Well, actually, that would be double taxing, which is avoided. In fact, when you run a business, you can get a tax-free account at places like Costco/Sam's to avoid double taxes. The idea is that those items should only get sales taxed once, so if you are going to resale them, then Costco/Sam's doesn't need to collect sales tax, you do. So if you sold your car used to a dealership, you should get out of paying sales tax. IANAA, so I have no idea how it works for income tax, but I would assume that if you don't have income, then you don't pay income tax. (As in, no net income on transaction involving car means no net income tax for you on car). Any accountants out there?
I think computers are needed for small kids. Personally I started using computers at school before the third grade - although I remember being pissed at the time that they were teaching us typing, I seemed to think that meant they thought the best job we could all get was as secretaries, but it does mean that I ended up doing dictation for my older sister in high school since she never learned to type worth a damn.
We had a computer in our house ever since she was in middle school, but she went through the same school system before the early introduction of computers in elementary school. Nowadays I still get messages from her asking how to do something. Then when I tell her something like start >> settings >> control panel, she retypes that message as if that's a magic command she'd never heard of. I have to explicitly say to click on the buttons. That's what I call an example of why they introduce them early. They can play all sorts of math and language games, but they're also learning how computers work early.
If Renaissance potters called themselves nanotechnologists then I'd say your point was good. We invented the quantum physics to descibe what we're doing now, not what we'll be doing in 500 years. The word and its meaning will of course evolve like Alchemy->Chemistry.
Comparing today's quantum physicists to Renaissance potters is a little rough on physicists, don't you think? Despite the constant reminders that if you think you understand quantum, you don't, I would like to think we understand it better than potters hundreds of years ago understood nanotech.
You know birds don't actually use blue pigments to achieve blue colorings? They use nanoscale keratin particles to contructively interfere in the blue range. If we believed slashdot editors, every bird with blue feathers should get a tenured position in nanotech.
You can't call something a nanotechnologist if they don't know they're working on a nano-scale.
Well, I actually think our two party system is the biggest load of crap ever. In business two competitors is still effectively a monopoly (just look at island hopping flights in Hawaii), so why don't people understand that the same's true in politics. Just ignore the party labels and see what the candidates say, or better yet, what they do. Or is that too hard?
As for links, the convienant side effect of cnn altering stories is that the old stories I'm thinking of are, well, altered. A newer story does dig some recent ones up, which I guess just proves that the media is getting a little fed up with him. And a quick google search pulls up tons of older ones. Here's a sampling:
I find the third one particularly ironic. You might not consider them shocking, but I personally don't like my Presidents acting like ministers. They call it a podium instead of a pulpit for a reason. If there's one thing reading the Crucible in high school was supposed to teach us it's that religion and government don't mix (along with giving a healthy critique of McCarthyism). But since you seemed quite ready to jump all over me I bet it'd be easier for you to not think about it and just go ahead and attack me.
The scary thing is that this isn't even something that just started after 9.11, when suddenly the whole press acted like not backing the President was a sin. Back in early 2001 I would read the cnn articles about a Bush speech just as they went up online (I guess before a senior editor got their hands on them or something) and they'd include rather shockingly blunt quotes by Bush on religion. (Always made me think that Bush's keepers must have been pretty angry that he couldn't stick to his speeches. I couldn't imagine a speech writer throwing around talk about God and crusades so liberally.) Check again 2 hours later, the quotes had been edited to remove the most inflamatory parts or replaced by a 'summary' of the speech without any excerpts. Ever since then my remaining trust of cnn's impartiality was gone.
Cocaine is actually pretty similar in danger to caffeine, except that it is usually found in the US in a purified form. If you got caffeine in a similar form, it would probably kill you. Most cultures use one stimulant and prohibit others; it's pretty random that ours picks caffeine as good and cocaine as bad.
I was rather under the impression, from friends who've studied medicine, that the real reason cocaine is so dangerous is that it is so addictive. It affects your brain within two heartbeats if I remember correctly, which means instant psychological reward for the activity. Which of course means increased danger of psychological addiction. Not so sure about you guys, but I somehow think that we don't snort lines of caffeine because it isn't as addictive.
