"Basic cable": 1GB monthly cap at some ridiculously low bitrate and/or contended connections (like, one 10MBit fibre into a tower or some shit to a 500:1 contention ratio), pay-for terminal equipment (great, superfast BB but you have to pay to rent the box or you get BC when you take out a phone/tv bundle). Or are we talking about "Basic cable TV" which'll be offered in a similar way: 20 channels bundled when you take a phone/BB deal?
Apple's group finance company, which has no operations and no shareholders and no employees, is registered in Ireland. Because it has no operations and no shareholders and no employees, it has no turnover, therefore doesn't pay tax.
THE DODGE:
Apple's sales revenues in the US are routed through this holding company in Ireland hence those sales are not actually done through a company registered in the US. They're done through a company registered in Ireland, which, having said that they have no employees, no shareholders and no operations, isn't liable for tax on money passing through it because it *creates no value*. Ergo, Apple pays no tax on revenue generated in the US because legally it doesn't, and no tax on operations in Ireland because while there is a ghost company called Apple, Inc, registered in Ireland, it is just that - a ghost entity that goes nowhere and does nothing EXCEPT handle a money stream that doesn't belong to it. It does no business in Ireland whatsoever. Any sales Apple do in Ireland are handled through a similar ghost entity registered in Luxembourg and like its Irish cousin, claims zero tax residence (because you don't HAVE to declare a tax residence when you don't PAY any tax).
I saw a programme that dealt with this a while ago, it was using the WTC Twin Towers as a use case in splitting elevator loads and why the decision was made to stagger the system rather than have shafts that went from the basement to the roof. It wasn't a question of cabling, it was a question of how many full-height shafts can you cram into a building and stil have a habitable space?
taking into account orbital drift, it's easier to lock a geostationary position than it is to follow a satellite through potentially something like the South Atlantic Anomaly (which doesn't reach as far as GSO) and watch it drop 15 miles suddenly, only to pop up again 77 seconds later like a cork on the surf, then wait for its companion to do the same thing and HOPE it is still in precisely the same orbit.
car weight. Bear in mind you're lifting a deadweight vertically potentially through several hundred feet. That is a LOT of gravity well to overcome. The lighter your car, the better. If your combined car+rope is lighter than car+cable+attached motor for the same shaft, it makes sense to go with the cable and offload the motor to the building that isn't moving.
that's the ticket - you want the car + load to be as light as possible. Basically all you want on the car is the anchor point for hte rope, some way to get power inside the car and power for the emergency system. That's enough weight, the big building that isn't going anywhere can take the several-hundred-pound motor and gearbox and keep it sequestered in the roof.
you can build as high as you want as long as you can build a cable long enough to service the elevator. Cable length isn't a problem, the weight of the cable is. In systems such as this very simplified model of a counterweighted elevator http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/bt4... it's assumed that the rope weighs nothing, therefore the counterweight only needs to weigh 25lb - even taking into account the rope's weight, all other things being equal it balances itself. That's handy, scaling up you only need a 400lb counterweight for a lift rated at MGW: 1600lb (ten persons (800lb) + 800lb car). This arrangement does of course necessitate four times the length of cable as the height of the shaft, and with another shaft-length you can actually mount the motor at the bottom, negating the requirement for a counterweight - the motor only has to overcome the weight of the car through the system, which practically means it's pulling against a quarter of it. For some reason that's not really practical, so in this arrangement you'd have a counterweight one side, top-anchor the other end of the rope and have the motor roll the cable somewhere in between. FWIW when you see an elevator car with four cables, you're not seeing four cables, it's one cable. It's this arrangement of three (strictly, four, but the car pulley can be and often is a twin) pulleys, a counterweight and a top anchor. Other setups have the anchor point actually on the roof of the car, still others have the car and the counterweight on their own bottom pulleys, both ends top-anchored and the motor in the middle sharing rope between essentially two double systems.
