal sex that no one will get married? Or that if you stop putting out, that they'll turn to prostitutes. I really think that if you are holding sex over someone's head like that you and your relationship are in sad shape. The sanctity of marriage is up held from mutual respect and love. Not because his[or her] booty options are limited to the spouse.