I agree completely with the fact that drugs like marijuana are more harmless than drinking and totally acceptable so long as you aren't driving/operating heavy machinery type stuff. But there's a definite distinction in my mind between that and cocaine. The difference is you can smoke pot once and decide you don't like it. Most people who try cocaine are hooked immediately.
My University had to install Spam Assassin recently. At first they were just sending get your degree online emails to random adresses. Then it was the Windows Messaging get your degree online messages. Everyone turned that off, but I guess someone's figured that there's money to be had from us, because before Spam Assassin we started getting penis enlargement etc annoying spam. I even got something in spanish, with a faked header saying it was from an address at a german university. Weird. With the lengths spammers will go to, if we don't get some legislation soon its just going to be a continuous defensive battle.
Yeah, we might as well change the name; it's not like they'll be any social security for me when I need it.
I think it's rather sad that every single person I know my age knows there's no hope of seeing that social security money being syphoned off every month. I just can't wait until enough of us start bothering to vote.
We used to do this weekly during the summers, and believe me, ln2 ice cream can turn out good. The major limitation to ours was usually in whether we could actually be bothered to measure the ingredients instead of just pouring in. Doesn't taste so good with too much sugar. The trick is to stir and pour in little bits of ln2 at a time. Same principle as normal icecream-making, just way faster.
I've seen this done, and I think it's a bad idea because inherent in the trick is not explaining that you don't actually drink the ln2. You just put a tiny bit ln2 into a cup, let it boil off for the most part while you make an act of getting up your courage to drink it. Then you down all the heavy cold mist in the bottom and spit it back out as if it boiled off in your mouth.
What I really want to know is how Bill Nye got mist to come out of his nose after sticking an ln2 frozen marshmellow in his mouth. We must have tried a dozen times with no success.
Yeah, I particularly disklike having to distinguish e's from n's and figuring out whether some things are s's or f's or h's. With common words it's doable, but with rare words it becomes really hard for a non-native speaker to pick them out. I ended up just hanging onto a table like that (only from a German elementary school writing tablet). Luckily it doens't come up often at all. The only examples I've come across randomly are from old things like postcards sent to Bohr (yeah, I'm a dork).
I did find a font that writes in the German Sütterlin script. I'm not sure why someone'd use it except to write stuff and then reread it in shock.
Well, I'd actually be pretty surprised in American cursive was identical to British cursive. And the cursive I learned certainly has next to NOTHING in common with the cursive I had to learn to read when learning German. I still can't decipher most old German handwriting beyond picking out u's (they have a little swoosh mark over them to distinguish them from what seems to me to be three other otherwise completely indistinguishable letters).
Back on topic, based on the accumulated speech differences between American and English, I would bet that cursive writing in the two is isn't identical.
As far as current evidence is concerned, the Bush administration systematically lied to both the American people and multiple other governments to get this war going, and that should be a huge deal to the American people. How can we trust a government that's prepared to lie to everyone in order to free up some more oil?
Maybe IBM wants to take the time to put together an actual suit based on facts with hard evidence and lots of it, as compared to the slap-dash job that SCO's done.
When I got certified, we were living above 1500 ft. and my first instructor told us to wait at least 6 hours to drive up there. Then during our advanced certification, we had this ex-navy seal as our intructor, and he told us that 2-3 hours would be perfectly fine. I think a major problem with the flying after diving times given by DAN are so unclear and constantly undercut by more agressive diving organizations that it gives many divers the sense that they can and should push the limits more than is actually recommendable. The official numbers of 12 hours and 24 hours get beaten into you well enough during certifications, sure, but then as soon as you talk to other divers it's another story.
Still, a macho pushing the limits culture is no excuse for hiding a clear product defect that causes injuries. All these cases of corporate cover-up are just starting to make me sick. What happenned to responsibility and customer trust in corporate America?
As mentioned in the blurb, the consumer sues for the money, no state-tracking down involved.
