Canned food does not have a 'shelf life' of two years. You are thinking of bottled water (thanks to New Jersey). Most canned food has a 'best by' date, but that is related to flavor, marketing and the ability to track food in case of a recall. It doesn't actually apply to the actual nutrition and safety of the packaged food.
Actually you can't test the parachute beforehand..... because the test was for rocket deployment, at altitude, from a machine that was recently operating... anything less (even tossing it from an airplane and triggering the parachute) would be considered only a partial test in aerospace circles.
When a public institution finds itself out of a job because it is no longer needed... that public institution should shut down and give the funding back. As an organization paid for with student fees (and possibly some government funds?) when your 'mission' is complete, you don't go looking for another mission, you go looking for a new job!. The organization you work for has zero inherent right to exist once it's purpose has been OBE (Overcome By Events), or the problem it was created to solve has been solved.
How exactly will 46% of filers banking information be comprimised? -
From TFA "That translates to a lot of personal and banking details maintained by the IRS." - Those banking details are the same ones you hand out every time you write a check.
The information included on the return for direct deposit is 'exactly' the same information printed on the front of a check in human readable format.
If ANY of those households paid with a check to any retail establishment (where the clerk probably makes less than $10.00 an hour) then they have already released this information themselves.
I understand data security and the problems of taking confidential data out of the workplace, but the banking details portion of this story needs to be taken with several grains of salt.
Just because you have a banks routing number and a checking account number, this does not mean you can turn that into cash at an ATM.
Re:This phone is a 2 HAND device vs 1 HAND device
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The SCH-i730 from Samsung / Verizon.
I will often go up to 2 weeks without using the stylus.
I receive all communication one handed. (Answer Calls, Read Emails, Read Websites)
I send most information one handed. (Place Calls)
I 'can' send all information one handed. (Place Calls, Send Emails/SMS, Type Slashdot Comments) I usually send all Text information two handed. (Send Emails/SMS, Type Slashdot Comments, etc)
I usually store all information two handed. (Update Contacts)
I access all my stored media one handed. (Read Ebooks, Play Music, Watch Video).
---- I think I can safely say that for receiving and using information (including media), this is a one handed device. For creating and sending information it can be used as a one handed device, but it can be used faster (two thumbs) as a two handed device.
Get a Dell Latitude D Series Laptop. The Port Replicator, and the Dock both work great. Then ditch the Desktop. Then you 'have' the main machine with you always.
(If you are going to be turning the desktop off when away, this is an equivalent and more elegant solution)
Documents/Agreements/Social Contracts that were created in one environment, can/may/(perhaps should) age and often become less relevent as the legal/social environment in which they were created changes. (All environments change, if you can think of one that doesn't, your view point is too small, take a look at the parent directory/society/universe/multiverse)
As the legal/patent/case law environment surounding GPL2's creation moves further and further into the past, todays environment resembles it less and less. (The speed of change isn't the issue, merely the change)
Therefore, all Documents/Agreements/Social Contracts that have long term (again this is a fuzzy length of time dependent on the strength of the original item) existences eventually crumble.
I refer you to the US Article of Confederation (Pre Constitution), The US Constitution (with it's double digit versions issued by each new amendment), The League of Nations (pre UN), The U.N. (and it's at times questionable relvency in some situations, The Republican Party Platform, The Democratic Party platform, and just about every other well known, well publicised and well argued group/committee authored Document/Agreement/Social Contract.
Seriously, this arrived while I was reading the slashdot comments...
-- You have seen it on "60 Minutes" and read the BBC News report -- now find out just what everyone is talking about.
# Suppress your appetite and feel full and satisfied all day long # Increase your energy levels # Lose excess weight # Increase your metabolism # Burn body fat # Burn calories # Attack obesity And more..
HLINK
# Suitable for vegetarians and vegans # MAINTAIN your weight loss # Make losing weight a sure guarantee # Look your best during the summer months
HLINK
Regards, Dr. FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME --
I think we can definatly put this on in the category of someone "Not setting up the Spam Machine correctly" - Didn't they RTFM?
