A criminal who confesses to a crime, doesn't get to go back to court 6 months later and say "well, I was under a lot of stress, the evidence against me at the time looked good, but now I don't think it's as solid, can I please have a second chance? Pretty please?"
Yes you can. A person can appeal based on a confession that was 'coerced'. Showing someone overwhelming faked evidence against them and offering to let them off easy is coercion. People do get off from crimes they previously confessed to. It has happened in murder and rape cases where DNA comes in later that clears them. Look at the duke rape case, the DA didn't show the DNA evidence that could have cleared the defendants. He could be disbarred for that. Besides, in most settlement cases there is no admission of guilt.
Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.'"
Maybe people are tired of being sold mass marketed crap. They should try marketing their music to increase erectile function and virility. That will at least get the Asian market. Rhino horns and shark cartilage are in short supply.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with the income tax/money changing hands thing. If you buy an investment house for $100,000 and then sell it for $400,000 you will only get taxed on $300,000.
No you get taxed without even selling the house every single year. Then get taxed again when you do . What I was getting at is the government gets all the money no matter if they tax you on a trip or not. The government makes money even if no money actually changes hands. Taxes are assessed if they even think you could get $400,000 on a house. You don't get your tax assessment back if you can't sell it for that.
The counter suit could end up paying the legal fees. We got a notice from the BSA. Our response was basically this:
All our workstations and servers are running Fedora Core 4.
An internal audit found 4 laptops running Windows XP, though we have the receipts for all the software and can produce them on demand, we decided to install Fedora Core 4 on those as well.
We keep purchase receipts going back 15 years. We have a site license for 8 copies of Office 2003 all but one unused. That one used is on linux using crossover. It's been almost 2 years, they haven't responded. Lately we have been experimenting with buying people apple laptops and giving it to them as their own personal property. This very limited though.
Is it logical that because you can't pay the tax on a trip, you don't get anything nor does the government since nothing gets transfered? I could then have a lottery for a trip to Mars put the money in a fund and keep the interest. Since nobody could pay the taxes on such a trip, I don't ever have to send them. So because the government won't get money from you, you can't go and the government still gets nothing. Except maybe the tax on the interest from my fraud. How logical is that? That's like a child deciding since he can't have a new bike, he should then smash his neighbor's so they both can be deprived of a bike. Now if ORACLE had to pay the tax it's a different matter. Then you wouldn't be able to fraudulently claim a contest and the government still gets its share. The real problem with the current system is the government gets every penny eventually anyway. Say I pay you $100,000. You pay 1/3 immediately in taxes. Now I buy something, the governments gets 1/3 of the sellers profit, plus sales tax etc. Every time any piece of that money changes hands the tax man takes more. Eventually the entire $100,000 gets paid to the government. In many cases, property you buy will continue to earn taxes eventually in excess of what you paid for it. Especially when as in my case the tax assessment goes up every single year.
You could sell a car or get a loan on it to pay the taxes on it. In fact the $60k car would have you paying personal property taxes and license on top of federal and state taxes. It's physical property. You could possibly sell the trip, but since a trip couldn't be used as collateral it's not really "property" is it? No it's a service. If you won a free termite inspection would the government come at you for the taxes on a service valued at $100? Hookers charge for sex, if you get it free from someone do you now need to declare it? Oracle should have used an office outside the US to bestow the winnings. That's how John Kerry got to pay less taxes than Bush on millions more. Tax shelters in the Cayman Islands.
I agree! My daughter and a friend decided it would be fun using AOL IM to harass someone. The policeman came and talked to me, my wife and the other kids parents. We knew they used IM to talk to their friends. These were a couple of incidents that were done when we weren't around. The officer was really reasonable, he had the entire transcript from AOL. And so we got them together and scared the shit out of both of them. The officer read them their rights etc. and then told them how stupid and cruel there being. Problem solved. They learned a lesson and I decided to inconspicuously spy on her a little more thoroughly.
