Wealth is not equal to income. They certainly are related, but they are not the same thing.
I do not have a problem with taxation of gains from holdings. Given that there's usually no labor associated with holdings, if anything perhaps holdings should be taxed at a higher rate.
I just wish that it was easier to find out if one's phone supported MHL or not. I really like my Kyocera Duraforce XD and I've used a bluetooth keyboard with it as needed and I've used USB-OTG for serial to network device console ports, it would be swell if it could do MHL but I haven't found any documentation either way and I don't want to start speculatively buying cables.
That seems very muddy calling it a different country post-1707 given the wording of the Acts of Union that established the Kingdom of Great Britain. It is even a bit muddy post-1607 with the single individual as hereditary monarch of both. It's been over 300 years since this union was established, and it's not like Scottish people remained only in the North and English or Welsh people remained only in the South.
Grand juries and prosecutors usually have wide discretion for bringing charges too. Given that the fraudsters intentionally engaged in fraud with the recordings that they made it's not exactly the same circumstances as recording a farmer willfully kicking his way through the barn packed to the walls with chickens unprompted.
Because it's a lot cheaper to simply pass laws that prohibit actions that one doesn't want, than it is to force one's self to engage in actions that theoretically should be required but cannot be enforced.
Even showing the results of the procedure on an animal would be helpful, assuming that the subject lived long enough to justifiably call it successful.
I'm no medical man, but aren't there rather severe problems with tissue rejection even when transplanting things as simple as kidneys and other organs? Aren't there also some severe complications rising from the autonomic functions that the brain stem controls in the body? How would the body handle losing that stimulus and regulation?
Can't remember if it was this good doctor or someone else that had showed a "iiving" head of one animal attached to the body of another animal, but while blood vessels were connected and blood flow to the head was sustained by the beating heart of the body, there was no control of that body by that head and the body instead had to be controlled artificially. The result didn't live long anyway.
If the good doctor's intentions are indeed above-board then it's noble to want to help people, but what he researches is so niche that it's difficult to see how much benefit would be brought even if the subject survived the procedure and with nerve damage problems we already can't treat, how that patient would be anything more than a head attached to an entirely paralyzed body. Given the number of conditions that could benefit from research, where significant numbers of patients could really see improvements in quality of life in addition to mere survival it seems like his pursuits are at-best misguided. What he proposes reminds me of the discussion in Mel Brooks' film Young Frankenstein when the medical student is arguing with Gene Wilder's character about the reanimation of tissue and Wilder's character responds how the work with kidneys etc are tinker-toys compared to the central nervous system.
Yep. Everyone has access to e-mail, and the protocol is open so everyone can send and receive e-mail. Every platform in the last twenty years supports it too, and even the old retrieval protocols like POP3 and IMAP are still widely supported in addition to all of the new Enterprise-grade stuff.
E-mail as-implemented does have weaknesses, but those are in the specifics of how SMTP was designed back in the day, with no good way to verify identity and no good way to limit unwanted e-mail, the double-whammy that lets spam and other malevolent e-mail traverse the Internet. It would probably be better to develop a new protocol that would ultimately replace SMTP but from an end-user point of view still function largely the same as people are used to. After all, there were e-mail protocols prior to SMTP, POP3, and IMAP, even predating using the Internet as a medium (remember Fideonet anyone?) so it's not like there's something inherently special about SMTP that requires its continued use.
One could implement dual-protocol servers, that attempt to use the new protocol first, and only fall-back to SMTP if there's no mail exchanger capable of using the new protocol on the other end. There would have to be rules prohibiting relay across protocols though, no new-protocol messages get sent via SMTP and no SMTP gets translated through the new protocol except within one's organization for last-mile send/delivery. That might be the hard part to implement.
Heh. There was some article from The Onion that I can't find now, that talked about how the Balkans were continuing to subdivide into independent nations to the point that nearly every man, woman, and child was their own country. The represented the "nations" by halftoning a map of Yugoslavia.
Never thought I'd see the same thing happen to the UK.
