Actually it is probably pretty close to $20,000.00. He used the F word. Family. If you look at the table you will see that for Married filing jointly, the first $14,000.00 is tax free. If this couple can take more than the standard deduction and/or has a child or children, they can easily be tax free at $20,000.00.
The real question is, why would a regressive tax like VAT ever be a good thing in the highly civilized countries of Europe? 15%? 25%? It seems to me that the only reason for a highly applicable and highly regressive tax like this, that is also combined with a high income tax is to keep poor people poor and dependent on the state for most of their needs. Heaven help us if somebody try to rise above their proper station in life. This is a pretty good story illustrating this point
There is a need for VB. VB is a great way to prototype a new product interface or set one up for a one shot tool. If you want the project to be truly useful however, you need to consider OOP or structured programming techniques during the design. I don't know how many times I have been handed somebody's little "VB" tool that has become indispensable to company operations, but needs "one more feature" and found out that code reuse to this person means yet another copy of the same 20 lines of code attached to every frickin object in the project. There in lies the inherent danger of VB. Anyone can learn enough to be dangerous. But when they start drowning, they call for the software guys to bail them out, and then the finger pointing begins.
Saw on the news yesterday that one of the Dem's from CA is proposing that cyber cafe's be fined if minors are found to be playing violent video games. More to follow.
I think this phased approach to teaching computer usage in schools is the way to go. Computers are still treated like novelty, though in my son's school, they now have an instructor for their computer class who is not an "educator" first, but someone who actually has computer and networking experience. But his school is a parochial school, so they can get away with that, where a public school couldn't.
One of the things that amazes me the most is that with all this emphasis on using computers, the schools don't teach typing anymore. So more kids are typing than ever before, and none of them know how to do it efficiently.
Sorry about the appearance of whining. Actually it is mildly jealous admiration of my wife's favorite tourist destination. Disney's fastidious attention to detail is something you must experience first hand. But once you have, very few non-Disney destinations measure up.
And trying to figure out the science behind some of the stuff they do is very entertaining as well.
You are absolutely correct, but Boeing is also touting fuel efficiency as well. The design of the wing and fuselage is closer to a lifting body as another person mentioned, with the wing that far back, the ride is bound to be a lot smoother for everyone. Instead we will get another design by committee incremental improvement.
I have heard that one of the biggest problems in Aerospace and defense is the demise of the true large scale project teams. People just don't understand the tasks of coordinating large project teams for large development projects anymore.
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Lunch. Thank you Robert Heinlein. If it isn't worth paying for, it isn't worth anything. Or its exactly worth what you paid for. However, when my tax dollars paid for lunch, I don't think that my wanting to see the results is unreasonable. I think the government should hold the patent on all discoveries/inventions paid for with government dollars. That way, if a company wants exclusive rights to the product or discovery, they will fund their own research. Its a little naive, I know, and all the European and Japanese companies are taking handouts, but I don't believe those companies get the exclusive rights that we just seem to give away here.
This fits right in with the DOE online library that got axed due to pressure from the publishers of "journals".
And if I read one more NASA tech brief article where some moron is patenting a battery hooked up to a resistor that is now some new sensor/bootstrap circuit, I am going to vomit. Don't even get me started on patents for single click whatevers. But at least the government didn't pay for them directly.
I think your "on topicness" was fine. This whole issue is another one where emotions run high and science runs low, unless you count the junk science that fuels the emotion. Where are the recommendations here for reponsible management, or what do these "environmentalists" think would be responsible? My belief is that they find there can be no responsible use or management.
As I said in an earlier reply, I guess that is why I found the ending to Rainbow Six so satisfying.
Up here in my little portion of Massachusetts, Tree Farms are all over the place. Public land, private land. Its one of the ways that you manage a forest. When you read these stories, it seems like the only way these eco-terrorists want to manage things is to keep everybody out but themselves. I guess that is why I enjoyed the ending to Rainbow Six so much.
Exactly! Why DOES he own one? I come across the same paradigm in my work where we build transmitters for HDTV for broadcast television. People get all wrapped up about certain issues and then I ask them how THEY watch tv at home. The answer is invariable cable. Aside from satellites, how many people actually just suck this stuff out of the sky with a rotor antenna on their roof anymore? Not very many. And the consumer will go where the the best cost/convenience/time ratio is. VOD is cool, but it better be cheaper than Blockbuster and take less time to order than it takes to make it to the fridge and back with your soda or people won't use it.
