No, it's your frends who are glad you're not like me. They would have to start buying their stuff instead of borrowing it from you. Which is fine if you don't mind people using you like that. Normally, I would associate buying stuff for other people with the more common practice of giving someone a gift. That's not odd at all. Buying stuff to loan it out is...maybe it's a West Coast thing.
Did you get the urge to disassemble a Mac SE while visiting Antartica or something? Those type heads started showing up in cars before Apple ever started using them. Would it have been nice if they would used a Phillips or slotted head screws? Yes, but it's not like they were using something that only Apple employees had access to.
One of the reasons I buy media is to lend it out to my friends.
That was something that was mentioned in the article and the first thing that popped into my head was "who the hell buys stuff to loan it out to their friends?". I buy stuff to watch/listen/read it myself, not anyone else. The same goes for tools. I buy them because I have a use for them, not so I can loan out to someone. If I'm not using them and a friend wants to borrow something, that's fine as long as I get them back. However, I would prefer them to buy their own damn stuff and stop mooching.
I was there in 2000 and at the time didn't think the grocery prices were too bad (well, it wasn't Dublin either, so that may explain it). The prices seemed to be about the same as what they were at home after taking the currency conversion rate into account. I wouldn't mind living there if I could.
People that work for a company usually have their taxes withheld from their paycheck too. However, not everyone is paid that way, may have their own business, a part time job, working spouse, etc. All of those can throw off what taxes you have to pay. Also, the Feds and the individual states do have their own specific tax forms. They've existed for decades. What the original poster is complaining about it is for electronic filing. In that case the IRS has not come up with their own Java or cross platform app to do any of this. Instead, it lets software companies come up with their own tax software that I assume has to follow some guidelines the IRS has set.
Now concerning sales taxes, there is a good reason to not include the tax in the price: not everyone pays it. There are some oarganizations/people that have a tax exempt status, so their purchases are not taxable. Also, the amount of tax may be different depending on the product (ie food may be taxed at different rates in different localities than other goods, alcohol at a higher rate, etc).
It's also a good in-your-face reminder of how much govt is taking from you. If it's included in the price, the amount of tax is hidden. Fuel is taxed like that and I would guess that the average Joe on the street doesn't have any idea how much he is paying in taxes everytime he fills up his car, but he probably has an idea of what the tax rate is when he goes to the store. Including the tax in the price is a nice way to keep hiking up taxes and mask them as normal price increases.
I've been to Ireland and didn't really find it's way of handling taxes any easier or 'consumer friendly' than what I've experienced in the states. I was pleased at the VAT refund station at the airport, though. Nice little bonus, but you guys are getting raped.
I got the pro version and it's great since it will convert to mp3/aac/etc for you as well as record multiple streams at the same time. Even this cheapskate thinks it was money well spent.
then run the 5 1/4 drive at 10K or lower to get the same in/min as the smaller drive. I have a tower with a few 5 1/4 drive bays. Either I waste a lot of space or spend a lot of money for a RAID enclosure that puts 3-4 3.5" drives in one 5 1/4 drive bay to make these bays useful. Would one big 5 1/4 drive have more heat, noise, and vibration as 4 of the smaller drives?
It's a P166 laptop that used to have a 'designed for Windows 95' sticker on it. Gnome hadn't even started when this thing was built and unfortunately, because of the video chipset, it's stuck on whatever the last version of the XFree86 3.x was. The 80M helped a lot mainly for any mozilla based browser. Ximian GNOME 1.4 still worked ok w/ 32M as I recall.
Can you create multiple partitions on a key and then use grub to boot from the different partitions? The HOWTO implies that it can be done, but I don't have any of these devices to verify it.
Apple has text to synthetic voice capability for dialog boxes for quite a while. It could do something similar: 'read' the current directory and the number of files in it to the user and when they move a jog wheel or something, it reads the filename/ID3 tag if the user pauses or stops on a file.
I had an Excel and I still have a Mitsubishi Precis, which is the same car w/ a different name. They are great little cars that can take a lot of abuse.