That is so much crap! When I was in High School I worked summers on farms shoveling cow shit for $2.50 per hour. I was lucky, I wasn't a farmers son I didn't have to do it as a chore. My home job was lawn care and dishwasher. We didn't have a Mac Donald's. I would have loved to work at a fast food joint. I delivered for Domino's while I was in the Air Force at minimum wage. When I was in Middle School I had to stop working picking strawberries for a nickel a basket. The reason was illegal immigrants with 8-10 kids. They would stab you over a basket of strawberries. Those kids didn't go to school at all, they just moved with seasons. I also used to pick mushrooms, imagine being a skinny white kid in a dark warehouse surrounded by a dozen or so Mexicans and everyone has a knife. I could show you my scar. Yes, you won't get someone with a family to support taking a job for $6 per hour full time. But don't ever think that that there are jobs American's won't do. Especially when you consider you have people dying in coal mines in W.V. Working those crap jobs is what made finish High School, join the AF to get an education and get my CS degree.
I don't know about python in general, but I have been going through the SciPy tutorials and plotting even a simple sine function and saving directly to file and not displaying a gui is about 20 times slower than piping data into grace or using pgplot and perl. My CPU usage spikes at 99% during the task, where as grace barely uses 10%. Matplot lib does some really great map projections that I would like to put in a web appp. But I'm having serious doubts. I may have to stick with piping data to grace.
So is the US military reacting to media bias that hurts morale while simultaneously building the enemies will to fight? You don't think MoveOn.org or Worldnetdaily.com aren't exaggerating their diametrically opposed points of view until the truth becomes indistinguishable from outright lies? What is sad is the the US military feels the need to do this. And probably do need to since the truth as long since been discarded.
We agree here, but I think Kim Ill Jong is not following the parameters set by China. It's like a person who trains a Rotweiller to kill and then is surprised when they go to jail after the dog has mauled the face of the neighbor's kid. The Chinese military is not at all happy with him. There is also the worry that this will cause Taiwan to want nukes. Taiwan wants to declare independence from the mainland but cannot do so without being instantly overwhelmed. Upsetting the status quo would not be benificial to China's goal of uniting the two. It will be telling to see how far China will let the UN security council go. Then again sanctions are useless if China ignores them.
We are not the solution. North Korea is China's dog. The Chinese leadership have allowed North Korea to survive because they share communist idiology. But China's patience is wearing thin, China has a large ethnic korean population near the border. The Chinese military has quite a few generals who are openly disgusted by the way North Korea treats it's people. This statement
openly condemning them is a very positive sign. China needs to find a way to get rid of Kim Ill Jong while keeping North Korea as a country intact. The last thing China needs is hundreds of thousands of impoverished koreans flooding their country. China would also not be happy with the prospect of North Korea united with a prosperous South Korea. That whole democracy thing might give their own people ideas. The US doing anything unilateraly in China's backyard would be foolish. This is a problem that Asian countries needs to fix not the US. If anyone is going to take out pyongyang it needs to be asian. I'm retired Air Force, I spent 3 years of my life in South Korea, they have a great culture and country. I would hate to see any war there.
So you assume a discerning taste is bad? Let's say the album had 5 good tracks. Pay $.99 each or $18 for the CD. Still a no brainer. Do you like all the tracks on every CD? Some people will buy anything, that's why there is marketing & ebay. Look at your last post and ask yourself "Is it me?"
So it's alright to get out of Apple's vendor lock in and trade it for Microsoft's?
I'm not happy about vendor lock in, I'm pointing out 1st mover advantage. I have always found AAC easier to swallow than windows media. Seems less a bitter pill.
So it's alright to get out of Apple's vendor lock in and trade it for Microsoft's?
I'm not bragging on vendor lock in, I'm pointingg out 1st mover advantage.
I have purchased 3 iPods, one for me and the other two for my daughters. I have a huge mp3 collection, but I have also spent at least $300 on the iTunes music store. My Daughters have purchased much more than that. Why would I want to buy another almost $300 music player and re-purchase all those tunes? When my iPod dies, I'll buy the next ipod, the one with the features apple has added to stay competitive with microsoft.