(grew up in a tower where the elevator spent more time stuck between floors than enough, often with me trapped in it. Hearing firefighters clambering around up there to attach car batteries to the brake solenoids so they can lower the car to the ground after eight hours is a terrifying thing for a four year old. Nerd points for spotting the ropes and asking about them when they were fixing the thing, though).
alternatively we could just invent another pretext to invade Syria so we can grab up the land and finish the Qatar gas pipeline.Then oil can do what it wants and Russia can go fuck itself since Eastern Europe will then have another source of natural gas.
didn't they do that in TNG with a seed species that spawned every other humanoid race in the Galaxy?
(checking, and yes. episode #146, S6E20 "The Chase", written by J. Monosky and RDM, directed by J. Frakes. Very enjoyable episode that yet again shows Frakes' skill as a director far outshines his lack of skill as an actor).
Not an AC here. It's still at -1, and I agree, there's a bit of rage moderation going on in here. There are tells on styles of writing that experienced readers will be able to read and say "Oh, that AC is that registered user", which is particularly troublesome when downmodded comments turn out to be the most insightful, on topic gems and very often the least offensive, that get modded to oblivion just because someone's been made to look like an idiot on a forum.
when you can run down the entire periodic table in a relatively miniscule thermonuclear explosion here on Earth, what makes you think a 5Ms exploding ball of plasma can't do exactly the same on a proportionately massive scale?
Turning ingame chat OFF does a lot of favours for the game - I don't even see what other players are typing while I'm shooting the snot out of them from clear across the map.
and judgemental cunts like to post AC and troll forums making out they're some sort of fucking saint. FOAD you sanctimonious prick. I bet parent is... no, I'll fucking guarantee Parent doesn't know who his father was.
"To Serve and Protect" does NOT infer "Take a bullet for Joe Sixpack". Their OATH is to SERVE the Public Trust and to PROTECT the Sanctity of the Constitution of the United States.
From the Utah State Police Oath of Office, Article IV Section X of the Utah Constitution: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.”
The International Association of Chiefs of Police goes further in actually defining terms with its own Oath of Office:
"On my honour, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character, or the public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the constitution my community and the agency I serve."
Before any officer takes the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor, it is important that he/she understands what it means. An oath is a solemn pledge someone makes when he/she sincerely intends to do what he/she says.
Honor means that one's word is given as a guarantee. Betray is defined as breaking faith with the public trust. Badge is the symbol of your office. Integrity is being the same person in both private and public life. Character means the qualities that distinguish an individual. Public trust is a charge of duty imposed in faith toward those you serve. Courage is having the strength to withstand unethical pressure, fear or danger. Accountability means that you are answerable and responsible to your oath of office. Community is the jurisdiction and citizens served.
From those two examples alone, it can be seen that the police Oath is not to protect persons or property, but to protect the letter and spirit of the Law as it is intended. The ONLY personal pledge made by any LEO is that made by British Constables who swear allegiance to the Head of State (currently Elizabeth Windsor, AKA, Re. II), which means at any time any Constable may be called to attend Her Royal Personage and by his Oath he MUST obey. That does NOT mean he takes a bullet for her. She has her own private army for that and they get paid an OBSCENE amount of money. She takes her own personal safety and takes personal responsibility for it, same as everybody else. It is only by accident of birth that her protection gets to run around with guns.
The ISS is shy of half a million kilogrammes and 108m on it's longest side. At an orbital height of ~430km it's visible to the naked eye, but only discernible to the naked eye for those with 20/20 visual acuity, since its angular diameter is at the limit (1 second of arc). For something at GSO to have the same angular diameter it would have to be 83 times larger (be 9km wide).
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what, you expect me to RTFA?? This is Slashdot, not the BBC... :p
"Basic cable": 1GB monthly cap at some ridiculously low bitrate and/or contended connections (like, one 10MBit fibre into a tower or some shit to a 500:1 contention ratio), pay-for terminal equipment (great, superfast BB but you have to pay to rent the box or you get BC when you take out a phone/tv bundle). Or are we talking about "Basic cable TV" which'll be offered in a similar way: 20 channels bundled when you take a phone/BB deal?
I've seen this shit before.
uh, yes I clearly do.