As far as the copyright part goes, in that respect I don't see PVR's as being all that different than VCR's in terms of being a time machine. They are just more flexible time machines. I think the real problem is that 20 years ago, when VCR's were really starting to hit big, cable companies were not in the local advertising business, so they didn't mind when the broadcast channels screamed about VCR's and people fast forwarding through commercials. Now they are in that business in a huge way, and PVR's are an even more adept way for people to avoid viewing commercials.
Is about the classiest, most distinguished, eloquent and intelligent character that Asimov ever came up with. I am desperately praying that they did not make that Will Smith's character.
Niven's Codominium is certainly a plausible kind of world government and adds so much to the Falkenburg's Legion books. What about the ARM series? That too was a world government based on the UN model that was entirely not too far fetched.
But do you remember Harry Harrison's Wheelworld trilogy? The UN takes over and the only democracy left skulking around the world is Israel? Or Harrison's Deathworld trilogy where virtually every piece of life on the planet is out to destroy the humans living in "The City"?
Any ways thought you needed a couple of other universes to ponder beyond Dune, Foundation, and Star Wars.
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This car looks like an update to the classic Messerschmitt KR200 to me. You can see one here.
Bubble cars like this one are fun, and in the post world war II developing Europe, they made sense. From a resource point of view they still do, but a magnesium frame has me nervous, and what do GT car safety standards mean? The entire car is designed to be destroyed around you while you are kept safe. That's nice, but will a fender bender render the car totalled?
I had the initial alarm and what do we need this for when I first looked at it. But it is being done by folks with lots of experience with image file manipulation and in the same way as the original TIFF redbook spec. However just like TIFF, it will be interesting to see how some "spec compliant files" break "spec compliant viewers".
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Actually it is probably pretty close to $20,000.00. He used the F word. Family.
If you look at the table you will see that for Married filing jointly, the first $14,000.00 is tax free. If this couple can take more than the standard deduction and/or has a child or children, they can easily be tax free at $20,000.00.
The real question is, why would a regressive tax like VAT ever be a good thing in the highly civilized countries of Europe? 15%? 25%? It seems to me that the only reason for a highly applicable and highly regressive tax like this, that is also combined with a high income tax is to keep poor people poor and dependent on the state for most of their needs. Heaven help us if somebody try to rise above their proper station in life. This is a pretty good
story illustrating this point
There is a need for VB. VB is a great way to prototype a new product interface or set one up for a one shot tool. If you want the project to be truly useful however, you need to consider OOP or structured programming techniques during the design. I don't know how many times I have been handed somebody's little "VB" tool that has become indispensable to company operations, but needs "one more feature" and found out that code reuse to this person means yet another copy of the same 20 lines of code attached to every frickin object in the project. There in lies the inherent danger of VB. Anyone can learn enough to be dangerous. But when they start drowning, they call for the software guys to bail them out, and then the finger pointing begins.
Actually, enough of the stuff linked together probably WOULD make a magic server out of pixie dust....
I agree the idea is stupid. Here is the bill.
Saw on the news yesterday that one of the Dem's from CA is proposing that cyber cafe's be fined if minors are found to be playing violent video games. More to follow.
He wrote about laser generated virtual Keyboards generated by a wrist watch sized computer in the novel "Homeworld" in 1980. Hope he got a patent.
But the whole blog thing is starting to get boring.
No need to tell us who you really are..... Doctor Moriarity! Get him Holmes......
I think this phased approach to teaching computer usage in schools is the way to go. Computers are still treated like novelty, though in my son's school, they now have an instructor for their computer class who is not an "educator" first, but someone who actually has computer and networking experience. But his school is a parochial school, so they can get away with that, where a public school couldn't.
One of the things that amazes me the most is that with all this emphasis on using computers, the schools don't teach typing anymore. So more kids are typing than ever before, and none of them know how to do it efficiently.
Speaking of apples, is this thing covered by the Apple patent on dynamically changing the ornamental or decorative appearance of something?
Sorry about the appearance of whining. Actually it is mildly jealous admiration of my wife's favorite tourist destination. Disney's fastidious attention to detail is something you must experience first hand. But once you have, very few non-Disney destinations measure up.