By the way will you be able to move the music from one device to another and burn an unlimited number of CD's? My music is on DVDs, my laptop, my desktop and my iPod. On iTunes all you have to do is change the playlist. In my experience with windows media formats they aren't nearly as unobtrusive as AAC. I can't see apple losing their portable music throne until someone produces a player that is vastly cheaper and doesn't get in the way of reasonable fair use.
Apple's advantage is really theirs to lose. But they would have to read from Sony's playbook to do that. Poor quality, lack of features, high prices and restrictive DRM would do it. But I don't see apple commiting suicide anytime soon.
While there have been reports of attempts by individuals to circumvent the ban, e.g. by smuggling CFCs from undeveloped to developed nations, the overall level of compliance has been high. In consequence, the Montreal Protocol has often been called the most successful international environmental agreement to date.
Unfortunately, the hydrochlorofluorocarbons, or HCFCs, and hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, are now thought to contribute to anthropogenic global warming. On a molecule-for-molecule bases, these compounds are up to 10,000 times more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide, and their increased use significantly increases the danger that human activity will change the climate [2]. The Montreal Protocol currently calls for a complete phase-out of HCFCs by 2030, but does not place any restriction on HFCs.
Well the fact is we don't really have "global" cooperation those "undeveloped" countries include quite rich countries that use a lot of air conditioning (ie.Kuwait, Quatar etc) and my friend who is from India says they still use freon. It's second hand so I can't verify the that. But I was in kuwait and I had a hard time getting
the proper gas for our HVAC systems. While freon was plentiful. But part of my point is the cure could be worse than the disease.
The reason is that while we can say that it's warmer with certainty, the effects of that warming is unknown. And anyone that says they know exactly what a 1-3 degree increase in global temperature will do is talking out their arse. Global climate is extremely complex, you have so many variables and nobody has a good model to explain everything. We had been in a comparatively cool period of earths climate history. It has been described as a 'mini ice age' so nobody knows what the effect of us suddenly changing would be. We only know that yes we contribute to the climate, with billions of people on this planet changing the environment in numerous ways deforestation, polution etc. It is inevitable that we would have a negative impact. But until we set a side politics and money and do serious discussion and study we will never ever know.
Al Gore running around promoting a movie that is built on extremely weak science is not helping. It only polarizes the argument. Both factions become entrenched which causes reactions such as this one Hyperbole will not get us anywhere.
What is truly amazing is to watch how the atmosphere reacts to events such as when Saddam set all of Kuwaits oil wells on fire and in 2002 we had some very intense solar storms. I did some NO volume emmission rate contour plots during the April storm periods. The NO VER increased dramatically and then leveled and went back to normal levels. It was very interesting to watch the Earth handle a sudden massive change in energy bombarding the atmosphere.
No I'm not trolling. Some implementations of xaramenu are broken for opera. I was not able to access our University website menus until they stopped using xaramenu. Every other browser worked. This is my one experience. I test my sites against opera, I use a lot of javascript. Try fading in images using setTimeout and incrementing opacity it works but not nearly as smoothly as FF or IE. It looks more like discreet steps than smooth transitions which means it works but not well.
Small changes? Try getting the billions of people on planet earth to make those changes. Your small changes would only effect you. To make an effect on the entire earth and reverse a global trend takes big changes globally.
Alright let's say tomorrow all mankind decides to:
1)Stop burning all fossil fuels period. That means, we halt all energy generation and transportation not powered by wind, water or animals.
2) Stop tearing down trees and pouring concrete. Trees convert CO2 to O2 and concrete reflects energy while killing trees.
3) Halt any process, manufacturing or otherwise that produces greenhouse gases especially CO2, fluorocarbons & methane.
After billions die and all economies are ruined we won't even be able to complain on slashdot. And if we then enter another ice age, what then?
Opera is a decent browser, unfortunately it has been known to break on some pretty common javascript. Like xaramenu which is used by quite a few sites. Opera is one of the browsers I test on. I test our web app on Safari, Konqueror, Camino, Firefox and IE. Even though I may get one opera visitor every couple of months. My stats show it about even with Konqueror, and both are almost entirely from users in Europe.
