On top of federal taxes, each state may also charge a state fuel tax. A couple summers ago, then-Gov of Indiana O'Bannon suspended Indiana's gas tax to lower the price of gas. I doubt that'll happen this time, as A) it's an election year, and B) the state's in a huge financial crunch.
It says that right now, it's at $1.942. That's actually down this week, though I must admit I found a steal this morning at $1.90. It's $2.05 by my girlfriend's apartment (she lives in a rich neighborhood). that's $.50 in a year. Not horrible, but look at the figure for last month - $1.744. that's $.20 in a month! I'm just glad I don't live in Milwaukee like my cousin. They have special summer gas that's about $.20 more expensive per gallon than here.
All I can say is, do what I do. take the bus. (I didn't this morning because of a doc appt.) it'll take longer, sure, but take the time to read a paper or a magazine or listen to your ipod or something.
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Milk is more expensive because refueling milk tanker trucks is more expensive.
Wrong. Milk is more expensive now because of low wholesale milk prices in the past few years. low milk prices = less money for dairy farmers = farmers leaving the industry = less milk = lowered supply
lowered supply + farmers not wanting to get screwed on wholesale milk prices = higher retail milk prices.
Fuel prices only account for a few cents per gallon, if not less.
I have an eMachines T2482 running RH 9.0 right now. It's a great machine. Had one problem, the HD failed (Western Digital 80GB) about 4 months after I bought it. Got through in 2 minutes on the day after christmas!!! Got the replacement drive in 2 days.
No, but we certainly appreciate when the US is buying our meat, our wood, our cereals, our fish, our oil and Celine Dion....
No matter how much you try, you guys can't pawn her off on us! Besides, nobody in the US "buys" Celine Dion. We just buy stuff her music advertises, like movies and Plymouths.
Why does that matter? Everyone knows why not to put a cat in the oven. They may not know the physics behind the magnetron's (or whatever the hell that thing's called) reaction with water molecules, but they know that kitty + microwave = boom.
I have no clue how infrared communication works, nor do I care, but I know that when I push the buttons on my remote, the tv should come on.
Do you know exactly how the ignition system on your car works? Do you care? Key turns, car goes vroom.
Likewise, if a user double-clicks on the IE icon, they may not know that it's IE that opens up, but they know that "the interweb" should come up and their home page should load. If it doesn't, then we have a problem Houston.
What I want to know is, when will IE get into the 1990s and support transparent PNGs? If such an "unprofessional" rendering engine as Gecko could do it back in the 90s, why couldn't IE? I'm tired of my web graphics having black backgrounds in IE.
Microsoft OS's may end up simply popping up a dialog box ("Would you like to play this CD?") when a disk is inserted.
Well, first of all, XP does this already, and secondly, that would still be a "method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device."
The only solution would be to not even recognize the media. The user would have to do it manually, which I do anyway.
Yeah, but they signed that back when all Pixar was doing was making small animated shorts and didn't have the exposure needed to be a big player. They signed the deal with Disney to get that exposure. If you look at the special features on Monsters, Inc. (great movie), you'll see a tour of the Pixar offices. I'd say they're doing pretty well under the deal. Doesn't hurt to try to get more, though.
Well, to us in America, there's only one British accent, so it goes both ways. I've been to London, and the accent I associate most with the Brits is very annoying. I believe it's what you guys call Cockney. In the midwest, it's true, there aren't many variations in accent. There are, but they're subtle. However, Vermont has a different accent than New Yorkers, which is totally different from Massachusetts accents (I pahk my cah in hahvahd yahd):).
Even here in Indiana, you can always tell which part of Indiana someone's from. The people in northern Indiana have the flat, monotone speaking patterns most recognize as American accents. In southern Indiana (and most of central), there's a bit of southern "twang" to the accent (as if it migrated north from Kentucky).
Javascript for the Absolute Beginner is the book to get for learning programming skills, from breaking up chunks of a job to writing algorithms to pre-planning your work (state your problem, etc.).
Javascript is a great tool to learn programming, but unfortunately, most Javascript books out there fail to express that fact.
Simply because we don't have anything today that can do that. The shuttle can't land and take off from the moon.
Also, the 15 years includes Mars, not just the moon. I personally don't see any reason to go back to the moon. What else is there to learn about it that requires us to risk human life?
Not a very well known school, but it's a campus of both Indiana University and Purdue. I suggest checking out the Informatics major. IUPUI also has a part in Internet2. I'm not sure of the details, as my area is bioinformatics, but there's something under the library:o).
