Firstly , I know that it is a general custom/black hole tax and goes in general budget. But even if it did not , the smoker do not pay ENOUGH with the tax ! If you want a tax to compensate on the burden due by smoker then the calculation is a tad bit more complicated :
435,000 death for tobbaco but that is all comfounded (laryngical , lung cancer etc....). The Who cite a cost (including fire started by smoker) of 6% total to the economy health cost (in 1999) (http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/atlas13.pdf) and a cost for 2002 of 76 billion it is probably less now so taking the following statistic : http://www.pnlee.co.uk/Downloads/ISS/ISS-USA_071219.pdf we see the cigarette prevalence dropped, that make it a tobacco burden of about 50 billion dollar on health sector (6% 2010 budget).
We now have a cost
It is difficult to differentiate between tobacco sort (cigare, cigarette, pipe, snuff etc...) but prevalent to 70% is the cigarette so let us assume for a moment it is cigarette only, there has been a sale of 350 billion cigarette. So we are looking at a RISE in price per cigarette of 1/7 dollar, and for a pack of 20 at least 20/7 dollar or about 3 dollar per pack, but as we overestimated the prevalence (75% tobacco sales are cigarette) in reality we take only 75% of that, so 2.25$ 2.25 dollar per pack ONLY for health care . AS you can see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States there is only very few state with a tax of more than 2$ per pack , most are below 2$ and about 1/4 (?) are at 2$.
To pay for THEIR health care smoker would have to pay USA WIDE at least 2$25 on tax per pack. They don't today. Therefore Smoker today are not paying for the healthcare of their self destructive habit
With the existing censorship and "editor deletism" that exists today ? No way in hell, even if I know that would not affect my domain (QM). 1) because I don't want to reward poor behavior 2) because I have no interrest in potentially see my work reduced to nil out of spite by some idiot.
So Wiki, sorry, but at the moment , no way in hell.
Who hold the copyright matters. And hate it or not, they are perfectly in right to remove a distribution right they have given before. That said, after having bought ultima 4 to 9, UW1 and UW2, and having felt the pain of playing thru ultima 9, I think I can imagine that any browser based U4 will be about : a very basic strategy / rpg game , with the possibility to buy for $$$ a few useful item. "buy 30 karma for 0.99 $ !". YURK.
It needs to know where you are *NOW* it fdoes not need to know where youw ere 5 minutes ago. Therefore saving the data is a no-no and a big privacy breach.
Seeing the wild claim I have seen on various network, and web news aggregator, I would say anybody researching *a bit* did more research than news networks...
And years later , citizen which were basically not involved continue the prejudicied insulting. Very mature. Such people should insult de gaulle not the french. Otherwise everybody HATING the American folk because of G W Bush are having fully acceptable behavior. Do I trhink so ? No. But this is the logical conclusion of the french bashing by the US : hating the folk for (long dead) leader action are acceptable.
1) this was a *SPIKE* of 400 mSv, not a continuous 400 mSv/h. case in point soon afterward it descended to 12 mSv/h and now is at 0.6 mSv/h. This is what happens when you get your news from CNN. Citate : "Japanese authorities told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that radiation levels at the plant site between units 3 and 4 reached a peak of some 400 millisieverts per hour. "This is a high dose-level value," said the body, "but it is a local value at a single location and at a certain point in time."
Later readings were 11.9 millisieverts per hour, followed six hours later by 0.6 millisieverts, which the IAEA said "indicate the level of radioactivity has been decreasing." "
2) Japan *automatically* evacuate people as a precaution, not as a need ! Just like tsunami drill this is something Japan implemented to be on the SAFE side.
3) radioactivity , a doubling of the normal background rate of Tokyo was measured. Big Fucking Deal. if an inhabitant from tokyo was moving to my region it would take *FIVE* time the background radioactivity they get now per year : about 10 millisievert. And if they were moving to those naturally radioactive hot spring in iran they would get about 80 times the dose.
While i agree that downplaying the problem is not so good, UPPLAYING it as you made is adding to the fucking media circus fear mongering.
It is a bad situation at the moment, but not a catastrophal one. The likely scenario at the moment, is that the fuel goes into containment, a bit of radioactivity might escape, but basically the plant will have to be written off, and the REAKL environmental catastrophe will be all the chemical from chem plants washed inshore over crop field by the tsunami, the destroyed towns, and the dead people. The reactor at the moment isn't even a BLIP compared to that.
