Now, an ignorant fool might think the lock is there to keep other people out. Nope, they are wrong. You see, in addition to my lock, I have windows, doors, a roof and floors, and walls. None of them are made of unobatanium.
An intelligent 5 year old child, with no training whatsoever can break my window and climb into my house.
My lock is there fore two distinct purposes:
1. It tells the world that this place is private - that the owner does not want anyone to enter it and will try to punish those that violate it's privacy. It's a sign.
2. It lets me get into my house easily, while making it much more difficult for anyone else to get in without leaving clear and obvious signs that they have trespassed (i.e. a broken window.)
That's what the locks on my home do - notify the world of my privacy and create traceable evidence of a violation of that privacy.
We need to start using IT security for the same purpose. Among other things, that means that when you log on to any website, it should list the last time you logged, and from where (using either an IP address and/or a cookie to identify the device used).
I don't want, nor do I need, an unbreakable password. I want to know when I've had a trespasser.
Obama's people did in fact make the same argument I made to the SCOTUS. That's how they convinced Roberts.
In addition, this is a tax penalty, not a tax increase. As in, if you do what any sane person does, you don't pay any more taxes.
So, the fact that the US government can tax you as they like somehow means you are a slave?
I didn't know you were that easy to control.
Tell you what, I'll pay your entire tax for healthcare for the rest of your life - all you have to do is cut off one of your limbs and eat it. At least 1 lb of flesh.
What, the amount of money isn't enough to force you to do something?
So somehow the ability to charge you a reasonable fee doesn't FORCE you to do something?
The number of ways you are wrong here is horrendous.
First and foremost ALL taxes 'bootstrap' powers. When we have a tax break on real estate it is encouraging people to buy property, not something from the constitution. When you set up a tax based on income, you affect how people work. If you choose to make it progressive, it also does the same thing. The only way to prevent government from 'bootstrapping powers' as you so quaintly said would be to remove the government's ability to tax entirely - or worse, spell out how they can tax in the Constitution. Either way is a horrible shackle that will destroy our ability to govern.
But more importantly, Government has two choices when it comes to affect behavior.
1. Make something illegal and send people to jail for doing it.
2. Charge a penalty/tax for doing it.
So - would you rather the federal government arrest people for say polluting the air, or charge them a fee/penalty/tax (and YES they are all the same thing - money you pay to the government for doing something.
This will have a huge impact on you - all of it positive. IT forces idiots that don't buy insurance (about 25% of Texas) to go out and buy it, which means more money to insurance companies or the government, which means your health care bills should go down a bit and YOUR taxes don't go up quite as much
No, he's repeating the result of a study. It found that when you play the game twice or more, the most common thing people in the second hand is to play the hand that would have beat the other guy's first hand.
90 percent of the time it is better for the people to just not fight it. The problem is, once you do that:
1) Other people notice and start taking advantage of it.
2) The courts notice and say you gave up your patent rights.
3) 10% of the time it IS relevant - and people get screwed over for millions of dollars. Significant examples are the 'intermittent windshield wiper' story. (wikipedia it) or the MANY many Thomas Edison patent cases - most of which make Thomas Edison look like a second place man. (Motion Camera stuff for example).
There are at least two kinds of intelligence. Call the first one "IQ". It is the memorization of facts and conclusions. Anything that you can add "and it will always be so and we know WHY it it will always be so" to.
Examples include 5*25=125, the capital of the USA in 2011 is Washington DC, Mozart was phenomenally good composer for his time. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter is constant.
Basically, anything you can score on an IQ test.
Non-American schools do very well teaching those kinds of things. They are known and can't be reasonably argued.
But a huge number of things aren't like that. These are the things that are far more complex. Such as why exactly does Barry Manilow suck. Communism works great for small groups (smaller than 10 people) but works horrible for large groups (larger than 100 people). People blame the President for the economy, even if though it's almost always Congress's fault.
Those kinds of things America works real well at because they take SOCIAL SKILLS. It involves dealing with controversy, arguments, and idiots on un-named web message boards.
And America is the king of social skills. We teach people how to get along without the rule of an Iron Fist.
Social skills, sometimes called "Street Smarts", is one of the things we do very very well.
The air force did GPS, then the stealth, then drones.
Now it's the Navy's turn - nuclear, rail, speed and stealth.
Frankly, the nuclear powered rail gun is probably going to be the biggest improvement in a long time. The navy will develop it for their new magnetic rail launch system for jets off a carrier, then move it to direct attack..
Pay separately for testing/fitting and an ear doctor. Order everything via the internet. Suddenly most of that stuff gets cut to 1/10 of what it is.