I could always disconnect! That is the #1 problem with personal firewalls. If your computers is making connections you don't want, your problem is not the ability to make a connection. It's the program that is making those connections. If you have a problem with spyware / malware, do us all a favor and disconnect. A firewall is meant to be between your PC and the Internet, not on your PC. Personal firewalls aren't really firewalls, they are more like patches in a pool or tank, an attempt to fix something broken and leaking. Which makes them more personal annoyances than firewall. They should just block incoming SYN traffic trying to initiate a connection only.
The worst offender in my experience is Norton Internet Security. It blocks everything, browser mail, MS Update everything! your just computer locks up for 30 sec - 3 minutes and then the goddamn little symantec pop up appears!
"Warning! Your computer is trying to make a connection to the internet, this is an unsafe act. Please press OK to reboot"
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Yes you can. A person can appeal based on a confession that was 'coerced'. Showing someone overwhelming faked evidence against them and offering to let them off easy is coercion. People do get off from crimes they previously confessed to. It has happened in murder and rape cases where DNA comes in later that clears them. Look at the duke rape case, the DA didn't show the DNA evidence that could have cleared the defendants. He could be disbarred for that. Besides, in most settlement cases there is no admission of guilt.
Maybe people are tired of being sold mass marketed crap. They should try marketing their music to increase erectile function and virility. That will at least get the Asian market. Rhino horns and shark cartilage are in short supply.
No you get taxed without even selling the house every single year. Then get taxed again when you do . What I was getting at is the government gets all the money no matter if they tax you on a trip or not. The government makes money even if no money actually changes hands. Taxes are assessed if they even think you could get $400,000 on a house. You don't get your tax assessment back if you can't sell it for that.
All our workstations and servers are running Fedora Core 4. An internal audit found 4 laptops running Windows XP, though we have the receipts for all the software and can produce them on demand, we decided to install Fedora Core 4 on those as well.
We keep purchase receipts going back 15 years. We have a site license for 8 copies of Office 2003 all but one unused. That one used is on linux using crossover. It's been almost 2 years, they haven't responded. Lately we have been experimenting with buying people apple laptops and giving it to them as their own personal property. This very limited though.
Is it logical that because you can't pay the tax on a trip, you don't get anything nor does the government since nothing gets transfered? I could then have a lottery for a trip to Mars put the money in a fund and keep the interest. Since nobody could pay the taxes on such a trip, I don't ever have to send them. So because the government won't get money from you, you can't go and the government still gets nothing. Except maybe the tax on the interest from my fraud. How logical is that? That's like a child deciding since he can't have a new bike, he should then smash his neighbor's so they both can be deprived of a bike. Now if ORACLE had to pay the tax it's a different matter. Then you wouldn't be able to fraudulently claim a contest and the government still gets its share. The real problem with the current system is the government gets every penny eventually anyway. Say I pay you $100,000. You pay 1/3 immediately in taxes. Now I buy something, the governments gets 1/3 of the sellers profit, plus sales tax etc. Every time any piece of that money changes hands the tax man takes more. Eventually the entire $100,000 gets paid to the government. In many cases, property you buy will continue to earn taxes eventually in excess of what you paid for it. Especially when as in my case the tax assessment goes up every single year.
You could sell a car or get a loan on it to pay the taxes on it. In fact the $60k car would have you paying personal property taxes and license on top of federal and state taxes. It's physical property. You could possibly sell the trip, but since a trip couldn't be used as collateral it's not really "property" is it? No it's a service. If you won a free termite inspection would the government come at you for the taxes on a service valued at $100? Hookers charge for sex, if you get it free from someone do you now need to declare it? Oracle should have used an office outside the US to bestow the winnings. That's how John Kerry got to pay less taxes than Bush on millions more. Tax shelters in the Cayman Islands.
I agree! My daughter and a friend decided it would be fun using AOL IM to harass someone. The policeman came and talked to me, my wife and the other kids parents. We knew they used IM to talk to their friends. These were a couple of incidents that were done when we weren't around. The officer was really reasonable, he had the entire transcript from AOL. And so we got them together and scared the shit out of both of them. The officer read them their rights etc. and then told them how stupid and cruel there being. Problem solved. They learned a lesson and I decided to inconspicuously spy on her a little more thoroughly.