Otherwise, you may also be interested in Purdue's CPT program. They offer a Network Engineering Degree. Purdue is perhaps the best engineering/tech university in the midwest, maybe even east of the Mississippi. In fact, maybe even east of California. And unlike IU, their football team doesn't entirely suck.
Plus, Indianapolis has lots of things going for it for someone in the industry. Plenty of large companies that need tech workers (the headquarters of Lilly and Conseco and Thompson Consumer Electronics North America and Simon Property Group - the world's largest mall owner) as well as many regionally strong tech companies.
If lawyers get that confused to not notice the difference, then why are they lawyers?
It's not that you can't tell the difference, it's that someone less savvy than normal might think Google has something to do with Booble, just as many think Google is behind the Open Directory Project.
And, as to the post asking who decides if this is a parody, uh, a JUDGE maybe? That IS their job, after all, to decide junk.
Say what you will about it's validity, but the Bible has been a tech manual for Jews and Christians since the ancient times. Just think of it as a Manual for Human Life. See Appendix A for salvation.
My how things have changed. From one of those newsgroup posts:
For more info, you might try to dig up a copy of the article (well, ok, the Mercury is not one of your major national newspapers, but I am too lazy to and most would not appreciate my entering the text of the article).
For just a second, I was like, how rude not to post a link!:)
I frankly don't see why MS should do something just because some Linux distros or Mac does it that way.
I don't see a problem with doing software updates via a web browser. Here comes a revelation of truth for ya: It does it the same way as the others. It downloads the update/patch and installs it. That's what up2date does, that's what apt-get does, that's what emerge does.
The only difference is that it's done using a web app because if they need to make a change in the program, then the user won't have to download another version of the updating software. That way, the user doesn't have to download up2date (at about 6.5MB) every month. If a linux distro decided to do it this way, you would call it innovative.
I was up late a few nights ago, and was flipping around the radio for a good talk show. I came across and Art Bell-type show and this dude was ranting about how the fact that we've lost all these robotic landers proves that there's intelligent life on Mars and that the Martians are destroying our equipment. Yeah. Now THAT'S freaky.
I think the true intent of "synching law, technology, and ethics" is to gain control. They will be able to monitor you more easily and control what is served.
Ok, in your scenario, I see law and technology, but I don't see ethics. Why do ISPs routinely fight subpeonas from the RIAA and others? Ethics. There's no law saying they have to protect their users, and there's certainly the technical means to comply with it, but the ethical thing to do is to side with your customers over some trade association.
And there IS something wrong with P2P networks. It's people that scream and shout, "But there are legitimate uses for it!" and then fail to point out those uses to the general public. Don't downplay the illegal uses, instead acknowledge that it is there, take steps to stop it, and then highlight the good uses of P2P, like exposing new artists and sharing one's creations with the world.
That's what's kept the Internet basically uncontrolled by government entities thus far. People have shown that sure, the Internet can facilitate some bad stuff, like child porn and organizing of terrorist activities and security concerns, but the positives of collaboration, information disbursement, and a generally easier and faster form of communication than most previous forms outweigh the negatives and steps have been taken to attempt to curb those bad aspects.
However, legislators haven't been shown any good legitimate use of P2P. They've only been shown the bad stuff by the RIAA and the MPAA. You get much better response from positive messages than you do from negative ones, just ask any politician. So painting the RIAA as an evil organization (they are, but that's beside the point) will be less successful than painting P2P as an innovative use of internet technologies and then showing real examples of those innovative uses.
Just denying the copyright implications and ignoring the RIAA just plays right into their hands. We do need tough laws, but laws pointed in the right direction. Make the act illegal (actually, it always has been), not the technology. The community needs to work WITH the other parties, not against them. That doesn't mean giving in, it means listening to their concerns and expressing your own and then hashing out a plan to address all concerns. The current plan of shouting, "Their product isn't worth the cost" and "hey, we're giving them free advertising" doesn't make the illegal acts any less illegal. And no, P2P does not encourage CD sales.
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On top of federal taxes, each state may also charge a state fuel tax. A couple summers ago, then-Gov of Indiana O'Bannon suspended Indiana's gas tax to lower the price of gas. I doubt that'll happen this time, as A) it's an election year, and B) the state's in a huge financial crunch.
Last May, average price for a gallon of gas in Indianapolis was $1.411, according to http://www.indygasprices.com/mediaideas.asp.