As for whats left, well....
Salary, Marketing, and Potential Profit are all a function of the price of the product. That is if ti costs $3,600 you can get away with charging $540 for salary. If it costs $360, then you pay someone $54 for selling one.
As far as I can tell, most of those costs are just associated with having many small firms sell them, as opposed to doctors ordering them for the patient over the internet.
1) The FBI didn't just return it, they activated it. That's wrong. The FBI should need a warrant to go into any place of business and install equiptment. It doesn't matter if it was originally taken from there or not. Yes, they claim it was the original, but so what? Would you let ME come into your business and install a piece of hardware - even if I claimed it was something I mistakenly took out earlier? No. You don't know my set up, you don't know that I have a weird program that dies when you install new servers without resetting it.
NO. Even if it is the original equipment, with no changes, that doesn't mean they installed it correctly. If they forgot to connect something correctly and it shorts out, causes a fire, whose fault is that. They can and should return equipment. They are not legally allowed to hook ANYTHING up to someone's else stuff without a warrant. Not even if they took it in the first place. They can't hook up a GPS device to my car an they can't install a server into my network.
2) Failing to notify the owner that you are returning something is another separate crime. What if they bought a new one the day AFTER you returned it because they needed a server and did not know they had it back. That's not a crime, but it is incredibly vile act. You return something, you tell someone you return it. You don't leave it there hidden. Also that way THEY can install it - or have it checked by someone to see if you installed something on it. Again, if they had a warrant of some kind, that would be different. Then you could do it secretly.
Most likely we have here a moron working for the FBI that was too stupid to understand the issues involved. I don't see intentional crime, just incredible stupidity.
Frankly, that is all too common - stupidity causes more problems than intentional crimes, particularly in the government.
If he isn't a biologist then he himself does not if his science is sound. He talks a good game about everything that is IRRELEVANT and you personally don't know enough about biology to see his major mistakes (unless you are a biologist).
You are correct in your claim that the janitor is JUST as good a source. But the media wouldn't be publishing the janitor's ideas and we need to realized the guy is no better than a janitor. He is talking out of his field, no serious person should give him any media exposure - INCLUDING Slashdot.
Now, if he came up with something interesting and a biologist confirmed it, then that would be worth talking about.
But now we just got some random guy talking about something he doesn't know anything at all about. Yeah, he might be right - but so might the janitor - and no one with any real education has confirmed his wild, unproven, untested theories that are based on zero actual training.
This guy is an astrophysicist, not an astrobiologist. Don't trust a chemist to talk about physics, you don't trust a geologist about climate science, and you don't trust a astrophysicist to talk about biology.
This is once again more moronic bullcrap that says other planets are not like earth, so life can't evolve on them.
Most of the universe is composed of dark matter. We know nothing about dark matter, so saying you won't find life there is like saying you don't think there is any thing in a closed box before you even shake it.
Doing so just makes a fool out of the arrogant doctorate that thinks his Phd in one field of science makes him an expert in all.
The basic fact is the astrophysicists always make the SAME mistake - assuming life has to be earthlike. The definition of life is very broad and does not require DNA, water, or any of the rest of the stuff the astrophysicists look at.
They have a propulsion system. It uses a rare fuel called -- - WATER.
Other space ships don't use it because it is so expensive to get fuel up to space.
As for your comment about labor and electronics and other support system that is basically WRONG.
Shipping things up to space is the single most expensive item. It is the WEIGHT that costs money. Small tiny things like electronics and support systems are relatively cheap. It is the bulky weight that costs.
Their first step is to mine water and air and other materials to sell to NASA in orbit..
Cheaper for a space station to get water from an asteroid mine than it is to ship it up from earth.
Similarly, if they can get a simple forge up there, they can build the heavy support structures for satelitels and space stations out of metals mined on the asteroid.
Water doesn't vanish. People use the water, then dump it back into the system. We are basically talking about a faster uptake system, which will speed up output as well. Same cycle, just faster.
Because then the electricity is mostly wasted. The problem with energy is not creating it but STORING and TRANSPORTING it. Batteries are notoriously ineffecient, and you lose energy every mile you ship it. Everytime it hits a transformer you lose a lot more.
You make it at location X, send it to someplace else where it may or may not be useful. You can't make too much, or it causes problems, nor can you depend on your wind energy to say cool your home because it isn't always windy.
This however is an innovative idea. If you have a dedicated wind turbine that constantly creates fresh water, then the worst that happens is it overflows the container.
In effective it maximizes the use of the electricity by using it when and where it is available
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I have a home. On this home there is a lock.
