Just having an hoa is enough to make me walk away; having to deal with someone else's opinion on your house sounds like a rental.
Not everyone knows just how much authority HOAs have and are willing to use. My first house had a HOA that ignored my request to plant roses in my yard, then threatened me when I did it anyway, not even realizing that inaction on their part gave me permission to act on my part(according to the bylaws that I had read but apparently the board had not).
I eventually sold the house at a loss(the value was supposedly up but I had to sell it fast to avoid committing regicide on the board because of the level of harassment I was getting for my roses).
(Now I live in a MUD and the rules explicitly say that anything that is completed before they they get an injunction is automatically authorized, and their only means of action is via court order)
The ones sent into space are designed to withstand an uncontrolled reentry from space. The ones used to power lighthouses (for example) are significantly less durable, and I dare say that one built into an aircraft would want the minimum acceptable shielding.
Mass for a spacecraft is far more expensive then mass for an airplane. Also, if the RTG falls out of a lighthouse it is not going to fall very far, so not nearly as much need for shock absorbing, while the uninformed people will go OMG NUCLUEAR! and aeronautic approved RTGs will need even more protections than those in spacecraft.
That would be un-American. Clearly, you can't have people living off someone else's work, even though that someone else is a machine, because...quick, help me someone here!
There would be several reasons: 1) someone *owns* that robot. They bought it, they maintain it, they supply it with raw materials. If you think anyone should be able to benefit from the sunk capitol costs of a device, do you leave your car unlocked with they keys in it and a sign saying 'feel free to use my car, please bring it back when you are done' whenever you are not driving? That is basically the same thing after all... 2) Sufficient reward for taking risks that have a net benefit. If people could not sell smartphones at a profit, they would not be anywhere near where they are today. You put together a new design and the resources to build it, add in the labor to manufacture it, then you try and sell your nifty new thing. If you are not allowed to make a profit off of selling you nifty new thing, why would you undertake the expense of deigning and producing it? After all *someone* needs to have both the funds and the desire to build the next new factory... 3) as of yet, I do not think we have general purpose Von-neuman machines that can both produce whatever we want, including their replacements, and of course collect all the needed raw materials to do so. As such, there will be human labor involved in the process at some point, and those people should be compensated for the value of their work.
Industrial robots are pretty neat, but they are hardly magical genies that can give you whatever you with at zero cost.
You are not multiplying the complexity times 50, you are multiplying it times the number of taxing authorities in the entire United states(cities+counties+states+ special purpose districts+transit districts+who knows what else) and all of those can be updated a any time. Texas alone has at least 1500 distinct taxing entities for example.
Your'e talking about a max of 50 entities that will receive disbursements. Checking against a particular table to see the sales tax rate and then calculating it and adding it to a particular line item wouldn't be all that complicated.
I live in Texas (one of 50 states) we have a state sales tax. I also live in Travis County(One of 254 counties in Texas) and Travis County has its own sales tax rate. I do not live in, but do most of my shopping in Austin(one of 1,215 incorporated cities in Texas), and Austin has it's own tax rate. Because Austin is Incorporated, things bought in Austin only have the state and city taxes, not the county taxes. Looking at the state tax information page(http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/sales/) there are also 'Transit' and 'Special Purpose Districts' with their own tax rates. Because I do not even know what sorts of Transit sales tax or Special purpose district sales tax might apply to me, I will ignore those for now.
This gives 1,470 independently managed tax rates in Texas alone. (Cities+Counties+state) I would hardly be surprised is some of these taxing entities did not even have an online presence to contact about what the current tax rate is, and you can be certain that they will not all remember to send their updated tax information to every online retailer each time they tweak their local regulations.
Admittedly Texas is a pretty big state, and there are probably less than (1470*50=)73,500 distinct and independent taxing bodies (that can update their tax code either at any time they feel like it or according to a set of regulations that are probably distinct for each one) in the United states, but that is at least the correct scale of the problem. Or it is if you *only* sell to the United States, if you sell international too, things start to get messy...
Do you even know if the city but not county rule/law is in effect for all the states in the US?