How does that compare to Audacity's bookmarks? I've never used CoolEdit 2000, but really like the additions that were made in the latest releases of Audacity.
It never really solves anything. It just creates a bureaucracy. If you know anything about social program bureaucracies, then you will realize that their main goal is to sustain their own existence by not solving the problem at hand.
At least this sort of spending will have spin-offs that can be used by everyone else.
They don't even have to do that. A tribe north of where I used to live was paying it's members $1000 per adult and $250 per kid every month. Just for living inside the county. For the area that was a nice wage and if they were ambitious, they could get a job at the casino. Most didn't, so it was staffed mainly by caucasians.
Having worked in the research branch of a Federal science installation, I would have to say that you have a point. When the global warming theory started becoming a big issue in the late 80s, there was an effort to make sure that it was documented that any new or current projects had something to do with it or the more general term "Global Change". Why? Funding. It helped open up different funding channels that otherwise weren't available. It didn't matter if the actual work really had anything directly to do with it or not. As long as the proposal made the case that your project would help advance research in that topic in some way, shape or form, the easier it was to get it approved. IMHO, it was still valid work that needed to be done, but it helped make the pols higher up in the food chain feel happy that they were doing something about the problem.
If you think about it, scientists that are using this avenue to get funding AREN'T going to say it's not a problem because if they do, their funding disappears.
Well, that and he still can go back to his job in the Senate. From what I've read, Kerry was ready to concede late last night, but Edwards was pushing for "all options to be explored". Which isn't surprising given that he will be out of a job when the next Congress is in session, so he will have to go back to chasing ambulances or whatever he did in North Carolina.
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No, it's your frends who are glad you're not like me. They would have to start buying their stuff instead of borrowing it from you. Which is fine if you don't mind people using you like that. Normally, I would associate buying stuff for other people with the more common practice of giving someone a gift. That's not odd at all. Buying stuff to loan it out is...maybe it's a West Coast thing.
Did you get the urge to disassemble a Mac SE while visiting Antartica or something? Those type heads started showing up in cars before Apple ever started using them. Would it have been nice if they would used a Phillips or slotted head screws? Yes, but it's not like they were using something that only Apple employees had access to.
One of the reasons I buy media is to lend it out to my friends.
That was something that was mentioned in the article and the first thing that popped into my head was "who the hell buys stuff to loan it out to their friends?". I buy stuff to watch/listen/read it myself, not anyone else. The same goes for tools. I buy them because I have a use for them, not so I can loan out to someone. If I'm not using them and a friend wants to borrow something, that's fine as long as I get them back. However, I would prefer them to buy their own damn stuff and stop mooching.
Big deal, you had to buy an extra long screwdriver to get the SE open. They are easily obtainable from Sears.
no shit. that's a very good thing IMHO..something that's in short supply in this neck of the woods.
nothing teaches responsibility like getting bitch slapped by Adam Smith's invisible hand.
I was there in 2000 and at the time didn't think the grocery prices were too bad (well, it wasn't Dublin either, so that may explain it). The prices seemed to be about the same as what they were at home after taking the currency conversion rate into account. I wouldn't mind living there if I could.
People that work for a company usually have their taxes withheld from their paycheck too. However, not everyone is paid that way, may have their own business, a part time job, working spouse, etc. All of those can throw off what taxes you have to pay. Also, the Feds and the individual states do have their own specific tax forms. They've existed for decades. What the original poster is complaining about it is for electronic filing. In that case the IRS has not come up with their own Java or cross platform app to do any of this. Instead, it lets software companies come up with their own tax software that I assume has to follow some guidelines the IRS has set.
Now concerning sales taxes, there is a good reason to not include the tax in the price: not everyone pays it. There are some oarganizations/people that have a tax exempt status, so their purchases are not taxable. Also, the amount of tax may be different depending on the product (ie food may be taxed at different rates in different localities than other goods, alcohol at a higher rate, etc). It's also a good in-your-face reminder of how much govt is taking from you. If it's included in the price, the amount of tax is hidden. Fuel is taxed like that and I would guess that the average Joe on the street doesn't have any idea how much he is paying in taxes everytime he fills up his car, but he probably has an idea of what the tax rate is when he goes to the store. Including the tax in the price is a nice way to keep hiking up taxes and mask them as normal price increases.
