No, their proposed tax stops at 60,000 feet, where they simply lack any jurisdiction. And the last I looked, rockets spent much of their initial launch path going up more than sideways.
The smaller the speaker diaphragm, the higher the top end, all other things being equal. Speakers in laptops and (especially) in phones and tablets are really, really small.
Just to avoid being added as a single row in a database so large that you aren't even a rounding error.
Those rounding errors add up. See "Office Space." That's what got them into the mess in the first place.
Peter spends the next several days hanging with Joanna and fishing with Lawrence. He shows up back at Initech at the request of the Bobs to find out that not only is he getting a promotion, people reporting to him, a raise and stock options, but that among others both Samir and Michael Bolton are being fired. He meets with his friends that night and asks Michael Bolton if the virus he's always talking about will really work. Michael explains that the virus will take the fractions of a penny that remain on every bank transaction and deposit them into an account. The theft will be so gradual that it will take years before it's even noticed. The three friends agree that it's a foolproof scam, and decide to put it in motion the following day before Samir and Michael are let go for good. They also agree not to tell anyone else, even though Lawrence has heard all the details of the plan through the apartment wall. Peter assures Samir and Michael that "he's cool."
The next morning Peter checks the balance in the illicit penny-pinching scam account and finds it is a shocking $305,326.13! The three friends meet, and Michael chalks the glitch up to a mundane detail that he's possibly overlooked.
The article says that each device generates a unique ID. Random IDs should work, since they won't know ahead of time what ID a particular device will generate.
Wanted: an app that broadcasts ALL these signals, making them think you've got every product already, so they won't waste their time trying to sell you anything. Or just pollute their data to the point it's useless.
Actually, it's more like the days of Microsoft charging a "Windows tax" on every computer from a manufacturer, even those on which Windows wasn't installed.
Who's talking about physiology here? Obviously there are no chemical processes in a brain frozen to near absolute zero - but in theory some electrical activity is possible, especially if energized by outside radiation. You're assuming that all intelligence requires biochemical processes. That's a big assumption, and one that we can't say one way or another, because we just don't know.
Also, a helmet shattering in a 1 degree absolute environment is going to get your brain frozen pretty fast, especially if you're standing in a pool of liquid helium that, because helium atoms are attracted to everything else more than each other, will flow up the suit and boil off when contacting the head, carrying heat away rapidly.
Nonsense. The logic has NEVER been required to be on board. Just look at the Surveyor robots on the moon. The title of this article, "Robots on the Moon", says it all. Surveyor 3 was the first robot to actually dig into the surface of an extra-terrestrial body in sutu. The arm was controlled from earth.
The first piece of experiment hardware selected for flight was a remote controlled mechanical arm. Formally known as the Soil Mechanics Surface Sampler (SMSS), this arm consisted of a simple tubular aluminum pantograph with a 13-centimeter long, five-centimeter wide scoop attached to the end. One electric motor on the SMSS allowed the pantograph to extend outwards from 58 to 150 centimeters while another opened and closed the door on the scoop. A third motor allowed movement through 112 of azimuth while a fourth provided 42 of motion in elevation. Used in conjunction with Surveyor’s slow-scan television camera, the SMSS would be operated remotely in near-real time by an operator on the Earth to provide information on the mechanical properties of the lunar soil up to a depth of half a meter. The SMSS would give scientists their first chance to touch the surface of the Moon.
The robotic arms on the shuttle and space station are also remotely controlled by humans.
So, Don't feel too old.. Unless you where alive during WW2 working at Bletchley house or some other similar effort of the day.
In the future he'll take a "quantum leap" to WW2 Bletchley, where he'll make "incredible breakthroughs" because he already knows the answers, and then kill himself because AC posters are, well, you know, ghey*.
* ghey: Usurping the traditional term GAY to take the homosexual meaning out and leaving in the lame.
The metaphor only started being applied when that tv series Quantum Leap was shown. In the show, it was a HUGE jump - time travel. The opposite of a quantum. On the other hand, "Quantum of Solace" used the term more or less properly - the killing of the bad guys in the end only provided a small teenie tin iota of solace to the protagonists.