I have lived in different parts of Travis County for more than 30 years, and I do not even know if there are any Transit or Special District sales taxes that I currently pay, and you think that some start-up that sells novelty bobble-headed dolls and pez dispensers could easily track down all the taxes they need to charge each and every one of their customers?
You've fallen for the fallacy that when rich people have money, they invest it, and all investment leads to more economic activity. Unfortunately, it's not true. Real investment that creates wealth only happens when there's enough demand for the wealth created.
When there is not enough demand for the wealth, the cost of that wealth is reduced until there is demand for it. A bank is not going to just sit on a pile of money, they will re-loan that money even if they only get a small return on it because a small return is better than no return. That would be called 'lowering interest rates'. (not counting the roughly 10% that the feds require banks to keep on-hand)
And this will do nothing to solve carbon emissions, you are taking it out of the air, to put it back again while loosing 75% of energy in the process.
That will actually make that gas-guzzler carbon-neutral if they only use gas produced from the air.
Better even since there are usually some carbon deposits left in/on the vehicle.
Also, what kind of energy losses would you usually expect when sending electricity to a station out in the middle of nowhere that needs to have connectors that will allow you to recharge your car the equivalent of 4-5 gallons/minute?
There will probably be a legal classification for cars that are fuel-inefficient so that they can only use carbon-neutral gas, assuming there are not regulations to require all cars to use carbon neutral gas...
It's also probably worth noting that impulse control is a resource, and the more you have to use it, the harder it becomes.
I have found impulse-control to be more like a muscle: the more you exercise it the stronger it becomes.
You would be surprised how much easier this sort of thing becomes when you make a habit of things like parking on the far-side of the lot, using a hand-basket instead of a cart when shopping, and using the stairs any time it is feasible(back when my office was on the 3rd floor I would even hold my breath while running up the stairs). Just a little bit of effort over a long time can have a huge effect.
It seems I misremembered the dates, GURPS 4th(2004) was only released 16 years after 3rd edition(1988) which was released only 2 years after the 1st and 2nd editions(1986). According to the Wikipedia article, the Fallout game was originally going to license GURPS, but then changed to use their own derivative version during development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS#Licensed_works
Have you ever encountered GURPS? (Generic Universal Role Playing System) They recently released a 4th edition(the 3rd edition was released in the 80's).
It has a point-based character generation system that uses d6 (mostly 3d6 for success rolls), but there are enough rules/optional rules to give any degree of realism you with to put in the effort to achieve. While everything you need to play is in the basic set(two books in 4th edition), they also have hundreds of generally well-researched source-books from Aztecs(pre-Spanish mezzo-America) to Biotech to Ogre(the giant cyber-tanks) to Lens-man(Based on the books by 'Doc' Smith) to Wheel of Time(Robert Jordan) to Diskworld(Terry Pratchett) to Martial arts to Celtic Myth to Supers. http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/
Of course all of the source-books from 3rd edition work just fine for 4th edition, you may want to tweak the point-costs for the few things that were not very balanced in 3rd edition, but even that is pretty optional.(4th edition mostly ironed out the bugs found in 20+ years of playing and publishing new material for 3rd edition)
My company produces a certain software product for which our customers buy licenses. I on the other hand make changes to that package and have roughly 20 copies of it sitting on my hard-drive right now. (customized for different deployments mostly)
I just copy them down from the repository and build.
It would be hard to say that I have a license for each and every copy of the platform I have, and thus you could technically say I am running unlicensed software. On the other hand, my employer owns all the copyrights to this platform and they pay me to make these changes, so I am also not in danger of being pursued for this.
If I were asked if I had a license for every piece of software on my work computer, I would consider the truthful answer to be 'no' just on the situation specified above(one that is no doubt common to many if not most in the software industry).
As the BSA wants to scare their supporters with this sort of survey(to get more $upport), I have little doubt that they make the question as vague as possible to get lots of 'Yes' answers. As such I would consider this survey to be about as accurate as a pop-up alert in my web browser claiming to have found malware on my PC.
