If Prince Charles has one more medal or adornment pinned onto the front of his suit he's gonna' fall onto his face. What exactly has he done to merit such a display? At least Prince Harry has earned his own service medals by truly serving his country with honor.
I understand that polo's a dangerous game and all, perhaps that is how Charles got his decorations?
That's quite an achievment for those young people, I'm very impressed. They have a good grasp of programming (in C++) and modern electronics, all combined to make an impressively cool frisbee launcher/ reloader. Shows a lot of ingenuity and design work all placed in a workable mobile package. Well done! Much luck for them all in their future endeavors.
(Just please, don't design and build any Terminators, because they'd work so well!)
Putting aside the nucleur missiles for a moment, they don't seem that far advanced with that tech, yet. I wonder, what are the capabilities for a N.K. submarine based nucleur launch? That should worry the world more I would think.
Yeah! I wonder how much of a "win" it would be if New York and Chicago wound up as a smouldering radioactive craters.
That's why I put apostrophes around the word ''win''. It's the most dangerous game of 'poker' mankind has ever invented.
N. Korea points a gun at the U.S. The U.S. points their gun at N. Korea. We know that that U.S. gun IS loaded with live nukes, N.K.'s gun may be empty, or it might have a bullet or two.
N. Korea will lose if they in any way decide to 'fire first'. They might win a battle (if they aren't bluffing), many somewhere would die. Can they reach the U.S. with missiles capable of carrying nukes? Doubtful. Subs? Maybe. But once they launch ONE missile, it'd be game over for North Korea. Other nations "might" be successfully attacked, and historians will say the U.S. should have launched a pre-emptive strike. Like I said, a very dangerous game they are playing, mostly dangerous for N. Korea and it's neighbors.
Well, then you have to put all the vehicle control in the hands of computers. No, I really don't want an inexperienced pilot in the air either. Take the human equation out of the picture entirely, or else there are going to be accidents, and they'll come with more carnage (like when flying cars start hitting peoples homes, should be interesting).
If they're like 'google cars', scaling up the tech to meet demand will be akin to building a new road system, one that's in the 3D airspace. Once the kinks get worked out, you'll just speak your destination.
Even rich people have to get a license to fly their own planes.
Any other questions?
Yes, a few. What license will you need when they fly themselves? Just your drivers licnse for when you're operating on the ground. My point was, "Having money does not equate to having skill and common sense (re: Robert Kennedy Jr.). But if they're basically autonomous, the human skill level is a moot arguement, except for being able to decide whether or not it's safe for this 'car' to land. The price will eventually come down where 'Ma and Pa' will have them.
What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?
You needn't worry about this because flying cars are never going to be generally available for Ma and Pa Polyester.
When every minor fender bender turns into a death rain of falling parts you can bet that society will come to its senses.
Just won't happen.
I'm rich, and I can always get what I want. And I want one of dem dere flying things. (Do you see the problem?)
Thanks for that link, got to see the whole thing in about ten minutes (after the first full viewing it really speeds up). So now I know that he's 'Cueball' and she's 'Megan'. Very trippy, in a minimalist, b&w kinda' way.
Cameras don't combat crime. They don't prevent crime, they don't deter criminals, they don't allow police to stop perpetrators.
They are evidence after the fact, and a really easy way for the government to spy on you.
One night last year I was walking down a street when a car drove past me, the passenger threw a full cup of soda at me (and just missed). A block away I see the car has turned around and is coming toward me, so I whipped out my phone and held it up to record video. Like a vampire seeing a crucifix they stop their approach, then decide to leave down a side road, like the cowards they are. Sometimes, cameras do prevent crime.
From the article: "The decision was made after Shoalhaven City Council was found to have breached several clauses of the Privacy and Personal Information Act.
After allegations made by a member of the public, only identified as SF, that the council had used its CCTV cameras to obtain personal information from him, the council was ordered to refrain from any conduct or action in contravention of the act.
The tribunal also ordered the council to render a written apology to SF for the breaches and advise him of any steps to be taken by council to remove the possibility of similar breaches in the future.
The cameras are to remain turned off until the decision of the tribunal has been considered."
I wonder what personal info was gathered about the guy, and how.
Outwitting Sanctions, Syria Buys Dell PCs
By RON NIXON
Published: May 3, 2013
WASHINGTON — Large amounts of computer equipment from Dell have been sold to the Syrian government through a Dubai-based distributor despite strict trade sanctions intended to ban the selling of technology to the regime, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
Hamid Khatib/Reuters
A building damaged this week in Syria’s civil war. The government is suspected of using the computers to track opponents.
