Small batch Kodachrome processing is simply not possible. It's a 25 step process, generally overseen by an actual chemical engineer. The smallest it ever got was when they'd have lab set up in the back of a semi-trailer to do on-site processing at the World Series, Kentucky Derby, and similar events.
OTOH, the E-6 process used to develop Ektachrome/Fujichrome slide film can be carried out in a small home lab, and commercial processing is still widely available.
How's about we do all our trading on even seconds, or even at five second intervals. The trade interval should be an order of magnitude longer than the latency of the average transaction in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening. We keep the efficiency benefits of electronic trading and brokerages doing HFT don't get to skim the market on nano-margins. When it becomes an arbitrage arms-race, HFT benefits only the parasites.
Not so, the same fate befell the small players as did the big national ISPs and online services: They got squeezed out of the broadband market by last-mile carriers abusing their monopolies.
There's an old industrial site north of downtown that Casilly wants to turn into a water park with the same ethos. It's stuck in permit hell, but I'll continue to hold out hope.
MPEG-LA's patent portfolio is sufficiently mighty that a competing video codec would have to be designed from the ground up with the specific design goal of avoiding infringement in order to escape it's shadow. This has not been done with Theora or any other codec that I'm aware of.
Combine this with the fact that MPEG-LA's licensing terms have been sufficiently reasonable that you can get $100-300 gizmos with hardware decoders built in, there's little reason why for anyone to oppose it on practical rather than philosophical grounds.
That is necessary for your assertion to be true, but not sufficient. If you had read the full matter instead of just the FAQ, you would have learned that it applies to any goods purchased by NC taxpayers where no sales has been collected, whether the seller is in state or out-of-state.
Various states specific rules are, as they say, all over the map. Neither NC, nor my home state have any minimum-dollar-amount threshold in place, at least not that I can find. It's just not worth the State's time and effort to pursue enforcement below a certain scale. Other states give residents the option to pay a small sum based on income as an estimated use-tax covering any untaxed-purchases valued under $1000 or so. YMMV.
A point this fine is properly the domain of an accountant or tax lawyer practicing in the states in question, but generally the user should pay use tax the State B in which the item is used, and if State A attempts to tax it the owner can show them his paid tax reciept from State B.
Not quite, though the distinction is sometimes subtle. If use tax applied only to goods purchased across state lines, then you would be correct that it would be a tariff between states and unconstitutional. However, it applies generally to any transaction where the seller is not obligated to collect sales tax on behalf of the state. This is irrespective of whether the seller is in or out-of state. If I sell my stamp collection to my neighbor for $500, I am not collecting sales tax on that transaction, and my neighbor should report that and pay use-tax on his state return. It doesn't matter if he boutght it from me, or from someone out of state. His obligation would be the same.
The goods purchased may not all be taxed at the same rate, or some may be exempt. General catagories rather than specific titles may be acceptable, but a total dollar amount alone is likely insufficient for proper assessment.
NC is seeking the purchase records in an investigation of use-tax evasion by purchasers within NC. Most states don't bother trying to enforce this due to these sort of difficulties, but they have legitimate cause to do so.
So what they're saying is it's more of a Cloak of Displacement? While less stealthy, I think that's actually better odds of avoiding the hit than the penalty for attacking an invisible opponent.
It's a shame that they have to do so, but I am gladdened that there are people in the inside with enough conscience on the inside to put this material into the right hands such that there might be even a chance that some justice might be done. Given that the consequences could range from career-destruction to execution for treason or espionage, I can't fault the sources for remaining anonymous.
I remember when I first saw the WWW in action back in Spring of '94. It was a Meyers-Briggs test you took with radio-buttons, perhaps the UR-ancestor of quizilla in a'borning. My immediate reaction was, "Cool. It's like gopher with inline graphics and mouse navigation. Damn shame it's so slow."
What we do on the web today bears little resemblance to Web 1.0, and the HTML5/ubiquitous-fast-wilreless/cheap-netbooks&spart-phones future will wander even farther. While I think his turn of phrase was marketing spin, the ripple affects of a number of enabling trends and technologies of the past decade continue to coalesce in new ways; both forseen and unforseen.
We granted certiorari in these cases in which the United States seeks to enjoin the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the contents of a classified study entitled "History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Viet Nam Policy." Post, pp. 942, 943.
"Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity." Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58, 70 (1963); see also Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931). The Government "thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint."
From the leaker in that case (who did face prosecution):
I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision
-- Ellsberg on why he released the Pentagon Papers to the press
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Just the sort of intellectual whining I'd expect from an Ubunt-dude.
Small batch Kodachrome processing is simply not possible. It's a 25 step process, generally overseen by an actual chemical engineer. The smallest it ever got was when they'd have lab set up in the back of a semi-trailer to do on-site processing at the World Series, Kentucky Derby, and similar events.
