It's not hard for any 501c3 to afford an accountant. Since it costs a significant amount of money to even get through all the paperwork to GET 501c3 status, the organization obviously has the income to do so. On top of that, being as they are a 501c3, they can probably negotiate a deal with a local accountant to give them a reduced fee, writing off the remainder as an in-kind donation.
So leave the whining at home. If you want to be a 501c3, buck up.
It's not hard to file that little card. Unless your 501c3 is actually defunct. Which is the purpose of the little card. To cleanup the ranks of the 501c3s to just those organizations that ARE alive, and cut down on the fraud.
I'm a resident of NY, and I'd have to say, he IS a good guy from what I've heard in the news.
When northern NY was hit by the massive ice storm in 1998, Spitzer laid down the law on price gouging really quick. And even went so far as to get peoples money refunded.http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2000/dec/dec11a_00.html
Check out his office's website at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/ Quite possibly the most helpful gov't webpage I've ever been on.
Yeah, Spitzer is a good AG.. and I'm a Republican no less!
Lack of heat can be used to produce energy by using the fact that you now have a temperature differential between 2 objects (cold water/warm water). That temperature differential can be used to produce energy using various methods.
Pumping water from the depths of the ocean requires vary little energy actually. The ocean provides the energy needed to move the water from the bottom of the pipe up to the surface of the ocean (stick a straw into a glass of water, and the water in the straw automatically rises to the level in the glass due to water pressure) The only energy needed for pumping is that which is needed to move the water from the surface of the ocean, to some point above the ocean. In theory, you could even reduce this significantly using a siphon that drains back into the ocean. Then the pump would only need to be used to start the siphon.
The water that is being pumped is not creating any energy. The heat/lack of heat in the water being pumped is generating the energy. That heat is provided by the Sun. Its not a perpetual energy machine, nor is it portrayed as one, unless that is, you didn't read the entire article. Its no more of a perpetual energy machine than motorized solar panels that use the energy they create to drive the motor that swivels them to track the sun.
Maybe the licensing to the optical storage industry was mooted cuz the scratch resistant coatings they use on glasses SUCKS. The only reason I bother to get it anymore is because the place I get my glasses offers free replacements if they get scratched. (Don't know how they afford that, as I return mine for a new set of lenses every year and I can barely see out of them at that point from all the scratches.)
How exactly does changing the organization header make/save them any money? If anything, I would say it costs them money, because their news server has to perform that much more work than it would have to do to just let the Organization header remain as is.
I say if its all in the name of money, lets all start sending hundreds of posts to some inane, unused usenet group so that their server gets bogged down trying to change all the Organization headers to the point where they have to either get a new server (spend money), or stop stealing the Organization header (no extra money).
Is it just me, or does Bill need a speechwriter. I read the entire "speech" and I wanted to shoot myself before I was 10 lines into it. His grammer is horrible, and I have to believe, never having heard an in-person Bill Gates' speech, that he is an absolutely horrible orator.
My theories on why his speech is so choppy:
1- He uses XP, and the "ghost in XP" randomly inserted his mutterings into his speech as he typed it using MS Word
2- He used XP's voice recognition to write his speech in MS Word, and this is as good as it gets
3- He used MS Word, and hit "accept all" when he went to do the grammar check
4- (Most probable IMHO) He thinks he is smart enough to speak in front of world leaders totally unprepared, and ad-libbed the entire speech on the fly
Same here. I'm in upstate NY, and Verizon has better service than anyone else. I know many people who have switched over to Verizon so that they can actually use their cell outside of their providers office.
The key is not to think of a big case as clutter. You must think of it as furniture. At 3 feet tall, a full tower is the perfect height for an end table, space heater, etc...
IMHO, I believe that your choice of first linux distro should be based upon your patience level.
If you want to be able to change from Windows to a Linux and have X running within 1 day, I recommend (from personal experience) Mandrake 8. I believe just about anyone can have it up and runnig with very little difficulty.
If you are going to just be installing Linux on a second/third box, and will continue to run Windows while you get used to it, and have lots of patience and don't mind redoing your machine a few times after you totally FUBAR it, then I would choose Slackware (again from personal experience).
