If you are an American living and working legally in France for five years, or you are married to or were born to a French citizen, you may apply for French citizenship.
If youâ(TM)ve successfully completed two years of higher education in France, the five-year residency period can be reduced to two years.
"if im reading correctly, they are buying the bonds with pre tax dollars."
Foreign earnings are only taxed by the US worldwide tax regime if they are repatriated to the US. Foreign earnings are, of course, taxed by the country where they are earned (generally by a territorial tax regime).
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written
The Lift America Coalition (including large corporations like 3M, Cisco, Intel, Walmart, etc.) has been lobbying for a territorial corporate tax system rather than a worldwide corporate tax system, which would allow trillions of dollars of profits to be repatriated back to the US, but to date they have not been successful in getting Congress to change the corporate tax regime (which the majority of OECD countries have).
When a country runs a trade deficit, it receives foreign currency, which is useless in another country. To be of value, these foreign reserves must be invested back into the country running a trade deficit.
How loud it is in the headphones depends on the output of the amplifier
If you are sneaky, you could have a circuit that limits the voltage amplitude coming into the headphones. This could be stupid dumb (a diode limiter) or something more complex like an active gain control.
However I suspect most kid headphones are assuming the input maxes out at 2 VRMS, and use resistor dividers to reduce the voltage into the speakers. This dumb solution means that sometimes kids might not be able to hear overly quiet videos (such as on Kids Youtube) where audio loudness is not well managed.
Codecs (such as H.264 or VP9) describe a bit stream, and how to decode the bit stream. They basically provide a kit of tools that can be be used by encoders.
The quality of video encoding is mainly due to the technical knowledge and artistry of the encoder manufacturer and how the use that took kit. I can show you great H.264 encoders and horrible H.264 encoders, but they both emit valid H.264 bit streams.
In particular, the biggest challenge is rate control. If you don't care about the details of a variable bit rate, almost anyone can write a great H.264 or VP9 encoder, with the bit rate jumping up and down all over the place. However if you expect a bit rate to be held within say +/- 100 kbps, only a few vendors have the expertise to make a more constant bit rate look good.
I'll also add that I've seen no good data that shows that VP9 encoders perform better over a wide range of content than H.264.
I have used 123D Catch for artistic purposes, but the resulting models lack dimensional accuracy for a "part." Photogrammetry is never going to replace a good CAD model.
Not only has the cellular text technology not been used, but no president has ever used the current Emergency Action Notification (EAN) of the EAS system or its technical predecessors (going back to 1951 with CONRAD).
Then again, we have never had global thermonuclear war...
I'm amazed but glad that it's actually begun to operate.
How did they get the people who farmed the 2500 acres of land there to move out? That is the biggest problem setting up a large factory in India, the land rights are questionable.
Oh I Googled that for myself: Adani seeks to gag its lawyer after he claims 'violations', "In an unusual move, the Gujarat-based Adani Group of Companies has filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to gag its own lawyer after he allegedly threatened to expose "major violations", and name those involved in the purchase and funding of 1,800 acres of land for its solar power project in Tamil Nadu."
But there's only one way to go without destroying all that is good about SF (its parks) and that is up.
Up, but not that far up - Paris, for example, has a far higher population density than San Francisco, but has very few very tall apartment buildings. Paris does not have the nutty 40 foot height limit that most of SF has, instead the limits in Paris have been 121 feet (but were just raised to 164 feet).
If you would like to see examples of very livable and park-filled concepts for 100,000 person per square mile density in SF (five times what it is today), see What would 100,000 people per square mile look like?.
I think the Space Shuttle was nothing more than a contractor boondoggle from the start.
The Shuttle also had a problem of having to meet both military and civilian requirements. The NRO required the Shuttle payload bay to be larger than needed by civilian payloads, and they wanted the option to fly "once around" polar orbit missions which required greater flexibility for maneuvering the landing, which dramatically increased the size of the delta wing.
In a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices act to efficiently coordinate the separate actions of different people.
Prices are important information in the economic calculus.
If a government sets price floors or ceilings, it damages the price system, and leads to shortages or gluts.
If you think poor people need money, then redistribute money to them via taxes. But don't break the price system, because when you do, you reduce the size of the entire economy through inefficiencies.
"they design stuff in Cupertino, CA, but they don't pay corporate taxes in CA."
But they of course the salaries they pay to over 25,000 California workers end up taxed by California's high rate state personal income taxes, and California sales provide state sales taxes.
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The Whitehouse switch board is notorious for blocking everyone who isn't scheduled. I don't see Trump ever getting an unscheduled phone call.
That's OK, you can always tweet him...
So you are saying there are these magic rays that go through the air that your magic "antenna" can catch and turn into a NFL game?
It's like WiFi, but with 8-level vestigial sideband modulation.
If you are an American living and working legally in France for five years, or you are married to or were born to a French citizen, you may apply for French citizenship.
If youâ(TM)ve successfully completed two years of higher education in France, the five-year residency period can be reduced to two years.
Indeed, China has 1,448 naturalised Chinese in total. Almost no foreigners are able to become citizens.
Even Japan, better known for hostility to immigration, naturalises around 10,000 new citizens each year; in America the figure is some 700,000.
Plato, Confucious, Siddharta Gautama, Galileo, maybe John Locke
At one point I could tell you all of their philosophy, but the memory locations have been replaced with knowledge of Java classes.
