That $10 in 1998 invested in HANS (the Hansens natural soda company, at the IPO) turned into over $2,000 before it was bought by MNST (Monster Bev co.) and tripled from there.
Cool - your $10 in cybergold could be about 6 grand now, if you played your cards right!
Of course, if you left that tenner in your coat pocket, you can only get about $7.50 1998 equivalent worth of stuff...
Burn up? Not a chance! My experimental payload would consist of tiny aero-dynamic "anagyre skipping stone" devices made of satellite piercing ceramic materials that will boomerang into higher, stable, orbits! Muhahahhaaahaha!
To make a car analogy, for the Slashdot crowd; It is like a bunch of hot chicks driving cool cars, you know they exist, but you will never touch them. Just try to keep your basement tidy, since that is where you have to live. If a '61 'vette drives thru the storm doors, you might get lucky.
The writer also doesn't realize that he can get 100MPG+ while going down the hill
I am always disappointed that the real-time display in every car I have seen tops out "99.9". I know it is not meaningful, but it would be fun to see on more digit.
But on a practical note, having one of those computer displays can be motivating, in modifying your driving style, if one cares about mileage.
Everything is written, freehand, by in Microsoft Paint, with a large purple crayon font. The files are then saved in uncompressed.BMP files.
That is why this Electronic Writing takes so much room.
Only a few dozen that should even be, per the Constitution...
Then, why a blanket "save everything" vs a "save nothing (e.g. age worthless junk)" edict?
Although, if you save stuff, e-copies do take less space... but can be digitally manipulated... so I say don't bother keeping it, if it isn't real... (you know, the old, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right")
Take heart, Belgians! Once your country goes dark and cold, no worries! Take all your money and move south. I think there will be a great sale on Mediterranean real estate soon, and you won't need as much heat to keep warm in the winters. You will have to learn a new alphabet, but learning greek will be a piece of cake, compared to what your grand children will have to learn - Chinese!
I'll go out on a limb and say it is just hoarding behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if slaker (53818) has a whole bunch of other stuff, besides data, but at least the data hoarding takes up less room than books, and isn't as sick as animal hoarding...
Having observed some hoarders, first hand, I think something goes off in their head that is like a "gotta collect them all" flag. It usually is concentrated on a favorite subject, but it could even be set off with garbage, like tearing open a package and setting down the wrapper... one is trash, but, if it is not discarded, the second one is the "start of a collection", and off they go.
I'd like to see touch screen devices that use a sequence of taps as the "unlock" gesture, and the default password should be the good old "shave and a haircut, two bits" knock.
Liberals have done a great job of convincing too many people with that they are where they are because someone else is ripping them off and that anyone who has more than them has an unfair advantage. "Fuck the rich, they should give me my fair share" truly does seem to be the main credo of liberal thought. They'll argue that we allocate more capital to unproductive activities, as if this waste will have no effect on them and their families.
Every talking GPS unit I have had, I find the higher pitch of the female voice to cut thru the low frequency background noise of driving better than the mail voices.
I was just pondering sales tax on fast food today, as I was munching my "burger combo meal". In my state, CA, they don't charge sales tax on food, but they do charge for "prepared food".
CA also, does not (yet) charge sales tax on services, so, for example, when you go to a car mechanic, you might get a bill with separate "parts" and "labor" lines, with only the parts being taxed.
So, I was wondering if the burger joint could have a completely sales tax free menu, simply by itemizing the receipt into unprepared food (parts), and service (labor)...
Then I decided, one could probably have a tax-free AND health inspector free "non-restaurant" where folks bring their own food for you to prepare for them, for a "service" fee only.
I never understood by laws aren't written in with a plain English section that specifies the "intent", to be used as guidance by lawers and judges later. I mean why would they have to "interpret the meaning of a law" if the damn thing just said what was meant in the first place.
Bringing it back on topic, why doesn't Louisiana just pass a law that you can't sell "X" without keeping records, taking ID's etc?