Once you start to calculate the energy requirement to go to Mars or other planet, combined with potential time even with a technology much better than yours, you will come to the same conclusion as me : almost certainly we will never go out of our solar system, almost certainly we will never meet other civilisation/alien life, and almost certainly we will die out and be forgotten once the planet is being inhabitable for us (whatever reason, including increase of sun luminosity before turning red giant) and the chance of one of our extra solar sonde finding an aliena rchelogue is infinitesimal.
600$ a day, 5 open day a week, that's 12000 to 15000 a month. Maybe that guy earn more than that per month, and maybe on slashdot this is the median salary (I doubt it) but for most of the people 12K to 15K a month is enormous. Try telling the same sentence "not worth playing for 600$ a month" to your average person. Most of the people I know earn arround 2000 (low end) to 4000 $ a month... And I earn before tax about 10000$ (I don#t even want to mention what's after tax).
"The theory was originally developed by David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister. But it has gained a new lease of life since a study into a rare blood disorder shared by Jews and Palestinians revealed a closer genetic match between the communities than between Palestinians and other Arabs."
It would be interesting (academically) to see if this research result were confirmed/falsified....
If you want a better comparison, use for example white noise , or similar anlogue randomness. It is then quite clear that the cocneption of random of the op only apply to discrete distribution, and with real world data one can very quickly see that something is not "random". It could be a local trend, but not random.
The privacy law are quite strict here, and you can't nilly willy gather private data without the consent of the people. If they do any business in europe expect the law to come up with as ton of brick on them, as well anybody buying the database for commercial purpose. And if they don't do business in europe, why bother gathering the profile ?
this guy will say it better than me you are simply spouting non sense, you haven't any evidence at ALL that astrology works beyond cold/hot reading and forer effect.
"For astrology to really work, it does require a surrender of one's bias against phenomenon that cannot be directly sensed by physical senses. " I will let any rational person read that twice, and try to reconciliate thazt with the fact astrology pretend to make prediction on people's personality, personality *which* indubitably can directly be sensed by common sense. But hey, since astrology utter FAIL at its own prediction, that's OK i guess.
"a great deal of ignorance about astrology" No, we are coming from a perspective that there is not a single astrology. Yes even the western astrology vary between practioneer. Even astrlogue are unable to predict better than chance who's sign is which. Astrlogist predict contrary stuff between each other. Tehre is a great deal of ingorance in astrology too. Some astrlogist pretend you need to know the seconds or minutes of your birth date (you know, to try to explain away twins with different presonalities). Some astrologist pretend the PLANET themselves set the influence (hehe, too abd they only added planet when astronomer discovered them) some pretend it is the season the important, some the sun and moon, all have thier kind of lala-land justification. Bottom line is : don't ty to tell us we are ignorant: there are as many astrology as there are astrologer (or nearly).
Astrology makes its observations from a purely relative perspective from Earth. AstrologyDO NOT make any observation whatsoever. it asserts stuff without any evidence.
As for the 13th sign, that's old news. Astrologers have been debating the usefulness of Ophiuchus for decades at least. Which is an interresting contradiction with the sideral and twelve sign thingy (Whether it is actually in absolute alignment with that constellation is not the claim, nor is it even relevant. Indeed, tropical astrology (what is predominantly used in the West) doesn't use the constellations at all but puts the zodiac as a fixed wheel around the Earth, so that the Spring equinox is always the first day of Aries) but I guess once you start making stuff up on the spot, why not go a 13th step further. Astrology is about understanding natural cycles, Care to give a citation on that ? Astrology has ALWAYS been about getting money from gullible (or moving responsibility of a decision on what is basically a throw of dice) and never about any natural cycle whatsoever. Astrology has no basis with reality whatsoever. It is not about absolute claims of prediction based on absolute alignments. Newspaper horoscopes are, on the whole, a fraud, and not consistent with the true intention and purpose of astrology. LOL the usual defense , nobody care about newspaper astrology, even nitwit knows something printed a million time can't be right, we all speak of the pretend astrloger which say they are acurate. Study have been made , and TAdam, basically they are able to predict birthdtate based on personality quizz no better than chance, and given NO hot and cold reading, they are no better at making prediction of personality based on biorth date than this : Forer effect wiki.
