That's why spaceships need to be right with the set of parts they have - otherwise you have a spiral of diminishing returns on adding redundancy and trying to lift it, making it a harder job, etc...
I am not that kind of engineer. You may safely ignore me.
Heh, I remember once, in the early-mid 80's having about $350K of equipment in my car that I was taking down to a Navy customer site (let's just say it was lots of array processors to analyze underwater sounds).
At a stop light, before I reached the gates of the base, I had this sudden panic though - crap! If I am rear-ended right now, I wonder if all this stuff is insured!
Fortunately I didn't find out, nor was my nice little Datsun 240Z harmed in any way, but man, what a bummer if some little old lady confused her gas pedal for the brakes at that time...
Obviously there is nothing wrong with my simple programs. Any odd behavior can be explained by the complex hardware, you know, sun spots flipping bits and other errors induced in hardware, I know it is not my code;-)
I am too lazy to do any math, but I seriously doubt all the nukes available would make a dent (no pun intended) in glassing over the surface area of the moon.
Currently there is even some concern (hope?) that the nukes we have wouldn't even go off, if called upon, or at least not produce an explosion as large as intended.
Just become a convicted felon. You still have to pay taxes, but can't vote in many (any?) place(s).
Well, maybe they don't pay taxes. As a demographic, many convited felons are probably not high-earners. The gov'ts own stats say almost 1/2 of all "taxpayers" don't pay anything, and 80% of all income tax is paid by 20% of us. (I am sure even minimum wage drones get tagged for social security and medicare, just not any significant income tax).
So, the flip side is this; why not "no representation without taxation"? Say $100 per vote, vote as much as you wish. Would you still vote?
When the country was founded you had to be a white male property owner. Obviously that wouldn't fly today, and I personally have no bias against any
race, sex, or even sexual orientation, but logically, what is so wrong that stakeholders and producers (taxpayers) should have more say than those who don't? It sure seems to be getting to the point where have-nots are simply voting for the haves to give.
So, by the same logic, if a New Yorker, "earns" some money out of state, they don't have to pay taxes on it?
Heh, try that with your big New Jersey or Vegas win - just deduct it off your income (if the casino gave your a W2-G or 1099) - say "wasn't in NY".
Let us know how you make out.
All kidding aside, most states have provisions for not paying taxes on income taxed by some other state/foreign govt. In most cases you are not double taxed, at least in the obvious way.
I don't even care what the story is about, this is totally OT.
It's just that "Jon" is, like, a 25% optimization over "John", with the same information content! (Maybe a 33.333% improvment, depending on your point of reference)
One thing I am begining to notice more - especially at gas stations, is that they ask for the zip code that matches the billing address for the card.
I have never punched in my zip wrong, since I want to get my gas, not test the theory that it would cause an authorization problem.
Matching the billing zip to the card might prevent a little fraud - especially at a gas pump which has no signature or even a human attendant. I wouldn't be surprized to see more of it. Lots of places already make the clerk punch in the last four digits, to make sure the embossed number matches the magnetic number, what's another few digits?
Technically, the auction says have the ship named after you, your loved one, your dog, or even your favourite word.
So, it seems to me, he can go along with something else, but he only has to take a person's name or a pet's name (and he could ask for proof, if it sounds fishy).
The "worst" it could be is a single "favorite" word. And even most profanities would be explainable, in context, for the name of a ship... some colorful story to explain why it is called "S**t" or even "F**k".
All-in-all, I'd bet a fan will be the winner, rather than a jerk with money to burn. In any event, It doesn't look like product names count, if you use the old Scrabble argument "it's not a word if it's not in the dictionary!".
On the other hand, there are some pretty embarrassing dictionary words...
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One of the first astronauts was named "Buzz", right?
I am not that kind of engineer. You may safely ignore me.
At least hear in So Cal - I am sure they use Pines up in colder climes... I am sure I have seen those too.
At a stop light, before I reached the gates of the base, I had this sudden panic though - crap! If I am rear-ended right now, I wonder if all this stuff is insured!
Fortunately I didn't find out, nor was my nice little Datsun 240Z harmed in any way, but man, what a bummer if some little old lady confused her gas pedal for the brakes at that time...
