In '77, my dad got a TRS-80 (model 1, level 2, cassette drive). My brothers and I (well, mostly me) learned basic (Dad would buy us a game at RS if we demonstrated a working program). When my programs started to look more peek & poke than print, he got a debugger so I could edit the machine code directly in hex.
I worked as a contract programmer once, and it ended up being so awful I've never done it again. I'm sure it was my fault in part; I was quite young, I signed a vague contract, moving goalposts, acceptance was "I say it does what I need," blah blah blah. I know that "next time will be better," but it made me so averse that there's never been a next time. Employee status works for me.
I'm not doing that again unless the acceptance tests are specified in the contract ("If it does this, this, this, and not this, it's done").
Sales ("use") tax on vehicle purchases are generally computed based on the state of registration, not the state of sale. Even if you originally registered the car in VA (and you should have some difficulty doing that if your license is from NC), when you changed the registration, you'd probably pay some tax. If you didn't change the registration, your neighbors can rat you out.
My mod points seem to have vanished early; I thought I had two left for today.
This is exactly my first thought. I like contests, but I've got a family with other obligations that, for example, prevented my participation in the recent Hillsborough County Hackathon right here in Tampa (as reported on Slashdot).
Thirty years ago, my high school chemistry teacher taught our (A.P.) class how to make some explosives. What better way to effectively demonstrate exothermic reactions?
The fact that this nonsense is also occurring in what (IIRC) is the Florida county with the highest teen pregnancy rate is further reinforcement of my belief that, despite all the "STEM! STEM! STEM!" cries, corporate-owned America really wants to keep most people sick and stupid. They've taken a girl who showed some interest and aptitude in real lab science and effectively put her on a welfare track.
I'm not the one who said "free market." Unregulated? Well, definitely less-regulated since the repeal of Glass-Steagal (which, not coincidentally, is contemporaneous with the beginning of the rise in the CEO/worker pay ratio). Who do you think controls those mutual funds? The very investment bankers whose market was deregulated. That is exactly the "clique" of plutocrats who put each other on these boards, approving the immense compensation packages and golden parachutes.
If you need evidence of wealth transfer to plutocrats, simply Google "ratio of ceo pay to worker pay" to find some. The second hit is to The Economist ("Are They Worth It?"), which shows the change in ratio from about 20 in the '70s to well over 200 today, and the fourth to WSJ discussing a Dodd-Frank provision that could cap that ratio. That WSJ piece refers to a recent study showing productivity drops as that ratio increases.
I've bookmarked the SLUG site, but I'm already pretty time-constrained (Sunday's one thing, Tuesday's another, Wednesday's a third, etc.): the perils of having both a family and hobbies besides computers.
I know I was subscribed to/. meetups (even went to a couple, one in St. Pete, one in Carrollwood) once upon a time, but I didn't get a notice. Glad it was fun.
Tell that to the helmet-shaped hole my wife left in a windshield. She was nailed by a seventeen-year-old who had pulled onto the shoulder to pass stopped traffic. I don't believe helmets should be mandatory for adults, but I don't ride without mine.
I also encourage other cyclists: "It's not that you're a bad cyclist; it's that there are so many more bad drivers than there were when we were growing up."
Did you miss the part where people making $12k a year will have their premiums subsidized? This is a massive transfer of money from the US government to the private health insurance companies. All those young, reasonably healthy people who couldn't afford insurance will now expand the insured pool. I've been calling ACA the "Private Health Insurance Full Employment and Guaranteed Profit Act."
Road wear should in some way be proportional to vehicle weight times miles driven, and that's (I think) what (GG)GP was getting at: That you get taxed for road maintenance based on your contribution to the wear.
GP's point was to take fuel taxes out of the equation: E said to direct-tax drivers for their actual mileage when renewing registration based on actual road costs, and just tax fuel as any other merchandise.
Centuries of burning people to death for attempting to translate the Bible into English should be enough of a clue by itself.
Wikipedia describes the many English translations of scripture, starting long, long before the Reformation (the first translator they mention is St. Bede), with the Douay-Rheims version (from around 1600, preceding the KJV by a few years) as the "first complete English Catholic Bible."
