See, to me the concept of winners paying taxes on a prize is utterly insane. It means pretty much any non-cash prize is likely to become a financial curse to most recipients.
One textbook example is this poor guy who missed out on a space trip because he couldn't afford to pay the taxes. Despicable to drive up someone's hopes like this.
Where I come from there are still taxes payable on prizes, but the amount is payable by the drawer, not the drawee. Much much more sensible, IMO.
But then again what do I know? I still think making customers pay to receive SMS messages is criminal too.
Okay I take that back - it might not be mismatched libraries, that was just a knee-jerk guess as to what was going on.
But whatever the cause the symptoms are real - on more than one occasion updating openoffice.org packages on Fedora has lead to errors when trying to save open OOo documents.
No doubt there are additional losses, but since the power distribution grid is something like 90% efficient, these additional losses are very small compared to the energy savings gained by using a CFL instead of an incandescent.
I was under the impression all it took was a single 20c IC to get a.99 PF. But in either case, it's a strong incentive to go for separating the ballasts from the CF tubes. $5 for a ballast and $2 for a pack of 2 tubes for example.
In New Zealand it's illegal to connect power supplies that don't employ active power factor correction to the national grid. Get the current and voltage sufficiently out of phase in a building and suddenly 1-phase motors don't work very well for example. Not that anyone's ever been prosecuted AFAIK.
I bought about 10 Philips 20W CFLs last year. Six of them died in the first couple of months of operation. In a house with all-new wiring and a suburb with fairly clean power so not much chance of transients or ohmic heating at the ballast-socket junctions.
On the other hand, I bought some $20 18W ones back in 1999 and (I think) 4 of 6 are still going strong today. They might have been Osram, I don't recall.
The point is, there's a lot of variance in quality of CFLs, and I don't really feel qualified enough to recommend a good one to go for, other than to avoid Philips.
All the review sites I've seen are focussed on colour purity and power consumption rather than longevity. Does anyone on/. know of a good review site that takes user submissions?
(actually I'd be inclined to re-splice the series with just Insurrection cut out. Nemesis, while not the strongest Trek movie, was much better than its predecessor)
Once you came near the event horizon (given current technology) you would more than likely be dead, so this is a pretty pointless video...
Well unless you're equipped with an oxygen supply, heat-resistant tiles and a serious acceleration compensator I would suggest you avoid, at all costs, using Google Earth.
I'm merely pointing out that thanks to human nature the definition of left-wing (high taxes) can only lead to excessive government control, which can only in turn lead to paranoia about losing that control, hence the cameras. Nothing about Orwell or socialism (which I know has been labelled as a logical conclusion to left-wing ideals).
Not that I'm advocating the far right, either. The only difference is who controls the cameras.
As for not wanting to label people as far-right and far-left - fair enough. Label ideals, not people.
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Living Doll. I was looking forward to doing some work with that track.
I blame them for letting Microsoft get away with leveraging their low-security rubbish, and not taking them down when they had the chance.
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That is quite possibly one of the silliest explanations for exempting parties from a policy that I've ever heard.
I think you may have just given strength to the other guys point :P
Fine so it's a Trojan.
Oh boy, the city of Next Tuesday! Where do I sign up?
so there's a data point for Texas. Anyone else?
See, to me the concept of winners paying taxes on a prize is utterly insane. It means pretty much any non-cash prize is likely to become a financial curse to most recipients.
One textbook example is this poor guy who missed out on a space trip because he couldn't afford to pay the taxes. Despicable to drive up someone's hopes like this.
Where I come from there are still taxes payable on prizes, but the amount is payable by the drawer, not the drawee. Much much more sensible, IMO.
But then again what do I know? I still think making customers pay to receive SMS messages is criminal too.
Yeah, and your baseball cards must be worth a fortune!
Okay I take that back - it might not be mismatched libraries, that was just a knee-jerk guess as to what was going on.
But whatever the cause the symptoms are real - on more than one occasion updating openoffice.org packages on Fedora has lead to errors when trying to save open OOo documents.
No doubt there are additional losses, but since the power distribution grid is something like 90% efficient, these additional losses are very small compared to the energy savings gained by using a CFL instead of an incandescent.
Not according to the guys at LLNL. Those figures are apparently in quads, or quadrillion BTUs generated/used/lost in 2002.
I was under the impression all it took was a single 20c IC to get a .99 PF. But in either case, it's a strong incentive to go for separating the ballasts from the CF tubes. $5 for a ballast and $2 for a pack of 2 tubes for example.
In New Zealand it's illegal to connect power supplies that don't employ active power factor correction to the national grid. Get the current and voltage sufficiently out of phase in a building and suddenly 1-phase motors don't work very well for example. Not that anyone's ever been prosecuted AFAIK.
I bought about 10 Philips 20W CFLs last year. Six of them died in the first couple of months of operation. In a house with all-new wiring and a suburb with fairly clean power so not much chance of transients or ohmic heating at the ballast-socket junctions.
On the other hand, I bought some $20 18W ones back in 1999 and (I think) 4 of 6 are still going strong today. They might have been Osram, I don't recall.
The point is, there's a lot of variance in quality of CFLs, and I don't really feel qualified enough to recommend a good one to go for, other than to avoid Philips.
All the review sites I've seen are focussed on colour purity and power consumption rather than longevity. Does anyone on /. know of a good review site that takes user submissions?
Isn't it great being able to demonize an entire organization? In other news, geeks don't particularly care about bathing.
First Contact is the most recent Trek movie made.
Fixed that for you.
(actually I'd be inclined to re-splice the series with just Insurrection cut out. Nemesis, while not the strongest Trek movie, was much better than its predecessor)
An all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii for the product demonstration?
... and then wonder why you can't save any of the Openoffice.org documents you have open due to mismatching libraries.
(note: I use apt and yum myself daily on Debian and Fedora boxen, but never recommend doing them non-interactively)
What's even cooler is that your old post had a sig linking back to itself back then!
Okay here's my go:
"I saw the Yellowstone eruption back in 2009"
Meh... it's been done.
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Of course not, what a preposterous notion.
This, clearly, is the work of the MPAA.
Once you came near the event horizon (given current technology) you would more than likely be dead, so this is a pretty pointless video...
Well unless you're equipped with an oxygen supply, heat-resistant tiles and a serious acceleration compensator I would suggest you avoid, at all costs, using Google Earth.
I'm merely pointing out that thanks to human nature the definition of left-wing (high taxes) can only lead to excessive government control, which can only in turn lead to paranoia about losing that control, hence the cameras. Nothing about Orwell or socialism (which I know has been labelled as a logical conclusion to left-wing ideals).
Not that I'm advocating the far right, either. The only difference is who controls the cameras.
As for not wanting to label people as far-right and far-left - fair enough. Label ideals, not people.
Rights? I think you mean silly laws protecting imaginary property, not rights.
So I guess you're saying they're far left-wing then?