The Bug goes very fast in a straight line, but Ferrari goes much faster around curves, which is what wins sports car races.
Ferrari has adapted this technology from their Formula 1 racing cars which have been very successful over the years. What Ferrari is trying to do is compete with Porsche and Audi which have dominated sports car racing over the last few years. Bugatti is produced by a subsidiary of VW-Audi which also owns Audi and Porsche.
Apple is a human organization run by humans. It is subject to the same laws that all things human are subject to. One of those laws is the wheel of fortune. Sometimes fortune smiles on you and you will be up. Later fortune will frown on you, and you will be down. But the wheel is always spinning.
âoeA prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. Youâ(TM)ll ask me why. Itâ(TM)s because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.â
Nikos Kazantzakis "The Last Temptation of Christ"
George C. Scott as Patton: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
Get a really hot actress (I nominate Eve Green) to play Dr. Who. The time machine could destroy her clothing every times she uses it, so she would have to spend a few minutes naked on each show. I think it would be really popular.
"How Microsoft Lost Its Way, as Understood Through The Wire: For example, Marlo Stanfield is sort of like Google". By David Auerbach, Friday, July 19, 2013, Slate
"To really grasp the decline and fall of Microsoft, we need to look to the landmark HBO series The Wire. What does Microsoft in the Ballmer era have in common with drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's organization in The Wire?
"For years, both of them had the strongest package. They owned their territory, owned their market, owned their users. They were untouchable.
"Then times changed, bringing new competitors with new, intense products. Their own product went weak. But they couldn't let go.
"'We got a weak product, and we holding on to prime real estate with no muscle,' Avon's cerebral second-in-command, Stringer Bell, complains to him.
"For the Barksdale organization, the product was heroin and the real estate was the drug-ravaged Franklin Towers housing project. For Microsoft, the product is Windows and the real estate is the PC."
* * *
"But there's one place where the Microsoft/Wire analogy breaks down. Avon and Stringer faced jail and death. The cogs in the Baltimore PD were all trying to save their jobs. And Baltimore had next to no money. But as far as anyone can tell, Steve Ballmer cannot be fired, and has billions at his disposal. He is kingpin of Microsoft until he decides otherwise. So what's his excuse?"
The ancient Greeks knew that men often find that their greatest strength becomes their greatest weakness. A man who has arete ("excellence") such as great power, great beauty or great prowess may develop hubris ("arrogant pride"), which in turn leads to ate ("blind recklessness" the final letter is pronounced), when he loses his sense of humility and becomes rash or imprudent. Ate, in turn, leads to nemesis ("retributive justice").
Metro? Vista?.docx? What else could have lead to these products, other than the mentality of: "they will eat my dog-food and say it is Foie Gras with Truffles".
With phones and other small devices that store electricity in milliamp hours the capacity of the grid inputs is not an issue. With cars it is the gating concern.
If a car can go 5 miles on a charge of one kilowatt hour, it will take a charge of 20 KWh to travel 100 mi. If you use a 240v 30 Amp.line which can transmit 7.2 KWh in one hour, a 20 KWh charge will take more than 3 hrs. (hint the charging process will not be 100% efficient).
To transmit 20 KWh in 10 min requires 120 KW of power. By way of comparison, the main panel of my house is fused at 240v -- 200A or 48,000 watts. Moving power at the rate of 120 KW is arc welding territory and it will involve safety precautions.
The question of whether or not meals furnished by an employer to an employee are a form of compensation that is taxable income to the employee is neither new, nor difficult.
The issue was determined by litigation before WWII and in 1954 the rule that had evolved was added to the Internal Revenue Code as Section 119:
"There shall be excluded from gross income of an employee the value of any meals... furnished to him... by... his employer for the convenience of the employer, but only if --... the meals are furnished on the business premises of the employer..."
