We have enough problems keeping the native species alive. Yes, it's important to save these animals, but should we be putting more effort into saving the animals than we put into bringing animals here from half a world away? I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
Two of the companies I worked for were classified as spammers. One earned the title rightly for one month's worth of email ten years ago, the other earned the title because of a VP who liked to forward jokes to everyone he knows.
In each case, just that designation made it hard to do business. The domain name for each company was blacklisted in some places, including Yahoo. For a technology company, losing the ability to send email to real customers is a curse.
Even posting on message boards online (ahem) has gotten my email address (not associated with the above companies) used as a spam reply to. I get please remove messages from people, bounced SPAM, etc. It's to the point Yahoo even randomly checks my ID to see if I'm really a person. I'm paying the price for these spammers to do business. Should I pay more of a price because I post to usenet? Should people flood my email account with malware because someone else used my address as a replyto?
The problem with SPAM is it works and works well. It costs a few dollars to generate thousands of leads, meaning if you sell one thing to one of them, you make money. The month of SPAM was how that first company really got it's start, after that it went to more traditional forms of marketing. Only once SPAM stops working will the problem go away. Odds are against that happening. People are too stupid. Violent methods of stopping SPAM hurt everyone, more than SPAM itself does. That's a little like saying if we shoot drug smugglers, they'll stop sending drugs. And, established SPAMers make much more than drug runners.
As last, a perfectly disquised gift of toxic waste. A gift of lead and other poisons for the people you don't want around for the next round of gift giving. And, they're all gifts that keep on giving... Are you allowed to recycle these again after they die? Reminds me of those people who were bringing recycled cesium canisters to raves in Brazil and using the cesium powder as makeup, they didn't last long....
Not just if the cost is deductible, but how it is deductible is a question. If the deduction takes the form of depreciation, as capital often does here in the States, leasing something means you can take the write off immediately, instead of having to write off the depreciated value of the asset over several years. Even if leasing costs more, if the money "gained" by the deduction of a lease grows to a greater value than the money "gained" in the duduction of depreciated value over several years, leasing is a good option.
Of course, if you've never depreciated anything and can pay cash, you stand to do better if you buy. The question comes in almost only for corporations. If you have a team of accountants trying to calulate depreciated values for deductions, by simplifying in a lease and saving fees to the accountants, you save money again. It takes a lot of effort (ie, money) for a corporation to keep track of hundreds of thousands of depreciable assets.
Another consideration is if you have to finance something.... Leasing with an immediate write off versus buying something at double digit interest where you get to write off the interest and depreciation get's strange.
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Yes. But, what's the gerund form? Cleaving? Cleavaging?
Ok, real question. Was the article written under pressure? A deadline perhaps? Ooooh, there was a monetary reward to see what document would generate the most hits. If only they had waited until April first.... Speaking of which, do accountants make the most mistakes during tax season?
Here is a link to these pictures on my main website: http://64.81.113.250/tubes.html . I've killed off torrent/seti etc, so it should be better than Geocities. The geocities link was for longer term access. My email address is critter_75075@yahoo.com.
Although the equipment is in eastern Oklahoma, near Howe, we live in DFW in North Texas. Either place would be an option for those interested.
We know the equipment is intrinsically valuable. But, it has no real book value. Which is why we were looking for a museum type arrangement. Several good leads here though.... Gotta be someone here dreaming of this stuff. The idea of cleaning up and testing these hundreds of tubes one at a time, selling them for a dollar or so a piece on eBay with three dollars shipping is a nightmare none of us want.
There are a total of three tube cases, two full one half full. One box of misc parts like tube brighteners. One 707 tube tester. One misc tube voltage tester, in very bad shape. The old rca oscilloscope. A bag of dozens of misc discrete components. I'll work on adding the rest of the pictures to my page tonight, along with a partial parts list.
All stereotypes are negative. Male/Female Adult/Child White/Black. This reviewer is complaining more about the mis-interpretation of women in liesure suit larry. However, she does not chose to object to the image of a letcherous man as the main character.
Name one positive stereotype in games? The humans in Warcraft are xenophobes on a witch hunt. Samurai in fighting games are mad blood thursty freaks. Even mushrooms are misinterpreted and are misleading in Mario. The message is "Here kids, eat a mushroom, do cool things...."
Non-stereo typical themes in culture do not do well. Not only are they hard to do, they lack interesting alliteration and feeling.
Which school you go to is of little importance. What matters is how you find your first job. It took CS graduates from UT six months to find their first job when times where good. Now most are skipping the market and going for their graduate degree. If anything, go to a school near a job center where you would like to be. Going to school in the middle of nowhere is practical suicide.
