If you have enough assets/income to worry about, you can probably afford a tax attorney, or at least an accountant who specializes in such situation. They are not terribly expensive (the people I know with oddball business situations pay a specialist accountant about $100/year to handle their taxes).
They already go through trash looking for evidence. Indeed, this is why anyone can root through trash that's in a publicly-accessable space -- because courts so ruled.
But more of a problem is -- how accurate is that DNA analysis? I knew a biologist who worked in a lab that does DNA sampling, and she said the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. (The topic was ID'ing carriers of genetic defects in dogs, but the same principle applies.)
If you appear fit and nothing can be found wrong yet minimal exercise causes pounding heart and shortness of breath -- get your thyroid checked. Hypothyroidism can cause low blood sugar that's only evident during exercise.
I had $15k worth of shit stolen and what did the L.A.County sheriff dept. tell me, even after I found some of my stuff at the neighbor's place? If I didn't have receipts I couldn't prove it was mine and so sad for me. But if I wanted to steal it back, go for it.
Curt, bravo for standing up against the bullies online, same as you would in real life.
Yeah, last week I pointed out the same wrt the Yellowstone dome. How much of what they're measuring is actually tectonic movement?
From the Wiki article someone linked on sea level change: Global warming, a few mm per year. All other causes, about 10 meters per year. Draw your own conclusions.
Or you have functionally the same car each year with different upgrades, hence Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler models with interchangeable everything.
One of my clients bought a Ford pickup, then replaced stuff with all the aftermarket Lincoln parts (who knew there were Lincoln pickup trucks!) and now he drives a Lincoln!
No doubt so, but how about the cost of operations in rough country with poor access, where going in on foot is feasible (witness the illegals crossing it) but patrolling in ground vehicles is not?
Hence I think the real comparison should be: How does the cost of using a drone compare to the cost of using a helicopter in those same areas? I'd guess the drone is significantly cheaper.
Second, how long does it take a drone to patrol, compared to a manned ground vehicle in the same area? What's the total patrol cost per hour for drone vs 4x4?? (Don't forget to factor in the cost of the 4x4 as well as for the drone.) In rough country, a drone (or helicopter) can get an overview in a few minutes, but a ground vehicle might be forced to wind back and forth for an hour to reach the same point (and might still not get a view of the ravines). If patrolling a given area takes the drone ten minutes and the 4x4 an hour, which one is more cost effective?
How does it affect man-hours? The patrol is generally two men, while the drone only needs its operator.
How does all this affect insurance rates on their various equipment? Do reduced hours in use also reduce rates on 4x4s and such? (Certainly it will reduce maintenance costs.)
Lots of factors to consider, not just 'dollars per arrest'. We need to see spreadsheets and balance columns, not assumptions.
Not lying, but your average tyro is not going to achieve that. Like the guys on that beekeeper forum said, a single super might produce anywhere from 3 to 20 pounds. But the location and climate need to be optimized. City flora are hardly ideal, and your bees need to be where the nectar is. Where I worked (this was a pro operation, these guys did bees for a living) the supers were on the heavy end, but those bees were taken out to the orchards and buckwheat, or even out of state as conditions might dictate. They didn't make do with whatever the hell was growing around 'em.
(Buckwheat honey, gag. Most of that got exported.)
It wouldn't be gallons; it would be a few quarts. A lot of the interior of the hive is space for the bees to move around. Figure maybe a third or at most half the volume of the super (the part with honey-laden comb in it) is honey.
I would hazard that phytoestrogens outmass human-type estrogen by many orders of magnitude. Most plants produce phytoestrogens, and some in huge quantities (notably flax and soybeans).
I would guess that the environmental types have not bothered to distinguish which they're measuring, even if the massively-diluted quantity suffices to do anything (other than be marketable in homeopathy).
Well, here's a question I haven't heard addressed yet:
Did Sony actually know it was spyware when it shipped? Or did they trust what the program's owners said about it?