We went to a federal VAT (Goods and Services Tax) to replace the hidden manufacturer's excise tax, and the change-over wasn't that big a deal.
And your argument that it allows countries to pretend they have low tariffs while taxing most imported goods at a very high rate shows you don't understand the issue whatsoever - VAT is applied to both imported and domestic goods and services.
We also have a refundable tax credit for consumers so that the tax isn't actually regressive.
And your claim about "avoiding cumulative VAT" is full of shit - at every stage, there's an input tax credit for VAT already paid when the business buys goods that VAT is charged on. The Total VAT collected is the same for two goods that sell at the same price, irrespective of how many hands it's passed through in the supply chain.
Sure they're robots. Robots don't need to think, same as autonomous robotic trucks don't need to. Robots are machines that do things. Welding cars is just one example. No machine has ever made it's own decisions - not even the ones that masquerade as "AI." Ultimately, it's all in the programming, even if that programming is the result of a neural network that has been given plenty of examples. Current AI is no more "real" intelligence than a block of wood.
First, the jobs are going to be lost anyway - or did you not read the story, and all the other ones lately, about the impact of silicon on jobs? There won't be very many jobs, or very much in wages to tax.
As for the steel in your example, it's simple, and done all the time in countries that have an excise tax. You get a tax credit for the VAT you paid on the steel. You charge VAT on the finished goods. You keep the credit, so only the difference between the credit and your charge for VAT reflects the value you added to the product.
As for the upper class, why not charge a sales tax on stocks and bonds? You're buying an asset - why should you get a tax break for one asset class and not for another? Even a 1% transfer tax on stocks would cut out the HFT crap. The more tax, the more important that the investment is actually worth it, instead of a unicorn.
Robots do NOT have to make their own decisions. Have you forgotten all the sci-fi plot lines with robots that were remotely controlled, and someone takes over the controls?
It's obviously reprogrammable to perform welds in different positions, duh! t's not like they're built to just weld one make and model of car in an auto factory. It's generally accepted that robotic welders ARE robots, so your definition is definitely not shared by the majority.
A robot is a machine that can be programmed to perform a variety of complex sequences of actions (e.g. an industrial robot in a car factory). This is in contrast to a machine performs a complex action for which it is mechanically specialized (e.g. a bottling machine at a brewery).
So all those specialized welding robots aren't really robots? Same with all those plasma and laser metal cutters?
An excise tax on goods produced based on their transfer though the supply chain (a value-added tax) makes more sense because it is easily measured, and imported goods can't escape it. For example, an importer will pay VAT on the total cost minus credits for any VAT the foreign manufacturer paid to the importing country for parts made in the importing country.
Mr. D is a Canadian television series starring comedian Gerry Dee. The series follows the misadventures of an underqualified schoolteacher named Gerry Duncan, nicknamed Mr. D.
"Under-qualified" is putting it mildly. The guy is a real jerk, always trying to do the least possible, take credit for others work, and is generally a jerk. He's a slacker who aspires to mediocrity. Seems this guy picked the perfect user name.:-)
I know, but strange things happen near absolute zero. Just look at Helium. Maybe at that temperature, there's no need for chemical impulses to fuel the production of electricity - whatever electricity was there would just continue to circulate, same as vortices don't break down in superfluids like He.
Probably not, but imagine the horror stories possible. Cryonically frozen, successfully revived, but every single one is totally insane after spending years with no outside stimulation. They go around killing people and eating their flesh. Maybe we could call them, I don't know, zombies?:-)
There's an old sci-fi short story of an astronaut on Pluto - suit failure, almost instantly down to almost absolute zero. Under those conditions, the electrical impulses in his brain continue to think since there's no resistance. He stands there for eternity just watching the sun rise and set, and the stars, unable to move a muscle.
Is this a life? He can't even die, but he can go crazy.
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The Battlestar Galactica remake? Vancouver.
