They are completely unrelated one is a STATE tax(internet taxes) the other is a FEDERAL tax(Bush). I don't like Bush but it is unfair to blame this on him.
Not entirely true -- because state taxes are partly calculated on the basis of federal taxes paid, the states are in position to get hit hart by Bush's tax cut. And, because all but a handful of states are in serious budget trouble right now, a decline in their incoming taxes poses a particularly huge problem. See, for example, this recent AP story in the Sacramento Bee.
I like how the front page of the site advertises, "Attaches using the existing computer case screws, no case mods." Yeah, they make up for the lack of case mods by requiring you to drill a big hole into your wall cavity.
All that, and an associates' reseller program to boot? Step 3, profit!
So, has anybody actually read the BBC article? The word "union" doesn't even show up there! Yet here on Slashdot, all you have to do is say the word in a summary, and -boom- the people come out of the woodwork. According to the article, the author doesn't speak much about unions, but about the culture of being a high-tech worker in a competetive economy. What does he argue? That tech workers may be relatively isolated from co-workers, that the macho male-ness of IT work turns off potential female applicants, and that maintaining professional relationships is difficult in an industry with such high turnover.
And here on slashdot, we have macho male techies saying that the article is full of shit, because techies who aren't happy with their jobs can just go elsewhere.
Explain to me again how the author has missed the boat, because I really don't see it happening here.
I felt vicariously embarassed when, leaving a different movie last night, my wife and I walked past a group of shabby comic-book-guy-like twentysomethings, sitting at the head of a very, very long Harry Potter line, playing Magic on the floor.
Well, guess I'd better get back to work on my ceramic replica swords for the Two Towers premiere. now that my mithril tunic is done, I just have to carve all the runes. I figure with fifty or sixty more hours of work, I'll be just about ready.
The real news here isn't simply that the BSD version of Opera 6.1 has been released, but that 6.1 is now available generally for Linux -- both i*86 and PowerPC platforms. This is a really significant development, and it means that, as of right now, the Linux version of Opera is now at a higher release number than for Windows (which is at 6.05 right now). The Opera folks are really moving on Linux development.
Unlike *real* disciplines, where you need to take an existing problem and get a job/grant/etc... to solve it, environmentalists need to first CERATE the perception of the problem for which they then ask the money (donation, or - even worse - my tax dollars) to research/fix.
Real disciplines like, um, biology? What, do you think that in "real" science the problems are just sitting there, neatly labeled, waiting for appropriate funding and solutions? It's naive to think that the science that produces support (or criticism) for conservationist claims is any more socially constructed than the science that produces supercolliders or diagnostics for AIDS.
The reason we attack environmentalists is because they use vague definitions of human impact to arrive at a definite percentage (83% in the case of Wildlife Conservation Society)
Hey, wait a minute -- that's the same reason I attack real estate developers! What gives?
Earlier in the year I drove from Phoenix, AZ to Washington, D.C. and it is amazing how much land is not being utilized! Certainly, it may be fenced off, owned and counted as someones "ranch", but not utilized in any functional sense of the word.
Next time you drive past what you believe to be "unused ranch land," take a close look at the height of the grass outside the fence, and compare it to the height of the grass inside the fence. If you're in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, or Utah, chances are you'll have to look hard to even see the grass inside the fence -- you'll see a lot of sage, scrub, and juniper, but very little grass. Why? Because ranchers graze there. If cows aren't there currently, it means either/both: 1) the parcel is overgrazed and can no longer support animals; or 2) the rancher has moved his herd to another field with fresh grass. Remember, the point of the report being discussed is not about habitation but about use. There don't have to be cowboys ropin' steers within sight of the road to make it a working ranch.
I'll also happily recommend the NEC 1700. I spent about a month buying and returning 19" CRT monitors that were alternately fuzzy or had poor refresh rates. My wife turned the corner and said, "Why not go LCD?" Good idea. The NEC LCD is beautiful and so far works wonderfully -- at 1280x1024.
I have considered the fact that for the same amount of money, I could have bought a very good 19" CRT -- make no mistake, the price is far higher than a bigger CRT -- but I certainly do not miss the sag in the middle of my desk or the lack of desktop space that a big CRT takes up. The credit card hurts a little, but the mind is happy.
You might want to consider a couple of things before you go full-on on the air: Do you want to become a full-time station manager? Who is going to run the show 24/7? The Saturday morning 5-7 AM shift is real drag, I can guarantee you that. If you just want to hear the music you like, play some CDs for yourself -- why start a radio station?
Alternatively, if you just want to have a good time talking on the radio, why not try to get a show on the local college station? Many colleges have free-format stations; you just have to sign up (but be forewarned; you'll probably get the last slot, the Saturday 5-7 AM). It's a good time, but a lot of work to do a regular show. You ought to give it a try before actually trying to run a real broadcast station.
