A friend of mine saw this (and thought it was an airplane crashing).
The more I see pictures of similar contrails, I have to say it is likely contrail with the added element of the setting sun reflecting off the plane itself so you see something that looks like "flashes of flame" below it.
The cost of manufactured things are small a small part of the budget.
That's the point. Between automation and offshoring, manufactured things are cheap, service jobs (like education and health care) is where we spend our money these days.
Why do companies think they deserve to sell the same product to Americans for 10 times the price it sells for in the third world?
If you could sell it for 9 times, you'd win the market, so go do it if you are so smart!
The truth is that most imports are incredibly cheaper than the cost of the same goods produced in the US. They have enabled us to live with a far higher quality at the same income level.
If the GPL2 license is incompatible with the App Store then why have the developers
Indeed, someone need to please quote the part of the GPLv2.0 that the App Store infringes on. It would have to come from part 3, because that is the only part of the GPLv2.0 that deals with executable code, which is what the App Store deals with.
This kind of thing makes companies afraid to every use GPLed software because some random developer can come along at any time and initiate legal action against you.
The source code is freely available. Why the hell do we care about the binary? What if you have to run an encrypted binary for a secure, embedded solution, is that against the GPL as well?
This analysis shows that the case for App Store infringing on the GPLv2.0 is weak.
Really, does average person ever have to deal with integrals, derivations... or nearly any other area of abstract algebra... after graduating?
You need to know how to read calculus to read a wide number of scientific papers. You might not need to know exactly how to solve the equations, but you need to know the integral sign, etc., to get a feel for what they are talking about. This could be anything from engineering, bioinformatics, geology, etc.
I have an education in electrical engineering. Yet I can think of only one time in my professional life I ever had to solve a differential equation, and by that time I had to look up how to do it since I mainly forgot the the details. But differential equations can help you understand transistor physics.
My experience with vector calculus enabled me to understand important concepts such a coaxial cable and antenna design. I also learned a great deal of applied Real and Complex analysis in terms of Laplace and Fourier transforms, but I never had an actual "analysis" math course. I don't typically solve transforms any more, but my knowledge that they exist inform my understanding of video and audio compression and signal equalization techniques.
In high school, I had an awesome combo of synchronized calculus with physics, which truly helps you understand both.
So I think often math is a tool to understand technology, even if you are more of a technology user than developer.
On the other hand, I think everyone could use more probability and statistics knowledge, as we do have to deal with understanding financial, economic, and political statistics on a regular basis.
. I see people make this claim all the time, that poor people get more money back than they pay in taxes, and I just want to know, uh, how do they do it?
I have done income taxes for a family under the poverty line, and indeed they got back more Earned Income Tax Credit than they paid in taxes.
You probably didn't qualify because you didn't have enough dependent children. Three kids maxes it out. Then you need to earn a bit, but not too much.
For example, a single parent raising two children and earning $12,200 is eligible for an EITC refund of $5,036.
About a third of potential EITC recipients don't realize they qualify for it.
What I don't understand is this 35% corporate income tax. Isn't income tax supposed to be progressive, i.e. those who earn more pay a higher percentage?
US corporate income tax rates start at 15% and max out at 35% once you get over $18 million in net income.
A corporation is not a physical person, ultimately all the profits either go to reinvesting or get paid as dividends to people.
Indeed, the income is double taxed, once by the corporate income tax, then again by the personal income tax of those receiving dividends or personal capital gain taxes of those selling shares. If it is taxed by more than one country (which is what will happen if the foreign subsidiary income tax "loophole is fixed"), the income would end up triple taxed!
How do they account for the different shareholders?
They don't, the corporate income tax rate is set by the net income of the corporation as a whole.
So under American law: anything that a company attempts to keep secret for commercial benefit has federal protection, and it's a crime to spread that information?
Yes, so if you hear something secret (not known publicly) in a commercial conversation in the US, ask for positive authorization to duplicate, convey, or sell that information to others.
Probably good things to do with your friends as well.
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
The Branch Davidians stopped the initial attempt of the authorities to enter their compound using their weapons. We'll never know how long they really could have held out - assuming the fire was started by them.
How can the GPS work under a car? I'd think with all that metal on top, the GPS signal would be pretty attenuated.
Maybe if it was near the edge of the bottom of the car with an antenna that gets a sideview, even then I'm not sure it would see enough sats to get a fix.
Not on price. It's fucking forty thousand dollars! It's an ECONOMY car!
It is a SIGNALLING car. It signals your commitment to the environment, and that you are a caring person.
Neither has to actually be true though, you just need some bucks. You can drive it from the hills to Van Nuys Airport on all-electric, and then grossly emit CO2 taking your private jet to NYC...
