I'm unaware of anywhere in the U.S. where one pays sales tax on food.
Georgia for one. Its a much simpler system then the taxable/non-taxable system they use in Cali. Base 4% with counties allowed to tack on up to 2% more. Every retail item is taxable, as is all food in resturants. Oddly enough, alcohol is taxed at a 3% rate that counties can't add onto.
I don't know if that means the system is fair after all (unlikely) or just completely fucked (sounds like it to me.)
There are two purposes of the tax system, to produce revenue for the government, and to control the habits of industry and people. As you increase an individual's tax burden, you increase the incentive for them to lobby congress for a loophole. There is no way around this except an very simple system. However congress can't go for a simple system, because then they can't control the economy as they'd like. They wouldn't be able to, for instance, do a homestead exemption which greatly increases the number of homeowners in the country.
I think the best we can do is outlaw certain forms of taxation. For instance, I've always been an advocate of disallowing local tax funds going to fund schools. I believe the each child in the state should get the same education, which means should get the same amount of money per child. However the property tax->school coffer system means rural and urban kids get crappy educations.
Actually many of the "Size" issues are heat issues. If you don't need to worry about the center of your chip is at 500F, then it can be bigger.
--Michael
You don't report this. Simply you don't. You are too vulnerable.
After you graduate, if you want to report it, send hard copy source listings to admins of the system at the college, the company that runs the software, and several professors in the technical areas of your college. You then forget this and don't ever think of it again.
Destroy the computer the harddrive the printout you had was created on. This is so you cannot be determined to have cheated at your degree if you ever DID get "located".
I suggest wiping it with the software that PGP comes with then taking a road trip to celebrate graduation to a couple states away. If you're in California, visit Iowa. If you're in New York, I would have to say GA is nice in May. Leave it in a dumpster somewhere mixed in with nothing else of yours.
I think in 10 years there will be a system of computer ethics, or a government board that you can report this stuff to with a condition of amnestey. Its all too new to too many people for that to work right now, so you just have to practice silence.
Its an emulation layer. There is a componet of that layer that is an implementation of an API, but there are other mechanisms, such as the facility for loading DLL's, that are emulating a windows functionality in a GNU/Linux environment.
Emulator, by itself, refers usually to processor emulator. Notice, I didn't use "emulator" by itself. If it was just an implementation, there wouldn't be things in the background simulating Win32 library loading and the like.
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beginnings of the Matrix: automated machines living off the heat/energy produced by there human power sources
Wine IS a Win32 subsystem emulator. It is not a x86 emulator that you must purchase Windows to run on top of it.
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Especially if this is mounted in the forearm. That would be an easy place to keep cool. (Think, short sleeves year-round).
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Naw. Its not a continual fever, its just a little extra body heat, especially if it isn't abrupt. Just give the guy a little more thiamine and the flush will dissapate the heat. People don't have THAT much energy entering their body via food. Especially you're going for the ketosis thing where you're continually running down the gluecose levels.
With a reduced sugar diet, this jobby could handle most gluecose spikes.
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I wish I had the money to patent these ideas. Instead I will disclose them so the whole world can use them if no one already filed a patent.
This is the cure for diabetes(sp?) as its an insulin replacement. It can keep the bloodstream below a certain glucose level with the greatest of ease, just burning off power doing something dumb (or useful, it doesn't matter). Just implant a device or series of devices that detect gluecose levels, and the device(s) stays idle or working in a low power mode until levels reach a certain level, then they burn off that excess gluecose until the blood is reduced to an optimal level. This is probably controlled by a slightly more complicated algorithm, but this should get the idea out.
It also is a GREAT and I do mean GREAT wieght loss aid. It can use up excess energy that the body takes in sending the body into ketosis, thereby getting the Atkins type diet, while eating whatever you want. There is also studies that show if you eat at "starvation" levels your whole life (when ketosis should be happening rather constantly) you increase your lifespan by 20% or more. Therefore, this is also an anti-aging device while being a near perfect diet.
The diet application does not require going into ketosis. It could just use much of the gluecose, thereby making it as if the person ate a smaller meal.
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Big Trucks actually NEED the torque sometimes when hauling something to get going.
