Keep in mind that Amazon still doesn't collect tax for out-of-state third-party sellers (unless the order is "Fulfilled by Amazon"). From your Amazon account page, you can download your annual purchase history in spreadsheet-compatible format, with the taxes broken out into their own column, and use that to figure what purchases still need to be accounted for for calculating use tax. That was more necessary back when they didn't collect any California sales tax at all, but still comes up if you're buying from third-party sellers.
Note that if you haven't kept receipts to calculate your use tax, you're supposed to estimate it as (for 2013 in California anyway) 0.033% of your adjusted gross income. Depending on your spending, that works out to being as if, very roughly, 2% of your spending were out-of-state.
Can't tell if sarcasm; ITA Matrix is one of the most flexible and powerful flight search engines out there.
It's kind of useless to search for the cheapest fares in a whole year, because seat sales are often offered a month or two before the flight, not to mention most airlines only sell seats up to 11 months in advance. Use something like Airfare Watchdog if you want to hear when seat sales happen, then use ITA Matrix to pick dates and routes in the timespan that the seat sale is in effect.
ITA Matrix also has an advanced routing language, which you can use to specify alternate airports, restrict what carriers will be used, what airports to connect through, how many connections to make (both minimum or maximum), what fare codes to use, etc.. I haven't yet found anything else like it on the web; I use it all the time to find flights that will maximize my frequent flyer mileage and minimize my cost.
IANANP, but AFAIK a regular explosion or fire will not set off a nuclear weapon. The trigger explosion has to be carefully controlled, otherwise it'll just blow apart the nuclear material instead of compressing it to supercritical. That's why it's so hard to build a nuke. Crashing with a nuke is at worst going to spread some nuclear material over a small area, in the same way that any other material in the crash would be. No nuclear explosion.
Californium is only slightly radioactive, so the toy train did not glow green after its ride in the fusion reactor.
Gaah! Why does this misunderstanding persist? Generally, things which are exposed to radioactivity do not themselves become radioactive (and radioactive things do not glow green, for that matter).
Too bad the default Kamikaze 7.09 OpenWRT firmwares kills any and all (six!) WRT54GL routers that I put it on (previously ran White Russian brilliantly).
I was wondering how anyone could accidentally download from a third-party pay site, since the real site is always at the top of my search results. Then I realized that I normally don't even see the sponsored links; my brain filters them out automatically. Clicked on a couple of them, and some do look pretty slick; I could see someone falling for it once they've gotten to that point.
The probe left Earth on January 11, 2006, passed Mars on April 7, 2006, and passed Jupiter on February 28, 2007. That's almost 3 months to Mars and a little over a year to Jupiter, not a week and a month, respectively, as you claim.
Finally, someone (R2.0) comes up with a decent non-technical analog for this situation that can show why it's an unreasonable request. A lot of other posts I've seen seem to be focusing on the extreme volatility/amount of the data, without explaining why they shouldn't have to collect it.
I know, I normally don't like "mod parent up" posts, either. Sorry.:P
I was under the impression that torrent throttling was a dead issue, now that torrent encryption is in mainstream use. It certainly is a dead issue for me, where Rogers Cable's (big canadian ISP) throttling no longer affects me in any way.
I was getting good performance on Rogers by using port 1720 and encryption, but since the new year, they've seriously throttled and/or cut off my BitTorrent connections. Whereas I used to get 700K down, now I'll be lucky to average 7K (and it's not steady by any means; I'll get up to about 40K and then all the connections will drop to 0 speed -- I think they're terminating the connections not just throttling them). For now, I'm getting around it by routing all my BT traffic through an SSH/SOCKS proxy at work, and I'm getting decent performance again. So I know for sure any excuse they might give me about "oh maybe the server you're downloading from is slow" or "it might be slower because your neighbours might be using the net heavily" are bullshit, but I don't think it'll get me anywhere to call them on it. Only option I have is to switch ISP's, but I don't have a landline, and dry DSL is expensive. Argh! End rant.
