but why should it bother you what someone else does in their free time when it doesn't effect you in any way?
Apparently most crime is drug related.
Whether it's kids breaking into your house and stealing stuff to pay off a drugs habit, or youths robbing you at knife point (we don't have many guns here thankfully) to pay off a drug habit,.. drugs have a tendency to wide reaching effects. Yes I speak from experience.
We have this thing called society, it impacts everyone in it.
If you're enjoying pot in your bedroom, you're funding someone who is selling drugs, they don't care if people are getting robbed to pay for those drugs or if they're dying taking them. Even if you grow your own, perhaps you get high one night and decide to take a drive; and crash? Or you exercise poor judgement and have unprotected sex and father a child? Of course these are extremes - my point is that even if you do something seemingly separated from society you still impact it. [I'm judging your argument here, cannabis should probably be as legal as nicotine / ethanol use, your argument is just poor]
Out of your list of drug takers, which would have been happier, more creative, lived longer, been more fulfilled if they hadn't taken drugs? We don't know of course - but just because they took drugs doesn't mean that those drugs improved them or their work. Dali's art might have been more profound and he may have enjoyed better relationships to boot, etc., one doesn't know.
I wish that witnesses on the stand could ask to 'approach the bench' if they wished to. Or, at the very least, ask for a closed courtroom.
They have the right to remain silent and not to offer testimony that will incriminate them.
[...] Prosecution: Did you have an affair Defendant: ""
If you say nothing your wife will still suspect (at least) if you request a closed session your wife will still suspect. If you're unlucky, even if you answer "Never, I love my wife", your wife will still suspect.
It is the persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk.
Peristent infection with what?
You also said:
Taking Gardasil can actually make you 44.6% more likely to get pre-cancerous lesions if you already have HPV
What causes the lesions. If you don't have Pap does taking Gardasil still cause lesions to form?
You seem to be saying that it's not having HPV that causes cervical cancer, but having HPV for long enough to cause cervical cancer? By the same token you might claim cessation of respiration doesn't cause death either.
The evidence for invisible extra mass is pretty hard to argue with by now though, to the point where we can produce images of its distribution and work out how it got there.
Who would of thought that the Nobel Prize would go to your next post wherein you lay your images of the distribution of dark matter, stating how it got there - and of course as you know how - and what exactly its nature is.
Wow. Colour me amazed, here's me thinking this was still an open question.
[... don't worry, next week I'm getting surgery to remove my tongue from my cheek]
I'm saying, "exclude people from the Nobel Prize who try to promote, as science, very weak theories over numerous more deserving ones."
I'm hoping that's politician speak for "exclude people from the Nobel Prize who try to promote, as science, falsified theories over numerous unfalsified ones."?
If not then perhaps you can share your metric for "weak theories" and "deserving ones". If you're a scientist that just minces their words a bit and what you really meant was not "weak" but "wrong" then link to the peer reviewed papers that demonstrate it and just say it's wrong. If it's not wrong it stands a chance at being true...
Weak generally means lacking in predictive power, but I can't see how any bona-fide ToE is weak except in that the deterministic nature of reality is weak. If the life/universe is largely indeterminable then an accurate ToE will naturally be predictively weak but this weakness will be found reflected in our ability to predict "nature" and the measure of the ToE might well be if it's indeterminacy matches that of the world about us.
[I largely agree with Popper's scientific method incidentally, any apparent contradiction is left as an exercise for the reader:0p]
Their alternative is building the project from scratch.
I thought the project was a FOSS one, BSD licensed? Then they can start from the current position so long as they put "above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation" somewhere. Hiding the BSD license in amongst some random 5pt text should be quite easy.
If the guys responsible for the hole are sat there with their power drill taking money from the sharks to sink the ship... then perhaps you need to address the problem before you get to shore. It doesn't matter how much more money you pay people with hand-drills not to take it from the sharks... you need to stop up the holes.
Oh where's bad-analogy-guy I think I have a present for him....
I can't really comment about the US situation but I can't see it being too different to the UK one, given the GP posts suggestions sound in line with what one might naively think would work here in the UK.
Here companies buy stuff, then pay tax. There's a general principle of not taxing the same thing twice. Assuming a company is VAT registered (we're not any more) then they pay no tax on materials, equipment etc., tax is paid on the goods when they're sold - this is a higher value as the company has added worth and VAT is a percentage.
Any gross profits (loosely for this purpose: goods minus materials minus overheads) are then used to pay for capital items rent, rates, utilities and of course wages. Wages of course incur employer and employee National Ins. Contributions (NICs) in the UK and employees pay income tax (taken at source as PAYE).
So how to get those final profits out of the company. If you pay them as more wages then you pay more NIC and Income Tax, no thanks. If you buy things for yourself (ie an employee) that's fine, but you receive a "benefit in kind" which has a currency equivalent value and you pay your taxes on that, no thanks. So we can just pay a dividend then? Well the company pays corporation tax on profits and then you pay a capital gains tax, no thanks.