Not to say there weren't people burned to death. I'd add that exaggeration doesn't help your case, but then I look at Fox News.
Amen! Congress has been starving the IRS of funding. The ROI to the federal government in terms of successful audits of the biggest tax cheats is huge, but with a tiny budget for audits, the IRS can't take on as many of the "big fish" who can mount strong defenses; it only has the resources to go after the minnows, even though there isn't much meat on them.
A 2010 report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that the audit rate of large (> $250M in assets) corporations dropped from 42.6% to 25% since 2005, and that for huge (> $5B) corporations dropped from 78% to 64% since only 2007. Do you think this is because of increased compliance? Ha. Ha.
Easy there, big fella. First, I read some years ago that the median (not the mean!) trip on the interstate is about eight miles. Think commuters. In any case, through the center of Tampa, the speed limit on I-275 is 50mph. IIRC, I-77 is 50 through the center of Cleveland.
Second, doesn't it say, "Do you really have to pass that guy?" The assumption is that you're not yet in the passing lane, isn't it?
Third, the limitation of length-of-sig prevents the full set-up: I'm thinking about rural two-lanes, where you pass in the oncoming lane. I commuted for two and a half years through rural Michigan, with about ten miles between towns where it widened to four lanes. I always tried to compare the reward (fifty-three seconds?) with the risk (do I have enough room to pass Bubba?).
I agree with your final paragraph. I am often (more often than I'd like) the person on the right going faster (at 65) than the person in the left lane (going 58).
But hey, as a recovering math instructor ("I'm Joe, and I teach calculus." "Hi, Joe.") I picked the numbers to make the answer come out to under a minute. I'm trying to encourage numeracy. Obviously if you're going 750 miles, 75 saves you a hell of a lot of time over 65.
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In '77, my dad got a TRS-80 (model 1, level 2, cassette drive). My brothers and I (well, mostly me) learned basic (Dad would buy us a game at RS if we demonstrated a working program). When my programs started to look more peek & poke than print, he got a debugger so I could edit the machine code directly in hex.
This.
I worked as a contract programmer once, and it ended up being so awful I've never done it again. I'm sure it was my fault in part; I was quite young, I signed a vague contract, moving goalposts, acceptance was "I say it does what I need," blah blah blah. I know that "next time will be better," but it made me so averse that there's never been a next time. Employee status works for me.
I'm not doing that again unless the acceptance tests are specified in the contract ("If it does this, this, this, and not this, it's done").
Sales ("use") tax on vehicle purchases are generally computed based on the state of registration, not the state of sale. Even if you originally registered the car in VA (and you should have some difficulty doing that if your license is from NC), when you changed the registration, you'd probably pay some tax. If you didn't change the registration, your neighbors can rat you out.
That's right, Ricky Bobby: If you're not first, you're last!
My mod points seem to have vanished early; I thought I had two left for today.
This is exactly my first thought. I like contests, but I've got a family with other obligations that, for example, prevented my participation in the recent Hillsborough County Hackathon right here in Tampa (as reported on Slashdot).
Thirty years ago, my high school chemistry teacher taught our (A.P.) class how to make some explosives. What better way to effectively demonstrate exothermic reactions?
The fact that this nonsense is also occurring in what (IIRC) is the Florida county with the highest teen pregnancy rate is further reinforcement of my belief that, despite all the "STEM! STEM! STEM!" cries, corporate-owned America really wants to keep most people sick and stupid. They've taken a girl who showed some interest and aptitude in real lab science and effectively put her on a welfare track.
Annual miles traveled x weight x lane width needed. Here's my nickel, kid.
I'm not the one who said "free market." Unregulated? Well, definitely less-regulated since the repeal of Glass-Steagal (which, not coincidentally, is contemporaneous with the beginning of the rise in the CEO/worker pay ratio). Who do you think controls those mutual funds? The very investment bankers whose market was deregulated. That is exactly the "clique" of plutocrats who put each other on these boards, approving the immense compensation packages and golden parachutes.