Perhaps, but that'll require the legacy vehicles to be largely off the road first, and will require the popularity of the plug-in hybrid vehicle along the lines of the Volt to wane too.
If anything happens in the next twenty years, perhaps drivers that use gasoline-powered cars will have to hunt just a little harder to find stations, along the lines of how diesel-powered cars and trucks can't be filled at probably half of stations, and propane-powered vehicles are limited to less than a quarter of stations. Honestly if it even happens within 20 years I'll be surprised, just because it'll take that long for people to get over their range anxiety and for prices to come down. Right now you can get the range, or you can get the somewhat-affordable price, but not both. Until both are widely available on the same vehicles it's not going to happen.
Sounds perfect for Walmart, where you save money on each transaction but have to re-buy it three times to get the longevity that you'd have gotten from something similar purchased elsewhere.
It's a shame that they're both gone, with Gene Wilder's arguable bad hair and with Peter Boyle's baldness they could've played Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in an homage to their own take on Irving Berlin's song from Young Frankenstein. Wouldn't have had to change anything really...
It's actually not all that expensive to add electric to the parking area, when it's properly planned. A new circuit would be run from the electric utility mains to a new transformer, which would run to a central charge controller that would in-turn supply power to receptacles or whatever at each parking space. If they have to run individual conduits to each stall or each pair of stalls they will, or they may rely on larger cables and intelligent devices on individual breakers at each spot, with some kind of data communication back to the central charge controller to log the energy drawn.
Obviously this works best where apartments have covered parking since the canopy structure acts as the mounting for the conduit and the whole system is at least partially out of the weather. Most apartments around where I live are like this, with assigned spots to given units.
Is there a security protocol for charging? It would be convenient to just be able to pull-in to one's spot and plug in and have the controller recognize the valid car, so that the person whose spot it is doesn't get billed if someone else parks and attempts to charge there while the rightful tenant is away.
It's going to be awhile before it's under $30,000. They're projecting $35,000 for the entry-level models, presumably with fairly short ranges and lower power output levels compared to what most electric car buyers will actually want.
If the Model 3 proves as successful as they're hoping then I expect other car manufacturers to look increasingly toward electrics, but I doubt that conventional internal combustion vehicles will be entirely out of production by the end of my lifetime. There are too many situations where a vehicle doesn't have access to the power grid when it needs fuel, or too many situations when a vehicle needs more range without recharge-delay to spell the complete end of the gasoline or diesel engine in passenger cars and light trucks, and then there's the cost factor. Right now it appears to cost more to manufacture an electric than a gasoline-burning veihlcle. This becomes especially important in the low-end, where buyers that want new cheap cars shop. Until that market is satisfied then I don't see the end of ICE powerplants on the horizon.
The company that my wife works for was bought by a foreign company and that foreign company is basically only allowed its share of the profits as an owner. For anything else it wants, it has to "buy" the information as part of a product transaction just like any other company, and even the executives of the foreign owners are not allowed uncontrolled access to the facility.
I look at the border smuggling as a different ball of wax, mostly because if the authorities chose to, they could search basically any vehicle crossing the border that they want to, suspicious or not. The border checkpoint itself acts as a pre-existing roadblock to make the burden to conduct the search or to find suspect vehicles much lower.
On the open road away from the frontier regions where the border patrol has no jurisdiction or at least no enforcement arm, you're reliant on FBI as a federal police force, and on the various state and local agencies. If a smuggler's vehicle looks like anyone else's vehicle and sticks to the interstates and avoids stopping at roadside places where it would be subject to a random dog sniff test then it should be pretty hard to find a smuggler without a tipoff, if the car is in good repair and the driver isn't stupid.
Unfortunately that "mystery" has to have a good payoff. As much as I enjoyed most of the Ron Moore version of Battlestar Galactica I was rather let down by how it ended. Granted, the last season was marred by another strike (writers? Can't remember) and the whole premise got screwed up, but the end itself with how imaginary #6 and imaginary Baltar worked just didn't do it for me.