The disclosure of the computer sales is the latest example of how the Syrian government has managed to acquire technology, some of which is used to censor Internet activity and track opponents of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
According to internal company e-mails, cash transfer statements, sales receipts and shipping documents, the computer equipment was sold by BDL Gulf, which is based in Saudi Arabia and is a large distributor of computer equipment in the Middle East. It is an authorized dealer for Dell in the Middle East and Africa, and is also a reseller for other computer brands, including Samsung and Acer.
BDL sold the equipment to Anas Hasoon Trading, a Damascus-based company with contracts to provide computers to the Syrian government, according to billings records and e-mail exchanges between the companies.
Jess Blackburn, a spokesman for Dell in Round Rock, Tex., confirmed that BDL was an authorized reseller. He said the company was recently made aware of a possible shipment of Dell equipment to Syria by an anonymous source.
“We are investigating an allegation we received recently that BDL was involved in a possible transaction involving Syria,” Mr. Blackburn said in a statement. “Dell requires its resellers to follow U.S. trade requirements, just as Dell does. Resellers of Dell products and services are contractually prohibited from selling or shipping any technology to a customer in a restricted country.”
The United States has barred the sales of most American-made goods to Syria for nearly a decade and has repeatedly tightened sanctions against the government. An executive order by President Obama, dated April 22, 2012, specifically addresses the sale of computer technology to Syria, barring Americans from helping the Iranian and Syrian governments engage in human rights abuses, including monitoring and tracking of dissidents.
United States officials charged with enforcing sanctions against Syria would not comment on the possible violation of export sanction laws but did say that exporting technology to Syria was illegal unless the sale would promote the free flow of information between the Syrian people and the outside world.
Asked about the evidence of shipments to Syria, a manager at BDL said the company had hundreds of customers and did not keep track of their locations.
“We cannot know if they are from Pakistan, Egypt or Morocco; we just sell in Dubai,” said RamaNarayan Singh, who is listed as BDL’s sales manager for the United Arab Emirates, Africa and Iran. “I’m just an employee doing my duty. I don’t know if a company is from Syria.”
But e-mails between Mr. Singh and a representative from Anas Hasoon Trading show that the Syrian company made it clear to him that it was working on behalf of the Assad government. Mr. Singh signed several invoices that listed a Syrian address for the trading company. Mr. Singh said he did not recall the e-mails or the invoices.
The records, which were provided to The Times by an individual who was briefed on the transactions, showed that BDL sold hundreds of laptops, tablets and desktop computers to the Syrian company.
In e-mails sent between Mr. Singh and Yahya Rifai, who was listed as a purchasing manager for the Anas Hasoon Trading company, Mr. Rifai mentioned several times that he was working to buy the computers for the Syrian government.
... What I'd like to know is what, if anything, Dell is going to do about it. Are they going to drop the reseller for violating the sanctions, or just try to pretend this never happened?
Hey, she did it on school grounds before school started, not while in science class, she gets some 'dumb' points for that. She must have known that wasn't a cool thing to do. At most, 2/3 days kept after school for an hour or two.
Isn't holding it in your hand dumb to do? That'd be Darwin's survival of the fittest law in play, same as looking down a mortar tube because it's taking a longer than expected time to blow. She's still got all of her fingers, no one got hurt. I don't see a problem here.
Tablets have been out for a while now, and we're starting to see which ones are the 'winners' and which ones will be relegated to being future 'dust collectors'. Closed systems like the Nook seem to be headed for the latter.
In a year or two, I'll get a replacement for my $100 archos tablet. By then I expect tabs will mostly all be cheap, dual booting pieces of tech, rivalling desktop computers in capability, with large storage/ memory/ battery and fast cpu's. Barnes & Noble will be another app to download to them.
She's a kid 'screwing around', same as my friends and I would do as teenagers. Everything's a crime nowadays, and this YouTube video shows what she propably did...
Makes a "Bang!" noise, that's all. Give her detention for doing it on school grounds, don't let her get a record that'll keep her from getting a future education. She's a smart and curious young person, that's all.
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A value added tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax. From the perspective of the buyer, it is a tax on the purchase price. From that of the seller, it is a tax only on the value added to a product, material, or service, from an accounting point of view, by this stage of its manufacture or distribution. The manufacturer remits to the government the difference between these two amounts, and retains the rest for themselves to offset the taxes they had previously paid on the inputs.