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
If the tax were lower many companies would find it cheaper/more convenient to pay the tax rather than go the the trouble to avoid it.
So, why not lower the tax? Oh, I know - we don't want to give those "evil corporations" a break!
If "a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%", then lowering the rate can do no harm, right?
Things are so much harder when economic reality doesn't match political fantasy.
The irony is that folks of the political persuasion that want to "tax the rich" more and make corporations "pay their fair share" take every tax break and loophole available too.
All the news lately that makes a dystopian future far more likely than any nirvana like stasis of hi-tech utopia being achieved.
Aside from rodent type rats eating away at civilization's infrastructure, there is a long history, as recent as last week (just google "bridge stolen") of homo sapiens type rats gnawing away at the same.
Feeding the poor, curing diseases... oh the irony. Don't all these environmental problems boil down to big the existential question "are there too damn many people"?
You are assuming, of course, that it would be launched from a country whose political leaders give a damn about that sort of thing. Last time I looked all of the places that cave to NIMBY whiners don't have any money to launch such a thing, so it is a moot point.
The models specific to their store... deal has been around for ages... often large appliances and mattresses, and ESPECIALLY places that advertise price matching for the same model number.
But it does work both ways, sort of. I know I have seen items at Costco that have slightly different model numbers, probably to "protect" other sellers in the vendor's regular retail channels.
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That $10 in 1998 invested in HANS (the Hansens natural soda company, at the IPO) turned into over $2,000 before it was bought by MNST (Monster Bev co.) and tripled from there.
Cool - your $10 in cybergold could be about 6 grand now, if you played your cards right!
Of course, if you left that tenner in your coat pocket, you can only get about $7.50 1998 equivalent worth of stuff...
Burn up? Not a chance! My experimental payload would consist of tiny aero-dynamic "anagyre skipping stone" devices made of satellite piercing ceramic materials that will boomerang into higher, stable, orbits! Muhahahhaaahaha!
Especially at home. Who's with me?
Wells Fargo (they charged me $2 for asking what their branch hours were, and their answer was "we don't know")?
Bullshit.
It doesn't matter, in your lifetime.
To make a car analogy, for the Slashdot crowd; It is like a bunch of hot chicks driving cool cars, you know they exist, but you will never touch them. Just try to keep your basement tidy, since that is where you have to live. If a '61 'vette drives thru the storm doors, you might get lucky.
Just leave the sales tax box blank - "enter your sales tax rate here _____"
The writer also doesn't realize that he can get 100MPG+ while going down the hill
I am always disappointed that the real-time display in every car I have seen tops out "99.9". I know it is not meaningful, but it would be fun to see on more digit.
But on a practical note, having one of those computer displays can be motivating, in modifying your driving style, if one cares about mileage.
Why is a smaller government superior to a larger government?
Freedom
OT trivia: PayPal is infamous for 'we internally decided X
coincidentally, X.COM is PayPal!
Read up on chaotic systems. I think you'll find that forcing them is not great.
And things always go the way you think they will... let's give it a kick, couldn't be worse, right?
Everything is written, freehand, by in Microsoft Paint, with a large purple crayon font. The files are then saved in uncompressed .BMP files.
That is why this Electronic Writing takes so much room.
There are only about 1,300 federal agencies
Ok, mark this as troll...
Only a few dozen that should even be, per the Constitution...
Then, why a blanket "save everything" vs a "save nothing (e.g. age worthless junk)" edict?
Although, if you save stuff, e-copies do take less space... but can be digitally manipulated... so I say don't bother keeping it, if it isn't real... (you know, the old, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right")
Take heart, Belgians! Once your country goes dark and cold, no worries! Take all your money and move south. I think there will be a great sale on Mediterranean real estate soon, and you won't need as much heat to keep warm in the winters. You will have to learn a new alphabet, but learning greek will be a piece of cake, compared to what your grand children will have to learn - Chinese!