So in other words.... $1.00 of Dell equity grossed $1.157 while $1.00 of IBM equity grossed $0.772.
Mind you this is gross, not net, but from that perspective, Dell's earnings per dollar are bigger than IBM's and doing the math...
(1.157-0.772)/0.772 = 0.49%
Dells gross income, on an equity adjusted basis is 50% larger than IBM's.
Best Advertisement Ever for Hosting Ever!!!!
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From the link...
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Much as we love our shared hosting solutions, they can't survive a death by slashdotting.
But, we love Ben so, rather than suspending him for bandwidth abuse, we've quickly moved his site to an empty machine.
So, head on over to Ben Heckendorn's site (or use the Coral Cache - if it's working). Or, why not stay around and buy some web hosting from us. You know you want to:)
cLive;-)
ps - this is a quick hack, so only the static parts of the site will work - but heck (sic), it's better than a "site suspended" page;-)
What part of Laptop didn't you understand? or did your local shop build laptops? That would be cool! Link?
Re:Horse cloning will actually be useful
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While they may not allow it for racing horses, I wonder if they will allow it for studs? Imagine a winning horse ala a Triple Crown winner. Clone him when He's dieing, and voila, the clone may only live half as along and be banned from racing, but would his offspring carry the same stigmata? They would be equal to any and all previous offspring in genetic lineage, even if the shortened telomeres caused phenotypical problems.
Heh -
I'm stuck in Alabama, where it's unfortunatly a similar situation, Most funding comes from sales taxes (My 120K home has an annual total tax bill of $400). But also a portion of the property tax I pay on my cars goes to public schools.
The numbers I used were just for example.
A Mix is best, however I prefer something more like 75% property taxxes (for a steady funding source) and 25% retail taxes for the grout to smooth it all out.
Lets say I pay $2000 in taxes on my home (That fund the local school district), and I'm in the 25% tax bracket. I get to deduct that $2000, thereby not paying $500 in additional federal taxes.
Because the Fed Govt has chosen to exempt my local property taxes from my taxable income, it has essentially reduced the total available federal dollars by $500.
If the Fed Govt wanted to waste it's time collecting that money directly and then giving it to the local school system, it could choose to remove the exemption.
New Situation = $1500 in local taxes (Becuase the schools are getting more federal money) and $500 more in federal taxes, but then there's an extra overhead loss.
Essentially, WHENEVER the fed gov't excludes a tax or fee from taxable income, it is subsidizing the activity related to that tax or fee. - Simple economics.
Technically, The tax break you get on taxes paid to your local governments in support of education, is a case of federal money going to education (without going through the federal government).
Just something that is left out of the above comparison.
The PAL system was to prevent a launch by the military without appropriate approval, not to prevent a stolen system from being used by terrorists. There were other systems in place to prevent theft.
First 10 Programs -
Mozilla
Office 2000
WinAmp
Symantec Anti-Virus
Adobe Acrobat (Full not just the Reader)
Boinc (Was Seti@home)
Winrar
Alcohol 120
Emule
Forte Agent
Ok that's 11, But that's everything
Audiograbber (With Lame)
I'm sorry but that is a bogus interpretation of corporate responsibility.
As a corporate officer, the founder has a responsibility to maximize return to his shreholders (over what ever timeframe he chooses).
No corporate officer, who also held a majority portion of the company, could be forced to choose a dollar today instead of 300 dollars tomorrow and nothing today. Either choice maximizes the companies cashflow ON THAT DAY, but as long as the officer believed his choices were for the greater long term good of the company, he could continue to act as a founder.
Side Note: If he wants to run the company into the ground, while secretly pulling out profits and having a secret Bat-Lair, Batmobile, and other tech goodies built with company funds.... Then yes, he really should start thinking more as a manager and less as a founder.
What's wrong with Re-branding GPL Software? As long as you sell your companies "Services" and don't distribute the software, wouldn't that be in complete and total compliance with the GPL?
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Canned food only has a 2 year shelf life....
Canned food does not have a 'shelf life' of two years. You are thinking of bottled water (thanks to New Jersey). Most canned food has a 'best by' date, but that is related to flavor, marketing and the ability to track food in case of a recall. It doesn't actually apply to the actual nutrition and safety of the packaged food.
