If I had mod points I'd give it to my first AC ever. This is a quote from a particularly hilarious chappelle's show. A decade later and still relevent as well.
Italy actually still cares about the spirit/intent of the law apparently. Something blatantly done to get around paying a proper percentage of taxes from their standpoint should be punishable.
When it comes to tax law I don't agree with this, because governments waste/funnel taxes en masse a la the NSA comment above. However there are many instances in the US justice system where a "technicality" or "loophole" was the definitive argument in a case. At some point we went from valuing the letter of the law over the spirit of the law, and it's a really bad idea.
It wastes judicial resources, it can be used for selective prosecution (they only prosecute the technicality in certain cases since it's obscure), and because of it innocent people go to jail. Further blatantly guilty people are able to walk free because they spent millions on a legal team. We in the US (sorry if you aren't from here and this offends you) no longer trust officials to actually make a judgement is the root of the matter, and clearly Italy still does.
Tax dodges like this are only acceptable in the US. In most of Europe using "shell companies" and "subsidiaries" to hide income or evade taxes, especially for that express purpose is a big no-no.
So cryo treat the metal before it is printed..just like you cryo treat tool steel (REAL tool steel..for punch/dies) before it's put into a mill.. Or how you cryo treat spot welder tips before they are put into a lathe... Ditto with the heat treat oven..
I certainly would though I hate that its come to that. The ad creep on sourceforge isn't TOO bad yet....but the second I have to check the link destination of "download" links because they might bevads....Ill be gone from there.
1) What about the very real possibility of the technicolour force? Granted, that doesn't break the standard model, but it's something previously unknown, recently discovered, most likely exists, and has very odd properties. This proves there can be extremely large discoveries, even now. They have thought the exact same as you at various points in history.
2) The energy scales that we are able to experiment on are 10s of orders of magnitude less than what nature provides. The energy scales are utterly unimaginable. What super-rapid decays are happening during a supernova? Much less a hypernova. Spectroscopy on any accurate level cannot be done, because obviously there is too much noise. We haven't even gotten to observe many at all in the first place. The first one we observed was in '06.
Supersymmetry is NOT the only theory that you can keep pushing to higher energy scaled when it is "disproven."
3) Gravity is broken, and until the boson (graviton) is found I'm going to assume classic standard model particle physics don't apply to it. Personally I don't think there is a boson for gravity. You can't even do a proper feynman diagram with gravitons. A massless spin 2 particle? Get the fuck out with that.
I'm not even going to get in to quantum gravity.
I will bet you any amount of money that gravity propogation is not being calculated properly on highly macroscopic (or highly microscopic) scales. There is a team here at UTD that is working on (and appears to have been succesful thus far) getting rid of dark matter.
4) The standard model allows for negative mass and energy. Either that is insane (most likely) and is offense against the standard model, or it is not insane, and is evidence for "exotic physics."
5) Whatever we might discover next...just might not be mutually exclusive in relation to the standard model. It could be something entirely outside of our classification or experience.
6) You're going to groan at this one, and I'm groaning about it right now, because it's prototypical of netizen morons...but...tachyons.
7) You didn't address my previous point about light. The difference between relativistic and non-relativistic velocities is absolutely vast in every sense. That same difference in magnitude in the same direction could mean a particle, or wave is so fast we can't observe or see it. I didn't explain it well in my previous post..I was sleepy.
8) When the expansion constant of the universe gets large enough you won't have a choice about FTL travel. Granted none of us will be alive to enjoy it, but if you use the right lorentz frame everything is moving faster than light. This one is kind of a troll, because I don't think it's refutable:).
Maybe the things faster than light are weakly interacting and moving too rapidly to detect.
Think about the magnitudes of difference between objects at non-relativistic speeds and light....what about that same difference taken in the other direction?
If the spacetime interp is wrong (recent evidence i believe) then maybe gravity has a speed ?
Didn't we discovee an entire newuforce (technocolor or something?) Less than 2 years ago? And do you know any detail of gravity for certain? What about dark matter and possibly the WIMPS? Supersymmetry? M-theory?
The standard model has over 50 fudge factors...its broken. What If there are particles and/or forces outside of our little sphere that would enable this?
I don't think we've even scratched the surface yet.
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"The tea partiers who have twisted the libertarian philosophy into an unrecognizable monster" FTFY
The pure libertarian philosophy is simply that citizens should have unlimited autonomy so long as it doesn't infringe upon the autinomy of others
Near slavery via economic means doesn't pass that litmus test
Unfortunately there isn't exactly a brightline to decide when this occurs...but the tea party have perverted it either way.
If I had mod points I'd give it to my first AC ever. This is a quote from a particularly hilarious chappelle's show. A decade later and still relevent as well.
The -1 means we don't share your views.
Italy actually still cares about the spirit/intent of the law apparently. Something blatantly done to get around paying a proper percentage of taxes from their standpoint should be punishable.
When it comes to tax law I don't agree with this, because governments waste/funnel taxes en masse a la the NSA comment above. However there are many instances in the US justice system where a "technicality" or "loophole" was the definitive argument in a case. At some point we went from valuing the letter of the law over the spirit of the law, and it's a really bad idea.