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I understand that polo's a dangerous game and all, perhaps that is how Charles got his decorations?
(Just please, don't design and build any Terminators, because they'd work so well!)
Putting aside the nucleur missiles for a moment, they don't seem that far advanced with that tech, yet. I wonder, what are the capabilities for a N.K. submarine based nucleur launch? That should worry the world more I would think.
Yeah! I wonder how much of a "win" it would be if New York and Chicago wound up as a smouldering radioactive craters.
That's why I put apostrophes around the word ''win''. It's the most dangerous game of 'poker' mankind has ever invented.
N. Korea points a gun at the U.S. The U.S. points their gun at N. Korea. We know that that U.S. gun IS loaded with live nukes, N.K.'s gun may be empty, or it might have a bullet or two.
N. Korea will lose if they in any way decide to 'fire first'. They might win a battle (if they aren't bluffing), many somewhere would die. Can they reach the U.S. with missiles capable of carrying nukes? Doubtful. Subs? Maybe. But once they launch ONE missile, it'd be game over for North Korea. Other nations "might" be successfully attacked, and historians will say the U.S. should have launched a pre-emptive strike. Like I said, a very dangerous game they are playing, mostly dangerous for N. Korea and it's neighbors.
Only one way to find out ...
Eventually we will have to call NK's bluff, just to see if they are bluffing. One guess as to who would 'win'.
I can't find the full 4 minute skeleton'fight scene, this is the start... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_Fi7x93PY , then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZK4MiIMZM
He was inspired as a kid by the stop-motion animation in King Kong, and later got work helping on Mighty Joe Young. I found all these interviews with the great Ray Harryhausen on YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctb9N5Umqec&list=PL301A89EF78E1A4BB
If they're like 'google cars', scaling up the tech to meet demand will be akin to building a new road system, one that's in the 3D airspace. Once the kinks get worked out, you'll just speak your destination.
Even rich people have to get a license to fly their own planes.
Any other questions?
Yes, a few. What license will you need when they fly themselves? Just your drivers licnse for when you're operating on the ground. My point was, "Having money does not equate to having skill and common sense (re: Robert Kennedy Jr.). But if they're basically autonomous, the human skill level is a moot arguement, except for being able to decide whether or not it's safe for this 'car' to land. The price will eventually come down where 'Ma and Pa' will have them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp2TWNpTA7s
This really is an amazing design and does blur the line between car and airplane.
Here's the test flight... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSPkIsd9C-U
What happens when flying cars collide with buildings or other infrastructure?
You needn't worry about this because flying cars are never going to be generally available for Ma and Pa Polyester. When every minor fender bender turns into a death rain of falling parts you can bet that society will come to its senses. Just won't happen.
I'm rich, and I can always get what I want. And I want one of dem dere flying things. (Do you see the problem?)
Iit's beeen known too happen hear befour, yoo aren't teh frist.
The DMV tests will ensure that all drivers are properly qualified to be in the sky.
Okay, now you've just scared me to death. The thought of flying cars in the hands of the average motorist (shudder!)
Thanks for that link, got to see the whole thing in about ten minutes (after the first full viewing it really speeds up). So now I know that he's 'Cueball' and she's 'Megan'. Very trippy, in a minimalist, b&w kinda' way.
Cameras don't combat crime. They don't prevent crime, they don't deter criminals, they don't allow police to stop perpetrators.
They are evidence after the fact, and a really easy way for the government to spy on you.
One night last year I was walking down a street when a car drove past me, the passenger threw a full cup of soda at me (and just missed). A block away I see the car has turned around and is coming toward me, so I whipped out my phone and held it up to record video. Like a vampire seeing a crucifix they stop their approach, then decide to leave down a side road, like the cowards they are. Sometimes, cameras do prevent crime.
After allegations made by a member of the public, only identified as SF, that the council had used its CCTV cameras to obtain personal information from him, the council was ordered to refrain from any conduct or action in contravention of the act.
The tribunal also ordered the council to render a written apology to SF for the breaches and advise him of any steps to be taken by council to remove the possibility of similar breaches in the future. The cameras are to remain turned off until the decision of the tribunal has been considered."
I wonder what personal info was gathered about the guy, and how.
WASHINGTON — Large amounts of computer equipment from Dell have been sold to the Syrian government through a Dubai-based distributor despite strict trade sanctions intended to ban the selling of technology to the regime, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
Hamid Khatib/Reuters
A building damaged this week in Syria’s civil war. The government is suspected of using the computers to track opponents.