FYI:
Apple's group finance company, which has no operations and no shareholders and no employees, is registered in Ireland. Because it has no operations and no shareholders and no employees, it has no turnover, therefore doesn't pay tax.
THE DODGE:
Apple's sales revenues in the US are routed through this holding company in Ireland hence those sales are not actually done through a company registered in the US. They're done through a company registered in Ireland, which, having said that they have no employees, no shareholders and no operations, isn't liable for tax on money passing through it because it *creates no value*. Ergo, Apple pays no tax on revenue generated in the US because legally it doesn't, and no tax on operations in Ireland because while there is a ghost company called Apple, Inc, registered in Ireland, it is just that - a ghost entity that goes nowhere and does nothing EXCEPT handle a money stream that doesn't belong to it. It does no business in Ireland whatsoever. Any sales Apple do in Ireland are handled through a similar ghost entity registered in Luxembourg and like its Irish cousin, claims zero tax residence (because you don't HAVE to declare a tax residence when you don't PAY any tax).
because it trades on the US market, mayhap?
Simple rule: if you trade on the floor, you pay the fucking rent.
26% tax on 0 turnover... is 0.
(no I haven't read the filing, I just know how these tax dodges work).
Kim Darby was 19 when she filmed that. Troll fail.
I saw a programme that dealt with this a while ago, it was using the WTC Twin Towers as a use case in splitting elevator loads and why the decision was made to stagger the system rather than have shafts that went from the basement to the roof. It wasn't a question of cabling, it was a question of how many full-height shafts can you cram into a building and stil have a habitable space?
taking into account orbital drift, it's easier to lock a geostationary position than it is to follow a satellite through potentially something like the South Atlantic Anomaly (which doesn't reach as far as GSO) and watch it drop 15 miles suddenly, only to pop up again 77 seconds later like a cork on the surf, then wait for its companion to do the same thing and HOPE it is still in precisely the same orbit.
car weight. Bear in mind you're lifting a deadweight vertically potentially through several hundred feet. That is a LOT of gravity well to overcome. The lighter your car, the better. If your combined car+rope is lighter than car+cable+attached motor for the same shaft, it makes sense to go with the cable and offload the motor to the building that isn't moving.
that's the ticket - you want the car + load to be as light as possible. Basically all you want on the car is the anchor point for hte rope, some way to get power inside the car and power for the emergency system. That's enough weight, the big building that isn't going anywhere can take the several-hundred-pound motor and gearbox and keep it sequestered in the roof.
you can build as high as you want as long as you can build a cable long enough to service the elevator. Cable length isn't a problem, the weight of the cable is. In systems such as this very simplified model of a counterweighted elevator http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/bt4... it's assumed that the rope weighs nothing, therefore the counterweight only needs to weigh 25lb - even taking into account the rope's weight, all other things being equal it balances itself. That's handy, scaling up you only need a 400lb counterweight for a lift rated at MGW: 1600lb (ten persons (800lb) + 800lb car). This arrangement does of course necessitate four times the length of cable as the height of the shaft, and with another shaft-length you can actually mount the motor at the bottom, negating the requirement for a counterweight - the motor only has to overcome the weight of the car through the system, which practically means it's pulling against a quarter of it. For some reason that's not really practical, so in this arrangement you'd have a counterweight one side, top-anchor the other end of the rope and have the motor roll the cable somewhere in between. FWIW when you see an elevator car with four cables, you're not seeing four cables, it's one cable. It's this arrangement of three (strictly, four, but the car pulley can be and often is a twin) pulleys, a counterweight and a top anchor. Other setups have the anchor point actually on the roof of the car, still others have the car and the counterweight on their own bottom pulleys, both ends top-anchored and the motor in the middle sharing rope between essentially two double systems.
(grew up in a tower where the elevator spent more time stuck between floors than enough, often with me trapped in it. Hearing firefighters clambering around up there to attach car batteries to the brake solenoids so they can lower the car to the ground after eight hours is a terrifying thing for a four year old. Nerd points for spotting the ropes and asking about them when they were fixing the thing, though).
alternatively we could just invent another pretext to invade Syria so we can grab up the land and finish the Qatar gas pipeline.Then oil can do what it wants and Russia can go fuck itself since Eastern Europe will then have another source of natural gas.