I'm not saying Stick Shift Bad, Auto Tranny Good. I'm saying that in a given car, its easier to make an automatic tranny work well with several different engine sizes. If you take the engineering time, it can happen with a manual, but its more difficult.
Its not forced on you. You don't have to go to them. But by making you prepay for them, it makes them "free" after that.
Perhaps things should happen out of genuine spirit, but I think much good is done by those programs, even if 90% of them are lame as all hell.
I veiw them like lectures that you aren't going to be tested over. You've paid for them, but the only consequece of you missing them is missing the enrichment they would have given your life.
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I couldn't understand why the big engine isn't available with a stick shift,
Its a torque thing. You get UNBELIEVEABLE (for an automatic tranny driver) torque at some places in the clutch/gas/gear contiuum with manual transmissions off the same engine that you have wimpy torque with a automatic.
Torque is the stuff that gets your car going (as opposed to horsepower). If you get a big engine, the automatic transmission can be easily geared to not give you too much torque. Too much torque IS a bad thing: Think wheels spinning when you start to go, or your accelerate from a stop through a left turn. A manual transmission will give too much torque with the bigger engine sizes for the weight/tires of the car you want in some places, because they can't control where you don't go in the power curve of your engine as well as they can with a manual.
Those fees induce you do to something that arguably "Part of the College Experience". Where I would have to say I started listening to LESS recorded music once I got to college.
My neck doesn't change measurements. Several of my friends who lift every other day however, and used to hold their breath had mismeasurement problems galore until they met a tailor at the gym one day who told them what I told you. One of them was off.5" the other moved up 3 halves to 1.5" more than his last measurement.
My doc when I was a kid said he didn't want a normal tie to dip into anything. As an adult, I can appreciate that, especially what a doctor can accidentally dip into.
They don't measure your neck properly. They have to measure it at the widest point that will touch the collar to be comfortable. And you also have to make your neck as large as it regularly get. Try doing things like inhaling with your mouth in the shape of an O and taking a deep breath while being measured, and telling him to move the tape measure down. All of a sudden, you get measurements that are.5-1.5 inches bigger than you may have been getting before (especially if you lift weights).
Which brings us to a very interesting conjecture; I'm no American, (nor have I visited the area in question, so I appreciate responses on this) but if I may hazard a guess, by 2030's, learning Spanish will be essential to live in most of south and south-western US. That is to say, I assert that the current pre-dominance of English in the US is only a historical accident, one that will change with shifting demographics.
I grew up there (Southern California). My grandparents ran a 7-Eleven that I occasionally worked at until I moved away at 12. You quite quickly picked up a chunk of spanish in an envronment like that (many migrant workers coming in and out). I remember being able to count back change in spanish, as well as understand many of the items behind the counter they wanted.
Most people are able to understand a chunk of Spanish who live anywhere near the suburbs, especially middle class through poor social strata. I know most people take it as their high school language because they already know 10-40% of what they'll teach in the class.
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Strangely enough, I don't remember much of what I knew, just that I used to be able to do it. Then again, a couple friends of mine from Russia and Europe (moved at an early age) say you often forget them when you move that young, especially if you weren't fluent.
You need to better your work method and decrease distracting associations. I used to have similar problems. Now my friends are astonished about the singlemindedness I can put into not procrastinating (I managed to move my grade from an F to a B via studying/whipping myself in shape using the following method in the last 4 weeks of class for both Calc III and Calc III for CS when I was in College).
1. Remove yourself from your recreation space.
This is a simple one. All you do is: Don't play where you work and don't work where you play. If you can't do this, because you only can use the PC in your room to do work, or the like, then do something like go buy blue sunglasses (i'm serious here) and wear them whenever you're studying/working. Do not do "fun" things when in your work glasses. Do not answer the phone (buy an answering machine, and call them back if important). Ask your friends who come talk to you while wearing the glasses to leave you alone until your scheduled break. Put on big earphones that block out a bunch of noise, and don't use them otherwise. Put on music that requires no interaction (I like vocalless techno, or classical from digitallyimported.com 's webstreams). If music is distracting, leave the headphones on with no music.
