What exactly is a "Use" tax... let's say I bought the latest season of "Simpsons" on amazon and had it shipped to California, then, without unwrapping it, I shipped it to my brother in New York as a gift for his birthday. Will I have to pay "use" tax on this or will he have to pay "use" tax on this even though I am NOT using the product (it's not even in my posession) and he didn't purchase it?
The reason I buy singles and individual tracks from online music stores is because I don't want the rest of the garbage.
Artists that produce it may call it art and argue that it's their art and it should be sold in a bundle, just like a painting is sold as a whole. To me it's like a gallery, you don't buy the whole show, you buy a single painting you like.
Who wants to listen to "Bumper to Bumper" when there's "Wannabe" out there? Let me see a show of hands:)
Here's what they should have done...
It seems that VoteHere decided to go the other way and open the source for scruitiny. It's a great decision on their part, however I think they're also trying to cut development costs, since they can't offshore it.
What was the reason for using my money to send him into space again-to study the effects of weightlessness and the elderly?
They proved that old farts don't just dissipate into space.
Seriously, It might be useful someday, when humans decide to venture to places futher than Mars and when trips will take longer than 10 years each way.
Then again, they might improve cryo-tech or come up with some other stasis technology by then.
I fail to see the difference between a monopoly and a natural monopoly in relation to the original post.
I think the 2 terms can be used interchangeably, since one is a subset of another, except that the natural monopoly is forced by the govt in this case.
You're comparing 2 statistics that are not relevant to each other. It's like saying that 60% of vegetables consumed in US is potato(e)s and 80% of fruits consumed in US is apples.
I don't help finance it... I just don't subscribe to any of the services anymore, and probably wouldn't until they change their way of thinking.
OTOH, I find myself going out and to the movies more often, using the money I saved from not paying $70/month for DISH or cable:)
Besides, I can now get Sopranos and Sex & the City on DVD anyway... a season late, but hey, it's much cheaper that way...
Bottom line is, cable companies have a government-authorized monopoly
monopoly = monopoly is a situation where for technical or social reasons there cannot be more than one efficient provider of a good
Unlike Microsoft, there is no alternative to the 2 or 3 services, one of them being the Cable Monopoly, because they ALL bundle their channels. I have to buy 100 extra channels just to watch TechTV and Cartoon Network, and then spend an hour Removing all the shopping and religious channels, as well as Fox News and A&E.
I think it's more like hogs - those things smell a lot worse and I think produce more methane than cows. Just drive through UP-North Wisconsin in the Summer. And good luck to you if the wind is blowing the wrong way... Muhahahahahaha...
I wonder who comes up with these names/acronym mixes? There must be a job at NASA to name all these missions, like
MeSSEnGeR or NOAA or ECHO or SOHO (which stands for many things, including the solar observatory).
I had paper planes flying longer than that when I was a kid and lived in Ukraine. They would get caught in an updraft of a 10-story building and soar really high and take a while to come back to the ground... probably a minute at least.... mine was also probably folded very diffently from an American concept of a paper airplane.
Then again, this world record is for a level/linear flight. I wonder if he launched it from the top row of the bleachers...
A clear door will "sweat" with condensation on the inside as well as the outside, which would make it completely useless.
One way to avoid it though is to install a dehumidifier on both sides, but then you run into more equipment, making it a more complex and costly system, just to have a clear door. Why not make it childproof instead?
Google has at least 5,000 1U server throwaways, if not 10,000, and a bin full of failed hardware (drives, power supplies, etc...). They don't even bother with RMA's or cases for those things. It all runs on linux and is distributed processing with more than 30% of the queries cached - it's ready to display before you even type it.
The queries in a database can't really be cached, especially if you are cross-referencing quite a few of them, so Google is not a very good solution.
Also, this RAMDrive has no moving parts, so it is less likely to fail, which, in turn, might save the gov't some money by not having a server monkey always replace parts and image new systems.
Try a complex 10 word query instead of a single letter. You'll probably find that the response time is slower.
At least it was the case when I worked for another search engine
You have to remmember that the surface of mars is at a nice -81 F (-63 C) and there is no oxygen , so an internal combustion or any other "burning" propellant to produce motion is out of the question. You're stuck with either bringing your own energy, or having to rely on solar cells to power your vehicle.
Not everything that works so well on Earth will work on other planets. I'd recommend reading a part of this article (search for "thermal expansion" and read that paragraph).
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Sounds like Gilligan's Island, minus the big-ass rocket.