If you need evidence of wealth transfer to plutocrats, simply Google "ratio of ceo pay to worker pay" to find some. The second hit is to The Economist ("Are They Worth It?"), which shows the change in ratio from about 20 in the '70s to well over 200 today, and the fourth to WSJ discussing a Dodd-Frank provision that could cap that ratio. That WSJ piece refers to a recent study showing productivity drops as that ratio increases.
I've bookmarked the SLUG site, but I'm already pretty time-constrained (Sunday's one thing, Tuesday's another, Wednesday's a third, etc.): the perils of having both a family and hobbies besides computers.
I know I was subscribed to /. meetups (even went to a couple, one in St. Pete, one in Carrollwood) once upon a time, but I didn't get a notice. Glad it was fun.
Tell that to the helmet-shaped hole my wife left in a windshield. She was nailed by a seventeen-year-old who had pulled onto the shoulder to pass stopped traffic. I don't believe helmets should be mandatory for adults, but I don't ride without mine.
I also encourage other cyclists: "It's not that you're a bad cyclist; it's that there are so many more bad drivers than there were when we were growing up."
Did you miss the part where people making $12k a year will have their premiums subsidized? This is a massive transfer of money from the US government to the private health insurance companies. All those young, reasonably healthy people who couldn't afford insurance will now expand the insured pool. I've been calling ACA the "Private Health Insurance Full Employment and Guaranteed Profit Act."
It amazes me how much general ignorance there is about the Affordable Care Act.
It's less ignorance than believing the lies they're told day after day on Rush & Faux News ("We distord, you deride").
Road wear should in some way be proportional to vehicle weight times miles driven, and that's (I think) what (GG)GP was getting at: That you get taxed for road maintenance based on your contribution to the wear.
GP's point was to take fuel taxes out of the equation: E said to direct-tax drivers for their actual mileage when renewing registration based on actual road costs, and just tax fuel as any other merchandise.
campaign donors and their startups' poor business plans.
Centuries of burning people to death for attempting to translate the Bible into English should be enough of a clue by itself.
Wikipedia describes the many English translations of scripture, starting long, long before the Reformation (the first translator they mention is St. Bede), with the Douay-Rheims version (from around 1600, preceding the KJV by a few years) as the "first complete English Catholic Bible."
Not to say there weren't people burned to death. I'd add that exaggeration doesn't help your case, but then I look at Fox News.
Hey, somebody had to make dinner.
Amen! Congress has been starving the IRS of funding. The ROI to the federal government in terms of successful audits of the biggest tax cheats is huge, but with a tiny budget for audits, the IRS can't take on as many of the "big fish" who can mount strong defenses; it only has the resources to go after the minnows, even though there isn't much meat on them.
A 2010 report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that the audit rate of large (> $250M in assets) corporations dropped from 42.6% to 25% since 2005, and that for huge (> $5B) corporations dropped from 78% to 64% since only 2007. Do you think this is because of increased compliance? Ha. Ha.
Also see this 2008 OMB Watch report.
If you're hiring, I'll send you some of mine.
Mod parent up. This is the story.
The fact is that this company could not compete with PV fabricators in China. End of story.
Easy there, big fella. First, I read some years ago that the median (not the mean!) trip on the interstate is about eight miles. Think commuters. In any case, through the center of Tampa, the speed limit on I-275 is 50mph. IIRC, I-77 is 50 through the center of Cleveland.
Second, doesn't it say, "Do you really have to pass that guy?" The assumption is that you're not yet in the passing lane, isn't it?
Third, the limitation of length-of-sig prevents the full set-up: I'm thinking about rural two-lanes, where you pass in the oncoming lane. I commuted for two and a half years through rural Michigan, with about ten miles between towns where it widened to four lanes. I always tried to compare the reward (fifty-three seconds?) with the risk (do I have enough room to pass Bubba?).
I agree with your final paragraph. I am often (more often than I'd like) the person on the right going faster (at 65) than the person in the left lane (going 58).
But hey, as a recovering math instructor ("I'm Joe, and I teach calculus." "Hi, Joe.") I picked the numbers to make the answer come out to under a minute. I'm trying to encourage numeracy. Obviously if you're going 750 miles, 75 saves you a hell of a lot of time over 65.
ba-dum *kish*