Best things you can do: intern, network, run your own business, or get your foot in the door. A degree isn't a guarantee of a good job. You also need to accept when you get your first job that you won't make enough to live off of, many can't accept that.
This system is the test system. The primary communications systems of this satelite are Ka band and X Band radio signals. LASER communications systems, according to the article, are already in use in space by the Pentagon. I thought it was funny though the LASER test system represented most of the cost of the mission. They want to see how much the sun interfers etc. This system is a precursor to an actual system launch, which would have in space listening/broadcast posts.
Also, most of the listening posts they have designated are already equiped with spectrum analyzers, which would allow us to find any unexpected frequencies and build the new equipment to monitor the signal.
Third, the Hyugens probe was almost lost because of this exact issue. Although Cassini can detect dopler shifts and track them, the Hyugens probes doppler shift would also change the BAUD rate along with the frequency, which the receiver firmware could not compensate for. They had to change Cassini fly path around Saturn to eliminate the doppler shift. This would have been a simple firmware upgrade on Earth, but the problem was not found/proven until the probe was in transit. Thankfully with this test system the receiver will be on earth and we can compensate.
Didn't Microsoft get Hollowwood to include a specific WMV codec as a part of the next DVD standard? Hasn't Hollowwood approved that? Why are they giving MS control and complaining about? On second thought, why are most businesses giving MS control then complaining about it.
Including the Russians in a plan to get to the moon or Mars is foolhardy, but on no part the Russians fault. The IIS is next-to-useless for any Moon or Mars mission because of the incredibly high orbit angle, around 51 degrees, that was required to include Russian launch capabilities. Because the Russians can not launch from their current facilities to a lower angle of orbit (5-10 degress) that would be required get to the moon or Mars, going to the moon or Mars almost automatically eliminates current Russian participation. The Russians have to launch on an almost polar orbit so the lower stages of their rockets will not come crashing down on China/Japan.
Now, the Russians could build a rocket system that is so large the stages burn up on reentry (like Energia) or rebuild their launching facilities in the far north almost arctic area (which would also require large rockets), or they can build a sea launch facility. None of which is about to happen.
Clinton hobbled the IIS by making the orbit suitable to the Russians. But, in doing that he made the ISS truely international. Otherwise it would have been US etc. But, it would have been able to prepare for trips to Mars/Moon. Which is more important? I don't know...
O'Keefe is doing what he is told to do. Save lives, save money, do stuff. Seems like congress is doing it's duty though, to keep things from happening.
O'Keefe is a peon. I for one support what he is being told to do. How about when he kept the shuttle fleet grounded for almost a year when they found the main engines could explode at any time due to unexpectes wear and tear on the flow liners?
How about canceling the CRV. Sure, a real value at only $20 million a pop. The thing took $2 billion to design and only required a $400 million shuttle launch to put into orbit.
Congress was put in place to keep the executive branch from doing too much. Looks like they are doing that right on time. But, Bush has surprised them before:)
Tried playing an NGage in the store, a local Game Stop. The device was too complicated to figure out in the ten minutes I had. Had a small screen and the options were hard to set. Many buttons. Looked and worked more like an all-in-one remote than a handlheld game console.
They could have solved my issues by setting up some sort of kiosk where I can try the unit out completely and ask questions.
If I can't figure out a toy in under ten minutes, I'd better be able to program for it later on. Especially when the device costs > $100 and has monthly service fees.
I've heard rumors that coffee (not caffeine) contributes to depression. Supposedly, the excess phosphorous leeches B-Vitamins out of the blood stream and blocks them from functioning. I've given up coffee completely. Actually tried giving up coffee for a few months and the results were scary. Found a new job in my old field (now Programming, was waiting tables for two years), made peace with some people I was fighting with and found a girlfriend.
Not very scientific, anyone know of any evidence for or against the depression link?
Cooling is an issue. NASA couldn't use the high-gain transmitter on the Spirit rover at first because it generated too much heat. They had to wait until they touched soil to have the additional heat sink (the soil) where they could safely use the transmitter. See:
Cooling Spirit off. Temperatures atop the metallic lander are warmer than expected, so the scientists on Earth are working to keep the probe cooler. Limiting the use of one antenna cooled Spirit slightly.
...taken from the bottom of this article on USAToday. During a summer day Mars is room temperature, so any equipment that would run hot on earth would run hot there as well. Also, you have less ability to lose heat to air, because of the thinner atmosphere.
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Of course, it would be funny hearing a trailer park resident describing what the herd of elephants sounded like as they destroyed the area....
Didn't the king of SIAM send a herd of Elephants to the US for this very purpose?
We have enough problems keeping the native species alive. Yes, it's important to save these animals, but should we be putting more effort into saving the animals than we put into bringing animals here from half a world away? I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
Two of the companies I worked for were classified as spammers. One earned the title rightly for one month's worth of email ten years ago, the other earned the title because of a VP who liked to forward jokes to everyone he knows.
