FTFS: ``The Senate measure increases H-1B visa fees by $2,000 per application on firms that have 50% or more of their employees on this visa.''
And Microsoft and Intel evidently are below this 50% limit. As far as I can tell, this isn't Microsoft and Intel "getting a pass", as the title states. No company is being singled out here. It doesn't matter who you are, what matters if you have 50% or more of your employees on H-1B visa.
You must not be from america..... Or you failed you high school civics class.
Of course it's worded this way, if it said the specific companies that didn't get taxed it would be a bill of attainder.
The question is who it targets, 50% sounds like a round number, but you would be surprised at how many people probably lobbied to get it set that high. A good question is which companies would have been hit if it was set to 25% or 75%.
What happens if you find such a device on your car? Sure, you can call the police because there's a suspicious item on your car (which may be dangerous!! what if it exploded?) but do you think they would say something like "oh no, that's ours!" -- or could they tell you to leave it there?
What happens when you run a packet dump and notice a government spyware program? whee!...
I wouldn't report it, I'd attach it to the nearest taxi.
The Death penalty only applies to blacks and Mexicans down here.
I know a guy who shot someone in the face and got away with it, And he was drunk to boot.
"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect his property to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, theft during the nighttime or criminal mischief during the nighttime, and he reasonably believes that the property cannot be protected by any other means."
"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to pervent the other who is fleeing after committing burglary, robbery, or theft during the nighttime, from escaping with the property and he reasonable believes that the property cannot be recovered by any other means; or, the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the property would expose him or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury. (Nighttime is defined as the period 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise.)"
I can't be the only one that envisioned automatic "gun cameras" here can I?
Deadly-force mantraps are illegal essentially everywhere.
Rule of thumb: In most jurisdictions you can only use deadly force to defend yourself (or another person of certain related classes) against a threat to life or limb. In some you can also use it to defend property under some circumstances.
You can't delegate the decisions to machines - especially when you personally aren't there to be at risk. (It's not just their operation that's illegal. Even setting up such a device is one or more of several crimes.)
Scenario: You're away (or died last month). Sheriff, firefighter, landlord, or heir shows shows up (with a warrant, probable cause, chasing smoke or flame, or coming to take possession of his property). "Sherrif, warrant!" / "Anybody in there? You're on fire!" / "Home at last! Let's get this door open and move in." Bash. BANG!
IDK Here in texas we have pretty liberal Self defense laws, You can even shoot someone running away with your stuff, A fully automatic Mantrap might not work, But one controlled by iphone would probably be legal. Granted I doubt this would be legal in most other states.
You know, one of the greatest art exhibits ever to tour the United States is the treasures of Tutankamen or King Tut! (King Tut) (King Tut) Now when he was a young man, He'd never thought he'd see, (King Tut) People stand in line, To see the boy king. (King Tut) How'd you get so funky? (Funky Tut) They said you do the monkey. (Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut) (King Tut) Now if I'd known, They'd line up just to see him, (King Tut) I'd've taken all my money, And bought me a museum. (King Tut) Buried with a donkey, (Funky Tut) He's my favorite honkey. (Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut) Dancing by the Nile, (Disco dancing) The ladies love his style. (Fox Tut) Rockin' for a mile, (Rockin' Tut) He ate a crocodile. He gave his life for tourism. (King Tut) (Tut, tut. Tut, tut . ..) Golden idols! He's an Egyptian! They're selling you. (King Tut) Now when I die, Now don't think I'm a nut. (King Tut) Don't want no fancy funeral, Just one like old King Tut. (King Tut) He could'a won a Grammy, (King Tut) Buried in his 'jamies. (Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, he was born in Arizona) He's got a condo made of stone-a. . . (King Tut)
A completely uninformed opinion, as well. The constitution clearly states that America is beholden to international law in any treaties that it signs.
Are you kidding? These people think they aren't held to habeas corpus, which is in the fucking constitution. What makes you think they care about treaties.
War is not a cover-up. It has necessary secrets. It has since Roman times and it will continue to as long as humans exist. You know the names and locations of people informing American forces about where the Taliban are needs to be classified.
In other words, it's like Starcraft, and you send your probe to go scout the other guy's position. If your 'friend' looks at your screen and tells him where your probe is, he's just going to toast it. And you should toast your friend.
Just what we need, The afgans knowing we 6 pooled.