2. Determine your plan of attack before setting out to work
Whatever task I am to do that I need to do I do the following: Set up a list of small, achievable subgoals. Then I do these or determine that I can't do them. If I can't do them, I try to determine if they are necessary, and if so, what further resources would make them possible to accomplish. At work, this means I use bug tracking software to divide the software changes that I need to make into little acheiveable subtask's called "Engineering Change Requests". They have what currently happens, what needs to happen, and a method for determining the change has been made. These have the added benefit of emailing my supervisor (who is also my primary QA) and showing that I am getting things done. When I want to learn something from classnotes or a book, a divide all the things I want to learn in an outline, and either learn how each point works, then I determine if I have the points by making up a test for it.
3. Map out what time you wish to take on your task in the next week or two.
Record the times that you will do your task in a notebook, scheduler, or calendar. If you use none of these devices, put your devised work schedule on a peice of paper in plain view in your recreation space so you have to see it all the time. This should be done either, immeadiately upon the reciept of a task, or B at a set time or two every day or week. Do not work outside of these times, but do not allow anything to invade these times.
4. Build dicipline with the aid of your friends and computer.
Using both friends and your computer to help you become more diciplined does work. I have two hosts file (the file on your computer that it checks to determine a website's IP address). One version in a "get work done" version. The other is a "Normal/Recreation" file. The get work done hosts file blocks slashdot, cnn, kuro5hin, plastic and google groups (I am an avid reader of rec.gambling.poker). You "block" a site by redirecting the domain to the localhost with a line like
slashdot.org 127.0.0.1
. On the friends side of this, I will ask my girlfriend, co-workers, or other friends to check back with me about something I want to be sure I do. If you feel like your imposing, make bargins like: If you ask me on Tuesday afternoon "Have you studied all the topics you planned to for Calc III?" I will buy your soda for the week. Remember, you don't want them to become your mom. You're actually trying to not have to ask them to do it anymore, and you should view it as shameful when they do and you haven't done the task yet.
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Its very easy to get into your alma mater for grad school if you did at all well in undergrad. That's why it matters for undergrad.
men in suits that say stealing software is illegal,
Stealing software is going into a store and taking a copy of it. Hell that's not really taking that much of a valuable thing.
Making an illegal copy is copy right infringement. Not the same thing at all.
He's not saying to avoid a sentence. He's going to move to advoid further prosecution.
I'm unaware of anywhere in the U.S. where one pays sales tax on food.
Georgia for one. Its a much simpler system then the taxable/non-taxable system they use in Cali. Base 4% with counties allowed to tack on up to 2% more. Every retail item is taxable, as is all food in resturants. Oddly enough, alcohol is taxed at a 3% rate that counties can't add onto.
I don't know if that means the system is fair after all (unlikely) or just completely fucked (sounds like it to me.)
There are two purposes of the tax system, to produce revenue for the government, and to control the habits of industry and people. As you increase an individual's tax burden, you increase the incentive for them to lobby congress for a loophole. There is no way around this except an very simple system. However congress can't go for a simple system, because then they can't control the economy as they'd like. They wouldn't be able to, for instance, do a homestead exemption which greatly increases the number of homeowners in the country.
I think the best we can do is outlaw certain forms of taxation. For instance, I've always been an advocate of disallowing local tax funds going to fund schools. I believe the each child in the state should get the same education, which means should get the same amount of money per child. However the property tax->school coffer system means rural and urban kids get crappy educations.
Many homeless don't want to be helped. They don't want to be member's of society. They don't want to stop using drugs.
Only a small portion want these things that you wish to offer.
We used to lock them up in mental wards because many of them ARE crazy.
last summer.
I don't think they are that new.
--Michael
Actually many of the "Size" issues are heat issues. If you don't need to worry about the center of your chip is at 500F, then it can be bigger. --Michael
You don't report this. Simply you don't. You are too vulnerable.
After you graduate, if you want to report it, send hard copy source listings to admins of the system at the college, the company that runs the software, and several professors in the technical areas of your college. You then forget this and don't ever think of it again.
Destroy the computer the harddrive the printout you had was created on. This is so you cannot be determined to have cheated at your degree if you ever DID get "located".
I suggest wiping it with the software that PGP comes with then taking a road trip to celebrate graduation to a couple states away. If you're in California, visit Iowa. If you're in New York, I would have to say GA is nice in May. Leave it in a dumpster somewhere mixed in with nothing else of yours.
