I just spoke with my sister-in-law the accountant and apparently it's the same down here in the lower 48 (+AK&HI), if your employer paid for the flights but you get the miles, then they're income. The article could have been a little clearer on that aspect. It's still pretty scary to think that the government is going to brand you a terrorist for what is basically the crime of not having a perfect understanding of that huge lump of spaghetti code that are our tax laws.
"It's not _sweat_ that smells, it's _stale sweat_."
I thought the smell was supposed to be from the waste excretions of the (mostly anaerobic) bacteria living and multiplying on the areas of your skin that get the least exposure to fresh air.
It's probably a result of the Slashdot server's tendency to occaisionally shift to posting everything at whatever time it is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Greenwich, England and U.S. East Coast.
And if this works the next fundraising idea will probably be the MPAA and the RIAA offering a bounty for kids to turn in other downloaders.
Back to email, this past weekend's Cringely is about an email system where the recipient sets a price that the sender must pay in order for the message to get through. You can set Grannie's price to $0.00 and funwithfarmanimals.com or whoever to $5.00 or $10.00 or however high you want to either turn a profit or turn them away. Unfortunately he suggests letting PayPal handle the payment transfers.
When I first heard about the lowlife who dumped used transformer oil along the sides of North Carolina roads several years ago, I thought they were talking about somebody scattering old circuit boards around instead of paying the landfill fee.
Too bad I wasn't right, it would have been a lot easier and cheaper to clean up.
"I would glady trade my privelege of "online privacy" (whatever that means) in order to live safely in a world free of terror."
Sounds good except for the part where giving up your privacy does little or nothing to aid in preventing the kind of terror of which you're thinking and perhaps even makes it easier for the government and the corporations who lease it to come up with new (admittedly less likely to be fatal) ways to terrorize you.
"PCB is cheap now and can be gotten for free at toxic waste dumps. It was designed for the purpose, is non-flamable and contrary to popular belief, non-toxic."
If you really believe that PCBs are non-toxic then can I call the governor of North Carolina and tell him that he can dump in your backyard all that PCB laced dirt we spent millions digging up where some slimeball dumped it along roadsides instead of performing the proper disposal for which he was being paid?
However if that oil is contaminated with any moisture and the microwaves cause that moisture to boil it will explode oil all over the inside of your microwave.
Actually there's research being done on using used deep fat fryer oil as fuel in diesel engines. The exhaust fumes are supposed to smell like frech fries. Really.
If you mean airtight, no. They have a little hole with a micropore filter that keeps inside and outside air pressure apprx. equal. And they have to have air inside to make the heads float or fly above the platters when they spin. The platters have enough friction to drag some air along as they move and this air flow is what keeps the heads lifted above the platters by some ridiculously small distance.
The "tension" comes about when you separate two points electrically, making one positive with respect to the other and the other negative with respect to the one. You separate those two points electrically by connecting them via something that produces that difference in charge, a generator, a battery, etc., so, for instance, inside a battery chemical reactions are trying to push a bunch of electrons to the negative post which leaves the stuff connected to the positive post with more protons than electrons, and a bunch of "potential" is available outside the battery between the two posts. You can store mechanical potential in a spring by putting tension on it in some way and the higher the tension the greater the potential that is stored. The greater the difference in charge between a battery's or generator's terminals, the greater the potential or electro-motive force or voltage, so the higher the voltage the higher the "tension".
This is semi-related. A variable resistor that lets you vary the voltage between 2 of its terminals varies the difference in potential between those terminals so it's called a potentiometer, often referred to as a "pot", so when you lower a volume control on a mixer board you're said to have "potted" down that source.
I'm just appalled that with no effort in that direction on my part whatsoever (other than to try to avoid anything to do with it), I still know that there are two different "franchises" squabbling over professional "wrestling" (speaking of soap operas disguised as something else).
How can frequent flier miles possibly be regarded as income? They're nothing but a rebate. If you don't spend, you don't get them. I never do any of the things for which people get frequent flier miles and I don't get them. If some airline were to briefly pause in their headlong rush to bankruptcy to give me some frequent flier miles, then they would be income.
For that matter if you get them but don't use them before they expire are they still income?
That poster in the current poll is right about the IRS, some vampires do keep their victims alive so that they can feed from them again and again.
