It's not about starting an internet tax, it's about forcing a third parties to collect an existing tax with no compensation for their effort. A national database will not help for example in Michigan unprepared food is non-taxable but prepared food is taxed. This means a bag of potato chips bought in a grocery store is not taxed, but the same thing bought at a gas station is taxed! In Michigan whether something is taxable depends on the law passed by the state, the way the law is interperated by the courts, how the tax man interperates the law and court decisions and the context of the sales; now multiply that by 50 states Puerto Rico and the US territories, many of those with counties and parishes,townships and municopalities that may or may not have additional taxes and you can see what a nightmare it really is.
The legislation would apply only to businesses with more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year. I doubt Quickbooks would cut the mustard here, that's $13,889.00 a day. That's a whole shit pile of dog-food, dogdude!
No the real message is you have no value as a human being and are therefore sub-human because you don't agree with my ideology. It then follows that the rights of a human are more important than a sub-human at that point anything can be rationalized. People have long been conditioned to think that phrases like "the greatest good for the greatest number" or "sacrifies for the greater good" are noble and good where in reality these are phrases used by despots to purpetrate the greatest evils mankind has ever seen.
Wiretap what wiretap? I don't see no wire around here to tap; we're just listening to the radio. The air waves are still free aren't they.
The Bottom line Is If you done want your nemisis to know what your saying simply keep your fucking mouth shut. We've been watching James Bond movies, Man from Uncle programs, Mission Impossible, ad nauseum for at least 40 years, so people get a clue, any time sound comes out of your mouth, assume it's being listened to by your worst enemy.
The other mink ranchers might disagree especialy after the third or fourth murder; let's not leave out the Dermatologist that get's murdered because he has the same last name as an OB/Gyn that does an ocasional abortion. Plenty to go arround for both the right and left here.
Some people just want a bigger share of the pie and others just bake bigger pies; so in a way you've hit the nail on the head, the 2 tiered internet is base on the economy of scarcied rather than an economy of abundence, kinda like closed source vs. open source.
I've noticed the "DVD" phenomina also, the big chain store peaks interest in something through reduced costs which gets the masses onboard, which in-turn allows niche markets to florish outside the main-stream.
GUIs can be nice on a server, especially if you don't have to keep it running all of the time. If they move all of the graphic into userland, maybe windows servers will be able to have the window manager shutdown like linux is able to do.
I don't know about servers, but I've inherited a lot of hardware on my linux box from Dells. One Dell desktop had a cdrw/dvd that Dell OEM WindowsXP absolutely refused to recognise as existing, put it my Linux computer works great, put it back unrecognised, so Dell sends a new one under warentee and abandoms the "bad" one on site:). new one gets hear runs great in the Dell. the tech at Dell said the firmware must have gotten "corrupted" in the "bad" drive and we didn't tell him it worked in the linux machine. They make thge drivers, They contract for the hardware is't not far fetched that there is a bit sequence on a rom that dell'd drivers look for.
if the 'puter is running the engine rich and the timing retarded he might get away with premium unleaded if the rings aren't sealed too well and it's cold and humid outside:).
not as insane as sailing here and landing an invasion force in 'Frisco bay would be. Remember these are the same people who built the only manmade stucture visible from Earth orbit. When the Chinese put their collective wills to doing something it get done, it's just a matter of which millenium, that's all. I hope the Canadians do get them hooked on beer, it'll make them wish they never came to the United States.
We measure mid-grade at 94, premium at 97, the differance is probably along the lines you measure motor octane and we measure motor+research/2, might even be only the difference between our summer and winter blends, I doubt there is any real difference in BP from an american pump and BP from a brit pump; the biggest differance between most brands over here is the color of the dye tablet they thow in the tanker before it leaves the pipeline terminal, Sunoco and Amoco are the exceptions I think BP bought Amoco,, British Petrolium bought American Oil Co. yeah that sounds about right.