This is how Superfish markets itself (filched from their website): ============ "Superïsh delivers the true promise of visual search. Our patented image-to-image search technology analyzes images from every angle and perspective. The deep data algorithm searches thru millions of possible matches, then ranks and prioritizes your results. This process provides results that are based on how you see things, rather than how you describe them. See why millions of consumers use our visual search technology to find what they are looking for." ============ Combine this great-sounding ad copy with a significant cut of revenues (I'd guess Sony's cut was around 30%) and it's an easy sell as preinstalled software. It's pretty obvious from the ad copy that Superrfish is not concerned about presenting their stuff honestly.
No doubt this is exactly how it was presented to Sony's suits. And the suits may have believed it without reservation, and without consulting any either an in-house or independent expert. If so, that's ignorance, but it's not willful wrongdoing.
But is this 0.05% "effects generally start to be seen" or "rare/low-body-mass individuals start to be affected" ??
And yeah, I expect a good head cold, especially if doped up on various OTC drugs, is more of a downgrade than are a couple beers. And there used to be an OTC drug cocktail that worked great against flu symptoms, but it also made you like passing-out drunk.
Yeah. Trouble is, the law doesn't do very well with grey areas and judgment calls, especially once you get beyond village-sized civilizations. What is 'unsafe driving' is subjective even among arresting officers (some take any tiny swerve as evidence). So it's had to be defined by a number the courts can point at.:/
And having done about an equal number of installs of each across nearly two decades, I've found it's exactly the other way around. The Windows installer pretty much does everything for itself and then the desktop comes up and Just Works. At most I might have to install a driver to get some more-newfangled hardware to work right. And it's never once totally failed to install. Conversely, I've yet to see a linux install work flawlessly out of the box (including Ubuntu, which has annoyed me into giving up on it entirely), and some wouldn't install at all in the first place -- on the exact same hardware that runs any random version of Windows just fine.
I no longer have the patience to twiddle the OS into working right, or working consistently -- frex, I like Puppy, and had it on my laptop for a couple years, but the wireless only worked half the time even with everything being exactly the same from one session to the next (and our entire LUG couldn't figure out why), and I've never gotten sound to work at all. -- And I liked Mandrake 7.2, but there again some things never worked (sound, for one).
And I detest the Mac desktop. So -- I use Windows.
I would LOVE to see linux/BSD do well. We need the alternatives. But my experience has been discouraging.
--Contrary to popular japes, it's actually pretty damn stable, given even the basic maintenance you'd give your car (and even when neglected for years on end -- just bloody defrag occasionally, people! Would you let your car go forever without an oil change??) --It supports all manner of random, substandard, and outdated hardware, meaning it will run widely anywhere --It supports all manner of random, substandard, and outdated software, thus not irritating people who still need such stuff --it doesn't make me tear my hair out trying to configure (or figure out how to configure) the basics
That said, I'd love to see PC-BSD become something I want to use. But when I attempted to try it a couple years ago, it refused to even install on my test box... which runs Windows bloody damn fine with no issues whatever.
Or maybe we forget all this, judge people by HOW they drive, and if they drive recklessly or stupidly AND are found to be full of whatever chemical (booze, pot, whatever), tack Moron Points onto their penalty.
And the threshold for drunk-driving is down to.08% in some states. I recall reading a report that concluded this had very little to do with safety, and everything to do with MADD's desire to reinstate prohibition.
I suspect the real difference boils down to how each affects reaction time. We know alcohol slows your reactions and fucks up your ability to physically respond, even if your mind was clear. Have there been any studies about how pot affects this?? Cuz I'm guessing it has a less-negative effect on how well your body performs jobs like driving.
A study on school-age children (in some northern state, I want to say Michigan) found that about 30% had pinworm antibodies, and without ever having had any symptoms and being currently free of worms -- meaning they'd had a silent infection. (Ascarids tend to get ejected once the immune system matures.)
Anyway, given that combined with your info, I begin to wonder what such influences there might be that are so widespread as to be 'normal' thus unnoticed.
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If you have enough assets/income to worry about, you can probably afford a tax attorney, or at least an accountant who specializes in such situation. They are not terribly expensive (the people I know with oddball business situations pay a specialist accountant about $100/year to handle their taxes).
They already go through trash looking for evidence. Indeed, this is why anyone can root through trash that's in a publicly-accessable space -- because courts so ruled.
