This is a better argument for a wealth tax than an estate tax.
Since we want assets to be used productively, and since the function of the government is to protect us and our property, then taxes should apply to assets (wealth) rather than income. This would encourage wealthy individuals to invest their assets in productive enterprises (making jobs) rather than, say, gold or art (no jobs).
I heard on NPR last night that an X class CME has the effect of about "10 dental X-rays" on folks flying in airplanes over the poles. I guess the magnetic field lines make the poles the most vulnerable area, and at higher altitudes there is less atmosphere for protection.
For a literary take on this problem, Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx has written a novel That Old Ace in the Hole that's a fine read. While the subject is not entirely CAFOs, a CAFO figures quite prominently as a "character" in the novel.
I've gotten three Beige PowerMac G3s to run 10.2.x, but each has
had installation freezes at one time or another. The advice at
lowendmac and other sites has been helpful, but there is no silver
bullet. Things to try:
Remove the SCSI card and any other add-ons; install on the primary
IDE drive.
Remove all but the first SIMM which should be 256M.
Do a minimal install to keep it short; add the apps and printer
drivers and languages later
Wait it out; sometimes the display dies but the installation
proceeds. Wait a while for the CD tray to open and insert the next
CD-ROM.
If you get into a situation where you can't boot, use Open
Firmware. At reset use "Command + Option + O + F" to boot into Open
Firmware. Type these three commands, with a Return after each:
init-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
Use "Command + Option + P + R" to zap PRAM, maybe more than
once.
If all else fails push the little button near pci slot 1 to zap
PRAM and reset firmware.
Prepaid can be a great way to go. CallPlus uses the AT&T network, and can be had for as low as $3.33 a month!
See: CallPlus and Pharos for $10/25minutes 90 day expiration.
CallPlus works great with my Nokia 6360, and can be used with any AT&T or unlocked TDMA (D-AMPS) phone. Roaming is included at the usual per minute price on the AT&T roaming network. You can get a phone number local to somewhere other than your billing address (which only matters for your callers since all long distance is included in the usual per minute price).
I also like K9. It is small and fast on Win2k. It has APOP support (which was a pain to add to POPFile). Here are my results for the first 2000 and next 700 messages using K9...
Total number of emails processed 2,004 724 Number of Good emails processed 1,016 453 Number of Spam emails processed 988 271 Number of emails re-classified to Good 36 0 Number of emails re-classified to Spam 41 7 Percentage misidentified as Spam (false positives) 1.8% 0.0% Percentage misidentified as Good (false negatives) 2.0% 1.0% Overall accuracy 96.2% 99.0%
And so Snyder turned to TMS, in an attempt, as he says, ''to enhance the brain by shutting off certain parts of it.''
I am struck by the similarity to Buddhist meditation, which can lead to insight, not merely intelligence. If more beings developed their insight (i.e., woke up!) there would be more peace and compassion.
Zone Logic is a nice combination of state charts and autononmous agent design. It was used in the 80s and early 90s for industrial automation, and was particularly good at recovery from hardware failures.
Real-time systems depend on sensors to report the state of the outside world. These sensors often fail, putting the system in an illogical state. Zone Logic offered a nice structured way to deal with this.
R. Roberts. Zone Logic: A Unique Method of Practical Artificial Intelligence. Radnor,
PA, Compute! Books, 1989. citeseer
what accounts for the performance differences?
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The performance of these machines varies quite a bit. The top performers are described and benchmark results are here.
What accounts for this range of performance. All four machines have the same processor, clock, memory speed, bridge chip, GPU, disk speed, etc.:
Windows XP Professional; 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 32MB; [many]GB 5,400rpm [drive]
I've written four production FORTH compilers for various machines, including m68k PPC and x86 (before that I wrote several threaded and direct interpreters). My compilers never manifest the stacks as stacks, and use state of the art (Briggs Chaiten) register allocators. You won't see these compilers because they are used as back end code generators for other languages! The advantage of FORTH is that the front end of the compiler can be retargeted to any machine with a FORTH compiler. The runtime system and library can be written (somewhat) portably in FORTH. It's an excellent technique, and I heartily recommend it.
I resorted to ISDN because my local cable company (Adelphia) is too brain dead to keep the network running consistently. We have outages for days at a time.
In NH (USA) my ISDN bill is $46 a month to the phone company plus $20 to my ISP. I use a pair of 56k "voice" channels, which my ISP is kind enough to join into a 112k channel, rather than pay for 64k or 128k data service which is metered by the phone company.
What about those of us who happen to be running a blessed OS (w2k) but bought a firewire drive (e.g., QPS) because our primary (only?) machine is a notebook? It'll be a bit more expensive than 3 minutes to update the flash via FedEx.
Re:Get the flock out of here...
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The higher level behavior is "feeding the nest." The ants are bringing the food back, so the pheremone trail is benefiting the nest as a whole. The trail connects the nest to the food.
-- Your body is just a flock of cells flying in close formation.
My embedded projects usually don't need virtual memory or processes, just memory protection and threads. So Linux is overkill as well as being too slow.
On the other hand, the driver sources, the libm and libc, have all been useful starting points for either roll your own, or extending another RTOS.
If this sounds appealing, and you need an RTOS, look at RTEMS an open source RTOS with many ports.
What about the PB whose policy is to flood virus implanters with traffic?
Seriously, why would the FBI implant a virus containing a mechanism to contact the FBI? If this thing spreads, by whatever means, it would innundate the FBI with worthless data.
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This is a better argument for a wealth tax than an estate tax.