Sales tax and having to drive to and from the store usually adds up to about the same as the extra you pay for shipping when buying online so often the deciding factors are whether the online price is lower enough to induce you to wait several days for delivery, whether being able to inspect the merchandise in person before purchase matters, and, the one that seems to happen most often, whether the item is available online but not locally or available locally but not online.
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I just spoke with my sister-in-law the accountant and apparently it's the same down here in the lower 48 (+AK&HI), if your employer paid for the flights but you get the miles, then they're income. The article could have been a little clearer on that aspect. It's still pretty scary to think that the government is going to brand you a terrorist for what is basically the crime of not having a perfect understanding of that huge lump of spaghetti code that are our tax laws.
Jeez, and I thought that the glowing balls would be the near-irresistable straight line.
I thought the smell was supposed to be from the waste excretions of the (mostly anaerobic) bacteria living and multiplying on the areas of your skin that get the least exposure to fresh air.
It's probably a result of the Slashdot server's tendency to occaisionally shift to posting everything at whatever time it is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Greenwich, England and U.S. East Coast.
No, just extremely masochistic.
It's not that moderators can be bribed that's so disturbing, it's that with which they can be bribed.
Perhaps you are unaware (as I was for many years) that Beetle Bailey is Chip's uncle, which is why you never see either one's eyes.
Back to email, this past weekend's Cringely is about an email system where the recipient sets a price that the sender must pay in order for the message to get through. You can set Grannie's price to $0.00 and funwithfarmanimals.com or whoever to $5.00 or $10.00 or however high you want to either turn a profit or turn them away. Unfortunately he suggests letting PayPal handle the payment transfers.
Too bad I wasn't right, it would have been a lot easier and cheaper to clean up.
The anonymous idiot I replied to is suggesting people rummage around in toxic waste dumps for a known carcinogen and I'm the troll?
Well that depends on whether or not you include Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and various Executive Branch officials.
Sounds good except for the part where giving up your privacy does little or nothing to aid in preventing the kind of terror of which you're thinking and perhaps even makes it easier for the government and the corporations who lease it to come up with new (admittedly less likely to be fatal) ways to terrorize you.
If you really believe that PCBs are non-toxic then can I call the governor of North Carolina and tell him that he can dump in your backyard all that PCB laced dirt we spent millions digging up where some slimeball dumped it along roadsides instead of performing the proper disposal for which he was being paid?
However if that oil is contaminated with any moisture and the microwaves cause that moisture to boil it will explode oil all over the inside of your microwave.
Even better, a combination of ignition lube (white molybdenum stuff) and sewing machine oil.
Actually there's research being done on using used deep fat fryer oil as fuel in diesel engines. The exhaust fumes are supposed to smell like frech fries. Really.
If you mean airtight, no. They have a little hole with a micropore filter that keeps inside and outside air pressure apprx. equal. And they have to have air inside to make the heads float or fly above the platters when they spin. The platters have enough friction to drag some air along as they move and this air flow is what keeps the heads lifted above the platters by some ridiculously small distance.
This is semi-related. A variable resistor that lets you vary the voltage between 2 of its terminals varies the difference in potential between those terminals so it's called a potentiometer, often referred to as a "pot", so when you lower a volume control on a mixer board you're said to have "potted" down that source.
When you say PCBs I'm guessing that you mean printed circuit boards, but at least with vegetable oil there won't be PolyChlorinatedBiphenyls.
I'm not entirely unserious, even though I have no interest in Farscape myself.
I'm just appalled that with no effort in that direction on my part whatsoever (other than to try to avoid anything to do with it), I still know that there are two different "franchises" squabbling over professional "wrestling" (speaking of soap operas disguised as something else).
For that matter if you get them but don't use them before they expire are they still income?
That poster in the current poll is right about the IRS, some vampires do keep their victims alive so that they can feed from them again and again.
The traditional "attribution" is "With apologies to--insert name of original author here--"
Darn, I was going for a high velocity nostril to monitor trajectory :-)
Sales tax and having to drive to and from the store usually adds up to about the same as the extra you pay for shipping when buying online so often the deciding factors are whether the online price is lower enough to induce you to wait several days for delivery, whether being able to inspect the merchandise in person before purchase matters, and, the one that seems to happen most often, whether the item is available online but not locally or available locally but not online.