Parent post's (un)reasoning is simmplistic and uninformed. At $20k income, 17% taxes would leave $16,600 to live on. at $100k income, that same 17% leaves $83,000 to live on. (These are parent's numbers, not the actual ones.) The upper tax bracket has the means to lobby a straight tax line, but they willingly give up a greater share to Uncle Sam as a way to ease the burden on the middle and lower class. Don't worry, their tax lawyers are still dreaming up ways to deduct their gold plated 83" plasma TV's.
that's because the original definitions were converged from many similar measurements, like the yard was. If memory serves, the yard was the distance from your nose to the tip of your outstreched finger. If you needed more accuracy, it was the distance from the King's nose to the tip of His finger. The actual physical measurements weren't standardized until relatively recently, but the rough measurements were good enough for trading, most of the time.
Someone smart famous once said "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." These fundamental definitions are following the same path. Superbly and unarguably accurate, but also completely incomprehensable for anyone that doesn't have half a million dollars worth of sophisticated technology.
If that was the case, then they would lose all support for the conversion. I'm guessing that some anal retentive board somewhere has fit everytime they can't accurately and repeatedly measure the mass of 1 cm^3 of water (1 gram).
If it can be viewed, it will be copied, and then distributed. Making money off of old TV shows is and should be from quality of packaging AND price AND availability.
It's not the first time and it won't be the last time that retailers had to follow pirates into a distribution model.
HP's software is not sold as an independant retail item. MS Office is. Although I sure would like to use my old copy of bundled Creative WinDVD with my new NEC DVD-R.
I beleive WFW 3.11 also added 32bit file handling and a bit of file cacheing. That was my personal favorite reason for using it. The networking stuff was nice, too.
Because it's not about money. It's about control of the apparatus to make money. Producing a new energy paradigm will force a whole industry to overhaul, which will take the profits out of the next generation.
Theres only two compelling reasons to abandon the current energy paradigm. 1) A new energy source. It has to be so much better than the last one that the profits will outweigh the investment within 5 years. 2) The old energy runs out.
Actaully I was being facetious, but I'm sure a (relatively) cheap gasonline powered generator would do just fine for short periods of time. Otherwise, it'll have to wait untill the economic superpowers NEED the less urbanized portions of the world for their untapped labor resources. I'd say in about 50-100 years.
And the villagers would stare at them in awe for all of 10 minutes until they realized that there are no displays, keyboards, or power supplies. Not to mention the mouse, 5.1 surround system, copy of Quake3Arena (for Linux, of course) and last but not least: internet service.
And I was going to mod this thread, too. Sigh . . .
You did a very nice job on that enhancement, but modified pics should never be used as evidence without a very specific description of ALL the modifactions done. +1 informative -2 inconclusive evidence.
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Parent post's (un)reasoning is simmplistic and uninformed. At $20k income, 17% taxes would leave $16,600 to live on. at $100k income, that same 17% leaves $83,000 to live on. (These are parent's numbers, not the actual ones.) The upper tax bracket has the means to lobby a straight tax line, but they willingly give up a greater share to Uncle Sam as a way to ease the burden on the middle and lower class. Don't worry, their tax lawyers are still dreaming up ways to deduct their gold plated 83" plasma TV's.
Possibly, but then again, SCO isn't running the contest.
doh! you got me. I meant that the strength of gravity has no affect on the amount of mass.
Thanks.
Gravity, regardless of strength, has no affect on mass. (At least until gravity becomes strong enough create singularities.)
No, only moderately large values of 3.
that's because the original definitions were converged from many similar measurements, like the yard was. If memory serves, the yard was the distance from your nose to the tip of your outstreched finger. If you needed more accuracy, it was the distance from the King's nose to the tip of His finger. The actual physical measurements weren't standardized until relatively recently, but the rough measurements were good enough for trading, most of the time.
Someone smart famous once said "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." These fundamental definitions are following the same path. Superbly and unarguably accurate, but also completely incomprehensable for anyone that doesn't have half a million dollars worth of sophisticated technology.
If that was the case, then they would lose all support for the conversion. I'm guessing that some anal retentive board somewhere has fit everytime they can't accurately and repeatedly measure the mass of 1 cm^3 of water (1 gram).
It's not the first time and it won't be the last time that retailers had to follow pirates into a distribution model.
HP's software is not sold as an independant retail item. MS Office is. Although I sure would like to use my old copy of bundled Creative WinDVD with my new NEC DVD-R.
I beleive WFW 3.11 also added 32bit file handling and a bit of file cacheing. That was my personal favorite reason for using it. The networking stuff was nice, too.
No more snooty than your local Ford or Chevy dealer . . . freeking dealer badges . . .
. . . using change you begged for or found on the corner.
link?
Google now returns crap web pages! As if it wasn't bad enough that google doesn't filter out the retail sites for non-retail searches.
As opposed to the 15-20 gallons of extremely flamable liquid fuel you carry about without too many problems?
Theres only two compelling reasons to abandon the current energy paradigm. 1) A new energy source. It has to be so much better than the last one that the profits will outweigh the investment within 5 years. 2) The old energy runs out.
So kudos for your response.
It's really a pity that the original pic was blurred so much on the edges of the chassis. It looks way too doctored.
Actaully I was being facetious, but I'm sure a (relatively) cheap gasonline powered generator would do just fine for short periods of time. Otherwise, it'll have to wait untill the economic superpowers NEED the less urbanized portions of the world for their untapped labor resources. I'd say in about 50-100 years.
And the villagers would stare at them in awe for all of 10 minutes until they realized that there are no displays, keyboards, or power supplies. Not to mention the mouse, 5.1 surround system, copy of Quake3Arena (for Linux, of course) and last but not least: internet service.
You did a very nice job on that enhancement, but modified pics should never be used as evidence without a very specific description of ALL the modifactions done. +1 informative -2 inconclusive evidence.
+ "mold, or a US$995.00 loaf of bread, mostly free of mold?"
Duh!