Actually you can't test the parachute beforehand..... because the test was for rocket deployment, at altitude, from a machine that was recently operating... anything less (even tossing it from an airplane and triggering the parachute) would be considered only a partial test in aerospace circles.
When a public institution finds itself out of a job because it is no longer needed... that public institution should shut down and give the funding back.
As an organization paid for with student fees (and possibly some government funds?) when your 'mission' is complete, you don't go looking for another mission, you go looking for a new job!.
The organization you work for has zero inherent right to exist once it's purpose has been OBE (Overcome By Events), or the problem it was created to solve has been solved.
How exactly will 46% of filers banking information be comprimised? -
From TFA "That translates to a lot of personal and banking details maintained by the IRS." - Those banking details are the same ones you hand out every time you write a check.
The information included on the return for direct deposit is 'exactly' the same information printed on the front of a check in human readable format.
If ANY of those households paid with a check to any retail establishment (where the clerk probably makes less than $10.00 an hour) then they have already released this information themselves.
I understand data security and the problems of taking confidential data out of the workplace, but the banking details portion of this story needs to be taken with several grains of salt.
Just because you have a banks routing number and a checking account number, this does not mean you can turn that into cash at an ATM.
The SCH-i730 from Samsung / Verizon.
I will often go up to 2 weeks without using the stylus.
I receive all communication one handed. (Answer Calls, Read Emails, Read Websites)
I send most information one handed. (Place Calls)
I 'can' send all information one handed. (Place Calls, Send Emails/SMS, Type Slashdot Comments)
I usually send all Text information two handed. (Send Emails/SMS, Type Slashdot Comments, etc)
I usually store all information two handed. (Update Contacts)
I access all my stored media one handed. (Read Ebooks, Play Music, Watch Video).
----
I think I can safely say that for receiving and using information (including media), this is a one handed device. For creating and sending information it can be used as a one handed device, but it can be used faster (two thumbs) as a two handed device.
Get a Dell Latitude D Series Laptop. The Port Replicator, and the Dock both work great. Then ditch the Desktop. Then you 'have' the main machine with you always.
(If you are going to be turning the desktop off when away, this is an equivalent and more elegant solution)
Problem Solved.
Documents/Agreements/Social Contracts that were created in one environment, can/may/(perhaps should) age and often become less relevent as the legal/social environment in which they were created changes. (All environments change, if you can think of one that doesn't, your view point is too small, take a look at the parent directory/society/universe/multiverse)
As the legal/patent/case law environment surounding GPL2's creation moves further and further into the past, todays environment resembles it less and less. (The speed of change isn't the issue, merely the change)
Therefore, all Documents/Agreements/Social Contracts that have long term (again this is a fuzzy length of time dependent on the strength of the original item) existences eventually crumble.
I refer you to the US Article of Confederation (Pre Constitution), The US Constitution (with it's double digit versions issued by each new amendment), The League of Nations (pre UN), The U.N. (and it's at times questionable relvency in some situations, The Republican Party Platform, The Democratic Party platform, and just about every other well known, well publicised and well argued group/committee authored Document/Agreement/Social Contract.
Seriously, this arrived while I was reading the slashdot comments...
--
You have seen it on "60 Minutes" and read the BBC News report -- now find out just what everyone is talking about.
# Suppress your appetite and feel full and satisfied all day long
# Increase your energy levels
# Lose excess weight
# Increase your metabolism
# Burn body fat
# Burn calories
# Attack obesity
And more..
HLINK
# Suitable for vegetarians and vegans
# MAINTAIN your weight loss
# Make losing weight a sure guarantee
# Look your best during the summer months
HLINK
Regards,
Dr. FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME
--
I think we can definatly put this on in the category of someone "Not setting up the Spam Machine correctly" - Didn't they RTFM?
So in other words.... $1.00 of Dell equity grossed $1.157
while $1.00 of IBM equity grossed $0.772.
Mind you this is gross, not net, but from that perspective, Dell's earnings per dollar are bigger than IBM's and doing the math...