Now, an ignorant fool might think the lock is there to keep other people out. Nope, they are wrong. You see, in addition to my lock, I have windows, doors, a roof and floors, and walls. None of them are made of unobatanium.
An intelligent 5 year old child, with no training whatsoever can break my window and climb into my house.
My lock is there fore two distinct purposes:
1. It tells the world that this place is private - that the owner does not want anyone to enter it and will try to punish those that violate it's privacy. It's a sign.
2. It lets me get into my house easily, while making it much more difficult for anyone else to get in without leaving clear and obvious signs that they have trespassed (i.e. a broken window.)
That's what the locks on my home do - notify the world of my privacy and create traceable evidence of a violation of that privacy.
We need to start using IT security for the same purpose. Among other things, that means that when you log on to any website, it should list the last time you logged, and from where (using either an IP address and/or a cookie to identify the device used).
I don't want, nor do I need, an unbreakable password. I want to know when I've had a trespasser.
Obama's people did in fact make the same argument I made to the SCOTUS. That's how they convinced Roberts. In addition, this is a tax penalty, not a tax increase. As in, if you do what any sane person does, you don't pay any more taxes.
I didn't know you were that easy to control.
Tell you what, I'll pay your entire tax for healthcare for the rest of your life - all you have to do is cut off one of your limbs and eat it. At least 1 lb of flesh.
What, the amount of money isn't enough to force you to do something?
So somehow the ability to charge you a reasonable fee doesn't FORCE you to do something?
It destroys the GOP's attempt to make Obama look ineffective.
I think Justice Roberts did this because he is an honest, fair, intelligent man, not a partisan hack (unlike Scalia)
First and foremost ALL taxes 'bootstrap' powers. When we have a tax break on real estate it is encouraging people to buy property, not something from the constitution. When you set up a tax based on income, you affect how people work. If you choose to make it progressive, it also does the same thing. The only way to prevent government from 'bootstrapping powers' as you so quaintly said would be to remove the government's ability to tax entirely - or worse, spell out how they can tax in the Constitution. Either way is a horrible shackle that will destroy our ability to govern.
But more importantly, Government has two choices when it comes to affect behavior.
1. Make something illegal and send people to jail for doing it.
2. Charge a penalty/tax for doing it.
So - would you rather the federal government arrest people for say polluting the air, or charge them a fee/penalty/tax (and YES they are all the same thing - money you pay to the government for doing something.
Think before you write.
This will have a huge impact on you - all of it positive. IT forces idiots that don't buy insurance (about 25% of Texas) to go out and buy it, which means more money to insurance companies or the government, which means your health care bills should go down a bit and YOUR taxes don't go up quite as much
I said it was a tax to my friends after it passed.
Yeah, I know you don't want to admit you stupidly failed to understand something that other people got.
But RetCon means changing something that could NOT have been true. It does not mean revealing something that some poor fool failed to understand.
No, he's repeating the result of a study. It found that when you play the game twice or more, the most common thing people in the second hand is to play the hand that would have beat the other guy's first hand.
1) Other people notice and start taking advantage of it.
2) The courts notice and say you gave up your patent rights.
3) 10% of the time it IS relevant - and people get screwed over for millions of dollars. Significant examples are the 'intermittent windshield wiper' story. (wikipedia it) or the MANY many Thomas Edison patent cases - most of which make Thomas Edison look like a second place man. (Motion Camera stuff for example).
Examples include 5*25=125, the capital of the USA in 2011 is Washington DC, Mozart was phenomenally good composer for his time. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter is constant.
Basically, anything you can score on an IQ test.
Non-American schools do very well teaching those kinds of things. They are known and can't be reasonably argued.
But a huge number of things aren't like that. These are the things that are far more complex. Such as why exactly does Barry Manilow suck. Communism works great for small groups (smaller than 10 people) but works horrible for large groups (larger than 100 people). People blame the President for the economy, even if though it's almost always Congress's fault.
Those kinds of things America works real well at because they take SOCIAL SKILLS. It involves dealing with controversy, arguments, and idiots on un-named web message boards.
And America is the king of social skills. We teach people how to get along without the rule of an Iron Fist.
Social skills, sometimes called "Street Smarts", is one of the things we do very very well.
Now it's the Navy's turn - nuclear, rail, speed and stealth.
Frankly, the nuclear powered rail gun is probably going to be the biggest improvement in a long time. The navy will develop it for their new magnetic rail launch system for jets off a carrier, then move it to direct attack..
It is almost ridiculous enough to be funny, but it also sounds just plausible enough to be real.
Not any more.