I think in 10 years there will be a system of computer ethics, or a government board that you can report this stuff to with a condition of amnestey. Its all too new to too many people for that to work right now, so you just have to practice silence.
Its an emulation layer. There is a componet of that layer that is an implementation of an API, but there are other mechanisms, such as the facility for loading DLL's, that are emulating a windows functionality in a GNU/Linux environment.
Emulator, by itself, refers usually to processor emulator. Notice, I didn't use "emulator" by itself. If it was just an implementation, there wouldn't be things in the background simulating Win32 library loading and the like.
beginnings of the Matrix: automated machines living off the heat/energy produced by there human power sources
Cool. Well at least for fat people.
Wine IS a Win32 subsystem emulator. It is not a x86 emulator that you must purchase Windows to run on top of it.
Especially if this is mounted in the forearm. That would be an easy place to keep cool. (Think, short sleeves year-round).
Naw. Its not a continual fever, its just a little extra body heat, especially if it isn't abrupt. Just give the guy a little more thiamine and the flush will dissapate the heat. People don't have THAT much energy entering their body via food. Especially you're going for the ketosis thing where you're continually running down the gluecose levels.
With a reduced sugar diet, this jobby could handle most gluecose spikes.
I wish I had the money to patent these ideas. Instead I will disclose them so the whole world can use them if no one already filed a patent.
This is the cure for diabetes(sp?) as its an insulin replacement. It can keep the bloodstream below a certain glucose level with the greatest of ease, just burning off power doing something dumb (or useful, it doesn't matter). Just implant a device or series of devices that detect gluecose levels, and the device(s) stays idle or working in a low power mode until levels reach a certain level, then they burn off that excess gluecose until the blood is reduced to an optimal level. This is probably controlled by a slightly more complicated algorithm, but this should get the idea out.
It also is a GREAT and I do mean GREAT wieght loss aid. It can use up excess energy that the body takes in sending the body into ketosis, thereby getting the Atkins type diet, while eating whatever you want. There is also studies that show if you eat at "starvation" levels your whole life (when ketosis should be happening rather constantly) you increase your lifespan by 20% or more. Therefore, this is also an anti-aging device while being a near perfect diet.
The diet application does not require going into ketosis. It could just use much of the gluecose, thereby making it as if the person ate a smaller meal.
Big Trucks actually NEED the torque sometimes when hauling something to get going. I'm not saying Stick Shift Bad, Auto Tranny Good. I'm saying that in a given car, its easier to make an automatic tranny work well with several different engine sizes. If you take the engineering time, it can happen with a manual, but its more difficult.
Its not forced on you. You don't have to go to them. But by making you prepay for them, it makes them "free" after that.
Perhaps things should happen out of genuine spirit, but I think much good is done by those programs, even if 90% of them are lame as all hell.
I veiw them like lectures that you aren't going to be tested over. You've paid for them, but the only consequece of you missing them is missing the enrichment they would have given your life.
I couldn't understand why the big engine isn't available with a stick shift,
Its a torque thing. You get UNBELIEVEABLE (for an automatic tranny driver) torque at some places in the clutch/gas/gear contiuum with manual transmissions off the same engine that you have wimpy torque with a automatic.
Torque is the stuff that gets your car going (as opposed to horsepower). If you get a big engine, the automatic transmission can be easily geared to not give you too much torque. Too much torque IS a bad thing: Think wheels spinning when you start to go, or your accelerate from a stop through a left turn. A manual transmission will give too much torque with the bigger engine sizes for the weight/tires of the car you want in some places, because they can't control where you don't go in the power curve of your engine as well as they can with a manual.
You would want to test a building like a house you had built? Neat idea. Hard implementation.
Those fees induce you do to something that arguably "Part of the College Experience". Where I would have to say I started listening to LESS recorded music once I got to college.
That's fucking brilliant.
This is seriously one of the best things I have heard on slashdot ever.
My neck doesn't change measurements. Several of my friends who lift every other day however, and used to hold their breath had mismeasurement problems galore until they met a tailor at the gym one day who told them what I told you. One of them was off .5" the other moved up 3 halves to 1.5" more than his last measurement.