No, their proposed tax stops at 60,000 feet, where they simply lack any jurisdiction. And the last I looked, rockets spent much of their initial launch path going up more than sideways.
The smaller the speaker diaphragm, the higher the top end, all other things being equal. Speakers in laptops and (especially) in phones and tablets are really, really small.
Just to avoid being added as a single row in a database so large that you aren't even a rounding error.
Those rounding errors add up. See "Office Space." That's what got them into the mess in the first place.
Peter spends the next several days hanging with Joanna and fishing with Lawrence. He shows up back at Initech at the request of the Bobs to find out that not only is he getting a promotion, people reporting to him, a raise and stock options, but that among others both Samir and Michael Bolton are being fired. He meets with his friends that night and asks Michael Bolton if the virus he's always talking about will really work. Michael explains that the virus will take the fractions of a penny that remain on every bank transaction and deposit them into an account. The theft will be so gradual that it will take years before it's even noticed. The three friends agree that it's a foolproof scam, and decide to put it in motion the following day before Samir and Michael are let go for good. They also agree not to tell anyone else, even though Lawrence has heard all the details of the plan through the apartment wall. Peter assures Samir and Michael that "he's cool."
The next morning Peter checks the balance in the illicit penny-pinching scam account and finds it is a shocking $305,326.13! The three friends meet, and Michael chalks the glitch up to a mundane detail that he's possibly overlooked.
The article says that each device generates a unique ID. Random IDs should work, since they won't know ahead of time what ID a particular device will generate.
Wanted: an app that broadcasts ALL these signals, making them think you've got every product already, so they won't waste their time trying to sell you anything. Or just pollute their data to the point it's useless.
Actually, it's more like the days of Microsoft charging a "Windows tax" on every computer from a manufacturer, even those on which Windows wasn't installed.
Who's talking about physiology here? Obviously there are no chemical processes in a brain frozen to near absolute zero - but in theory some electrical activity is possible, especially if energized by outside radiation. You're assuming that all intelligence requires biochemical processes. That's a big assumption, and one that we can't say one way or another, because we just don't know.
Also, a helmet shattering in a 1 degree absolute environment is going to get your brain frozen pretty fast, especially if you're standing in a pool of liquid helium that, because helium atoms are attracted to everything else more than each other, will flow up the suit and boil off when contacting the head, carrying heat away rapidly.
The first piece of experiment hardware selected for flight was a remote controlled mechanical arm. Formally known as the Soil Mechanics Surface Sampler (SMSS), this arm consisted of a simple tubular aluminum pantograph with a 13-centimeter long, five-centimeter wide scoop attached to the end. One electric motor on the SMSS allowed the pantograph to extend outwards from 58 to 150 centimeters while another opened and closed the door on the scoop. A third motor allowed movement through 112 of azimuth while a fourth provided 42 of motion in elevation. Used in conjunction with Surveyor’s slow-scan television camera, the SMSS would be operated remotely in near-real time by an operator on the Earth to provide information on the mechanical properties of the lunar soil up to a depth of half a meter. The SMSS would give scientists their first chance to touch the surface of the Moon.
The robotic arms on the shuttle and space station are also remotely controlled by humans.
Waldos are robots.
Or is it just repeating the same phrases twice to pad out a submission?
So, Don't feel too old.. Unless you where alive during WW2 working at Bletchley house or some other similar effort of the day.
In the future he'll take a "quantum leap" to WW2 Bletchley, where he'll make "incredible breakthroughs" because he already knows the answers, and then kill himself because AC posters are, well, you know, ghey*.
* ghey: Usurping the traditional term GAY to take the homosexual meaning out and leaving in the lame.
The metaphor only started being applied when that tv series Quantum Leap was shown. In the show, it was a HUGE jump - time travel. The opposite of a quantum. On the other hand, "Quantum of Solace" used the term more or less properly - the killing of the bad guys in the end only provided a small teenie tin iota of solace to the protagonists.
We went to a federal VAT (Goods and Services Tax) to replace the hidden manufacturer's excise tax, and the change-over wasn't that big a deal.