I'm within a hour's drive of a BOC (Buick, Olds, Cad) & Chevy plants in Flint, a shit-pile of GM, Chysler and Ford plants in the Warren-Sterling Hgts area, and not to mention everybodie's R&D facilities in Rochecter Hills; and we have two Hybrids within a 1/4 Mi. of where I LIVE, I don't even notice them on the road anymore. You don't buy a Honda or a Toyota and park it in a GM Ford or Chysler plant parking lot, so a lot of people are driving cars they can't even take to work.
I was getting the impression that the car was turbocharged both from calling it a turbosteamer, and a non-turbocharged 1.8 litre BMW four-cylinder engine is hard to imagine. considering that we were taught that 30% goes out the tailpipe and Radiator as heat, getting half that back is pretty astounding. I do agree that 13hp is pretty puny by steam-standards, its also pretty small physically, in a wankle or vane-pump configuration the business end of the system might easily be samller that an alternator.
The price and hassle of buy 104 octane aviation gasoline would have killed any benefit of 10.5:1 pistons especialy after you factor in the lead killing O2 sensors on a regualr basis.
Depends on the engine, a GM 6-71-ish blower on a top fuel dragster runs off a belt because it's kinda just stuck on a chrysler 429 hemi-ish engine (and sucks up about 1500 hp); the same blower on a GMC 6 Cylinder 2 cycle Diesel engine (the blowers were actually made for this engine) runs off a shaft. Our launchers used to actually snap the jack-shaft to the blower when the electronic engine governers were broke and we tried to turn on the 60KW generators attached to the engine.
Inter-coolers cool the intake air, not the exhaust. the intake air heats up due to compression, that PV=nrT thing. Intake air gets too hot and you get pre-ignition and the engine self-destructs.
Hate to burst your bubble, but they actually could walk here, sort of a "Ho Chi Min trail" across the artic would do it. Four countries border the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Russia and It's not like the Alaskan Army National Guard and the Soviet Army haven't popped a few caps at each other. If they are not worried about the US Military, they aren't worried about Mongolia, Russia and Canada either. Most likely the Chinese are pissed about something some congress-critter said about Iranian nuclear plants or North Korean something or other and are unofficialy looking the other way when somebody else "hacked" into some of their machines and launched an attack on us for something unrelated. After this diplomate throws a bone to that one, and another throws a bone elsewhere the whole thing will dissolve; and everybody blames some evil hackers backed by Al Quada or something. This is just business as usual, that we are hearing about it is probaly more significant than what we are hearing about.
I suspect that the military defines cyberspace much more broadly than just computers on the internet; and the Air Force officialy recognising the mission in its mission statement doesn't mean that it's exclusively an Air Force mission. I also suspect that the Navy has considerable assets in this area. It pretty common given the highly mobile nature of military operations, there isn't really a rear-area and a forward-area anymore, likewise with the increase in technology, there isn't a clear demarkation between radio traffic, phone traffic and computer data traffic, sooner or later they all travel over the same backbones. Just retargeting an aircraft invovles voice to the pilot, upload new nagiagtional data, uploading new terrain or ocean-height maps, new gravity maps, new threat maps, sat images of the new target; just the last-mile is pretty intensive. The notion of an air-gap between military networks, and internetted networks is getting pretty thin; actualy I hear more from my kid when he's in Iraq via Email and IMs than when he at home station in Hawaii; and they are not connected to a commercial ISP in Iraq. The NSA seems to get quite a few people on loan from the military, so even if it was decided that it was a NSA only mission, most of the grunt work would probably be assigned to uniformed personel anyways.
The USD is pretty much the standard value, we hold the gold and other contries hold the dollars. Considering we "bought" at $32.00 and can "sell" at $504.00; we're not in to bad of shape.