And trying to figure out the science behind some of the stuff they do is very entertaining as well.
Who's on top of you.......
Nobody exploits technology to hoover money out of your wallet any better than the Mouse.
You are absolutely correct, but Boeing is also touting fuel efficiency as well. The design of the wing and fuselage is closer to a lifting body as another person mentioned, with the wing that far back, the ride is bound to be a lot smoother for everyone. Instead we will get another design by committee incremental improvement.
I have heard that one of the biggest problems in Aerospace and defense is the demise of the true large scale project teams. People just don't understand the tasks of coordinating large project teams for large development projects anymore.
Lunch. Thank you Robert Heinlein. If it isn't worth paying for, it isn't worth anything. Or its exactly worth what you paid for. However, when my tax dollars paid for lunch, I don't think that my wanting to see the results is unreasonable. I think the government should hold the patent on all discoveries/inventions paid for with government dollars. That way, if a company wants exclusive rights to the product or discovery, they will fund their own research. Its a little naive, I know, and all the European and Japanese companies are taking handouts, but I don't believe those companies get the exclusive rights that we just seem to give away here.
This fits right in with the DOE online library that got axed due to pressure from the publishers of "journals".
And if I read one more NASA tech brief article where some moron is patenting a battery hooked up to a resistor that is now some new sensor/bootstrap circuit, I am going to vomit.
Don't even get me started on patents for single click whatevers. But at least the government didn't pay for them directly.
I think your "on topicness" was fine. This whole issue is another one where emotions run high and science runs low, unless you count the junk science that fuels the emotion. Where are the recommendations here for reponsible management, or what do these "environmentalists" think would be responsible? My belief is that they find there can be no responsible use or management.
As I said in an earlier reply, I guess that is why I found the ending to Rainbow Six so satisfying.
Up here in my little portion of Massachusetts, Tree Farms are all over the place. Public land, private land. Its one of the ways that you manage a forest. When you read these stories, it seems like the only way these eco-terrorists want to manage things is to keep everybody out but themselves. I guess that is why I enjoyed the ending to Rainbow Six so much.
Exactly! Why DOES he own one? I come across the same paradigm in my work where we build transmitters for HDTV for broadcast television. People get all wrapped up about certain issues and then I ask them how THEY watch tv at home. The answer is invariable cable. Aside from satellites, how many people actually just suck this stuff out of the sky with a rotor antenna on their roof anymore? Not very many. And the consumer will go where the the best cost/convenience/time ratio is. VOD is cool, but it better be cheaper than Blockbuster and take less time to order than it takes to make it to the fridge and back with your soda or people won't use it.
As far as the copyright part goes, in that respect I don't see PVR's as being all that different than VCR's in terms of being a time machine. They are just more flexible time machines. I think the real problem is that 20 years ago, when VCR's were really starting to hit big, cable companies were not in the local advertising business, so they didn't mind when the broadcast channels screamed about VCR's and people fast forwarding through commercials. Now they are in that business in a huge way, and PVR's are an even more adept way for people to avoid viewing commercials.
Is about the classiest, most distinguished, eloquent and intelligent character that Asimov ever came up with. I am desperately praying that they did not make that Will Smith's character.
Niven's Codominium is certainly a plausible kind of world government and adds so much to the Falkenburg's Legion books. What about the ARM series? That too was a world government based on the UN model that was entirely not too far fetched.
But do you remember Harry Harrison's Wheelworld trilogy? The UN takes over and the only democracy left skulking around the world is Israel? Or Harrison's Deathworld trilogy where virtually every piece of life on the planet is out to destroy the humans living in "The City"?
Any ways thought you needed a couple of other universes to ponder beyond Dune, Foundation, and Star Wars.
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This car looks like an update to the classic Messerschmitt KR200 to me. You can see one here .
Bubble cars like this one are fun, and in the post world war II developing Europe, they made sense. From a resource point of view they still do, but a magnesium frame has me nervous, and what do GT car safety standards mean? The entire car is designed to be destroyed around you while you are kept safe. That's nice, but will a fender bender render the car totalled?
I had the initial alarm and what do we need this for when I first looked at it. But it is being done by folks with lots of experience with image file manipulation and in the same way as the original TIFF redbook spec. However just like TIFF, it will be interesting to see how some "spec compliant files" break "spec compliant viewers".