It says that right now, it's at $1.942. That's actually down this week, though I must admit I found a steal this morning at $1.90. It's $2.05 by my girlfriend's apartment (she lives in a rich neighborhood). that's $.50 in a year. Not horrible, but look at the figure for last month - $1.744. that's $.20 in a month! I'm just glad I don't live in Milwaukee like my cousin. They have special summer gas that's about $.20 more expensive per gallon than here.
All I can say is, do what I do. take the bus. (I didn't this morning because of a doc appt.) it'll take longer, sure, but take the time to read a paper or a magazine or listen to your ipod or something.
Milk is more expensive because refueling milk tanker trucks is more expensive.
Wrong. Milk is more expensive now because of low wholesale milk prices in the past few years. low milk prices = less money for dairy farmers = farmers leaving the industry = less milk = lowered supply
lowered supply + farmers not wanting to get screwed on wholesale milk prices = higher retail milk prices.
Fuel prices only account for a few cents per gallon, if not less.
I CALL SHENANIGANS!
No one can be this stupid in 2 consecutive posts! The word is apathetic, dude, but it doesn't matter since you don't care.
I have an eMachines T2482 running RH 9.0 right now. It's a great machine. Had one problem, the HD failed (Western Digital 80GB) about 4 months after I bought it. Got through in 2 minutes on the day after christmas!!! Got the replacement drive in 2 days.
Emachines doesn't use shitty components anymore.
No, but we certainly appreciate when the US is buying our meat, our wood, our cereals, our fish, our oil and Celine Dion....
No matter how much you try, you guys can't pawn her off on us! Besides, nobody in the US "buys" Celine Dion. We just buy stuff her music advertises, like movies and Plymouths.
It's still hot here, but now you get a cup where it says, "CAUTION! HOT" in 750 places.
Why does that matter? Everyone knows why not to put a cat in the oven. They may not know the physics behind the magnetron's (or whatever the hell that thing's called) reaction with water molecules, but they know that kitty + microwave = boom.
I have no clue how infrared communication works, nor do I care, but I know that when I push the buttons on my remote, the tv should come on.
Do you know exactly how the ignition system on your car works? Do you care? Key turns, car goes vroom.
Likewise, if a user double-clicks on the IE icon, they may not know that it's IE that opens up, but they know that "the interweb" should come up and their home page should load. If it doesn't, then we have a problem Houston.
What I want to know is, when will IE get into the 1990s and support transparent PNGs? If such an "unprofessional" rendering engine as Gecko could do it back in the 90s, why couldn't IE? I'm tired of my web graphics having black backgrounds in IE.
Microsoft OS's may end up simply popping up a dialog box ("Would you like to play this CD?") when a disk is inserted.
Well, first of all, XP does this already, and secondly, that would still be a "method for starting up a process automatically on insertion of a storage media into a host device."
The only solution would be to not even recognize the media. The user would have to do it manually, which I do anyway.
NO, I DON'T WANT WiMP TO PLAY THIS CD!
Yeah, but they signed that back when all Pixar was doing was making small animated shorts and didn't have the exposure needed to be a big player. They signed the deal with Disney to get that exposure. If you look at the special features on Monsters, Inc. (great movie), you'll see a tour of the Pixar offices. I'd say they're doing pretty well under the deal. Doesn't hurt to try to get more, though.
I want an office chimp!!!
or "I don't like spam!" :)
Well, to us in America, there's only one British accent, so it goes both ways. I've been to London, and the accent I associate most with the Brits is very annoying. I believe it's what you guys call Cockney. In the midwest, it's true, there aren't many variations in accent. There are, but they're subtle. However, Vermont has a different accent than New Yorkers, which is totally different from Massachusetts accents (I pahk my cah in hahvahd yahd) :).
Even here in Indiana, you can always tell which part of Indiana someone's from. The people in northern Indiana have the flat, monotone speaking patterns most recognize as American accents. In southern Indiana (and most of central), there's a bit of southern "twang" to the accent (as if it migrated north from Kentucky).
Javascript for the Absolute Beginner is the book to get for learning programming skills, from breaking up chunks of a job to writing algorithms to pre-planning your work (state your problem, etc.).
Javascript is a great tool to learn programming, but unfortunately, most Javascript books out there fail to express that fact.
Recess is not crap.
That is all.
Simply because we don't have anything today that can do that. The shuttle can't land and take off from the moon.
Also, the 15 years includes Mars, not just the moon. I personally don't see any reason to go back to the moon. What else is there to learn about it that requires us to risk human life?