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It's not about starting an internet tax, it's about forcing a third parties to collect an existing tax with no compensation for their effort. A national database will not help for example in Michigan unprepared food is non-taxable but prepared food is taxed. This means a bag of potato chips bought in a grocery store is not taxed, but the same thing bought at a gas station is taxed! In Michigan whether something is taxable depends on the law passed by the state, the way the law is interperated by the courts, how the tax man interperates the law and court decisions and the context of the sales; now multiply that by 50 states Puerto Rico and the US territories, many of those with counties and parishes ,townships and municopalities that may or may not have additional taxes and you can see what a nightmare it really is.
The legislation would apply only to businesses with more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year. I doubt Quickbooks would cut the mustard here, that's $13,889.00 a day. That's a whole shit pile of dog-food, dogdude!
No the real message is you have no value as a human being and are therefore sub-human because you don't agree with my ideology. It then follows that the rights of a human are more important than a sub-human at that point anything can be rationalized. People have long been conditioned to think that phrases like "the greatest good for the greatest number" or "sacrifies for the greater good" are noble and good where in reality these are phrases used by despots to purpetrate the greatest evils mankind has ever seen.
Wiretap what wiretap? I don't see no wire around here to tap; we're just listening to the radio. The air waves are still free aren't they.
The Bottom line Is If you done want your nemisis to know what your saying simply keep your fucking mouth shut. We've been watching James Bond movies, Man from Uncle programs, Mission Impossible, ad nauseum for at least 40 years, so people get a clue, any time sound comes out of your mouth, assume it's being listened to by your worst enemy.
The other mink ranchers might disagree especialy after the third or fourth murder; let's not leave out the Dermatologist that get's murdered because he has the same last name as an OB/Gyn that does an ocasional abortion. Plenty to go arround for both the right and left here.
Some people just want a bigger share of the pie and others just bake bigger pies; so in a way you've hit the nail on the head, the 2 tiered internet is base on the economy of scarcied rather than an economy of abundence, kinda like closed source vs. open source.
I've noticed the "DVD" phenomina also, the big chain store peaks interest in something through reduced costs which gets the masses onboard, which in-turn allows niche markets to florish outside the main-stream.
Nope Win9x was a crawl-walk-run into being a 32 bit operating system.
GUIs can be nice on a server, especially if you don't have to keep it running all of the time. If they move all of the graphic into userland, maybe windows servers will be able to have the window manager shutdown like linux is able to do.
I don't know about servers, but I've inherited a lot of hardware on my linux box from Dells. One Dell desktop had a cdrw/dvd that Dell OEM WindowsXP absolutely refused to recognise as existing, put it my Linux computer works great, put it back unrecognised, so Dell sends a new one under warentee and abandoms the "bad" one on site :). new one gets hear runs great in the Dell. the tech at Dell said the firmware must have gotten "corrupted" in the "bad" drive and we didn't tell him it worked in the linux machine. They make thge drivers, They contract for the hardware is't not far fetched that there is a bit sequence on a rom that dell'd drivers look for.
if the 'puter is running the engine rich and the timing retarded he might get away with premium unleaded if the rings aren't sealed too well and it's cold and humid outside :).
not as insane as sailing here and landing an invasion force in 'Frisco bay would be. Remember these are the same people who built the only manmade stucture visible from Earth orbit. When the Chinese put their collective wills to doing something it get done, it's just a matter of which millenium, that's all. I hope the Canadians do get them hooked on beer, it'll make them wish they never came to the United States.
Electrical problems, that'll teach'em to buy a British company!
We measure mid-grade at 94, premium at 97, the differance is probably along the lines you measure motor octane and we measure motor+research/2, might even be only the difference between our summer and winter blends, I doubt there is any real difference in BP from an american pump and BP from a brit pump; the biggest differance between most brands over here is the color of the dye tablet they thow in the tanker before it leaves the pipeline terminal, Sunoco and Amoco are the exceptions I think BP bought Amoco,, British Petrolium bought American Oil Co. yeah that sounds about right.
