The Washington state sales tax is 6.5%, only a tad higher than the national average..
This is only factual in the strictest sense. The STATE's portion of the sales tax is only 6.5% but each county and municipality levies additional percentages, so ultimately the tax on sales WITHIN the state tends to be 8.6 to 9.0 % depending on where you are standing. I believe overall we have the second highest sales taxes in the nation, just behind New York. We also pay some of the highest taxes on liquor (only sold in state controlled stores), tobacco, and gasoline in the nation.
Also consider that King County (and others) levies a Business & Occupations tax for the "privilege" of doing business here, plus we have a corporate income tax (no personal income tax though) and extremely high property taxes. Additionally, the smoking ban effectively killed live music in Seattle, if you're a business, you can be fined hundreds of dollars for putting recyclables in the garbage (seriously), there's no alcohol allowed in strip clubs, we have the worst traffic in the entire country, and it rains about 260 days a year. In general, Washington is a shitty place to live and work.
Hell, the street view stuff from Google Maps is almost useless in some areas it is soooooo out of date.
Is Google Earth any more up to date than that?
I don't see anyone answering this question. Google Maps is completely worthless and even dangerous in fast-growing cities. You could end up driving into a hole in the ground if you treat it like factual data.
In particular, the Las Vegas images are completely obsolete for most of the area on and around the Strip. A lot of what it depicts was imploded years ago and is now either a vacant lot or a completely different structure. A number of the streets have moved around and entire blocks reshaped. I understand that the US is an unfathomably huge area to photograph, but the vast majority of it hasn't changed in ten thousand years. I don't understand why a higher priority isn't given to dynamic environments. Cities like Vegas almost need live cameras to keep current rather than still images.
Beat most of them by a few years too. The 99/4 came out in 1978 and had console basic. The 99/4A and the Extended Basic cartridge arrived in 1979. It was the first 16-bit processor in consumer-land, had 256 color graphics, and a Yamaha 4-voice audio chip. It had an optional 5.25" floppy disk system, acoustic-coupled 300 baud modem, assembler cartridge, and a voice synthesizer add-on. All others were mere toys by comparison.
If you really expect "unlimited" resources for a trivial amount of money, you're a clueless cheapskate and no reputable hosting company wants you as a customer. Companies that advertise "unlimited" anything have mountains of fine print in their TOS. If you become inconvenient to host because you actually believed their line of bullshit on the front page and attempt to use large amounts of disk space or bandwidth, your account will be deleted for any number of petty excuses like excessive CPU cycles or memory usage.
Also, domain registration and web hosting have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Any hosting company that tries to tie the two together as one product is scum and should be avoided. Go register your domains with any Enom or WildWest (GoDaddy) reseller and then go get your hosting somewhere else.
Remember, shopping for hosting on price is a fools game. SLAs and quality service cost a shitload of money. If you don't pay for them, you won't get them.
That's because abuse@ and postmaster@ are the FIRST addresses to get spamblasted on every domain. They have been completely useless for ALL of this millenium.
Face it, the RCFs for most internet protocols were written decades ago for government and academia and were not based on a commercial-use network. FTP, Telnet, NNTP, SMTP, IRC are all obsolete junk and need to just go away like Gopher, Archie, Veronica, etc. There's too much invested in TCP to completely rewrite the way the underlying network operates, but the higher-level protocols need to be replaced by encrypted, authenticated systems that can use a central authority or ring-of-trust if authentication is mission-critical. Email should be the first to go. It's not enough to cover these junk systems with security add-ons & bandaids. They need to be completely rebuilt from scratch to include both public and restricted, private channels.
Of the 5 protocols listed above, SMTP is the only one I still run on my own servers. The others have been replaced with SCP, SSH, SSL HTTP gateways & forums, and various things like texting & twitter.
The floating bridges have a bunch running thru them connecting Seattle and the Eastside. I pulled it thru the westbound I-90 floater myself back in the early 90s when I was contracting for GTE. The bridge infrastructure had multiple 4" conduits built in.
Comcast: "You can't roll out fiber in our market. we'll sue you"
Google: "That's an awfully nice page rank you have there on search terms like broadband. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. A real shame. Do we understand each other? Great. Big Pauley will be around later with some paperwork for youse to sign. Have a nice day."