And your argument that it allows countries to pretend they have low tariffs while taxing most imported goods at a very high rate shows you don't understand the issue whatsoever - VAT is applied to both imported and domestic goods and services.
We also have a refundable tax credit for consumers so that the tax isn't actually regressive.
And your claim about "avoiding cumulative VAT" is full of shit - at every stage, there's an input tax credit for VAT already paid when the business buys goods that VAT is charged on. The Total VAT collected is the same for two goods that sell at the same price, irrespective of how many hands it's passed through in the supply chain.
Sure they're robots. Robots don't need to think, same as autonomous robotic trucks don't need to. Robots are machines that do things. Welding cars is just one example. No machine has ever made it's own decisions - not even the ones that masquerade as "AI." Ultimately, it's all in the programming, even if that programming is the result of a neural network that has been given plenty of examples. Current AI is no more "real" intelligence than a block of wood.
First, the jobs are going to be lost anyway - or did you not read the story, and all the other ones lately, about the impact of silicon on jobs? There won't be very many jobs, or very much in wages to tax.
As for the steel in your example, it's simple, and done all the time in countries that have an excise tax. You get a tax credit for the VAT you paid on the steel. You charge VAT on the finished goods. You keep the credit, so only the difference between the credit and your charge for VAT reflects the value you added to the product.
As for the upper class, why not charge a sales tax on stocks and bonds? You're buying an asset - why should you get a tax break for one asset class and not for another? Even a 1% transfer tax on stocks would cut out the HFT crap. The more tax, the more important that the investment is actually worth it, instead of a unicorn.
Robots do NOT have to make their own decisions. Have you forgotten all the sci-fi plot lines with robots that were remotely controlled, and someone takes over the controls?
I had to google it: after doing so I still don't care.
It's obviously reprogrammable to perform welds in different positions, duh! t's not like they're built to just weld one make and model of car in an auto factory. It's generally accepted that robotic welders ARE robots, so your definition is definitely not shared by the majority.
A robot is a machine that can be programmed to perform a variety of complex sequences of actions (e.g. an industrial robot in a car factory). This is in contrast to a machine performs a complex action for which it is mechanically specialized (e.g. a bottling machine at a brewery).
So all those specialized welding robots aren't really robots? Same with all those plasma and laser metal cutters?
An excise tax on goods produced based on their transfer though the supply chain (a value-added tax) makes more sense because it is easily measured, and imported goods can't escape it. For example, an importer will pay VAT on the total cost minus credits for any VAT the foreign manufacturer paid to the importing country for parts made in the importing country.
Well, you can't expect anything more form Mr. D
Mr. D is a Canadian television series starring comedian Gerry Dee. The series follows the misadventures of an underqualified schoolteacher named Gerry Duncan, nicknamed Mr. D.
"Under-qualified" is putting it mildly. The guy is a real jerk, always trying to do the least possible, take credit for others work, and is generally a jerk. He's a slacker who aspires to mediocrity. Seems this guy picked the perfect user name. :-)
Minecraft confirms it. They're blocking out the mass burial grave site even as we speak.
I know, but strange things happen near absolute zero. Just look at Helium. Maybe at that temperature, there's no need for chemical impulses to fuel the production of electricity - whatever electricity was there would just continue to circulate, same as vortices don't break down in superfluids like He.
Probably not, but imagine the horror stories possible. Cryonically frozen, successfully revived, but every single one is totally insane after spending years with no outside stimulation. They go around killing people and eating their flesh. Maybe we could call them, I don't know, zombies? :-)
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Thomas M. Disch's sci-fi story Fun With Your New HEAD (full text - about 1 page). No need for donor bodies.
There's an old sci-fi short story of an astronaut on Pluto - suit failure, almost instantly down to almost absolute zero. Under those conditions, the electrical impulses in his brain continue to think since there's no resistance. He stands there for eternity just watching the sun rise and set, and the stars, unable to move a muscle.
Is this a life? He can't even die, but he can go crazy.