I've been to Ireland and didn't really find it's way of handling taxes any easier or 'consumer friendly' than what I've experienced in the states. I was pleased at the VAT refund station at the airport, though. Nice little bonus, but you guys are getting raped.
I got the pro version and it's great since it will convert to mp3/aac/etc for you as well as record multiple streams at the same time. Even this cheapskate thinks it was money well spent.
too bad those Wyoming cowboys beat you to it by about 50 years.
then run the 5 1/4 drive at 10K or lower to get the same in/min as the smaller drive. I have a tower with a few 5 1/4 drive bays. Either I waste a lot of space or spend a lot of money for a RAID enclosure that puts 3-4 3.5" drives in one 5 1/4 drive bay to make these bays useful. Would one big 5 1/4 drive have more heat, noise, and vibration as 4 of the smaller drives?
It's a P166 laptop that used to have a 'designed for Windows 95' sticker on it. Gnome hadn't even started when this thing was built and unfortunately, because of the video chipset, it's stuck on whatever the last version of the XFree86 3.x was. The 80M helped a lot mainly for any mozilla based browser. Ximian GNOME 1.4 still worked ok w/ 32M as I recall.
You forgot about tornadoes and blizzards. But those can be tracked and you can prepare for them.
Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to SD to see my parents in a week or two. I would love to move back.
so what about those of us that were running X11 on those machines when they were new? (FWIW, I have a P166 w/80M running Gnome 1.4 just fine).
You mean like a Neuros or the now EOL'ed Nomad Jukebox 3? I use a NJB3 and it's great!
Can you create multiple partitions on a key and then use grub to boot from the different partitions? The HOWTO implies that it can be done, but I don't have any of these devices to verify it.
Apple has text to synthetic voice capability for dialog boxes for quite a while. It could do something similar: 'read' the current directory and the number of files in it to the user and when they move a jog wheel or something, it reads the filename/ID3 tag if the user pauses or stops on a file.
Yes.
I had an Excel and I still have a Mitsubishi Precis, which is the same car w/ a different name. They are great little cars that can take a lot of abuse.
How does that compare to Audacity's bookmarks? I've never used CoolEdit 2000, but really like the additions that were made in the latest releases of Audacity.
How many social problems could be cured?
None.
It never really solves anything. It just creates a bureaucracy. If you know anything about social program bureaucracies, then you will realize that their main goal is to sustain their own existence by not solving the problem at hand.
At least this sort of spending will have spin-offs that can be used by everyone else.
They don't even have to do that. A tribe north of where I used to live was paying it's members $1000 per adult and $250 per kid every month. Just for living inside the county. For the area that was a nice wage and if they were ambitious, they could get a job at the casino. Most didn't, so it was staffed mainly by caucasians.
Having worked in the research branch of a Federal science installation, I would have to say that you have a point. When the global warming theory started becoming a big issue in the late 80s, there was an effort to make sure that it was documented that any new or current projects had something to do with it or the more general term "Global Change". Why? Funding. It helped open up different funding channels that otherwise weren't available. It didn't matter if the actual work really had anything directly to do with it or not. As long as the proposal made the case that your project would help advance research in that topic in some way, shape or form, the easier it was to get it approved. IMHO, it was still valid work that needed to be done, but it helped make the pols higher up in the food chain feel happy that they were doing something about the problem.
If you think about it, scientists that are using this avenue to get funding AREN'T going to say it's not a problem because if they do, their funding disappears.
Rich? It's hard to get richer than Bush.
Not really. Cheney, Edwards, and Kerry are all richer than Bush. Much richer.
Well, that and he still can go back to his job in the Senate. From what I've read, Kerry was ready to concede late last night, but Edwards was pushing for "all options to be explored". Which isn't surprising given that he will be out of a job when the next Congress is in session, so he will have to go back to chasing ambulances or whatever he did in North Carolina.