While this will put a big burden on the civil courts for a while if everyone starts suing all their spammers, I'm sure it'll settle down once it becomes clear that spamming is no longer profitable, no matter how difficult tracking the spammer down is.
It still doesn't work cause, yeah, it's self-selected (e.g. only the people who care enough about the poll decide to vote in it) and because the population profile of the internet does not equal the profile of the population as a whole (because you have an internet connection I can immediately tell you that its more likely that you come from middle class or above and have at least a high school education, with a high probability of college, too, etc.)
This guy came to talk at my college a few years ago, and his research is super-cool. At the time he mostly talked about trying to interpret what the cell firing patterns mean when the cells are totally isolated and then began adding single inputs, etc. Its neat cause when you cut them off from input they go into this pattern of waves of firing - they'll be these pauses with one or two random firings and then a all the sudden they'll all fire for a few seconds before dying down. He proposed that this was just like how a normal brain freaks out during sensory deprivation.
Good to see that he's expanding on with some really badass research. This has the possibility of learning a lot about how neural connections grow in response to input. Plus it sounds kinda neat to have a rat-neuron driven robot. Now if only we could hear from that doctor studying human balancing to make better robots.
Ken: Hey, have you filed your email-tax return yet this year?
Joe: No, I had to file an extension. I still need to collect all the paperwork for my mailing list deductions.
Ken: You should just hire an accountant. I hear they can get $2-3 more in returns.
Joe: Accountants are for wusses. Real men do their own taxes.
Chuck: Man, I just hope I don't get audited again this year. I lost a lot of my logs when I wiped my harddrive.
Ken: Maybe you can deduct your near-daily os-reinstalls as recreation.
I don't have to deal with beauracracies enough already, please give me more complicated government forms to file so that I can pay them $50 more each year. Woo!
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Well, actually, that would be double taxing, which is avoided. In fact, when you run a business, you can get a tax-free account at places like Costco/Sam's to avoid double taxes. The idea is that those items should only get sales taxed once, so if you are going to resale them, then Costco/Sam's doesn't need to collect sales tax, you do. So if you sold your car used to a dealership, you should get out of paying sales tax. IANAA, so I have no idea how it works for income tax, but I would assume that if you don't have income, then you don't pay income tax. (As in, no net income on transaction involving car means no net income tax for you on car). Any accountants out there?
I think computers are needed for small kids. Personally I started using computers at school before the third grade - although I remember being pissed at the time that they were teaching us typing, I seemed to think that meant they thought the best job we could all get was as secretaries, but it does mean that I ended up doing dictation for my older sister in high school since she never learned to type worth a damn.
We had a computer in our house ever since she was in middle school, but she went through the same school system before the early introduction of computers in elementary school. Nowadays I still get messages from her asking how to do something. Then when I tell her something like start >> settings >> control panel, she retypes that message as if that's a magic command she'd never heard of. I have to explicitly say to click on the buttons. That's what I call an example of why they introduce them early. They can play all sorts of math and language games, but they're also learning how computers work early.
If Renaissance potters called themselves nanotechnologists then I'd say your point was good. We invented the quantum physics to descibe what we're doing now, not what we'll be doing in 500 years. The word and its meaning will of course evolve like Alchemy->Chemistry.
Comparing today's quantum physicists to Renaissance potters is a little rough on physicists, don't you think? Despite the constant reminders that if you think you understand quantum, you don't, I would like to think we understand it better than potters hundreds of years ago understood nanotech.
Hear hear!
You know birds don't actually use blue pigments to achieve blue colorings? They use nanoscale keratin particles to contructively interfere in the blue range. If we believed slashdot editors, every bird with blue feathers should get a tenured position in nanotech.
You can't call something a nanotechnologist if they don't know they're working on a nano-scale.
Well, I actually think our two party system is the biggest load of crap ever. In business two competitors is still effectively a monopoly (just look at island hopping flights in Hawaii), so why don't people understand that the same's true in politics. Just ignore the party labels and see what the candidates say, or better yet, what they do. Or is that too hard?