In each case, just that designation made it hard to do business. The domain name for each company was blacklisted in some places, including Yahoo. For a technology company, losing the ability to send email to real customers is a curse.
Even posting on message boards online (ahem) has gotten my email address (not associated with the above companies) used as a spam reply to. I get please remove messages from people, bounced SPAM, etc. It's to the point Yahoo even randomly checks my ID to see if I'm really a person. I'm paying the price for these spammers to do business. Should I pay more of a price because I post to usenet? Should people flood my email account with malware because someone else used my address as a replyto?
The problem with SPAM is it works and works well. It costs a few dollars to generate thousands of leads, meaning if you sell one thing to one of them, you make money. The month of SPAM was how that first company really got it's start, after that it went to more traditional forms of marketing. Only once SPAM stops working will the problem go away. Odds are against that happening. People are too stupid. Violent methods of stopping SPAM hurt everyone, more than SPAM itself does. That's a little like saying if we shoot drug smugglers, they'll stop sending drugs. And, established SPAMers make much more than drug runners.
As last, a perfectly disquised gift of toxic waste. A gift of lead and other poisons for the people you don't want around for the next round of gift giving. And, they're all gifts that keep on giving... Are you allowed to recycle these again after they die? Reminds me of those people who were bringing recycled cesium canisters to raves in Brazil and using the cesium powder as makeup, they didn't last long....
Nah, she took off her necklace server for the night. Wait until you see what happens when she brushes her teeth!
Does tiling my bathroom with old Windows OEM CDs count?
Not just if the cost is deductible, but how it is deductible is a question. If the deduction takes the form of depreciation, as capital often does here in the States, leasing something means you can take the write off immediately, instead of having to write off the depreciated value of the asset over several years. Even if leasing costs more, if the money "gained" by the deduction of a lease grows to a greater value than the money "gained" in the duduction of depreciated value over several years, leasing is a good option.
Of course, if you've never depreciated anything and can pay cash, you stand to do better if you buy. The question comes in almost only for corporations. If you have a team of accountants trying to calulate depreciated values for deductions, by simplifying in a lease and saving fees to the accountants, you save money again. It takes a lot of effort (ie, money) for a corporation to keep track of hundreds of thousands of depreciable assets.
Another consideration is if you have to finance something.... Leasing with an immediate write off versus buying something at double digit interest where you get to write off the interest and depreciation get's strange.
Yes. But, what's the gerund form? Cleaving? Cleavaging?
Ok, real question. Was the article written under pressure? A deadline perhaps? Ooooh, there was a monetary reward to see what document would generate the most hits. If only they had waited until April first.... Speaking of which, do accountants make the most mistakes during tax season?
It only took 68 visitors to bring down the geocities web page.
I'm not a faithful person. Wanted to save my real website the initial shock ;)
Here is a link to these pictures on my main website: http://64.81.113.250/tubes.html . I've killed off torrent/seti etc, so it should be better than Geocities. The geocities link was for longer term access. My email address is critter_75075@yahoo.com .
Although the equipment is in eastern Oklahoma, near Howe, we live in DFW in North Texas. Either place would be an option for those interested.
We know the equipment is intrinsically valuable. But, it has no real book value. Which is why we were looking for a museum type arrangement. Several good leads here though.... Gotta be someone here dreaming of this stuff. The idea of cleaning up and testing these hundreds of tubes one at a time, selling them for a dollar or so a piece on eBay with three dollars shipping is a nightmare none of us want.
There are a total of three tube cases, two full one half full. One box of misc parts like tube brighteners. One 707 tube tester. One misc tube voltage tester, in very bad shape. The old rca oscilloscope. A bag of dozens of misc discrete components. I'll work on adding the rest of the pictures to my page tonight, along with a partial parts list.
All stereotypes are negative. Male/Female Adult/Child White/Black. This reviewer is complaining more about the mis-interpretation of women in liesure suit larry. However, she does not chose to object to the image of a letcherous man as the main character.
Name one positive stereotype in games? The humans in Warcraft are xenophobes on a witch hunt. Samurai in fighting games are mad blood thursty freaks. Even mushrooms are misinterpreted and are misleading in Mario. The message is "Here kids, eat a mushroom, do cool things...."
Non-stereo typical themes in culture do not do well. Not only are they hard to do, they lack interesting alliteration and feeling.
Which school you go to is of little importance. What matters is how you find your first job. It took CS graduates from UT six months to find their first job when times where good. Now most are skipping the market and going for their graduate degree. If anything, go to a school near a job center where you would like to be. Going to school in the middle of nowhere is practical suicide.