So, for your house example - it doesn't matter what the company charges you, the exchequer (in the UK) will assess the benefit and give it a value and charge as if that value was pay to the employee. Pay generally is reduced more by tax than are company profits. So you pay a cash value to the company (which then gets assessed as part of their profits) and you pay tax as if you'd been paid cash rather than in accommodation. There are other issues - if the house is owned by the company and it fails then your creditors get your house, also if they're business premises they're subject to all the usual health and safety laws (no smoking!), etc. and require different planning permission. I'd guess insurance would be higher and your business rates may well dwarf your usual local taxes too.
Damn, still haven't worked out how to play it. I don't really know a lot about this, but I know enough to know that the US treasury isn't stupid enough to leave a loophole big enough to extract all taxable income of any business through. There will be loopholes but not this big.
Sure, there are better ways to steal money from your own company and they even get mentioned here occasionally.
You might want to take a course in comprehension and look up the term "straw man".
You might want to lookup the term hyperbole. Miaow! Also the literary device of a closing "sarcasm tag" shows that I was jovially somewhat overplaying my point.
My view is that you're talking out of your rear.
Why then did you post a link to a document that supported my point? Granted it didn't speak of the greater spread at lower IQ levels, but it was still largely supporting what I said. Moreover the article states that scientific authors assert women have more intellectual stamina (ie are better at maintaining effort in intelligence requiring activities) - but this too goes against your claims as you say men are the more persistent. Ad-hominem attacks never further the argument, IMHO.
Achievement is about ability and application. Regardless of whether I'm a complete dork that couldn't argue my way out of a kindergarten class men have the greatest achievements in fields of applied intelligence.
If you're a woman (I'm guessing not), you don't need to feel bad about that - you might still be more intelligent than everyone you ever meet (including me).
They're not stupider than men, they're actually smarter.
Ha-ha ha, most intelligent sounding troll ever. I particularly like the psyche-out of your sig.
So basically what you're saying is women are better at everything than men they just don't want to embarrass us by trying. You must be right... Also, whilst women struggle hard to achieve what they get, men just have OCD and anything they achieve is just a by-product. Doesn't sound at all trollish to me.</sarcasm>
My view: if you're looking at IQ, or what the general populace calls intelligence, then studies show women and men average out about the same but that there's a greater spread for men. But, it doesn't matter - we don't need to know.
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Why do you want to draw rasterised circles, if you want smooth circles use a vector graphics app.
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How about if someone was giving away a free motorbike and pointed out that if you wanted seatbelts that a car might be better and that you could get a free one from a guy he knows.
Drawing geometric shapes, IMO, is not the [central] domain of a raster editor. If you want to draw shapes Inkscape is fast becoming a great vector editor (other apps like sk1 [ http://sk1project.org/ ] and XaraLX are quite nice too). I know there are plenty of reasons why you'd want to draw simple shapes...
Presumably it's OK then to call a program "Fuck!" because it could derive from an old dutch word for "hit" and not the homonym that is widely used as a swear/curse word.
Try asking your boss if it's OK to install some software called "Fuck!" and see how far you get.
Skype, Flash, Adium, Daemon Tools. *Most* desktop apps have random names that don't mean anything, the only difference is that Ubuntu added labels to the names other people gave their apps to make it clearer.
It's not just desktop apps, most branded products... Nike - what's that got to do with trainers, McDonalds - how does that suggest beef-burgers, etc..
Partly it's because descriptive names can not be trademarks as they indicate type of goods rather than origin. But dammit GIMP is rediculous.
Perhaps they should rename it Gnome Open Art Tool Special Edition? But seriously they could call it "Imp" it's cool, the logo would almost still work too and the name change would be a great chance for some more publicity.
Isn't that like saying - when financial advisors suggest we keep our money under a mattress, and don't invest it, I'll start listening.
Or, when oil magnates say we should use more solar power I'll be interested.
Why would a winemaker approve of a device that will net him less profit, especially a French winemaker - I imagine a French winemaker will start using this about the time he starts eating sliced white load with kraft "cheese" slices.
I have to agree with the parent.. if computer is useless then it well get wiped and reinstalled (losing your data if you don't have a proper backup) or just destroyed and dumped. If you can switch it on and use it then he can sell it straight away "down the pub".
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It's full of stars?
but why should it bother you what someone else does in their free time when it doesn't effect you in any way?
Apparently most crime is drug related.
Whether it's kids breaking into your house and stealing stuff to pay off a drugs habit, or youths robbing you at knife point (we don't have many guns here thankfully) to pay off a drug habit, .. drugs have a tendency to wide reaching effects. Yes I speak from experience.