Examples of tax free meals include those furnished a remote construction site camp and those furnished to hospital workers who need to stay on site in order to be available for emergency calls. The following example is not tax free:
"A manufacturing company provides a cafeteria on its premises at which its employees can purchase their lunch. There is no other eating facility located near the company's premises, but the employee can furnish his own meal by bringing his lunch. The amount of compensation which any employee is required to include in gross income is not reduced by the amount charged for the meals, and the meals are not considered to be furnished for the convenience of the employer."
Without more research into the facts and circumstances of Google and its employees, I think that the above example would control their situation, and that the meals would be taxable income to their employees.
BTW: The IRS does not consider coffee, donuts, and soft drinks served at meetings or in break rooms to be taxable income in most situations
These rules are derived from the basic interpretation by the Supreme Court and the IRS of the phrase "income from whatever source derived" used in Amendment XVI to the Constitution and in the Internal Revenue Code. These rules have been consistent during the century since Am. 16 and the Income Tax were adopted.
I have spent some time and effort in researching and reading ideas on tax reform over the years since I first began to study the income tax 40 years ago, and I have not seen anything that would result in a change to this rule that would make meals non-taxable in all circumstances.
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment." Woddy Allen
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, "De re militari" (390 C.E.): "Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat; nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem esse pugnaturem"
"The unit of time, the second, was defined originally as the fraction 1/86 400 of the mean solar day. The exact definition of "mean solar day" was left to astronomical theories. However, measurement showed that irregularities in the rotation of the Earth could not be taken into account by the theory and have the effect that this definition does not allow the required accuracy to be achieved.... Experimental work had, however, already shown that an atomic standard of time-interval, based on a transition between two energy levels of an atom or a molecule, could be realized and reproduced much more precisely. Considering that a very precise definition of the unit of time is indispensable for the International System, the 13th CGPM (1967) decided to replace the definition of the second by the following...:
"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom."
Not only that but, length is now defined in terms of the second:
"In turn, to further reduce the uncertainty, in 1983 the CGPM replaced this latter definition by the following definition:
"The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
"Note that the effect of this definition is to fix the speed of light in vacuum at exactly 299 792 458 mÂs-1. The original international prototype of the meter, which was sanctioned by the 1st CGPM in 1889, is still kept at the BIPM under the conditions specified in 1889."
2.2.5. Status of the Metric System in the United States.
The use of the metric system in this country was legalized by Act of Congress in 1866, but was not made obligatory then or since.
* * *
Since 1970, actions have been taken to encourage the use of metric units of measurement in the United States. A brief summary of actions by Congress is provided below as reported in the Federal Register Notice dated July 28, 1998.
Section 403 of... the Education Amendment of 1974, states that it is the policy of the United States to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement as part of the regular education program. Under both this act and the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, the “metric system of measurement” is defined as the International System of Units... interpreted or modified for the United States by... the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Section 5164 of... the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, amends... The Metric Conversion Act of 1975.... read[s] as follows:
“Sec. 3. It is therefore the declared policy of the United States–
(1) to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce;
(2) to require that each federal agency, by a date certain and to the extent economically feasible by the end of the fiscal year 1992, use the metric system of measurement in its procurements, grants, and other business-related activities, except to the extent that such use is impractical or is likely to cause significant inefficiencies or loss of markets to U.S. firms...;
(3) to seek ways to increase understanding of the metric system of measurement through educational information and guidance and in government publications; and
(4) to permit the continued use of traditional systems of weights and measures in nonbusiness activities.”
The Code of Federal Regulations makes the use of metric units mandatory for agencies of the federal government. (Federal Register, Vol. 56, No. 23, page 160, January 2, 1991.)
Perhaps the petitioners want non-metric units to be outlawed. That is not US policy (see above).
The title of the petition is also erroneous in that it refers to the "Imperial system".
The Imperial system was adopted by the UK in 1824. It was never used in the US. The differences between Imperial and US customary systems are described in Section 2.3 of Handbook 44. They chiefly relate to units of volume.
E.g., the UK Pint contains 20 ounces while the US Pint contains 16. The ounces are also different. 1 Imperial fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce.