Silicon has a 0.7v drop across a pn junction, whereas germanium only drops 0.3v. I would imagine that being able to use much lower operating voltage has some benefits.
There hasn't been an "exciting" Pontiac since they stopped making Pontiac engines. My '64 GTO was essentially a Chevelle with a nose job, but it came with a pretty hefty Pontiac 389. I eventually yanked it out and stuck in a 421 Tri-power engine from a Catalina. I also owned a 67 GTO with a 400 and a 67 Firebird with a 326 (which I replaced with a 400)
Front wheel drive makes far more sense if you live anywhere where it might possibly ever snow,
The position of the drive wheels is irrelevant. What makes the difference is having the engine on top of the drive wheels. The VW bug and Chevrolet Corvair were excellent snow cars, as was the Olds Tornado/Cadillac Eldorado. All enjoyed the engine-over-drivewheels advantage and they all existed decades before front-wheel-drive became the default configuration for most cars.
Over in Woodinville, it comes from fertilizer runoff from the giant sod farms that cover the valley south of the winery district. In August, the Slough is an unbearable open sewer.
I'd be more interested in knowing how well it copes with the gazillion-fold increase in estrogen, methamphetamine, cocaine, and untold other pharmaceuticals & hormones in sewage outflow within the last few decades. I'm picturing some serious partying going on in the algae tanks.
Strictly speaking, the Haber process does NOT require any fossil fuels. It's currently the most economical method, but cost is not the only driver here. Reduction of dependence on fossil fuels is the goal in this argument. NatGas is mostly methane, which is created naturally by decomposition of sewage and other biowaste. Non-fossil-fuel energy for processing can come from wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, or burning of biowaste. In fact, the entrenched petroleum interests are continuously pushing disingenuous arguments about how alternate bioenergy requires petroleum too, when it absolutely does NOT. Not one single link in the agricultural chain REQUIRES petroleum products or byproducts. Any farm or transportation equipment that currently runs on petroleum can also run on alcohol or biodiesel. All industrial processes required to produce biofuel can be powered by the same biofuel or by carbon-neutral electricity sources.
Even if generating biofuel from algae ends up costing more money than the fuel is worth on the open market, if the process reduces the amount of noxious and environmentally-unfriendly compounds being dumped into our water supply by further purifying sewage treatment plant outflow, its a net gain for everyone. If you completely ignore the goal of carbon-neutrality and reduction of petroleum dependence and think of it in terms of being simply an addition sewage treatment process right from the start (which we have to pay for anyway as a government-funded public service), the resulting biofuel is simply a useful byproduct rather than the primary goal. That means the profitability of the process (or lack thereof) is largely irrelevant.
This thing really needs to be sitting in the middle of a Las Vegas casino. They could line it with slot machines and run high-stakes card games in the cargo bay.
On some technologies, this is true. I saw a "no glasses" 48-inch 3D LCD display demoed by Haier at CES a few days ago. The effect was not quite as pronounced as the "glasses required" sets from the more well-known (in the USA) brands, but it didn't require as much of a perpendicular viewing angle as the other no-glasses offerings I saw. The rep claimed that Haier holds some heavy-duty patents on the particular tech being used in their sets. Personally, I have a couple of their window-mount air conditioners and a heat pump, but I didn't even know they made electronics like displays & cameras. Maybe they license and sell under other brands in the US.
From the Wiki: "Current plans are for full mining operations to resume by the second half of 2011 as a result of increased demand for the rare earth metals found there"
The original article and this whole thread are just a bunch of alarmist bullshit.
Normally I sit on the couch in my underwear, running the empire from a laptop. I am the entire IT department. (and CEO, president, etc). On the rare occasions when I have to drive over to the data center to beat on something, a silk Hawaiian shirt is indeed de rigueur. Beige cargo shorts and sandals with socks complete the ensemble. (yes, even in winter. It's how we roll in Seattle)
Why isn't anyone focusing on the domain names? Implement a 1 week wait for new domain name deployments so that the payment has time to clear the bank. That way you'll be able to identify the guy paying for the domain names.
As always, follow the money.
Because 100% of the time, the domains are paid for with stolen credit cards.
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The Washington state sales tax is 6.5%, only a tad higher than the national average. .