One of the strengths that a show like Star Trek and TNG enjoyed was that since the ship moved from place to place, the story could center around the events at whatever port they called upon. They did not have to build toward anything in particular as long as the writing and acting was good, and a regular viewer could take-in character development with the regular ensemble cast without having to see that it was going anywhere in particular.
When I look at DS9, and especially Voyager though, the problems with long-running arcs become clear, especially when they realize that an arc or a string of serials is not working out and gets aborted or changed. The show loses focus. In DS9's case they had enough syndicated ratings (remember it wasn't a UPN show) to keep going, and for Voyager, UPN itself was struggling and that show was its only even close to bright spot so it soldiered on even when it was bad.
Probably because of techniques to manufacture the raw materials for the core, techniques to wind the core, techniques to develop the material for the casing, techniques to actual extrude or cast that casing, and the design that went into the the dimple pattern itself.
Now, I'm not saying that all of these kinds of patents should be valid, but I can see how work went into each of these steps, and how a company that has spent the time and money developing these steps would want to do what they could to protect their interest in what they've paid to develop.
There may be some latitude for another manufacturer though. If you look at automotive design you can see how most cars tend to follow trends. Boxy versus curvaceous, certain kinds of bulges in fenders and quarter panels, certain kinds of wheel opening arches, windshield angles, C-pillar design, etc. Most cars tend to be similar to other cars in a given class for a given year range, and historically this has not been too problematical. It could well be that Costco's design is similar to Titleist, but not identical enough to be a problem, but if Titleist chooses to sue then it'll be up to the court and the appeals process to decide.
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Come to think of it, this would've been the perfect time for Slashdot's resident, "frosty piss," poster.
Wealth is not equal to income. They certainly are related, but they are not the same thing.
I do not have a problem with taxation of gains from holdings. Given that there's usually no labor associated with holdings, if anything perhaps holdings should be taxed at a higher rate.
I just wish that it was easier to find out if one's phone supported MHL or not. I really like my Kyocera Duraforce XD and I've used a bluetooth keyboard with it as needed and I've used USB-OTG for serial to network device console ports, it would be swell if it could do MHL but I haven't found any documentation either way and I don't want to start speculatively buying cables.
That seems very muddy calling it a different country post-1707 given the wording of the Acts of Union that established the Kingdom of Great Britain. It is even a bit muddy post-1607 with the single individual as hereditary monarch of both. It's been over 300 years since this union was established, and it's not like Scottish people remained only in the North and English or Welsh people remained only in the South.
Okay. He has a lot of money and owns something that's considered valuable. Good for him.
We don't subscribe to cable TV, so ours is connected to the antenna.
But it's not connected to the Internet. That seemed like a terrible idea.
Grand juries and prosecutors usually have wide discretion for bringing charges too. Given that the fraudsters intentionally engaged in fraud with the recordings that they made it's not exactly the same circumstances as recording a farmer willfully kicking his way through the barn packed to the walls with chickens unprompted.
Because it's a lot cheaper to simply pass laws that prohibit actions that one doesn't want, than it is to force one's self to engage in actions that theoretically should be required but cannot be enforced.
It's also because people are inherently selfish.
There is a difference between recording someone in a public place and recording anywhere else.
Yeah I gave up wondering about why various moderation actions were chosen over a decade ago.
At least her dim-witted sibling didn't suggest "Denise" and "Danephew".
Even showing the results of the procedure on an animal would be helpful, assuming that the subject lived long enough to justifiably call it successful.
I'm no medical man, but aren't there rather severe problems with tissue rejection even when transplanting things as simple as kidneys and other organs? Aren't there also some severe complications rising from the autonomic functions that the brain stem controls in the body? How would the body handle losing that stimulus and regulation?
Can't remember if it was this good doctor or someone else that had showed a "iiving" head of one animal attached to the body of another animal, but while blood vessels were connected and blood flow to the head was sustained by the beating heart of the body, there was no control of that body by that head and the body instead had to be controlled artificially. The result didn't live long anyway.
