When right-clicking on a directory in Explorer, the hour-glass shows up for like 10 seconds, and the firewall complains about Explorer wanting to access the internet. Turning it off, I notice that a connection to 64.94.110.11:80 is made.
That IP resolves to: Search results for: 64.94.110.11
Yes, for now clean energy costs more, but those costs are going to creating gennerally good jobs. Its not just a loss.
Of course it's a total loss. Where do you think the money used to develope your things would have ended up otherwise? My guess is that it would be spent on purchasing more energy (lower prices raises demand) and also on other goods and services.
The jobs not created in the clean energy business will end up in those areas instead. Not only that, people will also get more goods that they want, compared to unnecessary energy research no one asked for (or at least wanted to pay for).
Buying expensive stuff which is just as good as cheaper goods for the sake of creating extra jobs, is just like digging holes in the ground and filling them up again, and saying that more jobs are created that way.
I also agree with the Anonymous Coward regarding the precautionary principle.
I think it's mostly BS. The environmentalist wackos use every occurance of what should be called "weather" as a proof of (man made) global warming.
Last winter was indeed very cold, and The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvardsverket) ran lots of ads in newspapers and on billboards about global warming, and how warm the weather is and that you must cut down on driving or else all snow will melt.
When it was the coldest winter in at least a generation, people laughed at the ads, but environmentalists used the same strategy as always. The unusual weather was caused by the global warming.
In the 1970's the enviros where sure that an ice age was coming up. In the 17th century it was unusually cold in the nordic region, and that was called "the little ice age". In the 10th century it was a lot warmer than it is today.
Just picking a few unusual events and saying "It is fairly obvious that changes in our environment has increased rapidly during the past years." doesn't make it true.
I own a DM7000s, and out of the box it does not support anything else than free-to-air channels (no encryption).
But hackers are releaseing their own versions, which support almost all types of subscription cards (via2, seca2, irdeto, crypto, conax etc.) in the built in card slots.
The scrambling systems are also completely hacked, so there is a software cam and software card in the firmware, and you can receive all hacked channels for free (need no CAM, no card). If you don't have management keys, just go to the internet key update menu, and update the keys in 2 seconds and continue to watch.
Ohh, and there is also a feature where you can share your subscription card over LAN or WAN with a couple of friends.
Don't you know that the cost for the item is deducted anyway, but it takes more time?
Since a company does not pay taxes on deductible items at all, they are just giving tax*59500 to the government year one, and the following years they get lower taxes by exactly the same amount as they paid in tax year one.
It's more like an interest-free loan to the government.
The scam is that if you use earned cash to buy a router, the government treats that as income and taxes it. But you don't have the money any more, you have the router. The router is a deductible item. And still, they want to tax what is really an expense, and you must pay with money you don't have.
Yeah, but when the government does stupid things, the do it using *my* money without asking me. If they fail, they get rewarded for it, since if it doesn't work, it's because they don't have enough money. If they have money left over, they sure will find other uses for it.
Often they can't be held accountable for what they do and they are almost impossible to fire.
If a private company screws up, they loose mostly their own money, and they don't get more to continue wasting them.
I'd rather vote with my money when selecting stuff to buy, than voting once every four years (this is in Sweden) for a whole package lumped together (taxes, regulations, health care, schools, television, internet, telephones, newspapers and all other areas where there should be no government involved).
Yep, thats the beauty with capitalism. If you don't want robots at *your* factory, then don't use them. But stay the hell out of *my* business.
But it doesn't take a small minority to take over the world with robots. A majority of customers must buy your stuff. And by doing that, they are voting for you.
Actually, the depression in the 30's had not much to do with laissez faire but with the socialist federal reserve which controlled the money supply and did it badly.
Correction:
As for preemptive invasion, the last one to pull that was Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait. Boy did his foreign policy land him in a mess of trouble!
Yeah, just think of that 1% flat tax that some guys wanted to introduce a long time ago. That could never lead to sky high progressive taxes hovering around the 50% mark..
Oh.. wait!
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Did a little test and came up with this:
When right-clicking on a directory in Explorer, the hour-glass shows up for like 10 seconds, and the firewall complains about Explorer wanting to access the internet. Turning it off, I notice that a connection to 64.94.110.11:80 is made.