Astrlogy has always been JUNK. For fuck sake, there is nothing to astrology, absolutely nothing than banality , generality , self dellusion and scamming money.
I now know I have to stick to firefox 3 no matter what. Removing status bar at the bottom ? Putting it at a place where you can#t see long URL ? What the heck the firefox dev were SMOKING ? They are supposed to add useful functionality in, not remove VERY useful functionality out.
"And after several generations, you'd have a new species,' he said."
I seriously doubt he said that, or he is not a biologist worth its salt (no I did not read the *fox news* article). The only way to have a new specie , is only if there are mutation which happens to make the new baby to be more adapted to the new environment, and this is selected for, NOT because they grow there and are getting use to the environment (in the latest case, such a person having baby on earth would have baby identical to any other human). I seriously doubt this would happen in several generation only, most probably you would need much more by 1 or 2 order of magnitude to see a real new specie.
Having a bank account full of money is enough for many people. As long as they are not confronted by their victim, and the victim stays an anonymous number, people will mostly not feel any remorse.
If as philosopher (world renowed my ass: appeal to authorithy) starts by saying science is false and as bad as voodoo priest, and OBVIOUSLY science as a self corrective process worked to bring us here, then you don't need to have a 101 level in philosophy to say the philosopher however good his argument are , is not speaking of this common things we call REALITY.
Frankly I am SICK of hearing philosopher telling me my work (and the one of other scientist) is as crap as somebody chanting to baron Samedi to put a curse on somebody, all while they enjoy the fruit thereof. No scratch that, I am SICK of people PAYING ATTENTION to what amount to people spending their time thinking of vacuous pure logic thematic, while at the same those guy have contributed next to NOTHING to the modern world well being in the last 1000 or 2000 years.
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Firstly , I know that it is a general custom/black hole tax and goes in general budget. But even if it did not , the smoker do not pay ENOUGH with the tax ! If you want a tax to compensate on the burden due by smoker then the calculation is a tad bit more complicated :
435,000 death for tobbaco but that is all comfounded (laryngical , lung cancer etc....). The Who cite a cost (including fire started by smoker) of 6% total to the economy health cost (in 1999) (http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/atlas13.pdf) and a cost for 2002 of 76 billion it is probably less now so taking the following statistic : http://www.pnlee.co.uk/Downloads/ISS/ISS-USA_071219.pdf we see the cigarette prevalence dropped, that make it a tobacco burden of about 50 billion dollar on health sector (6% 2010 budget).
We now have a cost
It is difficult to differentiate between tobacco sort (cigare, cigarette, pipe, snuff etc...) but prevalent to 70% is the cigarette so let us assume for a moment it is cigarette only, there has been a sale of 350 billion cigarette. So we are looking at a RISE in price per cigarette of 1/7 dollar, and for a pack of 20 at least 20/7 dollar or about 3 dollar per pack, but as we overestimated the prevalence (75% tobacco sales are cigarette) in reality we take only 75% of that, so 2.25$ 2.25 dollar per pack ONLY for health care
. AS you can see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States there is only very few state with a tax of more than 2$ per pack , most are below 2$ and about 1/4 (?) are at 2$.
To pay for THEIR health care smoker would have to pay USA WIDE at least 2$25 on tax per pack. They don't today. Therefore Smoker today are not paying for the healthcare of their self destructive habit
I wish that book would be mandatory reading as early as possible in the school system.
With the existing censorship and "editor deletism" that exists today ? No way in hell, even if I know that would not affect my domain (QM).
1) because I don't want to reward poor behavior
2) because I have no interrest in potentially see my work reduced to nil out of spite by some idiot.
So Wiki, sorry, but at the moment , no way in hell.
Who hold the copyright matters. And hate it or not, they are perfectly in right to remove a distribution right they have given before. That said, after having bought ultima 4 to 9, UW1 and UW2, and having felt the pain of playing thru ultima 9, I think I can imagine that any browser based U4 will be about : a very basic strategy / rpg game , with the possibility to buy for $$$ a few useful item. "buy 30 karma for 0.99 $ !". YURK.
It needs to know where you are *NOW* it fdoes not need to know where youw ere 5 minutes ago. Therefore saving the data is a no-no and a big privacy breach.
Seeing the wild claim I have seen on various network, and web news aggregator, I would say anybody researching *a bit* did more research than news networks...