If the good doctor's intentions are indeed above-board then it's noble to want to help people, but what he researches is so niche that it's difficult to see how much benefit would be brought even if the subject survived the procedure and with nerve damage problems we already can't treat, how that patient would be anything more than a head attached to an entirely paralyzed body. Given the number of conditions that could benefit from research, where significant numbers of patients could really see improvements in quality of life in addition to mere survival it seems like his pursuits are at-best misguided. What he proposes reminds me of the discussion in Mel Brooks' film Young Frankenstein when the medical student is arguing with Gene Wilder's character about the reanimation of tissue and Wilder's character responds how the work with kidneys etc are tinker-toys compared to the central nervous system.
Yep. Everyone has access to e-mail, and the protocol is open so everyone can send and receive e-mail. Every platform in the last twenty years supports it too, and even the old retrieval protocols like POP3 and IMAP are still widely supported in addition to all of the new Enterprise-grade stuff.
E-mail as-implemented does have weaknesses, but those are in the specifics of how SMTP was designed back in the day, with no good way to verify identity and no good way to limit unwanted e-mail, the double-whammy that lets spam and other malevolent e-mail traverse the Internet. It would probably be better to develop a new protocol that would ultimately replace SMTP but from an end-user point of view still function largely the same as people are used to. After all, there were e-mail protocols prior to SMTP, POP3, and IMAP, even predating using the Internet as a medium (remember Fideonet anyone?) so it's not like there's something inherently special about SMTP that requires its continued use.
One could implement dual-protocol servers, that attempt to use the new protocol first, and only fall-back to SMTP if there's no mail exchanger capable of using the new protocol on the other end. There would have to be rules prohibiting relay across protocols though, no new-protocol messages get sent via SMTP and no SMTP gets translated through the new protocol except within one's organization for last-mile send/delivery. That might be the hard part to implement.
Heh. There was some article from The Onion that I can't find now, that talked about how the Balkans were continuing to subdivide into independent nations to the point that nearly every man, woman, and child was their own country. The represented the "nations" by halftoning a map of Yugoslavia.
Never thought I'd see the same thing happen to the UK.
Next, we'll be reading stories that Kim Kardashian has given birth to twins on this site.
She DID?!? Why didn't we hear about this sooner?! You're all letting us down here! You need to submit an article!
Perhaps, but that'll require the legacy vehicles to be largely off the road first, and will require the popularity of the plug-in hybrid vehicle along the lines of the Volt to wane too.
If anything happens in the next twenty years, perhaps drivers that use gasoline-powered cars will have to hunt just a little harder to find stations, along the lines of how diesel-powered cars and trucks can't be filled at probably half of stations, and propane-powered vehicles are limited to less than a quarter of stations. Honestly if it even happens within 20 years I'll be surprised, just because it'll take that long for people to get over their range anxiety and for prices to come down. Right now you can get the range, or you can get the somewhat-affordable price, but not both. Until both are widely available on the same vehicles it's not going to happen.
Sure there's a use for it, but far, far more waste heat is produced than can be used for other purposes. It's not a terribly efficient arrangement.
Sounds perfect for Walmart, where you save money on each transaction but have to re-buy it three times to get the longevity that you'd have gotten from something similar purchased elsewhere.
It's a shame that they're both gone, with Gene Wilder's arguable bad hair and with Peter Boyle's baldness they could've played Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in an homage to their own take on Irving Berlin's song from Young Frankenstein. Wouldn't have had to change anything really...
It's actually not all that expensive to add electric to the parking area, when it's properly planned. A new circuit would be run from the electric utility mains to a new transformer, which would run to a central charge controller that would in-turn supply power to receptacles or whatever at each parking space. If they have to run individual conduits to each stall or each pair of stalls they will, or they may rely on larger cables and intelligent devices on individual breakers at each spot, with some kind of data communication back to the central charge controller to log the energy drawn.
Obviously this works best where apartments have covered parking since the canopy structure acts as the mounting for the conduit and the whole system is at least partially out of the weather. Most apartments around where I live are like this, with assigned spots to given units.