Credit cards mean banks no longer have the money.
ATM machines mean most of the money is locked away in safes - and spread out over many branches, convenience stores, etc.
Pay separately for testing/fitting and an ear doctor. Order everything via the internet. Suddenly most of that stuff gets cut to 1/10 of what it is.
As for whats left, well....
Salary, Marketing, and Potential Profit are all a function of the price of the product. That is if ti costs $3,600 you can get away with charging $540 for salary. If it costs $360, then you pay someone $54 for selling one.
As far as I can tell, most of those costs are just associated with having many small firms sell them, as opposed to doctors ordering them for the patient over the internet.
If you try to buy them outside of insurance, suddenly they offer massive discounts.
Not to mention keeping capitalization as part of the regex. there is no need to transform kindle or KINDLE, if you just want to transform Kindle
You get what you pay for. Costs $88, connects via a wireless USB dongle to a PC. PC sends it to the internet if you want.
Google it or similar 'wireless baby monitor internet'.
This is in fact the most important feature of the driver-less car. Particularly for teenagers.
1) The FBI didn't just return it, they activated it. That's wrong. The FBI should need a warrant to go into any place of business and install equiptment. It doesn't matter if it was originally taken from there or not. Yes, they claim it was the original, but so what? Would you let ME come into your business and install a piece of hardware - even if I claimed it was something I mistakenly took out earlier? No. You don't know my set up, you don't know that I have a weird program that dies when you install new servers without resetting it.
NO. Even if it is the original equipment, with no changes, that doesn't mean they installed it correctly. If they forgot to connect something correctly and it shorts out, causes a fire, whose fault is that. They can and should return equipment. They are not legally allowed to hook ANYTHING up to someone's else stuff without a warrant. Not even if they took it in the first place. They can't hook up a GPS device to my car an they can't install a server into my network.
2) Failing to notify the owner that you are returning something is another separate crime. What if they bought a new one the day AFTER you returned it because they needed a server and did not know they had it back. That's not a crime, but it is incredibly vile act. You return something, you tell someone you return it. You don't leave it there hidden. Also that way THEY can install it - or have it checked by someone to see if you installed something on it. Again, if they had a warrant of some kind, that would be different. Then you could do it secretly.
Most likely we have here a moron working for the FBI that was too stupid to understand the issues involved. I don't see intentional crime, just incredible stupidity.
Frankly, that is all too common - stupidity causes more problems than intentional crimes, particularly in the government.
You are correct in your claim that the janitor is JUST as good a source. But the media wouldn't be publishing the janitor's ideas and we need to realized the guy is no better than a janitor. He is talking out of his field, no serious person should give him any media exposure - INCLUDING Slashdot.
Now, if he came up with something interesting and a biologist confirmed it, then that would be worth talking about.
But now we just got some random guy talking about something he doesn't know anything at all about. Yeah, he might be right - but so might the janitor - and no one with any real education has confirmed his wild, unproven, untested theories that are based on zero actual training.
This is once again more moronic bullcrap that says other planets are not like earth, so life can't evolve on them.
Most of the universe is composed of dark matter. We know nothing about dark matter, so saying you won't find life there is like saying you don't think there is any thing in a closed box before you even shake it.
Doing so just makes a fool out of the arrogant doctorate that thinks his Phd in one field of science makes him an expert in all.
The basic fact is the astrophysicists always make the SAME mistake - assuming life has to be earthlike. The definition of life is very broad and does not require DNA, water, or any of the rest of the stuff the astrophysicists look at.
Other space ships don't use it because it is so expensive to get fuel up to space.
As for your comment about labor and electronics and other support system that is basically WRONG.
Shipping things up to space is the single most expensive item. It is the WEIGHT that costs money. Small tiny things like electronics and support systems are relatively cheap. It is the bulky weight that costs.
Their first step is to mine water and air and other materials to sell to NASA in orbit..
Cheaper for a space station to get water from an asteroid mine than it is to ship it up from earth.
Similarly, if they can get a simple forge up there, they can build the heavy support structures for satelitels and space stations out of metals mined on the asteroid.
This allows bigger construction in space.
Water doesn't vanish. People use the water, then dump it back into the system. We are basically talking about a faster uptake system, which will speed up output as well. Same cycle, just faster.
You make it at location X, send it to someplace else where it may or may not be useful. You can't make too much, or it causes problems, nor can you depend on your wind energy to say cool your home because it isn't always windy.
This however is an innovative idea. If you have a dedicated wind turbine that constantly creates fresh water, then the worst that happens is it overflows the container.
In effective it maximizes the use of the electricity by using it when and where it is available