Thanks for the clarification. Still have no idea what it does, though :).
Not a very well known school, but it's a campus of both Indiana University and Purdue. I suggest checking out the Informatics major. IUPUI also has a part in Internet2. I'm not sure of the details, as my area is bioinformatics, but there's something under the library :o).
Otherwise, you may also be interested in Purdue's CPT program. They offer a Network Engineering Degree. Purdue is perhaps the best engineering/tech university in the midwest, maybe even east of the Mississippi. In fact, maybe even east of California. And unlike IU, their football team doesn't entirely suck.
Plus, Indianapolis has lots of things going for it for someone in the industry. Plenty of large companies that need tech workers (the headquarters of Lilly and Conseco and Thompson Consumer Electronics North America and Simon Property Group - the world's largest mall owner) as well as many regionally strong tech companies.
Yes, I'm a little biased, but for good reason.
If lawyers get that confused to not notice the difference, then why are they lawyers?
It's not that you can't tell the difference, it's that someone less savvy than normal might think Google has something to do with Booble, just as many think Google is behind the Open Directory Project.
And, as to the post asking who decides if this is a parody, uh, a JUDGE maybe? That IS their job, after all, to decide junk.
Say what you will about it's validity, but the Bible has been a tech manual for Jews and Christians since the ancient times. Just think of it as a Manual for Human Life. See Appendix A for salvation.
My how things have changed. From one of those newsgroup posts:
:)
For more info, you might try to dig up a copy of the article (well, ok, the Mercury is not one of your major national newspapers, but I am too lazy to and most would not appreciate my entering the text of the article).
For just a second, I was like, how rude not to post a link!
I frankly don't see why MS should do something just because some Linux distros or Mac does it that way.
I don't see a problem with doing software updates via a web browser. Here comes a revelation of truth for ya: It does it the same way as the others. It downloads the update/patch and installs it. That's what up2date does, that's what apt-get does, that's what emerge does.
The only difference is that it's done using a web app because if they need to make a change in the program, then the user won't have to download another version of the updating software. That way, the user doesn't have to download up2date (at about 6.5MB) every month. If a linux distro decided to do it this way, you would call it innovative.
I was up late a few nights ago, and was flipping around the radio for a good talk show. I came across and Art Bell-type show and this dude was ranting about how the fact that we've lost all these robotic landers proves that there's intelligent life on Mars and that the Martians are destroying our equipment. Yeah. Now THAT'S freaky.
I had that just the other night. Man, did it stink up the bathroom! Didn't know you could die from it, though. Maybe I should go see my doctor.
I think the true intent of "synching law, technology, and ethics" is to gain control. They will be able to monitor you more easily and control what is served.
Ok, in your scenario, I see law and technology, but I don't see ethics. Why do ISPs routinely fight subpeonas from the RIAA and others? Ethics. There's no law saying they have to protect their users, and there's certainly the technical means to comply with it, but the ethical thing to do is to side with your customers over some trade association.
And there IS something wrong with P2P networks. It's people that scream and shout, "But there are legitimate uses for it!" and then fail to point out those uses to the general public. Don't downplay the illegal uses, instead acknowledge that it is there, take steps to stop it, and then highlight the good uses of P2P, like exposing new artists and sharing one's creations with the world.
That's what's kept the Internet basically uncontrolled by government entities thus far. People have shown that sure, the Internet can facilitate some bad stuff, like child porn and organizing of terrorist activities and security concerns, but the positives of collaboration, information disbursement, and a generally easier and faster form of communication than most previous forms outweigh the negatives and steps have been taken to attempt to curb those bad aspects.
However, legislators haven't been shown any good legitimate use of P2P. They've only been shown the bad stuff by the RIAA and the MPAA. You get much better response from positive messages than you do from negative ones, just ask any politician. So painting the RIAA as an evil organization (they are, but that's beside the point) will be less successful than painting P2P as an innovative use of internet technologies and then showing real examples of those innovative uses.
Just denying the copyright implications and ignoring the RIAA just plays right into their hands. We do need tough laws, but laws pointed in the right direction. Make the act illegal (actually, it always has been), not the technology. The community needs to work WITH the other parties, not against them. That doesn't mean giving in, it means listening to their concerns and expressing your own and then hashing out a plan to address all concerns. The current plan of shouting, "Their product isn't worth the cost" and "hey, we're giving them free advertising" doesn't make the illegal acts any less illegal. And no, P2P does not encourage CD sales.