Exactly right. The value doesn't actually come from the algorithms, it comes from the position of the bank which gives it access to information before the rest of the market, allowing the big banks to (illegally? certainly unethically) skim money while essentially creating no new value for the marketplace. There are plenty of people who could write those programs, but only a few people in strategic positions can make sure the banks get the inside track to screw everyone else on earth. Hooray for deregulation!
wow, I got quite a negative response from that post.
All i was trying to say is I don't buy the C02 being the leading cause of Global Warming when there are other much larger factors. *cough* Methane *cough*
No one is doubting Global Warming. The question is: does the industrial revolution just correlate well with it, Or can you prove causation?
Personally my business model would be screwed up if someone could prove causation, So I'm not likely to buy it unless shown undeniable proof. You can start by disproving the space weather theory.
Until then I think We have better pollution issues to solve. Like Why east houston stinks.
They (NVIDIA) say that you could have a very cheap supercomputer for just $10k, made with Nvidia GPUs only. Pretty impressed achievement, and btw they also say that their GPUs are in fact faster that the normal, Intel/AMD CPUs. I don't know about you, but once my piggy bank is full, i will get one of these super-computer monster.
more like 20-40k
Each 4 GPU node costs us about 5k, the thing is you can do with a 4 node GPU cluster what would normally take 50-100 CPU's or about 10-15 nodes.
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Wow, I thought the thing about keeping a 30 Chinese in the basement to memorize numbers was just a joke.
FTFS: ``The Senate measure increases H-1B visa fees by $2,000 per application on firms that have 50% or more of their employees on this visa.''
And Microsoft and Intel evidently are below this 50% limit. As far as I can tell, this isn't Microsoft and Intel "getting a pass", as the title states. No company is being singled out here. It doesn't matter who you are, what matters if you have 50% or more of your employees on H-1B visa.
You must not be from america..... Or you failed you high school civics class. Of course it's worded this way, if it said the specific companies that didn't get taxed it would be a bill of attainder. The question is who it targets, 50% sounds like a round number, but you would be surprised at how many people probably lobbied to get it set that high. A good question is which companies would have been hit if it was set to 25% or 75%.
Not a clue. Not sure I'd want to try it, either (though after it's dried, would there be any difference aside from different amounts of nicotine?)
Sir, it's people like you that are keeping from market products like sweet sweet Tomacco... :P
Cool, I wonder if it's good smokes?
What happens if you find such a device on your car? Sure, you can call the police because there's a suspicious item on your car (which may be dangerous!! what if it exploded?) but do you think they would say something like "oh no, that's ours!" -- or could they tell you to leave it there?
What happens when you run a packet dump and notice a government spyware program? whee! ...
I wouldn't report it, I'd attach it to the nearest taxi.
Just an off note, But is he an albino?
The Death penalty only applies to blacks and Mexicans down here.
I know a guy who shot someone in the face and got away with it, And he was drunk to boot.
you've never been to texas I take it.
"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect his property to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, theft during the nighttime or criminal mischief during the nighttime, and he reasonably believes that the property cannot be protected by any other means."
"A person is justified in using deadly force against another to pervent the other who is fleeing after committing burglary, robbery, or theft during the nighttime, from escaping with the property and he reasonable believes that the property cannot be recovered by any other means; or, the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the property would expose him or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury. (Nighttime is defined as the period 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise.)"
I can't be the only one that envisioned automatic "gun cameras" here can I?
Deadly-force mantraps are illegal essentially everywhere.
Rule of thumb: In most jurisdictions you can only use deadly force to defend yourself (or another person of certain related classes) against a threat to life or limb. In some you can also use it to defend property under some circumstances.
You can't delegate the decisions to machines - especially when you personally aren't there to be at risk. (It's not just their operation that's illegal. Even setting up such a device is one or more of several crimes.)
Scenario: You're away (or died last month). Sheriff, firefighter, landlord, or heir shows shows up (with a warrant, probable cause, chasing smoke or flame, or coming to take possession of his property). "Sherrif, warrant!" / "Anybody in there? You're on fire!" / "Home at last! Let's get this door open and move in." Bash. BANG!
IDK Here in texas we have pretty liberal Self defense laws, You can even shoot someone running away with your stuff, A fully automatic Mantrap might not work, But one controlled by iphone would probably be legal. Granted I doubt this would be legal in most other states.
They absolutely did have a concept of zero, but in an ordinal counting system, the concept didn't have a place ... because it's ordinal, not cardinal.
The system was modified by some to include a symbol for zero, notably Bede, who used N. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Zero.
This arguably makes it almost a positional cardinal system of numerals, sufficient for doing mathematics.