OTOH, the E-6 process used to develop Ektachrome/Fujichrome slide film can be carried out in a small home lab, and commercial processing is still widely available.
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How's about we do all our trading on even seconds, or even at five second intervals. The trade interval should be an order of magnitude longer than the latency of the average transaction in order to prevent this sort of thing from happening. We keep the efficiency benefits of electronic trading and brokerages doing HFT don't get to skim the market on nano-margins. When it becomes an arbitrage arms-race, HFT benefits only the parasites.
I'm thinking the bit about only white male landowners voting is a bit behind the times. Hooray for amendments.
Hopefully the patent examiners will check it themselves before approving applications.
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:"Where did they all go?"
:::"Economies of scale happened to them."
Not so, the same fate befell the small players as did the big national ISPs and online services: They got squeezed out of the broadband market by last-mile carriers abusing their monopolies.
Sadly, some Wikador has flagged it as vandalism.
"Wikador" --A malmanteau combining "Wikipedia" and "Matador," the latter standing in semantically for "Editor."
There's an old industrial site north of downtown that Casilly wants to turn into a water park with the same ethos. It's stuck in permit hell, but I'll continue to hold out hope.
MPEG-LA's patent portfolio is sufficiently mighty that a competing video codec would have to be designed from the ground up with the specific design goal of avoiding infringement in order to escape it's shadow. This has not been done with Theora or any other codec that I'm aware of.
Combine this with the fact that MPEG-LA's licensing terms have been sufficiently reasonable that you can get $100-300 gizmos with hardware decoders built in, there's little reason why for anyone to oppose it on practical rather than philosophical grounds.
That is necessary for your assertion to be true, but not sufficient. If you had read the full matter instead of just the FAQ, you would have learned that it applies to any goods purchased by NC taxpayers where no sales has been collected, whether the seller is in state or out-of-state.
Various states specific rules are, as they say, all over the map. Neither NC, nor my home state have any minimum-dollar-amount threshold in place, at least not that I can find. It's just not worth the State's time and effort to pursue enforcement below a certain scale. Other states give residents the option to pay a small sum based on income as an estimated use-tax covering any untaxed-purchases valued under $1000 or so. YMMV.
A point this fine is properly the domain of an accountant or tax lawyer practicing in the states in question, but generally the user should pay use tax the State B in which the item is used, and if State A attempts to tax it the owner can show them his paid tax reciept from State B.
Not quite, though the distinction is sometimes subtle. If use tax applied only to goods purchased across state lines, then you would be correct that it would be a tariff between states and unconstitutional. However, it applies generally to any transaction where the seller is not obligated to collect sales tax on behalf of the state. This is irrespective of whether the seller is in or out-of state. If I sell my stamp collection to my neighbor for $500, I am not collecting sales tax on that transaction, and my neighbor should report that and pay use-tax on his state return. It doesn't matter if he boutght it from me, or from someone out of state. His obligation would be the same.
The goods purchased may not all be taxed at the same rate, or some may be exempt. General catagories rather than specific titles may be acceptable, but a total dollar amount alone is likely insufficient for proper assessment.
NC is seeking the purchase records in an investigation of use-tax evasion by purchasers within NC. Most states don't bother trying to enforce this due to these sort of difficulties, but they have legitimate cause to do so.
So what they're saying is it's more of a Cloak of Displacement? While less stealthy, I think that's actually better odds of avoiding the hit than the penalty for attacking an invisible opponent.
It's a shame that they have to do so, but I am gladdened that there are people in the inside with enough conscience on the inside to put this material into the right hands such that there might be even a chance that some justice might be done. Given that the consequences could range from career-destruction to execution for treason or espionage, I can't fault the sources for remaining anonymous.
Responsible republics don't deploy .0 releases.
I remember when I first saw the WWW in action back in Spring of '94. It was a Meyers-Briggs test you took with radio-buttons, perhaps the UR-ancestor of quizilla in a'borning. My immediate reaction was, "Cool. It's like gopher with inline graphics and mouse navigation. Damn shame it's so slow."
What we do on the web today bears little resemblance to Web 1.0, and the HTML5/ubiquitous-fast-wilreless/cheap-netbooks&spart-phones future will wander even farther. While I think his turn of phrase was marketing spin, the ripple affects of a number of enabling trends and technologies of the past decade continue to coalesce in new ways; both forseen and unforseen.
I have a patent pending method for producing babies composed of over 75% water.
The parallels between what wikileaks does and the Pentagon Papers case are significant, and should be obvious.
From the SCOTUS Ruling in New York Times Co. v. United States:
From the leaker in that case (who did face prosecution):
-- Ellsberg on why he released the Pentagon Papers to the press
Shoot, you got my wheels turning...
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