It wastes judicial resources, it can be used for selective prosecution (they only prosecute the technicality in certain cases since it's obscure), and because of it innocent people go to jail. Further blatantly guilty people are able to walk free because they spent millions on a legal team. We in the US (sorry if you aren't from here and this offends you) no longer trust officials to actually make a judgement is the root of the matter, and clearly Italy still does.
Tax dodges like this are only acceptable in the US. In most of Europe using "shell companies" and "subsidiaries" to hide income or evade taxes, especially for that express purpose is a big no-no.
"Oh please. Are you telling me everything is fine and done by the book in the promised land of mafia?"
Yes that was the joke. You got it good job!
The value of bitcoins is up at the news of a hearing that is probably going to make it illegal to do 95% of what is done with BTC?
That makes sense.
Uh...this is the only comment here..I assume troll?
Not the people to try tax evasion with...they are pros
Much, much nastier organics are the explanation.
Wow the first truly "unexpected" comment I've read on slashdot in a long time.
Nice.
So cryo treat the metal before it is printed..just like you cryo treat tool steel (REAL tool steel..for punch/dies) before it's put into a mill..
Or how you cryo treat spot welder tips before they are put into a lathe...
Ditto with the heat treat oven..
If that's you r opinion then go away please.
Now you don't uncheck a box...its more insidious. You get showns TOSs and have to decline them.
I certainly would though I hate that its come to that. The ad creep on sourceforge isn't TOO bad yet....but the second I have to check the link destination of "download" links because they might bevads....Ill be gone from there.
Just how old of standby do you mean? I think you forgot bsd and debian
Oddly enough fuckbestbuy.com (or sonething like that) has never had issues.
1) What about the very real possibility of the technicolour force? Granted, that doesn't break the standard model, but it's something previously unknown, recently discovered, most likely exists, and has very odd properties. This proves there can be extremely large discoveries, even now. They have thought the exact same as you at various points in history.
2) The energy scales that we are able to experiment on are 10s of orders of magnitude less than what nature provides. The energy scales are utterly unimaginable. What super-rapid decays are happening during a supernova? Much less a hypernova. Spectroscopy on any accurate level cannot be done, because obviously there is too much noise. We haven't even gotten to observe many at all in the first place. The first one we observed was in '06.
Supersymmetry is NOT the only theory that you can keep pushing to higher energy scaled when it is "disproven."
3) Gravity is broken, and until the boson (graviton) is found I'm going to assume classic standard model particle physics don't apply to it. Personally I don't think there is a boson for gravity. You can't even do a proper feynman diagram with gravitons. A massless spin 2 particle? Get the fuck out with that.
I'm not even going to get in to quantum gravity.
I will bet you any amount of money that gravity propogation is not being calculated properly on highly macroscopic (or highly microscopic) scales. There is a team here at UTD that is working on (and appears to have been succesful thus far) getting rid of dark matter.
4) The standard model allows for negative mass and energy. Either that is insane (most likely) and is offense against the standard model, or it is not insane, and is evidence for "exotic physics."
5) Whatever we might discover next...just might not be mutually exclusive in relation to the standard model. It could be something entirely outside of our classification or experience.
6) You're going to groan at this one, and I'm groaning about it right now, because it's prototypical of netizen morons...but...tachyons.
7) You didn't address my previous point about light. The difference between relativistic and non-relativistic velocities is absolutely vast in every sense. That same difference in magnitude in the same direction could mean a particle, or wave is so fast we can't observe or see it. I didn't explain it well in my previous post..I was sleepy.
8) When the expansion constant of the universe gets large enough you won't have a choice about FTL travel. Granted none of us will be alive to enjoy it, but if you use the right lorentz frame everything is moving faster than light. This one is kind of a troll, because I don't think it's refutable :).
The GI bill...its why I signed up.
Maybe the things faster than light are weakly interacting and moving too rapidly to detect.
Think about the magnitudes of difference between objects at non-relativistic speeds and light....what about that same difference taken in the other direction?
If the spacetime interp is wrong (recent evidence i believe) then maybe gravity has a speed ?
Well of course light cone systems support light being the speed limit...its DERIVED from the speed of light.
Didn't we discovee an entire newuforce (technocolor or something?) Less than 2 years ago? And do you know any detail of gravity for certain? What about dark matter and possibly the WIMPS? Supersymmetry? M-theory?
The standard model has over 50 fudge factors...its broken. What If there are particles and/or forces outside of our little sphere that would enable this?
I don't think we've even scratched the surface yet.
I agree completely..I think it should be prosecuted as a denial of service attack would be...its defacto DOS.
Calling passwords property would lead to a slippery slope I think...
Though to be fair calling *anything* that leads to loss of access a DOS could lead to bad things too...
However this should definitely be at least a civil issue with punative damages...I wouldv even say this SHOULD be a criminal offense
This. So much this. Posting anonymously to vote up.
Alpha we know its you now. Fuck off.