Do you people even bother to check the stories and the claims made in the before posting?
Maybe you should RTFA. The SPACE.com story is talking about in a few billion years, when the barycentre of the Earth-Moon system has moved above the surface of the earth. That would make the Earth and the Moon double planets. In a few billion years. The IAU FAQ you quoted was more concerned about right now.
Is it? The ones that I've seen seemed to be twistier and narrower than US rural expressways.
It may just be a matter of where (in both Germany and the US) you are comparing. I've driven on a number of rural Autobahnen in the southwestern states and they are quite comfortable at 200 km/h. There are a lot of curves, yes, but they are a byproduct of the terrain (and the need to avoid the villages that dot the countryside more densely than in the US). The radius of these curves (and the steepness of grades) are limited, though, so that they can be driven at such high speed.
As for width, the Autobahnen often have a barrier between opposing traffic directions and no breakdown lane on the left, making the overall roadway narrower than most Interstates. I think the lane width is about the same, though; for the Autobahnen, lanes are at least 3.5 metres wide.
The maintenance programme for the Autobahn network is top-notch, and that's where it really trumps the Interstate sytem. This can mean you encounter roadwork more frequently, but once you're clear of that, it's rare to encounter anything other than a smooth road that's a pleasure to drive on.
"Flash to pass" is good manners and I'll respect it if I can do so safely.
I always thought flashing the brights was frowned upon, and that the proper thing to do was to be stuck behind someone until they moved over. But in the real world, if I come up behind someone in the passing lane, and they have room to move over, I blink the left turn signal. Most of the time they get the point, and I think it's a little more polite than the brights.
Just a tip; if you want your arguments to be considered, then responding to a poor choice of words ("people in sensible countries") by telling the guy off (and pretty harshly so at that) is probably not the best way to go about things. And if a beating is Chicago's response to criticism of American food-shopping habits, it doesn't exactly project the image of a sensible country.
You can use checkinstall to keep track of exactly what it changes though.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Actually, I'll just provide this link I found to the CheckInstall site, in case anyone else is interested.
Also, run the installer as a regular installer and you can be sure it's not touching anything outside of your $HOME.
A lot of installers will just abort if they aren't allowed to run rampant.
Even better, extract the files by hand and run them.:)
Yeah, that's my usual solution.
In this case, I trusted the setup script inside the.bin, and I gotta say it worked pretty nicely. Lets you run it as a regular user, and it installs everything into one directory (plus an optional symlink somewhere else). I think I even saw mention of an uninstaller. Yeah, Google will take over the world.:)
My problem with a.bin install is that it doesn't work with my package-management system, and that I don't know (without taking it apart) what the install is doing. Who knows where it's installing or what other files it's modifying during the install process?
I generally don't worry about malicious code when I'm getting it from sources I trust, but I do worry about the "helpful" or "smart" installation code that thinks it knows better than I do about how I want something set up on my computer. Also, what happens when I want to uninstall it?
Once a program is installed, it tends to keep to itself nicely. But installations sometimes do things that I don't want them to, and it's a lot easier to run rpm -l and rpm --scripts than to unwrap multiple layers of scripts form a.bin.
That said, it looks like they have used Makeself to wrap the Google Earth installation, which allows the contents of the.bin to be extracted separately from an installation. I'll probably go that route for now, and hope they come out with an RPM later like they did for Picasa.
It's to ensure that the government has the proper amount of fear regarding the citizens it governs, so that it won't be tempted to try and become a tyrrany.
<rant class="political">
Fat lot of good that plan's done lately though. The Bush administration just throws the word "terrorism" around when they need to keep the population in line. Because if you're against the government then "the terrorists have won."
</rant>
In the future you may not be able to (legally) purchase a handgun that will fire on a human being.
What use would handguns have then? Other than getting basketballs off the roof and turning off lights?:)
Wow. Suddenly disturbing to think how many handguns are out there, and that the reason behind almost every purchase was "in case I need (want?) to shoot another person."
