It is "YOUR" money. Taxes aren't the same as sales. In a sale you get a service in return. The notion being proposed is that we are not *always* getting services in return, and more often then not taxes are imposed on a public that did not vote for them.
A perfect example of this is Internet Taxation. WTF do we need this for? What gov't service is being provided? Add to the list sales tax (it's state, not federal so you can't attibute it to the tresury), Phone Taxes, Buisness licenses, etc..
Some taxes do provide services, ie Gas taxes pay for roads. Loto, a tax on the mathmaticaly challenged, pays for schools (now thats poetic!). Income tax pays for welfare (I believe we need this in one form or another), defense (or offence, what ever we need), courts etc.
I do personly object to the notion that something has to be taxed because it can be taxed. Let people keep their money, 9 out of 10 times their going to spend it. That's "good".
I agree. But If the money's there, and it's offered... what a fool I would be not to take it.
And to an *extent* redistribution of wealth into emerging industries is a GOOD thing. Think Arpanet. (tons of gov't expenditures into private internet companies)
Rule #35) You could afford your ship without your government--if it weren't for your government.
It doesn't much matter what branch of the govt uses it. At the end of the day the Gov't controls around 1/4 of the nation GDP. It controls how and where that's spent.
ALLOT of money flows out of the gov't and stirs allot of industry. Especially durring recessions, that have been a classic time for gov't over spending, since FDR, to restimulate the economy.
If you want that money, you will run what ever software the gov't tells you too. Ideologies aside you have a buisness to run. To be compatible with the gov't agencies is essentials.
And as that money spreads out, to subcontractors, and support industries the chain of compatibilty does as well.
I worked for 2 years for a company that did court document back up. They declared what their standards were. If we wanted the contract we did as we were told. And we chose the servers that meant the absolute least friction between start and support.
This is a much bigger deal than just public relations.
Will this thing fit anything other than the driver? With a 20mile range (requring most people to recharge it at work, good luck finding a plug), and no cargo room (can you figure out where to put your laptop/groceries?), you might as well ride a bike.
(the commute will take 1-1.5hrs on a bike, you can carry a signifigant cargo capacity, and all you need to recharge is a snickers bar)
On a side note, would this little thing FIT an average American? I'm not exadgerating. I woudn't want to figure out how to cram a 250lb male into one of these things. (especialy since that would constitute 1/6 the combined mass of the car)
Actually this would be a nice vehicle if it sat 2. (say one behind the other?)
Wow, they use Aluminum foil in stealth bombers!
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Good greif.
It's high tech, it can block wifi! So can standing in front of the antena.
Find a tastefull way to tape aluminum foil to all your walls, without looking like a kook, and I guess you can make a million.
I was actually going for the "Frog in pan" metaphore, of being slowly conditioned into a state of accepting that witch we would normal consider utterly unacceptable. Not so much the devil made me do it. Just ilustrating the point of the cunning little buggers... (not the frogs)
And I appolgize if my broad language may have offended anyone. I'm genneraly not clear on all of the destinctions that define the Christian world. I am aware it's not monolithic (what is other than Linux), but other than the 5 minuets my highschool gave to Martin Luther I really don't have a clue. Having never been drawn to it's basic tenants I never really pushed much deeper. To my understanding any one taking an ultra-litteralist & stringent aproach to the King James Bible is a fundamentalist. I'm likely wrong on this point.
1) He didn't go to a public school. It was private. My school did ban it because the disrupted class. And I thought he was full of it too, until I was standing next to him one day in the mall and he got 'demerits' because he was caught outside school wearing shorts. (All the more so, he couldn't where them in school either)
2) I don't hate religion. You can check my previous posts. I'm quite the advocate of it. I'm a practicing Orthodox Jew. Ritual, custom, belief are all good things. But when a religion teaches you to hate yourself (or others), as his did (he was/is gay) I can't condone it. There are many ways to G_d, and I do not claim an exclusive. But I'm d@mn sure after what they did to him, it was NOT the way!
When I was a teenager one of my good friends was a Christian fundamentalist. (I'm NOT) His high school would suspend anyone who purchased a pager (this was just before cell phones were ubiquitous). Their reasoning wasn't that it disrupted class or was a drug dealer thing (sheesh), but that it was the mark of the Devil. You know 666. The theory was that beepers were just the first stage in a series of moves by the DEVIL HIMSELF to accustom us to being tagged, and that eventually we would all be given the mark of the devil.