As for links, the convienant side effect of cnn altering stories is that the old stories I'm thinking of are, well, altered. A newer story does dig some recent ones up, which I guess just proves that the media is getting a little fed up with him. And a quick google search pulls up tons of older ones. Here's a sampling:
Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to each and every person. And that's what I believe. I believe that when we see totalitarianism, that we must deal with it.
White House, Mar. 6, 2003
Events aren't moved by blind change and chance [but by] the hand of a just and faithful God
It's also important for people to know we never seek to impose our culture or our form of government. We just want to live under those universal values, God-given values.
Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2002
I find the third one particularly ironic. You might not consider them shocking, but I personally don't like my Presidents acting like ministers. They call it a podium instead of a pulpit for a reason. If there's one thing reading the Crucible in high school was supposed to teach us it's that religion and government don't mix (along with giving a healthy critique of McCarthyism). But since you seemed quite ready to jump all over me I bet it'd be easier for you to not think about it and just go ahead and attack me.
The scary thing is that this isn't even something that just started after 9.11, when suddenly the whole press acted like not backing the President was a sin. Back in early 2001 I would read the cnn articles about a Bush speech just as they went up online (I guess before a senior editor got their hands on them or something) and they'd include rather shockingly blunt quotes by Bush on religion. (Always made me think that Bush's keepers must have been pretty angry that he couldn't stick to his speeches. I couldn't imagine a speech writer throwing around talk about God and crusades so liberally.) Check again 2 hours later, the quotes had been edited to remove the most inflamatory parts or replaced by a 'summary' of the speech without any excerpts. Ever since then my remaining trust of cnn's impartiality was gone.
Cocaine is actually pretty similar in danger to caffeine, except that it is usually found in the US in a purified form. If you got caffeine in a similar form, it would probably kill you. Most cultures use one stimulant and prohibit others; it's pretty random that ours picks caffeine as good and cocaine as bad.
I was rather under the impression, from friends who've studied medicine, that the real reason cocaine is so dangerous is that it is so addictive. It affects your brain within two heartbeats if I remember correctly, which means instant psychological reward for the activity. Which of course means increased danger of psychological addiction. Not so sure about you guys, but I somehow think that we don't snort lines of caffeine because it isn't as addictive.
I agree completely with the fact that drugs like marijuana are more harmless than drinking and totally acceptable so long as you aren't driving/operating heavy machinery type stuff. But there's a definite distinction in my mind between that and cocaine. The difference is you can smoke pot once and decide you don't like it. Most people who try cocaine are hooked immediately.
My University had to install Spam Assassin recently. At first they were just sending get your degree online emails to random adresses. Then it was the Windows Messaging get your degree online messages. Everyone turned that off, but I guess someone's figured that there's money to be had from us, because before Spam Assassin we started getting penis enlargement etc annoying spam. I even got something in spanish, with a faked header saying it was from an address at a german university. Weird. With the lengths spammers will go to, if we don't get some legislation soon its just going to be a continuous defensive battle.
Yeah, we might as well change the name; it's not like they'll be any social security for me when I need it.
I think it's rather sad that every single person I know my age knows there's no hope of seeing that social security money being syphoned off every month. I just can't wait until enough of us start bothering to vote.
We used to do this weekly during the summers, and believe me, ln2 ice cream can turn out good. The major limitation to ours was usually in whether we could actually be bothered to measure the ingredients instead of just pouring in. Doesn't taste so good with too much sugar. The trick is to stir and pour in little bits of ln2 at a time. Same principle as normal icecream-making, just way faster.
I've seen this done, and I think it's a bad idea because inherent in the trick is not explaining that you don't actually drink the ln2. You just put a tiny bit ln2 into a cup, let it boil off for the most part while you make an act of getting up your courage to drink it. Then you down all the heavy cold mist in the bottom and spit it back out as if it boiled off in your mouth.
What I really want to know is how Bill Nye got mist to come out of his nose after sticking an ln2 frozen marshmellow in his mouth. We must have tried a dozen times with no success.