This is only factual in the strictest sense. The STATE's portion of the sales tax is only 6.5% but each county and municipality levies additional percentages, so ultimately the tax on sales WITHIN the state tends to be 8.6 to 9.0 % depending on where you are standing. I believe overall we have the second highest sales taxes in the nation, just behind New York. We also pay some of the highest taxes on liquor (only sold in state controlled stores), tobacco, and gasoline in the nation.
Also consider that King County (and others) levies a Business & Occupations tax for the "privilege" of doing business here, plus we have a corporate income tax (no personal income tax though) and extremely high property taxes. Additionally, the smoking ban effectively killed live music in Seattle, if you're a business, you can be fined hundreds of dollars for putting recyclables in the garbage (seriously), there's no alcohol allowed in strip clubs, we have the worst traffic in the entire country, and it rains about 260 days a year. In general, Washington is a shitty place to live and work.
What the hell is "venezula" ? Is that some kind of magical regex code?
Hell, the street view stuff from Google Maps is almost useless in some areas it is soooooo out of date.
Is Google Earth any more up to date than that?
I don't see anyone answering this question. Google Maps is completely worthless and even dangerous in fast-growing cities. You could end up driving into a hole in the ground if you treat it like factual data.
In particular, the Las Vegas images are completely obsolete for most of the area on and around the Strip. A lot of what it depicts was imploded years ago and is now either a vacant lot or a completely different structure. A number of the streets have moved around and entire blocks reshaped. I understand that the US is an unfathomably huge area to photograph, but the vast majority of it hasn't changed in ten thousand years. I don't understand why a higher priority isn't given to dynamic environments. Cities like Vegas almost need live cameras to keep current rather than still images.
Beat most of them by a few years too. The 99/4 came out in 1978 and had console basic. The 99/4A and the Extended Basic cartridge arrived in 1979. It was the first 16-bit processor in consumer-land, had 256 color graphics, and a Yamaha 4-voice audio chip. It had an optional 5.25" floppy disk system, acoustic-coupled 300 baud modem, assembler cartridge, and a voice synthesizer add-on. All others were mere toys by comparison.
If you really expect "unlimited" resources for a trivial amount of money, you're a clueless cheapskate and no reputable hosting company wants you as a customer. Companies that advertise "unlimited" anything have mountains of fine print in their TOS. If you become inconvenient to host because you actually believed their line of bullshit on the front page and attempt to use large amounts of disk space or bandwidth, your account will be deleted for any number of petty excuses like excessive CPU cycles or memory usage.
Also, domain registration and web hosting have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Any hosting company that tries to tie the two together as one product is scum and should be avoided. Go register your domains with any Enom or WildWest (GoDaddy) reseller and then go get your hosting somewhere else.
Remember, shopping for hosting on price is a fools game. SLAs and quality service cost a shitload of money. If you don't pay for them, you won't get them.
Nobody gives a rat's ass what color they are. The important metric is their EVIL QUOTIENT!
That's because abuse@ and postmaster@ are the FIRST addresses to get spamblasted on every domain. They have been completely useless for ALL of this millenium.
Face it, the RCFs for most internet protocols were written decades ago for government and academia and were not based on a commercial-use network. FTP, Telnet, NNTP, SMTP, IRC are all obsolete junk and need to just go away like Gopher, Archie, Veronica, etc. There's too much invested in TCP to completely rewrite the way the underlying network operates, but the higher-level protocols need to be replaced by encrypted, authenticated systems that can use a central authority or ring-of-trust if authentication is mission-critical. Email should be the first to go. It's not enough to cover these junk systems with security add-ons & bandaids. They need to be completely rebuilt from scratch to include both public and restricted, private channels.
Of the 5 protocols listed above, SMTP is the only one I still run on my own servers. The others have been replaced with SCP, SSH, SSL HTTP gateways & forums, and various things like texting & twitter.
The floating bridges have a bunch running thru them connecting Seattle and the Eastside. I pulled it thru the westbound I-90 floater myself back in the early 90s when I was contracting for GTE. The bridge infrastructure had multiple 4" conduits built in.
Comcast: "You can't roll out fiber in our market. we'll sue you"
Google: "That's an awfully nice page rank you have there on search terms like broadband. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. A real shame. Do we understand each other? Great. Big Pauley will be around later with some paperwork for youse to sign. Have a nice day."
If "security was tight", IE would not be allowed at all.
Silicon has a 0.7v drop across a pn junction, whereas germanium only drops 0.3v. I would imagine that being able to use much lower operating voltage has some benefits.