That is so much crap! When I was in High School I worked summers on farms shoveling cow shit for $2.50 per hour. I was lucky, I wasn't a farmers son I didn't have to do it as a chore. My home job was lawn care and dishwasher. We didn't have a Mac Donald's. I would have loved to work at a fast food joint. I delivered for Domino's while I was in the Air Force at minimum wage. When I was in Middle School I had to stop working picking strawberries for a nickel a basket. The reason was illegal immigrants with 8-10 kids. They would stab you over a basket of strawberries. Those kids didn't go to school at all, they just moved with seasons. I also used to pick mushrooms, imagine being a skinny white kid in a dark warehouse surrounded by a dozen or so Mexicans and everyone has a knife. I could show you my scar. Yes, you won't get someone with a family to support taking a job for $6 per hour full time. But don't ever think that that there are jobs American's won't do. Especially when you consider you have people dying in coal mines in W.V. Working those crap jobs is what made finish High School, join the AF to get an education and get my CS degree.
I don't know about python in general, but I have been going through the SciPy tutorials and plotting even a simple sine function and saving directly to file and not displaying a gui is about 20 times slower than piping data into grace or using pgplot and perl. My CPU usage spikes at 99% during the task, where as grace barely uses 10%. Matplot lib does some really great map projections that I would like to put in a web appp. But I'm having serious doubts. I may have to stick with piping data to grace.
Journalism Scandals
So is the US military reacting to media bias that hurts morale while simultaneously building the enemies will to fight? You don't think MoveOn.org or Worldnetdaily.com aren't exaggerating their diametrically opposed points of view until the truth becomes indistinguishable from outright lies? What is sad is the the US military feels the need to do this. And probably do need to since the truth as long since been discarded.
I did a search of their inventory. The cheapest white round diamond I found was $1500 for .57ct. I bought a .6ct diamond last year for $999 from Jared.
We agree here, but I think Kim Ill Jong is not following the parameters set by China. It's like a person who trains a Rotweiller to kill and then is surprised when they go to jail after the dog has mauled the face of the neighbor's kid. The Chinese military is not at all happy with him. There is also the worry that this will cause Taiwan to want nukes. Taiwan wants to declare independence from the mainland but cannot do so without being instantly overwhelmed. Upsetting the status quo would not be benificial to China's goal of uniting the two. It will be telling to see how far China will let the UN security council go. Then again sanctions are useless if China ignores them.
We are not the solution. North Korea is China's dog. The Chinese leadership have allowed North Korea to survive because they share communist idiology. But China's patience is wearing thin, China has a large ethnic korean population near the border. The Chinese military has quite a few generals who are openly disgusted by the way North Korea treats it's people. This statement openly condemning them is a very positive sign. China needs to find a way to get rid of Kim Ill Jong while keeping North Korea as a country intact. The last thing China needs is hundreds of thousands of impoverished koreans flooding their country. China would also not be happy with the prospect of North Korea united with a prosperous South Korea. That whole democracy thing might give their own people ideas. The US doing anything unilateraly in China's backyard would be foolish. This is a problem that Asian countries needs to fix not the US. If anyone is going to take out pyongyang it needs to be asian. I'm retired Air Force, I spent 3 years of my life in South Korea, they have a great culture and country. I would hate to see any war there.
So you assume a discerning taste is bad? Let's say the album had 5 good tracks. Pay $.99 each or $18 for the CD. Still a no brainer. Do you like all the tracks on every CD? Some people will buy anything, that's why there is marketing & ebay. Look at your last post and ask yourself "Is it me?"
$18 for 11 crappy songs to here one good one. No thanks!
I wonder what the greenhouse effect of cow plasma would be.
So it's alright to get out of Apple's vendor lock in and trade it for Microsoft's?
I'm not happy about vendor lock in, I'm pointing out 1st mover advantage. I have always found AAC easier to swallow than windows media. Seems less a bitter pill.
So it's alright to get out of Apple's vendor lock in and trade it for Microsoft's?
I'm not bragging on vendor lock in, I'm pointingg out 1st mover advantage.