Now I'm not about to start following his bizarre religious practices (especially since they lead him to being institutionalized), but you gotta give the wing nut some credit. We all started carrying pagers, cell phones, then GPS, and now people aren't even thinking twice when they are asked to stick a radio transceiver on their person (or in it!).
It's like cooking a frog. Stick it in while the pan is hot and he'll just jump out. But if you turn up the heat slowly he never knows it till it's too late.
Most CCDs are highly sensitive to IR, and IR filters are not that good (they heavily degrade photo quality). For $30 worth parts they could just put IR-LED strobes on or around the movie screen. It would basicaly make using electronic recorders useless.
I suspect so would out of humman range static sound pulses.
Wouldn't something like this do MUCH better on a pay-for download basis? Shows like this are NOT expensive to produce, and using bittorrent as a distribution model (those who leach pay more) would make it more efficient to distribute.
No doubt their are people who need this kinda raw power. Rendering a movie is a good example....
But 99% of the people out there (and 99% of the software) can't really take advantage of that kind of power.
But darned if they don't HAVE to have the latest thing on the market. Like spending 4 times as much for bleeding edge equipment will keep their computers from becoming "out-dated". And I'm not just talking early adopters, I'm talking GrandMothers and Young Nerdlings.
People pay outrageous amounts for equipment they will never use (no I'm not talking about home gyms).
Exactly what I was looking for! Finally a comuter capable of letting me balance my checkbook, use a word processor, watch a video, and browse the web!
Is any one else getting the impression that our entire industry is driven by penis envy?
"It's bigger, it's faster, stronger! More Power!" About the only flaw in my theory is the continuing trend of decreasing computer sizes. But I can atribute that to the fact that it lets people put them in their pockets.
BTW: If you actully use your CPU(s), this doesn't apply to you. Your penis is bigger.
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it's a clever idea, not a terribly advanced peice of technology. You could probably do the same thing with much fewer, and smaller components.
This could be very handy for computer control. For instance your computer might only accept voice commands from you while you are looking straight at it (as opposed to saying something stupid to your friend like "What is the FORM MATerial of the SEA DRIVE?")
And depending on how large the return IR area is, it could also be used to determin where someone is looking at on the screen (with say 3 or 4 IR sensors to triagulate position based on return signal strength).
Then again, the down side is now we geeks NEED to make eyecontact.
And if you subscribe to the theory that the simpler something is to use, the less functionality it had... Well Edlin was the most usefull editor EVER!!!
You know in my day DOS3.3 still fit on one 1.44 floppy!
I know it's a test platform but do they need to include a test copy of war and peace with EVERY release? Does anyone have a particulary clever reason (besides source disks) why it needs to be this frigging big?
This is one of the big reasons I switched to Debian, I didn't want to get sadled with a multigig *BASIC* install. No flame wars, please, but for my personal taste I can't fathom RH any more.
If you haven't offended someone, your probably doing something wrong. Opinions are like that.
Funny was a partial goal.
Learn to laugh at yourself, you'll live longer.
BTW: Why is this bit so abrasive?
I equally whent after jews, muslims, and and athiests. Christians get enough abuse, so who cares, it's not funny any more.
So far I've pissed of 2 Athiests,1 Non-US Citizen (Hi!), and 1 Muslim who's a damn good speller. Why didn't anyone care that I dissed Christians, Jews, or Evolutionists(ok that's redundent)?
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It is "YOUR" money. Taxes aren't the same as sales. In a sale you get a service in return. The notion being proposed is that we are not *always* getting services in return, and more often then not taxes are imposed on a public that did not vote for them.
A perfect example of this is Internet Taxation. WTF do we need this for? What gov't service is being provided? Add to the list sales tax (it's state, not federal so you can't attibute it to the tresury), Phone Taxes, Buisness licenses, etc..
Some taxes do provide services, ie Gas taxes pay for roads. Loto, a tax on the mathmaticaly challenged, pays for schools (now thats poetic!). Income tax pays for welfare (I believe we need this in one form or another), defense (or offence, what ever we need), courts etc.