We have this thing called society, it impacts everyone in it.
If you're enjoying pot in your bedroom, you're funding someone who is selling drugs, they don't care if people are getting robbed to pay for those drugs or if they're dying taking them. Even if you grow your own, perhaps you get high one night and decide to take a drive; and crash? Or you exercise poor judgement and have unprotected sex and father a child? Of course these are extremes - my point is that even if you do something seemingly separated from society you still impact it. [I'm judging your argument here, cannabis should probably be as legal as nicotine / ethanol use, your argument is just poor]
Out of your list of drug takers, which would have been happier, more creative, lived longer, been more fulfilled if they hadn't taken drugs? We don't know of course - but just because they took drugs doesn't mean that those drugs improved them or their work. Dali's art might have been more profound and he may have enjoyed better relationships to boot, etc., one doesn't know.
I wish that witnesses on the stand could ask to 'approach the bench' if they wished to. Or, at the very least, ask for a closed courtroom.
They have the right to remain silent and not to offer testimony that will incriminate them.
[...]
Prosecution: Did you have an affair
Defendant: ""
If you say nothing your wife will still suspect (at least) if you request a closed session your wife will still suspect. If you're unlucky, even if you answer "Never, I love my wife", your wife will still suspect.
Gah! When did Digg get the new Slashdot skin?
One question, you quote a petition:
It is the persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk.
Peristent infection with what?
You also said:
Taking Gardasil can actually make you 44.6% more likely to get pre-cancerous lesions if you already have HPV
What causes the lesions. If you don't have Pap does taking Gardasil still cause lesions to form?
You seem to be saying that it's not having HPV that causes cervical cancer, but having HPV for long enough to cause cervical cancer? By the same token you might claim cessation of respiration doesn't cause death either.
The evidence for invisible extra mass is pretty hard to argue with by now though, to the point where we can produce images of its distribution and work out how it got there.
Who would of thought that the Nobel Prize would go to your next post wherein you lay your images of the distribution of dark matter, stating how it got there - and of course as you know how - and what exactly its nature is.
Wow. Colour me amazed, here's me thinking this was still an open question.
[... don't worry, next week I'm getting surgery to remove my tongue from my cheek]
I'm saying, "exclude people from the Nobel Prize who try to promote, as science, very weak theories over numerous more deserving ones."
I'm hoping that's politician speak for "exclude people from the Nobel Prize who try to promote, as science, falsified theories over numerous unfalsified ones."?
If not then perhaps you can share your metric for "weak theories" and "deserving ones". If you're a scientist that just minces their words a bit and what you really meant was not "weak" but "wrong" then link to the peer reviewed papers that demonstrate it and just say it's wrong. If it's not wrong it stands a chance at being true ...
Weak generally means lacking in predictive power, but I can't see how any bona-fide ToE is weak except in that the deterministic nature of reality is weak. If the life/universe is largely indeterminable then an accurate ToE will naturally be predictively weak but this weakness will be found reflected in our ability to predict "nature" and the measure of the ToE might well be if it's indeterminacy matches that of the world about us.
[I largely agree with Popper's scientific method incidentally, any apparent contradiction is left as an exercise for the reader :0p]
Their alternative is building the project from scratch.
I thought the project was a FOSS one, BSD licensed? Then they can start from the current position so long as they put "above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation" somewhere. Hiding the BSD license in amongst some random 5pt text should be quite easy.
If the guys responsible for the hole are sat there with their power drill taking money from the sharks to sink the ship ... then perhaps you need to address the problem before you get to shore. It doesn't matter how much more money you pay people with hand-drills not to take it from the sharks ... you need to stop up the holes.
Oh where's bad-analogy-guy I think I have a present for him ....
I can't really comment about the US situation but I can't see it being too different to the UK one, given the GP posts suggestions sound in line with what one might naively think would work here in the UK.
Here companies buy stuff, then pay tax. There's a general principle of not taxing the same thing twice. Assuming a company is VAT registered (we're not any more) then they pay no tax on materials, equipment etc., tax is paid on the goods when they're sold - this is a higher value as the company has added worth and VAT is a percentage.
Any gross profits (loosely for this purpose: goods minus materials minus overheads) are then used to pay for capital items rent, rates, utilities and of course wages. Wages of course incur employer and employee National Ins. Contributions (NICs) in the UK and employees pay income tax (taken at source as PAYE).
So how to get those final profits out of the company. If you pay them as more wages then you pay more NIC and Income Tax, no thanks. If you buy things for yourself (ie an employee) that's fine, but you receive a "benefit in kind" which has a currency equivalent value and you pay your taxes on that, no thanks. So we can just pay a dividend then? Well the company pays corporation tax on profits and then you pay a capital gains tax, no thanks.