Since we want assets to be used productively, and since the function of the government is to protect us and our property, then taxes should apply to assets (wealth) rather than income. This would encourage wealthy individuals to invest their assets in productive enterprises (making jobs) rather than, say, gold or art (no jobs).
I heard on NPR last night that an X class CME has the effect of about "10 dental X-rays" on folks flying in airplanes over the poles. I guess the magnetic field lines make the poles the most vulnerable area, and at higher altitudes there is less atmosphere for protection.
For a literary take on this problem, Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx has written a novel That Old Ace in the Hole that's a fine read. While the subject is not entirely CAFOs, a CAFO figures quite prominently as a "character" in the novel.
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I've gotten three Beige PowerMac G3s to run 10.2.x, but each has had installation freezes at one time or another. The advice at lowendmac and other sites has been helpful, but there is no silver bullet. Things to try:
Remove the SCSI card and any other add-ons; install on the primary IDE drive.
Remove all but the first SIMM which should be 256M.
Do a minimal install to keep it short; add the apps and printer drivers and languages later
Wait it out; sometimes the display dies but the installation proceeds. Wait a while for the CD tray to open and insert the next CD-ROM.
If you get into a situation where you can't boot, use Open Firmware. At reset use "Command + Option + O + F" to boot into Open Firmware. Type these three commands, with a Return after each:
init-nvram
set-defaults
reset-all
Use "Command + Option + P + R" to zap PRAM, maybe more than once.
If all else fails push the little button near pci slot 1 to zap PRAM and reset firmware.
Good luck -- keep trying.
From theReg...
Both parties agree that the issue does not affect 3G phones, which use different protocols and security mechanisms than legacy GSM handsets.
Prepaid can be a great way to go. CallPlus uses the AT&T network, and can be had for as low as $3.33 a month!
See: CallPlus and Pharos for $10/25minutes 90 day expiration.
CallPlus works great with my Nokia 6360, and can be used with any AT&T or unlocked TDMA (D-AMPS) phone. Roaming is included at the usual per minute price on the AT&T roaming network. You can get a phone number local to somewhere other than your billing address (which only matters for your callers since all long distance is included in the usual per minute price).
I also like K9. It is small and fast on Win2k. It has APOP support (which was a pain to add to POPFile). Here are my results for the first 2000 and next 700 messages using K9...
And so Snyder turned to TMS, in an attempt, as he says, ''to enhance the brain by shutting off certain parts of it.''
I am struck by the similarity to Buddhist meditation, which can lead to insight, not merely intelligence. If more beings developed their insight (i.e., woke up!) there would be more peace and compassion.
Zone Logic is a nice combination of state charts and autononmous agent design. It was used in the 80s and early 90s for industrial automation, and was particularly good at recovery from hardware failures.
Real-time systems depend on sensors to report the state of the outside world. These sensors often fail, putting the system in an illogical state. Zone Logic offered a nice structured way to deal with this.
R. Roberts. Zone Logic: A Unique Method of Practical Artificial Intelligence. Radnor, PA, Compute! Books, 1989. citeseer
The performance of these machines varies quite a bit. The top performers are described and benchmark results are here.
What accounts for this range of performance. All four machines have the same processor, clock, memory speed, bridge chip, GPU, disk speed, etc.:
Is it all in the firmware settings?
Are you saying that a computer that "just works" and "is prettier" is somehow less worthy? Why are these criteria unimportant in your expert opinion?
It seems to me that a computer that "just works" and "is prettier" is far more valuable than one that doesn't "just work" and "is uglier."
You are absolutely right. Here is an example...
I've written four production FORTH compilers for various machines, including m68k PPC and x86 (before that I wrote several threaded and direct interpreters). My compilers never manifest the stacks as stacks, and use state of the art (Briggs Chaiten) register allocators. You won't see these compilers because they are used as back end code generators for other languages! The advantage of FORTH is that the front end of the compiler can be retargeted to any machine with a FORTH compiler. The runtime system and library can be written (somewhat) portably in FORTH. It's an excellent technique, and I heartily recommend it.
I resorted to ISDN because my local cable company (Adelphia) is too brain dead to keep the network running consistently. We have outages for days at a time.
In NH (USA) my ISDN bill is $46 a month to the phone company plus $20 to my ISP. I use a pair of 56k "voice" channels, which my ISP is kind enough to join into a 112k channel, rather than pay for 64k or 128k data service which is metered by the phone company.
I was lucky: the updater worked with my QPS drive via Firewire on Win2k. Thank-you Pioneer.
What about those of us who happen to be running a blessed OS (w2k) but bought a firewire drive (e.g., QPS) because our primary (only?) machine is a notebook? It'll be a bit more expensive than 3 minutes to update the flash via FedEx.
wave particle duality
Take a look at this anandtech article ; it has many details.
The higher level behavior is "feeding the nest." The ants are bringing the food back, so the pheremone trail is benefiting the nest as a whole. The trail connects the nest to the food.
-- Your body is just a flock of cells flying in close formation.
My embedded projects usually don't need virtual memory or processes, just memory protection and threads. So Linux is overkill as well as being too slow.
On the other hand, the driver sources, the libm and libc, have all been useful starting points for either roll your own, or extending another RTOS.
If this sounds appealing, and you need an RTOS, look at RTEMS an open source RTOS with many ports.
What about the PB whose policy is to flood virus implanters with traffic?
Seriously, why would the FBI implant a virus containing a mechanism to contact the FBI? If this thing spreads, by whatever means, it would innundate the FBI with worthless data.
The little green book is indispensible, along with the User's Manual for the specific processor.
Another great book from IBM is the PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide. It is available in pdf format on line, or IBM will ship you a copy.
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