I have purchased 3 iPods, one for me and the other two for my daughters. I have a huge mp3 collection, but I have also spent at least $300 on the iTunes music store. My Daughters have purchased much more than that. Why would I want to buy another almost $300 music player and re-purchase all those tunes? When my iPod dies, I'll buy the next ipod, the one with the features apple has added to stay competitive with microsoft.
By the way will you be able to move the music from one device to another and burn an unlimited number of CD's? My music is on DVDs, my laptop, my desktop and my iPod. On iTunes all you have to do is change the playlist. In my experience with windows media formats they aren't nearly as unobtrusive as AAC. I can't see apple losing their portable music throne until someone produces a player that is vastly cheaper and doesn't get in the way of reasonable fair use. Apple's advantage is really theirs to lose. But they would have to read from Sony's playbook to do that. Poor quality, lack of features, high prices and restrictive DRM would do it. But I don't see apple commiting suicide anytime soon.
Well the fact is we don't really have "global" cooperation those "undeveloped" countries include quite rich countries that use a lot of air conditioning (ie.Kuwait, Quatar etc) and my friend who is from India says they still use freon. It's second hand so I can't verify the that. But I was in kuwait and I had a hard time getting the proper gas for our HVAC systems. While freon was plentiful. But part of my point is the cure could be worse than the disease.
The reason is that while we can say that it's warmer with certainty, the effects of that warming is unknown. And anyone that says they know exactly what a 1-3 degree increase in global temperature will do is talking out their arse. Global climate is extremely complex, you have so many variables and nobody has a good model to explain everything. We had been in a comparatively cool period of earths climate history. It has been described as a 'mini ice age' so nobody knows what the effect of us suddenly changing would be. We only know that yes we contribute to the climate, with billions of people on this planet changing the environment in numerous ways deforestation, polution etc. It is inevitable that we would have a negative impact. But until we set a side politics and money and do serious discussion and study we will never ever know. Al Gore running around promoting a movie that is built on extremely weak science is not helping. It only polarizes the argument. Both factions become entrenched which causes reactions such as this one Hyperbole will not get us anywhere.
What is truly amazing is to watch how the atmosphere reacts to events such as when Saddam set all of Kuwaits oil wells on fire and in 2002 we had some very intense solar storms. I did some NO volume emmission rate contour plots during the April storm periods. The NO VER increased dramatically and then leveled and went back to normal levels. It was very interesting to watch the Earth handle a sudden massive change in energy bombarding the atmosphere.
I work for Nasa's Earth Observatory System
No I'm not trolling. Some implementations of xaramenu are broken for opera. I was not able to access our University website menus until they stopped using xaramenu. Every other browser worked. This is my one experience. I test my sites against opera, I use a lot of javascript. Try fading in images using setTimeout and incrementing opacity it works but not nearly as smoothly as FF or IE. It looks more like discreet steps than smooth transitions which means it works but not well.
Small changes? Try getting the billions of people on planet earth to make those changes. Your small changes would only effect you. To make an effect on the entire earth and reverse a global trend takes big changes globally.
1)Stop burning all fossil fuels period. That means, we halt all energy generation and transportation not powered by wind, water or animals.
2) Stop tearing down trees and pouring concrete. Trees convert CO2 to O2 and concrete reflects energy while killing trees.
3) Halt any process, manufacturing or otherwise that produces greenhouse gases especially CO2, fluorocarbons & methane. After billions die and all economies are ruined we won't even be able to complain on slashdot. And if we then enter another ice age, what then?
Opera is a decent browser, unfortunately it has been known to break on some pretty common javascript. Like xaramenu which is used by quite a few sites. Opera is one of the browsers I test on. I test our web app on Safari, Konqueror, Camino, Firefox and IE. Even though I may get one opera visitor every couple of months. My stats show it about even with Konqueror, and both are almost entirely from users in Europe.
The worst offender in my experience is Norton Internet Security. It blocks everything, browser mail, MS Update everything! your just computer locks up for 30 sec - 3 minutes and then the goddamn little symantec pop up appears!
"Warning! Your computer is trying to make a connection to the internet, this is an unsafe act. Please press OK to reboot"