Colour me cynical.
In tribute to the late, great Robin Williams:
Ask Dr. Ruth. No, not the short Jewish woman, the big black mama called Doctor ROOF!
"Ya can't make butter wid' a toothpick!"
anecdote disproves theory != anomaly.
oh, to have mod points, Miri is my favourite episode.
didn't they do that in TNG with a seed species that spawned every other humanoid race in the Galaxy?
(checking, and yes. episode #146, S6E20 "The Chase", written by J. Monosky and RDM, directed by J. Frakes. Very enjoyable episode that yet again shows Frakes' skill as a director far outshines his lack of skill as an actor).
Not an AC here. It's still at -1, and I agree, there's a bit of rage moderation going on in here. There are tells on styles of writing that experienced readers will be able to read and say "Oh, that AC is that registered user", which is particularly troublesome when downmodded comments turn out to be the most insightful, on topic gems and very often the least offensive, that get modded to oblivion just because someone's been made to look like an idiot on a forum.
when you can run down the entire periodic table in a relatively miniscule thermonuclear explosion here on Earth, what makes you think a 5Ms exploding ball of plasma can't do exactly the same on a proportionately massive scale?
Turning ingame chat OFF does a lot of favours for the game - I don't even see what other players are typing while I'm shooting the snot out of them from clear across the map.
my bad, 1 minute of arc. The numbers are the same for the extrapolation though.
and judgemental cunts like to post AC and troll forums making out they're some sort of fucking saint. FOAD you sanctimonious prick. I bet parent is... no, I'll fucking guarantee Parent doesn't know who his father was.
yes. You should floor it and plow into a fucking wall, you pedantic fucking prick.
"To Serve and Protect" does NOT infer "Take a bullet for Joe Sixpack". Their OATH is to SERVE the Public Trust and to PROTECT the Sanctity of the Constitution of the United States.
From the Utah State Police Oath of Office, Article IV Section X of the Utah Constitution:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.”
The International Association of Chiefs of Police goes further in actually defining terms with its own Oath of Office:
"On my honour,
I will never betray my badge,
my integrity, my character,
or the public trust.
I will always have
the courage to hold myself
and others accountable for our actions.
I will always uphold the constitution
my community and the agency I serve."
Before any officer takes the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor, it is important that he/she understands what it means. An oath is a solemn pledge someone makes when he/she sincerely intends to do what he/she says.
Honor means that one's word is given as a guarantee.
Betray is defined as breaking faith with the public trust.
Badge is the symbol of your office.
Integrity is being the same person in both private and public life.
Character means the qualities that distinguish an individual.
Public trust is a charge of duty imposed in faith toward those you serve.
Courage is having the strength to withstand unethical pressure, fear or danger.
Accountability means that you are answerable and responsible to your oath of office.
Community is the jurisdiction and citizens served.
From those two examples alone, it can be seen that the police Oath is not to protect persons or property, but to protect the letter and spirit of the Law as it is intended. The ONLY personal pledge made by any LEO is that made by British Constables who swear allegiance to the Head of State (currently Elizabeth Windsor, AKA, Re. II), which means at any time any Constable may be called to attend Her Royal Personage and by his Oath he MUST obey. That does NOT mean he takes a bullet for her. She has her own private army for that and they get paid an OBSCENE amount of money. She takes her own personal safety and takes personal responsibility for it, same as everybody else. It is only by accident of birth that her protection gets to run around with guns.
interesting, the L1 Lagrange point is full of dust though, that might kill the optics very quickly.
and several times further away.
The ISS is shy of half a million kilogrammes and 108m on it's longest side. At an orbital height of ~430km it's visible to the naked eye, but only discernible to the naked eye for those with 20/20 visual acuity, since its angular diameter is at the limit (1 second of arc). For something at GSO to have the same angular diameter it would have to be 83 times larger (be 9km wide).