Is there a security protocol for charging? It would be convenient to just be able to pull-in to one's spot and plug in and have the controller recognize the valid car, so that the person whose spot it is doesn't get billed if someone else parks and attempts to charge there while the rightful tenant is away.
It's going to be awhile before it's under $30,000. They're projecting $35,000 for the entry-level models, presumably with fairly short ranges and lower power output levels compared to what most electric car buyers will actually want.
If the Model 3 proves as successful as they're hoping then I expect other car manufacturers to look increasingly toward electrics, but I doubt that conventional internal combustion vehicles will be entirely out of production by the end of my lifetime. There are too many situations where a vehicle doesn't have access to the power grid when it needs fuel, or too many situations when a vehicle needs more range without recharge-delay to spell the complete end of the gasoline or diesel engine in passenger cars and light trucks, and then there's the cost factor. Right now it appears to cost more to manufacture an electric than a gasoline-burning veihlcle. This becomes especially important in the low-end, where buyers that want new cheap cars shop. Until that market is satisfied then I don't see the end of ICE powerplants on the horizon.
It depends on what Tencent is allowed access to.
The company that my wife works for was bought by a foreign company and that foreign company is basically only allowed its share of the profits as an owner. For anything else it wants, it has to "buy" the information as part of a product transaction just like any other company, and even the executives of the foreign owners are not allowed uncontrolled access to the facility.
I look at the border smuggling as a different ball of wax, mostly because if the authorities chose to, they could search basically any vehicle crossing the border that they want to, suspicious or not. The border checkpoint itself acts as a pre-existing roadblock to make the burden to conduct the search or to find suspect vehicles much lower.
On the open road away from the frontier regions where the border patrol has no jurisdiction or at least no enforcement arm, you're reliant on FBI as a federal police force, and on the various state and local agencies. If a smuggler's vehicle looks like anyone else's vehicle and sticks to the interstates and avoids stopping at roadside places where it would be subject to a random dog sniff test then it should be pretty hard to find a smuggler without a tipoff, if the car is in good repair and the driver isn't stupid.
Unfortunately that "mystery" has to have a good payoff. As much as I enjoyed most of the Ron Moore version of Battlestar Galactica I was rather let down by how it ended. Granted, the last season was marred by another strike (writers? Can't remember) and the whole premise got screwed up, but the end itself with how imaginary #6 and imaginary Baltar worked just didn't do it for me.
One of the strengths that a show like Star Trek and TNG enjoyed was that since the ship moved from place to place, the story could center around the events at whatever port they called upon. They did not have to build toward anything in particular as long as the writing and acting was good, and a regular viewer could take-in character development with the regular ensemble cast without having to see that it was going anywhere in particular.
When I look at DS9, and especially Voyager though, the problems with long-running arcs become clear, especially when they realize that an arc or a string of serials is not working out and gets aborted or changed. The show loses focus. In DS9's case they had enough syndicated ratings (remember it wasn't a UPN show) to keep going, and for Voyager, UPN itself was struggling and that show was its only even close to bright spot so it soldiered on even when it was bad.
Probably because of techniques to manufacture the raw materials for the core, techniques to wind the core, techniques to develop the material for the casing, techniques to actual extrude or cast that casing, and the design that went into the the dimple pattern itself.
Now, I'm not saying that all of these kinds of patents should be valid, but I can see how work went into each of these steps, and how a company that has spent the time and money developing these steps would want to do what they could to protect their interest in what they've paid to develop.
There may be some latitude for another manufacturer though. If you look at automotive design you can see how most cars tend to follow trends. Boxy versus curvaceous, certain kinds of bulges in fenders and quarter panels, certain kinds of wheel opening arches, windshield angles, C-pillar design, etc. Most cars tend to be similar to other cars in a given class for a given year range, and historically this has not been too problematical. It could well be that Costco's design is similar to Titleist, but not identical enough to be a problem, but if Titleist chooses to sue then it'll be up to the court and the appeals process to decide.