We would have thought that the cooking would have been near instantanous - but repeated experiments at various lengths of time reveal that it takes exactly as long in the lava, as in an oven.
Wow -- now I'm curious, too. So this makes for a neat party trick, but not a way to make instant roast game hen. I imagine this has something to do with the heat conductivity of the leaves, akin to the fact that you can put your head in a 350 F oven and not immediately get burned, but hold onto the metal rack in the same oven and it's blister city. The leaves (or the surface of the lava? The lack of air inside the wrapped-up bird?) must have something to do with it. But wow, 2000 degrees F? That's hot.
Actually, Milton and the epic of the stapler didn't originate in 'Office Space' but rather Judge's cartoon short from MTV's Liquid Television progam.
I'm pretty sure that what preceded Liquid Television was Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation -- they were showing Milton clips several years before MTV, I think. Short Milton clips would appear between longer animated shorts. (BTW, those old Animation Festival films were absolutely fantastic; I'll never forget some of the animations they screened.)
Of course record companies, or anyone, need to pay to get their products placed! I don't know why anyone thinks it is any different! The radios are businesses, and they can play what they like, so they play what is in their shareholders interests to play.
You said a lot of interesting things; the point that payola is common is something that should be more widely understood. What I'm having trouble with is that that seems to make specious the claim that record companies are losing money to broadcast radio stations that also stream online. That is, if the logic behind payola is: record company pays radio station to promote album; album sells gazillion copies due to airplay; both radio station and record company profit; then under what logic does it make sense for record companies to go after streaming stations who are already getting paid to promote a CD? Online streaming, at least for big network stations, should mean more exposure for less cost -- but only if payola is accepted as standard practice.
Note that this logic could even apply to indie or online-only broadcasters, who presumably aren't part of the payola stream; if the point of payola is exposure to markets, and record companies subsidize the low-sellers with the gigantic sellers, what's the problem with wider exposure that they didn't have to pay for?
This is (somewhat) more important than it looks, folks. When the ADTI folks accuse OSS projects of being less than professional, we can simply point to the origional document and say that this "Think Tank" can't even correctly write American Engish.
I had exactly the same thought, after reading the very first paragraph. Issues of proofreading aside (we all occasionally write "of for," or something similar, especially when revising a document and changing the format of sentences), the report just isn't well-written. The concepts are vague, the language is unclear, and the overall structure seems very haphazard. I would be embarrassed to release it, especially given the amount of hype it has received and the supposed high-profile of the think tank.
What really bothers me about this is this quote from a representative of the "Center for Regulatory Effectiveness:"
"With the blossoming of the Internet, it's turned into a huge problem for industry," Mr. Kelly said. "Agencies were encouraged to post virtually everything on the Internet. It wasn't such a problem when people had to go through a Freedom of Information Act request."
I read that as a very thinly-veiled comment suggesting that, really, only the right people should have access to this material -- those with the resources and wherewithal to go through the onerous FOIA process. This isn't really about improving the quality of government data; the emphasis isn't on making data better, but making data that "someone" questions unavailable.
There is an interesting article regarding the data quality act at the Univ. Colorado science policy newsletter (pdf). It points out that the law passed as a rider to a spending bill, not even on its own full merits as legislation. Note that the article points out possible benefits, as well as problems, with the bill -- it reads evenhandedly, but cautiously, worrying that the bill will spur increasing politicization over scientific data/policy.
It also gets into the nitty-gritty, even mentioning IBM PS/2, and various other devices.
Yeah, a lot of the particulars are really archaic. There are references to Telenet being the central phone system via which all these systems connect, the suitability of machines by IBM, NCR, and DEC for the hardware, and the use of Scotch laserdiscs for storage. It's weird stuff -- even for 1994, when this patent was issued.
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So, my saying something like, "I got your laptop heat pipe right here!" would be inappropriate?
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Not entirely true -- because state taxes are partly calculated on the basis of federal taxes paid, the states are in position to get hit hart by Bush's tax cut. And, because all but a handful of states are in serious budget trouble right now, a decline in their incoming taxes poses a particularly huge problem. See, for example, this recent AP story in the Sacramento Bee.
All that, and an associates' reseller program to boot? Step 3, profit!
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And here on slashdot, we have macho male techies saying that the article is full of shit, because techies who aren't happy with their jobs can just go elsewhere.
Explain to me again how the author has missed the boat, because I really don't see it happening here.
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Well, guess I'd better get back to work on my ceramic replica swords for the Two Towers premiere. now that my mithril tunic is done, I just have to carve all the runes. I figure with fifty or sixty more hours of work, I'll be just about ready.