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It's the number of keys on many smallish keyboards: 4 octaves of notes, usually C2 through C6 inclusive, so 4×12+1=49.
Gas for the car? Cheaper via cash. This becomes all the larger when gas prices are higher.
The credit price is about 2% higher, but I get 3% credit card rewards on fuel purchases. So I come out ahead paying by credit, and save time, too.
Keep in mind that Amazon still doesn't collect tax for out-of-state third-party sellers (unless the order is "Fulfilled by Amazon"). From your Amazon account page, you can download your annual purchase history in spreadsheet-compatible format, with the taxes broken out into their own column, and use that to figure what purchases still need to be accounted for for calculating use tax. That was more necessary back when they didn't collect any California sales tax at all, but still comes up if you're buying from third-party sellers.
Note that if you haven't kept receipts to calculate your use tax, you're supposed to estimate it as (for 2013 in California anyway) 0.033% of your adjusted gross income. Depending on your spending, that works out to being as if, very roughly, 2% of your spending were out-of-state.
Can't tell if sarcasm; ITA Matrix is one of the most flexible and powerful flight search engines out there.
It's kind of useless to search for the cheapest fares in a whole year, because seat sales are often offered a month or two before the flight, not to mention most airlines only sell seats up to 11 months in advance. Use something like Airfare Watchdog if you want to hear when seat sales happen, then use ITA Matrix to pick dates and routes in the timespan that the seat sale is in effect.
ITA Matrix also has an advanced routing language, which you can use to specify alternate airports, restrict what carriers will be used, what airports to connect through, how many connections to make (both minimum or maximum), what fare codes to use, etc.. I haven't yet found anything else like it on the web; I use it all the time to find flights that will maximize my frequent flyer mileage and minimize my cost.
The idea is that without a Num Lock key, Num Lock would always be on, not off.
IANANP, but AFAIK a regular explosion or fire will not set off a nuclear weapon. The trigger explosion has to be carefully controlled, otherwise it'll just blow apart the nuclear material instead of compressing it to supercritical. That's why it's so hard to build a nuke. Crashing with a nuke is at worst going to spread some nuclear material over a small area, in the same way that any other material in the crash would be. No nuclear explosion.
Gaah! Why does this misunderstanding persist? Generally, things which are exposed to radioactivity do not themselves become radioactive (and radioactive things do not glow green, for that matter).
Yep, a lot of theatres do now. Read about the Rear Window Captioning System. You may have watched a movie with it without even realizing.
Too bad the default Kamikaze 7.09 OpenWRT firmwares kills any and all (six!) WRT54GL routers that I put it on (previously ran White Russian brilliantly).
You didn't learn after the first five?
I was wondering how anyone could accidentally download from a third-party pay site, since the real site is always at the top of my search results. Then I realized that I normally don't even see the sponsored links; my brain filters them out automatically. Clicked on a couple of them, and some do look pretty slick; I could see someone falling for it once they've gotten to that point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
The probe left Earth on January 11, 2006, passed Mars on April 7, 2006, and passed Jupiter on February 28, 2007. That's almost 3 months to Mars and a little over a year to Jupiter, not a week and a month, respectively, as you claim.
Finally, someone (R2.0) comes up with a decent non-technical analog for this situation that can show why it's an unreasonable request. A lot of other posts I've seen seem to be focusing on the extreme volatility/amount of the data, without explaining why they shouldn't have to collect it.
:P
I know, I normally don't like "mod parent up" posts, either. Sorry.
I was getting good performance on Rogers by using port 1720 and encryption, but since the new year, they've seriously throttled and/or cut off my BitTorrent connections. Whereas I used to get 700K down, now I'll be lucky to average 7K (and it's not steady by any means; I'll get up to about 40K and then all the connections will drop to 0 speed -- I think they're terminating the connections not just throttling them). For now, I'm getting around it by routing all my BT traffic through an SSH/SOCKS proxy at work, and I'm getting decent performance again. So I know for sure any excuse they might give me about "oh maybe the server you're downloading from is slow" or "it might be slower because your neighbours might be using the net heavily" are bullshit, but I don't think it'll get me anywhere to call them on it. Only option I have is to switch ISP's, but I don't have a landline, and dry DSL is expensive. Argh! End rant.
its -> it's
defentlay -> definitely
seams -> seems
If nobody ever corrects you, how will you ever learn?
