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  1. Re:And what about the African population control? on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Don't worry those truly worthy of the Darwin Award will think any vaccine is a CIA plot to infect them with HIV or cause autism or some silly shit like that. Hell we develop a vaccine for cervical cancer caused by HPV, and people refuse to give it to their kids because of some idea that it encourages premarital sexual activity. While the potential of a HIV vaccine is exciting, we still have measles, rubella, Diptheria and pertussis , so it's unlikely that a HIV vaccine will eliminate HIV.

  2. Re:About time. on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Thinking of Cancer as one disease is about the same as thing every infection as one disease.

  3. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    So does removing a little bit, I'm not saying send up balloons specifically to scavenge chlorine, but if your sending one up anyways, why not dual purpose?

  4. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 0

    I suppose that's why every weather balloon launched carries a chloride scavenger, oh wait that would involve a more effective two pronged approach, rather than just an ineffective approach and a healthy dose of scare-mongering to maintain funding.

  5. Re:I Love you Neil on Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing · · Score: 1

    So are you saying we should forget about income taxes and just redistribute the wealth?

  6. Re:No no NO!!!!!! on Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing · · Score: 1

    You say that like any president from Texan would do something to reduce spending at NASA; next you'll tell us Ted Stevens gave back the money for the bridge to nowhere!

  7. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    That is your tax bracket, not your tax rate

  8. Re:Excerpt from Chapter 17 on Julian Assange's Unauthorized Autobiography · · Score: 1

    Because he's a narcissistic figurehead and generally impotent, The spooks are having more fun figuring out who of the underlings present the more credible threat. The spooks will probably use monitoring Assange as a training exercise to break in newbies.

  9. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Why do you think you don't? Legitimate business expenses are generally subtracted from revenues to get taxable profits, the instructions for IRS form 1040 schedule C goes into more detail. Things like home offices get touchy with the IRS and it usually cheaper to take the standard millage rate on vehicles than to account for every penny, so talk to your tax advisor. While I haven't played with the numbers lately, in the past rich people would be paying more taxes if corporation were not taxed , than the lost of tax revenues from the corporations would be.

  10. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    That is one of the most evil things I've seen on slashdot in a long time, I guess you would have us just submit to being slaves now.

  11. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    The top one percent of income earners pay an average of 23.27% average federal income tax rate, your social security and medicare withholding don't count, nor does your State or Municipal income taxes, if your earning between $67,280 and $113,799 your average should be in the range of 15.68% and 18.71%, and that should scare you. The top 1% is $380,354 per year, so how many nines in the percentile does it take to make someone super-rich?

  12. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAH. LOL.

    The vast majority of this income in this range is "Unearned Income." People aren't earning nor working for multi-million dollar annual incomes, they are enjoying the benefits of others work by collecting dividens and stock profits.

    -Rick

    Actually they are enjoying a portion of the benefit of the work of others, normally the others find the arrangement mutually beneficial. The split between the top 1% incomes and the rest of us is a merely $380,354, multi-million dollar annual incomes are much rarer than you would imagine.

  13. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Not even close, the top 10% paid 69.94% of the taxes on 45.77% of the AGI, 97.30% are paid by the top 50%, those making $33,048 or more. the Richest 10% are those with a AGI of $113,799 or more so the richest 10% aren't necessarily make that much money.

  14. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Not quite,

    the bottom 50%(69,980,290) pay approximately 2.70% and the cut-off income is $33,048, or about $16.52/hr;
      people in the 50th - 75th percentile (34,990,145) pay 10.96% of all income tax paid and the cut-off is $67,280 or $33.64 an hour;
      people in the 75th - 90th percentile (20,994,087) pay 16.40% of all income tax paid and the cut-off is $113,799 or $56.90/hr;
      people in the 90th - 95th percentile (6,998,029) pay 11.22% of all income tax paid and the cut-off is $159,619 or $79.81/hr;
      people in the 95th - 99th percentile (5,598,423) pay 20.70% of all income tax paid and the cut-off is $380,354 or $190.18/hr;
      people in the 99th or greater percentile (1,399,606) pay 38.02% of all income tax paid.
    Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data

    but the fact is that there isn't enough "rich" people to put a dent in the federal deficit, based on income alone, they'll have to migrate toward a federal property tax or an insanely punitive inheritance tax to make any difference.

  15. Re:So someone really did bang an ape. on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    Many people are perfectly willing to have sex with goats, sheep, cows ,mares, all manner of monkeys, primates even children of various ages and sexes without the aid of any goggles; our veneer of civilization is much thinner than most of us would like to admit. To think that human evolution didn't include genetic inputs from what ever was available is really egotistical, after all we have something like 30 copies of genes for reverse transcriptase, a retro-virus enzyme.

  16. Re:once again proving that all men... on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    and most women are almost always fertile

  17. Re:Time for another 4 letter comic. on Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa · · Score: 1

    Just use a surrogate to carry the in-vitro fertilized eggs from the Chihuahas, the cattle industry has done this for decades.

  18. Re:The solution is obvious: on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    If you ask Juan Valdez whether he wants to pick 2,000 coffee beans for 2 cents or stomp cocca leaf for an hour for a dollars, his answer will be a no-brainer; the problem has never been a lack of supply. Nor has the problem ever been a lack of demand, the real constraint has been in distribution. It's the distributors that are causing the majority of the violence now.

  19. Re:Not much air on Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment · · Score: 1

    I think your worrying too much, temperatures are basically meaningless, heat is where the rubber meets the road and there is a lot of heat needed to make a dent in the ocean.

  20. Re:Not much air on Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment · · Score: 1

    Good point, even taking it farther, by using boaster pumps and check valves along the pipe you reduce the pressure at the bottom even more, making it still an interesting engineering problem of multi-factor optimization.

  21. Re:Not much air on Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Not much air on Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment · · Score: 2

    Considering a column of water 10m high results in one atmosphere of pressure, a 1 km column would need a pipe capable of holding a pressure of 1,470PSI while still being light enough to be suspended by balloons! This is going to take some serious engineering mojo, and all because the Earth's average temperature has increased from 288.0K to 288.8 over the last 150 years.

  23. Re:So climate science is politics? on Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    The Climatologist will argue that by running their models with historical data, they would be able to make a projection in the past (computers don't know the data is historical) that they can compare with what happened in reality; in effect performing a self-controlled experiment unfortunately there are also significant questions about the validity of the historical data.

  24. Re:Japan on Floating Houses Designed For Low-Lying Countries · · Score: 1

    On 1 November 1755 (All Saints' Day!) a magnitude 8.6 earthquake at Gorringe Bank destroyed much of Lisbon. Minutes after the earthquake, the tsunami arrived. At least three great waves about ten meters high entered the city. The waves also raked the nearby coasts of Spain and North Africa, and did extensive damage in the Azores, Madiera, and Canary Islands. Minor damage occurred as far north as Ireland and as far west as the West Indies. Gorringe Bank remains a severe tsunami threat for Portugal, and the Portuguese are now installing seafloor pressure gauges there to get advance warning. Tsunamis in the Atlantic Ocean

    Minor damage in Ireland can easily be major damage in the low countries; Your confusing being lucky so far with "The Low Countries don't get tsunami's." An seismic event in Iceland or a slip-splash on a mid-atlantic island could easily send send a tsunami into the low countries.

  25. Re:Ignoring the bigger problem on Floating Houses Designed For Low-Lying Countries · · Score: 1

    You would be positively amazed at how much can be grown on rooftops and container gardens; water can be taken care of with vacuum distillation or reverse osmosis