Of course, be sure to not overestimate your patience level. Its important not to think you have infinite patience, and get turned off to linux because you want a Windows like desktop in under a day, and try to install Slackware or Debian, and don't have a clue what you're doing.
Well, it appears that RoadRunner is taking it hard as well.. Just got home to find an email from security@rr.com with the subject, "URGENT! VIRUS ALERT!"
Its nice to see that even RoadRunner security doesn't know the difference between a Virus and a Worm.
Also nice to know that us linux users either don't count, or are actually suceptible to this "virus". Another quote from their email, "IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR
WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO
ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART." And what about all the Win 3.1, Be, OS/2 users!
It would be nice if for once, 'security' people would 1) Know what they're talking about 2) Know how to alert people without causing a panic
Forgot to mention that this is an absolutely horrible rendition of a F.B.D. (free body diagram) that ANY college prof would gladly give a F on. The picture shows that only ONE side of the lever is affected by gravity, and the other side is mysteriously pushed AWAY from the moons surface. I don't remember the slashdot article about a brand new wacky focusable gravity that was found on the mooon. Anyone else?
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Totally agree. And I do happen to have an engineering degree, and that statement made no sense to me either. The AMOUNT of gravity has absolutely no effect. Balance is balance is balance. If 2 people of equal weight stand on each end of a seesaw, it goes level. Doesn't matter if they both weigh 100 lbs, or if they look more like CowboyNeal. It is still gonna balance, be it on Earth, the Moon, or Jupiter. Its simple engineering.
-my 2 cents
I doubt anything new was leaked, seeing as how a link to the Alpha Crew's logs were already posted on Slashdot once. NASA has been quite open in posting the logs, and is only removing small portions of the logs that they feel would keep the crew from givng their true feelings if they were to be posted for the public. Having read most of the logs, its very apparent that life aboard the ISS is not luxurious. But I also don't think that any of the astronauts heading up there were expecting maid service either.
From the Jan 29,2001 issue of Newsweek, back on page 16, "Sony's PlayStation 2 continues to get the lion's share of attention, but the Sega Dreamcast is quietly evolving into a killer gaming rig. The latest addition is a broadband adapter that replaces the standard 56k modem. Users can now connect the videogame console to high-speed DSL and cable data lines."
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It's not hard for any 501c3 to afford an accountant. Since it costs a significant amount of money to even get through all the paperwork to GET 501c3 status, the organization obviously has the income to do so. On top of that, being as they are a 501c3, they can probably negotiate a deal with a local accountant to give them a reduced fee, writing off the remainder as an in-kind donation. So leave the whining at home. If you want to be a 501c3, buck up.
It's not hard to file that little card. Unless your 501c3 is actually defunct. Which is the purpose of the little card. To cleanup the ranks of the 501c3s to just those organizations that ARE alive, and cut down on the fraud.
undoing mod to wrong post
Please get it right. The article does, it'd be nice if the summary did as well.
When northern NY was hit by the massive ice storm in 1998, Spitzer laid down the law on price gouging really quick. And even went so far as to get peoples money refunded.http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2000/dec /dec11a_00.html
Check out his office's website at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/ Quite possibly the most helpful gov't webpage I've ever been on. Yeah, Spitzer is a good AG.. and I'm a Republican no less!
Nope, all the pears get eaten if they're so darned tasty. :)
Lack of heat can be used to produce energy by using the fact that you now have a temperature differential between 2 objects (cold water/warm water). That temperature differential can be used to produce energy using various methods. Pumping water from the depths of the ocean requires vary little energy actually. The ocean provides the energy needed to move the water from the bottom of the pipe up to the surface of the ocean (stick a straw into a glass of water, and the water in the straw automatically rises to the level in the glass due to water pressure) The only energy needed for pumping is that which is needed to move the water from the surface of the ocean, to some point above the ocean. In theory, you could even reduce this significantly using a siphon that drains back into the ocean. Then the pump would only need to be used to start the siphon.