But more of a problem is -- how accurate is that DNA analysis? I knew a biologist who worked in a lab that does DNA sampling, and she said the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. (The topic was ID'ing carriers of genetic defects in dogs, but the same principle applies.)
If you appear fit and nothing can be found wrong yet minimal exercise causes pounding heart and shortness of breath -- get your thyroid checked. Hypothyroidism can cause low blood sugar that's only evident during exercise.
I had $15k worth of shit stolen and what did the L.A.County sheriff dept. tell me, even after I found some of my stuff at the neighbor's place? If I didn't have receipts I couldn't prove it was mine and so sad for me. But if I wanted to steal it back, go for it.
Curt, bravo for standing up against the bullies online, same as you would in real life.
Yeah, last week I pointed out the same wrt the Yellowstone dome. How much of what they're measuring is actually tectonic movement?
From the Wiki article someone linked on sea level change:
Global warming, a few mm per year.
All other causes, about 10 meters per year.
Draw your own conclusions.
How much of that 27% was claimed from the sea in the first place?
Or you have functionally the same car each year with different upgrades, hence Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler models with interchangeable everything.
One of my clients bought a Ford pickup, then replaced stuff with all the aftermarket Lincoln parts (who knew there were Lincoln pickup trucks!) and now he drives a Lincoln!
The automobile industry coasted on that for decades. Identical car, different fenders.
No doubt so, but how about the cost of operations in rough country with poor access, where going in on foot is feasible (witness the illegals crossing it) but patrolling in ground vehicles is not?
Hence I think the real comparison should be: How does the cost of using a drone compare to the cost of using a helicopter in those same areas? I'd guess the drone is significantly cheaper.
Second, how long does it take a drone to patrol, compared to a manned ground vehicle in the same area? What's the total patrol cost per hour for drone vs 4x4?? (Don't forget to factor in the cost of the 4x4 as well as for the drone.) In rough country, a drone (or helicopter) can get an overview in a few minutes, but a ground vehicle might be forced to wind back and forth for an hour to reach the same point (and might still not get a view of the ravines). If patrolling a given area takes the drone ten minutes and the 4x4 an hour, which one is more cost effective?
How does it affect man-hours? The patrol is generally two men, while the drone only needs its operator.
How does all this affect insurance rates on their various equipment? Do reduced hours in use also reduce rates on 4x4s and such? (Certainly it will reduce maintenance costs.)
Lots of factors to consider, not just 'dollars per arrest'. We need to see spreadsheets and balance columns, not assumptions.
Not lying, but your average tyro is not going to achieve that. Like the guys on that beekeeper forum said, a single super might produce anywhere from 3 to 20 pounds. But the location and climate need to be optimized. City flora are hardly ideal, and your bees need to be where the nectar is. Where I worked (this was a pro operation, these guys did bees for a living) the supers were on the heavy end, but those bees were taken out to the orchards and buckwheat, or even out of state as conditions might dictate. They didn't make do with whatever the hell was growing around 'em.
(Buckwheat honey, gag. Most of that got exported.)
Remember this?
http://www.devin.com/penisspam...
It wouldn't be gallons; it would be a few quarts. A lot of the interior of the hive is space for the bees to move around. Figure maybe a third or at most half the volume of the super (the part with honey-laden comb in it) is honey.
http://www.beesource.com/forum...
I used to work in for a beekeeper, mostly building hives and extracting honey.
I would hazard that phytoestrogens outmass human-type estrogen by many orders of magnitude. Most plants produce phytoestrogens, and some in huge quantities (notably flax and soybeans).
I would guess that the environmental types have not bothered to distinguish which they're measuring, even if the massively-diluted quantity suffices to do anything (other than be marketable in homeopathy).
Well, here's a question I haven't heard addressed yet:
Did Sony actually know it was spyware when it shipped? Or did they trust what the program's owners said about it?
This is how Superfish markets itself (filched from their website):
============
"Superïsh delivers the true promise of visual search. Our patented image-to-image search technology analyzes images from every angle and perspective. The deep data algorithm searches thru millions of possible matches, then ranks and prioritizes your results. This process provides results that are based on how you see things, rather than how you describe them. See why millions of consumers use our visual search technology to find what they are looking for."