There has GOT to be a good solar desalinization scheme that would pay for itself after a few years.
A freshwater lake IS solar desalination. The sun evaporates the ocean, and it rains out freshwater, and collects in lakes. So we're just talking about the efficiency of delivery.
Ship consumption is around 0.05 kWh/tonne(h2o)*km, and the most efficient (reverse osmosis) desalination plants consumer about 5kWh/tonne(h2o).
So indeed, if you are shipping water via ocean-going tanker more than 100km, it is more energy efficient to locally desalinate.
It should be noted that the theoretical maximum efficiency of desalination is 0.86 kWh/tonne(h2o), so it is likely the efficiency of desalination technology will improve over time.
Look at it this way, at some point, no where in the US had fire coverages. As municipalities sprung up they decided it was in their best interest to give their citizens a fire department, but they can only afford to cover a certain range.
Actually in the US, early fire departments were formed by 1) government through public funds, such as Boston in 1679 and 2) by insurance companies in the 18th and 19th century (including Benjamin Franklin who in 1736 established the Union Volunteer fire insurance company)
Private fire insurance fire departments were pushed out by government-funded brigades, due to some extent of issues regarding who should fight a fire based on which private company insured a building.
Across the US, there are now government-funded professional firefighters, and a mixture of government-funded and charitable volunteer firefighters.
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A friend of mine saw this (and thought it was an airplane crashing).
The more I see pictures of similar contrails, I have to say it is likely contrail with the added element of the setting sun reflecting off the plane itself so you see something that looks like "flashes of flame" below it.
I'm sure you've seen lots of stupid people who aren't going to get much smarter
Genetic engineering is coming...there may be only a few generations left of low-IQ people in Western countries.
The cost of manufactured things are small a small part of the budget.
That's the point. Between automation and offshoring, manufactured things are cheap, service jobs (like education and health care) is where we spend our money these days.
Why do companies think they deserve to sell the same product to Americans for 10 times the price it sells for in the third world?
If you could sell it for 9 times, you'd win the market, so go do it if you are so smart!
The truth is that most imports are incredibly cheaper than the cost of the same goods produced in the US. They have enabled us to live with a far higher quality at the same income level.
I can say that once your are "on net" with fiber from a major provider, Internet bandwidth is incredibly cheap, in the neighborhood of $1/Mbps/month.
Last mile is the cost.
That's a special effect you see in movies. It's not real, and there's no real theory for how such a thing could even be made.
You might want to see the AIST free space plasma display, as a theory on how such a thing could be made...
We can't just write him off as a dinosaur.
Indeed, ask Dish or Cablevision.
If the GPL2 license is incompatible with the App Store then why have the developers
Indeed, someone need to please quote the part of the GPLv2.0 that the App Store infringes on. It would have to come from part 3, because that is the only part of the GPLv2.0 that deals with executable code, which is what the App Store deals with.
This kind of thing makes companies afraid to every use GPLed software because some random developer can come along at any time and initiate legal action against you.
The source code is freely available. Why the hell do we care about the binary? What if you have to run an encrypted binary for a secure, embedded solution, is that against the GPL as well?
This analysis shows that the case for App Store infringing on the GPLv2.0 is weak.
Really, does average person ever have to deal with integrals, derivations... or nearly any other area of abstract algebra... after graduating?
You need to know how to read calculus to read a wide number of scientific papers. You might not need to know exactly how to solve the equations, but you need to know the integral sign, etc., to get a feel for what they are talking about. This could be anything from engineering, bioinformatics, geology, etc.
I have an education in electrical engineering. Yet I can think of only one time in my professional life I ever had to solve a differential equation, and by that time I had to look up how to do it since I mainly forgot the the details. But differential equations can help you understand transistor physics.
My experience with vector calculus enabled me to understand important concepts such a coaxial cable and antenna design. I also learned a great deal of applied Real and Complex analysis in terms of Laplace and Fourier transforms, but I never had an actual "analysis" math course. I don't typically solve transforms any more, but my knowledge that they exist inform my understanding of video and audio compression and signal equalization techniques.
In high school, I had an awesome combo of synchronized calculus with physics, which truly helps you understand both.
So I think often math is a tool to understand technology, even if you are more of a technology user than developer.
On the other hand, I think everyone could use more probability and statistics knowledge, as we do have to deal with understanding financial, economic, and political statistics on a regular basis.
a VW Passat BlueMotion recently broke the record for mileage
But would that VW Passat pass US diesel emission regulations...
Movies cannot use 3D in any way that makes it required for the movie, because rentals and DVD sales are still a big part of the revenue for a movie.