Best things you can do: intern, network, run your own business, or get your foot in the door. A degree isn't a guarantee of a good job. You also need to accept when you get your first job that you won't make enough to live off of, many can't accept that.
The last flight was 11 seconds. Haven't heard on this one yet. See here.
Something worries me about a fleet of tazer wielding robots wandering the house.... Nasty way to lose a piggie. How would you explain that one?
This system is the test system. The primary communications systems of this satelite are Ka band and X Band radio signals. LASER communications systems, according to the article, are already in use in space by the Pentagon. I thought it was funny though the LASER test system represented most of the cost of the mission. They want to see how much the sun interfers etc. This system is a precursor to an actual system launch, which would have in space listening/broadcast posts.
Also, most of the listening posts they have designated are already equiped with spectrum analyzers, which would allow us to find any unexpected frequencies and build the new equipment to monitor the signal.
Third, the Hyugens probe was almost lost because of this exact issue. Although Cassini can detect dopler shifts and track them, the Hyugens probes doppler shift would also change the BAUD rate along with the frequency, which the receiver firmware could not compensate for. They had to change Cassini fly path around Saturn to eliminate the doppler shift. This would have been a simple firmware upgrade on Earth, but the problem was not found/proven until the probe was in transit. Thankfully with this test system the receiver will be on earth and we can compensate.
Didn't Microsoft get Hollowwood to include a specific WMV codec as a part of the next DVD standard? Hasn't Hollowwood approved that? Why are they giving MS control and complaining about? On second thought, why are most businesses giving MS control then complaining about it.
Including the Russians in a plan to get to the moon or Mars is foolhardy, but on no part the Russians fault. The IIS is next-to-useless for any Moon or Mars mission because of the incredibly high orbit angle, around 51 degrees, that was required to include Russian launch capabilities. Because the Russians can not launch from their current facilities to a lower angle of orbit (5-10 degress) that would be required get to the moon or Mars, going to the moon or Mars almost automatically eliminates current Russian participation. The Russians have to launch on an almost polar orbit so the lower stages of their rockets will not come crashing down on China/Japan.
Now, the Russians could build a rocket system that is so large the stages burn up on reentry (like Energia) or rebuild their launching facilities in the far north almost arctic area (which would also require large rockets), or they can build a sea launch facility. None of which is about to happen.
Clinton hobbled the IIS by making the orbit suitable to the Russians. But, in doing that he made the ISS truely international. Otherwise it would have been US etc. But, it would have been able to prepare for trips to Mars/Moon. Which is more important? I don't know...
O'Keefe is doing what he is told to do. Save lives, save money, do stuff. Seems like congress is doing it's duty though, to keep things from happening.
O'Keefe is a peon. I for one support what he is being told to do. How about when he kept the shuttle fleet grounded for almost a year when they found the main engines could explode at any time due to unexpectes wear and tear on the flow liners?
How about canceling the CRV. Sure, a real value at only $20 million a pop. The thing took $2 billion to design and only required a $400 million shuttle launch to put into orbit.
Congress was put in place to keep the executive branch from doing too much. Looks like they are doing that right on time. But, Bush has surprised them before :)
The James Web space telescope is going to be in orbit past the other side of the moon. At the L2 point. Congratulations, you have the correct answer!
Freedom is trouble :)
Is there a shell script included that makes it look like you are working? Isn't that the purpose of all good shell scripts?
Freedom is trouble :)
Tried playing an NGage in the store, a local Game Stop. The device was too complicated to figure out in the ten minutes I had. Had a small screen and the options were hard to set. Many buttons. Looked and worked more like an all-in-one remote than a handlheld game console.
They could have solved my issues by setting up some sort of kiosk where I can try the unit out completely and ask questions.
If I can't figure out a toy in under ten minutes, I'd better be able to program for it later on. Especially when the device costs > $100 and has monthly service fees.
Freedom is trouble :)
I've heard rumors that coffee (not caffeine) contributes to depression. Supposedly, the excess phosphorous leeches B-Vitamins out of the blood stream and blocks them from functioning. I've given up coffee completely. Actually tried giving up coffee for a few months and the results were scary. Found a new job in my old field (now Programming, was waiting tables for two years), made peace with some people I was fighting with and found a girlfriend.
Not very scientific, anyone know of any evidence for or against the depression link?
Cooling is an issue. NASA couldn't use the high-gain transmitter on the Spirit rover at first because it generated too much heat. They had to wait until they touched soil to have the additional heat sink (the soil) where they could safely use the transmitter. See:
...taken from the bottom of this article on USAToday. During a summer day Mars is room temperature, so any equipment that would run hot on earth would run hot there as well. Also, you have less ability to lose heat to air, because of the thinner atmosphere.