Those Ford GTs just have serious cool looks to match the pucker factor.
I'm within a hour's drive of a BOC (Buick, Olds, Cad) & Chevy plants in Flint, a shit-pile of GM, Chysler and Ford plants in the Warren-Sterling Hgts area, and not to mention everybodie's R&D facilities in Rochecter Hills; and we have two Hybrids within a 1/4 Mi. of where I LIVE, I don't even notice them on the road anymore. You don't buy a Honda or a Toyota and park it in a GM Ford or Chysler plant parking lot, so a lot of people are driving cars they can't even take to work.
I was getting the impression that the car was turbocharged both from calling it a turbosteamer, and a non-turbocharged 1.8 litre BMW four-cylinder engine is hard to imagine. considering that we were taught that 30% goes out the tailpipe and Radiator as heat, getting half that back is pretty astounding. I do agree that 13hp is pretty puny by steam-standards, its also pretty small physically, in a wankle or vane-pump configuration the business end of the system might easily be samller that an alternator.
The price and hassle of buy 104 octane aviation gasoline would have killed any benefit of 10.5:1 pistons especialy after you factor in the lead killing O2 sensors on a regualr basis.
Depends on the engine, a GM 6-71-ish blower on a top fuel dragster runs off a belt because it's kinda just stuck on a chrysler 429 hemi-ish engine (and sucks up about 1500 hp); the same blower on a GMC 6 Cylinder 2 cycle Diesel engine (the blowers were actually made for this engine) runs off a shaft. Our launchers used to actually snap the jack-shaft to the blower when the electronic engine governers were broke and we tried to turn on the 60KW generators attached to the engine.
Inter-coolers cool the intake air, not the exhaust. the intake air heats up due to compression, that PV=nrT thing. Intake air gets too hot and you get pre-ignition and the engine self-destructs.
Hate to burst your bubble, but they actually could walk here, sort of a "Ho Chi Min trail" across the artic would do it. Four countries border the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Russia and It's not like the Alaskan Army National Guard and the Soviet Army haven't popped a few caps at each other. If they are not worried about the US Military, they aren't worried about Mongolia, Russia and Canada either.
Most likely the Chinese are pissed about something some congress-critter said about Iranian nuclear plants or North Korean something or other and are unofficialy looking the other way when somebody else "hacked" into some of their machines and launched an attack on us for something unrelated. After this diplomate throws a bone to that one, and another throws a bone elsewhere the whole thing will dissolve; and everybody blames some evil hackers backed by Al Quada or something. This is just business as usual, that we are hearing about it is probaly more significant than what we are hearing about.
I suspect that the military defines cyberspace much more broadly than just computers on the internet; and the Air Force officialy recognising the mission in its mission statement doesn't mean that it's exclusively an Air Force mission. I also suspect that the Navy has considerable assets in this area. It pretty common given the highly mobile nature of military operations, there isn't really a rear-area and a forward-area anymore, likewise with the increase in technology, there isn't a clear demarkation between radio traffic, phone traffic and computer data traffic, sooner or later they all travel over the same backbones. Just retargeting an aircraft invovles voice to the pilot, upload new nagiagtional data, uploading new terrain or ocean-height maps, new gravity maps, new threat maps, sat images of the new target; just the last-mile is pretty intensive. The notion of an air-gap between military networks, and internetted networks is getting pretty thin; actualy I hear more from my kid when he's in Iraq via Email and IMs than when he at home station in Hawaii; and they are not connected to a commercial ISP in Iraq.
The NSA seems to get quite a few people on loan from the military, so even if it was decided that it was a NSA only mission, most of the grunt work would probably be assigned to uniformed personel anyways.
The USD is pretty much the standard value, we hold the gold and other contries hold the dollars. Considering we "bought" at $32.00 and can "sell" at $504.00; we're not in to bad of shape.
The seperation is almost a cultural value with the Chinese; actually except for the brief time after WW II Japan also.