(1.157-0.772)/0.772 = 0.49%
Dells gross income, on an equity adjusted basis is 50% larger than IBM's.
From the link...
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:)
;-)
;-)
hello
Much as we love our shared hosting solutions, they can't survive a death by slashdotting.
But, we love Ben so, rather than suspending him for bandwidth abuse, we've quickly moved his site to an empty machine.
So, head on over to Ben Heckendorn's site (or use the Coral Cache - if it's working). Or, why not stay around and buy some web hosting from us. You know you want to
cLive
ps - this is a quick hack, so only the static parts of the site will work - but heck (sic), it's better than a "site suspended" page
What part of Laptop didn't you understand? or did your local shop build laptops? That would be cool! Link?
While they may not allow it for racing horses, I wonder if they will allow it for studs? Imagine a winning horse ala a Triple Crown winner. Clone him when He's dieing, and voila, the clone may only live half as along and be banned from racing, but would his offspring carry the same stigmata? They would be equal to any and all previous offspring in genetic lineage, even if the shortened telomeres caused phenotypical problems.
Inquiring Minds.....
http://www.senate.gov/
The article states that a 10 MW power plant is online.
Heh -
I'm stuck in Alabama, where it's unfortunatly a similar situation, Most funding comes from sales taxes (My 120K home has an annual total tax bill of $400). But also a portion of the property tax I pay on my cars goes to public schools.
The numbers I used were just for example.
A Mix is best, however I prefer something more like 75% property taxxes (for a steady funding source) and 25% retail taxes for the grout to smooth it all out.
Pebble Bed is online in China
h tm l
Wired link
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.
Lets say I pay $2000 in taxes on my home (That fund the local school district), and I'm in the 25% tax bracket. I get to deduct that $2000, thereby not paying $500 in additional federal taxes.
Because the Fed Govt has chosen to exempt my local property taxes from my taxable income, it has essentially reduced the total available federal dollars by $500.
If the Fed Govt wanted to waste it's time collecting that money directly and then giving it to the local school system, it could choose to remove the exemption.
New Situation = $1500 in local taxes (Becuase the schools are getting more federal money) and $500 more in federal taxes, but then there's an extra overhead loss.
Essentially, WHENEVER the fed gov't excludes a tax or fee from taxable income, it is subsidizing the activity related to that tax or fee. - Simple economics.
Technically, The tax break you get on taxes paid to your local governments in support of education, is a case of federal money going to education (without going through the federal government).
Just something that is left out of the above comparison.
Of course it matters!
The PAL system was to prevent a launch by the military without appropriate approval, not to prevent a stolen system from being used by terrorists. There were other systems in place to prevent theft.
First 10 Programs -
Mozilla
Office 2000
WinAmp
Symantec Anti-Virus
Adobe Acrobat (Full not just the Reader)
Boinc (Was Seti@home)
Winrar
Alcohol 120
Emule
Forte Agent
Ok that's 11, But that's everything
Audiograbber (With Lame)
I'm sorry but that is a bogus interpretation of corporate responsibility.
As a corporate officer, the founder has a responsibility to maximize return to his shreholders (over what ever timeframe he chooses).
No corporate officer, who also held a majority portion of the company, could be forced to choose a dollar today instead of 300 dollars tomorrow and nothing today. Either choice maximizes the companies cashflow ON THAT DAY, but as long as the officer believed his choices were for the greater long term good of the company, he could continue to act as a founder.
Side Note: If he wants to run the company into the ground, while secretly pulling out profits and having a secret Bat-Lair, Batmobile, and other tech goodies built with company funds.... Then yes, he really should start thinking more as a manager and less as a founder.
IANAL, But I play one online.
Let's here it for Simple and To the point legal arguments. Both the Amex and the MC responses are great (Though the MC Response was better)
Ummm- Me thinks you have it backward. Niven's Ringworld and Kzinti were the originals.
What's wrong with Re-branding GPL Software? As long as you sell your companies "Services" and don't distribute the software, wouldn't that be in complete and total compliance with the GPL?
Perhaps now they will also start putting out Linux Drivers for all the HP hardware in the world, like my 4470c Scanner