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Not lazy. Cheap.
I have a perfectly serviceable system, and it is paid for. Why should I replace it with anything that will cost me money?
When some bit of hardware goes bad. Then I will think about replacing it. Until then, the only way I am interested in "upgrading" is i you pay for it.
Dates from 1977.
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Years of Drug abuse?
The Bug goes very fast in a straight line, but Ferrari goes much faster around curves, which is what wins sports car races.
Ferrari has adapted this technology from their Formula 1 racing cars which have been very successful over the years. What Ferrari is trying to do is compete with Porsche and Audi which have dominated sports car racing over the last few years. Bugatti is produced by a subsidiary of VW-Audi which also owns Audi and Porsche.
They are going to be really spectacular on wreckedexotics.com
I thought NSA backed up all our drives.
Amen
You would chew a limb off like an animal in a leg hold trap to get out of sitting through one of those baffle gab fests.
Why can't the just tell us what the IDs that NSA already assigns us are?
Apple is a human organization run by humans. It is subject to the same laws that all things human are subject to. One of those laws is the wheel of fortune. Sometimes fortune smiles on you and you will be up. Later fortune will frown on you, and you will be down. But the wheel is always spinning.
âoeA prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. Youâ(TM)ll ask me why. Itâ(TM)s because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.â
Nikos Kazantzakis "The Last Temptation of Christ"
George C. Scott as Patton: "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
Get a really hot actress (I nominate Eve Green) to play Dr. Who. The time machine could destroy her clothing every times she uses it, so she would have to spend a few minutes naked on each show. I think it would be really popular.
Further to my point:
"How Microsoft Lost Its Way, as Understood Through The Wire: For example, Marlo Stanfield is sort of like Google". By David Auerbach, Friday, July 19, 2013, Slate
"To really grasp the decline and fall of Microsoft, we need to look to the landmark HBO series The Wire. What does Microsoft in the Ballmer era have in common with drug kingpin Avon Barksdale's organization in The Wire?
"For years, both of them had the strongest package. They owned their territory, owned their market, owned their users. They were untouchable.
"Then times changed, bringing new competitors with new, intense products. Their own product went weak. But they couldn't let go.
"'We got a weak product, and we holding on to prime real estate with no muscle,' Avon's cerebral second-in-command, Stringer Bell, complains to him.
"For the Barksdale organization, the product was heroin and the real estate was the drug-ravaged Franklin Towers housing project. For Microsoft, the product is Windows and the real estate is the PC."
* * *
"But there's one place where the Microsoft/Wire analogy breaks down. Avon and Stringer faced jail and death. The cogs in the Baltimore PD were all trying to save their jobs. And Baltimore had next to no money. But as far as anyone can tell, Steve Ballmer cannot be fired, and has billions at his disposal. He is kingpin of Microsoft until he decides otherwise. So what's his excuse?"
The ancient Greeks knew that men often find that their greatest strength becomes their greatest weakness. A man who has arete ("excellence") such as great power, great beauty or great prowess may develop hubris ("arrogant pride"), which in turn leads to ate ("blind recklessness" the final letter is pronounced), when he loses his sense of humility and becomes rash or imprudent. Ate, in turn, leads to nemesis ("retributive justice").
Metro? Vista? .docx? What else could have lead to these products, other than the mentality of: "they will eat my dog-food and say it is Foie Gras with Truffles".
Steve Ballmer is not a good business man.
With phones and other small devices that store electricity in milliamp hours the capacity of the grid inputs is not an issue. With cars it is the gating concern.
If a car can go 5 miles on a charge of one kilowatt hour, it will take a charge of 20 KWh to travel 100 mi. If you use a 240v 30 Amp.line which can transmit 7.2 KWh in one hour, a 20 KWh charge will take more than 3 hrs. (hint the charging process will not be 100% efficient).
To transmit 20 KWh in 10 min requires 120 KW of power. By way of comparison, the main panel of my house is fused at 240v -- 200A or 48,000 watts. Moving power at the rate of 120 KW is arc welding territory and it will involve safety precautions.