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Real disciplines like, um, biology? What, do you think that in "real" science the problems are just sitting there, neatly labeled, waiting for appropriate funding and solutions? It's naive to think that the science that produces support (or criticism) for conservationist claims is any more socially constructed than the science that produces supercolliders or diagnostics for AIDS.
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Hey, wait a minute -- that's the same reason I attack real estate developers! What gives?
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Next time you drive past what you believe to be "unused ranch land," take a close look at the height of the grass outside the fence, and compare it to the height of the grass inside the fence. If you're in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, or Utah, chances are you'll have to look hard to even see the grass inside the fence -- you'll see a lot of sage, scrub, and juniper, but very little grass. Why? Because ranchers graze there. If cows aren't there currently, it means either/both: 1) the parcel is overgrazed and can no longer support animals; or 2) the rancher has moved his herd to another field with fresh grass. Remember, the point of the report being discussed is not about habitation but about use. There don't have to be cowboys ropin' steers within sight of the road to make it a working ranch.
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I'll also happily recommend the NEC 1700. I spent about a month buying and returning 19" CRT monitors that were alternately fuzzy or had poor refresh rates. My wife turned the corner and said, "Why not go LCD?" Good idea. The NEC LCD is beautiful and so far works wonderfully -- at 1280x1024.
I have considered the fact that for the same amount of money, I could have bought a very good 19" CRT -- make no mistake, the price is far higher than a bigger CRT -- but I certainly do not miss the sag in the middle of my desk or the lack of desktop space that a big CRT takes up. The credit card hurts a little, but the mind is happy.
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You've clearly not used a Palm. It encrypts your handwriting on the fly!
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Alternatively, if you just want to have a good time talking on the radio, why not try to get a show on the local college station? Many colleges have free-format stations; you just have to sign up (but be forewarned; you'll probably get the last slot, the Saturday 5-7 AM). It's a good time, but a lot of work to do a regular show. You ought to give it a try before actually trying to run a real broadcast station.
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Wow -- now I'm curious, too. So this makes for a neat party trick, but not a way to make instant roast game hen. I imagine this has something to do with the heat conductivity of the leaves, akin to the fact that you can put your head in a 350 F oven and not immediately get burned, but hold onto the metal rack in the same oven and it's blister city. The leaves (or the surface of the lava? The lack of air inside the wrapped-up bird?) must have something to do with it. But wow, 2000 degrees F? That's hot.
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I'm pretty sure that what preceded Liquid Television was Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation -- they were showing Milton clips several years before MTV, I think. Short Milton clips would appear between longer animated shorts. (BTW, those old Animation Festival films were absolutely fantastic; I'll never forget some of the animations they screened.)
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But now that his email is posted on the front page of slashdot, maybe they'll just split the difference between being fired and getting a raise.
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a) environmentalists can in fact sometimes be right
b) but being critical of them does not involve insulting their intelligence or calling them names.
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You said a lot of interesting things; the point that payola is common is something that should be more widely understood. What I'm having trouble with is that that seems to make specious the claim that record companies are losing money to broadcast radio stations that also stream online. That is, if the logic behind payola is: record company pays radio station to promote album; album sells gazillion copies due to airplay; both radio station and record company profit; then under what logic does it make sense for record companies to go after streaming stations who are already getting paid to promote a CD? Online streaming, at least for big network stations, should mean more exposure for less cost -- but only if payola is accepted as standard practice.
Note that this logic could even apply to indie or online-only broadcasters, who presumably aren't part of the payola stream; if the point of payola is exposure to markets, and record companies subsidize the low-sellers with the gigantic sellers, what's the problem with wider exposure that they didn't have to pay for?
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No, of course not!
They'd download the binaries.
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I had exactly the same thought, after reading the very first paragraph. Issues of proofreading aside (we all occasionally write "of for," or something similar, especially when revising a document and changing the format of sentences), the report just isn't well-written. The concepts are vague, the language is unclear, and the overall structure seems very haphazard. I would be embarrassed to release it, especially given the amount of hype it has received and the supposed high-profile of the think tank.
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There is an interesting article regarding the data quality act at the Univ. Colorado science policy newsletter (pdf). It points out that the law passed as a rider to a spending bill, not even on its own full merits as legislation. Note that the article points out possible benefits, as well as problems, with the bill -- it reads evenhandedly, but cautiously, worrying that the bill will spur increasing politicization over scientific data/policy.
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You mean that in the lawsuit sense, right? Not the "nude pictures of Steffi Graf" sense?
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Yeah, a lot of the particulars are really archaic. There are references to Telenet being the central phone system via which all these systems connect, the suitability of machines by IBM, NCR, and DEC for the hardware, and the use of Scotch laserdiscs for storage. It's weird stuff -- even for 1994, when this patent was issued.
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Too bad there's no "Funny, yet tragic" moderation.
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