My doc when I was a kid said he didn't want a normal tie to dip into anything. As an adult, I can appreciate that, especially what a doctor can accidentally dip into.
They don't measure your neck properly. They have to measure it at the widest point that will touch the collar to be comfortable. And you also have to make your neck as large as it regularly get. Try doing things like inhaling with your mouth in the shape of an O and taking a deep breath while being measured, and telling him to move the tape measure down. All of a sudden, you get measurements that are .5-1.5 inches bigger than you may have been getting before (especially if you lift weights).
Which brings us to a very interesting conjecture; I'm no American, (nor have I visited the area in question, so I appreciate responses on this) but if I may hazard a guess, by 2030's, learning Spanish will be essential to live in most of south and south-western US. That is to say, I assert that the current pre-dominance of English in the US is only a historical accident, one that will change with shifting demographics.
I grew up there (Southern California). My grandparents ran a 7-Eleven that I occasionally worked at until I moved away at 12. You quite quickly picked up a chunk of spanish in an envronment like that (many migrant workers coming in and out). I remember being able to count back change in spanish, as well as understand many of the items behind the counter they wanted.
Most people are able to understand a chunk of Spanish who live anywhere near the suburbs, especially middle class through poor social strata. I know most people take it as their high school language because they already know 10-40% of what they'll teach in the class.
. Strangely enough, I don't remember much of what I knew, just that I used to be able to do it. Then again, a couple friends of mine from Russia and Europe (moved at an early age) say you often forget them when you move that young, especially if you weren't fluent.
1. Remove yourself from your recreation space.
This is a simple one. All you do is: Don't play where you work and don't work where you play. If you can't do this, because you only can use the PC in your room to do work, or the like, then do something like go buy blue sunglasses (i'm serious here) and wear them whenever you're studying/working. Do not do "fun" things when in your work glasses. Do not answer the phone (buy an answering machine, and call them back if important). Ask your friends who come talk to you while wearing the glasses to leave you alone until your scheduled break. Put on big earphones that block out a bunch of noise, and don't use them otherwise. Put on music that requires no interaction (I like vocalless techno, or classical from digitallyimported.com 's webstreams). If music is distracting, leave the headphones on with no music.
2. Determine your plan of attack before setting out to work
Whatever task I am to do that I need to do I do the following: Set up a list of small, achievable subgoals. Then I do these or determine that I can't do them. If I can't do them, I try to determine if they are necessary, and if so, what further resources would make them possible to accomplish. At work, this means I use bug tracking software to divide the software changes that I need to make into little acheiveable subtask's called "Engineering Change Requests". They have what currently happens, what needs to happen, and a method for determining the change has been made. These have the added benefit of emailing my supervisor (who is also my primary QA) and showing that I am getting things done. When I want to learn something from classnotes or a book, a divide all the things I want to learn in an outline, and either learn how each point works, then I determine if I have the points by making up a test for it.
3. Map out what time you wish to take on your task in the next week or two.
Record the times that you will do your task in a notebook, scheduler, or calendar. If you use none of these devices, put your devised work schedule on a peice of paper in plain view in your recreation space so you have to see it all the time. This should be done either, immeadiately upon the reciept of a task, or B at a set time or two every day or week. Do not work outside of these times, but do not allow anything to invade these times.
4. Build dicipline with the aid of your friends and computer.
Using both friends and your computer to help you become more diciplined does work. I have two hosts file (the file on your computer that it checks to determine a website's IP address). One version in a "get work done" version. The other is a "Normal/Recreation" file. The get work done hosts file blocks slashdot, cnn, kuro5hin, plastic and google groups (I am an avid reader of rec.gambling.poker). You "block" a site by redirecting the domain to the localhost with a line like
. On the friends side of this, I will ask my girlfriend, co-workers, or other friends to check back with me about something I want to be sure I do. If you feel like your imposing, make bargins like: If you ask me on Tuesday afternoon "Have you studied all the topics you planned to for Calc III?" I will buy your soda for the week. Remember, you don't want them to become your mom. You're actually trying to not have to ask them to do it anymore, and you should view it as shameful when they do and you haven't done the task yet.
5.Use your ability to pull all nighter