That IP resolves to:
Search results for: 64.94.110.11
Internap Network Services PNAP-05-2000 64.94.0.0 - 64.95.255.255
VeriSign/Network Solutions PNAP-LAX-VERISI-RM-13
64.94.110.0 - 64.94.110.255
If I turn off Check for revocation in IE Advanced settings, the delay is gone and nothing shows up in the connection log.
Of course it's a total loss. Where do you think the money used to develope your things would have ended up otherwise? My guess is that it would be spent on purchasing more energy (lower prices raises demand) and also on other goods and services.
The jobs not created in the clean energy business will end up in those areas instead. Not only that, people will also get more goods that they want, compared to unnecessary energy research no one asked for (or at least wanted to pay for).
Buying expensive stuff which is just as good as cheaper goods for the sake of creating extra jobs, is just like digging holes in the ground and filling them up again, and saying that more jobs are created that way.
I also agree with the Anonymous Coward regarding the precautionary principle.
I think it's mostly BS. The environmentalist wackos use every occurance of what should be called "weather" as a proof of (man made) global warming.
Last winter was indeed very cold, and The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvardsverket) ran lots of ads in newspapers and on billboards about global warming, and how warm the weather is and that you must cut down on driving or else all snow will melt.
When it was the coldest winter in at least a generation, people laughed at the ads, but environmentalists used the same strategy as always. The unusual weather was caused by the global warming.
In the 1970's the enviros where sure that an ice age was coming up. In the 17th century it was unusually cold in the nordic region, and that was called "the little ice age". In the 10th century it was a lot warmer than it is today.
Just picking a few unusual events and saying "It is fairly obvious that changes in our environment has increased rapidly during the past years." doesn't make it true.
But hackers are releaseing their own versions, which support almost all types of subscription cards (via2, seca2, irdeto, crypto, conax etc.) in the built in card slots.
The scrambling systems are also completely hacked, so there is a software cam and software card in the firmware, and you can receive all hacked channels for free (need no CAM, no card). If you don't have management keys, just go to the internet key update menu, and update the keys in 2 seconds and continue to watch.
Ohh, and there is also a feature where you can share your subscription card over LAN or WAN with a couple of friends.
Since a company does not pay taxes on deductible items at all, they are just giving tax*59500 to the government year one, and the following years they get lower taxes by exactly the same amount as they paid in tax year one.
It's more like an interest-free loan to the government.
The scam is that if you use earned cash to buy a router, the government treats that as income and taxes it. But you don't have the money any more, you have the router. The router is a deductible item. And still, they want to tax what is really an expense, and you must pay with money you don't have.
Often they can't be held accountable for what they do and they are almost impossible to fire.
If a private company screws up, they loose mostly their own money, and they don't get more to continue wasting them.
I'd rather vote with my money when selecting stuff to buy, than voting once every four years (this is in Sweden) for a whole package lumped together (taxes, regulations, health care, schools, television, internet, telephones, newspapers and all other areas where there should be no government involved).
But it doesn't take a small minority to take over the world with robots. A majority of customers must buy your stuff. And by doing that, they are voting for you.
Correction:
As for preemptive invasion, the last one to pull that was Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait. Boy did his foreign policy land him in a mess of trouble!
Yeah, just think of that 1% flat tax that some guys wanted to introduce a long time ago. That could never lead to sky high progressive taxes hovering around the 50% mark.. Oh.. wait!
This is better:
The Dreambox 7000S, Dream Multimedia:
- 250 MHz IBM PowerPC Processor (350 Mips)
- Linux open source (most parts under the terms of GPL, accordingly
expandable)- Supports Linux Standard API (Direct-FB, Linux-FB, LIRC)
- 1 x DVB Common-Interface Slot
- 2 x Smartcard-Reader
- Integrated Compact Flash Interface Slot
- MPEG2 Hardware decoding (fully DVB compliant)
- Support for MPEG4 decoding
- Common available NIMs (DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C)
- 100 MBit full duplex Ethernet Interface
- USB Port Keyboard, Pointing Devices, WebCams and other devices
- V.24/RS232 Interface
- Big-size LCD-Display
- Up to 64 MByte of RAM
- integrated IDE UDMA66 Master/Slave Interface
- Support for internal HDD in any capacity