Considering that low levels of autism-like symptoms seem to be prevalent in engineering disciplines, is this something that could be used to turn your dreamy/artistic/social child into more of a nerd/engineer type?
Also, I wonder what sort of reaction there would be if instead of autism, this paper was dealing with a potential to detect/fix some more politically sensitive group such as the GLBT community
That really depends on if you are buying 100% organic-whole-grain-gauaranteed-to-improve-your-chakra-karma-enhancing food, or just plain basic food that is good for you like carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.
All of those are available for less than $1/lb, generally under $.50/lb.
Shop the produce section in Walmart and you can find a lot of healthy food for cheap.
If they are just concerned about music, just replace every audio portion that is returned in Germany with a voice explaining that Gema has made it impossible for YouTube to play sounds in Germany for the time being. Here is their contact information.
Internet is from IP which stands for Internet(work) Protocol If you are crossing form one network(say Ethernet) to another(say DSL/Cable Internet/802.1 wireless/token ring/etc) you are on an internet If that internet is connected to the Internet Backbone then you are on The Internet. Unless Comcast's network is unconnected to the rest of the 'net, their network is part of The Internet.
For the consumer, The Internet is anything on the other side of their connection(be that a cable modem, DSL modem, ISP provided wireless router or their cellular connection.
If the Comcast service and Netflix/YouTube come in over the same IP connection, then treating them differently *IS* a net neutrality issue. The only justification for treating them differently is if they come in over different wires/media
Now, I understand the science behind vaccination, and am actually PRO vaccine, but when you can the ingredients to a box of cereal, but NOT the ingredients to a shot your a directly injecting into your infant, and more importantly a giant mega-corporation's shot with a proven track record of including known toxins like mercury.....
Sure, there is ignorance out there, but blaming parents who want to protect their children is stupid. Blame the giant corporations who included mercury in the shots in the first place.
According to the FDA and Wikipedia the only commonly recommended vaccination for children under 7 years of age that still contains Thiomersal is an Influenza vaccination for children over 2 years of age. That suggests that those parents were not only panicky and over-reacting, but also over-generalizing and uninformed.
Also, I am pretty sure that manufacturers are not allowed to put inactivated viruses inside a box of cereal they intend to sell in stores, but that inactivated virus is the entire point of a vaccine, making your box of cereal example less than useful.
Finally, the reason that those Evil Giant Corporations put it in those vaccines in the first place might not be quite so evil...
Thiomersal's main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. In multidose injectable drug delivery systems, it prevents serious adverse effects such as the Staphylococcus infection that, in one 1928 incident, killed 12 of 21 children inoculated with a diphtheria vaccine that lacked a preservative.[4] Unlike other vaccine preservatives used at the time, thiomersal does not reduce the potency of the vaccines that it protects.
(this is the first three sentences of the Use section of the Wikipedia Thiomersal article)
TFA did not specify any pre-injury base-line for intelligence. Did they all take intelligence tests before enlisting? Seems unlikely. Did they have any other way to check cognitive function prior to the injury so they had some sort of a useful base-line?
Is it possible that a majority of the differences, especially in general intelligence, were less related to the injuries and more related to nature/nurture?
How about compensation? Humans are great at adapting. Did they check their results with people who had more recent injuries?
Might be a good starting point, but it sounds like there is a lot that could affect the things they were testing for that were not isolated or otherwise accounted for.
Actually, that is a relatively new thing from what I understand. Prior to the US specifically prohibiting the state to have an official religion, the secular and religious authorities were generally two different parts of the same authority structure.
If the founders had been Muslim, that would not have been possible since Islam is supposed to encourage the formation of Islamic states. Many other religions(most perhaps?) also have specific secular authority structures as part of the religion(Church of England when the king was also the pope for example, or the religion in North Korea where the 'Dear Leader' is also a religious authority).
I think it says a lot about the wisdom of the founders of this country that so many people now consider their radical idea to be the way things really ought to be.
Television, movies, magazines and online media continually gets more and more raunchy - yet our workplaces become more and more rigid and unrealistic. Our society is doomed.