The disclosure of the computer sales is the latest example of how the Syrian government has managed to acquire technology, some of which is used to censor Internet activity and track opponents of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
According to internal company e-mails, cash transfer statements, sales receipts and shipping documents, the computer equipment was sold by BDL Gulf, which is based in Saudi Arabia and is a large distributor of computer equipment in the Middle East. It is an authorized dealer for Dell in the Middle East and Africa, and is also a reseller for other computer brands, including Samsung and Acer.
BDL sold the equipment to Anas Hasoon Trading, a Damascus-based company with contracts to provide computers to the Syrian government, according to billings records and e-mail exchanges between the companies.
Jess Blackburn, a spokesman for Dell in Round Rock, Tex., confirmed that BDL was an authorized reseller. He said the company was recently made aware of a possible shipment of Dell equipment to Syria by an anonymous source.
“We are investigating an allegation we received recently that BDL was involved in a possible transaction involving Syria,” Mr. Blackburn said in a statement. “Dell requires its resellers to follow U.S. trade requirements, just as Dell does. Resellers of Dell products and services are contractually prohibited from selling or shipping any technology to a customer in a restricted country.”
The United States has barred the sales of most American-made goods to Syria for nearly a decade and has repeatedly tightened sanctions against the government. An executive order by President Obama, dated April 22, 2012, specifically addresses the sale of computer technology to Syria, barring Americans from helping the Iranian and Syrian governments engage in human rights abuses, including monitoring and tracking of dissidents.
United States officials charged with enforcing sanctions against Syria would not comment on the possible violation of export sanction laws but did say that exporting technology to Syria was illegal unless the sale would promote the free flow of information between the Syrian people and the outside world.
Asked about the evidence of shipments to Syria, a manager at BDL said the company had hundreds of customers and did not keep track of their locations.
“We cannot know if they are from Pakistan, Egypt or Morocco; we just sell in Dubai,” said RamaNarayan Singh, who is listed as BDL’s sales manager for the United Arab Emirates, Africa and Iran. “I’m just an employee doing my duty. I don’t know if a company is from Syria.”
But e-mails between Mr. Singh and a representative from Anas Hasoon Trading show that the Syrian company made it clear to him that it was working on behalf of the Assad government. Mr. Singh signed several invoices that listed a Syrian address for the trading company. Mr. Singh said he did not recall the e-mails or the invoices.
The records, which were provided to The Times by an individual who was briefed on the transactions, showed that BDL sold hundreds of laptops, tablets and desktop computers to the Syrian company.
In e-mails sent between Mr. Singh and Yahya Rifai, who was listed as a purchasing manager for the Anas Hasoon Trading company, Mr. Rifai mentioned several times that he was working to buy the computers for the Syrian government.
The companies
... What I'd like to know is what, if anything, Dell is going to do about it. Are they going to drop the reseller for violating the sanctions, or just try to pretend this never happened?
Are you kidding? In business, a sale's a sale.
Salespeople push them because they make an instant commission off of them. Radio Shack workers mostly get minimum wage.
a detention for science: genius!
Hey, she did it on school grounds before school started, not while in science class, she gets some 'dumb' points for that. She must have known that wasn't a cool thing to do. At most, 2/3 days kept after school for an hour or two.
Thank God they will always be us 'adventurous' types. Life would be boring otherwise. :^)
Isn't holding it in your hand dumb to do? That'd be Darwin's survival of the fittest law in play, same as looking down a mortar tube because it's taking a longer than expected time to blow. She's still got all of her fingers, no one got hurt. I don't see a problem here.
In a year or two, I'll get a replacement for my $100 archos tablet. By then I expect tabs will mostly all be cheap, dual booting pieces of tech, rivalling desktop computers in capability, with large storage/ memory/ battery and fast cpu's. Barnes & Noble will be another app to download to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUudTpSvudg
Makes a "Bang!" noise, that's all. Give her detention for doing it on school grounds, don't let her get a record that'll keep her from getting a future education. She's a smart and curious young person, that's all.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the UK tax, see Value Added Tax (United Kingdom).Taxation:
A value added tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax. From the perspective of the buyer, it is a tax on the purchase price. From that of the seller, it is a tax only on the value added to a product, material, or service, from an accounting point of view, by this stage of its manufacture or distribution. The manufacturer remits to the government the difference between these two amounts, and retains the rest for themselves to offset the taxes they had previously paid on the inputs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax