I have long thought the House should be larger. It is meant to be representative, but the sheer size of each district now means that entire populations go ignored.
That's why to a large extent the States (and even larger extent The People) were originally suppose to be the major government entity, with the Congress tasked with only 18 authorized jobs to do. One of those is to show up one day a year, since the framers thought that there wouldn't be enough work.
i>A satellite in geostationary orbit is far enough 35,786 km from the surface of the Earth to introduce measurable latency, even when your signal is traveling at the speed of light. That is the GP s point.
I have satellite and typically see ping times of 800-1200ms. Not great, but it beats dial-up for most of what I use it for. I can't wait for stratellites to happen.
All decisions are economic in nature, since economics is about maximizing value with the resources available. Price is only one data point in a much more complex decision process. In the other post, maximizing the investment over the expected life of the vehicle includes more things than point cost and present need, such as avoiding the cost of changing vehicles. Also there is perceived value in the "status" derived from such a purchase, and the value of "feel good" has supported many causes.
Is there a particular reason you need the driver to be open-source?
I have a perfectly good 3 year old laptop with a video card that ATI decided to drop support for. The last proprietary driver that it IS supported on (8.28.8) will not install on Feisty. My options are exactly:
Deal with it
Go back to windows (shudder) or Dapper
Drop a bunch of $$ on a new laptop (can't replace just the card now can I?)
Exactly none of those options is appealing, so I won't be buying ATI again until they open up.
No, there are reasonable restrictions to the freedom of speech.
The only sane restriction is whether or not the statement is true. For example, I shouldn't be able to tell people that you molest children, unless you do. For all other matters, such as for an opinion, there should be no restriction. For example, I believe all AC's smell funny - like grandma's basement.
We've decided that in a civilized society, some things are unacceptable to say, and certain restrictions about where said speech is said may apply.
Define "we" please? The major issue I have with speech restrictions is who decides what is acceptable speech. The group "we" doesn't exist other than as an imaginary peer group modeled after our own likes and dislikes.
Until no one cares what anyone says, these restrictions are necessary.
That won't ever happen. You don't have the right to not be offended, only to not read what offends you. No restrictions needed - just look away! It is possible to live how you want without forcing others to conform to your values at the same time.
That's what the law is intended to do: to stop you from driving after good night out.
I really, really hate this argument - Law doesn't prevent anything. It is an after the fact punishment with no capability whatsoever to stop an action. I really wish more people realized that Law isn't panacea.
There is a BFH (big freakin' hill) in between my house and the only wireless Inet provider, no cable, and the phone line is horrible quality. I barely get any cellphone reception as well. About the only real choice for the Intrarwebs is satellite when you live in the sticks like I do. Wildblue has decent connection speed for the $$, but you won't be playing WoW on it due to the lag - typically between 700ms and 1200ms.
I tried getting a T1, but Verizon wouldn't sell it because it was a residential address. How soon for stratellites?
But if some asshole smashed your car, if you took the schmuck to court he would ONLY be legally required to pay you the value of your car in USD.
Actually they would be required to do whatever the judge told them to do. The fact that they monetize damages in USD almost 100% of the time is irrelevant. USD isn't the only damages the court awards - think foreclosure.
No. Pull out a $1 bill. It says "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." This means that if you're accepting payment for something in the United States, one of the means of payment MUST be US dollars.
Go to McDonalds and use a $1000 bill to pay for your meal. That's a legal tender note, but I'd wager they won't take it. Call the Feds!!
The reality is that nowhere is it law (in the US) that someone must accept USD. You obviously harbor some unfortunately common misconceptions about money, currency, negotiable instruments, etc. and how they are actually codified in the law. Since this is/. I'll give you the Wikipedia reference[1]. I'd recommend spending some time with the US Code on this issue though. Yes, it is that important to understand how money actually works.
INAL, but I do know how to read. USD are valuable exactly because they are needed to pay taxes and that it is relatively easy (at the moment) to convert them into other goods.
An interesting question to ponder is what might happen if the US government removed the legal requirement of accepting US currency to settle US debts, even if the government itself continued to accept it and pay its debts with it.
There is no requirement to accept USD, or anything else, as payment. If you were to contract with me for a service, there is no restriction on my accepting bunny rabbits or seashells in the exchange. Legal tender laws don't mean that someone has to use a particular currency to settle debt, just that a piece of paper with specific squiggles and colors on it is legally treated like it was a valuable good.
i>Most banks give not a shit and will actively avoid caring if you serially deposit $9899.47 every night at 8:53 p.m. Nor do they have to report it to anyone./i>
Banks do care a lot more about this type of activity since BSA started being the regulatory stick of choice. A SAR (suspicious activity report) can be filed for just about any reason. The downside to not filing a report is pretty hefty these days, so a lot more get filed just to be on the safe side. Try to fly under the radar with "near misses" or lots of little deposits, etc. and you will get reported. Besides, that $9999 threshold is quite arbitrary. Some banks (per internal policy) set it as low as $4000.
Minimum thresholds are just that. Going above and beyond looks real good to the regulators, which is a very, very important thing in the banking world.