Maybe you should RTFA. The SPACE.com story is talking about in a few billion years, when the barycentre of the Earth-Moon system has moved above the surface of the earth. That would make the Earth and the Moon double planets. In a few billion years. The IAU FAQ you quoted was more concerned about right now.
Actually, the software is also called OpenOffice.org (don't ask me why). Not that I'm defending that awful ad.
Was that sarcasm? Because it's over 1000 km even as the crow flies. And you'd probably have some trouble when you got to the English Channel.
It may just be a matter of where (in both Germany and the US) you are comparing. I've driven on a number of rural Autobahnen in the southwestern states and they are quite comfortable at 200 km/h. There are a lot of curves, yes, but they are a byproduct of the terrain (and the need to avoid the villages that dot the countryside more densely than in the US). The radius of these curves (and the steepness of grades) are limited, though, so that they can be driven at such high speed.
As for width, the Autobahnen often have a barrier between opposing traffic directions and no breakdown lane on the left, making the overall roadway narrower than most Interstates. I think the lane width is about the same, though; for the Autobahnen, lanes are at least 3.5 metres wide.
The maintenance programme for the Autobahn network is top-notch, and that's where it really trumps the Interstate sytem. This can mean you encounter roadwork more frequently, but once you're clear of that, it's rare to encounter anything other than a smooth road that's a pleasure to drive on.
I always thought flashing the brights was frowned upon, and that the proper thing to do was to be stuck behind someone until they moved over. But in the real world, if I come up behind someone in the passing lane, and they have room to move over, I blink the left turn signal. Most of the time they get the point, and I think it's a little more polite than the brights.
Just a tip; if you want your arguments to be considered, then responding to a poor choice of words ("people in sensible countries") by telling the guy off (and pretty harshly so at that) is probably not the best way to go about things. And if a beating is Chicago's response to criticism of American food-shopping habits, it doesn't exactly project the image of a sensible country.
Nope.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Actually, I'll just provide this link I found to the CheckInstall site, in case anyone else is interested.
A lot of installers will just abort if they aren't allowed to run rampant.
Yeah, that's my usual solution.
In this case, I trusted the setup script inside the .bin, and I gotta say it worked pretty nicely. Lets you run it as a regular user, and it installs everything into one directory (plus an optional symlink somewhere else). I think I even saw mention of an uninstaller. Yeah, Google will take over the world. :)
My problem with a .bin install is that it doesn't work with my package-management system, and that I don't know (without taking it apart) what the install is doing. Who knows where it's installing or what other files it's modifying during the install process?
I generally don't worry about malicious code when I'm getting it from sources I trust, but I do worry about the "helpful" or "smart" installation code that thinks it knows better than I do about how I want something set up on my computer. Also, what happens when I want to uninstall it?
Once a program is installed, it tends to keep to itself nicely. But installations sometimes do things that I don't want them to, and it's a lot easier to run rpm -l and rpm --scripts than to unwrap multiple layers of scripts form a .bin.
That said, it looks like they have used Makeself to wrap the Google Earth installation, which allows the contents of the .bin to be extracted separately from an installation. I'll probably go that route for now, and hope they come out with an RPM later like they did for Picasa.
<rant class="political"> Fat lot of good that plan's done lately though. The Bush administration just throws the word "terrorism" around when they need to keep the population in line. Because if you're against the government then "the terrorists have won." </rant>
What use would handguns have then? Other than getting basketballs off the roof and turning off lights? :)
Wow. Suddenly disturbing to think how many handguns are out there, and that the reason behind almost every purchase was "in case I need (want?) to shoot another person."