Perhaps the old method of reviving an unconscious person via a strong odor under the nose has been around a lot longer than we realize and does more than simply irritate the nasal cavity.
Late to the party, but I wanted to point out an interesting study done by a couple of Boston University economists which found that the all-in marginal tax rate of every American is roughly 40%.
This means all the arguing over progressive income taxes is meaningless because state and local entities simply eat up the would-be tax savings of the lower quintiles.
Why? Particulates, including, NOx emission, regarding which the US has higher standards. However, Bluetec and similar technologies may pave the way to more diesel in America.
Indeed. I came to the conclusion that Libertarian-topia was synonymous with Lawyer World where every basic action in life is mediated by your personal lawyer through contract law. What a mess. All it takes is a few stalwarts to completely ruin any "public" project. Even cable TV or phone lines are impossible because you have to negotiate with literally EVERYONE. You can forget any wireless EM spectrum, too, because it will be all-border-blasters-all-the-time.
Libertarianism serves a reasonable purpose in questioning social conservatism and reminding people of their personal liberties. But they can pry the technocrats from my cold, red-taped hands.
Right, because a spammer would never contemplate buying an unlimited texting plan for 20-30/month or intentionally target devices that are likely to have these kinds of plans, right?
That we haven't had a truly successful iPhone or Symbian worm is merely luck and time will solve that problem.
Yeah, I read that Felix got in trouble for putting gel in his hair before a test run. I'd like to think he's got his head in the game, but more likely his head will be in flame...
What I want to know is if this could be used to create a cool sort of battery or capacitor. I'm imagining layers of metamaterials to store the photons with only a certain amount of predictable Hawking radiation emitted. I doubt if it'd be better than chemical batteries but the geek cred would be way up there.
I'm just stating that you need to accept the outage as an event beyond your control.
He's just annoyed that someone said Facebook had zero value when he was using it for something important in his life. Clearly it has some value. I don't really think he was particularly irritated by the outage so much as by the knee-jerk attitude of everything-not-on-my-lawn-sucks.
Yeah, I'm more than a little tired of seeing Universal Studios ads since we already went on vacation and I'm not going to buy any more tickets anytime soon.
I happen to know Michael Klug, one of the partners in Zebra Imaging. They're still doing holography like they've done for years now. Why do people think it's dead?
On a semi-related note, our family visited the Salador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, recently and they have a cool hologram of Alice Cooper that Dali did back in the '70s. Definitely worth checking out -- though I recommend waiting until their new building opens in Jan 2011.
That was the biggest thing that annoyed me when we went from IPX/SPX to TCP/IP back in the '90s -- being forced to manually assign addresses or set up a DHCP server. It will be nice to return to simplicity again for basic LANs.
Agreed about the router stuff. People are scared because suddenly endusers will be empowered to not NAT, and users were implicitly firewalled through having NAT forced on them. If they don't need it, they may not use firewalls. I find this asinine as well.
Yep. And the truly problematic users will be the ones who never touch the defaults anyway. So long as Cisco, Buffalo, 2wire etc. make home routers with reasonable home-centric firewalling on by default, it will not be a serious issue.
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Perhaps the old method of reviving an unconscious person via a strong odor under the nose has been around a lot longer than we realize and does more than simply irritate the nasal cavity.
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Late to the party, but I wanted to point out an interesting study done by a couple of Boston University economists which found that the all-in marginal tax rate of
every American is roughly 40%.
This means all the arguing over progressive income taxes is meaningless because state and local entities simply eat up the would-be tax savings of the lower quintiles.
References:
Summary article by Scott Burns
Study Abstract
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1997 was a long time ago, so I looked up when the relevant Chevron patent expires: 2014.
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Why? Particulates, including, NOx emission, regarding which the US has higher standards. However, Bluetec and similar technologies may pave the way to more diesel in America.
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Indeed. I came to the conclusion that Libertarian-topia was synonymous with Lawyer World where every basic action in life is mediated by your personal lawyer through contract law. What a mess. All it takes is a few stalwarts to completely ruin any "public" project. Even cable TV or phone lines are impossible because you have to negotiate with literally EVERYONE. You can forget any wireless EM spectrum, too, because it will be all-border-blasters-all-the-time.
Libertarianism serves a reasonable purpose in questioning social conservatism and reminding people of their personal liberties. But they can pry the technocrats from my cold, red-taped hands.
$0.02USD,
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I guess I have always assumed the companies throttled the traffic on those gateways. Anyone have a clue?
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Right, because a spammer would never contemplate buying an unlimited texting plan for 20-30/month or intentionally target devices that are likely to have these kinds of plans, right?
That we haven't had a truly successful iPhone or Symbian worm is merely luck and time will solve that problem.
$0.02USD,
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Yeah, I read that Felix got in trouble for putting gel in his hair before a test run. I'd like to think he's got his head in the game, but more likely his head will be in flame...
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Oh great, you just know some Gnome developer is reading this comment thinking "OMG, the next level of localization, renaming command line utilities!"
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dual boots Linux and Widows
I've heard widows are fun but this takes the cake!
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Furthermore, I dub it a "Hawking battery" or "Hawking capacitor" if it ever comes to pass!
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Yay, the LHC will not kill us all!
What I want to know is if this could be used to create a cool sort of battery or capacitor. I'm imagining layers of metamaterials to store the photons with only a certain amount of predictable Hawking radiation emitted. I doubt if it'd be better than chemical batteries but the geek cred would be way up there.
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It's not really stalking if the sole intent is to see which one of you ended up fatter. ;)
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I'm just stating that you need to accept the outage as an event beyond your control.
He's just annoyed that someone said Facebook had zero value when he was using it for something important in his life. Clearly it has some value. I don't really think he was particularly irritated by the outage so much as by the knee-jerk attitude of everything-not-on-my-lawn-sucks.
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It blocks the video and audio tags but allows you to play them if you want? If so, that rules. I may install that one.
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If you can't do "once", I'd be happy with a flashblock by default of canvas, video, and audio tags.
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Hopefully something akin to: image.animation_mode = once
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Fortunately, it fits in the slim type-A connector rather than the bulkier type-B slot which is more typical for data dumps. -l
Both of you just made my morning!
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You know, they could have just borrowed the code for Clippy from Microsoft...
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Yeah, I'm more than a little tired of seeing Universal Studios ads since we already went on vacation and I'm not going to buy any more tickets anytime soon.
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I happen to know Michael Klug, one of the partners in Zebra Imaging. They're still doing holography like they've done for years now. Why do people think it's dead?
On a semi-related note, our family visited the Salador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, recently and they have a cool hologram of Alice Cooper that Dali did back in the '70s. Definitely worth checking out -- though I recommend waiting until their new building opens in Jan 2011.
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That was the biggest thing that annoyed me when we went from IPX/SPX to TCP/IP back in the '90s -- being forced to manually assign addresses or set up a DHCP server. It will be nice to return to simplicity again for basic LANs.
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Debian bug regarding TPROXY, SNAT, DNAT
This site suggests that TPROXY patches are available to support IPv6, though I don't know exactly how that relates to SNAT/DNAT.
HTH,
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Agreed about the router stuff. People are scared because suddenly endusers will be empowered to not NAT, and users were implicitly firewalled through having NAT forced on them. If they don't need it, they may not use firewalls. I find this asinine as well.
Yep. And the truly problematic users will be the ones who never touch the defaults anyway. So long as Cisco, Buffalo, 2wire etc. make home routers with reasonable home-centric firewalling on by default, it will not be a serious issue.
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