Not at all, it is just leveraging the advantages of MPD and punishing those that do not adhere to that new standard.
I personally engage at least three distinct personalities on a regular basis. I had several more, but my preferred local LARP group disbanded. (LARPs are a wonderful resource for practicing and developing multiple personalities, especially the often tricky part of disassociating the constructed personality from your normal behavior so that you don't have as much spill-over)
As far as I am aware 'handling user complaints' is not the same as creating new content, and you probably want different people creating content than those who spend most of their day dealing with complaints about Chinese gold farmers.
Science is testable and repeatable, religion isn't.
That really depends on both how well you understand the underlying principals as well as your ability to account for confirmation bias.
Considering how much confirmation bias is taken as truth and how little understanding there is about highly technical principals/devices, I think your statement is missing more than a little.
And that is before we even get in to things like the Placebo effect.
Come back when the various state lotteries go out of business due to lack of participation and I may accede your point, but for now, Science is just another form of voodoo where the head-dress and mask is a pony-tail and a pair of glasses for the vast majority of people.
Wealth is not stuff. It is the intelligent arrangement and usage of stuff. Infinite wealth is possible from even tiny amounts of raw materials - it is just harder.
So wealth = intelligence * stuff. Since stuff is obviously finite, I guess you are asserting that intelligence (or technological know-how) is infinite? Even assuming the upper limits of intelligence is unbounded (very doubtful), it is demonstrably not today.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants" -Isaac Newton
I need not be smarter than Einstein and Isaac Newton to improve things further than they did, I need only leverage the knowledge that they added to the public sphere and add a bit of my own insight to increase the intelligence portion of your formula.
Then again, there are other multipliers that are hidden in your formula. The printing press, assembly line, electricity, the telegraph, the computer, robots, and the internet all add their multipliers under the intelligence factor as well.
Collaborations across continents allowing specialists to work together across several fields allow several individuals to add together their insight to increase the value of that factor still further.
Using the same volume of seeds, sunlight, water and labor(including oil), a modern farmer can leverage greater understanding of both the weather as well as the exact nature and condition of their soil to produce a better crop than a farmer using cruder tools and methods. This includes sustainable methodologies that would keep a given patch of land producing after old methodologies would have made it useless.
While only a singularity type occurrence would allow the intelligence factor to get close to what we would consider infinity, there is no reason to believe that there is any upper bound on it when it continues to grow at an ever increasing rate.
Once that factor gets high enough, the cost/profit ratio of things like mining the moon or harvesting comets and asteroids becomes worthwhile and we will not even be restricted to the paltry resources of this one little rock.
And the best way to increase that Intelligence term still further is to give people the freedom and motivation to innovate.
The argument for a strict limit to wealth requires that a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci be worth no more than the paints and canvas that he started with, or that a computer processor be worth no more than a bit of dirty sand, or that a concert written by Mozart be worth nothing more than a blank piece of paper and a pot of ink.
Forgive my ignorance, but I just cannot see how that could be the case.
And, as well as a crime, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act also provides a civil cause of action for anyone who "suffers damage or loss by reason of a violation of this section" (note that conspiracy is also covered under the same section, so the civil cause of action would seem to be available if the damage was caused by a conspiracy to gain unauthorized access that didn't actually lead to unauthorized access, such as retaliation -- by refusal to consider for a job or, even more clearly, dismissal from one -- for failure to provide a password contrary to an agreement with the computer's owner.)
Ianal but that sounds a lot like if a potential employer asks for your facebook password you should: 1) inform them that they have just asked you to commit a federal crime and 2) if you refuse and they retaliate(such as turning you down for the position) you can sue them.
Seems to me that the best way to nip this behavior in the bud is to make sure as many people as possible know that if an interviewer asks you for a password, you refuse and then don't get the job, you can sue.
The first time one of these gets to court, the legal department of every company in the nation will come down on HR like a ton of bricks to make sure it never happens again...
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Don't forget using the IRS to harass and gather information about the strongest opposition his party faced in the 2010 election.
BS has more than one meaning.