I do personly object to the notion that something has to be taxed because it can be taxed. Let people keep their money, 9 out of 10 times their going to spend it. That's "good".
Makes you just itch for a google client doesn't it?
'Cause if it's Google it must be good!
GMail - like turning on the lights and watching the cockaroaches scatter!
I agree. But If the money's there, and it's offered... what a fool I would be not to take it.
And to an *extent* redistribution of wealth into emerging industries is a GOOD thing. Think Arpanet. (tons of gov't expenditures into private internet companies)
Rule #35) You could afford your ship without your government--if it weren't for your government.
It doesn't much matter what branch of the govt uses it. At the end of the day the Gov't controls around 1/4 of the nation GDP. It controls how and where that's spent.
ALLOT of money flows out of the gov't and stirs allot of industry. Especially durring recessions, that have been a classic time for gov't over spending, since FDR, to restimulate the economy.
If you want that money, you will run what ever software the gov't tells you too. Ideologies aside you have a buisness to run. To be compatible with the gov't agencies is essentials.
And as that money spreads out, to subcontractors, and support industries the chain of compatibilty does as well.
I worked for 2 years for a company that did court document back up. They declared what their standards were. If we wanted the contract we did as we were told. And we chose the servers that meant the absolute least friction between start and support.
This is a much bigger deal than just public relations.
Where's the Trunk?
Will this thing fit anything other than the driver? With a 20mile range (requring most people to recharge it at work, good luck finding a plug), and no cargo room (can you figure out where to put your laptop/groceries?), you might as well ride a bike.
(the commute will take 1-1.5hrs on a bike, you can carry a signifigant cargo capacity, and all you need to recharge is a snickers bar)
On a side note, would this little thing FIT an average American? I'm not exadgerating. I woudn't want to figure out how to cram a 250lb male into one of these things. (especialy since that would constitute 1/6 the combined mass of the car)
Actually this would be a nice vehicle if it sat 2.
(say one behind the other?)
Good greif.
It's high tech, it can block wifi! So can standing in front of the antena.
Find a tastefull way to tape aluminum foil to all your walls, without looking like a kook, and I guess you can make a million.
So what your saying is that I should RIP it first then watch it?
I think I'll start investing in Philips.
I was actually going for the "Frog in pan" metaphore, of being slowly conditioned into a state of accepting that witch we would normal consider utterly unacceptable. Not so much the devil made me do it. Just ilustrating the point of the cunning little buggers... (not the frogs)
And I appolgize if my broad language may have offended anyone. I'm genneraly not clear on all of the destinctions that define the Christian world. I am aware it's not monolithic (what is other than Linux), but other than the 5 minuets my highschool gave to Martin Luther I really don't have a clue. Having never been drawn to it's basic tenants I never really pushed much deeper. To my understanding any one taking an ultra-litteralist & stringent aproach to the King James Bible is a fundamentalist. I'm likely wrong on this point.
ok. Let's get a few things straight.
1) He didn't go to a public school. It was private. My school did ban it because the disrupted class. And I thought he was full of it too, until I was standing next to him one day in the mall and he got 'demerits' because he was caught outside school wearing shorts. (All the more so, he couldn't where them in school either)
2) I don't hate religion. You can check my previous posts. I'm quite the advocate of it. I'm a practicing Orthodox Jew. Ritual, custom, belief are all good things. But when a religion teaches you to hate yourself (or others), as his did (he was/is gay) I can't condone it. There are many ways to G_d, and I do not claim an exclusive. But I'm d@mn sure after what they did to him, it was NOT the way!
When I was a teenager one of my good friends was a Christian fundamentalist. (I'm NOT) His high school would suspend anyone who purchased a pager (this was just before cell phones were ubiquitous). Their reasoning wasn't that it disrupted class or was a drug dealer thing (sheesh), but that it was the mark of the Devil. You know 666. The theory was that beepers were just the first stage in a series of moves by the DEVIL HIMSELF to accustom us to being tagged, and that eventually we would all be given the mark of the devil.
Now I'm not about to start following his bizarre religious practices (especially since they lead him to being institutionalized), but you gotta give the wing nut some credit. We all started carrying pagers, cell phones, then GPS, and now people aren't even thinking twice when they are asked to stick a radio transceiver on their person (or in it!).