What exactly is a "Use" tax... let's say I bought the latest season of "Simpsons" on amazon and had it shipped to California, then, without unwrapping it, I shipped it to my brother in New York as a gift for his birthday. Will I have to pay "use" tax on this or will he have to pay "use" tax on this even though I am NOT using the product (it's not even in my posession) and he didn't purchase it?
The reason I buy singles and individual tracks from online music stores is because I don't want the rest of the garbage.
:)
Artists that produce it may call it art and argue that it's their art and it should be sold in a bundle, just like a painting is sold as a whole. To me it's like a gallery, you don't buy the whole show, you buy a single painting you like.
Who wants to listen to "Bumper to Bumper" when there's "Wannabe" out there? Let me see a show of hands
dude, turn on your sarcasm detector...
Oh wait... it's on already? Hmm... something's not right...
It seems that VoteHere decided to go the other way and open the source for scruitiny. It's a great decision on their part, however I think they're also trying to cut development costs, since they can't offshore it.
my $0.02
unless of course that water was purified to be free of minerals and radicals :)
I want the damn retina to plug in at the back
So, what happens when you overdose on the pill?
hind sight?
extra eyependages?
eye in ass... er.. ass in eye... er... asinine?
Karma or not, I coudln't pass that up...
They proved that old farts don't just dissipate into space.
Seriously, It might be useful someday, when humans decide to venture to places futher than Mars and when trips will take longer than 10 years each way.
Then again, they might improve cryo-tech or come up with some other stasis technology by then.
I think the 2 terms can be used interchangeably, since one is a subset of another, except that the natural monopoly is forced by the govt in this case.
You're comparing 2 statistics that are not relevant to each other.
It's like saying that 60% of vegetables consumed in US is potato(e)s and 80% of fruits consumed in US is apples.
OTOH, I find myself going out and to the movies more often, using the money I saved from not paying $70/month for DISH or cable :)
Besides, I can now get Sopranos and Sex & the City on DVD anyway... a season late, but hey, it's much cheaper that way...
Bottom line is, cable companies have a government-authorized monopoly
monopoly = monopoly is a situation where for technical or social reasons there cannot be more than one efficient provider of a good
Unlike Microsoft, there is no alternative to the 2 or 3 services, one of them being the Cable Monopoly, because they ALL bundle their channels.
I have to buy 100 extra channels just to watch TechTV and Cartoon Network, and then spend an hour Removing all the shopping and religious channels, as well as Fox News and A&E.
You forgot to adjust for inflation... or deflation, depending on how you want to look at it... :)
I think it's more like hogs - those things smell a lot worse and I think produce more methane than cows.
Just drive through UP-North Wisconsin in the Summer. And good luck to you if the wind is blowing the wrong way... Muhahahahahaha...
MeSSEnGeR or NOAA or ECHO or SOHO (which stands for many things, including the solar observatory).
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/03/23/1644
I had paper planes flying longer than that when I was a kid and lived in Ukraine. They would get caught in an updraft of a 10-story building and soar really high and take a while to come back to the ground... probably a minute at least.... mine was also probably folded very diffently from an American concept of a paper airplane.
Then again, this world record is for a level/linear flight. I wonder if he launched it from the top row of the bleachers...
A clear door will "sweat" with condensation on the inside as well as the outside, which would make it completely useless.
One way to avoid it though is to install a dehumidifier on both sides, but then you run into more equipment, making it a more complex and costly system, just to have a clear door. Why not make it childproof instead?
I used to work for their competitor and at one point our machines were in the same datacenter as theirs. Couple of my coworkers told me about it.
The queries in a database can't really be cached, especially if you are cross-referencing quite a few of them, so Google is not a very good solution.
Also, this RAMDrive has no moving parts, so it is less likely to fail, which, in turn, might save the gov't some money by not having a server monkey always replace parts and image new systems.
Try a complex 10 word query instead of a single letter. You'll probably find that the response time is slower.
At least it was the case when I worked for another search engine
Forget Mars, let's go there!!!!
Yeah, over a 128K space modem, that's a lot!!! :)
I was trying to link to "this" above at http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venera11.htm, but it didn't work...
You have to remmember that the surface of mars is at a nice -81 F (-63 C) and there is no oxygen
, so an internal combustion or any other "burning" propellant to produce motion is out of the question. You're stuck with either bringing your own energy, or having to rely on solar cells to power your vehicle.
Not everything that works so well on Earth will work on other planets. I'd recommend reading a part of this article (search for "thermal expansion" and read that paragraph).