The Geek Group* recently moved to Grand Rapids, MI and is planning on putting a coffee shop in its new, super-hacker-space lab when it opens to the public. There would definitely be no problem with soldering in the cafe, though you might have to take the Dremel out into one of the other rooms due to flying metal bits. I'm not sure what the rules will be about Tesla coils in the shop, though.
*Disclosure: Yes, I am a member. Forgive me for promoting something cool in which I believe.
They, to paraphrase, "lose some energy and focus" when they do not get their way. Interesting way to put that.
That really describes everyone. I often "lose some energy and focus" when my boss tells me to change the way I am tackling a problem, because he doesn't think the same way I do.
Lastly -- you link to the Kiplinger article, and it's good to have sources. For some reason you specifically ignore its caveat:
(Note that these figures include only federal income taxes. According to one study, 56% of all wage earners pay more in Social Security and Medicare taxes than they do income tax and the percentage of those paying more payroll tax than income tax soars to 86% if you count both the employer and employee share of Social Security and Medicare taxes.)
Please take total tax burden into account before perpetuating (or encouraging) the myth that those under the 50% line don't pay taxes. Yes, I know you are only talking about income tax. I am saying it is disingenuous to do so.
But the other thing to consider is that other number he posted, that 50% of the population will be paying $0 in income tax this year. Since there is no specific tax break for SS/Medicare, I find this not at all surprising - $200 > $0. The spread might be a bit flatter, or even slightly lopsided, but it's still more than compensated for in that 75%/25% breakdown of personal income tax compared to personal SS/Medicare in the federal budget.
And that Kiplinger article says that the bottom 40% of taxpayers earn a credit on their income tax, so that goes to at least partially offset the SS/Medicare tax. Forgive me if I can't feel much sympathy for a person living on $22K a year that has to pay more in sales tax than he does in federal taxes. Oh wait, that's me.
Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in [incorrectly] believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. Daily watchers of network TV news broadcasts were 12 points higher in believing that TARP was signed into law by President Obama, and 11 points higher in believing that most Republicans oppose TARP.
So basically the real story here is that if you watch television news, you are more misinformed than if you don't. Thanks for the non-partisan spin, guys.
If you've done that in the "general population" more than a couple times and think they're mindless sheep because they won't entertain you, then you've had an opportunity to learn something but simply haven't done so.
Yeah, Martas. You could have learned all about the point system in NASCAR or where Biggie is actually hiding when he's recording those new albums, but no, you were just too good for it!
Maybe "bullshit" wasn't the proper term. Maybe "taken out of context, omitting selectively omitting other relevant information and over-inflating the importance of the article in a hope to get published" is more appropriate. But it doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Nice; but nowadays the toxic hydrazine and sodium borohydride are used. Then how do you come to say 'the "toxicity" part is bullshit' in your topic?
That said, phosphorus itself is not completely harm-free itself...
They are only sometimes used. There are lots of current (last five years) papers where they aren't used, NaBH4 and N2H4 are just extreme examples being used - phosphorus is still used, as is sodium ascorbate (also known as vitamin C). Hell, the lab down the hall from mine makes AuNPs via laser ablation and deposition - no reducing agent needed at all, just a vacuum.
Phosphorus is only dangerous if you eat it on the multi-gram scale or if you heat it, and frankly, anyone who does that gets what they deserve. If you're worried about waste, elemental phosphorus will oxidize pretty quickly with contact with air (and gold nanoparticles) and become biocompatible phosphates.
Yes, white phosphorus is pyrophoric, but it's the less stable of the two allotropes, and it's pretty hard to make, so you don't need to worry about it being a sideproduct.
The actual article talks about how gold nanoparticles are often made with super-strong reducing agents like sodium borohydride and how this is awesomely bad for the environment.
What the article doesn't mention is who made the very first gold nanoparticles, or how they were made.
It was Michael Faraday (yes, that Faraday), who made them using a reducing agent called. . . phosphorus. Horribly toxic, world-destroying . . . Oh, wait, it's safe. Never mind.
There are 80 thousand ways to make AuNPs, the reason the strong reducing agents are usually used is because it's simply a quicker reaction, or because you want them there to activate something else you are sticking to the surface of the nanoparticle.
Now, the part about the cinnamon extracts stabilizing the AuNPs in physiological conditions, that might be more impressive - I'm not familiar with work in that area. But the toxicity part is nothing more than a cry for attention.
If the government chooses to take my body at time of death then it's a tax or confiscation of property from the heirs but the government generally has to disclose taxes or confiscations.
Great - now Parliament is going to pass a one-organ inheritance tax.
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The Geek Group* recently moved to Grand Rapids, MI and is planning on putting a coffee shop in its new, super-hacker-space lab when it opens to the public. There would definitely be no problem with soldering in the cafe, though you might have to take the Dremel out into one of the other rooms due to flying metal bits. I'm not sure what the rules will be about Tesla coils in the shop, though.
*Disclosure: Yes, I am a member. Forgive me for promoting something cool in which I believe.
Well, two is traditional, but your title completely fucked up the rest of the traditional pronunciation.
"WEE-key WER-sa."
That would be the band gap.
Well that was a perfectly depressing way to ruin a Saturday night.
Logging on to slashdot to read stories and post comments? Yeah, you're right, it is a depressing way to spend a Saturday night.
They, to paraphrase, "lose some energy and focus" when they do not get their way. Interesting way to put that.
That really describes everyone. I often "lose some energy and focus" when my boss tells me to change the way I am tackling a problem, because he doesn't think the same way I do.