There hasn't been an "exciting" Pontiac since they stopped making Pontiac engines. My '64 GTO was essentially a Chevelle with a nose job, but it came with a pretty hefty Pontiac 389. I eventually yanked it out and stuck in a 421 Tri-power engine from a Catalina. I also owned a 67 GTO with a 400 and a 67 Firebird with a 326 (which I replaced with a 400)
Of course gas was 33 cents a gallon back then...
Front wheel drive makes far more sense if you live anywhere where it might possibly ever snow,
The position of the drive wheels is irrelevant. What makes the difference is having the engine on top of the drive wheels. The VW bug and Chevrolet Corvair were excellent snow cars, as was the Olds Tornado/Cadillac Eldorado. All enjoyed the engine-over-drivewheels advantage and they all existed decades before front-wheel-drive became the default configuration for most cars.
Over in Woodinville, it comes from fertilizer runoff from the giant sod farms that cover the valley south of the winery district. In August, the Slough is an unbearable open sewer.
I'd be more interested in knowing how well it copes with the gazillion-fold increase in estrogen, methamphetamine, cocaine, and untold other pharmaceuticals & hormones in sewage outflow within the last few decades. I'm picturing some serious partying going on in the algae tanks.
Strictly speaking, the Haber process does NOT require any fossil fuels. It's currently the most economical method, but cost is not the only driver here. Reduction of dependence on fossil fuels is the goal in this argument. NatGas is mostly methane, which is created naturally by decomposition of sewage and other biowaste. Non-fossil-fuel energy for processing can come from wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, or burning of biowaste. In fact, the entrenched petroleum interests are continuously pushing disingenuous arguments about how alternate bioenergy requires petroleum too, when it absolutely does NOT. Not one single link in the agricultural chain REQUIRES petroleum products or byproducts. Any farm or transportation equipment that currently runs on petroleum can also run on alcohol or biodiesel. All industrial processes required to produce biofuel can be powered by the same biofuel or by carbon-neutral electricity sources.
Even if generating biofuel from algae ends up costing more money than the fuel is worth on the open market, if the process reduces the amount of noxious and environmentally-unfriendly compounds being dumped into our water supply by further purifying sewage treatment plant outflow, its a net gain for everyone. If you completely ignore the goal of carbon-neutrality and reduction of petroleum dependence and think of it in terms of being simply an addition sewage treatment process right from the start (which we have to pay for anyway as a government-funded public service), the resulting biofuel is simply a useful byproduct rather than the primary goal. That means the profitability of the process (or lack thereof) is largely irrelevant.
Tivo hit the market in 1999.
Your parents probably should have taught you something about "not getting everything you want."
The Rolling Stones covered it pretty well in 1969
you forgot:
7. Mad
8. Playing god
This thing really needs to be sitting in the middle of a Las Vegas casino. They could line it with slot machines and run high-stakes card games in the cargo bay.
On some technologies, this is true. I saw a "no glasses" 48-inch 3D LCD display demoed by Haier at CES a few days ago. The effect was not quite as pronounced as the "glasses required" sets from the more well-known (in the USA) brands, but it didn't require as much of a perpendicular viewing angle as the other no-glasses offerings I saw. The rep claimed that Haier holds some heavy-duty patents on the particular tech being used in their sets. Personally, I have a couple of their window-mount air conditioners and a heat pump, but I didn't even know they made electronics like displays & cameras. Maybe they license and sell under other brands in the US.
From the Wiki: "Current plans are for full mining operations to resume by the second half of 2011 as a result of increased demand for the rare earth metals found there"
The original article and this whole thread are just a bunch of alarmist bullshit.
Atheism is a religion like baldness is a hair color.
Normally I sit on the couch in my underwear, running the empire from a laptop. I am the entire IT department. (and CEO, president, etc). On the rare occasions when I have to drive over to the data center to beat on something, a silk Hawaiian shirt is indeed de rigueur. Beige cargo shorts and sandals with socks complete the ensemble. (yes, even in winter. It's how we roll in Seattle)
Why isn't anyone focusing on the domain names? Implement a 1 week wait for new domain name deployments so that the payment has time to clear the bank. That way you'll be able to identify the guy paying for the domain names.
As always, follow the money.
Because 100% of the time, the domains are paid for with stolen credit cards.