The water that is being pumped is not creating any energy. The heat/lack of heat in the water being pumped is generating the energy. That heat is provided by the Sun. Its not a perpetual energy machine, nor is it portrayed as one, unless that is, you didn't read the entire article. Its no more of a perpetual energy machine than motorized solar panels that use the energy they create to drive the motor that swivels them to track the sun.
Maybe the licensing to the optical storage industry was mooted cuz the scratch resistant coatings they use on glasses SUCKS. The only reason I bother to get it anymore is because the place I get my glasses offers free replacements if they get scratched. (Don't know how they afford that, as I return mine for a new set of lenses every year and I can barely see out of them at that point from all the scratches.)
I say if its all in the name of money, lets all start sending hundreds of posts to some inane, unused usenet group so that their server gets bogged down trying to change all the Organization headers to the point where they have to either get a new server (spend money), or stop stealing the Organization header (no extra money).
My theories on why his speech is so choppy:
1- He uses XP, and the "ghost in XP" randomly inserted his mutterings into his speech as he typed it using MS Word
2- He used XP's voice recognition to write his speech in MS Word, and this is as good as it gets
3- He used MS Word, and hit "accept all" when he went to do the grammar check
4- (Most probable IMHO) He thinks he is smart enough to speak in front of world leaders totally unprepared, and ad-libbed the entire speech on the fly
Same here. I'm in upstate NY, and Verizon has better service than anyone else. I know many people who have switched over to Verizon so that they can actually use their cell outside of their providers office.
The key is not to think of a big case as clutter. You must think of it as furniture. At 3 feet tall, a full tower is the perfect height for an end table, space heater, etc...
Much more likely its simply being slashdotted.
If you want to be able to change from Windows to a Linux and have X running within 1 day, I recommend (from personal experience) Mandrake 8. I believe just about anyone can have it up and runnig with very little difficulty.
If you are going to just be installing Linux on a second/third box, and will continue to run Windows while you get used to it, and have lots of patience and don't mind redoing your machine a few times after you totally FUBAR it, then I would choose Slackware (again from personal experience).
Of course, be sure to not overestimate your patience level. Its important not to think you have infinite patience, and get turned off to linux because you want a Windows like desktop in under a day, and try to install Slackware or Debian, and don't have a clue what you're doing.
My 2 Cents
Its nice to see that even RoadRunner security doesn't know the difference between a Virus and a Worm.
Also nice to know that us linux users either don't count, or are actually suceptible to this "virus". Another quote from their email, "IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART." And what about all the Win 3.1, Be, OS/2 users!
It would be nice if for once, 'security' people would 1) Know what they're talking about 2) Know how to alert people without causing a panic
Forgot to mention that this is an absolutely horrible rendition of a F.B.D. (free body diagram) that ANY college prof would gladly give a F on. The picture shows that only ONE side of the lever is affected by gravity, and the other side is mysteriously pushed AWAY from the moons surface. I don't remember the slashdot article about a brand new wacky focusable gravity that was found on the mooon. Anyone else?
Totally agree. And I do happen to have an engineering degree, and that statement made no sense to me either. The AMOUNT of gravity has absolutely no effect. Balance is balance is balance. If 2 people of equal weight stand on each end of a seesaw, it goes level. Doesn't matter if they both weigh 100 lbs, or if they look more like CowboyNeal. It is still gonna balance, be it on Earth, the Moon, or Jupiter. Its simple engineering. -my 2 cents
I doubt anything new was leaked, seeing as how a link to the Alpha Crew's logs were already posted on Slashdot once. NASA has been quite open in posting the logs, and is only removing small portions of the logs that they feel would keep the crew from givng their true feelings if they were to be posted for the public. Having read most of the logs, its very apparent that life aboard the ISS is not luxurious. But I also don't think that any of the astronauts heading up there were expecting maid service either.
From the Jan 29,2001 issue of Newsweek, back on page 16, "Sony's PlayStation 2 continues to get the lion's share of attention, but the Sega Dreamcast is quietly evolving into a killer gaming rig. The latest addition is a broadband adapter that replaces the standard 56k modem. Users can now connect the videogame console to high-speed DSL and cable data lines."