============
Combine this great-sounding ad copy with a significant cut of revenues (I'd guess Sony's cut was around 30%) and it's an easy sell as preinstalled software. It's pretty obvious from the ad copy that Superrfish is not concerned about presenting their stuff honestly.
No doubt this is exactly how it was presented to Sony's suits. And the suits may have believed it without reservation, and without consulting any either an in-house or independent expert. If so, that's ignorance, but it's not willful wrongdoing.
But is this 0.05% "effects generally start to be seen" or "rare/low-body-mass individuals start to be affected" ??
And yeah, I expect a good head cold, especially if doped up on various OTC drugs, is more of a downgrade than are a couple beers. And there used to be an OTC drug cocktail that worked great against flu symptoms, but it also made you like passing-out drunk.
Yeah. Trouble is, the law doesn't do very well with grey areas and judgment calls, especially once you get beyond village-sized civilizations. What is 'unsafe driving' is subjective even among arresting officers (some take any tiny swerve as evidence). So it's had to be defined by a number the courts can point at. :/
And having done about an equal number of installs of each across nearly two decades, I've found it's exactly the other way around. The Windows installer pretty much does everything for itself and then the desktop comes up and Just Works. At most I might have to install a driver to get some more-newfangled hardware to work right. And it's never once totally failed to install. Conversely, I've yet to see a linux install work flawlessly out of the box (including Ubuntu, which has annoyed me into giving up on it entirely), and some wouldn't install at all in the first place -- on the exact same hardware that runs any random version of Windows just fine.
I no longer have the patience to twiddle the OS into working right, or working consistently -- frex, I like Puppy, and had it on my laptop for a couple years, but the wireless only worked half the time even with everything being exactly the same from one session to the next (and our entire LUG couldn't figure out why), and I've never gotten sound to work at all. -- And I liked Mandrake 7.2, but there again some things never worked (sound, for one).
And I detest the Mac desktop. So -- I use Windows.
I would LOVE to see linux/BSD do well. We need the alternatives. But my experience has been discouraging.
Good points. To add a few:
--Contrary to popular japes, it's actually pretty damn stable, given even the basic maintenance you'd give your car (and even when neglected for years on end -- just bloody defrag occasionally, people! Would you let your car go forever without an oil change??)
--It supports all manner of random, substandard, and outdated hardware, meaning it will run widely anywhere
--It supports all manner of random, substandard, and outdated software, thus not irritating people who still need such stuff
--it doesn't make me tear my hair out trying to configure (or figure out how to configure) the basics
That said, I'd love to see PC-BSD become something I want to use. But when I attempted to try it a couple years ago, it refused to even install on my test box... which runs Windows bloody damn fine with no issues whatever.
Maybe because some of us can't stand the Mac desktop's way of doing things, no matter how wonderful the underpinnings are.
Or maybe we forget all this, judge people by HOW they drive, and if they drive recklessly or stupidly AND are found to be full of whatever chemical (booze, pot, whatever), tack Moron Points onto their penalty.
And the threshold for drunk-driving is down to .08% in some states. I recall reading a report that concluded this had very little to do with safety, and everything to do with MADD's desire to reinstate prohibition.
I suspect the real difference boils down to how each affects reaction time. We know alcohol slows your reactions and fucks up your ability to physically respond, even if your mind was clear. Have there been any studies about how pot affects this?? Cuz I'm guessing it has a less-negative effect on how well your body performs jobs like driving.
Well, yeah, but it's a song about regrets, and removal is also about regrets.
You'll never regret the one from your friend, not when you can speak so movingly of it.
"...a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling..."
-- Jimmy Buffett
Hadn't heard that, very interesting!
A study on school-age children (in some northern state, I want to say Michigan) found that about 30% had pinworm antibodies, and without ever having had any symptoms and being currently free of worms -- meaning they'd had a silent infection. (Ascarids tend to get ejected once the immune system matures.)
Anyway, given that combined with your info, I begin to wonder what such influences there might be that are so widespread as to be 'normal' thus unnoticed.