I think only a fool would turn up his nose at a binary simply because it doesn't come with source code.
Yeah, right up to the day that ATI decides to remove your laptop's chipset from their binary driver. I really appreciate them forcing a total system upgrade on me for an otherwise perfectly serviceable laptop.
Them dropping support for anything older than the 9600 series sucks
I'll say. My Laptop has one of those chips, and my life has sucked since. It's not like I can pop in the latest and greatest card and be done. Trouble is that any vendor that ships binary drivers can drop you any time they want to and there isn't squat you can do about it. NVidia is just as guilty.
I always encourage people to check out http://www.gata.org/ and do a little reading. They have put together an impressive amount of investigation into the alleged gold and silver price manipulation. I wouldn't recommend putting all of your eggs in the precious metal basket, but it is sensible to put at least some of your portfolio there as an inflation hedge. Just make sure you get the serial numbers of the bars you own, or better yet take physical delivery! Paper is a promise only!
I am not a licensed financial planner in any state or country. Anyone taking investment advice from slashdot is a moron anyway. DYODD.
i could either earn 13% compounding interest on what i would have paid outright for my car, or pay cash for the car and save the 2.9% in interest on the price of the car and lose out on the 13% interest on investing that money instead?
Unfortunately the catch is by doing so you are accepting the risk that your investment will continue to earn 13% in the future. It may be an appropriate strategy, right up until your investment earnings minus taxes is less than loan interest. This takes management and effort to appropriately price the risk to ensure you don't end up under water, so it's not exactly free money. (Also known as a carry trade)
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I have satellite and typically see ping times of 800-1200ms. Not great, but it beats dial-up for most of what I use it for. I can't wait for stratellites to happen.
All decisions are economic in nature, since economics is about maximizing value with the resources available. Price is only one data point in a much more complex decision process. In the other post, maximizing the investment over the expected life of the vehicle includes more things than point cost and present need, such as avoiding the cost of changing vehicles. Also there is perceived value in the "status" derived from such a purchase, and the value of "feel good" has supported many causes.
Not likely. I'll bet a rubber hose will still be cheaper (even at govt prices), faster, and far more effective for decades to come.
PHBs get mod points - who new!
Interesting. Mine doesn't with the stock drivers for compiz.
I have a perfectly good 3 year old laptop with a video card that ATI decided to drop support for. The last proprietary driver that it IS supported on (8.28.8) will not install on Feisty. My options are exactly:
Exactly none of those options is appealing, so I won't be buying ATI again until they open up.
The only sane restriction is whether or not the statement is true. For example, I shouldn't be able to tell people that you molest children, unless you do. For all other matters, such as for an opinion, there should be no restriction. For example, I believe all AC's smell funny - like grandma's basement.
Define "we" please? The major issue I have with speech restrictions is who decides what is acceptable speech. The group "we" doesn't exist other than as an imaginary peer group modeled after our own likes and dislikes.
That won't ever happen. You don't have the right to not be offended, only to not read what offends you. No restrictions needed - just look away! It is possible to live how you want without forcing others to conform to your values at the same time.
I really, really hate this argument - Law doesn't prevent anything. It is an after the fact punishment with no capability whatsoever to stop an action. I really wish more people realized that Law isn't panacea.
There is a BFH (big freakin' hill) in between my house and the only wireless Inet provider, no cable, and the phone line is horrible quality. I barely get any cellphone reception as well. About the only real choice for the Intrarwebs is satellite when you live in the sticks like I do. Wildblue has decent connection speed for the $$, but you won't be playing WoW on it due to the lag - typically between 700ms and 1200ms.
I tried getting a T1, but Verizon wouldn't sell it because it was a residential address. How soon for stratellites?
Heck, all you really need is one homeless guy and a mattress:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/03502
Go to McDonalds and use a $1000 bill to pay for your meal. That's a legal tender note, but I'd wager they won't take it. Call the Feds!!
The reality is that nowhere is it law (in the US) that someone must accept USD. You obviously harbor some unfortunately common misconceptions about money, currency, negotiable instruments, etc. and how they are actually codified in the law. Since this is /. I'll give you the Wikipedia reference[1]. I'd recommend spending some time with the US Code on this issue though. Yes, it is that important to understand how money actually works.
INAL, but I do know how to read. USD are valuable exactly because they are needed to pay taxes and that it is relatively easy (at the moment) to convert them into other goods.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender#In_the_Minimum thresholds are just that. Going above and beyond looks real good to the regulators, which is a very, very important thing in the banking world.
I always encourage people to check out http://www.gata.org/ and do a little reading. They have put together an impressive amount of investigation into the alleged gold and silver price manipulation. I wouldn't recommend putting all of your eggs in the precious metal basket, but it is sensible to put at least some of your portfolio there as an inflation hedge. Just make sure you get the serial numbers of the bars you own, or better yet take physical delivery! Paper is a promise only!
I am not a licensed financial planner in any state or country. Anyone taking investment advice from slashdot is a moron anyway. DYODD.
Just like in Zimbabwe. Stocks are totally above the inflation rate!
You should actually read the perspectives in your portfolio, since you missed that whole "past performance isn't an indicator of future gains" part.