Precision Time Protocol to the rescue!
"if im reading correctly, they are buying the bonds with pre tax dollars."
Foreign earnings are only taxed by the US worldwide tax regime if they are repatriated to the US. Foreign earnings are, of course, taxed by the country where they are earned (generally by a territorial tax regime).
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written
The Lift America Coalition (including large corporations like 3M, Cisco, Intel, Walmart, etc.) has been lobbying for a territorial corporate tax system rather than a worldwide corporate tax system, which would allow trillions of dollars of profits to be repatriated back to the US, but to date they have not been successful in getting Congress to change the corporate tax regime (which the majority of OECD countries have).
When a country runs a trade deficit, it receives foreign currency, which is useless in another country. To be of value, these foreign reserves must be invested back into the country running a trade deficit.
Massive spending binge = inflation = a decrease in the value of the dollar, not a "surge"
You could have a rise in the value of the dollar relative to other currencies while at the same time domestic price levels rise.
But in general, that would be unusual with a floating currency, but it could happen with unusual capital controls and/or a pegged currency.
The firewall is somewhere between annoying (on a good day) to downright nasty for foreigners as well.
Everyone I know who does business on the mainland (including Hong Kongers) uses a VPN.
China has 1,448 naturalised Chinese in total. Almost no foreigners are able to become citizens (source).
Even Japan, better known for hostility to immigration, naturalises around 10,000 new citizens each year; in America the figure is some 700,000.
If you aren't Han, you are in trouble in China.
How loud it is in the headphones depends on the output of the amplifier
If you are sneaky, you could have a circuit that limits the voltage amplitude coming into the headphones. This could be stupid dumb (a diode limiter) or something more complex like an active gain control.
However I suspect most kid headphones are assuming the input maxes out at 2 VRMS, and use resistor dividers to reduce the voltage into the speakers. This dumb solution means that sometimes kids might not be able to hear overly quiet videos (such as on Kids Youtube) where audio loudness is not well managed.
Codecs (such as H.264 or VP9) describe a bit stream, and how to decode the bit stream. They basically provide a kit of tools that can be be used by encoders.
The quality of video encoding is mainly due to the technical knowledge and artistry of the encoder manufacturer and how the use that took kit. I can show you great H.264 encoders and horrible H.264 encoders, but they both emit valid H.264 bit streams.
In particular, the biggest challenge is rate control. If you don't care about the details of a variable bit rate, almost anyone can write a great H.264 or VP9 encoder, with the bit rate jumping up and down all over the place. However if you expect a bit rate to be held within say +/- 100 kbps, only a few vendors have the expertise to make a more constant bit rate look good.
I'll also add that I've seen no good data that shows that VP9 encoders perform better over a wide range of content than H.264.
I have used 123D Catch for artistic purposes, but the resulting models lack dimensional accuracy for a "part." Photogrammetry is never going to replace a good CAD model.
Not only has the cellular text technology not been used, but no president has ever used the current Emergency Action Notification (EAN) of the EAS system or its technical predecessors (going back to 1951 with CONRAD).
Then again, we have never had global thermonuclear war...
I'm amazed but glad that it's actually begun to operate.
How did they get the people who farmed the 2500 acres of land there to move out? That is the biggest problem setting up a large factory in India, the land rights are questionable.
Oh I Googled that for myself: Adani seeks to gag its lawyer after he claims 'violations', "In an unusual move, the Gujarat-based Adani Group of Companies has filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to gag its own lawyer after he allegedly threatened to expose "major violations", and name those involved in the purchase and funding of 1,800 acres of land for its solar power project in Tamil Nadu."
BTW Nat Geo video here of the Kamuthi solar plant.
But there's only one way to go without destroying all that is good about SF (its parks) and that is up.
Up, but not that far up - Paris, for example, has a far higher population density than San Francisco, but has very few very tall apartment buildings. Paris does not have the nutty 40 foot height limit that most of SF has, instead the limits in Paris have been 121 feet (but were just raised to 164 feet).
If you would like to see examples of very livable and park-filled concepts for 100,000 person per square mile density in SF (five times what it is today), see What would 100,000 people per square mile look like?.
Kind of sad that they feel it is cheaper to have the panels cleaned by robots than by the hundreds of millions of underemployed poor Indians...
Hah, I love the GoPro video from my dog's back!
Brown rice has about 2% fiber.
Pinto beans have 16% fiber.
Stick with beans. Del Taco!
I think the Space Shuttle was nothing more than a contractor boondoggle from the start.
The Shuttle also had a problem of having to meet both military and civilian requirements. The NRO required the Shuttle payload bay to be larger than needed by civilian payloads, and they wanted the option to fly "once around" polar orbit missions which required greater flexibility for maneuvering the landing, which dramatically increased the size of the delta wing.
US Total Manufacturer sales.
US Manufacturing corporations after-tax profits.
In a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices act to efficiently coordinate the separate actions of different people.
Prices are important information in the economic calculus.
If a government sets price floors or ceilings, it damages the price system, and leads to shortages or gluts.
If you think poor people need money, then redistribute money to them via taxes. But don't break the price system, because when you do, you reduce the size of the entire economy through inefficiencies.
"they design stuff in Cupertino, CA, but they don't pay corporate taxes in CA."
But they of course the salaries they pay to over 25,000 California workers end up taxed by California's high rate state personal income taxes, and California sales provide state sales taxes.