Not when referring to 'Natural Resource Management and English lit'
Just having an hoa is enough to make me walk away; having to deal with someone else's opinion on your house sounds like a rental.
Not everyone knows just how much authority HOAs have and are willing to use.
My first house had a HOA that ignored my request to plant roses in my yard, then threatened me when I did it anyway, not even realizing that inaction on their part gave me permission to act on my part(according to the bylaws that I had read but apparently the board had not).
I eventually sold the house at a loss(the value was supposedly up but I had to sell it fast to avoid committing regicide on the board because of the level of harassment I was getting for my roses).
(Now I live in a MUD and the rules explicitly say that anything that is completed before they they get an injunction is automatically authorized, and their only means of action is via court order)
The ones sent into space are designed to withstand an uncontrolled reentry from space. The ones used to power lighthouses (for example) are significantly less durable, and I dare say that one built into an aircraft would want the minimum acceptable shielding.
Mass for a spacecraft is far more expensive then mass for an airplane.
Also, if the RTG falls out of a lighthouse it is not going to fall very far, so not nearly as much need for shock absorbing, while the uninformed people will go OMG NUCLUEAR! and aeronautic approved RTGs will need even more protections than those in spacecraft.
That would be un-American. Clearly, you can't have people living off someone else's work, even though that someone else is a machine, because...quick, help me someone here!
There would be several reasons:
1) someone *owns* that robot. They bought it, they maintain it, they supply it with raw materials.
If you think anyone should be able to benefit from the sunk capitol costs of a device, do you leave your car unlocked with they keys in it and a sign saying 'feel free to use my car, please bring it back when you are done' whenever you are not driving? That is basically the same thing after all...
2) Sufficient reward for taking risks that have a net benefit.
If people could not sell smartphones at a profit, they would not be anywhere near where they are today. You put together a new design and the resources to build it, add in the labor to manufacture it, then you try and sell your nifty new thing. If you are not allowed to make a profit off of selling you nifty new thing, why would you undertake the expense of deigning and producing it? After all *someone* needs to have both the funds and the desire to build the next new factory...
3) as of yet, I do not think we have general purpose Von-neuman machines that can both produce whatever we want, including their replacements, and of course collect all the needed raw materials to do so.
As such, there will be human labor involved in the process at some point, and those people should be compensated for the value of their work.
Industrial robots are pretty neat, but they are hardly magical genies that can give you whatever you with at zero cost.
You are not multiplying the complexity times 50, you are multiplying it times the number of taxing authorities in the entire United states(cities+counties+states+ special purpose districts+transit districts+who knows what else) and all of those can be updated a any time.
Texas alone has at least 1500 distinct taxing entities for example.
Your'e talking about a max of 50 entities that will receive disbursements. Checking against a particular table to see the sales tax rate and then calculating it and adding it to a particular line item wouldn't be all that complicated.
I live in Texas (one of 50 states) we have a state sales tax.
I also live in Travis County(One of 254 counties in Texas) and Travis County has its own sales tax rate.
I do not live in, but do most of my shopping in Austin(one of 1,215 incorporated cities in Texas), and Austin has it's own tax rate.
Because Austin is Incorporated, things bought in Austin only have the state and city taxes, not the county taxes.
Looking at the state tax information page(http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/sales/) there are also 'Transit' and 'Special Purpose Districts' with their own tax rates.
Because I do not even know what sorts of Transit sales tax or Special purpose district sales tax might apply to me, I will ignore those for now.
This gives 1,470 independently managed tax rates in Texas alone. (Cities+Counties+state)
I would hardly be surprised is some of these taxing entities did not even have an online presence to contact about what the current tax rate is, and you can be certain that they will not all remember to send their updated tax information to every online retailer each time they tweak their local regulations.
Admittedly Texas is a pretty big state, and there are probably less than (1470*50=)73,500 distinct and independent taxing bodies (that can update their tax code either at any time they feel like it or according to a set of regulations that are probably distinct for each one) in the United states, but that is at least the correct scale of the problem.
Or it is if you *only* sell to the United States, if you sell international too, things start to get messy...