So, for your house example - it doesn't matter what the company charges you, the exchequer (in the UK) will assess the benefit and give it a value and charge as if that value was pay to the employee. Pay generally is reduced more by tax than are company profits. So you pay a cash value to the company (which then gets assessed as part of their profits) and you pay tax as if you'd been paid cash rather than in accommodation. There are other issues - if the house is owned by the company and it fails then your creditors get your house, also if they're business premises they're subject to all the usual health and safety laws (no smoking!), etc. and require different planning permission. I'd guess insurance would be higher and your business rates may well dwarf your usual local taxes too.
Damn, still haven't worked out how to play it. I don't really know a lot about this, but I know enough to know that the US treasury isn't stupid enough to leave a loophole big enough to extract all taxable income of any business through. There will be loopholes but not this big.
Sure, there are better ways to steal money from your own company and they even get mentioned here occasionally.
If you breed those e.coli and at the end of the breeding process they have turned into unikonts be sure to let us know.
We can see perfectly clear evidence of evolution in humans.
Go on ..
Thank you, but isn't it such a good line: an intellects version of "idiotssaywhat".
You might want to take a course in comprehension and look up the term "straw man".
You might want to lookup the term hyperbole. Miaow! Also the literary device of a closing "sarcasm tag" shows that I was jovially somewhat overplaying my point.
My view is that you're talking out of your rear.
Why then did you post a link to a document that supported my point? Granted it didn't speak of the greater spread at lower IQ levels, but it was still largely supporting what I said. Moreover the article states that scientific authors assert women have more intellectual stamina (ie are better at maintaining effort in intelligence requiring activities) - but this too goes against your claims as you say men are the more persistent. Ad-hominem attacks never further the argument, IMHO.
Achievement is about ability and application. Regardless of whether I'm a complete dork that couldn't argue my way out of a kindergarten class men have the greatest achievements in fields of applied intelligence.
If you're a woman (I'm guessing not), you don't need to feel bad about that - you might still be more intelligent than everyone you ever meet (including me).
Oops, my bad .. someone just did - it's called naked short-selling. You don't need any money or stock and you can win enough that you take down banks!
And yes, they had to change the stock market to avoid this method of winning.
Wouldn't it be awesome if someone could algorithmically win at the stock market .. the best part would be the end of the stock market as we know it.
They're not stupider than men, they're actually smarter.
Ha-ha ha, most intelligent sounding troll ever. I particularly like the psyche-out of your sig.
So basically what you're saying is women are better at everything than men they just don't want to embarrass us by trying. You must be right ... Also, whilst women struggle hard to achieve what they get, men just have OCD and anything they achieve is just a by-product. Doesn't sound at all trollish to me.</sarcasm>
My view: if you're looking at IQ, or what the general populace calls intelligence, then studies show women and men average out about the same but that there's a greater spread for men. But, it doesn't matter - we don't need to know.
It had it as a separate tool.
Why do you want to draw rasterised circles, if you want smooth circles use a vector graphics app.
How about if someone was giving away a free motorbike and pointed out that if you wanted seatbelts that a car might be better and that you could get a free one from a guy he knows.
Drawing geometric shapes, IMO, is not the [central] domain of a raster editor. If you want to draw shapes Inkscape is fast becoming a great vector editor (other apps like sk1 [ http://sk1project.org/ ] and XaraLX are quite nice too). I know there are plenty of reasons why you'd want to draw simple shapes ...
Presumably it's OK then to call a program "Fuck!" because it could derive from an old dutch word for "hit" and not the homonym that is widely used as a swear/curse word.
Try asking your boss if it's OK to install some software called "Fuck!" and see how far you get.
Skype, Flash, Adium, Daemon Tools. *Most* desktop apps have random names that don't mean anything, the only difference is that Ubuntu added labels to the names other people gave their apps to make it clearer.
It's not just desktop apps, most branded products ... Nike - what's that got to do with trainers, McDonalds - how does that suggest beef-burgers, etc..
Partly it's because descriptive names can not be trademarks as they indicate type of goods rather than origin. But dammit GIMP is rediculous.
Perhaps they should rename it Gnome Open Art Tool Special Edition? But seriously they could call it "Imp" it's cool, the logo would almost still work too and the name change would be a great chance for some more publicity.
Isn't that like saying - when financial advisors suggest we keep our money under a mattress, and don't invest it, I'll start listening.
Or, when oil magnates say we should use more solar power I'll be interested.
Why would a winemaker approve of a device that will net him less profit, especially a French winemaker - I imagine a French winemaker will start using this about the time he starts eating sliced white load with kraft "cheese" slices.
I have to agree with the parent .. if computer is useless then it well get wiped and reinstalled (losing your data if you don't have a proper backup) or just destroyed and dumped. If you can switch it on and use it then he can sell it straight away "down the pub".
Thanks for your perspective on this /auf Deutsch/.