Yep. I HATE cross-site scripting. Unfortunately everyone under the sun has gone to it in the last few years even when it doesn't seem to serve any purpose, even for advertising revenue.
Do you personally know anyone that has been to jail for income tax evasion?
I actually do. He was just convicted within the last couple of months. He'll be in for four years, as he didn't pay any income tax or file for at least four years, to the tune of several million dollars. Instead he spent the money on his automobile collection, which has subsequently been seized and is being sold to pay what he owes.
This was a very rich man. He could have easily afforded his taxes while maintaining a standard of living far in excess of anyone else that I know had he not chosen to buy cars like a madman. He had homes in at least three cities and could afford to go to car events all over the country several times a year. He did this to himself.
Tax evasion is never impossible. Have you ever shopped in a pawn shop? Has the proprietor offered you a discount if you pay cash? That's probably because he's not recording the transaction or is recording it at a much lower amount.
I only single-out pawn shops because everything in the store is used and usually one negotiates a price. This could happen just as easily in a small shop with an owner-operator, with new merchandise, so long as he can cook the books enough to be beneficial for himself without standing out, claiming that his margin on his merchandise is lower than what the transaction actually was.
If there's no case within a circuit, then that circuit cannot rule on it. If circuits like the 9th never get the case in the first place then there's no contrary rulings to have to decide upon.
My guess is that they'll attempt to curtail use of these systems in circuits like the 9th so that they don't appeal through to the Supreme Court too quickly, trying to keep it mostly to Law-enforcement-friendly circuits.
No, but I met George Clayton Johnson once. He sure looked like he could use a renewal. He had started babbling about how we're now living in a science fiction age with computers and cell phones and the Internet.
Come to think of it, he looked like he could have been cosplaying Gandalf or Dumbledore too.
Not necessarily true. Those that travel in their own vehicles for their work-day, doing service calls or other appointments, or handling jobsite work or other field work would probably exceed the range. Those that live in-town and work in agriculture or oil extraction probably would exceed the range.
You're probably still looking at the overwhelming majority being able to use the all-electric car, but don't mistake that everyone would be okay, many would not.
And if that couple has two cars, and if they want new cars, then it makes sense for one of those two cars to be electric.
My commute is 20 miles round-trip. My wife's is 40 miles round-trip. Nearly every type of store or business that we do regular business with is along our commutes. We could easily commute with an electric without running out of range, even if we had to go ten miles out of our way to do so, and even if we couldn't plug-in at our places of employment, though I expect that the positive press from the charging station would make that pretty likely.
Yes, melting plastic in a closed environment. Brilliant. Instead of planning for their little hobby-jump in Low Earth Orbit, let's bring a cranky, tiny toy to make coat hangers... (in free-fall LOL). I just love the armchair engineers and programmers here going on about the 3D printer will be this tool to help colonize the universe..
I never said that it would help colonize the universe.
I expect that it'll be useful when that plastic tab on that rocker switch that's used all of the time breaks off, so they an print themselves a replacement instead of waiting weeks or months for a resupply mission to bring them one, or when an astronaut realizes that a particular control stick or other device is causing skin abrasions, so they could design and print a different one that doesn't cause sores, or any of a whole set of times when a spaceman needs some small, insignificant-on-earth part that is literally worth its weight in gold because they just don't have access to it.
I could even see circumstances in an Apollo-Thirteen kind of accident where engineers at NASA could come up with a fix that's safer and more reliable than duct-taping some plastic sheeting to a bulkhead because the tech to manufacture a few parts exists with those that need those parts.
I actually don't care for this modern 3d printer hype, but this is one of the few places where I could see a 3d printer being particularly useful.
Thing is, you're melting plastic and placing that melted plastic where you want it to be. In gravity and endless atmosphere this is easy, the gravity helps feed the raw materials through a hopper and ensure that the plastic stays where you place it, and the essentially endless atmosphere carries away noxious fumes so that you don't poison yourself. Unfortunately on a space station or in a spacecraft you have no effective gravity and a very limited atmosphere, so you cannot pollute nor can you rely on gravity to make things go where you want them.
Consider the effort and design that goes into the toilet. A simple act that humans have always done on Earth is not so simple in space, and millions of dollars have been spent to account for biology designed to function with gravity assistance when that gravity is not available.
There are lots of murderers that are labelled as criminally insane and committed to institutions where they're subjected to psychological evaluation and attempt to improve their mental health.
Honestly, one of the most exciting things that I did was to take an overnight tour at Kitt Peak. They've dedicated one of their older optical telescopes that's not really adequate for leading-edge science anymore to use for public outreach, and seeing the Jovian moons so clearly was very exciting and made it easier to want to continue.
It's probably safe to accept that you'll be a consumer of science rather than a producer of it, but that's okay. Go camping with a large telescope and enjoy the world. Buy books or programs that let you track the objects of the night sky. Look at what NASA, the ESA, and IAU release.
If you're lucky you'll identify a new asteroid or comet.
It not even hurt to brand them as crazy and to lock them up in an asylum for the criminally insane. That would allow the state to medicate them and in some ways, to make an example out of them.
Martyrdom? Nope, straight-jacketed and drugged and forced to talk about your feelings. No rewards of heaven for you.
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Yep. I HATE cross-site scripting. Unfortunately everyone under the sun has gone to it in the last few years even when it doesn't seem to serve any purpose, even for advertising revenue.
Do you personally know anyone that has been to jail for income tax evasion?
I actually do. He was just convicted within the last couple of months. He'll be in for four years, as he didn't pay any income tax or file for at least four years, to the tune of several million dollars. Instead he spent the money on his automobile collection, which has subsequently been seized and is being sold to pay what he owes.
This was a very rich man. He could have easily afforded his taxes while maintaining a standard of living far in excess of anyone else that I know had he not chosen to buy cars like a madman. He had homes in at least three cities and could afford to go to car events all over the country several times a year. He did this to himself.
Tax evasion is never impossible. Have you ever shopped in a pawn shop? Has the proprietor offered you a discount if you pay cash? That's probably because he's not recording the transaction or is recording it at a much lower amount.
I only single-out pawn shops because everything in the store is used and usually one negotiates a price. This could happen just as easily in a small shop with an owner-operator, with new merchandise, so long as he can cook the books enough to be beneficial for himself without standing out, claiming that his margin on his merchandise is lower than what the transaction actually was.
That's what she said...
If there's no case within a circuit, then that circuit cannot rule on it. If circuits like the 9th never get the case in the first place then there's no contrary rulings to have to decide upon.
I could introduce you to a couple of blind people that I know...
Though I think that for one of them, staring intently into a campfire might have been a contributor.
"There's a sucker born every minute."
My guess is that they'll attempt to curtail use of these systems in circuits like the 9th so that they don't appeal through to the Supreme Court too quickly, trying to keep it mostly to Law-enforcement-friendly circuits.
So, you don't pay for the universe, you pay for it to go away?
Don't pull on Superman's cape...
Don't spit into the wind...
Don't pull the mask off of the Lone Ranger...
And don't mess around with Jim...
No, but I met George Clayton Johnson once. He sure looked like he could use a renewal. He had started babbling about how we're now living in a science fiction age with computers and cell phones and the Internet.
Come to think of it, he looked like he could have been cosplaying Gandalf or Dumbledore too.
So is the Universe coming, or going?
Carousel begins!
Renew!
Renew!
I've actually had a +4 of one of the negatives before, but it's been many, many years since that happened.
Not necessarily true. Those that travel in their own vehicles for their work-day, doing service calls or other appointments, or handling jobsite work or other field work would probably exceed the range. Those that live in-town and work in agriculture or oil extraction probably would exceed the range.
You're probably still looking at the overwhelming majority being able to use the all-electric car, but don't mistake that everyone would be okay, many would not.
And if that couple has two cars, and if they want new cars, then it makes sense for one of those two cars to be electric.
My commute is 20 miles round-trip. My wife's is 40 miles round-trip. Nearly every type of store or business that we do regular business with is along our commutes. We could easily commute with an electric without running out of range, even if we had to go ten miles out of our way to do so, and even if we couldn't plug-in at our places of employment, though I expect that the positive press from the charging station would make that pretty likely.
Where's the body-shell made?
From a safety point of view, that's where Chinese cars have been problematic, not in their brakes, or even their seatbelts or airbags.
I never said that it would help colonize the universe.
I expect that it'll be useful when that plastic tab on that rocker switch that's used all of the time breaks off, so they an print themselves a replacement instead of waiting weeks or months for a resupply mission to bring them one, or when an astronaut realizes that a particular control stick or other device is causing skin abrasions, so they could design and print a different one that doesn't cause sores, or any of a whole set of times when a spaceman needs some small, insignificant-on-earth part that is literally worth its weight in gold because they just don't have access to it.
I could even see circumstances in an Apollo-Thirteen kind of accident where engineers at NASA could come up with a fix that's safer and more reliable than duct-taping some plastic sheeting to a bulkhead because the tech to manufacture a few parts exists with those that need those parts.
I actually don't care for this modern 3d printer hype, but this is one of the few places where I could see a 3d printer being particularly useful.
Thing is, you're melting plastic and placing that melted plastic where you want it to be. In gravity and endless atmosphere this is easy, the gravity helps feed the raw materials through a hopper and ensure that the plastic stays where you place it, and the essentially endless atmosphere carries away noxious fumes so that you don't poison yourself. Unfortunately on a space station or in a spacecraft you have no effective gravity and a very limited atmosphere, so you cannot pollute nor can you rely on gravity to make things go where you want them.
Consider the effort and design that goes into the toilet. A simple act that humans have always done on Earth is not so simple in space, and millions of dollars have been spent to account for biology designed to function with gravity assistance when that gravity is not available.
In Boeing's defense, it's b-o-e-i-n-g, not 'boing'. A trampoline was never being considered.
There are lots of murderers that are labelled as criminally insane and committed to institutions where they're subjected to psychological evaluation and attempt to improve their mental health.
Honestly, one of the most exciting things that I did was to take an overnight tour at Kitt Peak. They've dedicated one of their older optical telescopes that's not really adequate for leading-edge science anymore to use for public outreach, and seeing the Jovian moons so clearly was very exciting and made it easier to want to continue.
It's probably safe to accept that you'll be a consumer of science rather than a producer of it, but that's okay. Go camping with a large telescope and enjoy the world. Buy books or programs that let you track the objects of the night sky. Look at what NASA, the ESA, and IAU release.
If you're lucky you'll identify a new asteroid or comet.
It not even hurt to brand them as crazy and to lock them up in an asylum for the criminally insane. That would allow the state to medicate them and in some ways, to make an example out of them.
Martyrdom? Nope, straight-jacketed and drugged and forced to talk about your feelings. No rewards of heaven for you.
How much did they charge you?
Gotta do more than an insane passenger on a Greyhound bus does to another passenger to really shock me at this point.