I wouldn't exactly call Saint Bede a Roman.
There's technically nothing stopping you from doing calculus or other higher mathematics with roman numerals,.
This is wrong. I'd like you to represent Lim x=>0 in roman numerals, you can't The romans didn't have a concept of zero.
We could use a bit of that 'fun money' to buy a tractor and start better using our pasture. And fix the roof on the garage.
You sure know how to have a good time...
Stop making it bigger! Start making it faster!
What about harder and stronger?
You know, one of the greatest art exhibits ever to tour the United .)
States is the treasures of Tutankamen or King Tut!
(King Tut)
(King Tut)
Now when he was a young man,
He'd never thought he'd see,
(King Tut)
People stand in line,
To see the boy king.
(King Tut)
How'd you get so funky?
(Funky Tut)
They said you do the monkey.
(Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut)
(King Tut)
Now if I'd known,
They'd line up just to see him,
(King Tut)
I'd've taken all my money,
And bought me a museum.
(King Tut)
Buried with a donkey,
(Funky Tut)
He's my favorite honkey.
(Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut)
Dancing by the Nile,
(Disco dancing)
The ladies love his style.
(Fox Tut)
Rockin' for a mile,
(Rockin' Tut)
He ate a crocodile.
He gave his life for tourism.
(King Tut)
(Tut, tut. Tut, tut . .
Golden idols!
He's an Egyptian!
They're selling you.
(King Tut)
Now when I die,
Now don't think I'm a nut.
(King Tut)
Don't want no fancy funeral,
Just one like old King Tut.
(King Tut)
He could'a won a Grammy,
(King Tut)
Buried in his 'jamies.
(Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, he was born in Arizona)
He's got a condo made of stone-a. . .
(King Tut)
A completely uninformed opinion, as well. The constitution clearly states that America is beholden to international law in any treaties that it signs.
Are you kidding? These people think they aren't held to habeas corpus, which is in the fucking constitution. What makes you think they care about treaties.
War is not a cover-up. It has necessary secrets. It has since Roman times and it will continue to as long as humans exist. You know the names and locations of people informing American forces about where the Taliban are needs to be classified.
In other words, it's like Starcraft, and you send your probe to go scout the other guy's position. If your 'friend' looks at your screen and tells him where your probe is, he's just going to toast it. And you should toast your friend.
Just what we need, The afgans knowing we 6 pooled.
Breaking-News: radiation kills stuff.
Exactly right. The value doesn't actually come from the algorithms, it comes from the position of the bank which gives it access to information before the rest of the market, allowing the big banks to (illegally? certainly unethically) skim money while essentially creating no new value for the marketplace. There are plenty of people who could write those programs, but only a few people in strategic positions can make sure the banks get the inside track to screw everyone else on earth. Hooray for deregulation!
Half of playing the game is to know the players.
wow, I got quite a negative response from that post.
All i was trying to say is I don't buy the C02 being the leading cause of Global Warming when there are other much larger factors. *cough* Methane *cough*
http://xkcd.com/552/
No one is doubting Global Warming.
The question is: does the industrial revolution just correlate well with it, Or can you prove causation?
Personally my business model would be screwed up if someone could prove causation, So I'm not likely to buy it unless shown undeniable proof. You can start by disproving the space weather theory.
Until then I think We have better pollution issues to solve. Like Why east houston stinks.
Then only criminals will have jailbreaks.
Well Duh, What would a non-criminal be doing in jail?
Keep in mind some of the operations you have to do like data sorts, and other stuff I class as overhead, doesn't get a speedup from the GPU's
They (NVIDIA) say that you could have a very cheap supercomputer for just $10k, made with Nvidia GPUs only. Pretty impressed achievement, and btw they also say that their GPUs are in fact faster that the normal, Intel/AMD CPUs. I don't know about you, but once my piggy bank is full, i will get one of these super-computer monster.
more like 20-40k
Each 4 GPU node costs us about 5k, the thing is you can do with a 4 node GPU cluster what would normally take 50-100 CPU's or about 10-15 nodes.
Games are about the only thing that low-spec system can't do
I take you never met someone who's job it is to solve the wave equation on very large datasets.
You can reuse the steam turbines and electric generators with solar thermal power plants as well.
Haven't you ever played sim city? You can't replace a Coal Plant with Just one solar plant.
A solar plant with the same foot print as the coal plant might get 50 Mwatts, Where the coal plant it's replacing is usually around 500 Mwatts.
Whereas most nuke plants are like 1000-2500 Mwatts.