Do you even know if the city but not county rule/law is in effect for all the states in the US?
I have lived in different parts of Travis County for more than 30 years, and I do not even know if there are any Transit or Special District sales taxes that I currently pay, and you think that some start-up that sells novelty bobble-headed dolls and pez dispensers could easily track down all the taxes they need to charge each and every one of their customers?
You've fallen for the fallacy that when rich people have money, they invest it, and all investment leads to more economic activity. Unfortunately, it's not true. Real investment that creates wealth only happens when there's enough demand for the wealth created.
When there is not enough demand for the wealth, the cost of that wealth is reduced until there is demand for it.
A bank is not going to just sit on a pile of money, they will re-loan that money even if they only get a small return on it because a small return is better than no return. That would be called 'lowering interest rates'.
(not counting the roughly 10% that the feds require banks to keep on-hand)
And this will do nothing to solve carbon emissions, you are taking it out of the air, to put it back again while loosing 75% of energy in the process.
That will actually make that gas-guzzler carbon-neutral if they only use gas produced from the air.
Better even since there are usually some carbon deposits left in/on the vehicle.
Also, what kind of energy losses would you usually expect when sending electricity to a station out in the middle of nowhere that needs to have connectors that will allow you to recharge your car the equivalent of 4-5 gallons/minute?
There will probably be a legal classification for cars that are fuel-inefficient so that they can only use carbon-neutral gas, assuming there are not regulations to require all cars to use carbon neutral gas...
It's also probably worth noting that impulse control is a resource, and the more you have to use it, the harder it becomes.
I have found impulse-control to be more like a muscle: the more you exercise it the stronger it becomes.
You would be surprised how much easier this sort of thing becomes when you make a habit of things like parking on the far-side of the lot, using a hand-basket instead of a cart when shopping, and using the stairs any time it is feasible(back when my office was on the 3rd floor I would even hold my breath while running up the stairs). Just a little bit of effort over a long time can have a huge effect.
It seems I misremembered the dates, GURPS 4th(2004) was only released 16 years after 3rd edition(1988) which was released only 2 years after the 1st and 2nd editions(1986).
According to the Wikipedia article, the Fallout game was originally going to license GURPS, but then changed to use their own derivative version during development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS#Licensed_works
Have you ever encountered GURPS? (Generic Universal Role Playing System)
They recently released a 4th edition(the 3rd edition was released in the 80's).
It has a point-based character generation system that uses d6 (mostly 3d6 for success rolls), but there are enough rules/optional rules to give any degree of realism you with to put in the effort to achieve. While everything you need to play is in the basic set(two books in 4th edition), they also have hundreds of generally well-researched source-books from Aztecs(pre-Spanish mezzo-America) to Biotech to Ogre(the giant cyber-tanks) to Lens-man(Based on the books by 'Doc' Smith) to Wheel of Time(Robert Jordan) to Diskworld(Terry Pratchett) to Martial arts to Celtic Myth to Supers. http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/
Of course all of the source-books from 3rd edition work just fine for 4th edition, you may want to tweak the point-costs for the few things that were not very balanced in 3rd edition, but even that is pretty optional.(4th edition mostly ironed out the bugs found in 20+ years of playing and publishing new material for 3rd edition)
My company produces a certain software product for which our customers buy licenses.
I on the other hand make changes to that package and have roughly 20 copies of it sitting on my hard-drive right now. (customized for different deployments mostly)
I just copy them down from the repository and build.
It would be hard to say that I have a license for each and every copy of the platform I have, and thus you could technically say I am running unlicensed software.
On the other hand, my employer owns all the copyrights to this platform and they pay me to make these changes, so I am also not in danger of being pursued for this.
If I were asked if I had a license for every piece of software on my work computer, I would consider the truthful answer to be 'no' just on the situation specified above(one that is no doubt common to many if not most in the software industry).
As the BSA wants to scare their supporters with this sort of survey(to get more $upport), I have little doubt that they make the question as vague as possible to get lots of 'Yes' answers. As such I would consider this survey to be about as accurate as a pop-up alert in my web browser claiming to have found malware on my PC.