And years later , citizen which were basically not involved continue the prejudicied insulting. Very mature. Such people should insult de gaulle not the french. Otherwise everybody HATING the American folk because of G W Bush are having fully acceptable behavior. Do I trhink so ? No. But this is the logical conclusion of the french bashing by the US : hating the folk for (long dead) leader action are acceptable.
The majority of academia don't believe in any gods whatsoever (poly, mono or whatonot).
1) this was a *SPIKE* of 400 mSv, not a continuous 400 mSv/h. case in point soon afterward it descended to 12 mSv/h and now is at 0.6 mSv/h. This is what happens when you get your news from CNN. Citate : "Japanese authorities told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that radiation levels at the plant site between units 3 and 4 reached a peak of some 400 millisieverts per hour. "This is a high dose-level value," said the body, "but it is a local value at a single location and at a certain point in time." Later readings were 11.9 millisieverts per hour, followed six hours later by 0.6 millisieverts, which the IAEA said "indicate the level of radioactivity has been decreasing." "
2) Japan *automatically* evacuate people as a precaution, not as a need ! Just like tsunami drill this is something Japan implemented to be on the SAFE side.
3) radioactivity , a doubling of the normal background rate of Tokyo was measured. Big Fucking Deal. if an inhabitant from tokyo was moving to my region it would take *FIVE* time the background radioactivity they get now per year : about 10 millisievert. And if they were moving to those naturally radioactive hot spring in iran they would get about 80 times the dose.
While i agree that downplaying the problem is not so good, UPPLAYING it as you made is adding to the fucking media circus fear mongering.
It is a bad situation at the moment, but not a catastrophal one. The likely scenario at the moment, is that the fuel goes into containment, a bit of radioactivity might escape, but basically the plant will have to be written off, and the REAKL environmental catastrophe will be all the chemical from chem plants washed inshore over crop field by the tsunami, the destroyed towns, and the dead people. The reactor at the moment isn't even a BLIP compared to that.
I wonder why religions even have made sex to look like a bad thing
Mostly out of control. But beware that some more ancient religion were not so bad on sex. Some even had temple prostitution and similar.
QUOTE:
I'm afraid it really is this stupid. Wikipedia has become more of a bureaucracy than an "open" encyclopedia. [citation needed]
To that you can add NPOV, and notoriety.
1) it works
Normally I would stop at 1) but I cana dd a few more
2) it is maintained
3) I get the support I need when i want to (albeit it can be difficult to trawl forums as a newbie)
4) did i mention it works ?
The drama between fanboy and haterboy I don't care as a user, I was not even aware of it.
Once you start to calculate the energy requirement to go to Mars or other planet, combined with potential time even with a technology much better than yours, you will come to the same conclusion as me : almost certainly we will never go out of our solar system, almost certainly we will never meet other civilisation/alien life, and almost certainly we will die out and be forgotten once the planet is being inhabitable for us (whatever reason, including increase of sun luminosity before turning red giant) and the chance of one of our extra solar sonde finding an aliena rchelogue is infinitesimal.
Somebody should tell Jaxa it was only an anime , not a documentation :).... Planet es
600$ a day, 5 open day a week, that's 12000 to 15000 a month. Maybe that guy earn more than that per month, and maybe on slashdot this is the median salary (I doubt it) but for most of the people 12K to 15K a month is enormous. Try telling the same sentence "not worth playing for 600$ a month" to your average person. Most of the people I know earn arround 2000 (low end) to 4000 $ a month... And I earn before tax about 10000$ (I don#t even want to mention what's after tax).
The most interesting paragraph is this :
"The theory was originally developed by David Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister. But it has gained a new lease of life since a study into a rare blood disorder shared by Jews and Palestinians revealed a closer genetic match between the communities than between Palestinians and other Arabs."
It would be interesting (academically) to see if this research result were confirmed/falsified....
If you want a better comparison, use for example white noise , or similar anlogue randomness. It is then quite clear that the cocneption of random of the op only apply to discrete distribution, and with real world data one can very quickly see that something is not "random". It could be a local trend, but not random.
The original open letter to HOBBYIST
The OP only changed Hobbyist to China. Plus cela change....
The privacy law are quite strict here, and you can't nilly willy gather private data without the consent of the people. If they do any business in europe expect the law to come up with as ton of brick on them, as well anybody buying the database for commercial purpose. And if they don't do business in europe, why bother gathering the profile ?
this guy will say it better than me you are simply spouting non sense, you haven't any evidence at ALL that astrology works beyond cold/hot reading and forer effect.