I have to ask...
I'll go out on a limb and say it is just hoarding behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if slaker (53818) has a whole bunch of other stuff, besides data, but at least the data hoarding takes up less room than books, and isn't as sick as animal hoarding...
Having observed some hoarders, first hand, I think something goes off in their head that is like a "gotta collect them all" flag. It usually is concentrated on a favorite subject, but it could even be set off with garbage, like tearing open a package and setting down the wrapper... one is trash, but, if it is not discarded, the second one is the "start of a collection", and off they go.
I've been hitting the shredded documents with a wrench for the last 10 minutes
If they were my shredded documents, you might want to disinfect that wrench. The dog feces I mixed in with that load didn't look too healthy.
I'd like to see touch screen devices that use a sequence of taps as the "unlock" gesture, and the default password should be the good old "shave and a haircut, two bits" knock.
Liberals have done a great job of convincing too many people with that they are where they are because someone else is ripping them off and that anyone who has more than them has an unfair advantage. "Fuck the rich, they should give me my fair share" truly does seem to be the main credo of liberal thought. They'll argue that we allocate more capital to unproductive activities, as if this waste will have no effect on them and their families.
Every talking GPS unit I have had, I find the higher pitch of the female voice to cut thru the low frequency background noise of driving better than the mail voices.
I was just pondering sales tax on fast food today, as I was munching my "burger combo meal". In my state, CA, they don't charge sales tax on food, but they do charge for "prepared food".
CA also, does not (yet) charge sales tax on services, so, for example, when you go to a car mechanic, you might get a bill with separate "parts" and "labor" lines, with only the parts being taxed.
So, I was wondering if the burger joint could have a completely sales tax free menu, simply by itemizing the receipt into unprepared food (parts), and service (labor)...
Then I decided, one could probably have a tax-free AND health inspector free "non-restaurant" where folks bring their own food for you to prepare for them, for a "service" fee only.
I never understood by laws aren't written in with a plain English section that specifies the "intent", to be used as guidance by lawers and judges later. I mean why would they have to "interpret the meaning of a law" if the damn thing just said what was meant in the first place.
Bringing it back on topic, why doesn't Louisiana just pass a law that you can't sell "X" without keeping records, taking ID's etc?
What I want to know is how lowering corporate tax helps anyone at all when such a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%.
If the tax were lower many companies would find it cheaper/more convenient to pay the tax rather than go the the trouble to avoid it.
So, why not lower the tax? Oh, I know - we don't want to give those "evil corporations" a break!
If "a huge percentage of corporations pay 0%", then lowering the rate can do no harm, right?
Things are so much harder when economic reality doesn't match political fantasy.
The irony is that folks of the political persuasion that want to "tax the rich" more and make corporations "pay their fair share" take every tax break and loophole available too.
All the news lately that makes a dystopian future far more likely than any nirvana like stasis of hi-tech utopia being achieved.
Aside from rodent type rats eating away at civilization's infrastructure, there is a long history, as recent as last week (just google "bridge stolen") of homo sapiens type rats gnawing away at the same.
Nothing new here...
Feeding the poor, curing diseases... oh the irony. Don't all these environmental problems boil down to big the existential question "are there too damn many people"?
Save people - have fewer people. Which is it?
It's a political non-starter
You are assuming, of course, that it would be launched from a country whose political leaders give a damn about that sort of thing. Last time I looked all of the places that cave to NIMBY whiners don't have any money to launch such a thing, so it is a moot point.
The models specific to their store... deal has been around for ages... often large appliances and mattresses, and ESPECIALLY places that advertise price matching for the same model number.
But it does work both ways, sort of. I know I have seen items at Costco that have slightly different model numbers, probably to "protect" other sellers in the vendor's regular retail channels.
This will do for many physical objects what computers did for movies and music - make non-entertainment companies assume you have stolen from them?