The question of whether or not meals furnished by an employer to an employee are a form of compensation that is taxable income to the employee is neither new, nor difficult.
The issue was determined by litigation before WWII and in 1954 the rule that had evolved was added to the Internal Revenue Code as Section 119:
"There shall be excluded from gross income of an employee the value of any meals ... furnished to him ... by ... his employer for the convenience of the employer, but only if -- ... the meals are furnished on the business premises of the employer ..."
The IRS issued a written interpretation of this provision with several examples almost 50 years ago.
Examples of tax free meals include those furnished a remote construction site camp and those furnished to hospital workers who need to stay on site in order to be available for emergency calls. The following example is not tax free:
"A manufacturing company provides a cafeteria on its premises at which its employees can purchase their lunch. There is no other eating facility located near the company's premises, but the employee can furnish his own meal by bringing his lunch. The amount of compensation which any employee is required to include in gross income is not reduced by the amount charged for the meals, and the meals are not considered to be furnished for the convenience of the employer."
Without more research into the facts and circumstances of Google and its employees, I think that the above example would control their situation, and that the meals would be taxable income to their employees.
BTW: The IRS does not consider coffee, donuts, and soft drinks served at meetings or in break rooms to be taxable income in most situations
These rules are derived from the basic interpretation by the Supreme Court and the IRS of the phrase "income from whatever source derived" used in Amendment XVI to the Constitution and in the Internal Revenue Code. These rules have been consistent during the century since Am. 16 and the Income Tax were adopted.
I have spent some time and effort in researching and reading ideas on tax reform over the years since I first began to study the income tax 40 years ago, and I have not seen anything that would result in a change to this rule that would make meals non-taxable in all circumstances.
Galley slaves.
It took me years of psychotherapy to get rid of my hangups. Why would I be sad about their demise?
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."
Woddy Allen
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, "De re militari" (390 C.E.): "Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat; nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem esse pugnaturem"
The standardization of the second took place 46 years ago. It is now the basis of SI, the international system of standards. The following is from NIST, the Federal Government agency in charge of standards:
"The unit of time, the second, was defined originally as the fraction 1/86 400 of the mean solar day. The exact definition of "mean solar day" was left to astronomical theories. However, measurement showed that irregularities in the rotation of the Earth could not be taken into account by the theory and have the effect that this definition does not allow the required accuracy to be achieved. ... Experimental work had, however, already shown that an atomic standard of time-interval, based on a transition between two energy levels of an atom or a molecule, could be realized and reproduced much more precisely. Considering that a very precise definition of the unit of time is indispensable for the International System, the 13th CGPM (1967) decided to replace the definition of the second by the following ...:
"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom."
Not only that but, length is now defined in terms of the second:
"In turn, to further reduce the uncertainty, in 1983 the CGPM replaced this latter definition by the following definition:
"The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
"Note that the effect of this definition is to fix the speed of light in vacuum at exactly 299 792 458 mÂs-1. The original international prototype of the meter, which was sanctioned by the 1st CGPM in 1889, is still kept at the BIPM under the conditions specified in 1889."
Very Funny. Mod it up.
Because it comes out of your rectum.
Rectum?
Barium!
The problem with this entire debate and the petition is that it assumes that the US has not adopted the metric system.
Let me start by quoting the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST a division of the US Department of Commerce]. Appendix B "Units and Systems of Measurement Their Origin, Development, and Present Status" to their publication Handbook 44 "Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices" [pdf] states:
Perhaps the petitioners want non-metric units to be outlawed. That is not US policy (see above).
The title of the petition is also erroneous in that it refers to the "Imperial system".
The Imperial system was adopted by the UK in 1824. It was never used in the US. The differences between Imperial and US customary systems are described in Section 2.3 of Handbook 44. They chiefly relate to units of volume.
E.g., the UK Pint contains 20 ounces while the US Pint contains 16. The ounces are also different. 1 Imperial fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce.