US income tax is voluntary, as the obligation to pay income tax is in violation with the constitution.
Are you paying your tax 'voluntarily', or are you really waiting until the SWAT teams kick in your door?
Then why am I able to measure it?:)
Experimental set-up: Tie a stone (tightly) to a rope, hold one end of a (coiled) spring in your hand, the other end holds the rope.
Swing it around and see the spring expand in length ==>> force!
They dubbed this the centrifugal force, although a better name would have been 'centrifugal reaction force'.
Iraq had WMDs.
During the Kuwait invasion Iraqi soldiers threw the babies out of the incubators and took them (the incubators) home.
The Vietnamese attacked a US aircraft carrier with rubber boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Iran wants to destroy Israel.
Ghaddafi was killing his citizens, just for fun.
Assad threw nerve gas to his citizens, also for the fun of it, or to punish them for support to ISIS (yeah right).
I'm sure we can find some more after some digging.
Is Reuters now going to pay half a million for every spin story they publish in order to get 'we the people' lined up behind the war plans of our governments?
First you say "No.", meaning 'absolutely no', and then you say that another scenario is 'more likely'. So, what exactly do you mean by 'No.', 'maybe yes'?
Then you give some attempt of a probabilistic risk assessment event tree, ending in some kind of a highly unlikely seemingly conspiracy-theory-inspired scenario of a C4 explosion.
Now there have been some reports of 'smart' meters catching fire and even setting houses ablaze, but nothing about C4 explosions.
Do you really want me to believe this was accidentally placed C4?
I mean, those are nice theories that you put up there, but not really in accordance with the empirical data.
True. That's why I wrote: "...when a hacker gains access...".
That includes that he can monitor your current electricity consumption, wait for the electric water heater to be switched on (a script can do this), and then have the meter repeatedly cycle the interruptor relay.
And yes, assuming there's no locking mechanism preventing this, which would surprise me if it were present.
...the remote Shut-off/Shut-On is not a frequent duty-cycle application like an industrial relay.
Exactly. So when a hacker gains access to a smart meter and orders it to switch the power off and on repeatedly, he can destroy the relay, possibly causing fire in the process.
The government decides education should be free, teachers and principals however want a little higher salary.
Or the government simply doesn't provide a budget for school materials because they know the money will not be used for that and so skip it altogether.
You have no idea what levels of abuse are common practise over there...
On the other hand, can they afford 4kg of rice, plus rent, and all the other stuff they need?
No. No rental, squatters live in their own little bamboo houses in the middle of rice fields or dirty sewer-less overpopulated areas in the cities.
They can afford to pay their monthly water and electricity bills at the equivalent of 1 kg rice each and that's it for the periodical expenses.
Health care is 'free', as long as you're admitted in the public hospital and don't need anything else than their limited pharmacy can supply.
Schooling is 'free' as long as you can pay the extra fees the school governing body requires you (illegally if you ask me) to pay nonetheless.
The salary of 'the poor' can afford to buy up to 4 kg rice per day... if they manage to find something to do for that day.
Don't worry about the middle class, they're doing just fine and ever better.
Sigh... Of the 7.4 billion people on earth a little over 325 million live in the USA, that's less than 5%.
Why then do some slashdotters still assume that everybody on the forum lives there?
Statistically, China would have been a far better guess.
Calm down man. I wrote on the Philippines the margin is >100%.
That is because the market is protected, so it's the other way around than where you were galloping: If the importation were free, Philippine farmers would go out of business. That would lead to uproar and revolution and therefore government doesn't allow it.
Or maybe it's because the 10 or so families that are in control of the Philippines are too heavily invested in rice farms.
China could try to force all those CDNs to record, store and deliver them all the encrypted http headers (after decrypting them of course) they redirect to, including the issuing IP addresses, or else be blocked altogether.
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US income tax is voluntary, as the obligation to pay income tax is in violation with the constitution.
Are you paying your tax 'voluntarily', or are you really waiting until the SWAT teams kick in your door?
This. Someone mod this up please.
Only if and when "Moore's Law" fails will we know it wasn't a correct law.
Then why am I able to measure it? :)
Experimental set-up: Tie a stone (tightly) to a rope, hold one end of a (coiled) spring in your hand, the other end holds the rope.
Swing it around and see the spring expand in length ==>> force!
They dubbed this the centrifugal force, although a better name would have been 'centrifugal reaction force'.
I think it's cockney ;)
Ge' a fu'ing dictio'ary
Well, how about Newton's law?
That also stems from observation of a common exclusion-less repeatedly occurring phenomenon.
Unlimited creation of fiat money started the demise of every great empire.
Then McCain is much clearer with his: "Nuke 'm all! Nuke! Nuke! Nuke!"
Fake news is:
Iraq had WMDs.
During the Kuwait invasion Iraqi soldiers threw the babies out of the incubators and took them (the incubators) home.
The Vietnamese attacked a US aircraft carrier with rubber boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Iran wants to destroy Israel.
Ghaddafi was killing his citizens, just for fun.
Assad threw nerve gas to his citizens, also for the fun of it, or to punish them for support to ISIS (yeah right).
I'm sure we can find some more after some digging.
Is Reuters now going to pay half a million for every spin story they publish in order to get 'we the people' lined up behind the war plans of our governments?
Yes, and rightly so, after all US citizens are the majority of the world population with ... 5%?? Oh, wait.
Too late! :)
First you say "No.", meaning 'absolutely no', and then you say that another scenario is 'more likely'. So, what exactly do you mean by 'No.', 'maybe yes'?
Then you give some attempt of a probabilistic risk assessment event tree, ending in some kind of a highly unlikely seemingly conspiracy-theory-inspired scenario of a C4 explosion.
Now there have been some reports of 'smart' meters catching fire and even setting houses ablaze, but nothing about C4 explosions.
Do you really want me to believe this was accidentally placed C4?
I mean, those are nice theories that you put up there, but not really in accordance with the empirical data.
True. That's why I wrote: "...when a hacker gains access...".
That includes that he can monitor your current electricity consumption, wait for the electric water heater to be switched on (a script can do this), and then have the meter repeatedly cycle the interruptor relay.
And yes, assuming there's no locking mechanism preventing this, which would surprise me if it were present.
...the remote Shut-off/Shut-On is not a frequent duty-cycle application like an industrial relay.
Exactly. So when a hacker gains access to a smart meter and orders it to switch the power off and on repeatedly, he can destroy the relay, possibly causing fire in the process.
The government decides education should be free, teachers and principals however want a little higher salary.
Or the government simply doesn't provide a budget for school materials because they know the money will not be used for that and so skip it altogether.
You have no idea what levels of abuse are common practise over there...
On the other hand, can they afford 4kg of rice, plus rent, and all the other stuff they need?
No. No rental, squatters live in their own little bamboo houses in the middle of rice fields or dirty sewer-less overpopulated areas in the cities.
They can afford to pay their monthly water and electricity bills at the equivalent of 1 kg rice each and that's it for the periodical expenses.
Health care is 'free', as long as you're admitted in the public hospital and don't need anything else than their limited pharmacy can supply.
Schooling is 'free' as long as you can pay the extra fees the school governing body requires you (illegally if you ask me) to pay nonetheless.
The salary of 'the poor' can afford to buy up to 4 kg rice per day... if they manage to find something to do for that day.
Don't worry about the middle class, they're doing just fine and ever better.
The climate in the arctic has been getting progressively warmer because of rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Not to throw a snowball at you, but do you have any proof of that?
Few, if any, deny that climate changes.
Many deny that it's AGW.
People who say it is, need to prove it.
Not 'model' it, prove it.
Sorry, responding to and AC who seems not even able to read a single sentence correctly is below my threshold of self esteem.
Sigh... Of the 7.4 billion people on earth a little over 325 million live in the USA, that's less than 5%.
Why then do some slashdotters still assume that everybody on the forum lives there?
Statistically, China would have been a far better guess.
Calm down man. I wrote on the Philippines the margin is >100%.
That is because the market is protected, so it's the other way around than where you were galloping: If the importation were free, Philippine farmers would go out of business. That would lead to uproar and revolution and therefore government doesn't allow it.
Or maybe it's because the 10 or so families that are in control of the Philippines are too heavily invested in rice farms.
Climate is not the same as weather.
China could try to force all those CDNs to record, store and deliver them all the encrypted http headers (after decrypting them of course) they redirect to, including the issuing IP addresses, or else be blocked altogether.
It seems to be a persistent behaviour, so maybe I should wait for the next crash, and then buy some...