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Obviously there is nothing wrong with my simple programs. Any odd behavior can be explained by the complex hardware, you know, sun spots flipping bits and other errors induced in hardware, I know it is not my code ;-)
Currently there is even some concern (hope?) that the nukes we have wouldn't even go off, if called upon, or at least not produce an explosion as large as intended.
Don't Suck
Well, maybe they don't pay taxes. As a demographic, many convited felons are probably not high-earners. The gov'ts own stats say almost 1/2 of all "taxpayers" don't pay anything, and 80% of all income tax is paid by 20% of us. (I am sure even minimum wage drones get tagged for social security and medicare, just not any significant income tax).
So, the flip side is this; why not "no representation without taxation"? Say $100 per vote, vote as much as you wish. Would you still vote?
When the country was founded you had to be a white male property owner. Obviously that wouldn't fly today, and I personally have no bias against any race, sex, or even sexual orientation, but logically, what is so wrong that stakeholders and producers (taxpayers) should have more say than those who don't? It sure seems to be getting to the point where have-nots are simply voting for the haves to give.
Such a place must exist, to even out all those stories the old folks tell ya; "...uphill, both ways, in the snow!"
Heh, try that with your big New Jersey or Vegas win - just deduct it off your income (if the casino gave your a W2-G or 1099) - say "wasn't in NY".
Let us know how you make out.
All kidding aside, most states have provisions for not paying taxes on income taxed by some other state/foreign govt. In most cases you are not double taxed, at least in the obvious way.
Will it display "G" or "K"?
You are too obvious in that get up.
Maybe some of the French would like the job; they seem big on enforcing language rules.
I'll start putting that on my resume now - ISO English Compliant! *
* ISO Joint preliminary taskforce English committee 2 / subcommittee Norte Americano 14, working group west coast dudes.
God, Zues, even "Mormon Smith" has more relavant google hits.
Not a troll, just what did Namagiri do before this Math Guy came along?
It's just that "Jon" is, like, a 25% optimization over "John", with the same information content! (Maybe a 33.333% improvment, depending on your point of reference)
Yes, I have or something simulations to run!
(is it ok to use * and HTML emphasis?)
What's the plural of emphasis?
Shut up. OK.
I understand the Trademark on Scrabble is probably still valid, and maybe that is all they are defending.
But shouldn't any copyright on the game be expired by now?
Never mind, I just checked the real site and see it has only been around since 1948. Not quite forever, yet.
Never mind.
I have never punched in my zip wrong, since I want to get my gas, not test the theory that it would cause an authorization problem.
Matching the billing zip to the card might prevent a little fraud - especially at a gas pump which has no signature or even a human attendant. I wouldn't be surprized to see more of it. Lots of places already make the clerk punch in the last four digits, to make sure the embossed number matches the magnetic number, what's another few digits?
Sometimes, if the technology you have works, you don't need to "update" it.
Plus, my TTY has a paper tape reader, so I can still generate that ASCII porn, on demand! Yeah baby!
110 baud dial-up is getting kind of hard to find, however...
So, it seems to me, he can go along with something else, but he only has to take a person's name or a pet's name (and he could ask for proof, if it sounds fishy).
The "worst" it could be is a single "favorite" word. And even most profanities would be explainable, in context, for the name of a ship... some colorful story to explain why it is called "S**t" or even "F**k".
All-in-all, I'd bet a fan will be the winner, rather than a jerk with money to burn. In any event, It doesn't look like product names count, if you use the old Scrabble argument "it's not a word if it's not in the dictionary!".
On the other hand, there are some pretty embarrassing dictionary words...
For example, you can start at Chevron's main site and easily find images that look familiar...
I didn't follow the link, but I imagine new constructs such as do over and go back - closely related to the just kidding clause.
And what about memory leaks? Programs that can't remember their past are doomed to loop forever!
That's where I got it, that's my story, it's not the whiskey, and I am sticking to it!
Actually Dictionary.com says smitten is OK - although I find the "Did you mean smutted?" amusing.
Now, if they get consumed by a volcano, I'm just going to say it was random.