The 3D and 2D cut of a movie is typically different.
Moreover, Avatar (the quintessential 3D movie) has had plenty of success with 2D DVD and 2D Blu-Ray sales.
First person to climb to the top, take a picture of their junk, and post it on Facebook using the 3G access wins!
There are some places you just don't want frostbite!
. I see people make this claim all the time, that poor people get more money back than they pay in taxes, and I just want to know, uh, how do they do it?
I have done income taxes for a family under the poverty line, and indeed they got back more Earned Income Tax Credit than they paid in taxes.
You probably didn't qualify because you didn't have enough dependent children. Three kids maxes it out. Then you need to earn a bit, but not too much.
For example, a single parent raising two children and earning $12,200 is eligible for an EITC refund of $5,036.
About a third of potential EITC recipients don't realize they qualify for it.
What I don't understand is this 35% corporate income tax. Isn't income tax supposed to be progressive, i.e. those who earn more pay a higher percentage?
US corporate income tax rates start at 15% and max out at 35% once you get over $18 million in net income.
A corporation is not a physical person, ultimately all the profits either go to reinvesting or get paid as dividends to people.
Indeed, the income is double taxed, once by the corporate income tax, then again by the personal income tax of those receiving dividends or personal capital gain taxes of those selling shares. If it is taxed by more than one country (which is what will happen if the foreign subsidiary income tax "loophole is fixed"), the income would end up triple taxed!
How do they account for the different shareholders?
They don't, the corporate income tax rate is set by the net income of the corporation as a whole.
"the money saved in taxes? it goes into paying dividends on shares"
But it should be noted that if Google repatriated income from foreign subsidiaries to pay dividends, that income would be taxable.
Google will pay its taxes when it repatriates its earnings (to pay stock dividends, for example).
It is important that countries only tax income generated in those countries. Otherwise you might be taxed twice by the different countries.
So under American law: anything that a company attempts to keep secret for commercial benefit has federal protection, and it's a crime to spread that information?
Yes, so if you hear something secret (not known publicly) in a commercial conversation in the US, ask for positive authorization to duplicate, convey, or sell that information to others.
Probably good things to do with your friends as well.
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
The Branch Davidians stopped the initial attempt of the authorities to enter their compound using their weapons. We'll never know how long they really could have held out - assuming the fire was started by them.
How can the GPS work under a car? I'd think with all that metal on top, the GPS signal would be pretty attenuated.
Maybe if it was near the edge of the bottom of the car with an antenna that gets a sideview, even then I'm not sure it would see enough sats to get a fix.
Not on price. It's fucking forty thousand dollars! It's an ECONOMY car!
It is a SIGNALLING car. It signals your commitment to the environment, and that you are a caring person.
Neither has to actually be true though, you just need some bucks. You can drive it from the hills to Van Nuys Airport on all-electric, and then grossly emit CO2 taking your private jet to NYC...
There has GOT to be a good solar desalinization scheme that would pay for itself after a few years.
A freshwater lake IS solar desalination. The sun evaporates the ocean, and it rains out freshwater, and collects in lakes. So we're just talking about the efficiency of delivery.
Ship consumption is around 0.05 kWh/tonne(h2o)*km, and the most efficient (reverse osmosis) desalination plants consumer about 5kWh/tonne(h2o).
So indeed, if you are shipping water via ocean-going tanker more than 100km, it is more energy efficient to locally desalinate.
It should be noted that the theoretical maximum efficiency of desalination is 0.86 kWh/tonne(h2o), so it is likely the efficiency of desalination technology will improve over time.
Today, you can't fire people for using sugar but you can for using any number of illegal drugs. This would change that.
Unless you are in a state or federally protected class, or under a labor agreement, you can be fired for pretty much any reason in most states.
In Indiana, you can be legally be fired for drinking off of work time, if your employer wishes.
CA Prop. 19 has language stating that it is OK to fire someone for using marijuana if it is relevant to their job (such as an airline pilot, etc.)
Look at it this way, at some point, no where in the US had fire coverages. As municipalities sprung up they decided it was in their best interest to give their citizens a fire department, but they can only afford to cover a certain range.
Actually in the US, early fire departments were formed by 1) government through public funds, such as Boston in 1679 and 2) by insurance companies in the 18th and 19th century (including Benjamin Franklin who in 1736 established the Union Volunteer fire insurance company)
Private fire insurance fire departments were pushed out by government-funded brigades, due to some extent of issues regarding who should fight a fire based on which private company insured a building.
Across the US, there are now government-funded professional firefighters, and a mixture of government-funded and charitable volunteer firefighters.