It's like cooking a frog. Stick it in while the pan is hot and he'll just jump out. But if you turn up the heat slowly he never knows it till it's too late.
... to all of those who thought you'd escape "American Totalitarianism" by escaping to the Paradise that is Europe.
Stupidity and greed are the only elements in the universe more common than hydrogen and helium. And America definetly doesn't have the exclusive.
This has got to be the first time in history that a new technology CANT be used for porn!
Mod this up, this is brilliant!
Those d@mn over paid arogant japanese, with their big SUVs! Serves them right!
Oh wait...
(can you taste the sarcasm?)
Most CCDs are highly sensitive to IR, and IR filters are not that good (they heavily degrade photo quality). For $30 worth parts they could just put IR-LED strobes on or around the movie screen. It would basicaly make using electronic recorders useless.
I suspect so would out of humman range static sound pulses.
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In a sane world I'd agree. But most "Kids" these days have a credit card. Welcome to the wonderfull wide world of consumerism, and obsene wealth.
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On a side note, I think most of our favorite shows could thrive this way. But it's risky, and big media is adicted to proven methods of easy money, and mo easy money.
Wouldn't something like this do MUCH better on a pay-for download basis? Shows like this are NOT expensive to produce, and using bittorrent as a distribution model (those who leach pay more) would make it more efficient to distribute.
Especialy since it's a tech oriented show.
It's nice to see Apple recognizing their roots and giving back to the community that helped them create OSX?
WTF? Where's the love Steve?
People wouldn't have to 'illegally' be reverse enginineering your products if you would just let us USE THEM?!
No doubt their are people who need this kinda raw power. Rendering a movie is a good example.
But 99% of the people out there (and 99% of the software) can't really take advantage of that kind of power.
But darned if they don't HAVE to have the latest thing on the market. Like spending 4 times as much for bleeding edge equipment will keep their computers from becoming "out-dated". And I'm not just talking early adopters, I'm talking GrandMothers and Young Nerdlings.
People pay outrageous amounts for equipment they will never use (no I'm not talking about home gyms).
Exactly what I was looking for! Finally a comuter capable of letting me balance my checkbook, use a word processor, watch a video, and browse the web!
Is any one else getting the impression that our entire industry is driven by penis envy?
"It's bigger, it's faster, stronger! More Power!" About the only flaw in my theory is the continuing trend of decreasing computer sizes. But I can atribute that to the fact that it lets people put them in their pockets.
BTW: If you actully use your CPU(s), this doesn't apply to you. Your penis is bigger.
it's a clever idea, not a terribly advanced peice of technology. You could probably do the same thing with much fewer, and smaller components.
It could be made much more inconspicuous.
This could be very handy for computer control. For instance your computer might only accept voice commands from you while you are looking straight at it (as opposed to saying something stupid to your friend like "What is the FORM MATerial of the SEA DRIVE?")
And depending on how large the return IR area is, it could also be used to determin where someone is looking at on the screen (with say 3 or 4 IR sensors to triagulate position based on return signal strength).
Then again, the down side is now we geeks NEED to make eyecontact.
Take that back!
DOS 3.3 had Edlin!
And if you subscribe to the theory that the simpler something is to use, the less functionality it had... Well Edlin was the most usefull editor EVER!!!
You kids and your fancy electrons!
You know in my day DOS3.3 still fit on one 1.44 floppy!
I know it's a test platform but do they need to include a test copy of war and peace with EVERY release? Does anyone have a particulary clever reason (besides source disks) why it needs to be this frigging big?
This is one of the big reasons I switched to Debian, I didn't want to get sadled with a multigig *BASIC* install. No flame wars, please, but for my personal taste I can't fathom RH any more.
If you haven't offended someone, your probably doing something wrong. Opinions are like that.
Funny was a partial goal. Learn to laugh at yourself, you'll live longer.
BTW: Why is this bit so abrasive? I equally whent after jews, muslims, and and athiests. Christians get enough abuse, so who cares, it's not funny any more.
So far I've pissed of 2 Athiests,1 Non-US Citizen (Hi!), and 1 Muslim who's a damn good speller. Why didn't anyone care that I dissed Christians, Jews, or Evolutionists(ok that's redundent)?
Excuse me while I find my Denis Leary tape...