Considering that low levels of autism-like symptoms seem to be prevalent in engineering disciplines, is this something that could be used to turn your dreamy/artistic/social child into more of a nerd/engineer type?
Also, I wonder what sort of reaction there would be if instead of autism, this paper was dealing with a potential to detect/fix some more politically sensitive group such as the GLBT community
That really depends on if you are buying 100% organic-whole-grain-gauaranteed-to-improve-your-chakra-karma-enhancing food, or just plain basic food that is good for you like carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.
All of those are available for less than $1/lb, generally under $.50/lb.
Shop the produce section in Walmart and you can find a lot of healthy food for cheap.
If they are just concerned about music, just replace every audio portion that is returned in Germany with a voice explaining that Gema has made it impossible for YouTube to play sounds in Germany for the time being. Here is their contact information.
Internet is from IP which stands for Internet(work) Protocol
If you are crossing form one network(say Ethernet) to another(say DSL/Cable Internet/802.1 wireless/token ring/etc) you are on an internet
If that internet is connected to the Internet Backbone then you are on The Internet.
Unless Comcast's network is unconnected to the rest of the 'net, their network is part of The Internet.
For the consumer, The Internet is anything on the other side of their connection(be that a cable modem, DSL modem, ISP provided wireless router or their cellular connection.
If the Comcast service and Netflix/YouTube come in over the same IP connection, then treating them differently *IS* a net neutrality issue. The only justification for treating them differently is if they come in over different wires/media
Now, I understand the science behind vaccination, and am actually PRO vaccine, but when you can the ingredients to a box of cereal, but NOT the ingredients to a shot your a directly injecting into your infant, and more importantly a giant mega-corporation's shot with a proven track record of including known toxins like mercury.....
Sure, there is ignorance out there, but blaming parents who want to protect their children is stupid. Blame the giant corporations who included mercury in the shots in the first place.
According to the FDA and Wikipedia the only commonly recommended vaccination for children under 7 years of age that still contains Thiomersal is an Influenza vaccination for children over 2 years of age.
That suggests that those parents were not only panicky and over-reacting, but also over-generalizing and uninformed.
Also, I am pretty sure that manufacturers are not allowed to put inactivated viruses inside a box of cereal they intend to sell in stores, but that inactivated virus is the entire point of a vaccine, making your box of cereal example less than useful.
Finally, the reason that those Evil Giant Corporations put it in those vaccines in the first place might not be quite so evil...
Thiomersal's main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. In multidose injectable drug delivery systems, it prevents serious adverse effects such as the Staphylococcus infection that, in one 1928 incident, killed 12 of 21 children inoculated with a diphtheria vaccine that lacked a preservative.[4] Unlike other vaccine preservatives used at the time, thiomersal does not reduce the potency of the vaccines that it protects.
(this is the first three sentences of the Use section of the Wikipedia Thiomersal article)
References:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal
TFA did not specify any pre-injury base-line for intelligence.
Did they all take intelligence tests before enlisting?
Seems unlikely.
Did they have any other way to check cognitive function prior to the injury so they had some sort of a useful base-line?
Is it possible that a majority of the differences, especially in general intelligence, were less related to the injuries and more related to nature/nurture?
How about compensation?
Humans are great at adapting.
Did they check their results with people who had more recent injuries?
Might be a good starting point, but it sounds like there is a lot that could affect the things they were testing for that were not isolated or otherwise accounted for.
Actually, that is a relatively new thing from what I understand.
Prior to the US specifically prohibiting the state to have an official religion, the secular and religious authorities were generally two different parts of the same authority structure.
If the founders had been Muslim, that would not have been possible since Islam is supposed to encourage the formation of Islamic states. Many other religions(most perhaps?) also have specific secular authority structures as part of the religion(Church of England when the king was also the pope for example, or the religion in North Korea where the 'Dear Leader' is also a religious authority).
I think it says a lot about the wisdom of the founders of this country that so many people now consider their radical idea to be the way things really ought to be.