Yeah, I particularly disklike having to distinguish e's from n's and figuring out whether some things are s's or f's or h's. With common words it's doable, but with rare words it becomes really hard for a non-native speaker to pick them out. I ended up just hanging onto a table like that (only from a German elementary school writing tablet). Luckily it doens't come up often at all. The only examples I've come across randomly are from old things like postcards sent to Bohr (yeah, I'm a dork).
I did find a font that writes in the German Sütterlin script. I'm not sure why someone'd use it except to write stuff and then reread it in shock.
Well, I'd actually be pretty surprised in American cursive was identical to British cursive. And the cursive I learned certainly has next to NOTHING in common with the cursive I had to learn to read when learning German. I still can't decipher most old German handwriting beyond picking out u's (they have a little swoosh mark over them to distinguish them from what seems to me to be three other otherwise completely indistinguishable letters).
Back on topic, based on the accumulated speech differences between American and English, I would bet that cursive writing in the two is isn't identical.
Shit, I'm taking the GRE this year! I'd better start learning cursive, and fast!
As far as current evidence is concerned, the Bush administration systematically lied to both the American people and multiple other governments to get this war going, and that should be a huge deal to the American people. How can we trust a government that's prepared to lie to everyone in order to free up some more oil?
Maybe IBM wants to take the time to put together an actual suit based on facts with hard evidence and lots of it, as compared to the slap-dash job that SCO's done.
When I got certified, we were living above 1500 ft. and my first instructor told us to wait at least 6 hours to drive up there. Then during our advanced certification, we had this ex-navy seal as our intructor, and he told us that 2-3 hours would be perfectly fine. I think a major problem with the flying after diving times given by DAN are so unclear and constantly undercut by more agressive diving organizations that it gives many divers the sense that they can and should push the limits more than is actually recommendable. The official numbers of 12 hours and 24 hours get beaten into you well enough during certifications, sure, but then as soon as you talk to other divers it's another story.
Still, a macho pushing the limits culture is no excuse for hiding a clear product defect that causes injuries. All these cases of corporate cover-up are just starting to make me sick. What happenned to responsibility and customer trust in corporate America?
As mentioned in the blurb, the consumer sues for the money, no state-tracking down involved.
While this will put a big burden on the civil courts for a while if everyone starts suing all their spammers, I'm sure it'll settle down once it becomes clear that spamming is no longer profitable, no matter how difficult tracking the spammer down is.
It still doesn't work cause, yeah, it's self-selected (e.g. only the people who care enough about the poll decide to vote in it) and because the population profile of the internet does not equal the profile of the population as a whole (because you have an internet connection I can immediately tell you that its more likely that you come from middle class or above and have at least a high school education, with a high probability of college, too, etc.)
This guy came to talk at my college a few years ago, and his research is super-cool. At the time he mostly talked about trying to interpret what the cell firing patterns mean when the cells are totally isolated and then began adding single inputs, etc. Its neat cause when you cut them off from input they go into this pattern of waves of firing - they'll be these pauses with one or two random firings and then a all the sudden they'll all fire for a few seconds before dying down. He proposed that this was just like how a normal brain freaks out during sensory deprivation. Good to see that he's expanding on with some really badass research. This has the possibility of learning a lot about how neural connections grow in response to input. Plus it sounds kinda neat to have a rat-neuron driven robot. Now if only we could hear from that doctor studying human balancing to make better robots.
Ken: Hey, have you filed your email-tax return yet this year?
Joe: No, I had to file an extension. I still need to collect all the paperwork for my mailing list deductions.
Ken: You should just hire an accountant. I hear they can get $2-3 more in returns.
Joe: Accountants are for wusses. Real men do their own taxes.
Chuck: Man, I just hope I don't get audited again this year. I lost a lot of my logs when I wiped my harddrive.
Ken: Maybe you can deduct your near-daily os-reinstalls as recreation.
I don't have to deal with beauracracies enough already, please give me more complicated government forms to file so that I can pay them $50 more each year. Woo!