Lastly -- you link to the Kiplinger article, and it's good to have sources. For some reason you specifically ignore its caveat:
(Note that these figures include only federal income taxes. According to one study, 56% of all wage earners pay more in Social Security and Medicare taxes than they do income tax and the percentage of those paying more payroll tax than income tax soars to 86% if you count both the employer and employee share of Social Security and Medicare taxes.)
Please take total tax burden into account before perpetuating (or encouraging) the myth that those under the 50% line don't pay taxes. Yes, I know you are only talking about income tax. I am saying it is disingenuous to do so.
But the other thing to consider is that other number he posted, that 50% of the population will be paying $0 in income tax this year. Since there is no specific tax break for SS/Medicare, I find this not at all surprising - $200 > $0. The spread might be a bit flatter, or even slightly lopsided, but it's still more than compensated for in that 75%/25% breakdown of personal income tax compared to personal SS/Medicare in the federal budget.
And that Kiplinger article says that the bottom 40% of taxpayers earn a credit on their income tax, so that goes to at least partially offset the SS/Medicare tax. Forgive me if I can't feel much sympathy for a person living on $22K a year that has to pay more in sales tax than he does in federal taxes. Oh wait, that's me.
They do now, but pretty soon they'll unionise...
It won't be too soon, after what the FBI did this week.
. . . because CO is so much better for the environment, and we don't go to any special effort to get rid of it.
Wait, shit.
Daily consumers of MSNBC and public broadcasting (NPR and PBS) were higher (34 points and 25 points respectively) in [incorrectly] believing that it was proven that the US Chamber of Commerce was spending money raised from foreign sources to support Republican candidates. Daily watchers of network TV news broadcasts were 12 points higher in believing that TARP was signed into law by President Obama, and 11 points higher in believing that most Republicans oppose TARP.
So basically the real story here is that if you watch television news, you are more misinformed than if you don't. Thanks for the non-partisan spin, guys.
If you've done that in the "general population" more than a couple times and think they're mindless sheep because they won't entertain you, then you've had an opportunity to learn something but simply haven't done so.
Yeah, Martas. You could have learned all about the point system in NASCAR or where Biggie is actually hiding when he's recording those new albums, but no, you were just too good for it!
Better give them cinnamon instead, so they don't turn cancerous. Unless that's what you want.
Or "nano." It's how I do it ;-)
Maybe "bullshit" wasn't the proper term. Maybe "taken out of context, omitting selectively omitting other relevant information and over-inflating the importance of the article in a hope to get published" is more appropriate. But it doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Nice; but nowadays the toxic hydrazine and sodium borohydride are used. Then how do you come to say 'the "toxicity" part is bullshit' in your topic?
That said, phosphorus itself is not completely harm-free itself ...
They are only sometimes used. There are lots of current (last five years) papers where they aren't used, NaBH4 and N2H4 are just extreme examples being used - phosphorus is still used, as is sodium ascorbate (also known as vitamin C). Hell, the lab down the hall from mine makes AuNPs via laser ablation and deposition - no reducing agent needed at all, just a vacuum.
Phosphorus is only dangerous if you eat it on the multi-gram scale or if you heat it, and frankly, anyone who does that gets what they deserve. If you're worried about waste, elemental phosphorus will oxidize pretty quickly with contact with air (and gold nanoparticles) and become biocompatible phosphates.
Yes, white phosphorus is pyrophoric, but it's the less stable of the two allotropes, and it's pretty hard to make, so you don't need to worry about it being a sideproduct.
The actual article talks about how gold nanoparticles are often made with super-strong reducing agents like sodium borohydride and how this is awesomely bad for the environment.
What the article doesn't mention is who made the very first gold nanoparticles, or how they were made.
It was Michael Faraday (yes, that Faraday), who made them using a reducing agent called. . . phosphorus. Horribly toxic, world-destroying . . . Oh, wait, it's safe. Never mind.
There are 80 thousand ways to make AuNPs, the reason the strong reducing agents are usually used is because it's simply a quicker reaction, or because you want them there to activate something else you are sticking to the surface of the nanoparticle.
Now, the part about the cinnamon extracts stabilizing the AuNPs in physiological conditions, that might be more impressive - I'm not familiar with work in that area. But the toxicity part is nothing more than a cry for attention.
There's a difference between not treating women with respect and raping them.
Very true. I respect any woman who will accept a beverage from me, prepared out of her sight, and drink it without question.
There's a difference between "teh boobies" and "Mr. Hands" or "Two Girls, One Cup."
If the government chooses to take my body at time of death then it's a tax or confiscation of property from the heirs but the government generally has to disclose taxes or confiscations.
Great - now Parliament is going to pass a one-organ inheritance tax.
The rest of us always called it "scuzzy", and thought Apple Marketing's attempt to rebrand it as "sexy" was just lame.
Yeah, the iSCS just didn't catch on.
"Grandma, can I have an iSex for Christmas?" *SLAP*
. . . thought that article was going to be about how my PC could build up my right bicep.
(Because my right needs help catching up to my left)
Damn right its Clinton's fault! If she had been elected we wouldn't have had to deal with this mess!
Damn straight - we'd have a woman to clean it up for us!
The libertarian college student is smoking pot and measuring his dick with a ruler.
Fucking Democrats taxed away my ruler. . .
How could they turn it on? iSenseOfHumor was rejected by the app store.
So what you're saying is that we need to jailbreak the mods?
. . . maybe it's because this is AMD's answer to ION? Or maybe not, I dunno, just a thought.
Meanwhile, the President is still a media whore and hasn't stopped campaigning since 2006.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to dislike Obama, but every President since Adams has done that of which you accuse him.