Television, movies, magazines and online media continually gets more and more raunchy - yet our workplaces become more and more rigid and unrealistic. Our society is doomed.
Not at all, it is just leveraging the advantages of MPD and punishing those that do not adhere to that new standard.
I personally engage at least three distinct personalities on a regular basis.
I had several more, but my preferred local LARP group disbanded.
(LARPs are a wonderful resource for practicing and developing multiple personalities, especially the often tricky part of disassociating the constructed personality from your normal behavior so that you don't have as much spill-over)
As far as I am aware 'handling user complaints' is not the same as creating new content, and you probably want different people creating content than those who spend most of their day dealing with complaints about Chinese gold farmers.
Science is testable and repeatable, religion isn't.
That really depends on both how well you understand the underlying principals as well as your ability to account for confirmation bias.
Considering how much confirmation bias is taken as truth and how little understanding there is about highly technical principals/devices, I think your statement is missing more than a little.
And that is before we even get in to things like the Placebo effect.
Come back when the various state lotteries go out of business due to lack of participation and I may accede your point, but for now, Science is just another form of voodoo where the head-dress and mask is a pony-tail and a pair of glasses for the vast majority of people.
Wealth is not stuff. It is the intelligent arrangement and usage of stuff. Infinite wealth is possible from even tiny amounts of raw materials - it is just harder.
So wealth = intelligence * stuff. Since stuff is obviously finite, I guess you are asserting that intelligence (or technological know-how) is infinite? Even assuming the upper limits of intelligence is unbounded (very doubtful), it is demonstrably not today.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants" -Isaac Newton
I need not be smarter than Einstein and Isaac Newton to improve things further than they did, I need only leverage the knowledge that they added to the public sphere and add a bit of my own insight to increase the intelligence portion of your formula.
Then again, there are other multipliers that are hidden in your formula. The printing press, assembly line, electricity, the telegraph, the computer, robots, and the internet all add their multipliers under the intelligence factor as well.
Collaborations across continents allowing specialists to work together across several fields allow several individuals to add together their insight to increase the value of that factor still further.
Using the same volume of seeds, sunlight, water and labor(including oil), a modern farmer can leverage greater understanding of both the weather as well as the exact nature and condition of their soil to produce a better crop than a farmer using cruder tools and methods. This includes sustainable methodologies that would keep a given patch of land producing after old methodologies would have made it useless.
While only a singularity type occurrence would allow the intelligence factor to get close to what we would consider infinity, there is no reason to believe that there is any upper bound on it when it continues to grow at an ever increasing rate.
Once that factor gets high enough, the cost/profit ratio of things like mining the moon or harvesting comets and asteroids becomes worthwhile and we will not even be restricted to the paltry resources of this one little rock.
And the best way to increase that Intelligence term still further is to give people the freedom and motivation to innovate.
The argument for a strict limit to wealth requires that a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci be worth no more than the paints and canvas that he started with, or that a computer processor be worth no more than a bit of dirty sand, or that a concert written by Mozart be worth nothing more than a blank piece of paper and a pot of ink.
Forgive my ignorance, but I just cannot see how that could be the case.
And, as well as a crime, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act also provides a civil cause of action for anyone who "suffers damage or loss by reason of a violation of this section" (note that conspiracy is also covered under the same section, so the civil cause of action would seem to be available if the damage was caused by a conspiracy to gain unauthorized access that didn't actually lead to unauthorized access, such as retaliation -- by refusal to consider for a job or, even more clearly, dismissal from one -- for failure to provide a password contrary to an agreement with the computer's owner.)
Ianal but that sounds a lot like if a potential employer asks for your facebook password you should:
1) inform them that they have just asked you to commit a federal crime
and 2) if you refuse and they retaliate(such as turning you down for the position) you can sue them.
Seems to me that the best way to nip this behavior in the bud is to make sure as many people as possible know that if an interviewer asks you for a password, you refuse and then don't get the job, you can sue.
The first time one of these gets to court, the legal department of every company in the nation will come down on HR like a ton of bricks to make sure it never happens again...