"For astrology to really work, it does require a surrender of one's bias against phenomenon that cannot be directly sensed by physical senses. "
I will let any rational person read that twice, and try to reconciliate thazt with the fact astrology pretend to make prediction on people's personality, personality *which* indubitably can directly be sensed by common sense. But hey, since astrology utter FAIL at its own prediction, that's OK i guess.
"a great deal of ignorance about astrology"
No, we are coming from a perspective that there is not a single astrology. Yes even the western astrology vary between practioneer. Even astrlogue are unable to predict better than chance who's sign is which. Astrlogist predict contrary stuff between each other. Tehre is a great deal of ingorance in astrology too. Some astrlogist pretend you need to know the seconds or minutes of your birth date (you know, to try to explain away twins with different presonalities). Some astrologist pretend the PLANET themselves set the influence (hehe, too abd they only added planet when astronomer discovered them) some pretend it is the season the important, some the sun and moon, all have thier kind of lala-land justification. Bottom line is : don't ty to tell us we are ignorant: there are as many astrology as there are astrologer (or nearly).
Astrology makes its observations from a purely relative perspective from Earth.
AstrologyDO NOT make any observation whatsoever. it asserts stuff without any evidence.
As for the 13th sign, that's old news. Astrologers have been debating the usefulness of Ophiuchus for decades at least.
Which is an interresting contradiction with the sideral and twelve sign thingy (Whether it is actually in absolute alignment with that constellation is not the claim, nor is it even relevant. Indeed, tropical astrology (what is predominantly used in the West) doesn't use the constellations at all but puts the zodiac as a fixed wheel around the Earth, so that the Spring equinox is always the first day of Aries) but I guess once you start making stuff up on the spot, why not go a 13th step further.
Astrology is about understanding natural cycles, Care to give a citation on that ? Astrology has ALWAYS been about getting money from gullible (or moving responsibility of a decision on what is basically a throw of dice) and never about any natural cycle whatsoever. Astrology has no basis with reality whatsoever.
It is not about absolute claims of prediction based on absolute alignments. Newspaper horoscopes are, on the whole, a fraud, and not consistent with the true intention and purpose of astrology.
LOL the usual defense , nobody care about newspaper astrology, even nitwit knows something printed a million time can't be right, we all speak of the pretend astrloger which say they are acurate. Study have been made , and TAdam, basically they are able to predict birthdtate based on personality quizz no better than chance, and given NO hot and cold reading, they are no better at making prediction of personality based on biorth date than this : Forer effect wiki.
Astrlogy has always been JUNK. For fuck sake, there is nothing to astrology, absolutely nothing than banality , generality , self dellusion and scamming money.
I now know I have to stick to firefox 3 no matter what. Removing status bar at the bottom ? Putting it at a place where you can#t see long URL ? What the heck the firefox dev were SMOKING ? They are supposed to add useful functionality in, not remove VERY useful functionality out.
"And after several generations, you'd have a new species,' he said."
I seriously doubt he said that, or he is not a biologist worth its salt (no I did not read the *fox news* article). The only way to have a new specie , is only if there are mutation which happens to make the new baby to be more adapted to the new environment, and this is selected for, NOT because they grow there and are getting use to the environment (in the latest case, such a person having baby on earth would have baby identical to any other human). I seriously doubt this would happen in several generation only, most probably you would need much more by 1 or 2 order of magnitude to see a real new specie.
Having a bank account full of money is enough for many people. As long as they are not confronted by their victim, and the victim stays an anonymous number, people will mostly not feel any remorse.
If as philosopher (world renowed my ass: appeal to authorithy) starts by saying science is false and as bad as voodoo priest, and OBVIOUSLY science as a self corrective process worked to bring us here, then you don't need to have a 101 level in philosophy to say the philosopher however good his argument are , is not speaking of this common things we call REALITY.
Frankly I am SICK of hearing philosopher telling me my work (and the one of other scientist) is as crap as somebody chanting to baron Samedi to put a curse on somebody, all while they enjoy the fruit thereof. No scratch that, I am SICK of people PAYING ATTENTION to what amount to people spending their time thinking of vacuous pure logic thematic, while at the same those guy have contributed next to NOTHING to the modern world well being in the last 1000 or 2000 years.